The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1916, Page 10

ad | | =~] Fourteen-year-old John Oregan, who Vives at No. 391 Herberton Avenue, ‘Weat New Brighton, Staten Island, was accidentally shot in the stomach with & .22 calibre rifle while playing with William Simonson, fifteen years old, who gave his address as No, 1675 Cas- tleton Avent The Oregan boy was taken to the Staten Island Hospital and Simonson was arrested. 1417-1423 THIRD AVENUE NEAR 60" STREET FURNITUR Cash or Credit OPEN EVENINGS TILL 9 O'CLOCK I Holzwasser Home Talks No. 127 W ITH the opening of De cember, and the advent 0/ for a quarter will find here again those ces of furniture design, coupled with dependabiiity of construction, which for so many ve made this the “Home Store.” Our prices were never lower, In spite of the universal tendency of prices to | soar d our table of terms below. Wrietorivew W-Pagecataiog Went Hide Easily Accesal hy NOt or Bi A 3-Room Apartment $25 VALUE $245 Sea Yet A 5-Room Apartment 0 VALUE All Grand Rapids $ Furnitare. Special t AG R oom Apartment Fe ee esata $375 A o-Koom Apartment #700 eta yt Re BOSD HEAR THE WONDERFUL Anspico \ KNABEZ#AS For Cuts, Burns— Killer Ask Your Druggist ion 93 Nassau Street, 765 Broadway, corner 8th St, 847 Broadway, near 14th St, ‘oad wa: St. The value is guaranteed and the wearer against high prices for inferior shoes, ices ar> the same here. im San Francisco lect ptf New York. They lare always worth the price paid for them, he quality of W.L. Douglas product is guaranteed by more than 4o years experience in making fine shots. The smart styles are the leaders in the fash- They are made in a well: lequipped factory at Brockton, Mass., by the highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under the direction and |supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can For sale by over 9000 shoe dealers and 101 W. L, Douglas stores in the |large cities, at W. L. Douglas store, ask 5 dealer for W cannot suppl Write for booklet, showing how to lordershoes by mail, hse a postage free, T HAS NO FRANCHISE, YET REFUSES TO GUT LIGHT RATE Brooklyn Edison Co., Ordered to Reduce Price of Electricity To-Day, Does Nothing. DEFIES SERVICE BOARD. Decision in Fight of Six Years’ Duration Put Off by Legal Technicalitie: Reduced rates for electric light | service in Brooklyn will not become effective to-day as ordered by the | Public Service Commission because the Brooklyn Edison Company 1—Declines to recognize of the Commission ras the demands of city movern- ment in technicalities and a of the law in the anit to the nehise itn | Thirtteth Wa This is the public service cor- poration that the Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment declared tix years ago had no franchi a large part of Brooklyn. Commiastoner Travis H. Whitney sald to-day that the company had applied for a rehoaring of the rate case, but the Public Service Commis- sion had not y cation. If it is refused and tho or- der stands as final, the company is expected to go to the courte with certiorari proceedings and hold back the relief for indefinite period. While a rehearing application does not necessarily restrain enforcement of penalties for failure to obey the order, yet rulings of courts have been auch as te tle the hands of the com aission in making its rate orders im- vediately effective. BROOKLYN COMBINE CONTESTS EVERY REQUEST. While the New York Edison Com pany recently made voluntary reduc tion of rates for Manhattan and the Hronx, and seeks to be friends with {ls public, the Brooklyn Edison Com- Pany is contesting every request and demand of both public and govern- ment, This Brooklyn lighting combine is headed by the Kings County Electric Light and Power Company, a hold- passed on the appli Take a look at your teeth in your mirror Are your gums receding, or are pockets forming? Regular use of Sozodont Liquid prevents such con- dition. Sozodont contains Eme- tine with its associated alkaloid, and destroys the erms that attack and Rect the gums. Protect your teeth by using Sozodont Liquid Dentifrice. ing company, in which Edward B. MeCall, chairman of the Public Ser- until ‘The Evening held 987 shares vice Commission World exposed him, jof stock, Its principal electric substdiary ts the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn, commonly known as the Brooklyn Edison Com- pany, This latter company in turn obtained a majority of the atock of the Amsterdam Electric Light Heat and Power Company. In 1919 the City Board of Estimate and Apport lared the fran- | chine of the onment de Edison Comp referee until The Evening World r 1 the delay. On Dec. 23 last year Ya was rendered by the referee Mr. Nicoll held that the Brooklyn edison Company did not have a fran- chise, but that the Amsterdam Com- pany did, and as the former con- trolled the latter it mado practically no difference, Although this report of the ref- Jacision eree was made a year ago, no order has ever been entered before a court, It stands as open and undetermined legally as it was in 1912. Corporation Counsel Hardy of New York City has added « fourth year by doing nothing final or de- cisive in prosecuting this o Another sensation jin connection with this case was the Edison Com- pany's demand on the Public Service Commission r authority to absorb the last 122 shares of Amsterdam Company stock so as to complete tts monopoly and insure control of the franchises. Proceedings in this re- gard caused caustic comment by Sen- ator Thompson of the commission. the Corporation Counsel's office the city’s law department. and When asked why the referee's deci- sion had lain for a year without a proval or disapproval of the court, the Corporation Counsel sald te that counsel representing elty and com pany had been unable to agree upon the form of judgment or to be submitted to the court for entry. ‘The net result of six years of fight- ing by an outraged and overcharged public in Brooklyn against {ts elec- trie light monopoly is as inconclusive or and undecided as it was at the be- inning. Legal technicalitles and law's heen of more avail 4 ays have D of the Public Service Com- 1 incompleted efforts of city t. than ¢ ission a sovern RAILROAD CONGESTION 1S GROWING WORSE Grain Shipments May Be Placed Under Embargo by the Baltimore and Ohio and the Erie, Now Y wrk Central has already put an Jembargo Into effect | In the grain trade here the dim. culties of the ratlways was attribut- ed chiefly to the curtailment of ex- port grain shipments and to the con- 1 of elevators sequent clogging and | sidetrack sto: | Lowers Working » Mass., Dec, 1—The turing Company to- nison Manuf. ]W.L.DOUGLAS “THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE” . L. Douglas name and the retail price is on the bottom of all shoes at the "1 They cost centres of America, buy. If not conven Douglas shoe bu, take no other mak 210 Spark st 847 Eighth Avenue, 9250 West 125th Street, | BROOKLYN | 1_Fulton Street, cor, Peart. | 0 Broadway, cor, Thornton, ue. way, cor. Gates Avenue. 8 Avenue, cor. 11th Street. marked with a* eomptete Ii Dougl T *T RENTON. 14 jas shoes lines of W. LL. ‘ H Hrockton, Mans, W. L. Douglas Stores in Greater NewYork: #2779 Third Av. bet. 146th & rq7th Sto | 3R58 Manhattan Avenue, $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 $4.50 $5.00 & $6.00 You can Save Money by Wearing W. L. Douglas Shoes. The best Known Shoes in the World. stamped & factory, rotected he retail no more BOYS SHOES ‘Beat in the World $3.00 $2.50 $2.00 BEWARE OF FRAUD None genuine unless Ww. L. s name and the retail price Is stamped on the bottom. TAKE NOSUESTITUTE ee Pitkin Avenue, y CITY KEK NION Ht NEWARK At 18 Newark Avenue, 120 Washington St. 276 Bergenline Ave, 831 Broad Stree 192 Market Str 01 EK. State St., cor fer wemen. kK OBO: ny in the! nirtieth Ward to be vold and with-| out foundation. Litigation was | atarted by the company and for three |yearg, from 1912 to 1915, the case Iragfed before Delancey Nicoll as CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—Congrestion of }¢lgn refugees have been questioned, railway facilities between Chicas [the only scrap of news obtained was N and the Atlantic seaboard became|from persona on the fourth train] N | more to-day. ‘Tho Baltimore|leaving the capital in the retreat IN jand Ohlo was expected to give no-|They declared they saw George Brit- | N tice within forty-eight hours of an|tingham and several other Americans N Jembargo on all grain shipments, both |standing beside the track, but th IN la nest 1 export. An embargo] were not allowed to leave on th |N | was also expected on the Erie, ‘The|train, They were expected to catch | IN “LION'S MOUTH OPEN FOR VILLA,” | U.S. WATCHING HIM (Continued from First Page.? behind plans for a conference to-day between Secretary of War Baker and the President | CHINESE MASSACRED BY VILLA IN CHIHUAHUA, EL PASO, 'Tex., Dec. 1.—Following |his capture of Chihuahua City, Villa Jon last Tuesday began slaughtering the Chinese residents of the city, four refugees urtiving hero to-day told United States authorities, More than | fifty Chinese had been killed up to! , the time they escaped, they said. One Chinese refuges said that of one party of twenty-seven of his cotntrymen he was the only one to escape. Three other refugees were the only survivors of a second party of thirty-five, These reports of wanton Killing left | Uttle hope for the safety of six| ‘ Americans known to have been in} Chihuahua City, Four days have passed since the evacuation of de facto troops, and no information has reached the border of the fate of the, foreigners in the northern capital. One high United States Govern-| ment official sald to-day: | “We have littie hope for the lives! of these people, They may have fled to the hills, but if they remained tn the city it 1s almost certain they have been massacred.” Firing began about four miles b tacked by Villa and several families ran to the American side of the inter- national bridge In panic. A heavy de- tachment of Carranzista cavalry was! hurried out toward the race track from the Cuartel. Later Carranza officers | sald that a nervous outpost of troops | had fired several volleys, FORMING ARMY OF 10,000 MEN | TO ATTACK VILLA, | Demoralized and without guns which had been thrown away in their | hasty filght, from Chihuahua City,| several hundred more Carranaista survivors of the five-day battle in| the northern capital, reached Juarez, at 3 o'clock this morning. Part of the, incoming soldiers were cavalrymen who, in the rout, had lost their horses. Every secret service agent on the| border to-day was ordered “to find out what became of the Americans and other foreigners in Chihuahua City,” and the Federal authorities made another request to the Mexican Consulate for aid, Although scores of native and for- dence, side, I ty Lda the next train out Livery ¢ ‘my of the Mexican Gov- ernment leaders is directed to-day | NY toward gathering reinforcement N from the north and south to hurl| NY against Villa in Chihuahua City. IN A new army to retake the city is} being massed at Juarez, Stragglers| from the remnants of Gen. Trevino's| command are still streaming to the border in a demoralized condition, 1 Vy During the night a repair ain RY started south over the Mexican and N Northwestern Rallway to rebuild the | bridges near Guzman and open a N channel for the transportation of N troops from Western Chihuahua to N YU In Juarez, opposite this city, a new solumn of Government forces is being fortined to make that town the base of operations, while in the south an- other column is forming under com- mand of Gen, Murgia, according to Carrangzista officials at the Mexican Uh |Consulate here, Simultaneously large forces, totalling about 10,000 men, N from both directions will be launched | against the bandit chief, N | The offensive against Villa will be N ight or sooner, Gonzales, con of the de facto garrison at Juarez, announcea to-day MWA are serious! sperations by the hindered In our} bargo on arms }and ammunition by your Gover ment,” he said. “That was re sponsible for the fall of the capital. | | now our column in the north 4s neountering difficulty in gettin, enough cartridges to renew the at- tack against (he bandit chief." » accurate estimate of the lossee jin the flve-day battle can be obtained | fr any source, Incoming refugees declared the number of killed ran into m the hundreds on both sides. After capturing Chihuahua City, Villa took up his residence in his ows jome, built when he was in posses- sion of the city eighteen months ago | ‘To each of his leaders ho appointed a sector of the defensive works and reconstruction of trenches and earth works wero begun and the captured J artillery shifted to new lons Scores of wounded officers and | men fill the private homes in Juarez. | A quantity of medical supplies has heen taken across the river trom) here IN No Extra Charge for tt, IN or Advertisements for The id may be left at ey American District Mesmoger office to the eft ww ee a4 \ THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1916. FORMER REGISTER’S DAUGHTER WILL BE have heen deprived of thelr amual EARLY SPRING BRIDE | | hecupations of mending public roads. _— | FOR STOCKS BOUGHT The Germans tng the men thus made {dle as da,” it is Pei Sm | Y juhey a the alternative ©! ea | ‘ HOPRPER Twenty-first Street, the parental rest- time the legal owners of the stock yneghem. The | At Grocers and 10¢ engines an a) 0 y to 8. Hauck, of Bay-'anq that consequently not they but, Germany ares Tne real Delicatessen Stores «1, The wedding has been set the stockholders of record were Hable; chine tools are said to hava hoen ‘| Made by E.Pritchard, 331 Spring St., N.Y. on the stock they held med at Cockerill and for next April MEN! -Piece Suits or Overcoats Stores 8 NEW YORK CITY STORES: 1387 Broadway, Bet. 37th and 38th Sts, 1945 Broadway, Bet. 65th and 66th Sts, 251 Eighth Avenue, Near 23d Street. 2258 ‘Third Avenue, Near 123d Street. 691 Eighth Avenue, Bet. 43¢ and 44th Sts, 2331 Eighth Avenue, One door above 125th St 155 William Street, Corner Ann Strect. 152 Jay Street, Schenectady, N. Y. 22 Newark Ave., Nr, Cooper Pl., Jersey City, 1514 Third Avenue, Near 85th Street. 681 Main Str et, Worcester, ass. 196 Market St., Nr. Broad, Newark, N. k Y 149 W. 36th St., Mail Order Department. 17 Atlantic Street, Stamford, Conn. 267 Be John St., Union vil WD YONKERS STORE—105 New Main Street. BELGIANS | [BROKERS NOT LMBLE |100 000 where shipped to German: In the Commune y. n or voluntary ¢) deportat! q ON CLIENTS’ ORDERS Decision in the Northern Bank Case Holds the Stockholders of Record. Havenith Declares Deporta- tions Continue at Rate of 3,000 a Week. 22-KARAT GOLD CROWNS 2 SOLID GOLD BRIDGE WORK | An important decision relating to brokers’ liability on stocks purchased WASHINGTON, Dec, 1.-More than 100,000 Belgians have been deported from Belgium military authorities, according to information brought by presented to the State Department }, Banks F, L. Richards against Jos-/>¥ Minister Havenith. Deportations, if 3 |the minister said, are continuing at, eph Grobbin and others, who were! |) oof 4088 eal % stockholders of Northern Bank of atin Of 3,000 a woe te Ge ra , | Now York. Teffc & Co., brokers, had on kisah t5 fae PAliitae hems aenl £ bought stock in the bank in March, | oT had ated sided SK being lald. Some have been taken | 1910, witiout disclosing the name of “ thelr customer and without causing !2t0 the occupied part of Northern oe ore France and some into Germany it- for custothers was rendered by the! Silver Fillings Oc Appeliate Division of the State Su- by German to-day. Action was preme Court State Superintendent of he morning, hav mut jain aod wa wet of tenth “ALL WORK, DR. BLOOM : the stock to be transferred to his ‘ name on the books of the bank.| **lt NEW YORK'S LEADING DENTIST Burgomasters, he said, and other city —1WO OFFICES— \) When the bank fatled on Dec. 22/454 village officials were ordered to || 2021 Sth Ave. | 199, 34th St. ya", \\ | 1910, and went into the hands of the BE. Cor. h St. | N, W, Cor, 3d Ave, supply lists of workers, whether un- employed or not, and those refusing were thrown into jail The United States, said, Was being looked to by the Bel- glans to secure an amelioration of the State Superintendent of Banks the 9 A. M, to 0 P. M. stock was still in the names of the men who had sold {t and the super- intendent started to enforce the lia- bility attaching to the stock ‘The stockholders of record there- upon asked for relief against Tefft & Co. because the brokers had not dis- closed the name of the principal and use it was the duty of the brok- © the legal transfer mado on the bank's books. | The Court held that there was no jduty on the part of the brokers to The Belgium Gov States that the mans have ordered suspended the work of sinking shafts in the coal mines of Campine and have caused | {a stoppage of work in other indus- | tries in that Belgian district. ‘The | |workers, thus deprived of their oc- cupation, have been classed among the “unemployed” and have been de- | ported with others for service in Ger. | ; Y ers to south of Juarez shortly before day-| Mr. and Mrs, John J. Hopper have the stock transferred to the Many. | i é ee 5 puree hae A Tne Germans, according to infor. break y. About fifty shots were just anni d the engagement name of the purchaser; that the) mation received by the Belgian if Flavors everything d tive residents of Juarez] of thelr daughter, Miss Ruth Hopper, brokers had merely acted as trustye dismantled the Meuse || So to Salads foved the city had been at-|of West One Hundred and for the actual purchaser, were at no 1 other es urs . iments of the same kind Tonorrow, Saturda of This Most Wonderful Tailoring Offer Made to Your Measure of this money saving tailoring offer. offer you a great saving. style you select. Satisfaction guaranteed, 27 OPEN SATURDAY ITCHIE CORNEL TILL 10 P, M, 2 STORES IN THE BRONX :— 408 East,149th Street, Near Third Avenue. 903 Prospect Avenue, Near 163d Street. 7 OUT-OF-TOWN STORES Distribu‘ors 65!4 South 4th Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N.Y, Hubbard Building, Port Jervis, N. Y. 5 STORES IN BROOKLYN:— Flatbush Avenue, ° > ! 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