The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1915, Page 1

FINAL PRICE ONE CENT. Copretem, , 2018, by Press Co. (The New York World). The Publishing “GHTY PLANS TO TAX YOU 5 AN EVERY $1,000 YOU EARN — OVERS2, 000, NED NEEDS REVENUE NS. 4 —1915 Budget Close exceeding $2,000 a year. dwellings or apartments. ness in store and offices. ity next\ year. tration faces the necessity of maising money to ace! Mayor Mitchel’s ‘ax of Estimate assembled to-ds P 2 Com lav 4 ay 4 Governor to Saddle hi tak: 000,000 Impost on City to $200,000,000, and Real Estate Can’t Stand Higher Assessment. A municipal tax of $5 per $1,000 on all incomes A tax on unearned increment. A habitation tax on all persons living in rented An occupation tax on the rent of all who do busi- These were the measures talked over at a meeting held in the City Hall to-day co discuss the crisis which has arisen in the financial affairs of this city. The tax sale is going to be the highest im the history of the Real estate is now taxed to the limit"and the Adminis- ing radical and unpopular measures of sds 0! the municipality. ‘onmsinission and all the members of the Board 9 take the bull by the horns. The Tax Commission estimaies that between $3,000,000 and $4,- 000,000 can be raised by a municipal income tax on approximately 300,- (000 persons who have incomes exceeding $2,000 a year. The unearned }increment, habitation and occupancy taxes would, it is estimated, raise $46,000,000 or $17,000,000 more, a total of $20,000,000, which must f be raised for additional’ expenses next year. and other measures requiring heavy @utlay will make necessary the im- Position by the Legislature of a direct leas, of which New York's share will | “$20,000,000, This has been made plain by Gov. Whitman. } EVERY PERSON EARNING $2,000 1 WOULD HAVE TO PAY. im) ‘The question of the constitutionality of a municipal income, unearned in- erement, habitation and occupancy tax has not been passed upon by any eompetent authority, but it is main- tained by those who have studied the question that the Legislature can em- Power the city to impose such taxation. "The fact stands out that the State of New York will demand $20,000,000 from the city in increased taxation mext year. An income tax to supply * g@ashare of this would, under the plan @iscussed to-day, fall upon all per- gons within its provisions earning an fmcome of over $2,000 a year in this eity, whether such persons are resi- dents of the city or not. The Federal income tax is $10 a thousand on incomes exceeding $3,000 iB year in the case of unmarried per- sons and the same rate on incomes gfempeeding $4,000 a year in the case of @arried persons. The municipal in- dome tax now under discussion would také an additional $5 a thousand ‘without consideration of the domestic | responsibilities of the wege-earner or \imeome receiver and go back to a }minimim of $2,000 a year exemption. «In addition to this $20,000,000, the ether mandatory expenditures will tend to swell this year's budget of Sbproximately — $199,000,000, Unless gomie way can be found to take the {mcreaved burden off.real estate, there fe in prospect a terrific revolt from rty owners, What form the shift in taxation @hali take was the subject which worried the Mayor and the members of bis administration to-day, All ye that the very suggestion of come tux in addition to that Sous imposed by the Federal Gov- ernment would provoke widespread to the administration, But a \ them in the face: “York City is to-day at the o —<———— " i ‘Tee Workmen's Compensation Act @——————____ WOMAN ALSO LIABLE UNDER WHITE SLAVE LAW U. S. Supreme Court Views Her as Co-Conspirator With Person Who Transported Her, WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The Fed- eral White Slave Law Was interpreted to-day by the Supreme Court as authorizing the indictment of a woman transported in violation of the law as a co-conspirator with the person who caused her to be transported, Justice Holmes, announcing the Court's opinion, intimated that a woman could be indicted also if she engaged in a conspiracy to have her- self transported with a view to black- matl. Justice Lamar rendered a dis- senting opinion, in which Justice Day concurred, The dissenting Justices contended the majority decision had cut away the constitutional support of the law. Su- Preme Court lawyers skilled in the ad- ministration of the act were of the opinion that the decision would have the effect of making prosecutions very difficult. The case was that of Clara Holte, which the Eastern Wisconsin Federal Court had decided to the contrary. ——__. Wilson Stands for Two Battleships This Year. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Prestdent Wilson told Chairman Tillman of the mmittee to-day he should provide for two battleships this year, and that he disagreed with Tillman's contention none should be built this year, Wut that four should be constructed next year on lessons of the European war. —>_ —_ Laborer Ends His Frank Larsen, fifty-six, a iaecee: of No, 426 West Fifty-fourth Street, com- mitted suicide in his home this afte: noon by cutting hia throat with a razor. ——_—_— Azo Yeu Colne Saute? BRT. MAN MAKES HANGING FOLKS ON STRAPS A SCIENCE General Manager Huff Testifies He Can Pack 42 Standees yin Surface Car, au ONE FOR EACH SITTER. Then a Few More for Good Measure on the Platform, He Tells Commissioners, The B. R. T. has made so scientific a study of how many standing pas- sengere it can pack into a car that ita Vice President and general manager, Slaughter W. Huff, proced an inter- esting witness at to-day’s hearing be- fore'the Public Bervice Commission, “Have you made a study of th standard standing capacity of surface cars?” asked D. A. Marsh of counsel) for the commission. “I have,” replied the railway man. “The average standing capacity, ai we have figured it out, is one standing | passenger for every seated one and one standing passenger for every two or*three square feet on the rear plat- form.’ Commissioner Maltbie: “What is the seating capacity of cars with longitudinal seats?” bout’ thirty-six passenge! “How many standees could be com- fortably placed in such a car?” “Forty-one or forty-two.” Commissioner Maltbie: “So that's what you call comfortable standing, with the conductor jimmying way back and forth in quest of fares?’ “Yes, I call that comfortable stand- Ing,” replied Huff. “The cross seat cars have seats twenty-eight Inches apart and we can’t stand so m Joseph Johnson, Chief of t! sit Bureau, then asked: “Isn't it true you stand passengers in front of oc- cupants of cross seats and that they stand in between seats in front of passengers?” “Yes, we stand them partly in front of passengers,” admitted Huff. “How much space is there between the knee cap of the seated passenger and the back of the seat in front of him?” asked Johnson, “I don't know,” replied Huff, “Would you say there was room enough for standees?" pursued John- son. At this point, Mr. Marsh protested against further questions by Mr, Johnson, saying he would later have an opportunity to cross-examine the witness. oo WHEAT AGAIN KITING; PRICE GOES TO $1.57 Smashing of High Records Set by War Demand Continues in the Chicago Market, CHICAGO, Feb. 1.—Smashing of high record war prices continued to- day in the wheat market here. Upward of five cents a bushel bad been added to wheat by noon, May welling then at $1.57. Traders were keeping a sharp eye meanwhile on re- turns as to the United States visinle supply total, which promised a big falling off. The decrease in the visible supply for the week turned out to be about four times large as at the corre- sponding time a year ago. Profit iz setback in prices near the close, taking, however, led to something cf It @ Rervous finish, with May at Fite is she ate mas 1-4, and the market ap a whole! 1, turday aight, YORK, MONDAY, @InT NEWS SERVICE THREE FERRYBOATS IN NORTH RIVER COLLISION Pennsylvania, D., L. and W. and West Shore Craft Badly Mixed Up. Three ferryboats became entangled in a confusing collision in the dense fog at @ o'clock this afternoon in t North River off Desbrosses Street Two of the boats belonged to the Pennsylvania and D., L. & W. Rail- ways, respectively, The other Is he- lieved to have been a West Shore ferry bound for Weehawken, | The shock of the collision was| heard all along the North River front above the steady shriek of whistles and sirens. Passengers on the Penn-| syivania boat on landing said that| while there was a lot of confusion, they did not believe any one had been killed. | ‘The other two boats slipped away, into the fog. as PART OF STREET CAVES IN. in Main Trouble im Fort Hamilton, Heavy rains’and @ leak in a wate { main caused fifty feet of Ninety-second | Street, in Fort Hamilton, between Se ond and Third Avenue, to cave in to- day. The street is asphulted in that} section, ; ‘The collapse smashed a gas main and! the fumes caused much annoyance to; the residents for an hour before the sup- ply. of gas was shut off. i harles Hopkins, twenty-seven, of No. | 229 Ninth Street, Brooklyn, « city In-| borer, was overcome by gas while try-| ing to dig his way to the broken mua He was taken to the Coney Island Hon- pital. acnemniesens NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. FIRST RACE, Three and a half furlong Diamond, 107 (Dishman), 3 to 2 and out, first; Chivator, 102 (Van- dusen), 16 4 to 1 Oa 1-6, id 3 to 1, third. Time, WR | cross-examination of Travis H. Whit- | called attentlon to messengers run- | “Ctreulation Books 0, F UARY RT 1915. of the British battle cruiser Invinci ‘This remarkable photograph was taken from the “crow's 14 yy AISER’S NEW TROOPS DRIVEN BACK IN A BAYONET CHARGE, SAYS PARIS German Sailors Being Rescued by British After Battle Off the Falkland Islands ible. The captain of the German flagship Scharnhorst refused to surrender and the crew as she was about to sink dived overboard, The British rescue boats are seen setting out from one of their cruisers to pick up the men in tho water. The boats rescued 160 men. P S$. BOARD DID NOTHING BUT SCOLDED AIDE FOR ACTIVITY Conferred With Corporation Officials After Violations of Order and Told Secretary Not to Be So Vigorous. Investigation by the Legislative Committee into the Public Service Commission to-day followed a long trail of neglected and suppressed complaints, of orders that were defi- antly violated by corporations and of failure by the Commission to make much effort to enforce its mandates, Most significant of all was the rev- elation that Public Service Commis- sioners are in the habit of having private conferences with officers of public service corporations and as a result subordinate employees of the Commission have been ordered to tone down or modify their insistence on corporations complying with or- ders. that be st “Commissioner Willlams will have opportunity to tell whatever he may have cipal plain’ and No names wore mentioned at the jmorning sension, but there were sig- | ated Thificant hints that specific cases] syste) would be cited and documentary evi-| nee of this produced later. A stinging rebuke was given to Commissioner Williams in the acar-| ing room. when Col, William Hay- ward, counsel to the legislative in- vestigutors, suddenly interrupting bis read porat hey, secretary to the commission, ning back and forth between Will-| “De jams, who Was sitting on a front seat, and Whitney, on the witness stand, TELLS COMMISSIONER NOT TO GIVE SUGGESTIONS, “Are you receiving suggestions from Commissioner Williams as to your spewern?! demanded Hayward. have “t Whit “w (Continued on Second Page.) a a added Col, Secretary Whitney was the prin- lowed by his chief clerk, Daggett, and their testimony related entirely to the disposition of com- the investigation and regulation and en- forcing orders on ‘publle service cor- the first six months of this com sion's existence down to the day when orders of this cominiasion “There are ord ‘They have brought me some Ideas data,” was the reply. ator Thompson promptly ordered communications with witnesses opped, to say on the stand later on,” Hayward significantly, witness of the morning, fol- George F. ts from citizens about service rates of public servic&,corpora- tions. Counsel Hayward read from Gov, Hughes's original message which cre- the Public Service Commission m, emphasizing the regulatory feature of the commission's duty. He also from the law imposing on ‘ommission mandatory duties of ions. NO ATTEMPT 10 ENFORCE VIO- LATION OF ORDERS. Then turning to the witness, Col. Hayward asked: > you know of any time since pr not been violated don't know,” replied Secretary ney. ‘hat about the present time?” being violated a ang OF aie ty ef PRICE own | ORNT FRENGHLINE SHELLED. INADA AT VERDUN: BY THE CROHN PRINGE Berlin Contradicts the French nouncement of Success at Y; and Offsets Russian Reports Claims of Success in Poland. HOT ARTILLERY BATTLES ALONG THE AISNE RIV PARIS, Fell. (United Press) —The ‘Ralser’s fresh troops | been put into action near Ypres and have been thrown back with Seva losses. Bayonet attacks unnerved the new regiments and they retre in disorder. German reinforcements, brought to the battle front along the road line running from Ostend, received their baptism of fire ina ¢ against the French positions southeast of Ypres. A daylight attack 9 ordered. 4 The Germans advanced double quick upon the French trend Their lines wavered under hot machine gun fire and they broke a fled in disorder when the allies’ soldiers leaped from their trenches’ brilliant bayonet attack. 4 French artillery have maintained an incessant bombardment of | German positions along the Aisne for the last twenty-four hours, Aer scouts reported that the shelling was remarkably effective. In the region French gunners effectually silenced a German battery which resumed shelling Soissons from a plateau on the north bank of the & The army of the German Crown Prince continued shelling trenches outside of Verdun in an effort to prees closer to the forts, ‘bat’ shell fire has béen ineffective. OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT Berlin War Office Contradicts French Reports of S BERLIN (by wireless to Sayville, L, I.), Feb. 1.—(Associated The official statement issued to-day by the War Office says: “In the western war theatre there is nothing important we 3 report. (This Is Im direct conflict with the French claims of “On the East Prussian frontier nothing new occurred. To the southwest of Mlawa, north of the Vistula River (Northern the Russians were driven out bl some places which they had on cupied the day before. “On the German front (Central Poland) south of the Vistula, the Germans gained further terrain, “To the south of the Pilica River (Southern Poland) the Gere man attacks were renewed.” [Aceo ing to reports to-day from Petrograd, the Germans were foreed to give up trenches west of Warsaw which they had) taken Friday. The German force in this fight is sald te hay 12,000, Russians claim te be making progress in East OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. German Attacks Repulsed On Canal at Ypres, Says Parii PARIB, Feb. 1—LAssociated Press.J—Following is the text of he Office report issued this afternoon: “The day of Jan. 31 was marked, as had been Jan. 90, by am ay tillery fighting, which was particularly spirited in ell the sortie region. “To the southeast of Ypres the Germans endeavored to at! ‘ our trenches to the north of the canal, but this movement was'tle a. modiately checked by the combined fire of our artillery and ig fantry. “Along the entire Alene front, from the junction of this with the Oise as far as Berry-au-Bao, our batteries were ful at certain points in demolishing trenches in course of struction as well as shelters for machine guns and in several mine throwers as well as certain ones, of the enemy. “In Champagne, to the ot