The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1920, Page 3

ENRCHT BLS FR BOMBPROOF 18S STRONGLY Oppose State’s Civil Service Organiza- tions Against Police Legislation. POLICE MATRONS — HIT Shelved to Make Room for Others in Violation of Civil Service Rules, Civil service organizations through- eat the State are opposing the pend- tng police legislation, which would @mable Commissioner Enright to place his favorites in bombproof jobs. + i ‘The first Dill that started the storm of protest was dropped in the legis- lative hopper by Senator Kelly, who Fepresents the home district of Leader Charles F, Murphy. ‘The Kelly btil provides that the Commissioner be empowered to ap- point an unlimited number of women to the police force, subject to all rules governing the male appointees, ex- cepting the age limit, that they shall be regular members of the uniformed force, and be given the same powers and standing in the Police Depart- ment and be subject to the same rules, fines, discipline and benefits, Ancluding pension. WAKING ROOM FOR WIVES OF FAVORITE POLICEMEN. Tt further provides taking into the “department without civil service ex- amination the twenty policewomen who were appointed for the duration of the war for welfare work under the supervision of the Fifth Deputy Po- Mee Commissioner, Ellen O'Grady, who appeared in Afbany before the legis- lative Cities’ Committee in behalf of the bill. Some of the women are wives of policemen who have served more than twenty-five years on the force and eligible for retirement. ‘The Kelly bill ignored the 170 civil service police matrons who have been connected with the Police Department for some time and familiar with its workings. Their salary is $1,600 a -year. They are not eligible to become Policewomen, according to the Keily bill, and consequently are not in line for promotion. Policewomen under this pill will draw the same salary as Patrolmen, $1,950, It was this injustice to the matrons that prompted Senator Dowling to in- troduce a bill in the Senate that here- after the matrons shall be known @s policewomen and enjoy all the tights and privileges of patroimen. Promotion of policewomen to grades. higher than patrolman shall ‘be made from the lists established after com- petitive examinations open only to policewomen. Time served as poli matrons shall count as if served as policewomen. If Senator Dowling mucceeds in having this. bill enacted ft will legislate the twenty police- women who are now working under a war emergency measure out of a job. FAVORED WOMEN HAVE STRONG POLITICAL BILLS. These women, who are endeavoring to have themselves legislated into the Police Department regardless of their ages and without competitive examination, are very strong pollti- cally. Commissioner Enright failed to appoint the widow of a single po- ligeman who died in the performance of his duty, Here are a tow of the appointees: Miss Ituth Goldstein, sister of un Assistant District At- terney in Brooklyn; Mrs. Litan J. Lesser, relative of Tenement’ House Commissioner Mann; Miss Gene- vieve MoLoughlin, cousin of John F. Sinnot, the Mayor's Mra, Mary Cooney, wife m Cooney of the Welfare Bureau; Miss Helen Burns, friend of the Hylan family; Mrs. Henry Schneider, wife of ‘a police detective, and Mrs. William MoCarthy, the widow of Lieut. Me- Carthy, who was Enright’s successor ae President of the Lieutenants’ As- sociation. ‘ The twenty policewomen, to- ther with thirty-four Lieuten- ints, twenty-two Sergeants, seven e. matrons and one matron a first grade detective, dy, the Miss. Florence. 0" of the Com daughter constitute the Welfare The duty of the bureau is much of a mystery around Police Head- uarters, but it costs thi 194,200 a year to maintain it. “1 can't begin to tell you of all the good work the Welfare Bureau has done,” replied Commissioner O'Grady when queried-about the activities of city her squad. “Just tell us about one concrete case,” she was asked. “Tut, now, that will do you,” she re- “I see it's news you're ‘te The male members of the Welfare Bureau constitute what js known in the department as “The Order of the Crutch." The Commissioner in his annual report says these men are all Gligible for retirement, but he deemed it best to assign them to welfare work rather than retire them, because it would throw an extra burden on the Pension Fund. Incidentally, his friends put through the last session sof the Legislature a bill allowing the Commissioner to retire on a pension ‘of $3,500, which is $700 more than his salary Was as a LL putenant of pol JUNKMEN CHARGE GRAFT. jay City Department and Whole- ers Have Formed a Combine, vlesalers would sda lnyesUgution was ordered. | Fashions for New York Girls Seeri EM BROIDERED FILET FRocK © UWTERHATIOWAL Bim ome, FRENCH BLOF TAFFETA In Exhibits of New Spring Styles SUMMER VADE YARN AFTERNOON GowN BRICKLAYERS MAKE HYLAN ARBITRATOR Mayor Fails to Break Building Deadlock, but Will Try Again To-Morrow. After a meeting with representatives of the brickiayers’ unions and the boss bricklayers this afternoon Mayor Hylan announced no conclusions had been reached in the building deadlock in #0 far as these two bodies were concerned. ‘There will be another conference to- morrow. “I can only say," said the Mayor, “that the bricklayers have placed their case entirely in my hands as an arbitrator. Representatives of the bosses listened to the proposal of the bricklayers and said they would report back to their organizations immediately and let me know by to-morrow morn- ing whether the bosses are willing to abide by such decision as I shall make. If both sides accept, I feel the trouble will end. Once more I must appeal to all that 1s good and generous in all concerned.” Bricklayers’ representatives said they were demanding a minimum of $1.25 an hour. pe BRICKLAYERS SAY THEY WERE LIBELED Letter to Mayor Resents Doyle's Charge They Are “Un-Ameri- can Slackers.” Mayor Hylan to-day received the fol- lowing letter: Our attention was called to-day to an editorial published in to-day’s Evening World. The statement was made by Edward P. Doyle, menyber of the Real Estate Board of the City of New York. In this editorial Doyle is reported to have stated to you “tbricklayers who want $10 a day for laying 480 bricks should also be compelled to submit to. a reckoning. They used to lay 1,600 bricks a day. They are slackers, unpatrioti un-Amerjgan slackers, ‘They are help- ing to put their country in a hole.” We beg to call your attention to the fact that this statement is deliber- ately and outrageously Libelous; that it casts a reflection upon every bricklayer in the City of New York; that it was designed to create prejudice against bricklayers and to misrepr nt the vital questions they are contending for to the people of this city, We hasten to call your attention to the fact that such statements are not conducive to peace in the present building question. Th is no class of business men who are making more money out of the present deplorable situation than the real estate men, They are buying and selling real estate faster than it was ever bought and sold during the 4 which preceded the 1907 panic only that, but they drawing down fat commissions upon increased rents. You will find the real at the dispossess window in our Mu- nicipal Court, obtaining their mandates to put the people out on the street Mr. Doyle represents these people. His purpose in libelling us was to divert public attention from the tyrannical op erations of the people he represents, from the fact that the families of brick- | ta to-day suffering, that they \ y being dispossessed and put ers a to- Charges of a graft {n the dealings of | Upon the street by the pepie he repre: the Bureau of Licenses with wholesale| sents, His people are also driving fs Naton vis. | bricklayers out of the city of New York dealers in junk were made before Magis- trate Steers in Flatbush Avenue Court, | t@ other cities, where they are making lyn, to-day by amall junk dealers | over $10.2 day. He hopes to aggravate Brooklyn, to-day py algal with, not | the bricktayers into a atate of mind by who were arrested | charged with Not) hig jibelous attacks upon them, whereby having proper licenses the present strike cannot be settled by "The dea aid that whe ap-| danihi af Justice to th plied for lic wey, Wer red to) sult that he and his k Certain wholesale junkmen an ap-| parasites and profi proval and that the w to make profits Rot approve the applications, untess the| when there shall be no bricklayers in smalhk dealer was willing to sign an| New York to construct buildings. In agreement to sell all his junk at $1.40 al ether words, Mr, Doyle is an agent hundred weight ¢ the wholesaler, | provocateur whose mission in the con- thopgh the material is salable outside] troversy is to prevent an agreement the “ring” at $ hundredweight, with our employers. We abe astonished that you should Bive such a man an opportunity to ut- ter such a lbel upon us. Brickley and the sons of bricklayers in the City of New York fought for their country in the recent war, and were not to be found among the ‘slackers who avoid~ ed service by seeking desk jobs and places of safety from enemy fire. Mr. Doyle's class was dispossessing | the families of bricklayers while their boys were at the front, Mr, Doyle's class was also engaged in raising the rents while the boys were fighting overseas, It {ll becomes such a man to speak of slackers and disloyalty. If Mr. Doyle selected an individual or individuals, we would make him answer for his libel. ‘He speaks of bricklayers as a class be- cause he knows that he can Ubel a class with impunity without risk to his purse, fattened by profiteering or ill- gotten wealth, We feel it our duty to Inform you that the bricklayers of the city of New York are pained and outraged over the fact that you permitted Mr. yie to make such a statement in your presence. It has conveyed to them the impression that vou furnished Mr, Doyle with an opportunity to misrepresent them at a te and in a place calculated to pro- duce a libel upon them in the public press, We are sure that such was not your intention and we sincerely trust that we shall receive some expression from you by way of rebuke to Mr. Doyle and by Way of public statement from yourself that there is nothing in the controversy or in the facts as you have found them which justifies uny man to say that the bricklayers are ackers, unpatriotic, un-American slackers,” and that "they helping to put their country in a hole." The fact that they were willing to submit their grievances to you is their cause, LORD THOMAS. CAHIL EDWARD DUNN THOMAS F. LY! JOUN GILL EDWARD KELLY JOHN J. K FRED RILEY x ae) eS LADY ASTOR URGES NEW MARRIAGE LAW Wants Men Allowed to Wed Widows of Brothers Who Died in War. LONDON, March 24.—Lagy Mancy Astor, in a speech in the House of Commons, urged alteration of the mar- riage laws’ to enable a woman to marry her deceased husband's brother. If it is right for a man to be allowed to marry his deceased wife's sister it is equally right that a widow should have the right to marry her former hus- band’s brother, Lady Nancy argued. The Viscountess declared the old law which forbids a man to marry his brother's widow is archaic. There is an increasing number of men, she said, FOR DOWNTOWN FIRE Rex, Famous Mascot of No. 4, Gets a Policeman and Blaze Is Soon Out. . The Barking of Rex, mascot of En- gine Company No. 4, at Pearl Street and Maiden Lane, early this morning was heard by Patrolman Albert Luft of Old Slip Station, and the dog led him to the C@pitol Lunch Company, and 49 Maiden Lane, where smoke was issuing from a ventilator, The patyol- man sent in an alarm, The fire was in a box surrounding a motor operating a ventilator fan and damage was slight. Rex was presented to Fireman Jessup of Engine Co No. 4 ten years ago, when but weeks old.” At the Equitable fire he was burned and kicked by a horse and spent @ month in Vol- un Hospital under the care of Dr, James Hill. Bip ES Jary in Ten Minutes Awards Divorce, Dr, Edward H. Ecker, of dental supplies at No. Avenue, from Margaret C, Webster Avenue. A jury Supreme Court Justice Geigerich re- turned a verdict in ten minutes, akc oe Rrevious Juries bad ' ao Ecker, of fo. 1251 HE EVENING WORLD, $30,000,000 WATER No. 47 & manufacturer 767 Lexington; was to-day awarded a divorce | before Two IN CAPITAL STOCK Factor in Bringing About Collapse, Says Witness, at the transit investigation. Mr. Bauer explained that panies, and through this merger leased track. Against there were total securities outstand- ing amounting to $48,523,000 or about $810,000 per mile of track, Mr. Bauer showed that the actual cost of the praperties did not exceed $40,000 mer mile of track in 1895, and that a reasonable cxpitalization should not have exceeded $13,600,000. Mr. Bauer concluded, therefore, that there was an initial overeapitalization of at least $29,923,000. Further testifying, Mr. Bauer eaid: “The surface properties paid for themselves several times over, be- sides bringing in huge returns on actual investment.” ‘He pointed out that “present ‘security holders will lose many millions of dollans paid in good faith for their holdings, but it is not the fault of the praperties, fut ot past financial management.” Property of the company valued in the appraisal of Stone and Webster for the Federal Court for 1919 at $86,205,980 was shown to have ween reported to the State Board of Tax Commissioners at $30,549,456, accord- ing to John 4. McCollum, chief of the Board of Estimate's franchise divi- sion. ‘The indicated difference be- tween the two groups of figures of that section of the appraisal which prices. to McCollum. 116,162; a total value of $20,151,456, estimate is $109,000,000. MISSING TEACHER Mrs. Mary Heffernan, 53, Married to Russell L, Richman, Young War Veteran. Mrs. Mayy Heffernan, in Brooklyn public schools, peared from her home and it was not until ceived by a friend, that she had ‘be- come the bride pearance was cleared up. 2ist Street, Brooklyn. U. S. HAS NO POWER (FREN obtained channels, OF N.Y. RALWAYS Excessive Fixed Charges Also Over-capitalization and excessive fixed charges were the direct causes of the New York Railways Company gcing into the hands of a receiver, according to John Bauer, financial) expert for the city, testifying to-day the | Metropolitan Street Railways Com- pany was organized Dec. 12, 1893, as ve a consolidation of several early com- it acquired the leases of other com- panies. On June 30, 1895 the company operated 139.75 miles of owned and this margin approximately $56,000,000 is based on fixes the value of the lines at pre-war Under present prices the Stone and Webster report values the lines new at $140,651,344, according ‘The estimated value of the property erty of the leased lines is $5,262,673; of the (Ninth Avenue, Eighth Ave- nue and New York and Harlem, $8,- BRIDE OF EX-PUPIL. fifty-three years old, @ teacher for many years disap- last month, word was re- of Russell L. Rich- man, twenty-three, and a former pu- pil, that the mystery of her disap- ‘The wed- ding took place in Warren, O., early “[ had hoped that he would stay HENRY E. 35 South William Street, New York CELESTINS CELESTINS MISS ESTHER DENNY CHOOSES HER SISTER FOR A BRIDESMAID \ | ss Marriage to D. Glen Smith Takes Place April 5 at Parents’ Home. Miss Esther Louise Denny, daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Thomas Denny of No. 32 East 62d Street, who will be mar- ried fo D. Glen Smith at her parents’ home on April 6. has chosen her sister, Miss Amy D. Denny, as her maid of honor, Miss Denny is a debutante of the season of 1915, and has taken an in active part younger set, the affairs of the New York, declared to-day that the Commission has no power go end the costly longshoremen’s strike. Mr, Ripley says that the tieup Ls Ike- ly to continue until the Interstate Com- merce Commission increases freight rates. ‘The coastwise steamship com- panies are losing money, he continues, and no Government agency can com- Pel the companies to operate at a loss. Deep-sea operators and men and the United States Shipping Board have | @iven the commission authority to ar- bitrate their disputes but the coastwise interests have never submitted formally to jurisdiction, Six hundred strikebreakers are at work on the Bast River piers, Nos. 15 and 16, of the United Fruit Company, to-day, and a gang of fifty were put to Work at the company’s North River pier, ‘ JUSTICE FRESCHI’S POCKET IS PICKED Jurist Who Sentences Many Thieves. Loses Purse and Money in OLY Tran; Justice John J. Freschi of the Court of Special Sessions has been using the Ninth Avenue elevated lately because the Fresehi automobile is laid up for repairs, ‘This morning the Justice walked over Estimated value of the New York] to the “LL” from his home at No. 39 Railway Company total holdings of all class were fived by accountants at $69,000,000, before the war, ‘The value of all property as placed by the latest West 93d Street, pushed a $5 bill through the opening of the ticket win- dow, placed $4.95 in the little “change” purse he carries in'a hip pocket, caught his train and rode downtown to Frank- lin Street and West Broadway. ‘The car was crowded. The Justice rode standing up. When he tried to pay for having his shoes shined in the Criminal Court Building later the Justice found the Ke purse was missing. ‘The hon- court had had his honorable pocket picked. Justice Freschi thinks he remembers a certain youth who brushed against him. Many. pickpockets come before the Justice for sentenc salad Ake BLINDED BY TOAST TO FIANCEE, HE SAYS Rein Sues Liquor Dealer Who He Charges Sold Wood Alcohol That Blocked Marriage. Max Rein, No, 6806 Third Avent Brooklyn, opened a demijohn of whiskey this inonth, en the evening of Noy. 19, 1919, and Richman, who served poured two glasses, although he wns with the A. E, F., has been living} alone, He drank one in silent toast to with his parents at No. 1679 Kast| Miss Lena Senter, No, 838 Hewit Place, Brooklyn. ‘Then he drank the one he | had poured in her name. home and go into business with his He was to marry Miss Senter on father,” his mother said to-day.| Dec, 3, and the whiskey, four gallons, “Hower since he is married, We] nad been bought by her father, He shall ome him and this bride if| man Senter, for the use of the wedding they come here.” {eat bulbs | 6U liut there was no wedding, Instead, the summons and complaint were filed | in the Brooklyn Supreme Court to-da anxious to marry widows of their ina mainat Lartel brothers who were killed in the war Tur ia ikon The men have to support the widows TO END PIER STRIKE sii asking $100,000 dam- and chiidren, anyhow, Lady Nancy de- ~ = | aes," itoun alles that Immediately nt Glared, and they should be 3 gh : rf ne th peel alata : clared, ond they wish. “owed to) Head of National Adjustment Board | Unit he "has Tost” the ‘use of hig git Home ary Shortt’ said that de- Leper raw - eve and that the vision of the left is spite Lady Nancy's plea the Govern- Says Increased Rates Are | dimming. “It would be ‘wrong for him ment Was unable to legislate, his Solution | to marry, he saya plaint a ate, Sole Solution. u Whiskey he drank con William Z. Ripley, Chairman of the i ent of wool alcohol G GIVES ALARM falinnai that it Was part of the four gal DO tional Ad t Commission at! jong that Senter bought from is (CH REPUBLIC PROPERTY) i oNGS There is now in New York an ample supply,of that famous Mineral Water and it can be readily through the regular GOURD, General Listribator en | dale, | forty-eight, was slow in getting his | lodged against him, WEDNESDAY, MAROH 24, 1920. SHOOTS HS WIFE ENDS LE BEGAISE OF DELAYED MEAL Man Who Refused to Work for Eight Years Enraged by Late Breakfast. | August Vogel, old, of No Long this morning when his w sixty-seven years 169 Linden Avenue, Glen- Island, lost his temper » Sophie, breakfast. He had an appointment at the Jamaica Court to answer a complaint which Mra, Vogel had charging him with’ abusive language and refusal | to assist In providing for their family. | Wor eight years Vogel haa declined to! work As Mrs. Vogel entered with his breakfast, Vogel rose, got a revolver from the sideboard, and aimed at his wife. She dropped the dishes and fled back to the kitchen. Vogel fired, the, bullet entering her left arm. She slammed the kitchen door, but Vo- gal kept on shooting and one of the shots ploughed a deep furrow on the right side of Mrs. Vogel's head, knocking her unconscious, ‘The shooting aroused the five ee Springin Air, So Joy Ride Ts Forgiven Judge Frees High School Boy | Who Took His Auto and | Assumed All Blame. Spring was in the air this morning when Frank Finnigan, seventeen, left his home, No, 1612 Richmond Terrace, New Brighton, 8, 1, and started with @ pal and two girl friends for high school, As the quartette passed the county court house Finnigan's rov- ing eye lighted upon the natty look- ing car in which County Judge Tier- nan had driven to work but a short time previous, “Bother school,” he exclaimed, “let's go joy riding.” Shortly after this an attendant of the court, looking out of the window noticed that the automobile was mi ing. He notified the Judge, who told the police and a general alarm was sent out, | | Fifteen minutes or so later Police- man William Deppert of the Stapleton Police station was on post on Woster- velt Avenue, when he eaw sweeping down toward him a car which looked like Judge Tiernan's, As it drew near he saw there wore two boys and two girls in the ma- chine, He stopped it, and though the young chauffeur laughed and joled and told him they were taking a Joy | fighting the blag on his own shoulders, and the panlons, boy and girls, were eet and told to hurry on to school ™ policeman preferred a charge grand larceny against Frank, “ was taken before the Judge and @am owner, * “I'm to blame for the whole ¢hiftig, your honor,” said the boy. leh Judge Tiernan looked at him while, liked what he saw and P, him in custody of the probation @f-" ficer, Frank went back to school, * aceeandaasitl nasil TURNED A SWITCH. AND PUT OUT FIRE ~ Electric Blaze Threatened Great” Library of Engineers* Societ Fire was discovered at 3 A. M, to-@ay In an electric coll under an Mevator om the ground floor of the Engineering Se clety Building, No, 29 West 39th which houses the most valuabe library of books on engineering in the world, ‘Tom McCarthy, an employee, wag with a hand extine guisher when firemen arrived and put it out by turning off the electricity, The damage was trivial. Examine an Ostermoor at our Showrooms See how well it's made, how care- fully fin‘shed, how good it looks. What you can’t see—its everlast~ ing comfort and serviceability—we guarantee, So there’s no risk. OSTERMOOR MATTRESS : Ontermeor & Co. 114 Elisabeth St. Fide around the island, he ordered the car back to the Court House. children and they came trooping down stairs. Vogel ran to the cellar where he barricaded himself. The eldest son, who is twenty-four years old, picked up his mother and carried her upstairs. Another son telephoned for the police. Detective Herman Debaus was sent from the Glendale station. ,When he called to the barricaded man to surrender he heard a shot. After waiting a few moments he ventured into the cellar Vogel was dead, shot through the right temple. aaah EDWARDS FOR DAYLIGHT LAW Tel J. Senate It In Avold ¢ TRENTON, N. J., March 24.—Qov. Baward 1. Edwards in @ message to tle New Jersey Senate to-day urged adop-’ tion of the daylight savings bill, Edwards declared it necessary to end the confusion which will exist when New York shoves the clocks alead an hour next Sunday, jeeded to ‘There Finnigan took all the blame oA. CAN & whiff of real spring air! And whe candy that has all the aroma of the What more could you want? ‘Better ILI Lower Price” Peanut Brittle—ay Lordy! 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