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—— Armstrong, $40 West Fifty-first Street, was killed fast night by an automobile owned by the Town Tax! Company and driven by Louls Propper of No. 226 Second Ave- nue. He was crossing Park Avenue at Forty-sixth Street when the machine struck him. Propper was arrested on a technical charge of homicide ‘and pa- roled tp the custody of the Coror IF BACK HURTS USE SALTS FOR KIDNEYS Eat less meat if Kid: fi like lead or Bladder hs bothers. REMOVAL REDUCES cept Queens Below Last Year’s Figures, Tax-payers in all city boroughs except Queens will pay less taxes during the year 1917 than they did for the year 1916, according to the new tax rates passed upon by the Board of Aldermen to-day. The new tax rates by boroughs, Most folks forget that the kidneys, lke the bowels, eet sluggish ond clogged and need a flushing occa- sionally, else we have backache and dull misery in the kidney region, se- vere headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach, sleepless- ness and all sorts of bladder disor- ders. You simply must keep your kid- neys active and clean, and the mo- nd C *" 212 ment you feel an ache or pin in the | ehmond County Le kidney region, get about four ounces| , It $8 explained by tho of Jad Sults’ from any yood drug| Committee of the Aldermen, store here, take a tablespoonful in a| 24% carefully gone over the Nass of water before breakfast for a . lew days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with lithia, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activ ity. It also neutralizes the acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent lithin- water drink which everybody should | take now and then to keep (heir kidneys clean, thus avoiding serious complications | A well-known local druggist says | he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney} trouble while it is only trouble Advt. showing the decreaso in 1917, are: 1917. 202 1916. New York County 204 Bronx County Kings County . Queens County Finanoe which figures with the | Tax Depa | uations hi same in the five boroughs so far as the small taxpayer Is concerned. The aggregate amount of the 1917 budget is $211,114,196.82, which in- cludes county charges aggregating $14,817, Th shows that $203,- $19 is the amount of the budget ting the general tax rate of the city. it was admitted by a Tax Depart- ment official to-day that the principal reason for the de in four of th in the t five boroughs the city will not The same official admitted that the sist of a round num . $1, salary. in) Fire and other dap: ot the Outside budget for 1917 4 city budget te less than 1916 by $1,841,161, ‘The assessed valuations nereased $89,000,000, This amount h been apportioned in such a4 manner among large properties that the smal owner as a class will not valuations Increased, city ave been ing and wheezing to bottle of the remedy tha tood the test of SO years. At all dray giste—25<. FREE TEST Write to A.C. Meyer a Mention Paps B. Altman & Co. An Important Special Sale of Boys’ Spring Clothing be an event of timely interest for orrow and Saturday in the Department oor. will This Sale will afford an unusual opportunity for obtaining essential items of the boy’s outfit for the ensuing season at prices that are far below the values represented in style, material and wo i BO’ Of gray or brown r * SUITS (sizes 8 to 18 years) «tures . . $8.50 Of fine qu espun, in gray, green. ‘ crown or $11.50 (Every Suit in supplied with an extra pair of knickerbockers) Sale is mS AND TOP COATS JUNIOR BOYS’ REE (sizes 214 to 8 years) in new Spring styles, featuring smart mix- tures. . . . . ‘ - $8.50 S (sizes 7 to 14 years) of fire-< y f c in a variety of pleasing colored-stripe effects; with at ed collar, aR ane eae tae ae a ee ie aa Pees VOLITHS’ BOYS’ A IRTS (meckband, 12 to 14 ins.) presenting new, smart striped patterns 95c. ND BOYS’ PAJAMAS (sizes 4 to 16 yeara of attractive coloredestripe madras . 85c. BOYS’ AND YOUTHS’ SILK SCARFS (four-inehand) !n a variety of matty designs, 55c, at . . . ’ ’ . . Fitth Avenue-Madtaon Aurme, 34th and 35th Ptrerts New Qork ‘DIRECT STATE TAX TRAFFIC TUNNEL CUNARD COMPANY UNDER HUDSON GIY'S 1317 RATES — URGED BY EDGE BUILT IN AMERICA’. Leviés for Alt Boroughs Ex-,New Jersey Governor Wants Contracts Fi His State and New York | to Co-Operate. | Gov. Edge, of New Jersey, at tho Chamber of Commerce meeting to- day asked for co-operation between New York and New In the bullding of a traMe tunnel under Hudson River, declaring both 8 ‘must feel the benefit of sive step which would bet munication and improve tion facilities | “State lines should be oblite sald Gov. Edge, “when t for the good of the count | “When the project of a nel under the Hudson wa posed the enthusiasm cates was 4. assertions th k City would never co-operate in an improve calculated to divert Jersey ran its population and its business interests. Tam hap py to say that w York City as sumed no su narrow-minded and; that o} a few weeks ago ov, Whitman inspired official action this project, and that with continued co-operation of New Y with the of New Jersey and on northern Counties this great industrial dertaking and shed fact wi few years 1 s will no from New York tc from New J In conclus “LT beliey should be States, e in the plan for lightening the bur ew Y harbor and for ar riving at some conclusion as to what » be and as to what will as well as the un by ninal ¢ xpe their Individu at New York @ joint commission comp perienced and high composed of represe carriers, both land 4 the State, would serve a national purpo! Mt work out this lem alone, Neither can New Jorsey.” | | LABOR MEN ARE ENLISTING. | of the Ecce al No. ore Lieut nH, Barnard of the al Keser ree he union to-day and ex heir desire to en either in k Breaks janking at BR h The Subway | Traffic on the 1 cond Street J crosstown Jine and the Seventh Ave |nue surface line was tied up for an jhour this afternoon when a heavy steel auto truck loaded with tons of ston ubway ttlon broke throug Jat k tr | Matte Tells Fat People Perverted Craving For Wrong Foods Must Be Over- com Says Arbolone Tablets Does This and Reduces Weight, Too, The person who is too fat is told to | diet and the very things that a per- verted appetite craves are the ones | “you must not eat.” Obesity un- natural, It is like an endless chain Eating wrong foods in the wrong way produces @ perverted appetite, ‘Tien the appetite demands and craves the wiong foods and converts them into needless, embarrassing fat, ‘I | Arbolone stops the perverted « | for the wrong foods, gives a normal | appetite, eliminates the fat-forming | elements through kidneys and howels, dissolves th ft back thr causing improve One or two tubes w fat person that Arbol ing need to ice safel fully. Sold by thirty tho gists in sealed tubes with full direce | Hons.—Advt, country fi * British company in more than fifty | Preparation of a| i Y% know the real human doctors right around in your neighborhood : | to tell you the | Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of Cnplliiea | THE KVeNING WURKRLD, THURSDAY, MAKUH 1, LYds, | r t ep t th otos Club Five-Story Fall K « enter, |at No, 850 Riverside Drive. He a recont epee at the Totes cin, CTEAMCHID A A. RAVEN . aoneeventan of No t8 Hast [Carrying a beara across (he acai cave warning that our pr t activ ee ' Max Kroll, a carpenter No. 68 East! Wich began to sway and threw him off in ship & are being devot Ninety-ninth # we ly killed | Henry Buschsbaum of No. 23 Staunton vie’ moat sets FROM NEW YORK, AGROUND wate | RIRSE Fonkerhe whe hocteakh, GeO 1 be our rivals after u ! iuction | rested, techically charged with hi —— SMUGGLED PEARLS IN SALE. HAVING 20 SHIPS Pate Up RISS89 Jewels Brought Here tn 114, ry dealers from the Ma district gathered to-day at the office United States Marshal Thomas D. Me jugmled pearls which nd ordered sol pearls are val t Carthy, where 201 have been condemne are on exhibition, ‘T by the customs suthoritte in we the duty, which « t Let to U. S. Yards by British in Over Fifty Years. jewels, which were the prope wl ‘Twenty ships are being built in this th ‘unard Ste it was learned to-day nouncement came from ¥ that the Sun Shipbuilding Ce mship Co fal an adelphia ter, Pa, has made a contract to build two standard 10,000-ton cargo steam ships of steel for the Cunard C This Was said to be the first Amer! upbuilding contract mac for 13-YEAR-OLD BLAGKHANDER CAME TO GRIEF IN SCHOOL n Teacher Failed to Tremble at Threats Left on Desk, and Amateur Goes to Court. years, Resident Cunard line snnouncement, Director Sparks of the refused to discuss the aying th Je a rule n Michael Adone, Street thirteen, of No. & his com Kent the | Chik era charge pany has m was taken to informatt « Court th of hi iB sent hand letter to Miss 1 as to its affairs for th but inquiry amo’ nen brought out the fact that twe cargo ships are being built for it bh Dolan, a teacher In Primary Sch They range in size from 7,500 tons to) No. 106, Lafayette Street noar Spring 10,000 tons capacity, and they are to The teac found on her desk last be finished at various dates in 1918. Friday a letter plentifully adorned Six ships have been ordered from! With drawings of black hands and the Seattle Construction and Drydock s daggers and rigned “Mano Company of Seattle, Wash, They will be of 7,500 tons h, of standard ired of the way you treat steel construction and will be de- "said the writer, “I am going livered to Cunard Company to take the matter to the Bound of tween April and Septe r, 1918. Glarlaned ts for twelve other ships have been divided among the Fore River Yards, Harlan & Hollingsworth of wil and the Bethlehem Steel building » Md Cunard Company has had to Company of n to the United States for It v ¢ ips because the British yards a “i nd > turn out any work now! “Tf was in her class four ye ax t be until the w wer. | Sho treated me roughly one day and rh hort of men, trying ever since to find M. Schwab, President of get even, 1 thought thiehem Ste rporation A Message to Mothers the doctors made of flesh and blood just like you: the doctors with | souls and hearts : those men who are responding to your call in the dead of night as readily as in the broad daylight; they are ready | ‘ood that Fletcher's Castoria has done, is doing and | will do, from their experience and their love for children. Fletcher's Castoria is nothing new. try an experiment. of buying Fletcher's, Your physician will tell you this, as he knows there are a num- ber of imitations on the market, and he is particularly interested in the welfare of your baby. We are not asking you to We just want to impress upon you the importance | Oo) AAA IN NN EEN, I, RK Morytiles Meractions Are IOC. Service |Ea Herald Square, B'way, 34th to 35th St Bills! Bills! Bills! HE first day of the month and the mail discloses the usual number of unpaid bills. “Monthly statements’ of charged purchases, goods bought, used, now old, but not paid for. With what distaste the enve lopes are opened and the bills scanned, and with what re- luctance you get out your check book! How different at AMacys ! To-day, every one of our D. A. customers re ceived a statement showing how much money is due him. No polite request to remit, for our D. A. customers owe us nothing. D. A. customers know that they bought and paid for, and now own, their goods, at prices MINUS ALL THE INCIDENTAL EX PENSES NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN A CREDIT DEPARTMENT The D. A. Department accepts your money, asks your signature, gives you a number and awaits the opportunity to serve you. NO REFERENCES ARE ASKED OR REQUIRED. Start a D. A, to-day and next month you will have the comfortable feeling that not only has everything you bought been paid for but that your purchases were made at “Lowest-in-the-City” prices Your money earns interest in the D. A. BETS Main Fioor Matcony, Bath se ve Captain Wires Vessel Is Fast Sout! “of Cape Henry—No Fears for Crew. teamship A. A Raver nM " « ‘RUNDOWN AFTER SICKNESS «ram sent to-day by her akip- T.C. Hocker, to James Ww. | Wonderful Elwell & Co. of No. he whers. She wa to the Munson 1 per, Capt New Health and Vitality Found in Malt Tonic. Mining oM under Aigeation and the etate of my coved wonderfully. " indeed remarkat There was a twenty-leh: t msteteaee men aboard the Raven wh 1 it to uy ‘one Ba but Cap mention of then snowstorm drove telex Hecker m It is not beileved any danger, « be two life savin Island ‘The Raven was 1912 by the Groat Works. built at Detrot ikew Engl ALL CARS TRANSFER TO Come Today or Tomorrow and Secure A Complete Outfit As Illustrated Above, Consisting of a High Grade, Metal Tubing, 88-Note — Jew Player Piano Magnificent| A Handsome | 12 Rolls of Music Roll |Scarf or Cover| Music, Your Cabinet and Bench Selection Including Free Delivery to Your Home fours) 50 On Terms of §2 a Week Taking into consideration the tremendous increase in the cost of all materials entering into the construction of Player Pianos, you will wonder and naturally will ask, How it is possible for Bloomingdales’ to make such an unusual offer at this time? These Are the Facts: We purchased large quantities of materials before the increase in prices.—We are the manufacturers of every Piano and Player Piano we sell.—We pay no commission to teac!.ers or agents. We sell direct from our factory to you. Compare this wonderful new Player Piano with in- struments offered at $150 more than the price we quote, and you will agree with us that this is the greatest Player Piano Offer ever presented by any house. IMPORTANT! There are only a limited number of these Player Outfits available at $350. ACT NOW. IF YOU CANNOT APPLY PERSONALLY, MAIL COUPON SS Player Piano Offer NAME oeeee eee EEEE TOOT OOTOS STIS LOT BLOOMINGDALES' | 69th St. & 3d Av., N.Y. Gentlemen ADDRESS vee (EW. f)