The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1915, Page 1

a | PRICE “ONE CENT. 1015, by The FINAL Che ‘Ce. (The New York 4 “_g NEW jortd). = WEATHER—Falr to-night and Tecsdays YORK, MONDAY, “FEBRUARY 8, 1915. Mon P VOPERGENT. NET PROFIT MADE HERE BY TELEPHONE CO, SINGE RATES WERE CUT —_ Legislative Committee’s Expert, Prof. Bemis, Indorses Evening World’s Demand for 5 Cent Rate Between the Boroughs. 1. The abolition of toll charges between Manhattan, Brooklyn and that part of Queens included in Astoria and some adjacent territory. Reductions between some of the other sones can also be safely made, 2. All residences should be given the right to have 600 messages: for $30 and excess messages for 5 cents a message up to 1,200 and for 3 cents a message beyond that. {The present residential rate in New York Oity ie $48 a year Jor 600 messages and $54 for 800 message, 3. Business telephones should be given @ material reduction along similar lines. 4. Such reduction should be made in private branch exchanges as to render it possible for all hotels and apartment houses tofur- nish service for 5 cents a message and it should not be nedessary, beyond the minimum amvunt, to contract to take messages in blocks of 300 each in order to-get the benefit of reduced rates, save where increased messages are accompanid with some such concessions as extra trunk lines. When reductions along these lines are made {t will no longer be true, as now, that Chicago has 60 per cent. more telephones per hundred pedple than has New York City, nor will it be true, as it was during the past year, that Chicago, with its low rates, ac- tually installed more additional telephones than did New York } with twice the population. \ ‘These reductions in the cost of telephone service in Greater New York \ ‘were suggested to-day by Prof. Edward W. Bemis, of Chicago, an expert \ upon public utilities—with special reference to telephones—in his testi- mony before the Joint Legislative Committce sitting at No. 166 Broadway to investigate telephones, telegraph and other means of electrical com- Ss munication. One year ago The Evening World's agitation for cheaper phones in Greater New York forced the company to concede a 10 per cent. reduc- tion until the whole schedule could be readjusted. With this reduction in revenue the telephone company in 1914 earned *$9,550,000 net—the equivalent of about 15 per cent. upon the actual val- mation of its plant, fixed at the maximum of $65,000,000 by Prof. Edward “W. Bemis, the telephone expert, who has just completed a two months’ investigation of the company. Prof. Bemia during the last two@——————————————— Tate the uetairs. ot the New Yore| JUDGE DRIVES AUDITORS yet known of the company’s revenue FROM DIVORCE TRIAL from various classes of service, and meme Telephone Company. | @f the effect of reductions in pro-| ‘This Is Not a Show Shop,” Justice He said to-day that onough Is not j @ucing an increase tn business to I render. immediately practicable Platzek Tells Party a complete reduction to a reasonable of Six. @mount for cach service. But he added that it was possible to make large reductions at once @long scientific lines, and that after carefully cxaminingythe effect of such feductions for a year or so a further Feduction could be safely undertaken. Ta response to a question by Judge Luce, counsel to the committee, Prof. Supreme Court Justice Platzek de- elured against divorce “matinees” to- day when he ordered more than a dozen spectators, including several well dressed women, from his court room during the trial of a divorce suit brought by Jack Shapiro, mem- ber of a big cloak and suit firm, y \ Bemis eaid: against Jeanette Shapiro, once a ) “In the last twelve wfonths, with clonk model in his shop and now a the voluntary 10 per cent. reduction yn picture actress. of the women and four men sitting on a table, their hea t forward in eagerness to het One of the women laughed and Ju tice Platzek rapped for order. “You will leave the court room,” said the Justice, “This is not a show shop and the business before me is serious.” Mra. Shapiro said her husband had often inistreated her. Shapiro brought a counter- sult for divorce against her, naming Dr, Mich- ael Jaffa, “She begged mo to marry her,” said )) fm rates granted by the company in (Conti mt WHITMAN WANTS HASTE. WITH P, S. BOARD INQUIRY Governor Said to Plan Full Sweep of New York City Commis- ed on Hecond Page.) s* © Shapiro, <F took pity on her and did. ie Z Major Sake, a tango instructor, sion by March 1, who volunteered to play the role of a * detective, told of an early morning ALBANY, Feb. &—If the prove Of) visit to the Strand Hotel, where, he said, he and detectives found physician and Mrs, Shapiro. ae ee MORGAN ART IS SOLD. Porcelain Collection at Metropoll- fee New York City Public Service ine Commission does not progress faster ft is probable that the investigation of the up-State Commission will be etarted and the two carried on alter- Rately. Gov, Whitman asverted to- day that he was anxious that the Legislative Committes begin work on the up-State body and rush their empeemendations lo the Legisiature, ‘When the committee reports to the : ture, the Governor will, it is undoubtedly request the resig- tan Changes Owne: J.P. Morgan to-day announced he has sold the poreclain collection in the south room oc: the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection will be delivered to the Purana eee, as soon mos, ite proba- ations of the New York City Com- ote Storwen aid. toot an name of the purchases, _ aeapieeen to Morea 13 DEATHS, WHILE CONFESSED SLAYER WORKED AS NURSE = ' May tearye Bik Bodies in Hunt for Evidence of Murder of Eight Inmates. \ INQUIRY NOW IN! BRONX. District Attorney Summons Witnesses to Tell of Poison Plot. District Attorney Martin of the Bronx announesd thie afternoon that if he obtains any evidence corroborat- ing the charge of Frederick Mors that eight Inmates uf the German Odd Fellows Home were putsoned to get oe out of be Bhed he will order ez! ment Unionport, the Bronz. Thus far corfoboration is not dufficiént to war- ta e which would. be the cost of eshuming and examining the bodies. The Wentchestor County investigu- tion has not developed anything to subétantiate Mors's stury ~ beyond statements made by umployees of the home which fit Ir with what Mora has sald about the deaths of certain of the inmates. Coroner Dunn has learned that strong chloroform lini- ment Was used for rubbing the rheu- matic joints of the aged inmates of the home. }_ Mors is still in the Psychopathic | Ward of Bellevue Uospltal and the question of his sunity has not been established. Gregory went to Yonkers to-day to make some invou- tations as to Mors's actions while he was ¢mployed ir the home. If Mors is sane he will be arrested on a warrant. It Is believed that the Bronx must furnish whatever evidence of « physi- cal nature that may be ubtained us corroboration of Mors's charges. The most promising results would appear to lie in the remains of two of the aged inmates who died while the home was at Untonport. a » two were Henry Haensel and Christian Hitsel, who died itn the home when it was located in Unton- port, the Bronx, If their bodies should betray traces of arsenic, such & discovery would corroborate Mors'’s story. Mors said he killed the other five with chloroform, In @ long statement made to Cor- oner Dunn of Yonkers, covering every phase of Mors’s confession, Adam Bang:.:, superintendent of the home, admitted that (ne records of the in- atit.. in sl. t each of the eight inmates Mors said he poisoned was “found dead in bed.” THIRTEEN INMATES DIED WHILE MORS WAS THERE. Bangert, in bis statement to the Coroner, said he bad been Superin- tendent of the German Odd Fellows’ Home since September, 1912. home was moved from Unlonport to Yonkers on Oct. 22, 1914, Mors, an immigrant who had just arrived in this country from Hungary, was em- The} ployed as a pantry porter in the! home at ‘nlonport on July 7, 114, | Between the time of Moi employ- | ment and the time he left the home, thirteen of the inmates died. Five of | these, according to Mors, died of! natural causes. Casual examination | of the mortuary statistics of the| home for years appears tu establish that the percentage of five deaths to the population of the home between July, 1914, and January, 1916, about normal and that deaths ih six months wae ap unusual number. Assistant Bistros, Attorney Sey- | Justice Vernon M (afford it, it is claimed, 4 Tie court make it likely that the proceeding | southern, wid go over until neat month when! boule egegbes ae German Inventor Who Defends Raids on Cities And Great Dirigible_ Which He Designed Fe) PRICE OF BREAD GOES 10 6 CENTS ON WEDNESDAY Bakers Definitely Decide on| Increase to Take Effect This Week. TELLS OF 25 DAYS’ HORRORS INRUINS . Six-cent bread will be a reality in Greater New York on Wednesday. The retailer who has been paying four cents a loaf will have to give five, and the extra cent Is to be taxed re a a EAT f ceo sheeanse, ‘The ball was #et rolilug by the mR srt IPS Ward aking Company and the Shultz Baking Company Saturday, when they sent word to théir ania see = piso SHE BENE MA rst fT | TD ET LING HAGES FOR SELF AND ‘WE sonal Death Reveals Strange Career raine would & eral Baklag Company, comprising | Ischinann tterests, aint the Jater K, i j Company are scheduled to | but Water Kept Him Alive. follow suit. ‘To-day The Evening World noufed! Rowe, pep, $—Few men have Hugo Fredericks Prealdent uf the | i ved to tell a stranger tale than that Wholesale Bakers’ Association of the| oF syicuiel Catrolo, who win extel- decision of the vig Independenta to| Cited trom the earthquake rulna at lngrenan thelr el | Paterno, yesterday, after having been “T heard of this, but now Fam sure | vi srisoned for twenty-five daye with: | of Girl and Companion in we ng we stld. “Eau glad some | Gut Quod, Cairolo is recovering trom Fict eat ly has taken the initiative, fF We ig ettects of Niki experience, which | ight Against Poverty, were just waiting such au oppur- je way able to deacrine to-day. tunity, If this uctlon had not been | wien the earthquake occurred,” taken the baking Industry would have |). said, “I attempted to escape but| CHICAGO, Feb. §—Ida Weinstein, gone to smash. We could not have held out any longer, “But the Wholesale Bakers’ Aasocl- ation will not act as a body, | have considered the proposal tu ralse the price independently, and so hav other members, We have not agrecd | twenty-six years old, was buried to- day in the first woman's dress to clothe her body in @ix years. As “Ben Rosenstein” and the “husband” of Pauline Rosenstein, with whom she forma myself blocked within a stable ‘by the ruins, Beneath the stable a jcellnr wus being excavated from the rocks, [ imade my way into this ex- vation and so avoided being crushed to death. rum the moment T entered the | had Ived for six years, Ida died yes- to effect an increase in price 48 4) cellar 1 aw nu more light and 1 be-|terday at Nu, 2146 Ogden Avenue, a concerted movement. 1 will have 10) jevedq 1 had become blind, as my victim of tuberculosis, Pauline Rosenstein is twenty-six. She weepingly told the detalis of her life ae Ida’e “wife,” whose real sex was not known here until an und tack the extra cent on my loaves! Wednesday, in line with the others, | and the members of thie uasuciation | will do the same. mind could not conceive that the ruins covered the cellar so completely as to prevent a single ray of light from penetrating through. For a long “None of us wanted to raise thejiine f cannot say how long-my price of bread. We appealed to He gar jacroased until T became al- | “Ker took charge of the corpse. | highest authorities, but without avail. | cet frenzied. | shouted with all my | Ida came to this couatry seven The prive of flour hay driven Us a ea it cell into an apathetic | Y°M"* 480," she said. “Her brother- to protect ourselves.” * an Nnomt like conte ‘this Ms!aW, Bam Cohen, sent her over The size of the loaven WI rama eee eee vad Pcontinued my) We Met and becaine fast friends tn the same, in spite of the extra Charge eee enn nt nes trae myself £) NeW York, where we roomed together it was learned tu-day, Nuue of the | as ied eh eatinnanon [ae the New York Jewish Shelter al | TR Bere Nee i House, Reading Marx und ‘folstol bakers will add even tne fraction uf| "Nt eee on ie with my hands in “ suggested that Ida adopt a male role. We were paid sv terribly little for working in a store We could really an ounce to bis louf, for be cannot DE cana a Wau saat ana my burning lips, ‘This re- | mots me, and with my hands I dug Thirty bakers in Manhattan and | jieve Brooklyn have been forced out of | % ho In mento ih water vollected and | 1 if oue of us received a man's : v able to d wages, Ida was robust and stron, business recently on accuuut vf (he Oost managed tu exiat—how long pally a See if | lost count of the |! Wanted to be a man also; we atill terday f heard veices | could bave lived together, “But Ida sald 1 was too frail. high price of Nour, Pcl) THAW’S TRIAL FEB. 23. 1 know not, a days until y lahove me, Sald Au She vinad’ Another answered: refused to hear of it, She insist camper "Quite so; but let us recover what we 2 iat Notice was served on former Judge! can of our property.” [Upon mny being ber ‘wife’ in the eyen Morgan J. O'Brien and joan B. Stuneh “| aroused myself to taake a su- | of the world, field, utturneys for Harry K. Thaw, | effort and wereamed: “ft aim) “Ida clipped her hair and got a Deputy Attorney and) alive hore in the eriiue, Michiel |jom ag w packer. Wo were very sairolo, ose abuve ine, 1 al Assistant District ye ee it wan a host, butt con| happy. For a while we worked in day that they would tcel tinued my cries and convinced them | Detroit, Then we went to Cleveland, selection of Al that a living man was tinprisoned tn) where we lived as Mr. and Mra, Ben for jurors tol the ruins. ‘They came to my rescue! conen, and later came to Chicago. from) and in about It was bere that ida’a health began \to fall. I wanted then to play the man, but [dy would not hear of it. For some time “Ben Repenste! beer? been carried op the bovks three hours I was free." | F ———»— aements ‘¢ iy \ines ‘ork Wh Cesaat mayan pec Davie: with be the criminal branch of the Supreme ff 14 PAGES E AIR RAIDS TO TERRIFY BRITONS: __TEPPELIN’S PLAN FOR ENDI ‘ fand children, wouldn't use Zeppelins if she had them?” NG WA «DROPPING OF BOMBS OMAR CRAFT IN EFENDED BY ZEPF England Protests Against Thers Says German Inventor, Becaus These Great Engines of Warfa 13 Are Not Available to Her. “i JUST AS VITAL A FACTOR IN WAR AS SUBMARINE By Karl H. von Wiegand. (Copyright, 1918, by. United Presa). ~ BERLIN, Feb. 1 (via The Hague and London, Feb. 8). any one for a moment believe that England in her determination Germany by every means in,her power, even attempting to starve It was Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, creator of Germany's d fleet of aerial battleships, who spoke. This was his answer to pro raised by Germany’s enemies against the use of Zeppelins, and the: ping of bombs on unfortified places, killing women and children. , ———— |his answer was a justification of what had taken place; what will tinue to take place while this world war goes on. “No one regrets more than | do,” and here the voice of thea soldier and inventor carried a genuine note of grief that was “that non-combatants have been slain. But have not n been killed by other engines of warfare? Why then this outery? me tell you. It is because England fears the Zeppelin dirigibles realizes that they promise to destroy her splendid isolation; becau ing to succeed in building something similar, she hopes to aru world to bring pressure to bear to prevent the use by Germany great weapons of modern warfare which are unavailable for her NIMS TO END WAR [Sess THROUGH ACTION OF NEUTRAL NATIONS thereby saving perhaps Senate Bill Directs Wilson to livee; 1€ the Zeppelins, even mew. @ beginning their ia rom whee a) Seek Conference of Inter- national Peace Men. pro arm, should prove te be lve @ weapon in wars are lens iMkely é recur in future, then their advemt Will. bs it to humanity, quite aside their peaceful usages, “And now, if in thie meet cal hour, when Germaay’s existence is at stake; when, effort le | ing made te wemen and add the slightest Fatherland against: the have been In vain.” WASHINGTON, Feb 6.—An inter-| HIS FIRGT STATEMENT national conference of representatives of neutral nations to discuss means of ending the European war, to establish neutral trade routes at sea and pro- pose ultimate creation of an interna- tional tribunal for establishment of world peace was proposed in a reso- lution to-day by Senator La Follette. ‘The resolution would direct the Presi- dent of the United States to convey to all neutral nations the desirability of a conference to bring about the cessation of European hostilities; te extend offers of mediation to warring nations; to consider rules for the gem- eral limitation of armaments; Fules for prohibition of exportation of sau. nitions‘of war; the creation of @ fed- eration of neutyal nations for neutrality of ocean tri routes, The President would be Sma int Commission, or any wes ? i a 5 4 ; § é bs i =< i i i - f nal Ha z : i to Uni ates htet calles iy i other nation. ‘The resqhitipn pation coived by unanimous lowed to lle on the consideration,