The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1913, Page 1

““ Circulation Boaks Open to AU.” | _ PRICE ONE CENT. ————— NEW YOR AUGUST 20, 1913. , WEDNESDAY, 14 PA NEW TAXI LAW STANDS: ~—INWUNCTIONS FAIL TO PREVENT LOWER RATES Justice Seabury Upholds New Law, Passed at Suggestion of Evening World, for Reducing Rates and Wiping Out Privileges. HOTELS HAVE NO PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CITY S STREETS Lawyers for Taxicab and Hotel Monopolies Say “The Decision Is as Bad as the Ordinance.” The Evening World has won its fight for the abolition of the illegal private hackstands and the reduction of the notoriously high fares charged by the taxicab monopolies of New York. In a forty-page typewritten decision handed down this afternoon Justice Samuel Seabury of the Supreme Court vacates the injunctions asked by the taxicab monopolies and hotels, and declares that the new taxicab ordinance fathered by The Evening World is legal and binding. Under Justice Seabury’s ruling the Mayor’s Bureau of Licenses may begin immedigtely to enforce the vrovisions of the taxicab law, abolish all private hackstands and force the instant reduction of fares. The gist of Justice Seabury’s decision is contained in the final two paragraphs of his able decision, which read: ee was not hastily adopted. Careful and thorough d investigation of the whole subject matter involved preceded the framing and adoption of the ordinance. Upon the whole the ordinance mast be pronounced a serious and well con- sidered attempt to remedy the abuses which have grown to such an extent as to make the application of a remedy imperative. “The motions are denied with costs, and the temporary injunc- tons heretofore granted vacated and set aside.” The ordinance, known as “The Public Hack Ordinance,” was passed by the Board of Aldermen on June 2, 1913, after a prolonged fight by The Evening World, during which it was shown that members of the Board of Aldermen had been wined and dined by the taxicab companies. Under its terms the ordinance became effective on Aug. 1, after it had been approved by Mayor Gaynor. SECURED INJUNCTIONS AT LAST MINUTE. A day before it became operative the taxicab monopolies and hotels in the white ight district procured from Justice Donnelly, in the Supreme Court, a temporary injunction against Mayor Gaynor, Chief of the Mayor's Bureau of Licenses James G. Wallace jr. and Police Commissioner Rhine- lander Waldo restraining them from enforcing the terms of the new law until the matter had been passed upon in the courts, ‘The case was first called before Justice Guy, who declined to sit because the law firm of which he had been a member was representing one of the taxicab companies, Justice Guy referred the case to Justice —* scobury, despite tie plea of the taxicab companies and hotels for delay, Ascistant Corporation. Counsel Terence Farley and George Nicholson represented the ity in the protracted arguments before Justice Seabury. In his decision, rendered this afternoon after he had left the city on his vacation, Justice Seabury calls attention to the fact that sixteen companics and hotels had procured these temporary injunctions, sixteen temporary restraining orders being issued. The plaintiffs in the cases wore the Yellow Taxicab Company, the Hotel Astor, the Universal Taxt- seter Cab Company, the Hilliard Hotel Company, Motor Taximeter Cab Company, the Hotel Woodward, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Company, Hawks & Wetherbeer, the Forty-seventh Street Taxicab Company, the Garden Taxi Company, the New York Taxicab and Auto Company and Haverty's Taxi- ‘ HARRY K. ‘THAW UNDER ARREST IN COATICOOK, CANADA the Registry Ofdce at Coaticook, Quebes. On the left is Constabic . {NSDQ HS MRS. RUPP QUITS SUFFRAGE TO COOK FOR HER HUSBAND Signs Paper in Which She Agrees Not to Attend Any More Meetings. the bang to-day wher’ Mrs, Martha Ruyp of Brooklyn deserted the suffrage movement, Not only did she desert the suffrage movement but she signed her {t looks Ike the Rupp family would hereafter be controlled, guided and otherwise handled by the head of same ‘rone Lawrence Rupp, a man of no great stature but of large determina- tion, It wlll be recalled that Mr. Rupp went to his home in East New York night a couple of weeks ugo and found that bia wife Was out making a suffrage one speech and his supper was not ready Ha found hiy wife in the midst of a street corner burst of oratory and com- manded her to go home, Whereupon she had him arrested, and the next .moning in court the Magistrate reprimanded him, ‘Thin led to a breach in the fa which consists of the husband, t and five children, ‘To-day the bi i ed when the parties agre Agree and both signed the following pa- per, which was drawn up by Isidor Kul- cabs, Incorporated; Jennie E. Stafford, Greeley Square Hotel Company, the New Taximeter and Auto Company and the Riverside Taxi Service Company. JUSTICE SEABURY’S DECISION VERY PLAIN. Justice Seabury, in the initial stages of his decision, points out the contentions of the taxicab companies and hotels that the ordinance ts dis- criminatory, confiscatory and unconstitutional, and deals at length with (Continued on Fifth Page.) SARATOGA RESULTS. ° | 2+ 6 to 1, Miret; Bradley's Choice, 3 to 5 ‘for place, second; Little Nephew, third. ‘Time, 1.13 1-5, FIRST RACH—Isirose, 15 to } and 6 to 1, fret; Roam to & for place, eecond; Sebago, ‘Time, 1.18 3-5. 4; Freq Meson, third. Time, 2.19 1-5. SECOND BACE—Fenobscot, 3 to 6 {TH BACE—Kilorea, 5 to 1 and and ont, fret; Enniskillen, 1 to 9 for| to 1, fret; Miss Oavanagh, 8 to 1 for place, second; Big Sandy, third. place, second; Motoriety, third. Time— ‘Time, 4.90. 1.08, THIRD BACE—Jawbone, to 1 and) ainaawav 8 to 5 first; Medge, 4 to 5 for place, | sun risce,, ‘Sit oun aot eecond; Towton Field, third. Time, " ‘OR TODAY, 8.52'Moon ‘riser.. §.20 INCOMING 8STEAMSHIPS. 5H RACE Bisck Axvewsy 2090 rien, damdus® YL" gene ed a { Work Monday Wonders. ry any specches ta of and ig con. h vel | JOLIET, IL, Aug. 2.—James Bardeii, | ex-champion Hghtweight wrestl«: of the world and trainer of the Chicago White Sox for a number of years, 4 dying in @ local hospital, Bardell was MZ BACB—Aveconéer, 1 to Sand) known throughout the country as a Hornblow ka ut, Bret; Ariosto, even for place, See-! trainer and boxing referee, and num- | New*York, attempted auicide by shoot. | Runaway Drag bered among his clowest friends Owner tominkey of the White Sox and James Sunday World “Wants” The Cause received a blow right In} name to a paper with her husband and! GIANTS LOSE ae GIANTS BEATEN |. prrrssuncn | AGANAND WITH ene) HARQUARDIN BO Datteries—Marquard, Crandall, McLean and Wilson; McQuillan and Gibson, Batting of Wagner and Viox BROOKLYN WINS Responsible for Most of AT BROOKLYN— 103 0 Pirates’ Runs. 1 0 220 ST. LOUIS 09 9 0 0000 o- | Batterles—Yingling and Miller; Saliee, Trikell and Hilebrand, —EE————EEEE | GIANTS, R. H.PO, A. B. HIGHLANDERS LOSE 0228 6 | FIRST GAME. 02020 | at 8T. Lous— o1att 00000001 0- 00 2 0 eooseurd o12i10 ST. LOUIS 0 2300 00001100 = sialnen og Batteries—Caldwell and Sweeney; Allison and Agnew, ®¢e#t HIGHLANDERS oo 000 | SECOND GAME, ----- io oO ~_- i : 1 9 27 16 1 : for McLean tn Tth. ST, LOUIS Cormick batted for Marquard in i2 0 _ PITTSBURGH, Batteries—Fisher, McConnell and Gossett; Wellman and McAllister. 1 HPO. A. EB oe 0003 9 i son City, Tenn., stated that Lew! Horn 4 ® 4 ‘ 8 7a blower had met with a ace 3 H ‘ 9 H dent, Mr. Miller sata Wagner, os R 2 448 8 ‘he Young man had attempted suicide. Miller, tb 0 o 8 1 0 “Lewis Hornblower,” said Mr. Mil Wilson, rt o 23 00 ’ ‘iw thirty years oll, has plenty of | Mitchell, ef. 0 0 0 0 o ey, is happily married and has] sibson, ¢ o 2 5 1 0 V _\eburte or sonnien Cx, Yrare aee| ees | 8 tt 8 wor nothing whatever & cont - sagen from him to Indicate that he was | Pommlbersseeeres eee Ss | in trouble of any kind. He was hi SUMMARY, | an 6 Vacation with his wife up to a] sivst Buse on Balls—-OM Marquard, 2 ° we me and was in the very best | oft soQuilla Friends Here Scout Story of “He hax oeen learning the railroad In a ne vusines# down in. Te: i | Viox tox, Wagner (2) | Attempted Suicide, Sent From |2noscta! mite faring, Cinch: Orin Avant z A Fa he bought @ revolver for his own pro: Town in Tennessee. tection and accidentally #hot himecl es or that he was possibly shot by ac POLO GROUNDS, Aug .—Rube SS dent white huntin |Marquard and McQuillen, the former 7 W. B. Hornblower, who has dee | NASHVILLE, Tenn., 40.—-Lewis| for many years a prominent figure at | Pill twirler, hooked up in the last game | Hornblower, (to be a son of W. B.| the bar and in finance, is at his coun- | of the ser nd the ruvber game, each | Mer of /{TY home In Litenfeld, Conn, jawyer and financier of| oe : |having two victories to his credit 2 Cop @ Block, by Joseph Dobbins, a | lent of the Street ing Department, ran away to-day of One Hundred and t and Wadsworth Chief Meyers was out In uniform and practiaed with the team before the game began, When time was called there were about 7,000 fans in the stands, FIRST INNING-—Shafer threw out | | A horse drive J district mupert ing late last night, according tc apatch received from Johnson Tenn, to-day. Hornblower is sald be mortally hurt. a dee Mey, ro) According to W. W. Ti fiyrne. Carey wae given a lif on | partner of W. B. Hornb fumble, Carey was caught tiem of He blower, MUL ot om frat i to Meow Haw at No, 2t # treet, & dospateh vores there this esterugon om J ~% * Circulation Books Open to AIL” WRI FOR DEMANDING RELEASE FROM CANADA JA Judge Orders Argument To-Morrow on Right to Further Detain the Prisoner, While Immigration Officials Await toSeize Him. MAY FORCE SANITY TEST ON LEGAL TECHNICALITY Arrest of Thompson, Who Aided Flight, Opens Way to Demand | Proof Fugitive Is Lunatic. (@pertal Prem © Steff Correspondent of Tho Rvening Westd,) VU SHERBROOKE, Canada, Aug. 20—Judge Goblenski, in the Suv perlor Court, granted counsel for Harry K. Thaw-a writ of habess corals this afternoon, commanding his appearance in court to-morfow morning at 10 o'clock, when arguments will be ‘heard on a motion to discharge him from custody forthwith on the ground that he is detained without warrant of law. Lawyers say that the contention of Thaw’s attorneys Is likely to be upheld by the court. David Reynolds and T. B. Williams, spectal agents of the Immigra tion Bureau of the Dominion of Canada, are here, having arrived from Ottawa this morning. They say that if Thaw is discharged from the custody of the police they will immediately take possession of him as an undesirable alien and escort fhim to the border of the United States, in accordance! with Canadian law. But here arises a complication, in the arrest, shortly after noon, of “Educated Roger” Thompson, the New York chauffeur who drove the car in which Thaw escaped and accompanied Thaw to Canada, Thompson is in jail, charged with assisting an undesirable alien to enter the Dominion. GIVES THAW CHANCE TO PROVE SANITY. The basis of Thaw'’s undesirability is the charge that be is insane, and Thaw's lawyers are preparing to turn to their own advantage the position of Thompson. Mr. Shurtleff of Thaw’s counsel declared, whee he heard of the charge against Thompson, that the establishment of Thaws insanity would be necessary to bis conviction, for if Thaw te not ineaae then Thompson bas committed no c:ime, “Thoy will have to establish that fact right here tn the Canadian courts,” declared Mr. Shurtleff. “Because Thaw has been adjudged tasane in New York ts no proof that he is not perfectly sane so far as Canaéa fe concerned, and we are ready to prove that he is, They have opened up wonderful possibilities.” Judge Globensky granted the writ of habeas corpus tn chambers, while a crowd that jammed the courtroom waited impatiently for devel: opments. The crowd had been waiting all morning, for tt had been fd ported that the noted New York slayer would appear in court at 9 o'clesk, However, the Crown authorities were not anxious to, produce Thaw & court. They knew that the commitment on which he was held was techat- cally faulty, in that he was charged with being « fugitive from a New York insane asylum, where he was held on a criminal charge. There te no criminal charge against Thaw. Crown Prosecutor Nicoll, not wishing to produce Thaw only to have him discharged offhand on an objection to the commitment, waited for the defense to make a move. Thaw's counsel, Messrs, White, Shurtie® ené~ Fraser, conferred with him in his cell and looked over the ground carefully, It was only after long deliberation that they determined to apply ter eo habeas corpus writ. WOMEN CROWDED IN COURTROOM. The news that @ writ had been granted did not reach the courtreom until a bailiff appeared from the Judge's chambers and Pronounced the adjournment of court, Loud and shrill notes of disappointment arene from the handsomely gowned women who had been waiting in a sti#ing atmosphere to see the slayer of Stanford White, The attendance in court to-day indicates that the women of this part of Canada are taking @n oxtraordinary interest in the case—not that the men are overlooking it. Business in the bustling little town of ts overshadowed by the court proceedings and many a household was lune less at noon because the women folk were besieging the courthouse, Iu case the question of Thaw’s sanity can be brought up by develop ments in Thompson's case it means that the insanity hearing will be bela here in Sherbrooke, That will mean an influx of lawyers and alienists ama 1 long drawn out proceeding, which Sherbrooke contemplates with no small degree of satisfaction. Tho residents aro rooting unanimously for such outcome and the possible repetition here of some of the sensational | mony ghyon at the trials of Thaw in New York, ¢ St ‘The arcest of Thompson was dramatic, He tound tn the street tq “