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o 4 CRAM ADMITS HE AIDED B. R. IN FRANCHISE CASE | | And Any One Who Fitts) Fault. With» Commissioner | Can Go “Plumb to Hell.” ¢ a What are my eyeglasses going to cost me? If you are considering the Purchase of a pair of glasses, Please remember that glasses | ioner J. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1916. In water-soaked clothes, with head, | hands and arms burned, Francis Hil- burn, twenty-two years old, a chauf- feur, of No. 127 Edgecombe Avenue, apartment friends at No. 440 West Two Hundred are something more than just ie Service Com merchandise — because their | Sergeant Cram, whove term expires use determines their value. the end of thie month, was to-day |*tassered into shown an article in an earl, edition | You can only get satisfac- tory use from glasses if they Properly correct your visual defect, and they will only do of The Evening World in which ex- posure is made of attempts of the | 4 ual franc that if they are built for your |imite or more of prop: ;|on @ charge of grand larceny. One is Misa Hilda Special eyesight requirements. | streets in the Flatbush Pe es Ue eee Cea Greenport, L. 1, who is Then, too, you must remem- | Was pointed out it Cor }Company, at Two Hundred and! More money to spend than any other | Cram, taking testimony in th fight to prevent the grab, refus allow a postponement which would | clty an opportunity jo to the proposed streets rive the raijroad company of al franchise ner Cram waxed indig= he read The Evening ber that the responsibility of the house to whom you intrust your eyesight needs is im- portant. When you come here we as- Sure you both economy and safety. Economy, because we manu- facture the complete eyeglass upon a very large scale. Safety, because we intrust the examination of your eyes to skilled Oculists —Registered physicians — whose extensive daily practice in our nine of- fices makes them particularly well qualified. Harris Glasse: tu when ' lie!" he exclaimed. “Yes, 1 did refuse to postpone the case any further for the city, but even if the B. 1K. T. wins this fight it will not get @ perpetual franchise “So far as I am concerned she Evening World can go plumb to hell, There are newspapers in thix town which have a set polley that a cor- poration has no rights at all, A cor- machine at was an expl. hair, burned arme and set ran twenty-five feet to the en ‘| jumped into the 1 his burning clothing. Then he swam out and walked bulkhead 4 nd Ninth Street at 3.80 A. M A policeman sent lim to the Washington Heights Hospital, where! "shts jaunts to the white lights, |he was treated and heid a prisoner have ben told to pack their trunks. ay rly ake out the 16 was try © extin «to yar poration, I believe, should have a per more, depending | jfect Fight to extend its service, th Court the lenses prescribed an snal newspapers which destroy | to-day mounting selected. ey corporations, | Chauffe e pay 60 per cent the Income | jhitty . iat | Sec ! ‘going out of office, p God. But | Hera De 1 or out I'll always stand for that \ best represents the public in- hi factories in the which the B, R. e pierce, Three hus re employed there and ve ny means of trans- tion, » Brooklyn Heighta Railroad, a f BRT. te endenv- 4 its line through the | proposed new Flatbush Island Avenue to Ralph » Mill Avenue to Kemble Avenue X to Flatbush 1607 Broadway bigs 499 Fulton St missioner Cram's de- granting of a certificate e Commission ual franchise the Corporation Coun nsists that such is the | duy during a hearing be- | |by the | would Many Accidents Are Caused by Poor Eyesight jisgioner Cram Assistant | In these days of fast moving ounsel Clarke pleaded | vehicles it is necessary to see mmissioner to postpone le City's interests, clearly and aet quickly. Blurred, indistinct eyesight is dangerous. Eyes Examined Without Charge by Registered Eye Physicians. Perfect Fitting Glasses, $2.50 to $10 Qehalich Established 53 Years New York: 184 B'way, at John St #23 Sixth A $50 Sixth A poration to the to adopt the joner’s recommen- R. T. be granted xin its work of lay- # through the contested ter- | ee ¥ Concerned, 0 Washington | 5: replied Parmer Cornte josh looks kind kind of Every summer the clothe home from school « more sus ‘than they were the veur before.” , What do you care ie a heap. His mother ineisus sendin’ him back dressed up in the tyles an’ I've got to weur his old | 6 all winter,” wen pri: A separate motion picture serial sup- plement will be given with next Sunday's | 0: World In Greater New York and vicinity, « | No Connection With Any Other Establishment in the World }} ORTH 43 & 45 West 34th Street wiipin'lt rAlpin Hotel Impo:'ant Special Sale Saturday New Coats, Suits& Dresses Final Winter Styles Greatly Reduced Quality Broad- cloth Coats Loose and belted 1 lined throughout and tiers lined. Reduced to } Quality Broad- suits Early Spring Styles Specially Priced cloth Luxuriously fur tri: threexjuarter le new st Reduced to tadels, Spring Suits martly Style Several new models of ur check: tbardiies a taffetas and serge combi Suitable far present wear Several distinctive models 100 Fur Muffs—To Close Less Than Half Former Prices tions; also novelty cloths. New Silk Dresses in the prevailing shades and materials. Special! Muffs are of black, natural and skunk opossum, also beaver coney, inthe By 00 e For Spring f] oS New Boring Dress 15.00 see swing new barrel or ball shapes wr feu taxicab up sixth Street perilling the The Remaining Winter Stock of | the Twelfth Street and the Harlem River. | gin in the college. ly to-dey he thought he runabout in which he drove one of the con during the day, fraife shed in the cont yards, a4 ne kay they fc 1 West I B. It was Kept in a the hands and his cloth the side trance Prov at W ittier H cording to somé of to- the Teachers’ College, would Miss Molly Crandall of officers | John's PI any © Tevple in } Hat, pe, The The authorities mention details, a} dents are not, are ning afin The ndway # proof of Nis} yn t nd the| if it hadi way again, y house. t. same old, ale wt Six 4 Avenue, ne, had tried it, too! Altman & Cn. looking reg but the other fun, fast and furious wh cabarets n't been for th tunabout in the coa}| one night before Christmas! Anyway, Miss Crandall, Miss John- | sen and Miss Teeple had to get in} | that way, because there wasn't any rat that hour, and one of their rts just helped them up, He went ack to his fra- He was scared pink, PLAN FORAY RE. | SEEING BROADWAY ENED BY EXPLOSION, VICTIM I HOPTAL Hilburn, Scorched, Jumps Into River and Is Accused of Stealing Car. BY NGHT OUTS FOURCOLLEGE GIL Fire Escape as Means of En- s Treacherous all. Adventure, long dead anyway, ac- | uthorities, has re- celved another jolt at Colurbia Uni- | versity, where four girls, caught in mid- students of Johnson of said to have No. 971 St ft t e first year students. The others are! lace, Brooklyn;, Mise Marion | 4) Hofford of Dallas, Tex. and Miss | ia Teople of Fort Morgan, Col. | Miss Lucetta Daniell, the Social Di rector, put on her sternest expression, @ummoned the four young women and told them they couldn't come back next semester. A rule at Whittier Hall forbids fresbman girls to leave the dormitory except on Mriday, Saturday and Sun- day nights. they return later than 10.30 o'clock, to sign a register, giving an explana- tion, with the time of their passing tho large iron gates, The four girls, however, discovered that @ courtyard 0 One Hundred and ve access to @ cement wall, shoul- ends of the building scaled 7 jer reluctant to|@ stu- they say, rile it lasted, watchmar were avtractive. | q Women’s Tailor-made Suits has been placed on saie at extraor- dinarily reduced pric ranging from $16.50 te $37.50 (Department, Third Floor) A Remarkable Reduction Sale of Misses’ Suits, Coats & Dresses is now being held. remaining ‘ been reduced without regard to ori Tailored Suits, Practical Coats including fur-trimmed or broadcloth (De it comprises the nter stock, all of h $10.50, 15.50, 18.50, 9.50, 14.50, AND STREET DE eo omens P £12.75, 15.50 ¢ ent, Second F r hai style a not onl constr ultimat A Spec Im one 34th aud 35th @trerts entire hes nel cost. 18.50 SES, nodels of velveteen 22.00 y i M of tl n the selection of mate thers, exce ho Infimite care is o bei id finish, the result tin excellence, EN’S LACE § te best odels, feat tionally priced at 55.50 per pair Fifth Avenue-Madison Avenue, ring for tosmorrow will com ng va utes served 5 but in og the us New York en, just last Sunday night, the| nosey wught Miss Hofford using the same | entrance, and it was the first time hat was when gled recess, to all the floors. “The pranks of t innocent, of cours college — officials. They are They are compelled, if have to leave, prank, an harmless, Hacretto ing back from a coe enty-first Street high, which adjojned two abutting t the rear, They 801 hion, this wall in whole affal Information Founded 1826 About Florida, California, Cuba, Bahamas, Ber- muda, Texas or Winter ‘Travel Anywhere. No Fees. Ack Mr. Foster Fifth Floor peeve ere emeswcemres o: 38th Street designing of Fashions for youthful femininity. collection. The New Spring Suits To creations of Jenny and Lanvin these jaunty suits owe their distinction, Coats are cleverly belted blouses with rippled skirts, or are short mess jackets with rows upon rows of buttons and heavy stitching. Skirts, extremely wide girdles, belts and novel pockets. are’ finely Crep on lines, have Fabrics gabardines, stripes, checks and plaids; soft velour nov- elties and silk in combination ¥ materials. Priced $29.50, $35.00, $37.50, $39.50 to $59.50 textured serges, wool } Pretty styles Girls’ Coats $7.95 Our former prices $1 $16.50. Broadcloths and mixtures, in a varied assortment of styles and colors. Sizes 6, 8, 10 and 12 Girls’ Coats $9.95 ur former price $19.50. udeloths y materials. med with fur ' 2.50 4 and nove , but incomplete. and 12, but incomplc ae Foe a em ces eam < Toilet H ] Requisites . i Reduced | Pierre Soap; fragrant & and bland. Box of three \ cake Qur former price 50c 35c ] Lord & Taylor Cologne, | 9 in pretty bottles; refre ing and lasting. Our former } aa i 00 a bottle. ....75¢ : Black Salts “Ammo- | j Dress a i a a } ¥ z s ened and 44 Satins The 35¢ size 2c ae hoemer Witch Hazel (Lord & ie ge ee ‘Taylor quality) quart bot- Bree! (maiz 5 4 tle. Our former price yard, 4 356 25 i { now Pint bottle. Our former 4 price 25¢ ; . ie b } Peroxide (Lord & -I $1.95 lor quality) pint size, Our ry | former price 35¢ 25e ] Vy size. Our former x Pp lic | j nd Bloo ? a | x r HUDSON SEAL COATS At Clearance Prices For the January Sale, now in progress, unusual reductions have been made. Of especial interest are the offerings in Hludson Seal (dyed muskrat) Coats, garments luxurious, handsome, dependable, fashioned of selected, p tly matched lustrous pelts in several extremely smart models. Hudson Seal Coats Plain and trimmed with contrasting furs specially priced $75.00, $125.00, $155.00, $175.00 Our former prices $85.00 to $225.00 Model Coats in Seal, Caracul, Beaver and Leopard Skin Have Been Greatly Reduced | | are walked down tho tile steps on its ins side and were at the foot of the fire. escapes which lead up, in a dark, au- Priced $14.30, se four girls were said one of the young, from eighteen to twenty, ane they meant no harm and did no seri. ous harm. They did wrong, of course, in breaking a college rule, und for that, if for nothing else, they would “But nothing that has happened be viewed as anything more than & A emoatially were unfortunate enough to come into the acquaintance of men who were not manly enough to protect them from themselves, and that is what is responsible for the newest Some trim- ee ee ee ee ee es ee ee ee HEMPSTEAD, N. ¥., Jan, 21. Sanford D. Campbell, cation devoted to gas interests in New York, Hempxtead home from New York last night he found his wite fore coming In Philadelphia, Lord & Taylor FIFTH AVENUE SS A MODES FOR MISSES Paris style arbiters have achieved their most signal successes in the For Spring, 1916, have been launched the cleverest Suits and Frocks seen for many a season; models, copies and adaptations of which are smartly featured in the Lord & ‘Taylor New Afternoon Frocks In the new shades of coral, rose, pearl and battleship gray; castor and tan tones, the new blues and in white. array of Dresses, in Taffeta, Satin Fabre, Crepe de Chine, Georgette in combination effects. $19.50, $25.00, $29.50, 35.00 to New Dancing Frocks Love’y laces and chiffons in bewitchingly Taffetas and shimmering charmeuse in models quaint and charming; crisp organdies and filmy nets. Priced $19.50, $25.00, $29.50, $35.00 up to $69.50 CLEARANCE OF GIRLS’ APPAREL Radical Reductions to Effect Immediate Disposal of These Odd Lots. to ee ee ee ee > >) ED 0 ED) ED DED) ED) ED ED) ED ED Sale of 8,000 Yards BLACK DRESS SILKS Large Reductions From Our Former Prices Ground Fluor LOL) LS) |) A) A) AT) |) ee Matched Sets— Reduced Searfs i Bkinies scons cadena siels $12.50 1 Black Lynx : $16.50 | | Hudson Seal (dyed muskrat) $9.50 Natural Raccoon 50 $7.50 Red Fox $21.50 $19.50 | Blue dyed Fox nie $37.50 $35.00 Jhivd Bloor ams ena-en: ancensancen<fpancaan iene: —— > ESD 0) GD |) EES (0) GES | SED) GD 0D 10) OPS 0 GP tmatd's room of their home on Terrace Juntice Walter R. Coroner, took possession of a note left by Mrs.’ Campbell her intention to die $9.50 & $12.50 Our Corduroy and serges, some models with fur coll 8 6, 8, 1Oh12, 14, 15 and 16 e. what broken. Third Floor formerly superintendent of the Gas Company, returned dead from gas in the Jones, acting as He says it indleates sof age. He- here the Campbells lived Greeley 1900 Club Luncheon 50c Special Noon Luncheon 75¢ Luncheon and After- noon Tea, a la Carte, to A. M. to 5 P, M. Tenth Floor 39th Street A charming Charmeuse, $79.50 Tailored Suits Wash Dresses =‘ $1.50 to $2.50 Our former prices $2.9§ to’ $5.95. Ui Chambrays, linens; styles for school wear. “Sizes 8 to 14 years in the assortment. former prices $29.50. $22.50 Sizes some- ars. Women’s All Silk Umbrellas Special, $1.95 Only 150 of: these slim, trim, stylish Um- Black brellas with the smart- Satin est of novelty handles De Chine in scores of pretty ef- fects, including Sterling Silver, etched 35 inches wide. Our former price $1.25 a and engraved, yard, Carved handles, ster- now ling silver mounted. Imported loop handles, carved. In twill and taffeta silks of excellent quali- ties. 88c > > ED) ED 0 ODED 0D De ee: Ground Floor a Lo] WOMEN’S TOP COATS of English Tweed Special, $15.00 ‘These practical Utility Coats are quite the smartest garments of their type seen this season, both in fabric, cut and tailoring details. Fash- ioned of soft, warm, but light weight ‘Tweeds, in gray, green and brown mixtures, tartan plaids, novelty weaves and patterns, and in black, The model decidedly mannish has a rolling convertible collar, buttons high to the neck and has “pivot” sleeves, set in and with wide armholes, Very flar- ing, and with the wide sweep that the present mode demands, FUR COLLARED COATS Our former prices $35.00 to $39.50 $22.50 Winter Coats in many fashionable fabrics and colors, with deep collars of fur; finely lined and warm!» interlined, Third Floor ee ee