The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1916, Page 4

eS ee — | ediate danger and that the cutte ably would float her before night Middlerex Fast on Cros Rt Not tn Immediate Dan ‘VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass., Feb. The steamer Middlesex, from Norfolk to Boston, went aground early to-day on ‘Cross Rip Shoal while a heavy sea was haw v Ju Municipal Court turned a verdict in favor of Josiah J. | White hgainat the Manor F ¥ pany, of which Borough H. Pounds + hen t |v of at mn y ember for the ansintance. j nth Street the | Fi 1 for Mr, White, ange received by tation Company, | that d that she was leas © violation was on the side of the “I Didn't Know Biscuits Could Taste so Good” Of course Mother is surprised! She jue followed the recipe on the “Presto” package — it's very simple —and now look at those biscuits! They're really flufy! urprised with “Presto”. it bakes much better than you would suppose flour could, | Tomorrow Only=- Unrestricted Choice of Any In Our Warerooms $ g ly ; 0 Terms to suit your convenience A Limited Number of WAREROOMS, 5th Ave. & 39th St. Complete Stock of Victor-Victrolas and Records Player- is PIANOS wy | KNABE th ile were ITTLE boys never more a) tively dressed the ent tim Fashions bright that w t Yoare at the p for the n thought been Ine Wear, even at n This ttle xample of example | wort the ori n through age & 00 makox what ts tobe out As made of a nd the i nin varts and ‘red All such Himeelf, and the ehild I . votive ating “t ina ytime fa ‘unbleached wan, Mt hax Just the ware warm, creamy » that unbleaehed fubricn mWaays take, iis ubsolutole it Washew portenthy 8 most. effective with trimming ef red or ot blue. Smock tuned, but stn y always can be tuted if the needlework seem te labor than is four-year size ed 3 yards Inches wit, 29 fines for boys fro} 0 No, 9988 (with basting Hine and added seam allowance). six pears, WP: SEO ERO Ne, 1OY'S SUIT two to six years, Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BUREAU, Donald Bullding, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppo- site Gimbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents im colm or stumps for each pattern ordered. ~ FROM UNIUST TAX land giving the city @ 50 per cent. | particular reference to New York THE EVENING BURDEN BEFORE LEGISLATURE Forty New York Members {*% proposition, | Pledged to Support of Eve- ’ 7 2 NO CHANCE OF AN INCOME TAX ning World’s Measure. with more than pass- WITHIN THE STATE. Senator Mills has prepared and will| - roduce a number of bills embody- THREE BILLS ARE READY, |!2%, bis income tax propositions, as Well a9 his ideas about taxing net in- comes of corporations and revising Others Are Being Drafted, To-|or BGnll SeOPORRATE AA caine gether With Some New Tax cules of the industrial sys! Reform Legislation. ) York City for the privile | Senator John J. Boylan, I minority, has prepared and will ask the Legisiature bills 4 : ‘2 pass a number of (Special from a Staff Correspondent yi|i', Giametrically opposed to the |Mills majority outline of reform, of The Evening World.) The Mills committes, in both re= ALBANY, Feb. 21.—The efforts of port states with justice that it woul ‘. jttke much more time and ental! the ‘The Evening World ia the direction of | expenditure of much more money equalizing taxation In the State #o| than were allowed by the last Legis- that real estate in the City of New! Mute for proper investigation beginning to bear fruit, Bills are ready | ia for legisiative action which were for- mulated along lines suggested and ad- vocated by The Evening World, and] consisting of Senator Bovlan hun will open the door to @ great deal of! blyman Charles D, Donohue and A taxation legislation of a reformative|femblyman William J. Gillen, and constructive nature, Rie powell siete direction of Henry At the conference called by Mayor | ¢n' the Gormtalttes ue roe Mitchel at the City Hall last Friday | of the foremost authorities on tase | afternoon forty members of the Leg- | tion in this clty and State. He is the! islature from the city pledged them- | @Uthor of “Powell on Corporations,” selves to the support of a bill re- | taxation matters for mat pealing the law which taxes the city! for aid of town highways; a bill to compel the State to contribute to t support of special schools in the city as it contributes to the support of special schools up-State, and a@ bili «giving the clty 60 per cent. of the 4s away from the majority, of the time given for in- on, and runs the other way around the track Nae The report of the Boylan minorit 3! | England | ears, | s the In-| proposition on the ground ler the existing laws whic scessor absolute power, | ctically unec The Boylan report rej come ta persons paying more than their share WORLD! MOPDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916. | MISS POWBL’S FIANCE WILL GO TO WAR AFTER WEDDING AT ARDSLEY | tend thebbride and Art jof Boston is to be best man. |Campbell has volunteered for serv, [in the British army and will sall for | ptta, with his bride in a few days. | Miss Elizabeth Hare Powel Is to be|four years. |married to William B, Fraser Camp- {stealing three years ago and was sent) bell at the home of her parents, Mr.|to a home, She was released recent- | und |and Mrs, Robert Hare Powel at Ards- consideration of the State taxation |ley-on-Hud v after- |man who knew her met her on Cook | York shall not be forced to shoulder | Probl the most important pri ook ison, Wednesday Neen eee tee Seine waged e State at this time. But c S| en ecb agin an unjust and exceasive burden are! question of the income tax the min,| Miss Bizabeth M. Hewitt will at-lof No, 14 Cook Street reported an ur Sweetser Mr ———>—__ HIGH LEVEL MARK SET |atandard work, and has specialized in Producers of Crude Product Hold- ing Out for § Raise Rate to $2.40. PITTSBURGH, other step toward the price for which crude ofl producers are said to be holding their stocks was taken to- 0 a Barrel, Feb. 21.—An- tax collected from motor vehicles op- |driving. thoumands se Ue Gay by the principal | purchasing erating in the city. All this latter; moderate incomes out of agencies when the South Penn Oil tax now goes to the support of up- might not, on the fin Company announced anot State bighways. ptbipy abba come tax inthis| vance as follows: Pe State would undoubte: 5 OGRE LN Geen a ee edly create munities, | Cabell, a} . ve ce a ba 0 ; great boom in nearby Jersey com.|CTUt five cents a barrel to $2.40; ositions, Other plans recommended 8 n cents to $1.95; Corn- by ‘The Evening World and indorsed|BILL8 TO STRENGTHEN cor. | ‘?# Mercer Black and New Castle, in whole or in part by Mayor Mitchel PORATION TAX LAW. Sve (cents) to) $1.90; " Bontarset): Bye and the city administration, which will be placed before the Legislature for consideration, with the backing of the city legislators, are those giving the city a share in the appropriations for new roads, turning into the city treasury all of the income derived from the tax of stock transfers, pro- viding for the payment by the State of the regulatory expenses of the First! District Public Service Corimission Bills have been introduced, with the| amend, amplify and strengthen the corporation tax law. The Evening World has contended that the only way to get at corporations ia by a tax on gross earnings. ‘The Boylan minority agrees that this contention is worthy of serious thought and in- Vestigation, but. in the light of lack of time for'the necessary thought and nvestigation, the minority advocates & corporation tax law which will levy a tax on capital ac ly employed, including bonded indebtedness, which in its contribution to extra ex-| is Son exact The Boylan bills would also wipe out many other ex- taxation if any euch should be} co otions and tax manufacuring and| the hop ciency. ever, amount storage barrel, hai amounting to $7.50 per $1,000—on, cor- poration stocks and bonded indebted- ness and include all sorta of corpora- tions enjoying the privileges of doing business in this State and its various communities. It is estimated that ch a law would yield However, these measures, important as they are in opening the way to qualization of State taxation with City, and in ightening the taxation taxation in this State it is estimated |? that the revenues could be raised to $20,000,000, an increase of some $11,- State in general, Will also submit two reports, with bills to carry out the recommendations of each. from rough drafts of bills to be sub- mitted, that the contention of this newspaper that the corporations of this State, public service, manufac~ turing and others under all classifica. tions, are not paying their share of the taxes, The Mills committee in major> ity and minority reports agre with The Evening World that the personal property tax law is @ farce and that the special fran- chise tax law does not reach justly taxable franchise values. Both majority and minority re- ports agree that the corporation tax law, as it stands to-da rather than prevents evasion of payment of corporation taxes. The majority and minorify uni in upholding the contention of The Evening World that the manner in which foreign and domestic corporations their taxes, especially within the City of New ‘A Healthful Habit for Children - dren to chew gum. chewing gum. nts to $1.78; sanction of the Boylan minority, to, to 82 cents. Reports reaching the oi! showed that was @ falling off of about 6,000 bar- rels a day in normal runs and ship- ments and the advance was made in during of making Ragland, two cents refiners January there up this defi- Competent authorities, how- believe ol w as ern dist that f crude oil ill not the Me au History, ¥ preser days 0 gime. . ‘Thousands of Mlrims pa find until the price has reached producers pressed for money. and feel the: afford to wait until th willing to pay. the now the immense held in market 0 a not can refiners are atime the un- are |levied this year. mining corporations and agricultural |Weally high) Price has stimulated ONLY PART OF EXTENSIVE RE-| nd horticultural societies, Tt is con- weather conditions, wells have been \ , under the Boylan-Dono pela hh FORM MEASURES. bills, to impose a tax of % of a mill— th Glaiet geeky: eke isis ——— HISTORIC CHURCH AFIRE. Linked With Flame Swept. load of city real estato owners and) year, a just proportion Tue, Feb. —-The his- city rent payers, aro but parts of ex-| would be distributed among the mu-|toric Roman Catholic Chureh at tensive reformatory measures which|Hicipalities in which are located the|Beauport, situated across the St ture. The committeo headed by Sen-| jas been doctored until it oj phrase ated tho ‘hinoris edition is ator Elon H. Brown will present a} nues for all sorts of exemptions under ‘ - existing law d also be amende ANDO one of th et eet majority and a minority report, and) rey Sao ian minority. Hy putting | tled parishes in French Canada and the committee headed by Senator O8-| tooth into this law and placing a ar the chureh was used iden L, Mills, appointed to investigate | proper share of taxation on residents | Montcalm as an encampment when hr and report on taxation matters in the} profiting by inheritance subject to was fighting tor ub onduast of the nt edific 000,000, throug It is a matter of some consequence} ‘The Boylan minority bills will also | Beauport every year on their wa a vorld and its readera| cover the parts of The Evening World| {the famous shrine of 81, Anne De to The Evening World and its readers} Moret is embracing the sharing by | Beaupre, about twelve miles further that so many of the items of the pro-] fhe city of the revenue from. stock gramme of tax reform it advocated] transfer, auto vehicle and inheritance and preached, all alone, last summer, | taxes, | It anpears vo recently | fall and early winter have recolved| dawned upon ie bee of all ahaa favorable consideration from these|q community such as the City of New | York Elevator Operators’ Benevolent committees and from individual leg-] York, with a population within its | Association will hold its twenty seventh : of close to 10, an E eception islators, It is particularly pleasing | Commute one oe penerousie come | TREE ood vaudeville show to The Evening World to learn, from | sidered In the apportionment of taxa | Mn. i prem perusal of the voluminous reports/tion made possible by the proximity | death. be mareh thus far been turned in and|and productivencss of this immense |ts to be led by the newly ele raat Pouidande population, a Arthur Rudd. Mothers, today, encourage the chil- Children, who will grow up to rep- resent the people in Congress, in the Cabinet and on the Bench, are now ¢ It is a good sign, for it shows a spirit of energy. And a healthful habit, too, if the gum is ‘GIRL BURGLAR BOASTS. | OF ABILITY AS A THEF ~ BUT MONT “SUUEAL” scien | “Experienced Burglars ‘Taught Me,” Etta, Admitting Three | “Jobs,” Tells Magistrate. | Boasting of her ability as a bur- | lar, Fitta Whitman, seventeen years! old, of No. 1092 Tiffany Street, the Bronx, admitted in the Bedford Ave- | nue Court, Brooklyn, thi# morning |that she had robbed three Williams. | jburg apartments. She was held for trial without bail by Magistrate) Voorhees. Detectives of the Seventh Branch say they expect her to clear up at least ten flat house robberies jthat have occurred during the Inst \few months. The girl, who is pretty and intelli gent, has been known to the police | \of Williamsburg for her escapades for | She was arrested for) ly, and Saturday fternoon a police- | ‘hour later that her home had been entered and $200 worth of jeweiry |taken the police started to look for She was traced to a furnished raom lat No, 895 De Kalb Avenue and ther some stolen property was found, This morning she was arrested in a fur- | nished room at the Bronx addr “Don't ask me any questions about | she said when Magis- my friends, trate any confederates. if 1 had. xperien any help.” Voorhees asked her if she had “1 wouldn't squeal I was taught to steal by burglars and J don't need ° Don | How to Make the Quickest, Simplest Cough Remedy. O} Much Better Than the Rendy= ( Made Kind, and You Save 82. Fully Guaranteed. | rup is now | other cough used in more homes thi remedy, Its prompt tainty in conquering distres hest and throat colds is really remark- able. You can actually feel it take hold. 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