The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1913, Page 4

re ge LO CN REG DIE ATR GT : tse sper os DELAY GIVEN PHONE TRUST MEANS A $500,000 GRAB FROM NEW YORK PATRONS Each Day of the Month’s Time Granted to Consider Reduction f of Rates Spells $17,855 | Extra Profit. Cheaper telephone rates have been put off for at least a month. That favorite @Olicy of the New York Telephone Company—delay, more delay and still more @lay—won the first round of the fight before the up-State Public Service Com- mission yesterday, Action on The Evening World's demand for the five-cent rate throughout the Cy and abolition of toll gates was postponed until Monday, Dec. 22, when Chairman Decker of the commission will hold another session to hear whether the telephone company will be pleased to voluntarily concede the demands of the peblic for rellef from excessive rates and toll gate extortions, After a day of debate on the specific complaint of M. H. Winkler, backed by representatives of thirty civic organizations of property owners, taxpayers, boards @f trade and commercial bodies, demanding that New York be given at least the Same rates the Bell Company grants to Chicago, the commission invited the tele phone company to take the question under its own consideration, and if the con- cession did not make too much reduction in Ks eaormous revenues, perhaps it would be willing to reduce its rates, General Counsel Swayze, for the company, said that the proposition would be given careful consideration and in time they might be able to figure out what (ey could grant New York City. Chairman Decker finally 38 as the only free day hi Mr, Gwayse aid that, while pany’s officera were terribly busy, ‘Would try to have something done the ease by that time ENORMOUS BUMS NEW YORKERS MUST PAY FOR DELAY. Tt will be ao close to the Christmas feolidays on that date that further de- lay will probably be asked for, and in this manner the extortions of the com- have $61,682,000 invested in plant in this city. Thia even includes ten mill- fons invested in the Empire City Bub- way Company. In that year its net earnings were 11 per cent. on the cap- ital whioh it claimed te have invested. “The company then had 4 tele- phones in servicen At th jome of 1912 it hed more than 600,000. The business had grown 26 per cent be- tween 1910 and 1913. tn the same pe- riod the net earnings increased frem ten millions to seventeen millions. “If we figure that 38 per cent. in- Crease in plant was made at an ex- @emducted the case before the com- mission, the company's excess prof- | 7°"#2 pf 26 per cont. in capital invest- fs ont of the people of Mow Yorn | ™°MLWhi@!)e\ dkceasive, we have « @0 present rates amount to 95,000, |5149t investment of §76,00,00 at (re €80 or 96,000,000 = year. close of the last fiscal year. ‘Who meath of aciay just obtainca | PROFIT OF 24 PER CENT. ON THE INVESTMENT. tortion from Mow Yorkers and just “Using these figures as 0 basis, their that much extra profit added te the | net profits apparently were 24 per cent. telephone company. on the capital invested. It is ridicu- Bvery week of delay means $188 | lous to permit a public service cor- 008 extra profit for the telephone Prete Go un tees oompany. il the hearing, the company’s ‘Bivery day's delay means 817.088 | representatives had no statement to taken from the pockets of telephones Make and Mttle information to offer. (eaere of Wow Werk City and put im | On the contrary, they strove to evade tee company’s treacury—@17,088 jand avoid furnishing the financial re- more than Chicage users Rave 8 | port of the company's operations within pay fer the same service. When the decision of the commission ; piaint Was announced there was open state- meht by many persons present, in- cluding eeveral members of the Legie- lature, that {f definite and satisfactory rates were not volunteered by the company on Dec, 32 a radical bill would be introduced and passed through the Legislature at the earliest possible date after the new session begins on Jan. 1. There is even a possibility of the tele- Phene subject being brought up in the adjourned session of the present Legis- lature, which 19 scheduled to meet om Dec. 8. SHOWING HOW NEW YORK !8 BE- ING GOUGEO, In presenting his petition Mr. Wink- ler made o@ statement of facts and resented @ quantity of documentary evidence showing how New York is be- overcharged in comparison with cities, motably Chicago and Cin- “Let us take Manhattan Island alone fee purposes of comparison,” he said. “Te Manhattan, with 18.8 square miles @f aren, and 2,400,000 population, we Rgre telephone rates on an eight-cent hasie—$48 per year for 600 calla, In (Chicago, with 194.4 equare miles and @lightly less population, they have tele- pepnes on a five-cont basis—$40 per pear for $00 calle. There are more in the 18.8 square miles of Manhattan than in the whole of Chi- age with its 194.4 square miles, “Fhe operating companics Lemistature for @ mandatory act, re ducing rates throughout the entire city end Far Rockaway, Mr. Bwayze, for the telephone com- Dany, hinted that if they found the lower rates demanded in the petition out into thetr revenues too much, they would appeal to the United States Court amainst confiscation of property and fight {t out here, This would take a long time. All parties talked ahout the cost and the time required to make en expert appraisal of the company’s physical Property in New York City as @ basis for establishing rates of all kinds, Chatr- man Decker of the Public Service Com- mienton wald the aity did not want to go into the subject of valuation if it was Duaaible to avold such an undertaking. Ase remit of much discussion, the commiasion finally extende@ an invita- tlon for the company to save ite face by @ voluntary reduction, and granted ® month's time tm which to figure and Doth cities are owned by the same | think % over. Fries ae jmpeas. |WOMAN SERIOUSLY BURNED. and operate under similar condi- | Heating ” Bath, floms. But there is 85 per cont. Fr G@iSerence in theiz rates. ahd “When we come to deal with the New| Mrs. Anna De Muth put a tub of wa- i Company on questions @f Sgures, we encounter the moat elu- stve proposition en record. Wi ‘ne report of ite operations in N City. The latest is @ statement of its President in 1910, when it claimed to ter on the gas stove in her home on the second floor of No. 1118 Avenue J, Flatbush, this morning to fix @ bath for her baby and presently went to eee if the water was warm enough, Her clothes caught fire and she rushed through the flat screaming for help. Bhe ran out into the hall, setting the earpet on fire, and upstairs to the home of Mra, Frederick Bens, where ahe threw herself into the bathtub and begged the woman to pour water on her. Instead Mrs. Hons wrapped her in blankets and quenched the flames. Then whe called Dr, Reits from the Coney Island Hospital, while other neighbors with buckets of water quenched the flames in the hall. The doctor eaid that Mra, De Muth probably would die as she had been terribly burned. He hurried her to the hospital, fj iy FREEDOM TOO MUCH FOR HIM. Michigan Pareled Convict Gives Mimeelf Up te Police. A neatly Greased, elderly man walked into Police Headquarters to-day and Announced that he wanted to give him- eelf up as @ furitive from justice, He eaid he was Frank 8. Rice of Lansing, |Mich., convicted alx years ago of for- Bery and sentenced to sorve eight years in the prison at Jackson, Mich. He Was paroled a tow weeks ago on hi® promine to go to work and keep straight, Freedom was too much for him, he said, and he besan to drink. Yestarday he found himself in New York pouniless and without any idea of jhow h& got here, daaked up. He will be held autho: the Jackson heard trom. Firm Believer in Women and Their Achieve-| ments,”’ Says Chancel- lor Emeritus Henry Mit- chell MacCracken, Who Originated the Idea of a| Hall of Fame, and Who} Deplores the Barring of Women. | ‘When Their New Hall Is Built I Believe That the Women Will Feel They Are Being Treated with Fairness—-The General Development of Women Is Bound to Come with the Evolving of a Finer Type of Civilization,” He Declares. | enough to contain will commemorate en of native birth, for women who hi have neglected to committee of one Hall of Fame for Beecher Stowe and ceived among the TERESTING STORY. How the honorable electoral ocommit- tee came a length to discover that womanhood and fame are act incom. Dauble makes an interesting story, al- Most as interesting ae the story of tha Committee's discovery of Edger Allan twice Dlack-bailing the Dr. MacCracken, i ignation of the chanceMorship of New York University has been Committee man of the Hall of Fame, te thoroughly in aympathy with the idea of a special Hall for noted women. A BELIEVER IN WOMEN AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. “I bave always been a believer in women and thelr power of achieve- ment,” he assured me, simply, Then he pointed to a water color eketch hung conspicuously on the wall opposite us, for we were talking in his own big Ii- brary. “I value that more than any other picture I possess,” he sald, “be- cause it shows the college from which 1 graduated, painted by my mother in her room at the school for girle and young women of which she was in charge when my father married her, “All the best of what 1 am, all the beet of wnat I have done, | owe to my mother more than to any other human being. “As originally conceived, there were to be no sex distinctions im the Hall of Fame, It was dedicated to the famous, whether men or women, and in the firat election, thirteen years ago, magouline and feminine candidates were grouped together. “But what happened? Twenty- wine men won the suffrage of a ma- And yet it was the gift of a woman $100,000 contributed by Mise Helen M. Gould—that actually built the present Hall of Fame! WOMEN HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN A FAIR SHOW. “There were protests from all ove the country," continued Dr, M Cracken, “And @o it was decided t! “Just Say” HORLICK’S Ut Means Original and Genuine MALTED MILK' | The Feod-drink for All Ages. | silk, malted grain, powder forma A quick lunch prepared ta7m minsta, Tabo np substitute. Ask for HORLICK'’S, - * Qthere.are imitations Marguerite Mooers Marshall. A Halil of Fame for American women is to be erected in New York. On a site already donated to New York University by Mrs. Russell Sage there will arise, “as soon as means have been provided,” a structure large chosen, one of them, sixty memorial tablets, fifty of which the achievements of American wom- while the other ten will be reserved ave won fame in America, but who be born there. The feminine candi- dates for immortality will be chosen by the regular hundred electors accessory to the American men, which was founded in 1900, Five women have already received a majority of the votes of the electoral committee. The five are Mary Lyon, Emma Willard, Maria Mitchell, Harriet Frances B. Willard. PLOT FOR AN EXCEEDINGLY IN- bale ge to the women they should see women are not even yet on terms of fair competition with men. For Instance, men have no women competi- voted for in @ separate list. You tors in the army, in the navy, on the Supreme Court bench. In my opinion, Marthe Washington was @ remarkable woman. 1 feel eure that she will be elected to the Hall of Fame in 1915; I a n't aee why her election has been delayed so long. She fulfilled perfectly the duties of a most diMicult position, during the eight years of the Revolu- Gon end the eight years in Washi: tom. Yet she ought not te be put in the same class with Andrew Jackson. “Before the second election, in 1906, the University eet apart a site for a Hall of Fame for Women, and requested the Board of Electors to designate ten famous American birth and two famous American women of foreign birth. women of native In short, nine grave and reverend Judges were atill of the opinion that no American woman had the right to fame. And only three candidates were elected out of @ possible dozen. “But nobody asked to be excused from voting for womea at the last election, three years ag. cluded, with @ frankly triumphant emae, Dr. MacCracken con- “And though only two women were Harriet Beecher Stowe, received seventy-four votes, a larger majority than was given to any male candidate. So you see the women have gained ground steadily.” “Algo let us not forget that we were deepiaed in the good company of Pua,” 1 observed. WOMEN ARE TO HAVE THEIR DUES AT LAST, “When their new Hall is built I be- lieve that the women Will fee! that they are being treated with fares,” Dr, MacCracken added hastily. “It wili bal- ance the colonnade on 8 wing and, according to the it will be modelled on the lines of the ruined temple of Victory in Athens. Twenty-eight columns will support a pedimented roof, and the structure will measure about 9 by 6 feet, giving am- nie room for the sixty bronze memorial tadletea The Univerwity must wait for funds to erect the building, but it al- ready has a site presented by Mrs, Rus- nell Gage, with the eole stipulation that the land be in some way used for tho benefit of women. “Emma Willard, whose tablet ts tem- Dorarily stored in the University Mu- seum, was Mra. Sage's teacher, and sho haa made valuable gifts to the institu: | tion founded by Miss Willard at Troy, N.Y. “If @ comparison were drawn it would be found that the number of women fdmous in American history t# much smaller than the number of notable Engitsh women." “But doesn't the @ame comparison hold true of men? I was guilty of in- terrupting, “Take Mterature, Wi! very few exceptions haven't English writers been far and away ahead of American ones? Aren't they ahead to- day?’ Dr. MacCracken 4idn't deny tt believe the explanation lies in the dif- | ~ ference in conditions,” he said. “The best definition of fame is that 1¢ is the condition of being talked about widely in a favorable wanner. The tremendous tasks de- volving pom the plouser women of Die that flowering of the individual- ity which is indispensable for the achievers of fame. Only within the last fifty years have women had time and opportunity to educate themselves. It was a wise choice which made the names of pioneer Woman educators the first to be in- scribed in the Woman's Mall of Pame. “I believe that in the future an in- creasing number of women wil! qualify for this distinction, The general de- velopment of woman {s one of the things that ia bound to come with the evolving of @ finer type of civilization. Twenty years ago I stood willing to give women the suffrage, and I am very glad to their present success in attaining it” Almost Dr. MacCracken mirht per- auade us to forgive the past st .pidities of his Board of Electors! ——_.——_ ACTRESS MAIDA DUPREE SUICIDE BY POISON Police Believe She Died for Love of Actor—Left Note Telling Him to Call Her on Phone. PHILADELPHIA Nov. %.—Maida Du- pree, @ vaudeville actress, who regis- tered @ hotel as night by taking poison after she had left a note addressed to George Lemaire, an actor, to call up the room on the telephone, The police said to-day they believed the young woman had been in- fatuated with Lemaire, The authorities said they believed she was the daughter of a New York physician. 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