The evening world. Newspaper, August 2, 1915, Page 8

__ STATEN SLANDERS alas FOR "1" TRANSFERS ene Want to Go Before Board of Estimate Committee to Plead Cause. RETURN FOR HIGH TAXES “They Declare That Transfers Are About the Only Com- pensation They Can Get. Staten Island residents have awnk- | ‘ened to the fact that unless they make ® Noise their wants will receive no consideration at the hands of Members of the Board of Estimate They are now after an extension of transfers to the Manhattan elevated Vines. They are ready to appear be- fore the Transit Committee of the Board of Estimate and plead their eause at the firat opportunity. Staten Island haa no share in the vast subway system which serves the other boroughs, although paying @ _ Mare of the cost and maintenance of same in taxes. The ferry ts now on a paying basin. Ita patrons are dally contributing their share in fares to pay the city a return on the one investment which it has made to benefit the transportation fa- cllities of Richmond. The feelings of Staten Islanders on the subject are best expressed in thelr own words. hard C. Bridgman of Clifton, aga of the Staten Iviand Sav- ings Bank: Of course we want tho trans. fers continued. We want more than that, we want this transfer system applied to the elevated cars, well as the surface. In addition to this, we want com- mutation rates, family tickets end fifty trip tickets. In other words, we not only want, but we think we deserve, as citizens of great City of New York, more consideration than we have . If the transfers bring Greater crowds than now con, of @ourse we will need new ferry Doats, but we need them now, and more frequent trips. It ts not Ss gel} call us “kickers” in ‘ mond Borough; we are simply 3 for what we are entitled preciate the effo oe Pat “ ‘athers to do thin, but’ wo. either vw that we more City Fathers ,or that those we have will do more. Der- @onally, I think we might do ‘Without transfers on Sundays and holidays, but I do not know why even that should be given up, Heory P. Morrison of West Now Brighton, former Chief Engineer of Borough: ‘We should have transfers to all Transfers are character- a of @ city Aovernment, and we are a part of city, and it is therefore proper that we should be given transfers, They are the / enly compe: jon we can get for the taxes which we are forced to pay on increased assessed valu- in the face of a declining I am enthusiastically in ft tran ® to all lines, of Hye sale of a number of tickets at a reduced rate, so that all Staten Island would be benefited. Ido not favor the idea of com- tation books, as commutation tickets are too closely associated with suburban communities, the} JOHN D.’S $75,000 STATUE ARRIVES IN APHRODITE : + Proto by A.6 BOGART will Brighton I certainly am in favor of trans- fore. if Staten Island wants to go uhead, it must be given some- thing to go ahead with, The other boroughs bave be thing, and get the detriment because the resi to reach their homes ¢ Coroner James L. Vail: 1 am in favor of anything that will give us a lift, ‘Transfers would certainly be @ great aid to our development. McKee, Great Kill aplendid idea, rtily In favor of it, and so is everybody with whom ve talked, With a good system of transfers we will be better able to mpete with other boroughs. n Wheeler of West n given every- the population to Ialand, a of Staten eaply. Pilot Everybody wants transfers. Our island's progress depends upon them, We are entitled to them and should not be compelled to . beg for them. ville: No one who has anything to do with Staten Island property, either as landlord, tenant or spe The svening World is to be congratu- lated on the fight It 1s making for us and the fine advertising it ie giving the Island Man's Body F | hg Berwin 5 tyes ty Ahi left school three years ago to be a vente found te Inthe “Kant | Messenger, He practised telegraphy Pier 6. The man was feet | sedulously and became a good operator, Hi, wolghed 140 pounds, was! Last week he decided it was time to en, had dark halr and’ wo \iack trousers, gray socks and | advance himself, so he came to the com- shoes. ‘There Was ninety-four cents in| pany's headquarters in this city. His the pockets, confidence made an impression. He w Increased Renting Efficiency Property electrically equipped will rent more quickly and at better prices Vacant buildings are usually with- out electric light or power Wires and fixtures can be installed without injury to walls or ceilings The New York Edison Company At Your Service General Offices: Irving Place and 15th Street Telephone: Stuyvesant 5600 Branch Office Show Rooms for the Convenience of the Public 444 Broadway Spring 9890 iB} 126 Delancey St Orchard 1960 10 Irving Pi Stuyvesant 5600 #362 E 149th Street *124 W 42d St *151 E 86th St “27 E 125th St Melrose 3340 Bryant 5262 Lenox 771 Harlem 4020 *Open Uatil Midnight Night and Emergency Call; Madison Square 6001 THIS COUNTRY. New pt, Thomas Burrett, Sandy Hook John Davies, architect, Tompkins- “CHOCOLATE VENUS,” PURCHASED BY JOHN 0. FOR $75,000, ARRIVES Statue Said to Be Work of Praxiteles Will Stand in Temple of Love. The “Chocolate Venus,” also called the “Cnidian Aphrodite,” for which John D. Rockefeller pald $75,000 in the belief that tt is a genuine work of the Greek sculptor Praxiteles, has been unloaded from the Cunarder Saxonia at Pier No, 64, North River. ‘The statue is consigned to Frank G. Montag, a Custom House broker. It will be taken to-day to the Apprais- (ers Stores, where Government art experts will determine whether or not | it is free of duty as @ work of art | at least @ century old. Thence it will | be taken to Pocantico Hille and in- | | stalled in tho Temple of Love in the | | sunken gardens south of Mr. Rocke- | feller's home. ee __--»-~ THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1915. BUILDING BURIED IN QUICKSAND; THREE MEN DIE Power Plant With Three Acres of Ground Suddenly Sinks Thirty Feet Into Earth. HUDSON, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Three men were killed and eight injured, one of whom may die, when the power plant of the Knickerbocker Cement Com- pany at Greenport, half a mile east here, was submerged in a quick- sand to-day. The three dead men were laborers The bullding vanished shortly before 6 A. M. as the night gang employed in the power plant was about to be relieved. ‘The plant, together with land about tt comprising three acres, | caved in to a depth of thirty foet. Officials of the company, which em- | The “Chocolate Venus” ts said to | have been brought here from Burope | |{n 1893 and denied exhibition in the | Metropolitan Museum on the ground | that it was not belleved to be genu- | ine. Tho statue lay a long time, it is said, In @ Soventh Avenue store- room In 1905 what ts said to have been the samo statue was exhibited at the National Arts Club, in West ‘Thirty- fourth Street, and there was a spir- ited controversy over its genuineness, some holding that It could not be the Cnidian Aphrodite of Praxiteles, which history saya was destroyed in & fire at Constantinople in the fifth entury. In 1909 the statue was sent back to Europe, Among the stories told in 1905 was one by Charles E. Cookman, who said that In 1883 he met a man named Roome, here in New York, who said he had possessed a statue like the “hocolate Venus." He bought tt cheap because jt had been in a fire, ho sald, and was spottad. According to Cookman, Roome botled the statue In a solution of muriatfo acid, eoncen- trated lye and Javelte water, to whiten 1, but the bath made the Venus choc- olate colored. —_—. AT17 HE WILL BE BOSS OF A TELEGRAPH OFFICE With Widowed Mother to Aid, Young O'Neil Works Hard, Shows Push and Wins, One of the youngest persons ever as- sitned to the conduct of an office by the Western Union Telegraph Company ts Alphonsus O'Nell, a messenger in Mont- | clair, N. J, The boy, who is seventeen | years old, was informed to-day that he had been appointed manager of the office at Beacon Falls, Conn, and will start for his post thi Alphonsus, who is the son of a widow, Mra. D, L. O'Nell of No. 98 Valley Koad, | put throw tests that proved hiw quall- fications, and then got the Job at Beacon Falls. The other Montclair messenger boys are preparing to give young O'Nell al bik send-off’ when he starts for his new po coneenansttiiimemme MAID FOILS A BURGLAR. Attompt Ie Made to Rob Mra, Doug- las's SOUTHAMPTON, Long Island, Aux. 2.—An attempt was made to rob the summer home of Mrs. W. P. Douglas, of New York, in First Neck Lane, near Agawan Lake. Bince the theft of the $50,000 pearl necklace from the home of Sherwood Aldrich the police have been vigt- lant. One of the maids in the Doug- }ias home heard a nolae Saturday night and raised the window, calling for help. Policeman Callaghan rushed over in time to see a man disappear down the atreet. He round that one of the windows |had been forced and that the thief |had been exploring the house, wien |he tripped over some furniture, | erouaing the maid to | mr CALL’S DAUGHTER TO WED. to Ww mer Home, Her Engagement m oR, Maloney Is Announced, ZASTHAMPTON, L. 1, Aug. 2.— |Judge Edward E. McCall, Chairman of |the Public Service Commission, and Mrs, McCall have announced the en- kagement of their daughter, Miss Ella ‘all, to William K, Maloney y lives at No. 12 West Rtreet, Manhatian, and ts teat He at ES Str was graduated from Yale in 19 fs a member of the University “cub, W.E COREY BELIEVES ploys between six and seven hundred declared it would be at least en months before the plant could resume operations, —__—_—_—. men, se WORLD WAR WILL LAST FOR THREE MORE YEARS Hopes America Will Keep Out, but Wants Us to Be Prepared. W. E. Corey, former President of the United States Steel Corporation, | arrived from France to-day on the! Espagne. He had been abroad three | months, having sailed on hearing that the French were using his estat Ville Genise, twelve miles from Parii as a concentration yard for cattle, The cattle have been withdrawn and the villa converted into @ hospital for convalescent soldiers, who are be- ing nursed back to health by Mra. Corey, formerly Mabelle Gilman. “This is a war of chemistry and mechanics,” Mr. Corey sald to-day, “It is a horrible affair that bids fair to last three years more. France will fight to the last and is making preparations three years ahead, “The allies want tho moral and financial support of the United States, especially the financial, “Though Grand Duke Nicholas is regarded in France as the greatest military leader in Burope, the French are pessimistic about the condition of the Russian army, They think it will need @ year to reorganize, I think Warsaw has fallen, though the news has not been made public yet. “It is felt abroad that the United States is going into the war. I think that would be folly, It would take this country two years to get in shape, and for that reason I hearily approve of the new army and navy programme which looks to greater preparedness. I have no use for the mun who Wants peace at any price, but still less for the one who wants} war at any cost, and I want to see this country in the position of not looking for trouble, but too big for any one else to seek tt from us,” z Mr. Corey paid a high tribute to the statesmanship of President Wil- son, ooo ARRESTED IN MORNING, IN SING SING BY NIGHT Justice Moved Quickly Quickly in Case of Courtney, Drug Fiend Who Robbed a Man, James Courtney of No. 346 Fast One Hundred and Twenty-fitth Street, a@ drug fiend, was taken to Sing Sing to-day, after exceptionally quick ac- tion by Grand Jury and Court. Court- ney was arrested early to-day for rifling the pockets of an intoxicated man in front of No, 478 Seventh Ave- nue, He was arraigned in the Jeffer- son Market Police Court at 9.30 A. M, He pleaded guilty and was sent to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. Assistant District Attorney Embree submitted the case to the Grand Jury shortly after 11 A. M., and an tndict- ment for grand larceny was filed with Judge Rosalaky at 1 P. M. Arraigned a few minutes later, Courtney pleaded guilty to the in- dictment and, waiving the statutory rights, was immediately sentenced to Sing Sing for not less than two years or more than three years, eee W. J. BOARDMAN DEAD. ther of Bi Sudden End at Home, WASHINGTON, Aug, 2.—W. J. Boardman, father of Miss Mabel Board- man, executive head of the Amertcan Red Cross, died suddenly to-day at his hom ie was a retired business man who « here from Oho many yeura Cross Head Meets ‘or Crane of Massa {2 tie other surviving daughter. Yale Club, Squadron A Club and ts pdjutant of Squadron A. No date has |been set for the weddi | _ | MIDDIES REACH THE FAIR. | BAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 2 The battleships Missouri, Ohio and Wis- econsin steamed into San |Bay late yesterday, and | ehet thousande Francisco the ‘The a | came by the way of the brought 860 midshipmen on nual practice cruise, The Ohio, which broke a blade coming up the Coast, Mare for repaire to: thelr propellor will go to v . World Building, will be lated for thirty day: Advertising Agencies, telephoned directly to The World. Cal! 4000 Reekman, New York, or jment favored by the Council be had until more than two years af~ ter the murder, A good deal of thie time was taken up with tne prepere- tion and argument of a motion for new trial, whieh Justice Davis event- ually denied. The denial ie one of t things on which Mr. Koelble will lay stress in his argument. Schmidt contends that the A mueller gitl died from an Illegal op- eration which Ernest Muret assisted fin performing. This has been dented y Muret and by a young woman who Schmidt says pet present when the eration was performe CPaven should the conviction be ats firmed, it is thought at Jeast six months will elapse before the priest Is executed, SLAYER SCHMIDT STILL | FAR FROM CHAIR; GIRL RILLED TWO YEARS ACI) Priest’s ceded o Causes De- lays—Appeal May Be Heard in October. “YOUR KING AND YOUR COUNTRY NEED YOU, WE DON’T!" was] note in pay envelope of many unmarried employees of the Canadian Pacific at Ottawa as hint they must enlist or quit. THIRTY CATS and other pets of Mrs. Neeman to be killed by chloro- form at Dover, Del, as directed in her will. TO PREVENT HOUSEBREAKERS reading of their absence, Mont- clair eoclety women will send news of their vacations to police instead of Rewapapers, DAN, A COLLIF DOG, jumped between six-year-old girl at Caldwell, N, J., and copperhead annke in time to receive snake's fangs and save the girl, but died after killing the snake. Evacnated, LONDON, Aug. 2.—An unconfirmed repom comes from Rome to-day that the Austrians are preparing for tae evacuation of Trieste and already have removed the machinery of the munitions factories. Hans Schmidt, the priest who In September, 1918, killed Anna Aumuel- ler and was sentenced to die in the electric chair, is in the death house at | Sing Sing, awaiting decision on his appeal to the Court of Appeals for a new trial. Alphonse G. Koelble, his counsel, hag not served a brief on the District Attorney, #0 that it has not been possible for the court to fix a THE GREAT GROWLER, a 44-ton bell cast in 1711 from captured Turkish cannon, has been taken from the tower of St. Stefan Cathedral, in Vienna, to be made into war material, Lime-Loss in Tubereulosis In the Journal of the American Medical Association (January 17, 1914) wae the following: MOVIF THEATRES that show on Sunday in Long Branch, N. J, will not be patronzied on week days, if boycott attempted by church folk is a nes, Pat hopeful of a pencetul nettionvent and | ago District Attorney Perkins, believ- AVERT GARMENT STRIKE : stated that the outlook for such a re- ing that the argument of the appeal sult at this time was good was being delayed unnecessarily, | When the manufacturers fal moved before the Court of Appeals |etinitels” undermtana the for the affirmance of the conviction "ela at Alterative Ae | The final decision as to terms they resubmitted those in ques. |2F ene Mee ale esas 60,000 cloakmakers will gc tion to the Council and to-day's con. | Without argument. ltentota jim. ‘commilined With other in’ this city on Wednesday ference Ix expe clarify them.| This motion was opposed by Mr.| Vniuavie, ineredle to be & conference being held to-day at| After mite howev the} Koelble and the court consented to] {lated have urged contumotives to which Prof. Felix Adler, Chairman of ® will again consider the |iet the case go aver to fall, It is ex-| attend et be Mayor Mitchel's Council of Concilia tion, is explaining in full to Charles | ¢ 1. Bernheimer, representing the man ufacturers, the exact terms of settle- decide whether tor reject it nding outcome of the rsy the unton leaders have 100 mem to ac- pected that the appeal will be heard soon after the opening of the October term. This mi , Rekmane “A aunoiied thie nged Feats. of habit fort “fo try. 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