The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1919, Page 1

Conrright, 1919, by (The New Tort Wertdhe ~ night and Wednesday. . WEATHER—Fair; esol to- The | HOBOKEN MAYOR AND JUDGE IN CLASH FIVE-CENT FARE 10 CONEY \ t | Reduction Called for When) Culver Line Reached Ave- | nue X Last Sunday. | CONTRACT IS CITED.| | Service Board Opinion Shows Agreement Is Violated by Ten-Cent Charge. © The Evening World presents here- with evidence in the shape of a ruling of ‘thé Public Service Commission establishing that the B. R. T. in charging @ ten-cent fare to Coney Island ‘under the pretense that the Culver Line is not completed through from the Municipal Building to Surf i Avenve, is violating its contract with the ely. J ‘The evidence is in the shape of a| letter signed by James B. Walker, | q Secretary of the old Public Service Commission, and it is dated April 10, 1918. Readers are requested to bear this date in mind when comparing this letter with another statement made by Mr. Walker yesterday.” Here is the letter, addressed to John H. Ewald, Secretary of the Kensington and Parkville Improvement League: “Dear Sir: Referring again to your communication of March 27, | 1916, requesting a definition of a certain portion of that part of Article 62 of Contract No, 4, be- ginning with the following: “‘Unth the time when trains may be operated for continuous trips wholly over connected por- tions of the railroad (including both the Culver Line and Subdi- vision VIIL of the Broadway- t Fourth Avenue Line) from the Municipal Building, in the Bor- ough of Manhattan, to the points at or near Coney Island, at which the construction of the railroad shall be suspended as provided in Article VIL’ ‘desire to inform you that counsel has advised the Commis- sion that this provision means that until the Pourth Avenue sub- way, including the New Utrecht OPERATIVE NOW ON B.R.T, P. §. C. RULING INDICATES WOMEN’S TIGHT SKIRTS LEAD YOUNGSTOWN, 0., TO LOWER GAR STEPS Councilman Who Suggests Resolu- tion for Changing Styles Is Outvoted. one Councilman suggested that a, resolution be passed to change the prevailing styles in women's skirts, the City Council has fin- ally decided,to,change the height of steps on the city’ operated street cars to make travelling easier for wearers of tight skirts. BORN DURING CIVIL WAR, MEETS FATHER FIRST TIME Kentuckian Finds Parent, Now 86 Years Old, in Ohio Town, BELLEFONTAINE, ©, May 18.— William Howard Hamilton of Eagle Station, Ky., born during the Civil War after bis father had gone into service, met his parent for the first time to-day when he found Jeremiay Hamilton, aged eighty-six, at Westmansfield, near here. NEW PLA Natio YER LIMIT SET. League Goes Back to 25 Basis for Each \¢ At a meeting of the National Base- ball League to-day the following reso- lution was unanimously adopted in which the player limit !s raised to twenty- five for each team: [Resolved that in view of the present unsatisfactory con- dition prevailing with the minor leagues and the difficulty of placing players out on optional agreements, the National League favors returning to the twenty- five player limit as provided by the National agreement. i MORGAN GETS YACHT BACK. WASHINGTON, May 13.—J. P. Mor- gan’s private yacht, the Corsair, which was loaned to the Navy for-the war period, is returning from Burope and will be turned over to Mr.»Morgan upon ite arrival in the United States, the Navy Department announced to-day. (Continued on Second Page.) Lieut. Commander P. their of bein to seceive Exclusively Flight, now on the E The first of th Side is to Cable Th this Awe: Inspiring and Thrilli If Two or all Three Avi gether, the Story of each Fl Station. Two of these United Sta’ at Trepassey Bay, Momentous Flight. Watch THE WORLD for is Successful, will be the M Tray on Land or Water o he, . IMPORTANT AVIATION ANNOUNCEMENT THE NEW YORK WORLD has arranged with Commander John H. Towers, Lieut. Commander A. C. Read are in command of the three planes. Daring Aviators to reach the Other New York World a Complete Story of World; otherwise, one by one as they arrive or reach a Newfoundland, The Corsair has been on duty in the war zone nearly two years, . N. L. Bellinger and Stories of the Transatlantic Attempted, These three men ing Trip. ators safely reach Europe to- yer will be told throagh The sea Planes are now to begin this tes: Naval ready this Story, whic ost Wonderful rein the Air. a Ae. if the Flight _| “Cirenlation Books Open to All.’’ a s Seen 22 PAGES ENTS. 8 PRICE TWO © COUNTER CHARGES FLY FAST IN HOT HOBOKEN ELECTION Mayor Files Complaint Against Judge After 100 Men Seized Are Freed and Rearrested. The excitement of a Hoboken Flec- tion Day marked by one sensation after another reached its apex this afternoon when Mayor Patrick R. Griffin, candidate for re-election, swore out complaints against Judge Richard Doherty, of- the Circuit Court at Jersey .City, and others, charging conspiracy to bring 120 .nen to Hoboken from Newark, Passaic and other places for the purpose of iligwal voting. The complaint grows out of the Mapentedeteeni@n-upon a conference at Turn Hall early in the day to Young sti p from the Lacka- wanna Railroad Station, Judce Doherty was paid to be one of the conferees, suspicious characters, dered their release, Griffin had thom rearrested. Doherty notified a police captain that the Mayor was to be considered under arrest in City Hall. Many of the 120 visitors are said to have sworn to affidavits telling the dllewfed story of their visit to Hoboken. What purports to be copies of two alleged aMdavits were made public by the Mayor, Jack Goldberg, sald to be of No. 104 Washington Avenue, Newark, asserted in his affidavit that as the result of an advertisment yesterday in a Newark newspaper he went to No, 28 Mechanic Street, Newark and there met a “Mr. Green,” who said to him "I want you boys to be signed up as Special Deputies to work in an election district. You do not have to fear any one there, aa we have the Judge, who will back you up in any- thing you do.” SAYS HE WAS PROMISED $ FOR DAY'S WORK. Goldberg says he was promised $5 and maybe $10, for the day’s work. Another person, deseribed as Donald D. Strope of No. 457 Devon Street, Arlington, sets forth that he was in the War Camp Community Service Building at No, 82 Washington Street, Newark. on Saturday when a man came in and asked the woman in charge to get him fifty men to work one day in an election district. ‘The pay, the man sald, according to Strope, would be “three meals and $5." Strope reported at No. 28 Me- chanic Street, Newark, yesterday, he says, and was introduced to “a man named O'Brien,” who took him to No, 847 Broad Street and there informed him that he (Strope) was to be “in charge of the men,” “I asked him,” the alleged Strope amdavit says, “if it waa a perfectly legal job, and he said it was, When we reached Turn Hall, Hoboken, this morning there was a cdmmotion at the door and this man ‘O’Brien’ came to us and sai “Take it easy, men; here are under arrest! Doherty or- all who are But don't lor us!” Complaints similar to that against Judge Doherty, were sworn out by |Mayor Griffin against Wyliam P, | Verdon, Republican leader of Hudson | County and head of the anti-Grifin lticket in to-day's — election; | Max (Continues on Second P i PAKR BELL-ANS BEFORI: dee low tle e.) MEAL. Tod usection Makes yeu tea) — which plage be had followed 120 Griffin arrested the 120 visitors as | worry, as we have the Judge back| wand ¢ ELEARORA DE CISNEROS IN BANKRUPTCY PETITION SAYS SHE OWES $10,824 Opera Singer Asserts She Cannot Lay Hands on Assets of $25,385. The Countess Eleanora de Cisne’ lonly a week ago was on the stage of os the Academy of Music, making Vic- to¥y Loan subscriptions jump a mill- fon dollars at a time by kissing var- fous staid and side-whiskered bank- ers and business men of Brooklyn. When the Rev, 8 Parkes Cadman Plaintively remarked that he was al- most sorry he was not a banker she still’ further stirred up the aniinals by ‘kissing him too. And ‘now she has filed a petition tn bankruptcy in the United States Dis- thet Court, saying she owes $10,824 and cannot pay it because s| nnot lay hands on her assets of $2 The Countess de Cisneros has ments at the Marie Antoinette, Broad- way and 67th Street, and. at No. % West 50th Street. She has been singing in the Metropolitan Opera and in con- cert throughout the country. She as- serts that she entrusted $26,000 several months ago to Charles Yel of Paris to invest in the re-establishment of a tex- tile factory in Lille after the city was recovered from the Germans, but has not been able to get an accounting from him. The Countess was Hleanor Broadfoot of Brooklyn ‘before she married Count Francois G. de Cisneros while she was finishing her musical education abroad SHORT WEIGHT CHEATER apart- FORCED BY COURT TO PAY $100 A POUND FOR HAM John Kebel Pleads Guilty After Be- Inspectors, HE price of ham was $100 & pound this morning in sions, and John Kebel, an expert on meat values, paid it without a murmur, spectors Lutz and Tuchman of the Department of Weights and ures, Lutz told this story: ing Trapped by Two T the Court of Special Ses- He had been arrested by In ebel Is @ salesman in the A nan shop at No, 17 West Street. We had received several complaints of short weight there and we sent a negro woman to buy a bam. Kebel charged ‘her 251-2 cents a pound and said the ham weighed seven pounds, We weighed It and found it one pound short Kebel pleaded guilty, Justices McInerney, Moss and Collins agreed that this sort of robbery of poor people, who pay too much for food at the best, Was “aboyt the meanest kind of * thet, "One. pound short—$100 fine, TFLLS OF $20,000 OFFER FOR DIVORCE BY OTHER WOMAN Mrs. Lane Testifies in Defense of Husband Accused by Mrs. V. A. McKenzie. Mrs. Ann Lane was on the witness stand again to-day in behalf of her husband, Attorney Richard H. Lane, who is being tried before Justice Vernon Davis and a jury in the Su- preme Court on an indictment charg- ing him with having obtained $8,500 from Mrs, Victoria A. McKenzie, granddaughter of John Jacob Astor's old partner in the fur trading busi- ness, which he was to Invest for her in @ patented brake company that never existed. The money,” it is charged, was the first instatment of $72,000 which the lawyer was to in- vest for his cli Mrs. Lane is dark-haired and has sparkling brown eyes. She was at- tired in a tailor-made gown of blue serge with a white silk waist, a dainty black turban with plumage and a@ net veil partly concealed her features, She gaid she had been separated from her husband from July, 1916, to February, 1917, and that Mrs. McKenzie was the cause of It. | “When I found that her statements | to me and also to my husband were jall lies I went back to my husband,” she said, “Sbe urged me to get a di- voree and offered me $20,000 to do so. |She said I could live with a relative of hers in Canton, O., while the divorcee was pending and that I should never want for anything as long as I lived.” “Did you ever hear her accuse your husband of defrauding her?” asked Attorney Ecker for the defense. “No, She always spoke highly of Richard's business sagacity. knew he had been engaged in several big transactions for her. She gave Richard a lot of money because she was infatuated with him. Early in 1916 she told a lot Bf lies to me about him and told him a lot about me. Sae wanted me to leave him, I became suspicious of their relations and ob- tamed a separation. I found out that her stories were not true and T went back to him when she had him arrested.” “What sort of lies did she tell you both?” she was asked, “she told Richard I was in love with @ man in Boston, She told me I had better get @ divorce from him or he might kill me, for he had murder in ‘his heart. She told me I was a fool to live with a man who did not love we. I found out later that they had gone to Virginia and to Washington together.” LABOR FEDERATION BOARD ACTS ON BIG ISSUES TO-DAY Executive Committee Meets With Gompers to Discuss Recon- struction and Other Problems, Important labor issues face the E ecutive Committee of the American Fed- eration of Labor at its m ing with President Samuel Gompers here to-day. Labor's stand toward reconstruction. railroads and national and ternational issues at the coming convention of the | Federation are to be thoroughly consid. | ered. SEBS Kentacky 6. 0, P. r . LEXINGTON, Ky., May 13.—Kdw'n| |P. Morrow of Somerset will be nom-| | nated for Gevernor of Kentucky ner to-morrow by the Republican State Convention without opposition, on platform which xpected to dorse National and State prohibitiun | THOUSANDS HONOR LUT EUROPE IN MILITARY FUNERAL Body of Jaez King Sent to Arlington for Burial After Services Here. Lieut, James Reese Europe, “Same King,” his drummer, was given an imposing who was murdered by funeral to-day and his body will be laid away in the Arlington Cemetery at Washington with full military honors. Hundreds of thousands viewed the cortege which passed ‘through the principal streets of the colored colony of Harlem and down Broadway from Columbus Circle to 53d, Street, His famous jazz band, mute and the in- struments entwined with crepe, part of the escort on the line of march. The cortege left the undertaking parlors of Granville A. Paris, No, 116 West 11st Street, at 11 o'clock, but ing friends as early as 7 o'clock in the morning. The rooms were banked with flowers in most beautiful de- signs, gifts from the Clef Club, the colored Masons, the Elks' Club and individuals. wife, Lottie, sent a floral stand. Preceded by an escort of police, a number of women of the Hayward Unit of the National League for League for Women's Service, in com- mand of Capt. Sadie Lavelle, had the right of line, In their train came five automobiles loaded with flowers, Major H. W. Jackson with a contin- gent of officers of the new 15th Regiment followed. The 369th (old 15th) represented by 100 members led by nent was Lieut, John W. Harris and at their head marched the band of the new 16th, The cortege moved into Seventh Avenue and out to 140th Street, then east to Lenox Avenue and south to 125th Street, where the paraders en- trained in the subway for Columbus Cirele, The funeral then moved down Broadway to 58d Street and then to St. Mark's M. E. Church, near Eighth Avenue, where services were con. ducted by Chaplain William Brooks, after which’ the Masons held tho last rites for the dead, At the church and the immediate neighborhood was an immense throng and during the passing of the vor tege along Broadway there was hardly room for the cars to move, Col. William Hayward, Burope's com- mander on tie battlefield, met the funeral at the church and attended as did Major Hamiliton John Wanamaker jr. Major Esperance and Lieut, Pr. Gillespie of the French 59th Artillery Corps. Charles Canfield represented the Allied Theatrical Association, and more flowers were received trom stage celebrities, I Castle for whom the jazz king wrote much music, sent a floral offering and ariny officers abroad cabled to have flowers taken to the funeral, Harry Burleigh, the negro singer and com- poser sang a selection composed by hint for the decasion and taps were sounded by Bugler Clarence Clark of old 2th, the At the conclusion of the eer the body was escorted to the F sylvania Station to be sent to Wash- ington for interment in Arlington | Cemetery, where it will be buried with military honors, FLOOD OF GROG ON BLOCK. TOLEDO, 0. May 13.—Uncie sam| will turn auctioneer here to-morrow with John Barleycorn on the auction | block. John's estate, consisting of 1,400 kegs, 1,200 quarts and 2,400 half-pints of whiskey and be wold to the tt resen| arts of gn, will was] and the parties of the Centre have informed Chancellor Scheide: the parlors were filled with sorrow- | Bert Williams and ‘his, rd 3 GERMAN FACTIONS THREATEN TO WITHDRAW SUPPORT IF CABINET ACCEPTS TREATY © Chancellor Tells National Assembly ~ That While Terms Are Objection- able, Germans Will Not Fight —Independent Socialists “Favor ~ Signing. ; ; Pa ef PARIS, May 13.—The heads of the two German Democratic Parties r that their parties will withdraw thcir representatives from the Go meat in vase the Cabinet decides to sign thé peace treaty, according to a despatch from Berlin received here by way of Basle. The Socialist Vorwaerts, in commenting on this action, says it is the first step toward a Cabinet crisis, ? | BASLE, May 13 (United Press).—The Berlin correspondent of the National Zeitung reported to-day that Chancellor Scheidemann had fe.” formed jourtalists the German Government will order its delegates not | to sign the peace terms in their present form. a BERLIN, May 13,—“This pease is not acceptable!” said Chancellor 4 Scheidemaan yesterday, in his speech before the National Assembly. The 7 audience arose and cheered enthusiastically for several minutes. 7 “We are willing to sign a peace, but only a peace we can fulfill_one. pthat will leave us to work off and pay of\what is just,” said Scheidemann, _ “We will not fight. We want peace. “We see, with a shudder, what brutal militarism leads to, from the example set by the Entente, TA of the country and the people, We LAN PR BLEM are unable to compare the peate , world is shorn of tlusion and Wile NEAR STILE N son's picture as a bringer of pease | haa faded, , ME IF “Without ships because the mer e “We want to save the naked life terms with Wilson's programme, The cantile fleet passes into . Entente— hands, without cables, without cule | onies, without foreign settlement without reciprocity nd legal pr tection, yes, and even without the I ineathaaene ‘right to co-operate (ny fixing the © Premier Calls on Col. House; | ile for the goods ‘and avticiens v * ich we have to delive: as tribute, Rapid Work on Treaty “E ask you what honest mun will say. that Germany can accept sich” With Austria, jconditions, At the same time as we shall have to. bestir ourselves to pere |form force! labor for the benefit of | the entire world our foreign trade, ihe am | Sole source of our welfare, is des |stroyed and our home trade is tome [dered impossible. Lorraine ivcu ofegiit | Upper Silesia coal, Alsatian potasheenm the Sarre Valley miney and the ei PARIS, May 18 (Associated Press). —The Italian problem seemed nearer solution when to-day’s conference be- gan among the Allied representatives and it was thought probable that a basis of understanding would i here, be reached during the day. foodstuffs from Posen and weet The Italian representatives are re-|Prussia are to lie outside our frane ported to be evidencing more of aj tiers. Ye are to impose io higher willingness to make concessions, | tariff or protection than existed on “ ‘The discussion of the day began! Aug, 1, 1914, while our enemies may. do when Premier Orlando called thia|”s much as they like at every petit forenoon upon Col, EB, M, House of|in strangling + at home. All Gene the American delegation, man revenues must be held at ther ‘Thia afternoon President Wilson | disposal of our enemies for paymentalh received Thomas Nelson Page, the |not for war invalids and widows—all American Ambassador to Italy, injas forced labor for p=\'vets, them connection with the Italian question. | prices of which will be fixed by qm The Italian representatives have | customers. a resumed complete participation in| “What is a people to do whiek ts. the pending peace negotiations by | confronted by the command that tt jae nting a member of the Liaison | responsible for all lo: Commission controtling all communi German delegath es and all dam« age that its enen’ . suffered in then war? What is a people to ch. ‘This commission has hitherto been | ve Bi oe A # to have no voice in fixing its obt omposed only of British, Freneb | tiong? American representatives, ‘We want to negotiate, but 1 (United Press). | tions in all countries already ae bending every effort | ing aloud thelr murder plans, eaty this | treaty be signed, not only wiih) featdes | many's cadaver be lying om tte Uefteld of Versailles, but it a be joined by | pat ations with the and PARIS. May The Allies are to eomplete the i If this Austrian re) indat important eves of this document will be the question of boundaries, particularly those af- fecting ltaly and guge-Wayle, ahr ‘at