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eky, who said he Rrooklyn Bor Ass siastoe, and i Public Bervice Commissioner MeCar roll, who apt A for the Brooklyn r Cin, ar ei that #0 y should not be spent for pate h an vid build For $600,000, epresented VOTE TO “PATCH UP" OLD ie “hmropine he my as SANDWICH NM (What the Direct Tax | KINGS COUNTY COURT 3. =, . = MS Means to Santa Claus! Gov. Whitman and the Legislature $600,000 Appropriated by Board of Estimate Despite Request for a New Structure. fald, a win a court house | The Board of Estimate this after-| 14 tind a ‘ip ine wig 68 , Hoon voted $600,000 to remodel the of4| prectlyn Municipal Muildine. Kings County Court House, despite! Mayor Mitchel sald: “If we had the| money we would build the wing you| apeak of. In fact, we feel morally ob r Brooklyn, But haven't the money the protests of a number of Brooklyn ites and the one negative vote of Bor- Ovgh President Marks of Manhattan, | lixated to Borough President Pow of Brook. ! we i We have picked the fay Drum Mador as the one on whom to warer in the pre action the sensa- moking Moet your Xrmas oblie with box of i will declare trom QOIICTSIET When you rive him If you can improve this rumintion on the sublect and the sat- infled nenantion that It chimes, eet out nay even use @ stencil. if vou stick to this essen= Hat COTTER with sensa~ sation alwaye rhymes. ALL SIZES ALL SHAPES rie tnael eae Sold everywhere Open Every Evening Until Christmas Our Big Christmas PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS At Bargain Prices | If lowest prices, easiest terms and fully guaranteed instrur Christmas Day will find us absolutely sold out. Every Piano marked so low that these bargains will be snapped up at once, | $250 Cabinet Grand Mahogany Uprights $120 Mondeome Instramente Bweet $275 Upright Grand Variéus Makes $149 Variety of wood, design and fluish. $325 Upright Grand ‘168 Mich tone, Mie value for the $375 Upright Grands Well Known Make $190 Late model. more tian sale price. Worth much $450 Player Pianos £8-Note $500 Player Piano Sasa 2355 Free Delivery. No Red Tape, An opportunity like this has never before been known in th We offer you a genuine bona fide bargain—a bargain COME AT ONCE AND A Complete Line of Edison Diamond Dise Phon NEW YORK, 12 and 14 West 32d St. a sandw chia wife and little daughter sat in a found worthy of its skill | Forty-second Street gutter the shiv- | ering sandwich man's eye caught a| drawn face showed the pinch of pov- flickering flash of Iight—and he found | erty, crept shiveringly into a pawn- |there gems worth thousands of di | tars the grasp of the starving family, had they known the value of their find. | asked if she could borrow $2 But to-day thelr luck changed. Decker ‘se a prisoner, the gems are in the hands of the police, poverty has again jewellers at 660 Fifth | they had been stolen from her, Dec | Weat Avenue, Norwalk, Conn., NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED |} Make Your Own Terms—As Low as $1 Weekly No Extras. ! FIRST CHOICE STORY @ CLARK PIANO CO. BROOKLYN, 1100 Broadway “| FORTUNE IN GEMS -| TRACED TO OWNER | Rich Jewels Found Found in Gutter Were mittedly neediess and unjust direct t New York, which ia now payable, hav 5 , in vottlin s entered in } paying an average of $40 a month for If the direct tax had not in position to leave In New York in t Stolen From Nor- $4,875,000 baskets of coal, or he direct tax takes from the Chr _THE we WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, Conviction imposition of mnt an ad- y of by the ot § 18,950,000 dollar Christmag dinners, or 27,900,000 half-dollar dolls able induced by pressure, or walk Woman's Home. 1,950,000 pairs of dollar skates, or 00,000 pairs of warm stockings ,396,000 ten-dollar overcoats or w A pair of good shoes for 119,500,000 boxes of assorted 69,750,000 twenty-cent lunches f factories, or 139,500,000 ten-cent With this start any nta Claus could have done nand the Legisinture hav In the experienes of Robert Decker, oh man, plodding the streets between his boards for $14 day, while admissions to cheerless room and longed for more food and warmth than their pittance could buy, the gentus of a De Mau- passant or an O. Henry might have that wht andy, or itizen can sit down a » taken away from Greate ‘or shop girls or girls working in » the movies figure out other things $13,950,000 which Gov. }| New York. J} with tha material for a short story when the sight of a detective fright- In the slush and snow of an East | him. Mra, Decker, a little woman, whose |shop at No, 10 Sixth Avenue last | night. Timidly she produced the dia- mond studded platinum watch and | on tt be in the For a week munificence lay in Detective Clare chanced t © you got any more stuff like that?” he asked, amily. “Oh, yes," the woman answered ‘There Is, however, one rift of sun-| readily, “I have several more things shine in the gloom that pervades the} art home.” Deckers’ Christmas prospects. It is) At 64 Bedford St the possibility that the sandwich man|the detective a necklace containing may be given a refard of $50 which| 104 pearis babe A fe Ree a ieoncn Yrs, Alvin 8. Miller, of Pelham Ma- ifen awa aiaconmas wie nor, owner of the jewels, was about awned, she sald, a dia- to offer for their return, | mond ring a platinum chain for $2 Detectives did not learn the tden- and $1, respectively Detective Clare found the sandwich tity of the jewels’ owner until to-day Through the name of Dreicer & Co., man plodding in the snow on Fast Avenue, ‘orty-second Street and took him to Police Headquarters, “It's pretty tou en me,” sald diamond-studded watch worth bo-| tween $500 and $1,000, they traced the)! t gems to Mrs, Miller. She told them ‘aimed the sandwich man’s little she showed ona h - sadly to-day. "We thought ngs were worth about $10; but «a fortune to us. We were cold and hungry. So we passed up a fc tune, and now I'm tn bad and won't even have our little $6 @ w whore| for a c And there O, Henry, of his characteristic genius, would have written “Finis” to the Christ- mas swry of the Deckers. 8, at the home of a friend, at No. 34 she was a guest at a dinner party. with a touch For half an hour, she left the jewolry unguarded in box In a dresser drawer in her room. When she re- a turned it had ¢isappearcd. FALL LAMED SALLIE CRUTE. Decker was arralgned to-day in Yorkville Court, and held in $1,009] “Movte si bail, charged with falling to advertise hiv discovery of the jewels, ‘The po- lice believe they were tossed Into the gutter by tho thief who took them, After Tamble on Miss Sallie Crute, star of the Edison Film Company, t# # Motel Endicott from injuries company's studio, No. 28: the Bronx, We | strenuous movie perform: due to a stumble on thetron stairs! | leading from the studio to her dressing | room. a e C@) | She was hurt so much that when she © rise she crumpled up and. fell] down the length of the stairs, breaking her wrist, Water has de ed knee and the other ts cut to the bone. i JURY GIVES WIDOW $20,000. | Husband of Mra, Wolf Wan Killed by Sixth Avenue Car, in Justice Greenbaum's Part eme Court to-day awarded 00 damages to Mrs, Lena Wolf of r the loss of cloak and sued for was riding in a carriage at Sixth Ave ty-fourth Street when a car hurled him to. the A fractured skull caused death, ments are any inducement, and Player Piano has been Do not delay. Mens ( $425 Upright Grands Superior Quality C iy ;Comfor 570 APPLICANTS FOR 65 JOBS SWANN HAS District Attorney-elect will Inter- view All of Them Before Mak- ing His Appointments. Judge Edward Swann, District At- torney-eleot, was asked to-day when | he intended announcing the names of the staff to surround him in his new office, His reply was first a broad smile, and then he said: “The legal staff of the office num- bers sixty-five and I have received 570 applications for positions upon it. Furthermore, I have had personal in- terviews with every one of these ap- Plicants; some of them I have seen two or three times. “But I have made no appointments as yet, nor have I given a single promise, For a month T have/been | sifting out the applicants so as to get best staff it is humanly possib! t I shall disarrange possible the ent workings of | the District Attorney's office, as T am | in no hurry to make changes or ap- pointments. Changes will be made, to be sure, but they will come from time to time as tho public service de- mands then ——— ING VICTIM, (rom the Atchison Globe.) When a man can bo hypnotized to do a thing, he wanted to do it any- ie to as lttle A How Important Are Your, Eyes in Your Daily Work? Could you hold your place if your sight went back on you? Don't take chances—correot glasses as- sure good eyesight permanently. Eyes Examined Without Cha; by Registered Eye Physician: Periect Fitting Glasses, $2.50 to $10 Ehiulich & Sons. Established 53 Years 101 Nassau, at Ann St. 17 West 42d Street. Brooklyn: 498 Fulton St.,cor.Bond St. \) f i) $235 For richness of tone has no equal af price $500 Upright Grands Nothing Better $290 » One of, the highest grade l hh, mL planos made. a $650 Player Pianos 88-Note $390 Music Rolle Pree, HH ii | ren i I () $750 Player Pianos 88-Note $450 Music Molly Free, ie history of Piano Selling that can’t be duplicated, lo¥S Broadway, at 48th dt. : 1440 Broadway, at 41st St. 96 EB, 14th at 4th Ave, 28 Reade § near Church ographs and Records 251 Fulton Street BROOKLYN Mi a HH H i i n i i | ii \ do Naw at John 63 Nassau at Maiden Lane 109 Lenox Ave., at 116th St 147 Fourth Ave., at Mth St 150 Flatbush Avenue |i Wholesale Department, 96 Reade Street, New Yor HH) ROBIN BANK OFFICERS — Obtains Release 1915. itive committee. Thé Court granted the motion AR R Brower was under $000 bail on} While apnea perjury and with concealing from the | (je Pih directors a Joan to Robin. Mr. Wel- ler explained that there was no hope of bringing elther Brower or Wood to successful trial owing to the death Hopeless, Prosecutor From Bail of fe Pebtied | aus of $12,950,000 Brower and Wood Iaat Meptembor of Proderick L. Mor-| Easy Payments fe his ac y. Whitman ha careen oe ; tis, cashier of the bank. Brower, he | We give you the advantage books tte Palais te i — so grew OUtl iid, had appeared as a witness! of our famous credit terms. rented Sistine Le phe torn Bank, | inet others concerned in the Robin] No red tape. Come and open ee ‘ arwetiiat! “t ompany and) raiiures | a charge account with the been levied Santa Claus would have been t finar stitutions which ” 000} his Christmas seasor wero Wreoked by Joseph G, Robir James T. Wood was under $2000) Oldest Furniture House in ¥ ) ball, having been indicted for ma’ America. Wer casa tawny EU ny aw nen ae false report to the State Ganking ea stant District Attorney Weller ap-| {,1" j [AIT = a when properly § 4 Supreme Court Justice Weeks 5 oo | for the discharge of the bail bonds Three Killed By Train, or socks, 0: of William TL, Brower, President off LAKH HOPATCONG, N. J, De Sons arm wraps for women the Northern Bank, and James T.|—throe laborers were kijed and « 3rd avert Park Row ty man, woman ond child in the city, of Wood, Chairman of that bank's ex- eral others injured by a Lackaw at 121st Street at Chatham Sq. Let ‘the Columbia Grafonola furnish the music this Christmas! There never was aChristmas without music—and you never hada Christmas with such music as the Columbia Grafonola can bring! In place of the old-time Christmas waits caroling an ancient hymn or two, you have at your command this Christmas “All the Music of All the World, and Most of the Fun of it, too.” All you have to do is to see your dealer—but be sure to see him QUICK! All Columbia factories are rushed to the very limit, so the only sure way of get- ting the model you want in time is to select it from your dealer’s stock. Don’t forget to make your reservation NOW— tomorrow may be a day too late. And let your dealer make up a few groups of records for Christmas gifts. Your friends who own Grafonolas or other similar instruments would like nothing better than Columbia Records—and a similar group is an ideal gift to go with YOUR Christmas Grafonola. New records go on sale the 20th of every month, Cotumbia Records in all Foreign Languages FOR SALE BY BELOW 14TH STRERT; 43D ST. TO OOTH ST, BROOKLYN (Cont.: Bil ipa ‘Terminal Theatre Ticket Co., (Oontinaed, {idler & Kirschner 161 Bway, ; unbargee & Co, aa fol, Tanarus, 216 K, soum we Hue ggy Mtoe. 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