The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1920, Page 3

? : "of @ harbor plant, were used more and _ more for storage purposes because in- ) passage of freight in and out in a gon- ' dnuous stream amounts to criminal San Francisco, in Same Ar- chaic Condition, Woke Up; Now a Modern Port. IT CAN BE DONE ‘HERE Pacific Coast Expert Advo- cates Business and Politi- cal Co-Operation, By Martin Green. “The mein trouble with the port of ‘New York,” said Robert Newton Lynch, Secretary and General Man- ager of the Chamber of Commerce of Ban Francisco, to the writer to-day, “4a that it is in a straitjacket. San Frencisco was in a similar predica- Ment up to a few years ago, but ‘we have worked our way out of our @tralt jacket. It is possible for New York to do the same. Your case is mot as hopeless as many interested tm the port problems seem to think.” Mr. Lynch is an authority on port tmprovement and development. By virtue of his position he had much do with eradicating in San Fran- isco Harbor archaic conditions simi- lar to those prevailing here. He has been prominently identified with the movement which has made San Fran- isco charges for unloading freight from ocean steamships the cheapest in the country, although fabor costs im San Franisoo Harbor are as high ‘@s in New York. “Primarily,” Mr. Lynch continued, “the port makes a seacoast city. If Your port dies your city dies. The matural advantages of the harbor of New York are responsible for your standing os the greatest city in the ‘world. “To adtount for the straitjacket @onditions wo have to go away back to the time when New York wag an fnfant. The business houses of the city were built right down to the water front. The shippers and bust- ness men and city officials of those were not to Slame. They did not foresee the prodigious growth of the city. This applies to San Fran- cisco and every other seaport in the United States. “When the time came that great warehouses were required along the water front the land was so valuable that improvements of that nature were out of the question. As the traMc grew the water front available for the movement of water freight be- ame more and more constricted and {t became necessary to handle goods by lighters or by trucks; also, the piers, which are very expensive parts coming freight could not be taken ‘@way as rapidly as it was unloaded from ships. Storage on piers which should be used exclusively for the ‘waste. “When we taqled the job in San Francisco of moving our port from the back number to the modern class we sent experts out to study all the ports in the world. From study of thelr reports we came to this basic conclusion: “In order to hold up our end, not only as a port, but as a factor ip keeping the American merchant ma- rine on the seas, we would have to adopt every method of efficiency and peed devised by American ingenu- ity and functioning under American management. And we have done that very thing. “The merchant marine of the United States is vitally involved in efficient operation of the ports of our country, and only by utilizing every means ‘making for efficiency can we hope to enable our shipping to com- pete with foreign shipping. Our shipping overhead 1s higher because the cost of our ships. Our oper- ating expenses are higher and our port labor is better ‘paid. “To-day, the American flag is well represented on the seas of the world. To keep {t thgre we must facilitate the movement of our ships and keep down American harbor costs. We ean do it by management, “For instance, under conditions of lequal cost of material we can put @ skyscraper in New York or San ancisco with the most expensive Jabor in the world cheaper than a similar building could be construct~ ed in Japan, where the labor cost lwould ‘be trifling compared with Management enables us to ac- emplish this. “San Francisco possesses a deep- ter harbor in which little dredging necessary. The harbor is owned nd controlled by the State and is rned by a commission of three members selected by the State Gov- pment. For many years the Port of Francisco was run as a political machine with a resultant decrease in Mclency and capacity. “When we started to improve the ‘arbor our biggest and fundamental /i> was to get the business interests the port into close and harmonious Sj aations with the State Government a order to gc* the State Government mjO adopt oF So ‘y of business adminis- ration Instead of political controi,! ((Continued oo ‘Thirteenth Page.) Dn Tar vem TeerOO NET rec tIe OV aE ennEe WAKE UP, NEW YORK! NEW YORK IN STRAITJACKET Wp MUST FREE ITSELF 10 WIN BACK TTS PORT SUPREMACY MARIA TUCCI'S FATE 1S PUT IN HANDS OF JURY Judge, in Charge, Says Verdict Hinges on Story of Strug- gle for Pistol. The jury which ts to decide upon the innocence or guilt of Maria Tucct, the twenty-year-old Italian girl charged with the murder of her elder sister, Angelina Conti, in a West Houston Street tenement, took the case under consideration shortly before noon to- day when Judge Nott in General Ses- sions ended his hour-long charge. In this charge Judge Nott said, in part: “If you believe the story of the struggle for possession of the revolver as told by the defendant, and that the killing was done in self-defense, or by accident by the hand of the slain woman, it is your duty to render a verdict of not guilty. The most de- praved and abanfoned woman has a right to her life, and it is for yon to decide whether she was shot in her sleep or killed by her own hand in a struggle for the weapon. If you be- eve she was asleep you will be con- strained to find the defendant gullty. “The. Court of Appeals has fre- quently ruled that persons testifying to the character of a defendant in a capital case create a reasonable doubt as to the true character of the de- fendant.” At the request of Judge D'Aloia, of counse] to Maria, Judge Nott defined at length the meaning of manslaugh- ter in the second degree. He also in- structed the jury that the uncorro- ‘borated testimony of a child under twelve years of age need not be as- cepted in a capital case. He declared that if the deceased had a revolver in her hand and the defendant b»- lieved her own life to be in danger, the defendant had a right to defend herself, and that if the minds of the jury were equally divided over -he testimony, the defendant should r2- ceive the benefit of a doubt of her guilt. PRINCE INDICTED ON: LARCENY CHARGE Murat Accused to Failing to Make Good on Guaranty Trust Co. Check for $2,000, Prince Michel Murat, descendant of a famous French family was indicted by the Grand Jury to-day on a charge of grand larceny because of his fail- ure to make good a check for $2,000 on the Guaranty’Trust Company. His counsel informed Assistant District Attorney Kilroe that Prince Michel Murat is now in Paris, Prince Michel Murat married Misa Helen Stallo in Paris in 1913. She wes with her sister, heir to the estate of her grandfather, Aloxander McDonald of the Standard Oil Company. It was established last year the estate had shrunk from move than $350,000.00 to a little more than $570,000. Murat was commissioned in the rench Army, during the war and stationed in this country, last fall attach- ments for over $3,600 for clothing 1s Were served on Prince at the Ritz-Carlton: eae oa In the present proceeding H. E. Watson of No. 695 St. Nichelas Ave- nue, charges he received a $2,000 check from Prince Michel Murat July 7, payment for furs. The check was returned ‘by the Guranty Trust Com- pany with the notation: “Michel Mu- rat not Boog for $2,000 at present.” Mi sig diand Mourns Lost Trolleys. Midland Beach, Staten Island's favor- ite bathing resort, faces the opening of the summer season on Saturday without trolley service, and hotel keepers and concessionaires unhappy are They blame the receiver for the Midland Rail- | way Company rate a shuttle s “M * buses ope- vice on Saturdays and Bench’ nv additional’ avezcont fate >. Service tm Memory of Bechet, A service In memory of Etlenne Marie Bechet, an aide to Count Rochambeau, | the French noble who fought with the Americans during the Revolution and was present at the surrender of Corn- wallls at Yorktown, will be held at St. Paul's ‘Chapel on ‘Sunday. morning ‘i 11 o'clock. grave is in St. Paul's churohyard and a wreath wi'l be laid upon it. ‘The ceremonies. will attended by a dele of the Am ct F be tion from the Sons jon. re With French Uride, Capt. John Bg Wilkinson of the Red Cross trafisportation in France sinc early in the wai pila his French wie: whe, vee Mile, simone assistant their bab; , to his Capt, Wilk | Builders Who Decry Terzi’s Prices as Too Low, Invited to Tell Clients Whcther They Are Less Capable or Profiteers. By Stanley Mitchell. This is one of a series of artt- cles to show you how to escape from the clutches of the prof- teering landlord, Laws against profiteering are a relief but not a cure for the evil which to-day hits every class of city dwellers, from high salaried executives to poorly paid clerks, The real solution of the prob- lem is for ever,one to be hia own landlord. — ~ For the benefit of many readers who have written that their builders have assured them the construction costs quoted in previous articles have been ridiculously low under present build- ing conditions, this demonstration is given of a Long Island residence, available for the flat renter who is paying $100 a month. For this amount of rental the flat rentér may maintain a suburban rest- dence like this one and gradually pay off his second mortgage, so that at the nd of four years only the first mort~ gage will be a burden. In fact, the $65 a month renter who 1s able to save $35 a month out of his income and will invest t in payments on his own home can carry a proposi- tion like this one. : ‘The builder, Nicholas Terzi of Little Neck, L. [, states he {s willing to contract to duplicate this houge, which he is just filnishing for the present owner, for $7,200. ‘This house is a duplicate of a West» chester County home recently shown in this series, except that a sun par- lor has been eliminated, ‘This, Mr. Terai states, he will include for an additional $1,000, making the total construction cost $8,200. The architect who designed this house and built the original in West- chester stated he would duplicate it for $9,600. It was, of course, under- stood his operations would be confined to the district in which he was oper- ating. . Readers who wanted to build on Long Island and in other suburban localities wrote in that their builders ridiculed the figures and quoted prices $2,000 or $3,000 higher. As the Wast- chester house was finished last fall and Terzi is just completing this one, I put it up to him. The figure he quoted is just $300 less than that which the various builders declared too low. Now it is up to them to tell their clients whether they are less capable, or just plain profiteers. ‘This house, duplicated as it stands, with a building plot at $1,500, will make a total investment of $8,700. In- terest on this amount will be 8522 a year, -To heat it will require about seven tons of coal, taxes and insur- ance will come to another $90 and commutation will be $90 a year. Part of the last charge could be saved if the commuter’s place of business is anywhere in the 34th Street section. The total carrying charges will be SOWVEHEL LNE2 DAYS ON T3 CENTS Brother and Sister Exist on| Candy, Sleep in Hallway and Walk to Save Car Fare. | Sadie Fayer, nine, and her brother, Maurice, of No. 684 Wythe Street, to-day reappeared in their class rooms at Public School | No.,16, Wilson Street and Bedford Avenue, after being absent two days. In that time the police of all New York searched for them. The “kiddies” solved the H. C. L, problem, for they lived the two"days on 18 cents. On Tuesday morning Sadie loitered to school. She was afraid to so in late and started back home. Fear again overtook her and she was pon- dering what to do when she mét her brother, also late for school. Brother wrote an excuse for sister which the teacher branded as a forg- ery, and the youngsters, deciding ihat the world was against them, decided to run away. For two days and a night they walked the streets of New York. Brpadway became a familiar stanp- ing ground. They slept Tuesday night jin a hallway at No. 83 Stuyvessant Street, thus saving further drain on |their thirteen cents capital, + Last night thelr father saw them Williamsburg Bridge. ‘The chil- |dren also saw him and started to run. As they neared the Manhattan side he caught up with them, took twelve, Brooklyn, on rived here to-day ye they went |home and, after féeding, bathing and |lecturing them, got them off to school Jearly this morning. | The H. C. L. is no difficulty for kiddies willing to make sacrifices, Sadje said to-day. They sol¥ed their ea problem by buying candy suckers, and as for transportation, she said, you don't need to ride; walking is che so EE Moonshiners Sent to Irison, In sentencing two convicted moon- shiners this morning Judge Hand. in the Federal District Court, tssued a |warning that “trouble is surely ahead" for all operators of iiliclt stjila In this district. John Fantini! was sentenced to one RUNAWAY KIDDIES hem |" ROW IN CITY HALL OVER COAL LEASE \ Mayor Approves Renting Pocket Over Protests of Craig and La Guardia. ‘The granting of a'lease to the Weber, McLaughlin Company, coal dealers, to a part of the marginal way between the Sinking Fund Commission to-day, caused a venbal combat between the Mayor, President F H. LaGuardia and Comptroller Charles «L. who voted against the lease on the gr that all coal pockets should be Bi on the upland and not on the marginal voting for the lease the Mayor said “I yote in favor of this applic: because I believe in encouraging independent coal concern in the city The Coal Trust now enjoys the greatest privileges because of the action of past administrations. Its about time we &ranted privileges to some of the little independent coal dealers who have the courage to fight the Coal Trust.” ANGLERS MEET TO-NIGHT. Experience Meeting in Pulitser Building Auditoriam, ‘The United Anglers’ League will hold an experience meeting at 8.30 o'clock this evening in the auditorium of the Pulitzer Bullding. Capt, Archie Buck- ner of Sheepshead Bay, nestor of deep- sea fishing pilots, will set the yarning pace. . The League is working {or the estab- lishment of one or more marine hatch- eries in this locality, extension of the Conservation Commission's jurisdiction over the three-mile limit, expansion of the netting law to Debs Ini d other Are Warned of ‘TraMo Innovation. Speeders and other violators of the motor traffic laws are warned that be- ginning to-day, the motorcycle police- men in Brooklyn will patrol their beats in clvillan clothes. This 1s an outcome of a suggestion made by Mayor Hylan to Police Com- missioner Enright. <— ‘Two Women Overcome by Gas. A policeman called in by neighbors found Mrs. Cornelius Paules and Mrs, Anna Hartnahigh, each 69, unconscious from gas to-May in Mrs, Paule’s apart- ment at No. 215 Lincoln Place, Brook- lyn. Mrs, Paules was removed to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital and Mra. Hannahigh to her home at No. 127 Prospect” Pla: Escaping gas was traced to a defective stopeock in a gas stove. a Sea Noted German Steamship Man Dies. year and one day at the Federal onison Atlanta and a fine of $700, and nani to six months in jail and similar fine. been convicted on three counts of operating a stillin a Bronx stable, fa BERLIN, May 27. Naitheim announces the death of, Ed- uard Woermann head of the Woermann a hip Company of Hamburg. He ‘was Afty-seven years old, West 30th and Sist Streets for a coal} pocket for ten years at a rental of| $7,100, with the privilege of a ten-year renewal at a 10 per cent. advance by conservative’ ends, It recently ap- pointed five official fry planters—Capt. Pave Martin for Sheepshead Bay, Capt John. Klein. for Bergen Beach,’ Capt Charles Noehren for Jamaica Bay, Capt. |, George Rathmen for Wreck Lead and Capt. D. McKeenan for Freeport _ MOTOR COPS IN “CITS.” despatch from | THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1920. JUST HOW You Can Own Your Home . For Less Than Your Present Rent \wian orem 0 rr IF YOU ARE PAYING $100 A MONTH YOU CAN BUY THIS HOUSE ra Cer ba toi ¥. ty $786 a year, or $65 a month, This will leave a margin of $35 a month, out of the $1,200 yearly rent, to apply on in- stalment, or second mortgage. The exact basis upon which this home can be financed depends upon the constantly changing conditions of the mortgage market. The architect and builder should advise with homeseeker, as they usually know of the local source through which the most advantageous arrangement can be made, Based upon experience in the lo- cation where this house is placed the building should be financed as fol- 1 Second mortgage > 1,960 ‘The $35 monthly m ould wipe out the second mortgage in about four years, the interest decreasing as the, amotMnt of the loan ts decreased. | After five or six years the items of | |repairs and depreciation would have \to be taken care of by the owner, The care taken of the property in the mean time will largely govern the amounts feauired. ae that candy lovers have ever been treated |fl a package of Sugar Rolled Dates, a pack: ed Milk Chocolate, a package o a package of Old Fashioned Gum Drops. pretty pink bow. Surprise Combination ~Yea, Bo! it! Hard Candies, Sugar-Rolled Golden Fluffy Marshmallow with that cris) a package of After-Dinner Mints, other dainty tidbits showing the supreme Miller, Ali done up in the handiest of tied with a pink silé bow, and handed ou zing smile t enjoy thia feast doubl: i Shocolate — Miller’ melt-in-your-mouth kind— just smothers a plump, se- lected Date and effects a delectable goody that in- Ext dicates how reall) good @ Miller's special can be. anal Broad At Sprin 0 Bs Pound Box Net h Bitter Sweet After-Dinner Mints matic flavor! Tid | tre (he [as EX-ACTOR FACES Brooklyn, and said he is an ex-actor and playing ma‘ was arraigned before Magistrate Marsh grand larceny of a handbag from| George M. examination and waa held on Ing ani Increase of rents and living costs, sald, forced him out of business, and when arrested he had but $3. Ansistal ‘Hearn 1° ply to friends for aid, O'Shaughnessy ded. | Charles 8. Garland, Pittsburgh, eap- tain of the Yale tennis team and for- mer junior chagnpion, will play with the American Davis Cup team. selected last night by a committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Asao- clation to pe the fourth momber of the team consisting of William M. Tilden 24 and Michard Morris Wiliams. Garland Harte, the Harvard star, and whom wore team is to sail for England Saturday and will co plonships at — appeal to those to whom com- fort is the prime requisite, but their smart lines are especially attractive to men who dress with care. ; AAILLE “Getter Chocolates ata Lower Price” CANDIES Extra Special tor Yo-day and To-morrow Special Holiday Package.—The greatest candy special 7 Stores 421 Broadwa: Wi way ‘At Bloocker St 2 Wo UW NEW SIZE PACKAGE FOR CONVENIENCE , WhuteSiose oy : | The Largest Selling | Ceylon Packed Tea Work. Sold in Mb.- Yalh~ Y4alb-and Yen Cenr Sizes. LARCENY CHARGE Ask Theatrical Friends for * Aid, William J. 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(Actually the saving is considerably more than 20%). e Also Announce BEGINNING TOMORROW MORNING APurchase & Sale Involving 1200 Suits “=” and At the Amazingly Low Price of Young Men Made to Retail at $50, *55, *60, °63 At best, the greatly lowered prices for wearing apparel now prevailing can only be temporary until stocks held for higher prices by wholesalers are forced on the market. Your best interests, therefore, lie in buying now, before prices again become firm, Here, in this great 2d fléor shop, you are presented with money-saving opportunities beyond anything we thought possible a month ago. In addition to a straight discount of 20% which applies to our entire stock of 15,000 garments, we offer today ‘a special purchase’ of 1200 Suits secured by us at a fraction of their value. ‘They were made this season to retail at $50, $55, $60 and $65. While they last, $36.00, All sizes. ENTIRE SECOND FLOOB Zetween Sth Ave. and Broadway ) Opp. Waldorf Hotel ‘Street