The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1916, Page 3

PLANS OF MAYOR TO OMDE TAXES Two of His Bills to Give City Fair Share Are Approved at Conference. ‘MEETING IN WRANGLE.| “Mitchel Checks Lawmakers in Midst of a Hot Factional War of Words. At a conference between Mayor Mitchel and New York City State Senators and Assemblymen in thi City Hall to-day the lawmake: agreed to two proposals of the Mayor | for the relief of the city. One ts the Will for the transfer to the State of the regulatory expenses of the Public Service Commission of the First Dis- »4riet, and the other is a measure pro- widing for the equal division of any wuper-excise tax on a “fifty-fitty’ basis between the State and the city. ‘The conference didn't go on record &e favoring the super-tax, but simply wants its share if such a tax is im- posed. ‘The two most important measures of the Mayor were not adopted at the conference. Instead they were referred for consideration to a com- mittee of five members of the confer- ence, as follows: Morgan, Chairman; Senators Robert ¥. Wagner and Ogden Mills, and As- semblymen August Flanman and Jo- seph Callahan. It was himself who suggested his most im- portant measures be referred to com- Willlam Fellowes the Mayor JESS, JUNIOR, 's JESS, SENIOR'S « Boss “There Wouldn’t Be Any Their Difficulties With By Nixola Gr I met Jess Willard in a limited day afternoon in his headquartets ¥ mittee, and Highty-first Street. The Mayor's bills, whose fate will feel better than yest with the legislative committee, evening of March which will report again two weeks _ Por the inte fy’ trom to-day, are to give the city its Willard. fy just proportion of the money appro- E priated by the Logislature for high- ways, as well as its fair share of the the State for receipts taken in by etock transfer taxes. The meeting was a continuous wrangle of petty partisan politics which sorely tried the temper of the The assistance with a “Ragtime or Willard claim Jess '$ Gong To RAISE _ HIS TO @ woRsE = THan TRAINING = FOR Jess 18 Fono OF music, GsPeciauey A BAND War in Europe if Those| Fellows Over There Had Been Trained to Settle Their Fists,’’ He Says— “I’m No Believer in Violence and When Mrs. Willard Comes After Me With a Rolling Pin I Run.” eeley-Smith. bout—a conversational bout—yester- at the Colonial, Columbus Avenue All I can say is that I hope Frank Moran may I did when the bell rings on the 26. rview was a olean knockout for ery round was his save one, and that was when Evening World artist came gallantly to my question, The champion of cham- pions had admitted modestly a taste for music. Chopin?” queried my collaborator, engaged in his impossible task of reducing six feet six inches of brawn to six inches of drawing paper. ed and was allowed a foul. admirable changes tn Mr. Jones, his He informed us when we reached @——————_____ Le owen Saree: WEAN A> One year has wrought many and n Vincent Gilroy accused | manager, the Republicans, who joined with Senator Mills in sending the Mayor|the hotel that the champion was a written pledge, of playing politics. bathing and shaving in our honor, “The Republicans are tryingysto make people believe they are the de- fenders of New York City,” declared and from time to time as we chatted, | breathlessly waiting, of course, the great moment when Willard should Gilroy, ‘when the contrary is the |@pPear, he issued bulletins. “ease. combing his hair now,” he would say, | Senator Wagner declared every one|o" “We'll be with you in a minute knew the Brown committee pro- gramme as an outcome of the agita- tion made a year ago by the Demo- crats in Albany “I want to remind you, Mr. Mayor,” he's tying his HE'D NEVER WIN IN A TALK- FEST. | Willard came into the ring in blue; 5 “ and white shirt sleeves, dark trousers, waid Senator Wagner, “that the|*” } Democratic Party is responsible for] Plack shoes and glistening black silk 0 ot most of these | *0ck8. Oh yes—he has gone the way | | the introduction measures, We have consistently pro- tested against the unfair treatment of the city, and we are ready now to xo further than the majority party, and, of all champions and taken to clothes. The talk with the white hope, con-| versationally quite hopeless, lasted nearly an hour, It was exceedingly painful to both of us, For the cham- with a very minor exception, support ' this whole programm Here the Mayor tried to quiet the ruffled legislators, He said he did not look upon the Republicans’ letter aa partisan. “I was the man who introduced the Home Rule Bill,” came a voice far hack in the assemblage. It was that of Senator Thomas H. Cullen of Kings County. ‘Which bill?” demanded a Republi- can Assemblyman. “The right one,” shouted Assembly- man Marty McCue. “Let's cut out the small pleaded Senator Gilchrist, Republi- cam, of Brooklyn, “Why not get down to a definite programme for the venefit of the ality?” ‘The Mayor again asked the law- makera to get busy with something definite and then proposed bills were read. stuff,” ———»—__——_ ARCHBOLD SAILS SOUTH TO GET RID OF GRIP "Standard Oil Head Leaves for Porto Rico—Company Building Thirteen Ships. \ John D. Archbold, President of the “Wstandara O11 Company, looking any- {hing but well, sailed to-day on the ymship Coamo for San Juan, Porto Rico, Mr. Archbold was accompanied by his wife and expects to be away for three weeks, “T have been seriously Mm for a month with grip,” said the Standard Oll head, “and I've got to shake it off somehow. Mr, Archbold said the Standard O11 Company had been having difficulty in getting sufficient ships to carry its products, {to meet the situation,” ho said. Standard Ol Company of New Jer- sey is laying down thirteen ships of the biggest and finest sort and they will be rushed to completion,” ——=———_ Fat tf Three M Vincenzo Ralstano, a Spanish War veteran, is missing from his home, No. 201 Brook Avenue, the Bronx, and the pplice to-day font out an alarm for a im, He left his wife and three chil- non Feb. 24 ¢ ‘0 to No, 734 Mel- yose Avenue, Where she intended that day opening « barber shop, and has not been heard from singe. His wife ‘We are now building ships “The pion admitted frankly that he was not used to talking with women and that they scared him, I don’t mind admit- ting, for my part, that the coaoeina | scared me, Jess Willard says he believes in, preparedness, not political but pugi- | listic preparedness, for in polities he| says he's neutral, | “I thought I'd sign Woodrow Wilson,” I remarked re- gretfully when Jess refused to add the weight of his opinion to the inter- national crisis and the Congressional revolt, i “No," said the champion, deliber- ately, “in politics Lam a neutral, But he (meaning Wilson) is in for the fight of his life, now, isn't he? He's just about going into’ serious training, 1 wish him luck, (A warning glance from Mr, Jones choked this declara- tion of principles.) May the best man win,” Willard added diplomatically. “I'm not a believer in fighting, not with guns, I'm opposed to gun pull- tng, 1 believe in training @ boy up to use his natural weapons, his fists,” observed Mr, Willard, gazing thought- fully at his ponderous paws, “Little | Jess Willard is four years old and| pretty soon I'm going to begin teach- | ing him something about the art of | self-defense. I'm going to teach my! three girls something about boxing, too, It's the best training for the body and mind, and you never’can tell when you need it, ‘These foreigners are al- | ways pulling guns. There would not | be any war going on in Europe if} those fellows over there had been | trained to settle their diffoulties with | their fists, i “Why couldn't countries settle their troubles as theypare settled in tho prize ring—have a fellow appointed tor each side and abide by the deci- sion of the referee? This opinion met with loud ap plause from several persons who hung breathlessly on Mr. Willard’s worde, “Why don't you undertake the set-/ tle it for one side?” I said. | “Well,” Willard answered, “I could | | you up for! come as near settling it as Henry Ford at that.” \ CHAMPION WOULD RUN FROM! THE LITTLEST WOMAN, | “Phere's no sense in getting mad," | the champion added philosophically, | “I'm no believer in violence. Now, in bringing up the kids, I say, ‘What's oes Fad anny fens ed ther hee hug ,the use of spanking them just beause peen attacked, they make too much ngise?” Lf you ' |—and the fight spank ‘em they only make more noise. Talk is the thing; talk, that's what makes every big man afraid of the littlest woman, Take my wife, now, only five feet six, and look at, me! But she's my boss, I can tell you, and little Jess Willard is her boss. The littler they are the more bossy—tihat's the way it goes, I'm such a big fellow that even in the| ring I never have to duck away from| the tallest man, but I tell you I duck | from the littlest woman—yes, I do. And when Mrs, Willard comes after me with a rolling pin, or even a line of talk, F tell you I’ don't duck— Do not believe for one moment that Mr. Willan’ said all this without prodding. He is the kind of man that simply won't wind up for more than five words at a time, He reminds you of a quarter gas meter. You drop in your 25 cents and settle down com- fortably for a day or so, and then, when you are at the most thrilling portion of Theodore Dreiser's new novel, out goes the gas. Jess Willard is like that conversa- tionally, I don't know how many quarters | had to deposit to get you these illuminating views, but I do| know that Willard's conversation would flicker and go out just when I thought I had him going for at least an hou. “I'm not saying anything against women, mind you,” the champion continued. * for votes and for everything else they want. The West is for women. Maybe that's because we haven't got » many of you as you have here, Nice looking girls you have, too, in ew York, 1 wonder why somebody doesn't ship a carload of ‘em out West where they'd be appreciated. It would do some of these New York girls good to get married and live on a ranch, That's the life, There's nothing to it but agriculture, And when [ quit fighting it's back to the ranch for ie. | 1 want little Jess to be a ranchman, Mr. Jones, who had seemed to grow a little nervous when Jess expressed admiration for the New York girl what fight manager would not be made nervous by the mention of girls less than a month away, breathed easier when Jess got to agriculture. “What do you want your little girls to do?” I asked. | “To get married,” the champion answered, “out 1 want them to be educated so they won't have to marry until they get good and . There's nothing to it for men men bu to get married and § married, Think about all the fighters that are making good to-day, Every one of ‘em is married and a man of family,” Mr, Willard enumerated at emphasize his moral, “A fighter has got to be roped and tied and branded,” he said, “Every young iow ought to get married anyhow,” he added. “It’s the only life.” “What do you do when you are not training?” | asked, for by this time I had realized that I must Jet Mr. Will- d's conversation follow its natural bent {f there was to be ANY conver- sation at all. “Oh, I walk or run or take a little ride in the car and I go to the movies, T'm not strong for the theatre, though, But I tell you every young fellow ought to get married to a nice, tidy woman that will look after the chil- dren and who knows how to cook." AND BIG JESS CAN COOK ag! WELL AS FIGHT, “Is Mrs, Willard @ good cook?” [ asked. “she's a crackajack” repi champion enthusiastically ‘ t 1} you I'm a@ pretty good coc felt. Tean boil water without burning it. Lean make biscuits and fr con, And say, you dust ought Ww taste THE EVENIN OauanTERs Sometimes | least a) dozen luminaries of the prize ring to | \ No. 2 G@ WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, LEGISLATORS 0.K. |Jess Willard Believes in Preparedness Mi DECISION over. YOUR WIFE, SAtS ' Jess ‘1 Se ; F FOOusH To TRY AnD GETA | Jess WAS NEVER. Seen MAD Ww NS S\ LiFe —— TELLING How TO MAKE » Gr-n-r-avy | Jess ss A ENE DANCER - Pz = ME ADMITP ; 'r the fried beefste k with milk gravy that I can cook. Can you make milk gravy?” asked the champion eagerly, And for the first time a gleam of in- terest came into his benign, somewhat opaque eye. { lied to Jess Willard, You see, I had labored so hard to find the open sesame to the champion's soul—and behold, the magic word was—gravy. of course I can,” I said. ‘Then you know how,” Mr. Willard said approvingly. “You just put a little milk and seasoning and flour in the beefsteak grease and keep on stirring and stirring and never let up, because if you let up the gravy will get lumps in it, Gee, but that's good!” So I left Mr. Willard, his face t, glowing with gravy. I hope that imaginary gravy doesn't make him any bigger, for he has to lose ten pounds between now and Mareh 25. There mi e & tip for Moran's | trainers in this Pass the milk gravy | to Mr. Willard, > FAIR WARNING. If you keep on painting ana | powdering, Dr. W. P. Cunning. | ham says, youll probably get | dermatitis, Now then! | ‘THINK GRONES MAY BE | DISGUISED AS A WOMAR Police Notified to Be on Lookout—| Think He Wrote Card From Mount Airy, N. C. Capt. Tunney, who recting the New York police end of earch for Jean Crones, to-day told his as- voctates and notified the police of other citics to look for the poisoner masquer- | ading as a woman, This grows out of information re-| ceived from 4 man who knew Crones when he lived in Staten Istund, He sald | |Crones once told him | “You know I ¢ ake up a® a | woman any time I wai hd yet away with it After comparing the on the ard from Mount Airy, N. ¢ on ot satid to-day they mes himself had tified the. polics and in nearh ywne to be on the lookout FIRE ON ‘SHIP OFF LIBERTY, | |New Yorker, Called From Batter Soon ats Out Blaze, The fireboat New Yorker assisted tn! extinguishing a fire in the lamproom of! n the British mship lanchored back of |late last night. ‘The los |The steamer loaded with for Havre ant Owing to the fox } no attempt to Ko out wleep when the pt. Davis of the notified by the he ran In to the the flreboat nston Court, | tue of LAberty, | was trifling one, Wa bound whe and the crew made wee overed, | Louis Pulver was | n of the ghip, Battery and 4 fire was di ug > Sixteen-Year-Old Fanny Schneider, sixte West One Hundred and Mrs. irl Misate Street, mother since Jar Phe girl ef 100 pounds, has gray eyes, light hair and Hkbt complexion build and wore « black and ¥ coat, white silk waist, yell dress, purple Velvet hat and black and stockings, {the firm, w ADMITS ROBBING HER EMPLOYER 10 SAVESICK MOTHER Miss Bechtold Sobs Out Con- fession She Took $1,030 by Forging Payroll. Laura Bechtold, a tall, young woman, pleaded guilty in Cen- tre Street to-day stealing $1,020 the wholesale firm of Jones, Mounts & No, 37 Maiden Lane. Tho complaint also charges the girl with forgery the payrolls, which she was enabled to do, tt ts the trust imposed in her by the firm after five years comely Police Court to from Jewelry Jones, in falsifying alleged, through of service as bookkeeper, Irregularities in the bank account of the house were detected after the Christmas holiday rush, Miss Bechtold resigned Jan, 1 and auditors were put ‘They checked up thefts to the amount charged, but found many vouchers” w sing. Miss Bechtold was ar t night at her home, > Franklin Avenue Brooklyn, lived with her mother and sister In a cozy flat, “My mother was very sick last sum mer,” Miss Bechtold told Magistrat: Appleton, “and it nore than [ could earn for doctor bills and medi el on the books where she an to steal in .ugust, and with obtained, was able to ge very best of medical attention for my mother, save her life and restore her to health “But when she was well I kept right on ing wued Tt was easy and L had been scrap ving f myst and sj ‘or ye f that mg in the frst place 1 keep it up. 1 jothes and jewelry and f the luxuries but 1 was cuught. 1 with us wel ugh and for a fraid of w enjoyed of | always felt’ the atch me some time.” Miss Beobtuld broke down afte confession, Previously, she had over to the firm $500 worth bought with nd the Jew with their unt, Ira while, getting vuld her ined stolen money iry He pu chu: from h ploy= & member and said b ere sorry for Misi had been a faithtul uccumbed to to furnish a was nh court and bis partners ¥ Hechtold, who employee unui she He offered $500, but mptation bond o advised it by co Miss Hechtold to »mbs to awalt the ‘on of the Grand Jury sae resident Stabbed feat vb tau Cloak Makoss Kating, Kobinsk iy 1916. ‘AVIATION SCANDAL (With Fists), but He Is Against Fighting! CHARGED IOYOUNG OFFICERS’ AMBITION Eagerness for Promotion Blamed by High Army Man for Upheaval in Service. j p aa Peta | WASHINGTON, Feb, 26, — ‘That a coterie of younger officers in the avia /tion corps ts behind the recent up {heaval and threatened ‘Investigation, with the object of having their bran divorced from the signal corps, is the view placed before individual Sena- tors by « high army officer. The sepa- ration, he said, would moan a jump of from two to five ranks for the younger officers, But for this ambition, it was d clared, the recent charges against Lieut.-Col, Samuet Reber and Capt. Arthur C. Cowan and the court-mar- tial of Lieut.-Col. L, B. Goodier would © been brought. Without going into a detailed defense, or ex- plaining away the apparent condl- tion of the corps as shown in the cor- never bh respondence between Reber and Cowan, this officer said the whole matter would turn out a “tempest in a teapot.” “When the aviation school was stationed at Fort Meyer, near Wash- ington,” this officer sald, “the ambi- tion of the younger officers was ap- parent, and they had remarkable success in ‘getting to headquarters.’ It was partly these reasons that caused the removal of the school to San Diego. For a time the officers had something else to think about and conditions grew better; but it wasn’t for long, as all in the army now know, if they'd be frank “Naturally, with such petty polities and ambitions, the real work of the school was neglected, greatly to its triment. Naturally, too, some of the younger officers who wanted avi- jon separated from signal corps work were not at all sorry to seo such conditions, They were able to use, and did use, such conditions as an argument to bring about their plans—and, of course, promotion.” Other army officers holding the same view believe that Lieut. Col, Reber was indiscreet in writing even such personal letters as he did to Capt. Cowan—which forms the basis of Senator Robinson's demand for an investigation—but think that the al- legations which are built up on them will be explained away “if all the | facts can be brought out by the army | investigators now at work.’ —=__—— ON THEIR HONEYMOON; Newark Newlywed Hands Printed Announcement to His Fellow Passengers. Not for the Joseph H. Crumps of the newlywed. Every passenger on the Clyde lin Apache, to-day en route to Jackson- ville, has @ neatly printed card, It reads: “Just Married, Feb. 1918. Mr. and Mrs, Joseph H. Crump of East Orange and Newark, N. J. On their honeymoon to Florida.” Mr. Crump gavo out the cards, He handed one to everybody he saw on ard ship, Mrs, Crump was Miss ol Anderson of No, 45, Eaton Place, t Orange. Mr. Crump lives at No, gsu North Sixth Street, Newark. They were married in Roseville, N. J, “Now,” said Mr, Crump, “they know all about It.” os MORE POISONING BY | ANARCHISTS IS BOAST Chicago Police Alert Following Talk at Meeting at Which Jean Crones Was Lauded. CHICAGO, Feb, 26,—A threat that |plotters would do more poisoning were investigated by police to-day as a result of @ meeting of anarchists here last night at which speakers lauded the aet of Jean Crones, ac- cused of poisoning soup served at a banquet recently given Archbishop Mundelein | Crones," said John 1 nan, one of the speakers, “will J! to more poisoning. When one bomb anot! hrow on van throws erve to ma n gels Blase Nearby Awakens Patrons of St. Rewts and Gotham, Gucsts in the St. Regis and the 1am carly this morning watched t on the th floor of the fve-sto building at Avenuo an pread to the floo | ‘The fourth floor is oceupled by B.A Levy, perfumery, and the floor bel by Marianne Buxenet, ladies’ gown one was in the building at the time of the fire > Captured In Jewelry Store, Morris Schmitt, who has spent all but a few weeks of his eighteen months in this country {9 prisoth for attempts to pick pockets, Was arrested wht m aging in the show w Feldman | Brot Jewelry store at No. 105. De lancey Street by Policeman Nikola, who had heard the glass of t one doar proken, At the Delancey Street Station | schmitt allowed something he had aled in his pocket. A small plat! jnum lavelilere tg miseing (rou the Weld man alock, WANT ALL TO KNOW IT) New Jersey the blushing diffidence of t)® grand opera, Palisade will be de- bane eeeeenere 4 AAODE \@ | { * oaae > bee | aoo8~ Ss vin bis. Or PALISADE SOCIETY + TO MAKE MERRY IN TUNEFUL “"MIKADO" Entire Population of the Vil- lage Going to Union Hill | to See the Show. i The Palisade Choral Soctety, which made Fort Lee, N. J., famous last |year by Its production at Cella’s Hall of “Pinafore,” is going to put Union Hill on the map on next Friday night ‘with the melodious merry-o comic Jopera “Mikado.” The performance | will take place at Columbus Hall, Union Hill will look ike Forty- second Street on the opening night of verted, for the entire population ts going down to Unton Hill in its auto- mobiles and special trolley cars. | “The Mikado” is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most tuneful musical de- lights, De Wolf Hopper has played | |the Mikado, but never at Union| Hill, ‘The performance on next Friday | night has ail the promise of « tuneful, topical, tropical treat, The ‘amateurs, | under the direction of A, W. Tams, ! whose baton led them to such suc- cossful heights In the salty lyrics of “Pinafore,” are in the best of fonn and fettle. 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