The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1915, Page 1

WITNESS TELLS OF MONEY OFFERS FOR P. S. CONTRACT PRICE ONE CENT. BIG FLEET OF RUSSIAN TRANSPORTS CARRIES TROOPS TO INVADE BULGARIA FINA L Gbe “ Circulation Books Open to All! “COULDN'T GET WOOD BECAUSE NO SUM HAD BEEN NAMED, " BANKS TELLS COMMITTEE aaxrs "Qh, Well, s eetboey,” Is Laugh- ing Explanation of Right Way to “See People.” HE TURNS ON WOOD. Says That Johnson’s Story of the $5,000 Bribe Seems True to Him. ‘Wittiam C. Banks, friend and con- fident of Public Service Commission- ‘ep Robert C. Wood, admitted on the Winess stand before the Thompson Investigating Committee to-day that ko “wont after” the Commissioner at time the signal contract for the Avenue tunnel was pending, (out “couldn't get him because no sum hed been named and I couldn't make him @ proposition.” Banks declared that the Federal @ignai Company lost the contract be- cause “it didn't go after it right.” You want to send the right kind of & man to see the right people,” he volunteered, and when Senator ‘Thompson asked him what he called at kind of business replied Jauch- tagiy: “Oh—weil, bribery.” “Didn't you tell me in the othor teem this morning,” askod Senator ‘Thompson, “that you believed all of @idmey Johnson's story was true?” Siiney G. Johnson testified that Commissioner R. C. Ward had asked him for a bribe of $5,000 to favor the Union Switch and Signal Company im the Centre Street loop contract. “I aid it @ounded true,” replied “Didn't you eay it aii seemed true @ you?” the chairman insisted. “Tt sounded true to mo," said Banke; “the way he described Wood's office 4a Exchange Place and all that.” Ascording to Banks, he has been on with Wood for sixteen I : make & proposition” to Wood. Pounse! Lewis asked. Qrast for the Federal Company I met btm at No, 1 Dey Street, I congratu- Jated him on getting the contract and waid if he could use some of my ma- tertel I could supply it. Ho said there was no chance; the people who helped him on the bid would supply = “Cade asked me, ‘Do you know thet fellow, Wood? Is he hail follow, fell met? I said yes, He said, ‘I wish you'd arrange for me to mest ‘Mm.’ I said: “There's no need of that. Any one can meet Mr. Wood. Go and see him yourself.’ “Some evenings later I met Cade at No. 1 Dey Street. I had read in tho Papers that the Mederal Signal Com pany were low bidders on the Fourth Avenue Subway cont I asked) Cade ‘Am I in on it? meaning would I got some business out of the work. He said to wait till ho got his con-| tract. He sald: ‘Dy the way, you know @onfinued on Second Page.) f |}A BOOK OF IMMENSE V ONE-HALF YEAR'S SALARY GIFT TO ALL EMPLOYEES Central Trust Company Shows Record Earnings of 80 Per Cent. on $3,000,000 Capital. ‘The Central Trust Company to-day declared a quarterly dividend of 10 per cent, rexular and 0 per cent extra, making the annual dividend rate 80 per cent. on its $3,000,000 of capital stock. This ts the highest yield of any trust company in the city and among financial institutions Is exceeded only by the Fifth Avenu Bank, which pays 100 per cent, dividend anrmually on ite small capitalization of $100,000. The Central Trust Company also tn dis- tributing @ Christmas bonus. All em- ployers will receive a present of oesh, equal to 50 per cent of their anhusal ealartes, Before the close of the year other prominent Wall Street financial tn- stitutions are expected to declare some large extra dividends, ——__—— VAN CORTLANDT SKATERS BEGIN WINTER SPORT Miss Catherine Walker First to Glide Over 7-Inch Ice This Morning. ‘The outdoor skating season in and About New York opened to-day at Van Cortlandt Park. At 9.80 o'clock this morning the red ball went up and a moment later Mias Catherine Walker of No, 306 West Hightieth Street glided out upon the ice, the first skater of the year. With skating the popular fad of the year greater crowds than over are expected. Workmen have been busy for several days putting ad- ditional lockers in the skating house and preparing for the increase, There was a good seven inches of loo over the lake this morning, but to be certain of its strength a team of horses was driven over it. Within @ dalf hour there were twenty poopie out and it was expected that a largu mumber would be on hand this evening. Commissioner Whittle announced ont the Indian Lake in Crotona Park open to skaters to-morrow NOW READY! Por FREE Distribution at All World Offices and by Mail! The World’s Winter Resort Annual for 1915-16 A handsomely printed volume with col- ored covers, presenting announce- ments of hundreds of Winter Resort Hotels and Boarding Places in various sections of the United States, Canada, the Bermudas, Porto Rico, Cuba, the Bahamas, &c. Many Health Resorts declared to be equal if not superior to those In dis- tressed Europe, New York City Hotels and Restaurants, are also rep-| resented, LUE TO THE VACATION TAKER Mail orders should be sed to | THE W¢ D WINTER RESORT DEPT, PULITZER BLDG. PARK ROW, NEW YORK CITY. Call or Write for FREE Copy To-dayt Coprvtgnt, ba Ag -d Put York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, METZ AND HIS WIFE DIVORCED BUT STILL LIVEN ONE HOUSE to Her Love of the Simple Life. “HOMEBODY.”} WIFE A Former Comptroller Wished to Entertain Lavishly, She Disliked Society. | Although former Comptroller Her- man A. Mets has been divorced by his wife, Mrs, Laura A. K. Metz, who went to Reno and there eued him for esertion, it was learned to-day that! the couple still are Iving under the! same roof in their home at No, 2 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, | Lat. Metz maintains a legal reste (ence at the Clinton Avenue home but spends most of his time at his| clubs in Manhattan, As one of his friends put it to-day, "he goss home fust often enough to get clean linen.” | Mrs, Metz spends most of her time | tn the house, She ts known to have! been there this morning, although | servants said she was out of the city. | A determination to remain quietly at} home and lead the “simple life’ was responsible for her mutrimonial troubles, according to @ personal friend of the former Comptroller, Metz’s friend, in telling of the “un- bridgeable chasm” that brought about the divorce, antd: “Mr, and Mra. Mets thought they were tn love with one another when they were married June 25, 1891. He {s @ very ambitious man. His wife) ts of tho kind called “a homebody.” | She likes to remain at home and sew | and cook and attend to the house. Mr. Metz entered politics and he wanted his wife to go into society. “There the parting of the ways be- gan. Mr, Mets surrounded himself with luxury as he began prospering in business and politics, He moved Into his fine home on Clinton Avenue and tried to entertain Invishly. His wife did not care for this sort of a life, She often said she would be happier in @ little suburban home with @ garden than fn that huge pile of stone and brick they called home. Things drifted along in this manner until the final breach came and she agreed to go to Reno and sue, Mr. Metz did not defend hin wife's suit, A decree was granted Nov. 19, but the news did not become public until to-day, “My wife and I etmply could not «et along together,” sald the former Comptroller this afternoon, “I suppose | was to blame. I don't know of any other reason to give.” “Is it not @ fact that you and she still Hive in the Clinton avenue man- sion?” he was asked, “Why, Mrs, Metz lives there—yen," was the reply. | “Do you not alsd live there?” | “Just say I live in Manhattan,” answered the former Comptroller, "Say that I am putting up at some club.” “But don't you maintain your legal residence in the Brooklyn hou: | “I cannot discuss this case,” eald| . Metz, “Now please do not bother ine apy more,” “A friend < bridgeable your wife pr told chasm’ betw ymapted wan igent of the Parbwerke. , the Consolidated 1 Co, and H. A | Mets & Co,, dealers in dye stuffs, at No, Uso Hudaon irae | ning. | Smith in Michigan 4 | lowa \Fair Dancer and Husband She Says Won’t Be Divorced ORMSBY MT HARG SAYS ROOSEVELT'S HAT'S IN THE RING Ex-Campaign Manager De- clares Colonel Plays Game for Republican Nomination. “Col, Roosevelt ts an ror, active candidate for President,” #aid Ormaby MoHarg to-day. “He will enter the Republican primuries of many States.” In two campaigns McHarg was po. Utical manager for the Colonel. Now he has in training a now Presi- dential candidate ax a dark horse— Henry D. Estabrook of New York, lawyer and orator. “Col, Roosevelt bas caused published the names of certain Re- publican candidates whom ho would be willing to support, [le sets up these men, not because he | or favors them, bul so! Purpose of dividing the opposition and them having them knocked down, [adie of Missourt, for exumple, the Colone positively hates, Knox vania he Knows Is And as for Hughes, that no ited States candidate over haa been or ever can be nominated “The Bull Moose Nations tion Is to be culled to me June Q Chicago, the same date us the Repub lean Convention, That ts merely for the purpose of driving b alns. The Colonel! will enter f Pen upre ba and beat + nan, or Whoever ¢ innesota primary ws merely primary |e that of ‘ Mareh 14. You will find Roos 1 FORCING MAYOR'S HAND ON NEW YEAR’S EVE LID Mitchel Calls Conference of City} Heads After’ Ministers Insist Upon Early Closing. LAterally flooded with letters from clergymen !n all parts of tho city, protesting against the granting of all-night Mauor Meenses on New Your's ve, Mayor Mitche! to-day de- cided to call a conference of elty officials, Police Commissioner Woods, City Chamberlain Bruere and Prest- dent MoAneny of the Board of Alder-|s0 devoted as ance this separation.” men have been invited, It ts under- stood that most of the Protestant churches throughout the city have de- termined That the move of the ministers its well organized and growing in strength the Mayor admitted this morning. Ho has not yet made up his imind whether the ld 1s to be slightly tilted on the last night of the year or whether the town to be the est in year under co 2AM the exterision of tho losing hour to 3.40 A. M eciasi” Sene |GREAT WAR GREDIT VOTED BY REICHSTAG| ony Ninsten Sots Onn WHITMAN DENIES PARDON | the New Loan of 10,000,- 000,000 Mark: redit of 10,000, Kelohstug the ata deavor nad falled be of ee sapezeon aliw of bold side, Ause 1915. to make a strong stand | visited me in Washington and Balti- | against the open cabaret and saloon, |More and everywhere, tderatton | | | ' vern-| 5 ‘i r | advertise us by talking about us, wo! “CAN THAT DIVORCE STUFF!” IS CASTLES DENIAL OF RUMOR: |“For Hundredth Time,” Dan-| cer Declares Story of Hus- ; band’s Suit Is Unfounded. DON’T YOU WAIT FORIT! “If You Do You'll Wait For- ever,” Asserts Irene of the Bobbed Curls. Trane Castle, with bobbed hair, flapper figure, and a small simian specimen squeaking in a gray muff) on ber left arm (see photos in almost @ny magazine of recent years), paused long enough to-day in the midst of her pre-Christimas activities to deny “fon the hundredth timo’ that every- thing fan't all right between her and her itght-footed husband. | “Mra, Castle, how long are you po- ing to Keep us ull waiting for the news about your coming divoree from Vernon?” asked a reporter, having read in « Baltimore paper that Mr. | Castle had requested @ reporter there | not to refer lo “my divorce proveed- Ings.” “If you wait unttt you hear about Vernon and I being divorced, you'll wait forever,” was the prompt reply. “T'vo dented it until I'm sick of seeing reporters, Of course, If you want to don't mind, but there will be no di- voros."" “Then what 414 your husband] mean by ‘my divores Proceedings? * | “He didu't say ‘my’ divorce pro. ceedings, What he sald to that re- Portes was, ‘lor Heaven's axke, can that stuff about divorce procesd- Ings!" And the reporter twisted it to sult himoaeit. “Even if we had been contempiat- Ing getting @ M@vorce, do you muppONe I would have ent there and let him say ‘my’ divorce proceedings? If there was any divorce to be bad, Vernon would be sport enough to let mo get it. “It seems to me we have never been “Separation?” inquired the reporter. "Oh, now, don't get that twisted. I mean since he decided to learn avi- ation and go to the front, He has Pren 1s at Old Potnt Comfort, at the Cur- tise school, getting hin pilot's | Ho won't have to go to Culif. the grey | ether wit and th ncrus her f quar rolled away T0 FLORENCE BURNS ALBANY Chambe “ 1 tort Of # reported "badwer gam aclvey to win the war and t nothing to do with separate peace, but to pt supremo “Until 18 PAGES Weathor—Probably fair to-night and Wednesday; warmer, INAT ———S=S==—s PRICE ONE CENT. = CZAR'S SQUADRON SHELLS ABULGAR BLACK SEA PORT: BG ARMY OFF THE COAST Constantinople Claims British Retire- ment From Dardanelles Was Not Voluntary, but That Troops Were Driven toSea in General Assault : 1,000,000 MORE BRITISH TO BE CALLED TO ARMS LONDON, Dec. 21.—Arrival of a Russian expedition off the Bul- garian coast is Telegraph Company. is reported by the Athens correspondent of the Exchange “A Russian cruiser and two destroyers,” he says, “which are com voying sixteen ‘transports fitted “with troops;-tuve arfivEd off the Buls garlan coast and are bombarding Varna vigorously.” (The Bulgarian port of Varna is on the Black Sea a few miles ° eouth of the Rumanian border. It is a rafiroad terminus, This city and Burgas, fifty miles further south, are the principal Bul- gurian Black Sea ports.) BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, L. 1.), Dec. 24.—Greek gunners lier Says Supreme Allies Will Struggle and Common Purpose Is Achieved.” LONDON, Dee, * and achieved. at —_ 21—In his speech Just now he) pefore the House of Commons to-day Promlor Asquith referred to the moas- “08% J ures recently taken to bring about nia for) cower co-operation among the allies | costs unt mon purpuse have in Fort Karaburna, dominating Salonica, opened fire upon a French de tachment that failed to halt at the sentry’s call, according to despatches to-day to the Frankfurter Zeitung. The French fled, ‘The Greeks continue to hold the fort, the correspondent reported, | in spite of repeated French requests that it be turned over to the alles, The despatches confirmed reports from English sources that the Greeks have withdrawn most of their troops from Salonica. BUDAPEST (via Zurich), Dec, 21.—The Hungarian Parliament to-day voted to extend the limit for obligatory military service to fifty- five years. Before the war the limit was forty-two years, BERLIN, Dec, 21 (via wireless to Sayville).—Constantinople despatches state that the withdrawal of the British from the Anzac and Suvia Bay districts of the Gallipol! Peninsula came as the result of a violent offen- sive on the part of the Turks, who inflicted heavy loss drove them to tho sea. FIGHT AT ALL COSTS, ASQUITH TELLS COMMONS on the British and “AccoMiing to Constantinople re- ports, the Turks began a general of- tensive in all sections at the Darda- nelles," eays the Overseas News Agenoy, “The fighting was violent. “The Turks began their attack at Anafarta (Suvia Bay) and Ari Burnw (Anzac), The enemy launched coun ter attacks at Seddul-Bahr (on the ttp of the peninsula), which were re- pulsed. “The ‘Turkish artillery inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. The Turk- teh soldiers, who had waited monthe for this inoment, showed Immense en- thusiasm, Finally the Turks de- feated the enemy at Anafarta and it, we find. when he wets It! ang gata tt was hoped by all the nu-| Art Burnu. The enemy fled from the he Is going to Philadelphia to Joi tony concerned that thia procedure| Turks at ari Burnu and reached the me there for a visit before he sails, | would lead to greater concentration | conan,” “Iam having a holiday this week | op pury co-ordination of plana, (The offlotal British and French and my show opena tm Philudelphial common energy and effectivencss of| announcements of yesterday eald on Christmas Day, We are perfectly | oom the withdrawal of the troops was oy and It he gate hurt over there | ys. Ase added thvt it way sat-| made in conformity with plans Fh: a to Bim and never! utactory, igh not surprising, to| decided upon some time pre ‘Turning to Sam Burbank. a mem-|know there was not one of the allies ously: “The Brit & be Watch Your Stop! com is not a# determined as our-| sald the withdrawal was accom plished “without the Turks being aware of the movernent, It wa | offictally stated this afternoon that their total lows Was threes meh wounded.) —~— ar TURN ON GAS, DIE TOGETHER, | CALL FOR 1,000,000 wien He hole Which p Gitte! awe Wom orgreens Han of OM i6iite Sent | MORE BRITISH PLACED | BEFORE PARLIAMENT Dec. M.--Moving Im the none this afternoon is Additional Anquit milion general uy Hast arm " | Growt Britain 1 lhting force in the various the atres of 1,260,000 men, and as the wastage ie enormous the country | | |