The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1913, Page 16

° | NEW SUBWAY PLAN HOTLY OPPOSED BY THEL0GUNE McCall Also Joins in Criticis- {ng Proposition by Mitchel and Maltbie. HITS THE MONEY TRUST. Caffls for City Built Routes, and If Necessary Operation by the City as Well. GBeew eolution of the subway problem @wesented by John Purroy Mitchel,-Pres- f@emt of the Board of Aldermen, and Pete Bervice Commissioner Maltbie met with opposition to-day. The plan was eamt to Commisoner McCall !ast night, end thie morning the new head of the commission declared it didn't look feas!- the from a financial standpoint. Then Commissioner Eustis said the city didn't have enough money to carry out such eeheme, and finally Commissioner Wii fame declared it was nothing more than @ political trick to keep the whole ques- ftom before the public until the city eleo- tion. But while Chairman MoCaill and Com- missioners Eustis and Williams were saying uncomplimentary things about the new plan, Commissioner Cram said 0 far as he could see from a cursory @@amination of the echeme it was a 00d one. . = “I have always contended the city is ene to build the system,” he sald. “The city fae enough money to start the work, and before it 1s completed will have had all that te necessary. This is far better than a dual ownership pian ia which the city would be eure to get the Uttle end of it in the long run. 1 have always voted for elevated exten- sens and third tracking, and I cam sce nething wrong with the plan dght now." PRENDERGAST IN A STATEMENT DENOUNCES PLAN. Comptrotier Prendergast gave out a Jeng statement denouncing the plan. He dwelt at length on the mention of Mr. MeAdoo as & possible operator, and as- sailed Mr. McAdoo's Atness for auch a place, “Mr, MoAdoo utterly failed,” he anid, to eniiet the necessary financial support for his first proposition to operate an independent subway system; this in the latter part of the year 191." Later, commenting upon the operstion of the tunnel system under the Hudson River, Mr. Prendergast says: “For carrying people @ much lees dis- tance than the Interhorough Rapid Transit Company ts carrying them at the present time he has had to increase hie fare to eight cents.” Oomptroiier Prendergast also attacks ATERS PIANOS Founded 1845 Horace Waters & Co. offer two suggestions for careful Piano buyers: 1st. When selecting a piano be sure to get a Me cecal ‘cesks ial excellence of the Waters Pianos is their wonderfully sweet musical tone wi " yo singing quality. Int Waters you will be sure to get a good toned piano. 2d. Don’t pay a fancy high price for a piano. High-grade pianos are not necessarily high- iced Pianos, Waters 1 are the very highest grade pianos made and are celebrated for their superlative ex- cellence, yet are not sold at fancy prices. Examine the Waters tone and quality and compare the Waters prices and terms and will be convinced that the Waters Piano or the Waters-Autola Player-Piano is the best value and most attrac- tive piano proposition possible. Send Postal for Catalogue Horace Waters & Co, Three Stores: 134 Fifth Ave., near 18th St. 127 W. 42d St., near B’way Harlem Branch (Open Evenings) | Maitbie sat back and viewed with Inter- a ner eee eS NR rare THE EVENING WORLD, How Fred Stone’s Laugh-Making Wand 'It Ie the Biggest House He Ever Drew and It Cost $450,000, but the Come- dian Had Lots of Fun Making the Money That Paid for It. | There Are Three Reasons for the Thrift of the Fun-Maker, Namely, His Wife and Two Chil- dren, Doen tt pay to be funny? Go down to No. 17 Madison avenue and look up. Up, up, up, nearly sixteen tories, and read the anewer. No. 17 MaGison avenue is a stone building. It’s Fred Stone's building—Freé Stone of Montgomery and Stone, the fummakers of “The Lady of the Slipper.” Next door is Dr. Parkhuret’s chureh. ‘De. Parkhurst te 2 good man. AM hie Me be hae been fighting vice, seeking to better the condition of humanity, to make the world look brighter to Me Deople, Dr. Parkhurst le & churchman. Hie church is a maasive stone structure of one story and a half, surmounted by @ great dome. Fred Stone is @ come- in. His building is fifteen stories and @ halt, His great dome is under his hat. All his life he has been engaged in making the world look brighter to the people in it. His mission in life is te make people forget thelr troubles—to make them laugh. Highteen years Montgomery and Stone have been together. Merry minstrels they have been, Clowns they have made of themeelves. They have been in “gtock,” they have been in vaudeville. For eighteen years they have been got- ting the laugh. Mr. Btone has just paid 1¢460,000 for the Pullman Building at No. 17 Madison avenue. He has been doing jeome laughing too. It has been his policy to laugh and @row “fat.” For eighteen years he figured in the theatrical columns, Now he is in the real estate and financial columns. Pretty soon his name will de as well known in Wall and Broad streets ae it explanation te the public when he stepped into the realty limelight. You might think it made Fre@ Stone angry when an Fvenii Porter askéd him where he got all this Money. It didn't. He just laughed. “Singing and dancing?” he echoed, some more straw into his clothes, “Oh, no, I didn't get it that way. I just sold thirteen lots on Riverside Drive.” “Well, you got those through sing- ing and dancing,” piped Dave Mont- gomery, with an injured air, rubbing more red paint viciously into his fea- FRED STONE. wae” “Did you always save your money?” — Mr. Stone was asked. had to be pried apart so that he could him so funny. ; “Save! he sald, “I' should eay not. Dave and I have been in every branch of the profession. We've even been in fe in Broadway. Morgan lept his part-| ries Bsck, We have bese i ue lay filel nera have their eyes on him. Fre) oct. 1. ean TO RUN AN| tie areus, vaudeville, burlesque, panto: was born in Denver. They called that the West when he was born, but a greater empire was being built still farther west. When a boy Stone read the admonition of Horace Gree! “Go West, young man; go W And be replied to himself and Horace: “I'm coming Bast, old man; coming Bast.” played one performance in ‘0 Ranch.’ ‘That gave me my card to the Wild Went Show and rounded but the orbit of en- tartainment. In those days we used to think if we ever got to the point of alary of $125 n week we sure would be jopnotchers—$1% a week!" “Yes, Mr. Morgan—er, Stone.” “But as soon as I found they were getting the big money I went after ft. Save—that was a joke in those daye— “Them Was the Childhood Days.’ I weat ‘nto the real yeare ago for all that. I bought three lots at Bergen Reach. McIntyre of Mo- Intyre and Heath sold Intyre got rich out th I sold the iots anyhow ten hadn't got my stride yet.” ‘Then the comedian had to go out, for Elsie Janis, Cinderella, had called upon her fairy godmother to make men of Spooks and Punks and make them show, “Love Me Like a Real, Real Man,” they fang, sand’ ab if they didn't have @ bean ‘and the Crown Prince was only a make believe. There was a big house to greet them, but it wasn't in it with that $460,- 000 house next to Dr. Parkhurst's h. “You ought to change the name to the Rtone Building,” suggested Montgomery, as the last calM for the stage was sounded. “Why, anybody can see it's @ stone utlding,” returned his partner. ELEVATOR. “Oh, yes, I guess I did,” responded the comedian, lamghingly. “Yes, it all ‘ame through making fun. 1 wanted @ building like that. Some day when Dave and I are sixty or seventy years 014 and we can't do these stunts any more it will he a haven of rest for us. There's two elevators in the building, and we are going to learn to run them in our old age.” “It'll de great sport talking about old times,” said Montgomery. “While we keep the people waiting for the lift we can do a little step, and I can say te you: ‘'Member the time, old hoss, when we was in the “Wisard of Os"? And the rest is history. But a come- Gian with half a million or so te jug- gle big Wuildings with ie werth observ- ing, even in this wonderful, opportu- nity offering community ef billions and millions and skyscrapers, But it Jooked as if a man who was playing all the time, making people laugh and getting the laugh in retura, owed an the proposed “rapid trannit certifiontes”* and protests against en tacrease in the olty’e debt. ‘ “The plan, in | my Lier gene ony Altogether impossible,” said Bonow It offers the completed lines to the President MeAneny. “If it were p08-/ Brooklyn Rapid ‘Transit for operation Gibie, tt would be altogether imprec-| on equitabi® terms which at the same tical” me will insure both good service and Like Comptroller Pren@ergast, Mr. ee give oe see ay, But if the B. “ . ghould refuse the opportunity the My ie Tree ee of dnancing, | Dian sugaeate the tines be let to an inde- transit certificate’ method of financing, 0 Pendent operator, auch as William G. calling it of the “wild cat” variety. McAdoo, head of the company operating “Tt the plan fatied and the contribu-|the Hudson River tunnel, who already tions of private capital were lost,” Mr.| has shown his willinkness to co-operate MaAneny contended, “routes costing} with the alty in its subway troubles. nearty $100,000,000 would have to be aban- As @ final contingency, the plan pro- doned and the system literally broken | Vides that the city may operate the lines into pteces.” fteelf, the authors of the plan pointing Chairman McCall found @ delegation out the system would be a unit in itself waiting for him when he resched hie/end,casily capable of independent op- {ioe nttent tatgrtectog with other city CITY OPERATION AS A FINAL CONTINGENCY. Bon the basic Piano and the Player action are the product of our own fectory, The utmost feniue and ekill are devoted to one dietinet purpose in the building of offices. But he insisted their call was @ personal one and had nothing to do with subways, It was headed by Sen- ator Robert F. Wagner, Tammany leader in the Senate, and with him were Senator James A Foley and @peaker of the Assembly “Al” BR ie eetimated the new Ines would cost the ofty §807,000,000 to build, and exchustve of equipment. It ie figured that by extending the city’s borrowing capacity for the next fow years It would be possible to build the Hnes without additional financing, but as an alter {native @ plan for “rapid transit certif- When Alderman Frank Dow! | cates," which would be a lien on the . many leader in that chamber, | earnings of the system and not a part ‘ dered in a few minutes later old at-|of the city’s debt, is mggested, With the tone you can’: forget” teaches of the Public Service Commis- oe —the production of the PERFECT sion raised their eyebrows wonder- Bagineer, Hit by Car, Dies. Player-Pigno. It takes eix monthe ingly. It was apparent a new era had| Charles Newland, sixty-three, of No. | jonger to build than the average Player- arrived. 185 Summer avenue, Brooklyn, an en-| Piano, but it is thoroughly built and Chairman McCall had the new plan—| sineer in the employ of the Depart: | gives you absolutg satisfaction. {t in told in 1,600 words as against 280] ment of Water Supply, Gas and Wlec-|" $759, Style 10 $800, Style 24 pages of printed matter composing the we ae in the miedecn Street Hos-| $950, Style 28 $900, Style 32 present contracts—on hiv desk before | Pita! lest night. His skull was frac- Convenient Terms. Booklet on Request. & FIFTH A 425 Entrance 88th SENUE 138"4 & '42 SHOES are the quality tured by a Broadway eurface car at Batis poavtnay ca tah aiaae Broadway and Fulton street Thursday ‘But I don't care to express an opinion | SHE. of @ definite natureans yet,” he said. ‘I| = prefer to wait until I have had an op- portunity to talk the matter over infor mally with some of the other Commis- alone, I will get them together during | the day and we will go over the matter.” “Do you regard the finandial features of the new plan as feasible?” he was asked, “Right now I would say on first} blush T do not, but I don't care to go Into the matter.” The Chairman said the new plan would recelve careful consideration. Despite the whacks the new plan recelved from these sources, it attracted great attention and was the one topte of discussion, Commlestoner him. He sald he had read it carefully In any fashionable gathering Redfern figures may be dis- tinguished by greater ele- gance. The fine American corset that makes Paris look to her laurels— Redfern. Found where all good Fee eT sad $880 to $18.00 The Warver Bros. 5 New York —Chicago—@an \ctaco, ent the excitement he had stirred up. “They've contended all along we were only finding fault with suggested plans without having anything constructive to offer," he vaid, "Now we have offered them something in the shape of a Gefl- nite plan. Let's see what they wih do with It. The plan offered by Mitchel end Malt- ble provides for a city built, elty owned, city controlled end, 1f necessary, city operated subway ayatem, It embodies every route of the “dual system,” and, {f adopted, would insure active oompett- tion, The plan is drawn to ehow the city {# absolutely independent of J. P. Morgan & Co, and may continue to re main independent without financial less You can’t get away from RED-MAN 254W. 125th St., nr. 8th Ave. QUNDAY WORLD WANTS” w- WORK MONDAY WONDERS, or at the expense of the gtrephangere. ' The plan provides for the buliding of the nes with the city money, pointing out three ways in which this may be “STUBBORN COUGHS YIELD. ‘To Vaioer Jemu's Medicine, Batide rou up.—aért. MONDAY, 'Drew a Big Building from People’s Pocket. Gosh! they don’t make actors like we The wrinkles in the comedian’s face get the paint in, this question struck ‘ mime and Indian medicine shows. Tf estate business fifteen FPEBRUARY 17, dames MeCreery & Go. Mth Street 23rd Street On Tuesday, February 18th. 1913. ADVANCE SALE Light Weight Laces 25,000 yards, at one-half and less than one-half former prices. The collection includes, Shadow, Chantilly, Mechlin, also French, English and German Val- enciennes Laces. Shadow and Chantilly Edges and Insertions in Black, White and Ecru. 10¢ to 95c yd. French Platt Valenciennes Laces,—wide widths in Edges and Insertions. 20c, 25c, 30c and 35¢ yd. Per Dozen Yards English and German Valenciennes Laces,— narrow widths in Edges and Insertions. 16c to 55c per dozen yards La Vida Corsets An extensive variety of models for every type of figure. Made of Figured Silk Batiste, Broche and Coutil. 4.00, 5.00 to 12.00 Women’s House Gowns Special Sale of Spring Models Negligees of Messaline, trimmed with shadow lace and chiffon; sun-plaited skirt. 12.50 Negligees of Crepe de Chine, trimmed with hand-embroidery; sun-plaited skirt. 9.75 Kimonos of Crepon, trimmed models...... 1.15, 1.45 and 1.95 House Dresses, attractive models......... 95c, 1.10, 1.35, 1.50 Leather Goods & Stationery At Greatly Reduced Prices Shopping Bags of Seal, Morocco and Goat Seal; silk lined. values 2.75 to 3.50, 1.95 Limousine Cases of Morocco, fitted with celluloid toilet articles. value 10.00, 6.95 Special Cabinets of Writing Paper containing 4 quires of paper with envelopes. White only. 40c value 50c One Quire box of Paper with Envelopes, tissue lined. values 75c and 95c, 55c¢ Favors & Decorations An attractive assortment of ‘Washington Birthday” Favors, comprising Colonial Hats, Hatchets, Cherries, Candy Boxes. 5¢ to50c Silk Flags mounted on staffs........5¢ to 1.50 Best quality, All Wool Standard Bunting Flags. 4x6 ft.........2035 6x8 ft. --3.00 6x10 ft.........4075 Sxl@ft.........6.50 Blankets and Comfortables Below Regular Prices. Winter Weight Blankets,—full size, 3.50, 4.50, 6.00 and 8.00 pair Comfortables,—1.25, 2.45 and 2.95 each dames McCreary & Co. Dressmaking Department Taflored Suits of Serge and Fancy Mixed Fabrics, also White Serge. Made to Order. 57,50 Foulard Gowns in new materials and models. Made to order. 65.00 Thirty-fourth Street. Special Prices For This Week Only. Pe frandle Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co. Broadway, Fourth Avenue, Eighth to Tenth Street White Goods and Embroideries Which All Women Can Use White goods and white embroideries are two things o Mat He ae buy, lay away, and be ad finding usefal some day. Now, wii Undermiins,‘hldren’s deeseea tobe made--tey ae Sort Some a half, some a third less x for $1.85. By agreement, usual. Edges in almost any we taken all the mill canshipus desired. Attractive pattern on cam- to sell at $1 the piece. Eresh and bric, swiss and nainsook, Ne twe new, $6 inches wide. e pieces @like. 30-inch India linen, 10c 3%inch lingerie lawn, special —Those who know vote this at 12}4¢¢ yard—Pure bleach. A best cloth at the price to be dainty fabric for women's and chil- in Americ. Pure white aad dren’s summer dresses. from blemishes of any sort. 38-inch cotton voile, 28¢ yard, 36-inch crinkle crepe, 12: instead of 38c—! ores elsewhere I! ! ‘ im weave, White, cream and eer, juilding. of widthe, Pretty cream white color. Subway floor, Oid B Items of Interest In the Notion Sale The following have been chi being particularly but there are pvt than twenty othee oe off too, These include pins, threads, sewing tapes and braids, ete. Mf sercea| coring cotton, equal to any 5c spool—38c dozen spools, Dress shilds of fine nainsook, light weight. B ip guarane teed: sizes 2, 3 and 4—I4c pat 91.34 dozen, ther ae and 90 orate Fen with spring—card of 1 dozen, 3c; gross 33c—should 0..N. T. darning cotto — wtoe ne don agua. yards—black, white, tan; 17c dozen wire » i — nesetrnbe oe ins, wy or invisible—1 ounce envelope, ic Sale continues Tuesday and Wedne: Subway floor, Old Building. Cretonne-Covered |All Kinds of Imported Cushions at 95c Buttons, 10c a card We never sold cushions so] Not a card originally sold good at such a price before—|for less than 20c and some and we doubt if you ever|have been 45c. This import- bought any. er’s clearaway includes the newest sorts. Crystal but- Oblong and square; filled with floss; covered with Eng-|tons for summer blouses and lish, and domestic | gowns, large coat buttons, suit cretonnes. . uttons, tiny trimming but- Limited quantity. On sale|tons. Cards hold four, six or tomorrow. Subway floor, Old Building. a dozen buttons. Subway floor, Old Building. What Waists Do You Wish at $1? Better waists than you ible at that pri White lawzy with pleated shirt bosom effect—very man- nish and yet the sheer material makes it feminine. hope bengaline shirts with turn-up cuffs and a breast et. Lay Women’s shirtwaists tailored by a man’s shirt maker— plain, well-cut corded madras and mercerized white cotton. Subway floor, Old Building. Best Skirt Manufacturer Disposes of All His Sample Spring Skirts The New Price, $4.25, Regularly $5.75 to $10 Fine serge and mixtures in a number of plain and more elaborately shaped skirts offer our cus- tomers opportunity to save often as much as $5 on a single skirt. . They are from the finest skirt maker. He gives his whole attention just to the making of skirts, His styles are different, his ates a bit finer, his workmanship the best possible, All the new ideas will be found in these samples, They are splendid for spring wear. Sizes 25 and 26 waist and 41 and 42-inch lengths, Subway floor, Old Building, > Wash Dresses for House Mistresses Attractive styles at $1 are of percale in lavender, black or blue and white effects, with a fichu arrangement given by flat embroidery. Plain colored percale dresses with checked gingham trim- mings are also $1— wonderfully good. lany other Spring styles at $1.50, 82 and 83. At 83.75, plain colored'cotton in white, dark blue, light blue or tan, trimmed with hand embroidery. Some in Bul- garian colors, . Third floor, Old Building, Not Very Many of These $15 Vacuum Cleaners for $8 There is a vacuum cleaner which has been selling for $15— Gelling by the thousands— ‘ And things don’t sell by the thousands unless they come up to the buyers’ ex- tions, Io ee, porte iy vacuum cleaners are a juccess a! OC, 5 ovat we are enabled to offer this self-same vacuum cleaner for 88. If the thousands who bought this dependable machine at $15 are satisfied, how much more eatistied will the other thousands be who take advantage of this offer—a $15 Vacuum Cleaner for $8. ? => Subway floor, New Building, The Hearth Is the Center of the Home Life Whether it be in the town or country house. Attractive s are those with shiny andirons, wood boxes, fire sets, ete. Such Fire Place Furnishings At 25 per cent. Less than Usual make the Housewares Store a location to be starred on your shopping list. Everything for the fireplace in wrought iron or brass, Subway floor, New Building,