The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1913, Page 22

\ ooo RET EE After Sixteen Years’ Work Building Will Be Too Small When Completed, STARTED IN A SCANDAL, se ae see < New County Officials Have No Places in Which to Begin Work. ‘The ronx Court Mourne ceaned to be an Incident in the busy life of the new county many years ago. It has be. come @ chronic ailment. Sixteen yeara ago they started to build a $200,000 Court House at One Hundred and Six- ty-@ret street and Third avenue. It fen't finished yet. It haw no elevators, no floors and no stairwa: It needs windows, ceilings, door fittings and furnishings. Most of all, it needs space—accommodations for the new county board of officers, who begin their terme Jan. 1, 1014. Bronx residents have only taken their court house seriously since election. They've Cot as fine a bunch of young, ambitious—probably capable and eM. clent—ofMicers as a new county ever had te bewin with, but they haven't any place to put them. When they started re UNFINISHED COURT-HOUSE HAS COST BRONX $2,000,000; FIRST PLAN WAS £700 000 city has furnished no offices, How are Register Polak's seventy clerks going » find desks and chaira? The Court House was originally Planned for the Magistrates, Muntelpal Judges and Coroners’ Courts, with Prison pens, clerks’ officer and judge ‘*. None of these city function artes will get apace in the building. Aw outlined by an architeot on the Promises to-Aay the arrangement con templated followa: Ground Floor— County Clerk's offices. First Floor—County Judge and County Clerk. Second Floor —upreme Court end Justices’ chambers. Third Floor—Surrogate's offices. Third Floor and Avtic—District Attorn Each of the new county officers has tabulated demands for floor apace. None of them will get what he wants. The new Borough President, Douglas Math- ewaon, says all county offices should go Into the Court House, Rotiring Presi- dent Miller says all ho wants is to Hee the building finished. PUBLIC OFFICCS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE NEW COUNTY. Bronx County and city offices are feattered over the new county's forty square miles. Every locality has some sort of official headquarters. A mile away from the court house ts the Bor- ough Hall, at Tremont and Third ave- nies, @ great barracks-Itke bullding withgut @ fire escape. Here are the Horough President's offces and high- ways, sewers, and park depart- ments. Back of the building, which wits Up on a hill, Is the Bergen Butiding, hot up seven stories in « few months Dullding a court house, Bronx auton- omy wasn't thought of. NO DESIRABLE OFFICE FLOORS IN THE BRONX. ‘There isn't a desirable office floor in the Bronx, these newly elected of- cers will tell you. Jf thafe ts, they haven't been able to find it. They all want to get in the Court House—when It's finished. to accommodate five other depart- ments. From here on It's @ search, Any man {n the Bronx who can tell you where all his courts, departments and officers are located now, without considering where they will be after Jan, 1, 1914, Is entitled to wear the crown on New York's best informed citizen. It's Im- ponsible to find them all in @ day's search. But just at present the new—Iita old, weather beaten and well nigh obsolete already—courthouse in in tho Hmelight. It is a reminder of the city building incompetency, For its nigwardly éa- pacity It has a national record for de- The second query will be taken up at & meeting of the Sinking Fund Commis- sion. The mew Coroners, Sheriff James F. O'Brien, Register Edward Polak, County Clerk Ganley and District- q torney Francis Martin want to know whether or not they are to go to work on Jan, 1. They realise the building will not be finished then. Even if fin- ished, it will lack sufficient room. The To Put On Flesh And Increase Weight A Physician's Advice Most thin peante eat from four to atx Pounds of Kood solld fat-making food every day and still do not increase tn Welght our ounce, while on the other many of the plump, chunky folks eat very ilzhtly and keep gaining all the i time, It's all bosh to say that thin te , the nature of the individual It tan't Nature's way at ail xe thelr powers ‘Thin folks stay f of apsimilat are defect! They fuat absorl enough of the they eat to { Amati ite ond a semblance’ ae heals and rengt Stuffing w t help them, ein « single there’ . All the i fat producing elements. of their. food Just stay in until they pase from What auch people teed will prepare ‘thene fatty ' that their blood can ab f gorh them and deposit them all about the body—something, wil multiply Hy thelr re a ml increase t ‘ ‘4 thin man or W, fo five pounds « good AruKK arantee quar x FURNITURE AND] CLOTHING ION] CREDIT wo BIC STORES lay in construction. When it ts finished {t will become'a white elephant | 2 of ite expensive operation and wretched accommodations. wince a commission was appointed to acquire the ait CITY PAID $151,574 FOR A SITE! ASSESSED AT $17,500. The building was conceived in scan- dal, In June, 1898, Chief Engineer Mc- {Modern Improvement Hen wre knows what Bryan said at Kenosha, W: Yet it tw fifteen years | Lean, in the Corporation Couns of- fice, looked over the alte apecified in the special act of the year befura and sald it was worth $3,760. The 14,f. square feet In the Irregular nite was then as- Beened at $17,000, During this exact time the condemna- tion commfasioners, George M. Van Hoesen, Patrick H. Whalen and Joseph Freedman, with their two land experts, Chartes A. Berrian and Charles W, Tar- box, were engaged in a seemingly ardu- ous task of fixing @ proper purchase price for thy elty, They succeeded. Their inquiry lasted a long time—every- thing good In. > Bronx does—and they finally reported the plot worth $146,356! Thin was three times more than Engineer McLean sald It was worth! To this these Commissioners added $5,218 for their services, bringing the total of the land cost up to $151,874 And this report was filed in the Supreme Court Jan, 29, 1900, two years and three months after the commission began Its ‘dellb- ration#!"" Corporate stock wan issued instantly and the property taken over. Whi owned the land that a special act of the Lexislature forced the city to take? Well, the record shows that Father Knick's $161,574 went these ways: Owner. Awarded. Interest. Caroline 0. 980,000 $7,516.60 Mottinger .... .. Louise and Jo- 71,230 10,708.94 @,000 902.00 sephine Hammer. Moise Geisman .... + 197,230 «19,196.86 . 146,356.84 ‘Total ...... Grand tom To experts and commissioners: 8,918.00 ‘What city paid.... 181,074.04 Bngincer McLean valued it . 43,750.00 Assessed value .... 17,800.00 At the time Senator Charles L. Guy (now Justice Guy) defined the location as One Hundred and Sixty-firat street and Third avenue, the Municipal Art Boolety opened fire on the alte. A bulld- ing, haif surrounded by an clevated Jine, was poorly sulted for court purposes, it was said. The Art Soclety finally got their case before the Corporation Coun- In July, 1908, it was decided that the Cascarets make you feet belly! they | polten trom they immediately cleanse and sweeten the stomach, remove the sour, undigested | and fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile trom the liver aud carry off the constipated waste matter and CASCARETS TONIGHT! IF BILIOUS, HEADACHY, CONSTIPATED—10 CENTS in day. ‘ol can x OS Nebraska, an hour after he said dt. It used t’ be linpossible! meet her any. "Dore ering sin ce "e aeaiakin as he without U look after a forty-ncre farm an’ git your mail on th’ dot.! anybu ever dreamin’ that she’s jist made a barrel o° A farmer used t’ be out in th’ woods splittin’ rails an’ won| so; W be back on th’ farm in a few minutes weanin’ derin’ if any o' his relatives er friends had died th’ week| a calf, before, Now @ farmer kin plow along leisurely an’ tie his A farmer an’ Ms fanily used t' come t’ town all covered tewm t' t wire fence an’ hop a interurban an’ got’ town an] with dust in a big green wagon full o' bed comforts an’ wit a chocolate sody an’ be back in th’ furrow without ever produce an’ hitch behin' th’ courthouse an’ Jump out stiff bein’ missed. He kin lay drain pipe all day, play a little poot| legged. Mother an’ th’ children would take th' butter an’| er see @ fim in th’ evenin’ an’ git up in th’ mornin’ an’| eggs t' th’ Star grocery while paw dickered around th' grain Mincuma the Hay uncefote treaty with impunity. Most} elevator, Then they's shift t' th’ front o' sume dry Koo farmers never used t' know anything a) store while paw called at th’ pustotfice an’ waited till th’ a condit international affairs, A few years ago if a farmer's wife's vinit him she beat the pustal card three days, Now he knows| th’ team would sea’ it in plenty o° time to lay in some coffee an’ cornstarc It's all different now. meet her at the north end o' the sheep pasture when she} his plow handles he's jist as Hable t) be studyin’ about a Jumps off th’ interurban. A farmer knows t'day jist what! new 1913 tourin’ car er th’ unrest In India as he is about he kin get fer his produce before he starts t' town, If he| knockin’ off till th’ ground gits dryer. wants t’ buy # planola he loads up a hog, an’ if he only! ‘Th’ only thing th’ modern farmer can't do these days is! wants t' buy a suit o° clothes he brings In a few exgs.! keep his boys on th’ farm. Art Boclety had no authority to change the provision of the spectal act, ‘The buildi: stands to-day fifteen feet below the street level and nearly circled by an “ line, despite the protests of the Art Commission and Bronz citizens generally! From 1891, when the building was au- thorized, until 192 not a move was made, although the special act contem- plated the completion of the court house in 1900! Then in May, 1902, $250,000 fi cor: porate stock was insued, this being $50,000 more than was thought necessary to build the structure. This was only the opening wedge. Borough President Haffen set his trusty right hand, Mike Garvin, Tam- many leader of the Thirty-third, the borough achitect, to thinking about plana, “Mr. Michael J. Garvin, Archi- tect,” thought and thought, and the more he thought the higher the figure grew. How well Mike could think was brought out in Haffen's trial when Garvin was a witness, With a view of learning Mike's knowledge of the tech- nical details of his profession, Com- missioner Mitchel asked what thought was a safe load on granite per square inch, Garvin protested he “didn't carry them details in his head.” "Would you be surprised if it was of pounds?" asked Mitchel. ‘It's unfair to ask them questions of me," returned Garvin. The plans of Oscar Bluemner were submitted and it was found that about $800,000 would be a proper figure for @ court house. A five per cent, arahl- tect's rake-off meant $40,000 in fees. | This was more ilke it. another issue of corporate stock the amount $550,000 on July 1, 194, With the $250,000 appropriated two years before and not touched, the $800,- 000 wax rounded out nicely. WORK NOT BEGUN UNTIL MARCH, 1905, Then a start was made, Wark was actually begun March 15, 1905, three years after the first stock was Issuod, when the Century Construction Com- pany was awarded $33,500 for the foundat! Then came a rapid dis- tribution of contracts—all of them still Tunning, except the first, Brady, who defaulted after two years’ work, The Mast follows: Thomas J $529,000, John T, $414,840, Van Dorn Iron Works, $28,000, Western trie Company, electric installation, $24,604, James McCullough, plumbers, $27,932. to Brady, general contractor, Brady, general contractor, But the $800,000 appropriated was far from enough to meet the $151,674 paid for the site, the $32,671.65 drawn down by Architect Garvin in fees and the various contractors who had to be patd something on account, something for long de! and so on, A report of a special committee of the Board of Aldermen made recently dex- terougly juggles the responsibility for the fifteen-year court house from one to the other and leaves the blame un- placed. Hut it makes clear the fact that almost $800,000 has already been paid out and the court house is stil a long way from completion, ‘With the additional appropriation of $325,000 furnished by the Boara on from the bowels, A Cascaret to- night straightens you out by morning 10-cent box from any druggist keeps ur Stomach ed, Head clear and iver and Boncls in fine condition for mor Don't forget the children. jae he| So Haffen rot | $ the plans through and the next thing | Copyright, the Adams Newspaper Service, isconsin, er Hastings, clerk dug his get-rt¢ mother wus goin’ t'] nal out o' th’ ‘ return ft fer one mor general ¢ THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, be Martin “Then they'd all pile in an’ th’ team would scare at th’ cars.” 66F TS wonderin what a transformation th’ interurban, Ther ain't anything a farmer can't have but city water. ] Hines un’ telephones an’ rural free delivery has made| He kin have electric arches ever’ ten feet over th’ path In th’ farmer,” said Hon. Ex-Editur Cale Mluhart this} t th’ spring house, er his wife kin have an electric curlin’ Mornin’ as he got his money back on a pair o' holeproof| !ron fer th’ askin’ ke he'd only worn ela months, A farner's wife kin git up in th’ mornin’ an’ run out tt Th’ tarmor that used t' drive t' town two or three tines) {Mall box an’ git an apron full o' letters an’ set an’ read a day thro’ all kinds o' weather t' git his weekly paper now| * churn all mornin’, She kin go U town an‘ git a new hat} becomin’ an’ milk twelve cows, all hea vlars an’ monthly stock jour- Then they'd all pile in an’ th’ oars, When you see a farmer restin' on DTDOSRIRDS 1$ $ her: \¢ 3 ei | FOdo00004 NTRANCE TO THE & Bronx Court-House as It Looks After Sixteen Y ears of Work HOSP GOVDOOLOHE GOGO" HDDS O-2-S co RONX OORT HOUSE, of Mstimate in July, 1911, the total money provided by the city #0 far reaches the sum of $1,125,- 000, And the fixtures and furnishings are still to come, besides endless modifica. | and extra expenses due to the gen- nsformation of intertor of the building, ‘There are experts who say that the Bronx County taxpayers will have @ $2,000,000 proposition on their hands before the work 1s finished, eine CARROLL TRIAL DRAGS ON. More Witnesses Say He Dominated Primary Elcetion, The trial of Smmator Daniel F, Car- roll, Luke O'Reilly and others for con- aplracy to steal a primary election in Greenpoint on March %, 1912, dragged tts monotonous way through the session of Justice Kelby's part of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn to-day, The prose- cution introduced a small army of fol lowers of Carroll's political euemy, Me- Keon, to show that Carroll dominated the primary election It was reported this afternoon that two of the State's witnesses had been assaulted while leaving the courthouse by two men, who escaped in an auto- |mobile, The fact Is that one Moore, | who was a witness yesterday, was run Gown accidentally and injured by an automobile at Livingston street and Boerum place at noon to-day and was taken to Long Island College Hospital, A m oid Georg "Old man, heard so much of the Braveyard rabbit you cateh in the dark I've o' the moon that I want the feet of on for luck, T'll give you $5 If you'll go to an old graveyard, When it's deep dark, | and eateh one for me tioNm," 8 te wid jastiy on 33 | "bout de gr: nd rabbit is true, an’ 1 | Hee | learned, 8 $5 mighty bad, but I got de long: eumatism an’ I don't want to stumble over no old graves!” CONVICT FIRST WOMAN AS MONEY LOAN SHARK: Cora E. Raynor Pays Fine of $500 Rather Than Stay Sixty Days in Jail. The first conviction of a woman as the proprietor of a usurious loan estab- Ushment was obtained to-day when Cora BE, Raynor, who 4s thirty-five years old, and lives at No, 88 Pennsylvania avenue, Newark, was tried before Judyes Salmon, Forker and Collins in Special Sessions. She was fined $600, with an alternative of sixty days in Jail, but she paid the fine was arrested on Aug. 11 on com-| Walter Nesbitt, a clerk, Mv- 2071 Anthony avenue, the! He had in May gone to a loan! establishment at No, 71 Nassau street and borrowed from Cora Raynor $50, which he was to pay back to her at phe nate of $4.26 for sixteen weeks, But after he had patt her something more than the amount borrowed he re- fused to pay further and she started on his trail, He put the case in the hands of an association and the wom- an's arrest followed. Her defense was that she was work- ing for a man named Howland, al- though she admitted that she had not| him for six months, The Court | however, that the lease of the business place and the accounts were in her name and decided that she was at least one of the principals, plaint ing at No. Bronx. awed sixteen, died to-day of injuries re- ceived in a football game last Mriday, Playing with an amateur team he plunged head firat againet @ telephone 1918, “acai OPERA TICKETS SOLD TO AGENTS AT ADISCOUNT! Metropolitan Admits Rebate of 50 Cents on Each Coupon Thus Delivered. 4 ls Chew, Second Vice-President of the Metropolitan Trust Company, } which made a loan o€ $100,000 to Tyson & King as collateral about $15,000 worth of tickets for p the Metro mitted this knew that turned into Richard J & Co, represented subscribers’ Admission was made on Stand oefore Magistrate 1 Richard Bee Inquiry into the ticket scan- tal was turned into a hearing on an actual charge of grand larceny in the second degree yesterday, when the com. rformances at ad- nnpany ort the the Hartman, in partial iquidation of the debt, his c su various | sums any by of Tyson trust President money, the witness uel, whose The pan hoe Fee, iad ke tot v4 West | said all paid cash last year and he had | the ‘ourt to-day a default verdict - ih ceepted that he | toid Mr. Hartman jast summer that he | for 3 was rendered against him had pald $151.9 for two season tickets would have to pay cash n. The} in favor of Lebolt & Co. jewellers, of fad that Tyson & Co, had hypothecated | amount, he admitted, however, hind street and Fifth aven vis property not the face value of the tickets | vellers stated that between “How did your company excuse tte|" We. wold Na oko A ntty cents nber, 1912, and October, 1918, Mr, self for entering into any suct a | Hartman purchased three gold wrist 5 L. veh Al ess than the office prices because | watches, a fewelled tollet set, eart action?” demanded William 1. Mar-|the opera company did not want ita|ping and other Jewelry, and gave his shall, counsel for the tic company, | patrons charged a premium. In the en-|notes for the amounts. He is in dee after Assistant District-Attorney Train | tire season we dispose of about $400,000 | fault on the notes, | had concluded his examination hs 4 | Worth of tickets to various agencies ——-—_— © thought we were dealing with] with a reduction in price amounting to a solvent corporation which had ajabout $35,000," SULZER SPENT $1,367.36. | right to use ite money in any way it| “If this gives you no advantage, why|Former Governor ties Expen- saw ft" responded Mr. Chew. “Mrgdo you do it?" asked Mr, Train, \ e iis c Hartman made various small payments,| “Because the public seems to want ee, an, Cerne about $6,000 in all, wiving us $250 atiit. The agencies will carry open ai , Nov. 0.—The cost of the one tine and $196 at another.” counts and do other things that a box-| of Willlam Sulzer to the Mr. Ghew said that the ticket manloffice could not do. It seemed to be| Assembly from the Sixth Distriet n has | turned in the money for/a convenience, and besides we have felt; New York was $1,367.36, according to, a tickets as fast as he rec Most of Mr, Chew's examination re- fully, Mr. Chew said that some $40,000 | John Brown, business controller of the Metropolitan Opera Compeny, told of the agreement by which season tick- ets had been sold to Tyson & Co, and four other agencies In past years, of holiday deli we offer special af liberalities, Trade NUTS Mixed Nuts... Ibe Paper Shell Akmonds| 28¢ Tarragona Almonds . $8¢ Il Walnuts | 98¢ Imported Walnuts | 18e 50 Large Brazils.. | 90¢ Selected Pecene | 16¢ Sicily Filberts. | 16e Hickory Nate. >| PibNate . ! —— SEEDE D——— RAISINS YUU YY ty 10 STAMPS 1 pk Macaroal or Spaghete! 100 1 bot Queen Olives 160 1 cke Dairy Milk Chocolate Ge Lean Taneh Cooan. .. 8 phage ABP Gelatine, . cach Be 1 Mason Jar Mustard Yj id Pe, a al Trclvs her business ounce Inst living high at Quarantine at Government expense. | reney In @ box hidden in his barn. post, over her mouth, whereupon she swallowed her false teeth and choked to death. lyn cemetery cause the combined weight of his family of seventeen is more than a ton and | half, of drinking places te the ratio of one to 200. destined for Northern markets. und favors, odd had been repati on the loan and; Mr. Train rested his case after Assis-| $8,210.38, that collateral to tats amount had/ tant Treasurer R. A, W. Anderson of TT ST aT been released as fast as payments| the trust company had given more de- 13 were made. tails in regard to the making of the KILLS MOTHER AND HIMS 4 TICKETS GOLD TO AGENCIES AT| loan and Magistrate Deuel granted an Albert A Loss. CIES AT! cdjournment to the defense until, (er| CHICAGO, Nov. morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. President of Tyson & Co. Has Judg- He| Tyson & Co., has other troubles. N Another year has rolted around and the time for that National feast is her cacies and we have made special reductions in orde: to * MalagaGrapes"12c/Cranberries”10c|LayerFigs"12c 50 JA Besides the Regular and Extra Stamps given on sales From Monday, Nov. 17 to Saturday, Nov. 22, 1913 This Conson net good after Saturday, Novernber 22d 3 n» 25ciC WHOLE Dee. Z5C\CITRON 4% 20c] CANDY WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING GROCERIES The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. THESE PRICES ARE FOR METROPOLITAN DISTRICT ONLY y, News Oddities £0 MUCH GRAFT DATA on hand the District-Attorney has been compelled to start @ card index. / EGG lad on a Jersey chicken farm bore a raised dollar sign. That hen bes if NATI PESSIMIST laments because garite dsn't worth $67,000,000 jen ad of radium, CIN CUSTOM HOUSE haa Antonio Mafuchali's goat. It is an Angora, and FOR Gras, —Oklahoma farmer kept 9000 in eure Cow overturned the box and ate up 290, MISTOOK “LONG GRE ASITES of a Paterson school teacher will be shipped to Germany by perce! KANSAS PREACHER has been acquitted of wife murder. He put his hand FUNERAL AUTO DRIVPR was arrested for speeding on the wayi to a Brook+ SALD to be 644,000,000 @ THERE ARE in cold storage In the United States. MARYLAND FARM A his how and make {t stronger be FRANC as one bar to every $2 inhabitants, and wants to reduce the number’ GOV. COLQUITT of Texas led a real turkey trot, composed of 5,000 live turkeys made to-day treasurer of r oblixation to the agencies for past| report | Bacon, by the Alexander /8, former Gwe lated to the making of the loan and| The witness said that any one could) ¢Pmor's campaign. Of this amount sul | correspondence was produced and of-| deal direct. w! contributed $200 In cash. The ex as broduced and of-/ deal direct with the opera company and| Sontibuted 0 In cash. The, ed fered tn evidence regarding the $190,000] subscribe through the box office, though | #twres, and | rece ni Joan and another loan of $60,000 which/ am a fact on the opening night only| “George, McAneny, who was elect the tleket company sought unaucess-| fifty-one seats of Were not] president of the Board of Aldermen | and aby ag New York, received $8,294.12 and epen! forty-four years old, shot and killed his mother and himself to-day. 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