The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1920, Page 13

Ts; |} \.. | Investigations will start to-day s/ LEE DOCKS |= “IN $350,000 FIRE * Blaze in National Lead Plant at Port Richmond, (1 into a $350,000 fire that threatened Port Richmond, 8. L with destruction yesterday afternoon, y “The Gre started from an unknown euse in an abandoned frame struc- + ture of the National Lead Company on Richmond Terrace and razed much of the plant,’ then leaped across in- tersecting streets and across tracks of the North Shore Division of sen | B& & O. Railroad. | Deadly lead tumes made the work of fighting the fire hazardous. Eight- | een convalescent soldiers from the | Wox Hills Hospital, with their helmets | ‘and gas masks, were rushed to the | id of the firemen. The westbound passenger station and freight stations were burned, cut- ting off transportation on the west-: ern shore from Port Richmond to Arlington. ‘When the flames had been checked | im this direction Chief Martin gave his attention to tbe waterfront side, where the fireboat William J. Gaynor and four fireboats of the Standard Oil Company from Bayonné, just across the Kill van Kull, were pour- ing thousands of gallons of water on the burning buildings. B. and 0./| tugboats tawed to midstréam twenty- | five boats from the Port Richmond yards of the Staten Island Shipbuild- ing Corporation, The injured, who were treated by | Dr. J. Archer of the Fire Department, | ere Capt, William Murer of Engine ~ONSTATEN SLAND al Danhattan. Pare Firemen Fight! jf rox tee _— vere burns right hand, ahd Pri Well, Happiness is great stuff! 100 round trips from “Good Teeth” to.“Good Health” 25c LARGE SIZE 3 months’ commu- tation, morning and night—safe, pleasant daily tooth-brushing The tube that serves New York— , COLCATE’ RIBBON DENTAL. CREAM * n po wag Struck in the right eye by @ nail while going up a ladder, j Someday you ‘will Prices Trend Upward, eserve Board Re eports OY 4 fae dda April 29— Reports from Federal Re- - serve agents show o@ marked tendency of prices to resume their upward movement, the Federal ' Reserve Board reported’ tonight, but the Board noted the hopeful. sign, from the consumer's view- point, of “anxiety concerning the overstrained situation resulting from excessively high prices and wages,” which it believed forecast 8 slowing down in the skyrocxet- ing of prices. While high prices of necessaries obviously were chargeable to in efficiency and underproduction to a large degree, the board ad- please read. somethin, to bé sti vanced the belief that the high costs of production were aggra- ~ vated by the added expense of obtaining capital. manufacturer, in expending this money, In one sense, this all means that we are, by these privileges, taking our valued customers into co-operation with us to effect a great purpose. In all our years we have Never had a finer or larger stock Never been so much prospered with large sales Never been so strongly equipped from every point of view as we are today to conduct such an operation which is wholly for the benefit of the public. We are simply mastered by a spirit of duty to help the people who have helped us in this renewed effort to start a movement in lowering selling prices of merchandise and bring on more quickly the “better days coming” a to this nation. Please reciprocate by paying cash if practi- cable, by carrying parcels that are not too large nor heavy, by selecting carefully and not return- ing goods, and by not asking for C, O. D, delivery or goods on approval. cil YORK AND PHILADELPHIA All the Great Newspapers of the United States || ' printed last week the startling statement presefited in the left-hand column as to the high cost of “necessaries’’, which The facts authoritatively given out by the chiefs of financial operations in this great country to create a rising to submerge the people by increasing their burdens. This Pioneer Store consisting of the first “Different Kind of Store,” grown from a seed planted in Philadelphia almost 60 years agp, now includes what was for- merly the A. T. Stewart Store in New York. ing value and has in store, ready for delivery— More Than Twenty Million Dollars in Fine Fresh Merchandise, which we shall sell to-day and until further notice ‘At Twenty Per Cent. Off, Or One-fifth Below Our Lowest Regular Prices 1. The people finding that we dealt only in trustworthy goods found out that they were well chosen, justly priced, and that we could be depended upon every time. 2. We never have marked up over-values on tickets to create markdowns, and we never will. 3. We made good in all our undertakings without upholstered advertising. 4. Our business has constantly increased, and has never ceased to go ahead. Further, in order to influence manufacturers and speculators holding goods for higher prices who may be in want of money at this time when they may find it is svarce and at high rate of interest, we now hereby agree to expend ° One Million Dollars each week . in taking over any desirable merchandise and paying cash for it the day of delivery \ in order ta continue these gales *hoping thereby with this great outlet to begin grading down prices if even a little. We pledge ourselves to give our customers every advantage possible in keeping up the sale by means of any reductions we can get from the a ee as ge Medan ov gtr ge oolhng to do reakwater against this higher wave of costs said To-day it owns at actual sell- At this particular moment when the highest financial authorities point out ad weet = . still higher prices, we believe that we have an incumbent duty to at least try to do our good customers to help them bear the excessive burdens of the hour, and to continue i effort initiated by our Million Dollar Sales in 1917 to break the back-hone of high prices Therefore, with but one reason only, that of a conscientious sense of duty, ‘The Founder Puts at the Disposal of the Public . for a limited time, beginning today -. Twenty Millions of the Best Merchandise that ha¢ been bought for cash—not selecting a few articles here and there at lowered prices at the end of a fashion season, which is usual, but by offering The Full Retail Stocks of both our Stores In New York and Philadelphia ’ —from end to end and from top to bottom (saving, say, $50,000 or less sie of articles taken in with restrictions we cannot honorably change) —~ at 20 per cent. deduction from actual prices the deduction to be made at time of purchase “ NoTE—(1) Nothing will be sold to laealatey (2) No C, O. D.’s; (8) Nothing returnable; (4) Nothing on approval. . ’ fF ceni-peints maps. aetnarsioeanntee eel a agatanipaare May 8d, 1920,