The evening world. Newspaper, August 18, 1919, Page 3

fh SCORES HURT IN ACCIDENTS ~DUE TO Ble TRACTION STRIKE; UNDENTIFED WOMAN KILLED —_—— ine Injured as Truck Rams Pillar, Throwing Out 50 Passengers. , PEDESTRIANS RUN OVER Nov 117 Wést 126th Street, was knockéd down by an automobile at Park Avenue and 125th Street in the morning crowd and was severely bruised, John Lamirand, sixty-five, of N: 469 Bast O2d Street, was also hit b; an agto at Third Avenue and Stree! left leg was broken and he was taken to Flower Hospital. Arthur Burns of No, 3167 Broad way” was badiy bruised by being knocked down by a passenger truck at 167th Street and Broadway. Going to the left, to avord « car which was loading passengers at Thirtieth Street and Highth Avenue, at a little after 9 o'clock to-day, Pri- vate Samuel Borgen of the Motor Transport Co, swerved his truck into & crowd on the other side of the atreet and struck @ woman about, forty-six jyears old waiting for an uptown tar. She was instantly killed. Leth was held on a charge of homicide in Jefferson Market Court The woman wore & biue serge sult, a silk ribbon hat trimmed with a glass “Many Struck Down by Autos, ~ Jitneys and Trolleys in Traffic Jam. ‘The first accident reported from ‘the operation of the volunteer buses was at Third Avenue and 98th Street. Nine persony were cut and bruised »when a motor truck owned by the Maphattan Grocery Company and driven by Joseph Molilerno of No. 4% Kast 104th Street, struck a Third Avenue “L” pillar south of 98th Street, The front of the track was demolished and the impact threw wome fifty passengers through the open back of the truck to the street. Ambulances were called but no pas- wengers needed more than emergency treatment and then either continued downtown or returned home, ‘The injured are: Harry Kapsmat No, 1483 Madison Avenue; Joseph Nachenhon, No, 221 East 9th Street; Harry Wehblendin, No, 76 East 104th Street; Joseph Varsala, No. 208 East With Street; Richard Garoni, No, 1%4 Third Avenue; Frank Cadanin, No. 167 East 102d Street; Louis Tracker, No. 217 East 105th Street; ‘Thomas Vanadier, No. 319 Kast 105th _ Street, and Harry Schwartz, No. 1 East 106th Street. Henry Murphy, fifty-three, of No. . 520 East 16th Street, was struck by @ ‘Yitney bus operated by Anthony Cer- rete, at Delancey Street and the Bow- ery at 7.50 o'clock. He was treated ‘ey an ambulance surgeon und taken ‘home. Benjamin B. Balot, fifty-four, of No. "92 East 199th Street, was struck by _.® Lexington Avenue surface car at | 118th Street at 6.30 o'clock. His left leg and his nose were badly bruised. He was treated and taken home. George F. Moore, sixty-seve: bag in which were two Philadelphia subway tickets, Isaac London, fifty, of No. 450 Kast $9th Street, was struck 41 front of Ni West 34th Street by a Red €rosa Ambulance driven by Johh J. O'Connor, of No. 409 East j13sth Street. O'Connor carried London to the New York Hospital in his am- bulance, Herbert Ford, ten, of No. 130th Street, was removed to his home, suffering from a fractured skull after he had slipped from a Third Avenue surtace car at 74th Street and Columbus Avenue. j Sandor Rosensweig, twenty-two, of No. 1580 Bryant Avenue, was struck by an automobile at 1734 Street Southern Boulevard. He wi moved to Fordham Hospital suffer- ing internal injuries, May Audre, nineteen, of No. 447 East 116th Street, was struck by a jitney, at St. Nicholas Avenue and 121st Street. She was removed to the Knickerbocker Hospital, John Heldman, twenty-five, of No. 225 Barrow Street, Jersey City, while signaling from a jitney oa which he was riding at 5éth Street and Park Avenue, had his hand smashed when & passing jitney struck it. He was treated and taken home, Bila Patterson, twenty-two, of No. 106 West 128th Street, was struck by |a An automobile at Lenox Avenue and 127th Street. She was removed to Harlem Hospital with a lacerated left 5k East Frank Sestro, twenty- five, of No mo W dA The Women’s Shop for Value 22 East 34th St. almost toc good to be true. Here Is a Most Wonderful We are frankly ove Silk Dresses sold to $18.50 Silk Dresses sold to $35.00 Silk Dresses $50.00 Across the Street from ALTMAN'S NEED ANOTHER DRESS? A high-class attractive frock that will cost so little that it seems 1000 Beautiful Dresses In the Best Styles of Today close out to make room for new Fall and Winter apparel Reductions are Sensational Cloth Dresses That were formerly Cloth Dresses That were formerly Cloth Dresses That were formerly sdld to 2,371,000 PASSENGERS ARE AFFECTED DAILY BY THE TRACTION STRIKE E approximate number of passengers transported daily on the lines affected are: Subways ....... seeeeee 1,260,000 Total ..... seeeeeccee 3,871,000 Adding three cents to the ent fare would bring into |. carters an additional §71, “10h Sie ifigtres deo: oflteeh fon the six wor days of the week alone the ional revenue to be early from 313 work- leaving Sundays out— $22,263,690. T. ing da: would be by an ats at Tad Street He was taken hom "George, Satterafield, forty-six, of No, 42 Weat 186th Street, while crons- Ing 324 Street at 7th Avenue, was struck by « taxi driven by John Burna of No. 703 Columbus Avenue. Sattersfield | was removed to New York Hospital. William Foley, thirty- five, of No,! 14 Third Avenue, was struck by a! Third Avenue car at 47th Street. Hi was removed to the Flower Hosp: with a fractured skull. Alexander Sambler, No, 625 Hast 135th Street, was pushed through the window of a crowded ‘Third Avenue car at 125th Street and Third Avenue. the Suydenham Hospital. Revere Sampson, sixty-six, of No. 538 West 124th Street, was driving a wagon at 96th Street and Amsterdam Avenue when it was struck by an au- tomobile. Sampson was removed to | the Knickerbocker Hospital suffering | internal injuries. Patrolman Patrick ‘Nealon, thirty-” ight, of the Bathgate Avenue Sta” tion, was struck by an auto at Third Avenue and 174th Street. He was taken hom Louis Whitman, 22, No. 2945 West Fifth Street, Coney Island, was pushed through the window of a B. R. T. subway train at the Times Square station. He was treated for cuts about the hands and sent home, Patro!man Harry Shuter, 36, of Motoreycle Squad No, 2, while pa- trofing Seventh Avenue at 45th Street, uck by a taxi driven by Harry Weinberger of No, 296 Sec- ond Avenue, He suffered injuries to his right leg. Leon Verbalsky, 2%, of No, 932 Sump- son Street, was pushed off the run- ning board of a Third Avenue car at Third Avenue and 161st Street. He Was removed to the Lincoln Hoi pital, James French of No. 3191 ville Avenue was pushed off Aventte carin front of No. 2496 ThInd Avenue and was removed to his home with fractured right shoulder. ohn MoGuiness, rorty-five, of No. 434 West 33d Street, was struck by taxi at Columbus Avenue and 99th Street. He was removed to the Knickerbocker Hospital, Carl Worth- elmer, of No. 616 West 169th Street, driver of the automobile, was sum- moned to appear at the ‘Traffic Court e of reckless dri Rag Sale rstocked and must twenty-nine, | He was removed to) ‘ NIXON SPENDS 70 MINUTES AND $5 GETTING TO HIS OFFICE Many ‘Bronx Residents Travel Downtown by Way of Jersey and Tubes. It took Public Service Cammis. sioner Nixon one hour and ten min- utes and cost him $5 to-day to come to his office from his home in Fifty- second Street. He did not use a mu- nicipal bus. “Can you find optimism anywhere to-day?” Mr. Nixon was asked, “Yes,” said the Commissioner, “I betieve thik strike will be settled: it must be settled.’ He declined to go into details. “Have you seen any of the leaders | lately?” he was asked, “I was with Mr, Connolly not long ago," said the’ Commissioner, “for an hour and a half, An interesting gen- | tleman, but not a person to be ‘rubbed the wrong way.’” | Mr, Nixon prepared to get things in shape for the beginning of hi in- vestigation, He will begin as he began in the BIR, T. strike, by hear- ing the officials of the road. Notice Public Service Commissioner's office | at 2.30 o'clock, The Commissioner again made it plain that “green” men are not to be employed in the handling of subway trains, Some of these trains, he said, move at from 40 to 50 miles an hour and can not safely be trust- ed to motormen from out of town, Residents of the Bronx to a large extent used the Hudson tubes in get- ting to work In downtown Manhattan. Many travelled to 129th Street on any kind of surface conveyance they could crowd into, crossed on the Fort Lee ferry to the New Jersey side, took a Palisade car there for Hoboken, and then came to downtown New York by way of the tubes. ‘A Spruce Street business man living In the Bedford Park section of the Bronx travelled in this manner and reached the Hudson Terminal three hours and fifteen minutes after he had boarded a Willis Avenue surface car, He was exhausted when he reached his office, Here's a variation of the foregoing Bronx formula: One young man {s accustomed to get a Lexington Avenue subway train at Jackson Avenue every day and 28 minutes later he arrives in Park Row ready to read the ticker and see how the “market” is doing. He usually is at the tape at 9.30 o'clock, This morning he came in at 11.05, “I started early and got aboard a trolley car of the Union Railways Company at Prospect and Westches- ter Avenues,” he said, “and trans- ferred to a Willis Avenue car, which carried me to the Fort Lee Ferr: “Here L waited about a half hour for an Iron Steamboat which brought a tremendous load of passengers to the Battery in maybe an hour, At the Battery I took a Broadway sur- {ace car to Park Row. I must have been on the road three hours.” A man who evidently does not read the papers and apparently has no friends tried to purchase a ticket for ibway at 72d Street and Broad.’ yesterday at noon, ‘had been sent to them to be at the| Street, |Pearance of being in the last throes|, of ennui, pointed to a cardboutd sigh! | suspended beneath the ticket window. ‘The sign read: ROAD BLOCKED, ._ NO TRAINS RUNNING. “How long do you expect the block to last?” asked the would-be sub- way patron. “Ask Mayor Hylan,” said the ticket seller, The Sons of Chance, equipped with full sets of morocco lungs, were on the streets early with every sort of imaginable conveyance, from the |consumptive flivver to the imposing maroon and gilt lettered moving van, An enterprising dealer on Washing- ton Heights bung a cardboard sign from his window announcing that he had bicycles to rent, “What are they travelling on wagons for?” said a policeman to a reporter at Broadway and 167th “Every surface car line in the city is runnig.” “A friend of mine,” said the cop, is going to make @ trial trip aft dinner this afternoon, to his offk He's going to map out the route just the same if be was going on an automobile trip to Yellowstone Park.” —_— SHUTTLE TRAINS TO CORONA. Service Will Long Following « ference to-day with Deputy Public Service Comm Alfred M. Barrett, oMfcials of the Long Island Kullroad, announced thet in the rush hours this evening—and to jcon- tinue hereafter during the strike—a shuttle service wil! be run from the Ponnsylvaniay Station to Corona with stops at Woodside, Elmhurst and Win- fleld, L. 1 ‘These trains, it was said, will be kept moving back and forth on short head- way. The service will parallel that of the Interborough, Only the usual fare will be charged, POLICE HAD TO GUARD MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING 47 GALLONS OF PURE RYE Big Uproar in Flatbush Court as Heinous Offense Is Alleged Against Prisoner, HEN the nature of the complaint against young Bill Smith was made clear to-day to the crowd ip the Flatbush Court a murmur arose like that of a Roman mob in a Shakespearean tragedy. Magis- trate O'Neill banged his gavel, intimating that upon any recur- of rence the demonstration he vould clear the court, A police guard surrounded the defendant According to Detectives Mulvey and Owens, Smith, twenty-two, of No, 829 Rutland Road, broke into the establishment of Richard Crown at No, 698 Clarkson Ave- nue last Friday night and stole two crates, Smith was held in $1,500 bail for examination to- morrow, The crates contained — torty- seven gallons of pure rye whiskey. (ORPHAN ASYLUM N KILLED, ‘SCORES HURT IN ACCIDENTS DUE TO STI Temporary Auto Bus Lines Taking Mobs From South Ferry to Offices REPORTED GOUGED INSALE OF SUGAR Dealer thesis iney Denies Profiteering—Army Food Sale Off Till Wednesday. A wholesaler accused of charging An orphans’ asylum 14 cents a pound for 1,000 pounds of sugar is under investigation to-day by Ansistant United States District Attorney Ben A. Matthews, The sugar is 11 cents a pound. “fair” price for Local Department of Justice agents, working on the high cost of living in- vestigation, uncovered the case, The wholesaler has been called to appear to-morrow morning before Mr. Mat- thews and bring all his papers and records. He denied knowledge of the sale when questioned over the tele- phone by ‘Mr. Matthews and said if the sale had been made at the figure given It was by a subordinate, Mr, Matthews said if the charge was substantiated by an examination of the books, the wholesaler would be forced to make @ refund to the asylum and then would face Federal prosecution, Further discoveries of alleged OFFICERS WIN BATTLE WITH FIREMEN ON LINER One of the Crew, Actusal fs! Box shevist and Instigator of Fight, Arrives in Iron, on Colon, Capt, A. T, Hudging, skipper of the Pana Rall Steamship Compan: liner Colon, Worked his way out of tie canal port and ducked ander the show- or bath after ordering fourteen knots untit Morant Point light. on the sowth- eaatern point of Jamaica, was picked up. ‘Then he tumbled into his bunk, Early next morhing he was piped on deck by the cabin boy who told him, “We're not making much headway, ole. rm ‘The log showed eleven knots, He vorified his course and signalled for more speed. Then be had breakfast, Returning to the bridge he was told that the speed had dropped to nine knots. First Assistant Enginesr George who was on wateb, was se Big Turnout This Afternod Precedes First SHow to Aid the Equity. ‘The big parade of striking stom, actresses and chorus girls will take piace this afternoon, as scheduled, raln or shine, This wis the wiven out at noon at Equity quarters, The first benefit for Equity fund will be given at the Lex- ington Avenue Opera House to-night _ and arrangemonts have been mado to run automobiles and sight-seeing ‘buses from West 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, Columbus Circle, Times Square and Mth and ‘Broat- way to the show. ‘The managers have declared that the houses will remain closed, until after the strike, but there has bean talk of sub-leaging the theatres to moving picture concerns, After @ conference of the musicians and stage employees on Saturday, 8 BL Newman, Assistant Vico President of the American Federated Musicians, sald both organizations were with the Equity to a finish and so were the moving picture operators. The Equity received this mormag @ letter from the United Board of Bua ness Agents of the Building Trades as- suring the actors their moral support ‘and that they represented 150,000 men, “The mana, "the lettar read, “have beeg for the last few r3, not only hogging it for their individual gain, but have countenanced on the side a bunch of parasites commonly known as ticket agents, and this ine cludes the ticket agencies.” Lew Fields wrote that he was with the actors, that his son is a member of the Equity and so is his entire company. SAYS MINETY P. G, OF MEN DON'T WANT TO STRIKE Amalgamated’ Leader Declares He Does Not Want to Further _ Cripple Service. P. J. Shea, vice president of the Amalgamated, declared at the ‘Com ‘tinenta) Hotel to-day that the Inter- borough strike “in not @ strike but & lockout.” |. “Ninety per cent. of the employees of the Interborough,"’ he sald, “don't want to strike. We have found many instances of Lnterborough employees who were told that they would be air, He's making speeches again,” he reported. When Gomex was brought before the Captain he is reported to have said: I'm an Argentine Bolshevist working for Soviet rule, I am not talking to you, The firemen are my audience.’ When the fight was over most of the firemen had black eyes, Few of the officers wore anything but ashreda of thelr tropical uniforms, But they had Gomes. “Put him In irons,’ ordered the skip- per, And Gomes went into the hold on read and water, Coast Guard Jackies picked Gomes out of the brig this morning. The skipper charged him with insubordina- tion and assault on the high seas, He will be arraigned as soon as the akip- per can appear againat him. WASHINGTON, Aui Judiciary Committee to-day ordered tavorably reported to the Senate the nomination of ‘ Mitehell Palmer as Attorney Gene! | chur Williama,will meet him for ea- |cort to the Biltmore Hotel for a con- | ference with the Fair Price Commit- tee organised by Mr, Williams, 20 JERSEY FOOD DEALERS ON. THE GRILL TO-MORROW Newark’s ‘Mayor Leads Delegation “to Washington in War on High Prices. Mayor Charles P. Gillen of Newark to-day headed @ delogation of twenty Mayors from every part of, the @tate who appeared before the House Agrioul~ tural mittee in Washington to urge more stringent measures against proa- ‘teering. Twenty New Jersey merchants have been summoned to appear to-mor- row before the Federal Grand Jury In Newark, called in extraordinary session for the firat time in the hlatory of New Jermey, to investigate food conditions. » 4 household: 180,000 pounds at army bacon, ham and| discharged if they insisted on work- sugar, arfd 749,000 cans of corn, peas,| /M#. If this Is to be called a strike at tomatoes, pork and deans, soups and| 8H, it Is @ strike by the Interborough for an eight cent fare.” Shea also said that the only reason why there Is no strike now om the Red and Green car lines is the fact that “unions must be human. “We don't want to cripple the pub- Me any more than it in crippled al- ready,” he said, “but there may be # different story when the present situ~ ation) is remedied. A meeting of the Red and Green car line employes has been called for to-night at Lyceum Hall, $6th Street and Third Avenue, to decide on what shall be done about the discharge of employes for mem- bership in the Amalgamated. The company officials had spotters outside our meeting last Friday and since then 250 of the men who attended stringleas beans, Assistant Attorney U. 8. Keasier's ac- tion in summoning the New Jersey mer- chants, & number of whom are from Jersey City and Newark, before the Grand Jury follows an Investigation throughout the State, Frank R. Stone, chief of the Jersey Bureau Investi- gation, directed the detective work un- der orders from Washington, The mer- chants’ subpoenas require them to pro- duce their books to ascertain the dates on which they stored foodstuffs and the prices they paid for them, 7 veld or es SELLS GOODS BY PLANES. The first American travelling sales- to start on a@ selling tour by hoarded food have been made by Fed- era! agents working in Hudson Stroet and other lower west side streets. Federal investigators also turned their tention to-day to the, poultry situation in New York. They have found that there Is three times as much poultry in storage in New York as there was at this time a year ago, and they are digging through the rec- ords to find the reason, The sale of Gove:ament foods to the publi be delayed until Wec=esday, it was announced to- day by Capt. A. H, Stewart, in charge ef the army supply plant in Sth Street, and Ca,t. J. R. Hebbleth- waile, assistant sone supply officer. The work ~. tran: orting the food from army storeouses to the forty- se¥en Public Schools, where it will be placed on sale, was begun to-day. It was announced that the army blankets sold last week will be dis- tributed at Pier 12, Bast River, foot ot Wall Street, beginning to-morrow morning. District Attorney Henry EB. Lewis ot Brooklyn Las been carrying on a quiet Investigation into the high cost of food and clothing, securing ta- formation which he will use later oa in the prosecution of profiteers: While the inquiry into food hoard- ing undertaken ‘by District Attorney Swann still is in progréss the ques- tioning of witnesses has been discon- (nued until Thursday on account of the traction strike. Assistant Dis- trict Attorney John T. Dooling said to-day that C. A, Weinant, former President of the Borden Farm Pro- aucts Company, and I, Elkins Nathan of the New York Mili Conference Beard, probubly would be questioned when direct examination of witnesses is resumed, Attorney General Paimer will ar- rive here trom Wadhington at 7.30 this evening. He will go to Delmon ico's where Food Administrator Ar will leave 834 Street and the Hudson River Wednesday af- ternoon at 1,30 o'clock. He is Roland Bassett, representing manufacturers of overalls, and his route will follow the Hudson River to Poughkeepsie, with otops being made to take orders at Yonkers, Peekskill and Newburgh. have been discharged. In the nor- mal course of things this should call for an immediate strike. But, as E say, unions must be human,” Shea denied that a request for | wages by 6 o'clock to-night had been sent to Receiver Hedges of the Green car line, when a change in the retail selling price, due to advanced dr cost be- comes'necessary, oh anyone of the 14,000 items stocked in the average Store, the becomes the same day in every one pe apsnig stores.