The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1904, Page 10

\ LOWEST SCHOOL AIDS REJECTED Comptroller Grout Learns Some- thing About the Remarkable System of Buying Board of|¢° Education Supplies. ‘LARRY’ AHRENS’S COMPANY FAVORED MANY TIMES. Investigation Shows Methods Loose and Reoords Kept Use- less—Cost of Supplles for Year More Than $400,000. Comptrolier Grout has been again busy Investianting the mothods of the Board of Educat This ho hes none deeply into the manner of award- ing contracts for supples, He finds that the lowest bidders in the majority of {instances wore not awarded con- tracts, Nor were the lowest biddors even informed that their bids had been rejected. Furthermore, because of the system in vogue, loweat biddera had no means of know'ng that they had actually un- derbid the other fellaws, In his inves- tigation the Comptroller has stumbled across several preferred or favored sons of Tammany who have received large contracts for school supplies other than text books, although the bide of these favored ones were far from being lowest. Nor has the Comptroller learned that the supplies furnished by these men who were not lowest b'd- ders were one bit superior. Better Methods Needed, Of all this the Comptroller “Whatever the explanation to be for these divergences from the rule of awarding contracts to the lowest bid- ders, it {s inevitable thet such and other irregularities will increasingly continue until such time as the Board of Education shall adopt more perman- ent standards and more rellable meth- ods for the examination and compari- son of samples, The absence of a per- TMmanent system that can be relied upon from year to year leaves the way open for those very Irregularities which It] 9. 1s the object of fair and open compe- tition to prevent.” Prominent among those who appear in the favored class of non-lowest bid- ders and whose business affa'ra are concerned among numerous other mu- ricipal departments, is the L. W. Ahrens Company, the head and front and choice Tammany spirit of which ts the amiable “Larry” Ahrens, During the last Mayoralty campaign, “Larry” was an almost dally visitor at Mayor McClellan's headquarters in the Bartholdi Hotel and made folks gasp with the abandon in which he bought wine and otherwise entertained. But Mr. Grout in his report takes careful Occasion to say that the ‘‘divergencies"’ he points out are not at all traceable to the present administration. The Comp- troller's report has to do only with the year 1903. Calls It Louse Syatem. The keeping of records and contracts by the Board of Education appears to have been abandoned. 80 loose has the ystem becume, the Comptroller's port says, that ft was impossible to find any statement of obligations con-| tracted by the Board of Education for supplies during 1903. ‘ John Cottier, Deputy Superintendent of Supplies, howev und to have Kept tabs on his int, so that there might be #7 of a record, re- ;| Park, and five of their six children overed onfy a but this memorand ae 4 was otherwise Pept of the year Ingo: An Inventory of stock on hand showed @ valuation of $50,788.47, Supplies pur- chased for the year amounted to the enoFmous sum of $404,631.08, trick Jonos, Superintendent Division of Supplies, tabulated bids for 1903 after exa: of the all t . These, report says, were for the most part Derfunstorlly approved No disposition to apply fests even of an ordinary kind was discovered by Comptroller Grout's inveatigation, EAST SIDE TAILORS with newly-arrived Immigrants, using them to depress the of the settled cutters an more to do with the pri | than anything else STAKE SPREADS = rates Wi steamship | brought the foreigners to this count in thousands where hundreds former- ty came, cnd the large percentage of the newly-arrived Russians, Poles, | Germang and Italians have been found Fight of the Garment Makers! to be admirably sulted for garment working, and the manufacturers have | not been slow to put them at it. That Against an Open Shop May © report contrasts the action of the [is why the great United Garment: | Gommalitee on “Bunoil Extend to Other Cities! \-cryare of America decided by refer @ le is rm. Je } " ciining to award a single bid bays Rapidly. |endum vote to fight to the last ditch Bmith & Co. for items in typewriter * the establishment of the “open shop supplies. Ahrens’s company also led on {in New York. | fer of Bors lisnusetetacsee ies The signs to-day upon the lower east Just seven days ago 1,200 cutters di- mont and with great success. Hed the | ide indicated @ general strike of gar-| rectly employed by the forty leading Bayrde for carnon: paper been | ment workers extending to every large| clothing manufacturers of New York mado to the lowest bi the report says, the fae gpagedes would hav: ny clothing manufacturin| centre In the| quit work, The cutters are the highest moant « 25 per cent. to the | country—St. Louls, Boston, Halt'more. | pald garment workers, and are orgun- weity Chicago, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Utica and | ized almost to a man. ‘Their departure, Syracuse. If addition to the big strike from the workrooms was followed by WITH ONLY $2 BIG FAMILY 15 LANDED Charles Salloz, Wife and Six Children Among Cheap-Rate Steerage Passengers to Ar-| rlve—Wants to Go West. to Attracted hy the two-pound rate from: London, Charles Rudolph Sallog, with hie | wife and six ohildrea, came over on the Red Star steamer Vaderland, which ar- | rived hore yesterday and landed in Now York with less than §2 to carry them all to Chicago, where he hopes to | find work | Salloz {e a native of Switgerland, but came to this country as a boy and set-| tled in Chicago. Sixteen years ago he became a citizen, and shortly after he secured a place on the police force at Melrose Park, a suburb of Chicago. He | married a Scotch woman in Melrose wore born in that town. Salloz was a member of Melrose Pari Lodge, Knights of Pythiae, and was doing nicely in his western home. He family to Scotland. He in- vested his Mttle capital in Ayr, the of Robert Burns, opening a attempted to market old vol- editions. He says that the Scotchmen found out an American cltizen they to patronize him, He finally became bankrupt, and for cver a year has been wandering around from place to place trying to secure any kind of work to support his family, Seeing the cheap rates from London advertised hv saved up all he could earn until he was able to buy the necessary tickets. Ar- riving at Ellis Island the authorities had no option but to allow Bafloz and his family to land, | ‘They were taken to the Barge Office. | where Pollceman Mury and Gateman Russell started a subscription to raisc suMctent money to send them to Chi- cago Salloz says that once in Chicag> he is certain of securing work, as he | has many friends both in the city anu | at Melrose Park. | —— | Onting for Five Points Boys. The children of the Five Points House of Industry at No, 156 Worth street Manhattan, will be entertained by Sen- ator Reynolds at Dreamland Friday July 1, not July 7, as stated. All thc chtidren tn the school, numbering 1%. in charge of Sunt. William R. Garbutt will boord the Dreamland, leaving the Battery at 2.20 P. M. The children will! he ssiven free admission ty everything, ending the day's enjoyment by bathing at tho Dreamland Beach. | B. ‘Altuan & Cn. here there is a strike in Rochester and @ lockout in Philadelphia. Within the Inst fe among the east side garment workers | have been regaried as a Ji ke year's strike has already passed beyond the Jesting stage. The flooding of the clothing 34,300 miscellaneous garment workers employed by the contractors or middle- men. The Intter include the tailors, vest- makers, buttonholy workers, trousers makers and the overcoat and sack coat makers, &c.. and their quitting has ef- fectively tied up the clothing industry in New York In Ephraim Kaufman, business agent years strikes But this It is now dt ginning assume threatening proportions. trade EVERYTHING FOR THE FOURTH BUT THE FIREWORKS. These $15 Batiste Dresses Are Only $6.98 To-Morrow. Through an unusually fa- vorable transaction with one of the best makers in the city, we're enabled to offer this splendid value for to- morrow. These costumes are all beautifully made and of high-class designs, in lace trimmed Walking and Dress Styles. They are made of an exception- ally fine grade of linen batiste, combined with self-colored lace in- sertion. They're all prettily shirred and tucked—the entire dresses are lined, the skirts having fancy ruf- fled drop; all regular sizes. This sale affords an unusual securing a really handsome gown 89th Bt. Bection. worth $15 at least for Second Floor, The 50c. Sort of Sheer Chiffon Voile al 29c. Yd. A purchase which involved over ten thousand yards of this popular Summer fabric brings about this most extraordinary value for to-morrow. This chiffon voile is 38 Inches wide, all wool, In a very sheer weave and finish that will not wrinkle—an ideal material for cool Summer gowns. Colors are: Light Blue, Sitver, Navy, Biscuit, Castor, Brown, Myrtie, Cardinal, Royal, Champagne, Cadet, Cream and Black. This is really the bargain of the season at, yard, 75c. Mohair Brilliantine, 39c. yard. 50 inches wide; splendid lustrous quality, in shades of royal, navy, brown, tan and black. Main Floor, near Rotunda, Women’s Summer Wrappers in a Great Clearance Sale. A clearance in which we All CARS TRANSFER To Leaueron Jo -3™ Ave 7 59° 1060° Sr Union, gar Don’t Poison Baby. ORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have PAREGORIC or laudanum to minke it sleep, These drugs will produce | sleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP | FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING, Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda- num and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists are prohibi from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of ‘ narcotic” is: ‘A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison- ous doses produces stupor, soma, convulsions and death.” The taste and | smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names | of * Drops,” '* Cordials,” Soothing Syrups,” ete. 'You should not permit any medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know of what it is composed, CASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. Genuine Castoria always bears the signature A/a | COME STRAIGHT TO BLOOMINGDALES’ FOR OUTING NEEDS. $4 Black Japanese Silk Waists to Go at $1.98. Only five hundred in the lot—just made, and in one of the smartest of this season’s newest styles. They're of pretty corded during July and Augest. JULY 8 ¢ this store, following its Open Saturdays as usual. al | | \ by transfer to, .ar doors. 1 Cars go direct or 7 rOatlerman Broadway, Graham and Flushing Avenues, Brooklyn. , We're Equipped to Supply Every Possible Outing Need, as Never Before pa ——=s 1,98 Waists, 65c. 1,200 of these Waists will go on sale Thursday morning, They are of fine quality lawns, trimmed with lace and Hamburg insertion,tucked back and cuffs, full sleeves, fancy stock collar, | Warth $1.98. Here Ge Thursday .... lp: an ‘ Wir Pique Skirts, 98c. Excellent man-tailored Skirts | these, of fine white pique, trim- med at hem with Hamburg insertion, and made full. They were manu factured to sell at 1.98 and upward. Thursday we give you your choice 6hc00 siese see 98c z * Oxford Ties. An exceptionally good as- sortment of low shoes is here— low in style and in price. Women's Oxford Ties in welted and turn soles, patent colt, tan and black vicikid, widths B to E, sivea gg 3 to 6, value $3.50... 98 Women's Oxford Ties in tan and| black vici kid, turn soles, sizes 2% to 7; value $2.50....... 669 Women's Tan and Black Kid Oxford Ties, sises 2% to 8 reguler g) 01.50 value ais... Bc 300 pairs Men's, Boys’, Women’s and Children’s Black and Brown Tennis Oxfords; 75c values here Thure- dyer. 50c Half Prices on Aill Our Trimmed Hats. The greatest trimmed hat opportunity of theryear comes |here for Thursday in time:for | those women who have not yet | secured their »going-away: hats. Here; All our $5 Hatsygo down to... ...2.50 All our $7.50 Hats go down to ..3,75 | All our $10.00 Hats go down to. ..5.00 | All our $15.00 Hats go down to..7.50 | sionists and picnic parties, Little pig bams, Helmet brand, pete ea) weigh- ing from 7 to 12 pounds; the 4 9 4/ ac plaited fronts, finished with der, so get here Peav de Soie Goes al 59c. Yd. finished, Special sale price, per yard, black Japanese silk, with dainty separate stock collar. Sizes 34 to 46, These waists are Y sure to go in early to secure $1. : 8 Oneaticcccces None sent C.O,D.; no mail orders filled 24 Floor, 50th Bt. Section. An importer’s last hundred pieces came to us at a full third ff, under price because the lot was too small for him to hold in stock. Thus, the opportunity is yours to-morrow to get Regular 79c. lo 85c. Silk 59 Cc 60c. Black Taffeta Silk 45c. yd. A splendid grade, extra strong and serviceable—warranted to wear excel- + smartly tailor - stitched double-quick or- A Small Choice Lot of Black 7 for 59c. a yard. It’s of a good deep, rich black, superbly lently. Main Floor, near Rotunda. Savings of Exactly Half in This Sale of Leather Goods. The savings in this leather goods sale have been the talk of the town —folks from far and wide have come to take advantage of the un- heard-of bargains. These items for to-morrow will give an idea of how sharp price cuts have been throughout the whole stock: Sole Leather Suit Cases—Of 3 ox } Armour's famous { kind that sells usually at 16c. ib. ‘sliced, Ib..... seagees Luneh tongue, 1 Ib. cans, | German Salami, kind, 286.5 domarns. « ” $2.75 00. n! 30c In-er-Seal Water Thins, 10c. Ice Cream | packages, 7c.; don .... +, 83c| These Prices Served Free ase cane, Meera Ahing % 350 Will Prevail ; +5 in bulk, in Our | Candies.vAsvorted Chocolttes, Until Clee) Grocery Fige and Dates, Ib......-.... 17C| ing Time Department. Lowney's Assorted Chocolate Saturday. l Ciseits, Ibisiietes steers) GOCl == Important 3-Day “Sale of Good Groceries] | for Holiday-Makers. Here's a striking list of just the needed things for excur- Devilled ham or tongue,half Ib. leans, worth 10 , 7c,; dozen Boiled hamy whole, Ib., we, OC 2lct 25¢ cy Am, and “take time to-day just drop in at some of the following places -a-look” at TheWORLD'S TWILLED SILK UMBRELLAS with handles of Ivory, Pearl and Horn, silver trimmed, also Sterling Silver Caps, for Men and Women; sizes, 26 and 28 inches, $2.75 PARASOLS of Taffeta Silk; Hunter’s Green, Navy Blue, Pink, White and Black, with tucks and hemstitching, | and natural wood sticks, . a | 4 + $2.75 | NOTICE, This establishment will be closed at 5 P. M. Saturdays, at 12 Noon. | Nineteenth Street and Sixth Auenue, New Qork, —= ee quote prices that have been cut without regard to the original cost or value. There never was a better chance to secure a pretty, cool, summer negligee garment than this sale affords, and yeu'll be wise if you buy two or three while you may at such remark- able savings— 59c for Wrappers that were * 98c,, $1.25 & $1.50. In splendid wearing light and dark fabrics, made in several pretty styles, 85¢ for Wrappers that were ¢ $1.69, $1.75 & $2. Made of sheer lawn in dainty light colors, striped and figured effects; several becoming styles for choice; all sizes, from 34 to 46. None sent C. O. D. and no mail orders filled. Second Floor. 80th St. Section. sole leather, with reinforced cor- ners, French stitched all around, easy-carrying handle; lined with extra quality canvas; fitted with good strong lock and key; cases regularly sold at from $5 $3.50 to $5.50—special “The London’? Suit Case—Made of heavy 3-02. sole leather; 24 inches long; exceptionally deep and roomy: lined with Irish linen; has shirt pocket; French hand-stitched all around, with reinforced corners, easy-carrying handle, heavy straps all around; brass bolts; very light in weight, tho’ strong and durable—special.. ., $5005 Fashionable Bags—Handsome large | sized bags—all the newest and | smartest shapes, made of genuine walrus, genuine seal, &c,,_ fitted with purse and card ease—all silk | lined—values up to $3.95; special, $1.69, $1.98 and... $2.90 Cabin Shaped Club Bags. The most popular and sought for bags—made of elegant grain leather and alligator design, with the most practicable handles man- ufactured— 10 in.,81.45 41 in.$1.55 42 in,,81.65, 13 in.,81.85 44 in..$2.15 45 in. 82.20 16 in.,82.59 17 in,$2.79 18 in.,$2.05 Stylish Bags--All the most fash. ionable sorts, such as automobile, “Peggy,” carriage and envelope bags. pert colors, with purse to match—values up to §; special, 59c., 69¢ find * 8c Crushed Leather Belts—Genuine calf, peau de soie and taffeta silk belts; every style handsome and novel; values up to $1.50; special 48c Crushed Leather Belts—A large lot of genuine calf as well as fancy silk belts, in all the most geo fashionable designs; special. Main Floor, 50th St. Section A Qvartel of Bargains in TEN CEN ALL WORLD OFFICES — Main Office: 63 Park Row. Harlem Branch: 211 West 125th st. Uptown Office: 1381 Broadway. Brooklyn Office: 292 Washing- Prices marked s G Oriental Rugs. A matchless assortment to select from, suit. able for summer homes in city or country. 100 Persian Rugs, 3x4 ft., - $4.00 100 Daghestan Rugs, 3.6x5ft. $5.50 India Mooj Rugs for Verandas, sizes from 2x4 up to 9x12 feet, at $1.00 to $12.00, Attractive Algerian Rugs, suitable for Porch or Halls, sizes 2x4 up to 7.6x10.6 feet. A. A. Vantine @ Co., “ Broadway, bet. 18th and 19th Sts. Women’s Wash Petticoats. We've a splendid stock of the smartest and most serviceable sorts of wash petticoats at prices remark- ably low—judge of the values from the following: \H 49c., 75c., 98c., $1.25 & $1.79 —Petticoats of gingham, made in a variety of pretty styles; some with deep ruffle, others with two bias ruffles and shaped flare flounce; fitted tops, which dispose of all fulness over hips. " Extra size gingham ) 79¢. & 98c petticoats, made with one deep bias ruffle trimmed with one or two folds. Second Floor, 50th St. less than cost. | | | Hon. Curtains and BlanKets Cleaned. And entire satisfaction guar- "anteed in every case— Nottingham . Lace cleaned for 50¢ pair. All other fine Curtains clean- ed 65¢ and 75c pair. I Blankets clecned and made moth-proof for 75c pair. Goods stored free of charge till Autumn if desired. Send a postal and our wagon will call. Main Floor, near Rotunda. Curtains Eyeglasses and Spectacles. You won't miss this special sale to-morrow if you're in need of a pair of good, reliable eyeglasses and the saving of much on the purchase means anything to you. B5c—Eyeglasses with solid gold Springs; spectacles with solid 6Bc—Eveglasses and spectacles with goldoine frames, metal which closely resembles 14 kt. gold and is Impervious to moisture, They're gold nose pieces; very neat and feather-weight, fitted with sex dignified looking; $3 asked else. crystal lenses; ‘spectacles | have where for the very same grade. straight or riding bows, eyeglasses | fitted’ with patent American cork nose rests; opticians charge $1.50 r for these, —Rimless eyeglasses and spec- tacles; will not tarnish from moisture, always keeping their | bright, new appearance; $1.25 at | optician’s for the same kind. | T$e—Genuine axis-cut pebble eye- glasses and spectacles, set in goldoine frames; the finest made sold every day at the exclusive optician's at $4 and $5 a pair. Main Floor, Front, Centre ton st. ALSO AT SIEGEL COOPER CO. (Book Dept.), oth , 18th and 19th sts, SIMPSON CRAWFORD CO. (Book Dept.), Oth av., 19th and 20th sts. BALCONY BOOKSTORE, ADAMS DRY GOODS CG., oth ave., 21st and 22d sts. JOHN WANAMAKER BOOKSTORE Broadway, 9th,and 10th sts, EHRICH BROS., oth ave., 22d to 23d st. ‘The Arcade, 71 Broadway. BLOOMINGDALE BROS, (Book Dept.), from Lexington ay. to 3d ave., 59th to oOth st. OR SENT BY MAIL ON 1 allow 10 da: Pipeattion, Headquarters, McBRIDE’S ARCADE BOOKSTORE, | Address THE WORLD, PULITZER BUILDING, NEW YORK. Sere Pecitatioe sorrtye as they are all ll el f { SPLENDID PORTFOLIO OF WORLD’S FAIR VIEWS. Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 Now On Sale. Each Contains Sixteen Plate Paper Engravings, The Price to World Readers is TS EACH (Published at 25 Cents). Don’t Forget—Call—Look—BuyTo-day For Sale at the Following Addresses: LUDWIG BAUMANN & CO., 8th ave., 35th to 3oth st. AMMON & MACKEL, Booksellers, 81 Chamber: ABRAHAM & STRAUS (Book Dept.), Fulton st., Brooklyn. A. D, MATTHEWS'S SONS (Book Dept.), Fulton st., Brooklyn, ,. A. I. NAMM (Book Dept.), Fulton st., Brooklyn. |H.A. BAKER & CO. (Stationery | Dept.), Broadway and Rockaway ave., Brooklyn. |H. BATTERMAN (Book Dept.), Broadway, Brook:/n. JOURNEAY & BURNHAM | tlonery Dept.), Flatbush ave., Brookiyn. HAHNE & CO., 609 Broad st., | Newark, N. J. |THE OUTLET STORE, | dence, R. I RECEIPT OF 10 CENTS. Provi- (Sta- ‘