The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1913, Page 18

“BY LOCKS ON yoo Waterway Is Only 110 Feet, i” and Our Biggest Ship | bo) Will Be 100 a length and breadth finished tt will not ations oe ——-- TUGS WILL BE NEEDED. Vessels Cannot Get ne imposed, WILL NEED TUGS TO A! WARGHIPS, ‘ fo 9 feet wide and the ene will be 10 fect in breadth. ‘TAdemtral Dewey wis asked to-day ‘the Pennsylvania could get] 4#sned, white in building. =, TE OF CUR DREADNOUGHTS LIMITED, SAYS. DENEY PANAMA CANAL man Moltke type ie 610 feet long feet beam, with apecd of 28 knots. ‘These tremendous developments Gevelopment continues at the same rate unchecked by the time the canal is be big enough accommodate the warships of the three The General Board of the Navy, of which Admiral Dewey is tho head, have been figuring on this problem and have informally come to the conclusion that battleships of the future must run to length with no greater breadth than 100 feet. This means much in arrange: ment of armor, guns and stability of ¢ plavform. . There is no possibility of ing the canal locks for years to come; therefore, the ships must chanke to accommodate themselves to the limi- ST BIG Battleship length has increased even faster than beam. The 3% feet of the 10 of 1K8 has been stretched to the © fect of the Pennsyivania, now being Veaped forwant into 600 feet of length. However, the canal can accommodate ships up to nearly 1,000 feet and this ex- treme is very nearly reached tn some @¢ the latest trans-Atlantic liners now It will not be possible for such huge vessels as the Arkansas, the Nevada or the Pennsytvania to get around the Culebra curve without assistance. Tugs will have to be stationed there to swing Two points have been raised in |. One is the width of the locks the other is the width of the chan- the dharp curve at the entrance cut. In the jocks width alone considerat! At the curve ‘ab well as beam te = factor. JGR WIDEN CANAL OR KEEP SHIPS NARROW. General Board of the Navy has @ careful study into this impor- wabject and reported that things ai] fight so far, but that if the tendency to build bigger ships ts Up one ef two things will have to ‘Wone~elther the cans! made larger Réw battleships made narrower in channel, which is but Investigated. bow and stern around th the narrow 300 feet wide. Navy officials do not count that as a serious question. But they do regard the looks as a determining factor in battleship construction of the future. ‘The Queene County Grand Jury under- which was into the reason took to-day an unusual investigationa, why the members o fthe Newton Volunteer Fire Company refused to answer an alarm turned tm on April 6, when the house of Joseph Lavinio, at Ne. 8 Lemox avenue, Woodside, burned to the ground. Tt te charged against the entire com- pany of volunteer firemen, which has the task of orotecting « Jarge area of ‘Wooden Gwellings in the absence of reg- ular city companies, that though tre ‘ol 7 No attention nwas paid volunteers practioaty admit thie accusation, dut offer what they con- gift a nd in to t ‘ ene SVENING MISSING YOUNG MAN WHOSE POSTAL CARDS | TELL OF TORTURERS. + y WORLD, TUBBDAY, APRIL 28, 1918.. TARFF COMMITTEE REPORT [=22: EXPLAINS SWEEPING CUTS :=2== Tables Show Rate on Farm Products Increased 93 Per Cent. Since 1897— $70,000,000 Taxon Incomes. es the rates proposed will yield revenue for the first year under the operetian of the bill as follows: Fatt (9€80,000 | 5,940,000 | 4,200,000 98,108,000 2,100,000 9,000,000 11,860,000 11,680,000 QL IRA a. MAY C7 VANISHED YOUTH VOLUNTEERS’ REFUSAL + TELLS ON POSTALS TOWEED FIRE ALARMS | HE 1S “TORTURED” GES TO GRAND JURY Burning of Newtown Dwelling Without Answer to Call Is ieee Prisoner of Robbers, May Writes From Phitadelphia to Family and Girl Friend. ‘Twe posta! cards, desging for help and saying that he was being tortured, Solomon May, of No. (ya, who has a eilk thread manufac turing busines at No. 629 Broadway. ‘The postales are the firet word the fam. fly have had from the boy since he left Ble home at 8 o'clock last Saturday merning, and the boy's mother was riven nearly frantic by the message they contained. Both postals were matied from the West Park station in Philadelphia at Been yesterday. One was addressed Gtmply ‘May, €@ East Third otreet, Brooklyn.’ The other was addressed “Sallle Thal, Forty-thira street, Brook- lyn,” and was brought to the May home by Mre, Thal, mother of the girl who had been « close friend of young May. ROBBED AND TORTURED, Pos. TALS AGSERT. ‘The postal received at th Pe 0 May home “Help! They are killing me They are holding me against my will. 1 don't ‘know where Iam. TRA." ‘The postal to Miss Thal read: “Help! I am held against my will, ‘They are torturing me. I don't know ‘where 1am, They rothed ma IRA. ‘Bde receipt of these postals threw the ‘May tamily into a fever of apprehen ston, Because they cannot understand how the oy could have mailed the pos- ;| tale ff he wae being restrained their anxiety has doubled, and their mysti- feation ie increased by the fact that the postals seem not to be in the hand- ved writing of Ire, though the addresses resemble jeada: ‘reary and turned ry ~ ee Richi tat tn the burned, nd dead in his berth early to- Coroner found that he had heart disease. i an 208 v4 bike P ~~ onsit ata cincniceaadlnaeiM somewhat his hand. Maz May, the eldest brother of the missing lad, said to-day that he was Positive his brother had not writtem the rad of the postals and was inclined te dof: that he had inscribed the dresses, though he admitted this latter Waa possible, ewpecially as he could not could have known of Miss Thal. Even family scagpely knew her. WITHDRAWN FROM JATURDAY. Detectives the Parkville etation and of the Macdouga! street station, ‘Manhattan, tn which precinct Mr. May's doy, and to-day the Philadelphia police were asked to investigate the postal | cards, ' j Young May was employed in hie father's office and left home Saturday morning to make some collections, then to viait the Jefferson Hank, at the How- ery and Grand atreet, there to depoatt $150 and to cash @ bearer's check for $60, Since the boy's failure to return Saturday night hi ily have tried to trace his mov ts on Saterday, They have been uccessful, except that they learned that $150 had been deposited and the $50 withdrawn from the bank. Whether the withdrawal was |made by young May, however, they! | Could not learn, ‘They visited several | firms from whom he was to lave made codlections and discovered that he had visited nome of them, ae | enue requirements and m: (Stew Correspondent of The Bvening ; ow wens.) 3.44 | and 4 ‘per ced, 100 6,690,000 WABHINOTON, April 22.—The 30.001 as saaee orasenens| House Ways and Moans Committee ow | “For twenty-five years a contest has! Teported to-day the new tariff. bill aa been waged throughout the country tn| that has been under consideration 35.00 | P@hAalf of the adoption of a Ledge Ins the past two weeks in Democratio 38.00 local ‘% be “ihe ecatineat Ih caucus and recommended that ft be! watches... Pry Rr favor of this movement finally became) passed. The report reviews the hi |THE COMMITTE THEORY OF |% Trons that the people overturned | Supreme Court of the United States by writing into the Con- stitution the first amendment within forty years. “For the fiscal year ending June 8@, 1912, the Government derived 8311,000,- 000 from tariff taxation and §293,000,- 000 from internal revenue proper. These taxes rest solely on consump- tion, The amount each citizen con- oo atenae tributes ie governed not by his ability “@. The attainment of thisenaby | to pay tax, but by his consumption of legislation that will not injare of | tho articles taxed. It requires as many resample ~sete yarde of cloth to clothe, and as many t that tariff schedutes alm-| ounces of food to sustain, the dey two conditions can damage |jaborer as the largest holder of in- vented wealth; each pays inte the Federal Treasury a like amount of taxea upon the food he eats, while the former at present pays a larger rate of tax upon this cheap suit of woollen clothing than the latter upon his costly duit, The result is that the poorer classes bear the chief burden of our @uetom house taxation.” tory of half a century of high tariff TARIFF REVISION. and declares: “We believe that the pledge in the Democratic platform 1912 contains two essential ideas, both of which have been applied in the formulation of this DIN, as follows: Hi 3 g 5 s 5 Fi & 3 3 3 3 5 “h ts ing at ¢ no legitimate industry and ix the that can be asked by thone who desire the consumer to be safeguarded in some measure against exploitation by monop- “Probably the most striking economte | pues that now Bractically dictate prices change since 1897 has been the tremen- “ Gous Increase In the coat of livingre |THE INCOME TAX AND REVENUE aituation which has attracted the anz- IT WILL BRING. fous attention of economists the world | “It Je estimated that, exclusive of i=" News Oddilics tive advance in living costs that POWERS order Montenegro to eccot trom Soutart. ments between the years of 1897 must be studied in close connectiofs with the working of the tariff law. TREMENDOUS INCREASE COST OF LIVIN: has taken place during the criticdl Period in queation in the United States: Relative wholesale 18.7 MOVEMENT to stop tipping has been begun in'Geneva, Switserland, where 123.7 most of the good waiters come from. Metals and Im- plements ..:.... se 188 a2 SUMMER {9 not kere just yet. Steamer bas been sunk by the Ice in the Straits of Mackinaw. i ure 23.9 os COOK BOOK just issued by the Government tells sixty different ways to Le cook mutton, . @.7 ine. THERE IS NO REPORT that Mayor Gaynor is going to join the Mayor of Twerease in prices of selected staple| Philadelphia at the University of Wisconsin. commoditics Price over SOCIETY DANCES tn Boston are worse than those in the public dance halls, . {om the authority of Mayor Fitageraid VINCENT ASTOR has bought @ farm tractor that can do the work of @ighty-two horses. DE WOLF HOPPER (es cunning Net Goodwin a close matrimonial race, BOY caught etealing horses in Philadelphia sald they needed green grace and he was going te take them to pasture. NEWFOUNDLAND DOG ewam forty feet out in the ocean at Venice, Cal. and saved a girl from drowning. DIRECTOR OF HYGIENE in the Boston pubiic schools says 6,00 pupils 20.00 are eo weak physically that their instruction is of no value to them. 3 AUSTION NATURAL RESOURCES. FOUR YEARS' LITIGATION between the widow of Rear-Admiral Ladiow “The rapid growth in population and| and St, John's Church in Oakdale, L. I., over the right to a graveyard has ended the faiture of domestic resources to|in favor of the church. Meet the demand for an increased sup- Play of agricultural products, and in VISITORS to the Metropolitan Museum yesterday saw “The Bather,” Sculp gome respects for manufactured goods,| tor Stewardeon's famous marble, undergoing @ rea! bath at the hands of an have been most noteworthy during the| sttendant. ) consideration. ¥. 7 i i Hi | ga t s rt ! i § Hl H bi Hi hi ii i i ! | i i ! i : from their erigtnal evurces. “That the protective system has been greatly influential in maintaining a BisTEEE Hae iF fi Ey Ways and Means Committee atrong- ly confirma the belief that there is rare- ly @ highly protected industry in which @ considerable percentage of the plants DISTINCTION BETWEEN N SITIES AND LUXURIE! “In ite tariff revision work the com- mittee has kept in mind the distinc- | tion between the mecessities and the luzuries of life, reducing the tariff bur- dens on the necessities to the lowest possible point commensurate with rev- ws the lux. urtes of life bear their proper propor- 600 Nostrand Ave. Bedford 19016 19000 001 Flatbesh Ave. Flatbush 19016 Hevemeyer St. and the olf duties, reduct cases but, increases In o uries fe a tab comparison between present dut! these proposed. the report @: FAR ROCKAWAY Birdsall & Central Aves. Far Rockaway 19014 TOMPHINS VILLE --444 Torapkins Ave. ‘Tomspkinsvilie 19006 WEST NEW BRIGHTON—1¢s Columbia St. West Brighten 19086 NEW YORK @) wwe o. Common sosp. Washing Earthenware . Knives and fo! Lumbe: Sugar Flour Macaron! . Rice . IT MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE WHAT YOU WANT, iran’ ees A WORLD WANT. WILL. GO AND- OM ' corporation tax, the income tag under SAFE Fourteenth 1 it ed incomes and revenue from | gay, treet, It was learned to- | Bunday evening and Mondey morning. Revenee, | About 61,000 was taken from the safe. when he opened the store yesterday morning he found that burgiars had come over the roofs of nearby build- ing, broken through a thirdestory win- | back of back Atty feet to the stockroom, drilled tmto the door with eight drilis, which they left behind them. They set off | Selly es sei arto 7 also le! ind. The door QNB,000 was blown half way across the room. Malis sgh a VEO Tis a BLOWERS GET $1,000. ‘The Irving Hat store at No, 10 Hast wpe robbed some time between Moe Neichen, the manager, said that w and had then worked their way wn, amashing @ door at. each land- until they reached the stockroom je store, They rolled the safe dames MeCreery & Co. 34th Street 23rd Street On Wednesday, April 23rd Special Sale LEATHER GOODS. Women’s Bags of Colored Silk Moire, also Belts of Patent Leather, Calfskin, Suede, Satin and Silk Moire With covered buckles. Black Patent Leather Belts, 214 inches wide, 85¢ value 1.25 Belts of Black Patent Leather or Calfskin in Red, Blue, Tan and Green. 8 inches wide. 1.00 value 1.50, ; Black Suede Belts, silk lined. ..value 1.75, 95¢ Black Satin and Moire Belts, value 3.00, 1 95 Black Satin and Moire Belts, $ to 4 inches wide, value 4.50, 2.95 Silk Bags in Black, Blue, Green, Violet, Tan, Gray and White. value 3.50, 2.50 Fancy Silk Pouch Bags..3.00, 4.50 to 25.00 WOMEN’S SILK SKIRTS. Messaline Petticoats with messaline ruffle and silk drop; also Silk Jersey Tops with messaline ruffle. The prevailing shades. vatue 3.50, 2.95 Skirts of Messaline or Crepe de Chine, Silk Jersey Top and messaline ruffle. value 6.50, 4.95 “Klosfit” Petticoats of Messaline, Silk Jersey ; and Jersey Top with messaline ruffles. ’ Special 5.00 C/B A LA SPIRITB CORSETS. An extensive variety of models for every type of figure. Made of Coutil and Batiste. 4 1.00, 1.50 to 3.00 Models for average figures, made of dainti flowered materials. 3.50 and 5& Models for stout figures, with double boning and three pairs of hose supporters. 2.50. 3.00 and 3.50 _WOMEN’S HOUSE GOWNS.” A large and attractive assortment of Negligees, Kimonos and House Gowns, at. moderate. prices. Negligees of Crepe de Chine trimmed with hand embroidery; plain or plaited akirt. values 9.26 and. 16.50, 7.85 and 12.50 Negligees of Albatross with lingerie collar, lace trimmed. values 2.25 and 9.50,. 5.75 and 6.95 Kimonos of Washable Silk Mull,—shirred ribbon trimmed. | 1.95 and 2.75 is values 2.95 and 3.75 Negligees of Flowered Dotted Swiss,—ribbon and lace trimmed. 95c, 1.95 and 2.95 value 1.95 to 3.95 Crepon Kimonos, trimmed models.............. value 1.95 to 3.75, 1.45, 1.95 and 2.25 House Dresses in neat models........,....0/.., value 1.60 to 2.80, 1.00, 1.35 and 1.50 cng ees Fur Storage (Dry Cold Ais) Vault on Premises Latest Scientific Construction Fur Garments, Muffs, Neckpieces, Suits, |. Dresses, Rugs, Curtains, etc., insured |: against loss or damage. 4