The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1915, Page 3

ALESTATEHAS IO HEAVY ATAX: IAD, SAYS POUNDS oklyn Borough President ‘is Committee Conditions Approach a Crisis. HOOL CHANGE URGED ic als Say Board of Educa- tion Should Fix Teach- +e ers’ Salaries. ‘wis H. Pounds, President of the ough of Brooklyn, declared be-| the Brown legisiative committee | ay that real estate was bearing a | vier tax Pounds burden was than it questioned showed. | closely ut reg estate values and valua- # in Brooklyn Phere have been individual cases overva ’n," said President nds, “h the whole we have ‘ause for protest, T think real es values hav ts have increased.” Brown—Has the prosent ¥ York tax rate created an emer- ey! or a crisis demanding drastic on? tr Pounds—Yes; Td call tt a Is in that real estate is bearing a vier burden than it should. Other rees of revenue for the city should found. enator inere: nsed As assons. nator Brown—Do you ns of reducing city expenses see any r, Pounds—No; quite to the co ty, I see only that there is ne be a great increase in the debt ng to construction work. larence EB, Meleney, erintendent of Schools ree of high took ore the Committees to Associate City who ts in the stand ook and Feel Clean, Sweet and | Fresh Every Day | rink a glass of real hot water before breakfast to wash \| out poisons. | ife is not merely to live, but to} well, eat well, digest well, work | , sleep well, look well. What « ious condition to attain, and yet) very easy it is if one will only ot the morning inside bath! olks who are accustomed to feel and heavy when they arise, split- headache, stuffy from a cold, foul , nastys breath, acid stomach, instead, as fresh as a daisy opening the sliices of the system | morning and flushing out the le of the internal poisonous stag- matter, veryone, whether ailing, should each morning — before kfast drink a glass of real hot sr with « teaspoonful of limestone | phate in it to wash from the ch, liver, kidneys and bowels the day's indigestible waste, | hile and poisonous toxins; thus ising, sweetening and purifying entire alimentary canal before ng more food action of hot water and limestone | a on an empty lerfully invigorating. It c all the se ntations, pa > and acidity and gives one a did appetite for breakfast. While are enjoying your breakfast the sick or ans | him when he w. about into the stomach. | in he denominated an erroneous state- ment Indergast af school ad- by Comptro! to the efficiency ministration "There is no inefficient manage- ment,” he stated, “and the ¢..tement that we could get along with fifty-one 1 are ig nh @ ‘We require al! here wa now have.” Mr. Meleney was asked by Senator Brown whether any te. hers were receiving more pay than the “market value.” “Yes, some perhaps do get more than they would get elsewhere,” was the reply. “Do you believe that any are under- paid?" “1 don’: want answering that.” The witness said be the Board of Education should fix the sala of teachers, “I believe a minimum salary should be fixed added. “A lump sum should be ap- propriated to pay the salaries, I think the Board of Education could be trusted to pay teachers the proper salaries, “Do you believe there should be mandatory legislation to provide for the salaries of teachers.” “Yes, if the legislation provides the jump sum for disbursement by the Board of Education.” to go on record at believed that | CHURCHILL WANTS HOME RULE) FOR BOARD. “I think the Board of Education should have functional home rule siid President Thomas W, Churchill, in answer to the first question put to s called to the stand, rught not be subject to the victa- situdes of public officers, whether they be generous or bigoted “T believe that where a Education is Board of Estimate the State should Board of have the fixing of a minimum salary, | But if a Board of Education ts su- preme it should have the fixing of all ries,” Do you believe there are inequities In the law regarding salaries?” asked Senator Brown. “I do not think the high salaries are too high, but I do believe some sala- ries are too low. You can't compare New York with other cities, It’s a matter of what a dollar will buy in New York and what it will buy else- w 7 sident Pr Churchill said he could not protest too vigorously against conditions as now exisiting. ‘If L know parents in there shall b of education anything about what the elty want it ts that no niggardly treatment Sheriff-elect Smith, asked Prest- t Churchill why every year the trd of Education asked’ for so than it received, witness replied that the money ne ‘or teachers’ salaries, he added, “we are working for an ideal. We deem cer- tain things wise, either for expert- ment or for general application, and we ask for funds to carry them out.” Senator Brown—Do you believe that at p ha burden of taxation that measures of relief are necessary to lighten it—I mean the sum .total of charges this year_and last pon the people of New York » such that retrenchment is nec dent Churchill—I believe the burden is far too great. You've got to have economy or new sources of revent I belleve the people could be chloroformed with an indirect tax, Borough President Marks of Man- hi an testified that there were no mandatory charges for his depart- | vent in the budget for 1915—save in the prevailing wages of laborers. Mr. Marks said he did not believe in thi blishment ef borough gov- ernm but he did see a field for the committee's investigation in the du- plication caused by the fact that counties and bordughs were identical city. Marks's opinion was that there should be an equalization of asseas- ments for purposes of taxation throu ut the State. In New York city easment runs as high as 100 s in up-State coun- s it runs as low as 25 per cent Mr suid that the increase in real e valuations in the last four years in New York was twice as great us it should have been, The city’s growth has only been half of what the increase in assessments would indieate. Senator Brown the inc Mr, Marks—To order to meet penditures and, What brought get increased taxes inereased city ex incidentally, to in- stomach is| crease the debt limit. NEWARK SHOOTING MYSTERY. Store Manager's ome Deserted as r and phosphate is quietly ex- He Lies in Hospital. ing a large volume of water from} |. hivty. yer A blood and getting ready for a ed ee ar ‘ B bear y i ugh flushing of all the inside MOS ei tevte Newer, Ne, Street, shot himself in the © millions of people wh on Bireet, fin the ored with stipation, bi Cas Bs OE i stomach trouble, rheuma’ Hospital, His assistant at s who have sallow skins, Trason’ why Shadbolt should’ try to. ond ders and: sickly complexion goede Bh f 1 to get a quarter pound of lim AL the house on Elliott, Stree no one manhate’ tron the z sto newered the door bel hrough a front phe phat from the drug stor ted Christmas tree could will cost very little, but window a dec hi en-und on the floor of the. parlor t to make anyone A” pro-lare toys where a child had evidently crank be the subject of internal shane ne as oe Re enhors, ase ey stion.~Advt child since yesterday eee ) MME. BERNHARDT SINKING. solutely Removes ligestion. One package | ves it. 25c at all druggists, E-KING OF “Sy, TABLE 4 Yost or fonnd a evtined in The 9 foles ade dill be isted at The World's tnformae jon Bureau, @uliGer Building Arcade, Park Tow: World's town Office, norihwert core ver ASth St. and GBrowdways Norld’s Harlem Officer, 15% Veot ) Sty and World's | kiyn Office, 202 Washing Sta Brookiin, for SO days wing the printigg of the ldvertisemente les She Is Very Weak. Mme. Surah Rernhardt is critteally 1 but her condition is not entirely hope- coording to @ message from Party eived here to-day by a motion picture npany which had made several films actre The message read rnhardt sinking, but relatives condition not’ hopeless, al- pugh she is extremely weak,” message was In answer to one from here asking for a definite vent concerning Mme, Bernhardt's For ‘Constipation: Mrs, Heath - New Jer 4 J ta wee organization, but w purl by Mrs. Heath Mrs, Anne Scribner Hard, The Delicious La: Lax reliev e Chocolate. constipation, regulates the stomach and bowels, stimulates the | liver and promotes digestion. Good for young and ¢ 10c, 25¢ and 50c, at all druggis under the power of a| Reducing a 210-Pound Yoman’s Weight In Four Weeks by Right Diet and Exercise BY ENDING =o SHARKS | Third Week Under Miss Furlong’s Direction Shows Mrs. A. St. James Greatly Reduced in Weight and Wonderfully Improved in Figure. Remarkable Reductions of Six Inches at Waist and Seven Inches at Hips Prove Value of In- telligent Diet and Exercise. By Pauline Furlong. Mrs. A. St. James, whom I have undertaken to reduce, begins her | fourth week of the treatment just nineteen pounds Hghter than at the beginning of it and many inches smaller in all parte of her body. | ———— I am more than gratified at the results obtained in three weeks and the splendid physical condition of my pupil, who declares she has not felt better in many months. While Mrs. St. James's face and chin are both much reduced, she still retains her wonderful rosy cheeks and clear white skin. | to elther practise @ few exercises or take a long walk. She has mastered all of the exercises which were {Iu trated last Friday and is starting in on some new ones this week, which I will describe later. practise the trunk raising and liver side bend all this week, so that 1 may be able to report to my interested readers that she has mastered them be fore her month’s course with me is over. REMARKABLE WAISTLINE RE-@———————__ DUCTION DUE TO DIET. ‘The great reduction in my pupil's! WEIGHT AND MEASUREMENTS OF MRS. SF. JAMES waistline is the most wonderful part of the entire treatment to me and it is AT BEGINNING AND END oF THREE WEEKS OF DIET remarkable to note a reduction of some six inches in such @ short space of time, I feel sure that the light) non-fattening diet is largely respons! die for this and if my pupil continues on it for several months she will un- doubtedly return to her normal weight ot about 130 pounds. Several rolls of fat are atill in evi- dence on the lower abdomen and these have been caused by a tight, poorly fitting corset, and now that she is los- ing excess fat so rapidly and wearing & proper model corset, this fat will gradually disappear also. A final chart recording total | 1 think the loss in measurements! ] changes in the weight and me: has been greater this week than the|] urements of Mrs. St. James will lona of weight and this Is as tt should || be printed in The Evening World he, for too much loss of weight In a short space of time may lead to other! complications. Many persons reduce in size, yet do not lose a pound and the condition is often reversed, and in the first two weeks of our course | Mrs, St, James lost more in actual pounds than in bulk, ROLLING EXERCISES HAVE GREATLY REDUCED HIPS. My pupil thinks the remarkable re- duction in her hip measurement ts due to the rolling exercise, whicn she faithfully practices each day at least four times, Long walks also consume an hour or more each day and deep breathing meanwhile aids greatly in! FROM STARVATION NUMBER 15,00 | | hour or two with me and we are Year’s Record and Same Fate ‘king at the different exercis: ; . s with dumbbells, wand and heavy| AWaits as Many Next Year, Says Relief Agent. next Monday, at the completion of her four weeks under Mise Fur- long’ direction. ALBANIANS DEAD. springs, to relieve the monotony of! the freo hand exercises which Mrs. | St, James practices at home. The electric light baths consume a good portion of this time each afternoon and my pupil is showing the remark- able tonic effect of them in her ap- pearance and general health. The no breakfast plan is now car- ried out entirely by my pupll, and I really think that no one was ever the worse off for It, Of course, a cup of black coffee may be taken a half hour after the hot lemon water, and this will sufficiently warm one who ts obliged to go out into the cold air early in the morning, The luncheons are about the same as usual—poached | eggs, fruit or salad and gluten bread, | and dinner consists of one lean meat, green vegetables, salads and stewed ROME, Dec, 27.—At least 150,000 Albanians have starved to death tn the last year and the same fate awaits an equal number during the coming year, according to W. W. Howard, owner of the American re- ef schooner Albania, Howard has Just reached Rome after distributing 200 tons of flour to the starving Albanians, “The crops have been a fallure for the past two years," said Howard. “To the normal population of 1,000,000 have been added 200,000 Serbian ret- ugees, who arrived without food and possessing only worthless Serbian, money. And they |.ought with them erin, awatanad with auastone. ge Austrian prisoners who must ed. A careful study of the chart printed | “100; ours ago the Greeks de- to-day will show a marked reduction in the measurements of my pupil's body since the first week of the treat- ment, and I will be pleased to have my readers report the progress they also have made and write me for any information on this subject. \ poeta MRS, HEATH SCORED IN HOUSEWIVES’ INQUIRY) .wuy NOT BLAME DOCTORS Books of Firms Advertising in the| WHEN PATIENTS DIE?’ League’s Magazine Likely to | Be Called For. stroyed 225 villages in the Berat dis- trict and the Serbs more than 100 villages in the Sanjas region, ‘That has left a joint population of over 200,000 which 1s to-day homeless and without food. These people are dying by the thousands. While Howard was unloading his flour cargo at Durazzo he fed several thousand Serbians and their Austrian prisoners Christian Science Detender Chal- lenges Coroner's Inquiry Into Brooklyn Man's Death. It developed to-day at the investi- ration of the Housewives’ League by Deputy Attorney General Obermeter in his oMce at 299 Hroadway that the | books of large, well-known corpora- tions will be asked for. ‘The request for the production of the books was made by Frank C, McKinney, counsel for the belligerent members of the league, who have made charges that Mrs, Julian Heath misused the league in commercial enterprises by promot- ing certain products advertised in the league's. magazine, Ross Science Committe the State, with offices at No. Van derbilt Avenue the following statement to-day regarding the death of Alexander H, Schubert at his home in Brooklyn on Saturday: “If this had died while obeying the orders of a medical doc tor the certificate would have be: Robert 8. of Christian on Pul the ications for ssued person Mr. McKinney in a preliminary | issued without question or delay, Be- summing up said that evidence has| cause the deceased was a Christian been adduced sufficient to show that} Scientist the Coroner was called and Mrs. Heath was gullty of misconduct] deteotive was put or cane office “In other words, the Coroner, whowe ‘All the control of the organization | duty it is to deal with cases ‘of foul was in the hands of one person, and] play, intends to treat this as he that person refuses to take the wit-| would murder or suicide. He will nd," he said in referring. to paver to hold somebody respon “We have proved that| slble for the decease one who members did all they | dared to have more faith in God than wha wrong with the |in a doctor's pills and pellets © foiled at evory| “There wre approximately 5,500 deaths by pneumonia in Greater New head of] York in a single year under one form [the Montclair, No J., branch of the|or another of medical treatment. Uf Jleague, testitied aguinst Mrs, Heath| Coroners feel it ls their duty to ‘ine | toed Axked if she believed Mras,| vestigate’ occasional cases of failure Heath should or should not be re materin medica t® not ems moved, the witness said why do they not act on the ‘That depends on whut comes out failures) that) occur annually @t this bearing, where materia medica is employed ‘The past week has been a busy one for both of us,! and my pupil has taken every spare moment in the day! We shall also| ‘ | sections BDEDIES REDDER Ode Reovction 2+ MRS. A. ST. JAMES™ SHOWING REmanKaSLe WeIST RINE &NO rt P9000 408-4.6-94-9-9409O0-09OO-0> THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1918. ‘LOAN “USURY >. Commissioner Thinks New Fund Will Stop Drink and 23002000000 Save Some Homes Money lenders are to be foreve banished from the Fire Ds nent Their places are to be taken, Com- misstoner Adan says, by what be known as the New York Fire- men's Emergency Fund Many broken homes can be traced directly to the methods of the money lenders, Discournged over their in- ability to cope with ever-increasing debt, mombers of the department |have been known in numerous in- atances to throw responsibility to the wind, take to drink and lose every- thing. “Since [ have been in the depart- ment,” ays Commissioner Adamson, “I have been greatly impressed with the evil effect which the Joan sharks have had upon the men, The average fireman knows little about financial falls an easy prey. “Once in the hands of a loan shark | the average fireman finds it almost) Impossible to extricate himself. He finds bis salary garnisheed and after a few months he becomes discouraged and begins to drink “T have known a great many casas where the firemen under these cir- cumstances have abandoned their po- sitions in the department. 1 believe the loan shark evil is responsible for more drink tn the department than any other cause, For this reason, I welcome the formation of a fund cre- ated by « public spirited body of citt- matters, and he zens who are anxious to help the men Commissioner Adamson explains that the anti-toan shark fund has been established through the generos ity of men of means. J. * M. Leo pold, a New York St Exchange broker, has advised the Commissioner @|that the fund Is ready to go into 3 operation, Mr, Leopold has been in B | close touch with the Fire and Police | Departments many years, He and! | Lewis L. Clarke, President of the ®| American Exchange National Bank, $ | are chiefly instrumental in creating the fund officers and men of the uniformed force in obtaining loans, not to. ex- PEDO OOES-DOM NO SALARY FOR HOUSE ON MISSION ABROAD The Travelling Expenses of Wil- son’s Special Representative Alone Will Be Paid. WASHINGTON, Dec, 27.—Col, FE. M. House, who sails for Eurape to- morrow as the personal investigator and unofficial representative of Pres- ident Wilson, will receive no com- pensation for his work beyond his personal travelling expenses, His previous trip, made last spring, was also made without remuneration, These facts were developed at the State Department to-day, Inquiry also developed the fact that Col, House is not the “multi-millionatre he has been reported, but a man of Umited means, whose income ts not of sufficient dimensions to permit of his bearing personally the expense of his contemplated trip, The Colonel's itinerary has not yet n decided upon, but developments abroad will determine what countries he will visit DEATH RATE HIGHER FOR BABIES OF WORKWOMEN Far Exceeds That of Whose Mothers Are Not Com- pelled to Toil Outside Homes. WASHINGTON, Dec, 27 TY death rate in the United States ame babies of mothers who work outstd thelr homes far the Infant mortality where the mother is not so employed. This {s brought out in the annual report to-day of the Federal Children’s Bureau, which is conduct- ing an inquiry Into the social economic causes of bables' The report shows an 4 death rate of 14 out babies in a steel Children exceeds and deaths. © infant of every 1,000 king and coal as ogainst a rate of 84 every 1,000 in a An even greater contrast is ren the most congested und tha choicest res al section in each of these two com- munities. The report adds, however, that tt ts impossible to determine the relative importance of the high death ‘rate among babies of working mothers un til it is ascertained how many moth mining town. out suburb, found be of restricted ers Work outside of thelr homes, becca lace |RIVER SEINE AT FLOOD STAGE vy Halos in Paris for Port fuht=Sea Gulls Invade tty VAR De (10.36 A. M). Hea ing about the Grand Palace to-day Rearly ten fect, covering samo of the wharves in the lowest part of the river fro) There have been heavy rains for the past fortnight and the Weather Bureau | predicts that the fall will conuaue, nominal rate of four per cent, in- terest, —<>—____ |GALES AND A ROMANCE THIS STEAMSHIP’S LOG | The Stockholm in After Holdup by British Cruiser Which Con- fiscated Mail, After a rough passage the sfeam- Ship Stockholm of the new Swedish- 115,000-TON STEAMER SUNK NEAR ARCHANGEL | British Censor Apparently Sup- pressed News of the Loss of the Arlanza. ‘roe big Pritish Mner Ariansa was sunk off the Russian port of Archan- gel, probably by a floating mine, on Dec. 10, according to authoritative anh | formation reaching shipping circles | Americ n Line reached port to-day. ‘The Stockholm was forme: here, to-day. Seger stool Hipestldlany rac The news 3s sald to have been sup-| bares Maeien jShe sailed from Gothenberg, Sweden, pressed by the British censor, for fear but on Dee. 1, was held up off the | that neutral shipowners might become| coast of Scotland by a Britivh cruiser, alarmed at the possible dangers in|taken into Kirkwall and detained Russian waters. three days. Excepting the Lusitania and the! Fifty-eight packages of parcel post Arabic, the Arlanza is the largest | mail, suspected to be from German steamer sunk by mines or submarines | points and destined for New York and | #ince the beginning of the war, She | Chicago, was owned by the Royal Mail Packet | sel, despite the protests of Capt Company and was registered at Bel- | }akanson, Immediately after leaving | fast, She displaced 16,044 tons, being | the British coavt tho Stockholm ran only slightly smatir than the Arabic, |into a series of gales that increased and was 570 feet in length, with @ 65) in severity until the American coast were removed from the ves- | Henry Ford coed $100, for prescribed ‘periods at a| rouble to disappe TONDFIREMEN FORD LEADERS TRY “TO HOLD. PEAR ~ PARTY TOGETHER | Hope to Overcome Effect of | the Secession of Mrs. Bois- sevain and Others, | stockHoLe Dec. ti The new management of the Ford peace party was day endeavoring to clone the ranks anc 1 prevent further seveasions. following the withdrawal of Governor Hanna of North Dakota and Mrs. lnez Milholiand Hoissevain. The whole delegation probably will be called together and urged to bury the war hatchet while on the peace trail. Kev. Jenkin Lioyd Jones believes thero is still a chance for the mis- sion's partial success If the pilgrims work in harmony from now on. At @ mecting held here last night several leaders plained the Ford nm to 300 So | Democrats. They registered thelr approval and prob- ably will give the party support. The Swedish papers, taking a different view than that expreased by the press of Norway, declare that Ford's ex- pedition might actually have hastened the war's end had it not been badly manage . Mrs. Bolssevain has presented a long statement of her reasons for her belief that the expedition ts» hopeleas. She quit because her “democratic spirit” could not bend to the appoint- ment, rather than the election, of « “Committee of Administration” of the pligriins, sho said, LONDON, De 2 The Copen hagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company reports that Gov 1. B. Hanna of North Dakota, has ar rived at Copenhagen, severely. ill of influenza, and has gone to a hos- pital. Reports that William Jennings Rryan had contemplated joining in Europe were con firmed to-day, but because Mr. Ford himself ts returning to this country Mr. Bryan will not go to Europe. It was learned here to-day that he had booked passage mself and Mrs. Rryan on the steamship Rotter- dam, sailing to-morrow, But to-day he telegraphed that because of Mr Ford's return he (Bryan) had indefl- nitely pestponed his trip to Europe SAFE, SPEEDY TREATMENT FOR ANY DISEASED SKIN. 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