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oa Dae ; ty be i e t ‘ to all tenants, including those stores and offices not hav- leases.” This bill has passed the ‘Senate. bill amending Chapter 650 of | the laws of 1919, giving the justices .. of the Municipal Court of the city of New Y wer as follows: “If, in the opinion of the court or jedns, there exists an emergency, or public health, morals, or general ‘welfare will be conserved, or a public + interest is involved, a stay may be f ited in the discretion of the court ¥ for such time ga phe ouert ~or deems proper and from time / te extend the period of the stay if the tenant shall make a deposit fm court, within two days after the thereafter on the first day of the monthly rental period, time of the stay, of the monthly rent at the rate upon by the parties the fling of the petition’ this bit Is e jon.” 8 8 on the Senate third reading calendar, “A bill repealing the act of 1918, which provided that no tenancy in the New York should be valid for more than one month unless the: ‘was an agreement in writing. This ‘ew bill will restore the verbal lease, but makes verbal agreements termi- nate Oct. 1 where no date is specified. ‘This was recommended by the legis-— lative committee of the Board of junicipal Justices of the City of lew York. ‘This bill now in commit- tee. Hl “A bill amending section 2231 of the code of procedure so that sum-/ mary p ings shall not lie, wh brought solely for the purpose of can- eelling a lease because the tenant is undesirable, unless the question of the undesirability of the tenant Is adjudicated by the Court.” This bill is now in committee. “A bill exempting from State In- come taxes the income on mortgage holdings up to of this bill bel: for buildings an: to make the same exemption as to the Federal income tax law.” This bill; is now in committee. “A joint hearing of Senate and ay committees was held March | 9 1920, - “A bill adding a new section to ‘the Penal law to be known as section | 2040, which makes it a misdemeanor , , to wilfully or Intentionally fail to ish water, heat, light, power, ele- ‘vator or telephone service.” , "PROVIDES A LIMITATION AS TO i MONTHLY TENANTS. to induce Congress » Senator John J. Dunnigan and As-! “ sembl ym: Peter J. Hamill of the; eommittee will introduce the bill pr 4¥iding that summary or disposse: | Proceedings shall not be maintainable Unless the landlord alleges in the’ tition and proves that the rent of * remises is no greater in amount /than has heretofore been paid by the | tenant, and has not been increased “more than 10 per cent. over and above Whe rent as it existed one year prior to the time of the presentation of! | petition; and provided also, that| ‘the tenant ‘shall tender or pay the ‘rent when due at same rent as last »paid by the tenant. .», This limitation will apply to month- , ly tenants and not to those holding 4 for a period of |, The committee has been frequently * im consultation with its counsel, rep- Presentatives of the Reconstruction | Commission and the Attorney mith a view to perfecting leg! _ Which will not delay the erection of Rew buildings, and at the same time ‘will be constitutional. Under .the decisions of the courts State aid cannot be extended with. «@ut the adoption of g constitutional jpmendroent, which Would take at two years, and, under the opin- {ton of Corporation Counsel Burr of ‘the city of New York, municipal aid cannot be supplied without the adop- y tion of @ constitutional amendment cities power to use their credit purpose. — “AYLAN APPEALS “TO LEGSLATORS 10 CURB LANDLORDS “1 think It is safe now to predict that New York City will have relief from ¢he rent gougers within a few ‘Weeks, certainly before ‘moving day’ on the ist of May. So spoke Edward I. Hannah, Presi- dent of the Central Federated Union, to-day in commenting on the indorse- ment given last night by Mayor » Hylan and the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering to the plan of Or- ganized Labor for ending the prac- { Uce of mulcting tenants, Definite action looking to speedy 4, Yesults through co-operation of city ' officials with the 350,000 workers rep- resentyd in the Central Federated Union was taken at a meeting in the Mayor's office last evening. The | Meeting was presided over by the Mayor and attended by Commissioner " Accounts Hirschfield, Arthur J. Hilly, Chairman of the Mayor's Com- ws 1 for the Mayor's "Sullivan, special counsel for the committee, and Mr. fannah. 1 . 4 Tt was decided to enlarge the \) Mayor’s Rent Committee by the im- Mediate appointment of the Tenement House Commissioner, Health Com- missioner, Tax Commissioner, Police Commissioner, Commissioner ‘of Ac- and Corporation Counsel, as members. This enlarged Commission on Rent Profiteering will hold its first meeting to-morrow morning, at which time ar- rangements will be made for a mass meeting of union laborers and other citizens who have suffered from rent Protiorrs. The mass meeting, accord- is to tentative plans, will be held in the Central Opera House, No, 205 Kast @ith Street, next Tuesday night, or if the auditorium is not available o that date, as soon thereafter pos. sible. At this mass meeting the Mayor, Mr. Hannah and Mr. Hilly will be smong the speakers. The moeting i we sine auspices of the ' Mayor’s Committee and the plan of the Central : Federated Union for j\ curbing the rent gougers will be ex- ‘This plan, which is embodied in a agen | of the stay, of the amount of | rent for the current month, and} during the! ‘ing? Fundamentally BIG TRINITY ESTATE SEES NO EXCUSE IN | Largest Increase in Home Prices in Their Vast Hold- ings $5 a Month. REMEDY IS TO BUILD.’ A. E, Marling Blames Specula- tors for Abnormal Raise in | Rents All Over Town. ‘The first increase in rent on the residence property of Trinity estate in thirty years was made a few weeks ago, and in no case did the rise ex- ceed $5 a month—$60 a year. On its business property rents were boosted 4s much as 40 per cent., according to W. F. Aigeltenger, chief clerk in charge of rentals. “These modest increases in resi- dence property will show there is much profiteering going on,” said Mr. Aigeltenger. “These properties pay a just return in profit and we are per- fectly satisfied with the rises. Our tenants are also. We have made in- creases of Only $2 in many cases, and find that that increase takes care of | bigger costs rising from inflated prices. “If we can get along on such small increases there is no reason why other large real estate owners cannot do so. We are not profiteering and | do not intend to do so. “We rent groups of three and four rooms for $16 a month, and they are habitable; good. light, airy rooms too, The same rooms held by some other landlords would cost from $50 to $70 & month. Such prices are absolutely unwarranted and are profiteering of the rankest sort, | “What is the remedy for profiteer- there is only one, and that is to build! build! build! Until there are more houses than tenants the present acute situation will remain. Tenants’ strikes might forestall the profiteers to some ex- tent, but it does not strike at the bottom of tite problem. “On our business properties we have found it wise to make increases in rent near the market value. Ex- | penses on these buiklings have in- creased a great dca}, I don’t believe we have equalled the market prices in any case, but In a few cases we do almost.” Alfred FB. Marling, President of Horuce 8. Ely & Co. real estate| dealers of No. 21 Liberty Street, | does not believe drastic increases in rents in the near future are justified. | “There ought to be some way of stopping this skyrocketing of rents by speculators,” he said. “There ought to be a little dose of the Golden Rule forced upon them somehow. | But how? You can hardly regulate rents by law, because that will imme- diately discourage bullding—and lack of building is really the cause of the | trouble. But there is a contributory cuuse—the speculator. ' “That is the man who buys’ an apartment house with a smal! amount ; down and allows most of it to remain) in Mortgage. He then boosts rents} out of sight and sells to the next man at a big profit because he has made the property pay out of all proportion to its value. | The protiteer—and these specu- | lutors, for they are one and the same—should be reached mehow. Maybe the Tenants’ Protective League can do something in a temporary way| to intimidate them; and if they do, my blessings are upon them. “But there is this fact we must all! face: Rents will be inflated until! there are ‘nore homes and apart. | ments. You can't get away from it.” Francis Guerrlich, a member of the saine firm, believes a liberal view on big rentals will aid building and thus wo far toward remedying the situa- on, “I believe present-day values should | be put upon houses built years ago at) lower costs, and rents should be| cbarged in accordance therewith,” he| said. "For instance, if a man built an apartment in 1900 at a cost of| $100,000 and, according to present-day | building prices, that house would be | worth $200,000, he should be allowed to charge rental on. a $200,000 invest-! ment. ‘This may sound like encourag- ing profiteering, but it isn’t. It's a plea for fairness to the man who owns old property. When a man doubles believe it is any more than just.” eo ASKS STATE LOANS FOR HOME BUILDERS -— | Assemblyman Believes Bill Will Provide Way to Overcome Housing Problems, RENT PROFITEERING ' Street. rested a fow weeks later, had seven of | WINS FIVE SUITS AGAINST JEWELERS | | | yy, MRS MALCOLM .D WHITMAN Mrs. M. D. Whitman Accused Di mond Merchants of Selling Jewels From Necklace Taken by Servant. COLONIAL NAS FORTHE BRITISH STIRS WASHINGTON Possibilities Under Plans of Ad- miral Jellicoe Are Discussed by Officials. MIGHT APRECT LEAGUE. FOR STOLEN GEMS by Members of the House val Affairs Committee. By David Lawrence. | (Special Correspondent of The Eve- | ning World.) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11 (Copyright, 1920).—-The Navy De- partment of the United States looks , askance at the plans of Great Britain to stimulate the building of a navy in each of her colonial possessions, including Canada, Australia, and Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman who was New Zealand, believing that thus the Miss Jennie Crocker, daughter of the combined naval strength of the Brit- late Charles F. Crocker of San Fran- cisco, has won five replevin suits against diamond merchants to re- cover gems alleged to have been in a stolen necklace. Municipal Court Justice Genung awarded her a judgment against the five dealers for the value of the gems they had eold, with 15 per cent. addi- tional that experts testified repre- sented the in their value since they were stolen, The case revealed that Sept. 19 last @ necklace containing sixty-four Jewels was stolen from Mrs. Whit man's bedroom at No. 1 Bust 89th A former house servant, ar- increase the stones and gave the names of dealers to whom he had sold some | of the others. Against these dealers the replevin sults were brought. Mrs. Whitman inherited $10,000,000 from her father, When she was mar- ried in 1912 she received gifts valued at more than $100,000. —— SMS ANOCATED STRPPNG CAST T DEFEND ALLS (Continued From First Page.) and their naval experts were consid- ering establishing @ naval base on her coast. They thus hoped, Sims indi- cated, to drive the German fleet out of hiding. Replying to Sims's demand that the American coast be stripped, the Navy Department cabled on July 10, 1917, an outline of the department's policy, declaring that “while a successful termination of the present war must always be the first Allied aim and will probably result in diminished tension throughout the world, the fu- ture position of the United ®tates must in no way be jeopardized by any disintegration of our main fight- ing fleet.” The cable offered to send the fleet to Europe as a whole, but not in part. “The astounding feature of this policy was that while it stated our intention to ¢ perate, still such co. operation was conditioned upon an adequate defense of our own waters rentals in a case like this I do not, and next upon the future position of | the United States after this war was finished,” said the Admiral. A message from the Navy Depart- ment, dated July 5, to the effect that “indicated that they were at last war being fought in European waters,” declared Admiral Sims. “L am only introducing testimony bring out not having thrown our full several small vessels were being sent, | ginning to realize that there was a| so far along in 1918 at this time to the accumulated effect of weight ish Empire will be greater than it has been before, and will virtua'ly , nullify the public statements of Sir Auckland Geddes,/the new British | Ambassador, and other British of- Jeials to the efect that England | Planning @ reduction of naval arma ent. | The discussion here is occasioned by the completion of a report by Admiral Jellicoe after a trip around the world in which he has advised the British Colonies on plans for naval defense. | Particularly did this arouse comment here in connection with Canadian naval defense, for there never has been any feeling there that the two neighboring countries needed any naval vessels on the Great Lakes, and from this fact it has been usually suppoed that special naval defense for | Canada would never be attempted. On the other hand, it cannot be said | that the question has been thoroughly canvassed, and it is early to reflect Washington opinion. SOME ADVERSE CRITICISM RE- PORTED IN CANADA. Thus far the project of enlarging jthe entire British Navy through sep- ‘arate colonial navies is coming in for a good deal of adverse comment and | Canada is not singled out especially. Indeed, coming upon the heels of the controversy over the right of the British colonies to vote ag six unfts in {the League of Nations, the question 1 of building navies for the British Nations as well has already been seized upon by persons none too friendly to British co-operation as a |vehicle for further argument in that direction, The sensitive attitude of Congress and the Navy Department may be | discovered in the stenographic record, | just available, of Secretary Daniels's testimony before the House Naval | Affairs Committee: | Representative Browning—Did you see an article in this morn- ing’s paper in regard to the Eng- lish Navy? Secretary Daniels—Yes, Mr, Browning—Saying that they did not expect it to be any larger than the American Navy? Secretary Dantels—I saw that. | Mr, Browning—Have you any | comment to make on that states, ment? Secretary Daniels—Of qourse 1 would not try to make any com- ment on it as being official un- Jess 1 had an official statement from Great Britain I would not like to assume anything, ‘Mr, Browning—I do not pre- sume offictal, The Chatrman—tIt purported to quote the Ambassador who is coming to this country, and, Mr. Secretary, if that statement should be verifled—in other words, if this statement of the Ambassa- dor should turn out to be the | policy of Great Britain—what have you to say ahout it? Secretary Dantels—1 would like | | AUBANY, N. ¥, March 11,~a| {nto the war at (he beginning,” the} ‘o ask whether that is the policy ares ‘ A) Admiral said, “home" loan bank would be estab-|" "The situation was so serious and st hese Sag ha ie benpsiomersper and lished by the State under the terms of |the consequences of failure so terrible| P4t!!ament In London, or whether, Ill introduced in the Assembly by|that 1 went beyond the chunnols| instead of pullding these great : jwhich the navy afforded me and en-| ships by Great Britain, th J. Fairfax McLaughlin, the Hronx,|Tisted the services of such men as| the Imperial Government hrough PavAs lien tor pacet P i ment, the ine The measure provides for the crea-|. At one point Admiral Sims paused} crease is to be made in line with tion of » fand toan department which| {2 On pe Bit, Purpore. "wish, to) the policy for which Lord Jellicoe would lend money on real estate to gre at danger of tine en lantaee e has been going around the world, erect houses, Loans would range from| war by cable at a distanoe of 3,000) Where he has proposed to Canada, a minimum of $500 to a maximum of | Miles.” a New Zealand and the English col- $100,000, the loan in no case to ex-| igh” aompaity nekee fy wae, farit< | onies that they should themselves 0 ish Admiralty asked for a squadn ies 5 ceed 15 percent. of the value of the| of coal burning battleships. “The de.| Dulld @ navy, which they have land, an increase of 10 per cent, over} partment answered it was not pro-| Ot had heretofore. In that case present day practice. posed to ‘disintegrate’ the American| it might be that the Imperial pipe : fleet unless stronger reasons were | Government in London woul Molanughlin issued a statement in| advanced, ‘This menaage. signed by Bre ee bien wanes id not which he said he believed this meas-| Admiral Benson, Chief of Naval Op-| “dd Ships, but the colonies would, ure the west devised to overcome the| erations, said the department was| WANTS A BIG NAVY UNLESS present housing situation, $25,000,000 FOR SOLDIERS. Wants State Six Mon ALBANY, March Assemblyman in detail, Dill introduced at Albany by Mi Boylan in the Senate and Mr. Don } the unqualified Mayor and his Rent Committee. ) hye in the Assembly, has received| an appropriation of $25,000,000 to pro- indorsement of the ‘, ‘The | Mayor lam night sent telegrams to and Assemblyman ing soe of his ap~ Joseph Lentol of Kings introduced in the legislature to-day a bill calling for vide for who served in the world war & bonus equal to six months’ pay operations had ‘been developed. *It would have been just as easy, he said, “to have selected a homogen ous squadron. icine has ihy reun- - Comvaine orp PY TNE, and bud) done was that they (other ships of th: same type) were not ready for ser- vioe at sea.” js > “diswppointed” that no plan for joint ‘The reason it was not U. 8. ENTERS LEAGUE. “Mr. Hicks: As I understand it, ‘Admiral Benson visited London 4 ~ early in November, Admiral ne | der: Secretary you elated that un- continued, and quickly convinced| less the League of Nations is en- | himself of the wisdom of sending over | tered into by the United States, the coal burning battleships. He! you feel constrain communicated with the department aay thee the nee Peron and received a reply that the New| Mem : od Btates York, Florida, Delaware and Wyom-| build the langest navy in the ing would be ready to sail “after| world? docking.” Admiral Sims said this ; 4 squadron represented four different Secretary Daniele: Absolutely. types of ships, Mr. Hicks—What I would like to know is how you can reconcile -| that to this condition, Previous to the war Great Britain had the largest navy in the world, as she has mow. There was no League | Daniels Questioned About It; of Nations then even in. contem- plation, yet we were not building then to outstrip Great Britain. Now why should we at the pres- ent time, ven without the League of Nations, embark upon @ programme to outbuild Great | Britain? Why should we change the policy we have followed tur the past four or five yeurs? Secretary Daniele—-I do not think we ought to start on a pro- gramme or be influenced by a programme to outbuild Great Britain or in competition with any one particular nation, but I think if we are to go back to the old conditions, particularly with the great unrest throughout the world, that our country ought to have a navy not surpassed by uny navy in the world. . Mr. Hicks—Then you think there Is some single national sit- uation that warrants going ahead and building the largest navy in the worid which did not exist five years ago when there was no League? DANIELS SAYS HE LEARNED | SOMETHING IN THE WAR. Secretary Daniels—The war taught us gome lessons, and I have learned something, | hope, 1 think in this country ali of us— @nd 1 say all of us because I think it applies truly to Ameri- cans—thought we were not in danger of a war—a world war. Many people thought that the great commercial interests of the world were so powerful that they would prevent a world war, and 1 think, looking back upon it, that we did not apprehend the dangers that existed, and that if our foresight had been as good as our, hindsigght in 1913 and 1914 1 would ‘have recommended and urged this Committee to build many more ships than we built. 1 am certain that when the war came I would have given any- thing On earth and mortgaged my soul's future for as many destroy - erg as we have now, Mr, Venable: In the evert that the United states does go into the League of Nations, and the Treaty is ratified, do you think we should build the programme to. round out the fleet as a fighting machine? Secretary Daniels: Yes, be- cause with a League of Nutions, as it Would be now, the passing of a year has occasioned the loss of ‘much of moral force that « League of Nations should have. It will be years before the coun- tries of the workd will accept its decisions, and I think that this country ought be in a position to furnish quite as strony a force for the world mobile police as any other nation. 1 do not like the idea of our country, rich as it is, and powerful as it is, saying “We will let some other nation furnish this mobile force.” I want Ug to sit at the table and say “Well, we will do this equally with anybody.” The foregoing is not only a remark- able passage in naval history, but it shows that President Wilson is not altogether sure that naval disarima- ment is going to be accomplished very soon. The Administration policy to- ward disarmament has not changed, but the conviction has grown that in order to persuade Great Britain to reduce her navy the United States must be ready to build an equivalent force. Pipatspiph-<oes abies SEEKS $50,000 NECKLACE. enora de Ocon of Ve for Jewels United ‘The’ United States Circuit Court of Appeals to-day heard arguments on the ‘application of Senora Maria Loubet de Ocon, wife of Cecllo de Ocon, a Mexi can political refugee, for the setting aside of the forfeiture of a $50,000 dia- mond necklace, which it was alleged was smuggled Into this countdy. ‘Senora de Ocon and her husband, a partisan of Felix Diaz, fled Mexico’ in T916, Pablo A. Lopez, a friend, fol- lowed with the family jewels anod neg- lected to pay the customs duty. When the necklace was offered for sale, Lopex was arrested On a smuggling and the necklace seized. Lopez co Appeals ates Seized. as later acquitted, but the Government con- tinued to hold the necklace. —————— ULSTER ACCEPTS North of Ireland, However, Will Advocate Certain Amendments in Lloyd George’s Plan. BPLFAST, March 11.—The Ulster Unionist Council has decided to accept Premier Lioyd George's new plan for advocate certain amendments, HOME RULE BILL)“ 30 DEMOCRATS NOW SAID 0 WANT AGTION ON TREATY Vote on Article X. Again De- ferred While Leaders Seek for Compromise. WASHINGTON, March 11.—Senate action on Article X was deferred again to-day while the leaders sought to bring order out of the situation resulting from yesterday's break the compromise negotiations. Republican leaders were understood to have indicated that they might ac- ceut with certain changes, the Article X reservation urged by the mild res- ervationists. Among the Democrats the compro- mise advocates continued actively at work, some of them claiming they could muster 30 or more votes for the substitute. Fighting to hold the administra- tion forves in line, Senator Hitch- cock was understood to have sug- gested that an effort be made to get action in the Senate to-day, but the Democratic and Republican reserva- tionists obtained a delay while they continued their negotiations for an agreement, In a speech before the Senate, Sen- ator shurst, of rizona, said the poll- ticlans want the treaty in the cam- paign so they won't have to discuss universa] military training, the high cost of living, public ownership of public utilities and other domestic is- | sues. “It's time the masks were torn from some faces,". said Senator Ashurst. “It's time to call the roll and show who is responsible for the defeat of the treaty. The White House and Senator Lodge are just as much tr- reconcilables as Senator Borah. “I want this treaty acted on in spite of what Wilson or Lodge or Hitch- cook think. I say to the White House this morning: ‘If you want to kill your crippled son while we're trying to straighten its crooked limbs you take the responsibility and don't pu: | it on the Senate.’ — ANDERSON DEFIES ASSEMBLY ACTION Sends Letter Declaring Investiga- tion Proves Anti-Saloon League Is Making Good. William H. Anderson to-day sent a letter to the Assembly, headed “Some Plain Talk and a Square Deflance to the Assembly.” “Unpopularity with the Assembly is the best evidence to most of the con- stitutency of the Anti-Saloon League that it as their agency is making good,” the letter said. ‘This threatened in- vestigation is furnishing further proof that the activity of the league coun against them and hurts the “wets. ‘The Anti-Saloon League was deter- mined to focus the forcement this year regardless of con- sequences. If, in addition to that, we succeed in getting the gas let out of the old investigation bluff, there has been that much gain, “We openly defy the Assembly to nce.us or to stop this kind of work. not violated any law and ng that we are afraid of.” there is no HAVANA” ENTRIES. FIR Lanter, "1 Rockaree, 106; *Sea Prince, 100, SECOND. RACR Six furlongs: three-year-olds onl COND, Aine ume San see Dies He, T08s Gremneres Wee” “Will Soon, 10; Sirona “Rulger, 110; Prince Booero, 112 THIK) DRACE—Six_ fanonge: | three-year-old ? < pinive 8000. * Vulgminti, 00; “The Nach, 108: Heer Fox or. Maew Mirror, 1 crrivm, 10: James O2:, 112 re and a halt talon claiming: barge 9 “4 fe, Gannee, 10), Harlock, ke seman, ow: Encore: 109; § ag FH TALE Theeesearolde and api im ing. pire, 8600: five and. one-helt furlongs Thin Fee 101. Tster Oe: Allah, Helen “Atkin, Yo: "Resmar. 105; Hotterton, 1 Stain: Ot: Wanchita, 07 home rule in Ireland, but probably will } ORTED rere, gembree a Filied pers eauslly pl i TATE COVERED DATES—In GHOCOLAStion of thene foodies. we use the most carefully selected and Chotcest Dates the best the Orient Gfters. They are richly covered with our wnexcelleds ety it seas ta EBA BUTTER PRAN' BRITTLE—Thone snappy, crackly slabs olden confection o hockful of the choicest freak roasted Vireinia Peanut». LOFT delicacy of which lovers T be ‘Trade Mark ———-Our Big Daily Special for To-Morrow, Friday, March 12th GLOSS GOODTES—This is un excellent assortment of lone lastiog of Bi me Matinett wttes, Buttercups, American Curl. Crystal Blocks wd POUND BOX 4c Two Big Week End Extra Specials MILK CHOCOLATE COVERED COCOANUT ROYAIS—The heart of this dainty is comorined of the choicest San Bias Grat Cocoa bis \~ eaaith nich Cream and envelor in covornnes our forld ‘or exact location see telephone directory. © specified welkht includes ¢ container. attention of the State on the question of Prohibition en- | SCARING CST OF STOOLS BRNG EDUCATION CRIS | | (Continued From First Page.) said Aldermanic President La Guar- dia, “The programme is twenty- seven. God only knows when we'll be able to complete one-half or one- quarter of that number. “A membér of the Board of Ksti- mate was told that, under normal conditions, It took 300 days to com- plete a school In his desire to facil- itate the building programme to catch up with the appalling condi- tion of 100,000 or more children with- out accommodations, he suggested that the work of building schools be accelerated so thal a school would be finished in 150 days. “"You'll be very lucky if you get a school finished in a year or a year and a half under present conditions,’ was the startling reply of the contractors, They meant that labor troubles, un- availability of building material and the @igh cost of the same had knocked all past programmes to smithereens, “The contractors then sugmested building schools on “cost plus” con- tracts, That's worse than highway robbery. I'd stand against a wail and be shot before agreeing to that kind of plan. It robbed the Gov- ernment of countless millions. “The price of steel, a very impor- tant element in school construction, has again gone up and the steel mill owners say they are not getting the increase. " Then who is getting it? Bricklayers who are paid $8.50 a day hore are going elsewhere and getting $10. Nobody, of course, can blame the bricklayer, but this drifting of skilled labor to other fields leaves us figuratively flat on our bac! SIX-DAY BIKE SCORE. (3 P.M, 87th hour.) ; Miles. ‘Laps. Goullet and Magin...., 1522 4 Egq and Madden...... 1622 4 Coburn and Kopsky.... 1522 4 Buysee and Speissens.. 1522 4 Lang and Chapman. ...) 1522 4 Kaiser and Hill. « 1522 ‘4 Godivier and Vannek., 1522 4 Dupuy and Hanley..... 1822 ¢% Bello and Madonna.... 1522 r Bowker and Bowker... 1522 ° Byron and Markey... 1522 0 Leader, Hill, Record, 1724 miles 5 , made by Goullet and Grenda in The result of 90 years of spec- Designs in beds for every pur- pose, from the guest room to the nursery; or made to order to suit your individual tastes, FRANK A. HALL & SONS 26 West eu oi men vee N.Y. ———— | FAMILY BIBLE IN COURT. | Will Decide Age of 1. I. Girl Wife, m Annulment. Justice Lazansky to-day ordered the Production of the family Bible to prove the age of Mrs. Muriel Flannagan, of Springfield, L. 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