The evening world. Newspaper, July 20, 1920, Page 3

PRIVATELY RON BUSES SUGGESTED BY LINER UE Counsel for Securities Com- pany Approached Member of Hylan Cabinet. TOOK OVER FRANCHISE. Plan Submitted Soon After Cropsey Decision—Con- cern Making Vehicles. Tt was Willlam Dewey Loucks of No. 120 Broadway, counsel for the American & British Securities Com- pany, who approached a member of | the Hylan administration with the suggestion that a system of city-wide buses could be put in private opern- tion. Ho made the suggestion imme- @ately after Justice Cropsey's deci- sion restraining the operation of mu- nicipal buses, Mr. Loucks's corporation @ year ago acquired the $600,000 in bonds of the Manhattan Transit Company when it bought the assets of the Interna- tional Power Company. The Interna- tonal, which was dissolved in 1914, was the holding company for Man- hattan Tranait, the American and British Manufacturing Company and several subsidiaries of these concerns. When Mr. Loucks approached the ety official with his suggestion he had to offer the facilities of not only the Manhattan Transit franchise, with its right to build and operate buses in any city of the first class in the State, | but of the American and British Man- Gfacturing Company, which has ‘een | inaking buses at its Bridgeport and Providence plants for more than a year, “When Justice Cropsey fecided against the municipal buses," Mr. Loucks said to-day, “I intimated to a \clty official that in Manhattan Tran- ‘sit we had a franchise which might ofercome the effect of that decision. 1 had some correspondence with that official on the subject, but how the matter stands to-day I do not know, We have been turning out tractors at our Bridgeport and Providence plants) and we @re In a position to-day to turn out considerably more than 1,000| buses a year." ‘The Manhattan Transit franchise wives the company“the right to astab- lish a time and distance service and to subdivide the latter into a mileage and circuit service, It provides that t may obarge a rate of fare not to ex-| ceed 75 cents a person an hour on the time service, a rate not to exceed 25 vents a mile or fraction thereof for each person for the mileage service and @ charge not to exoved 25 cents a person on the circuit service. It also gives the company the right to define the mits and boundaries of ajl circuits and to make such wegula- tions and variations as to fare as it desires, the only condition being that no passenger shall be charged more than 25 cents a mile. The license fee vhall be no more than the usual «harge for similar vehicles, “I have not analyzed the recent de- oision of the Court of Appeals suffi- wientiy,” aid Mr, Loucks, “to det mine whether the Public Service Commission would have regulating power over buses under our fran- chise,.” a Frank H. Ray, millionaire tobacco man, who is President of the Amer- toan and British Securities Company, said at his home in Huntington, L, I, to-day that he knew nothing about) the plan to operate buses under the Manhattan Transit franchise, He. said he had been gradually giving up all business since he broke leg two years ago, from which he has not fully recovered. > CRAIG AGAINST PRIVATE COMPANY |» RUNNINS BUSES Can Conceive of No Greater Ca- lamity to Public Than Grid- iron Franchises. Comptroller Craig in a statement issued to-day defined as follows his po- sition respecting Mayor Hylan's p posal for @ franchise to a privaté cor poration or individual for the operation of buses, relative to which a special meeting of the Board of Estimate is to be held to-morrow: “I desire to express my disapproval of any scheme to grant a franchise to any private corporation to use the streets for the operation of motor busca or like transportation facilities, 1 oan conceive of no greater calamity to the people of the city than to ha iron franchise for bus operat! ed by the Board of portionment to any corporation or tndi- vidual. - “Whatever bus service is required should be provided by the city Itself } am confident that if this project is properly presented any leg- lation can be obtaine —_— Goes to Ald Men A (Special to The NEW LONDON, Con eph Fleischer of New York hurried to night when he received word of the arrest of Louis Sorell and of a 000 Norwich last two other men who were in charg: packed truck containing wbout $ worth of whiskey, He was arrest® after his arrival. fer of this cargo of whiskey. sioner Mathewson sald that the permit to be fraudulent, ne believer his | ea grid- | . learned in the Philippines was noth- According to Fleischer be held Federal permits for the trans- Commils- HY, re ediaiht \14-Year-Old Girl. Kidd | ~ To Swim Aileen Riggin, Metropolitan | Diving Champion, ° Says She’s Been “Yelling Her Head Off” Over Selection |; for Team. When slender little Aileen Riggin, Ameri@a's fancy diving prodigy, leaps from the springboard at the forth- | coming Olymple Games in competition with the beat divers the world has to offer, doubtless she will appear to the eyes of spectators from scores of nations like a mere sprite cleaving the air as her lithe body curves in a graceful parabola to the water, Alleen, who is so ttle and so young —she cut the cake for her fourteenth birthday anniversary on May 3 Inst~ | that she is numbgred among the mem- bers of Tho Evening World Kiddie Klub, ts nevertleless so skilful and gracoful a diver that when the trans- port sally next Monday to bear the All-Amorica team to Ue Olympic) contests she will be a full-fledged | member of the coterie of athletes | | Whose brawn and skill are to uphold the honor of her country, Just now Allecn js spending verv | litue of her time at her home, No. 133 Remsen Street? 1: oklyn, as every spare moment before sailing ts being devoted to perfecting herself for the ie Klub Member for U. S. in Olympic Games ‘YELP TO WENT | GIR FOUND KLED ME.) Asked Boys in Rutgers Park Nearest Way to That City After Row With Man. fre to-day eecking an Italian who, the police believe, cam throw ight on the mysterious death of a youps woman described as probably twenty- one years old and pretty, whose body was found yesterday in an areaway back of No, 49 Rutgers Street. An autopsy revealed fractures at the base of ‘her skull and her «pine, Her clothing was wnruffled and her hair was smoothly combed, No card, letter or other means of identification was found except an urusual comb, believed to be expensive, which was in her hair, She appeared as if she had’ been laid out for burial. Her nationality, the police say, might |have been American with a touch of Irish. ‘The police at first believed she had fallen from @ne of the narrow bath room windows which look out on the court from a line directly above the spot where the body was found. This theory was discarded because of the nature and location of her injuries and the careful manner in which the body was laid out., ‘ Harry Mandel, owner of a restau- rant at No, 46 Rutgers Street, told the police that he had seen the wom- an last Sunday morning in his res- taurant accompanted by a dark com- plexioned man who was apparently Italian, Two boys also told of, an incident in Seward Park, close by, evening preceding the woman’, death They sald a woman, answering ex- actly the description of the body, was in an argument with an Italian. He snatched a fur plece from her neck and she cried and asked the boys what was the quickest way for her to get out of the park and to New- ark, The boys said she was much afraid. A policeman saw the two arguing and the girl appealed to him for help. He, the boys said, exclaimed that. he couldn't be bothered, The girl ran to No. 8 Rutgers Street a few momoets later, the man in chase, A crowd fol- \ 2,000 WORKERS IN MOVIES STRIKE Producers Consider Demands for | Wage Increase and Forty- four ‘Hour Week. Motion picture producers met this af- ternoon at No. 1520 Broadway, to con- sider the demands of about 2,000 Inbora tory workers in the atudios, who went | on etrike last night. The demands aro | for recognition of the union, a 44-hour] week and incroases from 20 to 85 por, cont. The strike ta being directed from tho Motion Picture Craftsmen’s Union Lo- cal No. 614, at No. 110 West 40th Street, by Abraham Heller, head of the organ- ization. Among the producers affected by the strike, all being members of the Na- tonal Association of Motion Picture | Producers, William A. Brady, Presi- | dent, are the Fox, Universal, Paragon, Famous Pliyers and Vitagraph. The territory covers New York, Long 1s- land and Grantwood and Ft. Lee, N. J.! At Ft. Lee, Sheriff Kingsley of Bergen County, has posted a force of deputy sheriffs in cnse of disorder. Edwin F. Murphy, !aboratory superin- tendent for the UniverSal, said he ex- pects about 60 per cent. vf normal pro- duction to-day. The increases demanded | would cost the Universal alone more than $200,000 year, he sald. Kipper, business agent for the “And after the games are over what] union, said one of the union deman EILEEN RIGGING formances and the means of perfect~ ing berself in her diving to, all the wonders the trip is to open out be- fore her. “Think of It," she sald, “we're going to live in a real"¥Y. W. C. A. hostess house at Antwerp, We are to sail early 90 wa will have plenty of time to ‘tune up’ and get accustomed to everything before the contests, which are from Aug. 22 to the 29th | &reat competition." Daily she is to be seen at the bathing pavilion at Man- hattan Beach, where many of Amer- fca’s representatives in the Olympian | Rquatics also are putting the finish- |tng touches upon their performancea. Aileeu, who has to her credit the winning of so many contests that it woul be tiresome to schedule all of them, is the metropolitan champion for 1920 in the fancy diving cldss from the springboard, That coveted title she won not from a group. of lithe girls, but from Dripping -and rad Aileen, flinked by two other young girls who are to represent America in the diving 18, was starting for | the bath house t when she was | held up by an Evening World ree | porter, we scarcely any voice to tullk | with,” eaid Aileen, when the reporter had ‘informed her that many thou-| sands of readers would like to know | just how America's youngest Olym- pian gentestant looked upon the | chance to go to Belgium ag one of the: team. “And can you guess the reason? I've simply been yelling my head off ever since [ was told I could be on the tea Just think of being on | the All-America team! Am I puffed up with pride over being a represent- | ative of the greatest country in the whole world? You answer, Alice, I'm too hoarse.’ She turned to one of her compan- fons, whom she introduced as Alice Lond. Alice, who is eighteen, and who lives at No, 1487 East 19th Street, in Brooklyn, is to contest in the high Miving. Aileen alao introduced Helen Meany, fifteen, of nwich, Conn., {another high diving contestant bound for the Olympics, Alice, thus appoaled to, responded: “Aileen hasn't been hollering with joy over being chosen, any more than |i have, if I am four years older, all simply crazy to go,’ al did ever any one uch a lark?" said “Why, I've only been doing worth méntioning for and here been big game: She talk with a little Aileen. any diving about a year, chosen for the punctuated her squeal of delight “Of course, we all may be terribly seasick,” sald Aileen, “but all that is rt of the game, and, any ‘ot I, for one.’ So le sately, nothing ¢ te nink of It, Alice, Helen, this isn’t a dream that will fade when we wake up. We are we are £0- ing—do you understand? We are actually going!" She ceaded talking to cut a caper or two, and In that she was as greeful ag in her diving specialty, for she Is an expert toe dancer as well as a marvel in water sports, “Where did you learn to swim,” she Philippine was in the 1 "You see my daddy—his e ls Mr, Alexander F 3 the dandiest daddy had—{s master in the States > We were in the Philip- pines when I was about six years old, and 1 learned to swim, very much like a duck does, 1 guess. It seems now jas if 1 always could pwim, but that isn't really true, forf even what I ing to what I was taught by Mrs, Adeline T, Muhlenberg. Three years ago she began teaching me the trud- geon crawl stroke, and a couple of years ago I took up diving, but of course at first I knew very little about that. I think my dancing helps me a lot in my diving, for tt helps in a girl's poise, and that {s very neces- do you expect we are to do? We ure] is that all producers put the union tat to tour Franc Yes, sir The French] on all motion-picture shows, Government wants us to tour France. a Ait "Ob, What iark!: Were yom |SAYS SOUL KISS WAS LURE TO WIFE lowed and a woman in the butlding called: “Bring her up here." The man then shoved her into the door and that was the last {he boys saw of her. ‘The policeman to whom she had appealed in the park asked if anybody knew hor. the boys said, and when told they did not he walked off without entering the building. to have the very time of our lives, and we'll learn a terrible lot that no books ever could teach us; every- body tells me that, and I know it is trie” Afleen fairly and healthy spirit, Bnnever in Answer to ‘Her Suit Imation, : bg Quotes Some Picturesque she may radiated And ee eee 1 Patrol Ram Ronte, carry to Antwerp with her the cer- Sra ae wr tainty that every Kiddie Klub mem- Correspondence. Sata Ont JUL “bie more ee ae ee eee eine | George Beaumont, Ennever, a twicolinat numerous small craft from the is doing her part to raise her coun- try's colors to the top place among |"ounded veteran of the Canadian Army, | American side of the Canadian River, et | Detectives under Capt. Arthur Carey on tho | t¥, JULY 20, 1 NEWARK CLUE MAY | Find His Hero War Dog, Broncho, Hunted for Days to Slain Master ‘its si eit so each of the wounded taken care to see if one of them master he so “When he \lrish Terrier Was in Plane | With “Alec” Thaw When Latter Was Killed, “Broncho” has not beon decorated ith the War Cross or the Victoria Cross, nor even with a service medal, Thaw of Pittsburgh, mother of two American aces of the alr, he deserves all three, ° Ho is an Irish terrior of the bluest of blue canine blood, and he ts home- ward bound after years in France— years crowded with adventures such las tow doggies can boast, Ho vhas been thousands of feet In the alr while his masters, William and Alex. ander Blair Thaw, battled with fying foes above the clouds, Broncho has seen German planes swerve and tumble to the ground under the spitting bullets from his master’s machine gun, He has heard, Jalmost felt, the zip-p-p of German molest acyl in an answering aMdavit filed in BIS | heljeved to be engaged in rum- [bullets passing dangerously Giese to —— Wife's sult for ation on charge ‘of | running, are operating at night without |{he m: bins ap whigh he Bal 1 bel desertion, asserta that he hta and without permission, led to- seoU ‘Sra ae er. nd at DOCTOR SUES FOR _[iceertion nrserts that he Lett hie wits ustts 804 Sraor by” Collector” of Cus [tho lage he knew: what it was to n# Montreuil placing a spectal patrol the Canadian side, Augustus telling her the soul kiss as only he could do. | ott, that a magazine writer, | he would teach her | ‘WHISKEY BLANKS Dry Law Director Must Show] papers fied with the County Clerk | i < 2 Limi to-day set forth that the Ennevers were Why He Should Be Limited married April 6, 1916, and went to| to 100 Every 90 Days. housekeeping at No. 61 Kast 10ist Street. Mrs, Ennever charges that her An order signe LEG erica husband deserted her three months af- Knox was filed to by Federal day directing Charles Judge R P'Connor, Federal Prohibition Dir Hee eS tor for New York State, to show cause] T#ters: pelea why there should not be issued to Dr. meee mised) “ors Brutus,” | Melville A. Hays of No. 124 Audubon| Me oi ites corre: Avenue, more than 100 blanks for pre- scribing whiskey to patients within a after his return from the war, he in his papers submitted to-day says in op- had been used and when he applied to O'Connor for more he was informed he could have but 100 every ninety days. IThis, he represented, gnthiled a hard- |) ship upon many patients, suffering from srippe, diabetes millitus, bronchitis, climateric debility and other ailments requiring in their treatment alcoholic stimulants, Physicians are watching the outcome of the case. with considerable quaint and compelling descriptiveness. Justice Vernon Bnnever a coun to direct Enneyer to pay’ all- mony, NEUTRAL AS TO RACE IS ENGINE CO. 70 They Want Resolute to Win, but They Don’t Want Sir | Thomas to Lose. | eee SAY TENANT WAGED WAR. Accused of Tearing Wall Paper and Ontting Dambwaiter Roper. Phillp Bréwn, thirty-five, a tenant ut No, 20 East 116th Street, was held in $100 bail for trial in Special Sessions to-day by Magistrate Marsh in Harlem Court on a charge of malicious mis- Practically the only neutral persons tn! town, #0 far as the yacht races are con- cerned, aregthe mombers of Engine Com- pany 70, uf in City Island. ‘They're all good Aimcricans and therefore do not care to root against the cup defender. ; light or chief. According to Pollee Lieut. | put being gdod Americans, they are al Charles A. Becker, Rosen declared a|good sportamen and think It would be Don Quixote war on the apartment |unfair to root against a man who has house, tearing off the wall paper in| proved such a genial host ag Sir Thomas the halls, cutting the ropes of the | Lipton. dumb waiter and also threat ‘x to| The first aet of the Irish sportsman ouse and kill the Lieu-|upon his an country was to blow up the t Engine Company ognition owner of the house where Rosen cess in k is Becker, lenger's troyed m ———— MADGE KENNEDY SUES, Isiand, on Feb. Sir ‘Thomas cabled thanks lbneked this up with an actual spread when he arrived here. ‘The men coulda't avall then of his offer, but se lected Capt. Norton and Fireman Pitcher as their and Goldwyn Actrens Seekn 80.001 F in royal style by Sir Thoinas. ust neutral as to the race. wid one of the men of the | Mad; as Madg o're nnedy, to-day brought sult | that's all, against the Goldwyn Pictures Corpora- company ,to-day. tion to re $8,061.34, together with > interest, a matter of two weeks’ salary Bromx Butcher Pleads Guilty to | Manslaughter, NO CREDITS Gennaro Volpe, Bronx butcher, who ia accused of murdering Gennaro Russo, a business rival on April 1, to-day pleaded fullty to & charge of manslaughter, in the first degree before County Judge rk to-day that ‘There was a fur sary in diving, Hut it doesn’t help at all in swimming, that I can see—tho 1 doncing doesn't, I mean." {| Alleen’s mind leaped from past per- . ing ner provision in the Glbbs of the Bronx. Physlclana contract, according to Miss Kennedy's Volpe was not likely to live jong, complaint, concerning costun under he was suffering fram heart trouble which Miss Kennedy is auing for and other diseases. He will be sen $1,574.17. tgnoed on Thuraday. \ \"crash" himselfwhen Alexander Blair |Thaw’a plane fell hundreds of feet Franklin Simon & Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets | perioa ot peat ays The order 8) sition to his wife's motion for ail Store in the World*— “Dr. Hays, in bis affidavit, dectared |MONYs were tho reasons why he i e our Candy Arcade om psd 4 her. One of these letters, Ennever re 42nd also 43: that during May his first 100 blanks), 014, aiuded to “Venus and Adonis rd Will Close Out Wednesday Women’s Summer Dresses OILE OR GINGHAM DRESSES in dark colorings. Pormer ‘Prices $12.75 to $1859 RESSES OF ORGANDIE, VOILE OR TISSUE in plain or figured effects on light or dark grounds. Former Prices * MBROIDERED WHITE SILK “ SHANTUNG DRESSES. 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