The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1915, Page 4

: & 4 | L ii et ae ; 4 ; ' : socese e's 2 BROWN ON STATES WASTEFUL METHOD city thirty-nine y eraduation from gitended Georgetow rie par: Pinte an in the bond and aurety busine: tn No. 38 Park Row. . ——- - Musical Gif Be ac Investigator Sega Issue by | Harking Back to 1884 | in City. $2,000 MOTOR-HEARSE. | Prendergast Explains This Mandatory Charge, Saying “You Must Bury ’Em.” Instead of going into the matter of vital interest to the taxpayers of the eity, namely, how taxes can be reduced in 1916, Senator Elon Brown) and bis legislative investigating com- | |mittes dug back into city affairs aa) |tar as 1884 this afternoon. | Genator Brown opened the after- moon’ seasion by an attack on the Board of Estimate rule which per mite the transfer of funds appro-| \priated im the budget from one item ito another. Mayor Mitchel, who was jon the witness stand, showed that! the Legislature bas « eimilar rule, | | Here wae an opening through which Mayor Mitchel attempted to enter the matter of appropriations ‘made by the Leqisiature amounting to millions of dollars each year, which | amount te practical robbery of tho! ofty, | Senator Brown. is extremely coy when this subject is brought up and he dodged it quite akiifully, As is b custom, when be is pushed off tho| ‘track to confine the Investigation en. | tirely to city extravagance and keep | ‘wm away from the matter of Iegisiative eppvopriations, sald that be hadn't ‘¢amae to digrens. In response to a request by Senator uitars, Banjos And Kindred Instruments HAWAIIAN UKULELES, STEEL GUITARS, *° Wictareuibing tlacttre' Sx” **# At) matromente Lg by talented Catalogues free on request. ‘Teieghone Barmag WiU—4144 Chas. H. Ditson & Co., 8-10-12 East 34th St. G. Altman & Co. have marked at greatly reduced prices the remaining stock of French Gowns all of which were designed and made in Paris by the leading couturiers of the i French capital. (Special Costumes Department, Third Fioor) | Fit Avemee-Madtais Avenue, | New York 3th and 35th Streets 9 2190-92 3’AveBer 119'"e 120" “SHS eit 5035;30373°Ave Cor 156" ST BoE ici) you would flee from Winter's cold and snows and seek the Summer pas- |Mayor Mitchel repiiea that i THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918. _ Rrown the Mayor presented the num- BOY’S X¥MAS EVE FIDDLING | w004. ‘The social atmosphere among | Tie layers... ber Of permanent employees of the oon aoemas of Brookiyn in 1999-10-16. he number of permanent employees in 1009 was 275, in 1910 306, and in 1916, ‘The regular personal service cost 87,105 in 1909, $396,865 in 1910 and $471,101 {n 1918. The expense Incurred for temporary employees was § in 1909, $515,193 In 1910 and iu 1916, ‘The Mayor then explained the meth nl of iasuing special revenue bonda when the budget amount had not proved adequate for the administra. tion of one or anothe of the city de- partments. The Mayor was asked how long the extra appropriation by revenue bonds | was avatlable for a department “Until Dec, 81 of the finc year,” | the Mayor replied, "It in avaliable for two vears in the State,” said Senator Brown, “That, I think, tends to Jessen expenditures.” The kame economical remult is ef- fected," waid the Mayor, “by allow- unused balances to Iapse and be applied toward reduction of taxation.” Reading from « report of expendt- tures for the Charitins Department, Senator Hrown came to an item of $2,000 for a motor hearse “What kind of @ charge was that,” he asked, “discretionary Comptroiier Prondergant, the Mayor's left, took up the answer “That's mandatory; you've got to bury @ man.” “Do you believe a special bond In- sue the proper means of paying for the remodelling of the Aldermante Chamber? Senator Brown asked “I nap no objection to it," Mayor replied “Yes, but does not the frequency Of the request for such issues tond to Increase expenditures?” “It does not. flege to ask for these issues there would be less care in preparing the budget. Bosides, it would cost mor “Well, I'm sorry, but I don't eee| the reason for these issues except in cases of public emergency,” Senator Brown replied. “If a department the | head spends all that bas beon allotted to him, he needs investigating. Economies can always be practiced ve in the case of emergencies.” Senator Brown asked the Mayor to explain a special bond tissue of 09,000 in 1914 to pay police salaries, it had been thought possible to police the elty without filling the vacancies in the force, But this was found to be an error, After 1915 came in it was found necessary to fill them, owing to the unsettled conditions {a the cect whee when #o many persons were out o “In hes budget for 1916 the same Line f has happened,” Mayor Mitchel went on. Police Commission@r came be- fore the Board of Estimate with the strongest appeal for more policemen than we allowed for in the budget. We asked him to get on in 1916 with the men we had provided for, But not a member of the board voted on the item without feeling that no doubt before the end of the year it would be necessary to augment the force, cnd therefore obtain funds to pay the added salaries.” “Well, this sort of thing seems to me to impair the value of a budget &s agreed on, said Senator Brown. It detracts from its value.” In answer Mayor Mitchel said; “My dear Senator, you lose sight of the fact that there is a $2,000,000 Lmita- on upon the special revenue bonds we may Issue. The lapses and ac- cruais—the unexpended — balances— can be counted upon to equal the to- tal special revenue bond {ssuo.” Mayor Mitchel stated that the crea- tion of Bronx County made necessa- ry the issue of #pectal revenue bonds. "I did not approve of the creation of that county; I think it was a mis- take,” he said, “but we had to pro- vide funds for the administrative functions up there."* —— VAN CORTLANDT SKATING GOOD; ICE IS THRONGED Best Sport of This Season Draws Hundreds to the Park Lake. Hundreds of persons glided over the tee on the big lake at Van Cort- landt Park to-day, enjoying the best skating this winter, Unicas the weath- er should turn unexpectedly warm park employeos predicted, excellent skating conditions will continue for | several days, By & o'clock this morning the crowd had begun to gather and by noon about fifteen hundred persons were | Upon the ice or nearby, with more coming, It was predicted that the }late afternoon would see more tha |two thousand thronging the lake. The ice this morning was about eight inche hiek with an excellent sur- | fac vere Was no skating In Cen- jtral Park, _ | ANOTHER DU PONT BLAZE. Fire of ¥ times of the sunny South or the semi- tropical charms of the golden get a copy of THE WORLD'S WINTER RESORT ANNUAL |; FOR 1915-16 Now Being Distributed AT ALL WORLD OFFICES AND BY MAIL! which presents hur ments of Winter Boarding Places, FREE Resorts, New York City Hotels and Restaurants, &¢ Handsomely Printed! Profusely Mlustra Intensely VRITE 1 TODAY ALL OR Mea | APPLieroN bundred we fire of allegwd Joke out Tucmlay night at Powder Compan West, | Wis, 1 knien were meena 0.—Three ied by im vigin Ww he Du f # plant at Barks Mark Attorney m ston from where a = MINE SINKS DUTCH STEAMER, Vhe Crew Nese | If it were not our priv. altting at a 4 ” * rs 4 ‘ 3 $ P 4 & | #Oegeornne i | | | | MAY WIN HIM FAME UNDER SOUSA PATRONAGE @oseoeve | oe 6 MRS, SOUSA ‘GOOD FAIRY’ TO STREET BOY FIDDLER March King's Wife Hears Max at Park Tree Gathering and Will Educate Him. Max Gladatone, wi) is only eleven, but cam play a violin better than Many grown folks, is about to get back the bread he cast upon the watera on Christmas Eve. Max | Poor and his clothes are shredded ir spots, but he was filled with Christ- mas spirit last Friday night, ao he took his fiddle and went over to Madison Square Park at Twenty- | thira Street There, for the benefit of the ewarm | of other youngsters, just as ragged as) Dimaelf, be began playing, His act Was @ “knock-out,” and presently the crowd of appreciative urchins about him was augmented by @ deep | ing of older folk Here enters the good fairy who 19 gets, the currants ip the bread. he is Mrs. John Philip Souna, wife of the "March King.” Her automo- bile paused near the crowd around Max, one of the stops she was mak- ing In @ trip of toy distribution. Touched at first only by the lad’s kindly effort to entertain, Mra. Heusa presently became aware that the) player had remarkable ability, Sho found out that he lived at No, 169 Livingstone Street, Newark, and y terday she and her husband sent him to tell him that they would ar- range to give him # musical educa- tion. As the first step, provided Mayor Mitchel will issue Charles Dillingham ® special permit, Max will be allowed to play his violin in the Fifth Avenue scene in “Hip, Hip Hooray,” at tho Hippodrome. | HIS WIFE TOLD HIM SHE LOVED ANOTHER, SHEFFIELD SWEARS) (Conuaued from First Page.) from New York. She left the house at 4 to medt them and bring them out from the statien. At quarter past 6 the station agent telephoned the! were A lot of guests for the house wander. ing around tho station with nobody to meet them, Mr fleld brought them home and Mrs, Sheffield wan dered in about Zo clock. ‘It was such Jay | was enticed to go for se all the excuse she made. . (By Vice Chancellor Lewis), Did she say with whom she went to walk or that she was alone? A. She did not say. Mias Thien said ShefMeld would not have his picture taken unless Mra, Sheffield was photographed at the same time A good-looking woman with close cropped grayish huir, a dark gown and brilliant gt n stockings sat with Mr, SheMeld’s lawyers to-day, Mrs, ShetMeld and hor friends were ex- cltedly curious about her, suggesting to reporters she was “The Myaterious Lady" mentioned by a detective yes- terday as going to gay supprr parties with Mr, Shefticld in New York, The young woman helped the mystery along vow," she said, teasing: | + free.” Less roman than the novel-writer's she was a lady tle persons chums we detective SHEFFIELD HAPPY UNTIL PANIC! TOOK FORTUNE, stus SheMeld was the next wit He ii his fathe, | Aied and left him between $40,000 and $50,000 he earned about $75 a week, At f opinion ness, said that unt the frat of his married life he lived on his earnings of $10 4 week as @ law clerk, and $10 a week os a settlement worker in Brooklyn and an allowance {$10 a week f his father, H marriqd life was perfectly happy unt his fortur was swep away by th panic of 1907, he sald 6 time use of his son Nel WA health, they lived in Lake»; {Over 150,000 Already Enjoy | Onn Monday and Saturday Evenings | the Lakewood villagers was not con- genial, and Mrs. Sheffield dropped off a train at Short Hills, liked the town and bought a home for $5,800, “Mrs, Sheffield is a person of re. markable taste, and the selection of the furnishings’ was gladly left alto- her,” he said. "But she be happy after the money , when I was quite ruined, in answer I telephoned to sking Mrs. Sheffield to York to help me get nerves together and comfort me refused to cc saying she hi muels, a lawye nd the evening with When I went home f saw them) the second floor ygether on a divan, 1} task and she sald she wos} vited Charles + Ni sake because she wanted him help me. SAID SHE WANTED A LITTLE ADVENTURE. “Again a little later she told me she had invited Joseph Colt to dine with her. Why, she even asked me to stay In New York that night. 1| was indignant and she sald she only wanted a little adventure, After- wards I found she had spent the evening driving him about the coun- try in a sleigh, charging the bill, § to me. “Another time I came home to find! hor taiking with @ man named Ro- | land Holt, On the hat table was an] open letter signed ‘Yours dev Roland.’ I didn’t like that, but said it was merely # pleasant form of | words, “A few nights later when I was just dozing off she kept me awake me how much she loved Samuels. said she couldn't help it. “Another time she made a (} visit to New York, saying she joing to stay one night in a studio partment we kept in the city, and with friends in the Sutherland Apart ments, I went up to our apartment and found she had been there, The Appearance of things made me #us)i- cious, “When I got home to Short Hills I asked her how she had spent her time in New York. She denied she bad beer at our apartment and then admitted it. She told a thousand dit- ferent stories to accwunt for the condi- tion o* things I found there.’ 200,000 70 GET WAGE | INCREASES ON JAN. 1; TOTAL MANY MILLIONS Raises and 50,000 More Make Demands. Increases in wages that will total into many millions of dollars will be given to 200,000 workers tn New York and vicinity on Jan. 1. Tratesmen of many walks are included in the lists already drawn up. Ross Tompkins, Secretary of the United Board of Business Agents for the Bullding Trades of New York, saya the following have received in- creases: Increase Trades. per day. Metallic lathers..$5.20 to $5.50 Maghinists 6,00to 5.50 Workers | Affected | 1,400 | 5,000 WITHIN TWO WEEKS @Y THE MeBonald Method Pais! poigntitie [ae ARCH PERMANENTLY cuReD | Abrolute entiefaction guaranteed. Call or write. for Booklet ped McDonald, ‘fA. 2 301 Weet End Avenue oul trom 79 ib 8 $3.00 Down on s0.00 5.00 « 4%. 7.50 « 100.00 10.00 ~ 150.00 145.00 « * 200.00 25.00 * + 300.00 FREE 48ass BED 104ST.L STATION AT CORNER All lost of found articles ade vertised in Tie World will be ilsted at The World's int “sed ‘ton Bur Pulltser Bi ow; World's Office, northwest cor- Nth St.’ and stroadway; 5 Brooklyn, for 30. days the ‘ing che printing @f aivertibement, Wood lathert.... Others aMilated with the building trades whore agreements with their employers expire to-morrow with one exception and who are demanding in- creases, ceiving them, are: rien, Ashenton sorkers. to questions Of] Alermaxety Short | Cementers Jrerora tot foerennee have been granted to | @irle in the milline. / trade, 14,000 trac. tion employees, 8,000 walters, pullman home six Ea ne “iy porters, conductors and others em.) weeks ago because of her stepmother and had been living In a furnished room ployed on sleepers, to Mr, Samuels for my) chanies in the Navy Yar? ANNUAL AUTOMOBILE SHOW NUMBER FINANCIAL, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS REVIEW 900 1,000 + 5.50to 5.00 to 6.40 Girl, 18, B Neve Rume re That She WORK SLACK, TRIES TO me IDMONTS cus Pmcm Bolleving rumors that tack of suffictent Carat ra Zoe $39 work for the employees of Emil Gross- I will have on sale to- eS | man & Company's auto accessory fac-| Dive white, Diamonds st tory In Bush Terminal Building No, 20 was about to cate her to lose her job, Ruth Newman, etghteon, took a tablet and @ half of bichloride of mercury in the women’s dressing room there this morning. Dora Johnson, the forewoman, found her and she was hurried to the Norwegian Hospital, where it was said she probably would recov To Murton of the Detective George the Kir! explained with the expectation of re- r ie fun bias Scent i is cen toon ¥. purth Avenue station that she had lett her. father and 1,200 me. at No. 455 Fortieth Street, Bay Ridge. She ts held « prisoner in the hospital Stern Brothers 4nd and 43rd Streets, West of Fifth Avenua The Men’s Clothing Section HAS PREPARED THE FOLLOWING. UNUSUAL VALUES FOR TO-MORROW, ON THE THIRD FLOOR: Men’s Sack Suits Men’s Sack Suits at $18.50 at $22.50 Actual Values up to $30.00 Actual Values up to $35.00 Two and three button models; in blue, black and fancy mixtures, some quarter lined with silk; sizes range from 84 to 46, stouts included. Men’s Winter Overcoats, at $18.50, 24.50 Actual Values $25.00 and $5.00 Chesterfield styles, silk lined, velvet or self collars; plain or fancy mixtures, quarter silk lined, single and double breasted models; also London Great Coats, made expressly for us; sizes 84 to 438. Very extensive preparations are being made for the Annual January Sales’ which will commence on Monday, January 3rd, and will include the following departments: Household and Decorative Linens, Muslin Sheets and Pillow Cases, Blankets and Comfortables, Imported and American-made Underwear, Women’s Suits, Coats and Dresses, Furs and Fur Lined Garments At price advantages that will command the attention of our patrons and the ublic. Details of these important events will be announced on Sunday, Tiley @nd. AND OF THE “THE NATIONAL GERMAN DAILY” (Members of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association and the Audit Bureau of Ctroulations) Appears on Sunday, January 2, 1916 In eddition to personal comments of men prominent in the automobile industry, thie nam. bét will contain many illustrations of the latest models and the following editorials: A RevieW of the Automobile Industry Initial and Operating Expenses of the Automobile Expansion of the Automobile Plants in the United States This number will also contain an annual review of finance, insurance and business conditions, with articles by prominent authorities, as follows: Financial Review and Prospects at the Beginning of the New Year American Industries and Trades in 1915 American Life Insurance and the War The Fire Insurance Business and Public Welfare