The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1895, Page 6

‘BRIBE HELO UP? satire ass Strong Sed He Beard of Boodle in the People’s Traction Franchise WLDERMEN TO GET STOCK. Ifthe Report Is Verified Will Veto the Ap- plication, A FRIEND INVESTIGATING IT. Tho Mayor Approves of the 23d Street Ferry Plan and Favors PRETTY WOMAN DELEGATE. Lottie raki, the Fi a4 of Girls Who Work tn Shops. Miss Lottic Perski has the proud dis- tinction of having been the first walk- ing delegate of her sex in the city, Miss Peraki represents Local Union No. 16, of the United Garment Workers of America, in the Central Labor Union, and attends the Sunday afternoon meet~ ings in Clarendon Hall, with her co- delegate, Herman Robinson, of the United Brotherhood of Tailors. Local No, 16 is also known an the Ladies’ Branch of the Brotherhood of Tallcrs. In addition to her other duties, Miss Perski acts as Secretary for her unton, Lottie Perskt was born in Russian Poland nineteen years ago, and came to this country in 1888 with her parents, They keep a small grocery at 15 Suffolk Miss Perak! has taken an aotive part in ameliorating the condition of sister-workers, i iat A of whom were formerly mployed In the East Bide, Miss P the Brotherhood of ‘Tal Organizer Meyer Schoenfeld gate Robinson, organized the young women and girls employed in the coat- making trade, and they are now work- ins under better conditions and are bet- er paid, ‘There ‘are over 0 members in Local fe. 18, In November they elected Miss i to be their Walking Delegate, and paid her regular wage Bhe serves well for # fortnight, en, her parents atrongly objecting to the notoriety, she the Traction Proposition. ~@igestel to The Krening World) IELD SPRINGS, July 13.—"It an prove to me that money to geoure the passage of the giving the People's Traction the right to bid for the fran- specks, I will veto the resolu- once,” was the declaration of Strong te an “Evening World” last night, when asked what his would be in regard to the People's franchise scandal. “1 have the franchise here, also the Swenty-third street ferry franchise,” continued the Mayor, ‘I shall approve the ferry franchise and will return the People’s franchine to <Acting-Mayor Geroloman without acting upon it, He €R approve It if he likes, or let it be- come a law by default. “If the charges of bribery hinted at not mustained, I shall not veto the it at hk 3 i it this report that money I heard of that last Friday. om I have a good deal of came to me and sald that of the People's Company ibuted among the Alder- ty i $ th i i money was to be put up, to his story, and the bonds be turned over when the fran- me a law. for a confidential friend whom could trust, and who is In a te find out if any money or had been used, and asked him to {f the report were true, him I was going to leave town day and would be here at the jouse, and asked him to write out anything about the Hl Hi und promised to do so if he was ablo any definite information. 1 have not heard from him since I came town, and am satisfied that the report is not true. “Aaide trom the charges of bribery, eannot eee any objection to the People's franchise. The terms offered ‘ey the Company are reasonable, and there is no question that the pro- Jeoted road will be of great advantag: fm buliding up the sparsely settled di trict in which it will operate. “Railways are necessary to the de- velopment of @ country. 1 have always Urged that the National Government should surrender its claim in the Pa @ifio roads, because of the great bene fits derived from the courage of the wen who built it, when the territory they opened up did not return a dollar en the investment. “We can always afford to encourage the building of railways, because it is through the development they bring | wbout that the country, Btate or city ex-| pends territory, population and property Blue. the way I regard this Peo- It ia not like the Kinga- which two companies The Kingsbridge franchise has @ present and substantial i Bhe People’s franchise @ not worth Much now, In fifteen or twenty years ie may be very valuable, but the com- peny will have to spend a great deal @@ money before it is worth much. The only objectionable feature I can see in that the company is not compelled to {ta tracks Immediately, but even objection does not detract from benefits that will undoubtedly result the gradual building of them, “I think the proposition has many e: @ellent features, But, as I have said, if proved that money wan used ‘the passage of the resolution eto it without a moment's hesi- ‘The Mayor was asked if the man who that ‘"boodle" was being uned pass the resolution had mentioned dutifully resigned, Recently the’ fair A MIS8 LOTTIM PERSKI, THR ONLY WOMAN LADOR DELEGATE. Lottlo was elected as a delegate to the Central Labor Union, and accepted the rust. 63 Perski tm petite in figure, wavy golden hair, is of modeat de- Meanor und has ‘a pretty face. Bhe dreasex neatly. has good = common fense, is well educated, and popular, “DOWN WITH SWEAT SHOPS.” Union Tallors Combine to Drive the Kvil from This City. The United Brotherhood of Tailors will not only demand a renewal of the resent agreement, but will also make combined and determined attack on the sweat shops and against contractors who aro atili trying to enforce the task aystem, which the Brotherhood suce fully fought last Fall, There ure 100 sweat shops in thin city where tallors are employed, and there are but a few hundred tailors und oper- ators who find employment in them at starvation prices under the task system, ‘These shops the Brotherhood will en- deavor to abolish by getting all the workmen to join the untona, ‘The sentiment of the Brotherhood was fested last ‘Thursday night in Walhalla Hall, where @ mass-meeting was held, Organizer Schoenfeld put the question of w strike to the meetin; carried unanimoual: re-echoed oF 8,000 tallors who crowded about the doors of the hall unable to wet in, Secretary Herman Robinson, of the Brotherhood, to-day contirmed’ the re- ports of a coming general strike. “There are 1,00) coat-making contract ors in New Yor lyn and Browns. ville," gaid Mr.’ Robinson, “and 300 of that’ number, in chia city, ‘form the As- joclation, Thus it will that the Association contractors are in a mie hority, ‘Those outside of the Association will ‘sign our agreement, we are as: gured, and they will employ double | forces of our members and let the As- fociation members remain idle as long ociation contractors think that if they refuse to sign our agr ment and thelr emplovees remain out for a time the latter will return to work | in spite of th Box, The Executive Board of the Broth hood met last night at 30 Suffolk a and took final action on the agi to be submitted to the contractors Aug. 15. ‘The demands are substantially the same ax those of last Fan, with the ad- ditt that nine hours shall constitute a work on Fridays, and ten hours on the other days of the week, Batur- days excepted, The scale of wages is $15 a week for operators, $10 for pressers and trimmers, $13 for basters and $9 for iat oy will has ere morrow the delegates of 630 shops meet in Walhalla Hall, ——— IN THE WORLD OF LABOR. Branch 1, of the Independent Bakers’ and Bakers’ Union No. 62 will el night, ‘The organizations Labor Federation holiday, wat for th Labor Vaton t officers to- al will celebra Tabor Day, ‘ the 4 Kam Four Frederick Caasen hi of the Youkers vrai Biture Insurance Avs whose © has been located at the Labor L fast. Fourth street The brewery workers of New York and vicinity WIL hold a joint meeting to-morrow ac! P.M AU 86 East Fourth atreet to res report of | Organizer H. Henryot, who has returned. trot bi tour through part of the New Eni an th street benberg and J. J. of the Retail miation to the coming the American Fede the iri employed om the job, and union men are now Acting Mayor Jeroloman ghown Mayor Strong’s statement con- @erning the People's franchise: “I indorse what the Mayor says. If Qny ome can prove to mi to fi Board ot ‘Aidernen’t ‘¢ aa \f have’ ihe powe ibe’ information we, and aihougn Ihave that money chise in the used, f th ite. voted for the franchise because I it to be & meritorious measure merennce with the wishes of A POLICEMAN’S REVENGE. * Frederick Johnson, & saloonkeeper, of Third aven: Creeden, ef the Morrisania police, aid he would do so later to the Board, againet Patrolman Felix ‘MeCarron, for arresting him last nght f insulting a woman an. inst him {i thig“‘morning, and ‘a fel lot” htm be- ‘Rot lend money. id when| veto it as the gemor ve looked into have not been able to find out any- to-day complained to} Delegate Taylor, ported to Board | erday the non-union m | buildings at One Hundred street aud Eighth union men put in t The Enterpri 1 hold « ot and Thirty-neventh of Steam-Fi Monday night In electing an to pase upon | miemberah) «next Dury “ ble understanding with Dolega‘e of that organisation, whereny | joyed by Mr | 1 on Tuestay might, July 23, In Clarendon Ma! the purpose of ‘etiling the th fi MW, for the Acting Chief Contin made Vive were sergeants. Sergt. John Mamilton, of the Ol¢ lip stailon, was sent to Tremont, and Serst. Joba Ryan sept to O14 sip. MeCormick, of the Old «i | Thiecy-eighth aire transtors to-day 1, of Bi The “Sti mineral disagreeable fluid place of the tea-pot. deal cool, peaceful days he is wrestling with the Hyson churned up in a liquid that appears as clear an crystal, first introduction Points and rolled Into one, Jabove the waters of Rtcnf TH E ¢@ WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MAYOR STRONG CURING GOUT, New York’s Executive Under. going Heroic Treatment {n Richfield Springs HYDROSULPHATE GOGKTAILS, Bathed in Inky Water and Mas- saged by a Heroulean Attendant. MEALS OF THE SIMPLEST FOOD. Boarder” of the Hotel— He Has Dropped Business and Is Resting. (Soectal to The Evening World.) RICHFIELD SPRINGS, July Here are some of the things that Ma: Strong, now enjoying what would pass with mor nowada. Hydrosuiphate of Sodtum, men asa vacation, ta drinking of Strontla. ot Wi joride of Bodium, chk Chloride of Lithium. There was a time when he only took tea. He takes tea now, too, but the other substances served in a very have ueurped the He geta a good more hydrosulphates during the than The wout, leaves. succulent Young minerals are all but which smells at Uke four Hunt THE MAYOR AND HIS NEW HAT, three gas-house districts But His Honor the Mayor, being som thing of @ philosopher, takes his medi- cin al ging to forget about his sulphur cocktail, he can be pardoned, because that wal health-giving as it in, fs enough to de- and even if he isn't very approach- until late in the day, when he be- velop the ill-nature of any man—par- ticularly 1f he be gouty. His Black Hath, ‘Then the dally bath in fluid that ts al- most inky black and smells worse than STRONG'S FIRST GLASS OF SULPHUR WATER the stuff he has to drink, ts a tribulation the Mayor has to grin and bear, He dcesn’t pretend to Mke it—at least he didn't say he did last night while de- scribing his vacation for the benefit of The Evening World" reacers, He is simply content to put up with the treat- ment he is undergoing because it is get- ting the best of his arch enemy the wout, The Gout Is Leay ‘There are several m, pecullar features |. whether twken internally, as most of the elderly ladies and ntiemen who hobble about in penitence for former extravagance in the matter «f food ant drink take It, or made use of to ease up the kinks in one's joints by external application, ‘The most pecullar, howeve benefits character, It doesn’t driv away, but brings it out, and in its pro: ces» of cleansing inflicts poignant anc Insidious sufferings intense enough to for the rest of his life—and be careful of his tn'ards. now. He says he is getting better; tha the wout ts going away; but the expert who study such things shake thei heads and predict that before the mid. dle of nexi week fenderioin pre erg Hundred and Fourth treet sation, was trans: barred to Old alip, “ Ump from his apartments in the Sprin, is that tte are primarily of a negative the gout make @ man stick to mush and milk ‘The Mayor ts realizing all these things | the municipal boss [of New York will be flat on his back, and that he will not be able to even House to the bath-house, hundred feet away, He will probably be disabled for a week and will then begin to mend, and if he remains long enough may be able to run a foot race in @ month, ‘The cure fs already working. The THE MAYOR'S BATHING HOUR. HIS FLAG 18 UP. Mayoralty knuckles are beginning tu swell, “I shouldn't wonder,” continued the Mayor in talking about them last night, “but that that hand of mine will laid up next week, But I'm a great deal better than I was, and will be in good shape in a week or two.” rely a from the village, is deserted save for/ the caretakers, In his absence and that of other fa- mous men who can afford the high- priced disease from which the Mayor is suffering and who will come later, the Mayor In the “biggest toad in the pud- MAYOR STRONG'S BON'S COBTUMES. dle. He doesn’t enJoy the attention he Is recetving, and prefers to spend much of his time in his own cool apartments, which are on the level with the smooth shady lawns that slope to the main |teins and leafy retreats in which the To this exports agree, but they say young people who are not old and ex- , ~ THE MAYOR, THE BAD FOOT, THE NTERV the length of duration of the Mayor's reliet depends upon his resistence of invitations to highly seasoned foods and rich wines. Lives mm Plain Food. He isn’t indulging in either at present. His food is of the plainest sort; his drink tea and sulphur water. A dis- tinguished Brooklyn cripple whose ca. reer in the elubs is biazed in a trail of good dinners for half a century, really thought he might venture ‘just a pony of good light beer,” in the Spring House | Cafe last night and tried to get the/| Mayor to split a bottle with him, But the Mayor isn't taking any chances, and bis order was ‘a pony of that—er— that water.” And he drank it without a grimace. ‘The Mayor's routine of Ife at the American water cure {s as simple as that of a monk Ina cloister, He, among | all the 3,000 persons who are ill or those | who are accompanying invalids smooth- | Ing out the rough places for them, ts the most distinguished. Everybody talks about him. Teapots and “Tom” Platt jolubly linked with his name MAYOR IN HI8 RUSSIAN BATH. whenever he appears, Folks coming to town point up to the flags that Sutter from cupola, and gilt- tipped staffs and say, “Well, the Mayor's here,” and when the flag is run up to the peak over the bath-house where he takes hin inky plunge they say, "Now the Mayor's taking his bath.” Called the “Star Boarder,” Whenever he appears in the hotel of- flee or on the hotel veranda, the folka drone sleepily all through the cool afternoon, or walk about lean- ing on canes, there's certain to be an interruption in the small talk and all es aro bent upon him, ex, he's our star boarder,” sald a man who tries Richfield at this season and Homburg, Ems and Baden Raden later on every year. Boss Croker, of Tammany, used to be the star, but he's in England now rac- ing his horses, and his fine farm, just west of Lake Canandaraga four miles a 0 1 ; * G Len 1 Wh long Lege Whe where | ver yan, see hit AFTER DINNER CIGAR AND THE IEWER, perlenced enough to have the gout hide themselves to get better acquaintd. Taken Life Easily. One day ts like the preceding one in the Mayor's routine. He does little or no work. When bossing New York he's UP at 6.9 o'clock, and everybody who looks up at the ‘agstaff on the City Hall knows he is at his desk at 9 Yolock. Here at the water cure he sleeps iil] 9, “and T like ft, too, this be- ing 1 he says, At 10 o'clock he has his cocktail, the formula of which is given at the top of this chronicle, Then he glances over the little stock of mail that the morning train brings in. ‘Three new remedies for the gout, a business letter or two were in the packet yesterday. And then with Mother bracer in the shape of a cock- {1, he limps over to the bath-house, and Otto, the great brawny Viking giant who has massaged more gout out of aristocratic joints than any other masseur in this county, him in hand. Sometimes the Mayor tries the Russian bath. The artist shows how he does tt, ‘The Mayor has a private room and he fg submerged for nearly half an hour in the inky water which fills the tub, Otto beguiles the time by relating anecdotes of famous folks who take the waters at Baden. He tells one story that always makes the Mayor forget t's about street, and which are dotted with foun- |® son and use all t! next table, @ mother, daughter. The group is interesting, beet the members of it ap) tly suffer from the same ailment, and the son, pale young fellow of twenty, never per- mits his companions to discuss dish without producing one of hix many pocke some of Its contents on always takes some himself, The May watches the operation with interest, as does everybody else in the room. During ‘the afternoon the Mayor at- tends to his correspondence and later drives or sits on the cool veranda and readi New York papers or go! sips with the veteran phalanx of goutles who watch for his coming. The event he spends with hin family, and he r tires about 10.30 “to sleep nine sollid) hours,” he explains, Appears to Be Very 1 The first, impression that an “kven- ing World” artist and a reporter formed When the Mayor appeared yesterday Wan that he ‘was a very sick mi The artist shows him as h He leaned heavily on a his form was bent at an ung: angle, Hfis attire was pretty much the same as it Is when he ts in town— a Prince Albert coat, much more abbreviated than is worn in the Prince's set and more likely to be seen in abundance at gious conference in the Tennes , Bray trousers and the pearl y derby that, the loungers around City “Hall describe pecaune of Its odd. wai made up the conspicuous features of it, The expression on the Mayor's face Justified the conclusion that he had passed an uncomfortable night, After hy had forgotten about hi fous cocktail and bath, however, poured to be a new mah. | He leaned less eavily on his cane, his form was Straight and his face bore a smile, Declining an invitation to drive with Mrs. Btrong, he drew a chair up to the window of ‘his room and chatted as fayly asa man really enjoying & holl- a ‘No business," he said, in answer to uestion 4s to his routine of lite, realize that I can't get away from you fellows, but I don’t mind that Much, I'm simply resting getting, rid of this (tapping his foot and winclng a little), and am feeling in fairly good condition “I should have been here a month ago. Now that I am here I think I'll re- main till the end of the month. mokes Little and Does Not Chew, do pretty much as I please, Oh, yes; 1 smoke, but not much. 1 don't chew tobacco, as some of the new! pers say I do. I take dry smokes, and Use littls bits of cigars. appears to cause uneasiness to some editors who are always carping about theinterfer rence of thelr contemporaries in the private affairs of citizens “Tf criticising the personal affairs and characte-istics of public men isn't prying 1 cannot distinguish the difference. How- ver, my way of using cigars appears to muse my critics, and I guess I can ft very pleasant here. The | nox- e ap- roads are beautiful, the air bracing and time doesn't hang nearly so heavy upon my hands as you imagaine, I dine out almost every day, and enjoy my horses, which I brought up with me. The ‘Mayor is accompanied by Mri Strong and his son, T. Bradlee Strong. When T. Bradlee grows a beard, he'll look just like his famous tather. He has the Strong nose and eyes and ts already a head taller than the “My father was a good, square si footer,” said the Mayor, ‘and I suppos my boy gets that from him. am short, and Mrs, Strong Is daughter, married now five or six years, is taller than-her mother. The Mayor's Dig Son. The Mayor's son ts a very ngraoable and. popular young man. He wears some fine clothes, and changes them two or three a he {s.@ manly young fellow, free from the snobbish characteristics which usually Gistinguish a grown-up son whose father is worth $20,000,000 or #0, | Being tall, athletic and good-looking, the Mayor's scn {® very much .n de- mand for sucial functions. ‘There is a dearth of available young IN HIS BLACK BATH, an old Danish lady who was driven to the baths by excessive indulgence in court dinners, She became so gouty that the only rellef she ever got was in her tub, 80 she remained in It for four Otto tells the Mayor, sleeping ng her meals there. It {9 a Very good story, as Otto nar- rates it with delicious sidelights of de- tall and the gusto of a mun who likes and can tell a good story. ‘The Mayor haere it every day in one aspect or an- other, A Nap, then Dinner. After a thorough massaging the Mayor takes a nap and at 2 he dines in the public dining-room. His fare is simple, principally tea. This tea is brewed by. @ colored walter, who ts not nearly so skilful as Edward, his C'ty Hall chef, and is brought on tn a figured China teapot—one of the four hundred that the men a? Richfield, or men of any sort, THE MAN WHO SCRUBS STRONG. for that matter, and a fine young fel l{ow, with prospects. {ike the Mayor's son; ip sure to be popular. i ie MUST PAY THE TAXES. Presbyter: Failed to Exempt Fifth Avenue Property. Judge Beach, in Supreme Court to- day, decided in favor of the cit required the Board of Home Mi of the Presbyterian Church and Br hotel keeps for its guests, Everybody drinks tea at Richfleld, by the way. The barkeeper was lamenting the fact la ay or win he sighed, “but there's nothing but t tea, tea here.”’ The Mayor enjoys his hour in. ‘thc dining-room. He appears to be particu- larly interested in @ family that sits at ala ng staying, ai? night, | d like to see a good beer of Foreign Missions to pay taxes of $5,101.00 at Fifth avenue and Twentieth treet, ‘The’ property was acquired by the Board in 188 and certain leases ran untl. May, 184. The Board collected the rents. \-'The property was assessed for 184 at $285,000, Judge Beach finds that the Board jcollected the rents for 18% and the FEATURES OF TO-MORROW'S SUNDAY WORLD A EWR SANE ry Extraordinary Scheme for Everybody to Live Without Work ETE Sr § Sie33 Ese Where —— America’s Richest Girls Are Spending the Summer. SLSR Otse, f= E SEMPER AEE re A Full-Page Picture OP THE BIG BICYCLE MEET AT ASBURY PARK, Champion Corbett’s Wonderful NEW BbkOW That May Knock Out Fitzsimmons, NEWS, GOSSIP “ PIGTURES FROM ALL THE SUMMER RESORTS. PR NER is Ae boknreeateotnets 2asecas What New York's Best-Known Men Drink on Hot Days. FSRES Remarkable Motor-Wagons That Will Take the Place of Horses and Carriages. : a4 Stave. res Convenient and Cheap Excursion Spots for Women Who Stay in Town SESE ES property was not used for religious proper F HAD THE PAPERS The Rall Documents Were Not Lost as Reported, ‘The rumor that Recorder Goff was re- sponsible for the loss of papers in the case of Henry W. Rall, sentenced May 17 to one year Ph ee Fontentery tor athe Lee oe i had them in his desks, and so Edward Kearney, the Recorder's at- tendant, told a Disirict-Attorney mes- “Thin morning he took them to Chief CiEhe. Heron pt them because let- Ten “aaking, his ald The Recorder ke been wri pardon. The Governor sent for the papers. Review of a New Story by the Author of that Startling Book, “THE GREEN CARNATION” |