The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1914, Page 3

ge MEN WHO DRINK OT iM | AS LONG AS MEN WHO DON'T Statistics (Cone of 2,000,000 Insurance Applications Indicate That: cess Lose Ru Years.” Startling scientific proof of the tent to which the use of alcoholic etimulants shortens life was presented to the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, in session to-day at the Hotel Astor, by Arthur Hunter, a Jeading actuary and chairman of the Central Bureau of the Medical-Actu- arial Mortality Investigation. Mr. Hunter said in part: “Forty-three of the leading life in- xurance companies in the United Staten and Canada agreed in 1909 to prepare their collective experience on many different classes of insured. They decided to put the Investigation into the hands of the Acturial So- clety of America and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors. ‘The companies supplied their records om about 2,000,000 lives, covering a period of twenty-five years. It is the largest and most comprehonsive in- vestigation ever undertaken by in- surance companies anywhere. “There is » genérai impression that saloon keepers do not live as long as persons in non-hazardous occupa- tions, but It is not generally known that most classes which are con- nected with elther the manufacture or eale of liquor have a high mor- tality. Among saloon proprietors, whether they attended the bar or not, there was an extra mortality of 70 Der cent., and the causes of death in- dicated that @ free use of alcoholic beverages had caused many of the “Saloonkeepers’ and Bartenders’ Are Six Years ShorterThan the Average.” of Alcohol Users Is 70 Per Cent. Greater Than Normal.”’. “Some Men Who Drink Whiskey to Ex-| 32 Years of Their Lives.”’ “Abolishing of Alcoholic Beverages tal May Save 500,000 Men in 10| than @ glass of whiskey or {te equiva- | lent a duy there were probably a | 1M road number who Increased ¢ Ar | ally consumption after having ap-' plied for Insurance, and who eventu- | ally drank to an immoderate extent. Part of the hazard from alcoholic bev | erages lies in the user losing the pow- er to limit himself to a moderate con- sumption, “Among the men whose habits were formerly intemperate, but who had reformed for at least two years prior to thelr companies, the extra mortality was fully 30 pet cent.; 1. Ufetime was reduced years, This excess mor due to the effect of previous inte! perate habits in undermining the sy: tem @ud partly to a proportion of the persons relapsing into their old habit: “If the Government of Russi ties out its present intention to abolish rmanently 1 forms of alcoholic verages the saving in human life will be enormous. It is not too much to say that theeloss of 500,000 men ar the result of the present warfare | yeara through complete at from alcoholic beverages by all the ine habitants of Russia. Jesse B. Clark, President of the Union Cincinnati, presided. Other addresses | were made by A. Barton Hepburn, Chairman of the board of the Chase | National Bank, and John H. Finley, State Commissioner of Education. — INCOME TO INGRAHAM. Chief Beneticary Brother's Will. Presiding Justice George L. Ingraham Justice by deathe. The hotel proprietors who attended the bar elther occasionally or regularly had as high a mortality as the saloon keepers—t. the life- time was reduced about six years on the average on account of their oo- cupation. The mortality among those comnected with breweries was about one-third abdéve thé normal. The large class of proprietors of whole- sale liquor houses had an extra mor- tetity of about one-fifth, “Among the men who admitted they had taken alcohol occasionally to ex- cess in the past, but whose habits were considered satisfactory when they were insured, there were 289 deaths, while there would have been only 190 deaths had this group been made up of insured lives in general. ‘The extra mortality was, therefore, over 50 per cent., which was equiva- lent to a reduction in the average life of these men of over four years. If this meant that four years would be cut off the end of the average normal lifetime of each man, there are many who would consider that ‘the game was worth the candle;’ but it means that in each a number of men will die at an earlier age than they should. Wor example, at age thirty-five, the expectation of life is thirty-two years; in the first year after that age, in- stead of, say, nine persons dying, there would probably be twelve deaths; that js, three men would each lose thirty-two years of life; in the next year probably four men would each lose thirty-one years of life, &c, As a matter of fact, many immoder- ate drinkers would’ live Jonger than thirty-two venrs, but as would live if they had been te drinkers, and far fewer than ad been total abstainers from “With reg: ard to men who had uged alevholic beverages daily excess, the experience uf the coms panies was divided inte two «roups: (a) men Who took two glisses of beer, or a glass of whiskey, ov thelr equiva. lent, @ day; (b) men who took more thag the forégving amount, but were not considered by the companies to drink to excess. The mortality in the second group was found to be fully 50 per cent. greater than in the first- an excellent argument for moderati in the use of alcoholic beverages, The foregoing result does not im the large excess mortality in ¢ was due to their drinking « Uttio more each day than those in Class A. Tt as probable that among those who were very moderate u of alcoholic erages there werg ¢ who eventually used ately; but among thos who took more “In moderation not nearly so/} but not to! of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is the principal beneficiary of the will of his brother, Arthur Ingraham, who died ten days ago. The will, filed to-day, bequeaths the net income from eighteen lots at One Hundred and Twen- -ty-seventh Street and Second Avenue to justice Ingraham during his Ntetime. | The cstate amounts to more than $100,000. Justice Ingraham ts directed to pay annuities to several _ relativ: friends, Upon the Justice's death the property ts to go outright to his son, Phoenix Place. ee POPE ACCEPTS ENVOY. Sir Henry Howard to Ne England's Re} wentative at H ROME, Dee. 10.—The Romano publishes to-day communication stating ward Grey, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, had asked the Vatican whether the appointment as En from England to the Holy See of Sir Henry Howard, announced was acceptable, Cardinal Secretary of State, re- Henry would be wel- | resentative, announcement iy See. Osservatore an official plie hat i comed as the British re ‘This is the first officta from t Vatican Boner its new relations with Britain, which formerly has not had a representative among the diplomats accredited to the Pope lege Alumni to Dine, venty-seventh annual dinner of the Union College Alumni of this vicinity will take place at the Hotel | Manhattan this evening, Rev. Dr. George ‘Alexander, Union ‘66, will act as toastmaster, and among others who will be guests and will ake ad dresses are Dr, Joxeph F. Johnson, York University; Judge William ams of the urt ot General Jnlen i and! Chart Me ferent: dent of Union | ae | Marahat Menkel's Son Mar- Kreykenbohm, | Matthew A. Henkel, second son of United States Marshals William Hen- kel, married Miss Rose Elizabeth Kreykenbohm, dau of Henry W. reykenbohm,\ last evening in St. | orge's Church, Stuyvesant Squat fter the wedding there a ree tion at the home of the brid No" soo ‘Hust’ Blghteonth Street. poe Ne ‘Tombs Police Court Mar Be Moved, Tombs Police Court may be, (to another building if a suitable! for it cannot be d in the nal Courts Building. The Sinking Fund Commission decided yesterday to move the Pollee Court from Its present ake room for Part V1. of | the Court of Gene ns. There Woe a long discussion before the Com: inixsion over suitable quarters, lies prosperity.” Truly said. And we are ‘proud that the moderate man is our! best customer. It is especially make a wonde mellow Whis for him that we rfully mild and key — Wilson— Real Wilson—That? s All! The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle, PREE CLUB RECIPES free booklet of fam wined drinks, Addrens W! ub recipes fo Ha i tin ‘teats A Lives , cceptance by the insurance | could be made good in less Ban ten Central Life Insurance Company of} Ingraham of No. 80 Irving | that Sir Ed-/ | | | | \ WOMAN TRAPS GIRL IN HOTEL ROOM WITH _— HERS12,000 JEWELS na | Prisoner, Seized by Porters, Is Recognized as Former Guest From Pittsburgh. | Mrs. Tilden, a guest of the Martha | Washington Hotel, after starting for the theatre last night, returned to her room to find it brightly lighted. “A watch and vanity box worth $350 had been stolen from the room three weeks ago. Mra. ‘Tilden loo! jthrough the keyhole, therefore, Md saw a girl emptying the drawers of her bureau, She gave the alarm at the hotel | oftce and two porters entered the }room just as the intruder was exam- ining a box which contained $12,000 worth of jewelry. She hud opene trunk with the aid of false keys. ‘The girl was recognized ax Dora | Gilbert of Pittsburgh, who left tic | hotel August 26, leaving an unpaid bill for $59 and two suitcases filled with {rubbish and letters addressed to Mollie Stern, of the Northfield Swim- ming Clubg Pittsburgh. Since then there have been continuous com plaints of the robbery of rooms in the Martha Washington. | A master key of the hotel w 4s found in the girl's possession but she in- | sisted her visit last night was the first since she lefi the hotel in August js said she had run away from home lin Pittsburg after a quftrrel with he: | stepmother and had sought work here as a swimming instructor. he insisted she had been living ov charity since she left the hotel and attempted to steal last night only bo cause sho found she could not get *| work without better looking clothes. The polloe matron who searched he: |said that though her outer garment | were shabby, she wore the finest o! j lingerie, Much costly lingerie har been stolen from the hotel, The girl had no lawyer when she was arraigned in Yorkville Court be fore dusticg Barlow She said she Wanted none and pleaded guilty to the burglary charge, She was held in ) bail for the Grand Jury, | ‘The detectives are convinced that she is the tool of one ¢ » expert enced hotel thieves and is trying to protect them by maintaining a tearful silence, (Storm to Crom ‘Twice. the | Ocean | Reeause a storm was ragt pool when the steamer Megant! for New York, J. Ankers reucl to-day completing half a 6,009-:mile voy- Age across the Atlantic and back, which he had no intention of taking. Ankers I» a Liverpool pilot. He eould not be land ed when the Megantie left Liverpoo | because of the storm, and had to remain |abourd the ship. | Whitelaw “a #22, LONDON, Dee, 10.—Fngland | more than $22,000 in con spent ying to the ed States the body of Ambassador i hitelaw Reld, an official report Issued | to-day shows. After Mr. Reid died in Tandon Dec, 15, 1912, his, body {ie cy te to Portsmouth, whe: sh crutser Hi to lew York, ees ih . It’s a Half-Million DollarPresent, and When Kiddies Dedicate It, Dec. 12, They Will at Same Time Do Honor to John Jay, the Great New Yorker— Supervisor of Recreation Gives Credit to Evening World for Its Establishment. By Marguerite Movers Marshall. Father Kuickervocker 1s going Ww neip out Santa Claus this year when, as ev bo. y knows, Santa is especially hard-worked. Father aeker bocker has prepared a Christmas gift for the ch ‘dren of the east side, gift too big to go into anybody's stocking or pven i hang on a tree—the gift of John Jay Park Playground and Playhouse, costing almost half a million dollars. The opening of this new centre of recreation for the! boys and girls of New York makes a tine and fitting conclusion to The Evening World's campaign during 1914 for more and better play facilities, The new playground is located at Sevonty-seventh Street and East River and will be dedicated Saturday, Deo. 12, at 2.30 P.M. Park Commissioner Cabot Ward <4 has issued thousands of invitations to the people in- YASH terested in playground work throughout the city.| Mayor Mitchel! has promised to speak, and will tell the children just what New York is trying to do for the: The Park Commissioner will also make an address. | The dedicatory exercises ull on the one hundred and sixty-ninth | birthday of John Jay, the great statesm .n and jurist for whom the play- ground is named, and who {is closely associated with New Yor. history, He was sent as a delegate from New York City to the Conitnental Con- gress in Philadelphia; he was Chairman of the committee which drafted, the first New York State Constitution, and after his term as first Chief | Justice of the United States he was twice elected Go The Governorship was the last public office held by him When little Margaret Siege! of ~ __ the John Jay Park Playground | House and play apparatus was $37,000, | the flag for the first time ae tin HL of $485, almont | . ‘ ssl million, | Saturday, she will be attended by Boys and girls trom playgrounda tt Harry Davis, representing the over the city have prepared an ‘wae character of John Jay, and by Jrate programme of music, folk dunce Jame ens: isi vansiietted ing and athivtics to celebrate the ington, who alway: opel 8 eatin : A ae May haner TAG ppening of the John Jay Park Play- rnor of this State} rr oneay, DEONMBER 10, Santa Claus’ Gift From Father Knickerbocker To East Side Children Is Big Playground ound he follow! audience of ten thousand people [erent 4, ne following events are will unite in paying tribute to GIRLS’ SIDE the memory of one of the great: | 5 AE est New Yorkers, Salatation and Rongeoity Ane Fi Hamilton Fiab and St John Jay Park Playground is the latest modern type of New York's node! playgrounds. Its area ts one ind a half acres, divided into a sec- tion for the boys and one for the girls ind affording recreation capacity to several thousand children, ‘The play- ground js thoroughly equipped, with | haded walks and resting places for | the ciders, as well as swings and other | play apparatus for the smaller folks. | ‘The spacious playhouse makes the centre available all the year round, for it is fitted up with @ gymnastic apparatus, shower baths, lockers, @ playroom for little children and sev- ral clubrdoms, | NEW PLAYGROUND LOCATED IN! IDEAL SPOT. | A more ideat location could scarcely | be selected. ‘The adjacent neighbor | qood is one of the most densely popu- ited tenement sections in the entire | © and shelters Trish, Italians, Gers mans, Bohemians, Hungarians and Hebrews, The Vanderbilt model homes are clustered around the play- ground, and nearby are the East Side Settlement House and Junior League Hotel for working girls. ‘The cost of the land was $838,544.89, the cost of grading and improving $110,090.66 and the cost of the plage will remain closed —— SPB Bh ON SRON AY 2 | SA RSIENS VIR GE ' BIC kA No: a3" Bee R5on La Da dee Dance St Yorkville May by the girl of ‘inate, BOY! S' SIDE. Dumb Heil Pei ty ie bore of Juli Jay Ware hoagie Ho By the boys of homey dat Hace By the Volley ‘ital Game My ve bey De Wi Want 1 Masketbalt GIANT PHONOGRAPH WILL SUP- PLANT BIG BAND. ‘Yo help solve the problem of con- tinuous music for public recreation, « special experiment will be tried at the opening of the playground, A new and improved design of giant phonograph will be played alternately with the band, and if the phonograph es good it will probably be utl- further in reconelling free mu- for New Yorkers with @ cam- paign of economy. ‘The activities of the new play- ground are under the charge of Will- jam Jo 4 upervisor of Lteereation, and bis assistant, Miss Marf K. Me- Kenna “L want to thank The Evening World for its splendid work in emphasizing the inpertanes of play for New York ch Lee told me to- Evenin which World is the nl iy ry iven us vigorou pport, and without dren during the season t —the mo Brokaw Brothers Astor Place & Fourth Avene announce that their store tomorrow, Friday on account of the death of Mr. John H. Armstrong Vice President of the Company | Stripped Down to $62,000,000 AY Ona TELEPHONE TRUST | GOT 187% PROFIT FROM HIGH RAT Enormous Gains Disclosed at Inquiry Conducted by State Commnissioners. MILLIONS LOPPED OFF. Valuation of —$137,000,000! by the Probers. nfen «what TI * Evening World has con in behalf of the public Bi | ; punlles for a new trial for Hans Sehmidt, the up-State Public Service nmi who killed Anna Aumueller on Sept. sion Investigation today dixclosed that 19, 118, in a fat in Harlem, cut Up [excessive telephone rates in New ber body and threw it into the North York City have yielded n than 1s) River from oa Fort) Lee Terry boat. Schmidt i¢ in Sing Sing death hows ber cent, profit annually ty the New Awaiting execution York Telephone Company on im ine "yCiaidits counsel, Alphonse Koele tient * ial ile, submitted affidavits signed by | Courts have ruled that § per cent i ie Henry Cottell, professor of maximum return allowable 0 athology in the Philadelphia Pres corporations The New iycerian Hospital, and Dr, Justia one Company has been 1, professor of medical Juries making more than double ite legal profits out of the telephone users of | this ity ' out of the pockets ¢ more than the wid every year D wand the toll hee W boroughs of the greater city Taking is fayres irom the tele phone company's own hooks, Martin W. Littleton, cou tote the Publi Service Commission, began drawing the story of amazing profits Crom ex pert accountants and engineers wh } have been working on the records, [1 was claimed by the telephone com. | City wax valued at $137,000,000 that its $10,000,000 profits eq reasonable ration of 7.5 per on the investn Mr. 000,000 investment fortific by the company. tion set up more than one-half, ‘The real and tangible property, even at the company's own book valuo figures, wis Hxed at $62,000,000, The items thrown into the di t wo-called ula not by y's books, bi ward to justify th and profits, One by one exposed them, had be extortionate rat Mr. Littleton value of franchiae, ‘That is capitaliae ing the right to use the public streets, for which the company never has paid a cent, Next was “going concern value," $13,400,000, ‘There wan nothing real or tangible about this item, In fact, the unt onts could not And that it] rx existed anywhere on the company's books. Thir@ was a phantom item of $1 000,000 called Huction value OOOO IAOTING TE Script, Block or Old CES plaited back. vee OTe Silk Sweaters, a new im colors—stripes and plain, Ea mixtures, = Caps to match, $2.00. FS Our Waist De; ent is the discard. f Then there was a charge of Millions for investment in City Subway Company for Ground conduits, but Mr. threw this out es merely name for a telephone enterprise, On the revised capital account experts showed that the . company is making net profits in a York City of approximately $10+ 000,000 yearly, equivalent to 18.7 per cent. The next hearing by the Commis- sion in New York will be Dec, 18, be+ ginning at 9 A. M. ‘PHYSICIANS TRY TO SAVE SCHMIDT FROM THE CH Say Priest's Victim Bled to Death: Sunnie to-day hear pany that its property in New York | INJURED “LADY DECIES !) WAS SISTER-IN-LAW OF . LONDON, from Dunkirk of the injury of Lady” Stripping away out- | Decies by the fragment of a shell, | works by the millions of dollars, he| Wis erroneously supposed that t d the figures of actual property \ for mer Miss Vivien Gould of New York Was meant, ‘Lady Gertrude Sir John Pollard Willoughby, a r-in-law American ‘nay was st ‘as trifling-—a mere scratch on four | shoulder—and she is now wholly t+ 7 covered, Lady Decies, nee Gould, is now Ireland training some Irish troons. steht Aika irnt there was $39,000,000. alloged| STORM HURT 1URT THE JUPITER. last night wed b: the and was proceeding to New fort The vessel left Philadelphia is 4 Ship mafe, all well. age by gal sence of Nantucket Lightship, pree | ceeding to New Christmas at McCutcheon’s A few suggestions covering serviceable, economical gifts— Initial Handkerchiefs An ideal Christmas gift for Man, Woman or Child. We have an cxspnonaly wide assortment wih - nglish letters at 25cjand 50c each. zm Ladies’ Hosiery Black Silk Hose, one of our best specials, with extra wide tops, of good weight, $1.00 a pair. Silk Hose —Richelieu ribbed, black with white clocks and white with black clocks, $2.25 a pair. Ladies’ Neckwear r Organdie Collars, 5Oc., hand embroidered with 4 Lace Vestee, $1.75, wired collar, in cream and white, | Che misette, $1.75, hand embroidered, high neck. Ladies’ Sweaters .00 and 35.00. = toned Silk Sweaters in almost any shade, kd Fine All-wool Sweaters in all the $10.00 and 10.50. Scarfs to match, $2.25. E Waists and Blouges Mm entirely new Blouses in Lace, Chiffon Crepe de Chine combined with Valier $10.50, 16, @ Fifth Ave., 34th and 33d Streets on its actual investment, as Result of an Op- ; eration. 4 Davia in the Supreme Court — arguments on a motioa” ached the cone leath from @ girl's throat waa Justice Davis asked counsel to anda before next —_ OF GOULD’S DAUGHTER, Dec. 10. In the rep ‘The one injured ts Dectes, daughter of of the In a letter home Lady Gere described her injury ed more than a eck a with her husband, whe TON, Dec. Dec, 10.—In a wires to the Nivy Department: Lieut. Commander Kempfif, ig the electric collier Jupte | ahi had been we. piter’s wireless menange salds | Owing to dame . thick weather and abe York.” NOTA OT ARy \ Reg. Trade Mark ation, in the latest Two- $25.00 latest heather number