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been broken. r edt p hav y treatment: Samuel Kine No v savenue, side hurt; Morris No. M0 Bast One Hundred street and re hurt about the sides and the tody SAVE HIMSELF, Henry Steitz of No. 45 } Hundred and Thirt nth stre Jo could not be found after the colliston, He must have jumped to save himnelf, ‘for the railroad men sau that nen “the employees was injured Walter Smith wes the motorman of ¢ Bs nd avenue train and Ibrady .of the car. Great excitement prevailed on the plat- , form above Chatham Squ Trae on the “La” war suspended for more n an hour, The trolley re under the were stopped by th fre a Streams of water were turned ‘Durning tles and croms timbers, Aw fire started south of Chatham Square in Park Row, This was quickly guished by the firemen, The theup of street traMc lasted nearly thirty min- ules. LUSTANA FOUGHT Big SEA ALL THE WAY FROM LIVERPOOL Battling Weather Every Day —Couldn’t Land Her Eng- lish Pilot Till Now. mh ‘The Cunard Mner Lusitania, in this ‘merning from Liverpool, had rough weather all the way, with head winds Bhd confused seas, but, notwithstanding, Averaged 28.10 knots cn the entire voy- age. In her heaviest weather she made 2 knots. She was stormbound off Queenstown and gould not run Into arbor, The maif and passenger ‘tenders did not dare put out to her, and whe brought neither mali nor paguen- | trom the Irish port, She could not land her pilot from Liverpool and had to bring him on to New York. ‘The pilot i» Capt. George T. Collis, ‘one of the most eMclr t in tho Ctmard service, as well as one uf the youngest. ‘This in bis Gret trip to this country. The Lusita salled from Liverpog! fast Baturday and plunged into ded Meather a: the start. When she reached Queenstown a whole gale was blowing. Nb blew trom ati pointa,gf the agmpass all day Bunday and Monday and then settled Into » steady north, northwest =. The Lusitania cut through the Big waves like a knife through cheese, ver her smoki were covered With salt when the steamer arrived. A heavy tide was running when the @taamer was released from Quarantine this morning. The revenue cutter tried to get alongside and it required her ‘est spurts to get o line into an open Bort hole. But the sea was so rough that the outter hed to drop away and between the cutter and the Lusitania, ama when the ferryboat got out of the way the Lusitania was speeding @long about a mile ahead. The cutter 414, not overtake the ocean flyer until the was well up the river. Capt. Dowe said that it was too big a risk @ stop in the heavy tide, and Capt. Bradley, the boarding officer of the ustom House foi hin “TIRED MAN” NAMED IN SCHLEGEL DIVORCE FIGURES IN A SUIT A Bult to recover $5,198 for detective services brought in the Brooklyn Su- Preme Court to-day by Detective Byron J. Colvin against George ©. e New York art + brought to ight the de- taile of Achiegel’s sensational action f & divorce from Mra, Gertrude Stone Behlegel in 1910, In which tru “hired mun" figured as corespondent Colvin obtained an r frou Just Maddox for Schiegel'n examina fore trial vf the pre The $5,198, Colvin balance on a till for of t at Schlegel's divorce @ult and the other an alienation ult Drought by the wife of the “hired man” egsinet Mra Schie Bohlegel lives in a mansion in Ray Ridge and is reputed to be very wealthy, ‘He has & summer home in Westwood, N, J, called “Sunnyside Farm.” In 110 Be brought an action for a divorce Qgainst his wife charging her with in- timacy with Adolphus Peris, a young ‘workman, who had been promoted grad- Wally on the farm to the position of manager. The divorce action was heard in private, Referee Robert H. Roy rec- ommending a decree for the husband Testknony was taken showing that Mrs. Schlegel and Peris, who was calied “Bip” had been frequently in each other's company in 198 and 190), When the charges were firat made Peris signed ‘a “confession” which he afterward with- drew. e mM bee unpaid rowing out had no children, Fag Ae RY aes ytd er ‘ BELIEVE MOTORMAN JUMPED TO the conductor of the City Hall car A W. Dretton, Hving at No, Zit Toird avenue, war the motorman, Bretton ot} The Schlegeis were married in 19 and | ae ed 2 é left for their homes. The fourth, Tsract Herman giving as his address No. oii Wat One Hymired and Tw elgnth , Street, waited for a doctor, He said the was “hurt al! over.” he doctor ssid that no tenes had PROTEST 10 COMMISSION +<. Immense Dividends and Rentals to Phone Trust, and Patrons . “Pay the Freight.” How New York City Is Hoodwinked Out of Millions by Phone Trust | | | York City ts being overtaxed 96,000,000 a year in its telephone rates, Mow York City contributes 95 per cent. of the net profite of the New York State and half company. Mow York City's telephone rates are the highest in the United States, & maximum five-cont rate for all Mew York City. Wip the toll gate extortions. The Me Bervice Commission has postponed action astil Deo, 22. This delay is costing Mew York telephone users $17,000 per day in excess charges. Fresh attack was made upon the New York Telephone Company to-day by apartment house owners and large users of telephone service. The up-State Public Service Commission met in Metropolitan ‘Tower to hear the complaints against high rates charged for private branch exchange and extension telephone filed by Douglag Robinson, Charles S$. Brown & Co,, the Washington Heights Property Owners’ Association, repre- sented by Attorney Thomas C. Blake; the Postal Telegraph-Cable Com- pany and Attorney H. B. Weil, representing, pimself. Commercial Engineer A. D. Welch, who fs the rate making expert of the telephone company, was questioned at length by Chairman Decker of the commission, and the variqus lawyers. General Counsel J. L. Swayze, for the company, suggested consolidating, the complaints with that of M. H. Winkler, on which the commission-gave a hearing |last Monday, but she complainants declined and elected to press their own particular kind of service case. Some of the facté elicited during the examination were as follows: ‘The business of the company Ia New York City has doubled in lx years. : ‘There are twice ax many telephones In New York as in Chicago, but the Westers city has much lower rates than the metropolls, The New York Telephone Company pays to its parent company, the American Telephone aud Telegraph Company, 8 per cent. divi- dends» and 43a per cent. rent or royalty on gross receipts for the use of certain patented appliances used in the telephone instru. iter, receiver and Induction coll. 12 to the parent company were $10,- 000400 and the rental $1,900,000, Every time the rates have been reduced has been an Increase in telephone business, Reduction of rates causes increased expenditure for additional plant to take care of the new business, but revenues increase so that the invest- ment becomes a profit. TELEPHONE CO. DOES NOT DARE TELL ITS PROFITS. Rates are made not merely for ordinary profit over Operating ex- Penses but to finance ambitious plans for broad development in the future, It requires only some very simple arithmetic to show clearly how New Yorkers are being robbed by the New York Telephone, Company through its high rates for subscribers and its toll gates between boroughs. A showing of its own figures is what the telephone company fights to avoid, It dodged presenting them at the hearing before the Public Service Commission last Monday. It will probably douge again: at the next hearing on Dec. 22. The New York Telephone Company dares not make public a report of its earnings, expenses and profits in New York City, for then the public would see how the city is being milked of millions of dollars © support a policy of monopoly and aggrandizement in other parts of vie country, The New York Telephone Company will offer reductions of rates rather than open its books. . EXPECT PARTIAL REDUCTION, The New York Telephone Company will try to stave off exposure by offering partial reductions, just as it has in the past made little com cessions here and there, smoothed out complaints by special favors to certain distiicts, and all the while kept up its basic rate of eight cents per call for measured service and the additional toll gate extortions for mes- sages between boroughs, The only information obtainable concerning Operations of the tele- | Phone company in New York City (because its figures are concealed gn | 'y) is contained d= New York there |teports for all New York State and part of New Jerse: in a statement made by President Union N. Bethel at Commission hearing three years ago, For the year 1910 the company reaped from New York City alone net earnings of $1 This was 95 per telephone 0 I 0,757,000. cent. of the net earnings of the company for all its |ATTAGH ALL: PROPERTY OF $500,000 FORGER | Waltorf F = | SEE THE SPUG ! PICTURES AZT and Harriman National By ROLLIN KIRBY Bank Must Hold Goods of HERB ROTH James E. Foye. JACK CALLAHAN Deputy Sheriff to-day of attachment on the managements of N THE | the Wallorf-aAsto National Kank to and the Harriman cover any property fetch may have been turned over to them by James BE, Foye, the seve Ave-dollarsa-month clerk In the of the Purr hy, who and secur of the Gi Up to date SPUG tye nploy rs’ Lown and Trust Come alleged to have Mited out loans on blank certificates ral Electric Compa property valued at $1d)ae! NUMBER OF THE METROPOLITAN SECTION his possession, and property worth & M6 or don a writ of attache from the Knickerbocker Trust Company. WORLD {coe AGAINST TELEPHONE RATES Show That New York Company Pays. a Public Service | 1]! OF NEXT J alleged to have been part of eye's pro itl , [i eeeds baa been recovered. Of thin SUNDAY’S jamount $17.00) repren a certified - e » found tn his pown at the tim of Nis arrest: $5,000, cash also found in Sere erme DR. HARVEY W. WILE WHO MAY OVERSEE {NTTERHOEFER RAPS STUYVESANT FISH NEW YORK’S HEALTH, | Je Ex-Judve Announces His Las | . Tet . Case as Trial Lawyer ina Suit Against Fish. Tn @ dramatic t of the appeal a trial of a suit: for Drought by Ossian Cameron and Max well Edgar, two young Chicago attor He ix seventy-seven etising law irs oll He said that he to engage in the ng cases and arguing vel has been pi | twenty-o lwas growing t active work of try to Juries. Immediately after he had sald this t the jury he turned to Mr, Fish, was seated by the ide of his counsel, Howard Taylor, and told the financier that he did not have the courage to fight the Harriman and Haratan tn- toresta and their Wall street affiliations, who had si 1 in wresting control of the Tilinols Central from Fish after ne had veen Its president for more than twenty years. “Mr. open ‘DR, WILEY MAY ACCEPT | NEW YORK HEALTH POST and fight these men and show | Friends Says He Is Considering Of- fer of Mayor-elect Mitchel to» Succeed Led WASIIINGTON, Nov w. up the graft that had been going on among the offlelals of the Illinois tral, bug. he Kdgor ‘en: acted retly and got And Cameron, succesful young to begin a «ult against the said Judge Dittenhoefer im- s “Friends of} Dr. Harvey eral Pure t Ww passionatel M k wanted vengeance, all alnst the men who had thrown office and he urged them i considering an of- Issloner of Ernst J sue the directors of the yn his but he cautioned ‘Por God's (VAD farm, out of reach of} sake don’t let any one know that you and telegraph, and expected] are acting for Stuyvesant Fish John Vurroy Mitchel, and had been in correspondence with others in| New York about the offer. Mos, Wiley, Wi t the new home, Ashmead Diace, sald that all she knew about the supposed offer from Nev York was the tumor. She dces not think that Dr, Wiley would leave Washington, peeking venegeance against the who had ousted him from office. Mr, Taylor, in replying, said that the two lawyers had never acted as Mr, Fish's counsel in the matter and that if they did they were unskilfui and de- | served no remuneration, men Jack Johnson Leads Sulzer. (Special to The Evening World.) MILWAUK Wis, Nov, ~The Milwaukee Press Club was asked to give an entertainment to William Sul- zer, the deposed Governor of New York, who ‘a here on a lecture tour, and refused. British a geen paying @ round of visits to Medl- An ports to show the flags of rived here to-day and me, The vex- 3 Some yeara ago the Milwaukee Pres: sgmne days so as) Some es ind men to} Club entertained Jack Johnson, the fraternize with the Greek satlors. negro prizefighter, in for MMe operations covering all New York State and the northern half of New Jersey. “wow York City was the golden nest egg in 1910, as it is to-day. All the cream of the company's vast business is skimmed right here in the Mctropolis. The poople of this city are giving the company 95 per cent. of the company's vast profits, as compared with only 5 per cent. paid by all cther cities in the State and of northern New Jersey. Wew York City put 810,757,000 not profits in the company’s pocket. All the rest of the terri. tory contributed $516,000 of profits, not enough to be noticed in compariao: ‘This Is the reason why rates in New York City are kept higher than the of any other city in the country, The cream 1s richer, gain some {dea of how New Yorkers are belng robbed to-day it 1s only necessary to apply the percentages of the 1910 operations to the last complete ear, 191 REPORT CONCEALS EVERYTHING POSSIBLE, ‘Through compulsion of law, the New York Telephone Company has to make a financial report to the State each year, The report of this largest telepho smpany In the United States 19 as brief and hazy as the law allows, [t con- 2 possible y, though Imited, report states that for the year 1912 the New York ne Company made $17,318,000 net profita from all tts opera- tions, Applying the percentage figure of New York City's 95 per cent, con- tribution to the total profits In 1910, any school boy can tell how much the peuple of tais city are nuw being mado to pay. ‘This ts the Way the protiem in arithmetic reada: Net profits of the New York Telephone Company from all its territory, in 1913, $17,313,000, If New York City pays 96 per cent. of the profits, how much js the Metropolis giv- ing up? Anawer: 95 per cent. of $17,918,000 Is $16,447,350, ‘The telephone company's profits from Mew York City operations im 1912 were more than sixteen million dollars, ‘ The Public Service Commission once looked into the subject of tollgat tortions on messages between boroughs. They learned the following fac’ In the year 1910 the toll gates within New York City ylelded the company 345. Of thie sum very nearly 75 per vent. was collected on messages | berween lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, For tolephoutng across the Rast River | telephone users of the two boroughs had to pay $2,267,769, while upper Man- }hattan and Bronx contriouted $162,000 more on Brooklyn messages. | Tae telep y won't tel! how much the toll gate between Manhat- tan and Brooklyn {8 yielding to-day, but even if it Js no more profitable now than three years ago there is @ levy of two and one quarter million dollars por year on the two boroughs—an extortion that is not practised in any other city tn the United States, |ONLY CITY HAVING PHONE TOLL GATES. New York is the only city in the country having telephone toll gates within rate v | 93,11 mn | ite limits. One xingle gate between Manhattan and Brookiyn yieiued more than two millions. Al the toll gates combined yielded more than three mill- lions ‘That was int three ao. New York ‘Telephone Company conceals how much {te toll gate proft the Public Service Commission a petition demand- a similar schedule of telephone rates to that which |the Rei t has in Chie That rate begins wits five cents as ‘the nig 4 down to two cents, according to the number of Meseagen used. > ‘tes begin with eight cents and scale down to three | cenie, according to the number of messages used. Chi in the o 140 hax no toll gates, All territory witnin the city mits is included Fates are 22 per cent. cheaper than New York rates, xtortions, is the socnd problem also Here served writs) New Yorkers being charged than Chicagoann/for the same telephone service? | in simpie arithmetic: How much more are Net profits of the telephone company in New York last year, § Twenty-five per cent. of $16,400,000 19 $4,100,000, New York's toll gate extortion $3,000,000, Total extra charge, $7,100,000, \NEW YORKERS PAYING $6,900,000 A YEAR TOO MUCH. Making all due allowances for operating expenses and plant charges, @ imate Would be thag New Yorkers are paying $6,000,000 a year than a flr and reasonable charge Would warrant, Ko Kehedule of rates adopted by the same company for .400,000. service similar service SIX millions a year t# half a million per month AIX millions a year ts Sx millions a year tm $1 00 per day The Public Service Commission has postponed giving rell: taxed Yorkers 4 Jive-cent rate for ali N Wipe out the toll putes, IN COURT SPEECH he closing heys, against Stuyvesant Fish, former President of the Mlinols Central Rall. former Judge Abram J. Ditten- a jury in the Supreme Court that kk was the last time he would appear in a public trial as coun years old and he Was, h didn't want to go into the | to return to the city to-night. None| Judge Dittenhoefer then paid a com- of the rs frients knew whether | pliment to Mr. Fish, saying that he had he would take the piace, but sald he} been an able president of the Iitinols | had conferred once with Mayor-clect] Centval and he didn't blame him for THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1919. SAYS*HUBBY VANISHED * WITH STEPDAUGHTER t RVEGYN BEC) | Mrs. Becker Especially Wants Little | Evelyn, Who Was Taken With Fleeing Pair, Katharine Herbst Becker of second street and Woodside ue, Winfleld, Queens, has asked t. Aloncle of the Newtown police aid her im finding her husband, Martin Becker, a tinsmith, of the Bock Departm: who disappeared Nov, & Mrs, to with her twenty-two-year-old daughter, Lille Herbst, and her five-year-old daughter, Evelyn, Mrs, Re-ker, who was left a comfort- able fortune by her first husband, & Manhattan stationer, sald that she went to # hospital for an operation from | Which there seemed to be smal! chance of her recovery in October. When she returned home cured, #ho said, she ob- Jected to the intimate friendship which seomed to have been established be- tween Becker and his stepdaughter. She also discovered that over @ thousand dollars in the Dry Dock Savings Bank in a joint account to the credit of her- self and her Husband had been trans- ferred to her Husband's account. On Nov. 6 she went to the city, expect- ing to meet her daughter and the baby. She saw them passing her on a stroct car In the direction of home. When she returned home herself she found a note in her husvand’s writing saying: “Lille, Evelyn, and I have gone awa Mra, Recker sait the money been drawn from Recker's deposit that day. She !d she wanted Evelyn back any- way and would take the older daughter back, believing she was unworidly and had been misled. She sald she had asked the tinsmiths’ union to notify all locals throughout the country of ber husband's @'sappearances and reques: ald for her in recovering her savyghter. ee WELL AFTER TAKING MERCURY ON A DARE Court Thinks He Was Punished Enough for Fool-Hardiness— Knows More NoW%/ Magistrate Breen in the Centre Street Court looked at Thomas Melle in sur- prise to-day when tat young man, who i N THE PRO Hennessy Gives Whitman the! Names of Contractors Who Will Tell of Sandbagging. The District-Attorney announced to- day that Matters have so shaped them- selves as to warrant the belief that additional indictments will be returned on Monday against persons charged with coercing contractors on up-State highways into contributing funds to the Democratic State Committee. John A, Hennessy gave to the Dis- trict-Attorney to-day the names of two contractors who, he says, are willing to awear that they were practically sandbagged out of contributions by men of more importance in politics than Everett P. Fowler of Kingston, the so-called “Murphy bagma: andy under indictment. In addition to these two, ten other contractora, found by the District-At- torney's men, have been subpoenaed to appear here on Monday to testify either before the Grand Jury or the John Doe inquiry. It is hoped that some of these will be able to give corroborative evidence against Fowler, CONTRACTORS ASSURE HENNES- 8V THEY WILL BACK HIM VP, Hennessy has been up-State working personally to e two con- tractors he has promised to deliver to the District-Attorney. He had the stories they will tell in his note-books during the campaign, but did not men- RAILWAY TRAFFIC HALTS. AS FINLEY IS MOURNED Not a Wheel Turns on Southern System While Body of Pres- ident Is Carried Into Church. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, — Funeral services for the late Willlam Wilson Finley, President of the Southern Rail- way system, were held here to-day in St. John's Ep.scopal Church, attended by many government officials and his for- mer associates in the commercial and transportation world. As the body was ted into the church juat before 11 o'ciock all activities over the Southern Railway's 7,000 miles of road ceased for five minutes, Employees everywhere laid down their work, trains everywhere came to a standstill and in shops ma- ehinery ceased to turn, Officials and employees at the head- quarters of the company assembled in front of the general offices on Pennsyl- vania avenue and marched to the church in a drizzling rain The body was borne by six negro porters, 7 r honorary pallbearers were Col. A. B. Andrews, George F, Baker, James J. Hi, Charles Steele, Fairfax Harrison, BH, Gary, Adrian Iselin jr,, George F. Baker Jr., Francis Lynde Stetson, Alex- ander P, Humphrey, Alfred P, Thom, J, M. Culp, T, C. Powell, Henry B. Spencer, B. H. Coapman, R, D. Lank- ford, R, V. Taylor, John B. Munson, H.C. Ansley, A. H. Plant, A. C. Down- ing and Leonard M. Levering, lives in West One Hundred and Sixty- fifth street, told him that he had taken thirty-six grains of bichloride of mercury on a dare, Finally the Magistrate de- cided that any one foollsh enough to do such a thing and lucky enough to escape with his Ife had been puntehed enough by his confinement in the hospital and he lot him go on Meile's repeated asaur- ance that he had had no idea of com- mitting suicide, It was two weeks ago that Pokceman Haynes of the Madison street station came on Mello writhing on the aldewalk in Grand street and sent him to the liudgon Street Hospital. 17> was dis- charged this morning. “The doctors told me my case was one nd,” said Melle.” and T gu t was, thankful to be alive. 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