The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1916, Page 6

| | | | | j | $ ’ ENGINEERS WILL TIE UP HARBOR TIGHT Sais Boatowners Seek Injunction and Workers Will Complain to Government. LONGSHOREMEN MAY AID Pickets in Tugs Travel Over Rivers Urging All Engineers to Quit Work. Mediation by esentatives of the Department of Labor having failed to bring abo: eemont between the Marine * Beneficial As- Sociation and the New York Boat Owners’ Association, both parties to} the controversy which is tying up treffic in New York Harbor, settled down this morning to a determined struggte in which each will use every legal coercive weapon at its disposal. The boat owners, led by Fred RB. Dalzell, head of one of the larger towing concerns, decided this morn- ing to apply in the Federal Cow’ for| an injunction restraining the engin- eers from interfering with any of ‘heir fellows who have remained at work on the tugs now operating In the barbor. This determination was reached when the union engineers, in tugs operated by union men, began travelling up and down the rivers and around the harbor this morning, trying to call out those engineers ‘whose dema have been met or who for other reasons have remained loyal to their employers up to this time The strikers claimed this morning Get Rid of Your. Burden of Fat There wes an excuse tor over starvation, diet and wenke us exercises were the only ki of reducing the flesh, but n when it is possible « fat a woel nt e v4 taking a tiny tablet after each el aad af ‘bed time, the mun or woman Temains fat does #0 from choice ds of Pre famous three or four pounds of ho have used lets (prepared Marmola prescription) experience that this treatment of le scription Tab Bot only quicker, easier and more than old-fashioned methods but also wonderfully ecessful . Instead of bei riot M . The use of them does intert« in any way with work or mu need not restrict’ your or alter your habits in any way Simply take it easy nnd on- hile you your fat vanishes, can get Marmoli Prescription Tab at any dru 7 or Company. ye Marmola Company. 460 ve., Detroit, ich. the results will aurpr rice direct ‘878 Wood- them dvt, ¢|dorsed by city health officers. De-| ~ |SUFFS CROWDED OUT, WILL SLEEP IN TENTS Housing of Women Who Will Visit Chicago in Convention Wee Is a Big Problem. CHICAGO, May %—Owing to the holding here at one time in June of that they out the had succeeded in calling ngineers employed on the by Baltimore aad ad sald they ox. have the engineers on the aware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad tugs out by this afternoun, A. English, marine superintend- ent for the B. & O,, denied the claim of the Unions, so far as his men are concerned. Ho said that only three rs had left when the union them, the her eleven re- work. 6 three who hey | {struck would be replaced, he said: the Republican, Progressive and | Just raised our engineers from|Woman's Party Conventions with | $137 a month to $142 on May 1.” sald | tieie thous: and vine Mr. English, “and T don't see why they want to atrike,” Chicago's housing facilities will In retaliation for the threatened in- severely taxed. Most of the dele- | function the marine engineers, ac-| gates to the first two named conven- cording to. Thomas 1. Delahunty, Secretary-Treasurer of their organi- zation, will Invoke the ald of the De partment of Commerce at Washing- ton by demanding an investigation of the conditions under which the boat- owners ure operating. The men claim that the regulations as to crew and | equipment on tugboats and towboats ore fractured repeatedly by thelr em- tions have been provided for by the local committees, but the women del- egates, their visitors and those who will take part in the suffrage parade and demonstration are finding it dif- ficult to obtain accommodations. Mrs. George Bass, chairman of the hospitality for suffrage parade, it heds aot tae ome said to-day that plans had practically | [g'eecond. weapon which. the. en-| been completed for the housing of all neers seek to make use of is their’ the women who may wish to come, | pending affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. They put in their application for membership in that body some time ago, but It is not to be acted upon until July, How. ever, the men feel that the larger body is in sympathy with their de- and the various kinds of sleeping places at widely scattered locations will be used, | Mrs. Bass is now nego- tiating for track space where the special trains from various points may stand, #o that the women can sleep in the cars. mands and that it will call out the|~ yn addition to the cars, arrange- longshoremen on the various plers If| ments have been mado for a camp at occasion demands it |Grant Park, in which 1,000 women “The owners say they won't recog- will sleep under tents. nize the union,” said Secretary Del “ The special suffr hat which will hunty this morning. "They have al- | j, nin the yp will be placed ready recognized it by the three days’ | 5), » in 700 millinery stores on e just completed. | Miny 20, ‘The hat was described as Y playing for time until they could get strikebreakers to take our places, but they have not | been successful in that. We are go- | ing to tle this harbor up tighter than | a drum unless they meet our de- mands.” being made of white straw, partly covered with white moire ribbon and with a cockade of purple, white and gold. INVENTOR OPENED BEER BOTTLES WITH TEETH Also Lotterhand, Contests Will, $300,990 RELEASED = TO HELP PAY TEACHERS Whose Widow Pawned Bed- Mayor te. : wh ae Bill, ding ana His Son's Coat. Which Permits Taking It From How the Iate Jason C. Lotterhand, Retirement Fund. inventor of adding machines, wandered : _|to cafes wearing his wife's coat, pawnesl Mayor Mitehel to-day signed the) i, beading and opened veer hotties Mills bill which releases $800,000 from with his teeth were some of the eocen- the $800,000 tenchers’ reserve retire-| tricitles testified to yesterday” before ment fund, and which will tide over Surrogate Cohalan in a will contest until the end of the year 1,486 public school teachers who haven't received any payments in two and a half months, Admitting that the $300,000 1s only an expedient because of the bankrupt condition of the pension fund, | the retired teachers have assured | Mayor Mitchel that they will provide | for the future by legislation. City Chamberlain Bruere, who was secretary of the Mayor's Pension Com- mission which investigated the finances of the teachers’ fun ly opposod the Mills bill, Willcox of the Board of Education vored it. He argued that the teach- now retired and without pay helped create the $800,000 fund and that it |was created for just such an emer- wency as the present. ANTIDOTE FOR POISON BY BIGHLORIDE OF MERCURY Calcium Sulphite the Remedy, Cin- cinnati Doctors and City Ofti- cials Declare. CINCINNATI, May 9.—The discov- ery of an effective antidote for bi- chloride of meroury potsoning is an- nounced by Dr. J, H. Wilms, and in- brought by Mrs. Gertrude P, Lotterhand, the widow. Most of the Witnesses agreed th: Lotterhan’ was a dipsomaniac. M Filla Kearney told the court that some- times Lotterhand would tip over the table just before dinner. At other times he would take pictures from the wall and pawn them. Once he pledged his aon's coat. Miss Irene Washington, who ki a hotel at Liberty, N. Y., where the de- cedent once lived, suid she didn't think she has ever seen Lotterhand suber more than five ininutes at @ tim sed to carry two ilasks beca aw a ball of fire’ before him, ahe sa’ ‘The Surrogate reserved decision AIRSHIP ‘‘BOMBS’’ TO AID IN SAVING OF BABIES Four Flyers Will “Attack” To-Day and Rain Pamphlets on City. Four aeroplanes will appear above |New York this afternoon—one over \ City Hall, one at Madison Square, one at Fifty-ninth Street and the other over Central Park—and “attack” New York with pamphlets concerning the | Proper care of babies and vheir tm- portance to the State. After that the airships will sail over other boroughs and drop more booklets, It will be ‘Visiting Day” of the spondents now may be deprived of etter Bables Weck. One hundred their favorite method of committing | Manhattan women will visit child- the caulcias ca institutions and milk stations slow: suicide. 041", M, meeting*previously | ‘The remedy consists of calcium sul- ker's, where John Wana- phite, given grain for grain with the e‘a lunch in honor. of quantity of potson taken, one grain In Brooklyn another of omolum.auiphite to one cunce of mittee of women will Visit insti. ater, comunitte head it. Ny FY H Summer Dresses, Flowered Crepe Georgette Dresses Dresses of Georgetie Co: Net Dresses, embroidered and Ribhon Trim, tewart & Qo. Grrect Apparel for Women & Misses 5TH AVENUE AT 37TH STREET Important Sales Wednesday Beautiful Summer Apparel At Popular Prices 5.50 10.00 16.50 12.50 tutions. Mrs, Frank Perkins will 6.90 13.75 24.50 15.00 | Striped and Plain Voile. mbined with Serge Washable Skirts, awning s Silk Sport & Dress Coats, including Navy Blue. Of Covert Cloth, Velour Stewart § Zo. Fashionable Suits of Silk or Cloth Newest models taken from regular stock. Tailored, Silk, Velour Checks, Men’s Wear Serge, Linen, Pique, Gabardines. 2.00 rmeuse, Faille Silk, Marabou Trimmed. 15.00 2.95 19.75 Will Close Out Wednesday tripes, Cha: 15.00 Former Prices up to $29.50 , Dressy and Sport Models of Faille Worsted Checks and Gabardine, in all colors, Full Length Street Coats 15.00 Former Prices $18.50 to $24.50 Checks, Gabardines, Satin, and Velour; silk lined throughout THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY ‘PRENDERGAST’ ERROR! "CENTRAL DIDNT OFFER ~ TO RESTORE RVERSDE Comptroller Admits Mistake When Citizens Protest at | Public Hearing. | Comptrolier Prendergast admitted jo Charles L. Craig, chairman of the Law Committee of the West End As- sociation, to-day, tha. a mistake was made by the Port and Terminal Committees when ft declared that as part of the settlement of the west side problem the Central Railroad Company “agrees to pay a sum suf- ficient to resiore Riverside Park to the edge of the river.” The Comp- troller is the chairman of the com- mittee which made the mistake. The confession of the error was made to-day in City Hall during a public hearing on the tentative agree. ment between the city and the rail-| rood for he improvement of the « t side “The plans themselves show merely an unfinished sloping off from the tracks without Jandecaping or sur- facing of any kind west of the tracks,” declared Mr. Craig. “One mistake in the statement given to tho press should not form the basis jeat and died Friday night, supposedly WILDCAT I CAPTURED AFTER BENG AT LARGE. FOR DAYS IN BRON Animal Which Escaped From Bronx Zoo Is Discovered in Greenhouse Paim. The ring-tailed wildcat of ‘he Bronx Zoo, which escaped last Thurs. day and has been at large since, was captured this morning at the top of; the highest palm in Greenhouse No. 1 of the Botanical Gardens, a mile from its home. Keeper Landsberg of the mammal house, where the cat and his mate were confined, has been under a fearful strain keeping the escape a} secret from the public for fear of the! consequences. A general alarm was sent out through the Zuo when the escape was discovered. The mate of the fugitive refused to be consoled, declined to of a broken heart. A telephone mes- sage was received Saturday that a strange animal had been seen prowl- ing over rovfs and window ledges in the neighborhood of One Hundred and Fighty-second Street and Daly Ave- nue, Keeper Landsberg took a dozen traps and snares to the neighborhood of @ general attack,” said the Comp- troller, “Under the law it is a crime to give out false information to the newa. papers,” replied Mr. Craig. “If that is true | know one man who would spend a long time in jail,” retorted the Comptroller. Rev. Dr. John P, Peters of St. Michael's Church, Amsterdam Ave- nue and Ninety-ninth Street, the Board of Estimat in the matter of clo ment with the Central Railroad. Up to the present time,” he said, O braid bo materials. 27.50 25.00 Street Coats | Motor and Travel Coats Sport and Outing Coats and set them for the wildcat. Two hours later the traps and snares were filled with every variety of cat, from the pet tabby to the back fence Tom, but the missing animal was not among them. This morning the wildcat was di: covered in the greenhouse, and Keeper Peter Romanoff of the wild wolves was | MAY 9, 1918, ela ent to get him, dead or alive, ‘The | wild wolves snarl at intruders and bite | | pears they crawl on their bellies and | ent of his hand. He attached a| PPENHEIM, CLLINS & © 34th Street—New York Important Suit Sale—at Reduced Prices To Close Out Women’s and Misses’ Suits Taken from the Reserve Stock An additional assortment of Women’s and Misses’ Suits, in tailored, smartly trimmed and nd models, in plain and novelty .00 175 Higher Cost Tailored Suits Women’s and Misses’ High Cost Suits, consist- ing of some of this season's best custom tailor models of superior fabrics. is Particular Attention Is Directed to Women’s Sport and Outing Suits In exclusive Oppenheim, Collins & Co.'s models. Smart Belted and Norfolk mode! cloth, knitted fabrics, Formerly sold at 20.75 and 35 Formerly sold to 48. Is of silk fibre silk and no 35.00 45.00 Women’s Coats Half and Full Silk Lined, of Serge and Gabar- dine, semi-fitted, belted and flare models; also practical Coats of Tweed Mixtures. 35.00 45.00 Women’s Sport and Street Coats 19.75 25.00 35.00 vesees, 16.75 25.00 29.75 vesssrese 6.75 25.00 683 Broad St., Special Women’s Silk Coats For Afternoon and Street Wear in correct fashion developments of Silk Poplin, Char- meuse, Bengaline, Taffeta and Brocade Chiffon. Examination of the wildcat cage has! failed to demonstrate how the animal escaped, the bars and the sheet iron back being intact. He got into the Rlass-inclored greenhouse through | one of the high transoms. a Lonely Widow and Mother Ends le. Mrs. Anna M. Grimm, sixty years old, art= & widow, was found dead in her ment at No. 1115 Willoughby Av Williamsburg to-day, having ‘killed h self by gas, Dr: Cohen of St. Catherin Hospital, ‘said the woman had been dea: for about three days. She had been grieving over the deaths of her hu: ay and children within the vast two y Spectacles add years to your looks. Tf you are wearing spectacles because you were told that your nose would not hold eye- glasses—try on the Hans SuchonChy or Harris Finger-piece mounting. It holds nose-glasses fi ff and comfortably in position without the slightest pressure and will prove a revelation in eyeglass comfort. Attached to your glas 35 cts.—75 cts.—81.00. or more—depending upon the material selected. Sold ONLY at OUR stores. | ve don’ know the form “ol the propased contrat ed | snare to a long bamboo pole, mounted | eee one without the ract we cannot | ladder forty fect high and faced the |&¢ Hast 2/4 St, near 4th Ave, present 0 large part of our argu-|fierce cat on his perch on the top of $f West Sach at. etn in Aone Ae ments, There i nothing to show, #0 | the palm. 39? Columbus Ayen bet, Bist £4 os eh conference of ¢ | assau ear) John | rer aren [am chairman Te roe? | ‘The ring-talled refugee spat and | {eos wt Nicholas ‘Det. 180th & 1818 | that the plans touching the parks |snatied and showed his teeth, but! so7 mway, near Willoughby, B’kiyn. | have heen gone over by park Romanoff snared him and brought] 489 Bultos St.n opposite mek &, Bele experts.” him to the ground without injury. Newark | ‘Text to Redelt, B. Altman & Cn. A Special Offering in the Lace Curtain Departe ment for to-morrow (Wednesday) will consist of Hand=-made Filet Lace Panels (imported this season) presenting exceptional value at $9.50 & $11.00 each An especially interesting assortment of inexe pensive Summer Curtains is mow dispiayed in this Department. It includes everything that is newest and most desirable in cur- tains of scrim, net, muslin and madras, for Summer use in the country house or city apartment. (Fourth Floor) An Important Sale of Celluloid Toilet Articles (ivory finish, daintily decorated) has been specially prepared for to-morrow and will offer unusual price advantages. The prices quoted inclugie monogram (in any one of three styles and various colors) engraved on each piece, $2.95 2.75 Hair Receivers and Powder Boxes Mirrors Hair Brushes, Combs & Salve Jars | each + « « $2.25 each . . . . 85c. | Button Hooks & Nail Nail Polishers, 1.25 | Files . . each 85c. Every Summer need in Perfumes, Complexion Specialties and Toilet Requisites can be supplied at moderate prices from the large and comprehensive stock of the Toilet Goods Department. 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