The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1920, Page 3

Y it | iniincan, Antiquated Facilities Fast, Driv- ing Commerce to Other Atlantic Ports, FEDERAL AID NEEDED. Harbor Work Here Up to 1914 Proceeded Under Plans Made in 1867, . By Martin Green. j The City of New York Is encircled PY 4 source of income compared with which gold mines and oil wells are insignificant things,, Gold mines and oll wells ultimately, cease to produce wealth, whereas the water:front of New York City, facing the finest nat- ural harbor in North America and one of the most convenient harbors im the world, is inexhaustible. Even while the foreign commerce | ef the Port of New York has been * slipping‘away, the income of the tity from its antiquated piers has been { increasing. Last year the amount turned in by the Department of Docks and Ferries, to the sinking fund was in excess of $6,000,000, an in- Grease over the preceding year of ap- | * proximately 20 per cent. This year the income will probably exceed $7,000,000. If the city had the piers ti tay the gome could be doubled without an tort on the t of the Administra- F | tion. Steamship companies are clam- joring for pier space and going to Baltimore and Philadelphia and else- where because they cannot obtain it here. OLD PIERS INADEQUATE TO DE- MANDS ON THEM, Along the North and East River fronts there are rotting old piers which have paid for themselves doz- of times over. They are inade- quate to the demands upon them, but through a combination of neglect and _|short-sightedness, for which no spe- . \eifid blame can be put on anybody, ‘Ahey have not been replaced. Neglect and short-sightedness ruled | the P ort of New York for half a cen- tury. Spasmodic awakening of in- { terest was followed by long periods ef inactivity. Large and comprehen- sive plans of emprovement are prom- ising a steady imcrease in the port facilities* but New York is so far be- hind other ports in this country that the business interests of the city and the State should wake up and see that these plans are not spoiled by quar- relling politicians or sectional jeal- ousies, The harbor of New York up to 1915 was shamefully neglected by the Federal Government, although the development of this port to its fullest capacity is vital to the business in- terests of the entire country. It will Ibe useless to make great improve- nents along the water front of the injess the harbor and the rivers deep enough to float thé largest ij Dy x, Ali appropriations for the improve- ment of New York Harbor in the w: of dredging and the removi | nel obstructions must be law, by the Federal Gov appropriations for that purpose must passed upoh by the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the House of} Representatives. A search back through the files of the Congressional Directory reveals a startling fact. The City of New York never had a representative on the Rivers and Harbors Committee until 1915. New York Congressmen had _de- Iberately dodged service on the Riv- ers and Harbor#Committee, although representing the port handling more commerce than any other port in the world, Tho reason they dodged was because the Rivers and Harbors Bill had always been known as a “pork” bill, through which Government money was sunk in useless projects for political purposes. They were afraid if they were unable to obtain appropriations for New York Harbor and the surroundinfgs waters they would Bo accused of fatling to get their share of “pork,” and it had long heen apparent that money appropri- d by the Rivers and Harbors Com- tee was mostly dumped into non- gable streams and creeks: YORK CONGRESSMEN PASSED THE BUCK, Fe So the New York Congressmen year after year passed the buck. Murray Hulbert, the present Dock Commissioner, was the first New York City representative to be placed on the Rivers and Harbors Commit- tee. Mr. the Port of New York and its ne and he immediately proceeded hustle for Government money. the time he.was in Congress he { iclamored about the needs of New { ‘ork Harbor and eventually be made pimgelf heard, Government projects in and adja- nt to this harbor now involve the bitimate expenditure of $40,000,000 rmy engineers who have made a yey of the port gre of the opinion to the expenditure of at least 99,000,000 if New York Is to regain m prestige as a leader in foreign merce. hough Mr. Hulbert and other | bers of the New York delegation, g that they could do something | May xe Rivers and Harbors Com- bolicy gan to show results and ufact after taking the post of righ privissioner kept In close the Federal Government, busy too, It can edit aH said that the represent- \od om Twehtisth Page.) Its Hulbert had made a study| the Government should commit} WAKE UP, NEW YORK! y NEW YORK PASSES UP CHANCE. 0 DOUBLE $6,000,000 INCOME: ~TTNOW GETS FROM OLD PERS e. CONGRESSMEN USE MILEAGE 10 ADD TO.OWN INCOMES Ancient Device for Fattening Incomes One of Most Popu- lar Annual Features. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, June 2—It is an axiom in Congrc:s that a full attend- ance may always be expected when clerk’ hire, free seed or mileage 1s to be voted upon. When the question of incteasing the appropriation for clerk hire (which in many cases meant merely an increase in the member's compensation) was voted on in June, 1919, It was noted by the correspond- ents {n the press gallery and com- mentod on that it was the fullest at- tendance since the resolution declar- Ing war on Germany was passed more than two years previously. The an- nual debate on free seed for congres- sional distribution usually sees all the ats on the floor filled. For something like elghty years “mileage” has been voted annually for the members to come to Wash- tngton at the beginning of the regular session In December. Twenty cents a mile each way 18 appropriated for this expense. As the Comptroller of the Treasury has ruled that mileage money cannot be paid out when the old session !s merged with the new in December, the practice has sprung up of adjourning Congress the last few days in November 80 as to allow a brief interval between the two ses- sions and thus insure the members not losing the precious mileage. Usually only two or three days inter- vene——not sufficient to allow members to journey to their homes unless they are from nearby States. Most of them spend this time in Washington and many of them aré at hotels with- in a stone's throw of the Capitol while drawing. money to pay for a round trip home, MILEAGE OF MEMBERS 1S DANGER. At the present time the principal argument against the plan of recess- ing June 4 or 5 instead of adjourning until December is that it may deprive IN members of their mileage. As mileage {s allowed both® ways, the’average sum paid to each Rep- resentative or Senator ts about $300 per annum, The average member lives somewhere between 700 and 800 miles from Washington, and by mul- tiplying the mileage by twenty the result obtained is the mileage one way. Multiplying this by two gives Cophaus on Ninth Page.) ———— LONG ISLAND FARE BOOST IS. HELD UP Service Commission Suspends Pro- posed Increases Within City and Will Hold Hearings. The Public Service Commission tssucd to-day an order suspending until Sept. 29 increases in passenger fares charged ‘by the Long Island Railroad inside the city limits which the rogd Nad planned to put into effect July 1. Beginning on June %, the commission will open a series of public hearings, at which Deputy Public Service Commis- sioner Alfred M. Barrett will preside, to ascertain whether the proposed _in, creases are just and reasonable. If Mr. Barrett finds they dre not, it was said this morning, he would recommend that the commission disapprove the new rates. The road's charter grants it permis- sion to charge three cents a mile, and it has been doing so outgide the limits of the greater city. It contends that if it {3 to raise the additional money whton it needs it must increase fares Jnside | the city. PRISON FOR EX-SOLDIER. War Record Fails to Save Man From Ten Years, A Sing Sing sentence of from ten to twenty years was given James Rosso, jold-up | of No. 112 Mulberry Street, by Judze Mulqueen in General sions to-day Rosso was convicted af robbery in tho first degree. With another man, the evidence showed, he had ‘held up and robbed Charles L. Huesner, a furrter |, 48 Great Jones Street, in E Street on the night of May 3. Mulqueen y_ record have remembered his army, record before he went into @ lite ot Soldier, or no sokdier,-this ™: ion @ menace io THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1920. JUST HOW You Can Own Your Home ' For Less Than Your Prese:it Rent {ir You ARE PAYING $100 A MONTH YOU CAN BUY THIS HOUSE! By Stanley Mitchell. This is. one of a series of artt- cles to show you how to escape from the clutches of the profi- teering landigrd. Laws against profiteering are @ relief, but not a cure for the evil which to-day hits every class of city dwellers, from high sal- aried executives to poorly paid clerks. The real solution of the prob- lem is for every one to be his own landlord. HE flat dweller paying $100 a month rent and tired of work- ing to make a landlord rich, can own a home like this one and be his own landlord, and pay for it out of his rent. This house {s ina Long Island suburb. The butlder, Nicholas Terzi of Little Neck, L. I, ts putting the finishing touches on the house and ought to know just what its present construction will cost. He states that he will contract to duplicate it for $7,200, Alhough the exterior ts quite different, the interior plan is similar to another Long Island residence shown in a recent article. The cost of a building site in this vicinity will-be about: $1,500, bringing the total cost to $8,700. Interest on the total investment will be $522 a year. Other expenses will be: Coal, seven tons at $12; taxes and insurance, $90; commutation, $90, This will make the total carrying charge, including interest, $78@ a year. This brings’ the actual rent to $65 a month. The addi- tional $35 a month of the present flat rental in the city will go toward pay- ing for the property. Instead of being paid out as rent, it will accrue to the benefit of the occupant of the hcusc. Home building in the locality where this house stands has been financed on the following basis: First mortgage. Second mortgag Cash Total It is possible that in a favorable market a little better terms than this might be obtained. The builder usually {s well informed in changing local, conditions in mortgage loans, and Should be consulted on this point by ‘the homeseeker, unless the latter has his own source for financing. The margin of $35 a month will clear off the second mortgage in about four years and meantime th interest on the original investment of $2,450 will be included fh the fig- ures given and this the owner will be paying to himself. Once this second mortgage has been cleared off the “rent” will drop to $48 a month, Depreciation and repairs must be figured on after the first five or six years, but this item ts largely within the control of the occupapt as it depends largely on the care given to the propert: FEAST STATE ELKS’ HEAD. Entertain Antler Wearers New Officers, A committee of the Bronx Elks, headed by Exalted Ruler Charles D. Bergen, gave a royal entertainment to- day to the newly elected officers aad many other delegates of the New York State Elks’ Association- {ty automobiles were driven down Bronx to Lodge No. 1, whence the guests, numbering more than 200, were’ taker by a sight-seeing route to Lodge 871, at Burnside Avenue: and C Concourse, where luncheqn Was serve The guest of honor. was Theodore Kalbfleisch, new! ected Presid: The other 1 are: First Vico President, Derby, Second Vice 4, Frank’ L, strong, Whit Third Vi attraw, Wa ' Edward M retary, Amon Treasurer, Jay Farrier, ; Utlea ; bs elegates went to Coney Island this afte noon. 3 U. S. TRADE ¢ GROWTH SEEN. Latin-American Diptomats Opu- mistic Over Future Relatt ‘The coming social and commercial relations between the United States and South and Centeal America were op- timistically discussed to-day by 8, Gor- gel do Amaral, Brazilian Minister to Peru, who sailed on the Santa Teresa for Peru, and Santiago De Goro, ‘at- tached to the Chilean Legation at Washington, who arrived on the Santa Ana line “opening® of the ‘new and Brazil, by the rd,"" sald he tween here States Shipp! do Amaral, he pansion of Brazil's comm derfully productive to ‘the United fea,” said Si, a inyasion of hotel men" "tke McK. Bowman,’ TWO STABBED, WHEELED AWAY IN A PUSHCART Brooklyn Men Believed Victims of Feud Fight—One Ex- pected to Die. A man ran into the Herbert Street Police Station, Brooklyn, at 3 A. M to-day and told Lieu} Rayfield that two men were trundiing a push cart con- ‘taining two bodies through Humbolit Street, near Withers. The reserves were rushed out and found the pushcart overturned in the street, with two men lying nearby. Both ‘had been stabbed, but were able to da- scribe themselves as Edward Walters, twenty-nine, No, 182 Eckford Str and Andrew Gordon, twenty-nine, No 187 Powers Street. Gordon is expected to die. The police believe the men were at- tacked in a feud fight. 5 BABY SLAIN BY AUTO +|countants have been in THAT HIT MOTHER Woman Tries to Throw Child Out of Harm’s Way, but Own Body Swerves Machine. As Mrs, Clara Levenson crossed Gates Avenue behind a trolley car at Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, to-day a motor car bore down upon her. sho month-old daughter Marian, As the wheel of the motor knocked her down she attempted to save her baby's life ‘by*throwing St to one side, But the impact of the car against her! caused the machine to swerve and ono! of its wheels passed over the little girl, killing her instantly. Mrs, Levensoa, who is twenty-elght years old and fves | at No. 152 Manhattan Avenue, was badly cut and bruised and was taken to| St. Joseph's Hospital. The car which) struck her was owned and driven by | Anthony Augerl of No. 403 Putnam| Avenue, who was charged with homi-| clde ALLEGE SHORTAGE IN COUNTY OFFICE) Hirshfield Accountants Allege $2,- 000 Deficit in Public Admin- istrator’s Office. Frank W. Arnold, Assistant Public Administrator of New York County, and Harry Gordon Lynn, an quditor in the office of David Hirschfield, Commissioner of Accounts, called on District Attorney Swann to-day to ly before him certain information claim to have with respect to a re- ported shortage of $20,000 in the ac- counts of the Public Administrator's omee. For some time Mr, Hirshfleld's ac- stigating the Public Administrator's ‘accounts. ‘To- day, Charles Hoffman, a public ac- countant employed in the investigation of the New York County Public Ad- ministrator’s office, testified before commissioner Hirshfield of his allege: discovety. This, information was. {ine mediately relayed to the County Pros- ecutor, Seonetoiibienesiseed BAD BOOZE AT HIGH PRICE. Magistrate Dale Says Pro: Alds Sale of “Mat p Magistrate Dale in the Fifth Avenue Court, Brooklyn, declared to-day teat saloon keepers are charging 60 and 60 ents a dripk for “stuff that ts no better than rat potson." Carl Carison, No. 281 President Street, Brooklyn, was charged with in- toxication. He said he had taken only four drinks of whiskey. and couldn't tell_where he got it. “There ought to be a law compelling the disclosu f where this att te oola’. seid ote Magistrate, Since prohibition practically all. ths Intoxieation cases in this court ‘have been respectable men victimized by dealers who poison and overcharge them. - ~_ Would Tax ice for Every Wagon By a yote of 44 to 11 the Board of Aldermen yesterday passed an ordi- nance which, if the’Mayor signs it, will compel every corporation or dealer in ice to pay a license fee of $5 for every wagon he uses, € r dealers also obtain licenses at the same rate |If the consumer demands it, ev | plece of ice must, ander the ordinance, |be weighed in the preserice of the |purchaser, Complaints are to be in- TANK EXPLOSION ALARMS NEWARK Blow Up at Brewery Shatters Win- dows for Blocks Around— Police Check Panic, A compressed alr tank exploded {r. the yard of the ‘Krueger Brewing Company's plant th Nowark shortly fore noon to-day. ‘The explosion was heard over a radius of a mile in the Hill section of Newark and windows for several blocks around were broken. Pollce reserves were ordered out to quiet the people in the neighborhood, who were taking goods from thler homes, Pieces of the tank were thrown 100 feet in the alr, Mrs. Cora Schaeft and her elght months old baby were at ‘a window at their home, Np. 128 Mont- gomery Street when it broke, Mrs, Schaefer was slightly cut. ‘A strike of brewery workers but company officials said the ts on, explu- was carrying in her arms her fourteen- | Jofficers of the a sion was accidental, CUSTOMS PORTS GET MORE MONEY oe ficonro Vet ars Forecast in Service Here by Increased Appropriation. Officers and members of the Mer- chants’ Association, which urged Con- gressional committees to do some- thing in the way of added compensa- | tion for employees in the customs service, expressed ‘thelr satisfaction to-day with reports from Washington that conferees of Senate and House have agreed upon an appropriation of $11,300,000 for the customs ports, The figure is $1,800,000 more than was appropriated for the work last year and only $500,000 less than the ‘amount urged by the Merchants’ As- sociation as nece: ry. Itis expected, ciation say, that with this additional sum customs em- ployees can be retained and the # vice restored to its former efficiency, — ‘HELD’ FOR BAD CHECKS. Teller Accuses Undertaker of Pass- ing Two for $600, John De Normandie, undertaker, No, 141 McDonough Street, Brooklyn, waived examination on a charge of grand larceny in West Side Police Court to-day, and was held for the Grand Jury in $1,500 bail by Ma, trate Max Levine. David Livingston, paying teller of the Gotham Bank, 69th Street and Columbus Circle, #ajd the undertaker had presented a check for $860, signed by John R. Baxton. There was no such account, but the teller sald he recalled cashing for De Normandie a check for $306 on April 17 and another for $354 a week later, The names of William Gardener and EB. J. Chapman, he said, were forged to the’ checks. He asked De Normandie to wait a but the latter ran « him and turned th De Norman- We nas's family nC leveland, 0. © Plague Increases in Vera Crus, MEXICO CITY, June 2.—(Associated Press.)—-A case of bubonic plague has been discovered in Atoyac, State of Vera Cruz, it was announced to-day Phree new cases of the plague have been aoe reported in, Vera Crus City, cording to Herald Céntinued Specials At All Our Stores MILLER’S SEVEN CONVENIENT STORES 742 Broadwoy Brondway Fince, Srondw 4 iat ‘a vestigated by the Department of Li- censes, which has the power to revoke the license of any dealer against whom charges are proved. 1668 Broad At sven Bt 120" NAssau* wrt Between io | NEWARK BIDS HIGH IN PAY AND REST TO KEEP TEACHERS ee | Salary ‘Increases in 1920 and 1921, Bonus and. Year’s Leave After 10 Years. Newark, N. J, announced to-day new school pglicies which are radical | innovations in regard to the payment of teachers’ salaries in this country. The Board of Education, of which Frank H, Sommer, Dean ef the New York University Law School, ia Presi- dent, established the following regu- lations last night: 1. An increase of $400 in the dock, pile. naked id to O'Keefe: na ‘he wich bore ‘the name, The new machine arr! ze’ FORD GIVES A FORD | CITY CAN'T _AFFORD places It. Francia J. O'Keefe, Assistant Engi- heer in charge of the Bureau of Main- tenance and Repairs, stood near Pier A at the Battery a few days ago sur: veying the remains of a fllvver which had outlived its usefulness. chine was being consigned to the scrap heap by O'Keefe, who was lamenting that his tour of inspections would have to be conducted on foot, because the clty officials said they could not afford & new car when a tender from a yacht lying in the harbor puffed up to the A tall, grave man stepped ashore and “That's the first Ford machine I have ever seen in the scrap If you will ship it to the Ford factory In New Jersey I thifk I can promise you a new one for It,’ O'Keefe was frank’ strange’ skeptical, 3 you mind telling me your F produced a card tenry I CAPTAIN PEABODY: FREED OF CHARGES | Henry Himself Saves Ancient Relic | Police Officer Indicted More Than! From Junk Pile and Re- Year Agd Will Collect Pay for Term of Suspension, — Indictments -returned more than @. year ago against Police Capt, Willem! F. Peabody, charging petty larceny, conspiracy to obstruct fustice and ree ceiving stolen goods, were dismissed bey, Hu * The ma-/day by Judge Mulqueen in General sions on the motion of Attorney J. Et Gilbert, acaulesced in by Assistant Dipe trict Attorney Bohan. The ground was, that the principal witness against Pea.’ body, Detective John Ryan of Newart,! was dead, and that the testimony of the’ other witnesses was unreliable, Capt. Peabody was charged with hav, ing accepted $750 to secure light sen~' tences for Charles Young, Joseph Hat- ris and Joseph Feldman, who were in the Easex Obui me ‘dalond’ ese Jail at Se 2) Mhouble “crossed” them agter a y got’ he tences. i weded aftse ‘his | Indictment. and the‘money he has been kept out- tie past year, He Ford, day. ries of all the 2,000 teachers of the system, effective Sept. 1, 1920, in ad- dition to tha increases provided by existing rules, 2. A bonus of $100 to all teachers, effective June 80, 1920. ' 3. An Increase of all salaries of $200, effective Sept. 1, 1921, in addi- tion to Increases due at that time un- der existing rules. 4. An increase of all salaries of women to equal those of men teach- ing in the same grades, effective Sept. 1, 1921, At present women teachers’ salaries are from $300 to $1,000 low than thdse of men, 5. A leave of absence for one year after ten years’ service, at full pay less the salary of a substitute teache) for study, observation and increasing efficiency. ‘ 6. A leave of absence for one year on ‘full’ pay less the salary of a aub- stitute teacher after twenty years’ service “for recreation and rest. 7. Minimum salary raised from $900 to $1,800. 8, A permanent joint committee of teachers and the School Board to consider all matters of salary. The School Board belteves it has solved the problems of making teach- ing in Newark so attractive that good teachers may be brought into the ser- vice and held there throughout their lives, pe aE DEPORTED AFTER 5 YEARS. teen, will be sent back to his native land of Poland when the steamship La Lorraine makes her next eastern trip, “lazy,” asthe boy is known on the island, came on the last trip of the Lusitania to America. Fils mother was admitted, but the boy failed to pass the Government mentality test. Mrs, Rothenberg has since taken out her first citizenship papers. When she attains full citizenship she will try again to get her boy intg the United States, Until then he will live in Po- land under a guardianship provided by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Soclety. —— TWO INJURED BY AUTO. One Man's Bone Brok: Another's Head Cat, Frederick Ackerman, forty, East 159th Street, \ Noy 314 apd Frank Hunt, forty, No, 592 Hast 167th Street, were bowled over by an automobile while crossing Melrose Avenue at 159th Street the Bronx, at 2 A. M, to-day. ‘They were taken to Lincoln Hospital, the first with @ broken collarbone and the other with contusions of the bees Michael Sullivan of No, 274 th streel driver. of the automoblie, was arrested on a charge of operating it ry sbapes and flavors, FULL WEIGHT—16 ounces of CANDY in every pound especially for kiddies and heaping with the can- dies kiddies’ love—United can supply just the right candy in just the right package. re rich ereamers an vaniil cream: SPECIAL KANDIES\FOR After moro than five years of deten- THE KIDDIES tion by the ,immigration officials on A package filled with “goodien” for Ellis Island, Israel Rothenberg, seven- tee oniarre. Cie taemence Segar 42nd also 43rd St. Bet. Sth and 6th Aves. Special for Today and Thursday cambiar pn AND VANILLA WALNUT FUDGE Sutter chocolate. tlavors, a iy sold ned ery. ohafing ‘chopped Clally pelted tor today and Boys’ Tan Grain Bluchers with Korry Krome soles; sizes 2}4 to 6; B,C, D & Ewidths; “A good foot-rule for rerenwe the JANTZEN SHOE” “The Abuse of the Big Te ‘atsoatt Testa ates 660 Sixth Ave., Above 38th Sti Custom Bootmakers Over 50 Years, HE United Candy Stores pride themselves on their ability to furnish appropriate candies for every occasion, From elaborate satin boxes, literally foaming with ribbons and laden with candies that witl gladden the heart of the” debutante, to boxes designed Re whloh fu Ahagg in your mouth; made 541. nut a main abe sini meat ta Pyeng, ie ape: Ib. box Hudson Terminal Bldg. 32 Cortlandt Street 7.85 $10 values, at.. . SG; without @ license. to be confused with Every > and WO QUALITY —the best. peting 6 Charmeuse, Fi hams, P the mass of ‘ongees, Minuets. Values $ $18 to $05.00 134 West 34th St. Extensive Alterations, soon to commence, compel us reduce our stock immediately and continue this Wonderful Offer of 25% Discount From Our Regular Pric Our Entire Stock of Newest COATS 4x» SUITS Without This Sale outrivals any discount sale yet held in New York. This offering is not to cheap merchandise now being dumped on the market arment is of the highest class and from our regular stock. MAY'S PRICES have A i ways been 25% to 40% lower, enabling you to make Tremendous Savings on Every Purchase At MAY'S you pay for quality only not for gilded showr Fifth Avenue rents. ers or high MAY'S POLICY for the last ten years has been ONE PRICE —the lowest; ONE No Exchanges DRESS PRICESGREATLY REDUCED Just received, stunning new models developed in Taffetas with net overskirts, Tricotines, oer Giepe-de Chines, andies and Ging- Opposite Macy's Reserve ‘coms expensive buyers No C. O. D. $1350 to $49°0