The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1915, Page 3

> RUSH TO REDUCE RATES AS: 4 on ENING HO Public Service Commission Joins in Race to + Lower Prices. PUBLIC CLAMOR WINS. ra (bong Fight to End People’s ‘Oppression Was Begun by This Paper in 1913. ‘The Evening World's long battle tm behalf of the public for cheaper Fates, that in the begin- Wing wae derided by the New York ‘Telephone Company, ignered by the Public Service Commission. and defeated in the Legislature, has new developed into a race be- tween these same three organiza- ‘thefts te see which can first bring aheut the reduction. ‘The up-State Public Service Com- f@ifeston has euddenly awakened to the force of The Evening World's de- ‘The complaint on which the com- mipsion ig row acting was filed in Mugest, 1913. Five months of per- demands were required to se- @@Fe serious consideration of the @emplaint, and a year more of vi: meus prodding to awaken the com- misstoa to quicker action. ‘The Senate of 1914, which was con- (qelted by Tammany Democrats, de- feated a S-cant telephone bill. A eommittes of that same Senate, headed By Genator James A. Foley, Tammany Demeorat, has investigated telephone of the Mctropolis and now reduction of SUDDEN CONVERSION OF THE PEOPLE'S mies. JBhis committee will meet Monday final report of its experts ‘Graft of a new achedule of rates Which will be reported at once to the Legislature. The committeo holds that it is useless ¢. wait longér on i the Public Service Commission, and aapires to receive the reward of pub- Me commendation for relieving New Yorkers of telephone extortions. A year ago President Bothell of the New York Telephone Company, derid- fag The Evening World's demands, BAD COLD? TAKE CASCARETS FOR BOWELS TONIGHT No headache, constipation, bad cold or sour stom- ach by morning. es 10-cent box. headache, biliousness, coated head and nose clogged up with s lways trace this to torpid liver; delayed, fermenting food in the bowels or sour, gassy stomach, Poisonous matter clogged in the in- testines, instead of being cast out of the co is re-absorbed into the blood. this poison reaches the delicate brain tissue it causes congestion and that dull, throbbing, sickening headache. Cascarets immediately stomach, remove the sour, undigested | food and foul gases, take the excess bile from the liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poisons in the bowels. A Cascaret to-night will surely | straighten you out by inorning. work while you sleep—a 10-cent box from your druggist means your head elear, stomach sweet and your liver and bowels regular for mouths.—Advt. | Liver, Stomach and Bowel going for 50 years, but Carter’s Little Liver Pills keep right | on giving health, strength and happiness to millions. Lay aside the harsh cathartics that act violently on liver and bowels and | give this old, gentle, sure constipation remedy a trial. * It’s really wonderful how speedily they banish headache, ind!- nervousness and clear up sallow, blotchy, pimply skin. Purely vegetable. Small Pill, Small Bese, Small Prics grestion, biliqusness and cleanse the | told the inoculation and the subsequent injections of an experimental serum ¥ would do them no harm, When they hecame aware of the na- Old Remedy That’s Always Best For Liver, Stomach and Bowels RLD WINS FIGHT waid that there wae “a mere baga- telle of complaints.” In -he annual report of the com- pany, made public yesterday, Presi- dent Bothell says: “It is believed that rate adjustments based on the: appraisal can be made that will, Prove satisfactory to the company, to the Public Service Commission and to the public.” At ti. same time the company's general attorney said at pudlic hear- ing: “On the part of the company there will be every effort to meet you fairly and squarely.” | AS soon as the Public Service Com- mission announces its valuation fig- ures, telephone coi will meet to determi will be accepted, and a complet schedule of rates based upon them. JUST WHAT THE EVENING WORLD [8 FIGHTING FOR, While officers of the company frankly admit that certain reductions are due New Yorkers, they are fight- inst granting the full demands become the slogan of the The teleptione company is ready to make reductions in subscribers’ con- tract rates toward a 6-cent basis, but it will insist on maintaining toll bar- riers between sections of the city. Aut of the complicated mass o figures and the long investigations certain simplified results have been obtained. 5 It has been established that rates shall be reduced so as to allow only a fair profit on the value of the actual roperty devoted to the service in lew York City. The amount of capital stock and bonds and the company’s investments and plants in other cities have oc bearing on the New York situation. Surplus profits made out of New ‘orkers oan no longer be taken to make up deficits elsewhere or to By competing companies up-* PHONE GO. STILL HOLDING OUT FOR 8 PER CENT. PROFIT. The company will be granted such rates as will yield eight per cent. profits on the actual investment. The Public Service Commission favors an eight per cent. return. Prof. Bemis, | rate fight: 6-cont Cee New WHITMAN SPOILS MACK’S PANAMA FAIR PLAN New York Building Will Not Be Opened Next Tuesday With Glynn Presiding—Next May Maybe. ALBANY, Feb, 20.5-An unofficial Plan to formally open New York Stat buildings at the Panama Exposition with Ex-Gov. Martin Glynn as prin- cipal has been halted by Gov. Whit- man. Norman E. Mack, Chairman of the New York State Exposition Com- mission, is in San Francisco, and with Mr. and Mrs. Glynn attended the opening of the Exposition to-day. It ig stated on high authority that o message was sent to Gov. Whitman ty dant exercises on Feb. met with the Governor's approval. expert for the Foley committee, reo- ommends seven per cent, There is difference of opinion aad uncertainty as to the value of the company’s plant in New York City. Public Service Commission experts have figured it between a minimum of $67,000,000 and a maximum of $96,000,000, according to the allowances made for depreciation, reproduction, new anc other discretionary elements of value to be agreed upon. The Foley committee ‘Axes the prop- erty valuation at $65,000,000, All the old padding items, such franchises, going concern, t rights, that 4 use it proceedings. tion to the 10 per cent. re- duction in rates now in force there will be further reductions of 10 per cent, more, The first 10 per cent. cut reduced the amount taken from New York- ers by $2,000,000 per year. The next | reduction will save New Yorkers as much more. The Evening World started and carried through the fight on behalf of an overcharged public. In the home stretch of the race there is rivalry between the telephone com- pany, Public Service Commission and Legislature tp see which first can hand to the people the lower rates that ay opposed a year ago, | | | | | | It was stated here to-day that if the buildings were opened next week with @ former uc Governor and his wife as sponsors, New York State would not be truly represented. The Governor at first was unde- cided what course should be followed, #0 he consulted Republican members of the Commission and It was agreed that the formal dedication should be Postponed. A telegram to this effect was despatched to San Francisco. The for dedication now may not take place until some time in May, when Gov, Whitman and bis ff will be at the Exposition. —__— GOOD NATURE GETS HIM ONE FINE BLACK EYE! Rolypoly Cook, to Oblige Stranger, Is Cranking Car When Owner Appears. The champion hard-luck story for this year was told in Police Head- quarters to-day by Peter Karber, a cook, living at N o. 126 West Twenty- ninth Street. Peter is a small, round, fat man, normally wearing a chronic smile, To-day he wore a black eye eins hie SUE DOCTORY FOR $100,000, Rockefeller They We Charges fay involving three prominent physicians connected with the Rocke- feller Institute for Medical Research are contained in two sults filed to-day in the United States District Court by Axel Josephson of No. 151 Broadway, as attorney for Joseph Garcia and Reme- a Lopez Garcia, ‘ing Dr, Hideyo Noguchi, famous anese toxicologist, and Drs. Victor . Pederson and Montrose T. Burrows | as co-defendants with the institute. the Garcins ask $100,000 each becaure, they allege, they were inoculated with a@ loathsome disease for experimental pur- poses. Joseph Garcia was a perter at the Institute and the woman did clean- ing. ney were not informed, they dect of the nature of the disease, und w ot the disease, the plaintiffs sa physicians entered into a conspiracy wet them to thelr native home in Spain remedies have been coming and | and an expression of deep woe. He was walking down Eighth Ave- nue at midnight on his way home when, at Thirty-seventh Street, a man topped him, Said the man: “Mister, you look like you got a kind heart, I hurt me arm a little while ago and can't crank me car, Will you please crank it for me?” The stranger indicated an automo- bile at the curb. Good natured Peter sprang to the front of the car and the stranger climbed aboard and grabbed the steering wheel. Just at this moment Joseph Levy of Merrick, L. 1, the owner of the car, looked up from a supper he was sur- rounding and saw two strangers ap- parently preparing to make off with his property. He was at the curb in three jumps, the last jump ending against the visage of Peter Karber Peter rolled half way across the street as Levy dragged the stranger out of the car, Policeman Tighe ar- rested Peter and the stranger, wno gave the name of Hugh Jackson of No, 349 Weat Twenty-fifth Street, Detectives are out investigating Peter's hard luck story. If they find it is true he will be released, but Jack- son will be held on a charge of at- tempted grand larceny. ————— BOY IS CRUSHED BY TRAIN. Body Found m Tracks Near Mor- e-year-old boy was found on northbound freight treck of the New York Central Railroad, 600 feet south of the Morris Heights at daybreak to-day by Wiill: an. The head and the body had been crushed Jas! ‘ain over that er midnight, he address of s 3 Fifty-fourth Rrooklyn,"” which was found in the clothing, led Detective Thomas Bul- Livi to believe the boy was Ha who escaped from thi ‘at Dobbs Ferry yei pee ee CRIME TO SHIP RUM. RALBIGH, N. C., Feb. 20. Lie, She Says. with toys. silver, nurses her baby the emergencies of one of the oldest universities in tional Arts Club—a plump, motherly- looking person, with a wide, generous mouth and laughter-creases about the corners of her bluo eyes, The creases deepened quickly and the mouth grew even wider in an Ir- repressible smile when [ asked her it sno really belleved what she was ecently quoted as saying—that wom- n are stronger in emergencies than men, “There {9 no question about It,” she declared, “L have had the proof dur- Ipg the troubled times in my own country, “Men are2so2emotional in crises! Women ar in little things, but it is women who meet the big things of life with smiling self-possession and energy. A woman may have hysterics be- Johnnie ewallows a Next Week’s Complete Novel In The Evening World RED REEF One of the Strangest Treasure Island Romances Ever Written By HOWARD FITZALAN Will Begin Monday Men Are Babes, Playing With Big Things of Life as With Toys, Says Mme. Malmberg, and Women Interfere When a Real Crisis Arises—Her Sex Will Play Large Part in Reconstruction of Nation After War, and She Hints That Polyg- amy May Come—Will Demand Greater Frank- ness in Sex Relations—That Marriage Means Loyalty of One Person to Another Is an Utter By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. | To the spirit of womanhood men are just a lot of little boys playing corny aso That is how Madame Aino Maimberg sees the part played by women in the world drama, among the leaders of the woman movement in Europe. She is a graduate the world, that of Helsingtors, and |” has won distinction as a novelist, educator, lecturer and patriot. last-mentioned capacity she has spent somo time in a Russian prison, for she is a native of Finland, where women face equally with men the perils and the pleasures of political activity. 1 found her yesterday at the Na-@—————_______ Women Make Better Soldiers Than Men, Stronger in Emergency, Says Sex Expert \ | \ Some of them play with swords and bayonets and guns, others cial recognition. with black gowns and big books; still others, with pieces of gold and So long as everything goes smoothly woman When and doesn't interfere. But when men turn their swords against each 8 other; when all the gold rolls toward the factory in- stead of toward the school house; when men are #0 busy with their toys that they forget their destin a y as husbands and fathers, then woman intervenes. | deceitful sex,” Her centuries of coping with the emergencies of childhood have made her man's superior in meeting of life, Madame Maimberg stands high In the acts, instead of weeping or ilosophizing. ‘I am not sure,” Mime. Malmberg, added reflectively, “but that women would make better soldiers than men, if they ever decide to try soldiering. Besides this power to meet emer- | Gencies, they have greater physical | fendurance than the other sex, If a | man is seasick he has the whole ship | Up In arms and iy sure.that death ia imminent. A woman endures pain and illness much better. “Isn't this due to the fact that she | has been schooled in the ordeal of motherhood for sv long?” I suggested. “Yes, and not merely physical motherhood,” replied Mme. Malm- berg. ‘Tho care of sinall children means @ constant succession of emer- | gencios, That is why women are | quick to see and seize the big occa- sions of life, requiring swift, strong | action, That is why to women men #0 often seem children playing with the toys of life. “In my own country of Finland, you know, women both vote and hoid of- fice. They have shown no timidity in taking part in government, und their co-operation has been welcomed by men. the first election where women Were allowed to stand, ninety were elected to the Diet—one of then, most appropriately, a profeusional cook. I have noticed that in quiet times our women have been willing to let men take care of financial and business legislation. They have ap- parently recognized man's greater skill in dealing with money; perhaps, subconsciously, they themselves have refused to concentrate on the less important. “But they always arose to protect the schoolr, And when the national life has been in peril it ts to our women that our men have turned for strength and counsel, The women have given both, even as 4 mother Is | jueb: her children; she allows him ane that he hes in blue eyes lighted up mirthfully, She has performed the public duty of translating Ber- nard Shaw into Finnisn, and she evi dently delights in his heterodox oon- so much stron ed, gra’ the Governments will be given the full benefit of her latent strength. Woman power is the Deoper complement to man power.” “How do you think women will use beni power after they have it? I a Tho moral quention is one of the BS said whioh ¢ will attack,” said rand the woret of the preduct 'y* concealment. | be neaty and Yranknose in Y AR prevent these ity one man and ene woman toward each ether is an 7 : ya seemed to me that the marriage service itself contained a lie," I observed. “How is it possible to promis~ that you will always love any individual?” “It isn't possible, @ concurred. “There is #6 much talk about the pos- sible establishment of polygamy in Europe after the end of the war. As if we had ever had gnything. else! The only novelty would be in its oM- “We lie about our incomes, both in word and by living beyond them. we pretend to have more money th woe have we are reward- by the approval of soci ’ to children; in fact, we almost never tell them the truth. Just you to get throug! day sometimes, ling nothing except what ts so, any 1 come out!" that women are the I submitte: “that have no sense of honor.’ low can you expect a sense of es?” flashed back Mme. ‘ree women will be hon- “But men th tries for she is a thorough cosmo- olite, “in Engiand the struggle of women is sharpest,” she said. “There is really brome that un- natural ti oe ta violets. In Germany, sheugh women are most progressive, the ill the Kaiser's } But there are so many women who seem to care for nothing bigger, noth- than a new frock or @ new dance,” I doubted. ‘The world never aaw more appar- ently frivolous and worthless women than those of the French aristocracy rior to the Revolution,” said Mme. Malmberg. “But they died like hero- ines, Women will tive like heroines when they are given the chance, After the war they will have the world to make over, and thoy will make a dif- ferent one, which will not, end in a crash of civilization, ener FOUND WHITE SLAVE Girl Tells Police ™ & Priso! John Tenard, alias Jacob Simons, has a record of one term in Elmira and two in Sing Sing for burglary, and {s now on parole, Detectives Denison and Van Cott went after him very early this morning on 4 tip that he knew about some sneak thieving in Harlem, In his apartment, No. 163 East One Hun- dred and Seventeenth Street, they found a rony-cheeked, brown-eyed girl, very retty, who Bimons suid was his wife. Ehe confirmed this at frat. but after questioning alone she broke down nd told 4 story almost incredible, She said she was accosted by Simons her ta room, introduced three men who he said were members of his a: who would “get” her if she betra: quick to soothe her frightened, ex- elted children, “It may be said that nature seit Sake of one cupreme i isn, and went her to the ree IF root, and vor, in true, have. ‘Mimons sent to for life ae = habitual criminal. waite” Bie ep ia oe ta _| Dut the way it was handled im the 4! Charles Dana Gibson me NO ‘STARCHAMBER’ MEETINGS BY BOARD WLLANS WSSTS Says Service Members Never Held Secret Sessions at Which Vote Was Taken. Ff | i} f i i i Hi} i f | : H i i + i i fe { i i i > “4 & Public Service Commissioner Malt- bie again faced the legislative com- mittee investigating the commission to-day in the City Hall. When Commissioner Maltbie took the stand two days ago there was a weneral understanding that he might be excepted from the general decapt- tation which impends for the other | means members of the commission. “Nothing. But the course of the questions put Tt - to Mr. Maltbie by Col. William Hay- Maltbie with heaty ward, counsel to the commission, yee-| “Aha!” said Col, terday and to-day started rumors that the committee is “after” Mr. Maltbie, too, A New York City member of the committee was responsible for the statement that Mayor Mitchel had taken issue very pointedly with Mr. Maltbie because of his early teatl- mony. “If these Brooklyn coi a el a ray i 4 3 mplainte re- Hayward at one point, “some time, in the sweet bye-and-bye, perhaps, some day they will reach the poiqt achteved in the New York Edison Company—‘A report by Commissioner Maltbie.’" “I'm not so sure about that last,” replied Mr. Maltble. “A report, but not necessarily ‘by Commissioner Maltbie.’" Everybody iaughed. report by somebod: Hayward grimly. Before Mr. Maltbie’s testimony waa resumed Commissioner Williams ap- peared at the bar and asked to he allowed to make a statement under oath. Mr. Willtams said: “I am here to re- sent the inference that there have been secret meetings or ‘star cham- ber’ meetings by one or two or three members of the Public Service Com- mission. “It was not what Mr. Maitbie sald, “Well, then, nald Col. newspapers, I want to make em- phatic denial that there was ever any secret meeting of Commissioners at which @ vote was taken.” Mr. Williams commented on Mr. Maltbie’s testimony late yesterday. “Everybody realised,” he said, “a do we, hia fellow Commissioners, that Mr. Itbie was echoing ‘his master's voice’ after he’ went on the stand fol- lowing @ conference with Mayor Mitchel.” He referred to thé com. placent way in which Mr, Maltbie mitted yesterday that a reorganized commission under control of the Mayor and various olty departments might be @ good thing.” Commissioner Maltbie was Takea Trip Through The Wor Remarkable Case of Leo M. 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