The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1913, Page 8

iN . pacts tes ose n= aaa ans. te 4 ii i 1 } % TOSETHEARG FORPARK AVENUE Gives Vanderbilt and Others Chance.to Publicly Protest Against New Grade. MAY VETO PROJECT. President McAneny Fighting | for Plan and Declares It Will Benefit City. tn love. The project to lower Thirty-fourth @treet and Park avenue, voted on fa- ‘Vorably by the Board of Ketimate yes- Serday, threatens to bring on a contro- Versy with the Mayor on one side and Borough President McAneny on the other, ‘The powerful interests of the New Work Central Railroad Company have Geen brought to bear to prevent the qty from carrying out the plan of the Borough President. Those interests @ate around the big Vanderbilt Hot @t Thity-fourth street and Park fue, which was built Vanderbiit| ‘Money and which will ha Brunt of the radical change in grad: @ontemplated in the McAneny plan. J @ituation became sd intense that tho ‘Bacona, Morgans, Belmonts and Batley» together with the prominent men iden- ‘Tifled with the Board of Trustees of the Church of the Messiah, at Thirty-fourth hospital one last appeal. Street and Park avenue, prevailed up vn | higher level. the Mayor to withhold his vote at | Insues, under ERI, Pa, May 28.—With a revolver | clasped in one hand and a wedding ring in the other, Jacob Demerle wan found early to-day, mortally wounded, while close by lay the dead body of Marie James with whom Demerie had fallen Infatuated with the young ‘woman, Demerle had climbed a porch pont into her room, shot her to death and then sent a bullet into hie own brain, He died two hours later at the Friends of Demerle said they under- stood Miss James had promised to marry the young man, but last night refused him. At 8 o'clock this morn- ing he went to her home, climbed into the room and is supposed to have made | When again refused | he shot the girl arid himeelf. n officer broke Into the room Demerle till held the wedding ring. WALL STREET. Stocks were offered at concessions! from the last prices of yesterday, the) On his refusal, he said, rise was too rapid to continue as the ply seemed to be plentiful at the Selling waa noted in some cover of the advance ft lie THE EVENING WO Q AGREES RLECTED SUTOR. [WE OF CME RLS GIL, THE SHOTS HNSEL Young Lover Is Found Lying Near Victim With Wedding Ring Clasped in Hand. ACCUSED IN COURT C WAVING A REVOLVER — Contractor Swears Mrs. Wills Forced Him to Sign Receipt, but Jury Exonerates Her. Charging that Mrs, Nat M. Wills, wife | Of tbe comedian, put a revolver to hin head in her home on April 6, forcing him to sign @ receipt for a bill on which | there was still $329 unpaid, William Sinkowitz, a plumbing contractor, of No. 113 East Third street, brought sult to- day againat the comedian's wife before Judge Hoyer and a jury in the Second District Municipal Court. Sinkowlts testified he had done $3,000 worth of decorating for Mra, Wills and | had deen paid alt but $977. According to Sinkowits's testimony, he went to the Wills home, No, 47 West Ninety-seventh street, at 11 o'clock P and was told by Mrs, Wills to remain until the guests she wan entertaining had gone. Sinko- wits ald he waited unti! 1 o'clock in the morning, and was conducted up- stairs, where Mra, Wits and Fred Hoaker, her secretary-chauffeur, were awaiting him, When he presented the bill for $977, Sinkowitz said Mra, Wills brought 3638 and told him that was all she intended to pay, The contractor Informed tie Court that there arowe a discussion ‘n which he was called many insulting names by the comedian's wife, who, he sald, took a revolver from a desk and levelled # at hie head, demanding that | he sign the receipt in full or be shot. When the secre- tary took a hand in the dispute, the end of which came an hour later when Sinkowitz, on one knee, wrote on the | meeting of the Board yesterday wita = ‘i the understanding that he would afford q ‘the opponents of the plan an oppot- tunity to be heard at a public hearing. a2 Today the Mayor again took up the ~ ge —s €onalderativa of the subject and fina decided toogive the public hearing, » t Qing the date for June 10, at 10.90 A. M.; (Whe arrangement with the Mayor was mage by Edmund L. Baylies, counsel for the opponents. In naming the date ef the public hearing, the Mayor made! RO comment. Under the charter he has | ¢ the power of veto over any * Bain upsettied points that he now de- res, the public hearing. OPPNNENTS SAY EXPENSE WILL ig BE TREMENDOUS, 7 At the hearing the opponents to the! pian wromine iv make a formidable + showing and will produce tagts and fis- | | tires to show that the city ts net fug- | i tiled elther from the standpoint of ax-| (pende or expediency in making the dras- | SS tic change contemplated by) President © MecApeny. The expense itself will be A ‘enormous, the opponents declare, and in the end the city will be forced to pay = Deavy damaxes. é To this President McAneny repites What the expense attending will be! Engineers not in the employ of have been retained by him to the plans and estimate the figures show a merely non- ture. The opponents say the cost the city millions in the President McAneny declares exceed $300,000 all told, ing for his plan and will at the Mayor's public ey: 4 REE HT 3 " sf 1 ¥ g . 4 i i out of the present gap Park avenue and Fourth President McAneny to- of the general plan to an additions] and badly needed and south thoroughfare. jue, though the broadest street Qlapbattan, has deen broken and prac- 4 if 4 e Mealy cut out of the city’s atreet sys- > fem from Thirty-ninth street south to —-Fhirty-second atreet. Meanwhfle the 3 f@reffic on Fifth avenue has grown to| Beans is absolutely imperative. MANENY POINTS OUT THE ADVANTAGES. “The advantages of the pian which ‘the Board of Estimate approved yester- Gay are these “Phat the present Foadway running at a steep incline from Thirty-second street to Thirty-| nd unbroken plasa; “That the hump in Thirty-fourth Steelf will be removed, and the to the east, which at present pre- @ents @ barrier to the further develop- > Ment of the strect, cut to a level six Beet beneath th “That the aurfa ® level, thus permit Branafer of the more than 76,000 Sengern a day who ‘slim vu i down the tunnel staira. ‘Phat Thirty-third etreet, which is to traMc cast and west. “That the shifting of the fourth and Thirty-fitth streets will in- Yolve the use of no space that ts not giready withdrawn from vehiculur trafic. The roadway above Thirty- fourth street is, moreover, twenty fevt ‘Wider than it Is below. “That the value of the properties on Fourth avenue below Thirty-fourth ptrect, as ‘well as the values upon Phirty-fourth street between Madison WAN Lexington avenues, will be greatly and peat merry ‘and Thirty-fo1 ee @ value of the city's own ar- irth atreets, will be in- according to the catimates of @etate experts, by at least $500,000, pattie adliaad _ Crane le Pele Refere: |, Me w—Josnua Dedham Polo Club, who rete .|back to the opening price. | market ts such that it ts likely to re.) street will be replaced by a| @ito blocked at present, will also be! funnel to the block between Thirty: | » between Thirty-third | Pennsylvania stock was sold, Some lote for that stock was notedgin ye selling, while California Petro- leum common was sold from the open- ing down to 34%, but seemed to meet buying orders at this price, and came In contrast to yesterday's market the transactions fell off considerable with long periods between salen, but at times having an active appearance with short spurta, Closing prices were mixed, a few alight-; ly lower, while a few advanced # frac- | tion. The technical position of the stock spond further to favorable news. Spec- | ulators do not look for any pronounced | decline from thie level in the standard fanuen. There in a strong disposition to believe that very substantial prog- ress has been made toward working | out a satisfactory dissolution plan for the Unton Pactfc tn spite of the num- éroun statements to the contragy. News from the Weat uttiern Pacific officia’s are on their way to this city for another Gonference and Union Pacific advanced three points, showing the strong interest taken in every sign of a solution of this prob- lem. ‘The Tennessee Copper Company de- clared a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent., or 75 cente a share, payable dune 8, to holders of record June 10. | The company has already paid e ghare on January 30 last... It is the intention of the company to pay extra dividends if the earnings justify it. LEIFEd deed leni i++ +1 Hil +1414 \t a ‘seek, 08 Bt Miah’ Copper OR ‘tow | ee |POLICEMAN ROBINSON REFUSED A NEW TRIAL. Graft Collector Now Serving Term in Sing Sing Makes Ap- peal in Vain, Ex-Patrolman Thomas F, Robinson, oe graft collector who is now serving @ six-year term in Sing Sing prison, was refused a certificate of rea- sonable doubt by Bupreme Court Justice Pendleton to-day. The Court wrote no opinion, the decision being simply marked “Denied.” Robinson was convicted of extorting back of an envelope placed on a piano stool the receipt which wis demand- ed. He sald it was then 2 o'clock in the morning, The recetpt tn question was produced by Mra, Wills as evidence of payment. It had been written on the back of an envelope. Mrs, Wills indignantly de- nied she threatened the contractor, and inaiated the payment of $638 was made | after an agreement was reached, which agreement Sinkowliz now intended to! break, The chauffeur declared there was no threat used to make Sinkowits eign @ receipt in full for w $3,000 bill, of which $2,761 had already been pa! Mrs, Wills's contention wan that difference represented » dlacount. Judge Hyvyer examined the contested | from @ dry goods concern under false receipt, which was written in a firm ' pretences. LD, hand, and told Ginkowits he had not proved that he was forced to eign it because of fear or threats of physical violence. The Judge directed the jury to ring dn a verdict In favor of Mra. Wille, This was promptly done, ami the comedian's wife, amiling at each of the jurors in turn and twice at Judge Hoyer, hurried out to her automobile, ——»—- VESIMUS W EUPTON SPOUTS ASHES AND CASES EATHOUNE New and Large Central Fissure Opens Around the Crater— Disturbance Is Local. —_——- NAPLES, Italy, May 2.—Vesuvius during the night and this forenoon showed renewed signs of activity, one eruption causing a slight earthquake shock. A new and large central fissure has opened round the crater from which ashes ate emitted which, however, have not yet gone beyond the Iimits of the volcano. __OT!s NAME HE CALLED OFFICER COSTS 3 MONTHS IN PRISON. Seventeen-Year-Old Defendant Has Sentence Doubled When He Loses Temper in Court. After Probation Officer Mullins had | made his report to the Justices in Part | 1. of Special Seaslons to-day in the care, of seventeen-year-old Fred Rose, had violated his parole, Presiding Jus- | tice Zeller Imposed a sentence of three | months In the penitentiary on the pris- | oner. Rose was about to return to the i detention pen when he stopped and | shook his fist at the probation officer and sald something to a court attend- ant, “Bring that prisoner back," said Jua- tice Zeller. He asked the court atttend- ant what Rose had said. “He said the oMcer had framed him up,” replied the attendant, “and called him @ name that Is too vile for me to eat to Your Honor.” ‘You are a contemptible scoundrel,” ald Justice Zeller to Rose. “The sen- tence imposed is vaeateq,and you are sentenced to #ix months In the peni-| tentiary instead.” Rose was convicted of getting goods F FREE house, He asked for a certificate whion, {f granted, would enable him to leave Bing Sing and obtain bail, pending an appeal from his conviction, fis attor- neys took seven exceptions to the meth- od of the trial, ‘The most important point was the refusal by Justice Bea- | trial Judge, to charge the jury ar “If the money was obtained trom Tancredi upon the agreement prom- jie to Polo match two years ago, ta @ eimilar capacity in the ry next month, It was ae oy a Pages. na ho be convicted of | Henry Kopp, attorney for Robinson, maintained it that if jent were Bullty of any crime i it wae thar ot paibery.,006 ngs : money from the keeper of a disorderly | With every Ritchie Suit a handsome 48 star, of heavy texture fabrics. sewed with d ‘The most complete line of flannel outing trousers shown in New York, comprising fancy serges, plain and fancy flan- nels, made to your individual measure. 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