The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1913, Page 5

” 5,000 Roams Are Provided. ¥ \ ~~ THOOSAOS WAT NURS IN LINE AT EQNEY BATHHDSE Half-Mile Line Stands From 11 A. M. to 4 P. M. Waiting for Municipal Locker. WOMEN “SUFFER MOST. Room for Only 1,300, They Outnumber Men, for Whom Abother 11,00 throng of bathers, a| large. m of which spent from! @me to four hours standing in line Wefore they could gain admittance, pat- fenized the Municipal bathhouse at Cégey Island yesterday in an effart to eommpe the city’s heat. Boon ‘wafil not jong before closing tim Was @ constant stream of men, women ang children more or less patiently , Waiting their turn. Any one, viewing ‘tha spectacle cou'd not fall to be im- | Dressed with the imperative necessity of enlarging the present structure or building @ similar bathhouse on the adjoining property, which is already he possession of the city. early as 6 o'clock in the morning bathers began appearing at the great concrete bullding, and by 8 o'clock there were long lines of waiting men an women. During the early hours the congestion was most apparent on the men's side. At 8 o'clock there was & Une of men reaching from the en- trance along the Surf avenue wall to the Ocean Parkway curve, tl ‘ mile. Owing to the fact that thei accommodations for 5,500 men against 1,8 rooms for women, the congestion on the men's side ‘vas relieved so! what after hard work by the bath tenfants, but it was not until late in the afternoon that the waiting line of women disappeared. Ss the women's side the walting tine| rvonutiye Gomagder teat large part existed almost up to the hour of clos-| CP'the putiding was out of use in con- ing the beach, a living spectacle of! Sequence and that the bath privileges the inadequacy of the bathhouse. Some] were greatly abused by @ large per- women, even with little children, were| centage of patrons who held rooms for a0 eager to take a dip in the cooling) an unreasonable length of time, waves that they remained in line for! ‘ne path house has capacity for 5,33 hours. One party of girls who suc-| men and 1,2% women at one time, and cosded in getting keys soon after 3) according to attendance figures on the @elock sald they had been in! average week days last July, the num®. the line at 11 o'clock in the morning. | ner of men exceeded the women by 73, In apite of oe byeatulgdtiat tia ed but ae Accum ‘the women exceeded the » | men : . att oa of | 600,000 BATHERS TO BREAK REC- those in line were “regulars,” and had ORD THIS YEAR, been through the same perience be- It fe estimated that more than 600,000 pa’ iz @ municipal at al e MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BE-| ong of the present season, This will FORE ARE USING BATH-HOUSE. | be far in excess of the number that A stroll around on the seaward side} made use of the baths last season. A of the big bath-houee helped the investi-| table of the attendance on seven days @stor learn one reason for the jam at| of this season shows the follow! the doors tn front. For the most part Males, Females. patrons of the house are those who come | Sunday, June 2. ‘early and stay late, and it seems im-| Sunday, June perative that unless some action is| Friday, July taken hy the Board of Estimate on The| Saturday, July Byening World's application for an ap-| Sunday, July 6. 936 propriation to defray the cost of build. Saturday, July 2 ing eltber an addition or an additional| Sunday, July 20. 3,11 bath-house, that a time limit will have to be set upon the use of the lockers| Totals 69 22,34 rol President Lewis H. Pounds speine: Ae of Brooklyn is one ef the most enthu- + h iteelf, eve: roving too| sastic supporters of the idea of bultd- on Page obypactip a oy a Beka Pitan ing @ now and larger house at Coney eng rooms until adequ provided. Island, as well as enlarging the present one, “There is little weight to the ery that we cannot spare the money to build annexes,” he says, “Ecenomy is the issue, for in dullding and enlai We are practising the greatest of economies. We are offering the est sanitary good that could be red, and we are recognizing the just de- mands of the whole people, While at the same time we are giving these good| things witho financial wi ————— SEEKS SKIN TO SAVE CHILD. Father Avertises for 10 Inches to Be Gratted—Two Volunteers, MAN eter cenit! wi to ‘oath wale che Kornvein, 642 Hopkinson av,, Brookiyn, The above among the World's want yesterday. It was inserted’ by Samuel Kornvein, @ brush polisher of No. 642 Hopkinson avenue, Brooklyn. Rosie Kornvein, six years old, one of six children, has been in St. Mary's Hospital since April 7, She fell into @ bonfire and was badly burned about the body, Her wounds have not healed and she Is: in a serious condition. ‘Two persons responded yesterday. Dr. Regan sald that about 20 inches of skin would be necessary and that the two persons who offered themselves would ‘be considered. loss to the city in @ THE EVENING wo Girls Waiting Hours for Coney Swim, and All-Day Locker Holders ee RED, MUN “ ens DAY, Juus 60 ee ivis. U Z CAL'S BROTHER LOKS INVA FOR PROF OF MURDER Calls on Prosecutor of Kings County, but Cannot Solve Churchyard Mystery. SUICIDE, POLICE INSIST. Cropsey’s Assistant Said to Have Reported Against the Murder Theory. Sergt. Philip W. Cahill of the Ord- nance Department of the regular army called on District-Attorney Cropsey in Brooklyn to-day to discuss the death of hie brother, Policeman John E. Cahill, who was found dead @ week ago to-day with @ bullet wound in his head and Might stab wounds on his body in the} yard of St. Matthew's churchyard at Utica avenue and Lincoln pla Mr. Cropsey declined to sa: regarding the conference. Assistant Dis- trict-Attorney Conway, who has been conducting investigations with the ald of, four detectives for a week, has, it is known, reported to Mr. Cropsey that there is no reason to believe that Cahill ‘was killed by anybody but himeelf. Gergt. Cahilh after his three-quarters of an hour talk with Mr. Cropeey, sald: “My brother was murdered. But no one has the right to say that he was diled by a policeman. Nothing that I have eald should be interpreted that way. To blame the police or any policeman di- rectly or indirectly would be most dis- honorable, SAYS BROTHER WAS ENTHUSI- ASTIC OVER HIS FARM. “John loved life, There was not a mor- bid drop of blood in nis body. He had bought a farm over on Staten Island and was full of his plans for moving when he could get @ transfer from Brooklyn. ‘He spent his days off working on his garden down there. To be sure, he only spent an hour on Staten Island the day before he was killed, but that does not mean anything, Ieaw him four 4 everything was fine and things could not be going better. “1 do not know who killed my brother. I have no clue pointing to any |person or persons. But I do want to clear his memory of the stigma of suicide and I have asked Mr. Cropsey to represent the interests of the fam- fly at the inqu Policeman Cahill'’a other brother, W. James Cahill, who has a grocery in rk Place, Brooklyn, did not viait Mr. Cropsey, though he had been ex- pected. Sergt. Cahill said that after a talk with James, they had decided that there was nothing in the informa- tion of James which would warrant his leaving his business to talk with the District-Attorney, “There's no mystery in the case at all,” he went on. “Why, one of the man's brothers admitted to me that he believed he had taken his own life.” doned the suicide theory. Mrs. Cahill @ays Mr. Dougherty and three detec- tives made the search and then went to the home of her uncle and foster father, Frederick Pflander of Hemp- otead, L. 1, and that. RUMMAGED THROUGH DEAD MAN'S PAPERG, SAYS WIFE. “When Mr. Dougherty arrived here with his detectives he sald he wanted to go through the house, and, of course, I permitted him to,” said Mrs. Cahill “1 don't know what was after or what he found, but I know that the search Was most thorough, Poaition my husband had | © Custom House before our mam but I didn’t krow what position anything about it.” fornia THUG FELLS A GIRL. Robbery at Revolvers Point Streets of Willia ‘s Accosted by three men, each aiming a revolver, Agnes MoCarren, twenty-two, of No, 1 North Fifth street, Wi \ scream, One of the men turned and struck her with his fist, sending her to the pave- ment, while the others dropped the! of the Stagg street station chased one | > of the men two blocks and arrested | ;, him. At the station the prisoner gave his Name as Michael Messino of No. 208 Graham avenue, Williamsburg, He wae arraigned in the Manhattan Avenue Court on charges of assault and robbery. le MERVILLE, N. J., July @.—By a incidence two citizens of this have dropped dead during the last twelve hours. ‘ Culver 8. Gernert, firm of Gernert Bros. James Barbierri fell dead iast evening while jends in The infant died, and Barbvlerri, who had been greatly depressed, was telling of his sorrow to his friends. Heart disea: ja y tl eters he was Billed and he told me| Ue’ Bartlorri's death. SHOWER OF “HAM AND” — One Boy Heaves Meat From a High Eleventh avenue and Thirty-seventh street to~lay happened to glance to- ward the eky in time to see a ham fourth floor of Rhoe Brothers big pro- vision house, way to @ yard- under the window and burg, was forced into a doorway in| tabtin Johnson avenue to-day and tobbed of) Bunker! her pura , containing $4.60. The hold-| window, drop to the roof and start down up men ordered her to keep silent until) through the tenement at (No, 46 Elev- they had disappeared, but as soon as! enth avenue, they started to run the girl began to| ¥) six hams in the bag. The pt.sonore were John Lally, sixteen, of No, 667 purse and fied. Policeman Kchroeder | West Fg Ame) street Grath, iecorenavetlipinareaants TWO DROP DEAD IN 12 HOURS. | morn: ceiling fell on their bed, Thi escaped without Injury, ls an old two-story frame structure and the ceiling had shown signs of weakening for some time INTERESTS A POLICEMAN NEWPORT, R. 1., July %.—Society ts observing the so-called Sunday law—but only by the closest of margins. At ¢ minute before midnight Mra. Stuyverant Fish ended her Saturday night dinner ance. This morning at one minute af- ter midnight, Mrs. R. T. Wilson began ‘the dancing part of har dinner. Mra. Wilson's strictly timed dance, tended by members of Washington, York and Boston society, visiting naval officers, was a de- Window and a Smaller Lad Tucks It In a Bag. Policeman Kohler. on patrol at merge from one of the windows on the In a minute or so out ‘ame another ham. Moving cautiously Kohler /made his here he eaw a little boy putting the last ham that had descended into a bag. The boy wag hidden in the shadow of ab n roofs of a row of tenements in Bl enth avenue and found that on of the enements backed up against the Rohe 1a window in the Ri aw @ youth climb out They trailed him to the Joined the boy, and the y with the bag. Then jeen aides of bacon end ‘ard, where he wo rted 4 Fred ‘Thi. | ‘hes irteen, of No, 682 W 5 of larceny the Childres prices of PY ’ Mabel, twelve, were 63 room of thelr hom avenue, the Bronx, this @ large section of the plaster padly cut and brutsed and The bulla! styles . . ° EEs ia FEET. % Look for this Trade-Mark Picture on the Label when buying ‘The Antiseptic Powder to be shaken into the shoes for Tender, Achii len Feet. The standard ry} ‘ter Century. id everywhere, Address, » Le Rey, N.Y. collars . . . for the feet for a 000 testimonials. and striped effects, at Induced by our rapidly Still, Mr, Dougherty declined to reveal @ll the evidence on which he bases his conclusions, eaying that It would be pre- sented at the inquest, and made public if the Coroner deems it advisable. It has been learned that Mr. Dough- erty led in person @ search of the Cahill home, No, 120 Chestnut atreet, East New York, on Thursday afternoon. At that time the police had not atan- the muntoipal bath-house, for yester-| = day when the house wag running full Diest there was hardly « square yard of mand near the bath-house that was met ccoupied. Many bathers, arriving full day of it, as per- present rules, brought Juncheons and other comforts and con- tentedly loafed in the warm sand while tuekiess late-comers cooled their heels the entrance, Bumors heve been afloat that a form wef petty graft was being practiced by some attendants at the baths, but there weams Uttle evidence of it. They oris- nated apparently in the fact that “mgnnere” for nearby privately owned bath-houses go along the | these men were the tendants who for a sly dime weuld pisit an impatient patron through a @ate alead of the waiting line, Inves- tigntion indicated that every one had to take his place in line and wait his turn. commenting upon the situation yesterday, Charles E. Sackman, man- er of the house, laid great reas upon the hardships imposed upon ‘women patrons of the baths particularly, Eve: wholesale. workshops this season. The Largest Retail Clothiers in New York Every Suit in Our Immense Stock GREATLY ALL NO OTHER PRICES The Most Remarkable Clothing Sale in New York Today Not a single summer suit to be carried over. red luced to prices way below We made every suit in our produce. EDUCED ow 1316-22 Suits of the best quality that shrewd cloth buyirig and high tension shop efficiency can Prices positively affect our Entire Stock without reserve, Because women are given rooms in- stead of the lockers that are provided male patrons, the number of women that can be accommodated its much smaller, as the house is partitioned equarely in the middle. Mr. Sackman eaid that taking care of 3,700 women in @ day with only 1,300 rooms, as has been the case once. this summer, is ‘consid. erable job.” BOARD WILL DISCUSS QUESTION OF CO8T AND RETURNS. ‘The question as to whether the pres- ent bath house has justified its cost prewadly will be discussed by the Board of Estimate at its meeting thi woow. Edward L. Woody, @uperintendemt of the building, has @hown chat during the eeason of 1912 Qa income of $25,300.80 was reported and Out of this $17,000 was disbursed for mathtaiance and helps Fully 143,49 male. and 100,598 females made use ot the baths. From a business standpoint the tax payers were benefited. The Corporate Budget Stock Com- ttee im ite report to the Board of Genying the Every one of our $22-$20-$18 two and three piece suits, includ- ing all this season’s most pop- ular models, without reserve. . Every one of our $30-$28-$25 two and three piece suits, includ- ing all this season’s most pop- ular models, without reserve. . $40-$35 two and three piece suits, includ- ing all this geason’s most pop- ular models, without reserve. . / Every one of our $4: 'WEW YORK OF THE CA! "13 16 ‘22 You cannot afford to miss this sale. a) buying opportunities ot Suits, Suits, “ ‘Waistcoats, CASH OR ALL GOODS MARKED Axminster Rugs Axminster tales G80, «1 18.98 THES ein, ot 12.49) Fave 015, a1 10.98 4. Out-of-Town Deliveries to Your STERN BROTHERS West 23d and 22d Streets For To-morrow, Tuesday AN OUT-OF-THE-ORDINARY SALE OF Men’s and Youths’ Clothing our New Building, this Final Clearance ofters Formerly $25.00 to 30.00, 15.00 to 20.00, « Khaki or Duck Trousers,“ Also Boys’ Clothing, Furnishings and Hats at Greatly Reduced Prices prior to removal. Boys’ Washable Suits : prices: oncoming removal to exceptional character. each . 6 6 $19.50 12.50 at per pair . . . Rain Coats, “ 20.00 to 25.00, « 15.00 fi ° . . Auto Dusters, « 6.0to 7.50, « 3,95 ade Blazer Coats, « 6.50 to 7.50, « 3.95 perrpair . . . Flannel Trousers, Formerly $5.00 to 6.00, 3.75 2.00 to 2.50, 3.50 to 5.00, 1.35 1.85 “First Aid to the will hold the following Special Sales to-morrow (Tuesday): An Additional Purchase of ~«' Women’s House and Porch Dresses ~ in a diversity of popular styles, made up in sheer Summer fabrics, at the unusually low $1.35, 2.00 & 3,25 Women’s Summer Neckwear offering the following special values: Fichus of Net, featuring the new popular . at 45c. & 85c. Sleeveless Guimpes of Net, finished with low + at 75c. & 90c. 55c, each in Sailor and Russian styles, sizes incomplete, taken from the regular stock and reduced to , . A Sale of Household Linens affording an excellent opportunity for eco= nomic purchasing, at the following attractive Linen Damask Table Cloths $2.35, 2.90 & 3.50 Table Napkins to match + $2.90 & 3.60 Hemstitched Linen Sheets + $4.85 & 6.25 Hemstitched Linen Pillow Cases ‘ $LIS & 1.25 GET A VACATION KIT —and a 48 page— Injured” Booklet ty $LIS an ie “ e A Special Sale of Boys’ Clothing :. This offering consists of ‘ a Boys’ Unlaundered Blouses, with attached a or detachable soft collar; in attractive colors *” ‘39 M a tt nese 9218 gan, «, 17.98|1-9512, value $30, at 24.98 3X Quality Yomlece Wilton Velvet RB 4,626.6, value $9, a) Axminster R CREDIT IN PLAIN FIGURES Rugs Brussels Rugs Tales 14, os . gs 6.6, value $9, at 6.98] "32, oo, . 5.98 Own Door by Motor Trucks IN NEXT. 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