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

BY FRANKED MAIL (Daiji So Many Greetings to Con- stituents Extensive Repairs Had to Be Made. 20 TO 30 TONS A DAY. 00 to 600 Clerks Work Ex- clusively on Mass of Free or Matter Sent Out. wo, from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening Worl a) WASHINGTON, June 3—The old joke about the member of Congress who attempted thréugh the malls may have been a Uttle far fetched, still the originator of that story showed a capacity for appreciation of Congressional nspira- tons. There is another story which illus- trates the prodigal manger in which the members soon learn to avail themselves of the privilege of aending letters free at taxpayers’ expense. A few sessions back a newly-elected member from the West, who began to.) realize his own importance as soon 48 he was assigned office quarters in the House Office Building, hired a stenographer and a duplicating ma- chine and spent several days in turning out letters literally by the thousands conveying his greeting’ to his constituents. After thousands of the letters had been heaped upon the | floor he had them carted to the mail ghutes which carry the mail to the | House Post Office had employed a boy whose only business it was to post ietters. It was not long befcre one of the mail chutes became so clogged that it had to be torn down at an expense of several hundred dol- lars and the obstruction removed be- tore it could again be operated. These instances may be slightly magnified, but they well illustrate the magnet in which members soon learn {g,avail themselves of the franking privilege. Hundreds of extra mail clerks are fequired even in Mr. Burleson's fru- gal organization to look after the Congressional mail, and,at times ex- tra mail cars required to haul this matter from which the Government derives no ibe An investigatioh of the situation last year, at the instance of Repre- sentative Alvin T. Fuller of Massa- chusetts, who is rampantly againet thé’system, revealed that from twenty tg ‘thirty tons of mail matter was be- ing sent out of the House Officd) ding each day. Now that elec- © time is drawing near, it is esti- tagsea that from thirty to forty tons this free mail matter moves from he Representatives’ offices each day ‘an effort to inundate their dis- tpicts, About one-fourth of that amount,—possibly a little more—goes @ut of the Senate Office Building each ~ One Congressman, according to Fuller, sent out 750,000, parcels literature and one political party one election sent out 55,000,000 beeches, ‘he number of mail clerks occupied handling franked matter runs as Migh as 500 to 600, acording to Mr. fluller’s investigation Mr. Fuller, by the way, is not a pgular’ Congressman. He has own a spirit since coming to Wash- on about three years ago which fyuses other members to sneer be- his back. Hoe is not “clfbby” and 4s undertaken to show up a number profiteering practices dear to the erage member's heart. He has re- a to accept any salary, pays all clerks out of his own pocket, de- ines to avail himself of the frank- ng, privilege, and puts a two-cent tagpp on every letter that goes out if his office, and even stamps bulky Hovernment documents which he fends to constituents. Being a man means, he does not particularly eed the salary of the office. The buse of the frankine privilege ha. potvinced him that it is a crying evil pd he has endeavored from tme to e, with indifferent success, to con- ce his fellow-members, Not only is Fuller against the badly bused franking privilege, but he is inst other forms of Congressional Ofiteering. He i$ against membors keting” clerk hire, When the proposal to increase the propriation for clerical assistance up in the House last year this is wat he said: "f know that an allowance of $2,000 @ secretary of a member and 200 for a clerk is not an extravo- int allowance provided a man takes of the requirements of his con- tuents and the money is accually id to a secretary and a clerk, I aw , however, that many members continue to hire seeretarics und at a less figure than the ullow- jee and pocket the differencs and WWilize as heretofore the names of two Hatives or one as decoys for the yrol. I sincerely wish that wé pould reorganize the machinery and improve the methods of Congress so hat it would function efficient'y and conomically and thus re-éstablish it~ (Continued op Twenty-first Page.) oy OF CONGRESSMEN to frank a plano) MISS EDNA E. HOYT 1S THE BRIDE TO-DAY OF W. J. WARBURTON ‘Ceremony in, St. Bartholomew's | Church Will Be Followed | by a Reception. Edna ©. Hoyt, daughter of Mr. Wal- ter 8. Hoyt of No. 130 Bast 67th Street, and William J. Warburton, son of Mra. |E. Carson Penal, of No, 122 East 76th Street, will be married at 4 o'clock this afternoon in St. Bartholomew's: Church, Park Avenue and 61st Street. The cero- miony will be performed by the Rev. Dr. Leighton Park, after which there | will be a reception at the home ‘of the bride. The bride will be given in marriage her father and will epee eae by by rs. [Henry Steers. ‘The best man will john “Maguire. The bridesmaids are the Misses Arn Leatherman. of ; Memphis, Tenn.; Ada Heinae, Esther | Hechman, Franden Ballard, Gwendolyn Gray and Alice Hall, Tho ushers will be Henry “G. Steers, Emerson “‘Medtil- lan, Roger Benjamin and Stafford Reid. The bride's gown 1s of white chiff embroidered with crystals and peal a lace veil, and a white satin train, hanging free from the shoulders. The bridesmaids will be dressed in pink or- gandie with cream lace ruffle: white leghorn hats with pink ribbons, ‘match- | ing the dress, and they will carry bou- ucts of pink roses and lilies of the | Salley. | en pnd Mra. Warburton will spend toring and upon thelr’ honeymoon mo their return will reside in New York. |MISS STURGES ‘HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Pinned Against Post in Park Ave- nue and Amputation of Leg May Be Necessary. | Miss Anna K. Sturges, No. 863 Park Avenue, was struck by an automobile this morning at Park Avenue and 6vth Street. Pinned between the auto and 4 fire hydrant, her left leg was 80 badly crushed that surgeons at Flower Hos- pital, to which she was taken, said am- putation might be necessary. The driver of the automobile, Waino ptasenisty No. 1662 65th Street, Brook- yn, was arrested, arraigned in the Yorkville Court and: helacterawalt ti outcome iss Sturges’a injury. Her mother was with her at e time of the accident. The apartinént house where they live is owned by Mrs. A. C. Sturges. “One of the tenante is William G. McAdoo. po ScehessOIA: TO FIGHT FOOD SHORTAGE. Gov. Smith Calls On Business and Others to Confer. ALBANY, June 3.—As a means to combat possible food shortage in the State, due to lack of labor on the farms, Gov. Smith to-day Invited heads of the Chambers of Commerce, Farm and the State Departments of Education, Labor, Agriculture and Highway ‘Transport to fer at the capitol to diecuss means of mecuring jabor, The conference wijl be held while the Governor is away and will be pre- sided over ‘by Lieut, Gov. Walker. No date for the meeting has yet been fixed, se INTERPRETER ACCUSED. | Joseph Horwich, for thirteen years an interpreter in the Magistrates’ Courts | in Brooklyn, was held in $500 bail in| Yorkville Court to-day on complaint of | Detective Wich of the Pickpocket Squad. Wich said he saw Horwich jostle pas- sengers in the Grand Central Station of the subway this morning and later try to put his hand in a woman's pocket. Magistrate Fish of Brooklyn appeared | in court to testify as to Horw: 00d | reputation, but was not called as Mag- istrate Fleischman put the examination over till June 10. Horwich, who Is single, lives at No. 1032 Simpson Ave- nue, the Bronx. He 1s thirty-five years old. icici ‘PRISON FOR GALLENDER. Father Accused of Mistreating Girl Sentenced to Penitentiary. John Gallender, a vaudeville clay modeller, convicted of mistreatment of his daughter Minnie, was sentenced to the penitentiary by’ Judge Haskell in the: County Court, Brooklyn, to-day, ¢ Haskell ‘took issue with ‘the assertion of Samuel Liebowitz, Gallen- der's counsel, that the atmosphere of | the trial was hostile to his client, and| refused to defer execftion of sentence | pending an application for a certificate | of reasonable doubt. Wilson's Sheep Yield 185 Pounds of Wool, WASHINGTON, June 3.—Under com- | pulsion President Wilson's flock of | eep dro} their winter coats. ne fl which now num and — twenty-two yielded Pounds of wool, 85 be given to the Salvation | Army. Last year the yleld was pre- sented to the Red Cross, —~—— by to Investigate Burning of | British FL WASHINGTON, June 3,—Secretary of State Colby announced to-day that he had called on the District Commission | pre for an official, rt on the burns ing by women of Irish sympathizers of the Brtlish fag in front of the ‘Treas- ury Building. Colby would not say what\action he would take:'s — Flying Squad Gets After Hisham Green Grocers. Agonts of the Flyin. Squad of he Department of Justice have visited Brooklyn “green” grocers as the first move in @ campaign to compel retall gougers to kewer their prices in proportion to the decreased cost of goods wholesale. MONKEY ATTACKS BOYS: AND GIRLS PLAYING IN STREET ,Woman’s Pet Bites Four and Creates Uproar in Brooklyn Neighborhood A monkey about the size of a biz house cat appeared without warniag in a band otgeven children playing about a truck backed up In front of \No. 109 Bush Street, Brooklyn, ut noon to-day. The children were frightened and screamed. One or two of them kicked at the little |Deast. He growled and showed nis teeth and sprang at them, | As they slid off the truck and made for their homes the monkey bounded after them, hanging to their breeches AT 87 HE QUITS | BUSINESS SESSIONS WHERE MEN SMOKE J. C. Havemeyer Resigns from Yonkers Chambers of Commerce as Protest Against Tobacco. OHN C. HAVEMEYER, one of J the oldest and most venerated citizens of Yonkers, the only surviving son of William F. Have- meyer, whg was Mayor of New York in 1845, is past eighty-seven years old and doesn’t like smoking. It so disgusts him that he re- signed yesterday from whe Yonkers Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been a member a great number of years: He had attended a meeting the night before, In a letter Mr. Havemeyer wrote to the Yonkers Herald he said: “IT attended the meeting and was mortified to find that nearly every- one present was gmoking a cigar and that the Chamber of Com- merco offered a cigar to every member who was not already smoking. I have on two oceca- sions accepted an invitation to din- Aldermanic Committee to Consider. Young Vivian Sails Away Front Amendment for Checking Ex-, tortion To-Morrow. Victims of moving van profiteers are invited to attend a public hearing to be hold at 2 o'clock to-morrow a ternoon in City Hall on an amendment to an ordinance which compels mov- ers of household effects to charge only specified, legal rates, The hearing will be before the Committee on Tho oughfares of the Board of Aldermen. ‘The present ordinance has a so-called “wpecial contract” provision, a “Joker,” which permits the moving van profit- eer to ignore the specified rates and make a “special contract" of every job, charging what he sees fit, The van owners in this city are strongly organized. They are alneady hat they have the amend- ten and are reported to have planned to “pack” the hearing, The amendment noc only omits the “spe- cial contract” clause, but makes pro- vision for a high: te of wages for employees of van o rs, — a Wite Struck by Ao Mm Myer Richman, forty-three years old, ot No. 1357 Fifth Avenue received lac+ and skirts and biting their legs. In three minutes the street was in @n uproar. Mothers, big sisters and grandmothers armed with mops, rooms and pails and a few men joined in an attempt to corner the monkey, who evaded them and made proper. ners at the Chamber of Commerce at which every one smoked freely while conferring on business of the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce, ‘This I do not approve of nor think I was so disgusted that 1 resigned from the association.” erations of the head ard a possible | fracture of the skull, and his wife, Re- gina, contusions pf the left side late li night when they were struck by an autémobdile owned and operated by Ed- ward Schulk of No. 745 Lafayette Ave- nue, Brooklyn, at 112th Street and) Fifth Avenue, No arrest was mad for fleeing children wherever he saw one. He was caught by Policeman Gold- stein of the Hamilton Avenue Station and later claimed by Mrs. Catharine Coons of No. 87 Lorraine Street, who said the little dear had run ,away when she took him off his chain to give him his lunch. Policeman Goldstein found four children who had been bitten, Joseph- ine and Matthew O'Brien of No. 109 Bush Street, Thomas Hanley of No. 2 Bush Street and Ray Miller of Cen- tre Street. They were all bitten on the legs or arms. A surgeon from Long Island College Hospital cau- terized the wounds and the Health Department will have an investiga- tion made to determine whether the monkey had rabies. Mrs. Coons's neighbors, among them Mrs. Timothy Desmond, said the same monkey had run amuck through the streets before, once biting Mrs. Desmond's grandchild severely. Rte‘ Sa FIGHT TOLL AT BEACHES. Manhattan Beach Residents Protest 11-Cent “Park” Tax. Borough President Reigelmann, of Brooklyn, to-day 1s Investigating the protest made at a meeting last night of residents and property own- ers. of Manhattan Beach against the imposition of eleven cents’ toll which 19) is to be exacted after June to cross the “park’ between Ma hattan Beach and the Brighton Beach | Hotel. The stretch of land between the | two places has been fenced off and| gates and turnstiles have been installed at both sides. Speakers pointed out that for twenty years free access has been had between these points and that the gates and fences inconvenience 300 residents of Manhattan Beach all the year. and thousands of visitors during the sum- mer. Reigelmann said he expects to finish Nover was a name more, appropriag:, for his investigation in time to make a Me “"good-good®" tn: definite statement next Monday or of freshly ae d cocoanut ‘Tuesda; flavored with vanilla, rose choclate oO ‘a. covered with delicious New City Magistrate on Dench. A new City Magistrate appeared to- day on ‘the bench of Yorkville Court. He was Samuel M. Flelschman, for- merly a reporter on the Boston Glo} selected by Mayor Hylan. t: thirty days in’ place’ of Magistrate House who Is ill. There were nume: ous bouquets of flowers on the desk when Magistrate Fleischman took his seat. Magistrate Fleischman is-thirty- seven years old, an attorney at No. 99 Nassau Street, 'a Mason, 1k and a| member of the Chicopee Democratie ut wh cream, our. own home made candy kitehen, West 42nd Street Patent Coltskin Gun Metal Box yID you know that, whereas a pound of beefsteak con- tains only 1090 calories, a pound of chocolate shows a food value of 2860 calories? And did you know that diet- icians credit pure cane sugar withover 90% of nourish- ment? United Candies are really balanced foods —\luscious morsels that taste good and that do you good. They are really delightful necessities to your health and happiness. 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Foster Drake, thirteen, son of Lieut. Foster Drake, stationed In the Army Ordnance Bureau at Bridgeport, Conn., is safe in his home at Whitestone, L. 1. He was missing from Monday until lnat Might. and it was feared he had been drowned Instead, however, accom: panied by Philip Vivian, Afteen-year- old youngster of Matba-on-the-Sound, he had been off on a series of adven: tures on sea and land. Vivian at last accounts was on the Sound in a sall- boat showing water to a launch filled with soldiers from Fort Schuyler, whol y might have caught him if their gaso- | N line supply had not failed. When the two miventurers in scout uniforms set forth on Monday they slept in a hut at College Point, and after appropriating a Bailbot in Powell Cove cruised about the East River snd the Sound. | |Boy Found Gagged in Park Im- SAYS HE WAS ROBBED}; IS HELD IN THEFT plicates Another—Recover Money, Police Say. Alois Neidenbauer, eighteen, of No. 2349 Putnam Aven Brooklyn, a mea- senger omptoyed by the Century Doll Company of No. 62 West Lith Street, and Salvatore Fillipone, nineteen, of No. 1264 a8th Street, Brooklyn, were held in Je*turson Market Court to-day charged with stealing $2,215. Neiden- uaueR the police assert, allowed Fitil- Pone to tle his hands, place a rag urated with chloroform on his face and in Central Park, wer round lying in rk, near 73d Street, Teobly ef Au To Abraham Anto in dealer, who. f: und him, bauer is alleged to have said: Just aren chlorofor formed “Two robbed of a package of $2,215 that 1 waa carrying {rom the New lands Tank n Weat 34th Stree’ peeves. summoned patron, bie who called Dr. Kalckerbocker‘Haspital, anid the boy was not cuter effects of chloroform, fe surgeon ring from the ives from CONTEMPT CALL FOR NICKY. Aruste' Mast Show Why ite Re~ fuses to Reveal His Asnets, An order was served on Jules W. (Nicky) Arnatein last night to show cause why he should not be hod in contempt in the Federal District Court for refusing to answer questiuna in hankruptey proceedings againut him by surety companigs, The order «as te- sued by Federal Judge Auguatua Hand, after reading the minutes of proceedings held before United States Commissioner Gilchrist when Arnatein refused to testify as to his assets and their whereabouts on the ground that it would incriminate him, Edward U'Big BI") Furey, and | Tombs under indictment for hond Thaftee and James Keane, formerly a Burne tective in charge of the were indicted be abe afternoon for attempted extortion of $5.00) Nov. from Charles Pfitach of No. 233 Fi way, and $1.00 Nove i7- trom Witt » 1 Broadway, both repu- ~ BONWIT TELLER. & CO The Specislty Shop of Onpinalions FIFPH AVENUE.AT 38™ STREET CLEARANCE SALE MISSES' TAILORED SUITS SIZES priday and SATURDAY 14 to 18 52 Misses’ Tailored Suits Formerly 65.00 to 89.50 34.00 131 Misses’ Tailored Suits Formerly 95.00 to 150.00 54,00 ‘119 Misses’ Tailored Suits Formerly 165.00 to 250.00 88.00 These suits for misses’ are for the most part in navy blue tricotine and fine twills in plain tailored, braided and embroidered types. 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