The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1913, Page 12

yee GRAFT ACCUSER'S ~ STORY OF ATTACK _ BERED BY POLICE East Side Boy Orator Schlacht Fails to Show Injuries ’ |. From “Blackjack.” STILL TELLS THRILLER. Record Shows Wild State- iments of Pushcart “Collec- tions” Were Disproved. Menry W. Scttacht, self-appointed head Of the Bast Gide Protective Association, maya that'the potice do not show enthu- sigem tn renning down the miscreant Who, late yesterday afternoon, gageed @ police say, with ecarcely veiled smiles, that they do not waste their enthusiasms on the dreams of east side “hayer Gaynor. just loves ma” to an Evening World re- at his home, No, 8 President Taft + EXAMINE “WOUNDS.” * There were no evidences of kicks on the refermer’s jaw nor of dlackjacking his ekull. Physically, at least, he normal. The absence of any violence on Schiacht’s person ‘was secured which would veri- Me “assautt” to the Sehiacht ly- the floor with @ in his mouth and fuged: medical attendance and that he 0D apparent injuries. was verified by Lieut. Deering, who also questioned iad to-day @ dramatic ac- ‘he had uncovered 4 whole- conspiracy against the of the east side and @one with this “col- office of the inspector in treet station. ARED “COLLECTOR” vis- 1TEO INSPECTOR IN OFFICE. wots ho accompanied wore know that every- ‘Was oll right and the money been paseed.” the toy orator and So he pertcar pestis case. Headquerters knows sit aaetom as uncoverer eregt is only equalled by his fe abcure evidence. He ap- at Headquarters a short ee] to _aubmit evidence of ‘Commissioner une Comm! ter oF Doo before | Maier. Shelly, ara ‘Delame: Road, Harlem Rat Gays ago. would de arrest. As @ result, Commissioner Dougherty re-| have been hel because ed and questioned. | Waived ALL pe.| ™ ied that they wey anything of statements | pocket. said they had seen him dispose of two wald last night that duri Shortly feet interview he hed] otters, otter werent , shaking his fist between you and me.” Sse Fast the detectives picked up ens is Inspector Schmittberger| Cassidy, twenty-four years old, of No. with the graft and that) 446 West Forty-thire street, on the NEW GRAFT WITNESS WHO TELLS OF ATTACK ‘AND STOLEN EVIDENCE. carried this tale to Buckner, counsel of the Aldermanic Committe. ——.— y| SIPP NOW DECLARES “FRAME-UP” PLOT IS KEEPING HIM AWAY. Friends of George A. Sipp, the former law hetel proprietor, 0 Aisappeared soon after giving the Aldermanic Committee tmportant ,evi- Gence of pole grafting, explatned his continued absence by saying he had learned of a police plot to “frame up” @ felony charge against him. Sipp was located in Newark a few He told a friend that certain men of Inepector Sweent persuaded a heatler and bugsy washer in @ Harlem stable to tell a story that to cause Sip’ Mipp is keeping iMeient of bribery Rewapapers he made @ compiaint in the Union Mar- | while Dubeller is out under $7,400 bail. Four attempts have been made since the Union Market Sta- | the first of this week to get Muler out on bail. In every instance the security offered for him has been repudiated. ‘The Distriet-Attorney’s office has heard that Maier ie growing angry over his “equeal.’ Deputy Police Commissioner Walsh yesterday postponed until next week the taking of further testi- mony in the case of Policeman Jonn J. ccused by Mra, Goode of being He also put over until the same time the case against Policeman Eugene Fox, who was arrested on the charges made before the Aldermen by George A. Sipp und was discharged from custody by Magistrate Kernochan the police, after os ,"week's search, could not find Bipp. ps Ball he NURSE DEAD A WEEK WHEN FOUND IN HOME. Miss Chappelle, Stricken in Flat. bush Residence, Had Family Among Patients. Ooroner'n Physician Pabst of Brook- jtyn and Detective McDonald invertigated | ¢#, to-day the death of Miss Eva Chappelie, one of the best known @raduate nurses of Brooklyn, whose body wes found in the kitchen of her apartment at No. 635 place, Brooklyn, ‘They were satisfled that Mias Chappel! ied of heart disease a week ago this afternoon when alone \ Mim Chappetie, who was a favorite in the family of Mayor Gaynor and other Park Slope households when there was sickness, had been with @ patient, Mra, Henry Rowley, at No. 10 Buckingham until last Saturday afternoon, fhe then complained of feeling tll and he Was pinned down by ques-| went home, Grat visiting her sister, Mra. reformer a4- | Piister, at No. 11 Geventy-third street. j,that he had no #ingle tit of evi-| Mrs. Grace Suydam, a neighbor, wor- 00%- | ried because the lights in Miss Chep- peddiers it was | pelle’s apartment hed not been extin- inspector in the First | guished for a week, entered last evening He be was | and found the body. eertam” that such was the| Miss Chappelle was born in England, educated in Parts and was graduated as Schiacht’s|@ nurse from the Long Island College Hospital. M'CARTHY HELD AS “KING” OF THE COCAINE SELLERS. Police Say He Is General Agent for Wholesaler of Apparent ——_—_ Respectability. “Jimmy” MoCarthy, who, the peitce and ad. |S8Y. 1 knowm on the weet side fringe| These wit.| of the Tenderloin as “The Coke King,” examination jagistrate Krotel m. the West Side Coart and was held in $1,000 bail f po-| tleth and Forty-firdt streets, he ‘peddlers, or that| five packages of the “three sniff aise” gid Bohlnckt they knew|in his hand and eignteen more in his His Detectives Cleary and Logan eame charge. yoered that ‘there will be "The police say that McC maint Fox was ‘aismtaned nence and the police been adjourned an- ether week because of it. —>— DECLARES MAIER IS BEING BADGERED. for David Mater and Charies Dubelier, who r trial on @ charge of having bribed a witness to discredit Mary Goode's grafting charges against “ao evidence that/the police, complained yesterday te "wes arcaulted” and that no| Commissioner of Correction Whitney that Assistant District-Attorney Bny of hie etatements, Schlecht, said | head been abusing the privileges of his Deestero’e report, had sent a report of | office in trying to get a statement from Maier is still in the Tombs, Friday of ARSON GROW BLANED ON THE WSURANCE MEN Expert B. M. Holden Declares | the Companies Fear to Investigate Claims, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. | [tena Policyholders Made to Pay Losses Arising From Firebug Industry. Biame for the growth of arson and the Inéreased number of fraudulent claims which are paid annually dy in- Surence companies is placed directly on the companies themselves by Benedict M. Holden, « lawyer at Yo. 111 Broad- way. The burden of the ficreased number of losses paid falls directly upon the individual policy holders, who must Day high rates accordingly. - ‘Six months of concerted effort upon the part of the companies to ‘put the firebugs and makers of falee claime out of business would result in reducing ineurance rates about one-half,” said Mr. Holden to-day. He is counsel for the General Adjustment Bureau, an or- ganization of special agents of the pria- cip@h fire insurance companies, and ts regaréeé ae an expert in insurance canes. “Present rates are high because the companies pe: pollcy as a lability to ite full f and because they fail to reset ni of every ten suspictous cases for fear claims. “The spineless companies are to blame! for the conditious in New York to-Gay,” said Mr, Holden. Incidentally, he sal he @i@ not think Fire Commissioner Joseph Johnson overstated the situation when he amerted twenty+five per cent. of the fires in New York were due to “Adding in the num- false claims for in- gurance are made through large policies being obtained on small quantities of household goods, or where ‘household goods are moved out prior to the biase, I would say his figures are most con- ni | servative.”* ADVOCATES A FIGHT AGAINST INSURANCE SWINDLERS. Mr. Holden beHleves if insurance com- panies would start a fixed and deter- mined policy toward those who set fire to their houses and household goods in order to obtain the insurance, the num- ber of blazes wot be greatly and promptly reduced. “But they won't do it,” he sal “Ninety per cent. of the smaller i reported to th part practically without an invest! worthy of the name. They ai to get the reputation of being com- panies which carefully scrutinize claims before they; are presented. They are continually confronted by agents who plead they caunot get busin« is if the company is going to hold up every claim for careful examination, and with gents representing five or companies and willing to give the bi ness they get to those willing to the’ quickest and with the least re tape, they are at their mercy. “These companies eticking to a policy of this sort do not realize they are bringing an indictment against every honept hélder of one of thelr policies. that there shall be a careful scrutiny! Nh But claim, rry incendiary losses through | ithenticity of his claim, “But the insurance companies are afraid of the whole question of remat- of obtaining a repujation for fighting P ‘The honest citiven ts perfectly willing| “ oa it fer) fares remain unaltered. too. He wants to! at hie company is not compelling | fo high rates while it is digging into| TAXICAB FOR IN LONDON BASED ON MILEAGE RATES That Is the Solution of the Problem There as Well as in New York. ” GASQLINE RATES” UP. Cause of the Strike of the Drivers in the Big City Across the Water. By Sophie Irene Loeb. Five thousand taxicab drivers in Lon> don quit work ag the result of the raising of gasoline rates which they ‘are compelled to pay by the companies compriging the Sondon Motor Cad Proprietors’ Association. The rate by which the men were to pay for gase- line at 16 cents a gallon was fixed last March, and the companies agreed to sive them gasoline at this pri Now they have raised it to Py cents & gallon, which would naturally be @ hardebip on the drivere who receive % Der cent. of the takings. The drivers want th ners to pay for the gaseline. It would seem that the cab proprietors hope to raise the taxicab rates in Lon- don, which they have several times tried to 40; but every investigating oom- |! mittee appointed by Parliament has found {t unjustifiable. It has been the effort for @ long time by the Londen cab owners to raise the retes even four now to the 4 pared with 8 and 90 cents In New York. The recent hearings on the New York taxicab question developed the fact that the companies would not voluntarily Jower their rates from 9 cents and 9 cents per mile, claiming that ¢ not even have the right to low rates penny. The contrast is then certainly poig- nantly noticeable. When I tatked with | ¢' Mr. Albert E. Hughes, secretary of the city aid those in London, he ead: “I cannot understand why you cannot York at half your rates with profit to have been trying to get less than half your rates without success, The Go decides against us. Only as inst June Mr. Winston Churchill's qommittee, which has gone into the investigations of both owners’ and drivers’ licenses, &c., recommended the rates were just for all parties con- cerned, and now we would be pleased If we could get only four cents more on rate—I6 centg, Just the Initial ly to any city New York City, revolution of rates here ts but a matter of five years.” AGREEMENT BETWEEN OWNERS AND DRIVERS. Mr, Hughes then me his report of his association, result of the ssumption that the existing “The extras to belong to the drivers, “The drivers’ proportion of taking to je % per cent. 'No rank or station charges to be allowed by the employers. “The employers to supply the drivers now that the companies want to raibe the gawoline to % ceats per gation, in contrast to the price paid here for gaso- ere have been satisfied with the adjust- ment of the this ratve would jeopardize their dusi- wane nd put hardship upon them per mile as the basts of thelr earning, certainly presents some semblance of points committee emphasize their opinion that eooner or later a change to the mileage | naif-nour syetem is required in order to procure | market strengthened and the ‘leading (J thelr conversion of the arrangements London Motor Cab Proprietors’ Asapcia- ca whould be kept in view as the tion, In my recent taxicab Investigations | yitima: tion “Mileage RatérIt- appears to the com- hi mittee ave twice as many taxicabs in New Gitouttion between your companies. For three years we| (river would be overcome by the tnett- @ week's: run, ti ‘would pay to t! évery mile recorded, mileage or engaged mileage, and sub- Ject thereto would keep for himself the entirety of hie tekings. necessary for the owners to insist upon being the driver would be wevenday week in which to make up , | his miteage if he chose. 1 ent loane out his cab at a fixed mileage of 9 cents per mile, though it by no means follows that this rate le the cor- | M rect one. FIXED MILEAGE RATE MORE SATISFACTORY. “The committee belie t friends workin, ternately one cab to its economic capa- ful and hardworkin, would seem to be no essential difficulty in arriving at proper charge pes mile, which would have:to vary according to News Oddilics Senator Bailey made goed. Auto trucks ¢ to banish the army mule, Price of gasoline has gone up another scent, A suffragette has procietmed herself a candidate for President of France. Ate fire tn OL Louie a woman saved her pet Gog and forget $1.09 in Jewels, “Recognising” Chine wilt be narder than ever’ when’ she ovis on her new clothes. Cat that figures in all the ehipwreck stories ts on exhibition at Medison Gaqware Garden. King Victor Emmanuel of Ttaly {se the onty monarch in the world who has the right to vote. Mr. Murphy will itkely be content to have Gov. Sulser tead the jist it he can drive the supply wagon. Wiliam the Silent‘“eurrendered” to the Pujo Commition in tme te save stretning tis voice calling for hetp Package of two dozen eggs was shipped by parcel post from | one Delaware town to another. Chickens errived. Reof of the Baltimore jal! was blown off in the storm, but the sizty prisoners were Uteralty too frightened to escape. TEMPERANOB, Kan., Jan. 4.—The Water Wagon ts re ported here to be running smoothly with no signe of a break- down. Many passengers are on bodrd, a considerable percentage strapped to their seate. Everybody seems well and happy. No attempte at escape, 80 far as known, have yet been made. At last night's Assembly bell in Philadelphia the women didn't stay to dance. ™ other words, corsets were not worn. In West Middletown, Pa., a coffin slipped into an open grave at the bottom of which a grave digger was at work, killing him instantly. Thougandn. of dandelions thet took like % gold pieces scattered in a field of sreenbdacks are blooming on John D. Rockefeller’s lawn at Pocantico Hille. ness from 1% cabs to 8,000 cabs was realized in London in five years. The present New York Investigation Committee now heave it in their power to recommend @ lower rate service that will begin the bufiding of a system for an enlarged service such as is in Cores tion in London to the point of hi union of 6,000 drivers with 8,000 cade on the streete—a universally used vehicle for transportation. The game has been valle up patel < He thn Paris and other large cities. WALL STR STREET. After a weak opening to-day and a of irregular trading, the ine, it ie evident that, ‘though the driv- vestigating committee, in lou of the low rate of 16 cents justice for their demands. The lest investigating committee ap- pointed by Mr. Winston Churchitl, after adjusting the various pointe between owners and drivers, further economy mi bs and that stated - that: still in the no means entirely settled, “While the recommendati Present in controversy, the he best results for the London taxicabs, || sie5 took a sharp rise. The eteady tone continued throughout the half-day of trading and stocks closed, winding up the first week of the new year with @ substantial gain. owners and drivers to a mileage solution should further ques- that the solution of many of the Clest owner and the bleeds eancagy ind ‘The folloning ore the highest orks fur te ‘and '¢ Pre leet semacdey'e losing prices ions. loment, and lat ‘net change, owner so much for whether waste “For ebvious reasons it would be aid for @ minimum miteage, but intitled to, the full “One small proprietor at least at presy lasy driver and would enadle two together to work al- 3,854, ‘The statement of the actual condition of Clearing House banks and trust com- panies for the week (five da: hile it would give to the success- cab driver a full return for his assiduous work. There that they hold $13,854,660 coss of legal requirement: the season.’ ‘Therefore, in considering the present condition of taxicabe in Londgn when.) ming. house. to-day before “Bwana “Coke” salesmen in te light inisaioner aintrict Adon fe eign, they en. age commission” under with gasoline at a fixed price of per gallon for the current elther to allow mileage at the ri gallon for eighteen mil a gallon per day free. “In the event of the price of gaso- line varying more than 12 per cent. on | Jan. 1, either party may bring the mat- ter before the Conciliation Board! hereinafter mentioned, who shall vary the price to be charged to the drivers for the ensuing year, so that as nearly as may be it may bear the same rela- tion to the average price at which the @ contracted for their nts per gallon beara ‘age contract price,” °rhe violation of the lest item pre- sumably is now the cause of the pres: ent atrike, Further, many «mal: ceasions were decided between owners and drivers for the economic good of all, even to the point of the price that the drivers should pay fer leg- ings, and to what clothes the owne: should furnish the drivers, That the adjustments were satisfactory to all parties concerned the report further aye: ‘The ance of claima. They*fear to Ket the name of resisters and they are afrait to go into court and resist. Thuy have idea they cannot get a square deal in courtroom against a man who has made a claim for loaw by fire, “That position on the part of the com- panies is absolutely untenable. I know | from my own experience in trying surance cases and from the exper: of other lawyers that an | pany as a litigant has chance before a court jury than moet of the big Industrial corporations.” ELIMINATE INDEPENDENT AO- JUSTERS. “Hew is the problem to be solved?” Mr, Holfen was asked. “By decisive action on the part of ihe ingurance companies and the elimination ft. the independent adjustere—those who seek to represent citizens who have sus- tained fae by fire. No one needs an «4- You will pay just ae much rect as yéu will with er, and in, addition to pay him a fee. “But the companies have got to make @ complete change in their policies, They Ld insurance pol- ley ag a Wabiltty, Right now:they figure ‘on every policy as being a 100 per cent. lone, and anly under the rarest and most unusual circumstances do they ever have te Pes, snyine Ike the face value of bi about the demand for pre- \uepnation touched upon by Mayor Gay- an4 Commissoner Johnson at the of the ‘arson exhibit?’ Mr, | Por! was asked, ‘It 1s @ good one. If it costa too much to make these inspections the reference to the court was ‘without prejudice to either party be- ing entitled to show that ments mi in fares Improv. ht be expected if a chang ther by increase or decrease ‘The Departmental Com- 11 on Taxicab Fares re- inst an alteration of the ject, considered that it could not properly make an awarg in- creasing or decreasing the fares or do| anything more than report any evi-/ dence received on tho matter, The representatives of ‘ . parties, on b-| ing informed of ¢ dered no such | evidence, reserving |: ir right to municate with the Home Office if t! considered it necessary.” COULDN'T SHOW CAUSE FOR RAISING RATES. Thus’ it will be soon that the com- panies, at that tinge, could not show any reason why their state of business nec- essartly justified rateing of rates. That Landon is trying to continue systein- atlzing their system to a point of high- eat emnomic and pebtie | is further accen’ other etuff th by every pol! They should inspect these goods and the books and papers of every person | ed against fire. They have the right now, but it is not used in 10 cent. of the policies now in force. companies raid—they don't dare be too sev because @ome of their rivals are 4 ————— Five Mastace Ren Amuck. BLVAG, Portugal, Jan. 4—One person even the tmmediate toward an equality ‘tor all concerned which will tend to re- sult Inv the best good for the publte must be trike wobld lean of earnings @ with interest to say street, where he fifty-seven years old, of No. 337 East One Hundred and Thirty- Ineth street, a kaborer, was found doad in bed this morning at No. 314 Bust Twenty-sixth whole taxioab busi-| spent the night with friends, had James McCreary & Co. 34th Street —- 23rd Street The following SEMI-ANNUAL SALES Commencing Monday, January the 6th The Remaining Stocks of Wearing Apparel for Women, Misses, Juniors and Little Children At Pronounced Reductions FINE FURNITURE & RUGS Furniture from 10 to 50% less than usual prices Rugs at Greatly Reduced Prices 34th Street 23rd Street , ‘ kh from se, Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co, 5 Broadway, Fourth Avenue, Eighth to Tenth Street. U.S. PARCEL POST STATION 102 JOHN WANAMAKER, NEW YORK At the Regular Post Office, Main Floor, Oid Building. Full Migs Seat satire > ~$ new Mabe arcing Official Paveel Post map for shipments trom New Yee will be eee Upon request. Hartford Saxony Rugs Beginning Monday, We Offer the First of the Semi-annual Disposals of Discontinued Patterns in these SplendidRugs, at Twenty-five Per Cent. Below their Usual Prices The Hartford Saxony rug needs no introduction. It is called the American Oriental, because of its soft colors and designs and its beautiful, durable texture. It is the best wool floor covering, for either private homes or public places, made in this country. The 624 Hartford Saxony rugs offered in this disposal are all fresh from the mills—the last of them coming in as this is written. The patterns and colors nearly all reproduce the fines? old Oriental rugs, and it would puzzle any one but the mii! directors to discover any good reason for their discontinuance ; Regular Sale Regular Size Price Price Size Price BST sesre, $8.50 $2.65 Sx 15 ft. *4x4ott..... 500 3.75 419x715 ft. ‘ 3.78) 6x 9ft. 834 x 1034 ft. Ox left Ox 1S ft 103g x 12 ft... 104g x 1814 ft. 1144 x 18 ft. 114 x 15 tt. e Twenty-four Odd Size . Hartford Saxony Rugs at 14 Price * Special widths and lengths suitable for halls and offices. These special sizes range from 2 ft. 3 in. x 3 ft. up to 18 ft. 6 in. x 24 ft., and in price from $2.65 to $112. Formerly double. Fourth Gallery, New Building. ' Sale of Hurt Books Hurt Mostly in Price ‘Thousands of our books during the holidays become slightly soiled, thumb-marked or scuffed. Not seriously hurt, bat below our high standard—therefore offered considerably price-less, ened. This sale is an annual event pay for doing the largest hook which book buyers. look for- trade in America is the great ward to for genuine book-buy- number of books we must offer ing economies. ‘The price we in this sale which is, however, The Book Buyers’ Opportunity These ‘so-called “hurt” books are raphy, science, political economy. se- hurt more in price than in condition. eee travel, relies, jureatinget ar'te books for young cl They are too many in num be pry ‘oa ob listed; but they cover every phate of and together; « collection of French book interest; recent movels, classic nd German books whieh ase hurt and standard fiction, history, biog- mostly in price. Main floor, Old Bldg, Important Announcemeiit Beginning Monday morning we shall make complete reductions on all our Fine Fur Muffs and Scarfs including both elaborate novelties and staple sets, in mole, ermine, sable, fisher, wolverine, taupe fox, white fox, blue fox, red fox, cross fox, pointed fox, skunk, Australian opos- sum, chinchilla squirrel, Hudson seal and civet cat, all of which will be sold at One-third Below Former Prices Fur Salons, Second floor, Old Building,