The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1915, Page 3

eo EW YORK CITY — ed Leaders in Realty and Finance Urge Whitman to Veto Bill and Call Legislature LIGHT MORE NEEDED. Log Rolling Charged and In- vestigation of Up-State Roads Demanded. Ctvic organizations and taxpay Alliances of this city have united in a determined effort to avert the § 000,000 direct tax imposed upon the Btate in the closing hours of the Lag- felature. The decision as to whether tbls tax, of which New York City must pay over $13,000,000, is to be @ mighty movement has been started to urge him to veto the bill and call the Legislature into a special sexsion to the end that an honest and eco- nomical State budget may be pre- pared and the excessive direct tax averted. Realty men throughout the city are one in decrying the manner in which direct tax bills were railroaded throw the Legislature, while logis- ‘were confessing they did not Understand the details, and officials were millions apart in their estimates of the amount required. Many openly |against thin unjust tex,” said Harry Jevied reste with Gov, Whitman, and | rT) TAXPAYERS RISE UP IN WRATH AGAINST THE $19,000, 000 DIRECT TAX hecenwily for putting the light om the bills Is showa by the confusing state- Hate and city officials, The roads appropriation deserves epectal scrutiny and this tas should not be mente imposed until the truth ie known.” “At w eritioal time like this every- thing possible should be done to avert | this tax Robert B. Dowling, | representing mililona in lower Ma battan real estate, “They hat gone rient Ibany for the past three months and even a big publio movement might not affect them, mm ahead tn nothing should be left undone to pre- vent this Injustice.” “An President of the Upper Man hattan Realty Owners I want to com- mend The Evening World for ite fight Goodstein. “We will de everything to get the taxpayers together to fight for A special session to avert the tax, and Iam heartily in favor of @ taxpayers’ mass meeting.” “The bills were certainly rail- roaded through without much declared Stewart ind | bell proper step to imp Governor the necer poning action until the muddle of contradictory figures is cleared up.” “Gov. Glynn's statement in The Evening World is the truth concern- ing the condition of the Sta! fin- TESB BVENING WORLD, wONDAY, APRIL 26 How Peace Treaties Have Ended Great Wars New Series by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE on Magazine Page ‘American Girl Back From Red Cross Work FIGHTING BITTERN DROPS WOMAN CASHIER At the German Front Tells of War Horrors Miss Ray Beveridge, the “American Venue,” As- serts She Saw a German Soldier Whose Eyes Had Been Gouged Out bya Belgian Girl. She Saw Duchesses Wash- ing the Feet of Com- mon Privates--Her Own First Relief Work Con- sisted of Scrubbing Floors. Took Pictures of Scenes in the Trenches— Finally Succumbed and Was Seriously Ill for Five Weeks After Many Tragic Experienc: By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ‘This Is the story of an American girl at the front. She is Miss Ray Beveridge, whom New York knew several years ago as But it {se grimmer—yet, in a sense, an even moro beautiful—role which she has been playing of late. For eight months she served as a German Red Crows nures, tending thousands of horribly wounded German French, Bnglish and Russian soldiers, working day and night as the head of the nursing force in one of Berlin's largest hospitals, fighting a woman's battle against pain until she herself was overcome. telling her story of the war and showing the picturés she had taken of German life in the trenches, Perhaps because of the big things | knew she had done, perhaps because of a remembrance of the heroic proportions of the greatest of the Venuses, | somehow tall, majestic person. scarcely above medium height, and there is something almost childlike about her short, thick yellow hair, waving upward at the endi “the American Venus.” expected to find Miss Beverid, ances,” Borough President Connelly charge that the appropriations were ewollen by log-rolling, and call atten- ton to the appropriation for State Foads in up-State counties as ono which is worthy of close scrutiny. Mayor Mitchel and President Mc- Aneny of the Board of Aldermen will, of course, fight the imposition of the tax, and among those in the move- ment to demand an impartial investi- mation of the necessity for the enor- m direct tax are Robert Binkerd, Secietary of the City, Club; Allan Robinson, President of the Allied Real Estate Interests; Joseph M. Price, Chairman of the Committee of 107; F. B, De Berard, Chief of the Bureau of Research of the Merchants’ Association; Robert E, Dowling, Btewart L. Browne, President of the United Real Estate Owners’ Associa- tion; Harry Goodstein, President of the Upper Manhattan Realty Own- ers; Laurence McGuire, President of the Real Estate . oard, and Borough Presidents Marks and Connolly. “No human effort should be epared to make the Governor realize the necessity of calling the Legislature into special sion to impartially discuss the direct tax,” said Mr, Allan Rob- inson. “! believe thie calamity, and it will be mity if things go as they are headed, should be averted. For weeks we have | bored to avert it, but there w: enly log rolling at Albany, legi lators agreeing to vote for each other's pet measures and disre- garding the staggering results.” “1 cannot speak f Association, as we have not acted yet,” sald Mr, De Berard, “but I be- lieve the matter should have been If your stomach isn’t just right, take Ex-Lax. This will tone up your - oe. the Merchants’ | iven greater consideration, and I! of Queens stated. “The action of the legisiature w the most high- handed plece of business I have ev known, By all means let us have a special session if it will etop this raid on the taxpayers of New York City. They are entitled to relief.” “There is talk of an investiga- tion of city financ said Lau- reoce McGui “but it seeme from the wide difference in of- ficials’ statement, that an investi- is what is needed. No reputable business house would tolerate such book- keeping. The Real Estate Board ia absolutely in favor of the clo: est investigation of the necessity for this tax. Some of the appro- priations are awful. The roads appropriation is to take care of up-State count that are sup- posed to spend as much as the State, but the State is really the only one spending the money, and New York City is paying the bill.” “The present complexity of con- gation of State finance: tradicting figures and conclusions is at least bewildering,” was the opinion of Borough President Marcus M, Marks of Manhattan, and he added: “Let us have full discussion and pub- Mcity.” ——————_—_ CITY BOATS MAY BURN OIL. Dock Commissioner Smith 1s consid- ering the use of oil for the muntelpal ferry boats, The Bay Ridge ts to be changed into an oll burner, 1t ts sald, and if the plan succeeds all the city's ferry boats will be converted, ‘The change, It 14 claimed, would ef- fect an economy in operation of more | than 60 per cent. 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She Is eRIDGE rap weevous PaosyRation AS Tee RESULT OF “THE, Ha WANN (ae vases To ooees Con saw ‘TAyonT FAMILY Mow To WAgH WOUNDED Peasants’ PeeT nd her blue, SHE DOESN'T BLAME ee | FOR HATING AMERICANS. The hardest note came into her low tones when she said: ‘The Germans have just begun to hate America, and 1 don’t blame them. Think of our helping to prolong this dreadful wi to kill more thousands, by the sale of arms and ammunition! The greatest American Ambassador we ever had requested Germany not to gell arms to Spain during our war with her, and Germany heeded the request. If we accepted such treatment we should be} willing to give it,” “How did you come to be a war nurse?” 1 asked her, “L wanted to help,” she said simply. “Every woman in Germany wanted to help. Thousands of them, rich and poor alike, swarmed about the Reich- etag in Berlin, during the first days after the declaration of war, begging the Government to give them some- thing to do. “I didn’t think at first of offering to be a nurse because I supposed they would only want women of training and experience. Years ago I took a nurses’ course in France, and I had eight months of special surgical train- ing. But that didn’t seem to me enough. “Late in August, when I was re- turning to my home in Berlin, ex- General von Lindequest, wh: deatb I saw announced the other hap- pened to be on the train with me. He was very severely wounded. ae sels lar bo big hole tn his shoulder, I hi a with me a luncheon basket and some medi- cine and I managed to make him more comfortable, He gave me a let- ter to a doctor in one of the big Berlin hospitals and urged me to present it. TELLS OF WAR HORRORS AND THE CRUEL BELGIAN “The first two weeks { scrubbed floors, And 1 scrubbed them well,” Miss Beveridge added, with a faint smile, “Then—well, they found out that I had bad more training than the others, and gradually the supervision of all the nurses’ work fell into my hands, They also used me on the most important operations, “I remember holding the knee of one Russian soldier for two hours while they picked out the bits of bone which shrapnel had driven into every part of his leg. I never shall forget how the poor fellow smiled at me. And there was an- other boy of nineteen, a German, whose eyes had been gouged out by a Belgian girl, She put buttons in the empty sockets, He died, of course, of blood-potsoning. “| don't dare let myself think of |some of the things | saw in that hospital,” and Miss Beveridge's hands clenched convulsively. ‘There is nothing horrible about ordinary surgery; it is almost artistic, But gunshot wounds, especially shrap- nel, are terrible. ‘Then there were the mutilations. The lowest class of Bel) is are cireadful people. If you reprove your Belgian maid you may expect her to poison you. Gen. von Lindequest told me that when he himaelf was being carried through a Belgian village on @ stretcher by two Red Cross attendants a mob of men, women and children, their faces filled with hate, pressed about him shout- ing, ‘Tear out his eyes! Tear out his oy “But we have heard of dreadful thinga done to Belgian women by German men," [ interjected. “How can it be proved that it w mot the lowgst af the civilan popu: ki lace of Belgium who assaulted nal women?” demanded Miss Beveridge. “Did you stay at the hospital day One and night?" I retreated to more neu- tral territory. HIGH AND LOW, THEY_WERE — “Twas there from 8 in the morning till 7 at night, was @ speci ers of those who fell did not stay at home to weep; they came to the hos- pital to work. One woman in my ward was the mother of four sons, all of whom had fallen in the trenches, Hierthes of Bavarta, a friend of mine who was making a great himae! other day, cook in oi Ushed for soldiers’ children. “At first we who ALL “SISTER and all night if there ly bad case,” she Mr. hund Col, name for died in his wife's arms the| °° "° great and u had houses in Berlin used to ask a certain number of these children to lunch each day, ving them something to take home “continued Miss Tady turned from a long hunting Shelley HER GUESTS WILL DINE AMONG WILD ANIMALS: Feature of a “Jungle L Lady MacKenzie Will Gi Hér Friends. Mackenzie, who has the beat and coolest shot In the world. has twe brought de do and ty-five lon out the use of traps or dogs. ‘The room in which the dinner Is to! Jd will be ornamented collection of skins many anc of every known of the live young wild animals killed by the 6 of the party will be shown. ‘This is the first expedition on whlch specimens GOOD NEWS FOR KIDS! SULPHUR AND ’LASSES NO GOOD! SAYS M. D. ler, phyales sical director Dinner” eee knockout tm ive the just re-| |plied. “It became known that | had] after big gaine in Kast Afr PF gd of parolee strength, solexhibit the results sh@ obtained to ister Ray was called when there was} 1 : Janything especially hard. to do. Wa | about fifty well-known big Ramo nurses were of all classes, from titled | Bunters and other friends at a “Tungle women to housemaids, but they| Dinner’ at Deimonico's next Friday called each of us ‘nister, esting FIND HOMES. TURNED “Besides the actual nursing of the| | soldiers one of the doctors and 1 ga Assisting Lady: Mackonale in pnters) demonstrations of nuraing for taining her guests will be BE. M INTO POLICE STATION of the court, aome of them n Shelley, who accompanied her on the of the royal family, 1 have seen| jatto, aban SAtAH aaa Duchesses washing the feet of com-| \''*! Be aD erent ae mon soldiers. And the wives and moth-| Whom Lady Mackenzie regards a&) But Tenants Say They Will Not Give Way to “Cops” Until Lease Expires. pwn one; ny with Three of the families living tn . five-story apartment house at No. 2 West Ove Hundred and Thirty-! ees Street declare that they will not move until their rental periods are up, even if the Police Department has leased the whole building and is to make # station house out of it. with a 1 heads, of the members kind of Fad hae a eae | bis kame in Kat Africa were brought] ‘The three families are those of 5 down. Lady Mackonzle, wis of Simon Frankel, on the first floor; public Kitchens were established. apt eke meksnels Pisce ‘a “Dan” Heffernan, on the fifth floor, o soerlcka was arrested in Ger-| ma ar achlevement,| ang John Coleman, on the fourth Raby, uy — 3 oy Peetu Those} took with her three motion picture) floor, Frankel says, "I have @ lease who spa) ets Bae is an eile tol cameras and operators. | till Feb. i next, and wil stay, police pro-British in ubite, Gesrena to ay — a or no police.” Heffernan says bis {nto trouble. f stopped diniag with| lazer John M. Wellbrock Sen- Fe ee eat ite Ser he recer some friends of my ajister because tenced to One Year. _ |man will vacate Saturday, but the they exproane: 80 low Hi nN @ public] John M. Wellbrock, a lawyer of No, | pol are already moving in and fectentant their sympathy for the] 44 irt Street, Brooklyn, was sen \P up the new station for I. tenced to-day by Justice Aspinall in the| business at midnight Friday Do you know what broke me dowa| criminal Branch of the Brooklyn Su- | have been occupying in the ond?” finished Miss Beveridge. “A little child. horribly splendid cheerfulness and variable first question, can we go back to the front? day they brought in @ yellow-baired, four-year-old cancer. of the hospital, said that case to-morrow.’ me I couldn't go to the hos. pital, and I didn't get out of bed for five weeks. oremeeenns FOOLED MOVIE ASPIRANTS. Thad nursed « preme wounded men, these with their their tn- ‘How soon One onvict wrand boy with a ghastly Dr, Bochenhetmer, the lead ‘I_want you on When ‘to-mor- tentlary on Hinckwe been ommended mercy When two Fren: Court to one year int "a Island ted last week a eh litreeny of $1,040 ve to purchase property 1 restored and the 5} he peni- | three old-fashi cottages in Lenox | Ay for wh annus rental He wae) ot $4,500 haw be be The apart im by ®) None of the tenants waa awore that ury heir home was to be turned into @ o Haris b soldiers returns And couldn't Rive a good! Taylor ® to Penitentiary for] reason for it, the mother of one locked them in @ room and called tho police Swinaling Wevld-me Fite Actane, | 20eY Were Srrested an doacrters, = Frederick C, Taylor, who conducted It Is estimated that aix woeks in the life of an army shoe, and that for the Taylor Theatrical Enterprises at|a year of the war 71,000,000 pairs will be necessary No. 201 West Forty-second Street, de- | — - frauding many would-be Mary Pick- An airman of the allies was fired on near Ghent, but by flying upside forda and Charlie. Chaplins.was sen-|down he made the Germans belleve he had been killed, and they ceased tenced to-day to the penitentiary for|ahooting. Suddenly he retuned hit upright position, dropped two bombs, nine months by Justices O'Keefe, | and escaped Frescht and Collins tn the Court of ——— Special Sessions. Before he lost an arm, Jacques ¢ pujon, seventeen, killed two ‘Sigmund Solomonick of No, 1271 Steb-| sentinels, blew up two quick-firers with bombs, was captured, exeay binw Avenue. In the rong, teatifea|carried to the French lines a German machine gun, He baw been gly that on Jan. 2 he anawered an adver- | medal. tivement inserted by ‘Taylor promising ———? to make novices moving picture actors Germany has begun an extensive war flies 1 crows to prevent and actresses with. lucrative emploge | the spread of disease and the eating of spring wheat ment for $25. Botwoen sixty and sev- enty other complainants were tn court The Soclety for the Prot All suid that Taylor, after taking their ihe woclety fap: ihe Bi Toney, posed them’ for a while and! promised them employ | horses, Employees of The World, readers of which complained that Taylor had used (eure 200 Ind fts columns in hit swindling game q re aided in the prosecution of the deen: fouRbt 2.00 mans until dan twenty remained alive, —————— ection of Animals in Rome announces that if| Italy goes to war it will maintoin four big hospitals for sick and wounded in troops holding the British post at Jassin il] thelr ammunition was exhausted and only | and howled all night, | went huntt Sd | INON FLATBUSH, BESTS | DOGS, THEN CHASES COP mn ROBBED OF $471 Hird Proves Puzzle to Pol -_—— Who Pree I After Making | Holt-Up Men Attack Her ia | Perilous Capture it 1OAd Street and Escape \ : | Into Tenement. Heres e lard” of @ story | man red Uriekley of tO) ny. men, evidently well nequal h station rd @ areal OAD with her customary Monday morning motion at Kast Twenty-eight Street Journey to (he bank, waytald Rese | and Newkirk Avenue, Platt Wishntck, cashier for Simon ilvere | noon yesterday and then saw @ Hon, * ale grocers, of Me, — dons (Kast One Hundegt and Tod that} “ eooe Corough that” Drawing hie club and revolver h ‘ veel her down amd ran over to interfore duet thi ne at cootaining (OT) of the dogs crawled away and after- » for $1, representing te) ward died and the other dog fied Saturday sales of the grocery howe The bird stratehtaway — tackiad «The nen, who carne up behind Bey, Urickley, scratched his uniform, gay 180 into the ba of « tenemeut him an awful wallop with ite beak (8 One Hundred and Third street tee land was chasing him around in al tween First and Second avenues, Ale 7 vacant jot wien Policeman John (hough the reserves of the Bast Ope | | White ran to the rescue with an|Mundred and Fourth street station ~ empty orange crate ‘aurrounded the block and searched Deftly throwing the ermte over the | enraged bird, he and Brickiey carried it to the Flatbush Police Station, where Capt, Hogttler looked over the | the premises, (he thieves got away, Miss Wishnick, Who lives at Me i326 Fifth nue, was carried inte a drug store where a severe bruise om ee Prisoner and maid if he were a drink. the side of her head waa treated. it would oa him to swear on she went » the station off, ‘The bird had flaming red eyes and gave the only “eaceineatl and green legs. Hoetler had it could of the two men, that they wen® thrown into a cell, whore It serecche a) no the reserves tly Mtallans. young and appa were unable to sloop = Capt. Boettler to-day communicated | with Park Ce Raymond V Ingersoll ts from | Daley, took the bittern to the menag: | where Head Keeper John O'Brien an't keep this bird in my bourd- ing house. [have no right to do it There ix a law which provides bit- trens sill not be held in captivity, di there also is a law against kill ing them.” Then he turned the bird loose. flow over toward the scene of fight, and the supposition was ¢hat i for the other dor. Lea J a PRINCETON MAN IS HELO. ivan Face Swind- Mag € Evan 8. Cameron, twenty-nine years) old, @ Princeton graduate, of Glenridge, | was arraigned before Magistrate Eyck in Centre Police Court to- day aw a fugitive from Juatice He was! Indicted tn bis ton on a charge of swind- ling the land Brewing Com- pany ‘out of $700 Lt neh manager of the Amer- | ric Sign Company, a ration which the Mansachusctts Lewis- dissolved for its loowe methods. the dissolution tt was charged 913, Cameron continued ss and entered into @ $2,100 h the brewing company, re- yment of $700. Littwation followed and Cameron was indicted Camera was arrested Saturday ay his office, No. 50 Church Street, « to-day was held without bail to ‘await extradition papers trom Boston, SLATER SENT TO SING SING. | Jew: ceiving @ "VE just bought the most beautiful Silk Stockings | have ever seen. They're ry App 810,000 Geta F Arthur Slater, a Jewelry appratser, of No. 352 Fifth Avenue, who atole v ward of $30,000 worth of jewels fron his customers, princtpally women, wa to-day sentenced to Sing Sing p for not leas than one year nor than two years and four months r pleaded guilly to five indict- jor grand larceny @ week ago Wadhame, > Imposed Whole stole tieen Months, them for a dollar!” Gah SILK STOCKINGS Twicetheusual amount of Pure Silk. An extra close weave. A fit and finish usu: or Slater told Judue Wadhama that hie had pawned all of the Jewelry and lost the proceedings playing poker and pt nochle, The pawnbrokers with whom Slater pled, Welty refused to |return the property to the rightful ally found only in $3 owners on Judge Wadhama’ order and and $4 H will be sued for tt And of course they ALL have ‘Tired of She Ki m the Patented old Stripe, Miss Anna L. 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