The evening world. Newspaper, May 19, 1919, Page 6

en lp chee of the Holland of Philadelphia, survive. fit ond lurability a pleasant surprise. en gre men, women th, + [President of ON S-CENT FARE T0 mee bl CONEY THIS WEEK Stes eee Hope for it Based on Tentative Acquiescence of Commis- sioner’s Counsel. The proxpect of @ ride to Coney |B. Re Island for a 5-cent fare this summer over the West End route by way of jthe Fourth Avenue subway from the Municipal Butlding and the old Bath | Reach syatem as reconstructed by the city has been materially advanced by © tentative acquiescence of counsel the Public Service Commission in the contention of Maxwell 8 Harris, the Borough Park Heights Civic Association, that the ny, West End route, which te wholly « "my ‘ city built and owned line, ts already wns on a 5-cent basis and has been ever re EN at ‘ 8 Pry fare. Coney Island. pansengers for a 5-cent tract would not hav the city. mission for two years: Article 62—The lessee (5) cents, but not mo ~ Best & Co. ~ Fifth Avenue at 35th Street Established 1879 Direct Attention Tuesday to ANNUAL MAY SALES . Be New Underthings for Women and Children Girls’ Blouses i Reliable Best Quality i : Women's Undermuslins ic ¥ ENVELOPE CHEMISES of soft if white nainsook are trimmed with embroidery or lace. They have round necks or shoulder straps, Sizes 36 to 42. Special 1,00 to 3.95 1 a STEP -IN CHEMISES of fine i nainsook are daintied with lace and embroidery. Sizes 36 fo 42. _ Special 1,50 to'6.00 -NIGHTGOWNS of unusually soft nainsook are made.with round or x square necks in charming empire . styles, Others are neatly tailored. ah Sizes 14,18 and 16. Special 1,00 to 3.98 PETTICOATS of durable white ; i lingerie have pretty flounces of lace i} crembroidery. Sizes 32 fo 36 (and mt extra sizes), Special 1,00 to 6.95 Sizes up to 3 years, inclusive. ao | FINE WHITE NAINSOOK OR LAWN DRESSES are quite dainty ee with embroidered French knots, a embroidery, etc, Sizes 6 months to 2 years. Special 2.80 WHITE FROCKS of sheer lawn yt are hand stitched in pretty colors, xy Siges 2 and 3 years. Special 2.95 Specially Priced Pretty Summer Things for Girls “Pongee, China silk, dotted Swiss and lawn form youthful, attractive blouses in correct €e. models for girls of 8 fo 14 years. Special 2.95 to 10,00 Children's Undermuslins KNICKERS of cambric or nain- sook are trimmed with embroid- ery. Sigesito10 years, Special .89 to .89 PRINCESS SLIPS of nainsook are ied with fine embroidery or lace edging. Sizes 2 to 14 years. ial 1.00, 1.50 & 1,95 NIGHTGOWNS of nainsook are finished, with embroidery or lace. Sizes 6 1016 years. . Special 1.00, 1.50, 1.95 & 2,95 SLEEPING GARMENTS of cot- ton crepe are made with square necks; trimmed with pink or blue. Sizes 2 to 10 years, Special 1.50 a Pretty New Frocks—Specially Priced © in ine Pe Occupying our entire 4h floor. QUAINT,COOL DIMITY! Some- how it belongs to little girls, and ‘ou will be glad to ad wate new rocks made of it hand-em- broidered in colors, Sizes 6 months to2 years, Special 3.25 COLORED LAWN DRESSES in attractive stripes are hand- smocked. The white collars and cuffs are of lawn. Sizes 1 to 3 years. Special 3.25 7 2 Delightful sinele frocks of tan silk pongee are Br cool and thful. Pleated white orcas collars cuffs, trimmed with lace, the correct note of contrast. Sizes 6 fo 12 years. Special 12.50 white striped dimity smocked in color, Sizes 8 lo 16 years. imported plai een, favender, red or blue. Povaks 24 lo 32 inches. Frocks they were designed by Best&€» asmavy. Misses’ sizes. Dimity smocks and plaid skirts are smart for Summer wear, and convenient, too, as they may be worn separately. The smocks are of Special 5.95 The skirts are pleated quite full and made of gingham in tones of brown, Special 5.95 Misses’ New Summer Silk Specially Priced So pigturesque that they might have stepped from the frame of a mid-Victorian picture and so charming that one immediately knows that Summer wear. A bit of soft lace at the ny a maps on the skitt complete the charm of one model a age Wels Se es Another is quaintly draped and adored at intervals with colorful braided flowers. These are but two; there are many more models. shades of brown (which is a good color this Summer) and taupe, as well emmem You Never Pay More at Best’ Skirt 6.96 taffeta frocks for Among them will be found ) reate was com- pleted to Surf Avenue, Coney’ Istand, two years ago. The benefit to the People of a 6-cent fare rests upon the Bnal interpretation of the contract by Publig Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon and counsel to the commission, and this interpretation is promised Contract No, 4 betwen the city and the B, R. T., signed in 1913, is an in- volved and more or less ambiguous document, and probably the most in- volved and ambiguous nection of it is article 62, which deals with the 5-cent It may be well to state bere that the basis of the ce was a 6-cent fare to Coney Island over all the lines operated by the T, betwoon Manhattan and But for the agreement of the company to eventually carry re the con+ been signed by Here is article 62, and the lingual athlete who framed it is, doubtiess proud of his work, for it has remained 4 mystery to the Public Service Com- shall during the term of this contract be entitled to charge for @ single fare upon the raliroed and the existing railroads the sum of five ; provid- ed, however, that the provisions Special 49.50 the lestee from continuing to charge—until the time when trains may be operated for con- tinuous trips wholly over con- nected portions of the railroad (including both the Culver 1 and Subdivision No, § of ¢ Broadway-Fourth Avenue line), from the Municipal Building, tn the Borough of Manhattyn, to the points at or near Coney Isi- and at which the construction of the rafiroad shall be suspended as provided in article tthe same fare for a continuous ride over the existing railroads and over the ad and the existing railroads that charged for a continuous ride over the extating railroads at the end of the flecal year ending June 80, 1912, DOES COMPLETION OF WEST END MEAN CHEAPER FARE? Now we come to the interpretation of the contract as advancea by Mr. Harris, whigh was put up to Com- missioner Nixon and Chief Counsel Godfrey Goldmark and Assistant Counsel Roberts last Friday and Sat- urday. The indulgence and close at tention of the reader in juested, cause met concentration is quired to follow the intricacies of this 14-word paragraph in the con- tract. Under the contract the B. R. T. ts bound to operate four lines to Coney Istand fro: Manhattan—the West End or New Utrecht Avenue line, now in complete operation; the Cul- ver line, now in operation to Avenue X% and from there by transfer; the Sea Be: line and the Brighton line. The Sea Beach and Brighton Beach lines part of the old B. R. T. system. The city built the West End line, and contracts were ordered on Saturday which will enable the city to complete the Culver in the Coney Island terminal by the ond of 1919, 4 * In the contract the .old systems op- ted and owned by the B. R. TT. re referred to as “existing de," and the new city-bullt opment—the Fourth Avenue subway with its extensions to Fort Hamilton and to Coney Island over the West End and Culver lines—as road.” Bear in mind thi between “existing railroads” and “the rafiroad.” | dinner held in Stauch's Pa- vilion, Coney Island, on Sept. 4, 1917, attended by then Public Service Com When You Feel All Out of Sorts the chances are your appetite needs bracing Don't forget the lue of fresh spring greens, nor the sel Random of thi teeth lke ‘Travis , Whitney inyward, then Chief Public Service walle y and ‘Coun- Commission, who is now in ex-Gov. Whitman's law firm under retai the Interborough dated Gas Compan: Commissioners many city officials, Mr, to Public Servi ‘master, ce sali r to and the Consoli- several former and Harris, as believe a proper construction of paragraph in the dual subway em contracts would how that five-cent fare was intended to go ‘ Into effect at the comp! Went line tion, End End Unes line, are in the contract. the occasion tion The of the West End Is completed and in The Culver a the opera. West A mentioned I have read this paragraph very carefully and con- strued it to mean, as others have, that the five-cent fare shall go Into effect upon the completion of either Oe Wet End line or the Culver line. being one » Harris, of jollification over the accomplish. ment of a big civic improvement, did hot press his point at that time. The Brooklyn Eagle account of the dinner mtates: “Public Service Commissioners gave close attention to these remarks of Mr. Harris, but neither one alluded to the five-cent fare question when it came bis turn to spea! COMMISSIONER NIXON TAKEN BY SURPRISE. Nobody, else connected with the Public Service Commission paid any attention to it until Mr, Harris called on Commissioner Lewis Nixon. Mi) Harri, read artic rr. 2 and declared | his belief that the article means that { inasmuch as the West End Line is wholly city owned, every foot of the tracks between the Municipal Bulld- ing and Coney Isiand having been built by the city, the five-cent fans) went into operation over that line im- mediately it was completed. Com- missioner Nixon was impressed. A® developments _ the Evening World quotes Mr. Harris. “Mr. Nixon told me that he is not a lawyer and he wanted the advice of his council, He penciled a note on my copy of article 62 and asked me to take it to Mr. Goldmark. “T outlined my contention to Mr. Goldmark, stating that inasmuch as passengers on the West End line be- to subseque: tween Coney nt @ Municipal Building and land over the West route ride wholly on Bnd ‘the railroad’ and at no time travel afoot over about the r to the Governor what T find before forcing the B, T. th carry pas- making any public ement. sengers to Coney Inland for nr ni Gov. Smith .rounced in a spench over the Weat ind line, te takes | a. the Westchesier Demdcratic Club the position t inasmuch as the lainner Saturday night that he bad BR. T. went into bankruptcy On @lordered @ special investigation to be ten-cent fare basis the property might suffer: turther trom the. pro. | Made of the action of the BR. T. nounced reduction in revenue which charging its women employees wi Would result from a fare reduction. |RUrRInE, Its women emDlOyeeK Wood Mr. Harris pointed out to the Com-|get by Ernest Bohm, Secretary of the missioner that the benefit or injury] Central Federation Union, to the B. R. T. to resuit from the|~ ‘Many of tho 1,600 women employees enforcement of @ five-cent fare in-| whose discharge has been ordered terpretation of the contract is ou! e expected to assemble to-day In side the question, The B. R. T. of-|the salvation Army Headquarters, flcials signed a contract agreeing | No, 253 Washington Strect, Brook to give the ple a five-cent fare to ga re Coney Island and they had their Meni eee 600 MORE B. R. T. JOBS OPEN AS WOMEN ARE DISCHARGED or Judiclal interpretation of its terms, It is clearly up to Commissioner Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Are Sought for Vacancies Caused Nixon to say whether or not the West End line, being wholly city by Lockwood Bill Conditions. More than 600 Jobs are open to dis- built and owned, is on a five-cant fare basis, eV If the Commissioner decides for a five-cent fare the procedure following charged service men on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the New York Railway, and may be procured through the Re-Employment Bureau his decision is simple enough. He will issue an order directing the B, I of New York City for Soldiers, Satlors and Marines, No. 505 Pearl Street. . to carry passengers over the End route for a five-cent fare. If the company refuses District At- These men will take the places of women workers who must be dle- charged because of the Lockwood Mill torney Lewis of Kings which prohibits women working at night The call of the transit companies raises the bureau's quota of available jobs for service men to 980, ‘This ts the highest the bureau has enjoyed since It opened its offices three weeks ago. Iemployers will find highty trifined men now on the lists of applicants for positions. These include expert ac+ countants, mechanical engineers, man- agers for export firms and claima ad- Justers. Many army and navy officars who have been mustered out have reg- istered with the bureau, a Fire Captain Dies of Old Hart, Capt. E. F. Nealis of Engine Company | No, 26, Brooklyn, died at No. 420 Pacific Street, that borough, yesterday as a re- clals of the system involved in disobedience of an order of the Pub- ission, as provided —_———— WOMEN WHO LOSE B. R, T. JOBS URGE LAW'S REPEAL Meantime Nixon Is Investigating Discharges and Will Report to Governor. Public Service Commissioner Nixon is to-day investigating the action of the B. R. T., in discharging whole- ele its conductorettes following th» signing by Gov. Smith of the bill designed to provide safeguards ‘or women in such work. He said to- day: “The situation may have een forced by this new law. I cannot tell yet. I am looking into the facts and expect to get to the bottom of it the coming week. I shall report. Brooklyn grain elevator fire in Capt. Nealis. who was in the Fire tS, was awarded ise « tigen’ medals for bravery in say my “Ods bodkins! You don’t know what refined and goodly cigarettes the city affords! That great firm of tobacco merchants—the United Cigar Stores, have in their shops a rare private brand, You can get it, too, if you'll just mention my TWENTY FOR 17¢ Piet any of the ‘existing railroads’ they should pay only a five-cent fare. Mr. sult of injuries Goldmark, after some study of the id he thought I was right, who was present and who knows a lot about Contract No, 4, agreed with him, We all went | together to Commissioner Nixon, He was surprised at the attitude of his) 1. "t this thing brought up | sked. him that I brought it up at the Coney Island celebration in September, 1917, and, produced a| clipping from the Brooklyn Eagle | tc prove it. Commissioner Nixon sald, however, that he would prefer to confer with Receiver Garrison of 'y before?’ he “I informed appetizing value of Old Fashioned Jams ApsoOLuTELy Pure Full M re Solid Jam 20e Comes Out in Perfect Form the B. R. T. and B. R. T. counsel | before putting into effect an order ra five-cent. fare and Mr.Goldmark ina’ Mrs Roberts’ agreed that the other party to the contract should have an opportunity to say sons: thing about it. I told Commissioner Nixon that {f counsel forthe B. it. greed with they would lose bs, but there is to be either) ference or correspondence und there the matter rests.” COUNSEL WON'T SAY 5C. FARE| CONTENTION 18 WRONG. Mr, Goldmark, when seen by an Evening World reporter denied that We had agreed offhand that Mr, Harris's construction of lele 42 was correct. He said that such an agreement would have been snap judgment. | “But,” he said, “I do agree that) Mr. Harris's argument is extremely plausible, I will not say that be is wrong. But before the contract can be interpreted it must be gone over in its entirety, word for word, and I now have an ‘assistant at work on it. Iam very busy with the Consoll- | dated Gas case and a case before the Court of Appeals but I hope be‘ore | the end of the week to have come to a conclusion on the question. 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