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H ~ COSTS SUBWAY MORE TOGARRY PASSENGERS AT 8 CENTS THAN ATS,SAYSREPORT; WHEY ? . ® 7 * “prt | ‘Accounting Engineers Tell|STONE& WEBSTER Judge Mayer So in Maze | OPERATE 11 TROLLEY of Interboro Figures. LINES OF THEIR OWN PERTINENT QUESTIONS. | “Accounting Engineers” in 1. R. T. Report Have Varied Activities | in Western Cities. | | With 5-Cent Fare Company | Revenues Increased a Million | in October. ? became known Stone & Webster, “accounting engineers,” of No, 120 Broad- | , who compiled the reports of Interborough Rapid Transit | mpan the com- pany needs an eigh t fare, op- erate etric railways and | power companies in Seattle, Ta- to-day that A complete summary of the report | to Judge Mayer of the Federal Dis- | trict Court by Stone and Webster, ac- | , Showing t counting engineers, on thelr examina- | eleven el tion of the Interborough consolidated | system number of inqui- | suggests a coma, and other west coast cities. | ries which were not explained by the The Stone & Webster Company | synopsis of this same report given| ve been active, investigation | oat to tho newspapers for publica-| SOS im obtaining an eight-cent | Ba Gert Aen fare for lines which they operate \ in other cities and were promi- In the synopsis the following con-| nent in the Seattle traction con- | clusions were made as to the rapid! troversy tra t lines: | The lines operated by this firm, | NO SURPLUS TILL 1922 FROM! which officials of the company Tho rapid transit (subway and earnings basis, follow: Puget | elevated) lines during the fiscal | ound Traction Light and Power | le arges by | Company, Pacific Northwest Trac- $8,778,000, as inst a surplus * se 1 fer cede baneeh tion Company, Puget Sound E NGANGUUCRE Nnevoeea tera the trie Railroad, Tacoma Railway | rapid-transit lines will earn only AEM Atala at aA a JIGAHT GhYEeOE tiles cHarRea cen International Railw nd Power | the bonds and notes, aggregating | Company. Everett Railway, Light $17,000,000 } and Water Company, verett Even an S-cent fare wit not, | Railway and Electric Company, | prick’ to 1029) providecany aun. | Puget Sound Po Company, | giana oR over the com- | Seattle Electric Company and the | pany preferentials, | Whit County Railway and Light | And as to the surface lines: Compare | Nothing than an 8-cent Officials of the Stone & Webster fare, with a charge of 2 cents for | Comps admitted to-day that transfers, will provide a sufficient | they owned the eleven traction margin above mere operating ex- and power companies mentioned penses and taxes. | in the foregoing, but said the And even an 8-cent fare, with @ 2-cent charge for transfers, will “accounting engineering” firm by no means control these companies. not. yield a fair return upon tho -- = —=| actual investment in the surface /in October, 1919, the number of | lines upon their reproduction || sengers c: ed had attained normal | value, For that purpose a higher | Proportions and as a result, the rev. i ih ‘ enue was what it normally shou! SASS will OG Beceaniny, be. The October, 1918, decrease is | EXTENSIONS ALBEADY SHOW-| wnat caused the $1,000,000 increase. | ING INCREASED REVENUE. However, the figurés made pulbie do | According to the full report, Page ly show the influenza ep! 7 received by The Evening World utecy Upon subway Bevel Dec. 19, the revenues of the sub: fore, all that is seen ec, 19, the revenues of the subWAY from the figures is a $1,000,000 reve- | division for the fiscal year ending nue increase, It is not takn into con- | Juno 30, 1919, were $24,632,208, and sideration by the laymen that this in- Dens a ta crease is not @ normal one or one ans hee nian and taxes) viturally existent, but a condition were $15,260,074. caused Dy circumstances. For the elevated railroads the reve-| No. 2—'The increased cost nues for the same year were $18,575,- !ing a passenger who has p: nt 002 and the ating expenses and, cents, as compared with one who has cents as shown in the esti- | | paid flv due to the followin mates, is $14,107,409, taxes were ve total revenues for the (a) The increased gross and net earn- | anterborough system were $43,2 ngs due to the eight cent fare pro- in this year. {duce correspondingly larger taxes, 920 the vario fennione which depend to some extent om the | In 1920 the various extensions put} 174 of earnings. (b) The amounts into operation during the year 1919 Frovided in Contract 3 with will bo in full use, ‘They have already for maintenan nd deprecia- begun to show rapidly increasing ure based upon a percentage of panne grogs earnings and these amounts in- 4 - |crefise with the larger gross earn- one and Webster estimate tho to-| {hea The present earnings are. in tal rev s for the fiscal year end! sufficient to »perly maintain th ing June 20, 1920, will be $46,800,000, | properties and allow nothing what- | an increase of about $3,000,000, ver for depreciation. ; QUESTION 1—The gross oper+ |aenunce ant duprociation alone 8 ating revenues of the Interbor- provided in the contract ith > the ough Rapid Transit Company in- | City, call for 17 per cent. of the gross | creased $1,000,000 in the month of revenue, : Detober, 1019, over the month of |, No.4 The reason that an intrease October, 1918; if there was in | not increase « ings in the ratio of 8| fact an increase in this one cents to 5 cents because the effect | month of $1,000,000 between the | of «in increased fare is (as shown by | rience ot cities America 1919 fiscal year and the 1920 i ner fiscal year at a five cent fare, will cor not the increase for twelve months be much more than $3,600,000? STUDY OF FIGURES SHOWS PE- CULIAR RESULTS. Stone & Webster also assume what the receipts and would be under fi cent fares for June 80, 1921, Here are their f way Division alone with other Amer- total earnin between inst in cities, would be and 69.5 or of the 60 per cur if no decrease in r from the fare increase. operating expenses seven and eight the fiscal year ending ng resulted | ures for the Sub- SLAIN BY YEGGS | | WITH BLUDGEON v.00 $37 * 19,617,000 Pier Fireman's Skull In Crashed Badaon seessssf10.485,006 $10,541,000 $48,060.000 Lad Wenn aca’ Weick QUESTION II.—Does it cost ‘ s any more to carry a passenger Grant Baker of No. 115 Fleet Place, | who has paid 5 cents than it | rooklyn, fireman of a statior costs to carry a passenger who [gine on West Shore Pler No. at | has paid 8 cents; and if so, why? Weehawken, was found dead the | QUESTON JIl.—And why engine d at daybreak to-day by would it cost more than §2- (© spector H, O. Limner | DBO tee (ina tala on Reva pa canciones at was apparent that Baker had be Btn Reaant fare Chan At wee ee ee ee et ON ETON IVI passengers pocket wi | turned in de out and his at a B-cent fare would pay $00,- |Wasem Which he received yesterday, | 000,000, would not an B-cent fare iid etNe hie was killed hy yesurmen | stead of only $11,000,000? Of a freight. train | 1 Stone & Webster Answers to Eve- World Questions, “BOOZE PATROL” NEEDS MEN | The us World to-day put the PRs eapeiee praosy Webster, Reeratting Ordered for Boats That, : hie ee et will ¥ | the accountin WC CORD UA Captain John J. Bryam, in charge of a@ report of the Interborough proper= the Coast Guard office in New York, tics, its operations and revenues, to-day received instructions — from which the traction company has filed Washington to enlist twenty-eight fire with Judge Mayer, The text of the men for oil burning Eagle boats and answers to the four ag seventy-two t 1 reventy upp Wi anges from, $46.80 per month and “al yy allowances for firemen to. $64.50 for enue t 19. machinists ag aginst the san was "The Bagle boats kasoline due to the tact that in October, 1918, have just Been turned over to the Coast the iniucna cpedinte Was. at its Guard service by the Navy and tt was a tt eee eta tet aad Anat are to bo used ina helght. People wemed to be afraid 10 “iooxe putrol” along Florida, Guif’ of, ride *n the subway during that month Mexico and’ Lower California ‘coasts to aad (he revenue consequently fell gf prevent the smuggling in of liquor. ) “y fadonna of a Thousand Faces’’ Depicts American Womanhood THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919. TROLLEY SERVICE IN STATEN ISLAND FACES SUSPENSION panna ennai Cperating Company Wants to Give Up Permit—Higher Fares a Solution. Representatives of the estate of H. H. Rogers, the Richmond Light and Power Company, operating the Staten Island Electric Company and the Staten Island and Midland Beach Company, the only trolley companies on Staten Island, notified Public Service Commissioner Nixon to-day that they desired per- mission to discontinue all service at the earliest possible date. The lawyers stated th the Richmond Light and Po pany for November wv $17,000 and that the annual deficit of the trolley lines was about $200,000, No divi- dends, they said, had ever been paid to the stockholders and no interest had been paid to the bondholders for ten years, The two lines carry about | 30,000 passengers a day Commissioner Nixon said he would try to arrange with Borough Presi dent Van Name to call a public meet- ing at Richmond Borough Hall Dee. 29 to make citizens of Staten Island ‘acquainted with the situation so they might take appropriate action,” which, it was explained, would be to petition to be allowed to an in- creased rate of fare, BRIBE CHARGE STIRS | POLICE OF NEWARK which controls deficit of Prosecutor Investigates Story THE . (Copyright tion’s Women Is Composite! 1 Portrait of 1,000 Red Cro: Workers of High and Low |eareru a Noted jout the 1 Degree, Painted by MADONNA 19) |True Generic Type of Na-]Portraits of more than 1,000 4 19, by Joseph Gray Kitehell.) = THOUS RACES 5 rs - aa iui cee $500 “Shakedown” of Autoist After Arrest. Public Safety William created @ sensation in les last night when erican i of the e indi- of Director J. Brennan wark pol women prominent in the w ) presented in the final | jo testified that he has laid before fusing of the features were selected | the County Prosecutor facts concern- efully by Red ¢ headquarters, |ing an attempted "shakedown" in- Wand chapter staffs through: | volyed in the cast Mitchell 1 state harge Jos of Hast Orange, 0 Artist G. Kitehe ormerly the of driving an autor bite iy a iis Arust. Staff, undertook the work of rdduc toxicated, Nov. and tried and ac [ail the types to one faery of TAUCIDE | Cuitted by Police “Judge J. Victor Among those whose portraits were |) Alvi in the second Freeinet Cour The painting “Thine Is the Gc used Ww many shop and factory |°"\s'a result of rumors bandied about which is to be presented by the War |8itl8 a8 well as those of women as|for several days Judge D'Aloia insti- Depart RSURTeceen ae "| well known as Mrs, Marshall, wife of |tuted a “John Doe" proceeding and epartment thre Secretary Baker |the Vice President, Mrs, William H, | among the witnesses called were Di- to the Red Cross headquarters at | Vanderbilt and Mrs. August Belmont tor Brennan, FP Chief Paul J va 7 v t A re, Deputy’ Fire Chief John J Washington, is now on exhibition at Picture is deseribed by critics as | pow Police Captain Patrick J. the Knoedler Galleries, ‘The picture | “Nt merely a composite portrait, but Sy and several policemen and fire- is the work of F. Luis M a true generic type of our noblest | men. sibs Maa ok ache Womanhood—the Madonnaof a Thou- | Mr. Brennan at the outset said he It is 4 composite blending of the !sand Faces.” hax many facts concerning the al- PSs at a atk iphone B ae: leged. “shakedown.” It is reports | that the amount Invol was $500. CHESTER BEECROFT TRACING ROBBERIES |i: Mitehyttwas In order | to be cleared,of the charges, SUED FOR DIVORCE, TO POLICE-LED BAND} rmer Arctle ¥ fat Hoboken Sunday morning, plorer, Reporter. | District Attorney Lewis Has ‘Twen- HIS FIFTH WIFE ASKS A DIVORCE Congreseman’s State, | this country, ot | er Com- | DANSEY SUSPECTS MAY BE FREE SOON Will Be Produced in Court Monday Writs of Habeas Corpus. on HAMMONTON, N. J, Dee. 20.—-Th father and wife of Charles White now p Jail at May's Landing cused of the murder of “Billy Dansey, were overjoyed whee they heard that A writ of habeas corpus had boen Is- sted for the 4 e int ce production of no Justice Black Monday Mra, Edith housekeeper for White, also in jail in connection with the death of the boy, also will be pro- duced before Ju Black on Monday. The writs were issued by Supreme Court Justice Swayze Newark last night “We have won the initial step In this prosecution,” said White's father, “and I hope to have my son and Jones back with us in time for Christmas Inner.” man » “Bly He disapp Dan- ared day would have b sey's third birthday seventy-two days ago. STOPS PICKING UP DESERTERS AT $50 Kierski, Who Captured “Hundreds of "Em With Profit, Runs Foul of Law. Kierski, Fxlwasd whose office door lin the Thoroughfare Building, No. 1777 Broadway describes him as “chief of the "New York Detective Agency,” formerly “The New York sret Service Bureau,” has decided to give up business of picking up deserters and stragglers from the United States Navy tor the rewards of $50 and $25 per head. Mr. ki Kj has pursued of work, he says, for the last ten years and “picked up hundreds of with considerable profit to himself, What chiefly intluenced Mr. Kier- ski's change of business plans was his arrest’ on complaint of John J. McLean, a sailor, now at the Bay this line tidge Receiving Station, on of violating a section of the 1 which forbids the making of ar- by others than civil offic ex cept upon certain conditions, He was arraigned before Magistrate Harris and held for special sessions. Deputy United States Attorney General Arnold, who represented thi Navy Department, » Govern- ment w ¢ the practice of vate detectives. WILL NOT.BOOST PRICE OF MEALS Restaurant Men Tell Williams They Even Hope to Cut Cost of Food. Restaurant men representing the 800 members of the United Restaurant Owners’ Association, who were sum- moned by Food Administrator Will- }iama yesterday and aske ting deserters By pri- Actor and Movie Man In Ace ! pall | : ies $ ty-Four Thefts Under Investi- | ye f fi that, if conditions warrant it, they will ed by Hin Wi t. i Wed When She War Seventeem—|iower prices on some dishes after R. Chester Beecroft, form gation in Brooklyn, #20,000 a Year, Mra. Price ani y b n ) Dazzled Her. ha Jexplorer, who headed an expe e District Attorne offices in] ane : pais eke © plan of Attorney General Palmer | |1909 to Bradley Land to vind Dr.|Brookiyn has twenty-four burglaries | Mra. Irer nerine Price, a pretty | 6 5 Sk 8 i west {to break up the meat packers’ grip Cook by finding his reported rec-|under investigation with a view. to|Woman of twenty-three of No. 110 West| 0? ‘wunettites” was commended by ords, Was in abse efendant a |learni of the workings of | 104th Street, yesterday appeared before | ihe restaurant men, who were hopeful divorce suit be Court Jus- | (he uv acy | Supreme Court Just legerich In her) that this would enable them to buy tice Guy yesterday. He © head of | which wats by [suit for divorce from Richard I. Price, | foods cheaper. a movi picture export fir with of- Poli ne At Ave- | fifty, who had four previous wives, and flees at No. 501 h Avenue, and Acouned’ of | Who la now aerving -year aen-| Williams Starts Want for Jave pied newspaper space in 1909 when | tt snal Hunk robe | tence In, the Federal Penitentiary at At-| Sugar Profiteers. adopted M rimau bery i and, alleged the United Stat To run down protiteering in Java nught to the 1 by Pe thiey said she married Price| sugar, Food Administrator Williams | Mrs, Marion C ve | At least three of these twenty-four | when waa seventeen, and still at- terday requested every wholesale is , t robberies, according to the investiga. | tending the convent school a view, ‘ LA ratte Sper ans hE Pps Lisboa Sey echo was dazzled by hia promise | & in the city to inform him of Aslan ia And MILL MLA setae o the men now | that he would allow her $20,000 & yeur,| the quantity of Java sugar sold and ing July. Her ure based on a | Unde 0 charged with rob-| she sald, af 06 y s had ob- ae ae anda manan friend made to{ fing the fur store of Starobin & Dubin| Later she testified she learned that | Price charged _ Mr. Willlarts had ob Se GH BAU ERIE A CANTEG West 70th {at No. 715 Herkimer Street her husband had been wed four times | tat from George Fuss, President shed room at > 7 ELDAR ee sna, | reviows of the Inter-Occan Mercantile Corpo re SE BY TOME 4 : rts that} "Decision was reserved, ration, No, 25 Leaver Street, which pecan ne Tae wo: sie handled ali the Java sugar sold here, | Kes i teeaaae Nik GIRLS FLEE FIRE. ————— Tee lle 08 fe eee ee TR ADEBOARD WALL fie dawanrealaees aces Solax Film afters B15, ; . tet esa nee huaaed ie An SP at Fort ee Stade, PROSECUTE ‘BIG 5 ie f $1o0 ‘ | y |. Fire destroyed the negative room and fs ‘oft me : abet yt A th aude i Wis ele an Expected to Proceed Against ° | Com ¢ nit morn= i tit :, FIRE ROUTS TEN FAMILIES, | ins # wehio wire working on Packers for 40 Alleged Violations the film to the s which are eral : a hiyn lydrants Have to Be We Dee of Clayton “Act nan nself a5 ana hawe: department worked | WASHINGTON, Dec, 20.—The Fed gills eds bi PRATRLONLSOR WAI » hose until appara: [eral Trade Commission is ready to pro About ten families were routed into |t lewoed sand. eed against the packers for more than an s when fire was discovercd in the home of un hour 1 finished filma | Anti-Trust Act, It was learned to-day | Auto Tire Deal Charged | Jacob Schars, at No. 1911 Sd Street, | 8 burned and the loss was esti-| Compromise of the Department of With Taking # In. Brooklyn, The Schars family escaped, |Mated at 15,000 to $20,000, Justice's case against the “Big Five Louis Gotting, who said he was ly clad, and was taken care of by| aig whereby they agree to abandon trade tires ut No. 43 Broadway, was arrested| A garage at No, 1943 82d Street ad- jena affects only violation of the Sherman yesterday afternoon with bis wife the Schars home and a volunteer} ggwar Arthar| Anti-Trust Law, Catalina, on a char hopliitit carried buckets of sand t , in Alienation, Under the shérman Law, It Is proper at Wanamake 1 ve AEE Sec nap that eriminal proaveution shall be tn Millside J Aver 1 Pane aan a tuted by the Department ot Jun | the store i she wo the G ie 28 ed. Under Clayton {uke erticies valued at $74.00, 1 | MAY SUCCEED CAMPANIN( \rihur MeAlcenan 37. £0" Tit is proper that cl ron Market Court t y | . aa ee the affections, of [solution of alleged trusts shall be in ed not guilty and wer " | Marinuest Carroll ued for a divorce |stituted by the & ral ‘Trade Cominis for further examin | Catolaltenen that for two years and ap, Chane araase | 0, De ‘ Siontha he. lived happily with hie | comprom Wanamaker'n ¢ | NGA, ' Maurie wo monthnat tat Bentember McAlee That the commi means to. pro w young 3 cond Who arrived enticed her away from his home, Jess of the Justice Depart With a total number 910 pas-|" J i As mo. wuts action, is letter nwera and a record-breaking quans |2C0" « D i BAR CHRISTMAS WIRES. |»: essident Commis tity of Christmas mail, the Fren fonte Campan » | nd Colyer ner I uindeau sailed tor Ha | ; ST Six Leading: Symtema| filine tr he had Vran t noon to-day fr ier 57. yeas: Won't aend ectings, |imade an agreemen packers. North River, Among the/passer nda ; Mr Cam ristmas and New meas were Mr. and Mra, Barclay Warb ed ty t poten tay Two Hold-t ton, Jt etly ma the Ix lead-| Halton Han a fireman of #the I Warb 7 teamer Berg 1, waa beaten and ee Jropbed of $300 in 30th Street near companies Include the Raatern,! morning. Poltcem O'Gara and south African, European’ gonn Quinn captured two who ga Girt of 14 Patally Burned, th 9400, meat, Gabien =" lthe names laa Calfh, eighteer Mary Ly t € vid, Wa i Copeland said |" eee: No, 334 29t » and Michael Cofela, probably fatally burned mi om nineteen, N Third Avenue, both rua [Blaints sxainat a coi pata | DREXEL MANSION BURNED, (omens Ne: s18 thiol venue bots ' dt hy al held for the Grand Jur he or : Dalit in Philadelphia in 1880 for ae | to teley Queen Isabella of Sr t where 7 PHILADELPHIA, De 0.9 OPENING SALE completely de Grongrrny 100 Lueky | \ 5.00 Polk and Bilss Are i \SHINGT Drexel mansio | Waisis at $ t Amertoa, bea 4 t arpa: Umated at more | eux axp a ee ee etat ative Mae ' he residence, t won| *RUUARY Dresses at $10 and up s oe : Ghriatinas. atnes » f fold to a real estate firm, was bullt in WAIST & DRESS at ler members ne How of Gve 1880 for Queen Isabella of Spain when phair Bilas and lon wupenica of the ibe Loum, rue gis covialblad ac xe 140K ior Giean dasuelle of Analee whed | SUNRAT WA HOUSE 745 6th Ave., near 42d St, to justify TT bre KIONAPPED HIM, IS CHARGE. |8iorrsin#c br n Ac ing Wealthy Invalid. "Candies of Distinctive Quality” | Their noticeable superiority in flavor and variety make Tiffin Candies doubly acceptable for Christmas. They may be purchased at Tiffin Shops — | | 105 West 42nd Street, Broadway at 51st Street (Capito! Theatre Bldg.), 2377 Broadway at 87th Street, 2909 Broadway at 114th Street, 10 Cortlandt Street, Mt. Vernon, Flushing, New Rochelle. Also at our agencies —the better drug and candy stores. Women’s Lace and button boo | ||} Women’s Boots Pumps and |] $4.85 to $10.50 $2.75 to Sale goods will not be sent C.0O. D. or o nor can we fill mail or telephone orders. \ At Downtown Store Only their announced increase of 10 per) 4 h A 19 h S cent. in meals after Jan, 1, pledged Sixt ve. at t Li themselves not to raise prices nor |make an extra charge for bread and butter. ‘They assured Mr. Willams 7th Av Je | livery—That means a phonograph and promise! There i |Fa priced $42.50, $89.50, ne 59.00 and $184.00. 1 \e4 clusively at & New RH Moy Ine. Herald Square priced gifts at $3.50, $5.00, $7.50, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, and each table contains un- usual values. The vari «Mirrors tables is almos 3 and the from $7.50 to$150.00 prices are reasor aid fair, WOVINGTON’ 2 “The Gift Shop of Fifth Avenue {| 312-314 Fifth Ave, Near 3 | a rR A RTE Alexander’s Shoe Sale pumps, oxfords and slippers Atau.8, ar OFF SLCMA The Phonograph with the ‘master made horn? Is ready for immediate de- are five models, Sold ex- ¢ Christmas Shopping Simplified O make the task of se- lecting Christmas Gifts as simple and easy as it is pleasant, Ovington's arranged tables of specially night by, Oscar ana No. °% Greene Samuel “4 or write, 0.000 Inthe an a tat dors pir ay ee en eS ERNE pcr eS sp te . recenmemamennae ts, Oxfords $6.90 n approval, Yar! i vate Yo i NiveTirer enya you get not a a $129.00, York nas t ' 4 f ” 2nd S