The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1911, Page 12

: 7a whe ~ AT NIGHT PROVES | SLEEP WRECKER Drivers Gantt Re Rest in Daylight | ~—Others Have Same Trou- ble After Dark. MANY COMPLAINTS MADE Commissioner Edwards De- fends Plan, but Admits It Needs Improvement. With 1,000 ashcart drivers threaten- Ing to go on strike against night work ‘and ight over city writing nolee knocks to The Evening World and Me the system Of night collec and gare bree instalied month ago by | Birset Commiasioner Rawards ts under Attack. on, Paris and Reetin agree “Big Bill's" after dark clean- up, but New York has not gone nto) Pantures over the Innovation. | Driver's kick—Might work unpleas- bet; ash cans hard to locate and han. @e by clotrin light; no tips for spe-| @tal service, as the public slambers; oo pay for eigit hours’ night ard cannot sleep by day. Citizen's compluint—Dinner spoiled odors of garbage put ont befor @undown; rattle of cane and clatter of arts all night prevent sleop; streets with empty cans and ell sorts of long after sun up. ‘@ cannot » every but we @ certainly trying to please the most | her of people, and us for the kick+ ers, if they only give us a ttle time, per we se them," 4 Commissioner Edwards to-d OM FOR IMPROVEMENT, BUT LIKE GENERAL PLAN. “Of course there ix room for improve nt in the way we are running the reet Department. What I want is bet- ferment tips. Tam no Czar. If a suge gestion made to me looks good, T ain going to give it a tryout, "There is justice in the claim of the sleepers all the sr Gaynor, ons of as two Loni wore that night work is unpleasant. © But 1 do insist that it would seem much ® unpleasant if they were put back @athering ashes and garbage in the hot, rolling sun, As for their working without assist: | ance, 1 am now urging the Budget Com- mittee of the Borrd of Extimate to let me have the money for 1,000 helpers to go out with the d ‘#8, and also money to purchase rubber-tired noiseless trucks fo take th place cf the present ner Packing is, The trucks T am after will hold forty cans, while the carts we | Row use berely hold twenty-four cans Of ashes. “No one can chane from day work | fei night work suddenly and expect to) Pt the full quoya of sleep, But in a jonth or so our 8 drivers changed to Bight work can get all the sleep they jt. In regard to thelr low wages, 1 y wish they got double their bat they are working for the city, einht | hours and no more, and all things con- sidered their lot is not so hard. “Nery iily I can see the point) Made in the complaint of the public @bout garbage cans brought out early fm the afternoon and left on the side- tanding of empty cans until late in the afters matter for the co-opera- tion of the Health and Police Depart- Ments. To lessen the noise I am now | endeavoring to Ket the leading stores @f the city to put before the public ash ans which have rubber bottoms, with Pubber cleats on the sides, These, with the new trucks, would make our nights fer less hideous, and help the days, too, 700 of the caris go out in the morne | to pick up the street rubbish piled | Dy the 3,000 sweepers, or white wings, working for the city. WAS TO HANDLE 4,000 LOADS z EVERY 24 HOURS. “1 honestly believe the night ‘colle: ns produce better santiary conditior Phe sun's rays now rarely sirike the garba nder the old system the Garbage cooked through the hottest part | @f the day, and the most uu | ‘odors resulted, Then poth men and} horzes have been spared from working fm the intense heat of .ne day. This has | Meant an equine improvement of 2 per cent., while the men are far better om. “Four thou rhage are irs from the ~the Bronx and of Queens and nd loads of ashes and en every twenty-four) joroughs of Manhattan, rooklyn, ‘The boroughs Richmond, with their| @parsely settled sections, under the! @upervision of their respective local| governments. [ have my night shifts eut at 10 P. M., and the last can is emptied before 6 A. M., as tt was the Mayor's idea that people going to work fm the morning should not have their) filled with flying ashes In the lower section of Manhattan the garbage is taken first, then the ashes. This is not necessary in the Woalthler sections of the city, where the people use Ceodorized cans. Unfort nately, we have © rol aver th the cans go out. A ro of the removal of wos summer the quantity Himes greacer than In win Winter the quantity of ashes times greater than in simmer. Thus the whole problem ts equalized and the Aumber of loads going to the oumps ip t' e eame winter and summer. “Each cart averages six trips in Man- ttan and five trips in Brooklyn, which being improved upon because of the I] amount of traffic out at night “Properly supported by the public and faithfully worked out by my men, the Might collection idea nas every advan- over (Me old way, New York aly spends $1,000,000 m the removal waste, What I want to do is to ‘ the most for the money, and I am tiefled that the preseut plan, with the provements I have aumed In cans, ria and more men, wil) eventually | Tove to be an all arouna succes: ‘tteen years ago the night collection ‘was tried out in New ¥@ek and it completely. . pike somewhere beyond New Bruns- |wick, N. J, Judy and Jen resumed their race from Luna Park to the ‘sinsiiadilidialaaitig | BUECHNER FIRST TO FINISH. * the past week the hot weather, thr | WHAT EVERY KID THINKS “That the Dandelions Tell Time” By Eleanor Schorer | THE EV aS WORK has been very ment of Str hard upon the t Cleaning Sweeper 11 deaths have been reported, many men are in the hospital suffering from the effects of the heat. The drivers are at present in good physical cond nd none have suffered from the the heat. There been no ¢ among the horses. horses w in the daytime i Depa have Commissioner this morning a letter calling his attention to the sad condition of James MeLaugh- Mn, No. Weat Sixt ighth stres This man had been in the empl the Street Cleaning Department since) 1902, and while sweeping the streets on! July 6 he was overcome by the Intense heat and died a few hours later in| Flower Hospital, He leaves a widow! and five children entirely unprovided for. He carried no in did} he belong to any. benevol | societies. five children are unde of age. The Commissioner has authorize! thel | taking up of a collection for Mrs. Me- Laughlin in husband worked. JEN LEADING JUDY IN RACE TG WHITEHOUSE. | Elepnant and Donkey, After Sun-| day Rest, Resume Their Dash From Luna te Washington. They all} are atill at ft. Down a dusty White House to-day. Who's Judy and| who's Jen? Don't you know? Well, Judy ts the big elephant picked to carry the standard of “The White House Bust standing of course—when she's not racing—for the | or G. O. P. Jen is the Jenny or donkey | Picked to carry @ like legend for the} Democratic party. The racing duo with the Abernethy | family, Pop, Temple and his brother in charge, reached Perth Amboy Sat- urday night. There they stayed over | Sunday, doing considerable damage +o! a blacksmith shop where the animals | were housed over night. Frederic Thompson had to fix {t up with the| Proprietors and the Mayor was chief | arbitrator. Jen was half a mile in tne | lead at the last report. The odds now are even, GERMAN CIRCUIT RACE. | But Aviator W ho Carried Passenger Gets Only Third Prize in Cross-Country Contest. BERLIN, July 10.—Buechner with a passenger arrived at Johannisthal to-! day, being the first of the aviators to | omplete the German circuit race. wins the third prize, Koenig and Vollmueller have greater totals of mile- | age completed These thr berstadt with Lattsch, left Hal- % o'clock this morning, Buechner reaching here three hours! vod #iX minutes later. All made the preser stop at Dessau, but the thers descended before reaching Ber- and will continue here this evening. t stage was 127 miles to which per cent. mileake ts added in the case of all three as @ bonus for carry Ing & passenger. 2a ~ BOYS STONE POLICEMAN | \No Trace of Alleged Paper Put- the district In which her, the exis | Dick [unusual In the order opening Control NOTENOT FOUND, TAFT IS TOLD ting President in Bad Light, Says Secretary Fisher. WASHINGTON, July 1%—Denial of ence In the files of the Intertor | tment of the alleged “Dick to letters In which It was made to appear that Charles P. ‘Taft used his influence with his brother, the Prest- dent, on behalf of the Guggenhetms, | was made at the White House to-day retary Fisher. retary Fisher declared that search of the filed showed no letter from | Richard 8 Ryan, Controtler Bay fon Company, | to form! with any such postseript as by Miss | M. F. Abbott, a newsp: . who ts responsible for the publication of the story Secretary Taft and speak to Fisher called on President his first opportunity to} President regarding Miss wer pub- the Abbagt's charges since , they ished, The he saw the article wrt bott before it was printed and remom- Secretary told the President that en by Miss Ab: ono Controtler secured a fi such letter in the articto ation Compan: ntage of eighty rods on Controller Bay. Tae Government re- tained every other elghty rods of th waterfront on the bay, making the de- partment offictal# declare a monopoly | impossible. At the White Hous there had been no # it was sald that or anythin {Bay to entry. The matter was passe. | jupon by the Cabinet in regular form, tt| was stated. | Commissioner Fred 8. Dennett of the General Land Offive, and Miss Abbott, fa writer, both subpoenaed as witnessos were sent to-day w the House! Committee on expenditures in the In-| terior Department began an inquiry into charges of an alleged “grab” of valu- able watebfront lands on Controller Ba: Alaska, by the Guggenhelm interests, CINCINNATI, July 10.At the request of President Taft, the letter files of Ms broth tharlos P. Taft, were searched to-day for tracetof pos. aible correspondence with the President Ri Ryan, or other persons re- garding Controller Bay affairs — or | Alaskan lands. No letter bearin, upon the subject was foun end, so far as the files in Mr. Taft's office show, he bad no acquaintance with Mr, Ryan any interest In any Mr Alaskan Inv Taft 1s In Europe or ment 'MPALED ON A FENCE, While Po! the Brown: oner on a fence by a nali which im- paled bis right ankle while he was ‘scaling the fence in an effort to capture several hoodlums at Herkimer and Manhattan Crossing yes youngsters took @ mean Advantage of him. As he sat astride the fence in pain they hurled stones at him, Hunt finally managed to get free and made his way to the station house, where he was treated by an ambulance surgeon, —-<_ Sinners Sta ALBANY, July W. hundred German singers arrived in Albany day to participate in the sixth annual saengerfest of the Saengerbund of, tral New York, which is to daye. veman William J ‘en- tinue ' Hunt of | ie station was held pris- | street |G ‘day, the | to- | Bears The Signatu ‘THE GENTAVA COMPARY, TY MUARAY STREET, Rew VERE Orr, | closed doors | Ridder Committeo's sub-committee on \s | witnesses were ¥ \Courts bullding to-day that the Grand For Infante and Children 4» The Kind You Have Always Bought ENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY ‘WIRE TRUST MEN "GRANTED DELAY OF oq TRALTILL SEPT Protests That Thirty Days Is Ample Time. \42 HELD IN $1,000. Infiieted membere of the nine po |Constituting the so-called Wire Trust appeared to-day before Judge Archbald in the United States Circuit Court, to Plead npt guilty to the indictments recently found against them for al- leged violation of the Sherman Anti- Trust law. Before noon forty-two of the three indicted individuals had appeared in person or were repre- sented by counsel, ball being fixed in each instance at $1,000, Herbert L. Satterlee, son-in-law of J. Plerpont Morgan, accompanied by his counsel, James R. Sheffleld, wae one of the first to declare his innocence and file his bond, another heing Charles F. Brooker, Republican National Com: mitteeman from Connecticut. Over the objection of United States Attorney Wise the defendants were given until Sept. 1 to file demurrers or make such motions as they might see fit. The so-called pools, the members of which pleaded to-day, were the Fine | Marquet Wire Association, Underground Power Cable Association, Lead Encased Rubber Cable Association, Telephone Cable Association, Horse Shoe Manu- facturera’ Association, Wire Rope Manufacturers, the Weatherproofy and Magnet Wire Assoctation, and the Bare Copper Wire Assoctation. Among the counsel for the defendants at the bar were George Gordon Battle and @ representative from John B. Stanchfleld's office and Bartow Weeks. There were numerous fon counsel representing various individual | defendants, and all demanded sixty di | time. U. S&S. DISTRICT-ATTORNEY WISE OBJECTS TO DELAY. Mr. Wise retorted: “These men know perfectly well what they have done. They can well tell thelr lawyers not only what they have READY 10 TELLOF FIREWORKS GRAFT i > sy | th Ixty a hey will be back h Grand Jury Expected to Wait | then tooking tor slaty days more. Tt Bare will be Christmas then defore thelr cases | for End of Commissioner Fosdick’s Investigation. are reached.” The lawyers protébted against this! generaltzation, am speaking from experience of the practices of this court,” declared Mr. | Wise. Aubrey Love and J. J. Cox, who re- "A multitude of counsel ought not to ceive mail in their own names and that “e!ay, things,” sald Judge Archbaié, | of the United sireworks Co! New Jersey at the office. chanical Rubber Com: ay pany of of the Me- | “But it wil retorted Mr. Wise. “Thirty days {s too little tine in at No, 48 which to demur and thts ts very hot at No. 4 Dey eather,” spoke up one of the lawyers street, appeared voluntarily before Com-| “Yes, ' that's true; it's very hot missioner of Accounts Fosdick to-day | weather,” said the Court, “sc I'll give to testify rec rding the accusations that |you until Sept. 1.” thelr company charged the city $420 Edward FE. Jackson, the lawyer, who for fireworks which were furnished |0t Up the nine pools and ran them, to the United Fireworks Company for [was net _— aren conned ares $100 and we rth even less. The |jnareted ‘on misstoner's subjoen hunting \essrs. ‘a servers were Love an ‘ox for sev- U. S. District-Attorney Wise g.|the 75,000 lay Thirty days | speaking from behind a broad palm fan. | 10, 1911.7_ : A AAR OI, TT ELKS WELCOME ARMY NURSES AT ATANT ITY and 14,000 Lay Members Cheer the Girls. (Apectal to The Evening World) ATLANTIC CITY, J, July 10, Seventeen pretty army nurses, the staff of Gen, Elbert Davis, U. 8. A., who are to have charge of the emergency hoe- pitals alongs the route of the Elke’ big parade Thursday, arrived in town just | before noon. ‘They started from the armory of the Firet Battery Field Artillery on West Sixty-sixth street, New York, yester- day in automobiles and camped out over night near Hammonton. They were given the biggest demonstration of any of the Elk arrivals for the Grand | Lodge Convention, Three automobiles, ambulances and) an auto supply wagon composed the) caravan that trooped Into town. They | were met by bands at Albany avenue | and accorded a continuous ovation as they came up Atlantic avenue, The Fiks assembled at the headquarters on the Steel Pler gave them another big | reception. The young women will establish sev- enteen fleld hospitals and eight hos- pitals for serious cases Thursday. Dur- ing the entire convention they wilt be In active service for Elks cases Tryout for automobiles in the service will be made under the .observation of Gen. Funston, who will report their work with the idea of introducing them in the army to replace horse-drawn vehicles. Three-quarters of the 1,600 grand lodge members had registered at the hotel headquarters at noon, At convention |headquarters on the Steel Pier, 14,00) of members had presented |thetr cards. Special trains from Albany, | Toledo, Detroit, Johnstown and Des | Moines with members arrived this after- }noon. | Delegates from Oregon, Loulsville, | Pittabure, Chicago, Richmond, St. Louis, |Los Angeles, Texas, Kansas City, Wash- ington, North ‘outh Dakota, ota, Minnesota and Wisconsin have ragis- tered at the Strand Hotel so far. i> — TALCO TALCUM POWDER | eves All Skin irritations To prove this we have published testi- monials from Physic nd Graduate for free sample. ORMONT CHEMICAL Co. Dept. 10 N.Y, City eral days last them. The and did not find examination was behind Elghteen othér witnesses were waiting to tell the Commissioner what they knew ab the fireworks | situation, Among those who will be questioned by the Commissioner are Aldermen Diemer and Waish, who, with Alder- man Marx, were the members of the 23rd Street 4 sane and safe Fourth of July celev tion, Alderman Walsh had already ted publicly thar was almost ‘orced to sign the contracts without any further information about them than that Alderman Marx, who had conducted all the negotiations, told him It right. Mr, Marx had con- vinced Mr. Ridder thet tt was all right, and despite his own doubts Walsh felt compelled to follow Mr, Ridder's lead, It was understood that among the veral of the neighbors of Alderman Marx at Belel Harbor, where there was a fine exhibition of United Fireworks on the evening of the Fourth of July. Alderman Marx has asserted that It was a neighborhood celebration and that he paid for his share of {t. The neighbors all say they did not pay for any of it. It was understood at July the 11 he 8,000 Yards of inches wide. the Criminal Jury would not go into the fireworks ndal until the end of Commissioner Fosdick's hearings. The indictment of at least one person is expected, elther for soliciting a com’ nor recelv- ing @ commission on a city expenditure, Ala or Storm Sufferers, WASHINGTON, July 10.—President 8 as! Patt to-day promised Representatives Irish manufacture, Pure Flax. Natural color. Clayton of Alabama, and Adainson of Georgia, to direct the serving of twenty days army rations to the sufferers from the severe storm of July 4 In Lee Couns ty, Alabama, and Harris County, Georgia 36 inches wide. CORSET DEP’TS. Models for every Size 20 to 36 inches. W. B. Corsets figures. , 23rd Street JAMES McCREERY & CO. On Tuesday and Wednesday, SILK DEPARTMENTS. “McCreery Silks” Famous over half a\Century. COTTON DRESS FABRICS. Second Floor. 10,000 Yards of Linen Crash Suiting, In Both Stores, La Vida Corsets, Batiste, Coutil and Broche. W. B. Reduso Corsets for stout figures, JAMES McCREERY & CO, 34th Street th and 12th In Both Stores, Black Dress Satin, 35 75¢ per yard value 4.00 In Both Stores, 27¢ per yard value S00 type of figure. Made of 4.00, §.00, 6.00 to 12.50 3.00 and 5.00 for slight and medium 1.00, 1.50 and 2.00 1,600 Grand Lodge Members | 34th Streot | Mne Trapp of No. 144 Havemeyer street, | Arthur Watteii Ifberate crawl stroke she finally passed them, She has swum from Hast Twen- ty-third strect to Seagate, and through the Hell Gate whirlpool. GIRL SWIMMER WINS 17-MILE RIVER RACE. Little Miss Trapp Defeats Two Men in Contest Down the Hudson. Conceded to be one ot the distance swimming feats in years, the seventeen miles down the Hudson of Mins ‘Ade Brooklyn, lifts that midget athiete high among the aquatic champions. She started at the upper end of Yon- kers and swam to West Forty-second street. The bee Une distance Ie fifteen Miles, but in crossing and recrossing «co ket favorable currenta. che wade at Jeast two miles more. Mist Trapp, who wetehs only 120 pounds, started with Willam 8, Schott, @ Fort Washington Point life-saver, and Wattell gave out after two miles. Schott stuek It out > within 1,000 yards of the finish, but was far in the rear of Mins ‘Trapp. THE SENATOR fURE pub AU SOCKS jj Sue Fer Pair White, Tan, Gray, “Hello and_other Fe Navy, The men lea at firet, but with a de- WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS, JAMES McGREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street FURNITURE DEP’TS. In Both Storea. SEMI-ANNUAL SALE All Furniture from ro to 50% less than usual prices Fine Bedroom Furniture. Suites of Mahogany, dull satin finish, Colonial reproduction. Bureau, Chiffonier, Toilet Table and double size Bedsteads. 165.00 suite former price 216,00 Hepplewhite reproduction of Finely Fig- ured Mahogan: Bureau, Chiffonier, Toilet Table and Twin Bedsteads 295.00 suite former price 374.00 Circassian Walnut Suite, consisting of Bureau, Chiffonier, Toilet Table and Twin Bedsteads. Period of Louis XVI. 300.00 former price 386.00 Bureaus and Chiffoniers of Mahogany or White Enamel. Mahogany Bureaus . 22.00, 30.00 and 32.00 former prices 32.00, 45.00 and 48.00 Mahogany Chiffoniers. .20.00, 25.00 and 27.00 former prices 30.00, 37.00 and 40.00 White Enamel Bureaus. . 15.00, 20.00 and 25.00 former prices 19.50, 26.50 and 32.00 White Enamel Chiffoniers 14.00, 18.00and 22.00 former prices 17.00, 21.50 and 27.00 Fine Bedroom Chairs and Rockers of Mahogany, Satin and Circassian Walnut. Colonial and French Period models. 3-50 to 10,00 former price 7.00 to 20.00 UPHOLSTERY DEP’TS. Commencing Tuesday, July the rrth? In Both Stores, Materials suitable for Wall Coverings; Portieres and Draperies, from 25 to 50% less than usual prices. French Silk Armuze..7...1.50 per former price 2.25 to a73 50 inch Silk Velour in lengths from 1 to 6 yards. 1.75 per yard former price 3.00 50 inch Linen Velour in lengths from 1 to 6 yards. 1.35 per yard former price 2.00 Fine Damask and Brocade Maier 2.75 to §.25 per yard former price 5.50 to 10.50 During this sale orders may be placed for Autumn delivery. RUG DEPARTMENTS. 1m Both Stores, Rugs at greatly reduced prices, Commencing Tuesday, July the rith? French Wilton, Bundfar, Hardwick and Anglo Persian Rugs in all sizes. Discon- tinued patterns. + 37.50 “sual price 55.00 Size 9x12 ft .27.50 ustal price 40,00 ze 8 ft. 3 in. x 10 ft. 6in....25.00 and 35.00 usual prices 36.00 and $000 Other sizes in proportion, 9x 12 ft. Grass and Rag Rugs. usual ‘prices 8.50 Re Other sizes in proportion. .50 9.00 Rugs purchased at this sale will be held free of charge, for future delivery. JAMES McGREERY & C0. 23rd Street 34th Street