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Two CITY SOLICIIOR Map of Proposed Downtown Subway THE GRAND No. 855 Young Wtmdm Bright 5 Book Rock, PricmSS.OO No. S3 7 ftnoctae Book Rock Height 9" II friem J7.SO Pr PRODUCTS BOOK PvOCKS BOUDOIR LAMPS ASH TRAYS PAPER WEIGHTS STATUARY PORTABLES, ETC. II ll BT TM 1STINCTIVE GIFTS Unusual Bridge Prizes and fat i Decorative Use in the Home the perfected development of pro- ecu truu permit! a tcientiric and haavy team less Upoh of Government tew bronze applied over a re-inforced bater core. resulting in a finished product, the equal of cast bronze in finish, vvorkmanah, end durbility at ooe-centh the prices.

When buying anything in bronze insist that is "ART-BRNZ" which is guaranteed and assures you of absolute satisfaction. "AKTBRoNZ" Predact raaX. prk fro $1.50 p. No. 810 Height 6" Prico $2.50 Indian Maid Ah Tray (McElveen Furniture Company) FURNITURE RUGS CARPETS 525 PENN AVENUE 529 The Post contends that the above plan is the only solution of doxvntoicn traffic congestion.

The proposition is for a subway with an entrance at Chatham street, thence following Fifth avenue to Sixth avenue, to Liberty avenue, to Market street, to Third avenue, to Ross street, to Fifth avenue back to Chatham street, where thenars would again come to the stirface. By this arrangement the congestion in the downtown streets would be prevented. Beyond Chatham street to the East there is no congestion, and consequently, no yiecessity for a subway. with other cities, and, unlike most measures which contemplate bond issues, this can be made a paying investment." The downtown loop has been advocated for several years by The Post, a cut of its plan being found on this page. The Chamber of Commerce also has declared for a downtown loop.

Mr. Garland's address, in many respects, was an answer to the critics of council in connection withr the budget making. He told of the itemized estimates now required and considered for weeks, in comparison with the appropriating of "lump sums" to the departments in a day or so under the old system. Relative to the increase in the cost of the government here he said the condition was to be found throughout the country, and explained it by the constantly growing demands upon the municipalities by the people. Pittsburgh is doing more for the health of its citizens every year, he said, now a tuberculosis hospital, supplying free milk where needed for the chiidren, and contributing generously to the maintenance of youngsters under the care of the juvenile court.

The department of health costs $900,000 a year. There are libraries to keep up, growing demands to be met in the parks and big improvements required naturally by the progress of the city. All these things have to be paid for, and it is up to council to appropriate the money from what sources it has available. In relation to the levy of city taxes, Mr. Garland said it was amusing to hear it compared with the rates in the boroughs or in the townships.

Such critics, he said, seldom pause to consider how much more the people of the city get. for their money. The people in the boroughs do not have to pay 'for hospitals, the maintenance of libraries and parks, but the people of the city would scarcely want to give these up. CHARGES CITY VIOLATES THE SMOKE ORDINANCES Official, Censured for Laxity by Abatement League, Pleads That He Cannot Well Sue Municipality for Its Offenses. PROBE DELAYED Lawmakers Cannot Hire Special Counsel Without Mayor's Permission, He Says.

O'BRIEN TO NAME LAWYER "They will fight like wolves when opposed in litigation," volunteered City Solicitor Charles A. O'Brien to council yesterday in referring to his corps of assistant city solicitors. A moment later council, sitting as the committee on finance, took a recess until this afternoon, and in the interim the city solicitor will make tup his mind as to whether or not bfl will assign one of ttfts assistants to council in investigating alleged per-inicious political activity of the "pay-roll" In the late election. This action was decided upon after council had narrowly missed sending a request to the mayor for the appointment of counsel to prosecute the investigation, lr which the mayor himself is inferentlally the chief defendant. The consideration of the Dillinger resolution for the appointment of private counsel to conduct the Inquiry, resolved itself yesterday afternoon Into a situation that councilmen themselves admitted was ludicrous.

NEED MAYOR'S CONSENT. "When the resolution was taken up by the finance committee, a reference to the city charter showed city departments are without authority to hire rrivate counsel -without the consent of the law department. The city solicitor was sent for to rule on this part of the charter, or rather to decide if the legislative branch was a department. It waa an hour later before Mr. O'Brien arrived and before his arrival the resolution to employ counsel for the Investigation was returned to council with an affirmative recommendation.

VWhen Mr. O'Brien arrived he Informed council that the only way they could secure an attorney for the investigation Was through an agreement of council and the mayor. It would then be up to the city solicitor to select the attorney, he said. As a result the affirmation of the resolution was recalled and by Dr. Dil-linger the resolution was amended that it read as a request to the mayor to instruct the city solicitor to appoint special counsel, "not affiliated with any branch of the city government," to represent council in Its Investigation of the v-Biayor'g administration aa it pertained to political affairs.

MORE COMEDY ADDED. Additional comedy was furnished when Mr. O'Brien revised the amendment that the request conveyed to the mayor the "consent of council" to this plan. $he discussion became heated and tilts were numerous about this time, in one instance resulting in the solicitor declaring that In the many years of his city service he had dealt courteously with council and had a right to expect the same. Dr.

J. P. Kerr stopped the discussion by stating: "I started this investigation honestly, but council is now entering into the farcical, and I want to say that I started it with the intention of going through with it, even If I have to hire my own attorney. It now looks to me as It we ara approaching the point where we would have to engage our own attorney." ENGLISH RAISES POINT. Mr.

English asked a hypothetic question of the city solicitor as to what the latter would do in the event of the civil service commission going into court to compel council to make a larger appropriation than is In the budget would he assign counsel for both sides of the question? The solicitor said the question was premature and would have to be considered. Mr. Rauh brought matters to a focus by asking the solicitor if he would, or had he refused to, assign an assistant to council to investigate the political charges. The solicitor hestitated. He spoke of the qualifications of his assistants, assuring council "they would fight like wolves," on opposite sides of a case.

He finally said he would have to have time to consider the question, as he would not want to engage any of his assistants in a fiasco. On the suggestion of Mr. Rauh. a recess was taken until this afternoon, when Mr. O'Brien wiil give his answer.

TEAM OWNERS WIN. Team owners won their battle over automobile owners before the committee public safety, when they secured six of the nine councilmanlc votes against the ordinance requiring lights to be placed on horse-drawn vehicles. The skirmishes over this ordinance have been among the liveliest In council. Dr. Woodbura moved that the ordinance be returned with an affirmative recommendation.

Mr. English immediately started the fireworks for the team owners with an attack on the recklessness of the automobile drivers, which, he said, the department of safety had failed to correct, and that the unlighted wagons were the only thing left to supply a check on the speed maniacs. Robert Garland spoke in favor of the ordinance and repeatedly said that the action of chauffeurs had become "mechanical" and like mariners, they watched for lights, failure to see unlighted wagons resulting in collisions and hairbreadth escapes. He said every up-to-date city had adopted an all-vehicle-light ordinance, and it meant progresslveness for Pittsburgh to do the same. HIT CARRYING LIGHT.

Mr. English replied that the city had paid Sl.oCO to the widow of a city employe who was killed by an automobile while he was carrying a red light to place on Grant boulevard. President Goehring said pass--Ing the ordinance would be giving encouragement to the motorists to continue speeding beyond the cautious stage. Mr. English admitted he had been the author of a similar ordinance two years ago, but since he had been driving an automobile he "had learned something." The roll call to report the ordinance affirmatively was supported by Messrs.

Garland. Dillinger and Woodburn. Messrs. English. Herron, Goehring, Hetzel, Kerr and Rauh voted in the negative.

On motion of Mr. Rauh the ordinance was reported negatively, which means that horse-drawn vehicles will go Ughtless. That the 1915 budget was closed and would not be opened was announced by Robert Garland, when a communication from Director Edwards of the department of health was read. The iirector asked council to reconsider iu MS COUNC Repertoire Company of Players to Resume Productions on December 27. TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY Inquiries made by theatergoers in all parts of Allegheny county regarding the future of the Harry Davis stock company finally brought out the definite announcement last night by Mr.

Davis that his organization will resume the season Monday December 27, in the Grand Opers House. Last August, Mr. Davis, in giving notice of the change of vaudeville from the Grand Opera House to the Davis Theater ir. Smithfield street, announced that plans were considered for the continuation of the stock company. The Davis stock clientele is large and loyal, and began immediately to call for definite information as to where the stock company would be housed, when It would open and whose names would fill its rcting roster.

In devoting the Grand Opera House to the uses of his repertoire company, Mr. Davis carried out a desire which has long bten his and which, in large measure, is responsible for the removal of vaudeville from the Grand io the Davis Theater. It was there its greatest successes were attained, artistically and financially, and it was there that the public learned to go for its best stock entertainment. CELEBRITIES BEGAN HERE. From the ranks of the Davis players came such stars as Henrietta Crosman, Thomas W.

Ross, Hugh J. Ward, Lizzie Hudson Collier, Joseph Kilgore. Sarah Truax, Joseph Haworth, Emma Dunn, Howard Xyle, Victory Bateman, Amelia Gardner, William Courtney and a score of others equally popular. That the new company will consist of p.ctors of the same caliber, actors for whom the future holds as brilliant promise as that which stretched before their predecessors, is an assurance vouchsafed by Mr. Davis.

The productions, from the standpoint of stagecraft, will rival those made on the etage of the Grand by Jack C. Huffman, now stage director in New York, and the master hand that has controlled the big successes of the Shu-berts. The policy of the Grand Opera House as the permanent of the D.ivis players will coincide precisely with that which ha3 prevailed in the past. There wiil be two performances a day, a matinee every day, starting at 2:15, and an evening performance at 8:15. The which has been devoted to moving picture exhibitions during the summer and early fall, is to be overhauled at nights and will e.

in tspick and span condition for the initial performance of the new stock company. HOLIDAY OPENING. As that will be the holiday season between Christmas and New Year's, it is planned to rrtake the opening production in keeping with the festal period. The system of reserving seats by the season, which has been In vogue since the beginning of the Davis stock company, wiil be continued when the stock takes up Its home in the Grand. Season reservation books will be opened next Monday at the Grand ticket offices, and there seaU may be engaged not only for any performance of the opening week, but for all performances the entire season.

The Pcale of prices will be the fame as has been in force for the Davis stock company. Mr. Davis within the next few days wil! announce the complete roster of his company and also a partial list of the plays secured for early presentation. It is announced also that the reason seat reservations held by subscribers during the tenure of the stock company at the DavlT Theater will be transferred to the exact locations at the Grand Opera House and will be held in the name of these subscribers until next Monday. A.

0. H. Holiday Social A holiday social under the auspices of Northside division No. 9, Ladies' Auxiliary A. O.

will be held this evening in the home of Mrs. A. J. O'Reilly, 2714 North Charles street. Euchre and dancing will be features.

Lunch will be served. A special meeting and class initiation will be held tomorrow evening in St. Peter's school hall! Burd and Moody streets, followed by a musicale and social session. TRUCK BURNED; DRIVER HURT. An auto-truck owned by Michael Cata-lano, a commission merchant of Eighth avenue.

Homestead, was destroyed in Saline avenue, Browns Hill, early yesterday morning, when gasoline in the truck ignited from an unknown cause. Cata-lano was burned slightly before he jumped from the machine. EXPLOSION BURNS CHEMIST. William Jackson, a chemist, of Oak-dale, was badly burned Tuesday in the plant of the Aetna Chemical Company, near when chemicals he was mixing exploded. He was burned on the face and hands.

BOY DIES FROM SCALDS. Frank Leone, 2 years old, of 935 Page street, McKees R-ocks, died in his home tarly yesterday morning from scalds suffered Tuesday when he fell into a pan of hot water while playing in his home. For Xmas PIANOS PLAYER-PIANOS GRAFONOLAS For highest jrrade instruments at lowest prices and best terms see WALLOVER Hrd Floor 3MM) Jenkins Arcade. E. S.

Wallover Co.i Give Him a Pocket Edition of His Favorite Author We have pocket edition sets, bound in flexible leather, of: Stevenson, Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Osoar Wilde, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Tolstoy, Ktc. Store has its Chnstmat clothes on. Come in. J.

R. Weldin Co. 4 413-415 St. New Canal Board To Inspect Route The new Lake Erie and Ohio river canal board will make its first tour of inspection over the line of the proposed waterway tomorrow, leaving Pittsourgh on the Pittsburgh Lake Erie railroad at 8:15 a. and proceeding to Youngs-town.

After a brief stop there it will take the Pittsburgh, Youngstown Ashtabula to Ashtabula. After an inspection of the docks there, the party will visit the mouth of Indian creek, where the canal's lake harbor will be situated, and return to Pittsburgh In the evening. The party will include the canal board, consisting of William H. Stevenson, president: John E. Shaw and TJ.

Follansbee of Pittsburgh, Thomas P. Sloan of Charleroi, David of New Castle, A. E. Adam3 of Youngstown and H. C.

Ogden of Wheeling; Burd S. Patterson, secretary; George M. Lehman, chief engineer, and John B. Eichenauer, counsel. Pottery Exposition Will Be Held Here Reservations are being made for the annual glass and pottery exposition to be held In the Fort Pitt Hotel In Janu ary.

Seventy exhibitors nave arranged for space in the hotel and other reserva tions are expected to bring the number to a record. There will be elaborate displays and business meetings. EVENTUALLY By readinj about our First Mortftje Trust Gold Bonds; and, By hearing about our First Mortgage Trust Gold Bonds; and, By thinking about our First Mortgage Trust Gold Bonds; You will eventually come to owning some of oir First Mortgage Trust Gold Stands, with much satisfaction and profit to yourself. Why not now? Your free copy of our booklet, "Safety With Profit" is waiting fof you; send for it. $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000 Bonds.

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A sir eat deal of money has been spent on the property, making the hotels equal to the beat hotel in the State. Fine hunting, wild turkey, dark, quail, jackanlpe and deer; alxo aa gaud fishing tsa there is to be had In Florida. One of our Kreat attractions is the Golf Course, one of the best in the South. Roittlnn-. motor boat-Ing, clock srolf.

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ATLANTIC CITY. CHALFONTE Atlantic City, New Jersey The Leeds Company AMUSEMENTS. NIXON-TONIGHT MAUDE ADAMS The Little Minister, Tat. Nt. Sat.

Mil. What Every Woman Knows, Tonight Frl. Next Wesk-Seais Today Selwyn Co. Present THE UltiH FESTIVAL EDS "THIS IS THE LIFE." One Year In New York 6 Months in Boston And With the BRILLIANT ORIGINAL NEW YORK CAST ILES Highest Class Vaudeville Dally, 10c ft 0c Nights, 7:30 9:1 10, SO 30e JOE WELCH COURTNEY SISTERS OTHER HE.1DUXB ACTS Coniinti. of Iee.

13 AXXA EVA FAY. ALVIN MATINEE SATURDAY A NEW MCSICAL BEV1EW Wimin trie Loop GIRLS COMEDIANS DANCERS Next Week Seats Now. IVIAY IRWIN in Her Greatest Comedy Success, "33 WASHINGTON SQUARE." Russell H. Conwell "The Greatest Lecture In the World" "ACRES OF DIAMONDS" At Soldiers Memorial Hall Cndrr the aiinpirrs of the Youn Men's Bible Class of the Oakland Baptist Church. Thursday, December 9, 1915.

at 8:00 p. m. Prices 50c, 75c and $1.00. Reserved seats at Mellors'. HUAKXKCJIE HALL, PGH.

BURTON HOLMES ISTiieKExposition 50c. 75c, 1 1, at MeUor'. Wood St. 10c 20c IKlAM.Lfc PHOTO PI.AYS Thur. Fri.

Sat. THE GOLD EX CLuWV WEBER FIELDS AVI CTH EATER 2j8pk vaudeville: FASH SHOW All Star Keith Acts THIS WEEK mjm Mat- Thar. mAl CCXLXtW "nd Pttt- Best 8eU 25o. 50c. Ni(ht THIS WEEK trices zsc, 00c, 75c.

in "Geo. Washington Bullion Abroad." THE SMAKI SET xt Week "HAVE YOU SEEN STEIXAT" A VP TV uqne.n way Mat. Dally. Phone THIS WEEK Orant 298 Main 183 20th CENTURY MAIDS Next Week MILLION DOLLAR DOLLS. ACADEMY100 5.

"THE CHAMPAGNE BELLES" ORI-ENTLE SHE DANCES IPTflDIA Old-Time Burlesque inn rices 10-25-35-50c. Dally Mat. Victoria Girls Tonight 4 A. A. U.

Boxing- Contests. SCHEKLEY THEATER Sat. Deo.11. RUTH ST. DENIS WORLD-FAMOUS DANS ARTISTE Tickets 50c to 52 at Hamilton's M.wic Stor and Schenley Theater NOW.

Management -Miss May BeeKle. A downtown subway loop was declared the most pressing need of the city in an address delivered before the Pittsburgh real estate board yesterday by Council man Robert Garland, and he urged steps at once to secure it. By the act of the last Legislature, empowering cities of the second class to construct and operate or lease railways, council has to initiate the project, the terms of which, in the event of leasing, have to be approved by the public service commission. After review ing the improvements made by the city in the last few years and discussing the re quirements for more, Mr. Garland said: "The most imperative need is a subway to relieve our great and growing downtown congestion.

The project of a downtown loop should be one of the first measures taken up by the new council, even if an extension of the system must come later. We must initiate this work as quickly as possible so as to keep pace McKeesport Residents Will See McKeesport "See McKeesport first" is a slogan adopted by the McKeesport Chamber of Commerce and members of the bcdv will begin to carry it out tonight by a trip through the National Tube worKs. Though it is the greatest mill of its kind in the world, hundreds of McKeesport business and professional men have never been through the works. i action in abolishing two supervisors in the division of housing and sanitation. "As it it." the director wrote, "the dropping of six inspectors will lower the potential efficiency of the bureau, but the retention of the supervisors will give us our only cnance to speea up ana in- crease tne eineiency 01 tnose mat are left" The was ignored when it was stated the budget was A bill of $633.33 from H.

L. Kreusler for extra work on the Tuberculosis Hospital was held over for one week. Dr. Edwards originally held the bill up. but recommended its payment on instruction from Mayor Armstrong, who wrote that Director Robert Swan had said the bill was equitable.

DEFER ALDERDICE VOTE. A communication for the payment of $356 25 to Attorney Clyde I. Webster, which charged Webster had never received the money that had been erdered paid to him by council, and that some one else received it from the city treasurer, was referred to the law department. The councilmanic finding in the investigation of the coreclon charges against Police Commissioner Robert J. Alder-dice was brought up when Dr.

Dillinger asked members of council if they had reviewed the testimony and were ready to vote. Less than a quorum voted at the hearing. Dillinger said he would serve notice that a poll vote would be taken before the end of the month. Action was delayed for a week. The complaint of the Retail Grocers' Protective Union against Sunday selling was referred to Director C.

S. Hubbard for a report back to the public safety committee. A hearing of those interested in the repeal of an ordinance for the opening of Baretto street, between Northumberland and Woodlawn avenues, was fixed for next Wednesday afternoon. Trade Board Hears Lecture on Canon C. D.

Williamson gave an address Illustrated with motion pictures in the Pittsburgh Board of Trade rooms. Shady avenue, last night. Mr. Williamson, assigned by the bureau of commercial economics of the department of public instruction, Washington, spoke on "The Grand Canyon of Arizona and the Indians of the Painted Desert." Mr. Williamson lived for 15 years among the Indians of Arizona and his lecture was replete with graphic word-pictures of the lives of the Hopis and the wondrous beauties of the canyon.

The lecture was preceded by a brief business session of the board. To Give Oriental Dance "The Garden of Kama," a romantic legend of Oriental life, is the piece de resistance to be presented by Ruth St. Denis and her company in the Schniey Theater Saturday matinee and night. This charming dance drama received its premier at the Panama-Pacific Exposition last srring. where it created a most favorable impression.

The entire personnel of Mies St. Denis' company Is required for Us presentation, including the Nautch dancing girls. Hindoo musicians ard Indian fakirs. Gorgeous costuming and unusual stage settings are employed. Holmes to Lecture Burton Holmes will give one of the most popular travelogues of his series this evening in the Carnegie Hall, when he will show lectures of the Panama-Pacific Exposition.

Hia motion pictures will show the wonderful panoramas of the buildings and grounds. Shriners' parade, thrilling incidents of the Vander-bilt cup race, bucking bronchos, the arrival of the Liberty Bell, harvesting wheat in the San Joaquin valley and various phases of the colossal agricultural Industries of California. Chief Henderson of the city bureau of smoke prevention was censored at the third annual meeting of the Smoke and Dust Abatement League in the Chamber of Commerce rooms yesterday afternoon. Mr. Henderson ad mitted that not all had been accomplished by his bureau that might be desired, but he reminded the league that he is a 'city official." "The" i3 an offender in this smoke nuisance ne sa d.

sornebody will tell me how a city official can enter suit against the c-ty I will be much obliged," and he took his seat. "Eventually, why not now?" asked Dr. A. A. Hamerschlag, director of Carnegie Institute of Technology and president of the league.

"Eventually prosecutions will be necessary." Mr. Henderson had pleaded that he had sought co-operation rather than a resort to dras-tic methods, while agreeing that prosecutions of persistent offenders against the ordinance governing smoke emission would be compulsory. The result of the discussion was the adoption of a motion that a committee to be appointed by the president of the league wait upon city council to ask that the chief of the bureau of smoke prevention be asked to proceed immedi- FUGITIVE SUVER OF Gl IDS LIFE Eludes Police, Writes Note in Home and Crawls Under Pile of Rubbish to Die. The dead body of Samuel Schultz, a huckster of 1521 Rose street, who, Tuesday evening, shot and killed his intended bride, Ida Kritberg, 21 years old, was found yesterday morning in a pile of broken wagon wheels in the rear of Kas-sel Simon's blacksmith shop, 161 Fuller-ton street. Schultz had crawled among the discarded wheels, evidently trying to conceal his body, and then placed the re- volver in his mouth and pulled the trig ger.

The bullet entered his brain. While police and detectives were searching the Hill district for the slayer he made his way to his home and wrote a note instructing the police to give hia bank book to his brother, Harry Schultz. He evidently contemplated suicide when he shot the girl, as the note disposing of his bank account, police say, is evidence that he did not mean to attempt to escape. Harry Schultz made a vain effort to prevent the tragedy Tuesday night when he saw his brother following Miss Kritberg in Dinwiddie street. When the youas woman saw Schultz following her she ran, Schultz following, and, as she reached the door of her Bister's home, Schultz drew his revolver and fired, the bullet entering her head.

Schultz had been courting Miss Kritberg for a year and they had become engaged. Recently she had objected to his occupation and he gave up huckstering but went back to it again. The girl tried to induce him to go Into other business but they could not agree on the matter. This and the repeated postponements of the wedding day, police say, worried Schultz and precipitated the tragedy. Penn Alumni to Dine This evenins the annual d'nner of the Pittsburgh Alumni' Association of the University of Pennsylvania will be held in the Fort Pitt Hotel at 7 o'clock.

Prof. L. S. Rowe, head of the political science department will be the guest of the alumni. In honor of Prof.

Rowe the graduates of the Wharton school will be present in large numbers, and the members of the medical class oi '93 will hold reunion with their fellow Dr. McCarthy. ately against manufacturers and others violating ordinance provisions. Dr. Hamerschlag in a special report urged the co-operation of the city and civic bodies in an exhibition of smoke prevention devices, to be held in mechanical hall of the Exposition buildings.

A motion to mat erceet Deing adopted, tne president named J. J. uonner, i. Bishop and M. R.

Shaub as members of the committee to arrange such an exhibit. A number of reports were submitted. That of Dr. Hamerschlag declared that "Pittsburgh cannot become an ideal home center until it is 50 per cent cleaner than it is today." Mr. Henderson took the floor in defense of himself on invitation of Dr.

Hamerschlag. After the motion to name a committee to wait upon council had been adopted Mr. Henderson said he was "glad." He wished, he said, that "half of the people of Pittsburgh would get on their legs and demand things. I hope they will speak out loud to council." The officers were re-elected. Dr.

Hamerschlag continues as president, with William H. Stevenson first vice president; Miss H. Marie McDermott, second vice president; Mrs. William Watson Smith, treasurer, and John O'Connor, secretary. GRID JURY REOPENS Bl Edward Weilersbacher Testifies in Third District, First Ward, Case.

No time was lost by the December grand jury in starting its inquiry into the primary election scandal, Edward Weilersbacher, a member 3f the election board of the Third precinct of the First ward being called yesterday afternoon. It is understood that he was questioned concerning his knowledge of the "politi cal frame-up referred to in the pre- sentment made by the November grand jury last Saturday. Weilersbacher was brought frjm Gordonsville, Monday morning and kept in the district attorney's office until yesterday afternoon, when he was taken before the grand jury. He remained there for over half an hour after which he was returned aain to the district attorney's office, where arrangements were made to have him released on ball. His uncle, John Weilersbacher, who offered to furnish bail, also was called befor the inquisitors.

Their testimony is thought to have been in connection with the alleged confession of Charles McChesney, implicating a co'inty official. Weilersbacher was arrested by city detectives after McChesney had tampered with the ballot box, and was brought here charged with conspiracy. He was i never given a hearing, and was released on bail and permitted to return to Virginia, where he is employed on a relative's farm. The action of the grand jury in taking up the ballot fraud inquiry was surpri.s-ing to many, as it had been expected the routine grand jury work would be dis- posed of first. i Tech to Give Tragedy i The department of dramatic arts of i Carnegie Institute of Technology win make its first venture into the field of tragic drama tomorrow even ng, when, in the theater of the of applied design, there will be given a performance of the of Kuripides.

The production will be under the d'rection of Thom.is Wood Stevens, head of the dramatic department, and it will be open only to especially invited guests of the design school. The Post "want ads' are convincing real estate sales agents. LOT I.