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SVS WATSON, ASHE CALMLY DP tusornt “Supported Wives, Three or + Four at a Time, but It Was Awful Expense.” “A MORAL OBLIGATION.” "Always Had Moral Ideas,” Convicted Slayer, “1 Did , Not'Marry for Money.” In the first instalment of his in- teryiew with Bluebeard Watson, Mr. Bdgren told how the. slayer, smiling, even laughing, told of killing his wives, and especially the murder of Mrs. Deloney, vut kept coming back to his “insontty” to the “impulse” that made him kill, the women he had married, and how he took much credit because he had resisted this “impulse” sometimes for seven months. The story continues: By Robert Edgren Copypight, 1920, by Robert Edgren. (Special Despatch to The Evening Werld.) LOS ANGELS, May 15.—District Attorney Woolwine had told me Wat- son was a Jekil-Hyde in real life, “Ail at once an impulse comes over me to go some place away off and make way with them,” thé*Bluebeara sald, referring to the murders of the women he married “Then you do it?” ‘Sometimes 1 struggle against it,” said Watson virtuously. “Why some- times I was supoprting three or four women at once and not making way with them, though it was an awful expense and ate into my bank ac- counts and would beggar me in time if it went on. You can see I'm net/| mercenary. I didn’t always kill for money. “Some of the women I married had fortunes and offered to give me five or six or eight or nine or ten thou- sand dollars to start a banking busi- neas with, and I didn't taken it, On the other hand, I married some who didn’t have a nickel and even bought wedding clothes for them before the marriage. That shows I didn’t do it for money. i‘ sun WIE LING aN WIVES ‘Struck on Head With Revolver MY i 35 PER CENT. BOOST IN COST OF LIVING LAST TWO YEARS ©** 107th street, ner head wrapped in} Government Statistics Show’ In. Porter this morning about her exper!-| crease Was 37 Per Cent, in City Nearest to New York. A report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics .of the Department of Labor, yesterday, giving thé per- céntage of increase in the high cost of living in thirteen industrial centres between December, 1917, and December, 1919, shows an av- erage of approximately 35 per cent. Scranton, the nearest city to New York of those in the report, had {ts prices on essentials jumped 87.10 per cent. Pittsburgh's neces- sities cost 36.17 per cent. more in December, 1919, than two years prevjously, * Other, changes were Atlanta, per cent.; Birmingham, Cincinnati, 35.24; Denve Indianapolis, 36.53; Kansas City, Mo. 38.16; Memphis, 36.23; Minneapolis, 32.71; New Orleans, 33.86; Richmond, and St. Louis, 34.24, bank account a trip to, Vancouver before. ‘She didn’ ive. Calgary. house f teresting. always advertise? You did once. “No, not always,” thoughtfully: “that was one of the lies told abou! me. “I hit her on the head with a rock and sunk her in the lake at Coeur D'Alene. | think | just hit her once and put her down and drowned he About this of killing details. ju want to write a story about! me,” he said. “You onght to begin with when I was a boy. you some humor that will make it in-| 1 am full of humor., I'm) Chi thinking that at San Quentih I'll do a lot of writing for magazines. ‘They ¢ |’ Miss MeCormack’s injuri I just went out and married rous. them, ‘This is funny; I think her (inful but not dangerous name was Marie—Marle Austin. met her on a trip after I married a $7 woman in eee, that had @ nice jofts weve locked up at the West 20th a had gent her On! street Station‘last night. They gave haye @ thing on|the names of Abralpm Zasloff, No. earth, honestly, and was not attract- | 34§ East Fourth Street; Samuel Peri- Pee eect nena thls 18 whet] stein, No. 118 Suffolk Street; William Lge tiger reg oe 00! nue, and John Mullins, No. 178 Tenth board bill, ‘and I sent her money to| pay her board bill. little | { married her tn She had no relatives, The} Jast she had was an uncle she kept ‘Then she clerked in stores. I can give) GINL fd DEAIE "NHOLDUP SHE THOUGHT “IKE by Bandits Who Escape With $800, Miss Margaret McCormack of No. 116] bandages, told an Evening World re ence with two masked robbers and how | they convinced her that they were not ‘Joking. She js the cashier of the Mo-| tor Truck Renting Corporation, No. 630 JUST HOW to Own Your Home — HERE NPRODUCE” - For Less Than Your Present Rent { ~ IND FRI PASES West 44th Street. “I was at my desk yesterday after-" | noon,” she said, “and had just finished {making up the pay enyelopes when the two men came in with revolvers 4 ordered hands up. The manager, John Peacock, was in the office with me and he put up his hands, but T thought it was a joke and that Mr. Peacock was in on it. He looked over at me and told me I better’ put my hands up, but I just smiled and said ‘Quit your kidding, ; “fnen one of the men took my purse from the desk. He looked in ® Jand saw nothing but rosary begds, 80 he threw jt on the floor. He reached for the pay envelopes and I caught his hand, ‘Then he hit me on the head with the revolver. I was stunned, but I still didn't seem to = + | realize that it yas a genuine robcery. They got the money, about $800, and escaped.” {| Four men charged with the theft of 000 worth of woolens from various Cunningham, No. 541 Seventh Ave- venue, They were arrested in a | warehouse at No. 13 Gansevoort Street, where, it is alleged, they were re-labelling cases of woolens, ‘They showed fight and the police haa to draw revolvers, Thursday ‘afternoon three men robbed the store of Louis Rosenberg, No. 105 Fast 28th Street, and got silks worth $5,500. They held up an errand me Watson wearied| boy who had been left alone in fhe place. pcan fellate WOMAN' ARRAIGNED IN THEFT e with Receiving V. len from Other, Wome a “I was always a successful business|gught to buy my. stories, don't you| stylishly dressed woman, who gay man. I have thousands of business think, after all the advertising i've friends in Canada who'd never be-, leve a wrong thing of me.” money?" But you kept their jewelry and| had?” What good would money be to you, “Why,” said Watson, beaming. “I'd deeds to property and some of their sell stories and give some of the |money. to charity. Some c if it is only ten her name as Louis Markcum, and ts known to the police as “Louise Dudley” and “Louise Van Wyck.” was arraigne:! in the West ‘Side Court this morning charged with receiving stolen goods, She ae ity was arrested last night by Detective 2 eee thay ARG Tleutenant George Busby and Detective “It was just a fascination to me out what's the matter with me, and |Semeeant Thomus Martin to get girls and give them money and| I’m cured and don't have these tm- Assording to the detectives, a search of her apartment at No, 313 West 48ch clothes and take them away off some- | pes any more, they may discharge |street, revealed a fur coat valued at where, and then something, would say | ‘Go to it’ I'd make way with them, and after it was done I'd feel at ease. I'd feel pleased, as if I'd done my duty,” said the murderer, harping on his alleged obsession again. ANXIOUS TO IMPRESS’ HIS IN- SANITY PLEA. Looking at him suddenly it seemed to me that there was an amused gtnt in his eye, as if he wag sizing me up and thinking he had made an im- pression, In an instant, as I looked, the expression faded out. His flat eyes becamg dull behind the magni-| tying le dull and secret, like muddy pools. ‘I would keep things belonging to them, things I couldn't use, and have ‘them in my grip.” « He chuckled. . “Phat was awfully funny,” he went on, “Sometimes I'd be in a room with @ woman I hag married and in the same room 'd have my grip, locked, with other women's marriage certifi- cates in it and their wedding rings and jewelry and papers that could have got me into a lot of trouble. That shops I wasn't right, doesn't dt? To take such chances? “When I murdered a woman I cov- ered up and watched the papers after-| ward, and it never came out. It was so safely done. And all the time I was carrying around those papers and things with me. I kept those things for the pleasure it gave me to take them out and look them over once in @ while. It just seemed to give me a pleasur ‘The fiend smiled gently, softly and thoughtfully. CAN'T REMEMBER ALL His VIC- TIMS. “I've often tola Mr. Wootwine,” he said, “that I want those things here so I can spread them out and look them over. I might be able to remember some of the other names that way and tell him about it, he add- . one woman | pushed into the Spokane ‘River above the falls, | don’t remember hor name. Sometimes | forget my own name. “That shows there's something wrome, doesn’t it?” he demanded. Perhaps tt does, but my impression remember anythi | Do you look at the comic strips? ae ee yihing he) PCP never do, just the news. T wore OURS WY Btlors like Charlie Chaplin's | ney, Just as I wrote , perhaps A man save ‘| fixed up my epelling, I can't re- wants to remember, There is much he can tell and hasn't told: He had scores of aliases, at that, “Tell me how you got all those women to marry you,” I said. “That's casy an offhand way. I've try crimes I neyer committed. out a bank robber and a man. sometimes ness, “The officers are trying now tp| exponent of the’ Russo-Jewish real- prove that I committed robberies, ‘and | istic drama, getting people to identify me. do they do it for? wards, of course, he wore, was being taking a woman declared Watson, jn a shocked to: “I read all the inter the financial reports."’. a coat once when I was a boy, to me and [ didn’t have any other. think Chaplin is funny.” DOESN'T APPROVE OF MURDER replied Watson in ‘How, @id.you.got them? Did you “You can see I'm getting better because for a long time, seven months, | didn't make away with any of ‘them, and then only on: And | was fighting against th impulse all the time. by people I nev $900, identified as one stolen from Mrs. Mary Victor last November, a diamond jbracelet, the property of Mrs. George Price of Akron, U., and a mesh bap, property of Mrs, Martha Hornberger, No. 568 West 117th Street. — “I have ‘some splendid ideas for t magagine stories that ought to sell, NOTED YIDDISH ACTOR DEAD. with all the fame I've got and my . name on them. One js a story warn-|David Kessler in Theatrical Lime- ing people about false tdentitications. een identified all over the coun-| David Kessler, sixty, owner of the ight Here 37 Years, heard of, for} second Avenue Theatre, at First “They're even trying to Make me|Street and Second Avenue, and you ha LAUGHS AS HE TELLS OF FALSE IDENTIFICATIONS, “There are lots of false identifica- tions,” said Watson, case where a lawyer got a prisoner off. He was identified by the clothes One witness swore he recog- nized him by his clothes, so the lawyer had him wear five different suite al- most alike, on five different days, and nobody noticed it. All the time he identified by that suit ‘Then the lawyer told the jury, and they hadn't noticed that he wore dif- ferent suits sitting right next to them, 80 they turned him loose.” Watson sat up in bed and laughed. “In my case,” he went on, “there was that old soldier who identified me from the pictures in the paper and said he'saw me drive past in my cat up into the, sand hills near thie Glass, Sawtelle, to] °#re e away with her, ! heat there’ T'don't evén know where | just gone away, but | gens thom | it is, L never tried to make away with| money instead of putting them | any of them here—only the Mrs. Del-| away, sometimes. oney I told about. if you saw a thousand people driving past in cars| wealthiest ones, when they offered it could you identity one of them a|to me. Sometimes I borrowed, when month afterward by seeing his face?|[ was sick, but returped it, It was I could write a great story on that I was identified at Barstow too. never was there. I never was hold-up | favorite actor of the east side, died I never got money that way. I was always a good yesterday afternoon in the Beth usiness man |.Israel Hospital, where he had been and could make plenty of money—| operated on for a stomach ailment. 930 @ day with my busi-| He had been an actor more than thirty-seven years and was a strong What] In 1911 Mr. Kessler opened the Why, for the re- Second Avenue Theatre, which was If they can fasten|puilt at a cost of $800,000. Among it on me they'll get the rewards of-(the stars who have appeared under “What difference would it make to his management was Bertha Kalich. Concrete Houses * Moulds Seem to Be Easiest Solution, of the “Own Your Own Home’” and “Be Your Own Landlord”, Problems, ary ore . By Stanley Mitchell. This is the sith article in a series to show you how to escape from the elutches of thé prof- iteering landlord. t profiteering are mot a cure for the class of city dwetters from high The real solution of th prob: lem is for every one to be his own landlord, The number of inquiries from vead- ers who are interest ns of coll at $1 Pennsylvania Terminal, twelve months af $10, $120; taxes and insurance, $100; tota ‘The interest on the cost on $6,300, will be $378 a year. commutation in the cement Evening World's Two Will Put In at Queenstown, | Which Again Becomes a Port about $1,000 carrying cost $670 a year, or $56 a| into the Merchants’ Associatl there are many renters ‘paying this net, other business organizations contin- ued unabated. Many shippers aver that, although the raflroads say there Anything be ond this amount | San investment increasing the equity of the owner, ‘The margin between the $56 a month actual carrying cost and the $1,000 a nothing for bunch of rent. receipts, One objection to these houses made by some correspondents is that they “do not want to live of little houses all just alike.” misunderstanding. Four ovean liners sailing for E this afternoon carry 5,470 passengers. announcement nection with the sailings is the reopen- ing pf Queenyown as a port of ‘The Irish port had been closed since the beginning of the World War. Sir Oliver and Lady Lodge®and Miss Helen Frick are passengers on the for Queenstown and Liverpool name on this list which stirred some | terest is that of Mrs, On the Philadelphia for Southampton and Cherboury month or $830 a yeu account of the purchase prige The method of financing this house $1,000 & year renter ts to be paid on houses, can be built in.just vs m n houses* of ‘any other | » is nothing new about | nerete houses. ial has been in use as building ma- It is only the| method of construction that js mod- | Second mortcay designs as c just one year’s ‘The 9g30 a year mar- xin will pay off the second mortgaxe in a little more than five years, or “reducing” is paid off, the amount of interest ai When it has been wiped out the actual rent will be $56 a month, of rent in the flat for centuries, Red Cross Workers for! Pali aeponn Reginald. De Koved, Bishop James Atkins of iscopal Chureh, inventor of the chine gun; are on the Finland, bound | Southampton and he Cunarder Carmanis nd Liverpool, , among thm Gilbert Fox, tishy Sugar Commissioner, and V Stock Quotations same general floor plan as that 4 Week ago, but the exterior is the composer, the Slainaaiet himself-tbout $12 a month in interest of d@preciation has not In a solid con- house this should be very small and ought not to be a factor for five or six years, The ‘system on which these concrete | | houses are bullt was devised by Mil- method houses have been estimated here. New York-snear § ewart Manor, 1. are in_use in Chicago in a variety which could be reproduced ania for Queens: | and Washington, graph Compan r flat renter for lese than | his present rent The cost for which the builder, W 140 West 120th Street, latest professional} States he will duplicate this houge In appearances were with the Jess Willard | the Same suburb js /anow, has beam resented to the Cen tral Park menagerie. cle, eats with Wall other interesting stunts, man of No. 314 West J8th Street, who retired from hess, gave him tp the city, Charles Street. ‘It consists of hinged Giyen Famous Chimpanzee to City. ucaomplished (4 concrete hardens, allowing the house to go up about two feet u day concrete is reinforced by long stee chimpanzee, whose constructed, ere is NO experience upon which to of maintenance, es alm to furnish are of solid construction, attd heating should not be a serious problem. An estimate of the cost of main- counteract any inclination to crack. The outside is plastered with stucco. ‘The interior finish is the usual lath on’ furring, ssaves an alr space between the con- crete wall and the inside‘ wail. He rides a b 4 and fork and dovs| base exa picture. ‘They don't have many good|boy that ever lived, pictures, Too many murders. It/mame was Gillam might make ,people think of dofng|near Fort re things like that. I don’t approve) m T Hee 3 6 of 1G | mother separated. ‘This seemed a highly moral p!an@| remember is in an o} for the world's most callous killer. | “T always had moral ideas,” Watson | church, That was thet only time I} never was religious. The ether boys) “[ never drank or even smoked in my life, Yes, only a few glasses of beer in my life. Not any for a long time, I'm honest with you about that. “When | married girls and gave them money to live on, three or four at a time, it was be: felt a moral obligation to take them and | admired them. 1 didn’t neod to. | could have I didn’t take money from the only the poor ones, whb didn't have a 1] doliar, I put away. Some only had a few hundred dollars. ‘That shows I “By the way,” said I, “you talk very | didn't do it for money.” well, as if you had @ good education, Do you read many books?" “1 never read books,” was the re- | notes. ply. “I always read the newspapers.” | Here Bluebeard rattled his papers “T could tell you lots of good moral points for a story. I've made some “Did you get any of your ideas from] and read off a few extracts, smiling reading about murders?” as he explained that he didn’t think “I never read about those things," | any one could set things down with ational news ‘You talk of your senseof hui IN MOVIES. much neater lilerary styl “Only my spelling is bad, and sometimes I make a mistake in one or two words, Here's a statement I wrote for Mr. Marmaduke, my attgr- he changed a word or two, and he member how to spell as well as I used to, I think thate shows my trouble, not having a good memory, “You could get some good moral father's | back, and they told me if 1 went to bed would Whip me to de up and began to ge dered women and felt “pleased” and when each sJob- was But Watson was entirely un conscious of my thoughts. cerebrating, 40 Yo speak, on an en cold, There w mber his first name.‘ The first thing | wouldn't let me by the fireplac last they said { Could go te bed, they I ramember other\little| would not whip me until morning. I didn't see my real explained. “I was terribly punished | until after 1 was grown up. once when I was a boy for going to! know if he's living now “My mother married a man namec ever disobeyed my mother, But ‘Il solden, near Fort Brith an, named lacks: went, I wanted to go with them, \woere ah |I've been told so member is my mother father taking me home from the 0: | phanage, wasn't much of a hone for me. telling of his experiencés + different farmers. He never went to », but now and then he had some lessons from gchool teachers outside of working hours TRAGEDY OF BOY WHO NEVER go around where she had a tick hid, so 1 made for HIS QUEER IDEA OF “WIT AND they are both The first thing I look every You can get a lot of humor into a it would make it more 1 V'm full of wit an ell you a few funny things. | he only Christmas present I ever | ej | ¥8ed to beat me terribly and make me| had was when I hung my stocking up work hard enough for two men. “My stepfather was a biack- smith and he had terribly strong they punished me never played. The je boy who ni The alibi ugain! me Christmas Eve and in t | ing 1 found a little piece of candy in I was overjoyed. \that I hung my stocking up the next | When I got up early to build | the fire—I always had to build fires I saw my stocking all bulging out tied Around the top with a string. ran and pulled it down, thinking it {was full of candy, string off and turned the stocking up to shake the candy out I found that they had filled it with pig manure. That was no way to treat a little boy. I was brokenhearted. You can get a lot of fun out of that. “Another funny story 18 about one | | day when the boys were all throwing at a yellow jacket nest, ‘One of them threw a When he thought Twas so happy ‘among the records of his life with the blacksmith stepfather, “He used to make me stand on o block and pump the bellows in the | shop,” Watson wald. pair of shoes a yea always barefoot. hot iron would fly and land on my feet until I was a mass of burns and jetween his kni until he nearl wished | couj “T only bad one ,» and was nearly scales of red| die, while he beat was covered with It's wrong to beat chil- When I got tig time my mother in- terfered, | think, was once when he hit me on the head with a stick and knocked me sense for half an hour or an hour. Then “| think you're going move he'd get my head between his | knees and beat me until I determined to kill myself to escape the torture. looking at the murderer, who hopes to get off on probation in ten years or so, if his cunning brain hadn't fabricated it all fessions to the lawyers he had tried | “1 had no clothes Ike other hoys. They have zero weatther there in‘the| penny in under the nest and told mo winter, and all I ever had was cotton| [ , Jeans apd a cotton jackel and u ragged it, and T went cotton shirt, and never an overcoat or any underclothes. fire where it made me sleep in a corner nearly froze. time I disobeyed \ and went to church I pleaded with my! You can put some wit into that and mother-—they never to let me go, because one of the neigh- bor's boys had invited me. said I was going If } was killed for it was very little. uld have it if | would go and get The yellow jackets gathered in a mass terribly and [ went out of head with fright and as if | was crazy me and s¢ra my mother, and was another story slept in front] stung me and came back to with evi District Attorney. was playing | the smith's anvil, which toppled over and fell on hun. 1 great gash in the fop of his ly crushing hia skult instalment of Blue: beard Watson ‘0 chureh-=| make it very funny bed and laughed ing at him I concluded it was just the “Well, you go to the movies, then?"| points out of my early life. I was No, 1 hardly ever see a mowng to Robert Edgren will app Monday's Evening World.) more terribly ebused than gny pther\twelve, 1 went that night and cauie- expect to find in & man who mur- Receipts by Railroad Now Re- ported to be 100 Pér Cent. Normal.‘ | A. W. Frost, Chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Fruit,and Produce Trade Assoctation, | declared that there is no danger of | a famino nor even a shortage in fruits | and produce, normal,” he said, “and the only dif- ference is that everything ts coming ly rail, But it is cbmin the main thing, And the between rail and water transportetion | costa Is not enough to justify an in- |crease of retail prices. Take po- | tatoes as an example, from Florida, ‘The difference in transportation costs between rail and water is only about #40 a carload, or ‘That ought not to make any differ- ence at all in the price to the cot sumer. |clearing up the situation, starting with, the freight yards at Washington, the lare having no trouble with truckmen or teamsters and we are not expect- ing any trouble.” by the merchants and business men of New York who have organized to deal with the trucking tle-up |which js crippling the city indus- trially, to extend the scope .of their operations to include all! phases of the menacing freight tangle. This will take in the congeation of the railroad as a consequence of the joutlaw strike and the harbor strike which have contributed to tbe city’ | troubles, ey e | Phere was substantially no change in the freight tie-up yesterday, al- | though the railroads claimed tobe | making headway out of thetr cyfteul~ » The New York Céhtral received word from Buffalo, a vital stronghold In the barrier wich closes the East 1a {to the West, "that a full yard force $292. | was working on its lines there At the same time the flood of ¢ plaints and appeals which has is no emb. they. are a on outbound goods and ing al} offerings, it is exceedingly aan ult ‘i wet shipments | out of the city. The State Burge Canal is being extensively used in bringing goods] as trust into and carrying them out ef Now! one of the Ga in the city. t York. 1200 Bale wing Delivery Wagons Nation quota is following telegram to Comma “The yeceipts are now 100 per cent, | which 1s} difference | cents 4 barrel. | “The railroads did a great job in| guteway to the eastern district, Wo} A decision was reached yesterday | % ? \CLUBWOMAN SEEKS DIVORCE ured and From the Farm Direct to:-Your Door MILK service of the Sheffield kind, - . we believe, differs from any other + service you bdy. Your meats, your fish, ‘- Your Vegétables, your fruits pass through many hands before reaching you. ‘Every’ tinte another hand touches the product an additional charge is necessarily piled on, Sheffield Milk comes direct. We take it at the farm and bring it to ypur door. The methods employed im the handling of Shejfield Milk represent the highest eificiency in food distribution. ‘aste and lost motion have been reduced to a degree unheard of in most industries. Sheffield Farms Co.,Inc. New York to Preside at Mass? Me N. Y. Quota $1,000,000 ‘The Salvation Army's Greater York appeal for the home service was launched at an enthusiastic : meeting in the . Metropolitan © House last night. Franklin K. who recently resigned as Secretary « the Interior and the drive, was unable to was announced he had been stricken ill, now The Salvationists aim to collect $193, ) 000,000 ny a campaign which is to ide. Greater, New ¥ ‘id 000,000. Mr. Lane sent t nit Booth, which was read to the a 4 4 citizens of New York who atee 4 semble as active friends of the Salvas” — | tion Army nrust certainly stir them- selves to make a suc of your an- nual appeal, to the end that life may be mude a jittle more bearable the unfortunate ones, and that | ight of Christian faith may penet to the dark corners of our slums ai tenements and establish cheer w despair is wont to reig ASKS FOR CANDY KISS! AND GETS REAL ONE. “Kisses Are Cheaper Since Boys> Came Home From War,” be Says Judge. F Joseph Weiss, thirty-five and mare ried, of No. 1407 Washington Avenues the Brenx, who rung a candy at No, 489 East 169th Street, arraigned before Magistrafe Nolan, In, Night Court last night on a charge, of disorderly conduct in having kisses + y elghteen-year-old Frances Heckler + . $854 Third Avenue when. wie, went into, bis store mist uight to buy come candy kisses, Magistrate Nolam,,* fined Weiss $2, which he paid. The, Magistrate, in fixing the amount of the. clerk, nn Jolie ners WS Geri 7! / LM bOS cratic Lende: -_ Mrs. Julla L. Sanders of Now. 473 Cane tal. Park. West, a Democratle lea and, President of the 8¥ Stat ch before Justice Glegetici in” ‘Spee Terni, Part IL, Supreme Court, to-day pressed her suit for divorce ‘Mm Anthony Sanders, ‘atlesing 'mixconatresit while hé was an interpreter at then army camp at Allentown, Pa. Decision, ms reserved. walker, W. Washington, colored, amis George W. Hall. formerly a oclate of Sanders, were the pri tg J witnesses, >- jet Union Square Theatre to Be | ‘Phe. Hotel Churchill, the Union Theatre and other properties, in same neighborhood are to be sold ri auction Within the next few weeks as Ee Fy. result Of @ partition action sta: Henry W. Taft as counsel for Ma 1h Palmer against Catharine A. B. Abber and others, The theatre” formerly was the Mortofi tioned above. go. east at, Neptune Avenue. head Bay and cross bridge. Manhattan Beach Park Is Now Open Surf Bathing, Still Water Bathing, Baseball, Hand- ball, Basket Ball, Field Hockey, Medicine Ball, Clock Golf, Volley Ball and other amusements on our five blocks of sea beach and lawn. 5 ‘ Thousands of dressing rooms, a restaurant, a wading pool for kiddies, spacious sun shade overlool the ocean, with steamer chairs. bathe in the ocean, but many of our patrons like it, But it is not too early to enjoy the other sports men- It is not too early to come down and spend a pleasant day watching the fun or picknicking on the lawn or sitting in the sun shade to watch the ships come and It is a fine objective for an automobile ride any day, cool or warm. Drive down Ocean Parkway and turn Or take the Brighton Beach train to Sheepshead Bay and vi to Manhattan Beach car.or bus line, or Ocean Avenue trolley to Sheeps- Perhaps it’s too early to