The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1915, Page 1

oe se * Richmond Gets the Heaviest \ «Increase, While Brooklyn’s STs the Lightest. pt / MANHATTAN RATE UP 9. aeo8 y WA “Valuations Have Not Been Generally Increased, How- ever, It Is Stated.“ 4 . 1 * "Tho new tax rate for 1915, the bish- 4 ést-in many years, was struck for j the five boroughs of the greater city to-day. It shows o decided increase ‘yfeevery section ofthe city. ‘N Im Manhattan there is an increase ef 9 points;/in the Bronx, 1? potnte: Rte Breokaya, 8 pointe; in Queen’, 1 “i * pointa, and in Richmond, the hardest a int, % pointe. é The new tax rates for the five boroughs are as follows: Manhattan, 1.87; The Bronx, 1.9, Brooklyn, 1,92; Queens, 1.95, and Richmond, 2.24. ‘This means that property owners will have to pay that percentage on every { $100 worth of assessed valuation. The 1S ©. tam rates im the five boroughs for the x Sr 1pi¢-were: Manhattan, 1.78; The ; 1.17; Brooklyn, 1.84; Queens, 1.90; Richnsond,; 1.90. Ee in arirving at the figures, city om- " * » @iale claim, property valuations, gen- @rally speaking, were not increased. Im fact, it is claimed the increases ‘were ‘confined principally to new 7 ~~ buildings and to certain sections of f the city which bave shown the most TYR @ecided advances in realty values Ba, @uring the last twelve months, The hh meighborhod of Forty-second Street Fi ‘and further north, where there have “been new structures erected, was in- © @luded in the area of increased as- sessments, * * Heeding the complaints of prop: erty ov and re:.: e men that @ dull market had a tendency to de- Preciate property values if certain Business sections, the tax asséasorn wert lenient in their dealings with holdings along Broadway trom Thir- ty-fourth Street to the Puttery. This, “qot course, takes in part of the finan- ¢ © trict. of the officials, who went over the ‘tax assessor's books, says thei fe @ general decrease in assessed val- ations in that section of Broadway. ‘The Board of Alderme: will receive \ the new tax rates at its next regular / meeting Tuesday. It will formally go in, over the figures and pase them on to (> the Board of Estimate after having oMctally fixed the rates already set by the.assessors and other experts in the tax and finance departmonts. TWO BROOKLYN ALDERMEN : QUSTED BY HIGH COURT ALBANY, Feb. %5.—The Court of Appeals late to-day declared vacan- cles existed in two Brooklyn Alder- manic districts, At the same time the court ruled against two Demd- eyats, Karl Diets and Philip Brady, who had their names on the genera! election ballot. They were declared slected in the Supreme C o Brooklyn, but the ‘Appal te Division Teversed the ruling. The Court of day up! the Appellate NA] Gbe_ EDITION | ) POLICEMAN SLAIN. BY COMRADE:AS GLIMAK TO FEUD “He Was Beating Me and | Had to Shoot,” Says Jersey City Slayer. HOSTILE FOR OVER YEAR Broken Umbrella Handle Leads to Capture of Shooter, Cowering in Bed. Policeman Charles Hill and Police- man Victor’ Cash, both of the Mont- gomery Street Station, Jersey City, and enemies nursing a srudge of dmany months’ duration, met in the dark and storm at 1.45 o'clock A. M. at Stuyvesant and Went Side Ave- nues and fought to the finish. Hill went down to death with five bullets from his’ foe's revolver in his chest and arms. Cash, the younger of the two men, and on the force only nineteemgnonths, was found a few hours later cowering in a\bed in the Cowan Point’ Athletic Club, To Chief of Police Monahan he ie’ sald to have made @ complete con- feasion of the murder, justifying his act on the acore of self defense. Hill, whose home was at No, 97 Larch Avenue, Jersey City, was forty- five years old and had been in uniform for twelve years. Cash, a youth in his early twenties, was assigned to the Montgomery Street Station when he Joined the force less than two years ago. For some reason not yet revealed, bitter enmity grew between the two men; It became #o marked that their’ comrades in the station noted it and recently it was freely wagered among them that one or the other of the en- emies would come to harm at the hands of his antagonist. Last night Cash had the “long tour,” which meant that he would be off duty until daylight to-day. In éivilian garb he spent the of the ‘ening with convi panions in various salons. Hill on duty along the West Side « nue district. FINDS BODY FACE DOWN IN THE GUTTER, Patrolman Fred Charl also of the Montgomery Street Station, hailed Patrolman Hill from across the street when midnight happened to bring the two at contiguous points on their beats. At 1.45 o'clock Charles, approaching the place where he expected to see Hill again, heard five pistol shots in rapid succession, The shote seemed to come from the direction of Sipp Avenue. Charles ran through the rai: to- ward the place where he thought the firing had been done, blowing bi whistle and pounding the pavem with his club, At the junction of Stuyvesant and West Side Avenues he came upon the body of Patrolman Hill, lying face downward in the water-Gilled gutter. Two civilians Continued on Fifth Pages. Comrade: Se ea Wont WATTMAN HUST - | DEBDE FR SL ON SERVE BOARD Legislative Probers to Send Him Testimony, but No ~ “Conclusionse”’ MAYOR IS, A WITNESS. ‘ Declares for .Two Commis-| sions and Says Present Law Is Adequate. The Legislative Committee which Is investigating the work of the Public Service Commission will not commu- Whitman in response to bgp letter to Chairman ‘Thompson, made. public to- WWUSTICE Instead, the matter of “conclusions” ie to be put up to the Governer him- self by the transmission to him of the record of testithony so far adduced by the committee. It will be sent to Albany to-morrow or Saturday eo as to be in Gov. Whit- man’s hands by Monday. Gov. Whitman's letter to Senator Thompson, which was read into the record to-day, was as follows: Feb. 24, 1915.. 1F your committee soertained from its inquiry thus far conducted whether the Commissioners of the First District had been ef- ficient and have performed their full duty, or have been inefficient and have neglected their duty, either separately or as a body, as shown by their official actions, 1 request that you communicate to me your conclusions, Very ments In the motion for a naw trial for ex-Lieut. Charles Becker on the ground that James Marsball, the negro witness had repudiated his testimony, Justice Weeks strongly intimated to-day Mat be would refuse to grant the motion CHARLES 8, WHITMAN. An informal executive meeting of the committee was called for 5 o’clock this afternoon in the Finance Room of the Board of Aldermen as soon as Gov, Whitman's letter wag read. This meeting was to arrange for the trans- mission of the testimony record. The committee will not finish tts work until next Monday and will not have its written report ready for the Legislature before March 15, F, W, Whitridge, President of the ThirdAvenue Railroad, was the first witness called in this sion of the Leg! Mr. Whitridge’s testimony was re- plete with humorous criticism of the work and the methods of the Public Service Commission, Among his opin- fong of the Commiasion were: “Judicial functions should be taken away from this tribunal, as it has shown Itself utterly unfit to exercise openly charged that Howard M. Long, davit be told at length how he bad on June 27, 1912, at One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Street and Sev- enth Avenue after a raid, and Becker to the effect that Becker met Jack the Fifty-ninth Street line for $2,400,000 cash and Mr. Maltbie decided that I could issue securities for only $1,500,000. I finally got a de- cision for $2,100,000 of securities, let me say that the road oarned 6.9 per cent after taking $60,000 out for ‘That will show you the (Continued on Becond Page.) > BILL HITS AT FREE LUNCH, Food to Be Eaten on Premi ALBANY, Fob. 26.—Senator Lawson wants to abolish free lunch counters in He introduced a intended to amend the Liquor ‘Tax Law by inserting a clause etating that proprietors shall not be permitted any food to be eaten on Sapeilieemaens SAILING TO-DAY. Panama, Colen.. Madicon, Norfeik,. FRCS OS an TREE MAYOR COMMENDS EVENING WORLD PHONE FIGHT cally assured. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 325, WEATHER—Fair to-night 20 PAGES PRICE ONE 0: GERMANS SINK TWO MORE STEAMERS; MINES AND TORPEDOES HAVE DESTROYED 13 SHIPSIN THE WARZ Crews Escape From the Deptford and Western Coast Which Were to the Bottom in North Sea ’ Channel. 'AKE TOWN AND 10,000 MEN IN P TAK RATE FOR 1915 RAGED 810.34 PONTS OVER LAST. PEAR; EVERY BOROUGH HT FOR VICTORY IN 5-CENT MATOR MITCHEL SAID TO.DAY: “1 congratulate The Evening World upon the long fight it has waged on behalf of the people for a five-cent telephone rate for Greater New York. To-day's developments Indicate that this reduced rate is practi- “It has always seemed to mo that a universal five-cent toll for this city was the only equitable one. The most glaring inconsistency in the interborough rates just now is the 10-cent fee exacted for a call from lower Manhattan: to Brooklyn, For instance: If one desires to call from the Pulitzer Building to, say, the Post Office Building in Brookiyn, 4 distance of about a mile and a half, the charge is 10 cents, in spite of the fact that both these stations are within the city. . “In striking contrast to this example is the fact that one cau cail from the Battery to Harlem in the Borough of Manhattan for a nickel It is this unjudt and illogical difference in toll wwich The Evening World's fight, tow apparently won, will remedy.” WHEN AYERS Says Negro’s Repudiation of Testimony Is an “Ingenious Evasion.” After listening to extended argu- In the course of the proceedings As- sistant District Attorney Delehanty a United States Commisisoner in Mdavit two weeks ago, is made his under re Manton, Becker's counsel, denied this, but admitted that Lon Becker case. Mr. Manton opened the proceedings by submitting affidavits signed by Marshall and two Philadelphia news- paper reporters. In Marshall'g afti- been brought to New York by the District Attorney’s Office and kept here until after the second ‘trial, He recited that he had met Becker had talked to some men there, The so-called repudiation of his testimony Rose on that occasion was contained in the statement that he wouldn't have known it was Jack :..> Becker talked to if it hadn't been for what Assistant District’ Attorney Groehl told bim and what be read im the newspaper® Mr. Manton deciared that the whole case ggainst- Becker rested on Mar- shall's testimony, since it was neces- | sary to get corroborative evidence as| to the so-called Harlem “murder con- | ference” from some one not @ co-con- | apirator, Sam Schepps furnished the corrob ion in the first trial, but the Court of Appeals threw out his testi- mony. “Then,” said Mr, Manton, “it was absolutely necessary for the District Attorney to get @ corroborative wit. ess not in the conspiracy and know- ing there was a raid in One Hundred! and Twenty-fourth Street on June 27 they dug up this man Marshall.” ‘There are just three points in this ing schemes are the following: creasing the tax on automobiles from 30 to 60 per cent., taxing bonds, es- tablishing a graduated excise tax based on the amount of business - by the holder of the license, Incr 4 N the mortgage tax from the fiat rate Philadelphia ~before whom Marshall Ue comchaitTie ghey BAH (ents 101 & er by Becker. Martin| Quarter of one per cent. annually, a matipr.” sald Justice Weeks. ‘The (Continued 0B Gecond Page.) HINTS NO |TO RAISE TAXES (CUREFOR TETANUS ‘ONAUTOS, BONDS | IS DISCOVERED ANY MONTAGES ROCKEFELLER Motorcycles and Saloon Priv-|New Treatment and Apparatus to Be Used at Once. on Battlefields, ileges Also Listed by State to Add to Revenues. ALBANY, Feb. the Indirect tax re Among the proposed revenue raiy- motorcycle tax of $3 each, A reduction of the stock transfer y duce corporations bim in many other mattors than the/ tax is planned to ind ti not to remove from New York. Tho removals In the Inst few years have been numerous, and the income from this source has been greatly reduced as a result. . nually by pruning the cost of pub | Ushing and printing the session and general laws of the State, it Is sald. Sas escetes Saul COURT UPHOLDS LAW WHICH BANS ALIENS Confirms Conviction of Contractor Who Employed Them in Subway Work. ALBANY, Feb. 25.—-The constitu- tlonality of the State law prohibiting the employment of allens on public’) work was upheld to-day by the Court | of Appeals. Suit was brought in con- | nection with the employment of labor- ers in the New York Subway. Pro- vision also was made in the statute | that contracts on which alien labor was employed should be forfeited. A taxpaye suit was brought by Wil- liam E. Heim to restrain the Public Service Commission from declaring forfeited contracts for, the construction | of subways. In order to fully determine the ques- | tion a criminal proceeding also was brought inst Clarence A, Crane, He was found guilty in a ‘t of Bpecial ns and fined $50, The Appellate vision reyersed the conviction and the cases then were carried to the higher court. — sia vie: 2 JOHN PURROY MITCHEL @ wanchauwy BRITISH WILL FIGHT TO R END, SAYS LONDON, Feb, 25Two more British ships were. today ported suirik by mines or torpedoes in the war tone’ established by | Jhis makes the sixth disaster reported. in. the lasted fhours-and thé thirteenth since BITE the submariie blockade was The first ship reported sunk to-day was the Deptford. Her ey was rescued. The other was the British steamer Western Coast,. was torpedoed or struck a mine yesterday in the English Channel of Beachy Head. Her crew was landed to-day at Portsmouth. Six vessels all told have been reported sunk within the last One satlor lost his life when the Deptford, 230 feet long and 1,208 wre, > was sent to the bottom in 20 minutes either by a German-torpedo or by coming in contact with a mine in the North Sea at ¢ behalf of the Rockefeller Institute of |“Ce yesterday morning at a point of Scarborough. ‘The bere of the steamer’s crew were rescued and landed at Some members of the crew say they saw the wake of the Deptford was struck. : A large flotilla of German trawlers loaded with mines the mortality ‘from tetanus among] pight moving westward, says a Copenhagen despatch to- The Skaw is the northernmost point of Deamark. The come from either Kiel or the Baltic stations. Germans Report Wreckage From British Troop BERLIN, Feb. 26 (by wireless to London).—According to reaching Berlin from ports on the North Ses, the Norwegian steamer’ when coming through the English Channel recently, sighted = quantity’ found, it was sald,-that most of the|fieating wreckage in which there was to be sven deaths occurring among wounded | uniforms. anus and that the \ from + Fig increasen in| Announcement was made to-day on |Submart nue of the Btate are planned by Gov. Whitman and Republican leaders of the Legisia- ture, the invention of an apparatus and the discovery of a new method of treatment, both designed to feduce In- soldiers wounded on Buropean battle- Twenty-five apparatuses, sald, had already been rope by the Institute for use on the Patents to the Invention have been thrown open, so that whoever wished ; Se might manufacture ana use the ap- The institute's investigators have men are duc to present method ot as drawbacks which make It tmpos- About $200,000 also can be saved 4°! sinio 1 gave a many of the wounded ai might be saved by @ more avail- pposed that this military clothing was from some British treating tetanun| transport which had been sent to the bottom, 4 (The German announcement that a British troop transport been sunk by # submarine has not been borne out from Leaden, where it had been said that this report doubtless referred to the ter- the British steamer Branksome Chine, @ government _ hich wae attacked the afternoon of Feb. 28 in the English Channel! at a point south of Beachy Hend.]} BERLIN via wireless to Sayville, L. I.), Feb. 26.—The offietal press rt of the! bureau said this afternoon that it has reports from Rotterdam that British saflors in the merchant service bave refused to leave port beenuse. of the fear of German submarines, England Would Keep Up Fight Even Alone, Says Premier Asquith even should France and Russia with< draw from the war. pie. The Premier pointed out that Mr, Churchill had declared with especial. An injection of a solution contain- ing epsom salts into the membs of the spinal cord is a method of treatment, it ls announced, U, Metsaler of the tnati- tute Is given credit for the new + ‘The belief ts expressed that with this method of treatment and the use of the new apparatus—which Is de. aligned tq aid in artificial respiration many more lives will be saved, pees W. H. BAKER, MILLIONAIRE LONDON, Feb. Press).—Premier Asquith took occa- sion in the House of Commons this afternoon, in replying to a question, CHOCOLATE MAN, DEAD.}| 10 inagese the opinion expressed re- cently by First Lord of the Admiralty old, noted | to the effect that Great Britain would continue to fight to the bitter end, Germans Capture Town and 10,000 Russians in Poland BERLIN (via London), Feb. 25 [As- NAVAL AVIATOR KILLED. ‘sociated Press].—The town of Praas- en ie ; nyes, Russian Poland, was yesterday as of Brit-| taken by storm by German forces, as- cording to the official announcement given out in Berlin to-day, The Ger- captured 10,000 Russian prison- ‘ers. The report, dated to-day, redds: e central. “The engagements on the Memel, Rivers continue chocolate manufactur on Hudson Street, Ni factory in Brooklyn, ore early to-day iliness of Hodgkins’ in believed to have left an enormous fortune, fob Corpe Palle in Fi LONDON, Feb. 25.-—Léeut. Dawson ©, of the Reyal Navy Flying killed to-day 11 » wt