The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1916, Page 6

~ ee re Cc) tte depleted treasury of New York City [going counties by reason of the ao- lee the good people « Schoharie and De quiet and rural) quirement of Land values are to ju of the bige t melons ever cut at the lehat the $22 for damages, “direct or indie A golden wave of prosperity is soon | The Dox bill is sweeping. to scart on ite way from the alr fustained by residents of the fore amount of be endless. to pay $60 a land, THE ONLY STEAM-COOKED OATMEAL ware Counties. | New York for they did/tg the water its Schoharie has already in the bonanza days and every milks! city p maid, ploughboy and yoke! Is to be | its Catekil! come a preferred stockholder in one) It hag en 00,0) additional expendi. expense of the taxpayers h a | ture is nothing less than a | A bill has been introduced at Al-lthat tt furnishes an excuse for the bany by Assemblyman Edward A. |indefinite continuance in power of the] i ——_—— yox Of Schoharie County, providing | Water Supply Board, an unnecessary | that the City of New York shall pay | branch of the city government | jeally tells the counties to be Invaded b: City's water supply sy bashful, It provides that if you were “established in business” as carly as June 1, 1915, on land in Schoharie or Delaware Counties to be affected by the new water supply system you are | entitied to damages. ulates that the Board of Water Sup ply of the City agres with the such should happen that there was an un- scrupulous member Supply Board or even unscrupulous members, the possibilities spiracies to defraud the city would It further stip- But the bill doos not stop here. “A person employed in a manufactur- ing establishment, or shed business, or uport any lands, may also clam damages. farm or a fac; the employees may claim against the City “f New York. damage, says the bill, shall be equal to the salary paid to such employee for the first six months immediately preceding the first day of June, 1915, This, too, may be Board of Water Supply. The bill is a duplicate of the Dill prepared when the $260,000,000 Cat- skill watershed was planned and thi residents of Ulster, Counties succeeded in getiing millions from the treasury of New York City, At that time the clty was 1 day for condemnation commissioners’ fees, where the rate is usually $10 4 day, and extortionate prices were paid everywhere for the wy are abolish Albany and ¢ Photo Retoach ‘Thirty retouchera employed at White Photograph Studios at Broadway struck to-day for an inc in their wages of from week. ‘The strike followed the raising of the wages of two or three men for ally good work. ‘The White cor $15 to $18 a ao SEW, YORK AEOLIAN HALL " Fike Alea TOMORROW at AEOLIAN OME to Aeolian Hall tomorrow and see these beautiful Aeolian Player- Pianos which you may now secure with such very moderate outlay. The Aecolian Player- Piano is one of this company’s real triumphs in musical instrument-making. 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THE AEOLIAN PLAYER-PIANO v Ts Sold on these Very Liberal Terms $10 Down and $10 Monthly PRICE, $395 THE EVENING WORLD, THUASDAY, CRAVEN ON STAND CANT TELL WHY HE 0. K'D $125,000 ——— (Continued from Pirst Page) Proper were charmed up to the city Q. To whom did they submit their statements A. To me. Q. What was the nature of the proof of expenditures that they submitted to | You A. Legal expenses and engincer- | ing expenses they claimed to have made, Q. When wos that made? A. In the summer of 191%. Mr. Dantel Turner and Chief Accountant Kabier| ** and Mr. Wilcox investigated — t! |vouchors paid by the Inerboroush The accounts are ¥ They are at your dis-| posal, Q. That, investigation carried a the items of expense allowed to the Interborough? A. Yes, MR. CRAVEN SOUGHT AID OF ASSISTANT. A bundle of papers was handed ‘o| Mr. Craven, Q. Upon what evidence did you base passing out that sum of $125,000. bid you do anything but listen to your employees who determined the question Q. How did you arrive at the con- clusion that $125,000, the exact amount aid to Mr. Shonts, should be al- lowed? A.T don't’ know. They Agreed on that at the conference. Q. And that $150,000 in pencil, just the amount finally awarded to Mr. ) Shonts—how do you account for these two coincidences? A. I don't know J have often figured and got the me results in differant matters. | MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE | LAX,” CRAVEN ADMITS. |. Q. How do you account for this entry in the account: “Of this nount, $126,000 has been pad and 5,000 is held in reserve to be dis- tributed?" A. 1 do not know |, @& Did you know the $125,000 had been paid to Mr. Shonts? A. No. never knew Mr. Shonts got that until I read about it here. I suppose I | may have ben a little lax in my du- tes as a judge, not being a law- Sut as a citizen and an engineer and a taxpayer!" exclaimed Senator Thompson asa man why you allow e item?” Mr. Craven at last said he thought he had made a good settlement of the Interborough claim of $1,532,000 by lowing $150,000, Q. Did you disallow the rest of their aim? A. I didn't alow It. Q. Have you any record in which you ordered the claim disallowed, ‘that it could never be brought up gain? A, No, If it came up again t could be acted upon. It certain! can't go in as “prior determination Q. But if they bring up a claim f let your determination of the share of) that, $125,000 again, or any part of the the Interborough Company? Mr. Craven drew out his gold- rimmed glasses, polished them, put) think we'd find out. | think Dr them on and studied the papers a long time in silence, en he tur to his assistant | $1,592,000? A. T don’t think they'd do that. I think we'd find out. Q. How would you find out? A. T Weber would know: Q. Did they give you anything more than @ bald statement that they had spent $1,532,000? A, No. They gave No, no; we want you to testify—not| no items. your assistant!” exclaimed Counsel Shuste At lus! Mr. Craven found a memo- | randuin trom the Interborough claiming $1,582,000 fur expenses on the new subways tncurred before the dual contracts were signed. He a lowed only $125,000 of this, ho on the reco ordinate, Mr. Turner, Q. What explanation was made to you by Mr, Turner? A, I went over it with him and I was satisted with it. ‘The item of administration was $107,000, of which $10,000 was the amount tie Interborough Com, had paid their audito: Mr. " for ¢ n duties he bad p ) you know where that mem: randum originated? A. Only the mea m that it was the auditor's office on July 25, 19 Q. And was that all your authority? A. Well, that was part of it. Were these items charged to ay particular routes? A. Yes, [ can’t] < recall any particular routes, ntion did you pay mination?” A. T ent | not the administration | would be the best wit We Gaynor Why were they stricken out? A. They were thought not to be proper. How much responsibility do you take for the determination? A. All of Q. Did you know that objections re filed? Yes, by the commis- nor by the company. They were filed by the commission and afterward withdrawn, The objections did not come to { did nothing because there was xtension for the time of considering them; extended from month to month until the spring of 1914, when the commission withdrew them. Q. Do you Know why the time was extended? A, I do not, Only that It was extended till they were with- drawn, I haven't hac time to go all through the details of this, as I re- turned to my office only yesterday morning Q. What iter were fixed as the gonal action? A now. T would 1 time so go all through the record and refresh my recollection, I went through the data as { thought necessary and gave them my consideration, “Mr. Turner's explanations were sufficient to sat- isfy me that they wero proper SEEK TO KNOW HOW CRAVEN EARNS $20,000 SALARY. Q. You had no sworn statement be- fore you as to expenditures? A, No, 1 know the accountants were going through the Intenborough books, dig- ging into them. Q. You don't know that they made any investigation except as you were told by word of mouth? A, No. They told me, Q. And there is no record of what they told you? A. No, I was satisfied, Thad confidence in > RENtleme nator Thompson) Wh A. Mr, Turner, Kon- Weber, of the accounting termination of your per n't teil that This $19,000 item--with whom did they go over that? A. With Mr, Cole. | man Q. Would you be » Mr, Kohler checked up only the neering and superintendence and A. Mr. Kohler 8 as to that, amined the items as well as }we could, There was one item in which the Interborough — claimed $1,582,000, which we did not cheek up. | Mr. ‘Turner informed me it wag not | possible-I mean we did net think Jat the time that thterborough | titled to more than $125,000. How did you arrive at that eon clusion? A tl gers finally agreed that $125,000 would be a rea- able allowance Q. Was there any item of § AONo, Teconeluded that $125 a fair allowance, T unde Mr Kohler that he agi Rodgers and Mr. Coleman that § ooo was fair q. You don't know who made a note in pencil allow $150,000 A. No Q. All you know about matter was what Mr. Turn you? A. Well, yes. You |can't give my time to go into all the | details that it took twelve or fifteen men to examine Q. (By Senator Thompson) Well, vhat do you do? Do you approve everything they do? Just get a man | on the payroll and take his word for ‘everythin I have confidence in my men Mr, Crave vod from 1 with Mr. irawing $20,000 ed Senator Mr, Shus r what you do | "Well, come to my @ week and you'll se Q. Oh, no, Tell what you did in and spend , endation of his sub-| rised to know | y paid by the | How do you know that even the 25,000 was actually spent? A. I don't know. T was satisfied it was a fair amount for them to charge, working | nlong the same general lifles that we lid and spent $1,000,000, SAYS CLAIM OF $1,532,000 AGAINST CITY WASN'T LEGAL. Q. Was there any item, any dollar, Jin that $1,582,000 claim that was le- gally charged against the city? A. {$1 {$125,000 or anything else for their claim? A. Well, [ thought it was a good settlement. Our counsel thought tw @ good setticoment | Q@. Your counsel—who? — A. Our lcounsel, George 8. Colema Q. Did_he tell you It was proper? |A.No. I simply thought so, T was Coleman told it. that would be a good settlement to make? Oh no; no hint. Thero was ference in Mr. Coleman's office. Mr. ‘Turner represented me Q. Why didnt’ you attend that con- ference? 4. I may not have been at the office’ tat day. I may not even have been in the city that day Q. Did you know that Mr. Rodgers himself got a $50,000 bonus? =A. I knew he was getting an allowance I didn’t know it was a bonus, [never heard that Mr. Shonts got $125,000. I knew Mr. Gaynor was to get $10,000 for his services. Q. You knew these payments were affecting the City of New York? A. Yes. Q. Did you know Mr. Rodgers presented no bill for that? That tt was a pure gratuity? A.I didn't know. T understood it was for ex- tra services, Q. And you thought the good- natured company had a right to pay a bonus out of the city of New York? A. Well, I thought they were entitled to it for their extra work and there was no difference between the city of New York and any other business. Q. If I worked night and day for weeks in the District Attorney's of- fice, I got my Salary, and if T got a penny more somebody would go to jail. Do you get extra pay? A T did_ not not Mr. Coleman work as side as Rodgers worked ] A. No. | Q. And you thought you were justi- fied in giving those men money ou of the pocket of the City of New York? your question any other way. Mr. Craven was still explaining, when Senator Thompson said: ‘Mr. against you.” jumped up, auivering with rage, “As a friend of Mr. Craven,” he ex- any more information to this commit- tee to be used against him.” Senator Thompson said he would prefer chorges age'net Harkness, too. “T shall be glad to meet charges,” shouted Harkness, "T sha | | | yu many silk lined. MAROL 2, 1916. A. 1 was the one Societies Formally Disown Proposed] of wurope, is dyit resolution denouncing the ence of the men and women of the} bronchitis and is suffering from a Irish race in America,” to be held 19 }complication of other diseasos which |, 1% Women euffer much humiliation this city on Saturday and Sunday ‘nights as boing unrepresentative of | real Irish sentiment. The supporters of the conference are alleged to be can noutrality.” work and the name by wht In the resolutions it is pointed out} (mown Mir bile,” Carmieg public places, make all mann | that although the call is for men and| one “ur the best. love :< thette remarks inert ay sy oe vome: h race in America| bury ‘She was bo: mean to be unkind or to seem wu - women of the Irish race whe Aauenter Ces Dut tt le natural for a man to dialtke fat there t# not @ single name of a mem-| {he daughter rince He of & woman, Where fat chews the @ueits* ber of the Irish Parliamentary Party, | Yi," her fat pity : Home Rule, on the list of those who|Charles of Hohenzollern, who had| "tm te be made for the fa signed it. been recommended by Bismurck as | They expose uit the oerree et ne aien clare that the Irish for America first and that the fu Ireland are better judg romance in a later volume of remi- rights and policies tian th niscences “From Memory's Shrine.” | sional Irishmen” in this country. j After a hort wooing th el was cel on Nos MOTHER! MOTHER! [in 1881, when Prince Chart |. Q. ‘Then how did you dare to allow! by Mr. Turner, to whom Mr./ Q. Did you just get a hint that! | ninth Street loop is mere \Improve Your Skin A, Weill, our counsel told me tt was! a good settlement. TI can't answer jand hair, Many toilet soaps are pure Craven, I am going to prefer charges enough to do so without injuring these meee | delicate textures. But those who want Leroy T. Harkness, of counsel to | the Public Service Commission, claimed, “I advise him not to ive | which it derives from Resinol enable it to | ‘ 3 ‘Jranklin Simon 8 Co. Fifth Avenue | 8 West 38th St.—Store Floor | Will close out Friday 276 Men’s Hand Tailored Suits 33 to 46 Chest 12. Heretofore $21.50 to $30.00 Entire stock of Winter Suits, including two, three or four button models, be glad to meet you In the ope Jor @ Queen” and “A Real Queen's “I have some regard for you, Mr. j PAlry- Book.” Harkness,” exclaimed Counsel Frar ‘ Hoss, "and 1 advise you pe a friend ’ | Just before the recent death of to say fo more.” | King Charles, she was operated on “it ft houted Hark- for cataract of the eyes. It was be- ness. “You have distorted my words” lieved at that time that she would ROUMANIA, DYING! Take Off the Fat of her age. ‘ Craven not to teetify here? asked Where It Shows Senater Thompson, ‘ “LT advise him as a friend,” sak Harkness, “Wo shall see that this receives proper consideration said Senator Thompson, who thereupon bent te the stenographer to make a transeript| gy is 1 " of all this part of the day's proceed-[/Stricken With ings. Bronchiti Doctors Declare Her | Condition Hopeless. —_—_—>—_——— IRISH OPPOSITION TO) Cont “IRISH CONFERENCES” LONDON, March 2.—Carmen Sylva, the Dowager Queen of Rumania, and one of the best loved royal women at her palace , according to de- here to-day, home in Buch: spatches rece Saturday and Sunday Meetings. Six physicians have pronounced her The Executive Committee of the} caso hopeless, according to Bucharest American Irish Socicties at a mecting | advices transmitte 1 through Berlin. in the Waldorf last night passed a/An Amsterdam despaten maid. the “confer-|poet-quecn was first attacked by because of great quantities of fat, #0 le- her recovery, in view of her | cated MO kee, eG od . RO matter how they dress, Carmen Slyva ts the nom de plume sumed by the Dowager Que aking a “violent attack on Ameri-| flizateth of Rumania in her lite jot know tt, but mer k ity, and at] there is where It must be removed, and as They expose all the charme of woman &n her ugiiness a» Exercise and diet will not remove This has been ed. ‘The fauous Marmola prese mphatically do-|ruler fe 1 Amert the turbulent Rumanians. It was a case of love and the queen herself The resolutions tt the defeat of Russi Prof. Irving T. Fisher of Yale | he w the” bitte Ne Rum poetess: perraarrareecirda nigh shat @ | vas crowned with lim at [uch ba De a y 10, 1881 ee ! f Carmen Sylva bas written many ‘irse stores at ‘vou prefer you may FOR SUBWAY TRACKS = jon = Company | and can and taken evel in a_ hearty JOHN WANAMAKER PIANO Empire — Construc Must Start the Work Within Thirty Days T contract for track instullation| on the Lexington Avenue Subway, the Jerome Avenue Branch and the One Hundred and Forty-ninth 8 loop was awarded to-day by Public Se Empire ¢ lowest bidder for $ work must begin within thirty days after the delivery of the contract The Jerome Avenue tracks must be completed within six months and the tracks on the Lexington Avenue | Line and. One Hundred and Forty- | Ninth Street loop within nine months after the delivery of the contract The Lexington Avenue w cover that part of the line f gonal station in © Forty-second Street north to the works of the road at Mott Avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-elghth Street., the Bronx, the Jerome Avenue work will cover the Jerome Avenue branch from Mott Avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-elghth Street to Woodlawn Road. The One Hundred and Forty a physical nnection between the Jerome Ave- | line and the existing subway One Hundred and Forty-ninti nstruction Compan the mind of the busy man Emerson Angelus “Steel rails and ot k materials Its tone is beautiful. Its power of expression is sae due Mivehused lars, suppties ||] almost human, ‘he more capable a man is—the better The contractor will do only the work 1 bysiness man he is—the more he will appreciate this —= ||} instrument. 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