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STANT BOARD APPROVES PLAN FOR NEW 11TH AVENUE Date Will Soon Be Set for Re- moval of “Death Ave- nue” Tracks, HEARING ON APRIL 8. et bortherty ude of Dyckman street to! the Ship Canal. The tracks would run Under a roof and {n a tunnel and come out from under the hill at the helh' of the proposed new canal bridge. At Fort Washington Park the com mittee suggests another tunnel. Th company now possesses two tracks a right of way for four, The commit- tee proposes to give the company & four track right “ way to the eastward of the present taking In exchange fora pore easement through the tunnel the present right of way, which runs through the park and can be made a part thereof. The excess cost of this improvement over the possible addition of the two new tracks, to which the company ts entitled, te fig- ured as $1,500,000, From One Hundred ana Thirty- seventh street to One Hundred and company will be elevated and only the supporting pillars will interfere with the city's use of the marginal way. ROOF OVER TRACKS MAY BE- This Mere Formality, as Noth- ing Now Can Interfere With Improvements. COME A DRIVEWAY. From One Hundred .and Twenty- second street to Meventy-second street Wide tick He baer foofed over, From Seventy-ninth to Seventy-eecond street there will be a as ‘The culmination hd years of battling he surface tracks the committee suggests, can be covered with soil and planted, or used as & - | Griveway, By this arrangement the slope of minutes, the Board of Estimate ap: Proved a pian of its committee and set ‘April 8 as @ date for @ public hearing. | Riverside Park will be broken up, but It was a mere formallty—the setting | will be a continuous park, the trace even from the New York Central Rati-| only feasible one, Six tracks will rum| MoCrea, former President of the Penn- |. whose lawyers for years have| beneath the roof. The city will pay for | sylvania Railroad Company, who has managed to sidestep and prevent posl-| the roofing of the four old tracks, and) been iN for some time, took a turn for! or ¢ tive action by the city, the company for the roofing of the addl-| the worse today, and his condition is very grave. Little hope te entertained | and tracks must be removed, will be decided| city’ 427,413, for Me resevery. Then qill come final approval of the/ tional tracks to be instdlled. The com- Board when the time, in which the] pany's Leto fo set at GR971,081 and the In return t Geta land and the easement on ¢he roof through Riverside Park to a te human life and limb, total value of $788,202, leaving @ balance ‘Apart from the beautifying changes) in favor of the city of $7,498,900.80. ‘The|,° to be made along the Riverside sec-| city’s share of the construction and tion by roofing over the tracks andj other cost of the two tunnels end ot | fukasasie thus extending the park aren, the most| the roofing work totals $7,848, #0 vital change in the eltuation will affect] there 1s @ balance in the city’s favor, to the residents of the west side south of| be met in cash by the company, of §1@,- ‘Thirtieth etreet. Instead of the sur-| 8. ' face tracks, a subway clear down to| Ali this applies to the situation down StJohn's Park will be bullt at the ex-| to Geventy-secoud street. On the im- @ense of the company and the street] Provements south of that point all the eurface will be left clear, unobstructed | expense Is to be met by the company. “dummy” hauled] SUBWAY TO DO AWAY WITH “ACCIDENT 6ECTION.” Below Sixtieth street the -npany fe to build @ tunnel at a sufficient die- tance from the waterfront to permit the bullding of 1,300-foot piers. This P| gabway will actually be on the present 3-DAY TOUR fe be made any how for the pier im Te ‘° provement on the North River front. To all intents and purposes the company ‘will bear all the expenses of the elimi- nation of grade crossings and the better- mient of the ratiroad facilities and will Bey the city $163,887 in addition. 4 EVERY GRADE CROSSING TO GO UNDER PERSONAL ROOORT UNDER NEW PLAN. April 3, 1913 ‘The plan contemplates the elimination 31 2 $1 4 $1 6 Frm NEW YORE , Aacorting to tutel selected Proportionate Fares from Other Polate (All neceamey erpenses ety and the company; the butlding of | etmilar Tour, April 17, May 1 and 15, 1918, freight yards at Dyckman street and | Povmlt OLIVER 7. BOXD, Divison Pumra. Ope Hundred and Thirty-fitth street 3 eer Agent, 363 Fifth Avenue, New York City, other points and the enlargement of the . yarts ot Gevonty second ren. torts DOHIAGY IVAN R. R. + fim Meu of building a subway in the Suit and WAIST SPECIALS A number of clever styles in these Suits, all worth $25 LINGERIE &YOILE We it Never saw a da Intier ltt, of waista than nts Not a one but what would be acceptable pene moat’ dixcrimina ing “woman's ‘wardrobe. bellinned with, fiulgarian at ri nn ¢ while some lgarian trimming while some of the linger aNiys amnbroldered, An go at’ the one "price white ‘they last (3) Mechl Brea 53 to 57 West 14th Street 0 Feet from the Oth Ave, L Mation and Hudeom Tube, large flat-roofed area, the top of which, |M’CREA HAS BAD TURN; WOMAN LOSES $5,000 STRAPS IN HER HAND Police Ten Days After It Happens. : y retains an option to ite line south of Barclay street, Twenty-ninth street, the lines of the! ingtead of extending it through Canal ety @0on as the contracts are signed. HIS DEATH EXPECTED. Doctors Have Little Hope That Ex- Eine Buono, 008 President of Pennsylvania Rail- "De not wait watt iparaere overtakes you, anf de meoday, Friday a> Gaye, 11 to 2. Veluable book em Tuber- culosia sent to any address. STERN BROTHERS Announce for To-morrow and Saturday, their Initial Spring Sale of Men’s Silk Lined Coats at *27.50 1h sre hig 4 te so Dnt, ta Gonos Gud tad On tan ae okie tee ca ben Oe regular or stout proportions. STERN BROTHERS have also arranged for Fridayand Saturday, an Important Sale of ‘ Men’s Furnishings At Extremely Interesting Prices Silk Mixture Negligee ci, be inci took ee ger ay him wih nay sarees § 2.45 Shirts of Imported Madras and Russian Cords, with soft plaits, in stripes, tanall checks and figures, Actual Values $3.50 to 4.00, 2.50) Shirts of Imported Madras, pain few med: Boggy tal Vales $2.25 to 3:00, 1.65 Pajamas of peapnation’ Fabrics, in hie i oor “Actud Value $150, at 1.20 Men’s Pure Linen Handkerchiefs, with colored borders medallion pecking fancy nga Regus Pie $3.00 per Hal Dee” West 23d and 22d Streets sx 1.50 FURS STORED, In Dry Cold Air ‘ 'AT MODERATE PRICES. ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS Charges during the Summer Months are very much lower than at other times. C. G. Gunther’s Sons 901 Fitth Avenue, New York. Telephone 6000 Merray BM. = Me : tve-| Priest Reports the Robbery to - THE EVENING WORLD, SRURSDAY, MAROR 27, 1918. Tinwooa section the committee proposes grade of Twelfth avenue and will ex- ction of the tracks east under | tend south to Forty-fourth street. The w of Inwood Hill, from the | company fe to regrade all cross streets. March 17 wht! ing on @ northbound | Third avenue Newa of the inaundl | was given to- to the police by Rev. a | John 8. Crou of the Seles nt No, who ‘declined to ‘ais ff the victim. He re. ported the lose to the East Bixty-seventh etreet ag MU ae and was told to Driest oad she missed her hand- bag, containing the money, when the dways eady ie Passing Twenty-third street. eM cx | The bag had been cut from the street. | alrae det The money was in bills of | sx mr sare ofa $100 and $00 denominations, she | €, hed just returned with the money after | rations settling up her husband's estate in Ho- Bemla. She noticed two auspicious sieraeereriews ° : Se MAREE Low & High Shoes Get your there of the hun- dreds of dollare that will be saved by our customers to-morrow. Select one of these of a day for a hearing~but the lew re- ible, «There will be much quires it, and it is already accepted 4 road Will Recover. 4 i that there will be no opposition, not the arrangement is the| PHTUADMLPHIA, March %7.—James Sn the recorée of hie permanentiy cured The Superior of Any $17.50 Suites vies Ever Saw. Styles that set it creations in ay hewht of of fashion— Serene and Balkan blouse effects and cutaway, tuxedo and Lady Mon ard Coed’ Surge, Whipeord and tw tone f fabrice, in the ere: ite colors for Spring. In all sizes for women and misses from 14 to 44; also extra and odd sises. Mexgeenyeesld the most superb and most marvelous values posed ret New York at $10.95 Lord @ Tay lor Founded 1826 Men’s Footwear Exceptional Values _ Oxfords, Pumps, Lace or Button Boots, $6.00 values.............0005 ; 9395 $7.00 and $8.00 values...... ae $48 5 ‘*Special”’ Oxfords in Tan Russia, Black Russia and Patent Leather. Value $5.00 ......seecesseeseees $3.25 Men’s Furnishings For Spring and Summer Wear _At Very Special Prices.} ilk Negligee Shirt: Silk Negligee Shirts ae wan $2. 5 All Silk Knitted Four-in-Hands } c Plain colors and fancy. Value $1.50 95 Terry Cloth Bath Robe. iia lanan Su a ea eal $3.50 Pajamas White and colored, V neck, and military} $7.00 collar. 7 Special at Muse. Night Shirts V neck with colored trimmings. Special value Balbriggan Shirts, American Hosie: (broken sizes). Shirts long pal see 50¢ sleeves. Value $1.50 per garment; special at, Fine English White Gauze Cot- ton Spring Weight Underwear, Shirts, 75¢c. Drawers, $7.00. Broadway & 20th St.; 5th Ave.; 19th St. 50¢ Spring and Summer Underwear “ss Continuing the Sale of Sor Women New Spring and Summer Styles for Dress, General Wear and Outing Purposes. $3025 —Value 05.00 Exceptional Values Offered in Chiffon Cloth, Lace, Wash Silk Votle & Batiste Wassts in the very newest models ‘hiffon Cloth, over Brussels net perio collar cera S seated bematinohed ehiflon: -.. $3095 Chiffon Cloth, fine pleated yoke pao with qr eertril of pleated net af collar andcutfs, 95-00 Chiffon Cloth, sttractivey trimmed with _e of white chiffon and shadow lace forming surp! lies, $5.95 new blue, gray and champagne........+.. 5°95 Hh Cc Shadow Lace, pink net aint ea open front, flat collar of lace and chiffon... $7+95 Ci Shadow Lace, flesh net lined, brassiere eee | $72 satin, open front.......+seseeeeseeseees TS fe Voile, err colored flat collar and turn back cuffs, hand embroidered and SE $ COR aU aat scone codacdecssedeed 5095, eifect with colored ribbons introduced. Fae ieee isedand Poventine feos, $2. Brussels net yokeand collar, pleating at sleeve 95 Voile, embroidered in LG ged yeu lace and embroidery forming vest $2.95 | of the newest and most ays tractively trimmed Feikrand Batiste waists, all white or with color intro- duged. p8e, $150 8 $1.95 Mtsses’ and Juniors’ Suits and Coats ceptional Values in Near pte Attractive Models Suits Mi fases ‘and Ji uniors 148i Bs sleet. ne inp ay eth ar ded alg and Value coats handsomely lined..........0..., pa Tailored Susts ne $19.75 et etl pane Bo we Misses’ and Juniors’ Coats All the new, attractive modes, made of serges, erates er ae atripasandcaistaren Pafhey cothe ps He pad ; $7. 95> $9.50 8 $10.95 ues $11.60 to $16.50, { arti geacial Vitae. Children’; Coats and Dresses Children's cso Dresses fe Children's Coston’ Challe and White Lingerie Dress Jes Heodeomely $ rimmed with fine laces and $7.50 Tub Dress canes, Tee De iy $1.95 #2. 95» At. 9 ie $7.95 Children's Coats Sams nS Eran ee $2.95, 8 & to £2 ea chtldren' " Coos,