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PRICE ONE C FINA '- How Public Service Grab- L Ghee { Circulation Books Open to Au.” ENT. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Wo from the people of this city, of §. political advantage. mately $176,000,000, or about 82!4 INTEREST EVERY MINUTE. That interest load is the chief taxation imp normal and ; from the public utilities corporations, the expenses of conducting the gov- ernment by consolidating depart- ments, wiping out useless bureaus and eliminating duplications, triplications and even quadruplications of service to the extent of approximately $5,000,- 000, The saving of $9,000,000 in State taxation on account of up-State tm- provements from which the clty de- rives no benefit and should not pay for can be accomplished by legisla- tion; also, legislation will be required to obtain from the public utilities cor- (Continued on Fourth Page.) NAVY YARD BIDS LOWEST FOR NEW BATTLESHIPS Private Firms Unable to Get Within the Limit Price of $7,800,000 Set by Congress. WASHINGTON, Nov, 17.—None of the bids by private shipyards for con- the struction of two superdread- noughts authorized by the last Con- gress, submitted to the navy to-day, fell within the limit of $7,800,000 fixed as the maximum cost for hull and machinery of each ship Bids submitted by the New York, niladelphia and Mare Island Navy ards, however, all fell within the ‘mit, most of them being below 000,000. Three priv .€ companies offered bids for one ship each. podbean eset World Travel Bureaa, Pulitzer (World) Building, for'ail Cobstisg’ Hirrinada, Cen. American texmao ties, “tral: Torres Check ‘toon Toe begs Min und narcels Onen day aud Wight, ‘Ivlevbous Getiman 4000.—adre, REAL ESTATE PAYS 229%, CORPORATIONS PAY 61-52%, NEW YORK'S TAX PROBLEM + —— City Should Receive at Least $15,- 000,000 a Year More From Public Utilities Corporations and Re- duce the Cost of Government. Taxes in New York City have increased 82 per cent. in ten years, as against an increase in population of only 31 per cent. now before the Board of Aldermen calls for tie collection, by taxation 212,956,177 with which to pay the| running expenses of the community. This amount includes the unnec- essary and oppressive direct State tax of $13,975,000 which Gov. Whit-| man and an up-State Legislature unloaded on the city for purposes of | wore« ster, Moss. He has expert- The real estate of the city will pay taxes next year approxi- per cent. of the total to be collected. To add to it will mean depreciation of real estate values, depreciation in the value of securities based on real estate, shrinkage of the assets of | soi in the foe or in *he Savings banks, lowering of the interest rate paid by such institutions and ruin to thousands and thousands of property owners. | THE GROSS FUNDED DEBT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ON DEC. 31, 1914, WAS $1,307,020,221, AND IT IS DRAWING} reason why the taxes are so high. Other reasons are duplications of service and useless bureaus in city de- partments, costing possibly $1,500,000 a ye: costs in the Public Service Commission and the Board of Water Supply | and other departments, aggregating some $3,000,000 a year, and unjust | ed by the State on the city for the construction of up-State | sricultural schools, bridges 4nd highw: up-State roads, amounting to about $9,000,000 a year, Furthermore, New York taxes are high because the public utilities | corporations evade paying their just share of the taxes, and thousands of miscellaneous corporations dodge of New York should receive as taxes at least $15,000,000 a year more T; excessive engineering and the repair of their city taxes entirely. The City and if all the other corporations were forced to pay their taxes the revenues would be increased enormously. It ts possible for the city to reduce’ TWO DIED TOGETHER; FOUND AFTER 5 DAYS Woman Apparently Shot Man Who Posed as Her Brother and Then Killed Herself. After hearing no sound for six days from an apartment at No. 754 Mc- Donough Street, Brooklyn, oceupled by a woman who said she was Mrs J. J, Donnelly, Mrs, Kate Heydinger, the janitress, had the door forced. The woman was found dead on a hed with a bullet wound in her mouth Beside her body lay that of a young man she had introduced as her brother, This had a bullet wound In the temple. Beside the bodies lay the revolver from which the shots had been fired. ‘The two had been dead about five days. Mrs. Donnelly rented the apartment @ month ago. She said her husband was in San Francisco, but tha she expected return soon. A few oung man called y night, Mrs, Hey- says, she heard the two play- the plano and singing loudly About 10 o'clock the apartment. be- came silent. Nothing more was seen or heard of the pair until the dis- covery of their bodies, The body of the man was identified as that of Walter D. lier, an awning mak with his pare Avenue. Th later Co; lived him the woman had ries him It is the theory of the police that the woman shot Collier and then Killed herself, Sho is said to be the wife of a gunner In the United States Navy now stationed at San Iranc: The 1916 budget | » GORG NEW YOR 1 Companies E K, WE DNESDAY, NOVEMBER vade Taxes Weather—Fair Te-night; Thursday Cloudy and Warmer, I % N ° LOCATED BY NEW “SOUND MEASURER \ Prof. Webster’s Invention Will Tell Direction From Which Signal Comes. SCIENTISTS PRAISE IT. To Be of General Use All Sig- nals Must Be Attuned to Same Pitch. An instrument for finding the direc- tion of a fog signal was shown to the members of the National Academy of Sciences to-day by the inventor, Prof. A. G. Webster of Curk University, |mented for years with every kind °¢| sound-wave, from those produced by | and musical instra-| At has made a machine that will k the $ pro- the human voic ments to the loudest thunders, |last ni direction from which a souni ceeding The machine will no! brilliant light when it fa of the , but it can be made to} |ring a bell, so that, as Dr. Webster] said, “a deaf man can see the sound and a Dlind man can hear it.” An instrument of this sort would have saved the 1,200 lives that were !jost on the steamship Princess of Ire- land when she was sunk by another ship In a collision in a fog off Father Point St, Lawrence, two only show al the source | in the Lowe years A hundred scientists, 0. specialists in | medicine, astronomy, geology, physics, | biology and all sorts of learned branches, gazed with deep interest at the machine which is to rob sea travel of one of its greatest terrors. It looks like two megaphones with their small ends tucked Into the ends of a brass tube about two feet long, the whole mounted on @ tripod Dr. Webster calls it a phonometer, which is Greek for sound-measurer. Hanging across the middle of th brass tube was a small dise of alumi- num, kept tn place by three threads. This dise 1s pushed by the impact of sound waves of a certain pitch. The strength of the vibration Is reg- istered on a recorder, which causes an electric light to glow with great- est intensity as the mouth of the megaphone is pointed directly at the source of the sound waves, Pilots in a sea fog cannot a rut within, rty-five degrees of the direction from which a signal ts sounding. The phonometer is so sen- sitive that it will point accurately to ell, as the spot, “Looking into the instrument,” said Dr. Webster, “one sees the light glow at its maximum as the phonometer faces the front of the series of sound waves. One disadvantage must be overcome before It can be put In gen- use—its use will require every whistle to be tuned to a standard pitch. The instrument can be tuned to any pitch, but I should not like to have tov-ask a captain of a ship to tune up as he approac i anger in n fog, It would be possible for the Government to require all vessels to tune their whistles all fog signals in lighthouses the same, and then the lighthouse or the direction of an ao- eral proaching vessel could be discovered th accu There a burst of hand clap- ping when Dr, Webster demonstration. Dr, A. Michelson of the University of Chicago stood up and said: “I cannot withhold my ad- ended his miration, This paper marks a most notable advance in the effort to solve a problem of the greatest interest It seems to me that Dr, Webster has brought to a brilliantly successful sion this important search.” WARNINGS IN FOG. PROTEST Haiselden, in Defense, Says It Would Be Morally Wrong to Let Defective Live. GOT MOTHER’S CONSEN Chicago Authorities Will Take Up Case if Child Dies With- out Operation, (Special to The Erening World.) 4 CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—Humanitarian and medical ctreles are deeply stirred over the verdict of Dr. H. J, Eassel- len of the German-American Hospital here, that the five-day-old baby of Mra. Anna Bollinger, born physically defective, must dle, al- though an operation can save its life. mentally and The do@or argues that if the child lives it will become a burden to itself and @ charge on the public; that it will lead either a brute or criminal existence, Hence it Is better that it should die, Mrs, Bollinger, the infant's mothe, has approved the verdict of Dr. Halselden, chief of the hospital. Prominent social workers have de- but State's Attorney Hoyne and Humane Soclety officers admit there is no law by which they can force surgeons to operate and save the baby's life. An official police investigation, how- ever, with possible subsequent action by State authorities, will be made if the baby dies without an operation, This was decided upon this after- noon at & conference attended by Chief of Police Kealey, Coroner Peter Hoffman, Health Commissioner John Dill Robertson and Assistant Corpor- nounced it as cruel and inhuma: ation Counsel Cittford Roe. Following the ruling of State's At- torney Hoyne Counsel Roe ruled that there is no law by which officials can force the physician to operate on the htid Roe held, however, that Com- foner Robertson can refuse to issue a death certificate, said he would refuse the paper. this event Coroner Hoffman will ¥ automatically compelled to investigate the child's death, From her cot in the hospttal the mother of the baby can hear the wasps, the steadily weakening cries of the wee morsel of humanity she brought into the world last Friday. The baby, which is in the nursery ad- Joining the ward, ts slowly dying, and the hospital attendants say it will hardly live twenty-four hours longar. Mrs, Bollinger has steeled her nerves to accept the verdict of the phyat- clan, that nature be allowed to take its course, Robertson In “No one need think me a crue) or unnatural mother,” said Mrs. Bol- Inger, while tears streamed down her cheeks. “I have three other children. My heart i# full of mother love for them and for the poor deformed Nt- tle fellow that came Friday. It has broken my heart to tel! them they must let him die. “Poor little thing. If an operation were performed and he were allowed to live, he would be for years only a burden to himself. His life would be barren and useless, for the doctors tell me he would certainly be mal- formed, It is, as one of the doctors said, one of nature's blunders, and I am willing that nature should correct her errors by my baby's death.” (Continued op Eighth Page.) « ANCONA FAILED ‘TOHEED WARNING, ~ VIENNA DECLARES pe RE ne Austrian Answer to American Note Is Received by Sec- retary Lansing. ’ WASHINGTON, Noy. 17.—Seeretary Lansing this afternoon received the formal reply of the Austrian Govern- ment to the United States’ demands for further information on the sink- ing of the Ancona It is asserted without reservation that the Ancona was given warning and that no shots were fired after she stopped. In its details, it claimed that the disaster was similar to the one described in the first Austrian note. Few additional details were given, Denia! was made that the Austrian which Ancona’s submarine hen torpedoed — her “the Wifeboats, as en char ROOSEVELT SILENT ON ARMY OF 12,000 Makes No Comment on Story That He Would Lead It in Flanders. Col, Roosevelt to-day refused to comment On @ story printed in the London Dally Mail asserting he had made preparations of 12 States declared war on Germany over the Lusitanta affair, The cabling from New Wk, told of an alleged interview with the colonel, who, he said, expected to be in Flanders three months after war broke out. oe NAVAJO INDIAN BLANKET IS MARSHALL'S GIFT Vice President Sends Gorgeous Ar- to raise a force 0 men in the event the United Mail's correspondent, ticle as Wedding Present to Wilson's Fiancee. PHOBNIX, Ariz, nt Thomas to Mrs. Nov. 17.—Vice Preside Marshall's wed Norman Galt dent Wilson's flancee, is a Navajo Indian chief's blanket at the reservation in Northeastern Arizona. The gift was sent nat to day ne STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Gregory, Barbados ..... cee AOA. My Mandeville, Port Antonio....10 A.M, ALM, P, F, Hendrik, Hayti..... tel cs ARLES Dr. Haisolden attributed tho child's SUNDAY WORLD “WANTS” WORK MONDAY WONDERS, ‘17, BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK 385 WOUNDED ABOARD; 85 DROWNED DOCTOR'S REFUSAL TO SAVE BABY FROM DEATH BRINGS AND APPROVAL 1915, WCHL ICED NISIG SHARES - OVER TO NEPEW Thompson Committee Traces Light Stock Through Books of Brokers. WAS SOLD AT Probers Want to Know About Long Delay in Brooklyn Gas Rate Case. PROFIT. The Thompson Legislative Commit- tee took another look to-day Into the stock holdings of Edward K, McCall, Chairman of the Public Service Com- mission, and traced the block of &5 shures ot Kings County Electric Light and Power Company stock which he omitted to tell about when he testified to giving 387 shares to his wife. Report of the public accountants, Perley Mor & Co. submitted to the committee, shows that the eighty-five shares were first trans- ferred by the chairman to hP¥ nephew John C, McCall, a Vico President of the New York Life Insurance Com- pany, and eventually sold in the open market at a profit of $2,014.80. This block of stock originally was carried by Judge McCall with E.R Chapman & Co, who transferred it to Waterman, Anthony house then transferr der, McClave & name of John ©. and put in the McCall. Albert Me- Clave, a member of this firm, mar- ried a neice of Judge McCall Tho brokers’ books show the follow- ing letter from Judge McCall, dated De 1907; “This will serve as vuthority to ot from KB. R, Chap. man & Co unt, which eon- tains eighty-five shares of Kings County Light and Power Company stock, When the same is received by you you further authorized to place the same in the account of John ©. McCall” The accountants further that “there record of pay nts by I. C. to BE, Mecall therefo McCall received any remuneration in this matter it was a private transaction between himself and J. C, MeCall." By tracing through the certific number it disclosed that rtock does not now stand in t my ace are was the name of any of the McCall family anc was finally disposed of betore the Judge became Chairman of the Pub Service Commission ext to the McCall stock holdings the most important subject under in vestigation by Thompson Com mittee is the gas rate case again Kings County Lighting Company. Thiv is the oldest case pending before thy Public Commis: and been “stalled” for five years, although part of the delay was caused by an appeal of the company to courts, which sent the case back to the ¢ the jervice ha mission for reconsideration of cer- tain points. This is the case The ning World has fought to have Jand the consumers given $0 can, Whitney sub ings it showin ted ree he Kings hatin Had Secretary ords of proc | County Gas case, jthe company offered to make a ing sealed reduetion inp Jos centy to AU cents, bul that the was not accepted. — Commissioner Hayward was alio a witne of the long dela found ase when he tor up hist spring and endeavored to get it puxhed t completion A little ie jab wis Chairman Mecall by both Hay Whitney in relation ta Ie of piniasion automobiles for privat purps Yne. lar ) taken exclusively for tine and no accour ervies, It is kep! MeCall’s house tabbed ele ly and their movements to #ee that they are used only in public service, 18 PAGES - K BY were saved out of a total of 385. There were thirteen officers and the House, municate is 329 feet long and was built in of Commander Oscar V. De Satg PARIS, Nov, 17. ng of the Fr ‘At the first meet- h and British We Bourds to-day it was decided that hereafter the war will onducted by a single council representing all the Entente allies, Heretofore the al- lied forces have operated more or leas independently. Russia and Ital, U. 8, ASKED TO PROTECT THE WOMEN IN SERBIA Made Commons of Plea to State Announcement in House of | Department | | | LONDON, Novy. 17.—The Foreign Office is asking the State De-| Bre nent at Washington to take dip-| jon for lomatic steps to assure pro! the women connected with the in Serbia, Making announcement to this! effect in the House of Commons this| ufternoon Lord Ro mentary Under Sec Affairs, said from the information al-| received though Walter Hines misate ready womed to be no re that the women were likely to be badly | treated by the Bulgarians WILLCOX VISITS WHITMAN. | Helleved to Have Beare 1 Chores. | N 17.—Willlam R. Wille | loos Chairman of the Public Serve] | | | Commission, was the luncheon | Whitman to-day and it} | that “something would] develop fr he charges made| \uainat Chairman MeCall of | york City Public Service Commission, | The Governor said hat if there wasl uny news to give trom Lim after the conference, 372 men on board. 1900 at Dumbarton. retired.) will name their represe: soon as possible, At the meeting to-day were Pre- Munitions Minister Lloyd George, First Lord of the Ad- miralty Balfour and Foreign Secre- tary SIA\dward Grey of England, and Premier Briand, War Minister Minister of Marine Lacaze Joffre of France. The Hnglishmen arrived in Paris Tuesday night, accompanied by their mier Asquith, Gallien) and Gen, diplomatic, military and visers, There must be subsequent meetings ih situations as they to dey with fre ‘PRICE ONE CENT. MINE: ONE BIG BOARD TO RUN WAR ORGANIZED BY THE ALLIES; SERBS SUFFER NEW DEFEAT Entire Population of Monastir in Wild Flight to Salonicaas Bulgars SweepOn—Teutons Capture2,000 More in Drive From Nish. ALLIES ATTACK BULGARS ACROSS FRONTIER LINE LONDON, Nov. 17.—The British hospital ship Anglia was sunk to-day by a mine in the English Channel, Three hundred wounded men A. Bonar Law, Secretary for the Colonies, was asked in the House of Commons to-day whether the Government had received any further information concerning the report of the sinking of the Anglia. “Tam sorry that I have no information which I can communicate to he replied. “If I receive any later in the day 1 shall com- (The Anglia was a merchantman which was taken over by the British Admiralty after the apening of the war and refitted as a hospital ship. She was commissioned in August of last year. (There are four British steamships named Anglia, The one converted Into a hospital ship probably is the former London and Northwestern Railway Company steamer, of 1,862 tons gross, She (At the time she was commissioned the Anglia was in charge Allies Appoint One Big Board To Carry on the Entire War ntative: naval ad- arise and new polictes as they be- come necessary, The next meeting, it is expected, will be to take the Rus- sian and Itallan representatives into the Joint body, The purpose of the jotn: ell to handle all four one, to strike with the force it is possible to them separately, BERLIN (via London), day. them relief Sledge hammer blows with four-fold it War coun. armies as combined strike with Nov, 11.— arlta-| Capture by the Germans of 2,000 more Foreign |Serba was announced officially to- The prisoners were taken in the tral Serblan region west of Nish, —~— Page, tho Amorican Ambassador, there| through which the Serb main army ls son to suppose! trying to reach Montenegro, | SERB POPULATION IN WILD FLIGHT FROM THE CITY OF MONASTIR SALONICA, Greece, Nov. 17.~The whole Serb population of about Monastir is fleeing coming Bulgarians, fugees number thousands, Wild terror of the Bi spread among have already swept, The prefect at Pritt the region before the Monastir itself jis being emptied rapidly, The re- julgars has them by frightful New| stories from the country the invaders twenty-five saken out it would come miles north of Monastir, telegraphed that buadreds of girls bad 4