The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1914, Page 14

4 ants have compiled cumulative | evidence showing the extortions $1,300,000 YEARLY RENT RAKE OFF * yr0m the books of the New Yorkling a Telephone Company, expert account- FREE HIGH GRADE TALKING MACHINE Ino\uding mond point Plays Any ke Record Equa! to a $40 Our Yor Two Full Terme Free with Any Piano BROOKLYN, 1100 / FREE PRIVATE PIANO LESSONS levied on the 4 City in the form and charges Tho up-State Hubli of New York of excessive rates Service Come minsion sat for six hours, to-day, the Metropolitan Tower, patiently and diligently spreading upon the record the details and anal of an enormous mass of figures, which will #erve ax a basin for conatruct- reduced schedule of rates Some striking examples of account- in no, pay nothing now, An opportunity like this has MUSIO ROLLA FREB Special Terms as Low Special Offer: $525 Player Piario, "STORY & CLARK PIANO CO., 12 and 14 West 32d St., New York “" sre: 9 Broadway SUITINGS Every shade and pattern obtainable—Tartan Checks, Blues, Blacks, Pencil Stripes, Scote! ilk Mixtures—such materials were never before made up to sell Browns, bh Tweeds and Continental Worsted elsewhere in Suits for ioas than $25 to $40, f $25 to 640 Values, Special, Made to Measure, 613.75 OVERCOATINGS Meltons, Chinchillas, in Bi jack, Blue, Gray or fancy mixed mate- rials, made to order, lined with all-wool cloth, trimmed with guaran. satin sles s in teed Farmer's Sati highest-priced = wor made by our competitors, chasing power and outlet of 11 made to measure, ‘10. @ebn W. Hitchie, the nell for $26 big stores permit us to produce them, $25 to $40 Values, Special, 613.75 A Few Uncalled For Suits and Overcoats, Values up to $40. carat GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. SAMPLES CHEERFULLY GIVEN FOR COMPARISON“Gag Ritchie & Cornell “THE WORLD'S LARGEST TAILORS—-WATCH US GROW.” ss 1347 Broadway, Between 35th and 36th Sts.| 251 Eighth Avenue, Near 23d Street 408 East 149th Street, Near 3d Avenue 2258 Third Avenue, Near 123d Street 104 Flatbush Ave., Near Allaatic Ave. Station, B’klya All Stores Open Evenings Until 9 ~Setwday 10 o'Clock Stores. Hnings, trade, TI to $40, ese overcoatin Our enormous pur- 2 250 PIANOS = Step into Story & Clark's, select any new Pr plytry it in your home and begin payments later at your convenience, FREE DELIVERY. NO RED TAPE. NO EXTRAS. the history of Piano Selling. We offer you a genuine, bona-fide bargains—bargains that can’t be duplicated. COME AT ONCE AND GET FIRST CHOICE $400 Player Piano | $350 Upright Grand) $300 mesial Grand Special $298 | $265 $210 NEWARK, 101 Halsey Street made and finished by the when Mi RSet sacral sahil ad A thine lies talltnadts bases Ribs THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, -DECEMBES ing revelations were an follows: The 4% per cent. “rake-off" which the Telephone Trust takes from es dollar contributed by the publ amounted to § City alone for th June 40, 1914, oF 300,000 for tha year, T equiv lent to a direct tax of $2 on every telepone in New York City ‘This levy is made by the Amer 4 Telephone and Telegraph Company, the parent company, on the New York Telephone Company, which im the lo- cal operating company, and im alleged 7 in New six months end! approximately $ 50 per ant ‘168 never before been known in ase $1.25 A WEEK. Bench and Cover ie hristmas | XMAS Cranation SALE — 1,000 Patterns SACRIFICED AT COST OF ST OF MATERIAL SD Backward Season, Enormous Stock the Reason All Orders Received Up to Tuesday Evening Will Be Delivered Before Xmas-@y Domestic Wooiens $25 to*40V St Ul i er hres ee Rae ents mite lS of Imported and oolens to represent rental of the Bell pat- As ed this 1 from the parent company in the Hell patents ext and any company, ex- pepting a Hell telephone comapny, can buy outright its Instruments, The people of New York City are charged in their rates $2.50 rent each year for instruments that any indi- vidual can buy for practically the same sum Fach telephone instru- nt in New York City represents a rental income of 190 per cent. annual- ly on its cost It conte in New York City only 60 | per cent. of the revenue to operate the wervice, ‘The experts drew from the company’s books tho following fig- ures for the first six months of this | your in the metropolis: Total operating revenue, $14,089,277, | Total operating expenses, $7,658,916, Not operating revenue $6,380,361, This is equivalent to more than $12,000,000 operating net income from New York City, In addition, the com. pany has enormous revenues from its |investments in outside companies, ! dhe New York company has ac- | cumulated out of tts high rates a sur- plus and undivided profit account amounting to $23,000,000, {| Although the telophone company | has an absolute monopoly In this city, it has spent much money to increase ‘ita business because of the large per- centage of profit derived. ‘The ac- countants found that fn #ix months there was expended on advertising | $126,760 and on canvassing $100,447.) The approximate annual expenditure on promoting an absolute monopoly dollars. special coun- sel to the Commission, made an elab- orate hen sentation of telephone gen se &! every | the New York Telee out that Telegraph ¢ share of stock ented telephone instrument, as no loval company is permitted to bus} yutright the telephones, but must rent! mopoly toll, but the pate os! 1 cada ain Si dl telephone companies in five States and iy endeavoring to put all oppo- \s wures the Com- direct points, to #q down all fig- ures to New York City alone, care- fully excluding all ov de charges. second was tod metrate thet revenue from present rates 1s yielding a very large profit. The third was to subdivide the fig- ures of plant, income and expendi- tures among the five boroughs of New York City, to lay the groundwork for an att rk upon the system of in- terborough tolls that is yielding sev- eral millions of extra profits every nse. year at public exp —_— EX-COP FOUND GUILTY. Ex-Policeman Victor K. Duhamel, re- cently nuapended from the force after a charge of robbery had been brought Againat him by Mrs, Jennie Balk, of Amityville, L. 1, was found guilty tn the Brooklyn Court of Spectal Sessions to-day by Justices Hermann, O'Keefe and Salmon and sentenced to #tx months In the penitentiary. | This was the second time Duhamel! had been found guilty on the woman's charge, After a_ prior conviction by Special Sessions, he succeeded in win- vine a new trial, Tleut. Harris, of the Bergen ‘Street Station, wan the chief withers Mee. Pile wllered that on Aug. 20 she nenrly fainted in the Flatbush Avenir Mtation of the Long Ttrooklyn. Duhuamel bec of whiskey, When she te her dizziness she found heen opened and $32 taken fre anions lies IN 30-HOUR HURRICANE. French Line steamship La Tour got Into port to-day from Ha day over schedule. Capt wussin reported last Friday morn. into @ hurricane tasting | . which was tho mogt ter: | ié many years’ experttAce at a, Minor storms were encountered all the way across, ng tho passengers were Henry jf Hon of the prominent. banker, and oph Sandias, a rese vist of the italian Army, Who was called home at the beginning of the war, but | recently ajlowed to return to this coun- | try whe! the Italian Government de- clded against intervention tf the war, arglars Missed Payroll. When officers of the Peerlers | phone Company, but lets out a few Shares to qualify directors. It like- wise owns nearly all of the Western manufac ents that} » and the other apparatus | | Blectric Con tures the tel | local swite | that they buy H In up-State regions and in adjoin- ing States the New York Telephone | Company has built up It owns and nty | alues T T 691 Eighth Ave., Between 43d and 44th Streets 2331 Eighth Ave., One Door Above 125th St. 155 William Street, Corner Ann Street 1514 Third Avenue, Near 85th Street ait Broadway, Near Gates Ave., Brooklyn es 700 Broadway, 1 Block from Flushiag Aes Presse PO 5 GC 2” See Ads Displayed in All Our Store Windows “%: is Weighing Machine Company on the seventh floor of the building at Nc 131 Kast Twenty-third Street opened the doors of the place to-day they found that a small safe had been pp en and $30 stolen. A larce ly is put in the safeson for the weekly payroll, but the joney was not drawn from the bank eterday. Entrance to the office was gained by means of a skeleton k MEASURE < pt vevvevvvevevevvever* LN SNA GIP TRC eR eee FeSO es ene Even’g Gowns & Danse Frocks | There are gowns here that were marked as high as $49.50; others at slightly lower Prices; remarkable values, all. | In Charmeuse, Crepe Meteor, Chiffon, Crepe de Chine and Novelty Silks; in the new light coiors, de.icate pastel shades, blacks end white. Special to-morrow, 12.50 | Fur Trimmed Suits ‘empire modes) | Superb Suits of Broadtail Cloth, Peau de Souris, Duvetyn and Chiffon Broadcloth, trimmed with Leopard, Chin chilla Squirrel, Beaver, Hudson Seal and Skunk Rac- coon; short jackets; flarc skirts; faricy silk linings. Former Prices to $59.50 18.50 | Plush-Corduroy& Dressy Coats With or without Fur Collars. |New Empire, Belted and Flare Models; Imported Seal Plush, Velvet Cordu- toy and Chiffon Broadcloth; included are a few odd fur-trimmed coats of various imported fabrics; all silk lined and cosily bere? Former Prices to $39.50 Store Opens 9.00A.M. every detail. Crepe de Chine Blouses, $2. 59 A pertect copy in both style and material of Blouses sold elsewhere at $5.00, Military mode! with edges smartly braid bound and corded seams. Large pearl but- tons fasten the front and collar high to the throat and the cuffs are also buttoned, In white, black, and the new delicate shades. frbrogend ite Voile $1.89 Blou ses, A dainty model of all-over em- broldered voile with Venise lace insertion ard edge. Note the flering collar and the rose at the side of this very dainty model, which is one of the season's prettiest white Blouses Chine, Special, ys of style. pockets, button Fogg th ‘in flesh, white chine, Blouses, bell lace, Stewart & Co, Correct Abparet for Women & M isses STH AVENUE AT 37TH STREET Will Close Out Saturday At the Season’s Lowest Prices BR Moy Ce fs Atisuclons are attr Lew Pets: V4 Broadway, 34th to 35th St Herald Square, Lovely BLOUSE Novelties Appropriate for Gifts The season's latest and most charming models in Blouses, fashioned of the tilmy nets, chiffons, laces and lustrous crepe de chines: effective in style “Country Club” Blouses of Crepe de Cut on very swagper lines, this model features man: Note t closesfitting cuffs and the hic! W ‘he seams are well finished pleated. sand, superior quality crepe de Gold Color Lace A_very effective Blouse; surpilee fronts, flaring collar and cuffs piped with pink satin; a chiffon foundation of shell pin' ccntrasts prettily with the gold Evening Wraps Of Velvet Velour, Plush and High Lustre Corduroy. Actual value $49.50 Stylish new flare models. Colors are Flesh, Battleship Grey, Baby Blue, White, Old Rose end Black. Deep collar of Chinchilla Squirrel or White Moution; lined with soft peau de cygne, and interlined, 18.50 Chiffon Ve'vet Suits | Included in this lot ere also a number of Silk Plush 1 W Suits: al! ore adorned with rare furs; garments of the | very highest class in the scason’s newest styles Formerly to $79.50 }! 29.50 Fur Collar Coats Mode of varicus imported febrics, including Zibeline, | Tweeds and high lustre fur cloths in the seasons most desirable models; satin lined and interlined Formerly priced to $35.00 Store i] Closes 6.00P. M. and very daintily finished in Crepe de Chine Blouses, $2.89 Miltary model, 1 hemstiteh> ed seams and hig! with tiny “turnover.’ New lines, this model tastens with tiny covered buttons high to the neck. In white, flesh pin's ang the new neutral tones: ery Pretty and practical Blouse. a ‘opy of a $4.89 Blous». : Embroidered Net Lace BLOUSES, $2.89 Of ecru net, embroured in white over a flesh pink chiffon foundation. Braid bou: nd and ribbon trimmed in very effective style. The blending of ecru, white and shell pink ts extremely et- fective. Standard price $4.89, In Fancy Holiday Boxes, THIRD FLOOR, 34TH STREET, | $4.89 y clever touch> he la h and the newest $2.89 the