The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1908, Page 4

i WAR ON TICKET SPECULATORS BY THE MANAGERS “Little Tim” Blocking the Move to Have the License Revoked by City. “SPECS” STRIKE BACK. Charge House Combinations Are Responsible for Gouging Public—Their Statement. The war upon the theatre ticket wpeculator being made by the man- Newmart and Maurice Blau and they lpractically control the best seats {n ‘the Knickerbocker, Broadway, Astor Weber's, Criterian and other tres | “In the employ of the Big Store ¢ {over fifty men, who work for a profit of from five to ten cents on each ticke | they sell, T t mem | bers of our they | frequently po: th ‘is Jim Canary, the veteran speculato: Jand former manager, but his twenty seats Are more a compliment than any- thing else from one of the managers, | who possesses a kind heart and re- | members that Canary was once on top. “Percy G, Williams, the vaudeville manager, is another member of the elation who puts house nt of hts theatre s t Riley and Harry Campbell are the speculators who have the inside call at the Colonial, while we have it from Lep Speirs and Louis Loeb that their connection with Mr Williams's Alhambra represente & $8,000 contract which has a year to run Messrs. Spiers and Loeb are privileged to put some of thelr men Inside the lobby and sell to people in line at the box office window. “Even the Grand Opera House on Elghth avenue has {ts own speculators. They are on salary, and work in the lobby. When the attraction looks like a good crowd practically the entire contents of the box office are dumped out Into the hands of the house specu- latora, who sell the seats at an ad- vance of from 50 cents to $1. “The whole cause of excessive pri ‘or theatre seats is caused by the man- ra themselves. If they would do agers’ association is now before the Board of Aldermen, where “Little | Tim" Sullivan is blocking all efforts to} revoke the licenses of the abecviatory:) "The managers contend that the situa-) tion admits of no such compromise as the one proposed, that of raising the | Heense fee from #0 to 850% | Mare Klaw, of Klaw & iurlanger, the | most active leaders in the fight, s to-day to an Evening World reporter: “It may be true, as charged by the speculators, that an arrangement has existed between certain theatres and} the speculators whereby the most de- Birable seats have been from the box offices, but this only emphasizes my point that to remedy conditions we must bo in a position to fix responsibility. If there were no @peculators, what excuse could any Manager offer for the presence of a speculator about a theatre? There Could be no house arrangement, The public Instantly would realize that the ‘house was party to the Increased prices and would resent such extortion. Rals- Ing the license fee will not solve the problem. This fight !s made in the} general public's Interest, and the Al- dermen must see It In this light.” The theatre ticket speculators, now that they find thelr business threaten: with extinction, retaliate with charges @gainst theatre managers, whom they claim ate “standing In” on the in- creased charge to the public. A com- mittee of the speculators’ association, composed of President Philip Harris, Milton Levy and Herman Cohen, mi these allegations to The Evening World to-day. Here is their interesting state- ment: ‘We are prepared to prove before any officer of the city that the first ten rows in the principal theatres of the Broad- way district are given to certain com- binations of ticket specu!etors working for the house, and when the demand from the public ts larger than expected they are handed every desirable ticket outside of those which go to-the hotels and are sold at a premium of & cents. The only seats retained In the box office are the last rows of the orchestra and possibly the last rows of the first bal- cony. “It any of us independent ticket spec: Wlators not working for the house com- binations wants to secure any of the desirable seats we have to buy ours jouse speculators. Now le the proposition has been heard, we have decided to let the public know even the names of the speculators who represent the managers. “The Shubert houses are represented on the sidewa’k by a combination of three men, known as the Big Three— Morris Gest, Leo Levy and Michael Ja- a withdrawn | ¥ ’, with the house speculators prices would drop on the sidewalk. But they are ‘in’ with the house speculators, The advance in which they share swells the profits of the house, $2 a seat not being enough for their part. If the Independ- ent could get seats at $2, we would willingly make a uniform rate to the public of $2.25, which small advance of 2% cents on each ticket would more than give us a good living, and yet not be excessive to the publle.’’ The Indepen Speculators’ Assocla- ton maintains a headquarters in West Forty-sevond street, two doors east of the New Amsterdam Theatre, Its members Include a large representation from the Tammany districts, presided over by the Sullivans. Among its }eutlve Committee members are: id Leonard, George Kelly. Samuel Abraham Rosenthal, Phillp Marx, s, Mannie Iarris, 1ké nanskl, Samu follanaer, Benjam'n Gezundi, ‘Joseph Rosenthal’ and Max olf When The Evening World made tts crusade against the theatre speculator: A year ago Lee Shubert denied th there existed any arrangement w! the speculators, DEMOCRATS NIKE HEAVY GANS I MAINE ELECTION pn taene: But Republicans Hold State by About 7,700 and Control Legislature. PORTLAND, Me., Sept, 15.—Addition- al and revised returns made early to- day of the State election in Maine al- tered but elightly the result announced last night, the plurality of Bert M. Fer- nald, the Republican candidate for Gov- ernor, over Obadiah Gardner, the Demo- cratic ticket leader, remaining at 1,829, with 25 small towns and 2% plantations still to report. The missing uistricts are in the northern part of the State or on the little Islands off the coast, so that pected for several days. When {t ts compiled It 1s believed that Fernald’s plurality will be at |7,700, The total revised vote for Gov Jernor for the 48 cities, towns and pl tasions was: Fernal Gardner, Democrat, cobs. This trio also represent the Be- lasco houses, Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre and the Hippodrome, which is, a Shubert enterprise, They have over 100 men working for them. “In the vase of the Hippodrome the Big Three have their seats out of the box office racks two months in ad- vance, These tickets are stored tn an office maintained by the combination In Forty-second street, directly opposite from Hammerstein's Victoria. At the latter house the Big Three and Its con- nection with the house 1s represented by Louls Phillips, who gets his seats from the box office, which does not open up until his arrival, Phillips, who {s a sort of foreman, divides the seats with Little Davy, Philadelphia Max, Julius Levy and Charles Troy, and when it looks like a bad matinee or night, he passes out the surplus to us independents at a price 100 per cent. over the box office price. “Another combination working in with the managers is the Big Store. | Its members are Louis Cohen, Leo cta In 194 gaye Cobb, Republican, Davis, Democrat, 451. The feature of the election was the increase in the Democratic vote throughout the State, not only over 10, but over 1905, when It was a par- | tlcularly heavy one, Every one of the |four Congressinal districts showed Gains, the increase over 104 being 15,- | lo) votes, and 4,40) over 1906, These | gains were made almost entirely in the | | rural districts, showing clearly the Popularity of Mr, Gardner among the | grangers of the State, at the head of | whose organization he served for many years, The Republican vote was also greater than in 1:06 by 2,000 votes, but it fell | 4,000 below the vote for the Republican | candidate in 190 | The leaders of the Malne Referendum League Ithe two amendmen: tion which perm ne initiative and ref- erendum. R for these amend- ns | ments were very meagre and not at all | decisive. The incoming Legislature will be }about the same as the previous one, (strongly Republican in both’ branches. @ complete poll of the vote was not ex-| laimed the adoption to-day of PRIEST SHOT IN CENTRAL PARK V.CTIM OF PLOT pete Se Santo Domingo Merchant Says Assassin Wounded Father Asenicio. CAME HERE WITH THREE. Revolutionists | Accompanied Him From Tropics Six Weeks’ Ago. ‘The man who wae shot {n Centra! Park last night was identified in the Presbyterian Hospital to-day aa the Rev, Father Artruro Asenicio, @ prom- inent Roman Cathollo priest of Santl- ago, Santo Domingo. Vincenao Penso, a Santo Domthgo merchant, and propri- etor of the Hotel D'Angleterte, No, 21° West Fourteenth atreet, who identified {ne unconscious patient, declared the opinion that the priest wes shot by an assassin. Penzo was the last person seen with the priest before he was found mortally hurt In the park, The merchant salled for Santo Domingo on @ Spanish Line steamer this afternoon, He sald as he hurried to the steamer from the Hote D'Angleterre: “Last evening I dined with Father Artruro at 6.30, After dinner we part- ed, He was to sail with me to-day for Santiago. I returned to the hotel ar 9 o'clock, He did not come. I waited for him to-day; then I learned he was shot. I am sorry, but I must get back to Santo Domingo. The priest I never met until In New York recently, He |came here six weeks ago to put two | nephews in a college in Canada. Victim of Plot. | “Father Artruro was the victim of a | plot, 1 feel sure. He would not shoo | himself. He was a jolly man, alway |having fun and joking, He was that last night. Some enemy must have shot hum." The police fix the time of the shoot- | Ing @s about 8.30, a comparatively shor. Ue after the priest and the merchan, got up from dinner, No effort was made to detain Pengo to question him, and all that wee learned from him was by reporters. When the priest arrived in New Yerk he was accompanied by three Sant: | Domingians, who described themselves | es cunmiisaion merchants. All tour ale said lo have been invoived in the recen. Santo Domingo revoiution, the priex having taken an active part in poiitica. When ting iittie party of four arrived, Fatner Asenicio went alone to the Hotel | D'Angieterre, and the three supposed merchanta went to the Hotel America. All three of the latter sailed for Kurope this morning on @ German liner, Thy puiice retuse to make toeir names public or to aliow the management of the hate to give any informa.ion about them. No identication of the wounded priest | was made until several hours after his three mysterious tellow-country | aailed. Tae wounded man was then In one of the putnic Wara# of the nos- tal. oe man walking along the west drive last might heard @ snot from cog drection of the Block House. He elepnoned the Arsenal and policemen hunted for more than an hour before “ame upon the body of the uncon- us man. le lay stretched beside the road and no revolver could then be found. ‘The search for a revolver was resumed this morning, and a weapon was found with | one cartridge exploded. | The priest has not recovered consci- | | sness since arriving in the hospital bullet wound is In the back of tl a little to the right. The wound have been self infilcted, but to shcot himself in that manner the priest would have had to bend his arm far | back and twist his wrist Detectives, who traced the movee ments of the priest yesterday, say that eens h | e OACH we MALL ae hetch=M-Au noach Trap y rid the nouses Bugs, Croton Bugs, etc Iquids or polsons, No of Insects about the house rfu! trap that |e sure as ‘eath, and sure death to these obnox ie ingests Ketch-M-Ali Roach Trap Co, i310 FULTON ST, LRUOKLIN, N.Y For sale at Druggists’. Grocers’, Hard- ‘Stores, or by . | | ware Department mal 10 cents In stamps. \ ne met a girl in the park last night. Who was and what her conversa: | tlon with the priest have not been | ascertained. When ho recovered consciousness to- day the priest was asked if he had at tempted suicide. All he would sa \s ‘ot suicide; not suicide,’ Coroner Shrady took the priest's ante-mortem statement this afternoon. | ALDERMEN FAIL TO MEET. ‘The first stated meeting of the Board ‘of Aldermen for the fall sessions was | scheduled for to-day, but President Mc- | Gowan could not get a quorum. | Nearly all the Aldermen are In Sara- |togn or Rochester, ‘Thirteen responded | to thelr names at o'clook, Presl- | @ent McGowan then said that he would | postpone the meeting for one week. | BEEF TRUST PUTS UP PRICE OF PORK, LARD, TALLOW | ‘The Beet Trust, in order, {t Is said, to get square with the public for boycor ting red meats, !s advancing the pric: of pork, lard and tallow. It was an- | Mounced yesterday, from the head of the packing house combine in Chicago, that the rise in pork was due to u Genuine scarcity in hogs. The Beet Trust 19 also boosting the price of oleomargarine, which {s near. butter, and of cottonseed oll, whici, pasees for olive ol] in the cheap gro- ceries, The demand on the part of the public for beef, veal and mutton ts still light, | ub of the “mutton’’ is from Angora | goats. New and minute in A- Price Long The most attractive $1.00. Fall Coats and Cravenette Coats— Fall of 1998 Brill stores sell more Fall Coats and Cravenette Ralncoats thay any other stores in New York, because Brill Fall Coats and Cravenette Coats are more advanced in style, more modern in tailoring, more diversified in assortment and greater in value. Special Attention is Called to The Sale of Fall Coats and Cravenette Rain- coats, that are $ $15, $18 and $20 9 () values, at... \] This sale is possible because Brill stores secured the overproduc- tion of Raineoats and the Fall 1908 “Model” Fall coats of a famous Rochester tailoring concern, Raincoats are in light grays, |{ dark grays and black. Fall coats are in all the new |] shades of tan, brown and gray. |] All these garments are 1908 Fall models, | |] 279 BROADWAY, nr. Chambers St, | UNION SQUARE, | 4th St. nr, B’way, a tail—shape, quality and, workmanship unsurpassed. Style No. Medium Bust 159 other styles $1.00 to $6.00 Ask Your Dealer Brill Clothes G CORSET up to the every de- 28 $1.00 Back stylish dnd Corset fi Suits for Fall and Winter 1908-1909,’ $18 and_$20 $43.50 values, Spe- cial at .... These are suits in all the new- est shades of tan, smoke and ollvs, as well 2s in neat, dark mixtures and Grays. Nearly every new stripe is shown. Every one of these suits is $18 or $20 standard in fabric, talloring, trimmings and style, You are sure of $18 or $20 service, Choice of 25 different models | | showing all the new lapel, pocket, shoulder and sleeve finishes, $26 and $28 $ Worsted Suits, 17 very special ut The fabric is 18-ounce pure worsted, yarn dyed, the desi; a= ing brought out by silk fteaas Colorings are new Fall 1908 tan, olive, smoke and gray shades. These new Fall 1908 model Suits are $17 instead of $25 and $28, because a great tailoring comer overestimated its selling power and overbought. Harlem Store Open Bvenings 126th STREET, cor, 3d Avenue, 47 CORTLANDT, nr. Greenwich, Will 2500 yards Black at 76 A special lot 1800 yards Lord & Taylor Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 16th and 17th sold usually for $1.50 at gsc. yd. Also 4500 yards Black or White Satin de Chine of which the regular price is $1.00 “ Black Breadeloths” finish, sponged, shrunk and ready for use, at $1.88 yd., actual retail value $3.00 Broadway & 2oth St,; 5th Ave.; 19th St . Offer Tiffeta Dress Silk c. yd, 54-56 inches wide, Satin Remarkably Low Values But Absolutely Good Shoes for Women, Men and Chi.dren; Strong, Sensible Shoes and Oxfords, Made for Every-Day Wear. Fall Styles for 1808 Sample Stocks from Prominent Shoe Man- in Lace, Oxfords and Gibson Ties at Hand Welted Extension AFull Run of Sizes in Every Style Showh Children’s Shoes Eoys’ Soles, 4 Cuban Hee.s, Tan Shoes Bizes soles, tan skin Patent 54; extension uppers. To close at 1 to calf: Shoes Kidskin; Button; Stores at Tan Calfskin, Gun Metal Calfskin, Patent Coltskin and Vici Kidskin. SAM- PLE SIZES ONLY—3, 3%, 4 and 4%; widths B,C and D, About 50 styles to choose from, Button and Bluchers, with high Cu- ban or medium mili tary heels; $3.00 and $3.50, at $4.9 worth Women’s Oxfords Patent Coltskin and Vici Kidskin, extension solid leather soles; well Young Ladies’ Sizes 2} to 5} with ; heels Twenty new Fall styles; Coltskin and Vici Lace extension soles; sold in other $2.00 a pair, our price $ ‘ mr reinarenerren * quseaRs, ufacturers. and Glazed Vici Kidskin. WELTED SOLES; MAKER'S REGULAR $2.50 AND $3.00 GRADES, in Lace, Button and Bluchers, Sizes 244 to 8. Widths, A to EE; high Cuban and medium Military Heels, Also the same styles for School Girls, sizes 24% to 5¥% ,with 4 heels, at $4.50 Every Fair Exactly as Repre- sented here. In Tan Kid Skin, Black, Gun Metal Calfskin, Patent Coltskin HAND made, | Whiie Canvas Gibson Tles, Worth $2.00 $3.00; hand tured flexi. ble soles; afl sizes and widths; at Boys’ Gun | Boys’ Callf- Metal Calf |s Bizes 9 to 13% a t positively ali Solid leuther, at $4.50 Doable Bi; se fa Lace, or MUSICAL) fo wow ary NEW.” | N stands for Who keeps Hire a World Bring Replies Qavcnmn ~eveemninembanaorypsinnse tase sted 6d" ' ' Misses’ Shoes Sizes 8% to {4 and 11% to 2 Made rom ed Vici Kiaskin and Gun Metal Calfskin; Bluchers; solid leather exten. sion soles; about 2,500 pairs, Wu in Shoes solid leather soles; sizes 8 to 13% and 1 to mauufactur- ers’ $1.50 grade, at = select- Button and rth $1 50.and Night Watchman, his eye out For tramps and the like And puts them to rout, To thwart men from stealing From home, yard or store Want Ad. Watchman What could one do more? It’s Really Wonderful How a Word “Help. Wanted” Ad, . Will in Great Variety Empleymens