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a at tec ehidatasihch ia stdiminaeids: scienilies aia ~ MAYOR ANSWERS ATTACKS THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, WATER FRONT TAX. i 1917. ‘minal yard would have to be located -on Gowanus Bay, |MAYOR HIMSELF REVEALED ban PURCHA Proadway at Ninth __WANAMAKER’ CUT OFF BY FIRE, } FOUGHT 10 a Property Selected Before Hey Had Any Connection With ; Matter, He Declares. CITY NEEDS FACILITIES. If Railroads Don i Co-operate, Mitchel Wants Municipality to Run Project. To the Editor of the Evening World: IT assure you that I regard it not as an embarrassment, but as an oppor- tunity, to meet your request for an explanation of my connection with the South Brooklyn Marginal Railroad yard. I should like to have my whole ALL MEN AT HOME SHOULD PREPARE FOR WAR. The first test a man is put through for either war or life insurance is an examination of his water. most essential, because the kidneys play 4 most important part in causing premature old age and death, The more injurious the poisons passing through the kidneys the sooner comes decay—so says Dr. Pierce of Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., who further advises all people who are past thirty to preserve the vitality of the kidneys and free the blood from poisonous elements, such as urie acid—drink plenty of water—sweat some daily and take Anuric, double strength, be- fore meals, This An-u-ric is a late discovery of Dr. Pierce and is put up in tablet form, and can be obtained at almost any drug store. For that backache, lumbago, rheumatism, “rusty” joints, swollen or hands, due to uric acic in the blood, Anurie quickly dissolves the uric acid as hot water 6 Sugar Take little Anuric before meals and prolong your life, Send 10 cents to Dr. Pierce for trial package. 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For VICTORS PERFECT SERVICE CALL OR WRITE FOR DETAILS Phone Vanderbilt 3091 REROOMS Sth Ave. al 391th $1. ~ONMARGINAL SITE PURCHASE: ht mention also that o: eda condemnation pieneealag 1 | brought out through my corporation counsel the fact that Senator Reyn- oe “¥ Ph tg First Construction Co., companies, bought large 1 treet fof | ‘ahd in this vicinity in June, 1910, a year before the commission| made its report, I did not have the acquaintance of [tana te Reynolds when he bought the liana in 1910, I did not know Senator ' Reynolds when he obtained the option jon the Beard estate in 1911. On March 27, 1911, just seven days after the Barge Canal Terminal Commission filed its report with the Legislature, Mr. Calvin REDUCE AWARD career as President of the Board of Aldermen and as Mayor judged by my conduct in that matter. At the outset, I will point out that my chief connection has been throuxh! my Corporation Counsel, in defeating Mayor Gaynor, submitted a map plan| a bigh award for the property taken | jocating the terminal yard adjoining for this yard. the site of the barge canal terminal ‘This, I know, does not agree with |@lready selected by tho terminal sy | Commission. misrepresentations that have ber ‘This site, ectected and put en made, but I prefer to deal with incon- testable facts rather than unsupported statements, I speak from the record, with which no honest person can take issue. the map by Dock Commi Tomkins, included the site | acquired by the city. er selection, I wish to make it plain that if I had been in the Dock Commis- sioner’s place I should have selected the same site, because it was obvi- ously necessary that the city's site for this marginal railroad yard should adjoin the canal terminal. 1| jhad nothing to do with this site un- |til May 9, 1912, when Mayor Gaynor appointed me to a committee on port development, INSISTED ON PLAN THAT MEANT! MOST FOR CITY. My chief activity as a member o that committee in relation to this matter was to insist upon a plan that would insure the proper commercial to| development of the city without en- | tailing unnecessary expense. Dock Commissioner Tomkins‘s first plan had embraced an area of 2, It is regretable that in a plain state- ment of facts it should be necessary to give consideration to casertions directly contrary to facts, but I be- lieve a frank discussion of this mat- ter involves not only the truth which is of record, but the untruthful things that have been said. FOUGHT OWNERS’ VALUATION ON MARGINAL SITE. I shall deal first with the things that are not true. Certain unscrupu- lous persons with instinctive hatred of the truth have tried create that Senator William H. Reynolds and I conspired | together to unload on the city cer- an the impress! ai | square feet, tain property to be used as a mar-| requiring 5,807,200 square feet. Our , ‘i ; committee finally succeeded in reduc- a inenlbnetae nein ing the area to 1,792,000 square feet, My answer to that ts greatly reducing the expense. FIRS T=! had net th After our committee had worked ightest until several months after the site had been selected. THIRD—After the site had been | selected and condemnation pro- most vigorous opposition to the of value set up by the own cluding Senator Reynolds, My Cor- poration Counsel has objected to the feagarny yA fe ceedings 6 1 opposed as | preliminary award, and I am ready Bae eee ay Dr iicrsata Auune vigorously as possible, through | to take whatever steps may be neces lets for lame hack and weak kidneys| ™Y, Cerporation Counsel, the | sary to protect the city’s interests and was much benefited, My back| ¢laims of value set up by the |and Insure that the final award be commenced to get better soon after] owners, It hae been a vigor- | fair and proper starting to the Tablets, Ido not| ously contested proceeding from My only disappointment in this mat- the frst. ter is that the ratiroad corporations hefore Uikine ent Ante ‘i is ue Ono of the best-known public read-| have refused to co-operate with the kaa ie, intended, tor taken for era of this city has read a statement |City of New York in the operation of DRAKE, Route 1, Tox 76 ‘ to the effect that Senator Reynolds! the Brooklyn Marginal Katlroad, #0 ke made nearly a million dollars profit out that this highly necessary facility ITHACA, N.Y. -“'This is to certify | of this transaction could be put to use at this time, when that I have used Dr. Pier Anuric) REYNOLDS HASN'T RECEIVED Ait would have such an tmportant et- Tablets and have not only been he | CENT. fect in the reduction of the prices of hut entirely cured of iy trouble, and} phat statement doesn't deserve 4n food and all other supplies and ma pitenl st PARE a SOP *lanswer, but I Will simply state that | terials, and would enable the Federal Phacehulby, keconitr Ahue Senator Reynolds has never received | Government to mect moro easily tue one who is troubled with ¢ a single cent for hia property. No final! great problem of supplying our armics urle acid in the system 3,| award has yet been made by the Con- | abroad BROWN, 207 Linden Av demnation Commission If a satisfactory contract for the I notice this same public reader | private operation of the Brooklyn Mar- later reduced Senator Reynolds's | ginal road cannot be made in the im- profit to about $500,000, but, except in| mediate future, I favor its construc- tion and municipal operation without further delay | fHrther TGHN PURROY MITCHEL. amount that statement was | untrue as the first. Just us Tho importance of developing tho | —_-_—_--— port and terminal facilities of NeW) qo Care for Negroes Fighting York 1s so well recognized that I will | for United States. not waste space in showing the neces-| ,ayRANY, Nov. 3.-Gov. Whitman |is named as a direct of Negro War R here to-day with bh ; Yor City. The Circie This was! tno welfare of the later increased to $127,000,000. Barge! sailors in the canals would be useless without ter- | States and to give minals, so in 1909, as the result of | pendents. legislation, the Governor appointed a Barge Canal Terminal Commission to plan and provide terminal faclli- ties, so that the State's great invest- ment could be used to the best ad- vantage. The Commission sought to provide not merely terminals, but planned to make the terminal facilities fit into | the logical development of commerce | in all the cities affected, BARGE CANAL COMMISSION SE- LECTED THE TRACT. | The Barge Canal Terminal Commia- sity for this terminal yard. Seven years before I was elected to the Board of Estimate the people of this State voted to appropriate $1i,- 000,000 for barge canals or of the Circle incorporated adquarters in New is to promote aid to their de- POLITICAL. believe that Wr twenty. | Tomkins, Dock Commissioner under | ¢) sessment ts only $560,000." 852,000 | t Later he devised a plan} connection with the marginal | out a plan that was favorable to the railroad yard until after the site | city's interest, condemnation proceed- is Ne dy bi selected. |ings were directed. They have been IND—I did not even know | under way since Oct. 9 1 Senator William H. Reynolds | As already stated, I have made the) HE WOMEN’S REASONS the women of New York State which were valid two INCREASE ROUSES ——STATEN| ISLAND ‘SAVED’ ON LADDER | Borough Chis tt Injustice dived Slightly Hur Hurt and One | $9,000,000 Raise in Assess- | Woman Taken to Hospital ment Values. Severely Burned. Nine families were rescued trom a! | burning apartment houso at No. &1 West ist Street this morning when a blaze in the basement swept up through the centre of the buildin cutting off stairways. Staten Island Is fighting alleged dis- crimination in the increasing of as. sessments there thirteen times as much as in Manhattan, At @ hear- ing at the Borough Hail before Tax | Commissioner Shipley it was shown | with that of the $9,000,000 increase $5,000,000] Mrs. Annie Lent was cut \ has been put on the waterfront, near-| broken giass and so badly burned | ly all on the east shore. For three | that she was taken to the Knicker- | hours Thomas Williams, A. B. Pouch |and George J, Brown showed to Mr. | Shipley the injustice of specified in- | creases in ments and inequall-/| ties in values fixed. bocker Hospital | fered tacerations. Tho narrowest escape was that of Mins Lena Rivers, seventy-five years old, who was on the fifth floor, next Several others suf- While I had nothing to do with this, Y | At the end of the hearing William |to the roof. Detective Cannon saw Wirt Mills, for the Civic League, | her hesitating at a window, He ran asked Commissioner Shipley if he|upstairs in the building next door, Would like to hear of an industrial | crossed roofs, went down through the | | Plant on Staten Island assessed at! scuttle of the burning building and ess than 20 per cent. of its adver-| carried the aged woman back tho tised investment. Mr. Ship tnk-| way he tad come. She is suffering ing pad and pencil, | the data. “The garbage plant | assessed eagerly asked for | from shock. The cause of the fire was not learned, | but it started In the back basement, is the under. said Mr. Mills. property,” and in « few minutes the halls were “Mr, Greve, advertising for help @/ full of smoke, Excited tenants open few weeks ago, sald $3,000,000 had | thelr doors, looked down ¢ thi been put into the plant, but the as-|Tushed back into their apartments, red windows and called “I will see that is corrected," said whole building a veritable ipley.”* chimney, giving a draft that pulled “We are in a difficult position.” | the fire rapidly upstairs, | added Mr. Mills. “For the first time | Patrolman Conway gave tho first history of the Greater City, |2/@'m and tried to get into the bulid- ond Borough has no represen. |!%- He was forced the in | tative on the Tax Board. Moreover, | Bet stairway, but £ tside he for the first time in the history of | climbed a corn| pacers, reater City, this borough has | Which does not reach the ground. He) ident deputy in charge of the | ¥@#, busy calming the women anit |local tax office, the place being filed | Children there when the first fire-fight by a Brooklyn man.” Ing apparatus came, in charge of Hat-| | “You know this is a big city and | ‘lon Chief Ricketts, who turned in every locality can't have represenca- | second alarm | tion’ on every bourd,” said Mr, | 4 ladder was thrown up from the | Shipley. ground, connecting with the fire esea “But the Tax Board was increased oe eee tenants were | from five to seven members by the, helped do | Legislature on the plea that 1¢ was | .,John Milberg, of No. 14 West 10tst necessary to give each borough rep- | Street, volunteered assistance | resentation,” replied Mr, Mills, “and | Work. He found Mrs, Eliza M | the understanding on which that leg- | almost bling lood from ct was secured has been vio- | avout her and he helped her to se of Richmond." the ground. Her wounds were not seri lect this administra. 0U% Three firemen suffered cuts about ton, Shiple hd find ime the hands. ‘The damage was estimat-d | ja ni 6 on Don Als, Twill | at $9,000, | con r here and b of you." <a ne ow ol won't bring along your ideas of water will leave then in Brooklyn SLUR AT U. S. JAILS WOMAN. | Three Mont Sentence for Calling Mr, Bills, SS Officer “Spy Seeker. | FP. A. Scott Sertously m1, | Magistrate Gobb in Jefferson Market | CLEVELAND, Nov. 3.—Frank Court to-day committed Margaret King. | Scott, who last week resigned forty-f soll, of Kast (lat Street | Chairman of the United States War [to the House of Shepherd for th Industries Hoard, is so seriously i months on & chars ly con that his physician has ordered him to R. Tarkington of the United; tlt indefinite Navy paid that on Thursday nt t FSiionl beaame ten to-day, nockers.” lowing Mr. Scott's arrival from Wash- tobb declared that in ington last night. Ho waa confined yal strona Jt wan fitting lio his bed at his home to-day, suffers t 1 respect be ay men in the | |ing from nervous prostration, un of the a avy | From Sunny Ceylon is unique in delicious flavor YOURGROCERHASIT, 10%, 18° &35¢ SEALED PACKETS ONLY POLITICAL. POLITICA the reasons for withholding suffrage from after two years of work, ae-| evied the proverty known as the years ago still hoid good. Beard Estate on Gowanus Bay and recommended that the northerly por- | ion of the property be not taken wu with plers or slips, but he retained | for storehouses and a classification | yard. The Commission stated: “Any terminal developmnt made in Gowanus Bay by the State should be so planned as to conform so far as may be possible with the proposed improvement by the city of this por- tion of its waterfront. ‘The advantage of making such improvements under a general comprehensive plan is ob- vious, when necessary rail connec- tions, classification yards and other incidental dovelopments aro consid- ered." | BECAUSE more than half the women of this State do not want the vote, want political power in conflict with men. They do not To impose the vote would be a gross injustice to the majority. BECAUSE the adoption of woman suffrage will add nearly three millions to the electorate of New York and the addition of so many voters, unused to judge of those problems on which they must vote, will produce inefficiency in government. BECAUSE woman suffrage where adopted electors; always BECAUSE the State of New York does not want women politicians and agitators any more than it wants the militant feminist or picket BECAUSE the world war has shown that a Democracy must be strong to be safe. suffrage leaders are pacifists. now working to weaken our government, Haci fist, Socialist, Feminist, favors woman suffrage. Woman suffrage will weaken the goverament Popular indifference is responsible for the adoption of woman suffrage, it has never been carried by a majority of the voters failed to vote, Many Every element Except in Utah by a minority, because many Suffragists hope that in That report of the commission was submitted publicly to the State Leg- islature on March 1, 1911 That date should be remembered, | because the well-known public reader before mentioned has been wonder- ing who it was that gave Senator Reynolds the tip to get an option on tLe Beard property The Senator, according to printed Accounts, got the option on March 17, Just 17 days after the legislature had publicly received the report of the terminal commission and after every- children, has neither improved government, purified poli- tics, nor given better protection to women and Every Vote Counts. Women’s Anti-Suffrage Association 280 Madison Avenue, this hour of trial, when patriotic men and wo men are concerned with the war, the men of New York will neglect to vote and woman suf frage will win by default, Vote NO on Woman Suffrage New York City body in the State knew that the ter- NNEFANES ARE | | | | | | We are Trying to Put Check Reins on the Wild Horses of speculators and certain makers of Dry Wearing Apparel and House Furnishings, w steadily ridden rough shod over the public for three years and more, raising prices higher and higher. It is, however, fair to say that ecarcities of raw materials, high wages and the demancs of the Govern ment to clothe and feed millions of men have something to do with the advanced prives. But there is a limit to everything and we believed this to be a good time to stop the further soaring of prices. Therefore, in conformity with the action of the President of the United States, we resolved to take a hand at lowering prices by placing on sale in the last two weeks two millions of dollars of our own merchandise, expressly collected for our usual winter business and put on sale In New York, last week and this week. .$1,000,000 In Philadelphia ‘ . $1,000,000 making | $2,000,000 all fresh goods, staple and fashionawle, not provided for, other than our regular wants and without expec- tation of any special sale. This is to announce that ods, Another Milli Will Begin Mon ' It Was a Serious Undertaking to cut off usual profits which we were sure to have in the regular cou of the season and Launch a Sale in Our Busiest Months unprecedented in the size and general assortment and unmatchable, except by surrendering at least halt of the usual profit din some cases nearly all that so along fairly with new, worthy and warranted mere We are stubbornly determined to use al! the means at our command To Hold Prices Down and shall see through the policy we have adopted to protect our patrons from paying too much, whether the war goes on or stops suddenly, as / we hope it will honorably and to the praise of the American Flag. ion Dollar Sale day Morning Next at 9 a. m,, selected from several of our best and most d November 3, 1917. desirable stocks, (Signed) Pa from At Prices So Very L 3,282 Pairs of BLANKETS ow That They Made a Blanket Manufacturer Stand Aghast called him in to get market facts. Then we told him what we were going to do on Monday. HE IMMEDIATELY OFFERED TO BUY THE T AT OUR MONDAY RETAIL PRICES. He said we could get from jobbers 10 per cent. more than our Monday's retail prices, for the jobbers, he said, would re-sell at a profit to retail- ers, and retailers could add their own profi market limit. “It 1 didn’t have a great respect tor you" sald the blanket manutacturor—"! would say you were crazy to throw away 89 much real money, Nobody else woul.” He didn't know—being only one of the seve manufacturers who sell to us—that we had forese today’s rising costs, delayed deliveries, ete. bought ahead, and received, three times our normal requirements, So that today, when mills and stores are parceling out blankets in. si like sugar we can offer 3,202 below what WE would have to pay for equal grad: nd then wait until after Xmas to get the It is a BIG occasion in blanket history mental attention. an occasion unprecedented quite beyond the grasp of casual “Other stores will buy them,” said the blanket manufacturer, ‘e shall limit quantities to each purchaser,” we replied. “They'll send their employes out by the hun- dred to buy,” said the blanket man “That, of course, is something we cannot pre- vent,” we said. “But we hope the people will get (he ble hete, for the lowering of our prices ix in their interest alone.” As ample of the values of all the blankets in the sale, kindly note these comparative prices of one grauie 7 , weight 5 Iby., ali wool, Today's price uptown 215.00 Today's, Wanamaker price 12.50 Monday's price (here) 25 THEN We were advised yesterday that there is to be a please note 500 Men’s $30 Overcoats Half and full-silk-lined Oxford Chesterfiel N 627 Suits, $25 to $35 ere D Fancy mixtures, several 646 Suits and Overcouts Y In the Lower-Price Store TT: Is in value prices down at the polls or on the aside Mon 0 6% It is a remarkable demonstration of doing the seemingly impossible OUK tl in The » ———oh Phy, faaa’y sre fhe values are t—and still the blankets would be within the further month, advance on mill prices of blankets next . * What are YOU going to do in the face of these facts? | * * \e | _ Tho sale of the 9,282 pairs of blankets opens, none reserved, at 9 o'clock on Monday morning. We shall | have the assistance of extra salesmen so that custom- ers may be promptly and intelligently served. We reserve right to limit quantities to each purchaser, | Third Gallery, New Building | Grade oes 34 5 and $5.50 $6.75 to $7.50 | +o... $8 and $8.50 $9.50 to $10.50 $11.50 to $14 . $15 and $16.50 Pair price 1,070 8) 50 ry ry: Th—-In the S107 and White blank Vr pupa ares s; gray blankets. jaid blankets; fancy blankets. Mostly double bed size, A fow heavy single blankets. | Some wool and cotton filling. Only two qualities all cotton, Maiy all-wool filling. | Some every thread wool, Mohair, silk, satin, cotton bindings. Third Gallery, New Building ides modcls Broadway, corner Eighth Street rv of men's clothing, made more attractive ML of our war-time determination to put orning because men will be busy—~ are few things a man ean not afford to set the capacity of the Wanamaker Store for splendid,