The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1915, Page 7

{ mai Wo ia War ee , rit SAYS YANKEE JT ~~ BACKFROMPOLAND * army Officer ser Wi 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 unofficia! ob- werver, returned aboard the Holland- America Line steamship Niew Am- sterdam to-day with first-hand In- formation about the progress of the Gerthan campaign in Russian terri- tory and some informing compari- fons between the German and Rus- ian fighting man. “The two are not in the same class,” he said. “The Russian soldier, as I saw him after his capture or deser- tion, was invariably a poor, half- etarved creature who was giad to be in the hands of the enemy, where be could get something to eat and clothes for his back. “These stories from Petrograd about | brilliant Russian bayonet charges. and the breaking down of the Ger- man offense are pure fiction. I wit~ nessed the Russians in action and they simply would not stand up un- der German charges. “The Germans in the trenches have the habit of tossing notes, tied to stones, over into the Russian trenc! inviting them to come across and fome cigarettes and hot food. And ‘the invitation never passes unheeded; at might the Russians come in squads of tens and dozens and beg to be maade prisoners. “The Germans marvelled at the ac- curacy and effectiveness of the Rus- sian artillery fire until they discov- ered that a large number of French artillerists had gone over to the Russian forces and were handling y of their guns. “Edo not think I am far from bel! conservative when I pret ee oe the eid phar ane cen berry -o§ bi Ag yrenedd nor tl toot only on holding their lines in the fh ea ‘The Germans at abet oe until they bring Russia mat aes =" Capt.’ Nelsen said casualty list publisned in “Berlin on Jan, 21 Arye the number of dead, wounded and missing in the whole war as 953,207. CHILDREN HATE “PILLS; CALOMEL AND CASTOR OIL feverish, consti- . pated, give “California Syrup of Figs.” hildhood booed dl ‘tether nied days. Tf. cross, * it gy thartics, How Soeerancors how you yu fought egainst ‘wa children it's * different. tne i z ggEee 3 Eg ¢ i Ht i 5 a It’s “Owl” Right You | which should be replaced, Dr. Owl is @ wise o:. fowl, He knows a thing or two, sir; “If you'd succeed,” says he, “go read World Want Ads. each day through, ain” foe pay, ges the way 00 paket war _ To worker: bergtion houses, lots fo. lost articles, stores About Your Auto and How’ To Drive It and Keep It Expert Advice How to Keep Automobiles Running Smeesthly and the Best Way to Remedy Machine Treublee— Traffic Suggestions and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readere. By GEORGE H. ROBERTSON. HERE has been a rotary traffic control installed at the Ocean Ave- nue entrance to Prospect Park, following @ suggestion advanced in this column a short time ago. This point is generally heavily congested because of the confusion of drivers at the pussiing formation of streets which make up thé junction. In addition to the one already in place, should also be a rotary installed at the Ocean Parkway entrance to, the park. ‘There are several driveways entering into this circle and it is impossible, without @ good police arraagement, tor drivers to cross the cirele pafely and with the proper right 6f way. Last evening while cros#ing Park Avenue at Sixty-sizth Street I wit- nessed what seemed to be aa un- avoidable collision between a iimou- sine and a horse-drawn coach. The KO. H. ROBERTSON. car was moving east and its driver did not see the carriage, which was going north, until the motor was al- most upon the horse. This is a frequent happening for Park Avenue be- cause drivers cannot get a clear view @——————————————————————— of the thoroughfare on account of the) ber of Ls fiaangabed beh ‘high shrubbery that rears up from the | vided by two Mttle parks in the centre of the ave ee heres "mower Tre nue. viendeubety verona, formula, ‘why oh AO rine ace Feoult di- will sive with this Park avenue could be made much| A zd wore w safer tor both pedestrians and veht-|77 f rae power cles if this barrier-like shrubbery was nies Wh. ek ton he aun done away with and the centre parks! rate and distance between Now York weed merely as lawns. This change would enable drivers to see approach- Lath, Rohwer, aired ieee ing traffic. Brunswick, Ringeen te Trenton. Dis- tance, 62.3 mil Automobile sees IN T ERS. ita Seerene What do you congider the best val! fc- the money in a five-passenger Will you kindly advise me through | for $850, or around that sum? Want yeur valuable column (a) the weight |@ car with plenty of power suttable of'@ complete Ford car engine, includ- ioe Brahe d pad aad over yoads that ing transmission; (b) if it would be ‘ALBERT L. WOOD. possible to use a Ford engine in &| Will mail yeu seme information motor boat, connected directly to the jabout this matter. ‘ast | propeller, the gearing to remain the Antommbile Raliter: game as used fn a car, I believe the Pleage let me know what causes the engine would be too heavy for the Dads agelipend cle oh AY ange} boat. It 13 only a twenty-two footer. H. J, HAINES. ‘The weight of a motor and tran mission is 360 pounds. 1 do not jthere any donee beg it? lieve that the placing of this moter in oba ae me Waouerox. @ beat would be pract because of weather crack @ newly changes that-would be neo- een ey "ihe Sernieh bee rat | a éeoary. Vou would find that to install | Also, if it properly would be costly and would | not proper! require considerable time. f hue Awtomobile Balter: ‘What is best to do in a case like thin: I have a 1914 Studebaker six, which ran fine with but one exception. in. The explosions’ are "a itt The carbon knocked eo that I bought Reaver but the extra atrain ie ni eome flash carbon remover and put |@:nLerous. that in and a little kerosene with it, | Automobile Béitor: But when I tried to start my motor center aecne NAb obereeyh hyde Peder’ aken in si ng any Compression seri took my valves f0F about four months? What should out to grind them, and still have no |be done in the spring to have fia insisted | compression. What should I do? Will | rst class condition. The car has this flash injure my oylinder walls? Fun. about 1500 Lal Rd phen Maybe the valves were not ground | $!4er it necessary to grind the valves? fight before I put the flash in. It had |2, Which is the st way from good compression before this. 1 |°W0d to Greenwood Lake, N. J. - i iaat thought that perhaps some of that |™Any miles is it? stuff got in the cylinders around the| Care should be ceee that ‘i sai top piston rings eo as to let the com. |water and gaseline rained pression leak. Wile somnetiones, well to rele, the ol in crank cases as wash: A +8 ee with kergaine.. This oil wil b} ify that ul little ether in each jan extra strain on ni need rep! Ld residue ao as , car should Lea Jacked i wil in of di y be put up on a ‘cover threwn the entire ear. Before the car AG? have it thorough wat ed. it in service in the epi be re iH at the motor is filled it oll id water. The tires should be taken off and looked over in erder te 9 eid od clea iu may Kna a tow “rings. broke: Automobile Editor: Accor@ing he recognized f 101 to the recogniz or- mula, @ four-cylinder engine with a La Sirdag whan the car ie used. bore of 4% inches is rated at 27.2 | advise to lubricate ho er, regardless of the stroke, oughly and clean up mot makers rate the 5%-inch | valves. 2, Ridgewood 48 horse power and the 5- | Pequannock, Pompton 0. Surely there must be |foundiand, Moe, Warwick, wale a decided difference, What would |te Greenwood Lake, a distance of you give to a four-cylinder, 4% bore | about thirty-nine miles. and 5% stroke Continental engine. | Automobile Euitor: ~ B.D. CRANE. | Do you think It 19 a wise plan to ree |tearn to drive a car with a loose steer. ing gear and @ loose brake that will me hardly hold the emergency brake? ——— | Some people say it good plan to learn on @ car like hu and others tsay no. OMAB. When learning to area a yer car it is best to receive instructions on a OUCH! LAME BACK. (Seems sete RUB LUMBAGD OR (2222 BACKACHE AWAY Intend buying & car in the spring and would like your advice, you be- Rub pain right out with trial ing Geinterenes Will not spend Wish to use the mee thine Iu the ray and small tri the road, Want @ runabout oi the ttle of old roadster type. cee are the care 1 “St. Jacob’s Oil.” on Ford Ma tna ti ance the latter is by far my choice. Kidneys cause Backache? No!| Howaver, would want Your word as uy use “pain. “Tistea! Your back The car will have the test oat sah \e Lo ie cal in ache is Se eaneed | ihe lambeeo, sciatica | handling, as the driver ta'a ood te: on, Ford (rebuilt), Maxwell and the Brisco. Would add that in appear- chanic. nh gong 9 me your ae write you reg ‘Will you Dieare give the best route distance from New York Cit 4 : ae Sree Mt is ee mmonton, .N. J, which ts it miles from ahaa City? ah bean of eh 8B MORRISON, | New York to Newark, ene ameuth Metuchen, New Brunewi: lunetion, Trenten te " nel serge et i Hommenten’ inaign Ridge-| Committee use of | seriously. PEOPLE TO SA CITY FINANCES Salted Rising Taxes Hit Municipal Bonds, Savings Banks and Insurance Assets. MUST HALT HUGE COST. Wage-Eamers Big Losers as Outlays Pass Safety Limit + and Cut Into Capital. Scat: sober sense or plunge into incaloula- ble ruin, Greater New York, under the direc- tion of ite politicians,-has been pour- ing out mittiona upon millions of the taxpayers’ money. Its public imi: provements and utilities, like its eky- ecrapers, have become the wonder of: the world. until it is a marvellous place to live in, but it has been apending far more making big inroads into its capital) account. And such operations, if not | checked, have only one ending—bank- ruptey. in duty bound to arouse New Yorkers | ¥ to this peril, because real estate pays i 95 per cem. of all money raised by | taxation, They admit that the iseve in absolutely under the control of pol: ities and that they as a class form minority of the electorate, but they declare that the danger menaces all & of the people, irrespective of clase or politics, The people as a whole pay the costs of government. They pay it through higher prices for living necessities. | Practically out of their earnings each year must be taken enough to meet the rising costs of government before they can have anything for them- selves. New York City’s debt has been in- creased by more than $1,000,000,000 since 1898. Before the city’s current running expenses are considered the people must contribute over $52,000,000 @ year to pay interest charges on its bonded debt, which has been piled up asa result of past extravagance. For total yearly outlays they must con- tribute over $260,000,000. This Is #45 a .| year for every man, woman and child —$180 for the rage family of four persons. The annual cost has been rising steadily every year. In 1900 the budget was $90,778,000, while the 1915 budget is $199,000,000, REALTY FALL HITS CITY BONDS, BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES. ‘The drain upon real estate has be- come @o great that even the poll- ticlans are alarmed. They are seeking new sources of revenue, the Mayor's on Taxation having | 7 recommended seve! schemes re- cently. Real estate is forced to pay $165,000,000 a year to the budget funds and the weight of the burden has be- gun to depreciate its market values Transactions at auction and private sale prove that average market prices are well below the All| valuations assessed on the city tax ree As the city’s borrowins capacity is fixed by law at 10 per cent. of its assessed realty valuations, which the law also says must represent current Sieve aabt expactty is, belng dissin city’s debt ca ‘yy is = {ahed, But the city has iesued bonds to practically ite full debt limit under the inflated valuations on the tax rolls, This opens the dangerous ques- tion whether the olty has run into debt ajready beyond its legal right. In addition, the falling realty values threaten not only & wide field of pri- vate investments and collateral, but also every wage-earner who has a sevioes, bank account or a life insur- ce policy, because the savings bank and life insurance companies have been the largest lenders on real os- tate mortgages. A big fall in realty values endangers the collateral be- hind such loans. PEOPLE MUST ACT TO sTopP|' HUGE PUBLIC OUTLAYS, Real estate leaders say it is time for the people to realize these facta | and act without delay, They must boi ig huge outpouring of public mothe situation is highly dangerous Inland holdings. ‘Wood, Brooklyn to builders of $260,000 flat City, at Packard st. Long Island. Harmon & Co. sold two blocks in the Kensington section of Queensboro Corporation sold fifty lots on Thomeon ave, Long Island ‘William Walser paid $126,250 for twenty houses at Dunton Lodge, Mra, Nash Rockwood, of Saratoga Springs, bought the residence of Mra, George B, Hayes at Riverdale with twenty-two lots. Charlee B. Reade bought the Bloodgood Cutter plsce at Manhasset WALL ST STREET. FEED te CPFEUPEEREEDDODEL LEOETEL It has spent and spent |g tietl itt Viel +h let ieee ++it Uitte General Biectric Company quartely dividend of 3 per cent. payable April 16 to stock-of record Feb. 37. & 8. Kresge & So. for year 1914 earned 32.43 per cent. on $5,000,000 common stock against 14.67 per cent. previous year. ‘Trade of France with foreign coun- tries Gecreased $660,000,000 in first four months of war. hecepycedet Froanlebagd gross for first ook bruary Fro sty fi decrease total bee not hopeless,” said Rade gaol . dential tracts in more than nn Srey five cities. His statistics and studies of economic conditions in prominent ulation centres are the most ex- ustive in existence, “The renee World is fighting nobly along the right lines and we ig nt arenes = people themselves is condition, | 3 it is polltical™ RS continued. “The dan- lite in the fact that the masses not understand this great and intricate subject. nny, do, but they are not enough. The majority follow irresponsible satel its spending are conce: wi the public money. ge ye good that can be done fant w0 Sow ‘s to awaken the people to the incalculable danger of our buge public outlays. First we must etop the increase, then ‘we must adopt far-seeing plans for reducing both current expenditures and bonded debt, Statistics show that as an average a tax of 1% per cent. is the limit of safety in a community. This practically exhausts legitimate in- come. Anything higher acts as an i road upon capital account and to depreciate property values. ‘ax rate is rising above 1% per cent. “With proper ing I am eure the tax rate in New York could be Soreea Cigar oe soaety ide | it is up to ple. oir action in this tremendous Senanqoney will present one of the most impressive tests of our democratic system of government.” WEEK’S NOTABLE REALTY OPERATIONS. cIry. Franklin Pettit bought seven dwellings at the nortiwest corner of Went End ave. and 75th at. at $500,000 and resold them to Henry Mayer as a site for twelve-story apartments to represent $1,750,000. Hotel Des Artistes filed plans for a nine-story structure, to cost $800,000, on the north aide of 67th st., 100 feet weat of Central Park West, Greeley Square Hotel Company filed plans for addition to Hotel McAlpin to cost $500,000, at Nos. 46- International Correspondence Schools secured the southwest corner of Madison ave, and 40th st. as a site for a twenty-story building, Bronx flat builders filed plans for 36 new houses to cost $1,300,000, SUBURBAN. James 8. Graham added Woodland Beach to his extensive Staten weonty-three-story 8 West 34th at. and @tores, U.§. WARNS CARRANZA, | ~ SPAIN TAKES UP THE EXPULSION OF ENVOY! Sharp Note Sent From Wash- ington, While Madrid Calls Cabinet for Action. —_—— CHICAGO waeat er? CORN Far fe nk a Xe thf ‘fe oe R= % ‘Wheat was at opening with de- cline of kr to TT 2 ere were country offerings and liquidation isn ete. Wheat in second is 1-4 to 1-3 cents between noted. absorbed sion house selling. ised BE tO at as cent decline. ie! ‘pasa COTTON MARKET. ton pi risen, onseed ott trom ¢ 7 Lise ey may i wes Cag ity Feport noe Brit! "One ‘veane! “ie lost. Le ——————_ Bank Reserve 189,788,850, The staement of the actual condition : m7 NOES | 23) Q STOMACH PAIN | never buy realty in a city where the | 20 own.—i MOTORISTS’ Stee cree Stewart Auto Aba by M. ¥. State Beard of Me- Sith WTREET (at Broadway). Men Gosiring te be trained os me ae a the erin Bobs” boot ne “Baa fr 0 T’S the idea in’ “Bobs,” Little On Why, just to give youa pepperriint-e bit obi peppermint—a meus cum. Made ear —Full garage service, including electric current for charging, at an average cost of $45 a month— Conducted under the auspices of The New York Electric Vehicle Association Central Park West at 62d Street New York City Open Day sad Night Telephoas Columbus 970 LATS @ APARTMENT: TO Let. _.Unturnished. re chew, a a a