The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1913, Page 24

DENOUNCES RASE INTRANSFERTAX Declares Albany Bill Would Jeopardize Best Financial Interests of the City. | | Seb tees eto oes 44oe + TO PUT UP STIFF FIGHT. —_— Downtown Real Estate Men) Join With Them, Fearing CREAMER RECEPTION QmmittEr Ines AROAR Ke ago Com’ tee 930065.50505009090059009200600006 Loss of Tenants. ‘The Governing Committee of the New York Stock Exchange, at special | meeting held at noon to-day, entered «| Vaorous protest against. the measure | now pending tn the legislature provids | ing for the Increase in the stock trans- GAY ‘GREETERS' ON NIGHT OFF HEAR PO OOOO4 EEE OEE OOOH DED for tax from $2 to $4 per 100 shares, The prestd muthoriaed t tee to -protet the proposed law. These were the res lutions adopted ; Whereas, there is under considera- tion in the Legislature of this State @ Dill providing for an increase of the present tax on transfers of atock from two cents to four cents for each $100 of face value of stock sold or transferred; and, Whereas, the levying or axsessinent of such increase of tax woukl be un- Just, unfair and inequitable, and would not only be onerous upon the members of this exchange, but harm- ful end detrimental to the financial interests of this city; be it Resolved, that the President be au- thorized to appoint a special commit- {ee consisting of five members of the Governing committee and five mem- bers of the exchange at large, to make carnest protests against the enactment of auch @ proposed law. Said committee shall uae auch lawful efforts.as may appeal to it for the presentation to the Legislature of this State and to ite Governor, the injustice of auch proposed increase of tax, an dthe inevitable injuries to the Dest interests of the city and State of New York which would fol- low ite enactment. Resolved, That sak committes shall trom time to time make report to the Governing Committee. BILL PREPARED BY GOV. SUL- ZER'S SPECIAL COMMITTES. ‘the bill was presented to the Legisia- ture on Tuesday night by Gov. Sulzer. It was prepared by the @pecial Inquiry Commy tee, appointed eome time ago by the Gpvernor ments with special refer- ence to economies and increases in rev- cnues.@The committee, with a view of increasing the revenues of the Btate, patted this bill, which, tf passed, will increase the present stock transfer tax 9 per cent. Yesterday: steps were taken by the leading rea) estate brokers in the finany lal district to call a mass meeting of downtown real estate brokers, owners 4nd operators at eome future date, Realestate owners in the financial istrict fear that the adoption of this measure would force the Stock Ex- ohange to move its machinery to either Wostant or Philadelphia, where brokers wouldinot have ¢o pay any etock trans- fer tax. to investigate into the/ 4! |Hotel Clerks Go to Ball Un-|'* decked in Diamonds, but Desk Call Is With Them. would to suppress It, that kept slipping out just as natural as life; Just as naturally as the Turkey Trat did, and that, too, was under the ban, It was the fifth annual ball of The Greeters, You know the Greeters. Everybody knows them, and they know everybody, The map of the United States to them is a Deautiful mass of happy faces. They are the boys who wear the big Giamonds and have the smiling eye and the glad hand for you when you drop in from the country. No matter how “far from home" you y be feeling, they make you comfortable at once with their welcoming, “Why, howdy—giad to see you—same room as before—sure.” Th as you eign the hotel register, they give you ether cheery words, euch Why, Ddelleve me, Mr. ——-, you're looking younger and better than I ever saw And then comes that call, “Front!” For their night of gayety they hed solemnly agreed they would not give that call. It was put under an awful taboo. In érder that they might forget it they valiantly left at home all their Not a particle of their cus- regalia gleamed from their im- late shirt fronta to remind them ef the boys who never can hear. But it was no uee. They might just a0 well have worn their diamonds, REALLY TURKEY TROT WAS TO BLAME. Chairman of Fioor Committee William F. Shanahan began it. It had been agreed there should be no Turkey Trot- ting. Shanahan kept the floor as sacred 8 @ safe door until about midnight. Then when he caw the trot he became 80 flurried he yelled “Front!” After that Shanahan lost heart. And the Turkey Trot took courage and trot- ted all over the place. Every hotel in the city was repre- sented, and to make the boys believe ~GRES OF FRONT? At least seven iarge brokerage firma| they wero far away from thelr desks, are sald to have informed their real e#-| Chairman M, L. Donohue of the Ball tate agents that whould the measure! Committee had had the ballroom at the become a law they would not renew! faim Garden converted into a vision of their leases on May 1. Real estate! the South. There were orange groves agents and operators in the financtal! and rice plantations, sunflowers and istrict fear that the law will result! magnolias, wanerwr" Sonnen Selb, \ wine nen COoRRAN- ST. REGIS CHIEF tm MM. L.DONOHUE CHAIRMAN BALL Commrrree POPPE DO OLE LENE DEE OEE HOE DE4OOHTOOOTOEDDDOOOODOOOTO F ne nn I AI ITE ewe ae — - ————— - ‘Hotel Greeters of New York on Their Night Off; STOCK EXCHANGE Diamonds Missing, but Not the Glad Hand NBDE DIAAAADD® ODED BHO10O44 94-0946 494 989199994949004 1494044 LOO HOH ewer By) Gagne cn News Oddilies ‘The charge of Senator John Hurley that John A, Judge tried to bribe him fell flat at the legislative hearing in Hartford yesterday. 3 Hurley said he had) ® had several drinks when Judge held up three fingers, and he took ft ax an offer| 3 of $300. Judge admitted the drinks, and explained that the finger sign meant) 4 “have another.” In the State reform schoo! at Greendale, Ky., officials have found 4 per cent. of the girls and 41 per cent. of the boys afflicted with hookworm. GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE.—Ella F. Zeno has sued for divorce in Chicago because her husband, William H., kept a sign in their home inviting any one in doubt as to who was boss there to “start something.” A bores belonging to P. A. Pardee of Shenandoah, N. Y., stepped on a stick of dynamite dropped by a careless workman. The horse was blown to pieces, the wagon wrecked and Pardee seriously hurt. Charlie Chew, a laundryman of No. 6&8 West One Hundred and Thirty-third street, is un est as an opium seller, He carried his “stock,” according to the police, in hi #, which were six too for him, John D Rocke! months’ etay, w r, who reached Sea Breeze, Fla, yesterday for a two. ed himself in the baggageroom—1i8 pounds. Miss Salile K. Holtsinger hasn't missed church or Sunday school in twenty years, She lives two miles from the church, the Third Baptist, in St. Louis, and always walks. Los Angeles had its firat snow in many years yeaterday. “Just a trace’ and “purely local” is the weather man's description of it. When the coffin of Mrs. Gideon Bender was opened at the grave, in accord- ance with custom of the Amish sect, at Cumberland, Md., the body looked so “natur: it was taken back home. Many refuse to believe the woman done, ‘The cheeks are red and soft, but so far efforts to restore animation have jailed, ‘Utah under a new law will levy a $3 poll tax on every citizen, man or woman, who falls to exercise the right to vote, When Engine Company No. 6 started work on a@ fire at No, 629 East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street last night no water came. After long delay the hydrant was found “choked” by a three-foot eel, . Rev. F. M. Halloch of Bakersville, Conn., received a package by post from his old home on Long Island containing half a dozen squirming eels, He delle they were frozen when shipped and thawed out after being left at the parsonag It'a a Winsted man who tells the story of seeliig a fox chase a cat, which ran up a tree. The fox ran round the tree till the cat got dizzy wi 9900000446000400006600 6 7,000 TROOPS FALL | WHEN THE BULGARS ATTAGK THE TURKS Losses Equally Shared in Three Days’ Fight at Gallipoli— Armies 170,000 Strong. LONDON, Feb. 20.—A furtous battle between the Bulgarians and the Turks at Bulair in the Peninsula of Gallipoli has just concluded, according to a spe- clal despatch from Conatantinople. Each side 19 reported to have lost 3,500 men. The Bulgarians had 100,00 men under fire, while 70,000 Turks were engaged, in- cluding the force of 30,000 commanded by Enver Bey, who was among the wound- ed. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. %.—Rou- manta to-day asked Russia to arbitrate on the question at issue with Bulgaria. . TH q ‘WHOLE CHEESE” > in empty downtown office buildings, which are occupied mainly by Stock Kxchange firms, which would also af- fect savings banks, trust companies, in- surance companie wand other money lending institutions, WHEN HE MOON ALS SOCK BROKERS WL LEAVE NEW YORK That's What Sulzer Says of Wall Street Threat Because of Legislative Bills. 0.—Gov. Sulzer does the threats of the members of the New York Stock Ex- change to leave this State if the Gover- nors legislative Stock Exchange re- ‘orm programme is carried. He said ne had received many letters ig against the enactment of tie bill which would increase the tax on the transfers of stock, “1 unde sald tue Governor, that my name Was greeted with b at a dinser of Stock Exchange men last night. In the performance of my duty as 1 see it T care very little about the hissee of the members of the New York Stock Exchange. They said they were going to leave New York City when Gpv. Odell bad enacted the law requiring & tax on transfers of stock. ‘They will leave no doubt when the moon falls.” "The Governor said he wae opposed to the alleged monopoly of the Am ican Bank Note Company in the engrav- of securities which the New York ik Note Company, ® competitor, ui- the New York and the band started the dancing with “On the Mississippi" and “Everybody Loves Chicken.” Prominent among the dancers was H. J. Russell, assistant manager of the Hotel Plaga, with his pretty flancse, Miss Agnes Sinith, Several times dur. ing the night the couple were urged to declare when the happy day was_to But they persisted they would not an- nounce it unt ext week, Others who were noticeable among the big party of merry dancers were Hddte Glasheen of the Waldorf-Astoria, Dr. Armizt Jones of the Calumet, G. Cc, Nobles of the Breslin and Charles Good- man of the Brook Club, With Mr, Nobles were John D. Roche, proprietor of the Hathaway Inn, Deal Beach, N, J., and his chief manager, Patrick J. Finn, Conspicuous among the hotel men present were Basll J, Curran of the St. Regis, Louls W. Parsons of the Waldorf-Astoria, Warren T. Montgom- ery of Bretton Hall, Howard B. Mettler of the Garden City, John F. Garrety of \the Endicott, Maurice L. Donohue of | the Churchill, Robert R. Wright of the Cateau-Frontenac, William F, Creamer of the Imperial and E. J. Fay of the Hoffman House. They kept the fun up until they could raise the shades and let the daylight of New York tn on the vision of the South, and even then it wae long before the final ery of “Front! for home was | called. tee NO DIVIDEND FROM SURPLUS. Comptrotier to st ewal Vrac- Banks. O, Mure ney, hi tee of Certain Nai | WASHINGTON, Feb. » “1 Somptroller of the Cur ¢ attention of his bank ex- jaminers to the following provision of the law ard told them to enforce it rigidly: “No dividend shall be pald by @ na- 1 bank to an amount greater than t profits on hand, dedi there. its losses and bad de! . Murray purposes to stop the practice of national banks paying div. fdends out of surplus. sf eurptus Don’t lect i wernt Neglect Your Cold. and fell. Then the fox grabbed the cat and the Winsted man shot. He has the fox pelt and a cat to prove the story. ing him Gov, Brown of Georgia ts in a quandary over a convict in Telfair County sen- tenced to the “chain gai Mra, Fannie Curtis Hoadley Js buying her hom: 106 years old. t No, 18 East Kighty-second street on the instalment plan. Four times it has been sold under foreclosure on A $105,000 mort; down but def: ie, Mrs. Hoadley bidding {t in three times, paying 10 per cent, Ing on the reat. She bid it in with @ 10 per cent. payment yes- terday for the fourth time, making $5,200 paid in all. James Horn, arraigned tn Chicago fo: he was @ good church member, The J he attend church every Sunday for thu tribution plate, too.” of two pairs of shoes, pleaded led sentence on condition that years and “put something in the con- Addison and Allison Bunnell, twins, celebrated their ishty-fourth anniver- sary yesterday, Addison walking four miles to his brother's home at East Ply- mouth, Conn., to attend a reception. Nelson Shaw, elghty-eight years old, of Mass., goes coasting every afternoon with “the boys” on a white oak “bob” which his father gave him as a birthday present. AWAKENED, SHE FOUND MAN REMOVING SKYLIGHT. Mrs, Eids Didn't Scream, but Whispered to Husband, and Po- liceman Nabs Former Convict. Mre. Henry C, Elds of No, 68 Biath enue blamed the noise under her win- dow on the cats when she was awak- ened early to-day, She has a little flower garden on the roof of an exten- of her home, and to protect her plants she got out of bed and went to the window, man removing the extension, She did skylight from the not scream, out of the house and found Voliceman Cotter of the Mercer Street Station. Cotter climbed to the extension root She saw a heavily bullty put | quietly awakened Mr, Elds, who allpped | skylights, The police belteve that Mon- roe knows something about these two Jobs. He wae held for attempted bur- elary. —_——__.. THE INCRIMINATING TRI (From thi “Ile he a nate?” “I guess there's no doubt of it ‘They've made four attempts during the lant week to steal his personal waste @ Cleveland Plain Dealer.) real-for-sure trust mag- Out of PTHAT Is, something is wrong with baby, but we can’t tell. | just what it is. All mothers recognize the term by the itude, weakness, loss of appetite, inclination to sleep, | and arrested the man on the jot, At! heavy breathing, and lack of interest shown by baby. Ruesla, it 1s stated in authoritative quarters, will accept the task. poet eI SHE POSTS SWINDLER TO PROTECT MERCHANTS. Wife of Louis Bustanoby Says Un- known Woman Has Used Her Name to Get Credit. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN—This ts to no- tify the public that the only person having the right to use the name of Marie D. by ia by of the Cafe dew Beaux-Arts, 80 West 40th st MARIE D, BUSTANOBY, 80 W, 40th at, In explanation of the above advertive- ment Mra, Bustanoby sald at her hom No, 8 West Fortleth street, to-day; “Some woman who has been posing as Marte D. Bustanoby has been running bills in stores throughout the city. To protect the tradesmen and to protect mypelf I inserted this advertisement. “I do not know how much the swindler: has got in my name; nor do I know the identity of the woman. O14 Habits. (From the Pittaburgh Post.) @ that phrenologist is a fai y le asked me in an absent-minded way if I didn't want a shampoo, Tried to laugh {t off tmmediately, but I have my suspicions.” Sorts These headquarters to-day he was identited as| are the symptoms of sickness. It may be fever, congestion, worms, croup, diphtheria, or scarlatina. Do not loge a minute, Charles 8, Monroe, who has served & term in Auburn Prison, He refused to say anything about himself except that he was not the sort that would squeal on @ pal. In the @ame neighborhood two safes have been blown recently, one at No, 9 and the other at No, 10 Jones street. ‘The safe blowers entered through the y | Give the child Castoria, It will start the digestive organs into | the skin, carry off the fotid operation, open the pores of matter, and drive away the threatened sickness, Genuine Casteria al boars the signature of Lttllitea oo THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1913. a 4 | » | Angers at her and went away with the » | patter of thelr sandals. » | and windows. + | pistol shot sent a roar as of a cannon * | through the narrow hall of the building | | | ; | Doomed to Death by Hip “ | ~ BUTLNES NEAR i | Tongs, Member of Four | Brothers Dodges Fusillade. | {ACCUSED AS INFORMER. | | Chinese Avengers Warn In-! tended Victim of Hour He is to Face His Death. | | The time set for the murder of chew | | Fon, member of the Four Brothers, sus- pected of having given the police infor- | mation which caused the conviction of | Lee Dock and Eng ‘Hing for the murder of Lee Kay, waa 2 o'clock this morning, and Chew Fon knew tt. Two days ago Chew's wife was called | to her door at No. 4 Doyers street. She |saw three Chinamen standing thet They eaid not a word, but pointed th soft rustle of their silken garb and the The Chinese woman dropped on the sill in a dead faint, and she is atiil in @ hospital suf- | fering from the shock she received when ste realized that @ hatohet crew had been assigned to murder her husband. | Last night Chew wound up his laun- dry business and barricaded his doors He was packing his belongings in dusty and jong unused telescope bags when the second hour after midnight struck, Hands fumbled ‘at his windows and then at his door. {ie dropped flat on his stomach as a and a bullet whiazed through his key- hole. A second bullet followed the first. chinatown families transferred them- selves from the top of thelr couches to the floor beneath and waited. Police Sergeant Curran of the Eliza- eth street station heard the pistol shots and rapped on the fagstones of the crooked little street for assistance, Policemen hustled from the Bowery and from Mulberry Bend and he ordered the building at No. 9 Pell street, in the rear of Chew's improvised fortress, sur- rounded, Then he climbed up the fire eucape to the roof and told one of bis men to beat on the door below. ‘The ruse worked. With the banging of the club against the panels, Louts Lin, @ Hip Sing Tong member, scuttled up to the roof, carrying a revolver in the folds of his flowing jacket. Cur- ran nabbed him and brought him to the street, In the rear of the house was | found another revolver, with two cham- bers empty. Chew was found behind his | barricade and taken to a safer place. Lin declared he was as innocent as the lamb unshorn, but was gut in @ cell at the Elizabeth street station on charges of assault and carrying @ con- led weapon. Chew Fon and the Four Brothers have long been suspected of giving ald to the police in the Lee Kay murder case. Kay was @ nephew of old, wrinkled and wise Tom Lee, ex-Mayor of Chinatown and prominent in the On Leong Tongs. In the narrow little streets of the quarter the greatest uneasiness prevails to-day, and the Elizabeth street police are being posted through the settlement to stave off if possible another war be- tween the rival societies, Lee Dock and Eng Hing, the convicted murderers, are waiting their turn in the electric chair, both having been een- tenced to death. 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