The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1919, Page 3

ATSKILL JUNKET MAYOR'S AIDE PROBED BY JURY delights” to “Overshadow- Crime” Taken Up—Me- nley Calléd With Vouchers, OMAN TAKEN ON TRIP. Report Hotel Bills Paid by City —Crabtree Is Recalled at Inquiry. ‘The Pxtraordinary Grand Jury de- itself to what were termed elights” oh the “overshadowing Y" as to which it hag been seek- tmformation for ten days. James Ginley, chief of staff of the Com- foner of Accounts, was called to duce vouchers and other papers ing to do with a trip taken by a nber’of the Mayor’s cabinet on a to the Catskills late last summer. whe story about the Criminal rts Building was that this public jal had made use of a city auto- bile and its city-salaried driver for cation trip on which he was ac- npanied by two women relatives d that the. hotel bills for their en- inment in the Catskills were de a city charge. Grant Crabtree, First Deputy Clerk the Police Department, was re- led and furnished the Grand Jury ith numerous papers in addition to those which he exhibited yesterday. eral policemen who formerly ed under the direction of In- spector Costigan in investigating sup- Poved alliances between police ‘agencies and criminals had briet ex- aminations. Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield, who gaid publicly yester- @ay ho would gladly sign a waiver of immunity in connection with any bestimony he might give the Grand Bary, was subpoenaed early to-day, but was left in the ante-room while the other witnesses were examined. Members of the Grand Jury showed considerable irritation when the sub- of his statement was mentioned. explanation as to the reason for keeping bim walting was offered to Commiesioner Hirshfield was called into the Grand Jury room at 1.35 o'clock. He had been kept waiting two hours. The Commissioner was in the room but a fdw seconds. When he came out he said the Grand Jury could “do any talking about what hed happened.” A member of the Grand Jury said the Commissioner had refused to sign a waiver, WIFE FINDS GARMENTS OF OTHER WOMAN, SUES Mrs. ‘Amelia Kasower Alleges Hus- band Entertained While She Was Away. « Argument on the motion of Mrs. &melia Kasower, wife of Abraham Kasower, a wealthy Brooklyn real ‘extate operator, for $100 a week all- mony and counsel fees, was heard this morning by Justice Delehanty in Gupreme Court. Pending disposition of her suit for absolute divorce Mrs. ‘Kaesower asked the Court for an order giving her custody of three minor ‘children. ‘Mrs. Kasower alleges that while she ‘wes @bsent from her apartment, No. % Hewes Street, Brooklyn, during Paty, 1916, he engaged Charles Fried, an ex-soldier, as care taker, A sup: perting affidavit by Fried, bears out Mra. Kasower’s allegation that on the might of July 23 of that year Fried, fa going through the apartment, found a woman's hat on the first floor, a woman's cloak on the second @oor and ascending to the top floor Giscovered Kasower with a woman, Kasower, says his wife in her com- ‘pisint, is at present engaged in a big Teal estate operation at Ocean Park- way, and is making money, and “ex- tobecome a millionaire in a few ears.” The couple were married in December, 1905, und following. their ation, she says, he allowed her Feb a week. Justice Delehahty res earved decision. —— CHICAGO MAY SENTENCED. May Sharp, alias Chicago May, an (international crook, was to-day sen- tenced in the Court of Special Sessions to serve an indeterminate term of from six months to three years in the Black- | well’s Island Penitentiary. was convicted of petty larceny ,. A man named Turner, addre preased by the Court with the tion that he was a man’ of deserved consideration for the case estified that he had taken the woman to a room in West 143th PStreet. Here, he said, a man emerged from a eloswt up, robbed him. ‘Chicago May admitted she had been tenced to serve five years neh prison for atding the escape of notorious criminal from Devil's land, but said that she had been par doned. She also ac tted having ed ten years in inglish prison. sup- explana- family who prosecuting Payment to former General Hamas F. Conway of Plattsburg, N @ $100,000 legal fee,from the the late Loyal 8, Smith, a native who died at Atlantle Cit leaving a $4,000,000 ecomme day Attorney of Court by 1 upon, eand vims from New ing condemna % which totalled $980,000, eres finds. Mr: Conway's legal wise in the estate profititug, “ and after beating him] the public in @) counsel to a Citizens’ BERETS st vecwsenY” YE 9 OE 3 OC UIE HA TT LATEST TRACTION PLAN CALLED Bla JOKE BY 4IYLAN Selection of Hughes as Coun- sel of Merchants’ Committee No Surprise to Mayor. x KME XE RNR! NEE KRERER ER ERE EEX RESEND SEN NEE RMN WE PNW RR Ke Re I eR “What do you think of the proposed | investigation of the transit situation by @ committee formed by the Mer-| chants’ Association and the selection of Charles E, Hughes as chief coun- sel,” Mayor Hylan was asked ‘to-day by The Evening World. “The Merchants’ always been and is now in sympathy Association has with the public utility corporations,” replied the “The object the committee appointed by the Mer- ‘Citi- Mayor. of chants’ Association, called the Traction evi- to it to favor an increased fare zens’ Committee,’ 4s dently foree public officials, possible, This committee should be called the ‘Interborough and B, R. T. Traction Committee.’ \ “I understand that the desire of the Merchants’ Association is to have the people get the impression that this committee is acting for the citizens of New York “Neither the Mayor*nor the mem- bers of the Board of Hstimate and Apportionment have made any sug- gestions in regard to the appoint- The se- ment, of such a committee. lection of Mr. Hughes does not sur- prise me. He is well versed in transit matters, Was it not Mr. Hughes who appeared at Albany at the last session of the Legislature afd argued for the passage of the Carson-Martin bill, the purpose of which was to bo street car fares in the city? This is the same Mr. Hughes who as referee in the gas case recommended higher gas rates. * “I had concluded that the traction crowd had. resorted to almost every scheme that human ingenuity could devise to drive, foi ree pub- lic officials to favor an increased far but this latest scheme called the ‘Cit- | izen's ion Committee’ is the greatest joke ever perpetrated upon ny res agreed to serve as chief ‘Transit Com the Merchants’ ommendation tain situation Mr. Hug’ mittee by Association the re of Federal Judge Mayer to the facts about the transit in New York The inquiry will be a quasi-judicial proceeding. The men back of it hope through a thorough inquiry to develop some way prevent ‘the disintegration of the transit lines either with or increase in fares. Hughes," read the associa- announcement, “will select his own assistants and will have an abso- lutely free hand in making the in- vestigation, which will be comparabie organized on asce to city's without Mr. tion's to the insurance investigation in its importance to the ity.” ta an Renate al ts al Arnel athena at PRIN CE aOr- shown ‘The young Prince of Wales is ?: 4 EVENING ‘wWoRLD, THU RSDAY NOVEMBER 1. Prince Greeting a Wounded U.S. Soldier During Visit to Washington Hospital RMD aa Be ae Hee FPR CU Sa SPREE | fraternizing with wounded doughboys at Walter Reed Hos. pital, Washington, where upwards of 2,000 wounded Americans are being treated. that the It will be noticed Prince 1s using his left hand, his right hand still being swollen in Canada. from so many greetings AMERICAN WHO WINGED NINE PLANES DECORATED | BY THE PRINGE OF WALES “YT Flying Corps, bri way among by ton to-day. Robert Bingham, Courier-Journal, vi Lieut inging the Lawrence K © co QLLARAN 36, i Callahan, Royal who is credited with down nine German planes, the Americans decorated of Wales in Washing- He is a nephew of Judge owner of the Louis- and his home rince 8 in Louisville Pc Bae EIGHTY AMIERIGAN HEROES DECORATED BY PRINCE Ceremony off AY An At WASHINGTON, leers merican ne ed n to- ha ceremony nont home, Military bassies wer Witnessed by Military taches of the Allied Embassies, Nof 18.—Bighty enlisted men of the army and navy and seven Red Crosg nure were deco- day by the Prince of Wale place in thg Bel- all the allied A vivid pit of took as weene by tl pre six-foot Scoveh ir pre-War uni- blue trousers pcorations, the Prine Proteatant Epia® copal Cathedral of St. Peter and st Paul, which ts se of conatruc- tion, and pl a tree in the grounds hear two placed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Prince was received at. the cathedral by Bishop Alfred WALE Spa TWA TER RE RE RKREREX xh SALW HMRC HRT i % * x * x ) *e * * * i * x F x % * ) x x * * x * ] x, * * x * x 4 HO RS REREREE ERE ‘& * wat ee STRIKE EPIDEMIC COSTS WORKERS HERE $6,435,000 Three Unauthorized Walk- outs in Eight Weeks End in Outright Failures, | Unauthorized strikes o nd walk-outs, attributed to radical influences “bor- ing from within” have imposed a loss in wages on workers. in New York City amounting to $6,435,000 in the laste eight weeks. None of these strikes | has succeeded in attaining the object for which it was called; three have | ended in outright failure, The following figures relating. to these strikes were obtained from the | New York State Department of Labor and officers of the unions involved: Jewels workers-—3,500 out on stike for late. weeks} average Weekly pay. ‘Iisa. in agen fon. nt ret 81,400,006 Reg. Candiers--200. on strike for three \ ray pay $80.0. week for thee weeks. 1°"preanmen- 1,000 "on airiie oi average pay $10. 8 Week: Vong in wages for five weons Butcheis stelke. (wo. weeks aerage, Bay. #25 ‘s. week? Joss Ii agen for "two" weeks ae 0 i iif nvorage. pay #20; lowe in Snare for two. wesks Lonsshone. workers 30,000 on wiriie foie eckaz. average pay E30 awed loa Tor four wyeks ore Serie i “oi tons alten Wishe three | ‘Thal. . } | STRIKES THAT FAILED OR ARE FAILING. Of the strikes listed above, the x [longshoromen, egg candlers and f cl United Cigar Storo clerks refurned to % | their Jobs without accomplishing any- thing except the loss in wages. The 3 | others are still pending without being X jable to tie up the industries affected, and thus appear to be making little ff t ’ headway. bi | The total of almost six and one-half | million dollars lost to the workers} through the strikes enumerated does | not take into consideration -the huge | TEN CENT FARES POSSIBLE IF L" S UNSCRAMBLED Manhattan Co. Could Charge This on Non-Rush Hours Un- der Original Charter. Stockholders of the Railway Company, which owns th elevated lines leased to the Interbor- ihe AUGER EEDE Sie the ough Rapid Transit, at a, meeting! ranks of the workers -is loyal to yesterday discussed what should be the American Federation of La- done in the event that the Inter-| bor, fair and opposed to all strikes borough fails to meet its financial ob-| without first exhausting every ef- gations toward tif Manhattan in| fort looking to negotiation the near future. The loss in wages to the workers One report in circulation to-day,} in twentty of the larger strikes in and which was confirmed by under| New York City amounted to about officials of the Manhattan, was that} $500,000 a day, This does not In- the stockholders found some encour: agement in the fact that under thei charter the: in non-rush hours, While no yote| . 4 large aba ta fe ae one an fostered by radicals, 1, W. W.s or was taken It appeared to be generally | jycishevista thrdaghout the State agreed that if the Manhattan is com-| fail’ of accomplishing. thelr pur- pelled to take back its lines it also| pose, the net results being no Will be compelled to charge the fare whenever it legally can do so. Frank Hedley, General Manager o: ful f Outside New York City there the Interborough said to-day that on| are 16,390 workers out in the erboro! ai larger ‘strikes in the State, to» Oct, 2, the Interborough paid out on! ether with a large number af- the Manhattan Railway account $1, fected by sporadic walk-outs. 050,000, Mr, Hedley’s attention was New York City and Utica are calle > ? Pape the greatest hotbeds of radicalism, called to rumors that the I. R, T. will ‘he remedy tor labor unrest is & be unable to meet its Jan. 1 obliga-| campaign for Americansim tions to the Manhattan, He would not| PROPOSES LAW TO HEAD OFF discuss “rumors,” he said, and he de- clined to speculate on what may hap: pen in the future, He Manhattan are permitted to charge @10-cent fare on the elevated lines confirmed the losses suffered result of other strikes covering same. period—| millinery w plasterers, piano makers, plumbers, shipyard workers and dozens of others, The question whether 4t pays to in- dulge in.what has been called the na- tional pastime—striking—was put to Edward D. Jackson, Deputy State In= dustrial Commissioner In charge of the Bureau of Mediation and Coneili- ation, Mr, Jackson, who is here to- day from Albany, in his reply gave some interesting facts which cast new light on the labor unrest situation in New York City and State asa the rkers, Here are the chief points he outlined as a re- suit of his observations throughout | the State: From 96 to strikes in p f started subsequently radical agitators and influences, r cent on Oct of all the . land to are due .| clude a large r| strikes, A total of 115,000 were made idle these twenty strikes, number of smaller by 1] gains for the workers with loss of all pay during the period of idle- ness BONA FIDE STRIKES. | As an additional re Mr, Jackson says he nedy for strikes, intends to have an amendment introduced tn the Leg- Be Fee se 1919 | Spanish Count and Countess | Whose Wedding Trunks WereLooted eQoNr ARCENT | City furnish an illuminating iMlustras)f | tion of what is sought to be obtained strikes which have some of the been crippling the industry of the city, | A. Greenstoin is 5 ary of the Jew- lery Workers’ International Union. he jewollers, according to Green- stein, were getting from 80 cents to $3 and hour for 44 hours’ work a week. They were satisfied with the pay, but went on strike for a thirty-nine-hour week with the same pay ecived for forty-four hours, “We saw conditions and we took it,” Greenstein. “It might be that when we get the thirty-nine hours we will ask for even shorter hours, later muy- be thirty hours a week; but that can't come just yet. So just where it started eight weeks ago, But that doesn’t matte can be a failure, because the masses in self-government, our Constitution provides that if we get tired of our Government at Wash- ington we © a right to put In a new Government.” > - MORAN GAINS 3 VOTES IN’ OFFICIAL CANVASS | Checking of Manhattan Results to Be Completed by To-Morrow Night; Brooklyn Starts To-Day. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the New York County Board of Canvaasers hud completed ten out of the twenty-three Assembly Districts in Manhattan, ‘The results show a gain of thr » votes for candidat Robert Moran, Democratic for Aldermanic President, who defeated by FH. La Guardia, Republican candidate. The Moran gain ix due to corrections in additions on tally sheets. This morning the canvassers worked on returns in the 9th, 10th and 11th Assembly Districts, having already ompleted the count in the Ist, 2d, 3d, bth, 6th, 7th, Sth and 13th, It is ex pected the canvans for Manhattan will be completed by to-morrow night. It was said at City Hall to-day the Brooklyn count did mot begin until this morning Tt ix reported from 300 soldier ballots. Mee the Secretary camps. The final result of this will not be known until Dee, 1 total will be in the neighborhood 1,500. $2,500 FOR HEART BALM ENOUGH, RULES JUSTICE Court Reduces Verdict for $5,250— Jilted Fiancee Had Not Yet Bought Her Trousseau. hundred dollars is suMel- was A ny that about reached the of St ve Twenty-five ent heart balm for a shattered Staten Island ro: if the girl in the case has not gone to the ex- pense of providing her tre au, Justice Aspinall of the Suprme Court 90 rul yesterday when he held that the Jury's verdict for $5,260 In the case of Miss Myrtle Scott, a pretty stenographer of No. 44 Waverly Plac , Stapleton, against report that the Manhattan under its|iicture to, compel, both employers charter yould be able to cirge a 10/and workers to give notice to the cent fare in non-rush hours [State Industrial Commission before The elevated lines owned by the |penetiath Beoken Gis. sANGn & Manhattan . Elevated Railway Com-|many cases be ‘a simple matter for pany rented to the Interborough |tho State mediators to get into the | for 0,000 per annum, payable|controversy and bring about a settle- quart The October installment | ment before a strike is called of the rent was paid, and the Inter-] ‘The method used by radical agita borough company is not in arrears as | iors in stirring up strike, according yet, to Mr. Jackson, is to persuade the — workers to believe that thelr wages FACES ALIMONY TERM. Jare to be cnt, “Phe agitators tell them | the bosses ‘got theirs’ during the war; that the war is ever now and th Dr. Harry D. Johnson tol there'll be a big reduction in pay } Pay or Go to J lot's get ours now,’ the agitators tell sSicak Si them, with the result that demands Sepeome Court fusticn Fran ‘for pig increases are framed and the Delehanty to-day gave Dr | Hunt tan Gam neviico.t | Johnson, house physician: at n| "All through the “State, sald Mr. | HaM, £6th and Broadway, until 3 o'clock | Juckson, the strikes started by rad: | to-morrow afternoon to pay $445 back |culs are failing, The decent, Ameri- alimony to his wife, Mrs. Mabel Potter |¢4n element is holding aloof, Chief} Johnson, or be remanded to Ludlow |alnong the strikes since Oct. 1 outside Jail to join the Almany Club | the city and the numbers involved are | with “Sockless"” David Goldhaber and | the following others, | ‘The divorce suit is expe r reached to-morrow before Jus 1 M, Davis, Dr. Johnson. had ing, by order of court, $500 a inbr to his wife for herself pending trial and four chtildre f the divorce, ny | Graph _ + | In addition there have been scores | Left $16,000 te Chi o Jof small strikes which have for the} An appraisal filed yesterday in the| most part been settled, | Surrogate’s office, Brooklyn, shows that S| Isubella Byers, who died Dec. 21, 1910, STARA TO OVI Ca Ane Re at her home, No, 826 Marcy Avenu 5 ‘ left $16,000 to religious and philan- | Str ateBAdsOUl Boley iain throple organizations distributed ax foi BeXalls | (iG stFiie oF ie ete | lows: ¥, W. C, A., $1,000; Y, M con, fe str sare tine, 1,000; 8p, George 6 BE Chute ae eterna et culate Women’ and Children, $5,000;, The American workers have refused | Aid Society, $4,000, and Women’s Hosp): tal of Now Yous $4,000. ; to participate. ‘The jewelry workers of New York a Leonard Kunst of No, 678 Richmond Con’ was exec unced that unless Miss ler sua, ssive court anno} Scott 8 agreed to accept th new trial would be granted. According to the testimony Scott and her mother Miss Scott three times a week fro of Kunst called on Miss n 1914 until 1917, and that after he entered the army he wrote frequently. Qne of these otters offered in evide addressed Miss Scott as “My Dear Wife-to-be. Steamer Talon Listed LONDON, N 1 he British steamer Talus, from Glasgow June 14, for New Y n posted at Lioyds ag The British sivamer Du New York for Antwerp. bas arrived at Dov ti repairs, having boom 16 collisiom as they | a chance to better our | said | ar our strike is No strike it educates | mooning in the United States. Even | CAQNTHSS OF ARCENTALES SPANISH COUNTS TRUNKS LOOTED OF $35,000 GEMS Nobleman and Wife on Honeys moon Find Sticks Substi- tuted for Valuables. ae Details obtained by the police to- day served only to deepen the mys- tery in the theft of $35,000 worth of furs, jewels and gowns from the trunks of the Count and Countess of Arcentales, Spain, who are honey- The couple arrived at the Hotel |Touraine, No, 9 East 89th Street, on | Oct. 18 and left w few days later for Ja brief tour of the country. ‘They returned to the Toufaine Tuesday and |the two trunks they had taken with ‘them arrived last night. “The locks | had been ripped open and costly wedding presents and other belong- | ings taken, and pieces of \umber sub- jatituted in their place. A. R. Smith, proprietor of the Tou- raiiie, declared to-day that the Count, on bis arviyal, turned the trunk checks over to the hotel porter, who gave them to the hotel's express man, Frank Fearon of No, 234 West 30th Street, Bearon gave the cheoks. vo | his driver, who brought the trunks from the Lackawanna Station at the foot of West 24d Street to the hotel. ‘The driver will be examined to-day. Only two trunks of the Count and Countess were rifled, It had been stated that four other trunks of theirs had been “lost” in transit, but it was learned: to-day that these had been left at the hotel during thelr tour and that they were undisturbed. The Count last evening notified Dr. Peter J. Gibbons, No, 269 Madison Avenue, house physician of the Hote Belmont, who is one of the Count’s tow friends in New York. Dr. Gib- bons hurried to the Hotel Touraine, viewed the collection of firewood and advised, the pair Wo notify the police | REPORTED Temperature | Abates During te | Executive Remains at Bedside, in Brooklyn, The condition of Mra Smith, mother ef Gov, Alfred B. showed a slight tmprovement this ‘nm, according to the announcement 6F Major Alfred Glynn, Military Secretary to the Governor. Her temperature Had abated somewhat. Her respiration Wie slightly hampered. od Gov. Smith, who came from Alaa yesterday on receipt of the news that his mother was suffering from side in the home of her daughter, Simm John J. Glynn, No. 9 Middagh Street, Brooklyn, until 2 o'clock this morning, He then went to sleep in an adjoin room, The Governor has cancetted™ engagements, and tx keeping in toGeh with Albany by wire, Dr, Hermann M, Biggs, State Healthy Commissioner, and Dr, A. B. Wade worth, Director of the State Health: Laboratories, remained at Mra, Smi bedside until 11 o'clock last night were then relieved by the family clan, Dr, John Reb, of No, 289 BL Brookl)n, who remained midnight and returned to the hotiee early: this morning. tw Mra, Smith Is sixty-seven years old, - HU SHUES “NONE 80 GOOD.” Not only what we claim but what the wearers tell us—a very: convincing way of getting the facts as to.Husley superiority. | Ask any Hurley wearer. Made over a special last has C forepart, B instep, and Aheel. Grips the foot firmly, cannot slip at the heel. Cor- set fitting at instep. Absolute comfort in forepart. Wide, medium and narrow toes. | Our beautiful Cordovan shades are:| made possible by using only the best leathers, being treated by, the Hur-" leyized secret process, which increases the life of the leather, retaining Ma | rich lustre to the end. 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