The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1917, Page 5

eo 4 $60,390,000 SPENT BY CITY BUILDERS INHALE YEAR WORK War Slump Cuts Manhattan and Bronx Outlays—Home Suburbs Also Suffer. Builders are feeling the pinch of war. For the half year in the metropoll- tan district their projects have called for an outlay of $71,000,000 in com- parison with $119,655,000 during the . Corresponding period last year, In the greater city their work has tak- mn $60,590,000, the total for the 1916 first half having been $101,655,000. ‘This reaction ts runing through most of the large cities, reports to Bradstreet’s, the American Contrac- tor and Engineering News showing an average decrease of 30 per cent for the past two months and of 20 per cent, for the half year. The figures apply to general operations ot a private investment character, however, while bullding and engi- neering projects, as reported to F. ‘W. Dodge Company, covering public works, shipping and other enter- prises affected by time condi- tions, record @ heavy increase, the total throughout the country cross- ing $700,000,000, in comparison with | less than $500,000,000 for the 1916 period, $350,000,000 for the first balf| of 1915, $320,000,000 for the 1914 halt. In New York State and Northern | New Jersey the figures $160,000,000,, against $ each of the two prec first halves. REACTION CUTS MANHATTAN PROJECTS IN HALF. Higher costs of materials and labor with growing uncertainty in regard to the number and character of the men to be withdrawn from business by war requirements are cited as the chief causes of constructional re- action. Many forms of steel which aged well under $40 a ton before the war are quo’ now above $100. A rise of almost equal proportions | has been under way in cement, lum- ber, brick, glass, paint, paper and tically everything needed for e or business construction. ight embargoes, also, have har- builders many of whom have | ndoned their projects because could not rely on fulfilment of ders for supplies, Manhattan, operations have been | 4n half, outlays for new buildings | Bring the first half of the year be- | 21,600,000, In comparison with $43,- 00,000, for the 1916 period. These em- ced 196 projects, against 298 it r, Alterations have taken $6,7! 0 more, making the entire Manhat- outlay $28,200,000, The 1916 al- | tions called for $10,600,000. | Brooklyn has spent $15,500,000 on fons and $2,400,000 In al- A year ago the total was 100,000 on 1,670 projects, $3,200,000 F alterations. LEAST BY SLUMP. The Bronx has fallen off in equal ratio with Manhattan, its $5,400,000 for 340 projects comparing with $11,000,000 for 370 a year ago, Ina terations, $650,000 stands against $700,000. Queens, too, has been reactionary. Its total for the first half has been $6,600,000 on 1,910 unc year ago, there were 1 000. Alterations hav against $690,000 1 Richmond alot f A TREATMENT FOR NERVES Woman Tells How Lydia EL Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound Helped Her. “1 have had nervous trouble all my life until I took Lydia EB, Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound for nerves and for female troubles and it straightened me out in good shape 1 work nearly all the tin as we help, so it shows that T stand it real well. I took the Compound when my ten-year-old daughter came and it helped me a lot. I keep it in the house all the time and recommend raugh, West 3 ervousness, irritabil ity, backache, headache, dragging sensations, all point to female de rangements which may be overcome by Lydia E. Pinkh Vegetable Compound. This famous remedy ingredients of which are derived from choice roots and herbs, has for forty years proved to be a most valuable tonic and invigorator of the female organism.—Advt ' Don’t Neglect your stomach. Keep it strong and well, When food disa- grees withit, strengthen it with BEECHAM 'S PILLS Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World Geld everywhere. In boxes, 10¢.. 250, the medicinal — | son's appointees OUTLYING HOME SUBURBS HIT ee live on farm and I have four girls, Ido all my ewing and ether ¢ mn work with their CHICAGO IT HALL IWARON MAYOR Denounced for Pro-German-| ism—Police Guard His | School Appointees. | | CROWDSBESESE. CHICAGO, June 23.—The war on Mayor Thompson reached {ts most | critical stage to-day when the City Hall was practically in a state of slege. Crowds surrounded the bulld~ ing shouting: “Impeach the Mayor!” “Throw him out!" Scores of policemen guarded the| Tribune Building, where the School | Board offices are located. | ‘Tho attack on the Mayor ts based on his recent appointment of nine} members of the School Board, giving | him contfol of that body, but the real | reason for the hostility shown {s Mayor Thompson's pro-Germanisia, his refusal to afd the Liberty Loan | and his attitude toward inviting the) Joffre and Balfour commissions to | this clty. Thompson's school appointments were repudiated at a stormy seasion | of the City Council last night. The | Mayor fled after a wild scene of dis- order in which a book was thrown at him i Police detatls were at the City Hall and School Board offices to-day to| prevent the forcible ousting of Thomp- The Mayor faces two proceedings that may cost him his Job—impeach- ment or charges of malfeasance in office. A meeting of the Judiciary Com- mittee of the City Council to con- sider impeachment proceedings, asked in a resolution referred to the com- mittee at yesterday's council -nect ing, was called for Monday by Chalr- man Otto Kernor to-day. Porch Ph THEFTS FROM CAVALRYMEN. | the Moran, Member of First, Accased, Spencer Moran, nineteen-year-old son of the late David Moran of No. 134 Lin- coin Place, Brooklyn, was arraigned to- day !n the Flatbush Court on @ grand larceny charge and held for the Grand Jury. Detectives Downey and Asip arrested the youth in the er room of the First New York Ca , of which he is a member, and the dete confessed to a series of r the lockers, explaining that he did it because his’ social life was too expensive for his pocketbook. Col, Charles I, DeBevolse, commander iment, had recelved many of thefts, including seven gold watch several other articles of Jewelry and $500 in curreney Moran's father, & Wall Street broker, died a few days ago, Spencer comparing with $750,000 on 430 last year, Alterations have taken $190,- , the 1916 cost having been $115,000 Suburban work outside the city has called for $10,410,000, in comparison | With $12,000,000 for the 1916 first half. | Most of the money has gone into| dwellin though flat builders in the Jersey cities have been active, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk have taken nearly $3,000,000-—practl- cally the same as for the last three years, Builders of the better class of ellings have been particularly busy just beyond the city lines, tivity following the overflow of lies from congested central sections, where buy of dwellings by those who have profited from the recent wave of prosperity has been a prom! nent feature of the realty market. CLOSING QUOTATIONS. h met ct from proviows closing, w 1 Mine. & Foun At 18 a Girl Believes All Men, Are Ideal; at 25 a Woman | Hopes That One Is Not | Altogether Base; at 30 She| Knows That None Is Perfect. | England 4g 4 gt , IG THE AGE OF FAITH SHO “Thr ALL MEN THE SAME conceded the remarkabe mental activity of the adoles- cent girl, but they have led us to belleve that along about twenty-five some stultifying force clamps the Nd down on all save the exceptional female brain. from another angle, it 1s reassuring to be told with all the authority of THE EV | News That England Fixes Wom- an’s Voting Age at Thirty Cheering to Women Who Eye Askance New York’s Dedica-| tion to the Broiler Cult. es x x x By Nixola Greeley-Smith. 1s about to give the vote reached the age of thirty or gone beyond it. sensus of England’s wisdom that at thirty woman attains her maximum intelligence. The fact that men are permitted to vote at an earlier age is not without its sting, particularly when we con sider the scholarsh: leges as have walked away with all the class honors. H the British Parliament without coming under suspicion of mental senility. better all The ews from England should be, ENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE Faith, From 18 to 25 Hope, From 25 to 30 . Charity, From 30 On 2S- Te Age OF HOPS: SHG CeUevEs IN ONE 3o- THe AGE oF CHARITY- Sue KNOWS ALL MeN Ake “HE SAME | Ss or great-granam ‘They find happine as tho mothe have taken their diplon to women taxpay@rs who have So it appears to be the con rac great art of getting done with They have to do, and a b records of such co-educational col- not been abolished because the girls eretofore the most conservative biologists have The wedding of Mrs, Frances Sprague, daughter of Mrs, Lewis W. Whitlock, and John Watson Dixon will take place June 28 in the chan- So, viewer | UY of Ste Thomas's Churel Miss Saletta T, Miller, daughter of that one may be openly, publicly, Mr, and Mrs, Matthew Kane Miller of proudly thirty It has made me feel and a great Matthew Kane, a reC Mestual Kehievalner d last evening to Arthur Th particularly cheering to the women of | ‘Ween intellectual achievements | fled last evening to Arthur 7 mei eahirss ean oe and woman, Man's part in|‘ ; : ” dedicated Seen ne tranny, | te life of the race is so alight that) Under the patronage of promtnent a ult of ler! he was compelled to express himself} Nassau County and as a that it thinks women over twenty-|in other tlelds-—had to w Fe the ln one good for nothing but chicken) paint had to immortaliz n rge dance will be b 8 soup, and New York does not like/| with the chisel in order to ju | ning at the Garden City Hote soup very much, *% n | | 4 there have been| Miss Elste Man may have seven ages, as ind Mra, Benjamin N Shakespeare says. lieve, has only three—the age of from eighteen to twenty- five; the age of hope, from twen- | on th ty-five to thirty; the age of char- |“! ity, from thirty to the crematory. : At eighteen a girl believes that nif all men are ideal; at twenty-five or st faith, Woman, | be Fifty-fourth $' rried to John Sloa jay in the cha urch, Morristow st bring Me tp. sweetpeas | ( vious the own that t Another out-of-town will be M ny daug ked a co 2 lege as di ‘ . son of the R she hopes that one is not altor jt, vend our own superb qualiti noted of Pomfret gether base; at thirty she knows ( jyind and soul al the ages. Suc » ceremony will take place that none is perfect, but that she = women find their happiness in words 8 phen's Chureh, R % ad ihun ont nto | Which they can master, brushes whieh | Conn. the otficlating clergym ian't either, and ¢ ii oe at (they can control, chisel’ which they | the bridegroom's father, the the age of charity, the age at cay direct, without taki inves Lusk, rector of the church, and Bishop which wisdom begins. interference from and- Olmstead of Colorado, By forty a great many women have finished ut roma pre the serious pur They take urally a4 takg to 1 selves hhh earlier ye NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE High Ma Maisiet ‘chow to men wit © or powe "The “Mountain Freshness” orm as nat jade ther "SAT ADA" cnunyTLOon THA welcomes you from every sealed packet. one Yearly sales over 26 million packete—SALADA TEA CO., 100 Hudson St., New York. e thirty | Blot Out Disease. The very fact that Chlorinated Lime has been so effectively used in contagious epidemics on the recommendation of the U. S. Government and municipal health boards is one of the best reasons why you should use Acme<weLime as a disinfectant every day in your home. For disinfecting and destroying odors in garbage cans and kitchen sinks. Sprinkle freely. At all good grocers and drug- gists. Refuse substitutes, which may be s' B. HOF and worthless. 15e per can, DISINFECT NOW! erp eee rep: van 23, 1917. very ory he Pasa Sre Eleventh Half-Yearly SILK PACKET SALE Opens at WANAMAKER'’S, Monday, June 25 Twenty-five thousand packets of silks. One hundred thousand dollars represented—the packets marked to sell for $55,000. Nearly half prices. One hundred and seventy-five tables loaded down with good silks. Two hundred sales people at call to give you good service. Twenty men from some of the manufacturers of these silks have been loaned to us for the occasion, and will assist in the distribution. Seven selling locations in both buildings for convenience—upstairs, downstairs, and in the Silk Rotunda. Two hundred and twenty qualities of Silks made by America’s and Europe’s best silk makers. eventy-five kinds of silks—for morning, afternoon and evening. White silks, black silks, colored silks, satins, taffetas, tub silks, poplins, chiffons, shantungs, plaids, soiree, brocades, foulards, linings, silk mixtures, crepes Georgette, metal sil silks plain and fancy. Silks from mills, importers’ and our own stocks cut into dress lengths and shorter lengths, and for convenience sold by the packet. Some of the Prices 58e yard for $1 and $1.85 silks 75¢e yard for $1.45 silks 95¢ yard for $2 and $2.50 silks $1.05 yard for $1.50 and $1.85 silks $1.20 yard for $1.85, $2.25 and $2.50 silks $1.25 yard for $2, $2.25 and $2.50 silks $1.50 yard for $2.25, $2.50 and $3 silks $1.65 yard for $2.25, $2.50, $3 and $3.50 silks $1.85 yard for $2.85, $3, $3.50, $4.50 to $6.50 silks $1.95 yard for $4 silks $2.25 yard for $3, $4.50 and $4.85 silks $2.50 yard for $3.50, $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50 silks $2.85 yard for $4.50 and $5.50 silks. $3.85 yard for $15 and $25 silks. Grades of silks quoted above are based on the prices at which the same silks or same quality silks are selling today in our own regular stocks. For the information of old and new customers it is well to recall the reason for our Half-yearly Silk Packet Regardless of silk market conditions this sale is presented regularly in order to eliminate all odds and ends of silks and velvets which have heen accumulated in the interval. Manv years of packet sales have proved their worth as a Wanamaker institution for the customer's benefit. ® Broadway at Ninth Street, New York THE WORLD 1917 Summer Resorts nnual | | Price 5 Cents Just Out 64 Pages of Places to Go for Your Vacation For sale at all World Offices and your nearest Liggett-Riker-Hegeman Drug Store in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Jersey City and Newark. By Mail, 10 Cents. Address The World Summer Resorts Bureau