The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1913, Page 3

< .£22a. See PHONE EXTORTION. MILKS NEW YORK OF $83,296,016 Enormous Overcharges Used by the Monopoly to Kill Off Competition. PLANTS ARE UPROOTED. Companies That New Yorkers’ Pay For and Squelched. Are Bought Unier orders of tne sion, the New York ‘Te OMMaNYy has MALE a repert dial Where it spent the ade our of esx arplus a and tol) gar yt Bonnet npany. HOW THE MILLIO.’S ARE SEING SCATTERED AROUND n Chesaneatie Potor My uy New Yor: itlew, ’ W larg Comp. divided 4 and the ba} vanced The total o Xponited by the New York Televi ‘omipany itn th sstaries Mnous sumo all been done y It Is eaey to ve miking of New Aone business. It discloses fre the revenues from New York Cit 4 eight cent rate pad toll gate extortions. The polley of monopoly and aggran Jaement 1s carried on at tremendous cast, but so tong as New Yorkers sud- mit to the extortions and furnish the money the New York Telephone Con pany w to continue its expansion $8,294, regardless of expense. Here is a ample investment: ‘Through the Friend Telephone Company, which ix me a holding corporation, the New York company bought last year forty up-State rival companies at a cos: mo out of $3,508, these companies is a losing proposition and not one dollar in profits or divi- dendy was received im return, Th were bought simply to be monopolized, BOUGHT AND PUT FOURTEEN COMPANIES OUT OF BUSINESS, The Friendship Company went e further. It bought fourteen more te! phone companies up-State, paying $679, $95 and put them completely out of bu: ness. Thero is not a single telepho: operated by them to-day, nor a dolur of revenue received. They were bought solely to suppress competition. Milking New Yorkers !s a joyous ‘vpusiness for the New York Telephoi Company. The process has enabled ti company to spend sixty-two millio monopoilaing = Penasylvania; thirteen millions monopolizing Maryland and adjoining States, and seven milions buying out competition in New York State. Every day of delay in reducing rat in New York City to @ five-cent bas and wiping out the toll gates adds $17,000 extortion profits to the company's treasury to be spent elsewhere, Wipe out the telephone toll gates. Reduce telephone rates to five cents for all New York City. Golfer Smith Safe tu Mexico. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 6.-4Willle Smith, the American golfer, hus not disap- peared, as reporte from the United Staten would seam to indicate, Smith, who once was nat.ona! open champion of the United States, was rather amused than othorwiss when tn- formed that his friends across the der feared that some mishap had b fallen him, _THE EVENING WORLD,-FRIDAY, DECEMBER: 5,+4913,_ « |Society '¥omen Who Tipple Almost Hopeless, '\NFATUAIED CRI Says Dr. Quackenbos, Who Has Treated 1,000. \NHO KILLED MAN HUST ACE TRAL Rose Pressman Murders Nathan Tee WOMEN 00 WOT TODAY TO BROTHERS AND HUSBANDS URGE THE WOMEN TO smo Chase Because He Spurns Love She Offers. | ' | {TRIED TO KILL SELF. | Wound Will Not Prove Fatal— | Retuses to Discuss Crime TANGOING “While I Have Been Able| to Cure 75 Per Cent. of | the Others by Mental | Suggestion,’ Declares Specialist, ‘It Is Nearly | Impossible to Persuade | Society Women to Give | Up Dinners, Late Sup-| \ pers and Cocktails.” “I Have Treated One Wo- man Whose Weekly \ Champagne Biil Exceeds | $100-—Schooi Misses and College Girls Are Con-| spicuous in the Throng of Drunkards.”’ gestion, “While I Alcohol and Othe pale of hope.” “In the name enbos. “I should ably be an inadvertent victim.” “The woman drunkard of society can so rarely be cured because she can so rarely be induced to keep out of temptation,” he explain | “Zt 1s nearly impossible to persuade | her to give up the elaborate lunch- eons and dinners, the balls end theatre suppers, which make up most of her life, And yet om ell these occasions she will meet with temptation in its most insidious form. ‘Just ome cooktall!’ ‘Just a sip of punch!’ ‘Just half a glass of | champagne!’ Pleas like these will beset her om every hand, and her yielding is practically fore- @oomed.” “Then you belleve that women drink more coplously and more frequently than In former years?” I questioned. “The notable increase in the consump- st, especially among the upper cla ‘Deen estimated at 10 per cent, during the last decade in the cause of lueu, ATMOng Women the per- centage Is much larger and 1s especially alarming. | “When the American woman gives! herself up to anything, ahe pushes her devotion to the utmost limits, If sho affects a habit he affects ¢t in the su- perlative degrea I have treated one whose weekly bill for champagne alone exceeded $10. Tho punch-bow! fix- ures at all functions, and proud women dip freely therein, ten drinking to-day where one drank @ dozen years ago. “obool misses and college girls are conspicuous among the throng. outantes, not necessarily of the | feet set, unblushingly assert a | right to drink wine and smoke cig- arettes at luncheons and levees, to way nothing of private indulgence. Mot a few of this class, as well as young married women, have been Drought to my office in e state of TRY ALITTLE SALTS IF KIDNEYS AND BLADDER Salts flushes Kidneys with- out injury; also neutral- izes uric acid, ending Bladder irritation. weakness result noted authority, this eid from the The bloud where it oft inflame, ca tising a burning, scalding sen- sation, f neek of the bla relief lwo or thres The an fferer is valor passes some sensation and is y Hiffic alts aT Tie jer weakness most folks call i bee suse they can't control urination. idney and ing the night constant dread; the ding profuse; again voiding it ARE TROUBLING YOU ly one of four ounces of Jad Salts from your pharmacist and take a table- spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast, continue this for two or three days. This will neutralize the acids in! the urine so it no longer is a source of | ritation to the bladder and w | organs, which the mally ag act ‘anc with lithia, and) f folks who a Hs f is used by thousa subject to urina re H uric acid irritation. dud Salts is splen- did for kidneys and causes no bad effects whatever, Here you have # pleasant, effervese ont lithia-water drink, which quickly relieves | bladder trouble. at By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Dr. John Duncan Quackenbos has treated more; than one thousend alcoholic patients by mental sug- of other cases,” he told the Society for the Study of found that society women were almost without the position would have quite epecial incentives for over- | = coming a disgusting vice of which she would presum- | seems to me that many of those who have been able to cure 75 per cent. r Narcotics the other day, “I have of logic, why? I asked Dr. Quack- think that a woman of wealth and intonication. Such has become the vogue. “Worse than this, girls in their teens see no impropriety in drinking publicly with men companions. Flushed with alcohol, they are likely to forget the re- ints of modesty, The conversation tends to subjects which should not be named in decent society, profanity is tolerated, and when constraints of self- respect break down with the moral ole- ments of the brain cells, gross indis- cretions are a natural consequence, ‘The abstinent, unobtrusive young woman of the p eneration is giving place to a coarse and boisterous bon- vivant, controlled by unworthy !mpul- ses, and wholly unfit to fulfil her func- tion tn society as an inspirer to meri- torlous action, or her function in the home as a character former, a wife . Quackenbdos's indictment is par-' ticularly severe because it is levelled by @ man who expressly declares that! he is not @ fanatic on temperance ques: | tions. He sees no reason why a woman | should not drink a glass of light wine | or even of champagne with her dine, ner !f she cares to do so. It is the} immoderate use of the more dangerous | | forms of alcohol which he deplores, “Why should a woman drink a | cocktail?” he exclaimed indignant- ly. “30's @ vile mixture that should be swallowed by nobody, Ana@ how many women nowadays have the highball habit! They may drink {t served in « teapot 5 o'clock in the afternoon, but it's @ highball just the same, In the suburban towns @ common prac- tice is for them to stop for a drink, “perhaps for several, on the home from church. and s round of cocktails is neces- sary before they leave, “The absinthe habit among women. The elpping of ab: is increasing the, known as the green vice, manufactures maniacs, epileptics, idiots, murderers ‘The use of morphine {s also growing among the feminine sex. More Amer- fean women emoke to-day than ever before.” “But ts the cigarette anything more than a fad with ¢! women who use | majority of the T objected, “It smoke do so because they think they are being delightfully wicked and smart rather than because they enjoy it” | “The modern attitude toward the woman with the cigarette {9 all wrong,” | returned Dr, Quackenbos “Fifty years ago @ decent man ould that he is making her more com- panionable, @ ‘real good fellow.’ Respectable hotels aud restaurants allow women to smoke in the public dining-rooms. Ladies’ cigarette Tam told, are prominently om sale in the department stores, among porfamery and toilet artteles, ‘Yet cigarette emoking bas become o' stigma of degeneration, brand of ethical instability. among American women ts especially dancing, the means to satisfy th Staten I | of impairing the morali and for the best of reasons. It i# the Its apread to be deprecated. They would do well to remember that it renders a woman not only common but in the end mor- ally insecure, Society may be tolerant of thé abuse in men, but the bounds within which @ lady may transgress and remain a lady are too narrow to make any license safe, “Cigarettes are a depressant and they create an instinctive demana for the antidote to tobacco polsoning—alcohol, The alcoholic thirst is engendered and inflamed by smoke. I suapect also that drinking among women {s increased by the licentious and violent restaurant thipes raised being #o close at han: “Since you find feminine debauchery 80 difficult to cure, will you suggest how it may be prevented?" “A woman should avold cigarettes and cooktadls, never drink adulterated iiquor and, for the rest, KNOW WHEN TO STOP,” Dr. Quackenbos suid, signift- cantly. Sa SUSPENDS VETERAN COP. jenant May Have te Answer Charges. Lieut, Edward J. Fulton, sixty, who has been attached to the West New Brighton etation on Staten Island for many years, Was suspended to-day by Commissioner Waldo following a letter from a minister representing the Chil- dren's Soctety, which led to an inveati+ Ration by Chi® of Detectives Faurot's department. The minister deciared that te Chil dren's Society had heard that Fulton, who entered the Police Department in 181 and who has been a since 1893, was about to request ment, and asked Commissioner Wald to withhold any action on the » Until certain charges again could be Investigated by the Chi ety. If these charges pre be ested for the Heutenant on a charge f children, —.—_—_— COSTS ENOUGH TO PUT BOY THRO’ COLLEGE. Sherman once described war, but Mis# Marton Burritt, eld sec- retary of the Peace Aawoctation, put It in a new Neht at the Waldort fore the Legislative League, So of the striking points she male were: It costes $1,700 to fire a big gun —the cost of a» college education for @ girl or boy. @ix per cent. interest om the value of one dreadnought would keep all our sailor boys in col- loge oF technica! schools learning some trade. One per cent, interest on the of @ Greaduought would pay the combined salries of the college presidents of the conatry. If the war debt of Burope were piled up in $1 bills it would make ® stack 104 miles high, _ Ove warship is worth more than All the books in all the libraries in the United mat Yu the Inst century 18,000,000 of the flower of humanity died violent deaths, leaving the old ani feeble to propagate @ weakene.l race, “In this what People who are crying for war with Mexico want?" Miss Buzritt ashe, Heutenant | minister declared, « warrant will | Jou D. QUACIENBOS KAISER WIELDS ‘TWO-EDGED SWORD INALSAGE TROUBLE Orders Troops From Zabern, but People Will Suffer If Left Without a Garrison. | DONAUPSCHINGEN, Germany, Dee. | 6.—Emperor William thie afternoon or- dered the garrison of Zabern, Alaace, | to be transferred to another place ow- ing to the trouble between the soldiers and the citizons there. Ho also direct- @4 that the court«martial proceedings be accelerated. The troops after in- sulting the people bayuneted them in street charges His Majesty's solution of the difficulty {s regarded in many quarters an a two- edued aword, and it Is stated that while {t removes the danger of further con-! fiicta the people and merchants of Zabern will suffer a severe financial blow by the removal of an important source of revenue unless another regi- ment is sent there. later dectded by the Emperur that the Zabern garrison should go into camp temporarily on the army manoeuvre grounds at Hagenau, but that the troops might return ultimately to Zabern ff the tnhabitanta of that town displayed proper temper after the expected transfar to another regiment of Lieut, Baron von Forstner, the cause of the trouble, and the retirement Col. von Teute from active nervice of of the Ninety-ninth Tn- between the Emperor, the Imperial Chancellor, the Governor. jeneral of Alsace-Lorraine ancl the gen- only about an eror jeft shortly after 2 o'clock for Stuttgart, and apectators at the railway atation noted that he was in thoroughly goed hummer and Ar ently untroubled ty Tr yon Bethinann-Hollweg and the! thers did not y to} the station Chancellor | urns to Berlin to-night at will not ke another appearance in the Im perial Parllament before ‘Tuesday the situation BORLIN, De The exatence of a sf peellor crisis’ was nied to-day Jose touch with the Im- a, Dr. von Rethmann- ri ared } “ had no Ins | lrention of resigning ofttc in connection with the conflict between infittary and clvittans tn AtNa elinquishment of lls post by the Governor-Heneral of Alsace-Lorraing, JCount Charles von Wedel, howover, I e unless his a 1 protected ax | conatdered pro’ | te cull | her seat. or Her Motives. Hose Pressman, the twenty-four-year-, old stenographer who shot and killed Nathan Chase, a salesman tn her uncle wholesale clothing establishment at N W Went Seventeenth street late yaate day afternoon, to-day declined in th New York Hospital to anawer any ques-| tions put to her by Asslatant Distelet- Attorney Breckenridge, who tried to! wring .com her her story of the murder. | Though she fired a ‘bullet tnto her| own breast immoediately after she shot! Chase, physiclans at the hospital d clared to-day she would live. In the event she recovers she will undoubtedly have to face trial on the change of mur- der. No real motive for the shooting | has been discovered, save that Miss Pressman was infatuated with Chase und her love was unrequited. Miss Premman lives at No. 115 Wada worth avenue. She {s a stenographer. ‘Chase lived at No. 1430 Sixtieth street, Borough Park, Brooklyn. Chase, for eight years @ salesman for the Pressman company, died an hour after the shooting in New York Hos- pital without regaining consciousness. The girl never lost conscious and was taken to the hoapttal in the same ainbulance with the dying man, show- ing no remorse and making no explan- ation. She ls expected to recover, in which event she will have to atand trial for murder. “I know Rose is @ mighty good, kind airt,” Gertrude Laird, with whom the Girl boarded, said early to-day, “and that's all I propose to say at this time 1 prefer telling nothing more of her af- fairs until I am called on by the proper authorities.” The Coroner will question to-day. Her statement indicates there may be more behind the shooting jthan supposed, Miss Pressman is an orphan and for four years was confidential clerk and stenographer in her uncle's establish- ment, where she first met Chase, later Glaplaying marked affection for him. COMPLAINED TO GIRL’S UNCLE OF HER INFATUATION. More than @ year ago, according to Mr. Pressman, Chase told him the girl's infatuation had become embarrassing. Mr. Pressman remonrtrated with his niece, telling her she snould show more reserve. Sho is @ seif-willed girl, and beoame very angry. As a result of the interview, she was dismissed, Mr. Hress- man believing that it would be better for her to position elsewhere, Phe did obtain another position, he understood, and was doing well. @he was never at his ;lace again but once until yesterday, when she entored about 6 o'clock and asked for Chase, When told he was not in she sald she would walt, and went to hin office, taking @ neat fifteen feet from his rolitop dosk. Her uncle saw her and spoke pleas antly to hi When he Jearned she had asked for Chase he said: “Why don't you forget about him, Rose?" Sho insisted she hat nothing else to do and would wait for him, and her uncle told her that as ahe was there it would be all right, but pleuse not to come there any more. | William Malbin, @ salewman, of No. 11 Jackson avenue, the Bronx, seems to have been the only eyowltness to the shooting. Ho toki the police that Miss Proasman, on entering Chase's little pri- vate office, sat down where he could not soe her until he reached his deak. Whea hase caine in about 6 o'clock he | spoke respectfully to the girl as soon as , whaking hanis and pioking ‘$49 she returned to he saw hy up @ bundle of p: While he was engaged in looking over the papers, with his buck to her, ehe suddenly arose and drew 4 hammerle revolver loaded with ster! bullets from her muff, Without # word she pointed it ut Chase's back and fired. Chase was struck in the back of the hb . He tried to get up, pitched forward and fell to the floor, With @ sob the girl turned and saw Malbin, who was on the point of en- tering the office, looking at her, Then she turned the weapon on herself, fred | and threw thej SHE of the milltary ol annexed provinces One Ten Cent Box of | ~ EX:LAX The Famous Chocolate Laxative will regulate your bowels and Constipation If your stomach isn’t just right, coated tongue, feel distressed after eating and have frequent headaches, just try Ex-Lax. This will tone up your stomach, aid digestion, promote bodily | vigor and strengthen the nervous system. You will relieve you of the miseries of if you have a bad ta: ¢ in the mouth, surprised to see how quickly your energy, ambition and appetite will come back to you, 1c, 25¢ and 50c « Bos, at All Drug Stores. | ‘ " SEPM ARAN AT, spite her wound, when others tn the of the . reached her she tried o fight them off They thought she still had the revolver in her hand, and | were trying to get [t and force her tnto | hate | Her sili bt ad caught fire from | ie powder, and Maibin put it out with ‘in Hatde and asked her what she had done. Ww " ahe replied indifferently, ‘I've shot myself. The office was thrown into a pante and owd soon there was a gre the building. The police r f the Wert Seventeenth «tr jon had | to fight a way through for the ambu- Ance surgeon. ' “Why did you do it? asked Detecs tive Scanlan as the surgeons worked over her, “Don't ask me.* she repiled, without & show of emotion Stretched side by side in the ambu- | lance, she and Chase rode to the hos pit he lived but a short time. ‘Tho Wullet entered the base of his skull | and catno out the front of the head. = | Detective Scanlan again tried to ques Uon the girl at the hospital. REFUSES TO TALK ABOUT THE! SHOOTING. “Are you sorry or glad you killed Chase and shot yourself? enked. it have he ‘The girl looked at him and would not | Qnswer, Then she said: “I'm not going to tell you anything. Please go away.” nd his wife, who live in Armes, No, 62 Fort | begged her to make a She turned @ deaf ear to atatement. them. Investigauion by the detectives indl- cates that Mise Pressman planned the killing of Chase a week or more ago. ‘The girl took great pride in her room at Mra. Laird’s. The walls were hung with pletures of frienda and dainty knickknacks, Two weeks ago the girt wucdenly ceased having communication with Mira, Laird or any one else, She remained in her room much of the time and it wae plain that she was very unhappy. Mre. Laird noticed a week ago that ehe was dismantling her room. Pictures were caken down and lecked in Duress drawers and trunks, and every article of clothing was put away, until the retm was bare except of furniture. Only @ tollet set wae to be found unlocked last night and it was shut in « drawer. How Miss Pressman got the revolver ie not known, but it is believed she bad it yesterday afternoon when she went from ber room and started downtowsa. In the opinion of the detectives, she began packing her effects when the ides of murder and suicide was conceived, VICTIM MAY HAVE HAD 6OME WARNI'IG, In March, 1813, Chase had his name changed by the Supreme Court of Brooklyn from Chasen to Chase. In bie petition he eald that his name frequent- ly was pronounced “Chase-bhim,” and that it was disagreeable to him, doth im business and socia) relations. Hc lived with bis parents, Mr. ant Mrs. Morris Chasen, his younger broth- ers Edward sod Abraham, and three younger slstera, Nettie, Emme and Dora, in @ handsome realdence at the Borough Park addresa ‘There also are two married sisters. Chase is thought to Bave had @ prem- onttion of trouble yesterday morning. On arising Edwerd notice’ that Nathan was pale and evidently nervous. Ile ald to-day: “Neither I, my father, my mother nor any of my sisters or brothers ever heard of Miss Rose Pressman. If Na- than ever was attentive to her he kept it secret from the family. “I have no ides what made him nervous tn the morning unless he had Feceived @ome disquieting news. He bad nothing to say at breakfast, end on leaving the house 1 supposed he went straight to business.” Mr. and Mre Chasen also sdid they never had heard of Miss Pressman. 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