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rS THE EVENING WORLD, | iter cern tetem te) Britz, of Headquarters LIIRMRARARIAIH AA ARIN RANI IRAE RANI IT SATURDAY, ABA AIAG MAYOR TOSTRKE | Tells Women How to Beat Court Decision AT TAXI TRUST IN "PENNSY” STATION Gives Assurance He Will Force Open Competition There as He Did at Steamship Piers. YELLOW CAB MONOPOLY | Proof That Independents Are Barred From the Great Railroad Station. Mayor Mitchel has begun a fight for | the removal of the last of the special privileges enjoyed by the Taxicab | ‘Trust—the exclusive right to solicit patronage in the Pennsylvania Rail- road Station, In answer to a com- plaint written him by Alfred C, Wess- mann of No, 581 West ‘Thirty-seventh Street, the Mayor says: “I have re- ceived your letter complaining of the | conditions of the taxicab service: at! the Pennsylvania Station. 1 have been aware of this situation for some time and am now taking steps to see what van be done to insure open competi- tion, As you may have seen in the papers I have had tho same trouble at the piers, and, after long and per- sistent effort on my part, open com- petition is now prevailing at these points.” Mr. Wessman, Who was Chairman of the Tuxicab Committee of the Manutacturers and Business Men's Association, relates an interesting ex- ‘perience he had at the Pennsyivania Station on Dec. 7, His compiaint fol- lows: “tnig morning L left the Pennsyl- | Vania Station at 9.10 in a taxicab with Y UCCuse Wua, owned by the Mae won & an Company, which I Unuerstiiu wu SUOsiMary of the Lel= ‘axicab Compan, that tho starter of t cab Company within the Pennsyl- Vania Station was also controlling the movement of tho Mason & Sea- man cabs. ‘The yellow taxicabs have «a meter with @ Lirst drop of oV cents, while the M, & 8. is 40 cents, so there was a discrimination of rates at the! stand in question, That is to say, 1| being familar with the city ordi- nance, having been Chairman of the Taxicab Committee of the Manufa turers and Business Men's Associa- tion, refused to take a yellow cab, | waiting for the next one, which was an M. & 8. CHEAPER SUBSIDIARIES HELP OUT THE YELLOw. “Such @ condition should not be permitted at a railroad terminal, Street traffic was such that it might appear the yello higher rate, in greatest efficien minals even if d discovered Yellow Taxi-: emands forced thera | to call upon subsidiary companies charging lower rates, which means} that the company does not have to maintain as large an organization at 4 railroad terminal as they would need | im an emergency, because they take care of emergencies by calling upon thelr subsidigry companies, working at other times with an organization| Which does not carry an unnecessary | overhead, It would if we could| ill conduct our business in that way, having only such machines as we) need, and calling upon a subsidiary when a demand is mad: At such times why should no} cabs, regardless of whether they be subsidiary companies or be en- titled to the same priviles SPECIFIC CHARGE OF RESTRAINT OF TRADE. “mn conclusion, 1 believe there is being maintained at the Pennsylvania | Railroad Station a taxicab service op- erated in restraint of trade, | “1, A uniform rate is not charged each taxi Phe I am informed that indepen- dently operated taxis are not per- mitted to solicit patrons within 6 station toes that during a period of slow business the Mason and Seaman low-price taxicabs are upon the streets soliciting business to the Aisadvantage of the independent owners. “4, During perlods of unusual re- mands by the New York public for taxiQ those owned by the Mason & Seaman Company pick, with the co-operation of the Yel- low Taxicab Company, the most remunerative positions for obtain- Ing passengers, and in turn the independents are forbidden the same privileges “5, The M, & 8. company by tele- phone refused during this same period to send a taxi to my office on the ground that there was no taxis to be had. However, a tele- phone to the I. T. O. A, or Inde- pendent Tax! Owners’ Assoctation brought the response: “All right; I will have one over in ten min- utes." “6. My business called me to Seventh Avenue, near the Penn- sylvania Station, and T desired a taxi to return to my office, and | though many M. & 8. cabs passed | empty on their way to the Penn- | xylvania Station, none would stop, probab'y having been assigned to station duty, It became necessary to take a hansom in order to reach my office, “AML the above facts except a& to the ownership of the Mason & Sea- man Company by the Yellow Taxicab ‘ompany | can prove, Coe bear in mind that when | taxis ars taken for station duty they | remove from the city that service which tle citizens have a right %o ex- pect. “Yours very respectfully. “MFRED C. WESSMANN." \ | and her eye: “iT tS SORDID FOR HER TO ASK FOR money 4 EACH SHOULD GET A PRoroR TION Op THE BALANCS \) ALL Boe SHOUD BE PAID FOR That Wife’s Sav U e ——— ~ aWae BEB EIT. AFTER DEDUCTIG HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES lowances, Says Mrs. Ida Rauh Eastman—Be- lieves Her Plan Would Help Both, as Love and Money Don’t Mix Well. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Don't Montgomerys, in man. ik Cupid to think about money. meant to bear the burden of Mammon’s gold-filled bags, nor his rosy | fingers to press the buttons of a cash register. him to beg for pennies, like a performing monkey, he will fly away in disgust. Because love and money get so mixed up after marriage, in the absence of any fair and definite finan- cial arrangement, we have marital unhappiness and such glaring instances of injustice as the case of the! His winged back was never And if you try to train the opinion of Mrs. Ida Rauh East- You recall that a Supreme Court Justice has decided that Mrs. Chatles Montgomery of Breoklyn doesn’t own one penny of her careful savings trom the household allowance made y her husband. The joint | result of the earnings of the husband and the economies of the wife is not joint property, but the exclusive property of the man, Mrs, Eastman, whom many of her friends still know as Ida Rauh, Is a young woman of wide experience and chievement. She is an ardent student ot sociology and an equally ardent sculptor. Of independent means, she was graduated from the New York University Law School, practised her profession and for several years served as Secretary of the Woman's Trade Union League. Her husband, Max Eastman, is a Columbia profes- »| sor and the editor of The Masses. | “MORAL 18, BUY JEWELS DON'T SAVE.” When I showed her the brief sum- mary of the Montgomery case, sho AND |read it carefully through to the last quoted sentence of the Judge's deci- sion: “No matter how careful and prudent the wife may be, and no mat- ter if such prudence is really the cause of the accumulation of sav- jings, if the money originally belongs to the husband it is still his, unless the evidence shows a gift to his wife.” “The moral is—Buy jewels an: don't save your husband's money,” je commented dryly. “Of course the social-I won't say the legal — meaning of marriage to-day is that the husband must ‘support’ his wife, and the children if there are any. But while the wife must be ‘supported,’ that is, given her board and clothes, she ia not sup- posed to be entitled to more, What- elso she may receive is an ‘extra.’ In this case that you have shown me the woman probably was allowed food and wearing apparel during the years that sho lived with her husband, Why should she“expect anything in addition’ BELONGS TO DAYS WHEN WOM- AN WAS A CHATTEL. The dry note in Mrs, Eastman's quiet voice now had an overtone of sarcasm. We were in her delightful living room at No. 2064-2 West Thir- teenth Street, a house that is hidden away like a conspiracy. She sat at the book-strewn table in the corner near the fireplace, a slender woman with a rather tired white face, Her | duskily brown hair was parted on one side and knotted loosely in the back, behind heavily rimmed glasses, were the color of the sea on a day of clouds. “The thing that impresses me most about the whole affair,” she confln- ued, “isthe Judge's mild regret, which doos not prevent his interpreting the law in the traditional fashion, injus- tice or no. With the change and growth of men come new legal prece- dents and Interpretations. But for five hundred years there has been comparatively little progress in estab- lishing fresh legal precedents for women, Such a decision as the one just given belongs to the days when woman was a chattel and when a man had the court's permission to beat his wife, provided the stick were no thicker than his thumb, “The married woman who cares for her household end brings up SAS r children is just as truly self- supporting as the married woman who works in an office or a school. There must be a definite sconomio recognition of the wife who works at home. All | should receive remuneration. all very well to say tl a should trust the justice ge erosity of f ir husband, but Eastman developed her theory of @ sundering of love and money, “Even when two persons care very deeply there is likely to be trouble if the question of monex Is involved with their love, if she must ask and he must give. I think we should relieve love of the burden of money entanglements, give it a chance to be Itself. It will last so much longer, if the financial relationship is established as a thing apart. DEFINITE REMUNERATION FOR WIFE AS HOME MANAGER. “When ®vth husband and wife are Wage-earners the question {s im- mensely simplified, They neither need receive funds from the other, but each will make a direct contribution to the Joint expens Wl the wife chooses as her life-work the management of the home and the care of the chitaren, then | believe she should ressive a definite remuneration from her husband, over and above the gen- eral household expen would still be a cert. of injustice, becau: thing would be the board-and-clothe ran int.” ‘What if the wife woren't a good housekeeper?” I asked, “At present she can soldier on that job to her heart's content, and yet her husband must support her.” “We may as well be honest and ad- mit that the support is given for an- other reason than domestic pro- ficiency,” she replied. “But I agree that the husband ought not to be com- pelled to pay the wife a salary she doesn't earn. However, he might be protected as well as she. If he feels that she isn't worth what he's paying her, let him bring proof before the proper authorities, and let her do like- wise if she thinks she paid. Such cases could be settled in a court of arbitration, like other labor disputes. “Most persons are made sordi by asking for mone: cept for defin: ims on a previously set- tled of service rendered. If the wife received regular remun- eration, there would be no wheed- jing the husband out of a few dollars at every convenient tunity. | should think he be glad to know that a new wasn't in the background of demonstra’ I onstration will d a PP 80 frequent motive for “f think that in the future women n't do at home all the things they're ving now," concluded Mrs. Eastman. ‘The big apartment houses with the common dining rooms show that we're xoing to come to co-operative house- keeping. But even then J don't think all the women will want to work out- side the home, ‘There will always be the children, and somehow nearly all of tw are fond of them. But if the man w in his}home he must help to ai work and the remuneration.” itand. | ardize the hours, the rian being under. | to-day wants his wife to satay | ngs Belong to Husband LOVE AND MONEY DONOT MIX Z THERE ARE NO Women JUDGES | [AS Yer To wTERPRET THE Oo tavs CD C(O es MED, 10A RAUH EASTMAN ‘Oddities in the War News When the French Parliament mevts Dec. 22 many seats will be vacant because of members at the front, killed in battle, or taken prisoners by the enemy. Germany is said to be intimating to Helgium that it is a permanently conquered country, will become a German State after the fashion of Saxony and Bavaria, and that the future ruler of Belgium will be Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz. The “treasure ship" Kronprinzessin Cecile is docked for the first time since she left New York with her cargo of more than $10,000,000 in gold on July 26. Tue German liner turned back when near England and had aince been swinging at her anchor chains in two harbors, She is now docked at Boston, , When the German Governor General of Belgium tried to persuade the leading newspapers of Brussels and Antwerp to resume publication, the editors replied the papers would never published as long as Belgium's King was absent from Brussels and the German censorship continued. Government and stockyards ex, rts in Chicago predict that because of Hing at 60 cents a pound and shoes at to do since the their time to gathering unexploded shells on the battlefield: military authorities are paying 18 cents apiece for the shells, The French A Paris paper that is Franco-Prussian war of 18 are now than tnen: | “At the market dog cutlets are now fetching & cents apiece, Unseru- | pulous venders are trying to sell them at a dollar a pound as venison, turing extracts from its editions during the publishey this to show how much better times Marte Lloyd will take a company of prominent artists to France for Christinas to entertain the allied troops and the men in the fleld hospitals. She said she had no fear of getting shot, unless tt was for singing. ‘The military hospitals in France are using a telephone gpntrivance to locate bullets, Two electrical reels to which an ordinary tef@phone ts a tached are run over the body of a wounded patient and the telephone bu: when the reel passes over a hidden bullet or fragment of shell, MISS CLARA BUSCH HAS Colonial fireplaces. The is near it ure being repatre |, and 300 auto- mobiles bearing the guests had to ; y) Plough through heavy mud. When | y {found the walls virtually hidden by | merican Beauties, smilax and ferns. The fireplaces were ablaze with hick- | ory logs, The scene represented | ’ | three weeks’ work by more than a parece scence |hundred men, The entire St, Louls |St. Louis Girl’s Coming Out Party Most Elaborate Ever | Seen in the West. | Symphony Orchestra gave a concert before the ball. SHOPLIFTERS ARE BUSY IN JEWELRY DISTRICT Mayor Gets Report of the Activity of ST. LOUIS, Dec, 19,—Miss Clara| | Busch, second daughter of Mra, Au- | gust Busch, made her bow to society | jat the Sunset Inn last night at what will go down in St, Louis social so- ciety ax the “million dollar debut.” The entertainment was the most |briliiant and costly of its kind ever jseen in the West. The flowers alone cost more than $10,000, those in Misa | Busch's bouquet having been gath- ered from three States—Florida, New | York and New Jersey ‘The 600 guests sat down to a din- Thieves Below the “Dead Line.” | Detectives from Pollce Headquarters | Were sent into the Maiden Lane district | to- to run down clever shoplift- jer who have been doing a big business |for a week or more below the dead line, On Saturday and Monday last they stole gold chatelaine bags valued at 41,00 from Reed & Harton, at No. 4 Maiden Lane, and gold and silver toilet articles, also valued at $1,000, from the ner that cost $14,500, Five thousand % m rhum Company, at No. 15 dollare was expended for wine alone. | pene onan tort tn the ween The jewelry worn by the guests was! hood report that shoplifters are unusue muarded by specially picked and ally getive trained detectives. Its valuc was en- | The goods tmtssing from the Gornam : a thant ae , and Rees arton establishments Were timated at more than $500,000, while taken in daylight and under the noses the gowns, made especially for the of private detectives on guard. ph D. Little of the Gorham Com- occasion, cost more than $50,000, y made a complaint to the Mayor, Sunset Inn is several miles fromjand the robberies became pul the city, It is @ fashionable club-4GAPt Cray sent three extra men house, low and rambling, with great oY se | lie. into No arreste were are devoting | Other deulers in the neighbors | DECEMBER 19, 1914. PROUD MR HORSE PUTINHOSPTALB PLANJERRY MULE Alexander IIL’s Sneering In- sults Bring Just Reward From Humble Teammate. BIG CROWD SEES FIGHT. Animals Battle to Finish With Hoofs and Teeth on the East Side. William Hersman, of No, 886 ‘Third avenue, who does business under the title of the Elkwood Express Com- pany, used to own a fine pair of mules named Tom and Jerry ‘Thoy had come up from the black galler- los of the earth under Wilkes-Barre, Pa. where they had been used in coal mining for years. Whon they found themselves above ground in New York, their joy was pathetic to seo But tho gay ways of the metropolis | were too much for Tom, and he passed | away six months ago. Jerry was dis. conaolate, and so was Hersman, who | could not find another mule to match little, black Jerry. In despair Hers- man got a tall-rangy, long-barreled roan horse named Alexum HIT, his former ow said had figured on the Kastern racing et a record of 2:29 4 had lots of pep left. But oh, how that horse dtd hate his humble cousin on the other side of the pole! The very first time they wore hitched together, the horse snorted a sneer about Jerry's top-sided family tree that brought the tears to Jerry's eyes. Ho ts a soft-hearted little beg gar, though few would guess it, whon he lays back his ears, Ho stood the Insults as best he could, though, as Hersman recalls now, he often trie in his simple, mulish way, to give notice that the affronts were mors than flesh and mulohide could bear. The Elkwood express wagon stopped in Fifty-seventh Street between Sec- ond and Third Avenues, at 9 o'cloex this morning, while Hersman doliv- ered Christmas presents. “It's fine to see such good weather for Christmas,” Jerry ventured, hop- ing to appease his haughty oppressor. ‘What's that to you, you Idp-eare: misfit chunk of misery?" was Alexu III's flere reply, Jerry's head drooped Then Alexum TI, who has enough thoroughbred strain in him to make him hot-tempered, made his error, He thought Jerry was afraid, leaned over the pole, and savagely bit Jerry's neck, This was too much, “Yea-ay-ay!" screamed Jerry the shrill, squealing battle ery that all muleteers know, and leaped over the ‘pole and went at his foe with teeth and hoof@. Alex isa bit of a fighter, jtoo, and the shrieking, thudding com- |bat drew ¢ ‘ds in a minute, who |cheered as if the mules were White | Hopes, Hersman wrung his hands and yelled "Police!" ‘They came run- |ning from the Yorkville Court and hered in a respectful and dis- ant cirele around the flying hoofs |that mocked their stoutest night sticks, ‘The wagon capsized, Chris mas presents flew, After a long five minuen of battling Alexum III fell to. the pavement, down and out, bleeding from many ‘bites on the neck, a gash over the t in his day, had to sulky, and still |right forclex and a’ bigger gash in the jaide where hoofs pair of small but vicious wen planted with pr had y took Alexum HI away in a mbulance Jerry, without a hide, saw him off, one thing, Mister y, modestly ax he yo come. trifl could, “next time ‘| “1 have no reason to desire death, : NII UII HMRI IIE ID ADIN LA EMMI HARUM RIE IOAN A New York Detective Story That Is ‘' Different " “By Marcin Barber RRR RA RRR RI RIT R RMIT BRS BRAIN NRT, COURT FREES GIRL ACCUSED OF TN TO DEN SIBVAY Rich Man's Daughter Deni She Attempted to Leap Under Train. Miss Isabella Picard, twenty-five, of No. 611 West One Hundred and Four- teanth street, wan discharged by Magitrate Barlow in the Harlem Court, this morning, after being ar- raikned on a charge of attempted sul- cide, Sho ts the daughter of Henry Picard, a monufacturer of woollen goods at No, § West Third treet. 4 Mies Pleard, according to the In- terborough employees at the One Hundred and Ninoty-firet street sta: tion, declared she wanted to dle be- cause sho was “mad at horelf” and had “seen enough of life," but her father said sho was “simply a bun- | dle of nerves,” and had no reason for | wanting to die, Sho is alleged to have tried to throw herself in front) of @ subway train, Miss Picard ts short and slender | and very pale. She looked sick and | distressed, as she faced the court, No one was present who had een what happened on the subway platform, and Poltceman Rabbit, who arrested the girl, declared that when he ar- rived, she was sitting quietly on a bench on the platform, Lawyer Levy pointed out that if sho had desired to Kill herself, she would not have one to the end of the platform where trains move most slowly, “I had no wish to kill myself,” said! Miss Picard to the Magistrate. “I had been uptown to neo my sick aunt, and whon I entered the subway I felt sick and hysterical and nausedted. That is why I went to the end of the plat- form and took off my furs, Before I could rellave my ill feeling the mon) caught me." | | “Did you wish to dio?” asked the Magistrate. ot at all, Miss Picard replied. tt was all a mistake.” As a northbound subway train was slowing down in the subway station about 10.45 last evening, Edward G./ Middleton, the motorman, saw the} girl step from behind a pillar. Tho door of his booth was open, and reach- ing forward he gave her a shove that sent her backward, Then he jumped out and selsed her. He says she had removed her shoes, hat and furs and neatly placed them beside the pillar. He and Peter O'Connor, a despatcher, held her despite her struggles until Policoman Rabbit ci from tho West One Hundred and Seventy-| seventh Street Station, | Bhe would not tell her name, but admitted, they ay, that she had In-| tended to end her life under the tratn, She had waited for the preceding | train to pass, she sald, to see about where it stopped so she would be sure to jump under the wheels of the next. What probably saved her life was that the train she had allowed to ome into the station contained | ‘The one in front of which and had almost stopped when she appeared, REPORT SHEAS TOBE ANALG NEW POSTMASTER roun' ME yo! better ay yo" prayer's ‘DYING, THROWS ARMS | ABOUT STRANGE GIRLS |Mortally Stricken Man Leans on Young Women at the Brooklyn Bridge and They Scream. A dying man, who had been Jetricken suddenly as he waited for @ Brighton Beach “L”" train at the |Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge |last night, throw hia arms about the | Shoulders of two girls, one of whom | was on either side of him. Tho girls screamed, but the platform was so rowded they could not struggle from | the atranger’s embrace. They did not know, of course, that ho was dying. | ‘The crowd gave way and tho girle shook the man off. He waa about to fall when other men caught him. He was carried into the emergency room and Dr. Krieger was called from Vol- unteer Hompital. ‘The doctor sald the man was dead A label in a pocket of the’ dead man's overcoat had the name “H, C. and the date Queens Democratic Leader Springs Surprise on Poli- ticians of County. The politicians in Jamaica, Queens County, the Democrats in particular, were excited to-day by @ report that! Daniel Shea had been selected by the Administration to be postmaster at Jamaica. Shea, who for thigty yeare was a fireman and retired as a captain, has been the head of the Democratic or- ganization In the borough for the last two years. He gave up the chair- manship a short time ago and the reason for his doing so was a matter of speculation At that time he lived in the Hunter's Point section. Four months ago he moved from his former home to the Jamaica Estates section in the Jamaica postoffice territory. The office become vacant in the lat- ter part of January and half a dozen men had aspirations for the appoint- ment. Harry Sutphin had a petition signed by some two thousand Demo- crats and by most of the captains and leaders in’the Jamaica section, Fach of the claimed strong backing, but the ures to their petitions ‘Will Begin Monday} § were not so numerous Sutphin. looked upon as the likely winner. Few seem to have known that was an aspirant, and when the was received to-day they were loth @& believe it. Friends of his, said they were arranging bonds him. Capt. Shea was retired from Fire Department because he had badly crippled in 1911. He was ing for a car when a runaway came plunging toward a women who were leavi e fourth Street Ferry boat. Shea jumped for the bridle, ¢ it, grabbed the horse by the and threw him, a few feet from women. The horse and wagon piled on Shea, After weeks in hospital he came out a cripple life, = ri 1 an on ————>——- ‘ tei APPOINTMENTS BY TRAVIS Brooklyn Newspaper Man Get@ 94,000 Post. . State Comptrolier-eleet Travis announced he had selected five employees for his department. 7 ‘The most important place filled ts that — of Corporation Tax Commissioner, whic — goes to John H. Elliott, a newspaper man. He will recelve ta a ye Fred rick Goodwin will be the of the secured debts di 91.800. John J. Scully and beck will be examiners in tax department at $2,000 each, 8. Beanlon will be an examiner and trust funds at ten dol ore ely meney. As we the dain enpe in ‘pes er, ere aay WEIGRT. 13h-¢¢ re Dastarrarip tress2etssesss