The evening world. Newspaper, October 26, 1914, Page 3

PY THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OOTOBER 26, 1914. CITY BUDGET UP |B.R.T. VICTIMS $17,000,000 AND | FORCE THEBOARD ji. TAXES HIGHER) —TD‘SET HEARING| onion rexches wo, : First Economy Is Discharge of |All of Brooklyn Will Get a) cueymrann, Oct. 8-3. mM: 2 750 Laborers, Which Chance on Nov. 9 to Voice | Frederick, | superintentont of | dee Saves $900,000, Protest. enoeeeooooooooses cecceecoeoosooees _ ABOLISH MORGUE, | #5 HOW FUR IS USED IN THE NEW WINTER HATS sf “CLEAN UP ISLA, «GRAND JURY ASKS .. Presentment to Court Describes Conditions as Intolerable on Blackwell’s, aints will be evaaid ®. guilty of contempt of court by Judge 7 Wiliam B, Neff of the Cuyahoga (9) County Common Pleas Court and or 7) dered to reinstate within o week ait ‘Tho tentative budget for 1916 for the| Aroused at last by the campaign of teachers whom he falled to reappoint Greater City, despite the work of] The Evening World in behalf of 108) inst spring, because, it wae alleged,, |) eMficiency engineers, financial experts| suffering Brooklyn citisens, the Pub-/of their activities in « ¢sachers 1s about $4,000,000 bigher| lo Service Commission to-day took | union. . Supt. Frederick was accused of "79. than the tentative bud ret of 1914, but | Comnisance of the traffic conditions on} ss ooe violating an injunetion | will probably be in the final $11,000,000] B. R. T. trains and opened the door! i sueq June 9 last, restraining schoo! more than the final budget of 1914. sufficiently for many complainants to| heads from refusing to reappaint pro ’ The total of the 1916 tentative} %°'* theimgrievances before the reg-| union teachers. z Dudget ts $206,129,441. The tentative} “lating body. ¢ Attorneys for the teachers assert budget last year was abont §200,- ‘There was only a preliminary skirm-| that the decision paves the way for | 000,000, and the: ft about | ZB at to-day'a session of the Com-/the unionization of teachers im. all $8,000,000, that cna Bh Cut of about) mission, during which a determined | the larger cities of the State and will 18d wan ei5hi tyr = arte by group of oltisens forming the High-|Temult in higher and more uniform wages. thought that it will be possible to do . _CHARITY DEPT. SCORED. Suggest that Commissioner be Replaced by Board to Look After Poor. ‘The August Grand Jury, which was continued by Judge Charles C, Nott of the Court of General Sessions for the purpose of investigating institu. tions and the Department of Public bridge Taxpayers’ Association of Rich-| if supt, Frederick reinstates the Bix mond Hill gave a foretaste of what in| toachors he will clear himself of the much cutting this year because, it is contempt charge, the court intimsted Charitics; through its foreman, Ben- explained, the figures have been hewn acing bed heel va nan ci kn in finding tho superintendent guilty. jamin Stern, to-day filed a present- Gown to the hair line, main attack is made by united a& | guint, Frederick, however, is cited to sociationa and The tax rate fordManhattan 1# now| from ail parts of $1.78. Those of the other boroughs are ae follows: The Bronx, $1.77; | gion and counsel representing various Brooklyn, §: Queens, $1.00; Rich-| goiegations, agreement was reached mond, $1.90, i 1s understood that} ¢o have a general hearing on surface there will be a higher tax rate and @| tramo conditions on all lines of the alight increase in valuation. Brooklyn Heights system on Monday, Jevance committees | appear Friday for sentence, the borough. After conferences between commis- ment giving the result of their Inves- tigations, They recommend the abolition of | the City Morgue, declaring that it Js decayed, unkempt and filthy. In regard to the Home for the Aged and Infirm on Blackwell's Island they Pierce’s CORN ‘Will act like magic on tl ne corm. peatered fost of youre, jop—the corns wi box sold under irenvclad’ gt iS emawe sores enehty. © “ er mcncy eelondea. We wee State that the inmates are sleeping on It fe the consensus of opinion that] Nov. 9, when the whole day will be Re, the floors, in corners, aisles, hallways the 1915 tax rate in Manhattan will| devoted to the battle, Following the the rok, not you. or wherever space can be found. be advanced to about 1.90. It'ls now] surface lines, elevated trac condi- " ites 9 38 e bes, At droggicts “We find that some of the aged 1.78. The belief wan aleo generally | tione will come next. eld, “Mee inmates,” the Grand Jury saya, “were without decent shoes or stockings, wearing on their feet stripe of cloth and drawers.” “Half an ounce of butter a day| and that with bread and only at! Bight: four ounces of milk instead of eight in the schedule for inmates expressed that the rate in the re-| Leaders of different groups of oom- maining boroughs would also go Up! piainante met in the hearing room of considerably, the commission to-day and discuased | Following is a summary of the] their common troubl tentative budget for 1916 as compared | pond company. Arrangements were with the final figures for 1914; made whereby they will got together | 82) for allied action, Henry Ward Beer of No. #4 Court street has been en- but she sank that vessel and didn’t need our assistance. “Ono night a full-rigged Itallan schooner passed close unaer quarter, Those on board raised « row, SAW SHIP SUNK On full diet” says the report. “On abusing the life out of the Kronprina # counsel for a fe five days in the week soup for din- for running without lights, Then the on lines running to Coney A wnion it i to ner and neither tea nor coffee. Their Kronpring ordered the veasel to heave He will endeavor to bring| 4 sion it is bard to find. wants are ignored, their appetites, in- Pe ere ines ory bos other groups. firmities, comfort and almost their Threo warnings were given and then | Totals 004,128,401. 46 F100, 008 0ai, | THe Public Service Commission gave @ health is disregarded. Surely the de- oartment ta making the bread of poverty bitter with an unneces iry and unfeeling bittern It is recommended that the build- {ngs housing the children's hospital and school on Randall's Ieland in re- gard to sanitary and pbyaloal condi- tions be-repaired and that buildings |, mow under course of construction be fintebed. ‘The Metropolitan Hospital on Black- wells Island received considerable at- tention at the hands of the Grand) Jurors. The pregentment that horrible conditions were discovered there. “Conditions when the hos- | pitals are crowded can be understood from the records, “the presentment reads, “which show that in one day, March 18 last, there were 1,660 beds and a census «' 1,943. Children with a shot was fired across his bows, He hove to. They searched his vessel aad let _him go. “They are using the main saloon and second-class compart t for coal bunkers. The third-class and a few staterooms in the first-class are reserved for the officers, They eat in the library, They treated us royally on the steamer. Mayor Mitchel defends his dopart-| ®Udience to-day to the determined ments, saying that the twenty-nine | band of complainants from the Rich- lop are not respon-» mond Hill section who have been per- 1b) hod sible for the increases, He Cha oy nt in getting their specific cause the total budget of his dep over $2,000,000 lower than last year. heard. This relates to the conges- It ie the contention of the Mayor| tion and outrageous troatment ac- that the Increases in the budget are| corded hundreds of street cai pa- ta the aawoation pencrease | trons at Richmond Hill crossing. This Ftose 4 budget, debt service : and deficiency tn the collection of |!* 4 transfer point where Myrtle ave- CEYLON TEA: taxes. nue and Cypress Hill lines stop and | ED Mayor Mitchel announced at the opening of the budget hearing to-day | ‘U™P all their passengers for trans-| White Rese Coffee, 3 Pound Tins, $1 that in the Interests of economy 760| fr to the Jamaica avenue line for —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_— ‘i men, mostly laborpra who receive low| continuation of the journey to Ja- 5 Fill Sa wi are to be dismissed in the De- maica. Watch Warranted 10 Years LINER KRONPRINZ Chief Steward Tells How In- dian Prince Was Stripped and Scuttled. he entrance to Santos Prussia’as emokestack, which had a red band around it, was painted all buft, We lowered the Bra zillan flag and ran up the German sign, Then the name of 'th » Ohlef steward, and| which had been painted T P 1 in again, homas Logan, quartermaster of the) Pin news of the steamers. visit British steamer Indian Prince, which| to the Kronpring Wilhelm and the was sunk by the converted German| putting of coal on board was mad | cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm Sopt. 9 off Known an investigation was started. |tho Argentine coast, arrived to-day] {he captain was made Pree on the steamer Voltaire from Santos.|" “Wo heard that the same treat- “We sailed from Bahia on Sept. 2, en to all German said Doyle, “Wo carried a cargo of Rio and Bahia and rubber and coffee and had five pas- ja steamer, out, was of these men are past the prime of life and were looking forward to a|@venue cara would not run through pension in a few years. By throwing | hundreds of passengers were dum them out of work the city will save) down in the roadway in all inde ot $900,000 @ yo After his announcement the Mayor | Weath wathout ade to said: “This naturally presents to us| Walt for the occ Jamaica cars the question of unemployment. There} t? Fun. fled to four arriving carloads being squeezed ini) will be considerable thi Pbiglnetll fete) one Jamaica car. in ges, partment of Docks and Ferries. Many It was testified that because Myrtle Chains © ment had been vessels in Santor thta none of them will be permitted uestion of policy in makin, A highly contrsicus disease were 4 to leave port until after the war. | oem to dng discharged ‘mon on|, BK. T. lawyer placed in beds with those not con- sengers, a Mr. Clegg, his flancee and] Several steamers loaded with German} oo7 “other Kind of work 1@ now be. {to make excuse her sister and a German and his wife. We had been warned of the German scout ships and went along at night without lights. “Friday night, two days out, @ steamer went scudding by us, She had no lights either. Sho went quite ITALIAN NAVAL EXPEDITION NOW NEARLY 7,000,000 ALL OVER BELGIUM ‘egervists were at Santos ready to wall, but they will not be permitted to go out.” he rest of the Indian Prine crew and the five passengers arri here ¢ on Saturday afternoon en the amer Tenny! Sore’ ihe board,” Myrtle avenue and ue ‘There were many vigorous protests | lines belonged to different companies at to-day's bud, hearings of the|@nd through care could not be run. Board of Eatim: Lawrence M. f.| This technical excuse was instantly Maguire, President of the New York |exposed when it developed that botl Real Entate Boi ‘Whi companies belonged to the B, R. item and were different only in taminated. These children associate with adult patients having vene! diseases.” “We find the food served the tu- berculosis patients unfit for human! consumption. Many were without meat. Investigation proved the sup- ply was insufficient to go around. Some of the meat showed it could not be eaten by any one, least of all by those sick with tuberculosis. It looked wations that the present method vu. controlling the Department of Chari- ties by a Commissioner appointed by the Mayor is no longer satisfactory and we recommend that at the earli- The presentment saye that the Met- ropolitan Hospital is overcrowded, the aleeping quarters of the employees in tary, Judge Nott accepted the Grand Jury's presentment and informed the members that he would forward a copy of it at once to Mayor Mitchel, ——<—> LAWMAKERS TO SPEAK. Genator Moses EB. Clapp of Minnesota, Genator Miles Poindexter of Washington and Representative Falconer of Wash- ington will speak to-night in behalf of , " The Famous ‘Chocolate Laxative Relieves Constipation 9 anne HOLDS AVALLONA Occupied “Because of Anar- chistic Conditions,” have been commissioned to establish a general patrol of the entire Alban- week that an Italian expedition was preparing to sail to occupy Avallona because of the anafchistic conditions Prevailing throughout Albania. Aval- Jona is the second city of Albania, about fifty miles across the Strait of Otranto from the Itallan coast Tt was announced at this time that an Italian infantry expedition was also being prepared and that It would Ex-Lax is a delicious chocolate laxative recommended by] AE INS Wine ea _FAREFAMINE HOM unwholesome, was odorous and of|/c,. “hi tay i te ia Zan} that unde! t and - sae @uality, Second Chief City in Albania}Only Immediate Help Can ial ye eee wuder arrees 0) om: e "We find as a result of our investi Save Them—American Min- ister Living on Black Bread. Brand Whitlock, says that less than two weeks’ supply of food remains in |in some cities for her soldiers, she still disclaims responsibility for feed- ing the Belgians. Mr. Whitlock ‘has had only peas- ants’ black bread for two weeks and the supply is short. One hundred soup kitchens are feeding more than 100,000 of the needy in Brussels, Families formerly rich, but now in want, are discharging their servants, has been suspended, The supplies of coffee, tea, flour, rye and solt are practically exhausted, Reporta recelved by Minister Whit- lock from Louvain, Liege and Namur say that the conditions in those cities are even worse than they are in Brussels, Louvain has only a four days’ supply of flourfl whte Lilege has no flour at all. The peasants in many districts have been forced to exist on legumes, as the crops of beets and bages have been ruined > 4 Glyan ¢ ng Men's Congressman Goulden, William Harman ch automobile, will begin ite work this Il addresa a noonday meeting _. also, and on Thursday Gov, | a way astern of us and then put about and hailed us by her night he- Hograph. We revealed our tdentity, Her naval ensign was sent up and ours followed. Then she signalled her south. MADE TO WALK THE PLANK AS CAPTIVES. “Next morning a boat came along- side and the leutenant in charge took ROME (via Havre), Oct. 26--'The BRUSSEL! Oct, 26 (by way of]all our nautical instruments except est moment legislation be secured to) rajian naval expedition to-day ocen.|London).—Nenrly 7,000,000 people in| our two compasses. We were told place the Department under the man: | pigq Avalion, the second chief city m{Belsium face famine unless they re- | to keep following the Kronprinx Wil- members of which shall be classified | Albania, reive help from the outside at once, | helm and did so until the following as to terms of service.” The cruisera Calabria and Etna! TheAmerican Minister to Belgium, | Tuesday, when the warship came alongside and made fast to us. “Then they made us walk the plan. The sea was calm. “Next day a detachment went aboard the Indian Prince and stripped her of everything in the cabins and on decks, Then they opened her gea- cocks, The Prince sank slowly, About 2 o'clock in the afternoon another crew went aboard and set off a mine in her forepeak. Then she sank tn thirty-five minutes. We were on the “The five passengers and 16 of our crew were put aboard the Elmberg and went to Rio, The remainder of ua, with the exception of the carpenter, the donkey enginer and a sailor, who were Germans, were sent aboard the Prussia, bound for Santos, The Ger- mans were made part of the crew of the Kronprinz Wilhelm, COMMANDED BY OFFICER FROM KARLSRUHE. 6 captain of the Wilhelm was a lieutenant from the ies Wilhelm was acting as navigating! ment of the Karlsruhe and a British cruiser, They had been caught tn the t of coaling the Karlsruhe, | a e headquarters. Borough President ow 4 1} Riles formes ExcLat has made theusande happy nto” |” [wii dat ite Gata! hit | wan ace" from the Carman A 10-cent box will prove its value—at all and Francis D. Gallatin will also speak ey. fe saesire he et he wa: : EARTHQUAKE SHAKES TURIN. was felt at Turin to-day. have been reported. ROME, Oct. 26.—A severe earthquake No casualties @-@ xe eoeseeoeseocoeoo0o SOB SROCHOFT9CHOSAS9909@ oo 77 2@ wu i city officials should receive jaried men who Th A railroad superintendent wi overpaid |on the stand to show by his figures the samo/that there was no crowding or se- of the put observa. tions, and then showed that the coin. “@ @@eevegeeegoeee 029 00°99 9 OOO eG Candy Excellence —the finest cané' sugar, @ disgraceful condition, the stables |!an coast, the cities, while conditions in the|The plank extended roe our bt] re unfit to shelter any kind of a living country districts are even worse,|>ridge to their companionway an creature and the kitchen old and un-| It was announced via London last | though Germany has seized the food | passengers and crew went aboard —the richest cream, —the purest fruit flavors, —the highest grade of nuts PLUS —expert blending, —careful packi Pure—fresh—delicious, —the candies par excellence. thiriiap! German cruiser Karlsruhe. There H ] Di ti The Young Men's Glynn League willlwere five other officers from that e Pp e on mect to-night in Its headquarters, No.|vessel and sixteen men from her s 1g: Ss 1 1241 Broadway. Martin W. Littleton, crew, ‘The merchant captain of the| At Leading Druggists and at our Stores Keeps the Blood P TT) MER crea ee HUYLER’S COCOA, LIKE HUYLER’S CANDY, IS SUPREME p20 © 6% 0767779607060 © 20 eF CLCHOLLHSOSSFOFFFFLSFOOF7EFS0O0 FF7F7O OBE AHS \'6 7 rails Kronpring Wilhelm eleven days. 3 Hungrea hnd Tenth street. They. will Mere ee es aeaitee iN eee ay Mah a kitchens. (ee. us and loaded the Kronprina with —prom t de very iCREDI TERMS, be entertain at dinner by Congress- y 0 e werk The factories are closed any | «, y' } i jan Chandier st ihe. Hotel Marseilles | whether she intends, an occupation of | stores remain open, but have no bual- {C24! and provisions. One was from), La make di Id b 13 Down 959 |%§ Down efore the meeting. Albania in force. neas, The street cars are being op- | Santos and tne others from Rio de candies so: yy on py erated, but the railway train service | Janeiro. - B Granp Rapios FURN REE With Byer: Purchase” pew too st. CSTATION AT ConNER FISHER BROS COLUMBUS AVE. URE IT OPENS AN ACCOUNT Dewn 375/89 Pox 959. Wenday and Saturéey Evenings ET.103 &104 ST