The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1911, Page 10

ee 5 wt -—_- i ia al THE EVENIN oT er Sy bath taeda Lae Boi lhc ba J di - +, ee 1911; ree yer , HOME EXPANSION 10 NEW YORK POLICE Mrs. Kimmel Tells Why She Repudiates Tax Department show an average 2 corner of Seventy-second street and per cent. advance for the year in the Central Park West, which now t more thinly settled districts, but there | of the Majestic Hotel site, sold for $18.- i in still @ wide discrepancy between |800 in 186 at the auction aale of rT) ; | values on the northward line and those | Dr. Jacob Harsen holdings. Avenue 66 | eastward and southward. are now worth $70,000 and the comers: an of Mystery o Claims to Be Her Son [SERS ee TA cy sna [et . of City Hall, lote range from Prices in Brooklyn, Long Island City. | along the subway extension. in and the Bronx are holding to-day at Bronx to an average of $7,000 in the upper Broadway section. Along t same circle in Queens lots around Jack- son avenue ate held at $1,600 and on Fulton street at $3,000, while the value falls as low as $200 In imtervening dis- tricts, due largely to the fact that much territory between Jamaica and Flush- ing in bare of serviceable transporta- tion facilities. The ten-mile circles falls entirely out- side of Brooklyn, but in Richmond it crosses land whiqh 19 held from $100 to $200 a lot. Even Coney Island comes within the nine-mile circle from City Hall and practically all of Brooklyn is within eight mil practically the sam lots In the Seventy-second street district half a century ago. ‘The Long Island lota are the same distance from City Hall as Seventy-second street, Values in the Seventy-second atreet district represent availability for ime Provement with twelve-story apartment structures to house the crowded popula- tion masses. It is estimated that another half century will crowd the suburban gone within the six or seven- mile radius even more densely than Seventy-recond atreet district ts crowd ed now. From a@ real estate viewpoint, the new transit Unes will make the swburban sites equally available for the Operators who are leading the new | Construction of big houses and the in- subway movement say that transit time | Come from much structures will justify will be the main new factor In estab-|® land value many times larger than Ushing land values, and that that on the current tax roll: Brooklyn five miles from City. Hall ——— wa! dts" "aondtta*hte | GOVERNOR TELLS QUEENS SHERIFF TO GET BUSY. Dix Will Hold Him Responsible for Any Trouble at the Primaries. ALBANY, Sept. 23.—Following the re ceipt of letters expressing doubt as to the enforcement of the laws in connec- tion with the primaries in Queens County next Tuesday, Gov. Dix to-day level as were the -MESTOESTERFAR Mounted Men Perform Hair Raising Feats Under the Eye t of Commissioner Waldo, ON NEW SUBWAYS Promise of Five-Borough Sys- tem Brings Queens and Rich- mond Into Campaign. THOUSANDS AT SHOW. Mrs. J. S. Walsh Leads as the, Winner of Blue Ribbons for Horses. |LIVELY IN BROOKLY} Old Manhattan Operators See Big Chances for Profit in Outside Districts. |“Impostor,” She Declares, and Gives Many Reasons Besides Her Maternal Instinct for Refusing to Recognize Freed Convict. tricts, where prices run from $15,000 tot $90,000 a lot. In Brookiyn the figures along the same circle range from 81,50) to 9,000. In Queens they run from $1,000 to $3,000, OUTSIDE DISTRICTS LIKE STREET 45 YEARS AGO. Old realty operators are leaving Man- hattan to take part in the suburban campaigns. They say that t rround- ing country over a radius of nearly fif- teen miles will be built up for a closely (fpacial to The Prening World.) ‘WHITE PLAINS, N, Y., Sept. 23.—-Mra J. 8. Walsh has won six blue ribbons amd two second prizes as well as cash Pries amounting to $275 in the Wesat- chester County Fair. Her nearest com- petitor Is J, Campbell Thompson, with 720 Progress in subway rapid transit plans etarted @ strong wave of home expansion this week. Many Manhattan families bought houses in Brooklyn. Old owners in that borough bought property nearer the | settled home population by the thme the| trey ‘tie ene tg a mech, oteutnee ta four blue ribbons, Ave red and one yel- | Physician and Police Chief lines of the projected roads. Operators | new rapid tranait midway systems can| te teg “on “ine Democratic. aide mewn Prizes aggregate $315, but | in Queens and Staten Island bid higher growth oan Spread out eth en “if hd through the fizht between ex-Borough sum waa won by exhibiting i ci . ees Fane tnie fim was won by exhibiting | Acree With Her, but Other figures for favorably located acreage President formity rather than in one direction bicorerage i esnoe ie Rec Manso! in former ys ‘They see opportunities | forces to secure control of the organt- for big speculative profite. zation, Tn his telegram the Governor That the growth of the metropolts| # will outstrip all past records !s indicated | _ " by increasing percentages in the bust- ness and population expansion. It was only forty‘ive years ago when Seventy- second street in Manhattan was a burban and farm section. Lots on Sev. emtieth atreet, near Central Park West, sold for $4,000 apiece then and the ave- nue lots went at $10,000. The southwest Walsh did not compete. Godfrey Preece has won four first honors and two red ribbons. J. W. Harrimen is next with three blues and three rede. Thin was the Inst and big day of the Westchester County Fair. Thousands of people crowded around the show ring to watch the evolutions of the New York Mounted Police. There were three platoons. ‘They showed the spe: tatora how they catch runaway hors and aiso did other hair-raising stunts, The police were reviewed by Commi: and building tracts. In several parts of Brooklyn, such as the Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge sec- tions, dealers in all classes of proper- ties were the liveliest of the year. Rutlders of private dwellings found a particularly active market. Investors bought a large number of flat houses, ahowing especial preference for bulld- Inga with stores. Rental brokers reported the heaviest demand on record in most of the sub- urban districts to be opened by new rapid transit lines. The increasing flow Lifelong Friends of Missing Cashier Believe His Strange Story. ‘ou are directed to use all means within your authority to preserve peace and order, and to secure the en- forcement of the laws in conneetion with the primary election which ta to be held within your county on the 26th WHY MRS. KIMMEL BELIEVES ALLEGED SON IS IMPOSTOR Here are some of the reasons given by Mre, Kimmel for declaring inst. You will be held strictly account- able duty.” for the performance of your sioner Weldo and several of hia depu-| ties. ‘The mounted men arrived on a special train over the Harlem Rallroad. They | rode their mounts to the fair grounds and the horses were tethered under a big tent near the exhibition ring. The men were served with luncheon by the horse show management while Commis- sioner Waldo and his deputies were en- tertained at the Knollwood Club by President Oliver Harriman and the other officials of the association. The officers in charge of the mounted mea were: Lieut. David MoCarthy, in command on Water Cure, No, 167; Pa- trolman George Kretchman, bugier, on Tact, No, 4; Lieut. John J. Dootady, Chief of First Piatoon, on Rye, No. 400; Gergt. John J. Panks, guidon hearer, on Frere, No, 26; Liout. William J. Lyneh, Second Platoon, on Monte, No. 418; Lieut, George 8. Wood, Chief of Third Platoon, on Shamrock, No, 14%, KEEN COMPETITION I'N FOUR. IN-HANDS AND TANDEMS. ‘The best exhibitions to-day were th four-in-hands and the tandems. The lat ter class brought out seven entries and the competition was keen. The en- trants were Emil Seelig’s chestnut mare Max and chestnut gelding Climax; F, M Warburi black gelding = Ameri Duke and black = mare = American Duchess; J. Campbell Thompson's Vol- unteer and Majesty; Dewitt C. Fiant- @an's Rataplan ond Prince Charming; 3. W. Harriman'’s Nala and Avondale, and J. B. Taylor's Waketield and Wal- Ungtord, ‘There w: 180 a four-in-hand race detween J. Camptyt! Thompson and Emil Selig. Yesterday Scelig defeated ‘Thompson in @ race twice around the half-mile track in the tandem then Thompso; nie the four-in-hands. There wer many entries in the class for saddle horses. Moving Picture owned by B. Lambert Sackett, wai again entered, but shy does not seem to @ any luck at this show. She ap- ears to be @ little stiff and out of con- formation. Other entries were Miss H D. Atterbury'’s Kildare, which she re- gpnily purchased; W. A. MeGibbon'a Rosabel and Rosella, J. E. Davis's Man- suctude, Godfrey Preece's The Real ‘Thing, Myron H. Oppenheim's Fairy Queen, H. J. Graham's Proud Prince, Hugh C. Willoughby's Sunchita and George Wallen's Dr. Hicke Mra, Sidney L. Josephthal, who was 'n peril the other day when her Jumper almost tossed her a fence, again rode to-day in the class for hunters She was mounted on her chestnut geld ing Solar, In this class Jullan Day tered King Eric; J. BE. Davis, Mansue tude; 8, Brice Wing, Embarta; Freder- feck Bull, Sunday Morning; Donny Brook Farm, Lion Heart and 8. 1. Josephthal, Fascination Flora Zabelle’s Latest SONG HIT | as now being sung by her in “The Kiss Waltz” at the Casino Theatre, Broadway, N.Y. Words by Mott Weed: re ViLNNesi: WAL KING. WORDS and MUSIC with Sunday World emeut wi fay & “Hunter, owners of te copyright, T. B. Yarms Fre Country | | by h the man who claims to be her son ts an {mpostor: Mis hands are smaller than the hands of my son. large olin tree to the branches of which T used to swing when a boy.” Then th man told many other things about the topography of the town that a stranger woul! be unlikely to know, even had he been achooled by a denizen ef the place. He knew faces and called out names. In some cases he could not remember fames, but the majority of tests met @ ready answer, AMAZED THE MOTHER TO CONVINCE H' When he confronted the woman he called mother he opened his arms to her and begged her not to deny him. There were tears in his eyes and he seemed shaken with genuine emoton when Mrs. Kimmel shook her head and said “You are not my aon, I saw you be- fore in prison when you firat pretended to be my son and I did not know You must kn Mis eyes are gray. My son's eyes were dark brown. Bis handwriting does not re- semble the handwriting of my son. ‘Ms chin does not protrude. My eon's chin aid, (Special to The Evening World.) NILES, Mich,, Sept. 23.—Hither George A. Kimmel, adjudicated dead and denied by his own mother, is another Rip Van Winkle of modern times, or else the “living image” of George A. Kimmel, just returned to Niles from Auburn Prison after an absence of almost ®@ quarter of a century, is still a victim of confusional insanity from which he suffered for five years while an inmate of Matteawan Hospital in New York State. The return of this spectre Kim- mel @ few days ago has stood this little community upon its head. Memories are being taxed to the extent of their endurance and doubts and confusion fill all minds. The mother of the long mourned and legally sed Kimmel still coldly re- pulses her self-styled son and urges ral strong reasons for her denial. stated that Mrs, Kimmel ‘AILED ye Ww you are not my son. The man recalled many incidents of the boyhood of George Kimmel that amazed the old lady, but still she denied him, As he went away from the cottage that he swore was his former home, he said: “After being knocked In the head in & desperate assault; after having spent five years in Auburn prison on a charge of stealing twenty-five cents; after hav- Ith and mind, ts it any wonder my memory is shaken on some particulars of my early Ife? But I am not dead and I am George Kim- had an interest of $25,000 at stake in de-}mel, When I learned of all this fuss nying her son, The fact 18, however, |that had been made over death it that she has already collected %,000 on | was fmnpossible for the to pretend for the her son's Ife and that the $2,000 life |rest of my Ife that I was dead just so insurance polley now in dispute 1s held| my sister could enjoy $25,000 life inaur- r daughter, Mrs, Edna K. Bonslett}ance, All my friends here know that I of Chicago, am the real George Kimmel, and so WHY THE MOTHER REPUDIATES | must my mother. ALLEGED SON. SAYS SHE SECRETLY ADMITTED Of course should ft be established HIS CLAIM. that the self-siyled Kimmel is the real] “When I disappeared from Arkansas Kimmel the Insurance company that] City thirteen years ago undoubtedly my pald th 00 to the mother might bring | family did think that I was dead. One wult to recover It, eh @ sult, hows] insurance company did not, howe ever, 1s manifestly unlikely in view of} and thelr agents located me in jail, My the years that have elapsed since the} mother heard of this, but she refused money was pald. to change her position, Four years ago In denying (hat the man who has] they brought us face to face th Auburn come to Niles and eausod such a psy-|Privon, My mother appeared not to cholog! um is her son, Mrs, | Tecognize me ieimmel pointe out with vigorous ene] _cwtie We were talking the guar piasin neve sten aside, and 1 whispered in my ‘al physteal points on which | mother's car, ‘What am I to call you, thay radically differ if not mother?’ She looked at me in In enun ns each count In her tne | stl for a moment and then whis- diciment of the pretended Kimmel as] pered: ‘When we are alone, call me an impostor the gray-haired old lady | mother.’ that time could not change such That was an outburst of mother love cteristics. Time might change his | whl i ane could Oe sup om xhttere ssion, she insists, but mud not} Ware he app oF J won der whet 1 i} see ten his thumb, change the color dsr whether shat inipalae will reassert itaelf, or whether, while ackn dged sand shorten ix chin. s' by my friends, 1 will be cast out Into says Mrs. Kimmel, “does the] the cold and denied by my kin, All instinet count for nothing?| this is a terrible and crushing affliction is certainly @ strong enough re-| to me, after all the hardships 1 have tween this man and my | undergone son to awaken the mother instinet if] Mrs X, a cousin of the long van- Kinship existed. But tt does} hed George Kimmy und an old and when I look Into that manta| Tespected denizen of Niles, has received n though 1 4 a ‘ the ex-convict with open arms, on hough do not reason or think of changes, T know he te not my | COUSIN HAS NO DOUBT OF HIS we IDENTITY, PHYSICIAN AND POLICE CHIEF] \:,) he in G iiveaia ‘| Mra, Fox to-day, “for he resembles him ALSO DENY HIM, in every Way and recall in dents Dr M. Honine, the oldem practi-| that none Dut George Kir could | toner tn Niley, backs up Mra. Kimmet| know, Then he has tattoo marks on his Im her denial with another strong phyal-| Fitts that George Kimmel showed to al reason for doubting the ex-convict, ee en eet ae ee vontinuce te 1 performed an operation on George] deny hit "#8 eye which left a acar,” says| Late yesterday Mrs. Kimmel appar: I onine. ime could never erase| ently began to weaken e sald she sear, ‘This man haw no auch scar.” | Would | consult her daughter,” Mr r oft tolina Bran, ~ Jonslett, before deciding. At the same Me chat cle eeaeie of Niles 18) time it was weld. that Kimmel taken i onde 1 to his old home had failed to recognize missing and mourned Kimmel, “I knew! the pictures on the wall, including one George Kimmel," says Francis, “from| which the missing Kimmel had his boyhood up to the time he dixap-| enlarged of himself peared. I knew him as well as I know| Kim said tom * noth- tny own brothers. Thia is not the man,” | 2 for me to gain ex ootablign But there are many other old residents | wre ine My" grtonia mecepe tne of nat of Niles who believes the man, who] All 1 desire Is to be reinstated in my was known ta prison as Andrew J.| family. 1 have no interest in the insur White the George Kimmel who so | ance ny life. ‘There is a small policy strangely Vanished from Arkansas City arites ae Aroh, butt relln: in 1898. 11 onvinced these villagers | wish all claim to as Rip Van Winkle so ' gree When George A Sleanpeared i Meht to convince] ne was one of the beat known citizens hie form heighbors Kinderhook, | in Arkansas City, He was very popula Coming {nto the villa d tmmediately | good-look Well-to-do and a thirty he got off the tral m-| second degiee He was the mel addressed one o' ora | Cakhier of the # State Bank of A d “lt regarded as a man ; grity Behind that hill (polnting to the itl art 4 ne earth beyond) there t# 4 big red brick houre. a ‘ and swallowed jim an July His accounts at the bank were on the south side of which there is a perfectly straight, and gay a thing against him. Later he was reported to have passed through To- peka, Kan, and Kans City, Mo, but these reports were vague and lacked corroboration when investigated. MYSTERY PARTLY CLEARED AFTER MONTHS. Months went by before it was learned that Cashter Kimmel had been involved in a shady deal to dupe the Pacific Ex- presse Company. It wax openly charged mn that he had accepted forged orders on the company’s acount and divided the spoils with accomplices, ‘The txsue of hie guilt or innocence on this charge was never adjudicated, and Pretender Kimmel dentes he was guilty. He would not discuss thls phase of his past, how- ever, saying that his‘memory was vague no one could POLICEMAN'S CLUB KNOCKS OUT THIEF WHO FRED SHOT Indicted for Man Burglary on it. Caught With Basket Load ‘Ten ‘8 passed after the disappear- ance of ahler Kimme] before the case of Pigeons. again attracted public notice. The life insurance companies had resisted the Payment of $30,000 on the life of the missing man, The trial was had in the United States Courts of the St. Louls District, and after the examination of many wit- nesses George A. Kimmel was declared dead, Following this judgment one of the insurance companies paid $5,000 to When Poltceman Thomas J. McGlone started across Bushwick avenue at Scholes street, Willlamsburg, early to- day to see what two susplctous-looking persons had in a basket, one of them Sites ateRtbaL) bie mothers; Tne drew @ revolver and fired. The shot York Life Insurance Company went wild and the policeman brought ever, carried the case up on app down the man with a night stick blow, finally located the Kimmel who come to Niles to disturb the se the village and split it Into warring fac- tions. ‘The self-styled Kimmel, wearing the name of Andrew J. White, bobbed Into public view at Randolph, N. ¥., tn the | summer of 1901. He was The desk Neutenant and a policeman who were In the Stagg street station a block away heard the shot. They ran out and the policeman caught the second offender as he ran while the police Heu- tenant went over to help subdue the for trying to beat a board Mil and sen- | armed member of the prowling duet. was arrested on a iarceny charge. ‘The man with the revolver was taken to the station, He was 1 to be Jacob Bach of NG, 180 Ten Eyck street, who {s under indictment for burglary and on bail awaiting trial, Ten months ago he was arrested for taking a num- ber of bicycles from a store. The other man said he was Robert Schultz of No. 68 Grand street, When the policemen TAFTINST. LUIS searched the twenty-one pigeons pigeons, with felontous assault upon the policeman and with the felony of carrying @ loaded revolver, under the BT. LOUIS, Sept. %.—Reginning the | Sullivan bill. The other prisoner was real “winning of the West,” President | charged with belng @ party to the theft Taft has crossed the Mississippi and | of the*pigeons, begun his Western campaign with three speeches in St. Louls, That the cam- paign will be one of defense and defi- ance wae the unanimous opinion of those who heard the M’resident in his impassioned speeches at Peorla yester- MANN RULES OVER FLAT BUILDERS IN BROOKLYN. pt responsibility for everything I have done, 1 could not do otherwise. If the people do not like it then they may repudiate mi t was the attitude of the President prepared to invade the solidly in- nt territory of Kanwas and lowa where he will spend the next two weeks in whirlwind, swings through large and small crowds, “T will go through with this trip no matter what happens.” he promised in the Kast, and he reiterated that deter- mination with added yigor to-day The President arrived here at 7.08 A M. to-day, He was taken at once to the Mercantile Club for breakfast. While | here he {s to be the guest of the Million | Population Clu | President ‘Taft after | taken for a forty-mile automob {in St. Louis County, On the rid . witnessed for a few minutes a footbail game and then went to a hotel for a b rest He adidrersed the Masonic Club for five ininutes and then went to the City Ciub for luncheon, He was scheduled to \ cornerstone in the new Y. W © A. Building at 2.90 o'clock and then to witness a ball game between the adelpiia and 8t, Louls National | teams, ‘ President will be of 4 private dinne ek, and a uled t¢ loa ve The non-part three Steph were on th the Union st Koy seout# we pite the prote k at the Coliseum FRANK MANN orem | As Second Deputy Commissioner Who had Kiulnst the the ent T Department, he Scouts 4 pating sion band will te guardian of all multhfamily houses furnish music at the Collseum to-night, across the bridge. on la .| Sunday World ( the projected huge subway system was of population into those eections is forming @ solid foundation for a wide building campaign. In all of the more available localities new building opera- tions are mainly of the flat house type, JAMES McGREERY & CO. \ 23rd Street 34th Street the four-story structure being the favorite. PROMISE OF FIVE-BOROUGH SUBWAY STARTS BOOM. SILK DEPARTMENTS. Assurance of prompt construction of rae “McCreery Silks” the chief reason for the week's spirited s revival. Its wide ecope was due to the announcement that construotion would embrace all five boroughs. Persistent pressure is being directed by friends of both Queens and Staten Island to get a fair share of the subway outh Extension of the Brooklyn Fourth avenue tubes to Richmond under the Narrows would cost only 86,000,000, and it Is understood that Staten Isiand will be included in the immediate con- structional programme. ‘The Queens system to open that borough for the Manhattan overflow would not tnvolve more than $12,000,000. The new lines would bring large tracts of cheap land within the reach of homeseekers who are employed in Manhattan. Both the Queens and Staten Island branches of the projected subway sys- tem would tend to reduce rents for the average family, As Manhattan bulld- ers are putting up practically no flats of the cheap and middle-class type, the poorer families are being crowded out and wide areas of low ced suburban land are needed to make eites for their homes, Nearly 9 per cent. of the tn- crease in population !s among the masses who cannot pay as much as $30 ‘a month for family living quarters, and all of {t must be housed in the suburbs because the volume of euch cheap quar- ters in Manhattan, as well as in cen- tral parts of Brooklyn, is being dimin- ished steadily as @ result of business expansion and the destruction of old pufldings to make sites for costly ones, BIG CHANCE FOR RISE IN §UB- URBAN LAND VALUES, ‘ Land values {n the outside territory are rising steadily to discount the com. Ing flow of population through the new transit Unes. Famous over half a Century. Complete assortment of the latest colors and black in Plain and Novelty Silks, Velvets, Velveteen, Corduroy and Dress Goods. On Monday and Tuesday, September the a5th and 26th. 15,000 yards of new fashionable Silks Black, with colored border. 42 inches wide. 1.25 per yard DRESS GOODS DEP’TS. 10,000 yards, Ali Wool Suitings in Homespun and Cheviot weaves,—especially adapted for Tailor-made Suits. Sponged and shrunk. Dark Navy and Old Blue and Black. 42 to 46 inches wide........ 85c¢ per yard value 1.50 JAMES McCREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street Maps just issued by the | . The American Girl Who Captured England’s Greatest Warrior—Lord Kitchener, Some Exclusive Magazine Just Out—Note Paper for the Sentimental as Cupid’s Latest Al. Story of How Wayfarers Are Build ing a Chapel at the Friary of Gray- moor, In To- The Relationship of Pittsburgh to New York—By Mrs. Mary GQ Thaw. The Silent Yet Sincere Suffragettes of Darkest Siberia. Noted Scientist Explains How Mag- netic Storms Are Making the Earth “Slow Down.” Exclusive Photographs Showing How the New Campanile Makes Venice Itself Again. How Simplicity Dominates the French Woman's Selectlon of Gowns and Hats. ie Words and Musle of “My Heart Goes Bump Inside”’-—song hit from “The Waltz Kiss.” In Both Stores, |