The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1915, Page 4

' | i t I “a WILSON’S DOCTOR AT STUDY. aside. tific advantage, how learned that for thi ‘Until recently news of Po in ‘White main all tnt week. B. Altman & Co. Exceptional Values in Women’s and Misses’ Sweaters and Sweater Coats will be offered to-morrow in the Department on the Second Floor. The models selected for this Sale are of unusual qualities at these prices: Belted Sweater Coats of wool jersey, with convertible collar of beaver . . . $13.50 (These Coats are three-quarter length) $23.50 Sweaters, Caps and Scarfs, in an infinite variety of weaves and styles, are shown in the regular stock at prices to meet all demands. Sweaters of ribbed silk, with sash . Important Price Reductions in Girls’ Coats, Dresses and Suits to go into effect to-morrow, will afford an exceptional opportunity for economic pur- chasing. The sizes are incomplete, but range in general from 6 to 16 years. COATS - for practical and dress wear, DRESSES of worsted and cor:bination fabrics . TAILOR-MADE SUITS of worsted fabrics . . . $8.50 & 10.00 (Department, Second Floor) $7.50 & 8.75 $6.25 The December Clearance Sale of Women’s Shoes ‘ is now im progress Fitth Avenwe-Madtaon Aurnue, Mth and 35th Streets Ne ir. Grayson for a time has put Me ts turning bis vacation to selen- er, for it wae at week Dr, the Polyclinic spectal researches fn He will re- Dew York 10 SAVE Brown’s State Committee Is Urged to Get Immediate Re- lief for New York City. WARNED AGAINST DELAY Metropolis Clamors for a Lift- ing of Burdens Imposed by the State. A polnt which the legislative com- mittee of which Senator Elon Brown of Watertown is Ohairman appears to have overlooked {n Its investigation of the taxation question In New York City is the most important and vital of all involved In the inquiry. It is: What can the Legislature do to re- duce taxes in this olty at once? As The Evening World bas pointed out, the taxpayers of New York are not particularly concerned about what caused the present acute situation. Their concern is about how the tax Tate can be reduced next year, want immediate ‘relief, not relief through devious iegisiation, which may trail its languid length through They | the State Capitol for two years or more, JUST HOW THE CITY'S BURDENS MAY BE LIFTED. There are specific things the Legis- lature can do to reduce taxation in New York City without delay. They are aside from all questions of raising new revenue to relieve the burden on real estate. In making its report to the Legislature the Brown committee should recommend: FIRST — That the Legistature amend the law which requires the city to pay for the etrietly regulative work done by the Publilo Service Commission and extend the amend- ment to allow the city to have full control of the expenditures of the commission in relation to rapid tran- sit extensions, Theses amendments would save the olty annually .... And reduce the tax peal the mandatory act creating the Board of Water Supply, etop the Schoharie extension and turn over to the city control of the completed Ashokan supply system, This would save the city In bn ph tration and eng! expénses the season January Reduction Sale Fashionable Silk Dresses Reduced to $10 Formerly Priced Up to $25 Frocks from original models which have been petured and talked about since women of fashion as among: t attractive things produced by the new fashion shop. Useful morning and afternoon dresses, of novelty silks, crepe meteors, charmeuse, taffeta, crepe de chine, velvets and satin- and‘serge combinations. Those correct, graceful, simply pi an—drequently cited by the most TIMES AND WIN HOME RULE ———$—$ uu —_— lechoois, or the whole State shall pay for all special schools, including those of the city. New York City, in addi- tion to supporting its own special Schools, pays almost 70 per cent. of the cost of euch schools in the rest of the State, Such an amendment to lift, from the city budget the sum of. . $800,000 And reduce the tax rate 1 FOURTH—That the Legialatui peal the mandatory laws which com- pel the city to pay its e of en- forcing the health laws outside the city and all the expense of health law including New Yer City, would save the a ipeal the mandatory laws which com- {Del the elty to contribute all the motor tax revenue raised within the city te the maintenance of country roads out- side the city. A law permitting the city to use its own tax revenues ite own would save .... And reduce the tax rate SIXTH— immediate st extent engineering charges overlap in the City Government. @ading engineers have estimated that by the estab- lishment of a Cen- tral Ranineae Bureau can save tay roene $1,600,000 pointe Bey ENTH—That the Legislature repeal the mandatory charter provi- sion creating the Department of Bridges. The city will build no more important bridges, and other depart- ments can attend to the maintesanes of those now in uae. An act abolishing the Brid, Depa would save. And. red Juco tax rate . Ya point FIGHTH—That the Legislature Fee fuso to make mandatory ations which are unjust to New York City, amounting to $3, ag yo in this, that ature year's budget; take away the burden "of 4,200,000 State taxes which the oity annually Pays for the maintenance of roads outside the city; although the city has already voted to pay approximately $70,000,000 for the gonatraction—noy the maintenance—of such a mile of which has = bafit within the city limits; that th apportion the cost of. mitural schools, amounting to $3'000,000 a year to the sections of the State im- mediately benefited—as the cost of maintaining armories ts opportioned now; that the Legislature, through these measures and by the exerctse of businesslike measures of economy) and proper utilization of the immense surplus accruing from this yeara $20,000,000 direct tax, render impoest- ble the necessity of any direct tax to come, ge Ey ag tre And reduce thetaxrate .. 1WYa pointe Should the Brown refi bud: of City jwould be re- lieved a jurden And the tan rate id asst ind the tax rate woul be reduc sag’ ve Relnte ie Brown ‘heard | the Mayor, the Osmptronise, the | President of the Board of Aldermen, the President of the Isoard of Educa- tion, the Borough Presidents and others who have studied the finances of the city. All have agreed that home rule Is the remedy for the dif- ficulties in which the greatest and most wonderful of citles finds itedlt. Mayor Mitchel, in addition to ad- vocating home rule, attacked the mandatory expense of county govern- menta within the city, Comptroller Prendergast advocated a new Board of Education, control by the city of school teachers and their salartes, nd the abolition of county and bor- ough governments, Aldermanic Preal- dent McAneny sees relief In a com. plete revision of the charter. As for home rule everybody In New York wants it, but home rule as applied to New York City is subject to many interpretations, The home rule question has always involved the |despatch given out to-day by | going to extend the search to first | class postal matter, jimto Greenock, Scotland, | PHYSICIAN Christian Michelsen Both Reported Searched. BERLIN, Dee. 2% (By wireless to Sayville) —Selzure by the British Government of American mall from two steamships on their way to Holland is reported in @ Rotterdam the Overseas News Agency. According to the News Agency's despatch, the vessels from which mail was taken are the Dutch steamship Nieww Amsterdam, from New York, Deo. 14, for Rotterdam, and the Nor- | Wegian steamship Christian Michel- sen, from New York, Dec. 8, for Rot- terdam. WASHINGTON, Dec, 28.—The al- lies, ft is explained here, intend to \seize and examine all mail passing etween the United States and the| | Buropean neutrals which there ie | reason to believe is intended for Ger- many, Hitherto the seizures of that sort have been confined to parcel post, but now it Is said the allies are In justification of the action It is sald the allies will first plead military necessity and, second, that there is no inviolability of mati to the Tewtonic powers because Turkey did not sub- scribe to The Hague Convention, which covers it, For that reason it is con- tended the other belligerenta are ex- cused from respecting it. Further- more, the actidn is based on an ar- ticle in The Hague Convention which provides that immunity of seizure of | mail shall not apply “to correspond- ence destined =, or proceeding from a bi port. Thousands of packages should have reached Sean- dinavian residents Christmas Day were taken off the United States, of the Scandinavian-America Line, on her westward trip this time, When! which EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, Tv?Ts." State's office here to-day. The object of the league, t forth in the papers, {s “to advocate the establish. ment of a world’s court for judicial investigation and settlement of all kinds of international differences; to eniiet sentiment and eupport of all peoples regarding same as the most rattonal alternative to the burdens of war and excesalve armament.” Thirty directors are named, includ- jin Henry Clews, Oscar 8. Straus, \Jonn Hays Hammond and Alton B. Parker, New York; James Brown Scott, Washington; Henry R. Rath- bone, Chicago; Augustus Bush, St. loule, and BE. C. Stokes, Trenton, NJ. | were filed with the Secretary of woons PLANS T0 TRY MORE “‘ISLES OF SAFETY” Police Head Orders Traffic Cap- tains to Prevent Contractors From Blocking Streets. Commanders of traffic precincts were called before Police Commis- sioner Arthur Woods to-day and in- structed to give special attention to the enforcement of the ordinance pro- hibiting contractors from using more than one-third of the street for ma- terial and tracking at new buildings. ‘The Commissioner will begin ex- perlmenite on Madison and Bighth Avenues of {sles of pate? pedestrians. he finds the Practical at corners when no policemen are on duty, he will it throughout the city. At SoS hese roped-off spaces are street car transfer points. The Comminsioner told the captains that investigators he sent op jo a ported ram rolman much time by holding up long lines of vehicles while waiting for some vehicles coming from another diree- tion to come up. He told them to tm- struct the men to act more quickly. Victim Frank Colletti, who was shot a9 he. started into his home at No. 7 Goorele youterday, died at 7 A. M. to-day iniBolicvne fospitauy our made, but Colletti refused to te ident of the ‘The shoot verclted froma gang the ship reached here this morning it carried a large number of disap- pointed passengers whose arrival here last week was delayed by the removal of mail, “We left Christianiafjora Dee, 11 on purpose to get here for Christ- mas,” explained one of the officers, “but off the Shetland Islands a Brit- ish cruiser halted us and took ue ‘That was a half days out of our way, altogether, and we were de- tained two days in port, so we are more than five daye overdue, ADVOCATE WORLD COURT FOR GOOD OF NATIONS ALBANY Dec. 28.—Papers incor- porating the Works Cowt League —————e THE FAMILY = “Fruita: tives” is the Standby in This Ontario Home “My wife wae a martyr to Constipation, We tried everything on the calendar without satisfaction, and spent large sums of momey, until we happened on ‘Fruit-a-tives.’ We have used it in the family for about two years, and we would not use anything else as long es we can get ‘Fruit-a-tives.’ ” J. 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