The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1905, Page 3

Belmont Roused by Public Demand } Promises to Push New Lines as Soon as R. T. NEW COMPTROLLER WILL FORCE ote on PEATOL 3S BROAD & BEAVER i (i Fixes Terms. SAYS MERGER RIVALS INTO FIELD, HERMAN A. METZ, Comptroller-olect—Any monopoly Mke that cre- ated by the merger will force a money besides Mr, Belmont’ If his monopoly won't build rival into the field, The: ja other the Third avenue subway some one else will, JOHN F. AIBARN, Borough Presldent—it I had not felt the need of the eant side subways I would not have cast for them, Manhattan's vote Decency and #0094 moraly demand the new subwayn, No merger should stop this great pablic improvement, CHARLES V, FOKADS, east side lines through twelve miles of densel good for the people that the to the hands of @ monopoly, Presiden’ PETER J, MEEHAN, of Tremont—te ¢, home to Park Kow, Byening World will win them ¢ FRANCIS MURPHY, Aiderm op The demands of the people of New York, wiced in The EF ing Whrid that the monopoly of clty transportation through the merger of Ryan and Bel- mont interests shall not hold up the projected subwnys, has been heard, ‘A high official in the new Belmont- Rynn holding company says the new eam, side eudwayn will be built Just as goon as the Rapid Transit Board clears the way and fxes the terms of compen- sation to the city. Baid this official of the merger, who| rpeaks with authority “The Evening World has won its fight. Mr, Belmont left for the South yesterday to be absent until Wednesday next, but he did not 60 | until plans for the future activity of the new holding company had been outlined, and T Byening World may announce that the east wt subways will be ballt at earliest practical moment on the Mnes adopted by the Rapid Tran- wit Commission and approved by Board of Kstimate and the or. Lexington Avenue Line First, “It ts true tho Belmont Interests de: red to build the Lexington avenue ex tepsion of the present subway from Forty-second street north, and that Will be constructed first, but the con- atraction of the lower section of the ington avenue subway And the avenue subway {rom the Bat- tery to Morrisania wait only on the Rap!d Transit Board “It Ja up tothat board, Let them go ahead, name the compensation demand- 4 for the city, and the new company will begin work. Of course, they must walt for the decision of the Appellate Diviston of the Supreme Court in the so-called ‘taxpayers’ sult’ attacking the constitutionality of the law trans- forring the francirise-giving power from the Board of Aldermen to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, but it Is not Iikely that case will be taken to theGourt of Appeals, Will Not Delay Subways, Tt is a mistake to suppose that the ‘or will delay subway development. £ the contrary, the people are likely to get the needed rapid transit linea quléker than they would had there Deen no merger, “Ag competitors, the Metropolitan and the Interborough were preparing each to attack any franchise awaried to the ‘and algo the logality of the Issue ot bonds by the successful bidder fa the court, This and other litigation would have ded up the work so that not a shovelful of earth could have been moved in four or five years. But with the former rivals united, all this fs avoided and work can be begun as soon a8 the contracts are awarded, “Mr, Belmont and Mr. Ryan recognize the great need for the east side eub- ‘ways, and they realize the great futare of rapid transit, They know it is to thelr Interest to build these nes and Get them in operation as soon as pos- sible. “The venting World has done a to the community in Board Has “War” Plans, Th private conferences the Commis- sioners have discussed several plans for Stinging the syndicate to terms. In this the Rapid-Transit Commission fs prepared, it te said, to take up with the idea of mumolpal subways, to beat the Belmont-Ryan combine. The mem- ABB WDXT 'Y’S WORLD! We need those subwayn, f{ the Bronx—ph, up 4 fleld for homes for 19.000 people dey wages and now burdened with bie Manhattan re of the Board of Aldermen—These re sorely needed, The Thtrd Y populated avenue route runs territory, It ts not city's tranait tneilities should get in- up a whole hour from my and we hope The ras, hora in the contereace are unier- stood to have reached a tentative Agreement to the Legislature jon build subs ee for the elty, and then rent engin to private companies or ops ; ate them under municipal con. rol, as may be considered heat, | Another Elsberg Bil), This latter course, the Rapid-Transit Co | Practical Indorsement o 2 berg bill, which {s to be f puedes at Albany early in Jan huary, For sew has fough on the ground tha: city was given the right to And operate its own subways, ans would select ‘foolish’ 'o suit thelr constituents with- 100 regan to the general transit if wdherea to by mmission, means eral years the commission the Elsberg bill, {f the build out demand: "he tty 1s confronted by a serious problem," sald President Orr when asked about the plan under considera- ton, “As yet it ts impossible for the members of this board to tell what posi- ion the new traction combination ts to take toward the next subways, but it has become necessary for the city to) move @t once to make its position tm- enable. very first thing Henman A. Metz efter he had taken the oath before | Justice O'Gorman in the Supreme Court to faithfully perform his duties as | Comptroller of the olty of New York | Was to decinre himself on the question of rapid transit—and he will be a mom- | ber of the Rapid Transit Board after | Monday next as @ member of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Comptroller Metz's Views, Said the new Comptrolle: “My opinion is that opoly lke y opoly, hat heartily favor every pr looks to an Enpeoverwnt of of tran fhetittion in the city, We need all can get, Just now the need for length-of-tho-town subway by the hind Avenue route is a crying one, It must be built, The development of upper | Manhattan and the Bronx Gepends yee these subways, and all these routes adopted should be utilized at once, ———eo THIS CHRISTMAS FEST LASTS ENTIRE WEEK, Connaughton, West Angel, Entertains Children in Instalments, Merry Christmas ts not yet done. With Mrs. A. C, Connaughton, of No. 256 West Fifty-fifth street, the ‘West Side Angel,” all this week is one joyous Christmas fest. In the eyes of some 200 poor children of the weet side, who are Mrs. Connaughton's dear friends, the lady {8 @ feminine St. Nicholas, for every year in the holiday season she in- vites all these youngsters to her home to feast and make nierry. ho Christmas tree prepared for them this year ts a tall and stately spruce trimmed In best Christmas tree style, And the children who enjoyed it to-day ~nd gleaned their prevents the numbered Mrs, Sid e the Byery little girl recely fap A If sho waa above age, a tasteful felt hat, cause 0 little ea dol 4 | and thes ‘was some. ‘a read, too, gered ad to-morrow Sere three Partles Just Mile this one to- ey etunataly Mrs, Connaughton has some trients, to alka in “he man- agement of these aftalns, Pretty hard work for one poor wom: MISSING MAN IS 0. K. There ts geome littl mystery In the disappearance and reappearance of Leo Friedobere, transfer agent of the Metro- politan Life Insurance Company, from ‘whore home at No. 676 Cauldwell ave- nue, the Bronx, A general alarm was Bent out to-day Beveral hours After bis wite had dskea the police to hunt for him he called up Berat. Lonergun, in charge of the male telephone bureau tn the Bronx, and an- nounced that he was all right and did not disappear at all, His wife and so Boas aloes nder Trio. the police oo at an Cy Nour this this Jest night, | home| ‘At li tamed 4 pretty ail his ear ae ‘Then be- iris ike to play there was ttle on Oe all the | mothers. balla and clothing tes and sleds for ire police bj wo TRA CK Biers STL Ns ar ae EE ee AVE NUE ae APT AER CY pnemaaiaen FOUR, TRACHS ON Ti Prom 7&8 778 Co ZIROOK LYN BRIDGE Peaceful BY WALTER Wilhelm annownced that malied fist, for It Went postage all unpaid, At “playing soldfer” Bill has quit. We need not be afraid Old Santa Claus his #ockings filled With little peaceful doves, And now Bill's war-whoops have been stilled— He's doffed his warrior gloves. (Kaiser Lay off the “It's me for peace,” said William, bold, "I do not care for war, My battle axo may age and mould, I shall not swing it more. My sword a good vacation took For bo! these many moons. T'll beat It to @ pruning hook, For I am full of prunes,” And wp rosa ev'ry artist then All shouting; "Go it, Bill! Quit soldiering and. yet again, MAX ESLER STILL ABSENT WITH CASH Other Stockholders Are Pay- ing Election Bets, but He Fails to Show Up. Any hope that the east side en- tertained of the return of Max Dislor who disoppeared on Wednesday of last week ‘having $10,000 of election wagers handed to him as stakehokier, was abandoned to-day. Max has not returned, nor has his |’ wife or any one of his friends heard of him since he disappeared. Gloom that | will not wear away has seitled over the men who successfully backed their opinions on the result of the eleation, All over the city to-day election bets | are being pald off, The hotels where thousands of dollars had been depos- ited were thronged all day. The cafe | and restaurant which Max Eisler ran at No, 265 Grand street was also crowd. ed, There was a hope—a gradually diminishing one, of course—that he would be of hand to pass over the money to the winners, but as the day wore on they began to slowly move away. In the early morning some pointed were asked of Mra. Histor as Jers WORTD: THURSNAY EVENING, DECEMTER oR, EVENING ne. S CRUSA VT, TA LAE CR PS I IT Eo sm Bde William. A. SINCLAIR, he ts In favor of peace.—News Item.) The art game {f you will, Your portraits of yourself by you Are fierce, you'll have to own. 80 drop it, Do what you can do And just stick to your throne," Then rose composers, long of hair, And shouted: ‘Wilhelm! Hoch! Quit composittoning an air Which Jingles like @ joke, Cut out Hbretto-writing, Bill, Don't foo] with cleft and staff, Your tragedies are bound to kill Folks holding in a laugh.” The ministers that Bill outpreached, And poets he'd outsung, Riz up and urgently beseeched ‘That curfew shoul be rung. Bill took the tip, (hough he was sore. With grief he almost burst, But he had haa tis dogs of war Ground into wiener-wurst, ations that steps might be taken to bring sult unless the whereabouts of Max was disclosed, No one knew where he was. As for bringing sult or closing up the place, Mrs. ‘sler did not worry. She does not edge anything will came of that, Meanwiile ene is running the place in her own way, She ts still satistied that “Max will come back and make good.” SAW CREEPY THINGS AND FELL OVERBOARD, Ernest D. Jones, @ meadhintst, of | Lynn, Mass., lw a Tet to starboard to- | day aw the result of bis holiday cele- bration when he went aboard the ferry- ont Jersey Clty, the big tub that ts | known all up and down the North River for her extreme Iistt to port. Before she got half way from the Depbrosses atreet slip to Jersey City Jones saw 0 many “pink and green thingn’ running about her sloping deok that he hopped overboard Ho {8 a good swimmer, and the cold water cloarcd his mind of the muttl- colored forms, He did fancy swim- ming stunts, paddling over-hand and floating untll Capt. Henry Syder, of the tug Juanita, pulled him aboard with a bout-hook, Passengers on board the ferry who saw Jones fall made no attempt to follow him, for he appeared 4t home in the water. At Plor No. 20 where they landed him, Jones assured Policeman crag hee Ma aa latendad, to commit sulci Dut boed he'd bo St. FAR LEM ba dads eer 7RO DS ans, HOW THE NEW SUBWAY WOULD APPEAR AT FIFTY-NINTH ST, AND D THIRD AVE. TAYLOR ON TRAL —|WALL STREET HAS BY COURT MARTIAL; FLAVOR OF VANILLA Sergt. Butler Testifies About| Firemen Wash Extract Out of Lieutenant's Action Toward | Burning Factory and Down- Him in a Theatre, town Smells of Ice Cream, The trim) by court-martial of First Lieut, Roy 1, Taylor, of the One Hun- dred and Twonty-iifth Coast Artillery on the charge of “conduct prejudical to; good crer and military discipline,” | began to-day in the Army Bullding in Whitehall street .Lieut. Taylor is] charged by Capt, R, H. MeMaaters, of Ge orm "evecied and Twenty-fitth | Venilia extreot, The whole neighbor Coast Artilery with having humiliated|h00d !s perfumed, the odor rising Bergt. Patrick J, Butler at a theatre in| the topmost o cea of the skyscraper New London. In that section of the Wall street dis Capt. O. W, Farr, of the Coast Ar-| tict & , tillery at Fort Totten, N, Y,, appeared] A fire at noon in Van Duzer's vanilla as counsel for Lieut, Taylor. extract factory on the two top floors of Sorgt. Butler was the first witness, | te four-story building, at Nos, 18 and He stated that during a performance | 2 Cliff street, caused the condition de at the Lveoum Theatre In New London, | 2r!bed. Because of the fiimay charac- Lieut. Taylor, who was in the row just | ter of the buildings thereabout Battal Tt it were bitterly cold somebody to-day and would spill some milk and sugar and break some eggs on the Pavement of Cliff street the product would be ice cream, for Cllff street flows this afternoon knee deep with president of the court, ylor if he was in any| replied that he was not, Col. o then asked on what principle he made such a request, The lleutenant WARRANT OUT FOR FRANKLIN B, MORSE Society Woman Faces Flames Young Wife of Former Prince- ton Football Player Charges Desertion, Franklin B, Morse, member of the Princeton and Cottage clubs, and f ner halfpack at Princeton Unive te belng sought by the police rant sworn out by his young w charges him with desertion, connected witih the firm Riker & Co, Japanese offices in Wall stfeet. It ts sald to-day that the warrant for the arrest of the former gridiron hero 1s tho preliminary step in @ sult for divorce, Morse te the son of Mrs. William Hor- ce Morse, of No. 4 West Ninety-sixth Street, who is the controlling stocknold- er in the firm of Smith, Baker & Co., and @ woman of large fortune. Young Morse was married one year before he told his mother he had a wife, It ls now sald that thelr brief married of Smith, importers, with arecr was stormy almost from the Start, Young Mrs. the! her at 410 Manhatta navenue, she told to-day how she und young Morse were marred in Chicago Di % 144, and how they canw to New York and went to live At No, 29 West One 1nd Thirteenth street, ‘When my hushand would not toll hia! motler of trie, fearing her wrath, 1 went th Cloveland, telling bin { would not return to him until he had |Inftetned his mother,’ she sald: 1 did return I was received by. the er for a tine, Then my husband came alusive and neglecttul. Often ment of me was such that the s had to opme to my. assi lance, Once he drove mo and my matd Into the wireet and we had to s) to the im Five weeks ago he Ripped tay face and lett me.” Morse sayy she telleves a plot Ign foot to sepannie her and her hus. hand but tl jort from him. She le of the opin‘ that her hushand has been spirited oft to Pana our 4 qe: FREE ( , eo Lasting Thr ONE-HALF retall val Poe hb d and second-hand mac! ayment for new), includ Moka sae Y eve the tase m and nearly every TO-MORROW, $5.00, 87.50, 810.00, $1.00 WREKLY IF DESI orna, pure aluminum horns, beautiful Mor des an biue, and Japannod’ m VALUBS $2.00, $2.50, 8 TO-MORROW YOUR CHOICE AT were used for dig) are a CUT TO NEARLY HALY PRICE. IN FULL we on no ee peoeet such as “hie ‘area ce apes a a 7 ion Chief Kruger sent in two alarms. back of him, leaned over and said; |!" C Sergeant you had better change vour|@"d the food of water the firemen theatre.” Vanilla oxtract stock and machinery out He rogarted it as an order, he sald, | f the building, Butler adindtted that Taylor had apoken | at work in the Van Dizer factory when in @ law tone of voice | He sald Tew. | the sire atarted. ‘Nhe men escaped by he wanted the seats for some ladies in bis ery and had only requested him | pear, were cut off by the blaze, do 60. ‘They were thoroughly frightened ,but The complaint waa not made, witn ty er Oo & rear - conversation with Capt. MoMastora, He | &t@ led the other seven to & rear hal: denied bat he had been instructed to |cony by mea y When Lieut. Taylor too kthe stand! jnaliy to the street, When safety was ho testified that he asked Sergt, Butler) assured ‘Tillie Olsen and May Clark rty has the oder seast in fat eee He tok the Jiahge Advocate! The glut of fire anparadus @alled out | ler would leave the seat then ocoupled| trame in the financial district for more by Butler vacant. than an hour, No paticular diffculty chase! the seat vacated by some one not of the party you mention? blaze. “Well, why did you deal ler to leave the seat whe | d no hat t jiented and exclusively practised by fe Babs ladica coon hess ei in| Dr, G. Gordon Martin, is recognized moved hig seat I could. converse with! geence, No necessity for Plates or thom with more freedom and "ots he usual unsatisfactory — bridge aa strong and firm, Pyorrhea and| ‘all diseases of the gums cured, Ex- dental work. Hours, 9 A. M, to 6 P. M., week days only, Hxamina- ed tree, G, GORDON MARTIN, .D.8., Inc, Suite 704, 320 seat and get one somewhere cis in the| {Hed on the blase literally swept the and changed to a seat across'the asic. | There were eight girls and two men y fn next morning that Aa rmnted the seats om the stains, but the girls, wway in the to change his seat, not ordered him to Tile Fisher kept her wits about hor. sali, until some days later and after make a complaint against Lieut. Vaytor. | their way to an adjoining bullding and to change his seat, as members af a) ot) that the change of seats ly Sengt But-| by the two alarms completely paralyzed | Q. Could not some one else ha’ was experienced in extinguishing the A. Yea, 1 suppose ao. Alveolar Dentistry, originated, pat- could have come and token It? A.T front, and I thought If the sergeant/as a distinct advance in dental 0 tion bel ere Maree ates work, Loose and falling teeth saved, pert specialists in each branch of| tions and booklet on Alveolar Den- dD, Firth ‘Ave, cor, 82d St, New York. pOnES, on wna Hundred “When! t she will inelst on sup-| SALE AT BOTH STORES. and Saturday. To mise this money-saving opportunity is to mias-the ohan Metime to secure talking inachines And supplies at ONE-TH ‘ n Inkling of what's In stora for you U VALUBS $10.00, $15.00, $90.00, $25.00 ant $80.00. 221 homne—fit any talking maohine—embrao- {ng a wide and varied assortment of solld brace silk fints) tag Glory Flower horns purple horns htly shopworn, otherwise guod as Now ry THE FAMOUS DOUBLE GRAND PRIZB COLUMBIA RECORDS TR @0, FOR DOLLAR 10-INCH DISCS; 85. FOR 500, T-INCH DISCS, COLUMBIA GOLD-MOULDED CYLINDER RECORDS, %e.; USBD ON ALL MACHINES. oc. FOR THI) NEW GIANT COLUMBIA OYLIN- 4 DER RECORDS, HALF FOOT IN LENGTH—PLAYS A SEUPCTION BZ Dlulushuser lof fp M Yl YY ACH MEN FISH LARCHMONT BLAZE to Save Pets and Two Firemen Injured, LARCHMONT, N. ¥,, Dee. 28.—The * burying of two firemen under a@ falling chimney and the bravery displayed by , Mrs, FO, Donnell, daughter of F. F, Proctor, the theatrical manager, were é | exciting incidents of a blaze taat before , wn to-day destroyed the Mitchell house, three cottages connected, with it and the residence of Dr, B. BY Foote, | which adjoined. 1 | Millionaires who are members of BT Fire Department took an active ot in fighting the flames, while al:nost rhe entire aristocratic colony of Larohiniont # turned out to tie blaze. The Mitchell House was In charge of 1 a care‘aker, John McCauley, when the } fire started In the hotel, ‘The ma and his wife were driven out by the flames and Mrs, McCauley was partially overs come by smoke. ma The viames had made | when discovered ana tc turned in, ‘Tae firemen vould wo " | ing toward saving the hotel, aa 16 waa ? they arrived. 4 quickly to Dr. thr La mass of The flames spread Foote’s residence, and then to the cottages, and despite the efforts of ti nen all were soon destroyed Wie the firemen were preparing te oull down tho tall chimney of the hotel f came down with @ crash, # suddenly Willard Fisher and a Mr, Dexter, who ie the strtolan at the Larehmonty and a momber of the Arey depart were unable Lo escape, ey were burled under a mags of bricks? and mortar, Both were unconscloiss when rescued Yonnell dis dnguished herself byw pects pase ae ‘and dogs which hadg Fat behind In one of the cottagesoe= & been | reo servants. Mrs. Donnell, = i h jontative in Larchmont | wie Bsclory tor the. Prevention of | Cruelty to Anomaly, went to the ald ofj} the imprisoned animals and set nem froe at groat risk et herself, as the cot~ tage was then H The total loss was ne $85,000. } by t MaaNVe—S% Stunning Coats ! (~ $15 Long Coats $E.98 : pedicea to - 5 g Stylish New Models Sacrificed! In all Clearance Sales there is one star, These swagger, elegantly tailored $15 Long Coats at One-Third price constitute the brightest star of all New York's rodent’ Mannish Mixtures, Rich Cheviots, Norfolk Tweeds, Cut on the lines of the swell) English Box Coat, with the ultra eylish beli flare around the bottom. Coa that Srey tailors cannot cut correctly, Typical Bedell tailoring, .withy very Latest All Reduced Friday we Cio? garments, pert bet! —— "hm. ed to street wear and And equally appl opriate tor ; evening wear. yey aro the A t all-purpose chats that a 7 Indy can DUY ane, will be tn ' style throughout ‘the coming ’ season by Bedell Tailors. 4 Great Aller-Xmas Clearing Sale ough Friday othe Dp to nines accented ding Columbia, other make on $12.50 & $18.00. RED, hors, ditforent black and 0, § FROM % to 00 PRR CENT. OFF. jay purposes during the holidayw and $4.00 and $5.00. Third Floor, 30th Bt, Seation, phen