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& § > HOTWATER FIGHT FIFTEEN NOW FACE EVICTION IN THAT Won't Pay Rent and Will Va-| cate Richmond Court Only When Court Orders. TWO GET “NOTICE.” Others Who Had to “Tub” in Cold Water Eleven Weeks Stand by Them. Actual hostilities were begun on both Sides last night in the Hot Water Fight which has been waging, mainly in an argumentative way, between the tenants | of the Richmond Court, an apartment | house at Broadway and One Hundred | and Sixty-fourth street, and the owners and agents of the builiing. ‘The shot fired by the owners was a/ flat demand that Mre. M. Toland Sime and Mr. and Mra. EB, L. peer, admitted by both sides to be ringleaders in the quarrel, vacate their apartments im- mediately. The answering volley of the tenants ‘was in the form of @ eolemn avowal from fifteen of them who assembled in Mrs. Bime's apartment for a council of war that they will stick to the death and will get out on the atreet, bag end dageage, just as soon as the courts order them to do so before they will Payments of $200 Day the 630 half of their December rent | The frst payment was not_ made. which they have now withheld for near- iy three weeks. Nineteen of the original thirty-four tenants who signed the round robin the @ay following Thankegiving, declaring | that they would withhold the $20 1 @ompensation for having been without | hot water for eleven weeks have capitu- lated and paid up. | AGENTS DENY TRUTH OF TEN- ANTS’ COMPLAINT, Following the round robin, F. R. Wood, W. H. Dolson & Co., agents for the forty-four apartment bullding of the usual {mposing appearance, replied to the tenants in @ letter declaring the allegations were partly false; that gross misrepresentations had been made, and that they had done everything possible. Further. they stated that no rebate was | coming to the tenants and none ol he granted. The agents admit that there was a| temporary complete interruption of the hot water service due to a breaking down of the boiler, but they assert that | within @ few days water was again be-| ing furnished for an hour morn- ing, and that the celay in restoring complete service was due to the neces- sity for sending outside the city for proper apparatus, ts are just as positive in Uon that thelr general com- if neglected and 1 has been shown to the uptown representative of the agents, with an office at No, 2873 Broadway, visited the apartment yex- terday and demanded of Mr. Speer that he pay his rent. This was the conver- | was eleven weeks without want your apartment in| “They can have it."* WILL MOVE ONLY WHEN COURT 80 ORDER. Next Mr. Merlo called upon Mrs. Sime. Her husband, a physician, te {ll and in @ hospital and she has been leading the fight single-handed. bi you got the money for your he says he asked. you pay it?" owners want your apartment.” “They can have it just as soon as you it from the cou | tenants, who look upon their fight | es the beginning of a big crus against what they call the tyranntes of landlords, are wondering if they will have to pay rent for the time remaining under their leases if they are evicted. | That they will have to get out, they do| not doubt and they are determined to do so rather than surrender. | “We will stand by our guns to the last ditch. This 1s going to mean freedom from serfdom for apartment dwellers before we get through with it, We expect to get put on the street, but we're game,” were Mra, Sime's final words to a reporter. “We are going through with this, Those people have until to-morrow morning to pay thelr rent and then they go out,” was Mr. Merlo's ultima- tum delivered a few moments later. Among the tenants who are holding out are Mra, M. T. Sime, E. L. Speer, W. Steinigans, J. J ¥. Rohe H. Showalte man, P A. G. Lo i » C. 8, Buller, Anna Pollock, Pearl SUE MRS. BRUGUIERE. Paris Dressmakers Say She Failed ay for Gowns, Papers were filed in the Supreme yesterday im two sults brought Maryon Brugulere to re- for gowns alleged to sed in Paris. M as deen staying al 1 Vanderbilt, salled for Europe » suits were brought by Paquin, and Paul Polret, Paquin 4 en Oct. 4 and M4, 191 t dresses and alleges Mrs. trugulere gave nis & on the New York Produc Bank and that the check went (vo protest, He asks ina} bill Lid, that be Bruguler nt for the orta- nt of the protest fee, wh Oversea Flying R . TRAPINI, Sicily, Dec. 19.~Roland @ Garros, French aviator, in a fight yesterday over the Mediterranean Sea from Tunis, Afri to Sicily, made a new sea record covering 160 miles. Gi ros recently established a new altitude record of 19,082 feet at Tunis, oa he Sera Osborn Company Get Crosman, Schmuck in the City Court yesterday) authorized the Mrs. Osbo: Purchase of clothing made in 1909. entered into last spring when the ca: THE EVENING WORLD, WOMAN WHO LEADS NO RENT” BATTLE. “NO HOT WATER, THEN | | | | | | MRS. M.TOLAND SIME. mere ee - || MISS CROSMAN MUST PAY. |} Janction to || Recover $1,572.87. | An execution tssued against Henrietta | | the actress, by Justice || Company to} fecover $1,572.87 from the actress on @ The execution was secured when Jus-| tie Schmuck was shown a stipulation wan pending trial. The stipulation w: that the judgment would not be filed | until Nov. 16, and not then If Miss Cros. | man made @ $350 payment. Additional | were agreed upon. this rocker to your wife She’s deserving of something that suggests rest from the drudgery of housework. It’s a nice, strong, handsome Rocker, mahogany finisb, and, above all, it’s comfortable, 50c Weekly Pay us for it as you like— Cash or credit. Gltts for everybody in good furniture at popular prices on easy terms of credit, EASY TERMS Our terms, Uke our prices, are lowest in town, Lee YM. Aute Deltvery Within’ 75 Miles. Indoor Workers who toil without sufficient exercise, are subject to liver trouble, consti- pation, headache, loss of appetite, ete. Health depends areal upen the liver and bowels, Waste matter moust beeliminated or disease results, Warner’s Safe Pills correct a constipated condition with- out irritating or exciting because they combine only the pure active principals of vegetable laxatives, the effects of which are to restore normal liver and bowel action., “Warner's Safe Piilsare especially goed. @ Thope thie will be of great benefit to all i others who autfer as I did"—George E, hy pple. 700 Washington Ave., Warners Safe Remedies] EACH FOR A PURPOSE 3 et. [al 6—Pille (fiiteatesee") SOLD BY ALL DRUVOGISTS | 52-in. French | collars and cuffs; trimmed with frog Toys and Dolls Our stocks are thoroughly complete with the newest items from the most famous Toy makers of the Old World and New. The display carries instruction and entertainment. A real, live Santa Claus here to receive the childr. je Fourth Floor. Gifts in Men’s Furnishings A Section Rich With Suitable Suggestions. $4.50 Blanket Robes, $3.19 Remember, just 500 of them, so be here eorly. Fine quality soft warm blankets, with 3 pockets and girdle, newest jrcquard designs, in Gray, Navy, Dark Red, Brown and Tan, finished with satin yoke; all seams piped. Men’s White Shirts, 68¢ Three men's white shirts, in a beautiful Christmas box; plaited and fine tucked; sizes 14 to 17. 3 for $2.00. Men's $1 Silk Tles, 65¢ Made of silk that will appeal to critical men, Rich eelf-toned and two-toned color effects, plain colors, brocade and diagonal striped effects. 6 for $3.75. Boys’ Wool Sweaters, $1.48 Rel worth $2.00. Coat models, made with collar; colors are gray maroon; sizes 26 to 34; two pockets. “Jesse Rep” Neckties, 35¢ Really worth 50c and 75c. These are allsilk; hundreds of beautiful patterns; nearly 2,000 neckties in the lot, and every one is decidedly big value. Other attractive neckwear values up to $3.00. erchel, Sox, Suspenders, Bands, and Garter and Neckwear Com- bination Sets. 29¢ to $2.50. Main Floor, 60th Bt. Bection. $6.00 Coat Sweaters, $3 95 Fine pure wool coat sweaters for men; big roll collar; very welcome for cold weather; in gray, with two pock- ets; reinforced buttonholes. 36 to 48. Men’s Wool Sweater Coats, $1.98 50. For men; closely sizes; rein- Boys’ All Wool Sweaters, 98¢ Really worth $1.50. In gray; excel- lently made; full size; 26 to 84; pock- ets in each one. BLOOMINGD: What Opportunities in This Offer of Fashionable Fur Sets at $25.00 They are worth up to $37.50 and have been reduced specially for this occasion. ‘The following fur cet offerings give you just a hint of the many attractions this department holds. Black Fox Sets, animal scarf and half barrel muff. Jap Cross Foz Sets, animal scarf, with head and taile and elaborate muff. Pointed Fox Sets, animal ecarf and larg: pillow muff, both trimmed with heads and tails. Natural Raccoon Sets, animal scarf, with natural trimmings; muff has the eilk inserted effect. Skunk Raccoon Sets, snake ecarf, with head Mia) end tails, fancy shaped pillow muff. Dyed Skunk Sets, enake ecarf and large half barrel muff. These Rich Sets at $35.00 Values up to $45.00 Pointed Fox Sets, animal shawl ecarf and half barrel muff. Black Fox Sets, jet black, fancy shaw! scarf, with trimmed half barrel muff. Civet Cat Sets, with long stole effect and half 1 muff. Sitka Wolf Set, fancy animal scarf and trimmed barrel muff. French Coney Sets, ,Ys!*s, at $10.75 Included are various styles and effects in fancy pillow muffs, half barrel muffs, plain pillow muffs, fancy scarfs, Russian shawls, etc. Lined with black and colored satins. 52-inch Russian Pony Coats, at 29.98 Beautifully marked moired skins are used in these coats. They have deep roll collars and inverted cuffs, fastened in one- side effects with silk corded omament. Richly lined with Repp silk or plain satin. Seal Coats . . $52.50 Caraeul yey at $55 Values up to $80.00 52 inch long; fashioned of choice Full 52 inches, extra large shawl | ekins; fine curl; one style effects; deep roll collars; fastened with crochet ornaments. 24 Floor, 69th St. Section and button. Richly lined. BLOOMINGDALES" Girls’ All Wool Serge Dresses, $3.37 This is another lot exact- ly like the one that we dis- posed of so rapidly last Saturday. These dresses are trim- @med with solid color cloth or fancy silk braid. In the lot are some two- tone whipcords, with vel- vet yoke and belt, and corduroys in box-pleated Russian style with leather belt. They are without a doubt the best values in girls’ dresses that we have been able to offer in some time; sizes 6 to 14 years, at the special price of $3.37. Girls’ Dreases, of fine all wool " Dresses, of fine serge, trim- serges, in one piece sailor style med with colored ratine and with ‘embroidered emblem on fancy buttons. Ale> one-piece sleeve; also dresses with round neck, trimmed on sine of waist and skirt with silk braid, Sizes 6 to 14 years... $4.98 Junior Suits, in whipcords and all wool serges, some light colors among them; 13, 15 and 17 year sizes. Values from $12 to $16; to close them out Friday you may 14 year sizes. . take your choice of an; We have marked all our Junior Tailor-made Suite, which 25% Off Some Seatiee a wiipceres, cheviot, sergee and fancy mix- Norfolk suite with sailor collar, belt; and Scout dresses with sailor collar and tie of messaline, full Pleated skirts. Sizcs 6 $5.98 to 14 years... Girls’ Dresses, in fine serges, shep- herd checks, two-tone whipcords and colored corduroys, trimmed with solid color cloth, and large eiety of weyieni 6 to $2.87 Lex, Ave. Section, THURSD Lexington to 3d Avenue CONCERT I Gift Gloves You Want The foremost French and American makes at attractive Prices, pecially boxed for gifts. Long Kid Gloves, $1.69 Women's 16-button glace kid mousquetaires, to reach far above the elbow. Regulir price $2.48 a pair, Black and white f Long Silk Gloves, 69¢ Celebrated make of mousquetaire, blac length fine button silk c, doubh nd tipped. Allsizes. These are regular | $1.15. dollar gloves and exceedingly good | cut price. value at 69c. mocha. Women's $1 Gloves, 69c Women's Mannish Capeskin Gloves, prix seam, in golden brown shades. Every pair guaranteed to wear. sizes; sell everwhere at $1.00 pair. All Very Special Boys’ and girls lined and unlined kid gloves. Also a big variety of styles in the lined gaunt- lets. All sizes, pair 49. Soth MING including Dracenas, green, violin rubber plants. We invite you to buy your Christmas plants here because we will save f the prices the exclusive florist d now will be held for Christmas delivery if desired. you from 1 to hi everybody presenting her of a pr Professor Guerriere s Celebra.ed (rchesira will have o concert every afternoon from 2.30 to 5.30 in the Greenhouses on the roof. Popular selections. as any othe: five florists meet your every C that will save you fror j to ly, Place your orders now, They will be delivered when desired, Special $5.00 Box of Cut Flowers, $2.00 Providing you place your order this week. They will be delivered Christ- mas morning to any part of Manhattan without additional charge. contains many handsome cut flowers. fn atx grades, pure and who all holtda in 0 pricen on 80 Iba, Mixe ons ‘They are p wnd wold at whe 90 ba, Mixed AO Lbs, Mixed 80 Ib 80 Ibe. 80 Ibe. Fancy China, Cu ornamental gift will be Decorated Dinner Scts Art Brass Jewel Cases at 49¢ tmas requirement. found here, AY, DECEMBER 19, 1912. PEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS] ALL CARS TRANSFER T0=——— SV’ Men’s Kid Gloves, 89c Samples made to sell at $1.15 to $1.50 pair. Boys’ Kid Gloves, 79¢ No difference except in tween these gloves and others sold at Bought as samples, hence the Women’s Kid Gloves, $1 Women's P. K. Gloves, made of im ported skins, 3-row embroidered backs; in a varicty of colors, and black and white. —_——_—,_ An Exceptional Offer Men's $1 Dogskin Gloves. Warm fleece lined, in tans and browns Allsizes, very special, at, pair per Section. ns? Plants for Christmas In our beautiiul Greenhouses on the roof, housed by 35,000 square feet of glass, we have prepared what we believe to be the largest stock of flowering and decorative plants ever assembled. Included in this multitudinous stock are the famous Poinsettias, Azaicas, Cyclamen, Primroses, Begonias and every other species of Chris.mas flowering plants. Decorative plants, too, are here in a wonderful range, variegated and red palms, ready-filled fern dishes, Scotti and Boston ferns, rubber plants and the new urchat Twentieth Century Wonder From the Yerks Sound Effects Co. we have secured the famous bell music, which we have distributed in various parts of the Greenhouses. ‘They are duplicates of those being played at the New York Hippodrome. Come and hear them. Our Cut Flower Shop on Main Floor is one of the handsomest in America, with an entrance all its own on the 59th Street side, just a step from Lexingten Ave., and with a stock that is as large New York combined. We are certainly prepared to Fresh cut flowers, holly wreaths, English mistletoe, and, in fact, all kinds of Christmas greene are here at prices LOOMINGDALES* Xmas Candies and Confections F rk 49th to 60th Street RY_ DAY FROM 12 TO 2 at $1.29 and Give Bloomingdale Hosiery for Christ- mas and earn her everlasting gratitude. These special offerings will interest you. Women's Full- Fashioned Cotton and t Lisle Stockings; in black end colors; all Finest imported capeskin sizes; regular 25¢ value; 6 pairs and undressed castor auede to choose | for $1.10; special per pair ssc. 19. rom. All sizes and colors Women's Imported Lisle Thread Stock- ings, plain or lace boot, in a variety of de signs of hand embroideries; they are regular 35e and 50c grades; at, pair... 24. Women's Silk Thread Stockings, in black, tan and white; 4in. garter; 6 pairs $1.60; per p r rn 28 Women's Guaranteed Silk Stock- ings, full fashioned, 4-Inch garter tops, Our regular 83¢ quality.......606 eocccceee 79 price be Fine capeskin, suede and Maker's name on every pair. Men’s Well-Made Half Hose In pretty Holiday Boxes suitable for gift-giving purposes. Silk Half Hose 17¢ With linen soles and high spliced heels and toes, showing slight milf faults; 6 pairs in a box for $1 Our regular 35¢ Silk Socks, made 4 pure thread silk, with linen soles ind high spliced heels and toes, show- ng just the slightest mill faults. 6 pairs In a box for $2. 59¢ BLOOWINGDALES' For the Cold Days Yet to Come Touring and Street Coats Unusual Offerings at $6.75 and $8.75 A maker of repute, with whom we do a large regular business, sold his entire surplus at a de- cided reduction. Result — 500 new model coats for you to- morrow at the same big saving we made. The collection includes only coats of the newest fashionable types—Ulsters, Johnny Coats, Touring Coats and Dress Coats. Some are silk bound, some have belted backs, some Robespierre collars, and others storm collars. Materials; Chinchillas, Vicunas, Monti nacs, Scotch mixtures, double-face textures, cheviots and other choice materials figure in the collection. Sizes for women, misses and juniors, in two lots, at $6.75 and $8.75. 24 Fi.. seth St. Sec. HLOOMINGDALPS’ Pretty Chiffon Blouse (Like the Picture) at the unusually $2 98 low price of.... je It is of a quality of chiffon that one usually finds in waists at double our price. The front ie beautifully hand-embroidered over gold trimming on either side of a vestee of would charge you. Plants bunch of holly free to le in any department. This box pati of candies, nee i ———_ | net. Down the front of the vestee are smal} fiery Prim, Rowen, Augorted Candies | buttons, covered with self-colored sill, and a ; olly Hox tied with] | tiny rosette reste at the neck. The, sleeves are led with choice 10c finished with net frill and the blouse is topped [intuert candi Fh with a handsome lace collar. Fine aesortment fancy boxes and The assortment comprises all colors and black. baskets of confections, at ®1 to ®10 1OOMINGDALES" Glass, Imported Br 30 pieces of Fine Bohemian ¢ with win tumt In gold and] silver f and lined t satin “Welsbach” Lamp with | Art Glass Shade, $1.45, outfit and This elso consists of | . bross burner } Welsbach globe and an art glass al trimmed with fringe. Your nm ¢ vice of colors. Complete $1.45 All Cars Transfer to BLOOMINGDALES’, Lew. to 84 Ave., F9th t9 Onth ©%. csirtvmemmmamse 6 clerets, 6 liquors and 6 champagne 32.49 umblers ror plateau complete Below are many notable instances: — American and imported kinds; |$3.49, $4.95, $6.98, $8.98, $9.98, $10.98 and so 6 liquors,6 clarets, 6 champagne $3 25 30 pieces of Plain Bohemian Glassware, seme thape as above; A very epecial price for Friday is $2.98. Recon’ Floor, Lexington Ave. OOMINGDAL| Main Floor, Centre >a-Brac, Dinner and Tea Sets |Tea Sets—56 pieces On up fo $150.00) | Sets of Lohemian Table Glassware ; Bohemian Glasses, with engraved border and your ntl cach piece; 6 goblets, 6 clarcts, 6 wines, 6 liquor glasses gne tumblers; 30 pieces, for . 8, engraved sand Greek border; we include 6 goblets, © water goblets, 6 wines, heavy base plete, with burner, Store, Cut Glass Water Sets O18 Pieces, $4 98 very special for monstration of glass engraving in our Gl rican Cut Glass tern Dishes Mirrer PI | This act in iy jaleau and $2 98 lidas aalé This lamp for teases MO |pt. jug of consists of a hoice Am 7 F er nferican cut, ged beam Dish of |deeply cut burner manu- fine Am- and factured by erican|tiantly fir the Welsbach Cut Gloss | ished; 6 deep pat tern; bril fiant fin ‘al 10 in, mir- | teau, ‘tare: BODO] 94.98 Other pretty assorted pieces ot American Cut Glass at 98c, $1.49, $1.98, $2.98, $3.98, $4.98 ers of cut ss and a 12-inch mirror pla cut includes one we We Odd LengthsofCharmeuse Black and Colors They are lengths averaging 144 to 5 yards, of double width silks, very desirable for waists and dresses, An exceptional opportunity to buy a superior Christmas gift. We will give a pretty Holly box with every purchase. The values range up to $2.50 Silk Section, Main Floor, Centre, Women's Silk Stockings, pure tm grain silk; silk or cotton black; sold up to $1.25 pair 79 € elsewhere, . LS Friday’s and Saturday’s Specials in Our China Store and in fact everything you can think of, for a useful, ed and domestic china, also 23 Pieces:| ao $1.98, $2.98, $3.98, $4.98, $5.98, $6.98 up to $25 Brass Portable Gas and Electric Lamps In gold and green 5 verde finish, consists of a good, / shade to match, with Art Glass panels in each, Gaslamp com. mantle and chimney; also electric lamp, includes cord, plug and socket, “Welsbach” Lamps, like Picture . . 79¢ Lamp Co., and imported verted colored glass shade, in several styles, of which illustrate. also clude a te $1.49 Yd. 4-in. garter soles; colors 2.98 | and ad&.) tubing, an in- in- Cy enke Verne i eee er