The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1915, Page 5

‘MANY MORE JOIN TN PRAISE FOR EVENING WORLD'S VICTORY IN WINNING S-CENT PHONES Business Men, Jurists, Lawyers and Doctors Commend Great Fight | That Will Reduce High Cost of The successful fight made by five-cent interborough telephone rate from the New York Telephone ‘Company continues to win commendation from many sources. Judges, Living. The Evening World in obtaining a) TEE EVENING WORLD, GAR LINES GIVEN FORSAFETY FIRST, KNOWS SENATORS, ONEWEEK TOSTOP ISSLOGAN OF NEW | SO HE IS ABLE TO | “STEP FORWARD!” Railways Have Three Days in Which to Ask for Hear- ing in Defense. EXPECT COURT FIGHT.| Health Commissioner Will Use | Police if Necessary to Abate Nuisance. Officials of the New York and lawyers, doctors, merchanis—leading men In every walk of life join in| Third Avenue Ratiway Companies re- congratulating The Evening World on its splendid victory for the people. The legislative committee which helped to force the reduction, its coun- fused to-day to indicate their course ; following the order of the Board of Health against overcrowding of pas- sel and the up-State Public Service Commission are also accorded due seneer# on the Eighty-sixth and share for their part in compelling the phone trust to surrender, BRONX OFFICIALS REJOICE IN VICTORY OF EVENING WORLD Edward Polak, ia} “| have always been in favor of Public service corporations charging just enough to insure a fair profit on their'investment. They should not eharge the public for the franchise which the same public grants them. If the roliroads can carry us fourteen miles for tive cents, why cannot the Phone mgnopoly do the same thing with our voices. In a small city In Canada, a town with 100,000 inhabi- tants, they furnish private phones at $20 a year for unlimited service in a radius of forty miles. The business rates for untlmited service is $40 pec and the merchants their permit ie use of their phones to the public Without charge. If they can do that there and make money, why cannot we have much cheaper rates here with our mach larger population Evening World has won a gr d hus my heartlest congratu- County Hegister, Ww orates made possible ening World’s greut_ vie- tory wil tu the Bronx and the rest of the city as the transit rates meant when tir t, and the phone company, rallroud interests, will be 1 as much as the public by # change. Congratulations to The dying World.” Richard H. Mitchell, Assistant Dis- ai Attorney: up the good work, A flat o was a long felt want and the « she be loud in their praise lor The Evening World's great con- quest. mour Mork, Assistant Distriet Attorney: “It was a long, hard fight, but it was worth the effort. The people of the entire city should rejoice for the ett ampion like credit is all due The Eve- ning World for its long, untiring fieht. Your battle has been a hard one, but the results will prove bene- ficial to the people of the entire city. eter Hatting, Assistant District Attorney: “if The Evening World had fal- tered in its fight the battle would have been lost. But It was unrelent- the people of the entire com- are indebted to it.” McLoughlin, Assistant Dis- rney: ngratulations to The Evening World. Its tight has been « hard one, with many obstacles, but that makes the victory all the more brilliant.” Richard McKindry, Assistant Dis- trict Attorney: ‘2 “A great fight by a great paper has resulted in a great victory. More power to The Evening World!” , William Quigley, Assisiunt District Attorney; . “The Evening World has brought a at power to earth. T can appre- ciate your efforts, for | know what a hard fight it has been, tions on your victory.” d. Vincent Ganly, County Clerk: “The Congratula- Evening World's creat vie- (TCHING BURNING ECZEMA ON FACE Ashamed toGoOutand Meet Friends, Could Not Sleep. Used Cuticura ‘Soap and Ointment. In Two Months Entirely Healed, 178 Union 8t., Brooklyn, N. ¥.—"My @eseme was caused by scratching gt air i i: i fe E F i if fig iy Cammarata, July 25, 1914. Cuticura Soap used daily for the ‘gf the Ointment covasionally as needed preserve, purify and beautify the skin, emslp, hair and bands, Semple Each Free by Mail ‘With 32-p. Skin Book oa request, Ad- t Dept. T, Bee i Ef jfory {sa timely one, It comes when the business people need all the en- couragement they can get. The new phone tes should instil the people with confidence and eventually work for the benefit of all the city.” | ——— BUSINESS MEN THANK EVENING WORLD FOR ITS WINNING FIGHT. James T. Dinemore, No. 90 wail! Street, exporter of automobiles: | “As @ business man of Manhattan, 4 resident of Brooklyn and a user of telephones for years, I am impelled to express my admiration and thanks | for the campaign whitW The Evening | World has conducted. It is a great thing for the business men of New York, especially those having branch offices or factories in other boroughs bestdes Manhattan. Good luck to The | Evening World." Miner ©. Keith, Vice President} United Frult Company: “The fight for lower telephone rates | which was made afd won by The, Evening World is a Iaudable one. The change undoubtedly will make the telephone more popular than it has been, and therefore it should work to the advantage of telephone company and user altke. The Evening World is to be congratulated on th CCORK | which has rewarded its efforts in be- halt of the peopl | Max 8. Grifenhagen, | New York County: | “Lam with The Evening World all | the way through on this fight, It is @ splendid piece of business. Tel Phone rates are lower in other citica jor the United States than they are | In New York. Take Chicago, for in- |stance. A man can have a call to {any part of the city and speck as jlong as he desires for 5 cents, In| |Chicago you will find men who are carning about $18 a week with tele- Phones in their homes be prereset 8 because of the “The same condition should prevail | in New York. The telephone has become an indispensable part of American life, In waging this tele- phone fight The Evening World has struck a blow for the home owner as well as the business man. It is} & wreat thing for the people of New| ork.” Sherif of —— BROOKLYN JURISTS SAY | EVENING WORLD WON | FIGHT FOR PEOPLE Russell Benedict, Justice of the} Supreme Court, Brooklyn: “I represented fourteen civic or- ganizations of Brooklyn in co-opera- tion with The Evening World in 1911 in the fight which resulted in the Public Service .Commission ordering the reduction from ten to five cents for telephone subscribers, at a yearly saving of $1,250,000. Therefore, I am, naturally glad to congratulate The Evening World on its greater vic- tory in its fight on behalf of the pub- Uc of the Greater City.” Joseph Aspinall, Justice of the Su- preem Court, Brooklyn: “To charge an extra five cents just for telephoning across the river was absurd. It was only five cents from Newtown Creek to Sheepshead Bay or from the Battery to Harlem, It is remarkable to me that when the pub- lic demands some great improvement it is necessary to get the services of a powerful, fearless newspaper, like The Evening World. But The Eve- ning World Is entitled to great credit for prosecuting this fight to a suc- cessful finish, merely as a faithful public servant, I congratulate The Evening World.’ Herbert T. Ketoham, Surrogate of Kings County: “I want all the telephones I can get for as little as I can pay, and it hus always seemed to me that the rates charged were absurd, as tlustrated admirably by Martin W. Littleton, | Said he: ‘Why, here is a 180-pound man in Brooklyn going home to din- ner in Harlem. He knows he can go down in the subway and to Harlem for a ent piece, but he changes his mind. He decid n does not want to go home to dinner, He enters a telephone booth and charged 10 cents for telling his wife he will not be home.’ I congratulate The Evoning World, and the peopl for havin, ich @ faithful servant,” David Manning, Justice of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn “I will be very glad indeed to get my telephone calls at half price, the same as every other citizen will. It is a splendid victory for The Evening World.” leaao A. Kapper, Justice of the Bu- preme Court, Brooklyn: “As @ subscriber I am very much in favor of the reduction in telephone iil be taken | was discon Fifty-ninth Street crosstown lines. They have three days in which to ask for a hearing in defense of Com- missioner Goldwater's charge that germs a-plenty endanger lives and menace the health of people through the negligence of the companies in not running enough cars. The Board of Health's order to abate the nuisance was served on the two companies late last evening after Commissioner Goldwater had acted on Mayor Mitchel's letter advising prosecution. To-day President T. P. Shonts refused to make a stat ment and it was sald the matter wa: in the hands of the Law Department of the New York Hallways Company, which operates the Eighty-sixth Street line. ¥. A. Maher jr., General Manager of the Third Avenue Company, which operates the Fifty-ninth Street line, said cars now were operated to the mit of the line's capacity. Sixty-six cars an hour are run, he said, and it was Imposstble to put any more on. He declared the Public Service Com- mission's engineers—"“men who are familiar with railway operation"— have conceded that everything pos- sible had been done in view of the conditions governing the crosstown line. “I mean business,” Commissioner Goldwater said. “At the end of five days the Board of Health can go ahead and enforce the law, but we will be generous, and I do not think we will act until a week from Mon- day, We have two courses open. We can go into the civil courts and pro- ceed against the company or In the criminal courts and seek the indict- ment of railway officials on charges of misdemeanor, “Our other course would be to en- force the sanitary laws by physical force. This would mean placing sanitary policemen along the car lines and preventing people from boarding every car that h been filled to 150 per cent. of its capacity. That means half as many people as are seated can ride standing. Oh, no, I don't think there would be any riots. I should call the possible inci- dents that would follow simply pub- le protests which would have a good effect on the railway companies. “We selected these two crosstown | lines because they are the more sim- ple of the many problems, Later we will proceed against the others. I have found personally tnat at night, after the theatre, cars are run as far as three minutes apart. It is absurd to say that moro cars cannot be put on. I will confer with the Mayor during next week and decide which course we will pursue, and in the mean time we will wait to see if the two companies desire hearings.” The Eighty-sixth Street line oper- ates from Central Park West, through the park, along Eighty-fifth Street to Madison Avenue, north to Bighty- aixth Street, east to Avenue A, north to Ninety-second Street to Astoria Ferry. ‘he Fifty-ninth Street line runs from First Avenue to Tenth Avenue and south on Tenth Avenue to Fifty-fourth Street. he its. Jong fight in the public interest.’ Frederick E, Crane, Justice of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn: “The people of the gr be congratulated that they hav such a force, such @ power as The Evening World ready and willing to battle for them, and with the facili- ties for voleing pubilc opinion in an: matter of int "the people will rejoice at_the story won by The Evening World for the reduction of telephone rates between the bor- a F. Hylan, Kings County: “The equalisation of telephone tolls means much to the people of the city, The Evening World should be hly commended for its work, It fought faithfully in public interests, as it alwa and even at a ba I have noticed the thousand-dollai a-day advertisement of the telephone company appearing in other papers tinued in The Event World,’ Robert H. Kings County: “The people of the city ought to be grateful to The Evening World for ite efforts to secure cheaper inter- boro rates for telephone service, [| am strongly in favor of a 5-cent flat rate for all the boroughs, When legislators and public ofMfcials fall to safeguard the people it is fortunate we can turn to a fearless newspaper like The Evening World to bring them to their senses, Lewie L. Fawcett, County Judge, Brooklyn: “The Evening World bas made a t oe for the people, It is the nd service that is appreciated t city are County Judge, Roy, County Judge, tulate The Evening | by the public. I do not know that I of | could aad 0 word to that.” -NATONAL SURETY Jill Protect Auto Drivers and! Pedestrians With Uni-' form Rules. Safety first is now a national slogan. The Safety First Federation of| America, organized In this city yes: | | terday afternoon, will control and di-) rect the many Safety Firat Socicties | throughout the country in an effort to! | have laws enacted that will minimize auto driver. The new national body will have some suggestions of its own to offer, ; Which will include the standardization of trafic regulations and the photo- graphing of automobile owners and drivers as a better means of identify- jing them in case of accident. The latter is nothing more than a | system that has been tried and found very satisfactory in England, France and Germany, including a compulsory examination for owners and drivers of cars as to sight, hearing and operation ability, Under this arrangement when! a license is issued a photorraph of tho owner will be pasted to his license card as the best way of identifying him in the event of an accident. second picture would be retained by| the Board of Examiners, | PHOTOGRAPH AS A CHECK ON CARELESSNESS, In the opinion of the federation of- fictals these measures will reduco) automobile accidents to a minimum, as they will eliminate those individ-| uals Incapable of driving a car prop- erly through defect of sight or hear- | ing. The photograph innovation will also discourage careless owners from taking neediess chances, for with this means of itentification it will not be! easy to escape responsibility after an accident. A uniform traffic code of rules, the federation officers believe, will great- ly simplify the duties of automobil- ints. At present tere are few big cities that have identical traffic ruler relating to speed ordinances and achool house and hospital regulations. Tourists going from city to city must necessarily lose time to learn the, various sets of rules, With a stand- ard traffic code they would instantly know what to do in each town, it ts also the alm and purpose of the Safety Firct Federation to pro- mote the public safety movement, to better safeguard life and property, to serve an a clearing houne for ideas and suggestions, to collect informa- tion and compile statistics, distribute Mterature and to sectire the enact- ment and enforcement of laws de- gned to Insure public safety as well as to necure the construction and maintenance of good roads. 30 CITIES REPRESENTED AT FIRST MEETING, There were delegates from about thirty leading cities, including Po! Commissioners, public safety officials and transportation representatives, in attendance at the first meeting in the Craftsman Building to organize the Safety First Federation of Amer- ica, but It was not until yesterday | afternoon that tho officers were elected, as follows: President, Jefferson De Mont Thompson, New York; First Vice President, Harold W. Newman, New Orleans; Treasurer, Charles 1. Bern- heimer, New York; Executive Secre- tary, Frederick Elliott, New York. Aly POST SHIP OWNERS ns a Bennett at Lobby Inquiry Calls} Himself “Congressional In- formation Bureau.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Refore the Senate Ship Lobby Investigating; Committee to-day Claude N. Bennett, whose official title, he said, was the “Congressional Information Bureau,” | | dwelt at length on the intimate re-| and whiet street dangers for both pedestrian and, /@tions he sald he enjoyed with Sen-j| cess: ators. Bennett admitted he had received compensation for keeping his cliente, ! who included, he sold, virtually all the big foreign steamship companies, supplied with the latest developments on any legislation which might af- fect them. For inatance, he told the committee he sent a bill for $2,000 in addition to bis regular fees for furnishing information to a commit- ee of steamship men headed by Paul Gottheil of New York. He denied that he ever “lobbied," but admitted that for a fee he had gone to the State Department and at- tacked J, G. McNally, a former consul in China, because of an alleged debt McNally owed to one of Bennett's! clients. Later, when MeNally was appointed consul to Nuremberg, Ben- nett admitted working against him tn a number of interviews with Senators, after which he received another fee. He owned, when questioned by Sen- ator Reed, that he made his efforts at the State Department with a view to forcing McNally to pay the sum claimed, 11 60 TO PENITENTIARY | FROM TOMBS IN A BODY Records Are Broken in Transporta-} tion of Four Vans Full of Prisoners at One Time. Seventy-one convicted prisonera— the largest number ever sent out of tho Tombs in a bedy—were trans- ferred to the Penitentiary on Black- well’s Island to-day. Four big motor vans, two from the Department of Corrections and two from the Police Department, were lined up in the Tombs yard. Sixty- eight men, handcuffed in pairs, and three women were ushered into the long, transverse seats. Deputy Sher- iff Miller took a seat beside the driver of the first van; on the back step of each van stood a Deputy Sheriff, heavily armed. ‘The first stage of the unhappy journey was to Police Headquarters, where Bertillon records wero taken, Then the prisoners were taken to the Island boat landing at Hust Twenty- sixth Street. The seventy-one were sentenced yesterday in General Sessions by Justices Malone, Rosalsky, Crain and Wadhains. JAKE WANTED A TIE. The’ Executive Committee will con- sist of Frederick Elliott, New York; John Gillespie, Detroit, Mich.; Chas. M. Talbert, St. Louis, Mo.; Edgar D. Thompson, Washington, D. C.; we rence C, Brooks, Boston, Mass, The fourth annual Brooklyn Auto- mobile Show will open next Tuesday night in the Twenty-third Regiment Armory with 107 exhibits of the latest cars, parts and accessories. = This year's show will more than double the 1914 list of exhibitors. Two dozen New York dealers will cross the bridge to show their wares of 1915 models. The show will be under the management of the Brooklyn Motor Vehicle Dealers’ Association. In how short a space can a car going thirty miles an hour be brought to a full stop? This unexpected quen- tion seriously interfered with the card mes at the Motor Club yex- terday afternoon, and the arguments were not satisfactorily settled until the records were examined. They showed that at recent tests on River- aide Dri utomobiles going at thirty an hour and equipped with good brakes and strong tires could come to a dead stop in a frac- tion under sixteen feet ‘Three Saxon cars won the hill climb and the pint noline contest in the second annual hill climb co test of the Light Car Club of New Jersey held this week at Teaneck, 5 In the pint economy gasolin contest Robert Owen of New York covered four and three-quarter miles to a pint of fuel. G. A, McLaren of in cond Saxon, won mi int. Cee ee rured tne sliver cup offered for the greatest number of points of the contest with a total of forty points, representing five fli seconds and four thirds. Word comes from Indianapolis that Lewis Chevrolet, the famous Franc: American racing driver, who hasn't competed in a contest aince 1910, sent in his entry this week for the 600. ace at Indianapolis, He will Corneliui mile drive CURFEW LAW FOR DOGS. Johnstown, Pa., Ri by How! JOHNSTOWN, Pa,, Feb, 27.--. beyond endurance ‘at night by howling dogs, the residents of this city are be- hind an ordinance to be introduced at the next session of council for a curfew law tor. Gout: How it be enforced js = consideration, dosens of cit secondary tisens have ing Taste in Silke Lands Hi rglary Chi Pollcoman Hurley saw a wagon front of No, 127 Firat Avenue, where no wagon ought to t 340 A. M. to- day, Three men ran away, but Jako Wagner stooped in the doorway, tying his shoe, Down cellar the cops found $7,009 worth of ailks, satins, &c., belonging to the Rifold Trimming Company, packed in bags for remo ‘They had been | brought down through a hole cut in the floor. | Juke atoutly denied in the Fifth Street Station that he had had anything to do with the job. Hurley fished a yard of red and white silk out of his pocket—just the thing to make a fellow fa Cen o in} | turned away because of lack of room | to accommozate those who wanted to! SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 47, 1910. CASH STIL POURS N FORPENNY LUNCHES IN PUBL SCHILS Turns People Away From a Rousing Benefit. By Sophie Irene Loeb. The returns from another concert recently given for the benefit of Tho Eventng World Penny Lunch Fund te recelved to-day with the following letter from Mr. Nat J. Ferber, who was one of the promoters of the affair, explains its popular suc- You wili please find enciosed check for $83.60, which waa the pro- ceeds of the concert given under the auspices of the Juvenile Art Boclety at P. 8. No, 68, for The Evening World Penny Lunch Fund. In view of the fact that only 10 cents admis- sion was charged and that the ca- pacity Mmit of the auditorium ts about 600, you might Judge for your- self that the cause received the hearty co-operation of the people in Will- jamaburg. Fully 500 people were be present. “Tho women and children who make up this organization are far re- snoved from tho condition of those whom they sought to help, They are almost all of them people who have never known want. “The Juvenile Art Society Is an organization created for the purpose of developing In children the partic- war talents with which they may be endowed, Classes in elocution, danc- ing and singing are conducted by competent instructors, and no leas than 100 children are to be seen tak- ing part tn the work. About forty children are enrolled in the string or- chestra under the leadership of Joel H. Keasier, This orchestra bas been the feature at the various ponny luncheon concerts in Williamsburg. “A resolution passed by the Exeo utive Board of the Juventle Art So- ciety expresses eloquent approval of The Kvening World's Campaign for Penny Lunches. It also indorses your noble fight on behalf of the Widowed Mothers’ Pension Bill.” The above contribution from .the children is another of many similar ones received, showlng the great in- terest of the little citizens of the city UNAWAY TA HITS TPO. PREG STREETCA. THRE MEN) FOR TRANG TH AOA WOMAN HRT) WHO ROBBED HO Crash at Foot of 145th Street] Capture Reveals Hill Blocks Eighth Avenue Line an Hour. and @ street car knocked almost end for end when a taxicab belonging to the Mutual’ Transportation Corpora- tion and operated by George Pell be- came unmanageable as it descended the steep hili on One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, between Amster- dam and Eighth Avenues, at 1.45 o'clock this morning. An Eighth Avenue street car was stopped at the crossing and the t@i- cab hit the rear end of the car, knock- across the tracks, The automobile dashed on to the sidewalk and was wrecked. A man passenger, whose name was not learned, scrambied out and Ged. Ten passengers on the street car wore shaken up and Dr. Ballon took three men to Harlem Hospital. All had cuts and bruises. They said they were Frank Dizon of No. 26¢ West One Hundred and Fifty-third Street, Robert J. Doyle of No, 2318 Eighth Avenue and Albert Dunlea of “No. 40 West One Hundred and Fifueth Street, Corona, L. L” There is no such address. Helen Dovey, colored, who said ane lived at No, 104 West One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street, was hurt in the back, but after being treated by Dr. Ballon went home The Eighth Avenue line was blocked for half an hour. a GAMES OF 69TH TO-NIGHT. Deacing Wilt Fi ole at iw Feats of Mus- Armory. All the leading athletes of Greater New York are ontered in the various events comprising the ory, Twenty-sixth Street and Lexington Avenue, to-night. ‘There will be ten ‘events decited, five open to all regis- tered athlete, one @ Sixty-ninth Resi- ment spectal--660 yarde from scratch— one closed to the Military Athletic League and three closed to members of the Sixty-ninth Regiment A. A. In addition to the track athletic fea- tures there will be an indoor baseball toward providing penny lunches in| sem their own public schools. ‘The fund, now nearing the murk, which has provided for equipment of several achools, continue to make substantial for the relief of necessitoun children. ‘The action taken recently Board of Fat ogg and signed by the he will with penny It the Board of 8 tee reports on which schools are to be equipped first. Tn the mean time Strachan, Chairman of the Teach Teltef Committee, in seeing that all needy children who have no money to buy the penny lunches, are proviged with the meal in the schools now hav- ing the service through The Evening World contribution >: STOLEN SILVERWARE FOUND. Detectives Ryan, Meyers and Gompers went to Hoboken to-day and examined }a trunk which had been sent to No. 28 Reservoir Avenue by Walter Taegen, who ts held in Harlem Court for exam- ination Monday Manhattan apartm ‘They found ailvs erty identified as belonging to William a photographer, of No. 1) Atroeet, worth $1, worth which was taken from cond Street. According ting Capt. Jones of the Detective Burgau boa, ‘aewen has ate ed that he had bdpty worth $10,000 hid- den in Harlem. A quantity of stolen property was found in his home at No. 445. West Twentieth Street. a awagger tle, and matching the Rifold | Jake Immediately shut up and o stock. was s landlady, Mra. Lila O'Neil), told the police of the: trunk that n-nent to Hoboken in care of er, Mrs. trude Mayers, “Its amazing solution ‘worked out ,000 wine y the oy At the conclusion of the gamen the floor of the great armory will be cloared for dancing. | ESS Ing tt around so it was headed cast, |Wollars' worth of Jewciry stolen f B. Attia & Ce, | had pledged ager 14 Mondey confere! ite Bena b . for Thousands of Do Worth of Loot. The unofficial thanks of Department and the hotel city were extended to Mahar of No. 366 West Fifty: Street to-day for her aid in the ture of Walter Biair, who had @ in the same house, the man coming from her room terday and sent for a In Blair's rooms Policeman after arresting him, found tickets accounting for et wre vi hotel patrons, There were also. blank keys and @ machine for duplication of keys. ‘When Blair was arraigned Magistrate Barlow in the West Court, he verified a confession he made to the police. He was held the Grand Jury in $4,000. It wan Blair's practice, he told police, to take @ room in a carry the key home and makea cate of it. When he had four or keys opening doors in the he would make a robbery hotels in which y and fourth Street, the Navarre, the ick and others. He had keys to rooms tn the M ‘The specific charge on ararigned was the theft of worth $350 from the room Hibben, a brok From Conference Committes, WASHINGTON, Feb. 37—The ference committee reported the Purchase bill to both House and @em- ate to-day. ‘ Administration leaders 5 delay final action on tt until me week. Baita Shoes and Slippers are sold exclusively by B. Altman & Co. 1 Only selected leathers are used in the making of this footwear, and the high quality of © workmanship, combined with the up-to-date style features, gives the distinctive touch — ae demanded by the man and woman of fashion. 70 AMBaron tek 1d remaia Holbe ort teal in it nation they Teapectfully, jo benefit of ade ee arent ve with each b ‘co An Open Letter’ NAvout Bronchitis,» saence Month, a tull Pris gy ee August 2. 1016.” Lafayette St., Deny . nf ig