The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1915, Page 3

Company Lawyers Make Pro- test—Figures Show Inter- ‘borough Extortion. — Agother puncture was made to-day 41m the Inflated rates the New York a ‘Telephone Company imposes on the! ~s metropolia. The especial legisiative ‘ Committee, Senator James A. Foley, ~~ chairman, held a meeting at No. 165 __cvBangeter, expert scomfntant, fon fig- © lifes taken from the ‘company’s own ‘\) books. The following facts were de- veloped: Ch Jf telephone rates in New york|Alexander Wenyon Samuel Denies That a Child I: Mere Animal and That Anybody Can Take Care of It—Marriage Demands Fairness to Children as Well as the Husband and Wife—Most En- lightened Philanthropy Works to Keep Family Together, Not to Scatter It—“‘Babies Have City were fizefi on a basis to allow the company to earn § per cent. on its Investment there could be made an immediate reduction of $3,800,000 in rates. Putting the company on an 8 per cent. basis would permit re- @ucing rates to subscribers by 17.7 per cent. The toll gates maintained by the ; Company between boroughs and zones within Greater New York for the pur- Dose of imposing extra chargys yield $2,900,000 per year. ‘ Geventy-five per cent. of this, or Rights,” He Declares. . By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Babies’ rights! A man and a father has risen to defend them, and to protest against ‘$2,167,290, wad levied on the business | the “cuckoo-mother” who refuses to burden erself with the care of the between Manhattan and Brooklyn. ‘The 10 per cent. charge for crossing East River proved a source of rich profit for the telephony monopoly ‘which the iegislative committee in- tend to wipe out entirely. % Despite the telephone company’s claim that it must ekim cream in the metropolie in order to compensate for losses up-State, it was shown that $3,000,000 of extortton \charges could be cut off in the metropolis and st!ll * leave enough for an 8 per cent. divi- end return to be epread over the whole State, ‘ Another example of double rake- ie by the American Telephone and 4 h Company was exposed. » | ffhie parent company owns the New Yerk Telephone Company and oper- ates the Jong distance lines. On all long distence calls originating or ter- minating in New York the local com- pany is allowed 23 per cent, of the tolis for its share. The parent com- pany then takes another slice of this by collecting its regular 41-2 per cent. license tax on the 23 per cent. Vigorous protests were made by telephone company lawyers against the deductions made from the figures on the ground that New York City be separated from the State at large and the metropolitan cream should be epread over rural districts. ' , Zhe Legisiative Committee will sit again Monday morning, when Prof. 3B. W. Bemis, who forced lower rates ” BURGLAR FELLS AND _. SAOOTS:AT POLICEMAN “Caught Entering Store, He Grapples ;. With Parmet, Knocks Him Down * and Fires Two Shots; Escapes. Durgier who had just broken the @ statiqnery store at No. 362 the iceman. Parmet bled to bie and the burgiar Policeman emptied bis re- ‘without off t the fugit a although three of fout appeared a moment aooting. offspring she brings into the world. While Miss Rosalie Jones, suffrage hiker, about-@- be automobile demonstrator and feminist, publicly urges that babies should not be “in the way,” that they should be farmed out in the country, thus permitting mother to “engage in real work”—Alexander Wenyon Samuel, of the Middle Temple, London, and a well- known publicist, firmly maintains that every baby has @ right to its one and only mother’s personal care and devotion. weekly edition of the ci} Mr. Samuel was formerly leader writer for the London Times, and is « frequent contributer. to many periodicals on both sides of the water. At a recent meeting of the ‘Widowed Mothers’ Fund Association he declared: “Civilization will 8h if this absurd intellectual concéit im the shape of careers for women tinues to increase at the expense of the family, I re: the theory which is being propound. ed by many of the prominent femi: iets of the day—that of bringing up children co-operatively, putting them in a Jarge apartment house with trained nurses while the mothers are out doing other things.” Armed with Miss Jones's argu- ments for baby farming, I sought Samuel at the National Arts Over the breakfast table the broad- shouldered, well-set-up, frankly con- servative young Englishman read the heresies of tho hiker. “Family life 4s mainly mere sentimentalism. Chil- dren should be sent to baby farms out in the country until they are five years old or so. It would be far healthier for them, better for the mothers and better for the fathers.” “How dreadful!" he gommented, almply. “The mest impertant werk any woman can possibly per- form is to care for her children, But if a woman prefers being @ master mechanic te being a mother, all | can eay ie that it’s better for her, for society and children—especially for iidren—that she shouldn't them. She is like the 3 she eays to herself, ‘if | must have children, at least | shall eee to it that some one else has the job of bringing them up! “As ® matter of fact, I wait with hardly restrained impatience for those children to grow up,” Mr. Samuel added, bitingty. congratulate them on h. such maternal influence,” Then he smiled. “The number of such mothers is gmail," he affirmed, “That is one point I make against these eeif- styled feminists—that they claim to represent all women, when in reality they are a small minority. The mass of women in America, the maas of Pa 275 TOOLS THE "RAINMAKERS * Ay \ h\ hs \ READERS! RELIABILITY y\ RESULTS! 998 TRE ec “I want to| De! ed particularly women in England, want to take care of thelr own children, and do take care of them.’* “Just why do you think that so ea- sential? I asked. “It\is argued that @ very young child has only the ani- mal needs and that one person can satisfy them as weil as another,” “A pald expert can bathe a child, feed it, dreas it,” gran: Mr. Samuel. “But to say that a child is merely a little animal is an absolute untruth. What makes man man ie the fact that he is something more than an animal, “I think we are realizing to-day Never before the sensitive men- tal and moral erginization of even the emaliest shild. It needs its mother te satisfy the needs of ite mind and souls she cannot pay another person to do that ad well if mighW de it, ‘Moat relationships between men and women demand fairness to both, But marriage demands fairness to the neers, (e woll ba to husband and wife. Ir, wie fee Pt pe example, that a mothe: father ing in the mi relation with an- other man? Consider the effect of such a situation on the child’s mind an ally, I consider even thie ef. fect préferable to the atmosphere o! combined hypocrisy and heartache which surrounds misfit marriage. But I didn’t argue the point, and merely quoted another feininist -—that many women are not fitted to take care of their ohildren and should therefore yield place to scientific ex- rte. “Let the well-te-de women whe 6a: care of on the east side and preach doctrine te the ft, id aoe how it will be laimed Mr. Samuel. “The ho struggle bitterly to children, whe ; th a ott i ‘@ olsen inging mille wonderfull them that a scientific etitut ought te take their Jace. ‘As ® matter of fact, the most en- lighteged philanthropy works to pe | th mily together mother a chance to children, instead of relegating them to institutions as formerty. It is some. thing of an anomaly ti en of ths ao oh uid condition pt your own daughter? Do Rap, leat tie 8 th oaity, of New York? As she is,” he ended, soberly. “Then you wou Ve) women mothers and nothing eleet” I asked, ote ius will alwaye find Slumeh ite ef ail obeticies. BAS cle betilotes. A BX sn eee a cannot emphasize too strongly the fact that most women feel this,” concluded Mr. Samuel, “The discontent of a few exceptions should not be allowed to represent the reat. The great majority of girls marry, the great majority of mar- are happy, the great majority of wives become mothers, the great majority of mothers talée care of the!r children.’ —————___ NO LABELS ON BREAD TO BRING PROSECUTION City Commissioner Asks Attorney General to Assign Dep- ) uty to Cases,“ Commissioner of Weights and Measures Joseph Hartigan this morn- ing sent a letter to Attorney General Woodbury, asking him to begin crim- inal action againat purveyors of bread who do not Ia! loaves, Sev- ent cases of violations of the Brooks law were referred to the Dis- trict Attorney's office, Mr. Hartigan gays, but it develops that that office hag no jursaiction, ‘ he Mayor's Bureau of Weights and Measures,” Hartigan wro ‘on account of the seriousness of the present situation has its twenty-three Inspectors at work securing eviden: of vidlations, ' It 1s safe to assume that the number of violations will be large. ‘In order that immediate action 1 be had in prosecuting these cases I respectfully suggest that you as- eign a deputy, who shall give exclu- @ attention to prosecution of these cases in the City of New York.” SALOONS CLOSED SUNDAY? —_—— Magistrate @ Police Who “Do you suppose there was a sin; saloon in Harlem closed last Sunday? Magistrate Murphy asked Detective Fass and Policeman Sullivan of Inspector Ryan's staff in Ha day. They arrested H. in Johanna M. . selling them two ast Sunday afternoon, wnything about that, re not alowed to champion the voluntary renunciation | closed of the care of the child by the ents, when we are doing our “The children of certain women suf- fer not because their mothers cannot of them, but because the re too busy es socleny to care for thelr own families, branched off, his rather mischievous! get up the courage ba’ (ine te par te & 5 ity day, I'm going to tell her, ‘My dear madame, I admire your command of the local political conditions, You ues them most ably, But do or don't you care to something T pearly pea Bent | finer continued the interested to know ould hi the hosters jat the hi East enth Street, this xty- fternoon, | a Boy Killed by Street Car, |, John Bernard, five years old, of No | 426 Hast Fifty-ninth Street, was | struck and instantly killed this after- oon by aw i cbound §Fifty-ninth town oar in Fromt of Nu. aie a pitralats Mtreet: ; ' « Id | @ritteh Ge to Pit RUSSAWLLOS SAYS YANKE ST BACK FROM POLAND Army Officer Who Was With) , Von Hindenberg Asserts De- feat Will Be Absolute. Capt. F. B. Nelsen, U. 8. A., on leave and for more than two months attached to Gen. von Hindenburg’s army in Poland as an unofficial ob- server, returned aboard the Holland- America Line steamship Niew Am- eterdam to-day with first-hand in- formation about the progress of the German campaign in Russian terri- tory and some informing compari- sons between the German and Rus- jan fighting man. “The two are not in the same class,” he said. “The Russian soldier, saw him after his tion, was 1 tarved creature who was glad to be in the hands of the enemy, where could get something to eat and clothes for his back. - “These atories from Petrograd about brilliant Russian bayonet charges and the breaking down of the Ger- an offense are pure fiction. I wit- nessed the Russians in action and | they simply would not stand up un- der German charges. “The rmans in the trenches have the habit of tossing notes, tied w | stones, over into the Russian trenches, | Inviting them to come across and get some cigarettes and hot food. And the invitation never passes unheeded; at night the Rus come in squads of tens and dozens and beg to be made prisoners, “The Germans marveiled at the ac- curacy and effectivencas of the Rus- sian artillery fire until they discov- ered that a large number of French artille had gone over to tha Russian forces and were handling many of their guns, “I do not think | am far from being conservative when I predict therab- solute defeat of Russia by Germany, nor do I think It will be Jong delayea, The Germans at present are cuunting only on holding their lines in the weat until they bring Runsla to terms.” Capt. Nelsen sald that the last 0 EEA BENE \ RR CAV _—_ Commissioner Concedes It Has Not Kept Pace With Gain in Patronage, AGAINST CHANGING LAW, Says Mayor Couldn’t Con- sistently Name Board to Di- rect Subway Construction. Inquiry into the service on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines engaged the attention of the joint Legislative Committee during to-day’s session of {te investigation of the Public Ser- vice Commission in the Council Chamber of City Hall. Publie Service Commissioner G. V. 8. Williams resumed hia place in the witness chair and wap closely ques- tioned by Senator Lawson of the Kastern District, Brookiyn, as to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit service as he had observed it. Senator Lawson took up « report of Joneph Johnson, head of the Transit Bureau of the Public Seryice Com- mission, dated Deo, 21, 1914, in which he reported that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit had not provided increased facilities in proportion to the Increase in traffic, Q. Do you concede this, Mr. Will- fams? A. As a genr 3! statement, f think Mr. Johnson's is fairly accurate, Q. Suppose I told you that on the Lexington Avenue elevated line and the Lorimer Street surface line the headway during the rush hour was ten minutes, what would you say? A. There mugt be some mistake about that, Senator. There is no line in Brooklyn or Manhattan which has a ten minute headway in rush hours. soe, Mr. Contalesionet, "A. 80 do 1 lines, Mr. » A. Bo dol ‘The fact about so many complaints as to service is that people get on a car at rush times, in theatre hours, for example, find it filled with standees and think the service {fs in- adequate, No thought is given to the car coming just behind which may have a number of vacant seats. That accounts for eo many of the strap- hangers in Brooklya. It Was announced to-day that dur- the next week's sessions of the committee the witnesses to be called would include George B. Cortelyou, President of the Consolidated Gas Company; Theodore P. Shonts, Preal- dent of the Interborough; Howard Elliott, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New Haven; Timothy 8. Williamé, President of the B. R. T., and Seth Low and William M. Ivins, representing committees of citisens. In explaining the number of cars in service in one part of Brooklyn during rush hours, Commissioner ‘Williaine said: “In that period there are 26 cars an hour in Fulton Street between Flatbush Avenue and Borough Hail.” ‘The Exploits of an Adventurer Whe' Mertied—end Then Poll ti Lore $!Dr. Armstrong They're Held for Stowing It With Ham and Canned Goods in Clothing Frank and Bertha Bruce of appeared to-day before Breen ‘to answer a charge. of lifting. Bruce is a good looking, dressed chap of thirty-five. Bertha Bruce, his newly wedded wife, is a protty blonde, twenty-three years old. Ta coutt she wore a dainty hat «ith paradise feathers, a sealskin coat tipped with ermine, and slices of the latest fashion. The pair went shopping Thureday afternoon. In the grocery department of a downtown store the groom, it charged, helped himseit lected a plum pudding and a stowed them away in her coat, : thing stronger and were ving « lark whem reached the department atore. | Tena jagistrate cial Sessions. ACTRESS ASKS $250,000 Tobey Claude Sues Biffalo Jewel- lers Who Caused Her Seizure Here Christmas, Tobey Claude, the difhinutive ac- tress, who was arrested last Christ- mas Eve on a charge or grand lar- ceny, to-day filed sult in the su- Preme Court! for $360,000 dama,er After a few more questions Com- missioner Williams leaned forward earnestly and sald: “I think, gentlemen, that it’s time someone told what the Public Service Commission has done. We've heard a lot here about what it has failed to do, “But I am afraid it would take longer to tell of it's accomplishments committee has the time to wi ara o one thing we've done—we've s with 175 people to the car, © caused the Williamsburg Bridge to carry 10,000 more people day than the ‘¢'ve got it doing 3 k fest signal system in the world an carrying forty crowded trains an_ hour, the maximum it can carry. Perh future another signal system mi crease this to sixty trains an hour, “Now, as to the Cypress Hills ele- vated transfer station, | went out there myself to investigate the crowd- ing and I almost had my clothes torn off in the crowd. As many as sixt four cars an hour come into the C; press Hills transfer station from J. maica in an hour, “The elevated road ie now to be ex- tended to Jamaica and the transfer station don with, Q. (By Col. rd) It has been sugkented to transfer the power of this Commission to some other body; what do you say? A. | am opposed to against Herman and Joseph Boas- berg, Buffalo jewellers, who caused her arrest. Attorney Henry J. Goldsmith, who brought the sult for false imprison- Iman told reporters, that he it It a claude’ sleepin, seat opposite jae Clas 's ri berth in the train on which she was taken to Buffalo, Miss Claude ites that after she was li ly carried off the stage of the Palsce Theatre she was taken to @ police station and turned over to the Buffalo authorities, Upon arrival in Buffalo the actress was put in jail and remained there over night with nothing to eat. While in Jail ihe charges, th brothers called upon her and - her,” after which she leave the city, subsequently falo 01 Police progress. FIND SKELETON OF GIRL. Unearthed in Collar of House and Foul Play Suspected. HARRISBURG, Feb. 18.—Coroner cob Ecking to-day began an invest! tion of the mystery surrounding the dls- wery of @ you! any change at this time, As to turn- tpg over the supervision of subway German casualty list published tn Berlin on Jan, 21 gave the number of "| dead, wounded and missing in the whole war as 953,207, > $4,000,000 WAR CONTRACT. Firms for artery , PITTSBURGH, Feb, 13,—Tho Pitte- burgh Foreign ‘Trade Commission to-day anked local manufacturers for prices on 1,000,000 drop forge shells for use of the British artillery, A large order was originally placed with « Canadian man- coo. but he could not make prompt livery and part of it was passed on to itteburgh. ‘The value of the contract was given tun 94,000,000. It was also stated that a sonpeerae wes of what - iy ni as projectile steel was placed here dur- ing the weeg, construction to the Bourd of Kstimate or a committee appointed by the Mayor, I strongly opposed to this. It must not be Mi members called it a steal. > he was wrong or if it was put under hia control it would be his business to stop it at once, C ‘an Thompson showed Com- Williams 4 broken car strap h he said had been sent to him by a Brooklyn car passenger, Commissioner Willi Commission the strap.” They were an to the Commission, the witness add- ed, “and the man who sent you that strap is probably here now, losing | half a day thinking he's bothering me. If be got a wrenched back it! will probably be on the Supreme Court calendar « year from now." Perse TNS BIN CHET? NEW LCN, CB nN ee ton in a cellar at No. Department, which is now in! "hoy Furniea WOODEN arom satisfactory nana ‘flour is a ry four,” ‘be ‘sald: thousands : and DAMABES FOR ARREST| fst" site Ce fost chet Wi pary PR J tf ni i af ;