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MANY CANDIDATES FAVOR REDUCTION IN PHONE RATES BY ORDER OF LEGISLATURE , Such Action Demanded Unless Public Service Commission Hastens Decision. WAGNER HITS DELAY. : Civic Organizations Sound New Yorkers Seeking Seats in the Legislature. Despairing of obtaining from the State Public Service Commission relief from extortionate rates of the New York Telephone Company, & number of civic organizations have addressed letters to candidates for the Senate and Assembly in Greater New York, inquiring their views as to mandatory rate making by the \ next Legislature. Joint committees of civic and tax- * payers’ associations were formed in various boroughs. Those in Manhat- ‘tan and Bronx united under the \ chatrmanship of Charles A. Du Bois, \ot No. 3661 Broadway. Those in {wrookiyn and Queens chose for thelr \ chairman P. D. Wright of No. 20 Irv- + ing place, Flatbush. ‘Their letters of inquiry cited the much lower telephone rates prevail- fng in other cities, particularly tn Chicago, and asked for an expression regarding legislative action “provided » the Public Service Commission does not reach a satisfactory and final conclusion before the next legislative eession’ convenes.” . At the same time a separate Jine of inquiry was inaugurated by Assem- + blyman Mark Goldberg, representing the Eighteenth District, Manhattan, who called on bis fellow candidates *\ for even more aggressive line of ac- tion. \Recalling the fact that he had introduced and passed through the ‘last Assembly, but not the Senate, a phone conversation anywhere in New ‘ York& City to not more than five cents, Mr. Goldberg said that unless the rates are reduced before January, 1915, he would, if elected, introduce another five cent bill. Like the civic associations, he asked from candi- Gates some expression of their views on the telephone rate question. “FAVOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION IF COMMISSION DELAYS. To these inquiries a large number committees and by Mr. Goldberg. A large number of candidates are ‘as necessary unless the Commission epeeds up proceedings. This view Is expressed by Senator Robert F. Wag- President of the Senate, who wrote to Mr. Du Bots, as follows: “I am in sympathy, of course, with | your movement for reduction of these rates. You know that matters of this \. kind are by legislation delegated to der that evidence may be héard on beth sides and a just decision ren- dered. “I appreciate, howe' that the public has an interest in these mat- ‘ ters which cannot be neglected, and if {t should appear that the Commis- sion is not acting with the despatch that they should, I shall favor legis- lative action without further delay.” WHAT 6OME OF 1° SENA- 4 TORIAL CANDIDATES SAY. ‘Senator George W. Simpson of the Nineteenth District, including the up- per west side of Manhattan, wrote: ‘LE will do all I can to help in such a cause in event that the Public Service Commission does not reach « satis- factory and final conclusion before the next legislative session convenes.” Charles ©. Lockwood, formerly member of the Assembly from Brook- lyn, now a candidate for the Senate, takes more advanced ground. “I re- gret to say,” ho wrote, “I have con- cluded that we can expect but little from the Public Service Commission an at present constituted. To my mind, mandatory legislation will be the only relief.” Joseph Fennelly, candidate for Sen- ate, Eighth District, Brook; ad- vances the proposition that “if the Legislature established an unreason- pble rate, it would not take the tele- phone company five years to show it. It the present procedure Is continued, through with their valuation, in the mean time extorting from the publi thousands of dollars of unfair profit ‘Another Senatorial candidate, Otto Henschel, in the Twenty-second D! trict, Bronx, voted for the five-cent rate bill in the Assembly last year and now says Tam convinced that it is useless to wait for the Publi Service Commission. It is needi to say that I shall support such | islation should I be elected to the Senate.’ CANDIDATES FOR ASSEMBLY MORE RADICAL, Among candidates for the As- sembly there is a more radical ten- dency. Many of them declare that they intend introducing or support- ing telephone rate bills os the Legislature convenes. Gilbert H. Rhoades 8 oon of the Fifth Dis- wiet, Kings, wrote: “I think the most Amiens tate wena teeta ma eA EE RE TL bill Mmiting the charge for a tele- | of replies have been received by the | inclined to regard legislative action *ner, Acting Lieutenant-Governor and) ‘the Public Service Commission, in or-| it will take them five years to get | __————————_ CANDIDATES WHO PLEDGE FIGHT FOR FAIR PHONE RATES. These candidates for /snate aud Assembly have declared them- selves in favor of Legislative ac- tion to give New York cheaper telephone rates if the Public Ser- vice Commission fails to act quickly. Where do the other eandi- dates stand? ASK THEM, VOTERS! SENATORIAL CANDID. . Dist, Name. a —B. M. Patten Dem. C. Lockwood «Rep. Wise. +Dem. Engel «Rep. Dem. Murphy. -Rep. Carswell. » ¥, . W. 21—M. 8. Schector 22—Otto Henschel .. Wagner Simpaon. . R. Stoddard 26—Joseph Stender a . E. Findlate: 32——[, P. Grimler, 33—I. Sliver .. watisfactory mann would be thé same juestion was handli | the Legislature pass phone rates, and if ¢! Pany thought this | then they would hay to handle this the old gas rate that is, to have bill fixing tele- telephone com- te confiacatory, e right to go his fact.” * Twentieth District, lected 1 expect to r to obtain lower tcle- phone rates. | KE. F. Hillis, Ninth Assembly District, Kings—I believe any time the Public Berviee Commission does not fulfil its duties the Legislature should take the matter up without delay. Isador Silver, Thirty-third Assembly District, Bronx — In my appeals to voters, through literature and from | the platform, I have openly declared for a 5-cent phone rate for Greater New York. Maurice McDonald, Democratic !nominee Fifth Assembly District, Manhattan—I am heart and soul with any measure that will insure tke peo: ple cheaper telephone rates. support any legislation toward that | end with pleasure. Assemblyman P. J. McGarry, Becond District, Queens—My ideas regarding the outrageous and exorbitant tele- Phone rates have not changed, and 1 will Sanh wits you. mblyman_ Joseph _Steinber; Twenty-second District, New York am absolutely in favor of a 6-cent tele- phone bill, and it will be my pleasure to assist in having this bill passed in |the Legti ry tu t we Assemblym: . FE. _ Findlater, Twenty-cighth District, New Yor! writing to Assemblyman Goldberg: jean assure you that If I am re-elected |I will be with you in the coming ses- sion as I was in the last.” Assemblyman 8. R. Green, Sixteenth new my effort will introduce t AGAINST USING COMMISSION FOR PURPOSE OF DELAY. Assemblyman ‘Herman Kramer, ‘Thirteenth District, Brooklyn; "I am only two pieased to help you in regard to the outrageous telephone rates I did in the past le ive session. | Assemblyman 8. C. Crane, Twenty- third District, New York: “While | feel that the Public Service Commis- sion, having power to attend to such matters should do so, I am not in fa- vor of the commission being used for the purpose of delaying relief to telephone users and subscribers of this city.” Pp. H, Cotter, Democratic candi | for Assembly in the Nineteenth Man- T shall | District, Brooklyn, writi to the same fellow-Assemblyman: “If you | introduce one t phone bil, why I Ce re! Fifty Yr New York Designers’ Most Pulchritudinous Models Will Promenade | in Real Parisian Style at Ritz-Carlton and Ten Noted Actresses, Will Help Sell the American - Made Cos- tumes They Will Wear. Enter the manikin! behold this fascinating personage who | for years has enlivened the boule- | varde and hearts of Paris. Out of tion rooms of certain Fifth avenue | costpmers fifty of the most beaut!- | as professional manikins at the Fash- |fon Fete which opens at the Ritz-/ | Carlton on the evening of Nov. 4, Wearing the new costumes prepared by New York des}gners and approved by a jury of fashionable New York women, the manikins will pose in mare} enty-five tableaux, arranged by Mrs. Conde Nast, and promenade through the grand ballroom of the Ritz at every one of the five sessions of the Fashion Fete.. It has been estimated that the gowns, furs and hats to be worn by the manikins during the fete are worth more than $70,000, And to set off these costumes they will wear Jewels valued at over $800,000, A single pendant of rubies and dla- monds is priced at $100,000 by the Fifth avenue house which has lent it to the directors of the Fashion Fete. A number of the great jewelry estab- lishments on the avenue will be kept open evenings during the fete, in or- | der that certain ornaments worn-by the manikins may be safely and speedily returned to the vaults where they belong. These ornaments in-| clude diamond crowns, necklaces, | bracelets and jewelled shoe buckles. FIFTY GORGEOUS GOWNS DO- NATED BY DESIGNER Some fifty gorgeous costumes have |been donated to the fete by the de- |signers, and after the general exhi- bition the mantkins will appear in these gowns for tho closer examina- |tton of the audience, Assisting ut ‘the sale of these costumes at the | | afternoon sessions of the fete will be | ten actresses—-Marie Doro, Edith! Wynne Matthison, Jane Grey, Pauline | Frederick, Francine Larrimore, Alex- andra Carlisle, Leonora Harris, tricla Collinge, Elsie Ferguson and Fritzi Scheff, ‘The proceeds will go! |to the Committee of Mercy, whieh | will receive all funds raised by the! te. |terhe manikins represent the pul- | chritudinous pick of the costumers’ \nodels, A number of them have been More care was used 1) on the stake. their selection, however, than is ex- ercised in filling the ranks of 4 Broad- way beauty chorus. Lithe, slender willowy figures were especially in de mand, in contrast to the fuller, more | developed type preferred by cos | tumers a fow years ago. Blondes, brunettes and titlan-haired dam are all to be found among the fasci- \hattan District, has been making | nating fifty. | telephone ‘one of the principal | Besides beauty each maniiin issues of his campaign. “I am for a | seases tu perfection the art of wear 0 per cent. reduction of present|ing & gown. ly the carriage of her rates,” said Mr. Cotter, “If the Pub. | head, her movements, te way sho \lic Service Commission fatls to act,| manages her hinds and feet, she sets |not only do I favor the Legislature off every graceful line und fold of h lestablishing telephone rates, but 1/costume. She ts frankly designed will introduce a bill abolishing the | convince every corpulent, fifty. | commission.” | While some candidates tak not committal attitude, only oue denies jas radiantly charming as the model old spectator that SHE would be just, fe in the gown the latter is wearing, | the right of the Legislature to inter- SEVEN SOCIETY WOMEN TO \Vone, Ogden L. Mills, Republican | PASS ON COSTUMES, candidate for the Senate, Seventeenth manikins Will appear for the | District, Manhattan, wrot: |Bots Committee as follows: | “Phe question of telephone rates is| of the be jentirely within the jurisdiction of ¢ ‘Public Service Commission, ‘Legislature ha nted ‘tion to the com: erty, tarmy opinion, Jurisdic cannot prop- to the Du | fi and the time at the [itz-Curlton Mon. day morning before the jury of seven dreased women in New York society who are to pass on all costumes before they are shown at the fete. The members of this jury are Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt jr., Mrs. Harry Payne Whicay, Mrs. Ar- —— oe SUES FLORENCE DESHON The New York public is at last to| | the gristocratic seclusion of the recep- | | ful models of the city will blossom out , inG@ WORLD BAtURVAY, VUTOBE WINIFRED HILLY MIOLET MACK the success that is anticipated for them they may soon be geen in the smart restaurants and ballrooms of the city, wearing and thus populariz- ing the’ fashions of to-morrow, eve thur Scott Burden, Mrs. Ernggt Iseitu, Mra, Ogden L, Mills, Mra. mes B. Eustis and Mrs, J. Gordon Douglas, The materials of a number of gowns to be displayed consist of textiles made in this country, If the New York manikins make Oddities in the War News Because 40,000 teachers are at the front, the schools of Germany are crippled, n as their French prototypes in “that Many graves are being opened on the Marne by relatives who have permission to search out the bodies of their dead and take them to family Maas Often many mounds have fo be opened before the right grave is found, An American women acting as Red Cross nurse at Dinard took a wounded Turco a dish of corn on cob, which was new to him, His ban- daged arms waved like windmills, he throw the corn at her and exclaimed: “Am I a horse that I should eat thie?” A dying soldier in the Paria ratlway terminal asked for a priest. An- other mortally wounded satd he was a priest and would give absolution. He was carried to his comrade, took hie confession, made the sign, and they died hand in hand, After being rejected several tin an a volunteer, an oighteen-year-old Belgian named Renier was admitted to a regiment in which his brother was a captain and hurried to the front. On hin first day of service this hap- pened to him: Captured, escaped, kilied a German sentry, and by wearing the German's helmet and tunic was arrested as a spy; released and pro- motéd to sergeant; carried a wounded goldier out of a hot fire, promoted to second Heutenant; wounded twice, and sent to hospital. Among men taken by the French to a Red Cross hospital was a young German badly wounded about the head, to whore binnket wax pinned a paper paying: “Ie saved the lives of seven French soldiers.” How he did it is one of the untold stories of the war, but the French surgeons are giving him a hero's care, Germons in quarries he Aisne hung around the neck of a horse a placard reading: "( o the Frenchmen, Dp you know Russia is beaten all along the line nnd Antwerp in taken?” ‘Then they chased the horse toward the French lines and heard the foe laugh at the joke, Two United States Red Cross surgeons detailed to Russia have com- missions in the Russian army with the rank of gencral and four as colonel, and wear the regulation Russian uniform, which causes them to be saluted by whole battalions of soldiers, who take them for bona fide Russian officers Lieut, Rainey of the British flying corps was so exhausted after a twenty-four hour stay in the air he fell asleep with his head on his acro- plane when he came down, and some one stole the putter, boot and sock off one leg’is souvenirs. a Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World I Fasten a Bracelet A New Yorker's Odd Adventures With a ‘‘Sadge of Slavery" By DAVID POTTER WILL BEGIN MONDAY ” & 81, 1914. Gowns and Gems Worth Fortune Will Deck ‘WORLD'S CAMERA Tak aiviy® TWO PARADES TO-DAY Ten Thousand School Children to March This Afternoon—Sec- ond Procession To-Night. The city of New York ts to give a party to 10,000 Harlem school children at Mount Morris Park this afternoon as a part of the tercentenury cele- bration, The show will include the pageant of Harlem. A parade will precede the. festivitios, Puptis of all the Harlem schools will be mobilized at School No, 103, at Kast One Hun- dred and Nineteenth street and Madi- son avenue. The procession starts at 2 o'clock, going weat to Fifth avenue, to One Hundred and Fifteenth street, | to Lenox avenue, to One Hundred and | Twenty-fourth street and to the weat side of Mount Morris Park. Before the pageant thero will be ‘indian, Dutch and other folk dancks |by groups of 600 children. ‘The grown-up population of Harlem. will have its fun to-night. A proces- sion, which is oxpected to coVer five miles of streets, will start at Park ‘avenue and One Hundred and Twen- ty-fifth street at 7 o'clock. Grand Marshal Louis Annin Ames has ar- ranged for more than 2,000 floats do- picting the history of Harlem and mort of the heads of the city admin- istration, from Mayor Mitchel down, have been assigned to a cars. Gov. Glynn is expected to ride with the Mayor, Mayor Preston of Haltimore with 125 business men of that city, will be in line, The parade will include a borse show, automobile show and com- mercial, industrial and advertising show and the Old Guard and Spanish | War Veterans will give it a military touch Sixty-five thousand — Incand@mcent lamps along the line of march will be lighted at 6 o'cloc TRAIN HURLED IN GREEK; ‘MURDER MYSTER MAN WOUNDED IN PUZZLE TO POLICE HS 27THBATTLE| MAN SHOT Donald C. Thompson Struck! Brooklyn Authorities Hs by Shell Splinter in House | No Clue to Slayers of | at Dixmude. Ruben Hertzberg, WITH GERMAN OFFICERS, | TB# police of Brooklyn bad unable to-day to clear up the Ml of Ruben Hertsberg, fi Says Nothing Can Stop Fa- youre old, at hia home, Ha, " Last j n mous Gurkhas When ee wh eit 10 o'clock, They Charge. were gathered his wife, Bis daughter, Mamie, sixteen; his Mamie Temme, twenty-four; Mrs. Grace Laydon of No, 167 lag street; Ben Leone, No, 78 ington street, and Romero > $67 Ponrl street. At 10.90 0% 4 stepdaughter and niece went to | For half an hour the others set’ uf ing and drinking, then the ball deer: the flat opsned and two men according to the story later telé ¢® ‘police. Hertaberg demanded @f what they wanted, and Mrs. thinking there was going to Be ble, ran out the door, passing @ man, who fo! wed the two other aan | into the flat. i? One of the men shot four times, of the bullets striking Hertsberg the chest, one in the abdomen E one in the left arm. Hertsberg: LONDON, Oct. $1.—A despatch to the London Dally News tele of the| wounding of Donald C. Phompson, the New York World's camera man at the front. The despntch, dated from the Helgian fronttor, at an un- named city, saya: I met to-day a strange, battered figure of a man, the first news- paper man, so far as I aia aware, to be wounded in tho war. He was Donald C. Thompson, one of the Camera men of The New York World. Ho has been in twenty-nix battles with the German Army, and was in Dixmude the other day with half a dozen German officers when the British stvelied it for the twou- teth time. A shell smashed inte An already ruined house in which they were taking shelter, and, ox- ploding clone to him, wounded hint In the face, tore part of his nose away, and stripped part of bis coat from his back. “I felt qs though I had been struck by a thunderbolt,” he sald, ‘ama that I was being whisked into the air. Then I knew no more until I foand myself in a field hos- Pikal, lying among a batch of German wounded with a bandage @rapped adross my face and my whole body a mas of bruises. [ guess I have had enough of the show fof a apoll, and am getting across to England as quick as I can for a rent.” He added that the fight now go- ing on inceasantly in the Dixmude area waa the fiercest and moat relontiesa of the whole war. Dix- mude has been bombarded and bombarded In, burnt out and reburnt until there is very little of the place left. It is a ghastly, emoking ruin. “The Gegmans are still fighting well and with marvellous deter- mination,” he said, “but are get- ting an awful hammering, and their cavalry is utterly demoral- ized. Their losses have been terrific. have seen the Indian soldiers in action, Their work has been particularly that of the whose ferocity nothing on earth or in heaven seemingly Some of them, but not nd this was said signifi- intruders, and finally threw one the stairs before he fell dying. te The police detained everybody Otse in the flat at the Adame street any of the three men or having Gay) | found in the hallway had a0 that would serve as o clue. It ts Hertzberg recently discharged eovaral — men working under him. He he@ life job as foreman of a atgble of the — B. R. T., tn whose service he test GB eye some years ago. . “TANGO ANKLE” NEW DANCING Al Paralysis, Neuritis, Neuralgia, Seb atica and Rheumatism Also — Charged to the Fad. At the New Jersey clety’s convention ip yesterday, Dr. Loulsa Burns ef C cago urged @ fierce attack : ingo,” the “debutante sl the “fox trot.” . She denounced them all ag Game breedei i, Tango sciatica. o rhoumatiom. feet. 0 Ankle, ase. Neuritis. Neuralgia. Paralysis. this, and more, the udderingly all cantly—“have beon taken pris- oners Peabody Dice at Newport. “The British cavalry work is +4 NEWPORT, R. L, Oct. $1.—Dr. George Livingston Peabody, formerty e premi- both the admiration and dismay of the Germans who, whenever 2 KILLED, 17 HURT Coaches on the Lackawanna Rail- road Plunge Over Bank and’ Roll 35 Feet to Water. BINGHAMTON, N. Y,, Oct. 31— Two men were killed and weven- teen other persons injured — to- day in the wreck of train No, 32 on the Lackawanna Railroad, which was thrown off ane kment a mile west of Alford, Pa. Part of the train of five cars rolled down a thirty-foot incline into Martin's Creek, The wreck, which happened at 6.15 A. M., was attributed to a broken rail, ‘The men killed were tramps steal- ing a ride, Charles Dobbing of York City was among the injured. ‘The train, a commuter running be- tween Binghamton and Scranton, Pa was made up here with twelve pa sengers, and at Halstead « large num- ber of employees Who worked on the Lackawanna cut-off were taken on The accident occurred at. th e the Lackawanna cut-off leaves Id main line the Re eet cece BALL FOR “BLIND CHARLIE.” Yorkville Notables to Atten@ Tarn Hall Affair To-Night, The annual ball for “Blind Charile of Yorkville,” under the auspices of the Midway Social Club, will be held this evening at Turn Hall, Bighty-ffth street and Lexington avenue. As te the cuss tom of the club, the receipts will be applied to the nerds of Charles Presser, |who t* known throughout Yorkville for bis ws ling eheerfull end his un- | deviating Industry despite his affiletion. Jacob Strauss is president of the or- | ganteation and other officers are Jack Stone, John Cox, ves Foy, Charles Strauss, Manny Schoen and Edward Reilly vreot Jas. Jo L. Canavan will Jrurniah the uate Many notabl ¢ Yorkville will be on hand as usu ->- Fake Horse Race LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Spear, a politic Jack Porter, his of defrauding scores of persons through Lice horse races, were sentenced to five | years in the penitentiary for using the Sentenced, 31.—Ed Oct it is a matter of business at close quarters, do not attempt to with- stand thelr dashing onslaughts but turn and run. BISHOP CHARLES SMITH MEETS SUDDEN DEATH Methodist Episcopal Prelate Stricken in Washington, Where He At- tended Church Conference. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31,— Bishop Charles W, Smith of St. Louls, one of the best known Methodist Episcopal Church men in the United Sta died suddenly here early to-day at the residence of Justice Thomas H. An- derson of the * Istrict Supreme Court. Bishop Smith w stricken with heart trouble while out walking with Justice Anderson yesterday. Subse- quently he suffered a sinking spell and died at 5.26 o'clock this morning, Bishop Smith is survived by two fons, one of \hom is Rev. Dr. C. L. phs somethin; 5 Eo vote tor WILSOH Was WOT GORE TO WAR.” Bmith of Salem, O., and a ughter, up your mii o who lived with her fat in 8t. Swallow all the Bensels and Schmsere * Louls, and Heffens ond Abeoras ‘The Bishop had been attending the meeting of conference claimants of the Methodist E opal Church in session here. _. ele eae SIPP’S SON ARRESTED, reed With Aiding pocket to Kaeape. Howard Bipp, non of George A. Kipp, the hotel keeper who figured prominent- ly a year ago In the trials of Inspectors Sweeney, Murtha, Thompson and Hus- sey, and Albert Morris of No. 305 East Twenty-first street, were arrested last night in the hallway of an apartment house in One Hundred and Twenty- fourth street near Seventh avenue after the cry of "Pickpocket!" against them in th Twenty-Mfth street way and they had bu blocks by « crowd, They wi in Harlem Court to-day, Morns on the charge of grand larceny and Stpp under on the Democratic Allies have cr read any mot is the up to the ti docking a Piek- AG y occur to YOU Tone YOU. w 4 bunk eth How about paying « to the candidate's Fe instead of voting for ¢ bird or a atar oF a mooi ie tow arraigned | jails to defraud and two yeare for 001 apiracy in the Federal Court to-day. Spear was Aned $1,000, ccusation of acting in concert. rr bg hos Bente sf No 338 Mote street “ Me it hi et hy (ibway train, pulled “into ine | fleets end. Morris tried to crs by for Damoeres® door and Bentley ralued at alarm, | enainect, €l¥ee, hk to the, teatimony ol Biron af Noi'16 Old Broad serce | his record. te aden atten ‘ as he’ pure . ou beniler’s Doel of cont }», was found on the tion later. bi from his chair, struggied wit® 2 as witnesses, but all denied v° idea why they shot Hertsberg. Afat | i : 4 -