The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1919, Page 9

BACK UP CHARGES. _ nT SB Overcrow: cig te 1 and Inadequate Service Generally Proved to Commission. | \ | Inadequate service by the Interboro Rapid Transit Company was proved | to-day before the Public Service| Commission, The Evening World's fight for detter shrvice was justiqed | —_—_————_—__| SING With False Teeth? SURE Dr. Wernet’s Powder | | em ie eee | If your dental plate is loose or drops, to get instant relief use| Dr. Wernet’s Powder regularly. | Yo# can eat, laugh, talk with ease. | Guaranteed by Wernet Dental Mfg. Co., 46 Beekman St.,N.Y. 25c, 50¢, & $1.00. At Drog and tment Stores, Refuse imitations. is the original powder. | * Tanne whio otlected data facts when tie allegations were pur lished, Public Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon and his deputy, Edward L. | Glennon, listened to @ recital of con- ditions, which they believe demand immediate imbrovement. Becouse of the hg aa ae i company off nswer the charges ee ese ny ‘Comuulaniiner denying & plea for a lengthy post- ponement, insisted that Frank J. Hedley, James L. Quackenbush and ‘other Interboro officials must answer the allegations to-morrow. Engineers and transit officials of the Public Service Commission char- acterized as wholly inadequate and | inexcusable the faulty service on sev- eral lines of the Inte: ro, empha- sising the crowding in non-rush hours. Particularly bad are the con* ditions on the Lexington Avenue-| | Fourth Avenue line, according to the | | testimony. Data was read into the record showing that between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening the service | was reduced on the Lexington Ave-| nue local line to three cars instead of six, that there was overcrowding and ofttimés not even standing room. On the express tracks trains of six and seven cars were run, it’ wad stated, instead of ten cars, and there was similar overcrowding. On the Broadway express tracks, It was stated, the examination showed that there was overcrowding In the morning, golgg southward, Up to 11 o'clock, and j Sh, going northward, after 4 o'clock. At night after the rush hours, it was stated, there was moré overcrowding because of inade- number of cars on the tfains. The only line which showed a less 22-26 West 34th'Street ing for, and at « price that invites telect. at Spear's Usual Terms of Liberal MAHOGANY DAVENPORT TABLE, with full depth invisible centre drawer. Size 24x54 inches. . «$59.50 GOLDEN OAK 401N COLON. IAL BUFFET | with lined silver Tos drawer and com- modious linen drawer, $26.75 ——$——— Cl SIX QUEEN ANNE Jacobean Oak or Golden Oak Chairs, Arm Chair and 5 Side Chairs, cov- ered in genuine Spanish equipped we are to take care of your needs. days like these at low prices on LIBERAL CREDIT TERMS is a singular advantage. little shopping around at Spear’s will prove this fact. BEDROOM FURNITURE—of lasting worth, as beautiful as it is comfortable. in each of our store-buildings. It will give you an idea of the class at the same time you will learn the conveniently easy payments it is possible to make in order-to own the suite you Four-Piece Suites as low as easly ROOM FURNITURE in every conceivable variety of style, finish Every single article and suite of the usual Spear Sintand a August Store Hours: TWO STORES Stop in when you ate in the eight and period set aga ia | Credit, As a suggestion: sped oy lpandlleg not for several years. Ba af pede ed n chasing furniture within the next year, it will pay you tamale Sw tion of Uhlan hare Kt delivered whan yeu are rend For 267.75 ‘en-Piece Suites as low as MAHOGANY TEA WAGON, with re- provable top Glass Tray and rubbe tired wheels $22.50 Englander Couch Bed, in fancy gray enamel rust-proof finish, with link fabric spring. Imperial roll edge mattress covered with fine quality plain denim or fancy cretonne Complete. $26.50 quate service and a lessening in the! | 9A.M.to5.30P.M.—Saturdays Until1P.M. 6th Avenue and 16th St. August Furniture Sale The extraordinary condition of the furniture market to-date great scarcity of all mer- chandise—gives us THE big opportunity of our business career, to demonstrate how well To be able to get the finer kinds of furniture in Just the finish, style and period look- Brak pli posed yle a tod design you are of bedroom furniture you peoae like § pee in your home—and ” Cann Sa Arm Chair and Roghgy | averaged from eight to ten persona Nixon, | ERE EV ERIS WOR the people that private management ‘was best, “When the railroad official prays he turns his face to Wall Street, but once it is demonstrated, for instance, that management in future will cen- ter in Washington, 1 hy sure he will serve the Government as earnestly ts he, eeeved: the old: masters in the of Diree! under res Peis ur cnt SS be’ the court of last tin egrets toa Be non-rush periods in which passen-/ gers had to stand. | On the west side subway line, tes-| timony showed, the curtailment ot} cars caused an average of twenty; standees to every car immediately | after the theatre hours and from 11.20 o'clock the standees. generally | RAILWAY INFLATION er car, Electrical engineers of the commis- sion said that on the westerly end | Sock in Dividends Paid on}* ‘x Queensboro line six-car trains| Stock Bonuses, He Says, ve been running on six-minute 4 headway, despite the orders of the Asking Congress Inquiry. commission that a three-minute head- way must be had. R. H. Nessen of the commission testified that three- minute headway could easily be main- tained if the crgss-overs were pro- vided and the power made available. | HOBOKEN FEARS ICE STRIKE. | ly of employees went on y would find a la em- element who felt their own been invaded and injured 19 would #tick.” FORD'S REPUTATION RUINED? WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Charges that eighteen representative railroads | p) operating ih all parts of the United] cag States gave aawy stock bonuses ag- gregating $460,414,000 from 1900 to 1910/and have paid’ millions in djvi- Lawye: ta: Mat ‘ated |dends on these bonuses were made} ~~” Nats one e Wanted Investigate Raise in P | before the House dnterstate Com-| MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, Aug. 12) Arguments in the $1,000,900 libel auit of Henry Ford againat ‘the Chicago Daily ‘Tribune closed to-day with the summing up addresses of Hiliott G. Stevenson, senior counsel for the Trib- un sir vo Altrea Luding, senior counsel Federal investigation of the ice prices by the manufacturers in Hoboken has been asked in a resolu tion passed by the City Commissioners and sent to Attorney General Palmer at Washington to-day. A delewation, of, dealers told the Com: missioners and Mayor Griffin that raise bal come without notice and that they Wore being char than the dealers in New City, A copy of the resolution also has been sent to Prosecutor Garven. An ice strike threatened the oity and it is thought this action will a | merce Committee by Glenn BE. Plumb of Chicago, author of the Plub plan for tripartite control of the roads. Mr. Plumb charged further that “thesey railroads, which have so in- creased their property investment account at the expense of the public, are now controlled in whole or in part by the Morgan interests, the Rockefeller interests and the Gould interests.” “On behalf of all the employees of these systems of transportation and the public,” said Mr. Plumb, “we de- mand that Congress shall make a thor- ough investigation of tho charges herein set forth, so that the American people may know to what extent it is sought to subject them to exploitation under the plans proposed to this com- mittee of Congress, plans which would | make lawful the fixing of rates based on the now lawful aggregate property investment accounts of these systems.” | Specifically Mr. Plumb charged that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, | the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago Northwestern, the Great bY says his reputation has Tribu rained, wat Ee pared by that ir ne orial ai Mr. Stevenson. “Nothing but $1,000,000 . of Tribune manor would heal it. ted? Ruined ? hy his reputation was so ruined that Michigan, two months after the editor- jal, gave him the primary vote for President. Some of you jurymen may have voted for tim. I don't know, but if you did, may God forgive you.” epementati> nore ' RACES TO JOIN NAVY. fom of Penna. R. KR. Tre Crossing Continent to En Because his ambition Is to became an officer in the navy, Thomas B, Me- Knight, son of T. H. B, MoKnight, treasurer of tie Penusyivania Rafiroad, is racing across the country from Call- fornia to New York, McKnight is atriv- ing to reach here by Thurada: is the last day on whic! enter the service to be elig clage entering Arthapolia in Juni The class is under Corporal Horn Exoner An astauit charge against Police Cor- poral Joseph ly. Horn of the West 20th Street Station, accused of attacking Helen Dilles, No. 308 Went 131st Street. was dismissed y Magistrate ‘Ten Byck in the *Jetterson Court. No complainant appey the case had been called sev: superdred nought Oklahoma. Bhaign ilague hin self rose to commissi rank from | Northern, the Ilinois Central and the Southern Pacific Railroads gave away | buelacket in four years and was honor | in bonuses to their stockholders more QS than $250,000,000 during the ten-year | period mentioned, and that “the actual| CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS? dividend disbursements on this excess m Ratlway Hupieyecs Want capital for the year 1913 alone amount- ed to more than $11,000,000." He also alleged that the Pennsyl- vania, Baltimore and Ohio, New, York. New Haven and Hartford, New’ York Central and Hudson River Railroad, Boston and Maine, and the Delaware and Hudson companies “issued new stock for $1,010,000,000 less than its market value, or gave away this enormous amount in bonuses to stockholders,” ahd that “the dividends paid in these fictitious stock issues in 1918 alone.amounted to over $4,317,- 000." A. B. Garretson, former head of the Order of Railway Conductors, told the Committee to-day that operating offi- clals in chareg of railroads during |} fovernment control were actuated by the one desire of demonstrating that government ownership was not best for the country, . ROME, Aug. Nitti, 1¢ is anno’ telegram from se groups of railway employees- who offer voluntarily to in- crease the number of thelr working, hours in order to increase national peor duction. —-—_- “5 MOTHER ILL, GIRL MISSING. -, ade dressed to the Chief of the New York Police, was received at Police Head- quarters to-day saking that search be r Miss Billle Morross of Rock The (elegram, signed by W. 1, Ber- wald, said the’ girl's father has died and ‘that her mother is hovering at death's door. ~~ 1,619 TROOPS DUE TO-DAY. Transport Northern Pacific Wxpect- ed With Welfare Workets Also. ‘The transport Northern Pacific is due to-day with 1,619 troops from Brest, 945 of whom are casual officers and the givers members of the 293d Military Po- tlee Company. ‘There are also on the ship 487 welfare q 1 ti “Exactly the same operating force that built up a great surplus before the war created this big deficit,” Gar- retson said. “There could be no real test as to government operation so long as the future disposition of the roads had not been determined. Every effort was made to convince oceupying an entire floor 177.50 ESTABLISHED 31 YEARS, REGARDING HIGH PRICES AND LACK OF e August Sale Furniture cured by us at former low prices. TAPESTRY UPHOLSTERED LIVING THEREFORE ve can and do offer the largest selec- ROOM SUITES in large assortment. tion to choose from at Mostly one ofa kind tobe closed out at at. PRICES 35% ‘10 50% BELOW OTHERS— LESS THAN PRESENT WHOLESALE COST. Our Warehousca ana Stores Are Open for Public Inapection to Prove the Truth of Our Claims, tractively low prices for ted awe a sh stance, . Spat pholster nce, Byars e jy vcbem hl nrvese Pek or Mahogany finish, upholstered in Imi- tation Leather. (An oenienn 2 for mattress)... x) ; Solid American Walnut, Queen Anne Suite H (AT LESS THAN PRESENT WHOLESALE COST.) A BIG SUITE, FOUR PIECES—Buffet, China Closet, 48- i Serving Table. 50 With Armchair and five Side Chairs, cov- 278 ered in Genuine Spanish Leather, $55 extra. Charge Accounts Invited NEW YORK’'S LARGEST FURNITURE STORES SIDE ICER—35'/2 inches wide, 18 teen teas, © bens nae a8 ON SPEAR OUTFITS are not ": made.” ‘They are selected to your individual requirements, a'ter we learn the “kind” of home you are Purchasable at Spear's ‘ready ESTABLISHED 31 YEARS. | Credit Terms—of course, urTowN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN 3D AVENUE AVENUE A BROADWAY Cor, 1284 8 | Cor, 4th st, at Saratone Ave. pen Mon, & Sat. Bys., Including Clothing Dept. in B'klyn Store, ani a a SS Soa i Ail 5 VS SVat, SUerer fe se a ip cbs Scute siteation was the Broadway-! a} Sevefith Avenue line on the local - /| tracks, although. there were even here me 191 women can step into | ‘a lucky SHOE sale | 77 pairs $3.90 a pair sounds very small these days —and it is just as small as it sounds for standard Wanamaker shoes like these~ 491 pairs —are iow shoes, left from our Summer sale. There are many styles in this gh calfskin pumps and oxfords; patent leather pumps; and a few tan ox- fords. . Not all-sizes~in every style—you couldn’t expect that; but sizes as a whole from 214 to 7; widths AA to C, with a few D. One example of what The August fur sale means This seal-dyed coney coat, $125 You can appreciate this coat better when you see it. Well choserf skins, finely matched, are the firs points of quality. Slightly flaring in style, ‘with shawl collar and bell sleeves. Lined throughout with heavy silk. '80 inches long. This coat is one of the features in the August fur sale Don ncralns It is np os r cent. less NOW than it will be when the sale closes on September 13th. The sale price includes the Federal tax. Pay 25 per cent. now, if you wish, and the remainder on or before November Ist. Down.-Stairs Store, Old Bldg. It is possible to get GOOD serge frocks at $17.50 | Se Sy Ee tad How long?.,..We don’t know... .But One en ng is Meets straight from shoul- we DO know that these new serge frocks | der to hem, with braid picanainet Wa a are bares than,we anticipated Rides Popes send atts paar a Saag a al pa conditions ese all wool; a lusely braided. modela fine ‘twill; and the tite de details of dress- | ' trot 34 to 44, 7 making (lined waists, etc.) are well worth ty in every size. You’ like thems” noting. Fourth avenue— Down-Stairs Store, Old Bldg. Women’s white skirts—farewell at $3 Probably 400—a few more or less, pei pethape. Skirts that. 65 to $4.45 in remulet som Fine gabardines and that serve longer tae oe tao Acleansup | marl Down-Stairs Store, Old Bldg. $5 wash frocks still a reality Some stores forget that summer sunshine has man to N rf When dressmakers get ready for fall, WE know that od ein pl sand pap ; and we plan accordingly’. . .Voiles and ginghams in women’s and misses’ sizes—fi and clean —and diaaaiihies ’ Down-Stairs Store, Old Bidg. ~ = Upstairs — for MEN A sale that gives New York men the advantge ot 6,000 . .. Fresh, new shirts at $1. 95... These good wa were bought so long ago that we could sell them back to the maker at a good profit. Or We could mark them up to conform to today’s regular retail prices, and make a larger profit. But That isn’t the Wanamaker way. We're offering them to you at a price based upon OUR cost many months ago — Which means a liberal saving to every man who is ready to buy his fall and winter supply now. Good percale and madras cloth qualities —sizes 14 to 17~a host of desirable patterns and eolorings. ~-Come—and see—akd profit. Burlington Arcade floor, New Building (