The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1915, Page 5

LUN RE DUE BUT CITY COLLECTS PALTRY HADES Corporations Using Streets Re- fuse to Pay and Cases Drag for Years. overboard. ; He found the man opposed to ‘ Newtswn Creek under! ssoued. As they fought in th tm Avene Bridge, Wil-| creek, Policeman Monahan heard his|man in twenty-one, of athletic build and \Mamsburg, bronght Capt. Thomas Her-! shouts’ and hauled Hertian and the| was well dressed. fey} of “Claude A. Mason, To-Morrow, Thursday, we place on Sale French Ratines Imported to Sell at 75c to $1.50 a Yard ‘WHO IS_ RESPONSIBLE? p} Two Thousand Yards at 22c $7,500 Deputy Vainly Com- 3 Last week we advertised FRENCH RATINES—% to 45 inches wide, tats regs Boras OU Crea wi ton wie ang FOS Seaees coe ay eee weed Tes Talent. , \ We stated that never before in neat checks and melanges. ‘The, biggest aw suit in the United de Le wei of American i Facts about these RATINES: ! States is the contest of ie hele \ eteuch a Caan Try to tear a piece with the warp, or against it. aeinah peamctie Be eas diets : Py i Like leather for strength. Ne ee A eos arte ‘They were closed out within a and re are pacaees) three hours. They carry seams and hold buttonholes as creasing every year Dress Goods do. No atreet railway, no gas company, ahah 1 £ no electric light company in the met- Here's a congolation offering That's because the weaving is true. i rip its franchise taxes any for those who came too Threads will not pull or slip. more, Thay £0 0 law and drag out | poh hd ie vai Lift a fold. See the flowing grace that lends itself (The franchise taxes due to the city to the drapery of the day. are now counted in millions of | ier The quantity a not large—coulént be at We Sercee ceates oo | Price, i fare. Records compiled by the Attorney General disclose that there are pend- ' ing in the courts to-day 817 actions brought by public service cdrpora- ‘Lord & Taylor (Fifth Avenue, 38th Street, 39th Street Club Luncheon, 50c Special Noon Luncheon, 75¢ Luncheon and Afternoon Tea 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. Music Daily Tenth Floor Letter €$ Telephone Orders | Receive Immediate and } Particular Attention Telephone Murray Hill go0o Mailable Packages Sent Free of Charge \ Women's Suits and Coats for Easter Wear : Distinctive and Exclusive Models in All the Fashionable Materials ' Fancy and Plain Tailored Suits na Wear Berges, Wool Popline, “Shepherd Checks, Hairline $25.00 & $29.50 Street & Touring Coats Fancy mixtures in two of the latest and smartest models of the season, $12.50 Fancy & Plain Tailored Suits Of Gabardines, Men’s Wear Serges, Shepherd Checks; alsointro- ducing the NewCombination Suits of Fancy Silks and Gabardines. ~ $35:00, $39.50, $45.00, $50.00 Prices according to materials. Street & Touring Coats Mixtures, Covert Cloths, Wool Poplins, Men’s Wear Serges, Diagonals and Fancy Checks, $15.00, $16.50, $19.50 to $29.5 Prices according to materials. Fancy Silk Coats Copies of late foreign models suitable for Street, Afternoon or occasions, handsomely lined and some trimmed with Distinctive Fancy Silk Suits Reproductions of the smartest Foreign Modgls of fine quality Bengaline or Silk Poplin in all the popular Spring colorings, t, $35.00, $39.50, $50.00 to $60.00 $25.00, $29.50, $35.00, $39.50 Third Floor mara! Desirable Dress Silks At Very Special Prices Natural Color Pongee Dress Silk 27 inches wide, a fine heavy quality. t Special, per yard! Specials in Dress Goods Palm Beach and Tropical Suitings ) 54 inches wide, in sand shades, white and) $l.2.5 jasper mixtures, Per yard} . Imported White Dress Linen 46 inches wide, suitable for Summer dresses; and waists, Special, yard} Second Floor ne | 68¢ 40¢ ‘ “Black Dress Satins 54 inches wide. Special, per yard/ $7.08 Street Floor Splendid Values in Women’s Imported Handkerchiefs Women’s All Linen Handkerchiefs, various width hems, sheer and heavy, $1.25, $1.80 per dozen—-Usually $1.50 to $3.00 400 dozen White and Colored Embroidered Novelties, toc, 15¢ &F 25¢ cach Also Crepe, Chiffon and Silk...... - Infants’ Apparel Unusual Values for Tomorrow, Thursday \ Infants’ “Peggy” Dresses OF blue, tan and pink striped gingham, high belt, *~ of solid color with pearl button, round coll rand) Z O5 cuffs of embroidery feather stitched, pockets | Each 25¢ Glove Handkerchiefs, white embroidered in colors and white | F of solidcolor. Sizes 2 to 6 years, Usually $2.45) smbcldied cith aatrew laos eaas . | Infants’ Rompers } - 18ce each—Usually 25¢ i 4 t Oe ine aa hibits etal pod moor ploed rie 45 ¢ Imported Colored Novelties, embroidered initial, assorted colors, : | Oliver Twist Rompers ; iy $1.00 per box of Six f Liston pet si tg Mgt bite, percale with; Joe Clearance sale of broken assortment of names in Autograph | ie i Sai 5 Handkerchiefs, y 5 ul li Infants’ Rompers : ) 25¢ per box of Six ra fe el Race A: sal fama Dink oe blue 95C | Children’s Easter Novelty Handkerchiefs, ¥ edge; all oc per box of Three Street Floor 1 We PN SeVAT, Oe tnd a aN tone to festrain the city trom collect: ing taxes levied against their fran- chises, All the well known street users are in the list. The B. R. T. in Brooklyn Is there; the Metropolitan, now called the New York Railways Company, in Manhat- tan; the Third Avenue, the Manhat- tan Elevated, the Consolidated Gas Company, the New York Edison Com. | pany, the Now York Telephone Com. | pany, the underground conduit com- | Ranies—in short, nearly every cor- | poration that exists through its use | Of public streets is suing tho city. The 317 suits involve total assess- the city on these assessments amount to $11,000,000, When the city does manage to col- | lect any of the taxex due from these street using corporations, it génera-| ally is done by compromising at 50 cents on the dollar, or some other heavy discount. The city employs no special counsel in prosecuting these cases. While the companies employ’ high priced counsel the city meets the Breat corporations’ legal array with & $7,500 a year deputy. Costly as litigation ix, the corpo tions find it cheaper than pay: their assessed taxes. It nets thom better profits to go to law first and then wait for the city to accept a compromise settlement. CITY 18 A THREE-TIME LOSER IN THE DEAL. The corporations gain, but the city is a three times loser. | First, it loses the amount sur- rendered in the compromise. Second, it has already spent the full. amount of the tax, just as if it had all been collected. City finance always counts tax chickens before they are hatched. Third, it has borrowed money from the banks“in anticipatioa of collecting the franchise taxes in full and continues to pay large sums in interest year after year, Some of the’ compromise settle- ments have involved radical reduc- tions, Brooklyn Union Gace Com- pany, for example, effected a settlo- ment for Its old taxes of 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909, with reductions aver- aging $5,000,000 per year in assess- ments, The taxes Jost to the city by this amounted to $350,000, The Consolidated Gas Company Had ite amweaamenta of of 1910, 1911 and 1912 compromised with reduc- tions averaging $3,000,000 per year. The Hudson Tunne! got its assess- Ment of $10,900,000 for 1911 cut down by compromise to $7,262,000, The old Metropolitan Street Ra!!- way pressed its suit for trial and got a court order cutting its assessments more than in half for the year 1910 and 1911, Every corporation whose tax as- sessment is increasc«, as its franchise grows more Valuab‘e, refuses to pay and appeals to the courts,.where the case drags for many years, Every corporatfen whose tax as- sessment is decreased likewise re- fuses to pay because it believes it can beat the city down still lower, The Supreme Court of the United States declared the Franchise Tax Law constitutional. That decision merely caused the corporations to to shift their ground from attacking the law itself to contesting collection of the es levied under it. In the latter course they have been eminently successful. Nobody pays ‘until the terms su{t the corporation. Lawyers are making fat fees and the public is paying for It all, > NEW YORK WOMAN FINED IN FRENCH COURT FOR PISTOL USE ON LINER Miss Florida Settle Fired Shot at Man Who With Others Teased Her Dog at Sea. ROUEN, France, March 17 (via Paris).—An American woman, known as Miss Florida Settle, of New York, was to-day sentenced to pay a fine of 200 francs ($40) and go to prison for @ month for having fired at a man named Waterman, who last November persisted in teasing her dog. ‘The incident occurred on board the French line steamer Chicago, from New York to Havre. Certain pas- sengers began teasing Miss Settle’s dog, Sho objected strenuously, but they would not desist. Becoming angry sho drew a revolver and fired at Waterman, who was the ring leader of the group. The bullet flew wild, but nevertheless Miss Hettle was arrested when the Chicago reached Havre, The prison part of Miss Settle’s sentence wis suspended, Her defense was that she fired her revolver only to frighten, and with no intent to kill, Bist Dt. r Times Sq. $11 6th Ave., ne. 225 West 42d St. | 58 3d A Oth St. Plumpness Makes Health. Thin People Heed This. | man spy answered several questions eats of-$1,084,118,17 jon cross-examination to-day in the The ey SN TOR.IT8. |The taxes due | tetat of Gustave Cook and Richard Madden on charges of conspiracy. trict Attorney Wood called Frederick’ G. HBehie of Hoboken to tell how Stegler employed Cook and Mad to get papers which would pe him to obtain a passport as an American citizen, that he might go on a spying trip to Great Britain. Stegier and is secr president of the fel Company in Hoboken, where Stogler was employed, He said he saw Bteg- ler In conference with Cook several in the name of Richard bearing Stegler's photograph. is a witness for the Government. 0" of New Spiral effect in good quality SAW STEAL eit Be The arrested, John J. O'Brien, clerk of the Bureau |. Millard, of Vital Statistics in Hudson County, |! sued for N. J. toatified he filled out the papers ban necessary for Madden to o! the ten copy of the birth certificate Stogler for tentified Madden sold him. e Edward J. Sharkey, assistant Ci Cleric of Hoboken, testified he took the deposition, of a woman, who KT sented herself aa Mrs, Margaret Mad- den, that Richard Madden was born in Hoboken in 1882. ‘Walter Yost, a waiter in the Hof- brau Haus in Hoboken, whoteestified direct examihation that he saw Madden, Cook and Stegler together in the retaurant, became slightly con- fused when he was to pick out Madden and Cook from his crow 1 about the counsel table. He identified Cook, = Was unable to say which was Mad- jen. Charles F. G. Leonhardt, chief clerk for Dinglostedt & Co., custom brokers, admitted on cross examina- tion that he helped Stegler obtain his seaport under the name of Madden. le sald he thought the transaction war regular. The Government rested at this point and Oberwager moved to diamias the indictments on the ground that they were insufficient in stating the diate of the conspiracy, if ried on Jorsey and not in! Southern District of Now York; that tho conapiracy statute cannot be made to apply to @ passport case Harrington said he later turned’ and that the Government had failed ver the papers to Henry Stoddard to makp out a case. f the Evening Mail, for use ax he Jud@ Cushman denied the motion, AND COK MET SAYS ROOMMATE Then Agsistant United States DI it Behle is a former roommate of to the vico- uffel d& Esser imes. Edouard PD. Harrington, steamship gent, testified he kept papers in hir afe for Stegler. One was conspiracy; that the there was one, wax! Quality will win your AT ALS OPR ; James MeGreery & Co, = 34th Street ‘ 5th Aven Extraordinary Offerings on Thursday’ WOMEN’S SUITS, DRESSES, SKIRTS & COATS | Smart Spring Styles _ High Class Suits Distinctive Styles in all the season's most desirable materials;. smartly trimmed, and richly lined with guaranteed peau de cygne. 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