The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1908, Page 9

t | \ nn Sent ahantty: Hien Pas EARING BEGUN ON CHARGES AGAINST LOUIS F. HAFFEN ~ Commissioners of Accounts Al- lege Incompetency and Waste of Public Funds. AHEARN CASE CITED. Counsel Disagree 'as to Admis- sibility of Evidence, and Case Is'Adjourned to Monday. ‘The hearing on the chaiges preterred @guinst Borough Presiden: Louls F. Haffen, of the Bronx, by Commissioners of Accounts Mitchel and Gallagher, un- er instructions from Gov. Hughes, was begun this morning before Special Ref- etee Wallace Macfarlane in the audience room of the Public Service Commission. Hpitomized, the specifications of the Commissioners of Accounts allege in- competency, maladministration and a se- rious waste of public funds by Bronx Borough President The charges are the outcome of an examination of President Haffen's ac- counts by the Commissioners of Ac- counts last June and referred to Mayor |; McClellan, who in turn, sent them to Gov. Hughes. On Nov. 18, the State's Uxecutive appointed former United States District-Attorney Wallace Mac- farlane, a referee, to hear the evidence in the matter and to report to the Gov- ernor. Former District-Attorney Arthur C. Train said he appeared for the Com- missioners of Accounts, Louls Van Doren, President Haffen's counsel, ob- jected to Mr. Train's appearance, where- upon the Commissioner of Accounts, John Purroy Mitchel, sald Mr. Train had been retained at the instance of the City Club, the City League of the Bronx and one or two other elvic organiza- tions interested in the case. recorded that former Judge Morgan J. O'Brien would appear with Mr. Van Doren in President Haffen's behalf. Mr. Train offered in evidence the en- tire record of the investigation of the CROSSTOWN LINES MUST PUT ON CARS | Public Service Commission Or- | * ders Increased Service Over the Williamsburg Bridge. The receivers of the Metropolitan Street Railway system got a drubbing from Public Service Commissioner Malt- bie in a report made to the board in ref- 20 SLAIN IN FIGHT OF CASTRO FORGE ~ WITH GOMEZ MEN |Adherents of Former Vene- zuelan President Attack Crew of Gunboat. the | It was also | erence to increased service on the Bight street crosstown Ine to the East Tenth Stret Ferry and across the Williame- burg Bridge to Brooklyn. The commis- | There has been fighting at Macuro, on ston recelved the report and passed two |the Venezuelan coast, between adher- orders calling for an increase in the | ents of former President Castro and the service. There should jncrease the num- | crew of a gunboat working in the tn- ane Cd cus) tai) 2 89 1) ke terests of the new President, Juan Vi- Commissioner Maltble sald in part: | cente Gomez. About twenty men were “The overcrowding on these lines ap-| killed and some fifty wounded. The parently 1s as bad as anywhere in the | Gomez party was obliged to withdraw | temporartiy, but later {t returned to re- PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Deo, 2.— city and considerably wores than it ts upon some other lines. Those facts have | sume the engagement. Franklin Simon & Co. | Fifth Avenue—37th-38th Sts. Clearing Sale Wednesday Boys’, Girls’ and Misses’ Apparel Boys’ Clothing of all wool Cloths, sewed with silk. 72 Sailor and Russian Suits 3 to 12 years, Heretofore $6.75 to $9.75 3.75 || 5.50 5.75 96 Winter Suits, with extra trousers, Norfolk and double breasted models; 8 to 17 years. Heretofore $8.50 82 Small Boys’ Overcoats 3 to 10 years. Heretofore $7.50 to $9.75 been known to the receivers for many} This news was brought in here by months. the Miranda, the gunboat in question, “In view of the fact that the law re-| ‘The Miranda left La Guayra for Ma- | quires every company to provide a suf- | curo with a number of officials on board | fictent number of cars to give adequate | who were to take the places of the| serv that the receivers have had | officials there who had been serving many monthe otioe of thelr delin: | under Castro. The Miranda arrived off | Aisquate service or surrender thelr fran. | Macuro yeeterday morning. It was at once discovered that Gen. Torres had chise, and that present conditions must not continue, I have prepared two orders | gotten together about five hundred men service and recommend) ang that he was prepared to resist a their_adop! F. E. c. Ferris, assistant engineer of the | landing, The Miranda cleared and went Commission, testified at the Nov. 16) into action. She made use of her bat- |hearing on these lines that only sixty-/tery and the men on board tried to | | effect a landing. In this were not | | successful. The men under Torres suc- The fight- four cars were being operated, |there should be nine! Wwherea: Sixty operated » and twen- | ceeded in keeping them off. fast Tenth street | ing 1asted about four hours. | When the captain of the Miranda saw lehe situation was impossible he with- | drew and came to Port of Spain, arriv- ing late rday afternoon. A de-) spatch Was at once sent to President | informing him « Miranda then t Williamsb |ty-five cars to the | terry. STARVED WITH $15,000. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29—With a roll of $15,000 In his pockets with w! he Gomez, via Curacao, intended to return to China, a the eltuatton. died of starvation on a Southern on coal re Bi train yesterday shortly before the Ar- cade depot was reached |The man has not been identifed, but raliroad employees stated that he had worked a smal’ vegetable ranch near Colton for several years. He had denied himself sufficient food to keep alive in order to hava as large a eum as possible | when he got back to his native country MISSING GIRL FOUND. oo | 1 THOMASVIL! trude Gaddy, girl, has been | found. She had wondered off tn an at- | tack of dementia. She was found in an old wagon a mile from home. j | | | | bilipsborn | THE OUTER GARMENT SHOP. Bronx President's office by his depart- | ment, consisting in all of half a dozen or more large volumes. To this Law- yer Van Doren objected, insisting the evidence was not pertinent to the issue and that under no ruling were they ad- missible in the present case. Mr. Train cited as a precedent the npacing and ruling of Gov. Hughes in Ahearn case, stating that it was | under this authority that the records were offered... Mr. Train said Gov. Hughes had stated he would accept the Preliminary report of the Commission- ers of Accounts in the Ahearn case, pro- vided that if Mr. Ahearn’s counsel de- sired to cross-examine any of the wit- nesses whose testimony part of the record the complainants must produce the witnesses for such examination. As counsel could not agree upon the matter, an adjournment was taken until Monday next. In the mean time decision was reserved until Referee Ma. could communicate with the ¢ and secure a certified copy of th proceedings and thereby. a: exact ruling of the Governor in that matter. Mr. Train sald that at the first hear- ing proof would be offered in support of the second and seventh specitications of the charges. The first charges that the Bronx President had to do with the re- | mitting of penalties from contractors and the seventh deals with the alleged improper manner of making certain as- sessment ee FIRE IN TENEMENT CAUSES WILD PANIC Five Families Flee From Flames Which Start in an Areaway. The families In the tenement house at | 1498 Lexington avenue had to flee | No. for their lives this afternoon when a | fire, starting in the areaway on the | north side of the building, swept quickly to the roof f the building. He Miscovered the blaze and shouted to Policeman Michael Donnell, of the Bast One Hundred and Fourth street station, who sent in an alarm, dn an hour, ‘The Lexington avenue cars were tied up during the fire, nes of stalled cars standing for probably half @ mile in fach direction. A big crowd gathered and the reserves from the Hundred and Fourth and East eighth street stations were called out ‘he building is a five-story brick tene- ment. All the floors on the north side suffered damage from fire and water. a SUFFOCATED BY GAS. w. Reinhardt, a clerk, forty years old, was found dead in bed in his room | on the to floor of No, 8017 West Twen ty-second street to-day. The gas was m a heater near aping fr his bed Begin THE NEW YEAR With TOLSTOI, ‘Da! or oils Book Readings. Mterature, will begin tn Prayer yole of ‘overing @ The Evening World Jan. 1 and continue ‘ here dally. was made aj tallor, has a shop Three engines Were on the scene in @ few minutos, and they had the fire drowned out with- 12 West 23d Street | {Embracing Our Entire $200,000 Stock lat 50c on the Dollar Read Each Item Carefully; It Will Pay You Well Tailor Made Suit | Tajlored Suite Formerly 17.50 to reduced Street Coats eee ee Coats, in tat 10.00 throughout with Skins Broadcloth: 89 Cravens Formerly Tailored 8 Formerly 25.00 to, red and Dire hei Formerly 25.00 re 38.00 to 45.00, reduced to 10 19.75 scons Mi ee Formerly Bre pire and different Broad Cloth Coats; Js modelm; lined with Skin- jbo, reduced t Tatlored Suite; the best styles this season, coat with eatin Formerly 38.00 to red ‘embroid- trimme erles y 50,00 to 58.00, Formerly re 5.00 to 58.00. ‘educed to reduced to 25.00 | 84 Large Boys’ Overcoats 8 to 17 years. 9.75 Heretofore $15.75 THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAx, DECEMBER 29, 1908. 65 Imported Chinchilla Overcoats | | 3 to 10 years. Heretofore $12.50 7.50 4 i “2 4. : 93 Young Men’s Suits H Hand Tallored Imported Fabrics; i] 31 to 38 chest measure. Heretofore $18.75 to $24.50. i 10.00 = 15.00 ; a ’ oy * ¥ Misses’ and Girls’ Winter Coats High Class Fabrics—Superior Tailoring it 35 Full Length Coats i Sto ldyeire. Heretofore $13sotosieso 7.50 | 94 Dressy Broadcloth Coats 5 ajority silk lined; 4 to 16 years. said Heretotore $18.80 to szaso 9.75 : i 64 Rich Caracul Cloth Coats Full length models, superior satin lintng; 6 to 18 years. Heretofore $23.50 11.75 — 25.00 40 Saul Fur Lined Coats 1 to 18 years. Heretofore $39.50 Misses’ Tailored Suits This Season’s Models, 12 to 20 years 70 Smart Tailored Coat Suits Heretofore $16.75 to $29.50 66 Dressy Tailored Broadcloth Suits Heretofore $39.50 to $49.50 Children’s Coats Desirable Models and Fabrics. 55 Tailored Coats” Of Imported Broadcloth, Serge or Cheviots Heretofore $7.50 to $10.75 10.00 19.75 2to 5 years 3.75 6.50 64 Dressy Coats Of Broadcloth, Vicuna and Chinchilla cloth. Heretofore $11.50 to $18.50 WILL CLOSE OUT WEDNESDAY Women’s Suits and Coats 46 Caracul Cloth Coats Full length models, satin lined. A Heretofore $29.50 15.00 59 Tailored Broadcloth Suits Two or three piece models. Heretofore $39,50 to $49.50 25.00| 29.75 imported Trond nd other de- | Evening Wraps Ca jn Satin or fine Chiffon th Taflored Suits. c! Chiffon V 2s different fuodela; Hipless. Empire, Directoire fand Colonint at Formerly 51). en trimmed orith ‘eomble 10 te 62,00. J in blacks reineed 16 32-90 Tallored Suits cneviot and” Brad ke Direct jos of the la || Semi-Annual Clearance | | | Wraps, in delicate ning | shades: fine Chiffon Broadcloth, shgoratoly: tesmrined kormerly 45.00 to 58.00, 27.50 Waist Department reduced to Gown Department eee in Chiffon Broadelot Gowns, hy trimming; alao atin yoke” and Batin Duchesne Lingerie Waist, fine Batiste Formerly 27.00, Welsta at AL Feaueed 3, 11.50 penal n ‘the laces "and em He 0), reduced to 75c to 25,00 Washable Waists broideries. Formerly 1,50 to “Formerly 24.00 to redures “00 to 12.50, reduced t¢ 1.00 to 6.75 Madras, ‘Tail- Lingerte f nal colors ant Formerly up t red Tace’ and | 4 embroid~ | soe; 18,7 ered; all White and Co! Formerly 35,00 r Tediwedts 2-90 uffetn, La Saun 1 he thie able. at ‘ormerly 40.00 to 4 Former! reduced & Ghifton Broad h yr! AA 5.00" ty v reduced to Gowns: Chiffon Bros Gown and bre to 9.50. educed 13.60, reduced to 5.90 perly 14.50, Feduced to 8.75 Fur Coats Dress Skirts $0.00 Pon kin Coats 35.00 Former! 5.00 Pony Coats 45.00 6.00 t 2.90 5.00 Pony Skin Coats 99.50 ” t 4.05 i} $5,00 Caracul Coats ‘a i 7081 it 40.00 French Seal Coats.....89-00 {306 to 2 65.00 French Seal Coats 43.75 | 20.00 to 25.0 | ANNUAL SALE | | SUITS, COATS, DRESSES | Every garment, nothing reserved | Tremendous Reductions Women’s and Misses’ Suits v+++ 0+ $20.00 tistntetesceiissi: R226 $35.00 Suits reduced t0.....srecccees $38.00 Suits reduced to. $48.00 Suits reduced to, $58.00 Suits reduced to. $68.00 Suits reduced to, Women’s Winter $22.50 Coats reduced t $28.00 Coats reduced t $35.00 Coats redu nanny aia 4 PETS IAT 17.1). RAAB AMINA BAAR ANAnAAA Dresses and Costumes $ ed { $25.00 Dresses redu $35.00 Dresses redu to. to $38.00 Dresses redi $48.00 Dresses re Very Special Offering—200 Suits ) Black and Navy Blue Cheviots | $209 ' Coats Satin Lined and Stylish mena Interlined $38.00 Quality—All Sizes, 1 eS i t # { i H i i # i 3 a (ong a oe Greenhut Company Dry Goods THE SA ss New York Has Never Known Such Wonderful Values as Our Great Clearing Sales Afford The Clearing Sale spirit pervades the entire store. There’s a value-giving atmosphere that takes hold of you the moment you enter our doors. The reductions are so marked, so radical that you are instantly impressed with the rare saving possibilities Sell in season seasonable merchandise—that’s the slogan. It’s an imperative rule of this house never to carry merchandise over from’ one season into another, and we’re making prices that will enable us to live up to the requirements of this rule. . . While Shopping Use the Lounging Room on the third floor, which we maintain for your com- fort. The appointments and surround- ings are especially conducive to ease and comfort. A few minutes’ rest and a cup of tea will invigorate and break the fatigue of shopping. No charge. S_ADVERTISED HERE ARE FOR WEDNESDAY'S BUSIN Women’s Costumes House Wrappers Gloves Dress Goods Women’s Suits Boys’ Clothing Silverware Silks omen's Coats Waists Kimonos Infants’ Wear Millinery Furs Handkerchiefs Bric-a-brac Jewelry Hosiery Knit Underwear Rugs & Carpets All Departments Join in This Annual Clearing Sale. Children’s Muslinwear | January Sale—Corsets There is no month in the year that This annual sale of “White” grows better each day. Actual comparison of value provides better or greater t values than January. and quality has brought hundreds of Right from the opening of this sale our saving parents to us. | 49¢ for 75c Night OWNS SANT) | corset business has been phenomenal. special for to-morrow; children’s cambric and musin | — L_ast Monday we surpassedall previous’ gowns square, high and round necks; some with selling records, and have prepared for another great day to-morrow. Fine Coutil Corsets, ew Spring models, with tucked yoke and embroidery; others with lace extremely long fpemeay ata 00 ORL Children’s Muslin and Cambric Tawers, Wimmed with hemsttched tucks or New Models, stteble tor medium and ao Render figures: valne gy gq Sica. > ge awe embroidery ruffle; sizes 2 to 14 jeare)valazi60c at. "39 Second Floor, Greenhut & Company | Children’s Muslin Drawers, B ti | some with hemstitched ruffle, others with | lain : hem and tuc Dimiaivearavalusaoctatl COC $3 81Ze8 2 Second Flocr, Greenhut 6 Compeny Annual January Sale of Muslin Under- wear. A Veritable Bargain Treat Before the noon hour last Monday we knew we were going to break all sell- ing records, but we hardly hoped for the tremendous crowds that came in the afternoon; but our reserve selling force was equal to the emergency. New York has never known such remarkable values; never seen such wonderful selling. We've demonstrated beyond peradventure that it’s possible to eell the better and finer grades of merchandise at popular prices. Infact, our Annual Sale prices haye never before been equalled, and the immense gathering of Undermushns prepared especially for this sale will serve to delight saving shoppers for days to come. Fi pas va i ft soft st 1n a variety Night Gowns-s, eae ve Night Gowns 2, s0! sheer Corset Covers 10 ¢ variety ttul styles trimmed with embroid- elaborately trimmed with /choice aye elaborately trimmed; values ery, lace beading and ribbon; lace, medallions, embrocery aud $2 to $6.50, at value $125 to $1.50, at 98c ribbons; value $5 to $10, at $1.50, $2, $3 and $5 Night Gowns °f. foft, sheer $4.50, $6.75 & $7.50 OWS aincooksalie: White Petticoats witheam- over styles, beautifully trimmed Combinations (two-piece bric top, and deep flounce of tucking, em- with fine embroidery or lece and ects) nollie fine ribbon; velue $2.00, at . $7.45 nainsook, trimmed with choice em- broidery, lace and insertion; value $1.50, at 98c broidery; value $4.50, at $3.50 Night Gowns 0! soft, sheer nainsook,hand- somely trimmed with lace, embroid- White Petticoats, fnecam- bric and nainsook tops, deep flounces of em- of cambric, long cloth Drawers fimtiay Ge ned reel OSE or _nainsook, prettily ered medallions and ribbon; trimmed with fine embroidery o value $2.75, at . + $2 value $2.50, at $2.00 lace; value $1.50, at 98c White Petticoats With fine ———_— cambric of sheer nainsook, Drawers 1 oettiy waned with fine embroidery, lace and rib- bon, at . $3, $3.75 and $5 Night Gowns made of soft nainsook, elaborately trimmed with fine lace orembroidery; val. $3.50 $3.00 Second Floor, Greenhut and Company. or iawn tops, handsomely trimmed with wide bands of embroiered insertion, deep flounce ot embroid- ery or lace, at " $3.75, $5 and $6.50 The White Sale of Linens Give You the Year’s Heaviest Savings Linens that are linens too, It would not be so remarkable if we did not offer right along the line goods of superior quality. But that is just where we put our greatest efforts, and the result is that with the better grades we offer the prices are in many in- stances even lower than you have paid for ordinary materials. Every Item Is a Stirring Instance of the Pre-Eminent GREENHUT White Sale Values Hemstitched Tray Cloths, all linen, | Table Damask, 70-inch bleached, {ull bleached, value 29c, at 19c all Irish linen, value 69c, at 49c P; —All linen, full bleached Scotch | Hemstitc! —15 Pattern Cloths—Al! linen, full bleached G hed Sets—!8 sets only, _Anest quality satin-finished rman Damask, 236 yards square cloth and oa Tox70 inch, value i248, e4 ue dozen large napkins; value $35 vet, at» 19.00 x87 inch, value $2.96 each, at . i All-1 he ported Crash 70x104 inch, value $3.45 each, at. $2.75 Towelling~ eyeing alanine’ Crash 7, 24-inch Napkins to match; value Imported German Hemmed $3.45, at $2.65 Towels Union HuckTowels val 19e,a LOC A 15, 000 Yard Puichase of White Goods Saves You a Third or More Imported White Meicerized Madras French Novelty Crepe Cloth—whiteim. in Jacquard ond siriped designs; over GU pat= rt | ‘with white em) tarne td choose from; value 280 yard, at ©. LOC Perardor porns, Sele price per yerd $1.00. White sheer plaid White Lawns; reg. 190, at . I2}%C Main Floor—Greenhut and Company January Sale of Embroideries No such Embroidery values have ever been offered. No such Embrofderies have ever been shown before, All the new 1909 effects are included, Thousands of Sample Strips ot Embroidery at Half for the 10: D for the 45c for the 12, for the659, Se ete tories, 25C Pies 7c Bienes 29 Treen for the 25c for the $1.00 for the 29c 1276 Pisivciserics AIC Pivincitenes 5c BM aeties 5c Free Ras for the 35¢ fe he 19¢ fi he 75c 19e Giiredei, LOC Eis, 39e eie Te 98C fateesseces All goods sold up to 29¢ per yard sold by the strip only, é i, 10,000 yards of the new Shirt Waist Frontings, beautiful effects, mas- Special terful designs, in open work and new “blind” effects. Values trom 50c to $2 at 29c, 39c, 49c, 75c and 98c Yard This is to be the greatest Embroidery year the world of style has ever known, In this Anoual Event you'll find Embroideries for all purposes. Matched Sets, (or Lngerie Dresses, Corset Covers, Dainty Baby Sets. Waists, Gowns, Muslin Underwear, Trimmings, Edging» and Insertions, Beadings, Bands, Aji. overs17 22, 27 and 45 ine Ficuncings, Shirt Waist Frontings, etc. Every pattern « loom picture thet mast be admured because of its dainty, rich, artishe effect Main FloorGreeubut and Co, )