The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1915, Page 6

bom 9 BEAR SENDS IN RIOT CALL AT CENTRAL PARK Z00 Himalayan Sloth Sounds Shrill Blasts on Police Whistle and Hoaxes Police and Keepers. * Shrill blasts from a police whistle, sounding short and staccator notes, startled Lieut. Farley at the desk of the Arsenal Police Station in Central Park, to-day, and Head Keeper Bil! Snyder and his assistants. The sound came from the rock cliffs at the north of the Zoological Gardens, where are The Kind You Have Always Bought. HIS is the caution applied to the public announcement of Castoria that has been over 80 ra It is to vcs ged impel 3 should more property only for adults, but worse on the mother to sorutinize cl that for the mother's watoht Genuine Castoria always bears tho «| Uptown Store Santa Why don’t you Crccesiee and Give Sour buns a stantial present? Both Stores Open Mahogany Library Table ‘This massive table le of Colonial de- sign and has Doll House Free . tty, cardboard ne PS" in tong. 10 in hi in, deep, will given absolutely free, while lasts, to each customer purchasing $1.00 worth of goods or over. It ts attractively printed in colors and has red gable roof. All doors and win- we open. A large doo> admits Loy furniture and sma!! dolls. Po an §-Piece Bathroom Outtit— ‘Heavily Nickel Plated 1 Glass Towel Liar 1 Comb, Tumbler aia Special, rush Holder t Wall Soap Dist H tab Bese Dish: $ 1. 10 Child's Hardwood Folding Desk Lift up lid and inaide is # black- bourd. Special, $1.29 ers up to each. Our Credit Terms $1 Monthly on $15 $3 Monthly on $50 $6 Monthly on $100 $10 Monthly on $200 amounts in vre~ Vay bi wae eee, = 10% OFF FOR CASH. under the su; Castoria, when purchasing Castoria to see that the wrapper bears P signature in black. When the wrapper is fon, both sides of the bottle in rel. Parents who have used Cantoria for | little ones in the past years need no agai imitations, but our present auy is to call tha seation ation to the [ged danger of introducing into their families spurious medicines. that there are ing up and selling all sorts of substituies, or what termed counterfeita, for medicinal preparations not for children’s medicines, It theretore devolves ly what she but the child has to rely on 3rd Ave. & 121st St. Let Cowperthwait & Sons’ Credit Be Your Cowperthwait & Sons has played Santa Claus for over a hundred years by giving credit to all. Why don’t you let us play Santa Claus for you? oll Cieisneentors of. yous fernly good as gold There's no red tape to go through. you want a new rug, an easy chair, a table, pr oka ghat eager or perhaps a piano? Reputation Behind the Goods—Long Service Ahead of T CowWPERTHWAIT & SONS Between Brooklyn Bridge ‘Sub’ Station and Chatham Sq, '‘L"’ Station Wherefore Jim Coyle, the bear keeper, dashed out of the locker room with his uniform half on and aped to the bear cages, followed by Farley and the reserves and Snyder and his men, armed with clubs and pitchforks. | In the opening of the den next t» that of the’ Polar bears aat Zip, the funny little Himalayan sloth bear, | given to the Zoo by Charles Knox of | Jamestown, N. ¥,, the gelatine king. | In the fold of his elongated lower lip, | held like a cigar, was a police whistle, | and, with joyous puffs of breath, he was tooting away joyously. The charging host saluted and fell back NOTHING FOR ‘vision of Chas. 1H, Fletcher for ‘e respectfully call the attention New York Is overengineered, oversuperintended, overinspected No better illustration could jouncement of the railroads that they on side tracks and in yards west and ® shortage of ships, but primarily be re will not allow the transfer of the iting cargo. Congestion of offices and same signatu surveyed and bound hard and fast in inst counterfeits and be offered at this time than the ann of the younger gener- have 30,000 cars loaded with freight je who are now engaged in the north of New York, partly because of cause the port terminal facilities he contents of those cars to vessels awa | for export through the Port of New | meant fences for ex ignatare of alone machinery nven- editing the and ¢ Downtown Store Park Row & Chatham Sq. Liberal Claus You can buy any ume of thousends of pieces of fur- niture, rugs or housefurnishings from us, and you 9! don't have to pay cash in advance. Your credit is | some and sul H Come and let us show you—you will surely find here just the articles you need to make your home more attractive than ever this Christmas. Cuperthat. Some Saturday Evenings hem 8-Piece Bedroom Suite This pretty bedroom outfit comes in Walnut, Mahogany and Ivory. It in- cludes—Bed, Bureau, Chiffonter, Dressing Table, Dork, Desk Chair, Straight Chair and ‘The Chiffonier may be had with mir- Pieces are all well made, Chairs have 133 0 ror if preferred. cape seats. Price, complete, only Bedroom Furniture—single pieces or entire outlite—at lowest plainly marked ColumbiaGrafonolas cea | Give “Mother” a Rug for Christmas ou can make no mistake in giving i be Special Grafonola Outfit This Columbia “Favorite” twenty = four tions on Uihimbis” out: $57.80 Dike Records, only. Other models, $15 to $500. 1,000 Doubie-Disc Records, 65¢ Each. Electric Floor Lamp, only $13.75 Nassocka.... This I uuitable for | #6 er pesbony ; ‘bis lamp is suita (all woo!), yard. with vl which is theally 5 ‘feet hixh. fwo pull so ed in den enamel, The shade haw garland relief work finished t line Linole Inlaid popu attractive styles at Several other equal! so many other lamps this special price. at low prices. This Punch Bowl | Lo) € _~ and Six | 8 @ Glasses Fumed Oak Chair & Rocker @ massive built chatrs are up- ered ek @ 98c ge All Kinds of B Chi and Tablew: pric titully Cut Glass, 5 at the lowest The above is a sample of our tow prices on chairs of all kinds, “Oldest Furniture House in America” 3rd Ave. & 121st St. Downtown Store: 193-205 Park Row wnsfer of} THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915. the bear dens, ‘The two polar bears! in particular are quite viclous and | have clawed many Incautious specta- | tors through the bars. | 1 REAL RESULTS: NY. BOUND BY RED TAPE Half a Million Each Year for Board | of Estimate Overseeing of Work of Men in Other Departments— $22,000,000 for Port Improvements. over red tape wes her child. Adults can do | yyy rolls in the City Government ts reflected in congestion of freight bound York. rt terminal facilities Is not} freight from railroad cars to ships or vice versa, There should also’ be plenty of convenient warehouse space in Which freight could be stored to await the time when abivs or cars are avaliable, ‘The piling up along raii- road lines of loaded cars is bad for the railroads as well as bad for New York, because these cars are taken out of active service for the time and thus contribute to universal conges- ton in factories and warehouses. The jcountry is full of freight which the railroads cannot carry. The City of New York ts unable to | bandle its export business to-day be- cause the City Government bas sot provided @ system for the prompt | transfer of freight arriving from the v from the railroad cars to the of Vessels. Anu there is om nand day for the expense of providing such @ system the sum of $22,650,046. The reason why the city, with tnix enormous sum available, has pot made provision for the swift sbifting of export freight from rail to wat carriers is that there has been too! much red tape, too much surveying and planning, too much backing anu filling, too much consultation with experts over @ job that is compara- tively simple. This condition, which has brought about immense damage to business tuterests in the city—and ih fact Wo (me UNN.Neas interests of the country in generai—is reflected all through the City Government in its various branches. MILLIONS FOR TERMINALS RE- MAIN UNEXPENDED, In 191) the Legisiature, as part of ‘the Barge Canal fund, appropriated $11,000,000 for the expense of cun- struction of terminain with more dock facilities in this harbor, After four years and a half no part of this money bas been expended, although the State had repeatediy asked tae city to approve locations for such terminals, The whole matter ts up in the al On July 2, 1914, the Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment reserved for port and terminal improvements within the debt limit # sum which amounted, on Jan. 2 of this year, to $11,550,046. After almost seventeen months this money is unexpended and the port facilities of New York, in so far as the matter of handling freight to export is concerned, have broken own, New York City, with its vast stretches of water front, has the natu- ral facilities of a great and conven- lent port. In the past twenty years numerous plans for improving the port have been formulated by city of- Heials, raiir terminal experta, ship- ping interes: d civic bodies. Many of the plans were simple and practi- eable. All have been allowed to re- pose in plgeonholes in some city de- partment, and now the matter of ter- minal improvements is in the hands of another commission, for which the Board of Estimate has appropriated $310,000. This is Comptroller Prender- kast’s recommendation. It calls for three engineers for three years at $15,000 a year each—$135,000 in salaries for these three men alone, The big need of the harbor is im- provement in the facilities for hand- ling froight, especially freight coming here from the rest of the country for export. In the West Forties the city is engaged in building immense docks for the use of passenger ships 1,000 feet long, of which there ix none in existence. All the German ships ap- roaching 1,000 feet In length are tied port, and the big English ships are engaged in war transportation abroad RAILROADS MUST SHARE BLAME WITH THE CiTy, Tho railroads are to blame to « considerable extent because they have not sufficient lighters and floats to handle their own business, but they answer that they bave all the ligh| and floats they can use in the stricted area of harbor open to thi purposes, The fact stands out th the city, with millions of doll available, has not even started port terminal Improvements, the need of which has been apparent for years Furthermore, the Department — of THE Docks, which was once @ net revenue producer, has become a tax eater. The underlying reason for the lack of port. terminal improvements Is the lack of confidence In each other of off bly the ¢ In Constant Use b: lair Dressers and Scalp Specialists for 20 Years Empress Hair Color Rest at or rubs foty an 1.08, Halr Remever, Dai 7 ual Sake 2." canes isp: Aedes Bortrese' Biches 40 W, 20th Bi., N, ¥. 1. 'misstoner of Docks and Ferries, 1, A.' $116,920, for there were sixty em-| C. Smith, who was selected by Mayor ployees on the payroll and the board Gaynor, was held over by this Ad-. was beginning to organize bureaus ministration because of his peculiar and divisions to do work that had fitness for the job. But his eolleaxwes formerly been done in the Comptroll- | in the City Government will not allow | er's offic by the staffs of he | him to exercise the full powers of hix, departments. 1 tot yprop loffice and proceed with needed purt| for’ ig heyy 3 for the Board of Batin nd Ap terminal work. et 5, OF This Inck of confidence permenten | paniee te ieee ie $520,685, of which $446,785 is for the salaries of 250 em. ployees. The staff and payroll of the Board of Estimate has jumped in o employees draw employees drawing the entire City Government and has Duilt up a system of examination, supervision, espionago avd checking |up of work in progress or performed | which has saddied on the taxpayers | within a few years an expense in aal- Jaries paid and time wasted in the |Board of Estimate and the Bureau of Finance alone amounting to $1,600,000. DOING THE SAME WORK Two) AN EXPENSIVE SYSTEM OF NEEDLESS DUPLICATION, All this increase is due to @ change of plan of tho Board of Estimate, AND THREE TIMES OVER, [which makes it on administrative Heretofore The Evening World in| body instead of a legislative body, as its lessons to New York taxpayers on | Was intended | he Charter, It where their money is going and why | grows out of a desire on the part of #0 much of it is taken from them by|the Board of Mstimate to duplicate the citv has confined its illustrations |the work of departments of the city Jargely to matters which must be! government dealt with through action in the| ‘The charter created the various 4 Legislature. The matter of duplica-| partments and defined the duties | tion of jobs and departments can be] longing to them and contemplated attended to by the City Government} that the heads of these departments without any outside assistance. should be responsible for the pegform- The budget in 190%, which was the) ance of those dutica. The city strane last year of Mayor McClellan's Ad-|ment has grown far away from the ministration, carries jfor the City of New Y the needs of the five coun’ ing to $148,446,000. The pu now awaiting the Mayo: carries appropriations for New York, exclusive amounting to $191,879,000. ‘The total budget increase In seven years has been $48,433,000—a rise av- eraging over $6,000,000 a year. Of this tmcrease $16,000,000 Is accounted for in interest on the city debt, reducing the cit debt and sinking fund purposes. ‘The increase In the cost of education in seven years has been $12,400,000. These two items of interest and edu- cation should be separated from the gross increase, for they are manda- tory. The difference between $43,433,000, the gross increase, and $28,400,000, the debt and education cost, ts $15,000,000, and this sum may be set down as the expense of refinement of the functions of city government. In other words, this sum largely represents the cost of supervision, standardization, revi- sion, examination, checking up of checkers, engineering or engineers, doubling, tripling or quadrupling ser-| up by others and that the Board of vice and other trimmings and decora-| Estimate will not accept responel- tions which have been added to the| bility for appropriations except upon | Administration of the city’s affairs. | information furnished by their own An instance of how tha cost of over. | employees. seeing the business of the city has in-| TAXPAYERS PAY HIGH FOR “RE- ben rere is fepniebed by the Board of FINEMENT.” | atimate. Up to 100 the Board of] Leaving out the added expense to! | Estimate, consisting of the Mayor, sity caused by the duplication of} Comptroller, President of the Board) work by the department itself and by of Aldermen and five Borough Presi-/ the Board of Estimata em the] dents managed to get along with twol real in veness of the method! Clerks drawing salaries amounting to! must be apparent. The Board ofj orginal charter idea and heads of de- partments are now objects of sus- picion rather than responsible execu- "| tive officials. Matters of contract and construc- tion go to the $529,000 Board of Esti- mate through bureaus in the Comp- troller’s office, costing $440,000, as well as through the department directly involved. Every dollar epent on the Investigators, checkers up and over- seers in consulting with or taking up the time of the men who are plan- ning or doing the work is, of course, doubled by the loss of time of these employees. It io claimed that these bureaus, money. The same amount could be) saved by following out the principle of placing responsiblity on heads of departments and calling them and their subordinates before the Board of Estimate to explain and couies) their plans. The defense for the refinement method of conducting the public business is that department heads cannot be trusted to pratect the city interests; that they must be checked by supervisory methods, save the city | chain of offices will not make if. ane eney morte efficient, and that the only imical organization ts that which secures good service and work well done in the first Instance by re- sponsible administrative heads, then it will be able to devote millions to city needs that now go to pay rolls. Let the Board of Estimate legislate and appropriate and let the Mayor and heads of departments execute (he city’s business. finement of oMeial machinery, the departin heads relieved of respon- sibility are not under the sume obliga. tlon to protect the city if the reapon- sibility were all their own So, when the city builds a dock It must submit trie engineering blo delays, and a the present policy, every official sus- ts every other offi 5 ‘This is not all, When all this red tape is unwound and a city project is undertaken, the department must carry still more employees to accom. pany the engineers and inspectors from the Comptroller's office in their rounds to see that the work is per- formed according to the notions of the Comptroller's office, After, as it happens sometimes, a city undertaking is completed, thon the Mayor's Commissioner of Ac- | nes counts comes Into action and makes | , an investigation of what has been | 5 done in order to determine which of the three agencies who have been trying to find the other two inefficient or dishonest, was right about it, and we have 4 bureau cvsiing $229,000 an- nually for salaries, holding post mor- tems on suspicions ‘When the city learns that an end- Have a Complexion Free from Pimples A complexion protected by the regu- tar use of Resinol Soap is almost always a complexion to be proud of—free from pimples, blackheads, redness and rough- and glowing with natural health beauty. hoe Lewin Resinol is an extremely pure toilet sonp, Mithout trace of injurious. alkali, and containing the soothing, weit ol medication. Resinol Soap is delightful to use. Its odor is wholesome and refresh- ing, and its distinctive rich brown color is due entirely to the Resinol balsams and not to artificial coloring.—Advt. Fulton Street, Cor. Bridge. At Subway Station. 1329-31 Broadway 4810-12 Fi Fifth Ave. Near Gates Ave. Blouses at Special Values APPROPRIATE XMAS GIFTS $9.97 | Mall Orders Filled Promptly Model illustrated is a novelty shadow lace blouse in rich ecra tint, combined with flesh color crepe georgette; high flaring lace collar and long sleeves of com- bination georgette and lace form i After the dissolution of the old! Estimate « yees, because of limi] Board of Public Improvements the) tations t conditions eight employees of the bourd were} must ‘ley the depart-j taken into the Board of Estimate and! juents the salary list was increased to $20,300) port @ year. There it remained until the; be end of 190 and the close of the! fro MeCiellan administration, ave In 1911 the total appropriation for; th the Board of Estimate had jumped to’ GB. Altman & Cn. FIFTH AVENUE-MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK Thirty-fourth Street Millinery Department (First Floor) Exceptional price reductions have been made (for to-morrow and Saturday) in Women’s & Misses’ Trimmed Velvet Hats which will be offered at. $4.50 & 6.75 Also Untrimmed Velvet Hats $1.00 & 2.00 at . . . . . In the regular stock will be found smart assortments of new hats, fashioned of leather or satin, or in the fashionable combination of maline and jet; also hats of gold or silver lace; all at moderate prices. An Unusual Sale of Misses’ Coats, Suits and Dresses has been arranged for to-morrow and Caturday. Attractive and individual modes are included | in the following groups, and the price conces- sions are exceedingly interesting: Fur-trimmed Tailor-made Suits $18.50, 22.50 & 24.00 Coats designed for wintry days, and fashioned of the newest materials, $12.75, 15.00 & 18.50 Street Dresses, smartly tailored, $14.50 & 19.50 Afternoon Dresses and Evening Frocks at. .s S15.50, 18,50 & 24.00 at . . . at . . . et . . . . . a beauttfal blouse on chiffon. This model is one of the rere that = have at hand painted holly boxes. Thirty-fifth Street A Special Sale of Women’s Tailor-made Suits (sizes 34 to 44 inches) will be held commencing to-morrow (Friday) at the extraordinary price of i $19.00 Many of these Suits are fur-trimmed. Men’s House Slippers suitable for Holiday Gifts, may be obtained in the regular stock at very moderate Prices, While the assortments represent a large and unusually interesting variety of styles and colors, am early selection is advisable. A sale to- norrow and Saturday will consist of a limited quantity of MEN’S BALTA LACE SHOES ; of imported tan calfskin, at per pair $5.85 Owing to the scarcity of imported tan calfskin, this offering is of special interest. a nen i Young Men’s Dress Suits In replenishing stocks, special efforts are made to augment the comprehensive assort- ments with perfectly tailored and authorita. tive styles in Full Dress Syits, Dinner Suits, and Cutaway Frock Coats, affording unusual opportunities for the selection of very fine garments at moderate prices. Young Men’s Sack Suits im models expressive of dignity and correct , style, are most attractively priced at . . . . ° $23.50 & 25.00 ee tl