The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 3

| |" | | TE TAX BOARD CHARMAN SUGGESTS LOW RATE TAX ON Martin Saxe Believes This Would Reach Hig Men in Spite of Exemptions STATE'S SYSTEM FAULTY Public Utilities Don't Pay Their Share—Tax Dodgers Have Offi il Sympathy By Sophie trene Loeb. “It the City of New York w feduce ite weight of taxes f the imperstive Ww to do away with the present method of levying uid me Personal property tax,” sald Martin Gene, Chairman of the & Tox Beard and of the Constitutional Con Vention Tax Committee, to-day “Thie method by whic UACOlleciable taxes have A eeu mulated to-day ie unsound and entire ly inadequate,” he continued, “I be lieve that #ii personal property taxes should be classified and a very low rate of taxation on each be levied ac- cording to the nature of the tax “Biustrations of such ta be @ very low tax on average bank balances; a atamp tax on bond cou- pons, & tax on automobiles t Would mean more than a mers licens millions of ‘There are various other simiiar prop-| without | Producing much hardship and which) erties that could be taxed would produce new revenue that @6uld be collectable in place of the Present personal property tax, which hae proved #0 deficient. “The constant borrowing of Money to meet such doficiencies is bound to lead to higher taxation eonstantly, The real estate holder should certainly not bear all the burden of taxes, Stamp tax on bond coupone is a simple tax and not burdensome. “uch cimilar taxes could be devised that would meet the Present stringent situation and ereate steady sources of future Pevenus. A new rule for deter- mining special franchise tax is sorely needed, so that the city uid get more revenue from its public untilities than it now does. “This form of revenue certainly yield more than it di the net the city little fevenue in comparison to the an- nual growth of these utilities. “The State exemption of tax Is alao faulty in the result obtained. Undor _ this syetem the big man is exempt from paying @ large personal tax and the small taxpayer suffers ac- cordingly. I believe the tax amend- ment adopted by the Constitutional Convention will solve a number of these probiems. “New York State has been fortu- nate in that it nas not been hampered by constitutional limitations upon the taxing power. The Court of Appeals, however, has held that local aa- ssors poRsORS A constitutitutioual right to as property within their Jurisdiction and that principle inter- feres with the proper development of substitutes for the personal property tax. “Under the law of this &! general property tax means Asser all property, real and pers value und at the same rate. Ut io conceded, that the general property tax ie a failure, because Property us can be seen a count of tis very nature, cannot be concealed, such as real esiate and tangible personal properly, are the subjects reached by the assessor a eeing persanal property end real estato at the samo rate great hardship to the per: onal property owner where his property is unproductive in its lire or where its earning power han the tax ors are Not altogether unsympa- thetic with that effort. “In order to provide proper gubstt. tutes for the personal property tax the Legislature should be loft free to deal with the prc as it is by the proposed art in eliminating any constitutional right on the part of the Joca) assessor. “Our econ outgrown th ditions have far the prin Me ec sour 1 ciple conferring such a constitut right upon a local assessor, be the far greater part of personal prop erty wealth has changed in ture, a0 that it Is no longer local and Visible as it was years ago, when most personal property was tangible, “It may truly be said that the Legislature has the power to-day to exempt property from local taxation in lieu of a State tax upon it it within its power to re eunad propery Vice of that co suit of it to its 1 ultimate drying up of and #0 h the all sources of local revenue, except real estate. it of the “Because of the great pi tax burden that real esta y bear, we must de for reaching other property in order to do for the relief of the fi “To this end the Le have full power, which the Tax Article provides, Yet withal, it preserves the constitutional right of the local assexsor, #0 far as the t of real ‘estate is con- something mer talature should ts oll that Aeneuam * would) t! al end means the, “wuioiTt Is ROUTED AND CITY IS HAPPY But, Pehaw! the Temperature is Same as Yesterday and Likely to Go Higher Among all the millions of the city ood \te suburbs there was probabiy not one this morn wh rejoire beca une jer weather he come at inst wee o bare tert io the clear ait Nobody on the | way work felt sloppy and be | dregeied Ali right, Now list to what the kilijoy Weather Buresw har to say about it “Toe temperature at § o'clock this morning most exactly the same that \t has been for the past ten days | There is no indication that the ther- | mometer will not rise nearly as higd during the day, The hymidity, bi ever, Is much lees, Yesterday mor ing it Was 92 per cent.; to-day it le 66 per cent.” Thus the oMeial weather book keeper sticks to hie # at the time | yesterday that it ment made of the thunder shower jate waa “merely inel- dental and would make no change tn general conditions. But despite this the temperature 414 Ko down to 66 degr t night after the storm and collars are not wilting to-day, And just to be thoroughly cone! THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 191 Dog’s Devotion Superior to That of a Man; LANSING IS HERE. GENERAL MOTORS = es The Dog Isn’t Selfish, Says Mrs. T. P.O" Connor WITH DIPLOMATS TO A‘WAR BABY WITH Se a “ere T/? Lemmy, ~rerO® ae teverer o © BOG & O06s \onauay a Sete nastan a Ey we ove ik Man, Even Americans, the Better Dogs. e By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ent in making disagreeable predic- Nationailet, author of a number of inter: |tions, the oMcial forecast runs: “In| cerstul books ani the friend of most of the this vicinity, fair, not hole so warm) and clever wen and women tn this country | | of the best-known American woman In London, |perature and southerly winds @un- joes CLIMBED INTO WINDOW TO WOO SICK WOMAN, Dyer Was Disconsolate When Ill- ness Forced Her to Break. Engagement. Joneph Dyer of No. 1748 Dean Street, Brooklyn, was arraigned before Mag- latrate Naumer in the Gates Avenue Court to-day charged with ilegally entering the home of John Hickman, at No. 7 Rochester Avenue. Hick- man |a the uncle of Margaret Me- Donough, who was engaged to Dyer until she became il of lung trouble and broke the engagement “She told me ehe could not marry mo," Dyer told the Court, “and her relati inaisted that we should not see each other. Thursday night I climbed In # window, and in the par- lor I met Margaret and told her J wanted to marry her tn spite of every- thing “When sho refused I lost my tem- bal kman said he heard the cries of his niece and rushed into the room to find her fainting on the floor, She ter said Dyer struck her. Magistrate Naumer paroled Dyer for ne week, ‘The girl War 80 weak ashe was carried from the court room and taken home in an automobile: POLICE FLASH SYSTEM LANDS TWO PRISONERS Signalled Patrolman Breaks Into Window With Revolver After Phone Sends Alarm, A thrilling Phone "movie" entitled “Caught by might be built on the arrest lof Prank Shanks, seventeen years old, of 4508 Wighth Avenue, and Jo we Holland, Aiteen, of 610 Bt Nicholas Avenue, The telephono rang lust night at Police Headquarters and @ volee suid the pollea should hurry to Alexander's cigar and candy store, No, 201 Wost One Hundred and Forty-first Ftreet Lieut, Gehan was notified at the One Hundrea and Forty-Afth Street Stat! Ho flushed the new electric light signal Iundred and Forty-fifth Street euox Avenue and rushed Police- ugh to the store, Gough fitting about, He smasyhed gins Window ‘of the looked With his revolver and clam- Loved Into the his varias h | in the nian ( four Ngure | the plate front door place, entered paouRn ‘A bullet sung past cellar found young found 4 Shanks cane ¢ t made further twee int came upon young Horan ing 9 &@ dumb Waiter s — JTS GASOLINE CRASH A SHOCKER jection, t Man y Damage. Sept. 18—-ne man was killed and heavy property loss sustained eerly torday when two cara of gasoline exploded ut the plant of the Hickok Pro- ducing Company, manufacturers of kaso Hine. The explosion was ft two miles away, and people were thrown out of | thet » blocks away, while hun- Aveda ¢ ves of window glia were! vitered within a radius of several biocks. Fire which followed the explosion dew vod the t, a train of box vara a, The Markell, an employee was born tn Som to this day delightful aod intimate relationship with the eT ieee, Social and political life of the last generation ¥ pparently, this cosmopolitan woma |raore I like dogs. In “Dog Stars,” the hew and wholly @-—————— delightful volume she has written about three canine friends, he gay: “And there is more than one woman-even a beautiful woman —who has never found the man to love the pilgrim soul in her: is iNuminative. He arrived at an inn late in the He said, ‘We don't want Just gray, with furrowed face, but he sees the pilgrim soul in her, He cannot voice his devotion, but bis love is never dumb. It goes ever to the sor- rowing heart and gives tender com- fort, And It Is not possible to over+ rate the unselfish devotion of a noble dog.” “And you really think that supertor to a man's devotion?” I asked, when { called on Mrs, O'Connor yesterday afternoon at The Holly, in Washing- ton Square, where she Is staying for nese shows itself in another insisted Mr stance, an American without leaving even life ance, and his wif thirty-five, is helpl been trained for nothing an: husband would have been into his confiden you ever notice what beautiful Incidentally She Finds American Man Expects to| | Make Wife Happy and Englishman Expects Wile | to Make Him Happy, but the More She Studies) “A dog's devotion is superior to that of the average man, Men might} | profit by the canine virtues of loyalty, devotion, patience, understanding” — | That ie the verdict on a sex passed by # wise and witty woman, Mra "Tay Pay" O'Connor, wife of the distinguished Irish ting and suc charming acquired the title Texas and ts @ loyal daughter of Uncle Through her marriage and her charm: ing personality she has been drawn into a peculiarly of the world has reached the} athetic, half-eynical conclusion—"The more 1 see of men. ind hin wife bring us a couple of birds.’ Presently the waiter returne 1, “Tay Pay.” “For in- often dies @ woman of She has haps she has small children, trulygunselfish had he taken her explained the necessity of saving; if necessary, refused to give her the French there is much similarity between Likes! and in for she English| poor or old or ugly. Too often man loves only supertic attractions, He interested | Ip hgr gouly he is even bere . the| it And I don’t think the woman with brite is likely to be adored by men, jeve the beat thin, in the pb oie for mén i# the modern girl, ticularly Mrs, the “Tay avening \R rl Pay" branc way,” FINANCIERS TRYING TO CLEAR WAY FOR Confer To-Day in an Effort insur- d per- Hor more of Munitions. Conferences between te modern American hed off # ud: On & pleasant note of opti. much supper mia. “Lam one of the few women of my age who prefer the girl of to- to ex-| ay to the girl of my own genera- DI tha o Was ¢ anal ti tion, | think her attitude of frank and, after passionate protestations ee * si there w ly one bird) comradeshi with men is ao infinitely d broken vows, old, jisillu- bi ‘es je house. hen what's my) preferable to the habit, once univer= ans . wife going to cat? demanded tho | ma, of looking up to them, That sioned, sad and doserted, ie Hires Englishman, wasn't ge for the girls and it regained faith in love and fidelity rh 7 7 Sp the men, No won- through the devotion of a—dog. ANeeREUGin Have \ttethe) perteetiy | Ger. they conceited and pel-| Neonsclous selfishness.” fish, The modern girl Is the right THE DOG GIVES HIS HEART TO) sur aren't you rather pessimistic! Corrective for their faulte, and the ery men who oppose her the MISTRESS FOREVER. about men? 1 ventured. “Burely| are” ghevone: Choe Aer she most “He does not change when beauty American men aren't like th {| from he r; flees, nor when poverty comes, nor| think they aro delightful, and that] 4 “But I'm aure that if we'd asked when health goos, He gives his heart, | they permit women to impose on|it ty ue lone ago,” halt, hia true and single heart, to his'mis-| them altogether too much." smiled Mrs. “Tay Pay.” tress forever. Sho may be old and “The American man's selfish- _—_—_——— LOAN to Ad- just Difference as to Purchase Anglo- French financial mission and repre- | a few days prior to her return to i sentatives of New York bankers were | London, 7 writer added par- |" sumed to-day in the AOHLB UIA SER devotion of Greyfriars Bobble, WhO} shouid bo given training which wisi | XbCcted afters Cont Lave ates for thirteen years lay on his master’s) gnanie her to support herseif, In}oVer the @uestion of financing war grave and finally died there?” she] fact, 1 think she should be self-sup. | munition purchases, challenged quietly. porting for at least a year before she| While New York bankers generally | If one may read between the lines | Marries, on if whe is a prince are not inclined to draw fine dis- y ably inter- | “nd 18 fit to be nothing but a kitcnen| tinetions aa to what sa of “1 Myself.” the remarkably P| inuid, T would have her a ficne | tinctions as to what particular pur cating autobiography which #he pub- ar, Bhe would be a bet- | chases the ere Joan may be ap- lished not long ago, Mrs. “Tay Pay'a’ nd inore hu | plied, the financiers of other elties, life has not been pent on flowery | an Princies ail the rest of her lif /and purticularly those having beds of ense. Yet she has won throuay | eo ne buck for a moment to our|{fendly feelings for Germany, are to n serenity as delightful as it 8) ¢riend, the dog,” I sald, “doesn't he [Opposing the using of any of the rare in this our atrennous age, Her|show a lack of good sense on one proposed loan for amuiunition pur- i Dane Ech baa 1, |polnt? He gives his devotion to his | chaser compromise plan is being | clear blue eyes are serene, her emai) i stor even if that master bo wholly | sought. r bautiful hands He serenely #t!ll 88 | unworthy of it. adore men who| ‘The vialtors ure to be entertained | she talks, her melodious southern as well as men|a@t various country houses of New voing 4 never off the pitch. kind to them." Yorkers over the wack-end and will resume their conferences on Monday “There is a wonderful singlee |THE UNSELFISHNESS OF THE!) expectation of reaching an early mindedness in the devotion of a FAITHFUL DOG, conclusion on the Joan quéstion, ” “An, but that {9 because the sens ate dog,” sho continued musinaly b, jpecien , “Qege are nat eslfish, and | think |2f,,BO8 w gone” aoe a! MISS WIBERG WEDS FISH. men a Dogs never willingly to him eel hurt those they love; the same “Just asa woman loves her gon, |svecint Teale Tales to no matter what he does or how thing cannot be said about ret bad he is, so a dog loves ‘hia Basthampion, (t. & Dogs are not conceited And di master or mistress, think that A special train took a merry party | | | Ach Way TT Pace ane . SHOULD mo CaureTi nen FATALLY HURT BY TAXI, WHIGH SPEEDS AWAY: Charles Burkhart, Run Down on} Way to Work, Left Dying in the Gutter. In an effort to “beat the aun to It, An he said, and get to work ahead of the heat, Charies Burkhart, forty, probably was fatally hurt at 4A. M.| to-day by a biack taxicab that knocked bim many feet at ‘eat Broadway and Grand Street” and sped away. Burkhart Is a bartender of No. 12| Thompson Street, and works at) E.ghty-third Street and Third Ave- | nue, He told his wife he suffered | from the heat so he would start to} work earlior, and he left after kissing | her and their five children. A short time later he wae found [unconscious in the gutter with @ pleca of automobile headlight and) part of a mudguard lying near. An) ambulance came from St, Vincent's | Hospital and Dr. Luby d Burk- hart nad a fractured @kuli and to- ternal injuries. | The motorman of a trolley car told the police how he was hurt, — POLICEMAN REPROVED IN ARREST OF TWO AUTOISTS | Lieutenant Objects to Officer's An- ger Toward Banker and Friend, Who Are Freed in Court. Policeman O'Connell brought into the | West Sixty-elghth Street police station |last night Walter Scheftel, a banker, of | | No. 150 Kast Seventy-second Btreet, | and H. Walter Webb, of No. 629 Park | Avenue, charging Scheftel with reckless auto driving and, Webb with disorderly conduct The policeman said Webb had used Invproper, Inngauge and attracted a crowd at 11 o'clock last night’ when the Seheftel motor eamé in col- lision with 4 touring car belonging to the Globe Taxicab Company at ‘Bevan y- d Street and Central Park We: ut. Dunn, at the rtation house, Fr O'Conhell or | ward hia prison Bohef who with Mra. Webb was in the car, said that O'Connell when she protested against his language [toward then before he made the arrest, had told h ‘keep her mouth aut and raved his.club threateninaly ath The party all went to Night ¢ where Magistrate Krotel both Scheftel and Webb. BAG OF JEWELS IS FOUND. Ironwork Finds oat 81,000 on Stamford Street, hn rank anowila, an tronworker, from this city to Basthampton, L. L,| found « Indy's suit case in Waterbury | manners they ha Pe Seem pected a gege. and lay the wedding of Miss Olga] Avenue, Stamford, Conn, thin after “L read the preface in your eharm-| foyalty of women, especially of | \YiPorR ant Sit ater Fish took It to Chief of Police| ing ‘Dog Stars’ to a friend of mine."| American women, utiful | fe pene Was parsorined et noon at headquarters, The bag old her. “A e snorted and aaid,| thing. Jin St. Luke's Churel by the Kev. Mr, | 64, ahied bot I told her, “And he snorted and # ML atould know that” she addad|Choriey, tho Fiuh's rector, at t a that Te wan the ‘A woman thinks a dog's love 18] qqiy \ warn mmile oe iter [xon. The puinber tr Mire son of Omaha, superior to a man’s becease a dog will how long 1 st aa “way fr riew mAs Sint bing to ecent w no Joat tt np Tueaday after- ee elng kissed nd abused, | when L return nd my ¢ « as| uf ne ri PORTS Osher noon when at ort the stand for being kissed ar aba Ai | when i reture wy, ‘ [Si vexane railroad station ty greet. hi petted and neglected, all in the gaine | Fh an’ Of TP yhie Mr. Bien a dinner to his Mrs. Van Mbureh | day—-and a man won't! lc pee hats Jian. BenJay Word was sent to Briarcliff Lodge, : where Mrs Van Gieson in visiting, THE DIFFERENCE IN THE SELF- |«iai daunes, i Aiuriaiulk | ANT ae 18 capecied to cvine vver, wat if Jthem the i provk Clu! her property, including $3, worth ] ISHNESS OF MEN, [given to children, Do you fniok ane 4 inner at) of Jewels and give Yanowits the | Mrs. “Tay Pay" smiled forivingly.|ace a social danger?” 1 asked, ¢ of ner Pars | promised $100 reward | “The Ainerican man stands for al "No. t don't” wuld Mev, “Pay Pay," ae Ore alaiarE “> good deal," she observed, re- [laughing outright, Kives ONO) Sinses Mary Relatives Seeking Hugh Miley, member Henry James sald, ‘There | Kind of lowe to dows and another kin - Relatives of Hugh Riley, titty. “ " , nther Han Hin pter Held ana three, 9 retired Hy an, report are just two really desirabl: so | betw ions si “" " h 1 | positionae-the Cass igibeieeian pe ae Horse Thiet, vday to the pollee that he disap- ss ‘ * tars, her father of being # horse peared from his home at No, 2007 Hub vad an American lad San ; Tobus Was arrosted |Terrace, Kingsbridge, Thursday. They “LE have said thatthe American man eng: al ‘ |fear hin mind hax been affected by expocta to make his wite Abist ‘ Ai i" iviveoaual BMY heat and that he ie wandering bal nae tae Coen Hrennan, ‘The horse nhout the city. Riley wore a gray | Englishman expects his wits to make |® M fats ita atable two month i Rack Ault and m straw het” He has Ha S Hittiataey ther Ores rent [in Summit. where a man had purchaaed [gray fait and mustache abou in Lage h ar me i the the velvet voice $60. ‘The youne woman is held in | ¢ seven inchea in ‘ wht end | other day about an Englishman whic: @ doesn't care if she's ths ‘county jail for the Grand Jury, weighs ib pounds, ' | would not be considered in any w | | feconition of any of the ext USCIS pone aa of Central and South American Nations Op- pose Armed Intervention MEDIATION IS PLANNED. Select Senor Tagle as Man to Lead Mexico Out of Distress Kecretary of tate Robert Lansing! fet the diplomatic representatives of sis Routh and Central Amertoan Governments, headed by the A B.C.) | Ambassadore—thoee of Argentina, Brasil and Chile-at the Hotel Milt more thie afternoon in another tempt to solve the probleme Srsceung! Menino. Mr. Lansing hed come from ‘Washington on & night trein to pre- wide at the conference With him came Ignacio Calderon, the Bolivian Minteter. Refore the diplomate went into their | conference with Beeretary Lansing |t was authoritatively stated that the question of the armed intervention of the United Btatees was one which The Routh and Central American deisgnton have, it wae pointed out, been opposed to this from the outset It waa decided also that the old regime in Mexico, the reactionari¢s, were not to Amure at ali in the pro- Aramme as the conference expecta to map it out. Tt Was stated that an out and out ing fan- tions in Mexico was highly improbabio, but there waa every likelihood that further efforts would be made to re- tore peace to the land by mediation. As to what part Carranza of any representative of Kis regime would have in the considerations of the eon- ferees, nothing wan prophesied. it wan wald, that a great effort would be made to settle Upon & man as one to be In- trusted with the reine of government. One of the names mentioned wan that of Manuel Vanquer Tagie, Benor Tagle waa Minister of In- terior in the Cabinet of Madero, and the only one of the Ministers who never resigned his portfortio. therefore constitutionally President of Mexico, his superior in the Cabinet having resigned hia post. He has al- | ways held aloof from all factions in Mexico. It was he who refused to shake the hand of Huerta in the Palace in Mexico City after the down- fall of Madero, PIER STRIKERS JOINED BY RAILROAD HANDS Trackmen ana Car Cleaners of Jer- sey Central and Lehigh Valley Go Out. The situation caused by tho atrike of the freight handlers on both aides of the North River was rendered more threatening for the railroads to-day, when 200 trackmen and car cleaners etruck in the yards of the Jersey Cen- tral and Lehigh Valley at Communt- paw. The men are Poles and Hungarians for the most part, and aaid that be- sides helping their native countries they hoped to put themselves in a portion to share in a general increase of wages, which they thought would come from the strike. Vice President Hardin of the New York Central said to-day that he had persuaded the 400 men in the River- wide freight yards to return to work on his promise that certain require ments about their quarters and their division Into gang would be met Mr. Hardin said he had been able to find no tangible evidence of the work of Puropean agitators among tho Central strikers and thought the trou- ble was due to quarrela between fac- tions of the men. The Lehigh Valley and Jersey Cen tral Railroads have declared a lock out against the men who have left tn the last few days and are. replacing them permanently as fast as possible Three hundred stevedores of the United Frult Company quit at Pier 4, North River y. They growled about in Battery Park until re pt \ Jac perse 2 i Company struck at Pler 1 Kast River yexterd: pe alchlas + Tey TO OPERATE ON FORAKER. Former Oto § In tn @ Cin- att Hoaptt CINCINNATI, Sept. 18.—A muscular ailment from whieh former United States Senator Joseph Benson Foraker has iffering for time has grown no severe that the surgeons at Christ Hospital, where he ts now, have deciled on an operation as the only chance for his comp recovery Mr, ker has been working very hard of late on account of hi ot = law pr When the break wan Kre Weakened, so much so thas the use of the knife will be ventured on for at ta week f now. tr Va. © Death, Sept. 18. Acrona JONESVILE, Wheeler, an is death here yesterday from @ para- chute His home was in Adrian, Mich. } —Ed He is) aeronaut, fell 900 feet to! A REAL ROMANGE |onssqe00 Codes Rapigs | W. C. Durant for Five Years’ Hard Work, =| Rewenees of Moye every onee tn a while ta = though than | money bul alee won |tr0i of (he corporation that he Derren! came out * denen years ago with es lof putting towether bile concerns inte ene succeeded at fret, but | automobile days of ine nation rea on financial was Urgently needed to in his dire needs i il it if Durant to Heligman @ Go. wt nea nae j tan Higminsn @ Co. of Reston, arranged (0 advance $16,006,000 o@ sin per cont. notes, The terme of the financing took contrat of the erty out of Durante eherge lodwed it with the bankers. the largest individual owner of hie vole tn affaires was limited Minority seat in the Boaré of rectors, General Motors Company began prosper and make money, fe pire account steadily pilee up large propon@ena, and some ot stockholders, partioularly thought dividends showld be But the bankers @aid no, They managing the property conservative. ly, they anid, in the interesta of those who had put up the money, Durant had faith in thé future and hung on to his stock. He wag got getting a penny of dividends and hte money waa tied up in the But he would not let #6 of @ share or be fromn out. Louts G, Kaufman, President Chatham and Phenix National lived in Marquette, Mich, before Re came to New York to develep one of the foremost progressive presidents of the metropolie, knew Durant out in -fichigas, an@ & while ago they renewed acquaiataaes with a very material object in VOW, Along in the spring somebedy Bes wan buying General Motére etee It \the New York market. Ite price Was | $82 per share at the beginning o¢ th year, In the seneational vise of (he past week it touched $201 per shave yesterday. The annual meeting of the eoth- pany's stockhélders was fined SP Sept. 15. Th faire in the had been perfunctory because of banking control and the close domination of a amall greap Of stockholders and notehdolders contetag: around Boston. But at Thursday's meeting, held tm the Hotel Belmont, new etockheldate appeared, and when the vote whe taken Kaufman, Durant and thete asaoclates, the du Ponts, proved te be in the majority and immediately ae sumed control of the company. Thay elected eight new director and edits tinued Durant on the board, no In hopeless minority but léeding dominant majority. Against the protests £ the banking control the ‘oted a 60 per cent, cash amounting to $8,250,000, It cheering reward for Duran waited five years for the firat on bis labor and investment, From & to-d there issued a protest by the losers, has been no fight for con’ the statement. “The old group has simply not attempted keep the property in its has sought to administer ah with dignity and fidelity. been no change in stock mt safe to @ay thal Ceneral would not have decided te pay so large a sum as this 60 per |cash dividend, The conserv: Nive'ees anent would have preferred or per cent, stock dividend, allows small cash dividend as a Coneolalg, prize if the miboryy intereste become too Inalstent, GIRL DRINKS CARBOLIC, Takes Polson Near Home; tg Pete tal, Beatrice Engle, twenty-one yeare ok of No, 418 First Avenue, drank the oew+ tents of a bottle of carbolic acid th front of her home last night, aceorl- ling to the police of the Mast ‘Thirty- Afth Street Station, and was remeved to Bellevue Hospital, charged with at- tempting to commit suicide, The girl's mother could ascribe mo reason for her act — SUES WEDDING JOKERS, Bride Asks $10,000 Prom Men Whe Kidn. a Her, PROVIDENC 1, Sept. 1 M. Peret & bride of falls to oe the Joke In i lahkew to Boston om e #S oner in Hoi Corra June, h apped ding pignt She filed suit |weeking $10,000 damages from young men Who abduct her as of the “wedding celebration. Bishop Conaty Los Angeles n SAN DIEGO, Sept. 18.—Right Rey. Thomas J. Conaty. for many yeare | Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Lee Angeles and Monterey, died to-day « cottage at Coronado, where been for the | last’ week. y's health had steadil since his arrival at corasado |death was not unexpected, ’