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a en mo DELLA FOX VERY ILL, BUT HER DOCTOR HOPES TO SAVE HER. | -BiDS FOR NEW SUBWAYS ARE OPEN TO ALL COMERS * Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com. | pany Hasn’t Got the Con- | tracts Bottled Up, 9 FOREIGNERS ‘AFTER JOB. | New Provision in Law Com-| pels Operating Company to | Share Profits With City. | “Tt has been the policy of the Com-| mission to prepare all of the contracts which ¢ Bas advertised in such @ way that any corporayion who wished to bid might submit an offer. This policy has been followed in the preparation of the @ontract for the operstion of the comprehensive eyeter: of subways being constructed and to be constructed with city mon It would ObVIONSIT | Heng ang Mleventh street, pide tas a wise to om wi for! The physician wan called to nee Mine OD DELLA FORM, Delia Fox, the comic opera singer, Popular fifteen years ago, is hovering \etween life and death at the Rebeau Sanitarium, No. 186 Weat Beventy-fourth fireet, according to her physician, Dr Benjamin Wolff, 0, 682 Wert One Hun- | Crowd in ‘hit i and on “L” | Watches Uniformed Men ? ern a ee Ce ‘poue RESCUE (CHINESE THRONE --ONE GAS VICTIM, | READY 10 QUIT; VETERAN ERAN KILLED MAKING TERMS Word Cite That fi That Ruling Man-| chus, Seeing Hope Vanish- Revive Woman. ing, Will Abdicate. PEKING, Dee. 2. — Representative members of the {mperial court, accords ing to an authoritative source, have ma ‘aified to Premier Yuan Shi Kal their will- ingness to agree to an abdication. The| court, the same authority etates, real- inee that there fs no hope for it in the folding of three or four detached eeo- tons’ of the country and semi-toyal provinces, and expecta to obtain better terme by agresing to the proponed refer- @mdum on the question of the form of| government The’ sight of two policemen, tn @ull uniform working over the hodiex of a man and a woman, both in thelr nigut clothes, on the third story fire escape of No. lb Second avenue this after noon, caused @ great crowd to gather on the widewalke and ail etreet traffic to stop Kven the elevated trains od down while the motormen tried to make out what was going on and the pas- senmere nearly climbed out ef the win- dows In thelr excitement. ‘The two had been overcome with eas, accidentally turned on by the womas, who kept house for the vieum of the accident, her uncle, Thomes Henry, « veteran of t worker for Nt Henry died Ju vue Morpital arr Iration methods which had learned at the police seh Miew King’s life, and she wi Premier Yuan Shi Kal fully that the Republican spokesmon gathered at the peace conference at Shanghai are not Ikely to accept his proposition for a etully elected Assembly r o- fesenting the entire empire. He ie of opinion that the Republicans know that -| time will fevor his (Yuan @ht Kate plan. The Premier ie certain that he could Win neveral battles with the modern | Fox a week ago inst Thuraday at the ete ad Hlotel Grenoble. Then she waa taken ing a bid might offer transfer privileges '° the sanitarium and Saturday was to the lines which it now operates and [successfully operated on for appendi- controls; another company might offer | Wolff, as: © cach payment; still another company Dr. Wolff might offer large annual return. When hin patiegt’s heart was very weak these various offers have been received and that stimulants were being admin- then the public authorities will have to istered Consider which offer, from all pointe = Mins Fox passed a fairly comfortable of view, ip the most advantageous to /"leht, and her condition to-day was an the public and to the city.” 00d as could be expected. It will be The foregoing statement dictated to- & Week before she is out of danger, even day to a reperter from The Evening |@hould she begin immediately to im. World by Public Gervice Comminsioner prove. Milo R. Maltble lets some daylight into| “Her life hangs by a thread," sald the subway situation. For one thing it Dr. Wolff, but it may be strong enough Quite effectually Mapones of thé pet |\to carry her through.” theory hekt in certain quarters that the —_ > Brookiyn Rapid Transit Company bed WIFE ASKS COURT TO SEND the subway contract Dottied up with the city at tte mercy. POLICEMAN-HUSBAND AWAY COMMi88i R GAVE NO EX- name CLUSIVE CONTRACT. Held for Siooting at Her, He Tri According to Commissioner cela sorb Again to Force Entrance well as & majority of the commiasion, ie ter Boke Policeman George Hackett of the Fifth avenwe station, Brook called Monday ell that the city ts obligated to do~ under the action of the Board of Kati- fate of last eummer-4s to prepar Operating contract for the new subways | evening at his wife's ho 490 Van. Which the B. H. T, te enabled to bid) derbilt avenue, and shot her, The upon. No exclusive contract, they say, | bullet went wild. Lieut. Murphy ar- could be leguily put up for biddéra, rented him, and yesterday in Butler Under offers of transfer privileges i street police court he wae held in $1,600 %@ bonus for the new subway contract, | ball the following offers would be p Luat night Haokett again appeared at wader the form whioh is veing pr hia wife's home. H \d consider by the commisgion: able dimturbance in tii to got in c Pigs, Transtere, and neighbors notified the police. Bergt. Bowotty Raitt ftrenat ~ ifn, Hoyle of the Bergen street station re | Unterborousts. sees ees and | sponded, Hackett had vanished, but Boyle waited two hkurs, when he saw Rewrpanised Met. Co. the man approaching and arrested him, Rearganised Thint Ave Today W was in Later atrest with intoxioation, 80 bal by Magie- kot raid she waa of her “hunby nd transfers” to their present lines a* 4 jogged that something be done with bonus for the new subway cont: |nim, for she joAdoo ihe In fact, not only are these five local companies in a position to offer “free Wut the steam railroads having « Magistrate Harris decided to comm! urban service could enter the late | Hackett to the observation ward at This would includg the New York, New | K. County Hospital. He has been Haven and Hartford, the New York |oM the police force ten years, Comtral and the Long Island, which 1x! * owned by the Pennsylvania. FOREIGN COMPANIES orrer| LUMP BUM FOR CONTRACT. With respect to offers of « Payment” for the new aubwa: tract, the Meld ts even wider. An Eng-| Nah company, a Chicago company or | even @ New Zealand company or | compete with the offer of a lump eum to be paid to the city for the priv lege of operating the new nubways, ‘They would be shy “free transfers” te offer, as they would not have present | local lines to enter, but what they lacked ig thet respect they could make up tn 4 Benerosity of cash, which would pay off ‘the city's debt incurred én building lines. Under the heading of “eash paym: even the Interborough could com, yr W.theite offer of last sum: are'half of the eost of building Rew suvwaye. The Interborough could Aanume the interest on the bonds alread fosued by the chy for construction, and! thus release for more extensions t\o Present investment of the in su Darts of the new subway ayet Brooklyn, an ein Manhattan MUST SHARE EXCESS OF 60 PER CENT. WITH CITY, upon & ith the city, ‘his was provided for by an amend the Public Utilities law, passed by Lesisiature at the request of the Chairman Wil Commission an that the proposed sion would be ready o "advertise for bide. Further conference: Penney! ith the vania Rallroad offi » Burgundy. atawba come forward with an offe build a west eide sutway south on Se enth avenue from Forty-sec: passing the front of the n vania Station, ‘This offer could t under the form of operating contrac thy new subways, which the Cc Dropores to advertise. pes aadeus ~<A Aintecn Le of Loughe. MAIL ORDERS “*" oust ee) to-an Our out-of-town Po yne would do well Of Rare Beauty and Usefulness Given Free with Our Wines, Brandies, Whiskies and Cordials 4. packed Dart'of the ety 4 Flegenheimer Bros. 261-269 EIGHTH AVENUE, near West 23d St., N. Y. at hie disposal, which fs hetter Sreatly superior to the Bolievue for treatment. Holub, with Policeman Bolger, had been called into the house by the jan: unedle to ob: trees, Denief, who oad that thera Bo Una: t0 had ve strong smell of ges coming + Drebabdility ing the best terms posible for the throne. Yugn Shi Kal regrets what fe con- siders to be Tang Mao Yi'n desertion. it Tang Bhao Yi might ident of th from the Henry apartment all morning. The door wae broken down apd Henry and his niece were found in their hed- roomr, The women had apparently Awakened before she was altogether overcome and had fallen to the floor of her room, A 1008e gam cook of the gat range in (he kitchen had been knocked open. that foreign nations have. withheld their financial support, with the help of which ‘he could have reconquered the country. —— Vac! inctsinsencie angina WOMEN SEE DEATH PLUNGE. James Downey's Playmates Also Witness Fatal Fall From Reef. While chasing ne with several of hin compan! fourteen-year-old James Downey of No. 501 West Fitty- root of Ne to-day end Me f » catching on olotheatt eral times during the fall and Meter Year-En@ ‘k Motor Boat Club will official year to-morrow the new year, there will be a Kel Monthly lec- hin head on the it court: tures up to the he club goes into Four houags use this cour eemmission. common and many women saw the boy falling, Mra, Ma c. wan hanging out clothes, for the police. Brown, who ackett, HAMBURG, Dec. American line has ordered a third 6,000- ton Mner for the Transatlantic esrvice. She will be constructed by. Highm & in their private yerd here and will eisterattp of the Hner. Imperator, which has @ length of M0 feet and a ie Imperator, which is to 0 into service in the epring of 1918, will provide accommodation for 600) pas fengere of alt classes. rushing eastward news to men. 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