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STATE CAN SAVE MONEY BY HAVING INEP.S. BMD Why Pay Ten Men $15,000 Each for Work Done by Seven at $10,000? Eoonbmy is the excuse put forward by ‘thosh! who fawor wiping out the two Pubtte Service Conmmissions as now con- atituted and replacing them with single body having jurisdiction over the entire State. It ts pointed out by the advocates of the one-commission pian that $n the last five years and thi Months the commissions have cost taxpayers —$9,011,341.37—enough dutld @ bridge over the Consteuet @ small subway. A considerable portion of expense can by aotting the commision under one roof. ‘This, they say, wil! avoid duplication of bureaus ard many of the engineering heada. For the year 1912 it cost 81,645,000 to run the First District commission alone, Of this amount $91,000 was borne by the State, being the salaries of the fivi Commissionern at $16,000 each, and those of counsel and secretary. The rest of the expense fell upon the olty,-put in Juatice to the commission it should be said that 8 per cent, of this amount WOs expended, it is claimed, in the fur. therance’of rapid transit and executive work in connection with subway con- struction. Experts have ‘figured out that the proportion of engineering cost in the &rand total of subway work is only 6 Per cent. This 6 per cent. is the 80 per cont. of the cost of the expense of op- erating the Firet District Public Service Commission. For 1913 the local commis. u "ipa wants $1,700,000, ‘om June 9, 1907, when the two-com- mission plan went into effect, until Sept. 90, 1912, the cost of operating the First ‘District commission was 9%,549,217.6. The up-State commission for the same period cost the taxpayers §2,462,123.71. This lat- ter figure Includes $883,110.89, the State's share of the cost of abolishing grade crossings. ‘The cost of the up-State commission for 1913, exclusive of grade crossings ex- penditures, was $978,659.70. Both com- missions now have five members each, Betting @ ealary of $15,000. The propos. tion is to reduce the two Ddodies to a tingle organisation of seven members, the same size as the Interstate Com- merce Commission, whose members get only $10,000 « year walary each. Advocates of the one-commission plan ual: “Why does the State of New York nee@ ten commissioners $18,000 whe the United States fb seven commissioners for same char. acter of work at $10,000 each?” ——> CHICAGO POLICE SHIFT. ; ana wih “Pat Civilian fm Control of Ferce. CHIOAGO, Dev. 31.—By a vote of & to 45 the police reorganisation ordinance was passed by the City Counell last night. ‘Under the new plan there will be three head officers of the force, a general superintendent and two deputies. One of these deputies will be of the uni- formed force, and his duty wit! be to Girect the ferreting out of crime and similar work. The other deputy will be @ ctvilian, and he will have charge of fhe ‘moral welfare’ of the city. Policemen have fought the new scheme premuously. They especially objected ‘the civilian officer. Actas HIS ASHES DOG’S MONUMENT. few ef Rochdale Manor Wa: Rematus Near Animal Frien: LONDON, Dec. 31.—'‘It 1s my wil! and wih,” wrote James GriMth Dearden, Lord of the Manor of Roohdale, “that ins be cremated and then in- the place where my dog Pom- ret bl HT Z i jem, added Dearden, were to be an urn, which was to sur- dog's monument, or failing open ground as near to the remains as possible. ordered that if hig body be disturbed or removed within red years the sum of $2,500 should fen to the Stanford Infinmary, ———»—— PISTOL SHOT KILLS BEAR. New Yorker Lands 200-Pouader Brom Saddle in Virginia. WOT GPRINGS, Va, Dec, 1.—Harry (W. @earles of New York started home today with @ %0-pound brown bear which he shot and killed with an au: matio revolver while he was riding. He will have it mounted. The bear was the Grst brought down tn this region (pen z $ Searles were James R. Bradiey, Clendenning J. Ryan and enry Albert of New York, Michael J. ernan of Utica, N, Y., and Bugene A. of Charlottesville, Va., who last gedk shot and killed two large lynxes. —_—_—~ ALDERMAN WILLARD ILL. ‘Al@erman Bryant Willard is in « ser- condition at the Harlem Hospital. jo wes taken to the hospital yesterday from his home at No. 2151 Geventh ave- ue, euffering from double pneumonie. He has been 1) since Thursday, and Mrs, Willard thinks he contracted pneumonia while out in all weathers pathering evidence as oheirman of the Taxtoab Investigating Commit- Mr, Willard te a Republican, from the Fer eccr District, and was Repub- ‘ leader of the board from 199 to 1, Tt was said at the hospital this @orning thet his condition was grave, po an Sauna dy ital Jumps to $40,000,000, AUGUSTA, Me, Dee. 31.—Notification tf an increase of the capital stock of ihe International Harvester Company ¢; Russia from 94,000,000 to $40,000,000 has received at the tment of ‘The company 6 a En pee es BRICKLEY MAY LOSE GIRL HOLDS PURSE | AMATEUR STANDING Football Star Said to Have Made Money Out of His Fame. The same ruling which barred Paut Withington, the sensational Harvard from participation in amateur fe, ineligible to compete in ‘varaity contests. This question is worrying the Harvard athletic authorities. Reickley. who has been working his way through college, has taken money for a number Of jobs which were more or less indi- rectly connected with his football ability, and he has also acted as vorre#pondent for newspapers. In addition he has ac- cepted & porition from a firm of tallors in New York, which some people declare Was obtained through his record ag an athlete. This, according to the ruling of the Amateur Athletic Union in With- ington's case, Is professionalism, Mean- while Brickley holds the unique ,posl- tion of being in danger of disbarment from the gridiron and also of losing the captaincy the coming year. —— OUR OLYMPIC ATHLETES FARED BADLY SAYS PHILLIPS Dr. Paul ©. Phttitps, of Amherst Col- fone, Becretary of the Society of Di- rectors of Physical Education, caused @ mild #enaation in addressing that body at Columbia yesterday, by saying that the United States athletes for the Oly pic games were badly cared for on the steamer Finland, In the first place,” he said, “the Olympic committee should have sent a soore of more assistant trainers to work under Mike Murphy, who found It physical impossibility to work personally with @ squad of one hundred and tifty men. Facilities were bad for taking care of the men on shipboard, and there onty one rubber, who charged 25 cents letes said afterward that it was worth More than a quarter not to be rubbed was no room for real practice on the ship and the swimming tank was almost a farce. The deck which was used for @ track was hard, and the motion of the ship made it practically impossible for the runners to maintain their atride. “Hereafter {t would be better if the Olympte committee would spend a few thousand dollars more in providing autt- able facilities for the men en route to the games in order that they should not have to break their training. I would also advise that only the trainers and the athletes ‘be taken on the ship, for it would probably lead to better feeling among the athletes, and there would not be the same opportunities for social dis- crimination in the team itself that marked the one that recently came back from Stockholm.” —_——_— Hunter Misses Two-Yard Pat. PINDHURST, N. C., Dec. 31.—By miss- ing @ two-yard put on the home green Paul M. Hunter, of the Midlothian Club, Chicago, bags eliminated himself from the big coutest, His tough luck came in the semi-final round. George II. Crocker, Brookline, wor from Hunter by a four-yard put and will meet C. L. Becker, Woodland, in the final to-mor- tow. Crocker advanced yesterday on the Gefault of Walter J. Travis of Garden City. Hunter won in the morning play from Robert Gould Shaw, Brookline, two up and one to play, Beoker de- feated W. E. Truesdale, Fox Hill, two up and one to play in the early round, and won from I. 8. Robeson three up end one to play this afternoon. C. B. Hudson, Northfork, will meet J. M. ‘Thompson, Spring Haven, in the con- solation final round to-day. a Fitsgerald Beate Jack Lundy. Willie Fitzgerald, called the “Fighting Harp,” outpointed Jack Lundy in a ten-round bout at the Royale A. C. beat night. Willie was in the physical shape to attend a pink tea rather than «@ fight. But despite bis lack of condition he cut and geshed Lundy's eyes and left ear and puffed up his nose. Willie weighed 161_ pounds and Jack 140%. Fitzgerald was too much of @ ring general for Iandy. He showed all the boxing cleverness of Willie Lewis. He just “kidded” Lundy and gave him a good boxing iesson. Willie wae fre- quently tired, but he had a hard punch whenever he turned it loose. ti Spriag Dates for Cubs, TAMPA, Fla, Dec, S.—The epring Gates of the Cubs, as announced by President Murphy, who arrived here last night, are as follows: Jackaon- ville, March 19; Chattanooga, March 20 and 2; Memphis, March 2% and 23; Nashville, March M, Sand %; Loulaville, March 7, %, ®, % and 31; Indianapolis, April 3, 4 6 and 6; Chicago, Northwe: ern University and Univeraity of C) cago, April 7 and 8 Murphy paid the Cubs will open the 1913 season at home with the &t. Louis team on April 10, ——2»——— Houck Makes Kelly Quit. As Johnny Dundee was unable to meet Bddie Kelly of Herlem in the main bout at the Olympic A. C. show because of & heavy cold, Tommy Houck of Phil delphia was secured in his place. Fouck made a splendid substitute, for he gave Kelly such a walloping about the body and face that the latter quit in the fourth round, claiming he had been Dan Tone ri aim, apd as a Scheduled. ‘will be. cee gat itweighet, “will hook up with rounds’ at Jimi ‘0 onen Meena aie pebery A.C. of Bulfalo, N.Y. Soaetastoa Davis win ‘techle fa ‘Witlard far PALZER AND M’CARTY COMPARED PHYSICALLY. Measurements. for each rubdown. Many of the ath-| | | ASSSHSSSSESSOSOSSCOSCOSSSOS e@ THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1912. OF ATLANTIC CITY AND 115 $2,900,000 FUNDS Miss Bessie Townsend Acting Comptroller and Must “O. K.” All Expenditures. ATLANTIC CITY, Dec, 41. = Miss Bessie Townsend, twenty-five years old and a pretty blonde, was elected Acting Comptroller of Atlantic City in place of David Barrett, who wi dismissed by the Commiasion Govern. ment yesterday, and {s in fall control of all the clerks in the department. Not @ penny of the $2,600,000 of revenue can be withdrawn without her signature and approval as chief clerk, to which place she has worked up from atenogr: During the seven yeare she has been on the city pay roll, going into the office immediately after she nad been graduated from hi school, she has received $1,200 a yea The Commissioners after dismissin) Barrett, who drew $2,600, fixed th salary at $1,600 @ year, and then elect- ed Mies Townsend. The new gitl Comptroller is the only one in New Jersey and because of mil- Hons in funds which come under her control, probably holds the most re- sponsible position of its kind in country, She Hves with her mother sister in Chelsea and does not like society. She refused to talk about the honor that came to her and fled from the shower of congratulations that fol- lowed her election. SS FOUR SKATERS ARE SAVED. Out by Hockey Players. BABYIAN, L. 1, Dec. %1.—Hockey clubs played @ part in the resoue from drowning of four young pereons who ventured on the {ce In a pond on the es. tate of Col. Alfred Wagstaff of West | Islip. Alice Davies, sixteen, and Rosa Da- vies, fourteen, daughters of Julien T. Davies jr, a lawyer of No, 4 Nassau street, Manhattan, who has a summer home here; their brother, Julien, cigh- teen, and a friend, Joseph Lentilhon of Babylon, sixteen, were sliding on the ice when Alice and Joseph broke through, Rosa and Julten tried to rescue them, and they too went through the ice, Their cries were heard by Allen Bar- nard, @ nephew of Col. Wagstaff, and Charles Mullen, a college friend. They crawled out upon the ice, then extended the hotkey clubs they were carrying to the four in the water, all of wham were drawn safely ashore. —___ City ve. Tight Skirts, FORT WORTH, Dec. 81.—Women here have petitioned the city to adjust the height of the sidewalks at street cross- ings #0 af to afford more convenience for those who wear tight skirts, S6666Ceesseccceceeses One Block the re Saves ry So CHICAGO © STUDDS. District Passenger Agent 263 Filth Avenue Cor 29th Street) rain arrivals and station information telephone ‘Chelees 7400" PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Yay & eeeccoseccccosocces x JERSEY CHANCELLOR DECLARES IN FAVOR _ OF EASIER DIVORCE Garrison Would Include In- } Sanity, Intolerable Conduct and Drunkenness. Lindley Garrison, Vice-Chancetlor of Jersey, Whose home is tn Jersey after a long experience in trying City divorce cases has reached the conclu. sion that the existing lawa are wrong; that In the eyes of the State under the Present statutes ie not ree Jed as a sacrament, but as a clvil tution, and siould be regulated to provide the greatest good to the’ grea est number, and that habitual drunk- enness, Insanity, imprisonment and in- tolerable conduct should be causes for breaking the union, The opinion was suggested by a de- cision he recently rendered in a caso tn which the wife left her husband because of conduct she could not tolerate, but the decision was in favor of the hus: bund, who proved the legal desertion under the law as it ts. But the Vice- Chancellor positively declared that he would not take the two children from {the mother, saying: After many years’ experience in the divorce court £ can truthfully say that human Ife contains nothin, bearable than tho wretchedness arteing out of an {ll-mated ma: He favors the broadening of the power of the court #0 as to allow it the right to hear the parties privately and en- deavor, where it is possible, to effect a neiliation © good,” he said, "can come to the individual or the State by legally keep- ing two people together whén continued association causes misery. Tt never stops with the two. It is Ike the ripple caused by the pebble cast into the brook. Its effect is widespread.” oe techedeaiat WILL SHOW COUNTESS, Because the storm that delayed the Celtic prevented the Countess of Atber- deen from being at the meet of the pub- llc wehool athletes on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, Dr. G. Ward Crampton, director of physical training in the schools, ts arranging a special demonstration for her. It is to take place next week when the Countess and Miss Violet Asquith, daughter of the English Premier, who is with her, re- turn from @ trip they are to make to ‘Washington The Countess, who Is the wife of the Viceroy of Ireland, takes keen interest in the playgrounds question in England, ‘The girls’ branoh of the Public Schools Athletic League is going to show her what the girls of this city can'do In folk dancing, calisthenic drills and athietic contests, and they mean to give her something \o talk about on the other wide, |Gageki Star In Wagner’s | Love Drama vlidiagbinisd | BY SYLVESTER RAWLING: lee RISTAN UND ISOLDE" got ite firat hearing this season at the Metropol: House last night. Mr. Toscantn! gave it @ virile as well as a poet's interpr (ation, and, as the principal singers and the orchestra were in thorough accord with him, @ stirring climax was | reached and the performance was pro- | to et of operas, Johanna Gadski was Isolde, Her characterization of the Trish Princess long ako became notable, Last uight she was in esp y lovel voice, Her part in the tong love of the second act was an object lesson in beautiful singing. On the deck of | the ship, in the first act, #he was prop- ly inpertoua, and in the final scene her pronouncement of the Heboatad, for tenderness and pathos, held epic qual- ity, Carl Burrlan, who was Tristan, sang and acted with characteristic earnest: ness and sincerity. If he lacked som thing of the idea! in the love duet, made tho long {seem very real. Louise Homer, in lovely 6 sang Brangaene’s warning from the tower impressively, Putnam cria- wold, by his appearance and by his 00d singing, did his best to make | teresting the uninteresting wronged hus- band, King Mark. Hermann Weil's Kurwenat had the proper note of ten derness and Willian Hinshew's Melot wus suMclently trucculent. Albert Reiss, aa the shopheard; Juhus Layer, fs the steeraman, and Lambert Murphy, Volcing the seamen, wore effective, A more than usually large number of the Monday night riders upheld what is now become the tradition of taking their departure at such times a to annoy thelr neighbors, When the last act was begun every seat in the orchestra was occupied. Long before the end one third of the seats were va- cant. Two by two, now here, now ther e bial American good ni ture could prevent a protest from thi majority who pay thelr money to hear and to see the opera. And what an op- portunity these disturbers of the peace miss! If they should get ther and arrange for a combined exit just before the lights are turned down everybody uld observe them and recognize their clal Importance. Ae It is rambling out made in nobody can tell whether t dividual offender is Mrs, Aetorbiit of Fifth avenue or Mrs, Maggie Jones of the Bronx, They need a manager, —_———__ John Paul Jones's Christmas T: WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—John Paul Jones was the only statuary hero re- membered by @ Christmas tree. All the giant figures of bronze and marble that dot the public grounds of the national capital were slighted in this respect. A email fergreen tree, intended for tinsel, snow and gewgawi ts firmly grasped in the left hand of t! Tt fs supposed that « party of late merrymakers who had acquired a Christmas tree and then forgot to go home placed It in the hand FROM MT kad Pennsylvania Station Seventh Avenue and Thirty-eecond Street to the heart of Manhattan, and readily accessible by elevated, and surface lines, from all sections of New York City. The Gateway ” ST. LOUIS CLEVELAND CINCINNATI THE WEST AnD SOUTH Tube Trains teave the downtown Station, HUDSON TERMINAL ome block from Broadway and five minutes from Wall Street, and run through to Man hattan Transfer, connecting at that point with through trains Por time of trains, tickets delivered at home, office, or hote!: for Pullman reservations snd any information. telephone New York ‘Madison Square 7200 Brooklyn “Main 2310" ‘Vrospect 3100° WM. PEDRICK, jn Broadwa New York City of John Paul. Aswmant Dainct Pas Agent idly moving to lovers of this ereat- | ‘awn out death scene 841 & 343 BOWERY, Cor, 4 Ht, Begin the New Year Right By request, we reprint the following adver- tisement on “Courtesy Over The Telephone.” HERE is a most careful way of beginning a tele Phone conversation that many people are now adopting. It is the courteous and direct method because it saves useless words, confusion and uncertainty. It runs thus: The telephone bell rings, and the person answering it says: “Morton & Company, Mr. Baker speaking.” The Person calling then says: “Mr. Wood, of Curtis & Company, wishes to talk with Mr. White.” When Mr. White picks up the receiver he knows Mr. Wood is on the other end of the line, and without any unnecessary and undignified “Hellos,” he at once greets him with the refreshing and courteous salutation, “Good morning, Mr. Wood!" This savors the genial handshake that Mr. Wood would have received hed he called in person upon Mr. White. A far higher degree of telephone courtesy would be obtained if the face-to-face idea were more generally held in mind by those who use the telephone. The fact that a line of wire and two shining instruments separate you from the person to whom you are talking, takes none of the sting out of unkind words, Telephone courtesy begins when the bell rings. Promptness in answering the call is a compliment to the caller, Telephone courtesy on party lines means being polite when someone else unintentionally breaks in—not snapping, “Get off the line ; I'm using it.” In a word, it is obviously true that, that which is the correct thing to do in a face-to-face conversation, is also Correct in a telephone conversation, and anyone has but to apply the rule of courtesy prescribed long years before the telephone was first thought of, to know the Proper manners for telephone usage. Be forbearing, considerate and courteous. Do over the telephone as you would do face to face. 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