The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1919, Page 4

THE EVENING WORLD, EW YORK SPORTS valive Ways “hiihly Big As- Sortment, to Say Nothing of Kind Drys Hate PIEC EWORK Money Needs Wet Ww ash and “Pep” Is at Discount City Like Bedlam. | | SHAVES. By Vincent Treanor. eeial Start Correspondent of The Wortd) } ILAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 18, queer country It's a lacks luckirig in energy sit in front f you on chairs or boxes while shin- ing your shoes; jather and shave one side of your face fore tackling the other, and where ithe paper money of the realm (Uncle Sam's by the way) is old, tattered, where boot- where some barbers uggest rerms No wonder that hundreds of sports from New York in Havana for the typhold und other deadly entaj Park regard the conditions with amazement and are slow in becoming accustomed to them. | “Well, U'll be blowed,” said George , Reinheimer at his first sight of a boot- | black at work. “Pipe the guy sitting down! Imagine him polishing shoes | in New York that way! Some one in| disgust at his laziness would plant a! shoe on his chest and push bim over | sbackways.” “why, he’s all right,” chipped in Abe Kempner, who hasn't missed a Havana mecting since the inaugural six years ago. “He doesh't beat up your pet corns with his brushes. He's slow and careful, Of course he won't waste any energy on your brogans, but you must remember this is @ tropical country. The natives don't do everything on the song and dance order. Stay here long enough and you'll get like trem. No, my boy, ) they don't believe in ‘pep’ here.” | SHAVING DONE ON A PIECE-} WORK BASIS. Barbers are barbers the world over. Some good, some bad. Havana is overrun with both kinds. There are two or three shops in every block, just as there are eating and drinking | places, shoe stores ang dealers in jew elry and diamonds. “It remained for | Abe Mayer, the bookmaker, to tell of | his novel experience In a barber's | chair, “Uno," sata Abe ‘as he planted him- selfin@chair, The “uno was meant to convey to His Razorlets that Abs wanted a once-over shave, The bar- ber “got him” al! right and went to work stropping the razor, ‘Then he applied the brush. “Up and down the left side of my face he went,” said Abe. rubbed the lather in with his hand 80 hard that I began to think it wouldn't ye necessary to use the razor at all. Iwas wrong He went to work on me with the lightest kind of-a hand and his blade was in excellent condition, When he got down to about the mid- dle of my chin he satisfled himself | that the shave was good and clean Then he proceeded to erase the beard from the right side of my map. I don't know what he put on my face afterward, but it felt liké 100 proof whiskey—not bad at all—and then the hot towel. Everything very fine and he set me baék only 30 cents, includ- ing the dime tip, but I can't see yet why he didn’t do the whole face atl at once instead of on a piece work basis” DISEASE. “Where do you get that stuff?” it was Mason Peters objecting to the @irty old bilis counted out to him as change for a brand new ten at the Plaza bar, “Ll wouldn't touch ‘em w/b a fo Harry,” one Harry bait Mttle Ni York bar clerk whose presence behind the mahogany at the Plaza, lends a New York at- mosphere to the gloomy interior of DIRTY MONEY MIGHT SPREAD) Stevens's | ANNA SHOKOWSKI WHITE, ” WHO SAYS WEDDING VOW 0 ie a ‘Then he | ‘The Joelle were marrk scanned the contents of the “damper They'ra ull the same in the wer," he answered, “Guess Money is ght but they never send the | forty winks, several t FAR, STANTON Dmaien son wulre Morn and so filthy in appearance as to 20,000 AMERICANS ARE MILLIONAIRES; WAR MADE 12,000 one hundred day race meeting at Orl- Tax Returns Show That®*Four Men Draw at. Le: $5,000,000 é ‘ Income a Year, WASHINGTON, Dee. 18. WENTY thousand persons ai in the United St: Ss now are rated as millionaires, income tax reports showed to- day, The American millionaire class is increasing at a mite ot more than 2,000 individuals a year. This number includes all per- sons whose incomes for the cil- endar year are at least $50,000, or 5 per cent. of $1,000,000, ‘Thes of course, includes some high sal- aried executives whose private fortunes do not total $1,000,000, The millionaire class, as com- puted, includes many persons whose incomes are well above $1,000,000 a year, Sixty-seven Persons paid taxes on incomes ranging from $1,000,000 to $1,500,- 000 a year and four persons made returns on personal incomes of at least $5,000,000 each. During ‘the four war years more than 12,000 new million- aires were created, | SAYS’ WAITER HAS 12 SUITS. | Wite Asking Separation Deciaren She Got No Clothes, In a sutt for separation filed to«lay In the County Clerk's o@ice, Emma Lina Joell changes that while Charles Henry Joell, a waiter of No. West 124rd Street, has for many years refused to buy*her any clothes, he himself main- tains a wardrobe consisting of 12 suits, dozen pairs of shoes, two overcouts nda large vartety of hats. in 1895, and 1 Livingston, have two children, Ru: 18, and Harry Milton, TWO DIE IN HOTEL FIRE. Fifty Gaests Driven to Streets in Zero Temperature, BOSTON, Dec, 17.—Fire in the Ab- bottsfor, an exclusive apartment hotel In the Back Bi District, caused the death of two persons and drove nearly fifty others to the street in zero tem- perature early to-day. Willlam R. Whit ‘@ construction ongineer, was fatally“tnjurea when he Jumped from a third story window and Mrs. Frances E. Cole was found burn to death on the fifth floor, ceed to slumberland if he can be deaf to the clang, clang, of innumerable trolleys, to the horn blasts of more of Mr, Ford's machines than probably | Mr, Ford OW his bells can be found anywhere el: m have had Havan: streets in mind when he cars, Now and then the fire ring. out to break the monotony When an alarm is turned in here the fire department machinery is set in built motion a wild dash through the city of wicked looking red run- about with # daredevil at the wh His fob is to be off in a jiffy to the Chi house to apprise him of the lacation of the blaz |NO REST FOR THE WEARY, EITHER. If, in the early morn visitor 1s figuring on s hours, the home, he is rudely disappointed,: ‘1 natives et up early in those BABY NOT HERS, IN HAVANA HAVE _S#e”eHtseo nro sex ADMATS MOTHER PLENTY OF KICKS I | OF WENTZ CHILD Concedes Mistake as, Widow Claims Boy Taken From | Bellevue, Shaking with sobe as she t before Judy \ildren ss levy Court, Mrs Katherine Wents, No. 409 East 82d Str edmitted to-day thal when she she had ot dea mistiie Mike" Bellevue Hospital ax her ehitd, Arthur Phiip Wentz, who Kidnap, July 20, Just before the hed Wonts th the in her arn teom Mrs. Bedford Street, old won aifectionately, Mrs, Wentz told in her ehild had been stolen and how Nard she had hunted to find it, She then told how went to Bellevue | Hospital with Mrs. Grace Humiston, and how dentified the aby “Something seemed to tell me that the child was mine,” she sobbed, “It seemed us if my search was over, Hut now after | have seen the way the hit- tle boy pliys with the baby, it seems {us if he must have known her before. Iain afraid L have made a inistake. I don’t believe the child is mine Mrs. Wente became hystefical and Javua led weeping from the stand | idenfified the “Love of baby in wrest Mrs with ing begin courtroom In the court Lena Lisa, No. 18 and her three-year boy greeted the baby entered bieby were detail af how she | i Mrs. Liga testified that her husband | died lust May, leaving her the two dren. She said she read how lie Bly found ged homes for ehil- | dren, and that she was unable to sup- wort both of them on her wages of $12 a week, She said she talked it over with a inan who was a friend of her jlate husband, and that the man agreed ch to take the child to Nellie Bly, He] luter returned and told ber that he | |had delivered the baby and that! everything was al] right. Mrs, Lixa told in detail how the child] wus dressed when she sent it away, and her sription was verified by | Hospital authorities. who received the baby, 4 The name of the man to whom Mrs. Lisa said she gave the baby was sup- pressed until he could pe arrested at tho instance of the Society for the| Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mrs, Wentz's identification of the baby as ber own in Bellevue Hospital was so positive that she convinced 1 husband, whe was first inclined question it, to} | DENIES HE SCORED LAWYERS | fo | Man Acting Own Attorney real estate operator of Astoria, will on Dee, ask th United States Court In Hartford, Conn, to order an entry of judgment by de-| fault In the action brought’ by the appointment of receivers Fairfield Park Laad Company Fairflel Park Gullding Company, of Bridgeport. O'Brien, on Tuesday last appeared his own attorney {nthe proceeding, and was quoted as saying | that he “knew more about Federal Court practice than all the high pric! | lawyers in the country,” ie Was misquoted, “The court asked ime, sald O'Brien to-day, “If I knew the rules of practice in the United States Court. T told him that I knew something about them and | |ioat I was prepared to show jn the case | before him that 1 knew more than the} algh priced lawyers opposed to me. The | ncorrect quotation has criticism by my friends. Sa SES $50,000, 000 FOOD, WASTE. for the and the both used @ lot of | him for | * Otttrien says |S © Month, The food conference at Columbia Iniversity was told to-day by I } Ivell, a fruit and transpertat Jexpert, that enough food rots in New} i harbor etch year to f Jentire month. Goodsell esti. | | mated’ t of foods ident. 0: of Wo nool children ink from f high living 1 it to the huindry down here,” to work to the ne prin lpal on akers. Mason picked up the bills gingeriy| more noise solutely od and tucked them into Ijs pocket, | neccessary. Ww motor | OO Ale é age rep ~Seeieie mule ¢r on their Justice using qniy the tips of bis Angers in| With the operators shouting : be operation {something or other in ear-splitting Out at the race track the only Spanish. The newsboys, about the hs ney out of sliver twenty and | fame type us in New ¥ have ne rv cent pieces and the peso, the | censideration for the siceping visitor & ‘ « ne ¥ re ode 4 Laer i They stand on corners, at hotel en iar simi cu eh 18 the | trances or at trolley fame old raggedy stuff which has tions and cing, yes, 4 been creased and folded yo often that hiudly reco. falls apart when spread) of their elghtecn ¢ Winniag bows, whether in the for sale re is no esc in tho pari-mutuel ma- | anywhere. hatives seem to ‘ pald of in what, on it and need it. Thai's why * ago, may have been greenvac roc re sought by most which now Just smudgy ew Yorkers quartered at the vark He for ao. other otela in the viemiiy of Parque Cen. | 717 the United sta trale, They want to duck it. How ad 1 yartment should send a ever, conditions aren't altogether un Mie endurable to the New now | 12 & and here, 7 arc en 1 rac Nak’ eo! meet, with the sport well conducter | ‘4 and ‘honest, and they are eating drinking, any old thing they like a Bleeping in Havena den't the most any old place and any « and enjoyable of expericnces unless, of they ure ‘. th eae mourse, one finds {i restful to “hit the ittaina of the finest beaches in the | mee tsle Saaye f00'y day coor to an iron foundry. world, where the ehivers are un. | ,Amncuncement was f ved, the roue of @ known, the sua burns down | to: have , 9 o'clock, will where one may wade ol. o4 a ¢ | t by a City Magis wits and make pottom till the water reaches his neck uu Ret you think G raids are still ta \ Sting by that stage, ohe may pro- de . yatta << eres Neeineaal wand then look down and itwough the clearcet writer bpss ever sven, > hin fees waier be open Sundays and CAPITAL SOCIETY GREETS ° DEBUTANTE DAUGHTER OF SECRETARY OF — diplomatists and resident society at-! 8 tended the formal presentation of Miss Nancy Lane, daughter of the Seeretary of the Interior und Mrs Franklin K. 1 yester Miss Line is the only debutante in the Cabinet circle, Her presentation wit toa tea in the Lane sions. ceived Ane her REFUSES PAY RAISE BECAUSE HE GETS ALL JOB IS WORTH Secretary of Kearny, N. J., Health} Board Sayg Sncrease Would | Be atv Injustice. KHAKNY, No, Doe, 18. : ASON, Secre- ary of the Kearny Board of | Health, has refused an in- The board voted “lary, which Is now | nees ste with “mother Milas Lane to raise his: $40 a year. “The job isn't worth any more money,” Anderson sald, “Phe byard holds only twelve meetings a year, and it would be an injus-— | tice to the townapes an increase in pay. Anderson was appointed Secre tary of the health body four years ago. Previously he had served as a member of tbe Kearny Town Council: 4,621 AUTOS STOLEN. | Conterence of “May Officinin to ¢ ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 18.—Reports re ved by the State Bureau of Munic pal | Information of the State »ple to ut pt rs and Other | hetin, tod nae een > ‘Actress Ac made public HOW tomobiles were stolen — in State during the last six montha. Police Departments recovered 2,601 Legislation to aid the [ping thefts will be const Hference of the Mayors, the automobile Underwrit State F FASHION SHOW IN COURT. Nine Well Dressed Wo that the City polic dat stop a con Conference of Police Dep It. | Automdnile | State organizations, en te Face Gambling Charwen, A fashion shaw is set for Jeffer Market Police Court to-horrow mornin Magistrate tributor of Swenson, thirty ¢ of mainta Swenson Joseph 1. Cor the blue Olga forty-three, and Jacob Lewl- held t ing a gambling house No, 100 West 27th Kan an ribbons. | we day ona home nnealy and Sheehan said them in a sumptiously fur w they fo at woman | o-m OAT Direct from the Serge and Tricotine Dresses Very Special $15 & $25 pease 7\west25°sT. CORNER O AVE. Manufacturer, at Mcney-Saving Prices Srecial | Friday ond 265 Fur - Trimmed Saturday COATS 20 Materials include Ve- NO CHARCE FOR ALTERATIONS lane Open Daily Si eierio! Inca ins manedes sal etc, Till 6 P. M. co.ors, All. sizes. GIVES BRIDAL VOW TOOBEY AS REASON SHE AIDED IN THEFT ot cuses Woman Helping Husband in, Al- ; ledged Robbery. Anna Shokowski White, No. West 1034 Street, accused of helping her,buaband in a robbery, hay con- feased, th® police say, and explained ber action by the simple declaration: “Whea L married I prontsed to love, honor and obey T obeyed.” Anna waa held in the West Side Court in $2,600 bail to-day on charges of assault and r ry Her husband, known “Young G Stanton Ernest neh,” was ». Ree arraigned yester. Wh y and as as Vevemebun i} | 1s, | day and held in $2,600 bail on the same hare ——_- The complaining witness ts Miss [Glenda Driwoll, twenty-two, « moti N88 HANCY LANE... yicture actreni, "wha ive at te . Van a Wastin n Hotel She saya Miss Nancy Lane Formally Prev) shu wae chlo) peed th sented 4 i room at No. MI t sefted at Tea in Home of hee Ww Parents, t him uw : Jack Somers WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—A large} t. She told him she [representation of official society,| was looking for rooms and agreed to with him and bis wife to the th Street house, it is ale ed, med und robbed of a $200 diamond ring It ix also charged that Mes, Whit while her husband watehed the conscious Miss Driscoll, went tot latter's room at the Martha Washin) usin: ak POU py obtained fi 8 Driscoll’s pu ae, « White was arrested ina tax! Broad way 0 “Vuewda y at a bh White went to the tpolive station last might to see her husband. It happened that Deiseoll was there at the time pointed to Mrs. White and suid: va the girt that helped She } man Mrs, said she ho and had married him in Philadelphia on Oct. 31 of this year, She suid he was a wrestler, using the profossiunal mame ag “Young Goteh.” White was then arrested. She Mea. Phipps GC A large mus: = Muntoale. iy was Kiven by Mrs. Henry enipps yesterday afternoon at her residence, No, 106% Fifth Avenut, to honor of her daughter, Mra, Frederick I t. ‘The soloists were Mrs. Helen | Stanley, soprano, and Jacques Thibaud plantat HURLEY | SHOES “NONE 80 Ie i The style and distinction of Hurley Shoes result from a lifetime of experience in shoe- making. Useof the best leathers and expert shoemakers have produced in Hurley Shoes an exceptional standard Made over a special lest 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. 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Taupe Nutria Wraps 48inch long. full cut model. with Natural Squirrel Coats 36-inch long, full flare model, selected skins. ANNOUNCE THE CONTI The Store i UATION OF Annuat Fur ) 185. Shawl collar Hudson 135.00 opossum cape | long model of select 245.00 295.00 rge collar. 395.00 Trim’d Hudson lian opossum shawl ¢ 450.00 Proportionate Values in SEPARATE SCARFS, MUFFS AND SETS Russian and Hudson Bay Sable, Silver and Blue Fox, Mole, Beaver, Nutria, Skunk, Squirrel, Hudson Seal, Raccoon. Taupe Nutria Coats Chic 30-inch long model. inch long dyed muskrat coats, with belts. Scotch Mole Coats Smart 30-inch Natural Squirrel Coats Fine blue- skins, 30-inch long model, with girdle. Scotch Mole Wraps pelts, 43 and 45 inches long, full models, 136 inches long, squirrel, beaver, Austra- Event v0 | and cuffs. Seal Coats jaunty 30- 225.00 am skins, with girdle, i 275.00 + 4 2 : 375.00 I of — fine af 2 } 450.00 é Seal Coats l | ollar and 195.00 se eae saaneiinsegi ‘ hh. Aliman 0.| | MADISON AVENUE - TH AVENUE, NEW YORK Fi irty-fourth Street Thirty-fifth Street A { 3 9 Boys’ & Youths’ Balta Boots in made-to-wear-well mo ’ will be on Special Sale, Friday and Saturday, # : the Sixth Fic: : z iese Boots are made of selected plurnp-» i iekiliie, with extra heavy chrome-tanned having a rubber insert between the wel sole, thus making this footwear as waterproof as.possible. wo modeis will be One model (sizes 214 jast snappy-toe Blucher style, with brown eyelets and isoks to match . . e other model (sizes style, with roomy toe . soles t and included i: OWS: as fo to 6) for Boys, is fashioned . specially priced Il to 2) for Fou is liy priced ecia’ G this t brown and heels, e outer ina swing= at $8.25 in Blucher at $7.75