The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1915, Page 4

Frankfort Street. Betwoen the hours named a dally average of 296,000 pe- destrians and 6,700 vehicles pass that point. Times Square, the centre of the universe for theatrical folk, comes far down the list of New York's busl- est points. Only 90,370 pedestrians and 19,660 vehicles pass there on an average daily. ‘These and many other similar O«- ures are the result of an Inquiry into traffic conditions that was conducted by order of Commissioner Woods by Deputy Commissioner Dumham and Inspector Thomas Myers of the Traf- fic Squad between Nov. 6 and 90 last. As a result of their investigation im- portant changes aro to be made in the assignment of the traffic policemen, With automatic counters, Inspector Myers and investigators stationed at ‘all the Important trafic pointe in the Borough of Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens kept an accu- record each day for the period named of all the pedestrians and vi cles passing in that direction. Passengers on trolley cars were not counted, A record was kopt of 44 points where traffic policemen are sta- tioned at various hours during the An average of 15,545,745 poces- Yehicles pass these 464 points every day. The second busiest point in Man- hatian is the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street, where the traffic POLICE DISCOVER [Sze NEW YORK cITY’S BUSES CORNER It's Not Times Square, but Park Row and Frank- fort Street. 296,200 PASS THERE. Traffic Census Shows Second Busiest Spot Is Broadway and Fulton Street. ‘Ten to one you can’t guess busiest corner In Manhattan between the hours of 8:30 A. M. and 6:30 P. M.! ‘Times Square? No, you're wrong— fuses again. Brooklyn Bridge? Go to the font of the class! You're wrong again. [officers are kept busy by 223,000 Fifth Avenue and Forty-second) daily. south of Fulton Street, Street. Not a chance! You evidently) more than 1,200,000 persons cross know, 80 we'll tell you. oon Broadway daily. It's the corner of Park Row and 7, i —— Fifth Avenue and Twenty-third Street showed a record of 159,920 j Dedestrians and 9,646 vehicles, while Fifth Avenue and = Thirty-fourth Street is passed daily by 1 | pedestrians and 14,360 vehicles, Fifth ! [jomemney and Fofty-second Street makes a comparatively minor show- ing. The record for upper Fifth Ave- nue, however, shows much vericular traffic, At the corner of Fifty-sev- enth Street, near the entrance to Central Park, 17,830 vehicles pass daily. They are dodged by 28,180 pedestrians, At the entrance to the park at Co- Boo evmewsnu WUD, PALUnuaAY, Reducing 210-Pound Woman’s ; Weight By Proper Diet and Scientific Exercise Miss Furlong Describes | the Exercises Employed | During the First Week| of Her Month’s Work With Mrs. A. St. James, and Outlines the Diet! Being Followed. By Pauline Furlong. For the benefit of my readers who are following the story of how I am reducing Mra, A. St. James I shall outline and il-| lustrate very carefully to-day just what my pupil and I have done during the first week of the evening of Jan. 4 in the ballroom of the Colony Club, under the auspices of the St. Luke's Hospital Auxiliary, for the benefit of its social service Yvette Guilbert, In New Programme, treatment. Fy work Tickets may be had at the Mrs, St. James Compels Tribute} residence of Miss Cutting, No. 24 Bast hos lost ome Sixty-seventh Street. week considera- bly more flesh By Sylvester Rawling. VW vali GUILBERT, that mar- vellous woman, the consum- of reducing. The first week after mate artist who compels ad- following the diet and exercises with | M!ration and disarms criticism by her great determination and regularity ineffable personality, gave @ second | concert at the Lyceum Theatre yes- will always show a marked reduc terday afternoon, er entire pro- tion of superfluous fat, and after this gramme was new, as were most of the change in me urements and her ravishing costumes, the laat one, weight will be considerably smaller.) aii black, lending significance to the In the pictures to-day I am illus-|tragedy of “La Glu." Her tmper- trating some of the most important] sonations included a dozen types of exercises which my pupil practised] Women from the a Ages to the .| présent century, It is not e: this past week and which are neces: pide Out an Oe Suime: (Galibert sary in the obesity course, and | terpretations of songs for special shall describe them to you fn full. meation, all ate bog@ee! 4 Sortie THE EXERCISES. gypoerice,” ROLLING: Reduces hips, Take ta Widele” anid Lin your position flat on the floor or any Emmy Destinn, the Bohemian so- prano, miased from the Metropolitan PAUUNE FURLONG. than is usually expected in a course m and “Mme. Butterfly” at her appearance with Sousa and his band at the Hippodrome to-morrow aight. John McCormack, the Irish tenor, will make a special trip from his Southern tour to New York to sing at the benef: concert for the Knigh of Columbus Building Fund at the Hippodrome on Sunday afternoon, The People’s Music League of the People's Institute will give free con- certs at these publi ehools next week: Monday, No. 170; Wednesday, Nos, 53 and 63; Thursday, No. 4; Fri- day, Nos. 1, 27 and 21, Hanna Welfe, Dutch’ pianist, will give her first New York recital in the Princess Theatre a week from Mon- lumbus Circle, the police figures show 99,210 vehicles and $1,990 pedestrians | pasa daily, The busiest corner in Brookiyn with respect to pedestrian traffic is Fulton and Court Streets, where 41,- 206 peraons pass dally. Vehicular traffle there amounts to 6,767 dally. Flatbush and Fourth Avenues runs this corner no clone second and ex-) int in Harlem for Seventh Avenue, where 40,119 perso on foot pass dally. The vehi ts 10,565, Hane Gross, Ort lowiat, Dead. GRATZ, Austria, Dec 11 (via Lon- don)—Prof, Hans Grows, one of the foremost of criminologists and origina- tor of the Gross detective system, which i» well known in the United States, ts dead, He was born in 1847. ee Bryce Heads British Pilgrims. LONDON, Dec. 11.—Viscount Bryce, former British Ambassador at Wash- ington, has been unanimously elected resident of the igrims of Great ritain, in succession to the late Fiel | Roberts, de the deepest impression, hard surface, pince the closed flats|The piano accompaniments were ad- on the chest at the armpits and roll mirably played by Ward-Stephena, and Fredric Fradkin, a violinist well from one side of the room to the other, keeping the knees rig! known hore, played several solos, It may have been on Pros ore LEG CIRCLING: Reduces thighs, are ce V 4 vorak’s Lde fiat on the floor, hands at the| “Hiumoregquess The truth. is he. was back of the head, lifting it slightly, ime for Mme, Guilbert to so that you may see the feet and con- Pr Pt hg? GE atid gs treat ore trol the motions. Describe a small | &to wr circle, with first one leg and then the | *Pel/bound and vociferous, and gradually make the circles larger, until you are able to form a very large circle several times with each. . STATIONARY RUNNING: Re- duces hips, thighs and abdomen, Place the hands on the hips to tend support, keep the chest, shoulders and head day afternoon. Her programme will include compositions by Brahms, Beet- boven and Sehumann, Nja_ Schkolnik, Russian violinist, will give his first New York recit: | on Dec. 20 in Aeolian Hall. Many have confused him with nis brother Gre- gor, It is Ilja Schkolnik’s first visit to America. Sei etir tie gy soprano, will be solo: : {ist at the concert uf the Orch Emily Gresser, violinist, burn In! society of New York at the Harris New York and trained. by Sam ‘Theatre to-morrow afternoon. Max Franko, gave @ recital at Aeolian Jacobs will conduct. Halil lust night that made one sit up and take notice, She is only @ year! Phe soloists at the fourth Biltmore or two out of her ‘teens, but she |8! morning musicale next Friday will be already an artist I dove re teen | Nellie Melba, Leopold | Godowaky, of celebrities and of aspirant! or . publit tavoriejvelcome. Bhe produces | *°% Olitaka and Louis Mexel, @ lovely tone and her technique is ad-| gohn Cushing, organist, assisted by vevemBER 11, 1916, ‘CAMERA FOLLOWS ‘ DEATH SCYTHE I WORLD WAR FMS Tremors Come When Specta- tors Pass Over Silent Field After a Battle. What of the soldier who has fallen in battle? In the French Government OfMcial Motion Pictures of “Fighting in France,” at the Fulton Theatre yes terday, interest in one scene in par- ticular seemed to carry homé to the audiences the real tragedy. It was a picture of a fold over which with ever shifting successes troops had fought—a fleld now silent after tho shock of battle. War being intensely organized and continuous wholesale manslaughter, it Is obvious that those whose fate it is to be added to the dally toll re- celve small, although not entirely un- gentle, attentions. When a soidiér's knees buckle and he plumps down, and a gasp and a rigor tell the story of bis distress, he is no fonger an available unit, but becomes merely & number and @ check mark on an official record, In one picture, which is instructive 4s to method rather than gruesome} as to detalis, there is shown a feld| whereon is laid the harvest of the war scythe. ‘The battle has rolled along, and the soldier detail which has for its duty the recording of cusuaities, is at its work. When a shell comes screeching from afar and expends its pent up killing force In the midst of a forward rush- ing battalion, it blot# out not only lives but Identities. Were it not for the metal tag which each soldier wears about his neck and upon which is stencilled a number corresponding to a name back at headquarters, the cut of the war scythe would nover be known, | Ta the picture the auc ce S008 the calm and almost 4 ine Ike method of disposing of the no longer available soldier units. ne infantry- man, by whom the call to advance; WEALTHY FATHER LETS “JACK THE HUGGER” GO TO JAL FOR 60 DAYS College Honor Man Says He Can't Resist Impulse to Scare Girls in Streets. Acknowledging himself to be gulity of roaming about Elizabeth, Newark and Brooklyn streets at night, scar- SCULPTOR SUICIDE HAD BOUGHT BURIAL PLOT ——_ (Spetia) to The Evening World.) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Deo, Li. Paul Meriot, a sculptor, who lived at No. 148 West One Hundred and Third Street, New York, committed sulcide last night by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun at the home of Lucien Bruno of Metuchen. Meriot had been much depressed by Jack of orders for his work and when thus harassed it was his habit to visit his friends, the Brunos, where @ room was always kept in readiness « for his visits. Last night Mrs. Bruno heard the shot and ran upstairs to find Meriot dead on the floor. eda BE Ad Nk SS In the drawer of a bureau was women and little girls for the} rung the deed to a lot in Calvary amusement thelr terror brought him,|Cemetery, which Merlot had pur- Loring P. Crosman, a graduate of|chased recently, He was thirty-five Havertord College, 1911, was fined $60 | Years old. with the alternative of a two months’ Jail sentence, by Judge Owen P. Mahon to-day, at Elizabeth, N, J., to- day: Crosman’s fathor, G. A. Crosman, a@ wealthy lumberman of Portland, Me, had an interview with the boy before he was arraigned. He bad told Chief of Police Mulcahy he could not believe his son had con-| fessed. The boy was a scholarship winner at Haverford, the father said, and had been a prominent Y. M. C. A. worker, was engaged to a beaut!- ful and accomplished girl in Port-| land and was doing well as a litho- grapher with a Manhattan tm, “Loring,” he said when the boy was brought tn, “what is the truth about these accusations against you?” The boy hupg his head and sald they were all true, “In that ease,” said Mr. Crosman | “T can't help you. You must serve your sentence and do the best you can to realize that your punishment is doserved. I hope it makes a better man of you.” Miss Helen Frets of No, 10% Ellza- beth Avenue, Esther Munger of No. 7 West Jersey Street and Mrs. Annie Kaufman of No. 17 North Reid Street | = were the complainants appearing against Crosman, They said he had A Lionel — Electric Train for Xmas is sure to make the children happy. Electric Toys of every description—loads and loads of fun for all—strong, useful, scientific. You can't possibly please the young: aters better. Be sure to ask for "Lionel" —the standard for 16 years, | “High grade but not high priced” At department, toy aud electrical stoves Guaraniged by the maker 1 Manufacturing Co. | jumped at them Thursday evening. | hugged them and pinched them, Crosman admitted having chased! neo ~ Miss Minnie Jacobs of No. 1017 Grovol | To ),bagy ctlre Xmas holly Strect and Miss Hattie Borice of No |] <, 1, 682 Livingston Street Wednesday|| POR BOYS UP TO @ YEARS aud will never again bo answered, Ues| night before and explained a black- where he had fallen, A ad a finda the cord at his n pea wit jened oye by saying ho lav been beaten the tag is suspended, drawa it from|in Newark Monday night by the Consiste of Meal Pity meerion nae hal Circus, Woolen Daridy Spinner Blow Toy and Magn Ta Fars hat Whustle, > Tor, ‘Teanis Rac c cut off—and that is all—aill sa mere rolling of the body to an open trench and dumping it down This done, and the soldier detail} which follows ever in the sanguinary | swath of the war scythe, presses on to the next fold. beneath the uniform coat, the tug is| brother of a girl he had scared. t Crosman told Chief Mulcahy he had tried in vain to resist the temptation to annoy women and had excused) his conscience by the conviction that ho had a Jekyll-and Hyde dual per- sonality. _— MUSIGIAN SAVED BY LADDER AT YONKERS FIRE Flames Had Cut Off Wourm's Es-| cape When Others Fled in | Night Clothes. Write for Literature, Co-Operative Buying Co. 200 Fifth Ave. New York. ‘Plnvwe Gramercy 4384 Fire swept through the lower floors ’ of kledge Manor, an exclusive boarding house in the Caryl section of 2 onkers, early to-day and sixty guests | in the place were forced out scantily | dressed. Starting In the kitchen, the | fire had gained headway when one ot | the guests, Maurice McGrath, an en- sineer of the Western Electric Com- | pany, discovered it, | Mr, McGrath and his wife aroused | the others, and they were ont upon| the broad lawn in front of the place | when Moritz Wourm, leader of a New | York orchestra, appeared at an up. | per window. He had not awakened @t Mr, McGrath's call and his escape! ay of the stairs was cut off, Firemen arrived and an extension ladder was run up to Wourm. 7! building was saved from total struction after 4 half hour’ W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES worth by OMENS wird Avs O47 OOK LYN : 421 way t 478 ae. | work, nen) the dates 2 need not file again, cre a a ery fat ceived the 300 tek tata cer tly “haw beew, oo 200 tre irvatinents atlered lets so ‘Urnent ‘that {atm ee 200 ie cy rom ‘or Tamm going to offer agai reatments Free 4 would mean to uo ivager suff ile, roaring ugha — the organs — tive bowels’ is found in the always safe, sure, quick-acting BEECHAM’S . PILLS shangasy Geto of hay Mes im the World. thie ilage irr inciatileitatainth taiatile fe tance’ af eclonce i jouhave teal” Nolwee, Hea: one of ie ke off Ai se 106., 25. ir n vome dice HE Sunday World's Want Directory makes more “Ofiers of Posi- tions’ than any other two mediums in the universe, Woad tor Head Note Treatment DEAFNESS SPECIALIST SPROULE 219 Trade Building, Boston, Mass, with ‘These are the ONLY Motion Pictures exhibited to the Allied Diplomats at the French Embass: at Washington on Thursday, November 18. FULTON presents the French Government’s Official Motion Pictures of the War, taken for the NATIONAL ARCHIVES, and loaned to The World through its War Correspondent, E, Alexander Powell, for ex- hibition throughout the United States and Canada. TNEATRE erect and Ifft each foot high in back} mirable; but better than that, she has | tarry Munro, ‘baritone, will give a{..¥8? 908 not halt. It presses al- as you run, The higher the foot Is|Tare sensibility and interpretative) recital at Calvary Church on Monday | 2% 08. leaving those behiud to take ability of a hich order, Withal, she itrornoon at 4 o'clock the tars. lfted toward the back of the knee the) \ simple, straightforward and modest eee ee It is pictures like these that help more benefit will be derived from the| in her playing as she is in her looks. tell the story of the war. These pic- exercise. Stationary running is sim-| Mins Gresser's programme embraced) CLOSING QUOTATIONS. tures were taken by order of the ing without progressing, | Car! Goldmarh suite, Spohr’s con- rates Lechdhag Great General Staff of the French Diy Sonning: | corto No, 8, Max Vogrich’s "Memento| win net changw ram army for the national archives and Practise this in the fresh air and Mori,” for the first time in America; se perenne Sheets were lent to The World through its breathe deeply through the nostrils an unfamiliar Bach composition ar- Aleets, Gold Mine low. Laat. oh'gs.| war correspondent, E. Alexander meanwhile, ranged by sam ry re and a Gude Aits-Chai ate * fy t & Eowell fap exhinttiog! in the United Jeapriccio. Samue jotzinoff was H ates and Canada, They are tho. only TRUNK RAISING: Reduces obese | tn4 pianist. fi” -. %| pictures. shown to. the’ allied diplo- abdomen, Take your position fat on % fut 371%] mats at the French Embassy, Was. the floor, with the hands clasped be-| “Boris Godunoff,” that absorbing § By + | Inston. hig@) the head, hpela, together . nd | Dott tina eas the vill ay the Metre mn fat } allan, was e e 7 touching the floor, tocs braced Under | eee ae ee ast miht, Dis BS = 8 @ heavy piece of furniture, Slowly | Gur's impersonation of Boris, one of ae — f raise the body to an upright sitting ee i things oa is tgae And wa - iw ‘ @ satisfying cast that includes Mar- i position, After you are more Prve {garete Ober, Paul Althouse, Leon eth “hte! i iss” + 5 tused you may do the trunk-raising | Rothier, Andrea de Segurola, Ray- Beookiyn it ?.. My + te — exercise without the feet braced. monde Delaunois, Lenora Sparkes and | her, RS 71 whe depron GP interest manitentes Walking, stair climbing, bathing,| Maria Duchene, Mr, Polacco conduct- he seer en oe mesons a euurents ke and chin exercises and deep| iTS: held the ‘close attention of a i. ¢ B} by the public at the opening was neck a large audience, i small considering the tendency of ia whesan Geiaaet Ot the Boniaie ol i$ = Q| prices oni Friday, ‘The selling seemed the Friends of Music will be given at = y'*| to be of professional origin. Prices fhe Rita-C ariteg Batels week from | 4 t % recovered from the raid delivered soon o-morrow afternoun, A programme ; ; . ep moe artetbocn. A. promramine) Gos, i after the opening and scattered buy given by George, Barrere, Harold ele tit jit: Hg + | mas Neld the market steady during the firat week of the course will prove to) Hauer and 4 small orchestra. ‘This | itmeral Menor Gi)": | cis” | first hour. New York Central ad- all of my readers Shey she. om = Boo is preparing to give sory ie Geoera), Motors, Dt, 188 nd +4, | vanced to the highest point of the besity does not mean starvation, for| spring a symphony concert that in » 8. F J _ : : fnany. delicious, and nourishing but| numbers engaged and magnitude of | (esurstin$icsioe by SB [Peer 46. (She werions Bish wae non-fattening dishes are included in| work presented will surpass any other | fireat Nor, Ure ty = HIM. All the railroad issues mado her meals each day. concert of the season. Gustay Mah. ne FZ Yl emait gains, American Tobacco sold For breakfast the obese person may |ler's eighth symphony w en be i, — %] down to Jo" 2 c 7 have all fruits, stewed or raw, except | heard for the first time in New York | 1? we batt Ped ae igre m cylin bananas and grapes, eggs any way|and for the second time in America, | {\\q Fit re | TE TAR GP NPT or’ aires en but fried or scrambled, fish if desired,| more than one thousand persons to Py ¥ jb] the majority of stocks showed smal toast or gluten bread or muffins, teal take part, % ng] gains compared with the close of yeu or coffee, without cream or sugar, — ; t §| terday. 7 Two meals a day are advised for] Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet Russe +x << those who are dex! of reducing, |on Jan. 17 will begin an engagement =o | ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. and !f breakfast is taken an apple or of two matinees and twelve evening it ¢ 22 YQ]. Cambria Steel Company buys tive other fruit 1s all that should be. eaton! performances at the Century Theatre, Land + 14 [freight steamers valued at $1,500,000, for lunch, A simple salad of fruit or|the Metropolitan Opera direetors an- Se $131 Foreign selling of U. 8. Steel common, green vexetables, dreased with vine-|nounce, The repertory consists of Lid | Omen Rnerioan securities by Hole r, pepper and salt, may be eaten! twenty mimed scenes and ballets, pre- t 3 lund, and replacing them by Ame tean fone is very hungry. For dinner all! sented exactly as in Paris and Lon- sort Eid © Bl securities held in Germany ts claimed meats but pork may be taken, fowl, don, with Warsiav Nijinsky and aol + %&|to be partly responsible fur fatlure of fish (except #\lmon), oysters clams. Thamar Karsavina as leading da: + 14/0, S. Steel to respond to excellent un- all. green vegetables, salads and|ers, an orchestra of seventy and bal- %/filled tonnage statement, fruita, let troupe of fifty-one, viet oe Bane base Genecay ea In giving the above obesity menu — vas Pe ey MA is Beart geet Acs rah I advise my readers to eat at each; The People’s Symphony Society's Tak io—with initial dividend of $5, ° ix meal but very few of the foods that ind orchestral concert Dee, 19 will South. T° | months ago; dividend payments for this feature an all-Wagner programme | south ager? : Sl year total $20 a share nd two soloists, Kathleen Howard, | sumer Co st fa £19 |?" Northern. Securitien Company's reg » appetite craves, formerly with the Century Opera | yous ¢ ah gh | ular annua eens it ee pees Gays ‘thie will seem, an cas: "|Company, and Alfred Greenfeld, vio- |{'\i™! fi 4 ig jan, 11, to stock of record and if you do not take liq linist, The half-rate privilege for} American Sugar Company's your meals you will naturally masti-|these concerts at Carnegie Hall is + 3) ed Sept. 30. to students, teachers, professional people a extended Usts and aw wane ¢ ar- cate your food much more thoroughly nh well i t d with much less, Take \ y GB. Altman & Gn. will hold an extraordinary Sale of WOMEN’S TAILOR-MADE SUITS (fur trimmed) (sizes 34 to 44 inches) Income increased 528; expenses incre 35,0: profit $5,594,0. af ter pri er cent. before each meal, to ald digestion and Wt te 62.00 D ‘on common stock. stimulate the cireulation and action Calve and Yvette Guilbert | 5 ‘of the liver, will head the artists who are to ap- | NEW YORK NGE.| Cotton New Ort Monday a chart will be printed! poar at the French benefit at the € . | NEW ORLWANS, Dec. 11,—Cotton comparing Mrs. St. James's we; Metropolitan Opera House on Jan, 4|Decemb iv] shy ‘his it 1 urements at the end of the auspices of the Flotilla : 's work, with her weight mittee of the Vacation War Re- ; ane surements at the start as lief Committee, which will spend the | j,} 1 |given in the chart last Monday. Sill be interested in thie detalled port of the excellent results alr accomp! money for ambulances, st A You re- dy A song recital by Mme. Povia Frisch, Danish soprano, is announced for the re 6 60 1 12.5 The market closed weak, off 23 to 29 points, Management Morris Gest. 46th Street West of B’way CONTINUOUS 11 A. M. to 11 P.M. it |values shot swiftly downward to-day, peaking from $1.70 to $1.80 @ bale within firet thirty minutes of trading. ling by the bears, prompted hy vd | Austro- Hu by interests who went shi wa. |lieved responsible for the break FIGHTING»sFRANCE Never before in the world’s history has it been possible to see fighting men in the day-by-day struggles of a great’ war, y PRICES 25¢e and 50c on Monday, December 13th Fifth Avenue-Madienn Avera, 34th and 35th Streets New York FULL ORCHESTRA Part of the Receipts to the French Red Cross Society | it