The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1914, Page 3

IN . Up behing On eee TAXT TRUST NOW TRYING TO FORCE THE ALDERMEN TO COMPROMISE ON RATE Yellow Taxis Will Hereafter Obey Law Fixing Charges for Service. MANAGER FORCED OUT. Will Ask City Lawmakers to Permit High Rate for “Livery” Service. With characteristic obstinacy and effrontery the Yellow Taxtcab Com- s defeated at all points tn ite bat ‘The Eveging World's or- e, which @ this city reagon- able taxicab rates, is trying to force the Board of Aldermen to agree to @ compromise. Through — President William H. Barnard of the Mason- Reamon Company- which has sorbed the Yellow ‘Taxicab © 4he annosacement was made to-day that the Yellow Taxicab meters would be changed to comply with the law BUT--the Yellow Taxicab will endeavor tor ntain a service and will seek the tanicat ame to have also d «0 that the charge will be 50 cents a mile} instead of 40 cents a mile for public} hack service In other words the Yellow ‘Taxicab Company, beaten in it effort to nullify an ordinance ad- vocated by The Evening World, which gave the streets of New York back to the people, is now trying to dlo- tate to the city under the pretense of complying with the law. P. J, Holsworth, the general man- ager of the Yellow Taxicab Co., who inspired and directed the fight against the ordinance was forced out of bts Job last night by a strike of the Magon-Seaman chauffeurs. Never- theless the remaining officers of the eld monopoly are essaying to con- tinue, in a restricted way, the dime- grabbing policy which has made their «cempany eo unpopular. INDEPENDENT CONCERNS ARE ALL MAKING MONBY. AU the independent companies whieh—after the courts had declared the taxicab ordinance constitutional —compiied with the new law, are making money. Their managers agree that the rates fixed by the ordi- nance for public hacks—30 cents for tha first balf mile and ten cents for each succeeding quarter mile—are reasonable and profitable. The Yellow Taxicab Company, erating under the guise of a private very renting taxicabs ohly on priv- ate telephone call, refused to take out Meenses for ite cabs and chauffeurs. “The company continued to charge the old rate of 50 cents for the first two- | fifths of a mile and 10 cents for each succeeding quarter mile. The pre- tense of the Yellow Taxicab Company that it was operating a strictly priv- ate livery was exposed by the Bureau! of Licenses, which found chauffeurs sBliciting fares on public stands, Finding i f losing money, Yellow Taxicab Company is now talk. ing about a compromise. Mr. Bar- nard says his compatty is willing to; adopt for the public hack service the rate of 30 cents for the first halt mile and 10 cents for each succeeding quarter mile, but it wants special rato for its alleged “private” service. WANTS TO CHARGE 60 CENTS FOR FIRST MILE. For telephone called taxicabs the Yellow Company wants to charge 30 cents for the first two-fifths of a mile and 10 cents for each succeeding fifth | of a mile. This would make the charge for the first mile 60 cents and for each succeeding mile 69 cents, whereas the rate under the ordinance is 50 cents for the first mila and 40 cents for each succeeding mile. The object of this so-called com- Pliance with the law is plain, ‘The Yeligw Taxicab management knows that there is an ordinance before the Board of Ajdermen which will abolish , the alleged “private” special liveries ‘end put every taxicab on the basis vet by the ordinance. In other words, the ordinance is to be amended so that every taxicab will be deemed a public taxicab and will have to use the - cense provided and charge the reduced rates provided. ‘The passage of this ordinance would make all yellow taxicabs public hacks and put them under the supervision of the Bureau of Licens The Yel- low Taxicab lawye by the subter- ftuge of trying to provide for two Kinds of service hope to defeat the proposed amendment and have anothor passed which would legalize their “private” business . ‘There is little prospect that aeheme will go through the Board of Aldermen. Public sentiment is lined the new ordinance. ‘The city never had such cheap and abund- ant taxical service WHY SHOULD THEY CHARGE MORE THAN OTHERS? The question is why should Tollew Taaiab Co, be privileged wmainias “ite” Servies? th: the; the «, cabs are no better than those of the) independents. In fact, in the past months ite equip- ment has become badly run down. The whole plan is plainly a legally conceived dodge to allow the Yellow Taxicab Company to charge from 20 }to 26 per cent. more than its com- petitors. For if the Yellow Taxicab Company is privileged to run both a/| public and a private service the pub- lic may rest assured that there will) be very few of its cabs in the Dublie | service. President Barnard, in explaining his compromise plan to id: will be given a trial, | is operated tion whieh will ha der to ke basin. We are the railroad company to be changed in or-| nd hope to be} able to make the rates effective bod bla priv: public stand service we are entitled to a differenc tes. We think that the at. tional charge put upon the private | service ta ao slight that it will be ac j cepted by our customers for the ac- commodation offered. “It is our plan to [acne ter principally | y| to the private trade and to put only | surplus cabs on the public stands. Each will have its metre. Those in | private trade will register at the new) and those on public stands at 6. We purpose to; istinct in color #0 be no diMculty io a there will that recognizing the two servic ‘WHAT DIFFERENCE THE PEOPLE. “Slight aw is the difference in| | charges, it means to us the differ- ence between operating below or above coi We cannot afford to; mnaintain establishments and branches; to give private service on call at the ordinance rates. It is simply a ques- than of figuring of absolute costs. (The difference amounts to 20 per} MEANS To) cent. for the first mile and 25 per! cont 1 mile.) before the! nance com- to be! operated at public stand La think this would work undue hardship | and hope it will not be passed. If we| tt support for our sohedule of all ask the Aldermen to! rence between ans service and esta! by law the rates we now propose. | The Yellow Taxicab Company, at, hoy time The Evening World cere | ite fight for cheaper rates, on the hotel practical monopol: of the other paid hundreds of ttaada and healt rate stands. nenennse of. dollare @ year to the ho- and other places, KY was claimed, exclusive ita to the business rom euch places, the Dot je and oth- ere renting the city streets to the companies for enormous amounts. | With other companies holding sim!- lar privileges, but not to such an ex- tent as the Yellow company, it found at every turn the effort to get a fair taxicab rate in New York City. The oab companies were aided by the ho- tela and others who were deriving | large revenue from the lease of pub- No atreets as private stands. —~— TAXI CHAUFFEURS WIN STRIKE; BOSS GETS OUT Although the striking chauffeurs of | the Mason-Seaman Transportation Company are returning to work this | morning, rejoicing over their victory in forcing the retirement of P. J. Hols- | worth, the $16,000-a-year general | manager of the company, it is not so certain they will have 8. 8. Stephen- son, their old superintendent, back. The chauffeurs want him, but William H. Barnard, president of the company, said to-day: “I don't know about Mr. Stephenson. He has beon told that the place from which he resigned is open for him, but said, ‘Don't consider m Although the resignation of Hols- worth has been tendered, it has not | yet been accepted, according to Presi- dent Barnard. and no one has been ted as his successor, tter will be acted upon in said Mr, mard, who, @, will act as general man- ager. The successful one-day strike was led by Robert Andrews, and it wan he who announced the victory at the company's garages, Eleventh avenue and Fifty-seventh st last night. In a few minutes an auto with Holsworth in it dashed out of the warage. The reporters ed Mr. Holeworth to mop, a oe and give them his side the affal in machine now n roared, and then shouted to the atid feur to speed thé car up. Afi olaworth had gone the men | rushed about Andrews and his com- | mittee of four, Tom Tom Whalen, Dan Coyle and Ja: Ay!- ward, and tried to lift t on | thelr shoulders. But Andrews nounc: above the din that they would go “down the hill," which meant to The Farm, a vacant piece of land at the foot of West Fifty- eighth atr been holding meetings day. Here Andrews mounted a pile of timber with his committee around bim, and read a statement signed, after the conference by President Barnard tell- ing of H Andrews and other chauffeurs ac- cuse Holsworth of having put Y, M Auto School graduates in the} Roy's Deni Asa result of eating green apples dur- seven-year-old | tre'kor Wednesday Ing @ country ramble, Bernard Ehren of No. agi jatreet, Passaic, N. J., ts dead. complained of pains last hortly after vorarning home. cian Was summone 1 i ee day ont ‘Uas The Evening | under a contract! | THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE Best Mothers in Greater New York Are Being Selected by Experts To-Day. Doctors and Nurses Deciding How the Cash Prizes Offered by The Evening World Shall Be Dis tributed Among the Women Who Are Contest- ing Therefor. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Who ts the best mother in New York? Who is the seoond best mother in New York? Ww ho is the beat mother in Manhattan? In Brooklyn? In the Bronr? To-day @ group of conscientious doctors and nurses are trying to find the answers to these stirring ques tions of Baby Week, trying to decide how shall be awarded the $150 in money prizes offered by The Eve- ning World for the Better Mothers’ Contest. For all the boroughs there is a first grand prize of $40 and a second grand prize of $25; for each borough there ts a borough prize of $10. To every entrant not winning a grand or borough prize there will be given an honorable Hise mare wavt passed the final examination in this contest. It's safe to say that the margin of victory of the grand prize winners will be almost as close as the four-tnch, fifth-of-a-second beat Yale scored in the varsity boat race. The prizes will be publicly distributed Thursday, June 26. ‘The close competition in the Better | anawers to the list of questions which they have been asked during tho past very Mothers Contest Later erie | week by medical inapectors trom the one at the Board of Heal Board of Health who have visited| tlon, No. 172 East Third street, yes-| their homes. terday afternoon, where the babies of | To. day | The Evening World rinte the correct answere to the eligible mothera were mupmities acre 4 seers, anaware te to a last test, Every one ig! these) Miner Hill of the New York Milk babies received a first prize for ex- Health Centre, No. 119 Washington street. | The cellent physical and mental condition LW in one of the Better Baby contenta| nner eae, yn Bier Mothers held during the past year by The| ranking if they will compare thei Evening World and the Babies’ Wel- fare Asssociation, This means that answers to the Board of Health questionaire with those given be. low by Dr. Hill. every baby has been judged from) 4 ‘Gonaition of baby? A. Healthy 98 to 100 per cent. perfect. It was @l and clean. splendid lot of sinall boya and girls| Q. Condition of mother? A. Healthy f ton, |and clean, that appeared at the milk AIA Q. Condition of other children? which had been carefully prepared | 4 ene ctean for their arrival by Miss Mary E. Condition of home? A, Neat King, the nurse regularly in charge, land clean. 2.| @. Has the baby attended a milk and her assistant, Miss Francesa E. station? A. Yee. Griffin. Q. How often? A. Once a week. In the outer room two nurses filled Q, Have instructions there been out the blanks on the first page of /followed? A. Yes. the score card, which ls devoted to) FOR BREAST-FED BABIES. biographical data about the baby., Q. At what houra ts the baby | nursed by night? A. Once under six months, After that not at all, Q. At wkat houre is the baby nursed by day? A. Every three or four Then each mother and child passed into the next room, where Dr. Mar- garet Darvas, Medical Inspector of the Bronx, gave the mental test. | hours, according to age. After the child was undressed and | ACY ty mye him anything else” its small garments checked In a oebing Under seven months. Q. How do you qulet the baby when he cries? A. Find the cause, but don't nurse unless it’s the regular nursing time. BOTTLE-FED BABIES. Q. How often do you feed rim? A Every four hours up to one year. Q. Quantity at each feeding? About seven ounces, paper bag, it was weighed, measured and put through the physical exam- ination. The examiners were Dr. | Roger H, Dennett and Dr. Godfrey R. Pinek of the New York Post-Gradu- ate Hospital, Dr, Stafford McLean of the Babies’ Hospital, Dr. Miner Hill of the New York Milk Committee's |, 9: State how repere your > : : 5 ye food? A. bo * Health Centre and Dr. Mauri Frei- Se ant oll weet nipeies fo wires man, Medical Inspector of Manhat- | water and keep In boric acid solution tan, ‘They were assisted by Mrs. M.| Q, Where do you keep your milk? E. M. Carter and volunteer nurses | 4. Iee-box, Q. What else do you give baby to eat? A. Orange juice and cereal, OVER ONE YEAR. from the Association Children LINE ON THE QUESTIONS ASKED THE MOTHERS, in awarding The Evening (Worlds money prizes to the mi the for Crippled 104. M, 9h. M., 6 P.M. 2 t does he eat for breakfast? A. One to two ounces juice of a sweat CA. M Ww ik taken by the babies Tn ve er- | orange or pulp of six atewed pri But forty | or one ounce pin le juice; eight mothara' | Cunces milk, with or hs mention award of $2. Thirty-six mothers have just/ re 28, 1010708 | MRS.GOLDI BEATS ™ toasted biscuits or sta toasted bread. Fruit must be given either one-half hour before or one-balf hour after milk, beef juice. Soup may be made of chicken, beef or mutton. Stale bread may be added to the above. Q. What does he eat for supper? A. Four ounces thick gruel mixed with four ounces top half milk. Taken with awieback. Gruel may be made of oatmeal, farina, barley, hominy, wheatina or rice. prune jelly. Q. What does he eat between meals? A. At 10 A. M. he may have milk alone or with zwieback, He should not have more than one quart of milk | eacn twenty-four hours, Q. What kind of water do you give |your baby to drink? A. Boiled. Q. How often? A. As often as he wants it. Q. When? A, Between meals Q: How ts the baby made comforta- ble during hot weather? A. Loose clothing and extra bathing, Q. How often does the baby go out? A. Twice a day. Q. How often is the baby bathed? A. At least once a day. Q. Is the baby sleeping in a quiet place? A. You ‘ In a hed of his own? A. Yea, Q. With the windows open? A. Yes. Q. Is his clothing loose and com- lfortable? A. Yes. Q. How do you from _ flies? A. Netting. Q. How do from bright sunitght? rlage shade | Q. Does the baby seem contented and happy? A. Yeu. Apple sauce or A. Use car- | FREE MILK FOR THE BABIES AT) THE MILK STATIONS, To-day is Milk Station Day, Nathan Straus has given orders to the attendants at all his pasteurized milk depots on the recreation piers and in the public parks to supply bottled milk free for all babies brought to the stations this morning lor afternoon. This milk 1! modified {and pasteurized in the nursing bot- |tles according to formulae prepared a Dr. Abraham Jacobi, Dr. Row- lind G, Freeman and Dr, Alfred 9. Hoss, The attendants will warm the milk as it 1s needed for the babies. The public ta invited to Inspect the Nathan Straus infant milk depots and see the workings of this agency in reducing the Infant death rate, | Two official automobiles will take the members of the city government on a tour of the milk stations of |New York and Mra, Henry Villard, of the New York Diet Kitchen Asso ciation, has offered her automobile for similar service to private organt- zations. To-morrow {8 Hospital and Clinic ;Day in the Baby Week calendar, — ‘HOLMAN SUIT TESTIMONY SHUT OUT BY COURT tetopaslasbes Not Permitted to Tes- tify Against Prof. Brenton and Big Crowd Disappointed. Siwolal to The Rvening World.) HARTFORD, Conn, June %8.— Crowds which stormed the doora of the Federal courtroom to-day and | forced United States Marshal Sidney Q. At what hours doos he eat? A. ©. Hawley to send for pollce assist-| and the camps are being done away ance wore disappointed in not hear-{ ing an sensational testimony tn the $50,000 conspiracy sult Mrs, Elizabeth c A. hey Holman is prosecuting agatinat | ‘jormer husband, Rev. Cranston | [Brenton of Yonkers, » protect the baby you protect the baby | but there will be a great many for| | that these mon helped in a wonderful | Y., and Dr, O, ©. Smith and Dr, Paul Waterman | of this city for conspiracy in impris- Q. What does he eat for dinner? | A. Six ounces soup or three ourices | oning her tn an insane asylum at Brattleboro, Vt Judg 8. Thomas ruled that he | would no! ar any testimony from Mra, nce Hemingway of New He- ven, formerly the housekeeper of @ |resort at No. 5 Arch street, this city, concerning her alleged acquaintance with Prof. Brenton, who had been a teacher of English literature in Trin- ity College, this city, it being the avowed purpose of the plaintiff's at- torneya to attack the character of Prof. Brenton, Mrs, Hemingway wae called from the witness stand after | the Judge's ruling, which followed an | argument in chambers, | Evidence was closed and motions from each of the defend Court direct the Jury to | dict for the defendants, Bes eS MRS. GOETHALS HERE FROM PANAMA CANAL Just Before Governor's Wife Left All the Locks Were Tested and Found Satisfactory. Mrs. G. W. Goethals, wife of Col. Goethals, Governor of the Canal Zone, arrived United Fruit Company‘s steamer Ten- adores. Mrs, Goethals 1s here for the summer, and with her son, who te in the Harvard Medical College, will | occupy her home at Vineyard Haven, Mass. Mrs, Goethals will be joined later by Lieut, Gothals, now with bis | father on the Isthmus, "I do not know when my h..band | will again come up from ths canal,” Mra, Goothals sald. “He haa not sald when the canal will be ready for | permanent use. It will not be until he {s satinfied that there is no more danger of slips. Juat before I left all the locks were tested and pronounced satisfactory. | have been through the canal several times and have made #0 many Journeys to and from New York «ines the Colonel has bean to- cated at the Isthmus that the trip now seems to me like an ordinary run through the subway.” Asked what disposition would be made of the army of men employed on the great work, Mra. Goethals shook her head dubtously, “That ts the question which bas deen troubling my husband,” she said, | ot course he will keep as many as{ osstble in the Government employ, | to-day “mn Colon on the whom there will be no work. He ft Aoxres to do the work, and regrets| his inability to provide for them. Many of them have specialized in their work and will be unable to get aimilar positions and the same wages. And I fear that a great number have been Improvident “The canal ts practically completed with and settlements made at the ims) Jocks where the men will be quai tered. are being moved to Balboa, where h will be permanently quartered.’ ; Goldstein of No. 1 |derelicts of Chinatown and the Ten- | derloin | the father of two children,” Judge | have no claim on him.” | “That can't be true,” she exclaimed. | | tell all.” COCAINE SELLING METHODS EXPOSED BY YOUNG WOMAN | When Judge Told Her Male. Associate Was Married She Confessed. A girl, soarcely out of the teense, the sale of cocaine and other oon- traband drugs than the police have learned in a year. She was Annie Broome atreet, | and she stood at the bar of justice with Andrew Blutier of No. 77 Sullt- | van street. Both had been convicted by a jury of selling cocaine to the! ‘The girl clung to Blutier's) arm, She told Judge Mulqueen that; she loved Blutior and declared that she, and not he, really was guilty “Why do you sacrifice yourself?” Judge Muiqueen asked the girl “Because I love him," replitd a] wirl. “He has promiaed to marry m “Why thie man is married and \s Muqueen informed tht girl. “You At this, the girl drew away from Biutier, breaking into tears, “Tf I knew it was tht truth | would Judge Mulqueen showed her the | record of Blutier's marriage and also ja record of him convtetion seve years ago for grand larceny. Blutter jadmitted both records were true | To Miss Marion M. Goldman, in- vestigator for the New York Pro bation and Protective Asnoctation, the young gitl then told her story She said whe had attended school un- til she war fourteen years old and lived with se pari “LT met Blutier four years ago while attending a dance given by the John Happy Association in Arlington Hall tn East Eighth street,” she said. He told me he was single and I have been living with him since. He gave | me a diamond engagement ring and | told me he was in the trucking buat- | ness, It was not until six months ago that I lared that he @ dealer in cocaine. He took me to the Sixth Ward Athletic Club rooms at No. 16 Bowery, where he introduced me to Jack Sirocco, the gang leader, and a lot of others. I learned that Sirrocce and the othera had men out selling cocaine for them and that they were accumulating large mums of money. Blutier was one of their agents and got 60 cents on the sale of every ten packages at 25 cents a packag The «irl then told of a quarrel! Blu- tler had with Sirroceo and because of this quarrel decided to become a dealer in the sale of cocaine for him- nelf, He had saved a little money which he used to keep in his home, wirl but upon th a bank account in be first and by degrees whe anid. The girl showed Miss Goldman a bank book, containing memoranda of money depos! by her in the Bow- Savings Ba We began doing business on Oct. 28 and that day made $ Four daya later I deposited $80 and Oct. 29 I put in the bank $16 more. Be- tween Nov, 1 and Dec. 16 we put $75 in the bank, besides paying all our living expenses, So far this year we have deposited more than $600! We purchased the cocaine through a man in Canal street. We bought it { large quantities and retailed small packages,” | The girl gave the name of the man she and Blutier purchased the con- traband drugs from to Assistant Dis- triet-Attorney Elliso: By Mulqueen’s direction arrested and, it is hop the authorities with information con- cerning his principal. Blutier admited that the the girl was correct. He Judge Mulqueen that he had badly a | @aged in the selling of cocaine for many years, but denied the assertions of investigators that he had ben re sponsible for the downfall of many oung women, whom it i ad sold into white al: town. Blutie: that a psyaiclan now wor king & for the Department of Charitt De known that he was selling Peedi on the Howery and had often exchanged the money that he, Blutier, received ire the “aru fiends (quarters) into a. Blutier and the girl were arrested ‘on Aprit 7 at No. 77 Sullivan street have been tn the Tombs since th arrest. Judge Mulqueen sentenced Blutier to Sing Sing for six years and one month, The maximum sentence is seven years’ imprisonment, He roled the girl in the oustody of Mise Goldman, instructing her to aid the police in every way to get at those: ehe had named as betog concerned tn the sale of the drug. | HOW ACTRESSESREMOVE |! SUPERFLUOUS HAIR ‘They generally use FX Redo, the Mauid hatr remover It i@ atmolutely tofallftle ta tte effect, and positively harmieas, DEAF ANTENES Judge Mulqueen in General Ges- | cult sions to-day more information about | Jerasy City to-day, a1 | suit | feur, wae resumed. | MoGinl, SORT OF ALIBI FOR RICH MISS GILL With Her in Plattsburg at Time Chauffeur Scandal Re- fers To. ‘The women who flocked imto Cir- Judge Speer's courtroom in ous to hear more of the “Dream Room” and of the hair-combing incidents whieh witnesses told of yesterday, were dis- Appointed when Mre. Mary Mayer's for $50,000 against Eleanor A. McGill for the alienation of the affec- tions of Walter Mayer, Mre, Mayer's husband, and Miss Mot) chauf- It Mre. Mayer's lawyers had intended to call other witnesses they changed their minds after @ conference and turned the cane over to counsel for the beautt- ful daughter of the late Dr, John D. formerly surgeon-general of the New Jarsey National Guard and President of the Hudeon Oounty National Bank, the bulk of whose fortune of $1,000,000, Mise MoGHll in- herited. Miss McGill, who was married to and divorced William B. Carr of Washington, is twenty-nine years old. Mra. Mayer is twenty-four and motherly looking despite her youth. By her nide sat her four-year-old eon. Mrs. Mary McGill Gamble, am aunt of Miss McGill, was the first witness for her and because she is very deat she entirely dominated her examina-' tion She couldn't hear the ebjec- ns of lawyers and went placidly on with her story in her own way. Much had been made of the fact that Miss McGill and Mayer occu- pled rooms in Platsburg, N. ¥., and Mra. Gamble, unconscious of this, re- ferred casually to the incident, say- ing that she, her daughter, Mra, Al- exander Gamble Duke Miss McGill bad been on their way to her summer mp on Lake and that all three as had stopped over night vty Duke added little testimony except to abeolve her cousin absolutely fro ber. She accounted also for frequent appearances in the Mcailt home at No. 16 Gifford avenue, Jer- wey City, by saying that he had al ways been a sort of personal atvend.! ant on Dr. McGill and had attended jectrical work in the terday maids had told how they had come on Mayer combing a Oils hair tn her her and sharing eggnog and her room. Mra. Helen Me: of a former coachmas, tbe “Drees Room” joor ol garage richly furnished that she unable to describe it, but ¥E he i I The Unsweetened FORN! ORS! NG peor