The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1911, Page 5

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY THREE MEN SHOT IN PISTOL FIGHT “ATI. VERNON Policeman Kills One Man, Mortally Wounds Another and Is Himself Dying. SHOT THROUGH SPINE. Crowd Waiches Battle But None Goes to Assistance of Attacked Bluecoat. Policeman Pasquale J. Ruffalo, par- alyzed below the hi condition to-day #, is In a critical in the Mount Vernon Hospital from a wound inflicted by a bullet from his own gun, received in| @ pistol duel in which Arthur Tiso was killed and the latter's brother, Alex- ander, of No. 110 Mulberry street, New York, mortally burt late yestertay. Policeman Ruffalo has a wife and eight children. The pistol fight witnessed by hundreds of homegoing commuters as they reached Mount Vernon, but none was made any effort to aid the policeman when attacked by the two brothers, Alexander ‘iso had gone to Mount Vernon to visit his brother, and they had been drinking in @ saloon in South gnth avenue, near West Third street, One flourished a pistol and the saloon- keeper told the other to take him out. In @ scuffle that ensued both landea on the sidewalk. How Battle Started. Ruffalo arrested Arthur for intoxica- thon and disorderly conduct and Ale: ander began pummelling the policeman. In the scuffle Arthur flourished a ry volver. Ruffalo then fired upon Arthur, who fell wounded. Alexander managed to knock the pistol trom Ruffalo's grasp after being wounded himself by a se ond bullet. Then the pair wrestled, failing over the body of Arthur, who was dying. Alexander struggled to keep Ruffalo down, and at the same time squirmed around till be grasped the policeman's pistol as it lay on the ground. Then Alexander placed the pistol against Ruffalo’s back and fired, The bullet struck the officer's spine and he sank, paralyzed below the hips. Alexander fled, dropping the revoiver ‘as be ran, Ruffalo dragged himself along on his bands till he could reach the revolver, Picking it up he handed it to a sixteen year old boy, Frank Pansi, who alone had courage to ap- proach the scene, and bade the Jad pur- sue Alexander and shoot him down, but the fleeing man hac too good a start and Panzi could not catch him, One Dead, Two Dying. Arthur Tiso died on the way to the hospital. A bullet from the policeman's gun had penetrated the chest close to the heart. Learning from Ruffalo who the other man was, his brother policeman went to ‘Arthur's home, and found Alexander there, cowering in bed and moaning from a wound in his breast. They dragged him to the hospital, where Rut- falo identified him, and in an ante-mor- tem statement said that Alexander had shot him. —>—_—_ LITTLE BOY SAVES A DROWNING GIRL. “Pghaw! What Else Could Fellow Do?” He says When Hugged by Frantic Women, POUGHKEPPSIE, Jan, 14.—'A little girl has fallen through the tce!" The cry frightened:s score of women and children who stood on the edge of Wap- pinger’s Lake yesterday afterndon, The child went out of sight but soon came to the surface. The ice was too thin to hold a grown person and the women were 80 excited they sbrieked and screamed. As the child was about to disappear again one of the women cried out to Harold McMullen to run for help. Harold is only thirteen, but he seeing that the child would drown before he could get help, ran to the edge of the lake, lay down on his stomach and slid along the ice toward the place where she was struggling, He caught her just as she was going down the third time and slowly dragged her to land, ‘A doctor revived the little girl, who Alice Burke, six years old. Harold d by the frantic a CAPT. SLAGHT, OLD CITY OFFICIAL, DEAD AT 92, Served Through Civil War With Banks and Grant, but Never Took a Pension. Capt. James C, Slaght, the oldest om- clal in the city’s service, succumbed to ‘a complication of ailments last night at the home of his son, No. 97 Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, He was in his Binety- third year. Until about a month ago, when he last appeared in nis office as Keeper of Records in the Municipal Building, Brooklyn, he had steadfastly refused to compromise with old age and its im- posts, arriving in his cab at 9 o'clock every morning and remaining to the end of the day's work. Although entitled to a pension for dis- tinguished service throughout the eivil war, Capt, Slaght refused to permit his name to be placed on the rolls, prefer- Ing to the last to accept nothing that did not come from his own head and hand. Capt, Slaght'’s father was Hornt Slaght and the family home was in ington County, New Jersey, Capt, was married at twenty-four to Willits of Lincoln ina E. w Jersey, eesti 'GERTNER TWINS CONFIRMED TO-DAY | AT BNAI ISRAEFI, | ! GERTNER TWINS TO-DAY. The east side will celebrate to-day the thirteenth birthday anniversary of the twins, Morris and Philip Gertner, eons of Herman Gertner, “The East Side Delmonico's, Bast Broadway, and who lives at No. 65 Henry street. The lads are accomplished musicians and they have pleasea thou- sands by appearing voluntarily at bene- fite in aid of institutions, The little fellows will be called to the altar of the synagogue, Bnai Israel Kalvarie, at No. 16 Pike street, at 10 o'clock this morning and be confirmed. ‘The synagogue will be packed by rela- | tives and friends, after which there will bo a banquet. They are happy boys, for they have each already received more than $1,000 in presents, including a li- brary from the east side philanthropist, Joseph H. Cohen. Among those who will be present will be Justices Finelite, Hoffman, Sanders, Smitkin and Well; Magistrate Herrman, Deputy Comptrol- le Supreme Court Justice Jacob Katz, “Big Tim” nd “Big Tom” Foley will at- tend the banquet. ——— PAINTING HELD IN BOSTON ‘LIKE STOLEN VAN DYCK. Stopped in Transit by Customs Men Who Believe It Picture Taken From Berlin Museum, BOSTON, Jan. 14.—The belief that @ painting purchased in Europe con- signed to a Boston art dealer and held by the customs afficials at this port ts & genuine Van Dyck and was stolen from the Berlin art Gallery has been partially confirmed by the arrival here of an engraving copy of the picture, The art dealer to whom the painting held by the customs officials was con- signed, declares his opinion tha the canvas purchased for him 1s the original from Berlin, ‘The dealer said that his brother pur- | chased the painting in France last sum- | mer, paying #0 for it. The picture, which is the portrait ofa boy—if it be the original portrait stolen from Ber- Mn—hag been reduced in etze, the thief having cut the canvas from frame in the Berlin art gallery and later trimmed portrait 60 thet a grey hound that appeared in the original does not ap- pear in the canvas held up at the Cus- ton House, The picture stolen fragn Berlin was catalogued as “portrait of William II. of Orange by Antony Van Dyck.” i | ———_—— JOHN DONOHUE MISSING. Chanffear Left Bank Pass Book Showing 43,000 Account. ‘The police were requested to-day to look for John Donohue, a chauffeur, who disappeared from his home at No. 4 ‘Third avenue on November 30. He was thirty-nine years old and un- married, He jeft in his rooms hie pass book on the Immigrants’ Industrial Savings Bank, which showed that he jhhad an account of $3,000, ‘The chauffeur was last seen by friends |in @ ealoon at Ninety-fifth street and | First avenue. At that time ye had with |tum a check for $, $7 in fash and a Gold wath and chain, |" Donohue hails from Bennington, Ver- mont. He 1s five feet nine inches tal! and welghs 180 pounds. He 4s fair and smooth #havon, He wore a light gray overcoat and a eult of dark material, nie County's Only In Dead, HAYTON, Wis 14,—Calumet | County's only deer is dead. Old age ‘and the rigors of a hard winter proved too much for the animal that has been the object of solicitude of the State Legislature and the protection of the game wardens of two counties. The people co-operated with the gene wor. dens to such good effect that for four Jan. He te survived by pes the deer has been sale from] city HGHER TAXES BNO CY 10 BUILD SUBHIYS New Assessments Are Based on Land Values Which Dis- count Better Transit. OUTSIDE OWNERS PAY. to Get Their Rights Under Realty Holders Plan Big Move | Price Equalizations. | Equalization of assessed valuations the Tax Department has formed a basis for suburban paigns, Large operators in all sections are planning to raise market prices. They claim that figures have been ruling too low in comparison with other lo- calities at equal distances tn point of | transit time from the main business centres. And they are organizing many movements for the purpose of forcing improved transit, so that their properties may be drawn nearer to the metropolitan hub. Now that the tax equallizations have been accomplished, realty promoters argue that the time ts ripe for equalt- vations of market values. They say that municipal officers owe it to the public to provide transit which will | make all lands of equal value at equal distances from the business centres. | This condition does not exist, and the fact that splendid home territory onty |a few miles from lower Broadway ‘s practically inaccessible, while less at- tractive land many miles away is crowded with homes and held at ex- cessive figures, is called a disgrace to the municipality. Prices Discount Subways. In spite of ths situation the new city schedules increase vastly the sums which the far outside sections must contribute—in fact, the increase in taxes seems to be in exactly inverse ratio to the proportional benefits which the various sections receive from city expenditures. Districts which are 90 far away that they cannot hope for new | rapid transit subways are required to | pay the largest share in tax increase— | an illustration being the Rockaway sec- tion, where the rise on the new tax | ists reaches 80 per cent. | Land owners in outside localitios de- clare that much of current market val- | uation has been due to anticipation of | better rapid transit. Prices have dis- |eounted the construction of subways which have not been built. From this standpoint such owners will |imsist that the increased taxes which they must pay represent largely the values which thelr lands will have after the new subways shall have taken a | conerete form and that the city, in taxing them on the anticipatory land vatues, places itself under obligation to make good at once by the construc: tion of the projected rapid transit ines. by new realty Taxpayers May Sue. ; Uniess rapid transit construction |shall be undertaken upon an extensive scale within the near future, it 1s probable that several taxpayers’ sults will be started to test the validity of the new tax assesrments, Property- owners are not inclined to quibble over the question of whether the subways shall be built by the clty as independent lines or by outside cap: \get city franchise pri main point 1s avoldance of further delay. Suburban owners want the subways at once because the higher taxes which they must pay are in reality a form of payment for new subways. If they pay the taxes and do not get the improved transit facilities, they argue that they have paid for what the city refuses to deliver. It the real estate assoctations can force prompt, building of the needed subwaye they will proceed with thelr RAMSEY SAYS CITY DOES NOT PAY FOR BEST TALENT. SEM After twenty years In the Tax Depart. he has left to become appraiser private realty firm because the vould net pay more for his sere 005 tie toletnteetesetemnttattacete campaigns for equaligations of market land values, They assume at the out- set that land avallable and equally accessible for the same kind of houses {s worth the same market price, ap- Proximatély, ‘frrespective of direstiun from the main business centres. Brook- ) lyn plots available for flathouses at the same distance from Manhattan Dbusl- nes centres as are the plots of Herlem or the Bronx are assumed to be worth close to the prices at which the north- ern sites are held. Want New Equalizations. To educate investors there will be a wide canmpaign of flathouse bullding in Brooklyn and Queens sections most available for such forms of improve- | ment. The movement is expected to be | ander full headway within a year. By | that time population will have increased #0 much that Manhattan and Bronx | Hats will be filled and the overflow will be directed into the Brooklyn and Queens structures. Rentals will be lower tn the new houses at the start, comparatively, but the continued increase of population is relied upon to create a steadily expahd- ing demand which cannot fal! to elevate rentals on Long Island to levels pre- vailing in Harlem and the Bronx. With rentals on the sume basis, the perman- | ent establishment of land values on a) similar basis would follow as a matter of course because investors would ‘be | sure of an equal income upon their capi tal from the Long Island properties, Outside Owners Must Pay. Next to the Rockaways the largest Fifth Ward of Richmond must pay 42.2 per cent. more, although construction of @ rapid transit subway Into the Staten Island territory will not be con- sidered until Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx shall have had their turns. Queens, with éts average increase of 8% per cent. in tax burdens, has been held back for two or three years by 4 laya over the Stetnway tunnel and Queensboro Bridge lines. It has no definite promise of better rapid transit, Its realty interests are preparing to de- mand prompt performance of municipal projects in return for the added tax | contributions, They also want easy terms for new projects tn extension of | rapid transit facilities, whether such undertakings should emanate from pri- vate capitalists or from tht property owners themselves in petitions for mu- | the rapid transit situation have allowed | more than a year to slip by without ac- tion since plans were ready for the start of new subway work, pla A MOTORS 25,000 MILES A YEAR wa in Suit of 1 Commissioner of, Water Supply Thomp- son, testifying in the Supreme Court yesterday before Justice McCall tn his sult against the Allen-Kingston Motor Car Company, swore he had driven motor cars 600 miles a week, 2,000 miles «| year, or 160,000 miles in the last six years, It is abou: 2,000 miles around} 4 nmissioner Is suing the motor Supply Commissioner Tells |‘! 1911, ORIGINAL FASHIONS FOR # # | a «& HOME DRESSMAKERS | WHO DESERTED Up-to-Date Designs and Ques- tions Answered in New Eve- ning World Department. LODE WICK. The Evening World has started a Fashion Depart- ment for the bene- fit of home dress- makers who wish to have ‘tasteful and pretty clothes at minimum ez- pense, In addition to furnishing up- to-date original designs for gowns, queries will be answered as to ma- terial, method or style in dressmak- ing; how certain articles are best made, the most economical way to meet the requirements of fashion, éc, Lettera should be addressdd to “Fashion Editor, Evening World.” Descriptions of above designs are given herewith: BY MILDRED I. Cobalt Blue Serge. Cobalt blue serge dress, made with a deep yoke of the material outlined with a wide band of Oriental embroidery in carrot red, black, gold and dull green. A band of this embroidery is strapped across the front of the skirt just below the knees, between the two plaits which fall from under a pointed yoke. A small turndown collar of heavy lace ts laid @round tke Dutch neck, and a plaited Jabot of lace in the front shows be- | tax Increases are laid in the Bay Ridge | neath the embroidered band, and Fort Hamilton section, where the | rise is 48.8 per cent., although work on 1 | the Fourth Avenue Subway in that lo- P cality has been halted with the rest of In Pompeiian Red. the Trihorough pro In the Riverside Dress of Pompeiian red cloth, closing district, west of Broadway, the: js @/on the side front with buttons under a 44 per . Increase, although tt gets |panel, which is In one with a deep little benefit from the already srowsied | round yoke, A slightly flaring flounce Washington Heights subway and has | 00 apical told no prospect of getting anything addi. | Sraduating from the front eae tonal in the rapid transit line. The black. The seme de is yrs flare cuffs and the pocket laps, vier design js used on the yok Black velvet buttons and a white broad- cloth tucker give distinctiveness to the sult, 1, Moss Green Cashmere. Moss green cashmere dress, combined with effective brafding in dark green, which 1s used for the yoke and wide in- serted piece in the skirt, A band of the material is turned up on the bottom, and @ deep shaped band forma the lower part of the sleeve, being stitched to the yoke piece. There 1s a crushed belt of black satin with @ gold buckle In front; also a large bow of black satin at the neck, be! id under a strap whieh is nictpal recognition. extend from the waist, Small pleces prooklyn as id the Bronx both must | of plack satin show on the waist under Pay an additional per ¢ in taxes, | the arms, also on the under part of the although public officers in command of | \iueve. porn | FASHION QUERIES. | Dear Fashion Editor I want to ask your advtce concerning the most economtea! way of making s on the first figure in ‘Thure- 's World, Could I make use top of an old dress and buy new satin for the rest? Are the yoke and sleeves in a weparate guimpe? EB, M. J ‘Yes, you could easily use @ part of any last year's (recs, either as the foundation part or as the platted parti Combining new mm color would not m ive. ‘The piait- ed skirt and the plaited with a four years old, were placed in Southern Home for Friendieas in Philadelphia. They were as | pare ved to be * TWO SEEK PARENTS and woman belte: parents. Caroline was later the Rev. R. M. Campbell of and Martha was taken by L. By ford of the same town. The two with their foster parents until to marriages, when they were informed of the mystery of their parentage. From what Mttle Mrs, Wilson learn from the Rev. James Wilson, was in charge of the home at the time, Sand her sister came from a Wee.u¥ and prominent family. But th of their parentage died with the clergy- 7 Oa THEM W 187 Sisters Spurred On to Solve Mystery by the Espionage of Elderly Man. ATLANTIC CITY, N. 3, Jan. = After being in tgnorance of thelr par- ‘entage for thirty-four years, Mrs, H. M. Wilson of this city and her sister, Mrs. A. N. Kricks of Vineland, N. J., have begun @ search for their father and mother, Who deserted them in Phila phia in 1877, Their determination start the belated hunt about In an odd way. A short time ago they became aware that they were under the espionage of elderly man, who, they thought, bore & close resemblance to the mental ptc- ture of thelt father, Mrs. Wilson first saw the map in Philadelphia while abe was shopping. He was tater seen by Mrs. Kricks in Vineland. On both oc- casions he vanished before he coud be anestioned ‘The sisters, to was brought one two and the other Stern Brothers Announce for Monday, January 16th, An Absolute Clearance Sale of Misses’ and Girls’ Suits, Dresses and Coats At Much Larger Reductioris Than Have Been Made in Previous Years. - Stern Brothers On Wednesday, January 18th, will make An Exhibition of Early Spring Styles Lingerie Dresses, White Serge Costumes, Hand Embroidered and Piain Linen Coat Suits, Would the design ve spoiled if the satin bands in the front of the waist did not | Show there? And could the overakirt | effect be made with the skirt being In one plece, with just the tuck to slmu- late it? ‘You, the dress would be pretty made in any soft material such a8 challie, cashmere or crepe. I think if you used a litt embroidery aro the lower part of the yoke, running into the blouse of hanged, pretty as well. But the | skift would have to be made with a | Separate piece on the bottom benesth the tuck effect. | | | | Wraps and Cloaks, Hats, Turbans and Parasols, Suitable for Wear at Southern Resorts West 23d and 22d Streets Dear Fashion Editor: Have noticed in your evening » some fashions by M. Lodewick. > Can these patterns be obtained, and where? MRS. F. ‘We do not iseue patterns, vice is given when asked for. SERVED GRANT AND TWEED. ROSTON, Jan. 14.—George Lewis Grant, colored, personal bodyrervant of Gen. U. 8, Grant during the civil war, and valet for “Boss” ‘Tweed of New York, whom he held in his arms when Tweed died tn Ludiow street Jail, died yesterday at the age of seventy-five year: Grant was born a slave. He had made twenty-four trips abroad and could speak French and German fluently, al- though he could neither read nor write English. Recently he had been employed here. CHANGE IN WOMAN'S “ers Made Sale by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 8. HILL, but ad. => aaa & eae 2 More About Aviation Than Grant » Vim id ammtecinnoritcmameet | Any One Man Ever Knew and other ann symptoms, rol "f can truly say that tela B Pinkham's & “CHRONOLOGY OF AVIATION’ BY HUDSON MAXIM AND WILLIAL J. HAMMER. Quick Starting Records for Aeroplanes; Slow Speed Records for Aeroplanes; eg ble Com. Quick m Records for Aeroplanes; pound has proved [| English Channel Aeroplane Records; worth mountains of Lnportant Over-Water Aeroplane Flights; ie ha ae World's Aeroplane Speed Records; Fee oh we eet | Wotabi oplane Speed Records) y_ heal Aeroplane Durati nd Distance Flights; nd strength. I Notable Aeroplane Altitude Records; ever forget to tell Record of Loss of Life in Aeroplanes; Dirigible Balloon or Airships; Spherteal Balloon Ascents; my Lydia E. Pinkham's Yemetadie Compound has dono for mo Gaited Panne Sorezmne macentay luring this trying period. Completo ae meee was) restoration to healt means 60 much ‘wes Ob tee Heeading Baton to me that for the sake of other suffer. ‘THIS VALU. INFORMATION ABOUT AEROPLANES, ing women I am willing to make m: trouble public so you may publisi this letter.”"— Mra. Citas. BarcLay, &.F.D., Graniteville, Vt. No other medicine for woman's ills has received such wide-spread and une qualified endorsement. No other med. icine we know of has such a record of cures as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. For more than 80 years it has beon curing woman's ills such as inflamma- tion, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irreg- LB &O., 18 BUT ONE OF SCORES OF NEW FRATURES DEALT WITH IN TEE World Almanac and Encyclopedia for 1911 UNQUESTIONABLY THE MOST COMPLETE AND HANDILY- INDEXED BOOK OF READY-REFERENCE EVER PRINTED, 10,000 Facts and Figures earienripant ar one, she oe he 870 if tere” ularities, periodic ins and nervous lente thatthe ca? way guaranteed, 19/18 64m then be easily renewed. peverra en nae AE Fe eons ine {ot 25c at Newsstands 35c by Mail r ye 1} hour, but — 8 x That it fell whort of that speeds | Dear Fashion EAltor | Period of change of life Address WORLD ALMANAC, Pulitzer Building, Park Row, Mr. Thompson testitled that he r Will you please toll me if the voile’ Mra. Pinkham, at Lyun, Maas., | New Yoak City, ‘ | ecetved $650 from the Allen-Kingstok| dress on the righthand figure in Thurs- invites all sick wor to write Company for selling @ car sluilar tdlday's World could be made just as ef- herfor advice. "advice is tree, (ois to @ friend, a bectively, in some heavier it alweya eet — Sa ee ee ee ne ee Ti aE So ak Sala ehilioe i ~_"