Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 4

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE! TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1941 Former LoCa Old Grandeur Bows to Progress LaiBor Today Girls Wi(l0 Sisters Loe Us and Naval rah, By Guy L. Ralston and Joseph H. Shea Reflecting the growing trend toward employe-employer co-operative combinations formed for the purpose of pooling strength to solve joint problems is the Pennsylvania Commer- Husbands of two side girls, sisters. cial Drivers Conference. recent fatal crashes 0' places in the VPst.

This organization, made up of 51 Pittsburgh Housing Project Scheduled Atop Fineview Hill Old Andrcics Mansion Rears Its Skeleton On Peak, Relic of Ancient Magnificence When Owner Looked Down on City By Robert R. Hagy, Jr. Poil-Gazett Staff Writer The Pittsburgh TTousing Authority yesterday formally announced the purchase of 20 acres of land on the Xorthside for a new project to provide modern low-rent quarters for 246 families by the spring of 1942. And thereby hangs a curious tale, tinctured with lots of lavender and old lace, echoing with the lusty industrial life of the 1890s, the Mauve Decade, a tale of old magnificence gone The husband of v- cich, the former 1K1Q CttmriAr, aSkl-f ripped from him hv ne ana lour others shin in fovii. storm Mrs.

Catherine Xcf ,1, Iwll, locals of the International Brotherhood of was knit together some months ago for the purpose of waging unified warfare against state legislation and municipal ordinances, which was deemed to impose unfair hardship on workers who earn their livelihood in the motor transportation industry. It soon developed that problems of management and worker in this particular end of the business were one, and out of the situation devolved a well defined movement for mutual aid. "The conference reasoned that it could best serve the interests of the workers in the industry by joining with the employers in every move directed at the protection of v.ki.. vintn news tam. second death.

Ca: hei H. E. Neff, was lhe crashed into a naval base at San LV'c en men died in the a7h The sisters are the daWk-Mrs. Catherine Kel'v to need. For the site of the new housing project is Fineview, once known as Nunnery Hill, and on Nunnery Hill, high above Federal street overlookinz the whole Golden if if iff i in development of the industry," James S5S rerry mgh School Thn- San Diego near the cms Mrs.

Neff were 'l I for the new project was named Nunnery Hill far back in the nineteenth century because at its top was located St. Clare's Young Ladies' Academy, a convent run by nuns of the Order of St. Clare. Colonel Andrews purchased the land from the nunnery some time in the 1850's. Part of the nunnery was razed, part of it was moved to another location, and there Colonel Andrews built his mansion, a solid brick structure subsequently veneered with wooden clapboards.

This spare, medium-sized Scotchman had made a fortune as a construction engineer. In association Triangle, stands the weamer-beaten, vandal-battered skeleton of the Apdrews mansion, a majestic relic of the past. Storms Sweep Ballroom The snow and the wind and the 1935. Mrs. Neft vtr0fa sister, Florence tn Percic5- men were machinists.

Mazon of Pittsburgh, Jack O'Neal of Philadelphia and Alden J. Van Arsdale of Wilkes-Barre. Locals affiliated with the conference are located in Allentown, Bedford, Brownsville, Charleroi, Chester, Ford iCty, Kittanning, Erie. Fred-erickstown, Harrisburg, Hazleton, Irwin and vicinity, Tohntown, Lancaster, Meadeville, Norristown, Oil City, i 1 a 1 phia, Pittsburgh, Pottsville, Reading. Scranton, Washington.

Wilkes-Barre. York, Fairmont, W. Atlantic City, N. Steubenville, Ohio, Vineland, N. Wheeling, W.

and Camden, N. J. Defense Problems Will Be Discussed A meeting of plant executives, personnel directors and labor leaders of the Pittsburgh area is being arranged for January 25, at which the whole field of problems affecting defense production will be explored, it was disclosed yesterday. The conference, at which Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Edward R. Stettinius, former chairman of the board of United States Steel Corporation and now a member of the National Defense Advisory Commission, will be asked to speak, will be held at the William Penn Hotel.

It will be conducted under the joint auspices of the Pittsburgh Personnel Managers' Association and the local division of the National Defense Advisory Commission. C. S. Coler, who is in charge of arrangements, said personnel men, labor leaders, works managers and other industrial executive from throughout the area will be asked to attend the conclave which will be divided into various group and joint meetings to be held throughout the day and evening. Approximately 1,000 invitations are to be issued.

rain swirl now through its high- eeilinz ballroom and no fires burn New Flap; and I'la A ma. a. flnf. 11 In its great fireplaces. The Inlaid floors are littered with fragments uevi iifi(, rtiiil JV, I his old mansion on Nunnery Hill, long a Xorthside landmark, will soon be razed to make way for a 26-family project of the Pittsburgh of the Andrews family, now battered by wind and rain wrecked by vandals, it was sold to the authority, along with 11 acres of land, for $43,000.

of window class, with broken mar Peter's School, -rd N- ix'psf TVi a rl with Captain James B. Eads, with J. Jennings, director, said. One of the principal weapons utilized by opponents of motor transportation, according to Jennings, was the argument that public safety required certain restrictions. The conference first gathered authoritative statistics, the director declared, proving that the commercial driver's capacity for, and record of safety, is an enviable one one which the private car operator would do well to strive to emulate.

Driver Has Personal Interest in Safety "In this derection," he said, "the conference has done much to disabuse the public mind which held the opinion that drivers of commercial vehicles were a reckless, Housing Authority. Once the satelv residence ble, with plumbing torn out by its roots, with old newspapers and with the coffee cans that bums will be dedicated by the children and offieers and trr of Flanetarium Test .0 A )nj i I American region, lomorrwv mg. Speakers will be Charlrt Dermott, chairman nf the f. have left. Aerosi th front hallway lies the dusty fhell of a huge grandfather's clock, like an empty coffin.

In one of the seven vast bedrooms lies a rat-gnawed mattress, in the attic yellowed sheet of chamber music and several moldy maps, in the library a handful of dirt-stained letters. Carving in Mantel Rut. "East. West. Hame's Best" tee; Post Commander Joyce; County Commander twder and District Cn.r.r,; haphazard group of individuals.

It Jonn l'. McAndress of can Legion. has been shown, on the contrary, that the commercial driver, being a professional, has a greater in Is cut into the stone hallway man FOR DRINK HUE terest in highway safety than any other type of driver; that as an tel, and that homely oia sscou-n inscription once was full of meaning for the family of Colonel James who built the mansion individual involved in an accident, end lived in it for almost half a he might suffer injuries or a legal penalty which would deprive him of the ability or the right to work at his occupation for a costly period Excessive drinking otlrn Kn jangled nerves. norrms itr. fatigue, loss of eftieienry, and faculty of judgment.

Should problem of excessive rinnkir.f home, just put tasteless Craifi fee, tea, liquor, beer, wine or loot proven method physirian's tion. The Ingredients of (rm of time. The commercial driver Heart Attack Fatal also knows that if the accidents in his class shows an increase, this rise will be cited in the arguments bju in Helping in omn up tstr-and appetite, therebv aidm? advanced to legislatively restrict or destroy the industry in which the excessive craving inr hquir (- Gordon McCormick, 23, of Se-wickley, a groom employed by the socially prominent Morgan B. Schiller, of Sewickley Heights, died of heart disease yesterday a few minutes after he reported for work a his employer's estate, according to a report to the coroner. he finds employment.

is saie ana noesn upsrt th Crivfx costs only $1.00 and vor cheerfully refundprl if not" tie' The conference publishes a monthly newspaper, widely distributed in Pennsylvania, in which or sale at Sun Ilruir Morels; otner good druggists. Cnw AdTMC. driving safety and legislation af fecting the transportation industry is stressed. It also sponor numerous safe driving contests, or truck rodeos, in which employer associa ALL STORES century. Colonel Andrews was a great engineer, a successful businessman, a millionaire, a friend of Andrew Carnegie.

Now the house he died in, back in 1897, is going to be turned over to a wrecking crew. The 11 acres of the estate will be joined with nine other acres of land in the Nunnery Hill neighborhood and used as a site for a $1,400,000 slum-clearance project. Dr. B. J.

Hovde, authority administrator, announced yesterday that almost all of this land, with a total appraised valuation of $37,000, has already been acquired and that construction contracts will probably be let early in March, with the actual construction work getting under way a month later. Three Levels for rroject. The project will house low-income families on three different levels along Federal street extension in an area bounded by Perrysville avenue on the west, Henderson street on the south, Heckla street on the east and Mercy, Letsche, Belleau, Sutton and Catoma streets on the north. There will be both two-story row houses "and three-story apartment type dwellings, ranging in size from three to six and a half rooms. Rents, as in the Authority's Hill district projects, will range from $15 to $26 a month, including gas, heat, light and refrigeration.

Tenants will have only a 10-to-15 minute walk to the Northside business district. The huge hill selected as the site Here is a map showing the site of the Pittsburgh Housing Authority's new Xorthside project. The 20 acres of land, including the 11 acres of the old Andrews estate, were purchased for a total of just under $100,000. In the center of the stands the old Andrews mansion. tions co-operate by extending use of their equipment.

In the field of legislation, the conference maintains a carefully organized bureau or "lobby" that is maintained on a year-round basis in Harrisburg. On matters of mutual concern, employers call upon this division for support, which is freely given. With the conference, the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association of operators, is consolidated in opposition to bills drafted in the 1941 assembly, and which are aimed at restricting of commercial vehicle operation. Post-Gazette Photos Here's a typical scene inside the Andrews mansion the remains of the great, high-ceiling front hallway, with the wooden shell of a grandfather's clock right in the middle of the floor. On old stone mantel are carved the words of a Scotch saying, "Jfiast, West, Hame's Best." Democrats to Put Burden Of New Taxes on Governor (Continued From Page One.) the state tomorrow night on 14 radio stations.

It- was announced that the rebroadcasts will be scheduled between 7 and 10 o'clock. tralion put through in 1935 and re-enacted two years later. The 1939 Legislature re-enacted them again. Taxation is one of a score of Lowest Price In Months For Donahoe's Tub Butter IT'S FLA VOR-TESTED! James has said these taxes, con- controversial matters as this, the stituting between $160,00,000 and one hundred and thirty-fourth ses whom he also apparently engaged in several speculative business enterprises, he built the first bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis and constructed the jetties at the river's mouth near New Orleans.

When he died in 1897, he is said to have left his large family' more than $1,000,000. His obituaries said he was president of the Pittsburgh Steel Iron Company at his death, and one of them mentions that he was a close friend of Andrew Carnegie, having once advised his fellow Scot against investing in a proposed Pittsburgh-to-Erie canal. He is remembered on the North-side as a canny; intelligent man and a model of propriety. Dr. John MacNaugher, president of Pitts-burgh-Xenia Seminary and father of the common pleas court judge, said yesterday that he can remember seeing, as a boy, the Colonel leading his family to church.

sion of the General Assembly gets under way. Just as controversial they made quite a procession every Sunday. Colonel and Mrs. Andrews would drive down the hill from the mansion in an old barouche drawn by two fine horses, and trailing along behind would come the children, the five boys and the three girls, all on Shetland ponies." Colonel Andrews or at least so it would seem from letters found yesterday scattered in the litter of old newspapers, tin cans and broken glass in one room of the mansion played an active role in defeating congressional legislation calling for the financing of a canal in Nicaragua, back in 1893. He also had doings in Mexico necessitating the sending of an emissary to President Diaz, but the exact nature of this business could not be determined from the scrap of correspondence the old engineer left behind.

Fortune Is Divided Colonel Andrews' widow survived will be amendments to the unemployment compensation, workmen's $170,000,000 of bi-ennial revenues and comprising the bulk of funds needed to finance direct relief, are neded to carry the relief load again. Also, he has indicated, they will help reduce the deficit of around $71,00,000 inherited from the Democratic-Earle administra fou'll MARVEL, at the exejuisite taste and the mild, delicate flavor of this famous butter always fresh, tempting freshly cut from the tub. 34c lb. 2 lbs. 67c V) lbs.

SI i Sfor 1 tion. Work in Co-operation With Employer Groups "Too," Jennings said, "the conference is working shoulder to shoulder with the employer's groups in advancing legislation that will aid the industry as a whole and which will benefit the drivers, particularly in licensure procedure." The conference, together with the operators association, Jennings added, was largely instrumental in preventing a New York combine from obtaining a virtually monopoly in eastern seaboard business stemming from Pennsylvania. It also led the fight against what it deemed exorbitant toll rates on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. At this session of the Legislature the conference has a full program, including a proposal for modifying the financial responsibility provisions of the motor code designedly to make its application more equitable for those who operate motor vehicles for their livelihood. Scott F.

Marshall, of Pittsburgh, is chairman of the conference. Raymond Kelly of Philadelphia is treasurer and James F. Flaherty of Harrisburg is secretary. On its board of auditors are Bernard With the election involving con Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With More Comfort FASTEETH. a pleasant alkaline (non-arid) powder, holds false teeth more firmly.

To eat and talk in more comfort. just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. Wo rummy. Jtooey panty taste or feeling. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath).

Get FASTEKTH at any drug atore. Advertisement. trol of the state government com ing up next year, it is obvious that FRESH COUNTRY EGGS, 30c MY-TE-GOOD FRESH EGGS, dozen. "They went to the Fourth Pres-1 neither the Democratic House nor the Republican Senate want to assume blame for new taxes. Dyterian ai Arcn ana Montgomery." said Dr.

MacNaugher, "and Democratic State Chairman Mer wl nWP! rrwr; ri- f-or, rff ow. i rtr, frr. -e1, him many years, and lived on in edith L. Meyers announced tonight that the caucus of Democratic leg compensation, teacher tenure, liquor control, milk control and the state labor relations act. Pre-Assembly gossip indicated that lines will be drawn sharp and fast over "merit rating" amendment, to be suggested for the unemployment compensation act.

Generally, such a provision would reduce the cost to employers who can stabilize employment. It might, however, prejudice the case of big employers in the coal and steel industries who experience seasonal work lapses. Advance reports indicated that the governor will touch generally only on the new budget, taxation and relief tomorrow. He is expected to dwell more at length on these topics in a special budget message to be delivered later. He is expected to appeal for harmony and unity among the legislators in the name of national defense.

The organization of the House the great house he had built until shortly after the first World war. islators had approved for recom mendation to the assembly seven His children and their children have scattered to all corners of the United States, and the fortune he major alterations in the unemployment compensation law. All have been drafted after consultation THANKS TO RETONGA SHE EATS PLENTY NOW SAYS MRS. SHARPLESS left them has been scattered, too. Now, a ghostly skeleton, the steps leading to its high tower all broken with representatives of organized down, the Mexican onyx panelling labor.

Proposals Approved They are: Reduction of the time unemployed have to wait for compen in the oval reception room cracked, its oak and mahogany woodwork warped from the rain, its windows shutterless, its muralled ceilings sation payments from three weeks 1 to one week; benefits for partial and Senate will be a formality to stained black the old Andrews mansion has been purchased for $43,000 from the 13 heirs and will soon go under the wrecker's employment, based on accumulated days of unemployment which need be dispensed with in short order. Both parties have designated their leaders at earlier conferences and caucuses. not be consecutive. (The amount allowed in such cases would be the difference between earnings and the weekly benefit amount); increase of the maximum weekly benefits from $15 to $18; extension BLOOD DISEASES Kidney and Bladder Conditions Many diseases of tha kidneys are Insidious and are only discovered accidentally while undergoing an examination for some other condition. But there are many signs that, when recognized, point an accusing finger at the kidneys or bladder.

Headaches, Backaches, Listlessness. Dizziness: Loss of Appetite, Pallor, and Disturbed Vision are a few of the insidious symptoms. Later when puffiness under the eyes, legs. Lola Lane Marries Distress of Indigestion And Toxic Pains From Constipation Promptly Relieved And She Feels Better In Every Way, States Brad-dock Resident. Tells Of Her Case.

Retonga is winning more heartfelt Braise every day as well-known Kfnr FeKturw feynaieaU. iii Kwhu K4ard. of the maximum duration of payr HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 6 UP) Actress Lola Lane in movies one of "four wives" and "four mothers" became the wife today of Henry Clay Dunham, yacht broker. Miss Lane, 27, sister of Actresses Rosemary and Priscilla, was married to Dunham, 29, shortly after midnight by the Reverend James men and women put this purely I I MOTHER herbal medicine to the test in their Hamilton Lash at Hollywood Con-ereeational Church.

Priscilla at give YOUR child ankles, feet, hands, and other parts of the body become edematous, or swollen, a kidney condition must be suspected. If accompanied by either a scanty or too abundant and too frequent urination the kidney becomes' the out own cases and report remarkable relief through its use. Scores call on the Retonga representative at the Sun Drug Store. Sixth St. and Tenn to tell how this purely tended her.

same expert care used when ments from 13 to 16 weeks; provision for five weekly payments in a year; provision for prompt payment to Pennsylvania drafeets who fail to obtain employment immediately after their discharge from "their country's provision for the mandatory appointment of an advisory council, similar to that which was created during the Earle regime. Talks to Be Transcribed The cost of the proposed increased benefits, Meyers estimates, would be $16,00,000 a year. This would still leave an annual surplus, he said, to be added to the $132,500,000 existing compensation reserve fund. The governor's talk will be transcribed and rebroadcast throughout herbal medicine brought them re lief from the distresses of acid in standing cause oi i these conditions. digestion, nervousness, weak, run Bear in mind that down feeling, constipation, muscu with a chronic kidney disease there is QUINTUPLETS mm mm lar pains, and similar harassing symptoms, which often had resisted every other means tried for montns For instance, Mrs.

Grace Sharpless, digestion and gas pains, and the 108 Braddock Braddock, states: "Retonga was a great blessing to me for I was suffering miserably before I tried this grand medicine At the first sign of a chest cold the Quintuplets' throats and chests are rubbed with Children's Mild Musterole a product made to promptly relieve the DISTRESS of children's colds and resulting bronchial and croupy coughs. Relief usually comes quickly because Musterole is MORE than an ordinary "salve." It helps break up local congestion. As Musterole is used on the Quints you may be sure you are using just about the BEST product made. Also in Regular and Extra Strength for those preferring a stronger product. nearly always an associated heart condition, frequent urination may of course be the result of bladder involvement, but In either case a urinalysis and a general physical examination becomes imperative.

Therefore, if you have any of the above symptoms DO NOT WAIT ANOTHER DAY. Call immediately for an examination or at least a free consultation, fluoroscopic X-Kay and Physical Examination $1 LADY. ATTENDANT DR ROBERTSON LICENSED PHYSICIAN Over 25 Years Experience 541 WOOD STREET Corner 6th Ave. Suite 203. 2nd Grogan Bldg.

Hours 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Evenings 6 to 8 Daily.

Sunday 10 to 1. Tuesday and Thursday, 9 A. M. to 5 P. Only I was often so nervous and restless I hardly got any sleep, and every morning I felt almost too wretched to draz myself out of bed.

Gas GROUP YOUR SMALL BILLS AND PAY THEM OFF WITH A LOAN Established loan companies operating under the small loan law have helped thousands of men and women with their temporary financia emergencies. laxative effect of Retonga was simply splendid. My nerves are easy again, I sleep fine, and I feel stronger and better in every way. I can tell others from personal experience that Ratonga is perfectly Retonga is purely herbal, and the small cost of the first bottle will be refunded without question if it does not bring gratifying relief. Talk with the Retonga representative at the Sun Drug Store, Sixth St.

and Penn and let him explain this purely vegetable stomachic medicine to you. Retonga may be obtained at all Sun Drug Stores. Adv. from sour indigestion bloated my tomach until it was almost unbear Women who suffer pain of Irregular periods with nervous, blue spells due to monthly functional disturbance should find Lydia E. PinkhanVs Vegetable Compound- simply mar' velous to relieve such distress.

Pink-ham's Compound is made especially for women to relieve such distressing feelings and thus help them go smiling thru such "difficult days." Over 1.000.000 'women have reported able. Toxic poisoning and sluggish CHILDREN'S elimination caused terrible throb Consult "LOAS" in Post-Gazette WANT ADS Ding headaches, and my back ached like it would break in two. "Retonga brought me such grand 1 lift iutfcftlj) remarjtaoie oenents. Try It relief I have no distress from in-.