The evening world. Newspaper, June 27, 1914, Page 3

\ tem,” | YELLOW TAXI MEN KEEP UP HGHT AGAINST LAW THAT WOULD CHECK HIGH RATES Officials of Company Oppose Amendment Aimed at “Pri- vate Cab” Fiction. PUBLIC HEARING HELD. City Officials and Others Urge Need of Prompt Action Upon Aldermen. By Sophie Irene Loeb. The following items developed at) the public hearing before the General Welfare Committee of the Board of Aldermen on the taxicab amendment yesterday: The Yellow Taxicab Company wants to continue the private oly. Mr. Barnard, President of the Yellow Taxicab Company, he will drop the rate to 30 cents for the first half mile, but wants id 10 cents on the other ing the “Pennsyl- vania Ralfroad agrees to thi but insists on other cabs at 6! higher rates. | It was pointed out to Mr. Bar- nard that the city of New York ie Mot concerned with the wishes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany or with any contract ar- rangement he has with hotels, but ie only concerned with the cost | ef operation and the licensing of @ single cab. It io imperative that the term “public hack” be clearly defined te prevent future companies as well as present ones from impos ing on the publio under the guise of “private cabs.” The License Department is atrongly in accord with the pro- posed amendment and urges ite ae. The Corporation Counsel ie anxious for thie definition to be eettied now and avoid future leg- lelation. The Yellow Taxicab Company, which has defied th now | seeks a compromise In wanting to make some of their cabs semi- public and the others private. Offciala of the Yellow Taxicab) Company were out in force at the meeting of the committee in a com-/ bined effort to defeat the amendment to the taxicab ordinance, Assistant Corporation Counsel George Nichol- | aon repfesented the city, as did License Commisisoner Bell, Deputy Commissioner Rosenthal and Chief of | Taxicab Inspection Drennan, The) amendment 1s meant to define clearly) what is @ public hack. Such a definition is necessary en account of the many violations ef the law by the Yellow Taxicab Company, operating under a cloak as a private livery (but in reality serving the general pub- | lic), and other operators who per- | ist in calling their public hacks | rivate” and demanding higher rates than the ordinance allows. | WILL URGE ITS PASSAGE GE-| FORE VACATION. | Alderman Brush, Chairman of this committee, realizing the importanco | of the question, has called an execu- | tive meeting for Monday at 8.80, and| will endeavor to get this much needed | legislation passed before the Alder- men adjourn for the summer, Mr, Brush was a member of the taxicab committee that reported out the ordl- nance now in effect. He sald to- day: “I believe this amendment 1s ab- nolutely necessary in view of the re- | port from the License Bureau on the many violations that have come be- fore the Magistrates, by those who operate as ‘private’ liveries and in reality are public carriers, I feel the public cab should be clearly de- fined, so that all such common car- riera will be under proper super- vision, and I am glad to: lend my efforta in this direction,” A number of strictly private livery- men, principally funeral directors, were present at the meeting to op- pose the amef@ment, since, as their} lawyer expressed it, they were the “remaining survivors of an old sys- It was pointed out to these men that it had always peen a question | whether they should not be compelled to take out a license as well as any other carrier in tne city; that women and children should have the protec- Do You Have the Blues? jouth, vas | Pains in Bide, Back, Stomach? M: Ne taate bad | He, aa always coated by "at eNews armpromna,” yon 9, hy rt Frou wil Bie MATER | ty 8 ‘Gan be overco! i, ay reitae ta | he hackman should take out a license. tion of the city while being trans- | ported by jiverymen to funerals, the same as any other ciass of passen- | gers at any time. But the present} amendment ia not designed to rais this question, and an effort is being made to allow thom to continue their | Present service, by providing that | such liveries which make urrange- | ments for the day, week or month Would be exempt from the ordinance. | MR. NICHOLSON EXPLAINS NEED! OF LAW. The time will come, they were however, when this service rd to be licensed, and i hey are, in the vernacular, “getting off easy" by not being com- | pelled to tuke out a license. ‘The main issue,” said Assist- son, “ia to compel every hack car rying Passengers throughout the city of New Yorn for less than a | day, @ general publics service demands, to take out a licens: the public can be protected in auch temporary use of the vehicle. This issue should not minor one 1 am con’ strictly private livery, o aves | by the day, weck or month, is | amply protected. “The important foint is to make public hacks, that always have been puplic hacks, take out a license, have thelr faximeters examined, | their drivers licensed and ‘be under t proper supervision of the city speedily as possible. The fact is that there are hun- dreds of public taxicabs operating on the streets of New York and doing a| good business. The ordinance has) been upheld by all the courts, and | anybody wishing to operate as a pub- | “The Yellow Taxicab has per- sistently fought every effort the direction of proper legi nd their coming in now, fort to frustrate this amend- dinance went into effect. “The Magistrates’ courts ar edaily called upon to deal with Yellow Taxi- cab cases, and it is high time this measure was passed, so that extor- tlonate rates shall stop once and for all, and the License Bureau have juriadiction over these so-called ‘pri- vate’ cabs.” President Barnard spoke for the Yellow Taxicab Company and the Mason-Seaman Company. At consid- erable length he told how many thou- eands of calls they had, and explained how many thousands of dollara they had invested in their business. Then he endeavored to show that they were in reality private hackmen, and did not wish to serve the public in a gen- eral way. WILLING TO OBEY LAW, PART- Ly, |F— He also said his company was wil!- ing to have a 30-cent “drop,” provid- ing the committee raised the rates 10 cents on every other mile, This was only for public hacks, however, as he intends to operate only a lim- ‘ted number of those, the others to remain “private” hacks for which he would make his own price. Mr. Nicholson asked him if he did not now give several thou- sands of dollars to the Pennayl- Railroad and ¢! hy ed that this wi I pointed out to Mr. Barnard that the city of New York is not concerned with the high salaries paid to his officials, the enormous sums paid by contract to the Pennsylvania Rall- road and hotels, or any other such expenses. The city {sues a license for a single cab, and therefore cannot enter Into any question of how a company conducts its business, its highly paid officials, or auch other items of ex- pense, A man ownli titled to the @ city, of company own! thousands of oabe. Vested intere h ‘vice, should not mak: ita eres on the part of citi: zens in the way of exorbitant rates because of such high italization. Therefore, Mr, Barnard, with a thousand cabs, for which he must have a thousand license: peal to the city for special privile; on a plea of highly pald vomelats aaa contracts made for special favors, any more than the man who owns and operates but a single cab and fulfils every requirement of his license, CITY OFFICIALS TELL NEED oF AMENDMENT. I further explained that if this amendment, which specifically defines a public hack, Was not passed as soon as possible, ‘a dangerous precedent would be established as to this “pri- vate” cloak for future monopoly, There is nothing to prevent fu- ture companies from coming into the city, declaring some of their cabs al rivate’ and som “public,” and in this way grad ually build up, a pri monopoly that would the same chaotic the public The Lioente Bureaucis endeavoring to create a foundation for a future cab serve as 18 enjoyed by the cities of Europe, and this amendment is necessary for that end The main argument from Mr, Bar-| nard waa the fact that ha represented | big company who wanted to "Kive e fine private service,” mmissioner | of Licenses Bell, who was present to | Indorse the amendment, had to leave |to attend another merting, and De- puty Commissioner Rosenthal re- {sponded for the Licenss Bureau, | a Mr. Mackay Gives Outing to Em- ployeen, Clarence H. Mackay, President of the | Postal Telexraph-Cable Company, this | afternoon will entertain as guests 550 of his employees at the seventh annual uting of the Branch Managers’ Associa |tion of the company at Witzel's College | Point Grove, The party Will go to the wrounds =; Ny Foca el Montauk, chartered fc nm. There will sual" ‘athletic contests, and faeenee, S30 gest of by Js. THE EVENING WORLD, Good, Better and Best Babies’ Outing a Delightful Climax to Baby Week. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, "eipritan: meine! VIAITING FOR THE BOAT Mayor Mitchel Thanks Those Who Have Done So Much for the Welfare of the Little Ones— Efforts of The Evening World Lauded by the Originator of Baby Week Idea. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Grass parties in all the parks, water parties on the North and East Rivers and down the harbor, and a special plea for New York's future cit!- zens from Mayor Mitchel brought Baby Week to @ satisfactory finish last night. paign. That this hiss M himself feels are In the big reception room across from his office at City Hall the Mayor and Health Commissioner Gold- water met the group of citizens of both sexes who have worked eo hard for the success of the better baby cam- work has only begun 1s @ fact thor- oughly well recognized by the chief official of the city of New York. Thanking all those present for what they have already accomplished, the Mayor stated clearly and em- phatically the various constructive reforms which he essential to the happiness and well being of New York's infant population. This is what he said: “As the re- sult of the study of those interested in the care of bables in the city of New York, it is apparent that im- provement in their protection against disease can be accomplished if there is a hearty cooperation between the citizens in charge of various infant welfare activities and the depart- ments of the city government, which are in @ position to aasist the moth- ers and babies in their homes and tn public places, “The following needs are felt and should in some way be satisfied: “Additional milk stations needed in districts not at pr covered, especially where the in- fant mortality has not been ma- terially reduced in the last three vears “Educational work can with ad- vantage be extended through the milk stations to expectant moth- structions and supervision. “There is need to stimulate and bring about effective co-operation between citizens of the outlying dis- | tricts and the city authorities in the | work of reducing infant mortality. | This need is particularly urgent throughout the borough of Queens and | in certain eections of Brooklyn and the Bronx. “Increased hospital factlities are |needed for the care of sick Infants and \children, It has been estimated that a thousand additional beds are needed. Sixteeen hundred beds are now re- ported available in eighty-six hos- open all the year round for babi and children, This is realized by those in charge of summer hom They have not yet obtained sui cient means to keep these homes open during the entire year. “More day nurseries are needed, particularly in Queens, where there ts only one, There are a hundred tn the rest of the greater city, | Yemporary shelters are needed ty care for babies and children during moti. .' lckgess stay in hos- teats ‘aii te eaten at te | unavle | prone to disease in hot weather, if its Q of the lower east side have been met in this respect, and none of the needs has been met on the west side or in the boroughs of Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond.” ADVICE TO MOTHERS ABOUT CARE OF CHILDREN. But tho p.oplo most terested In the bette: bab- movemeut know that it depends on individual as well as collective effort. So while the mothers and babies were enjoying their water trips yesterday the former received fresh injunctions as to the proper care of their little ones this summer. In the borough of Manhattan alone the Hoard of Health sent out sixteen doc. tors and thirty-four nurses on t humerous steamers, tugs and bar, which were temvorarily transformed into floating nurseries, During each boat's trip, which lasted at least an hour, the nurses and physicians made a friendly pa- trol of the decks—with frequent stops. Several babies wore dresses that were not clean, To their mothers a white-uniformed nurse clearly and simply explained the needfulness of keeping little people in absolutely clean garments, however coarse and untrimmed, Informal talks on feeding were fre- quent, The baby whose mother ia to nurse it is particularly food is not prepared with the most ecrupulous care, “Don't buy milk uniess you are eure that i cautioned in the sun or uncov- wash out the milk ' the duty of hat yo milk is your duty to keep it s ‘ne mothers who admitted that they did not go to the Board of Health milk stations were urged tu do so, “Don't wait till the baby ts counselled a medical inspector, 9 milk station keeps the baby well, It tells you how to get good air for the baby in the cheapest way, how to understand what bis eryin ans, how to Keep his food and hin clothes and himself absolutely clean.” And the bareheaded tenement house mothers listened eagerly, while the little folks in their laps or hol ing timidly to thelr skirts laughed at the shining water many of them were journeying over fur the first time, The last day of Baby Week should leave It a happy memory in ju get but it | the minds of the bables themselves. Those who went to the parka en- joyed themselves scarcely less than the thousands who were taken on water excursions. Park Commis- ‘Wara tor day pulled | for their to lt civealle Dewas 1914, ——" kena nearly all the “Keep off the grass” signs. That tells the story! EFFORTS OF THE EVENING WORLD APPRECIATED. Paul E. Taylor, Secretary of the New York City Milk Committee, and originator of the Baby Week idea, had this to say of The Evening World's share in making a success of the city-wide fight for better babi which has been going on throughout the past year and of which Baby Week has been a@ spectacular “a tie tee any 7 help of a stron pews aper. Thi Rvenine Work given us this help most eraraus measure. it Faas shown that it desired not merely to develop @ new newspaper feat- ure but to perform a really great vice for the community. 'o the few doubters who feared that ‘The Evening World's co-operation out of sight agocl. tion, I bave repeatedly been enabled to say ‘I told you Nor For I have always known that The Evening World didn't do business in any such man- ner. With money and far-reaching publicity it has helped the work of saving the babies, and no word that it has printed has offended any of the physicians or other workers for the same cause. The gratitude of all of us is assuredly due in unstinted meas- ure to The Evening Worl peli cas AEE S SS, WOMAN SAYS CHAUFFEUR ATTACKED HER IN CAR Mrs. Troidl Leaped From Machine, Afterward Found Wrecked, With Driver Missing, A New York motorist, homeward bound across the Jersey meadows on the road between Kearney and Jersey City, late Inst night, came on a frightened woman near tho trolley trestle which crosses the Lackawanna Railroad, and stopped his car “lam Mrs. Amy Troldl, wife of Jucob (i. ‘Troidl of No, 501 Weat One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street," she told him, "My chauffeur just at- tacked me and I leaped from the car and ran, Then he put on power and made off." At the trestle the car was found wrecked, the hu her. Mrs, Troifl was taken t Kearny police stati her band was notified and She suid the chauttr lonely road, stopped the car and sprang at her. Mrs. Troldl said the chauffeur's name ts Joxeph Aching, or Ackins, and that he lived at No. 318 West Forty- rath street. The police are looking i. him, pes none ag Grimth and Schacter Suspended. PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Manage Griffith and Schaefer of the Washing ton American i#asue team were to-day notified by President Ban Johnson that they had been indefinitely suspended part he affair at shibe Park yesterday, which resulted in the umpire forfeiting the gama to Philw delphia Sa Adopted Son Is Chief Heir. An adopted fon, Harry D. Down made the sole executor and ary legates of Henry Hicks on June 18, and whose will wan {ile for probate yesterday in the Surro- equeate 208, nting to more ‘om, WOMAN WAKES UP AND FINDS BURGLAR BENDING OVER HER Her Husband, Rushing to Her Aid, Tackles Intruder and Has a Hard Fight. Mra. Catherine vall, wife of Carl O. Ekvall, Vice-President of the General Paper Gools Manufacturing Company of No. 8 Bush Terminal, was awakened while it was still dark this morning by feeling someone's hot breath on her cheek. In the dim light of the street lamp asbining through a window of her apartment on the ground floor of No, 186 Lay Thirty-first street, Bensonhurst, she saw a negro bending over her, The negro saw that Mrs, Ekvall was awake, though she held her breath in fright, and he began back- ing slowly toward the door, Mra, B vall watched him till he was almost through the door. Then, at the top of her lungs, she screamed to her husband, who was sleeping beside her in a twin bed “Carl, Carl! lar here!” Mr, Ekvall sprang from bed In time to see the negro pass through the door, He overtook him in the hall, whore ho was rushing toward a bath- | room window | Mr. Ekvall is an athlete and @ crack wrestler. Le grappled with the negro, who Was unarme and the pair rolled on the floor, From her bed, Mrs. Ekvall was screaming for! help, and the whole house aroused by her cries. From the ball came sounds of Ekvall's battle with the burglar until ther Help! ‘There's a burg came a mo-| man Volvy of the Bath Beach station was banging for admittance on the Jour. He took chars, of the negro, who was prety cll exhausted. M Ekvall was winded, too, but tri- umphant. | “L got a hammerlock on him," he nd, plearsd with his success, Ho didn't have @ chance after I t th rip.’ | Th vo proved to be a big man,| but Ekyall is husky also, The pris oner said at the station ho was Har- vey Cook, nineteen years old, «a team. | ster when he worked and now cut of a job and homeless Mr. Mivall said that after he the negro down he | demanded what ho w.8 doing In bis flat and Cook replied “1 was looking for a place to sloe Mrs. Ekvall Wears several valuable rings and her tus! aad believes the negro wan about to try to remove them from her fingers when Mrs, | (Spectat trom | tions, and if tt was MOHAWK MYSTERY MAY BE SOLVED BY A SHIRTWAIST Garment Believed to Have Been Worn by Woman Found at Lake. )SLAYER USED AN AUTO. Theory That Car Carried Parts| of Body to Widely Sepa- rated Points. rrencendent of ‘reching Woryenent ot THO SCHENECTADY, June 27.—The left half of a bloodsoaked shirtwaist was brought into Police Headquarters here this morning from Ballston Lake, siz miles from here, and the mystery of the murder and dismemberment of a wom- ‘an, the lower half of whose torso was | pulled from the Mohawk River eight days ago, begins to give signs of clear- ing. District-Attorney Blessing and ten | detectives went to Balaton Lake to- | day and searched the woods and the camps; they were not only looking for more clothing, but for olleloth, tent flooring or table covers like the piece wrapped around the body. Mr. Blessing has asked the New York police to look in New York for a Schenectady girl named Milly Law- rence, who left the city May 27 with a man named Joe Lucas, wko Is be- lieved to be in Oak street, lew York Clty, ‘The shirtwaist fragment was cut clean tn vertical and hortsontal direc- vorn by the mur- dered woman made it evident her body had been dissected with her clothes still With the ollcloth |and the feedbag enveloping the jtorso and this additional garment found last night, the police now have tangible material from which to| ° | work out the Identity of ths victim of the most gruesome tragedy that has ever shocked the people of the Mo- hawk Valley. BELIEVE AN AUTO WAS USED TO CARRY BODY. It is believed that an automobile was used by the murderer in dispos. ing of the dismembered body, for traces of his crime cover a wide jatretch of country. On the northern ledge of Schenectady two towels and some underwear, all blood soaked, were found on Decoration Day, but |were unfortunately burned by their finder. Two miles beyond the torso was thrown Into the river, Six mil beyond the city limits the half of shirtwaist, blood soaked, was found. Two blood soaked articles of under- wear are known to be somewhere in the bushes of a lonely, heavily shaded road near the southern end of Ball- ston Lake, and to-day detectives and newspaper men are hunting for them in the hope that a laundry mark or the mark of a manufacturer will be found on them, Ballston Lake, which is known the lake without a bottom, ts « ft vorite resort for Schenectady peop! and there are hundreds of cottages: and camps situated about in the wild country around it. Automobile par- dies to these summor places are fre- quent, the thrown open for week ends or longer periods all during the hot weather. It is believed that the victim of this murder 1s not a Schenectady girl, as every woman who has left bere dur- ing the last month, as far as known, has been traced and found to be safe and sound, NEW CLUES GIVE HOPES OF SOLVING MYSTERY, The finding of the waist by de- tectives last night was the result of information telephoned beadquarters by L. M. Young. a draughtsman for tre American Locomotive Works, He had read in the papers about the mystery, and recalled that three ks ago he had come across the ent and two pleces of under- and that because they were ome to look upon he bad thrown a fence from the road be was travelling, A section of the waist Is of green flimsy material, with two pleats on the side and two oi the sleeve, and It was | has an edging ¢f lace Circus Clue in Mystery Pro ¥ ie One. LOWELL, June 27.—No employee of ment of quiet, und, breaking it, Mr |the circus which played in Schenectady Ekyvall's voice, crying on May 29 1s missing, according to F. “I've got him, Catherine, Telephone 4 of the cirous, for a policeman,” here yeater- But it wasn’t necessary, Fahrer, a neighbor, had heard the rsolutely no foundation commotion and blown his police for necting the circus with the mur- whistle out the window and Police. a gv ae a a missing We would discover If nn hour, and there has it been no one missing.” i ‘| BRINGS OILCLOTH HERE TO FIND WHO MANUFACTURED IT. Detective Van Dusen of the Sche- nectady police arrived at Police Headquarters here to-day with the red figured olleloth which had been wrapped about the part of the body of the woman of the murder mystery, It was compared with the olleloth purchased at Wallabout Market six months ago by George KE. Shaw of No, 172 Bast Pifty-first street, The patterns on the fu the cloth were identical, but ti ree was di ently marked, tor Faurot eent ‘SUFFRAGISTS IN summer shacks being CONGRESS SIEGE DEMAND THE VOTE Speaker Clark Tells Them the Ballot Wili Come as Sure as the Rising Sun. WASHINGTON, June 97.—Speaker Clark to-day told the delegatios of women from the National Ameria Woman's Suffrage Association that “woman suffrage is as inevitable ap the rising of to-morrow’s oun.” “For one thousand years,” eald the Speaker, ‘men have been trying te run the world, and some think they have made a bad mess of It. I hom that when you women run it you'd improve on it. I think woman éaf& frago is inevitable. The only questies’ you folks have to consider is bow #9 most expeditiously get what you ae * after. You can get it quicker by the States tran by Congress. “In some places there is a great | prejudice against woman suffrage. You want to remember ene ting,: that if you lose the fight you are owt! for years. Whenever the bubjest comea up for a vote In Missourl T am going to vote for woman su@vege. This ie not because all women ere’ fitted to vote, and I may add would not like to say that are fitted to vote. If you vote, and I think It is com tainly, I hope you will vote best principles and the best mea.’ The Speaker was addressing group of women from thirty-eight States, who had presented three Bus» dred petitions for woman suffrage the form of resolutions adopted, suffrage organizations and mam meetings at the time of the*nation- wide demonstration on May 2. There were also present Congresemen, Dem~ ocrats, Republicans aad Pregres aives, to whom petitions also wer addressed, These included Represeg> tatives Smith of New York, bin ‘olorado, Ruker of Fitshenry, O'Hair and Foster of D of Pennsylvania and Bryaa ington, Progressives. ‘The woman suffrage leaders tm.$hq delegation included Dr. Anns Bewe ard Shaw, Miss Jane Addams ané Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Chleage, Mrs. Helena Gardener, Mre. Glenna Smith Tinnin and Mre. Raymond B, Morgan of Washington. 2 Vice-President Marshall also ree celved the suffragiste and later petie tlona to Senators were left at Vice-Peraldent's office. GIRL LURED TO FLAT AND HELD FOUB DAYS © She Is Only 17, Speaks Litt English and Her Parents Have Gone to France. The parents of Marie Andrea, wh@ ls seventeen years old and sailed away to France last leaving her alone in New Yors ta room at No, 77 First avenue. had been in the city only two and spoke little English. A woman hanging out clothes tte roof of the tenement No. East Thirteenth street to-day every time she reached the reeg woman sobbing and meaning. ditress of the unseen person wag apparent that the woman whe telephoned to Police Headq that sho believed some one was mistreated on the top floor of Ne. next door to her home. Detective Kutner was sent to vestigate, He forced his way inte flat on the top floor of No. 610 found four men and three there. Three of the women and ene the women ran away. In am room he found Marie Andreu clothed, Kutner nabbed the remaining mag and two women, who calle@ theme selves Charles Diffont, Grace more and Josephine McGrath. said she had been lured to the dat a man she met on the street and been held a pi four days. Detective King with Van Dusea help him try to find the retailer, through him the manufacturer ef cloth. The detectives reported to Faurot that both means of oll had been sold by Pf Pd salers, at No. 463 to the store to look over books of four years age, whee pattern was on the market. to ws what retailers it had been sant. “Weaklings Agalnsta Glaat® Subetitutes fer $ .