The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1917, Page 3

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rh eo ebiferh is sh tte oe a | % TER 2 ENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1927, iS LIVERMORE COMES BACK WITH ANOTHER MILLION Plunger Who Went Through Bankruptcy Tells How He Got New Start. PAID ALL OLD DEBTS. Said to Have Cleaned Up $3,500,000 in Ventures in “Business Speculation.” Jesse 1, Livermore has come hack. Nino years ago Livermore “cornered” the New York cotton market, He amassed a fortune of several mill- fons, and the papers teemed with tories of his palatial country estate, his $300,000 steam yacht and his wife's million dollar jowels, Then came the crash and two years @fo this Wall Street plunger went into bankruptcy. When tho proceed- ings were over his liabilities amount- €4 to $1,108,000, according to report, while Livermore himself to-day sald) the figure was $2,000,000. ‘To-day in the office of Harriman & Company at No, 111 Broadway, Liv- | ermore told an Evening World re-| porter how he “came back,” and gave his views on the etock market. According to his own statemc ‘, for a Khaki-Clad Spy, Livermore ts a philosopher and a| Braved Death by Ger- Psychologist. He has ceased to be a| gambler in tho market, but is what; an Shells and Dared he terms a “business speculator”. Ho| Life Among Rough refused to say whether the rumor Ss Idi I f that he had recently made $3,500,000 oldiers Ignorant o was technically true or not, but he! Her Sex, for Two Weeks did say: | : “[ must have made a very targe| After She Left Him Andre Pujet Was Killed. Mme. Pujet Is Glad, Now, Sher Took Desperate Chance of Being Shot AONE ELUCHELS o#8e brave ones, Why 4 want to hear what I did very simple thing, amount for 1 have paid tn full for my mistakes of the past, and they cost me 00,000. I went into bank- ruptcy to get a chance to get on my feet again, If 1 had not done so, I would have to have made a million a@ day to have gotten anywhere, Bo, lly came back I pald all in full although 1 was LITERARY WOMAN. opinion after you "s story, the tory of a love ant realizatio: Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “I was horribly afraid," Mme, Simone Pujet told me with the sim- plicity of conviction. “Every time the own M he Hab the debts, as guns roared I put go iast May, been disch 1 from bank- my head down, mysterious letter, ruptey. lay dawh; Gas 8, resting after driving an am- | “L did not make this new fortune as| Piss ny about. | Bulance for months, I.made my former one. It was not a beget ct ee | ginning of the war my husband en- case of gambling all on one turn, 1 ders —like this—| listed as a private made this fortune on several issues— and shivered and/1s one of the highest Magistrates in| Page, Her face js a pure, pointed| — |\the landlord would have a fine time collecting the rent as long as the cotton, grain and ‘war bride said to myself,| France and Andre could have ob-; oval, her skin like white tea rose |gasoline held out, The only disadvantage of a seven-room automobile ‘This Wall Street kame 19 a paycho- ‘Now, this time I| Mined any commission he wanted. | {and there Is a touch of wis fulness | | would be that it 49 euch @ long walk to answer the doorbell. And when lost_my nerve. \ y nit. Ob, it is an| sider it scrious enough to send Us| INDO: i 5 | wouta de sure to be playing pinochle in the basement of the car. And if “Usually aman buys @nd then, when 56 awful” feeling! {back toa hospital. "Leould not go to| USEFUL FRIEND IN AN you came home to your car late, the elevator boy would be asleep and you the stock goes up a few points, he is id! But Ion him as his y OLD ACQUAINTANCE. | , ql She Fail Ap Kd have to walk up. fearful that they will go down again WS shout oe dal hed 6 | For Second Time She Fails to Ap- About next season, we will be reading of some disappointed suitor | end he Will lose the little he has made. ad eel | that Me pCUGel Ope eee Rist Nadie sear in $10,000 Case Against | Jumping out of the fourth floor of bis auto and busting himuelf up into That 19 the wrong tine to fear, He] back, My husband wanted within th » Lexplained that Twas a] Pear A |a jig-saw puzsie on the crow beneath, should know that the very fact that! wanted him. And #0 I got throug the re risked in 1 going to see her dying | Her and Son. | At the gait they are going now, nothing is impossible in the automoblle The stock bas gone Up proves O° ig] Mme: Pujet ie the slender, brown: |0F Nhe war or th { , but they were too busy 1 |industry except the prices they aak. baie eat gers old on, But, bet og, beautiful young Frenchwoman | §?3 Then came this letter from a Bel- u Mitte things Sire, Feanahe Looe See eee) Fase SSN WS Bn 0 a ae emAnother thing that causes failures} who deliberately invited death from | gian peasant, addressing me in most that 1 could nog lof ex-City Court Judge Richard T.| uphotstering is very important in the ‘ABASCO MA ‘s that men set @ limit on what they|the Germans, French, British and|airectionate terins and bidding me! that must £0) Lyneh, was to-day adjudged guilty of high-priced cars, And after you buy expect to make. Don't buy saying| hatgians by flouting every man-made |leave my service at once and return eneee: contempt by Justice Greenbaum for | one all tho aphoiatering fs gone from you wi a Sone” $6.00 oon this stock | iaw of war and going ly and in| home if T wished to see my grand- nt in the failing to obey an order dericting her | YOUF Pocketbook. AS WIFE CALLS ON PHONE | df thé issue goes up have patience, | dis visit In tho trenches ber lther the writers of tt qj an En cer whom my busband (g submit to supplementary proceed- | after Hetening to an automobile Don't varket. It} husband, Andre Pujet. Fifteen days/aying grandfather me | th ind 1 had known in India, 1 rusted lings Whether the Court will fine her| salesman's chatter for an hour you does sue. Don't! ater she wiby to him he was] plet ty TN ata de] OR Jae $10,000—the amount of a jad: don't know whether you are a client (Someta » Evening World.) pyramic L you wire | Killed In 0 net charg jit | re tho Belgian peasant dreas |asuinat her fix jail as an ait or a patient NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10—C. P. out you App eon a me F : MONE ie ie nctknowh = 8 8=2— ’ ; Just to the ape erate seoere @ Belxlan servant Sheath Ahead ti tiptctala The case te of You can buy a nice ear for about bella milHonaire manufacturer of ket that y business, fe io i America to tell of him | er own country. He had induced | and 1 told hin tho whale eee. ee tmany Sudgmen at a hundred iron men, Of course, the | New beri, La., and manufacturer of on your own judgement.” | the other ant young | the peasants to write the letter, and/ tha: fmust get to my husband, “ie Just bef he ones with engines in cost more, @ tabasco autce, killed ihimncif at a Asked wie ye ug a ky Mir | Bren h authors and a ts the war ba be near them, At once I} knew all about me, you understand, {fom the sed to "Ko West" as! hotel here this morning as his wife's peace a eauge ae, devou at the Theatre Francais | sturte 1 Hanitie gate he orney for Ulroad receiver - [lo " Livermore replied: has devoured ot vnere she gives her{ Through a mistake about my ap-| id that L Wtectly safo per. |Atnrney ser nent against Mra. Lynch |. 4 caf that ts sure to make an ap-| long distance phone wan ringing in p so . son. You can go, bu pee) with the public ts @ taxicab ex-| his room. » | yn’t belleve much will come of] bod lecture a W from to-day. pointment, madame was at her dress- | kis Iso against her son and Mra, Alice t ad on the fexsanine ftoor. It 1 ery Presidential message, every] “And 1 shall not butt myself into| {ng table when I called, She puused,|* raved diam will The suit. was brought by has no taximeter In it : He left a note asitng that the tabel | peace note gets to the street in fore-/ ger” she assured me in indignant tf} just for a nent, to knot up the ive me the uniform of ¢ rt R. Velle, ‘The plaintiff asked | of his sauce be placed on bis tomb east form before it Is given out, You] not quite intact Idiom, when I talked |short brown silky hair whic! |Tommy, tolling mo to rip out the xamine Mra, Lyt 4t being e stone, an't help that. Lawson's attack was{with her at the Ritz-Cariton yester-/ing over her shoulders, Identifying: number stitched in. t almed she owned ¢ ble prop- The most stylish color for auton is big piece of bluff.” day afternoon, “Ido not belong with look somehow like # lov | colic Hts HALGUARATOMA WaRsoeno nelerty. She was orde tot [Invisible gray, the only trouble being | mpany inside the Hines that night Nov, 28, but falled to do so. the ey Lae ty demand @ visible jwith more guns and that 1 could |journment was granted, but again, 11 | Steen in exchan, ie al Py mot ate a em iavalie ) Mra, Lynch did not show! 4 49 the style among the hilartous- Last chancefor the 5-passenger 6-30 Chalmers at the old price, $1090. Roadster at $1070, March 1 the price on each becomes $1250. Visit the Chalmers exhibit at the Automobile Show. Present Prices’ $1070 Seven-pansenger Towing Car * $1350 1090 Seven °° 1830 (All Le.b, Detroit) C. T. SILVER 1760 Broadway, Corner 57th St. BROOKLYN BRONX 1492 Bedford Ave, 149th St. & 3d Ave, SD > T Passenger Roadster Five Touring Car + Tel. Circle 700 YONKERS 1 Manor Square have ny one was @ he said, For Love of Husband on the Firing Line Brave Frenchwoman Flouts Laws of War’ To Snatch a Few Hours of Happiness THE SIMPLE STORY OF A BRAVE But about that you must form your heard splendid, nn- that found fort and probable dis- bs 1 At the very be-/ though his father CONFESSIONS LINK CHICAGO'S CHIEF Head of “Pay Off” Office Fre- quently Visited Healy— Hotel Man Arrested. Tbs CHICAGO, Jan, 10.—-Inveatigation jof the alleged police graft “ring* led | to the arrest to-day of Thomas New- | bold, wealthy hotel and cafe owner. Maclay Hoyne, State's Attorney, r fysed to make public the reason for Newbdold’s detention, but pointed out that several of the hotels controlled jby Newbold have been the ecene of | police raids. Newbold was taken into custody Hoyne announced shortly after Mr. that ‘Thomas Costello and LAeut. Augustus M. White, both under arrest, had confessed, directly con- jnecting Charles C, Healey, Chief of ‘Police, with the system which he | charged levied tribute on the unde world. Mr. Hoyne asserted that Lieut. | White, who recently has commanded the Lake Street police precinct, im- | plicated Costello, alleged to be the connecting link between the police and ls of viclous resorts, and that Chief Healey | hundres Costello in turn involv in his conf the 4 Attorney with- 1 the details of the two confea- ‘sions, he charged that he had learned | that for at least six months Costello had visited Chief Heal home on an average of three times weekly and that on one occasion he was accom~- panted by Michael Heltler, « police character known as "Mike de Pike,” now under arrest in connection with the investhration. He charged also that Costello held phone conversations with @ head and that Chief Healey { 1 that the manipu- lations of the corruption “ring” were |wider than was at first Indicated. | Tn addition to numbers of policemen, | ranging in rank from patrolmen to Heap ains, he charged several perso | outside police circles are involved “T haven't even scratched tho sur- }face of the graft ring,” Mr, Hoyne sald to-day. “The inquiry is atili in| its infancy, It will take several weeks to get to the bottom of the ring’ op ations.” To-morrow will be Healey’s last |day as Chief of Police, Hoyne announce TIME PUGET. | ys full of guns and the company did not march in regular formation I curled up in the straw in the wagon |Pething for him to do, you under- a good part of the time, keeping out | stand, since he had been sent back of the light as much as possible, It| ftom the firing line to rest and take Was on this journey I first heard, near {care of his wounds, But he did not and loud, the enemy's cannonade that | dare let his officers know of my pres- | rightened me so. ence ; 1 have offen worn men’s clothing} “Sometimes he could stay with me} in the East, so 1 did fecl too |Se¥en hours, sometimes one hour, He strange. 1 clipped my hair in front) Us bring sardines that T had and wore a cap, Only one under-of im from Paris weeks before, and ficer In the company knew who Ir cakes that L had brought for him, I ly was, He kept an eye on me and|had nothing else to eat except coffee | slcned to me when we had reached |and milk, The country was “Willa to little town. across the Belgian | bare; there was not even bread. frontier where I could take a muni.| “Of course I was under fire all the| tions train the rest of the way. Then| time. The village near had been! with my things L slipped off destroyed by shella, and one atruck “Did you carry luggage?” [asked the house attached to the barn in In amazement which I lived, But you soon get used “Oh, yes," she replied composedly, |to the sound of guns UA HAMUAE Dh awaate Tein: uneanal my husband was ordered 1 basket containing a few clothes and | back the firing line, There was a bag, With me also was Peluche, |Ro for staying any longer. | ‘iy little dog. fT took him because {| Quite openly—I_ did not care what thought he would make me. geem| happened now—T bought an old-horae | nore innocent, less a business-like|#nd drove toward France. I was gus, 1é Teware dincovared arrested at the frontier. T told them { had done nothing, but at firat JAN EMBARRASSING HALF HOUR | would tell who I was. Then I AMONG THE SOLDIERS. thought that they could not punish "I left my khaki sult In one of the’ my husband, since he was on the gun wagons, changing in the darkness | firing I) pnd le » the name of my Jio the Belgian pr ‘ father He telegraphed, an- was with the arti ‘ sw mo, and | was released 1 in the train t atte ng shut up twelve hours in @ i hid « I went b « to Pars aod waa w I had to come jl, for three months waa so hungry, The is full of | “Hut 1 am not sorry,” Mme, Pujet Belglan soldiers w I been at the |finished, with tight-lipped composure. front eleven months and had not seen “It was worth ¢ I shall ything. % woman in all that time Fifteen days after I never be sorry. ippeared asked for left him they told me my husband well, for half an hour tt was most |was dead.” unpleasant,” Pujet admitte a| frankly, log had not bee m not going to talk about that, I jonths of straight fighting is enough to turn men into And J was not actually mo y leaving the train I had to walk H y mud that came over my knees, I do not know how I ever did It, But finally I reached | the farm from which I had had the| letter, 10 years old, is the persuade or bribe a comrade to an ewer for him at roll-call There was, = “Until Mr. Woolworth Gets Out a Car With a Nickel Finish Most of the Voting in the United States Will Be Done by Pedestrians’’—‘‘ Modern Boulevard Boat Has Night Elevator Service, Re- volving Doors, Spacious Bathrooms, Spiral Stairways, Janitors, Hallboys, Steam Heat and a View of the Hudson.” By Arthur “‘Buge’’ Baer. Copyright, 1017, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening Werld.) It's easy enough to select a moter car, but {t's @ trifle tougher to aelect the money. It's impossible to ride on a walking income. Still, there ls no! law to prevent you from stepping around ia the automobile bazaar looking | as if you were about to purchase a motor, Looking as if you were going to buy an auto ta an economical way of spending the winter. An automobile bazaar doesn't seem to differ vastly from any other old bazaar. You bazaar to and fro and you bazaar hither and thither, dieplaying all the symptoms of a proud purchaeer. Then you get a slant at the price, which acts as an anti-toxin amd you suddenly become convalescent. Thereupon, you throw | your ankle gears into high and gyrate around bazaaring again ‘There are a thousand kinds of cars, but only one kind of money. There are ail kinds of improve. | ments {in automobiles, but there| doean't seem to be any in pedestrians. ‘There are no more cylinders in shoes this year than there wero last year. SUI, the foot passengers manage to | keep ono jump ahead of the latent | thing in autos, Solf-preservation ts aguin an important rule for 1917, And being an ankle excurstonist isn't without its advantages. You don't bave to buy a chauffeur’s license to operate a pair of shoes in New York and environs. And until Mr. Wool- worth gets owt acar with a nickel finish, most of the voting in the United Btates will be dona by folks who find their toos very useful in geting somewhere, ‘The person with enough of the new artistic dimes to buy a motor car can purchase one to match his complexion, character and previous condi- tion of servitude. He can get one of thowe form fitting flivvers that fit very tightly acroas the elbows or one of those voluminous limousines that hang very loosely across the shoulders, with lots of room in the back to wave your eam in. ‘There doesn't seam to have been any possible im- provement overlooked by the de- signer, of the wheeled yachts. The 1917 land sloops have everything in ‘em from mail chutes to dumbwait- ers, The modern boulevard boat is equipped with night elevator service, revolving doors, spacious bathrooms, spiral etairways, janitors, hall-boya, |steam heat and a splendid view of the Hudson from the conservatory windows. If the birds who cut out the pat- jterns for automobiles keep their \health a few seasons longer you will soon be renting a seven-room auto- mobile apartment, provided that you | Will eign ® year’s lease and have no dogs, children or other animals, And jcommands 18 cents. : aT FLOUSTIFS | IN GENERAL JUMP. Rise of From 3 to 5 Cents in Necessities in Last ~" Ten Days. ’ Butter, long jayed in transit from the farms, is coming into the city at the rate of 126,000 poundy a day, and the housewives may expect & reduction In the retail price of that commodity within forty-eight hours. If it 1s not down 2 cents before the end of the week she should ask why, according to those who have been studying the produce market. Tho reecipts of butter got so lange to-day that the wholesale market | price, which dropped yesterday, wae expected to drop still more before the | close of the produce exchanges. Butter and egg dealers said the de- layed shipments were almost too ble for the local markets to eae from day to day Harry Dowie, President of the Butter and Keg Exchange, frankly | admitted to-day that the butter pe. celpte were extraordinary. wal,” said Mr. Dowie, “and prices ught to go down. But @he high cost of living will keep up uméil the war is over. 1 seé no hope for any slump in other lines, ‘The only roel butter will go down fs on accoun’ these delayed shipments coming in in great q tities.” In @ tour of the city markets yeu- terday and to-day The Evening World discovered that the price of foodstuffs has jumped from 3 to 6 cents in the last ten days—and the indications are that they will continue to Ko up. Here are some of the noteworthy retail jumps of the last two weeks: Lamb, one cent and @ half a pound. Mutton, one cent a pound Pork, half cent a pound Veal, one cent a pound. f, one cent and a half a pound, ‘oes, three cents a quart. two and three cents on Onions, a cent and a halt a pound, Eggs, two and three cents a dozen. Two weeks ago potatoes sold to the consumer at 12 cents a quart, or about a cent apiece. To-day the housewife is paying 15 cents, and she says sho's lucky if there are eight to a “quart.” Onions are 7 cents a pound, and a small head qf cab! The whol market reports of yesterday showed a slight Increase in all the commodi- quoted above. Phles are quoted at $5 and % @ barrel; potatoes at $5.75 and $6 for 165-pound bags, and onion 100-pound bags. Fresh 4; and 63 cents a dozen. In t neigh- borhood stores the storage variety are commanding about the same price retail, and the fresh eggs are pro- | portionately higher HaveYouTried ® mag or gines of Evans Ale ly wealthy set to buy @ limousine for each foot. Until the high cost of filvving is) revised southward, mont of us will continue to use Mr, Shonte's under- ground taxis, t jee, iron seats, a stupid conductor, 627 straps and n to put your elbowe, It is the custom among the rich to decorate their cabrioleta with flowers For some of the cars we nee limping around Flatbush century plants | would be exceedingly appropriate, Expert chauffeurs don't care if mise a pedestrian. \ ‘The tendency in automobiles ts to ) have @ ten-cent chassis with @ thou- | sand-dolar set of wheels, Most of the companies furnivh a | good lawyer to anybody buying one of thetr cara, | It Is presumed that the large cities | will require all tenement automob! to be equipped with adequate fire excapes, Desk room tn a lary automobile can be a moderate price. as beautifully as suits at possibly be! lonably plain tailored, At the Four grandest Scots Whisky ever “[ found that my husband was sta- | i ‘ : Haned ine rest crenoh & nile away brought over for the best American trade. 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