The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1912, Page 2

Peay trensgressed in Colonial days the Bos- ten Tea Party followed. It was an- archy, but we hail Its perpetrators to- Gay an heroen, In the Southland, sub, Tobacco Sn irons COMSAT HOES WAITERS TO NIGHT Jonger watt for v to Tater | tho| helleve, sth, he holds valuable, and he ' General Wilkow: Out May Mark rights of the people. Mr. Rockefeller ial will save his dignityy | to be handied by law. He fs not to be allowed to tnnuit and inflame the peo] le unthl we are leaded tor a | Dr. Walter F. Chappell, Mr, Ro: New Year Festivities, but feller’s physician. told Mr Rida 1} yerterdgy that Mr. Rockefeller was out Hotel Men Doubt It. of town very fli with sore throat and | that @ny excitement night cause hin | ee have ey of the throat sole at Ne lade aha sie Sati tess, TROUBLE NOT SERIOUS that Mr. Rockefeller te on the third floor of the he at Pifth av e and} Fifty-fourth I ‘. Gnowoe ON ta sioewacne| /perial, Hotline House and WATCH THE DEPUTIES. | Holland House Only Tem- Curious crowds stood on 4 vif: | it “ fourth street 1 Witth aid wails al Sly dhe at the silent | porarily Discommoded. deputies and detectives stalking up and] down in front of the three houses. The purpose of all the watching and| Faking advantngs of the fact that} sleuthing {# to wet Mr, Rockefeller to go Very tole In every reataurant in town| f Washington to tell the Pujo Com. n reserved for to-night and mittee how much is true of the story | that rivers of wine and highballs are of his manipulation with H. H. Roy cheduled to flow out and rivers of and Jamen B. Haggin of Amalgamated money are destined to flow in, the 1 Copper, ax told in Lawson's Frenaied | ternational Hotel Workers’ Union Finance and other chronicles, ized upon this day as an appropriate —_— ROBBERS IN BROADWAY occasion for presenting new demande upon the hotel and restaurant keepers. Backing up these demahds is @ vote taken during the night which, officers of the union say, showed a majority of over 3,000 in favor of « quick strike in case the new demands are not 440 OO+ Gores * 6 * é | PROSREAEDDEDSERE: DORSRED Ore RpaSRRES weabeces | grant | remote, because the hotel and restau- | rant men \l agree to anything, | rethar than | the New Year's Eve ne and the waiters know. this is ike one big night in the year in the way of tips, But, for a time early to-day, {t looked as though the strike were on. About twenty cooks at the Hotel Lm- perlal and half a doten at the Hoffman House and the Holland House went on strike at 6 o'clock this morning. ‘They made no demands and presented no complainte—simply fafling to go to work, POLICE CALLED TO THE HOTEL MPERIAL, Afterward, the cooks aid somebody told them an order to strike had been {asued. The three hotels involved were only temporiarily inconventenced and not a guest in etther place knew there had been any trouble in the kitche: George Sweeny, President of the New York Hotel Men's Association, called a meeting of the Executive Committee at noon, at the headquarters, Thirty-third street and Fifth avenue, to receive and act upon the demands of the waiters, Mr. Sweeny said it had been intimated to him that tf the demands were not granted there would be a strike to- night. “We are surprised,” he said, “at the action of the union of the walters and kitchen employees. They are getting in- creased pay since jast June and time off Qnd other advantages demanded at that time and seemingly there was no dis- satisfaction. “I delleve this movement ts due to some agitators, If there should be a strike there are enough loyal employe: in the hotels and restaurants to enable us to carry on our business.” ‘The action of the hotel cooks to-day appears to have been without concerted direction. When the cooks at the Im- Perial, due to report at 6 o'clock, reached their place of employment, they did not enter, but formed picket lines outside. Instead of golhg to work they formed themselves Into a squad tu prevent the waiters, bellboys, chambermalds und other employdes from golng on duty. Not one of the employees outside of the cooks listened to the arguments, ‘There was considerably disomer aroung Four. % sega Boldly Beat Down Victim at Forty-ninth Street. \ Harold C. Pierson, a moving picture manufacturer of No. 238 West One Hun- dred and Gixth street, and Ell P. Scott of No, 60 West One Hundred and Fifth street returned early to-day from an out-of-town business trip and went to an all-night restaurant in the early Forties to get something to eat before going home. * It was about 6 o'clock when they left and started up Broadway to enjoy a few blocks of fresh air before taking others trailed along some distance be- hind. At Forty-ninth street, two blocks from @ fixed post, the man in front turned and walked rapidly beck. As Sap: as he got within reach he struck Mr. Piergon over the head with a black» jack. As Mr. Pleraon fell the three ‘Men in ‘the rear attacked Mr. Scott. ‘The highwaymen evidently thought two were enough te handle Scott, and one went over to Pierson's prostrate form and helped get « $900 roll from his pocket. Scott put up such a gvod fight soon had his two assailants on the and in @® moment all four had the {dea of robbing him scampered off through Forty-ninth rt reet. Policemen wo arrived a few seconds later could find no trace of them. Mr. Pierson was treated at the Polyclinic Hospital and taken home in a taxicab. Hilo injuries required two atitohes, but are not serious. The robbers made no effort to wet his watch. Mr. Pierson is fm business at No. 4 East ‘Twelfth street. the employees’ entrag'e, and Copeland ee eR emer Townsend, the manaié:r, summoned help GOT SMALLPROX IN MONEY, | trom the West Thirticth street station NORTHFIELD, Mass., Dec, %1.—Con- taminated paper money is believed by her parents to be the source from which ven years old, con- She is the daughter of William R. Moody, head of the schools founded by Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, and with her family in quarantined in her home here. The schools are closed for the holidays, but Will reopen at the end of the week. ‘The Rev. Dr. John Henry Jowett, pas- ter of the Fitth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, was to have ed here Sunday and taken part in the Christmas treat given pie who remain at the school instead woing hom’. But on acount of the hdres @f smallpox id not come. ty Bll lla tal GIRLS CAUSE FIFTH ARREST. MYSTIC, Conn., Dec. %1,~Another reat Was made here yesterday in conn, tion with the case of the young girls whose stories have already led to the arrest of five «nen. Two other mon committed suicide when officers went to| Better food and arrest them on the girls’ acousations, hotels, The men arrested is Philip, Button, ~ forty, @ tailor, ree 0! © other pris- Onerh were arralgne’ and held In $1,000 rs flee enh vonds for further bearing. The oa sand het prices tf "erocko at caused @ stir in the town, as several of % the accused are highly reapectable citi. | }™", zens. The arrival of two pollcemen brought about peace and the chef of the hotel, who had been hurriedly summoned, got together a force of men and proceeded with breakfast preparations, Guests of the hostelry suffered no incohvenlence, At the Hoffman House and the Hol- land small forces of cooks reported at the kitchen entrances, but refused to en ‘The kitchen forces were not crippled and breakfast was served without dimMeoulty. HOTEL EMPLOVEES’ LAE6T DE. MANDS ARE SWEEPING. Charles Etsel, Secretary of the Inter- national Union, says preparations for a big strike have been under way for weeks, Here are some of the new de- mands of the waiters: No disorimination against members of the ualon. No fines for any reason, Ten hours to constitu and extra pay for overti Minimum wages shall be $90 « for captatt a month for a day's work Uving quarters in Highest, lowest clock tothay u Comper, Keep Your Dollars Busy! Buy some value-increasing Real Estate. Invest in 8 profit-yielding Business Enterprise. Get some safe and sane stocks or bonds as a nest egg. 11,601 World “Real Estate,” “Business Op- portunity” and “Financial” Advertise- ments last month— ‘2,961 More than the Herald. eattSustisiassée: FAKE AUCTIONEER “COMMON THIEF,” IS COURT VERDICT Standau Sent to Prison De- spite Eloquent Pleas of His High Priced Counsel. Jacob H. Standau, auctioneer, will re- ceive New Year's callers in the Tombs. He appeared in the Court of Special Seselons to-day, arrayed in mauoh | finery. He was hedged by. eres | But the eloquence of Im berger and Deputy pei piel Samuel Ecker, who was counsel in| private capacity, had no effect on the Judgment of the Court, which was that he was just a common thief, The pity of it was, the Court declared, that the law prevented a more severe punish- ment than thirty days in the Tombs and @ fine of $100, @tandau, made a fortune In five years at No. 1167 Broadway. “I sokl you the box and not the sox” of the Bowery was an infant effort at cheating, compared | with the methods of the slick, well- persuasive salesman of t Standau had his cappers or ‘ahillibers” in all forms, Well dressed women, young and old, were among the boosters of prices. REAL BIDDERS DIDN'T HAVE A, OBSCENE PICTURES NOT SHOWN, CHANCE THERE. H They had a code on which to bid up woods for the benefit of the “sucker.” When the “sucker was biting, the shiliibers bid the article at auction as high as they dared, a ly knooked down to the “good thin It the easy mark didn't fall, the mock sale was put through, the article Inid away in the store to be offered at a subsequent ‘The public didn't have a chance in this gouging mill on Broad- wey. All this was disclosed hy Deputy Com- missioner of Accounts John P. Kenny and Assistant District-Attorney Wilmot, and the mock auctioneer wus lald by the heels, The “goods” were so thor- oughly put on Standau that when he Appeared to-day for tial he pleaded guilty, The aMdavit of Bernard Fits patrick, an inspector for the Commis- sioner of Accounts, was read. It told of the men and women cappers in the employ of Standau and exposed the trioks of the trade, Mr. Kenny told the Court of the crue sade which had been tnaugurated through his office by Mayor Gaynor against fake auction housds, He said Standau pald a yearly rental of $7,000 for the Broadway store and that his penses were not than $100 @ day His profits were thousands of dollars & week. Ira Leo Bamberger made a long @peech to the court, endowing hin client with the virtues of an up-to-date, blown in the bottle, sewed In the goods reform: er, He sald that when it was brought to his attention that he way doing wrong he immediately went out of that COURT DECLARES. “The defendant at the bar, toe A ing Mr. World Ads. ntits Word is fer Puan Wd. Ads. for berger, than a petty larceny ¢! The Court would have some consideration for a man wih) steals is hungry. But the Court cannot have any consideration for this: man, who comes here surrounded by ton for some time to consult with es Aviad us id ped large, TEE EVENING WORLD, id Dictagraph Divorce Defendant Sued by Husband on Records} MRS MARGUERITE FELLABOM. COGOOO4 business. This was in last October, Mr, Bamberger satd he had consuked with | the District-Attorney and was assured by Mr, Whitman that the lnposition of | a small fine would not be opposed by the | District-Attorney’s office if Standau Ploaded guilty, ‘This statement was immediately chal- lenged by ant District-Attorney | “JUST A PETTY THIE THE Seog by | sreanionad “ore : RUSSIAN TREATY ENDS TO-NIGHT, BUT TARIFF STANDS Passport Question Relating to Unchanged, Petersburg Reports. Jews ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 31.—It ix stated here that the purpose of the) Government to maintain the present) tariffs and the procedure regarding the! admiasion of Americans, including He- brews, after the termination at mid- night to-night of the formal commer-| cial Ruaso-American treaty is in v tue of an informal modus vivendi a ranged at Washington ‘The treaty, which was abrogated by the Congress of the United States be- cause of this country’s attitude upon the paseport questio#, thus will con- tinue practically unchanged @o far as the interests of the two panties are concerned. The other existing Russo-American treaties were not affected by the Amer- ican denunciation of the agreement of 1832, ‘A source Of prospective embarrass- ment is the status of the Consuls. The present appointees are not affected by the passive agreement to recognize the ® | validity of their official acts despite the lapse of the treaty, but no method a pears through which new appointees BHFSSIHAGS ILI 2OOSGHSH 30+ SSDSPIOSESESCSOOOSOISCCDSEOIESS DECEMBER 31, oe 5 re Out of New ing contract of the city with the B. contract, in which the Coney fve- now stands, allowing the double fare then offering no guaramtes of a@ re Page 165, article 56—The iessee shall operate the raiirosd and the ex- to railroads ag one ans eye. eee fo a8 to jawablie Oth in te some poner 4h: reotion for a single fare. Page 188, article 49—When, and as, the commission shall declare parts of the railroad to be completed and ready for equipment the lessee shall forthwith equip the same, and when Geclared by the commission to be ready for operation the lessee shall forthwith commence the operation of such part or parte in connection with the existing railroads. may receive their exequaturs. This may become a matter of considerable im- Portance if the change in the American administration next March ts accom- panied by extensive Consular changes. It {se quite possible that the anomalous situation may be indefinitely prolonged. Apparently there is no disposition in Russian Government circles to take the initiative in the negotiation of a new treaty. The Government will await Proposals from the Wilson Cabinet, him to defend him. He should be here| Meantime “standing pat” on present Daseport regulations. b patatnlt oI fF 4 It ia true that Premier Kokovsoff an- 3 3 $ 3 nounced in the Dum the intention of yenr Inthe AiG amines ne Cawervee“¢| the Government to introduce legislation i revising tho passport system but this and | Measure, which has been hanging fire in hebrang ties Ministries of the Interior for is still apparently in an wie w! y $600." Justice Steinert, who presided, J PB cnr from First Page.) Ing out these people as subjects nec- ary to be protected by a censorship? Are they any more in need of protec: tion by censorship that the rest of the community? HE DECLARES. “When I became Mayor, the denun- “We did the best we could do,” the lame excuse offered by Commi sioner Eustis to a reporter from The Evening World, “They simply would | ‘not give way, and claimed that they | would lose $500,000 a year if we forced | tice Salmon agreed with their asso- bill Introduced the Legislature | certain when P. beau amending the laws controllin gthe euc-|6rinding on a grist that has awaited the limit. The defendant ts fined $100|no popular interest. The press pays no and sentenced to thirty daya’ tmprison- | attention to it and those interested hei hat was early in November, Fis cer Waite cripple thetr tusiness, ‘vusiness. only five day: reat was pardoned {would be any pardon in his case, 5 CENTS 70 C0 10 CON y ——__—— body connected with the commission knows I don't approve of them. I have impossible for me to attend and register my proteat. ing contracts as they now appear. We should lock the door before the horse is They declared them schools of immor-| Cemmissioner Cram sald: “Ag I dls- ality, ‘They said indecent and immoral | sent to the whole proposition, the Coney ail the moving picture shows in thia| the B, R. T, should conce city, The result was actual proof and|@ five-cent fare on “The truth is that the good, "moral | sions form a vast gift. Nobody can est!- people who Ro to these moving picture | mate the exact money value of the gift, tures there. lace In which such pte- © exhibited would soon be with- Perhaps T should say 1 undergiand | that comparatively few of your honor- | the right to vote the censo: hip sions and let the rest of the ordinance | them to put the five-cent fare into effect | tinance, but interdependent and so ntected therewith that the whole ordi- Justice Steinert said: Tnave been informed by Mtr. Kenny |formm; it is uncertain when It tloneers #0 as to make the penalty | action for years, will find time to con- greater and more severe. The best we | sider the bill after it 1 introduced, ment in the paclod are American importers, who are & Lo Anrerng ras the last auc-| wholly convinced that there ts t's receiv Gov, Dix, Aes! Diatrict-Attorney Wilmot sald after Standau'e conviction even been notified of conferences with the companies at a time ao late that it “This seems to be ‘give away time’ for the city. Every -cltizen should look stolen, and there is still time” elation of these moving picture shows| EXTRA NICKEL GOUGE HAS NO pictures were being shown there. Ij Island extra nickel gouge is only one of Dersonatly knew that was not #o, But the detatls in my opposition to the pro- | &n official report that there were no ob. | Coney Island and elsewhere, in view of scene or immoral pictures shown in| the great concessions given that com- shows, and very often bring their chil- over ry year {t becomes even more drm vith them, would not tolerate the | taisssie i propose to offer amendments lent patrons to support it. At vents, the eriminal law 1s amplo to able body are in favor of the censorship, Many of you voted for the whole o: stand. But 1 find that the Mayor may | ‘2 June, 1918, when the B. R. T. expecta | not do that, The censorship provisions | '° begin operation of the Fourth avenuo nace must stand or fall as a whole. “I trust you will pass the ordinance that Mayor Gayinor intends to have aj Merge from the Ministry and still can do in the present case te to impose | The situation attracts comparatively miler sentence. | sibility of a tariff war which might to-day that he did not think there VETOED BY ED BY MAYOR ea eh must have been known it was utterly carefully into the clauses of the operat- by a few people was at its highest, EXCUSE, HE SAYS. I had an offictal examination made of | posed contract. Of course I belleve that | these places, pany by the munictpallty, ‘These conces- exhibition of obscene or immoral pl aoaoae of hike SL ent the exhibition of such pictures. nance In the bellef that the are not Independent of the rest of the | SUEY and Ce: which the commission prepared, It safe- “Did you and the other members of Buards these most important and whole- cme ‘places ‘of aniuverent “phyatcaly | the, comMmiseion responsible for the. ep- and morally, Respectfully, » {travellers and question them as to W. J. GAYNOR, Mayor.” | whether they wanted a five or s ten| Parr Pere cent fare?” was asked, | TAFT BACK IN WASHINGTON | eustis PLEADS “was Best we! FACES MUCH BUSINESS. Col, Goethals in | President's Party on Return to the Capital from Panama, WASHINGTON, Dec, 31.—Preaident and Mrs, aft, accompanied by Col, and Mrs. George W. Goethals and the party that accompanied the President to the Panama Canal Zone, reached Washington at 10 o'clock to-day, Presi- dent Taft had a number of aint- apps ments for the day at the White House ofc Col, ‘Gobthiats will remain In Washing>! MANBATT! AN CLOTH meek 84 Arm * COULD Ger. | “Of course not,” said Commissioner ustio. «Willa, was talking through | the choice of drop- into operating G ontreet went which was after the Broadway line to Fifty-ninth street in Manhattan was completed. We did get Col. Williams to promise to charge only a five-cent fare to Coney Island upon the Fourth avenue sutway after its two lower legs were built, which ought to be about 1915, two years distan Inder what terms?" was asked. “Not very promising, I admit, but the dest we could wring from the B. R, T.,” id Mr. Eustis. “The Fourth avenue way and its extensions alone will be operated upon a five-cent basis, and the losses, if any, will be made & charge against the property, to be paid back when the road begins to pay. In the event the road shows a profit when operated upon a five-cent basis, after the operating expenses are taken out, these profits are to be divided between the city and the company. Yes, the company will keep the books, but the city Is safeguarded by audit provisions in the contract." ‘Mr. Eustls admitted reluctantly that the B. R. T. under the proposed oper- ating contract goes on charging 10 cents for a ride to Coney Island upon all its existing lines even after the Fourth avenue subway was in operation. He was of the opinion that the competition of the Fourth avenue subway would bring down the fare of the existing Coney lines, but dmitted there wa: nothing in the operating contract which sald so. Commissioner Willcox, who gets through as a member of the board in thirty days, and Commissioner Will- jams, who was formerly employed by the B, R, xpressed opinions in the “Five Cents to Coney’’ Juggled Herewith is presented the “deadly paraltel,” showing how the Coney Island five-cent fare has been juggled out of the proposed transit operat- The column at the left is from the original draft of the operating teriously disappeared from tne contract. The column on the right ts the substituted matter in the contract as it luction to five centa, Subway Contract R.T. cent fare was provided. It has mys- robbery for five years tonger, and even Page 198, article 51—The city here- by leases the railroad and the equip- ment to the lessee for operation in Conjunction with the existing rail- roads for @ single fare. THE LBASi SHALL BEB FOR A TERM BEGIN. BING JAN. 1, 1917, AWD BEPIRING AT MIDNIGHT ON DEO. 31, 1965, Page 159, article ¢5—The lessee shell during the term of the lease be entitled to cherge for a single fare Upon the railroad and the existing railroads the sum of five cents, but not more; provided, however, that provisions of this article SHALE NOT PREVENT THE LESSER PRIOR TO THE COMPLETION OF THE CULVER LIWs, SECTIONS 4, 4, 6,7 AND 8 OF TEE saoaDwar. FOURTH AVENUS LINE, TEE BRIGHTON BEACH LINE AND ‘THE UNION TERMINAL OF THE LESSEE AT CONBY ISLAWD FROM CONTINUING TO CHARGE TERE SAME FARE FOR 4 CONTINUOUS BIDE OVER THE EXISTING BAIZ- ROADS AND OVER THE RBArL- ROAD AND THE BSXISTING BaIL- ROADS AS THAT CHARGED FOR A CONTINUOUS BIDE OVER THE without any backdown of the commission with rempect to the Coney five-cent fare. COMPANY RISKS NOTHING AND GIVES NOTHING, Here is what comes out of the tn- come of the pooled B. R. T. and city lines every year, before the oity re- celves one penny to pay the Interest {upon the bonds sold to build the eub- Ways the company expects to operate without any compensation for their use: } 1. Rentals. 2 Taxes. 3. Operating expenses 4. Depreciation. More depreciation, . A guarantee of $3,500,000 upon the Present L lines, being $300,000 @ year more than they have earned, Interest on company's contribution towards construction and equipment. 8. Sinking fund for the company to amortize its equipment. ‘Then and not before does the city come into any money from the tneome of the Hnes, The company does not risk a single penny. It can't lose, yet so narrow is its vision and so deflant of public opinion that tt flouts its extra udckle charge for admission to the oool- ing breezes of the ocean in the public eye without even am excuse for so doing. And the B. R. T. proposes to call ita new operating company the NEW YORK MUNICIPAL RAILWAY COR- PORATION. 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