The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1914, Page 4

1 methods de yours PHONE CONPANT ADMITS AT LAST > MILIONS IN IN PROFIT Evening Wald Fo Forces It to File Report at Albany of Its City Business. BIG INCREASE IN 1913. wropere ig an apprateal of its physical FlaURee ON oie crre: DONE IN IN THE C Chairman Dakss fit! the up- State | Public Service Commission, sald that whether the State authorities would | | demand that an apprainal should be made by the Public Service Commis- ton of the physical property of the | telephone company depended on the! ection of the company. Persons familiar with the situation believe that the company would rather reduce the rates that have than to have such an appraisal. | Here, im detail, are some of the fig- | 14,396,463 . 18, 176,869 13,720,969 THE EVENING worzp, been objectionable in New York City | HELD FOR DEMANDING $5,000,000 FROM SCHIFF Hoboken Painter Dreamed That! Banker Had Claimed His \ Brother's Estate. On bin admission that he has been riting threatening letters to Jacob | H. Schiff, the banker, demanding $5,000,000, Jacob Bertoff, an artist, living at No, 90 Garden street, Hobo- | ken, was held for ten days for obser- | vation as to his mental condition in; Recorder McGovern's court to-day. Bertoff is sixty-one years old. | The letters have been reaching Mr. Schiff for some time. Bertoff -nade | \no effort to disguise his identity, |Bertoff told Recorder McGovern he | had written to Mr. Hchiff because of BY A POLICEMAN AS HE-CLMBS A ANE seers Lively Chase Across Back Lots in Harlem After Al- leged Burglar. re 4) Policeman Wriedlander of the Tener | avenue station was coming down | through the tenement at No, 100 West | One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street | this morning with a negro, whom he bad found working on thé door of the FRIDAY, TANDARY 28,1918. [FUGITIVE SHOT DOWN in the air, The man hesitated and the ‘policeman closed with him. But aguin the negro placed a kick in the policeman’s stomach and Friedlander r man fi shots. One struck eo ce “under the left 7 witl tl, he bs ppled off the fence into the yard of N 4 ‘One Hundred and Thirt: Profit Only jon Diamonds Next Week! Great G anuary Company Expected to Adjust] aignavie Rates to Avoid Action by P. S. Board. enue down to 910,608,074 in 1918 and to ‘The Bvening World's fight for equitable telephone rates in New York continues to bring results, and to-day there to on file with the Pub-| lice Gervice Commission, Second Divi- gen, in Albany, @ financial statement of the New York Telephone Com- pany’s income and expenditures in New York City. Goon after The Evening World be- ; ]gan to demand fair telephone rates . | the Telephone Company assumed a sion, and the statement filed at Al- be =| yesterday ts the result. The opinion was expressed to-day % by persons familiar with the situa- tien that the telephone company will feduce the rates that have been ob- 1D | Sectionable in New York City, rather Taking It. ‘Ten dollars was the price Magtetrate great for meats, —e thd ecors and Delicatessen Stores. E:Priehard, 31 Spring. N.Y. a -WORLD WANTS monpay wonveRS.| ** ~ Stewart & . Fo. FIFTH AVENUE, CORNER & STREE The Entire Remaining Stock of : Fur Coats & Fur Sets | “At Reductions of 50% to 60% employ reveal conte! thoy take out with. them, heard this bread from his bag of The Kind | rs You Have Sporanehes, the door olgneeer Perey arrested. Por Over 80 Years. mane je Regularly $65.00 eal caller. ; $150.00 "d Moire Pony Coats..22.50 ..27.50 te 75.00 > Reselariy $110.00 Regularly $60.00 af renee tees 14.5 Black bbyiice ~/advice that had been given to him *|by the stare. "|ago. He went to look for gold. Some -|time ago I hada dream, Then I had 1 One Hundred and Fifty-first atreet ; | this morning to see five goats, five int at | he wasn't the top floor apartment joner suddenly kicked “The last time I saw my brother,” | ach and tried to bolt. said Bortof, “was forty-five years down a : fight ot gir an ot the feot the negro broke away. te ran into the street, with Pried- lander close behind, and dodged into the basement of No. 127. Friedlander, shouting to him to halt, drew bis re- volver and raced after him. The series showed how iny brother had lived and died. “He found a gold mine out in the Rocky Mountains and when he died he left it to me, But he didn’t know where I was and the mine and 3 other proverty laid by i nobod; claiming it. Then Jacob H. ‘Sehitt heard about my brother's property. He ae it and he has the $5,000,- 000 now. WILD ANIMALS THAVE MET IN A BRONX YARD! Health Officer Could Tell Luring Tale of the Sight He Saw TovDay. Poltcoman Keenan of the’ Health Squad was amazed when he passed the home of James Pinto, No. 285 East twenty-seven other dreams. As the fugitives sprang tate the back yard Friedlander fired e bullet —————————— ne FOR STOMACH TROUBLE John W. Skillen of Rinw, Ohio, Has Found a Remedy. Experts declare that the recees stomach are ce commen in this Ra te Mme aad care- less habets jomach poy and rua-dewa, her. get! John, Wi ied oa Mocronsf Ohio, fey ttomsch trouble i aid fa handle valle de beg walk or do any wor! ey J and i it seemed | 1 sheep, « pig, twenty-five chickens, a couple of dogs and a couple of cata the yard. Keenan had taken Pinto the Morrisania Court last week be-| yi cause his yard was filthy and he had no permit to keep the animals. But there had been only throe sheep then, eo Keenan took Pinto back te court. “Don't you know you can't keep a beer: your yard?" asked Ma- Pinto beet that be did, but said bl for the extra wheep. vd ween trying to Aspens of the three when wor more were Masietrate iSong Eyck fined hi goat of his excess at Stew rt & Co. FIFTH Wa rt 37TH STREET Direct Attention to Their Final Clearance Sale SUITS, COATS & DRESSES .At Extreme Reductions Unrestricted Choice 500 High Grade Coats That Were Formerly Up to $45.00 10.00 It ts the policy of STEWART & CO. never to carry over ee next. He yal eee (© disease now Py ALL SALES FINAL NONE C. 0. D. Cc : Cat and Skunk Opossum; all silk lined. Jale of Pranos at Aeolian Hall TREMENDOUS Fall business, culminating in a December fifty per cent greater in volume of sales than any December in the history of this company, brings us to this annual sale with the greatest, most magnificent stock of ex- changed pianos ever offered in New York City. The remarkably wide selection, * which this enormous stock pro- vides, and the unparalleled bargain prices, make this sale of vital in- . terest to every intending piano purchaser, For complete an- nouncements— See Sunday Papers HOLZWASSER&CO OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL OPM qagement Die | t eeeuier a 16 karat Gold for $10.00, others 1¢-karat, $3.30 up Seawtyend cee ry 8-karat, ‘UP right up to tbe shart $25up P standard Third Ave., Cor. 58th St. Stare Open Seturdey | Nighto Unt! 10 You will find that Yubanpro- duces the most delicious cup of g E ii ulti x iu ir “i ; i : 5 t “pining Rooat Ruy i er ‘gies GE tam 103 $15.00 Guess What This | ee ieee ieee a ee |417-1425 THIRD AVE*80 Si} (MICHIGAN FURNITURE C’ We lah ‘Tellet Set, 2.00 to $2.25 “rs age $29.50 Crepe de Chine, Crepe Meteor, Chif- fon, Faille de Laine and Wool Crepe Dresses and Dancing Frocks, ru: cissrance Price, New Taffeta Silk Dresses, all Spring shades. 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