The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1917, Page 4

i a , Atal dealers or sent postps: “FOUR AMERICAN LINERS AT SEA, 2 IN DANGER ZONE day epeeding up the departure Aa. the h Penneylvania Infant v is take here by Miliary be to Mean the State troops will be used it Rastern military depots because of, the crisis with Germany, Tois regimm stead of the 16th of this month A Deming, N. M., despatoh states it is reported the first Arkansas Infan- , which left for the State Camp will be diverted to San Antonio. —_————_—— the Phisdeps, wo HGH COST OF LIVING abled Engine, and the Fin- | land in “Barred Area Four Amertoan ships, (he American Niners Philadeiphia, Finland and &t. Paul and the Atlantic Transport steamship Philadeiplian, are at pres- ent on the high seas, and two of them, the Philadelphia and Finland, are within the danger zone which the Zermans have drawn in the Eastern Atlantic. As the port engine of the eastbound Philadelphia has become disabled | through a broken crank-shaft, she is proceeding under reduced speed an will not reach Liverpoo! until Monday morning. ‘The Finland, also beund for Liver- pool, is scheduled to reach tnat port to-morro' | The Philadetphia, which carried no passengers, but is bound for London with 10,000 tons of munitions, Is only f® short distance at sea, having left this port yesterday. She was the only trans-Avantic liner to leave here yesterday in the face of although other liners were scheduled to sail On the Philadelphia are thirty-ft American citizens, including Mrs.) Waltelaw Reid, Lieut, John M. Eager, | U. nd George Gordon Moore, 4 carries forty-six Amer- joan citizens, ‘The American liner St, Paul is due from Liverpool to-morrow and in therefore only a short distance off the American coast. ARMY CAMPS ELECTRIFIED | GETS TEMPORARY JOLT, , Exciting Scenes on Produce | or In the price of a! BY NEWS OF THE BREAK Bulletin Is Flashed to Gen, Persh- ing on His Northward March to Border. ARMY BASE, COLUMBUS, N. M,, Feb. 3,—(Censored).—-The army camps here were electrified by news of the diplomatic break between this coun- try and Germany. A bulletin was flashed to Gen. Pershing on bis north- ward march to the border. already been given. RETURN OF TROOPS FROM BORDER ADVANCED 10 DAYS Sixth Pennsylvania Infantry Or- dered to Start on Sixth Instead of Sixteenth, EL PASO, Tex. Feb. 3 received at miltary headquart “| FEEL LIKE A NEW BEING” SPRUIT-A-TIVES" Brought the Joy of Health After Two Years’ Suffering MADAM LAPLANTE 85 St. Rose St., Montreal, April 4th. “For over two years I was sick and miserable. I suffered from constant Headaches, and had Palpitation of the Heart so badly that I feared I would die. ‘There seemed to be « lump in my stomach and the Constipation was dreadful, I suffered from Pain in the Back and Kidney Disease. “'T was treated by a physician forayear and half and he did me no good at all I tried ‘Fruit-a-tives’ as a last resort: After using three boxes I was greaily improved and twelve boxes made me pg Now I can work all day and there ne Headaches, no Palpitation, se Het, Eide pa Constipatio: or yi Trouble and J f tie aeee beings I, was ‘Fruit-a-tives’ eine ARTHUR LAPLANTE. foe a bor, 8 for #30 rl sae, te, t= trtves Limited, Opdeasburg, New York. Be Careful keep the stomach well, the ine and bowels regu jar, by the timely and helpful aid of BUT STARTS UP AGH Exchanges Checked by Ad- vancing Stock Quotations. No slump in the high cost of living food products may be looked for as the Immediate result of to-day's in- ternational crisis, This was indicated on the local Produce Exchanges after one of the most exciting days since were moments when it seemed that wheat and everything affected by it would go to pleces, but before the Exchange closed the price crept steadily upward, and all provisions went up with it. England owns 75 per cent. of all the visible wheat in the jand, stored in Atlantic and Gulf | Ports, approximately $50,000,000 worth. When the ‘itement died down, the Chicago market began to Inad the local exchanges on the upward pace, This is how one of the apecu- jators on the Produce Exchange figured it out: “There is no actual scarcity of foodstuffa, but the reason there was no sensational dumping of beef, pork, lamb or wheat on the market to-day was that the big minds in the busi- ness figured out that the break in diplomatic relations gave them ex- actly what they wanted—created a condition for them. “Before this they had no bottoms in which to ship wheat or anything else. Now they expect to have an un- usual quantity of tonnage--and pro- tection in its shipment, whether to England or any other neutral port.” “The excitement is over,” said M. J. Curtiss, representative of one of bt will leave the 6th in | © fthe principal | the big packing firms. for any slump in bageeny ly in meats, It's not 1@ expected would yr a an ‘pee turned out just the opposite. I ex- pect domestic prices to keep tight.” Shortly after the announcement of the break in diplomatic relations the Exohange suspended business bed five minutes. Somebody 4: American fiag from the This was followed by a pulf-hearted effort at singing the Netiona! an- them. Hardly ny voices joined the enthusiasts. ‘The crowd was more interested at that moment in watching the bulletin boards with Chicago quotations. EX-WIFE OF PAYMASTER IN WAVY DIES OF POISON Mrs. Bowne, Recently Divorced, Admits on Death Bed Taking Chloroform Five Days Ago. Mra, Margaret Pugh Bowne, di- vorced a few months ago by William H. Bowne, a paymaster at the Brook- lyn Navy Yard, died to-day at her home, No. 158 Westchester avenue, the Bronx, from the effects of liquid chloroform taken las: Monday night. Mrs, Bowne, whose iliness had pus- sled doctors called In to attend her as well as the doctors at Fordham Hoi pital, admitted to her family phyal- cian a few minutes hesore dying that she bad tagen, the poiso! ‘Dr. Le Schroeder Mot No, 495 ‘Weat End arenes Mrs, Bowne's doc- tor, sald she was in auch a weakened condition at the time of making the admission that he did not ask ber if the Deen we sul. cldal intent. to the police. and an Ce investigation of jeath. ‘The Bownes were married in Cleve- land, O., twelve years ago and have two children, Since the court pro- coed! Mrs. Bowne has been living with the children at the Westchester Avenue address, Last Monday night Dr. C. E, O'Grady of No. 1477 Com- monwealth Avenue, was called to at- tend Mrs, Bowne. He found her ill but unable to give any satisfactory explanation. ad her removed to Fordham Hospital. On Wedne Mrs. Bo WIDOW OF DEWEY PLEDGES SUPPORT Leaves at White House Resolutions Adopted by Woman's Section of Navy League. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. ~Mre. George Dewey, wiiow of the Admiral, called at the White House executive office and left resolutions ¢rom ‘he ‘women's seotion of the Navy League, pledging unqualified support to Pre: dent Wilson. in thousands upon thoussnés ef cases BEECHAM'S PILLS Rogenst 8 Bole. of Aev Avy Moticios in the World boxes, 10c., 25. organs, rhs, It ecte euleuty. Tt Cleanses your kid Tr makes a of yeu, It tre: ly wards eff erteeke of the dread fatal 'CLEANSES YOUR KIDNEYS PURIFIES YOUR BLOOD Tor conterice all ever the werld GOLD | or MEDAL Msarlem Ol) bas afforded relict | dust. aie iain etn camaR THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1917. 2 City Officials in Evening World Forum AE Wt, For More Light on the Riverside Contract \\j)(Q\) BY FIRE: To clear up the printed with prominence. P.Mirceme AL STUDS proceeds on publicly owned property. franchise.” Loss of Millions to City In Future Taxes May Lurk In Riverside Land Deal 1904, $45,176,538; 1905, $43,965,317; 1907, $46,170,322, and 1! }88,800,2: And although the city’s valuation of this property was carefully worked out from the company’s own figures, every time the city went into the court to collect “special franchises” the taxes have been reduced to a frac- tion of the city’s valuation. However, the courts have approved “apecial franchise” asseasmenta laid by State Tax Commissioners for the , | above years of 4.44 miles for approxi- mately $12,000,000 annually, notwith- etanding the above figures found by the city authorities. All of the above gives an approx!- mate “special franchise” valuation of 4.44 miles of this railroad on Park Avenue. COLLECTION OF MANY MILLIONS STILL PENDING. There are also pending settlement proceedings beginning with the year 1906 to date on the west side, Eleventh Avenue, The asseasments in ques- tion amount to the sebowing sums; QUBVPNTH AVE: Contract With N. Y. C. Leaves Special Franchise Taxa- tion in Doubt. WHAT WILL CITY GET? Possibility That It Sacrifices the People’s Revenue From the Railroad. Assuming that the west side im- Provement will be an advantage to the city and that the proposed plan ie constitutional, one of the questions growing out of the Riverside contract How far is the city secured of a “apecial franchi tax along this very valuable right of way for ell time? How far le the oity assured of @ “epecial franchise" on the proposed Dian, commensurate with the valuable facilities secured by the railroad upon } which the railroad will build a bual- | 11 Ness costing $100,000.0007 i 1 i ‘The estimate of ‘spectal franchise” value of 4.44 miles of New York Cen- tral Railroad on Park Avenue as set forth by the City of New York in its case before the Court of Appeals (206 N. Y. 274) for 1900 taxes was ¥ 4, ~ Prior to 1912, the ‘Btate board haa Ro authority to equalize its assess- ments, hence the figures for 1906 to 1911 are full valuo figures, Those for 1912 and subsequently were equalised by the State board, The above figures give @ general ‘The city’s valuations in subsequent years were as follows: 1901, $69, 867; 1902, $48,478,150; 1909, $53,631,483; MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Cut out this coupen, fill cut and mail te the Housewives’ Protective Acseciation, Evening Werld, Post Office Box 1354. 1917, Name ...sceccorrevecscosccdeesvecscrenwvecs svewee Address ...... wee T desire te enroll my name as a member ef The Evening Werld’s Housewives’ Pretective Association. Inclose 2-cont stamp and membership token will be mailed. Peer ete ero oro tery idea as to the “special franchise” tax valuations of both the east and west side of this railroad, According to the proposed contract all “lands and easements sold by the City of New York to the railroad company, together with a release of the city’s record title in and to premises over which the railroad has je perpetual right of user, amount |to $11,004,381,"" “All lands and easements sold by the railroad company to the City of y York” amount to $4,984,482, “The balance in favor of the city” iy 96,109,899. vy AY # wank up the oll like & ‘spones | 1 cause of your tr cheerfully refund your money Bot satienied cr cept only thi Haarlem 01: yeu 8 use. ure, erigine| GOLD Mepat Capauies,—ai All these appraisements of real estate existing doubt and misunderstanding respecting the scope and effect of the Riverside improvement contract between the city and the New York Central Rail- road Company, The Evening World will present a series of questions to the Board of Estimate. Answers of reasonable length are requested and will be Section 2, subdivision 3 of the Tax Law provides in part as follow: deemed to include the value of the tangible property of a person, copartnership, association or corpora- tion situated in, upon, under or above any street, highway, public place or public waters in connection with the special franchise. The tangible property so included shall be taxed as a part of the special | Readers of The Evening World are also asked to present queries which, if considered of merit and not prompted by politics or personal prejudice, will appear in this forum. Address Riverside Editor, Evening World. QUESTION NO. 3.—What security has the city for the collection of the “special franchise” tax for which no rule has been laid down in the new contract? According to the “special franchise” law, no such tax may be collected except the right of way “A special franchise shall be IS THE CITY CONVEYING FOR $6,109,899 (THE DIFFERENCE IN REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE, NOT A DOLLAR INCASH ACTUALLY PASSING TO THE CITY) TWEN- TY-ONE MILES OF PROPERTY, WITH ANY ASSURANCE OF A SPECIAL FRANCHISE TAX, ON THE BASIS OF THE CITY’S OWN VALUATION OF SPECIAL FRANCHISES OF THE RAILROAD ON PARK AND ELEVENTH AVENUES? 4 4 COMPTROMLER PRENDERGAST pronerty of both sides are agreeable to both sides. In other words, the difference in real estate values of the entire transaction amounts to $6,109,899 “in favor of the city.” The difference in veal estate area ac- quired by the railroad ia 110,700 lineal feet, or twenty-one miles. la the city for $6,109,899 selling twenty-one miles of property more than the company now has with any assurance of a special franchise taz in ince with the city’s own valu- ation of “special franchises” of this railroad as above? THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE RAILROAD COMPANY. May the value of the proposed right of way be compared with the special | pi franchise values of Park Avenue and Eleventh Avenue? The city authori- ties state in the report: “This entire improvement will comparable with the splendid Park Avenue improvement carried out by the same company. “The company's legislative fran- chise under which the west side tracks were built provided for the transportation of passengers as well as freight. “The committees thinks that a large extension of this passenger business will undoubtedly be desirable in the near future, It considers that the ad- justment of main lines trackage brought about by the settlement now under consideration must be final, and that if provision for commodation is to be ma this line it should be made now as part of the proposed agreement with the railroad company. “The officers of the rallroad company have stated to the committee that the Park Avenue tracks leading into the Grand Central Station are congested to @ point where they can foresee that some day it may be necessary to sup- plement them, if service ta to be main- tained at the vroper degree of effi- clency. The weat side trackage seems be | ati SENATE TO VOTE MONDAY ON THE IMMIGRATION BILL Reed Obtains the Delay, but Seems Sure Body Will Adopt It Over President's Veto. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The Senate will vote next Monday afternoon on the tmmigration Bill, which the House passed over the President's veto. A Poll shows that about twelve Senators will vote the proposition to override th , With between wenty and eighty for it. hie ‘or Reed prevented It vote on the te entitled to considers reason for he bill to wo over UNtI toe morrow or M . I want to speek in pete te it, but am not ready to- NO ONE HELO FOR FATAL BOXING BOUT IN ALBANY Coroner Decides No Criminal Act Was Committed —Doctor Who Passed Dead Boxer Not Licensed. ALBANY, Feb. 3.—There was no act of criminality committed tn connection with the boxing bout here on Tucsday night, in which Stephen T. AMfcDonald was killed by William Hicks, Coroner Hastings decided after an inquest. He discharged Hicks and. elx other men, conda and officers ze ue Bout el ‘ ons the club that ¢ Coroner found, howev A, A. Wheeler, who, a MeBanalg fetere h = 3 to be the only available outlet to relieve Park Avenue. “The committee has not had before it for consideration at this time the mat- ter of a crosstown connection between the Park Avenue tracks and the weat side line. “It feels, however, that by providing for six main line tracks between Rev. enty-second Street and One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Street the door is kept oven for whatever plan may be worked out in the future for auch a connection under proper conditions and restrictions.” Tax authorities hold that the city cannot legally, according to the above tax law, collect “special franchise” tax where the company acquires com- plete ownership of property by secur- ing tho fee to it, and it {a generally conceded as doubtful if ‘special fran- chise” tatx may be collected where “permanent casement” is granted, Therefore, in these properties con- veyed to the railroads, on which a special franchise tax cannot or may not legally be collected for all time, to what extent is the city losing or how compensated? oi MOTORMAN KILLED BY CAR, Trolley On Way to Street Jumps ‘Tracks in Barn, Vincent Dolenski, 4 motorman, thir- ty-fivo years old, of No, 433 West Thirty-elghth Street, was killed, and Robert Westboy, a conductor, of No, | 49 Seventh Avenue, Hrooklyn, injured to-day by being struck by a trolley car in the barn at Ninth Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street, The car was on its way to the stroet when the rear trucks Jumped the track, throwing it sssinet tho two men, who were stand- ing beside their own car prepara to%sterting the day's run, , a RYE SIGNS “DRY” BILL. NASHVI Tenn, Feb, 3-—Gov. Rye has ed the “bone dry” bill, which puts an end to all shipments of liquor as beverage tnto the State after March 1, Between to-day and March 1 individuals may orler one gallon for personal or family use. i slightly | $9 factor in inf urge that ination in this State, na be abencones. DOES HAPPENS. (From the Pittburgh Pont.) Now and then a fellow without any Apparent efficiency seems to get the money. A FINE Deafness Treatment FREE har fore. is 1a! ewUae Ihave heen a0 id deca’ aving. desire to relieve human make youth's cured hundreds a: D fel nous ch ca 4 a0 Trade Builldiag. Boston. 300 DRIVEN OUT | $15,000 DANAE Frozen Hydrants Delay Fire- men as Downtown Blaze Threatens Tenements. A fire that did $150,000 damage and Grove about 300 persons into a near- zero temperature early to-day, got a good start because of frozen valves) jin the high pressure plugs. Three | ‘alarms were sounded, bringing Chief) Kenlon and twenty pieces of ap- paratus. The blaze atarted in @ five atory building running from Nos. 18-20 Oak Street to New Chambers Street and backing up against a seven story ten- ement at No. 56 Roosevelt Street. The butlding was occupied by G. H. Ken- nedy & Co, tron and steel; Knicker- bocker Press, lithographers; Camelot Press, lithographers, and Paul, Sie- vers & McKay, bookbinders. ‘The first firemen to arrive attached WOMEN THREATEN. HUNGER STRIKE Mrs, Margaret Sanger and Mises Mindell, convicted as of birth control information, are eun® there, They ere to be sentemned Monday. Miss Mindel! dect: unqualified she will strike. Mrs. Sanger, L 4 hesitating to commit herself, said she probably will also go hunger strike if sent to the house, She sald #he hoped the court would let her go on the payment of @ fine or suspend sentence until Gow, Inrestigats commission has time @g Avestigate and report. “it ij do go on a hunger etrike,” ead Mrs, or, “they'll Dring me acomn Mrs. Ethel Byrne, Mre. Sengere ter, who was released on Wed night from the workhouse by Gov. Whitman's pardon, is in her home at No. 246 West Fourteenth Street, at- tended by a trained nuraw and recetv~ ing visits from three pbysl four lines to a high pressure hydrant stem was frozen, and in twisting It free it was broken, and so put out| of commission. Another hydrant half) a block away was sought. Firemen) usually use steamers to thaw out frozen hydrants, but there are no |ateamers in the district and the men| /had to work with the valves some) |Ume before they were serviceable, | | The flames had spread rapidly/ [through the butiding from cellar to/ |roof. Embers were carried for blocks jon the high wind, and Chief Kenton | sent a special detail of firemen to! | roofs to extinguish the brands as they| el. i" The danger to adjacent dwellings! was so great police reserves from the Oak and Madison Street Station) in front of the building. Tho valve p Though the prison authorities 1 ehe bad left the workhouse better ically than when she had entered Mra. Sanger said her. sister would be lucky to live without pe ‘injury to her health. She had en her sense of taste, had not been able tc retain milk during the day and bad recelved only orange juice and water, Mrs. Sanger sald. When news of the convietion wes brought to Mrs. Byrne, sald, the invalid plead on a hunger atrike, sis just waiting for you o Mrs. Sanger's attorney to-day plied to Justiec Cropsey at a term of the Supreme Court in Brook. lyn for a writ of prohibition directed to the Justices of the Court of Special Sessions, Brooklyn, where Mra. er | will come up for sentence on Me |In her behalf it was argued that her Indictment by the Grand Jury ey seded the proceeding in 8} sions. Justice Cropsey sal do his best to decide the question Sue laent to order all the occupants Out yfonday Men, women and children hurried to the streets, many of them in their night clothes, The police allowed some to go back long enough to get | blankets and heavy clothing. Most of them then found refuge in homes of friends in the neighbor- hood and the others remained in the poll ations until the danger was | over, It was a stubborn fire beca! | of the inflammable contents of the) building and the strong wind, | Much of the tons of water poured into the building and on nearby atruc- tures froze on the walls and in the street, and an unusuel sight was a volunteer brigade of citizens collect ing and sprinkling ashes on the slip- | pery streets and sidewalks of the neighborhood. Firemen had to work during the later stages of the dlaze in great peril of life and limb because of the ice. Seven of Hook and Ladder'Com- pany No. % under Battalion Chief Rankin, were directin, stream from a narrow ledge at th) third floor when a tremendous back draught forced them to the window and to the fire-escape, where they collapsed. ‘The crew of Engine Company No, 29 went to the rescue, and on slippery ladders and fire-escapes assisted them to the street, where they were revived by Dr. Arche: | ——_——_ SPEEDING JUSTICE. A Pennsylvania jury, hung for eleven howrs, reached a verdict in ten minutes when the court | house caught fire. > -- BANKER WARNOCK DEAD. word Waal ental cateraay ix tes Jamaica Savings Bank of Jamaica, L. I, of the sudden death of Williem A.) ‘Warnock, its president, at New Smyrna, | Fla, on Thursday. It is believed he succumbed to heart failure. Mr. War- shortened his life. Hi etrained and bis heart the shock. Sa ne WHICH SHOW THAT ALREADY ‘ Is PLANNING FOR WORLD BUSINESS WHEN PEACE COMES Convincing pictures taken by an American photographer in Germany at various times in 1916, in the GRAVURE PICTURE SECTION THE SUNDAY WORLD TOMORROW It is within th Sessions Just Sanger for from ten days to one in prison and impose a fine of $50. 30..31,000 eel to $1,000, LIFT OUT. ANY CORN power of the Special to sentence Mra. No Humbug! Afew and corn lifts out fingers—No pain Tiny bottles of the new ether come pound called freezone can now Bee enythia,