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‘the capital, Carransa ¢e- to flee, clinging to the idea that ‘Was necessary for him to reach Cras and re-establish his ex- ecutive powers. His tratns carried 10,000 men and a Yarge amount of war munitions, in yt i they were joined by ed by Gen. Pilar Ban~ then pashed on, but soon reported they could go i ; 3 a water. detrained and pushed defeating a force of His fl Ff ir track had it, means was found Presidential train further Cras, and on May 11 it inconada it g Ht i fought against troops com- manded by Gen. Mireles, which were | defeated by oe heavier colamns com- | manded by Carranza. ‘Up to this time no word of the re- ‘volt of Gen. Guadeloupe Sancher, rev- alarming news was received. Later, ‘when the town of Algibes was reached, Carransa’s men found the rails cut. and the morate of the soldiers seemed large numbers deserting. On the afternoon of May 15 Gen. ‘fixed and ways were diseovered of made mm the coer oe Ae etropreprge the | assisting Germany to pay the same, reconstruction would be held back in. |. definitely. That is tho interpretation which our officials put upon the latest con- ferences between the Allied Premiers |_ | prior to the conferchce with the Ger- mans at Spa. But it must be said at the outset that whatever views aro expressed at the Treastry Depart- immediately af-| ment, where the writer made several Carranza fled | ‘nquiries to-day concerning the mo- Mentous decisions being mado in the European conferences, are based en- the flight from Mexico City|tirely upon a reading of the morning little for the soldiers to cat | 2¢wapapers. Significant, and, indeed ten suffered terribly from |Tesrettably, the United States Gov- ernment doesn’t, know .. thing about Lara Torres, who} What 1s going on in those important financial conferences which indirectly relate to the whole economic future Lo gs shoes gaat of the United States, the value of jts bond and securities and the opportu- nities for forelgn trade. WITH- ‘Treasury officials #aid it was an un- fortui confirmation of what they/lication of the sensational book by had been saying right along—namely, | J. M. K that Burope was being comipelled to settle the world’s financial affaires without having the benefit of Amer- army, but just at what to be the moment of victory, ite attack was repulsed by @ counter- thrust led by Gen. Murgia. ‘The next day found the Carranza 4 {n reaching the mountains, nded im the fighting on May was Crain for pleading on two indictments | ences.” against him as himeclf, as “Nicky”| To be suro, our officlals take with a grain of salt some of the cablegrams nold, ae Wallace Ames, as John| which imply that a new principle of Payment of interallied war debts 1s to be introduced. For instance, one Press despatch declares that France tional chargey involving increased! will not be obliged to pay England Dail were to be made against the] what she owes the latter until the Germans make their payments on the war indemnity. ‘This might conceiv- ably be extended to apply to indebt- New Hayen against persons involved| edness to America, thus making the in the murder of Benny Binkowits, a/ United States wait for German pay- Uhleving messenger murdered by other| ments before England or France ‘wascarrying. Dooling said he had no} But Treasury officials say this is knowledge of these warrants or/absurd. They declare that there ts absolutely no relationship between reparation and indebtedness, They Arnstejn, as John & and Nicky Ar- Adams and as J. W. Adair for receiv- ing stolen goods a8 a second offender, Woukt not say to-day whether addi- prigoner. .@rom Conneoticut comes a story of a@ Warrant issued by Coroner Mix of whether they affected any of the per- sons im custody here or under indict- snent in the bond conspiracy. with Chief of Police Kellert of Mon- sales of stolen bonds. Margaret Meeker, the Massachussets lose associate, who left with a trunkful of men's made no sign of any inten- Btu Btreet. said that she and Nicky’ of No. 161 University Avenue against] themselves before Agnes Haale Jackson, No. 646 West! Germans at the Spa conference, It is | Mouare 168th Btreet, for the alienation of the/foilt that the Allied Premiers enter |vaain to the Koblas Dry Dock Company. affections of Henry Jackson, @ travel-|the conference with a chan, ————— Krohnbers of tne Bron: EUROPE AT LAST because their locomotives, Washington Officials Look on tried to check | the HAVE TO IGNORE U. S. Failure to Ratify Treaty Leaves’ was day, and there a| (Special Staff Correspondent of The WASHINGTON, May 17.—(Copy- Nght 1920).—Burope is getting down jto brass tacks, or rather, ecopomic sense, in overcoming the sentimental- No water vould be secured at Algibes, 18m which has kept the Allied ‘world from recognizing that until the |amount of the German indemnity was indeed we rejected the opportunit offered to us to become a member of who is to arraign Amstein to-morrow | the League of Nations and be repre- “To the extent therefore that Ger- ‘not joined Cohen, or at least} situation though it is feared there ‘with him now. Cohen, he| will not be much improvement in re- gins to make her budget balanve In- Miss Brice, who lives at No, 1 West | cidentally some of the talk of having tbs Hate le senting ferns investors absorb German sued with the reparation money as se- curity, is pronounced impractical here. America, it is asserted, cannot absorb any such bonds as she lusn’t the money. mst satisfaction here that the Allies are endeavoring to agree among feeeions to tig horoway Presid ; Louls H. Pounds, of Brooklyn, Will they approach the /O'Greene and J.T, McMahon ling salesman, was begun to-day before| tude toward Germany. Fully a year Justice Gavegan in the Supreme Court] hus had to pass unfortunately before the Allies have been brought around Edna je wife No 1 and/to a Agnes ie Ni Phe Tiret wite atlonse| (ery fee ization of the correctness of! 4c, ‘granted the resauest of attorney» ON RIGHT TRACK W GERMAN POL Plan of Fixing of Total Indemnity As Sound. Country Out of Calcula- tions in Settlement. By David Lawrence. ning World.) MONEY OF FRANCE, ° Broadly speaking, there is the ut- wed atti- Tang No 3) wes tren $e viewpoins expressed by President sevens one met her husband, APL, by means of her lured oes ‘away. Jack- fe in 1906 and| fixed for the Germans to pay und the , two months| sooner arrangements were made to help Germany earn the money to Day her debts the quicker the world would get back on Its feet, THREE FACTORS THAT HELD Shooting. 10 o'clock last night a youth who described himself as Julius Rubin- geventeon years old, of No. 231/ from doing twelve months ag she is accomplishing to-day. and his financial advisers at| for Lows Krohnberg, the Farle Peace Conference—namely | chesting in poker games smong Droad- that the sooner & definite sum was| {al etorred out of e@pecel veamone te 4 jury trial in General Sessions. Assist- ant District Attorney Mou: v¢ take the evidence before BACK THE SETTLEMENT, Three factors prevented Europe 0 what First—Prime Minister Lloyd Ge. had made an election promise to the ' Brooklyn, went to Lin- tment for bullet , ; so Fight thight which ‘he mid jc) % : nosing, fRrovgh | Day Kngland for her whole war cost, ¢ the pevalver but did ‘This raised high hopes in England 4 Lad the “shooting. and kept Lioyd George in power. This general effect that Germany would re- THR 2vENIKG WORLD, MonDAy, MA t, Dee ‘Here Ye Are! It’s Coney, Open Again! Old John Barleycorn Is the Only Absent sizzle, for the summer. No, the thing thal wow, holding them back is th ' the law, Inspector Jo: wow--other dogs; Scandinavian sniff of the hounds, the peal and squeal of organs "88 lecreed that there shall be no in the carousels, girls, screams, shrieks, mo peelers, to th ou, side- Not & bather was to be ‘seen on shows, popcorn, ice cream, crowds, Surf Avenue, except those who hur- mobs, rowdies—one or two—trains, trolleys, swoways; one straw hat run- Park. It was something of a new ning along Surf Avenue, owner chas- Coney, or an old Coney in a we ing {t, Mother Hubbard bathing girts, Suit. All the horses in the me dands of music, witching waves, switching women, and the great old same old tune: Atlantic, sleeping and snoring on the “Coney is Coney," vald Frank , beach—Coney Island! The only Coney is again in full \ awh, The people's playground was Brownsville and a lot of other things. open for the enipioee play esterday, (It’s 8 Coney Island crowd that und the play was pretty good for the sideshows, the merry-go-rounds, the one Coney Island in all the world. deach, Luna Park, Stauch's, Steeple- There isn't room for another.” |chase and Somer’s Garden. got the newest thing down at Somer's Garden, a jazz loving band: FRANK GROSSBARD ONG OF THR PIONEER BuLoers oF CONEY 1BLAND ‘8S HE — YES 48'S CERVONE. WHO LEADS 4 REAL AMERICAN BANO AT_SOMER'S GARDEN GEORGE G. WILSON & GARDLN YouRse.r SHEVUIN | ‘ "SOFT DRINK Lous” — Lous LuTHER SrAUCH THE HUMAN Some pocker Poow 4 Poot TABLE They've ONE Piece VACUUM OIL'S INCOME. MULTIPLIED FIVE TIMES IN FIVE EARS OF WAR (Continued From Fi INDOOR “THEATRE MIGHT AS WRLL BI FORMER SAILOR HELD ON MURDER CHARGE WN RUECKERT CAS (Continued From First Page.) horse laugh! election mise ig probably the most famous {n all history and was vague- was ordered by the United States Su- preme Court. | "In conformity with the Unitel) States Supreme Court’g decision of | y 15, 1911, deelaring the Standard Oll Company of New Jersey a monop- oly in contravention of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and ordering its dis- integration, the $2,499,800 stock of tue, Vacuum Ol Company owned by the Standard Oil Compuny of New Jersey was distributed to the shareholders | of the latter company on the basis of 24998-988383 of one share of Vacuum Oli Company stock for each share >f Standard Oil Company of New Jersey stock as registered on Sept. 1, 1911." There is the history of the kidnap Ping of the Vacuum Oil Company from the Standard Oil Company uf The child was taken Away from tho Standard Oil Company | Cw Jersey und given to the share- ers of the Standard Oj) Company Now we quote an- ‘aph from another pat- phlet devoted to instruction of them from fox- of that band. | Every one of} Avenue Line. his conference with the Senate Vor- eign Relations Com: ittee, The pub- ‘nes, British financial adviser who revealed the secreta of the Paris conference, has had a tremendous ef- feot on English public opinion, which realizes now that the indefinitenons ica’s advice or suggestions. of the Indemnity question’ has kept “while it is true,” said one of the| "2d would keep Germany from be- ‘Treasury officials, “that the United| f. States need not accept the settlement when it 1s made, we will hardly be And ob, girls! the baidmaster—a magceician of the baton and a wnelodic Adonis and more graceful ballet dancer. 2 “ manager of Somer's Garden, is going | Wanted the hearing pa} over “In order to put up an iron’ fence around the |that President Hedley might appear. fle's Just as sure|The reply of the Commissioners was hat some naind queen is going to | criti steal that lad off to sea—ah, well, is used to the fortunes of war, sideshows Is Showiia's Mogae ene,, LAE | instances almost as much time is take dinavian sniff hounds legged hounds, don't bark, don’t :un— fust-snoop and snitf—cellar dogs they are with a wonderful nose for booze. The morning World a short time ago published a big scandal about more boose being on the market than before. Up to that time the Atianti Ocean wasn’t the only thi furnishing the water for But, then the sniff hounds g and now the island is another Salts It's & cruel World, The Steeplechase is new glory, but Louis Luther Stauch is sclling pink lemonud: sell much lemonade Steeplechase than a inning to earn the money to pay the er bills, The AlMes know they must ‘accept a much smaller indemnity than they advertised they would collect. Second—France w: rler—or rather Premier Clemencenn, vho shared the view of a multitude of Frenchmen that Germany should promptly ~~ France before any money should go elsewhorv. in ‘these important confer-} Ciemenceau’s ignorance of economies is spoken of by American officials as one of the lamentable obstacles to an earller agreement on the indemnity question, Third—The United States got tan- gled up in party politics and Euro: watted hopefully for the ratificati of the peace treaty, and Americ: entrance into the League of Natiol All factors have now been removed except one: England is ready to agree to a fixed sum for the German: method of financl! france and Italy are in accord with the British viewpoint. States ulone is-outside the conference chamber, and this country holds $10,- 000,000,000 of European obligations. But Europe has decided thi wait no longer, > bandstand to-day. At that addreas the name Berger is another bar- Checking up the alibi submitted by Schlager is the work that efgrossed the police most of to-day. The pris- oner has given the name: persons he claims to have talked with at the time of the murder. persons are being rounded “up and the @ tWo- New Jersey, Schlager, who is twenty-seven years | noid old, lived at No. 225 Garden Street of | with his wife. day when he ng that was New Jersey, She was in court to- | other paragr: was arraigned, but slipped out as soon as the case was closed. She arranged to-day to move away from the Garden Street house. Inspector Kiely said he was sure the police would have enough evi- dence against Schlager by Thursday to cause him to be held for the action of the Grand Jury, Mrs.-Leonora Kohler Richter, wife of the most intimate friend of Rueck- ert, told an Evening World reporter to-day that she had heard that Miss Mae Trask of this city went to St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, the day before Rueckert died to marry him on his deathbed. According te Rueckert's own state- ments to several persons. he was en- waged to marry Miss Clara Vorratb of Hoboken, who visited him jn the hospital and was with him till he died and appeared at his funeral in deep mourning. Mrs. Richter further stated that she was sure Miss Trask, to whom she had been introduced by Rueckert himself, visited the hospital the day before he died but was unable to get {nto bis room, although she knocked repeatedly at’ the door. ment by Mrs, Richter bears out the declaration by Miss Trask that she went to the hospital that day. The engagement of Rueckert and Miss Vorrath was verified by Mrs. ws} Richter, but she added that at one time it was broken off. “A woman came F fleld in ait Its NEW. 8TOCK OFFERED TO SHAREHOLDERS aT -PAR, ‘The stockholders, on June 1, 1933, voted to increase the capital stouk from $2,500,000 to $15,000,000, the new stock being offered to shareholders at par. Out of the proceeds of this sale the company paid oft @ debt of $8,820,000 to’ the Standard O11 Cor- pany of New Jersey and retired Its $2,000,000 bond: : ance of $2,180, Thus were the Government which stroy the Standard fled. The shareholders Oil Company of New J. the stock of the Vacuum @ meeting, subscribe, peg ose cribed to Company at $1 @ sl $20,000 from thelr left or Company hands to the! Standard Oil Compa ie retired to pay and a tho Germans, terday, but the LA ge The indoor theatre, the the whirlpool and the Boys'and girls seem to think that the only fun in life consists in being tossed about. But the girls don't have to “muss” their pretty skirts any more, and it may have been with an eye to the high cost of living that the munage- ment has provided them with bloom- Before the girls go into any of the games they adorn themeslves with the bloomers and put the kibosh on the "Peeping Toms.” wear bloomers they are whirled about, and skidded about—well, it would be a sad thing for them if they had holeg in their silk stockings. WHEN ON THIS BRIDGE, WATCH YOUR STEP. Steeplechase responsible for the big sale CS aad human pool, If America suffers as a result of the settlement that is her cade of England. She doesn't expect recognize that payments of German|a definite policy from America until Dovling was {fi conference to-day|reparation money might accelerate the payment in inter-allied debts and trea} regarding information gathered] insist that the reparation foney was vy the Canadian authorities as to) never intended to pay the bills of the war itself, but rather to rehabilitate ‘York authorities havo| France and Belgium and England and| America has nobody on the inside of jearned the present whereabouts of] assist in the, domestic situation of each. it and friend of Nick Cohen,|OBJECTION RAISED TO! pap) » leaving @ ef Coe Ying & cast dal after our Presidenti tainly not till next March. tionably she will advise the United States of what is done—but thus far not a syllable of official information has come, for the good requirements of a had set out to de- monopoly aatis- f ne Standard ersey, owning If they didn't those conferences, and until the peace the United States Government will continue to be on the R | outside. 10,168 IMMIGRANTS IN WEEK Exceeds Number of Kmigrants by 8,061, Report Figures collected for the week which ended Saturday last by the officials of the Immigration Station at Ellis Island show arrivals of 10,168, departures 6,207, a net in of 1,000 Italian reservists, who found ready cmployment ‘at hi Ln ty sat a is) United Bi posed returning to. the bonds, which are to be is- | [ater with helt wives and femili Se the Vacuum treaty ir right or y of News Juracy worth of rted out a8 a Standard place where the poor girls get the indoor theatre. When they cross bridge of sigha-xip! draught of atr from underneath and the girl grabs for her skirt and hat at the same time and a set of howl- Ing dervishes turn loose a gale of shouts and laughter, filled with screams and shrieks and laughs and shouts. But ob! that band at Somer’s Gar- 0, Busines is business, 18 the net income of ‘he Vacuum rphan was $4,882,980, dividend of $900,000. Th on in 1914 hurt the buusiness company, which {ts tributer of hi; there's a and It paid a world-wide dis- gh grade lubricating oils and the net in- 43. Nevertheless it paid dividends of $900,000 1 1914, cked up in 1915, and the aped to $6,861,913, dends of $1,200,000 were’ paid that The net income In 1916 in- reased approximately 60 per cent, climbing to $9,221,987, gregating $1,200,000 were paid. The United States went war in April, 1917, and Congress im- pon ‘business heavy: and excess profits taxes. profits of the Vacuum orphan affect- ed? Not to any material extent ‘The net income of the Vacuum Oi ny In 1917 was $9,324,396, and ividend of $1,200,000 was ‘paid, ‘The Vacuum Qil Company of lubricating of! to the Government n. And down at Luna Park! Fair Luna, whence al! the lunatics spring There are dark, etween them,” I don't know who this woman was, but the break worrled Rueckert very much, peatedly to Miss Vorratb and tried to patch the affair up, but she re- Later Fritz went to Germai for two months and when he came in January he succeeded settling all the differences with her and they became engaged again.” pic i ll the witching ‘waves and dark caves, the whip and the skip and a ship, the lutes and chutes and every old thing, that ever had an up and down or a slbaw ise motion, \ was a big day for an opening 4 So sald a. dashing aloueeh, Comkoy's taff, but be couldn't say how ‘big “crowd Was there, for he hadn't Qe Le Ai a BB figure quoted at the beginning of this rt x Under @ verdict handed down tn the Brooklyn Supreme Court to-day by a jury before Justice Van Siclen, Wilitam Board, trustees for thy r William B. 9,234 as brokera’ com: et eeat tae Dividends ag- and Jeremiah catate of the will have to pay day at Coney, cop of Inspector M. cturers Hold Silver J The eilver jubilee convention of the National Association of Manufacturers began to-day at the Waldorf-Astoria, ‘The platform committee, acting on eug- gestions made by delegates at a liminary meeting two weeks ago, red planks for submission to national conventions of both publican and Democratic Parties. ‘These will be laid before the convention to- morrow night. 6 four years 1915-1918 tnclu- sive the Vacuum orphan earned $268.63, for each of its 150,000 shares of stock. The shareholders bought this stock in 1912 at $100 a share and then paid themselves back $68.20 a share in the shape of u debt to the Standard Oil jompany of New Jersey, cemene cost them $16.80 a share. They were paid $18 a share in the dividends of 191%, 1913 and 1914, The $268.65 a share they received {n the 1915-1918 amounted “yelvet"—and they still investment and ‘The Government was aleo a heavy tron of the Vacuum Ol] Company in 8. For more than ten months in that year the United States was at the) war with Germany. The Government called upon the people for heavy sub- scriptions to bonds and for heavy contributions to tax: Judge Crafm in Genera} Sessions to- changed with The stock to finance the people responded. NET INCOME MOUNTS AS U. §. BUYS HEAVILY. So did the Vacuum Wu Company— after the manner of Standard Oil orphans., In 1918, the year in which through the and army, used unprecedented quan- titles of lubricating oil, the net in- come of the Vacuum O11 Company | mounted to $10,392,075, $1,600,000 In would the get i ‘al Sessions calendar. to have their its accre- LONDON, May 17.—The troops of Men to Fight Dry marched into Cottbus, Prussia, and the workers there have declared a geenral strike, according to a Berlin despatch to the Exchange Telegraph WASHINGTON, May 17.—-Forma- ide organization to conduct a vigorous fight for the re- peal of the Volstead Prohibition Bn- forcement Act is announced here. the Constitutional Headquarters have In seven years, 1912-1918 Inclusive, the Vacuum Oil Company paid out, according to the figures at hand, §7,- 00,000 in dividends on & cipitaliza- In that period the ton of a Nation. late t earnings of the co ny arnount- briyeery py AP | $46,867,900—more than three) fee? Be racner Liberty League, meets contalaed “form aay tahen Wp ‘ividends and this left a ed to 1, been established in Boston. ‘The surplus times the capital stock, y “adjustment” to the! Again OME orphan! vtanding the» Sonndinavian sniff ee hounds and the enforced absence, of " ; John Barleycorn, John's abyence did make a big alf- 1 ference at that. Ice creath stands i stood and soda: ater fountains piay- and there wasn't a bit of mirth In a bucket of fifty-fitty “wuds." | From “suds” to soda-water is somo slide, , ed where saloons used to be display- ed; and the rush for them was like r @ bargain sale, There were hot dogs, ’ 4 but they were of the mournful kind | ee ha Resort Reopens to Jazz and a >ut the soda water was to be de- Jam, Sprinkled With Two- Legged Hounds. pended upon and the beer, wasn't, But, oh, boy! down on the beach by tho shimmering sea, The beach is there in all its pristine beauty and the eotean js all there. But where were the beauties of a bygone day, Toot, toot—whistlea; clang, clang!=- the girls of the one-piece sults. They zum, zoom, zim—roasting pea- swish—skirts; sizzle—hot dog; were there not. Maybe it was too early, maybe they are holding back 8 tern finger ph Conboy one-piece guits, so Venus went down e Kea yesterday in bloomers. ried by In thelr automobiles. The sights were better in Steeplechase rounds had new couts, new coats of paint, but the organs carried the Grossbard, Coney’ vid man of the who Claims to be seventy and less than forty, and who bullt comes here; a crowd that you never see anywhere else, and there's only You found the crowd in the rush for trolleys and trains, especially the five-cent fare trains, which made It's a@ you wait until they got there, and |band of forty pieces, all ex-service didn't seem to be a hurry to arrive, men; boys of the army and avy, led by “Izzy” Cervone. Tzzy (1s He) was an ensign and lea fpsiing, came Pate hey ue Sanlee the band on the big transport Man- tion of the old playground, w: vd churia, which was captained by Skip- *U9 and foolishness, Ita merty-go- per Saunders, one of the daredevils of the roaring ocean main, but brought you home as if the tracks were greased. And looking back on disappearing Coney the old rounds and bands and dances, {ts swimming pools and the big old Three of ocean, and you ein i} Li the band played with Pershing's Own; Sight, seelng last its lighted pagodas two aeesrta a wah dei: tht and castellated structures and thou- sands of elec! ic stars. # cornetist who can make his cornet Yep! Grossbard is right. There's neigh like a pony and a trombonist only one Coney. Go to‘ it, People. who can make his slide born laugh Coney 1s again on the map. It's wide like a human being, Imagine doing a fox trot, or a horse of fun ahead. trot, and having a cornet neigh at| —— you and the trombone giving you the HEDLEY CRITICIZED Did it stop those girla? On and on, up and down, skippety scop—they had to nail the jtables down to kee; trotting to the mui And the bandsmen! them with # soldier of fortune face, A GRACEFUL MAGICIAN OF THE open, only the saloons are closed; but don’t be daunted. There's a lot round ani] AT SUBWAY INQUIRY hop, nee xon's ‘Deputies Plan Order for Increased Serevice on Jerome When a Bronx delegation appeared to-day before Deputy Pubile Service Commissioners Barrett and Halley to complain about interooro servic» on the Jerome Avenue Branch af the Kast Side Subway, counsel for the Interborough n of Hedley for his non-appear- an 4 The delegation declared that in many up in transferring from one train to another at 167th Street and Jerome Ave- nue, and at Kingsbridge Road and Jer- ome Avenuo and in waiting for trains to which to transfer, aa is consumed in actual running time. . The Deputy Commissioners will re ommend to Commissioner Nixon an der calling for an Increase of ‘service and particularly for the elimination of the present system of transfers from subway to elevated trains at the points named. ‘Figures put in evidence showed tha: ticket sales on the Jerome Avenue line have increased more than 800 per cent. in thre yeara.and probably will reach 1,090,000 @ month by June or July. Eieinivabacsh “Testis TRUCKS PARADE TO-NIGHT. Five Handred to Go Down Broad- way im Good Roads Week. the Nomody has declared war on United States to-day and there will be no occasion for alarm in Broadway to-night when a mighty procession of motor trucks, Including many of the army kind with blasing searchligh| comes tearing down from the Nort! It's merely the parade that’ ushers in the “Ship by Truck—Good Roads” week, At least 500 trucks, represent- Ing all sorts of industries, will as- emble at 168th Street and Broadway 2" clock, ana come straight dowa on Square. similar demonstrations will take place In a hundred other cities tu- he purpose being to stimulate Right ublic demand for better Toads and more of them. PAYS BACK STOLEN’ | $700 BY GIVING UP WHITE COLLAR JOB Former Insura After Beating H. « Turning Longshoreman. HY high cost of living precse upon Willian Bauer of No. 301 Harmon Street, Brooklyn, that he retained $700 of the money he had collect ed as an insurance collector in © der to support his wife und chil- Even with this his of $21 failed to meet the demands of his family, so he quit his job and went to work as g ‘longshore Things improved with He made enough to pay his way and even to save up $700, so when le was arrested this morn- ing he paid back the $700 he had taken, and in the Brooklyn Coun- ty Court pleaded guilty to petty larceny. Judge Mahon, after hear- Ing his story, freed him on a sus pended sentence. peas HEDGES WILLING TO GIVE CAR FACTS Receiver, at Craig Hearing, Says Es- timate Board Was Dealing “Hyp: ocritically With Fare Questions. the contempt against Comptroller Craig wax resumes States Judge Mayer to- day with Job B. Hedges, receiver of the New York Rallways Company, on the witness stand. based on @ letter written by Craig ts Public Service criticising Judge Mayer's traction fare matters. Mr. Hedge# dented having refused in formation to Mr. Craig or other metu- bers of the Board of Estimbte and sali he had tnatructed his subordinates to sive any Information asked for by any member of the charging that “hypocritically with the fare question, Edmund L. Mooney, counsel for Ms. Craig, charged that the books of th: New York Rallways Company had been that the Stone and report recommending an “fletitious” and “original sources.” Henry L. Stimson, counsel 1v: id that he had seen the Craic on and had declared that it ought to be brought to the attention o. Asked whether he had not been instrumentay in causing th tempt charge to be made, he sald me too much 2. or. to the letter of Craig tu was read @t a conference, Mr. Stimson said he did not realize that the reading of the Jet ch before United The contempt Commisaioner untintelligently"’ “sold for junk" an creased fare was ter at that confer- boul FAINTS, NEARLY DROPS BABY for Daughter Also Falls Down Court Stairs. . Nellie Fanning of No, 126 Street, Brooklyn, fainted on the witnes. stand to-day in thé 6th Avenue Cour: and nearly dropped her baby, Police- woman Hortense Thompson just caug!t the child in time, Mrs. Fanning was testify: years old, whom she hed charged wit: dischedience, and incorrigibility, Mrs, Fanning pleaded with trate Geismar not to send the gi: but he sent her to the House of Shepherd for a year. CHURCH 112 YEARS OLD. VINELAND, a scendants of the old-time Methodist who have kept alive the Friendship Church, near Buena, for 119 years, selebrated {ts anniversary old structure made hand-hewn logs and put together w Dinner was served in the oak grov that was saplings th tion used to gather in ox cal of automobiles, non lected 0; DES MOINES, Ia, May 17.—Dr, Dar. clected a Bishop of the Methodist copal Church on the ballot taken Sat day evening and counted to-day, ft wi. at the general confercn For Monday, May aeh CHOCOLATE COVERED MEL! RECESUAEE goods ere eat oh late Cream and Apricot Jel): fers. St ese For Tuesday, May 18th beet ne Nomex presented tna host wang, Hoe Te: 34c MILK CHOCOLATE COVERED MARAS. CKINO CHERRIES — m1 New York, Brooklyn, Newari Hobok: