The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1919, Page 3

_ SPENT $25,000, BUT ‘POOR GOT NO COAL iglenetiosbdige “tse Swears Commissioner Used $650 City Ggsh for * ‘Own Purposes 52 Days. De, Jonathan Day paid $5,000 of he-cfty’s money on, account of a con- tract made for 300,000 tons of coal to texaold to tho poor of New York, but bot a pound of coal was delivered, ac- jorfing to the records. ‘This was the testimony of EXina B. lehman, bookkeeper in the Commis omer of: Markets’ office, at the hear- ing this afternoon into the charges Rirsohtield, who i# conducting the fearing, that a contract was entered hte July 8, 1918, by the Commissioner ie Markets with a Pennsyivania coal ninernamed De Gilo for the detivery it 1,500 tons of coal a day beginning ing. 1, 1918. There was paid De Gilo 95,002 on July 31, 1918 and Dr. Day trew $790 for expenses used é obtain- berths coal amd for trips to Wash- bngton im connection with the oon- rect. ‘The trventory dots not show © ound 4 coat om hand, she testified. testified that she could fin@ no trace-of any coal having been weltvered. ‘Miss Ichman testified that there turned over to Dr. Day by the $50,000 for the punpose of faying food and that a petty cash \esount-of- $2,000 was given htm for bts purpose from the Mayor's fand. Milas Lehman also testified that Dr, Jomatizan C. Day used for his per- jonal use, $650 of the city’s money for tty-two days. Miss Lehman testified that she had fhairge of the regular check book dar- nga 8, when Dr. Day was attempt- merto eco food direct to the people (fter-obtaining city money to finance he project. ‘According to her testi- ony, there were drawn on Ang. 28, 1818, thirteen checks for an aggregate $9500. These checks were drawn from the regular check book by her. bubober 2, whe testified, she received the vouchers from the bank and dis- wvered two other checks not drawn from the regular checkbook, signed by Dr. Day and endorsed by him. She was asked: “Have you any cash entries showing at any cash was returned by Dr. bay?” “Wothing is shown here tn the cash book." #he replied. Questioned further, Mims Lehman beatified that March 1, 1918, without ter-knowledge, Dr. Day drew a check for’ $650 from the city’s funds and fhat there was no voucher to cover he withdrawal. She said she did not Bacover this until April 22, when the wank returned the vouchers to her. Tho eaid that Dr. Day repaid the $650 | April 2 of the same year “So that Dr. Day handled for flifty- wo days $450 of the city’s money?” \aked Mr. Bennett. “Yes,” was the answer. The day she made this discovery, April 10, 1918, another by Dr. Day for $250, she tosti- “Bo that he really had $900 of the ‘ity’s money on that day?” Mr. Ben- dott asked. “Tes.” “Did he over say anything to you wbout the money?” “No.” “When was it returned?” May 14.” “How?” “In cash.” ‘Testimony was them advanced that Dr, Day made further withdrawals May 17, but the amount was not dis- | sloged. It was testified that a mem- vor of the Commissioner of A: check was | “Just Enough to Live On” Asks Soldier, Unable to Re- sume . Trade. Just a plain job, not a fancy job, is, Wanted by Abraham Krotoskinsky, hero of the Lost Battalion, but Major Warren Bigelow at the Re-Bmploy- ment Service thinks he deserves the best job that can be offered. Krotoskinsky is the Bronx soldier who won the Distinguished Service Cross for bringing relief to the Lost Battalion. His home is at No. S11 Ritter Place, and he was a private in Company K, 307th Infantry. He carried from the Argonne Forest news of the Lost Battalion’s plight on Oct. 6, 1918, after other couriers had been repeatedly shot down. He had volunteered for the perilous mission, and after crawling through the barrage guided a relief party back. His trip through the shelled area took thirteen hours, He was discharged from Camp Up- ton two weeks ago. The arny sur- geons told him he should not return to his old trade of barbering because he was gassed, and it might bring on complications, “Anything at all will do,” said Krotoskinsky, who speaks Russian, Polish, German and English, “All I ask is a chance to make good. I'm not looking for fancy pay, but just enough to live on.” , the incident was passed on for the time being after a consultation with Commissioner Hirshfield. It was shown that the accounts showed that a Mr. Newborn had been paid $700 commission for selling herrings and eggs and Frank Seigert was paid $48 commission for selling food. Neither are employees of the department and no one at the hear- ing this afternoon could tell who they were, Albert W. McCann, a nowspaper man, testified Dr. Day had told him his department was helpless and hopeless. The witness was cross-ex amined to ascertain if he knew that Mr. Benett was attorney or in other way connected with several large food concerns, but he disclaimed any knowledge of the matter. He did blame “food profiteers” and the “ice trust” for thwarting Dr- Days ad- nuinistration, SLAIN WITH A HAMMER, Marder Revealed When Hacken- | aack Funeral Is Halted. A murder mystery has developed at | irastunnence, N. J. over the death of Rudolph Heydt, No. 99 Campbell Ave- nue, whose funeral was halted yester- day’ so that an autopsy could be made The first report was that Heydt been injured by a piece of ing on his head. The the conclusion that he had been struck |down with a hammer, and the death jcortifcate was made to read. “homi- | U.S. Medal tor LONDON, Saturday, en. Allenby. July 12.—Gen. E. H. H. Allenby, Commander of the forces in Palestine that took of the large warded the American Distinguished Service Medal according to a list published itoff discovered this withdraw Iced Tea is a delicious and most delightful | summer TRY IT offical beverage TODAY | Commuters There are Liggett St all avenues of transit. ores adjacent to almost You may leave your shopping until just Before train time, Prescriptions left on your way in town will be ready for you on your way out of town. | The Gt SIONS OF Ne YORK PRL eroned in Evening—Told to Beware of Small Shops. An “Open Letter to the Younger Students In the Women’s Residence Halls,” issued by Cotumbia Univers- ity summer session, 1919, puts « an upon the dangerous sport of watching the Riverside busses go by. “In New York,” says the tetter, “which is #0 cosmopolitan as almost to be a foreign city, the conditeins differ radically In many ways from those existing in most of the other sections of the country. CQustoms which are perfectly safe elsewhere are often entirely unsafe and unwise here.” Six regulations follow this pre- amble. No. 3 warns that “Groups of girlg who wish to go out together in the evening without an escort arust include an older woman in the party. ‘Two or more students, however, may go to the Columbia and Teachers’ College Libraries in the evening with- out an okler woman, provided they return to their ball by 10.90 P. M. No, 6 is the rule which causes the flutter of disappointment to many girls from out of town who had found it a pleasant diversion to go a-stroii- ing on Riverside or Morningside and do @ little window shopping and blouse-pricing as a fillip of excite- ment. “6. Ample experience has proved that it is unsafe for our younger girls, singly or in groups, unless chaperoned or escorted, to walk in Riverside or Morningside Parks be- low the drive at twilight or in the alone into small shops of which they have no previous knowledge and in general to beware of any person who accosts them on the stree' At the office it was said that Miss Whiting, Social Director for the Co- lumbia summer classes, had author- ized the regulations. e Sta > 0090090909909090THHTHOOO First to In roduce the Fad pag = PHVOOODOOVOE The stockingless fad has hit New York direct from Paris, It remained Po Lo for several of the famed beauties of the chorus to introduce the fad and it made a big hit with the Broadwayites who saw the girls boarding a bus for a ride along Riverside Drive. Girl. ing door, Mrs, wa H. L. Constable Calls Police After Three Days and They Find Owner. ‘The wifé of Dr, MH. L. Constable of No, 12 West 48th Street received the thanks of the Police Department to- day for notable services in saving the Detective Bureau unnecessary con- tinuation of worry and work. Dr. and Mrs, Constable, going out fo dinner last ‘Tuesday, observed @ fine new limousine car in front of their ‘Tt was there when they came home, and so much tn the way that Mrs. Constable had to.walk an extra twenty steps through the rain, The Kmousine was there all day Wednesday, ‘Thursday, and when it etill blocked the curb before the Constable home Thursday evenin, telephoned Police policemen from the Bast Biot ¢ treet Station came and looked the limou- sine over and got it away at about maigaignt, y Mrs, Constable was in. formed on the teleppone that she had done @ great public service, but “it hoped she would say nothing about it to the newspapers,” The car which had decorated the curd in front of her home, she wad told, had been taken from t tage Hotel Tuesday mornin, riders, ‘The car had deen nee ate ithe hotel by Mi End, Uppercue, ‘president of the company from watch Mrs, Tanly Intended buy- he Long the police, und: been looking for it WOUNDED MEN SHOW LOVE FOR TWO GLOOM DISPELLERS Convalescents Give ao cal WILKINS TALKED OF NEW TRIAL DAY HE ENDED LIFE Jail. Worker Tells Prison Commis- sign Doctor Appeared Down- x cast in Cell. Investigation by the State Prison Commission into the suicide of Dr. Walter Keene Wilkins, convicted wife murderer, in tris cell two weeks ago was resumed at the Nassau Coun’ Court House at Mineola to-day. Father William Burke, Catholic chap- lain, said he had not seo Dr, Wilkins on the Sunday afternoon before Dr. Wilkins , killed himself. Andrew He- berer, a jail welfare worker, said that he visited Dr, Wilkins Gunday after- noon, June 28, with the Rey. August Deppisch, partner of Gardiner C. Hull who was murdered at his Fulton Street stationery warehouse last Friday after- noon with a hammer, jus as Dr. Wilkins was accused of killing Mrs. Wilkins He eaid he talked with Dr. Wilkins for several minutes. ‘There was nohing in the physician's conversation indicating he meant to kill himself, Heberer said, though he downcast. He talked of his chances for a new trial and anked Heberer to call on him again soon. had aha’ Gaenal some"; MAYOR AIDS WOUNDEB HERO WHO SEEKS POLICE JOB Hylan Says He Has Asked Enright to Help Man Refused Because ‘of Injuries. Mayor Hylan gave assurance to-day that he will do al lin his power to aid candidates for city positions who were wounded during the war. The Mayor's attention was called to the case of Ed- ward Jackson, colored, who, as a mem- ber of Col, “BI” Hayward's 15th In- fantry, won the Distinguished Service Cross ‘and the French War Cross. He said he had taken up this case in par- ticula A According to the Municipal Civil serv- ice Commission Jackson passed all the physical and mental tests for the police force before he volunteered and went to Frane with the 15th Infantry, the Argonne fighting he lost After his return police surgeons refused to pass him, WON'T CUT PRICE OF FISH. Dealers Say Break of Boston Com- bine WIIl Not Affeet Coat, According to fish dealers at Fulton Market, the breaking up of the Boston fisheries combination will not affect the price of fish here. Storms have pre. ws craft fron $ during the e fish is now coming into the York market William E, Wilson, « dealer In Fulton Murket, suid to-day Utat he expe larger cargoes in port by the end of th week and believes that this will lower prices. vented | pg Unidentifed Man Taken From River, body of an unidentifed man was found floating in the East River off Pier No. 12, to-day, and removed the Manhattan Mrrgue. He was ut forty-five years old, five feet hos tall and weighed about ds. e had light hair, and nt Mustache, und was dressed in k suit, black shirt, black shoe stockings, -_ v att uv. ® After ROME, \heir to the jen & tour of the world at the end of July 14 odes Italian throne, Umberto, will start month. After visiting the italian Sah nies im the Red Sea, he d to India, China ‘and | to the EXTRA POLICE GUARDING CITY AGAINST ‘REDS’ Special Precautions Taken to Prevent Bastille Day Bomb Outrages Here. Before the ink was dry on Gov. Smith's proclamation calling a spe- cial term of the Supreme Court for Aug. 1 to deal with criminal activities | against the Government the police had guards established against any bomb outrages the Reds might undertake for to-day, the Bastile anniversary, mentioned in some*of their recent literature. Bastile Day was third on the list for possible radical demonstrations. May Day and July 4 were the others. The police, Secret Service and other organizations were well fortified ainst contingency on those dates and nothing happened. To-day practicaly the same precau- tions are being taken that were taken then, Police guards are established at public buildings and at the homes of officials and of certain prominent citizens, The extra guards will re- main on duty until to-morrow morn- Ing. Justice Bartow 8. Weeks is desig- nated to hold the Special Term of court by the Governor's proclamation, which was issued last night, It had been expoétéd Justice Vernon M Davis would be named. The Governor provides such latitude that the ex- traordinary term may act on “such other matters as may come beforé the court.” District Attorney Swann has an- nounced he is ready to proceed before the Special Grand Jury. The procla mation reads: “It appearing to my at the public interest requires it “Therefore, in accordance with the statute in such case made and pro vided, Ido hereby appoint an extraor satisfaction dinary ‘Trial Term of the Supreme Court, to be held at the Criminal Court Building, in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, on Monday, the 11th day of August, 1919 at 10 O'clock in the forenoon of that day, and to continue so long as ma be necessary for the purpose of inves tigating acts of criminal anarchy and all other criminal acts directed against organized. government, and for su other proper matters as may com before the court.” SHOESTRINGS HI HIS UNDOING. Aceuned of .Stenlion bag Whi Had Nickel's Worth of Laces. Morris Rosenbaum old, of No. 63 Willard Street, tn of starting life tring, & financiers sometimes do, is accused of winding up a career of picking — pock ets by stealing a bag which had in it according to the. police, only five cents worth of snoe laces He was arraigned Island Pohee. Coukt t charge of grand larceny the Grand Jury without charged with se Norton's endinger twenty-one year stead on a shoe in held for TRIBUTES PAID DR. JACOBI AT FUNERAL SERVICES Dr. Sayre and Dr. George Haven Putnam Deliver Eulogies at Academy of Medicine, A brief funeral service over the body of Dr. Abraham Jacob! was held this afternoon at the home, No. 19 Ea: {7th Street. Only the family and inti- mate friends attended. Later a public sel © was held at 2 o'clock at the Academy of Medicine, where notable tributes to the memory of the aged physician were paid. Dr, Reginald Sayre, vice-president of the academy, spoke of the medical achievements of Dr. Jacobi and Dr, George Haven’ Putnam spdke on other phases of his life, ‘Deiegations ftom va- rious boards and associations of which |Dr, Jacob! was a member attended the jservice, Dr. Jacobi was president of the my of Medicine from 1885 to 1889, and from the latter date to 1912 was a trustee, The Evening World has received a letter from Mra, Mary Ware Dennett, of the Voluntary Parenthead praising Dr, Jacobi’s stand in ft the birth control movement, favor Burial was in Greenwood Cemetory, peeve sake NEW HOSIPTAL TO HONOR HEROES AT STATEN ISLAND Memorial Institution in Tillinghast House to Serve Industrial Section, A hospital, to be incorporated as the Richmond County Memorial Hospital, is to be established in the Tillinghast house, in Prince Bay Road, Staten Island, in memory of the men of Rich- mond who lost their ves in the war, Already $30,000 has been raised for the institution by the manufacturers and residents of Staten Island between Great Kills, Green Ridge and Tottenville, Heretofore this important industrial ction has had to send its pagients either to the Staten Island Hospital or St. Vincent's, four miles from Totten- ville, and requiring « thirty-mile drive for the ambul ny instanées, MADE FORTUNE FOR WIFE BEFORE ENDING HIS LIFE Louis H. Moss, New Banker, Ill, Provided ure of Family. from an ineur uis H. M banker, put off sul could provide for the future and children, he wrote her Orleans for ° stomach New Orleans | ly until f his wife in @ note found beside his body in his room at the Hotel Brevoort. He shot himself in the temple and died instantly, Moss .was connected with the Mer cantile Bank of the Americas. He eame to New York every yea h ¥ and vacation combined. He in-law of Philip ittman of Sheepshead Ba In the letter Moss told his wife his ailment drove him to sulcide, but that he delayed it until sure his estate would be lurge enough to insure comfort for herself 4 ldren. their two i Aged Couple Overcome by Gas. Michael! Kinepeck and his wife Katharine, both ¢ nid, were taken to to-day. suffering fr h escaped from a jet mon the fourth iit Bast 13d Street. ving Cup to Capt. and Mrs. Louis F. Alfaro, About 100 convalescent soldiers of the United States Base Hospital No, 1, Gun Hill Road, the Bronx, ten- dered a testimonial dinner last night to Capt. and Mrs, Louis F. Alfaro of the American Red Cross and pre- sented the couple with a ¢ilver loving cup. ‘The affair was arranged in appre~ clation of thé various enter provided by Capt. and Mi since they were assigned there, thé couple havin; 5s two Red taken the gloom out of hospitals. George A. Traylor, co ing ofcer of the hospital, an dozen members of his*staff attended. ‘apt. Alfaro, who has served in all the big atmy hospitals inthe Bast has made .a remarkable success 0} providing amusément for the men. Besides Col. Traylor, Leggett of the Red Cross, and Rabbi M. Gintner sounded words of praise the hardworking couple. Alfaro was assigned to Bago | 9n¢ No. 1 a detail of men have been going week to some seashore resort, without expense to themselves, entertainments musements heretofore unheard of at Col. tor Capt each outdoor the Gun been inaugurated Hil Tt was there all day Mrs. nmgg rg leadqua: Gta inson Smith, William Lilly of Weat |{*Wed the tre h, and a Inglis M, eatves. Tt ti era! alarm, had bree days. fh recelvini aw a Beech French. Dinner and born enak, inments Alfaro earned a reputation }800" to-day, ross workers who have| No. mand- halt a change in that. Major J. D. | peer, guests, the bar were sr and and other | fio bra eggs with changed drank 2. Road Hospita; have Miss ROBINSON SMITH Summer Colonists Will Be Bnter- tained in Cosy Home at Stockbridge. Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith and Miss Miriam K. Oliver of New York have just completed @ log cabin tn the pine and hemiock forest at the Dugway, the home of Mr.:and Mrs, Chi t Stockbridge, Miss Smith and Miss Oliver cut and laid the foundations and did all the work on the cabin them- 4 huge old fashioned fire- Pince of native stone and is furnished id with ith ey ete amd were They fied It Chester French ani ith's 1 PRETTY GIRLS SAMPLE 2.75 IN PARK ROW BAR INVASION Dainty Feet Eased on Brass Rail- ing as Fair Bartender Serves Beverages and Pastry. In the old days, and especially in the old nights, merry gentlemen at No, 13 Park Row have seen strange things, among the commonest of which were dink elephants, purple mice and rum- of all sizes and colors. But on the wildest midnight, no auch scene was presented as that witnessed at high || 13 Park Row is Maan's, Over the ber and over olf leather lounges ati] hang the gold-framed plotures of Diana and Venus and Lady Godiva and forty variations of September Morn, No But back of the bar, itting in and out among the baftenders drawing 2.75 was & pretty girl in @ blue silk dress with transparent sleeves, carrying Since | traya of French pastry, drawing coftee ane chocolate, and setving ¢hem to the And up against the vering side of @ummery girls, one foot of euch restin r Rob- last Friday evening, found that Holmes kept in his fies copies 6 many letters indicating ence with notable men of the district. Amang them were Li, Grace, President of the Stee! Company; James H. Clark, C Engineer of the Baltimore and Onto: by James A, Farrell, President of he _ United States Steel Corporation; A. — ©, Bedford, Chairman of the Board of — Standard O11 letter to J. Kelly, No, 216 State Street, Company; I. Louis Sehaefer, of W. R. Grace & Company; H. T. Horr, of the Westinghouse con- cern, and many others. There was & Pierpont Morgan ff which Holmes said he had worked out a method by which Mr, Morgan — could profitably increase the business of the Morgan House. Mr, Dooling talked with several of the men on the telephone, but they denied that they knew Holmes or had had anything to do with him, The District Attorney, ning his crusade against brokers, has had several inquiries Ter garding Holmes, Linsoott & of No. 59 Peari Street, who mall in the Holmes offices, they use the address of another @m- trance of the same building. —enettemeene ie vwinling teormaster Assistant om Tramsport. Miss Martine Cleo Borgersen, yeo-~ at Port Chester last night. The bride- the wea on. r. the Evenin, the Globe, yanett: ing World MOTOR GASOLINE Tonic food for motors-a drop » powel- full ‘kick’in every 4 yartes Mra. Laws |e orn me of Pore wp tad sre See ae groom, & ships news reporter, served — Curing whe Wer. pe Ques Sy ry ek the. neat supply | we prodding Py en wowspaners fais a