The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1920, Page 3

THOMAS E. MITTEN, WHOSE PLAN HOLDS WORKERS LOYAL MITENS PLAN OF WNKING WORKERS Packing Interests Seek for Traction Man's Secret in Gaining Loyalty of Labor, MILLIONS IN SAVINGS. oe Fund Another Feature, OF “Union” ‘Not Affiliated With the A. F. of L. (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Aug.,4.—The éx- ample which Thomas E. Mitten, Pres- (dent and Chairman of the Executive Committees of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, has set ia winning, over many obstacles, the complete | confidence and Idyalty of hid men, has Attracted the attentiog of great cor- porations throughout the country, ‘Thé#6 great concerns want to know how he has won labor to stich fidelity. One of them is determined to learn the secret, if it may be called that, at first hand. This is the great packing rm of Swift & Co, of Chicago, and it has sent a representative to this elty to study, not only the methods of Thomas E. Mitten, but Mitten him- self, because the men of the traction company say that his personality had ® @reat deal to do with all the good | that has been acoomplished. Mitten, on the other hand, says that the men themselves did it all, which makes it | & ¥ery happy deadlock, to say the \ least of it. ‘Bee Philadelphia traction situation ~ , Recognized as one of the most’ in- 1 tenesting, in its financial, transporta- lg Mayor Hylan replied to-day to the tiotl and labor aspects, that the letter of President Anning 8 Paul of country presents to.day. Thomas B,'the Board of Education explaining Mitten has shown the way by which the Board's forthcoming requeat for to Induce Iabor to work heart and $88,000,000 for new and improved ‘out with the management. He has Schoqis. The Mayor sald that per- shawn the tremendous value of co-| haps'not all of the money asked for op@ration, with good will on both| Would be available but that the Board |f sides, getween employer afd em-|of Education would get every dollar ployee, And, not least, he hag dem-| Which, could possibly be allowed to It Onstrated that a §-cent fare suffices|in next year’s budget. for his company, that it 1s content| The Mayor said he did not believe jthe report of the Sage Foundation |that New York ranked thirteenth jamdng American cities in its school THOMAS E. MITTEN =: Phote by Phote- Crafters, Phila, Pe AYLAN DENOUNCES “TEREST BEHIND SCHOO EXPANSION |Promises Education ‘Boarc All of $38,000,000 City Can Pay, However. When Mr, Mitten took hold of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company it was physically and finartially| system or other renorts that It ranked “sick,” the carmen were underpaid, | eighteenth but, he added, if it is true discoure” 1 and rebellious, Withina|there is something radically wrong ebort t he had two strikes. ‘The| with our highly paid educational su- +public was heartily disgusted, because wretohed is a weak word to describe thd, mpany’s service, And then Mr, Mitte& began his task.” Since those two old strikes there Baye been no others. The com- pany has now between-10,000 and 11,000 employees. These are not afe bliated with the American Federa- ton of Labor or any other such body. They have a “union,” to be sure, but {t4s their own. It is one which pen- sions the men who are compeMed by reason of ailment or age to ret're, which insures the lives of members y@-provides ald for those who re- “Pre it, 9” The company pays its traction mea 68 Gents an hour and there are few cities in America in which traction men are recelving higher pay. A@na- jority of the company's employees are saving on an average of $10 a month. At one meeting of the Co-operative Beneficial Association of the company Gov. Sproul of Pennsylvania was | present to hear the President of the aspociation report that 99.51 per cent. of the companys employees were members of the organization, that 60 per cent, had Joined the savings fund and that deposits totalling a,million dollars were expected in 1920, The men pay $1 per mohth to the association toward its benefit fund, Mr. Mittgn announced that when the pervisors; it may be necessary to overhaul the system and remove the stumbling blocks, demonstrating that the pepple gontrol, unhampered by jthe Rqckefeller sympathizers whose policy seems to be for the bene |the powerful industrial interests. After declaring that the “people have had enough of extravagance ‘and visionary experimentation in the public schools," the Mayor says: "The Legislature in 1919 increased teachers’ salaries by many millions of dollars. The Legislature of 19 added between twenty and thirty millions more to salaries, which will tremendously increase Taxes of prop- erty owners in this efty. I under- stand that the same group of agi- taters are preparing @r~another on- slaught on the Legislature next year for additional millions, “While the Legislature was in ses- sion the mt crins of shortage of teachers ahd danger to public schools, After the Legislature adjourned no further ery heard about the shortage of teachers or the posbibility of the schools closing due to a lack of teachers, “The educational authorities have been lberally provided for by way of sala s with the money of the rent and taxpayers through mandatory legislation at Albany, They ought in turn now to give their undivided at- were con: membersip in the savings fund|tention toithe erection of new school reached 5° per cent. the company i reber siieation at would give $! for every $1 of t buildings find the proper education « dues puld by the men, “Dhis 4 the children. I hope that you can Rane oe ompene wil ere te make thom see the wisdom of giving more every month . erence paler Tt was Mr. Mitten who started or|their time and attentton to the edu ) suggested the savings fund, oaking ation of the children not for the mill || the men as a personal favor to him|and factory alone, but for the walks to put the amount of thelr la lof life that the poor man’s child te in eronae (pay in their od-ope: as much fitted for and entitled to bank regularly. aspire to as the children of the wealthy. rl RICHMOND STREETS DARK. “tf the Board of Education could i break up educationad political Light Compa Not Replactag | Viearchy | he zeae been Bue TNR fe -sdubelaee BUIbE, Ie Charice, it ft re xthook wri 4, and the The Depirtment of Wate and hizers of the powerful indus- Mectricity of Richmontt Ror a! interests, they would be perfurin- ving many complaints from r a great ¢ to the people who he ah Staten Laland of the luck ‘of paving }herally to have thetr chil- complaly streeur have been In pits hé#s for a month or more throtgh HAVANA CASINO pany to replace burnt ou ui: RIVALS MONTE CARLQ Most Luxurfous Gambling House w We Tn : in World When Place STORE RC2BED THREE TIMES He Remodeled « AY Morello, manag of th eh on © the most luxuriou chance on thle side of th nd ut will eclipse the famous | “arlo, if plana*are carried out. “ ed by Charles A. Stoneham rt of fuur roulette wheels, as 1 a win low i pot Sine Intng room will scat 600 Instead of « Mey burglery has not 406 The « Ul be exclusive, only = e beet covered by to be nliowe! to play, Six former euran r the accond Job an memvers the New York~ detective electric prot ction wae instulied, But it foros will on hand wien it reopens was nO Kod UgAMSt a hole in the floor, neat winter to keep out crooks, \ THE EVENING wort, WEDNESDAY, AUGU! BY THE. OF cisco. Chosen Supreme "Warden to Fill Vacancy. The supreme convention of the Knights of Columbus meeting at the Hotel Commodore to-day elected seven new members to the Supreme Board of Directors and a Supreme Warden, City; William F. Fox, Indianapolia; Joveph J. Meyers, Carroll, Ia.; James J. McGraw, Panca City, Okla:; Juhn A. Dwyer, Toledo; Edward A. Houli- han, Chicago, and Frank W. Loner- gan, Portland, Ore. David F, Supple, San Francisco, was elected’ Supreme Warden to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas J. Me- Laughlin of Newark, N. J., who has gone to Panama in connection with tho welfare work of the order, ‘The delegates immediately after the election took up the consideration of the report*on educational plana, call- ing for the expenditure of the $7,000,- 0%@ fund unexpended in the war ac- tivities of the onganization, A message of congiatulation from Seoretary of War Newton D. Baker was received to-day by Supreme Commander Dane! J. Callahan. ‘The organization was warmly commend- ed by Secretary Baker for its war work, The message stated that Gen. Allen, in command of the Amer!- can army of occupation in Germany, had ‘beeri instructed to attend the unveiling of the Lafayette statue at Metz as representative of the Amer- joan Government. Among the 300 delegates at the conyéntiog are some of the moat prominent Knights of Columbus in this country and Canada, There was Joseph Magna, eighty years old, of Texas, and a veteran of the Franco- Prussian War, when he fought fo: his native Alsace-Lorraine. He is going back to Metz, which he has not seen since 1870, on the Leopoldina when she sails to-morrow. ‘Dhe other delegates and pit; 5 Bs io Lina. when he applied and told his story, Then there ts Jerry Coveny, oldest ot the New York Knights, who for al: his years stood guard all day over the $15,000 gold and enamel Marshal's baton which the Knights of Columbus intend to present to the Allied Gen- eraliseimo, Marshal Foch, and re- sumed his post this morning when the baton was replaced on exhibition, -Of course, there way James A. Fla- herty, Supréme Knight, sixty-seven years ol, and a Philadelphia lawyer, but not the usual kind. He it was wio jumped to the front in the war work of the Knights, and like that other K. of C. man, Babe Ruth, drives home his points as Habe drives out his homers, There was William J. McGinley of New York, who totes around with him all the facts and figures of the order at the tips of,his big capable fingers. Looming large in the gathering was Martin H. Carmody, Deputy Supreme Knight, who boasts that he is the only man’ in his home city wf Grand Rapids who needs a larg! chair than former President Taft. He and the stern-t Dr, Buckley, who guards the ph al portala of the onganization, quite obscured the view of the exhibits when they left the convention noo; side in the hallway tor a time, Joseph C. Pelle ot Boston, the man who has been digging dec, into my ous methais of Charles B@ipz:, stuck close to the business of K. of C. and dodged questions wing the new Boston Mint. = Villiam BP. Larkin.of New York, the “orator of the order” and newly made successor to Barnard Baruch as trustee of the City College of New York, orated many times on many William ox, just baci from China and Sibe where he tan freight trains of coal and com- forts to cheer up Uncle Sarn’s fight- ing men in the chill of a Siberian winter, was very much there, So were Joseph Scott, the man who claims to have thought up all the superlative and wandered out- adjectives now in use to describe the beauties of California by people of the Poppy State, and Joseph Meyers, who brought the gation from Iowa, corn-lasseled dele- Judge Paul Leche, who comes from Donaldsville, La. wandered disco solately about the hotel looking for ¥ome one who could cook him Creole food, but cheered up somewhat when they told him that 1¢ had been elected t Jeliver the onl widress in French that is to be made at the un- velling of the monumont repr sentatives Of the Knights of Colum- bus, John H, Reddin, who left this part of the countey ‘twenty years ag hunting health in thea West, came buck looking as thoug had found it out In Colorado, o with & mille ion ov so in cash, in J, MeGraw wf Ok!a hoi 4s his p miled an ay but o shook hands with friend crush at the opening»of the n. Wille jam A, Dwyer of St, Paul, who le the heering for M th as the State which originated the war wor by the Knights, also found a number of old friends in thy i His suvcess at that uiused David Suppe, who from where the] watera of ri Gute go seeping wand te wound Megs What nd who Was awful Jones b ause he liad fonine nything like the wh, n New York, t vunt old- \timers from the West himself. He was last seen trying to outtali Frank Lonergan, who wis saying all that could be sald for Ores and nel boring parts. John J dy and I. A, Givoux led the Canadian delerat nto the hali and nearly had a fit when they en countered thg larg-st Canad. flag in captivity in New Yok, They wanted to take {t home with therm. Maybe they will, | Fo-morrow's programme provides David F. Supple of San Fran- The new members of the Supreme |f Board are John F, O'Neill, Jersey | JOS. J. MEYERS. ON THE ISLAND Metropolitan Hospital Staff Mans | Hose at Blaze in Laboratory. | Dr. Walter H. Conley, Superintend-| ent of the Metropolitan Hospital on Blackwell's Island, and his staff of doctors and nv.:o8 manned the hose and helped put out a fire in’a two- story stone tbuilding late last night. | ‘The blaze started trom defective in. sulation in the bu!!*ing, which 1s use 08 a laboratory, morgue and autopsy room, and is 100 yards from the hos- pital. Two bodies on. the lower floor were taken out soon after the fire started, After the 600 patients in the hos- pital had been reassured, the doctpra, who were holding a meeting, hurried to the Mboratory and played water on the blaze until the engine com- | pany on the island arrived. Except for a few explosions of chemicals, the fire, which was very | smoky, was without exciting incident | id no one was hurt. The damage wi not exceed $1,000, @ HOLD UP THE HOLD-UP MEN. | Four Invade xelsea) Three Flee! | enving Thetr Guna. ‘FIND SMALLPOX NURSES FIGHT FIRE lTwo HELD IN THEFT OF FIRE DEPT. AUTO Prisoners Accused of Driving Ma- chine Away From Broadway and Soth Street. * Two men who described themacives Mark L. Jones, an advertising sale: man, forty-eight years old, of No, 208 Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn, and James Doyle, thirty, a wireless operator, tlv- ing at the Hotel McAlpin, ‘were locked up in the Weat 47th Street Police Sta- tion late Inst night on a charge of grand lareeny made by Alfred Dahne of No. 208 West 69th Street, chauffeur of a Fire Department automobile. According to the police, Dahne saya Jones and Doyle entered the car whil it was standing at Broadway and 40th Street and started to drive away. Twice, Dahne says, they were caught In a traMc jam and Yorced to stop. When they got away from the jam, the polleg Dahne called Patrolman John Kasten and gave.chase in a taxicab. Jones and Doyle were captured a’ few hundred feet from the scene of the al- 8 7 NEW SUPREME SEVEN NEW MEMBERS OF K. OF MEMBERS ELECTED T 4, 192 C. BOARD PAAR CUP AY A RIT NRRIRRRATIREIR WM. F. FOX. SAYS HE CHARMED | $2,000 FROM HER jArdent Wooer Held After Woman | Relates Tale of Alleged Broken Promises. mardi Mordeno, dark and ardent Moor, was held in $5,000 ball in Centre Street Court to-day on complaint of Mrs. Minnie Boehringer, No. 267 At- kins Avenue, Brooklyn, who says ho got $2,000 from her. Mrs, Boehringer sald Mordeno, who {s @ mechanical engineer at ‘No. 211 Centre Street, told her he was the owner of the Mura Motor Car tion, and induced her to wri check for $2,000 for which ah ive stock. He also. pro |aaid, to take her and her |duaghter* to Moroceo, other thembers of Mra. Roehringer's family also lost money on Mordeno, th total being $10,090 - cea WEARS MOURNING FOR DEAD CANARY leged thot the police nay. oe ue aide|Russmanno’s Grief —‘Lightened, of he car e letters " “are 3, " palrited (n sed, However, by Funeral Witnessed ee + ON WARD LINER All Passengers Have to Undergo an Blute of the Adams Street Sfation, Brooklyn, called to the saloon of Christian Taylor at No. 275 Myrtle Avenue, early to-day by a tooting po- lice whistle found chairs and tables overturned and Richard Nugent of No. 135 Cumberland Str a customer, and proprietor Taylor sitting on Joseph Yo. 81 Mott Si ding to Tay of four men who ¢ with drawn revo! Police: ded his money. jor knocked down one who came the bar and took his revolver. FIRST WIFE GOT TAR’S PAY. ° Coates, 2d, Seeks Annulment of Marriage. Justice Squiers in Supreme Court Brooklyn, to-day took under consider Uontion petition of Mra, Edna Coates, ardesd on the coastwiae stomalip J for an annulment of ver marviae to Wiliam T. Contes, sailor in United States Navy, She as soon after thotr her 6 aid commun! that for a fay and by Lrepl ased, Mrs. ( arene mee eo allotment Dronusg It Wis {inate Mast. i had married t J1314 In’ Chelson ~~ BARBADOES CABLE HELD UP. | Fis aBieatet ts | wa Ordern Army and Navy De- partments to Prevent Landing. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (Assoolited | Preas-—P: nt Wi ia under stood to have issued orders to both tie Army end Navy Departments nat to! mmmit asion his been obtall Department struction tron Rurbadoes have | starte ~ =| for the formal declaration of the gifts which the Knights are taking to Marshal I and to Franes, 4 taxloud parade, escorted by a body of police detalled owpecially by Com- missioner Bart t for the dut to the French Line piers, at the foot of Went 18th Street, and the farewells to the 260 gilgrims. ‘ Vaccination—Eight Cases In City. Precautions of the authorities to pre- vent a smallpox epidemic in the ct: were unpleasantly felt by 270 passen- wers of the Ward liner Morro Caatle, ar- riving to-day from Havana by way of Nassau, with one case of smallpox in the steerage. | By order of Assistant Port Officer Doyle all the passengera were vaccin- ated, First cabin passeygers, who had been free of contact with the steerage, Nugent, Just eptering, did the same by P’° DHkenY disiode mak and two of the| ere allowed to Innd after careful In- * then ran a leaving three te-|spe.ton. ‘The remainder wete sent to olvers behind the into was taken | gottm: nd Swinburne Island for five robbery, assault and gun-carrying. — | (ays ntlon. There are eight “eas — in all now under detention in the city MOVIE PINCHER GOES TO JAIL) Mets Commistioner Copeland an- nced yesterday the discovery here of two cases of what he calls secondary rl He Annoyed While Lights) amatipox, These cada, he sald, were Were Ont Has Him Arrested. contracted by persons living in Harlem | Stanley Tybun, No. 418 Hast 15th) ¢-om a woman who came from Charles: Street, was sentenced to six month# on|ton, $. C., and developed the disease the county farm by Judge William O'-| after her arrival Driscoll in the Second Criminal Court.) Te Citizens’ Medical Reference Bu Jersey City, this morning, on convic-| peay antaandinanion Con eS NENIRS: -AoubyeEd ahs |through Vice President C: 1 BGrrnRton NO, A208 as jaa written to Mayer Hylan the recy City, In Keith's” Theatr Aldermen, complalaing about the “alann Hee Aver. STR OTM: PARt RUE created by the Health Department Miss Harrington told the Court that Vaiad cubes ct anallsoe ack bl stiy es ee cer, ctline beanie | the: erterte. to: de be vas novies Tybun, v3 ug beside ato tnd ikea vor, Pinched “hor and, otherwlae an-|clnated, ‘This letter ith D noyed her, Patrolman Thothas Busan, | partment does not le that yeep Atercer | Strack jataron, worse lit they become vaccinated severe reac: y, who was in the theatre, ‘arrested |'f thes oe ae bun, who explained that’ he had|Uons and in some cases death may n drinking and did not realize what| result, he was doing —— WADSWORTH LAUDS 23D REGIMENT Parade of Brooklyn Men at Camp Upton Stamped With High Officers’ Approval. LL, CAMP UPTON, and men of t 1 continued school Gf the soliiers he Moers express th Aug 4 11 Ore nt of k int ank igh great { sagisfaotion with the showing of the yea, Acélaring thelr yllenment Inat eve- Aing in the parade oefore United States Senator Wadsaorth as near perfect ag voasible. The Senator compjimenteit tol parade The stor and | party of pi as hs at dinner camp. of cera. The din 4 by @ band oncert, : ae | JERSEY NOT IN RIFLE MEET. No Fands to Send State Hifle ‘Team to Ohto. Guard officers w Jersey National at Camp Mdwards to-day abandoned hope of svcing ® State rifle team at the national rifle matches to be held at Camp Perry, © Major L. ©. Dehm, Chief of Ordnance of New Jer- j, muggented that, aa the Federal rnment would not pay the coat of | sending a team there the State Itaelf advance the money. But the State has no funda for thls purpose The n of the proviatonal battalion, the Bridget Trent hoth companion of Infantry, last night Clifford Kano, of the to Holly Company, firut Ileutenant to fill the vacwney caused by the selec on of Lieut. C. Powell to be battalion adjutant, : ‘by 10,000 in ,Newark. SUN wearing mourning for his dead cenary, Jimmy, whose funeral last evening took place with great oere- | mony, Emidio Russmanno took up the bunien af “his ordinary work to-day in his little cobbling shop at No, 6 Boyden Street, Nowark. He declared that Lorenzo and Marta, Jimmy's parent hopping about tn ghelr cage, plainly missed thelr departed off- spring. i More than 10,000 persons, including those who followed the hearse and the accompanying band and those who hung out of tenement win- dows displayed an interest in the obsequies. Carrying @ (book, later found to be a copy of the Life of Washington, Roberts marohed after the r, at the tiny grave read extracts as Jimmy's casket was lowered, Only a dollar a year for safe tooth 2 This large tube good for 3 months epee pene t CAMERA NOW USED BY LANDLORD 10 Mlashlights Taken of Persons Entering Flats and Threats Made of Raids. Magistrate MoGéehan in the West Side Police Court to-day issued sum- Clayman, brothers and real estate agents of No, 241 West 434 Street, to answer complaint that they have been taking flashlight photographs of thetr tenanta entering their apart- ment house entryway at No. 250 West 85th Street, barring the delivery of groceries, milk and newspapers, and otherwise trying to influence the ten- ants to get out, The Claymans are the heads of the big realty company known as the 48th Street Conporation, The summonses are returnable Aug. 10. Mrs. Ida Heaton, a school teacher, obtained the summons, Last week in the same court Magistrate Corrigan, on her complaint, held Emmanuel Clayman to the Court of Special Ses. sions on charge of unlawful entry. Mrs. Heaton alleged the dandiord en- ‘tered her apartment during her ab- sence and tore up her lease, rent re- ceipts and bills which she wished to use in evidence when defending her. self against dispossess proceedings, When Emmanuel Clayton was held, Mrs. Heaton alleges be yelled: “I'll get you yet.” She and other tenants of No. 250 West 85th Street to-day complained to the Magistrate’ that tenants entering the entryway after dark this week had been startled -by the explosion of Photograph flashlights and that the| landlord had threatened to have his own house raided as disorderly. Another apartment had bgen entered, since the complaint before Magistrate Corrigan, Mra, Heaton alleged. Jertainty, ¢ will issue a summons,” sald Magistrate McGeehan, “Phings like thie hawe got to stop, Things ‘are coming to such a@ pass here that the landlord think# he owns the city, ody and soul. I have seen evidence of ft. T expect it. Every one has beon, put ont of the house next door to me. » * He instructed ‘ Assistant District Attorney Maurice Lynch to make-a thorough investigation, Mrs. Heaton said she pays $100 a month for five rooms and bath. An hour after the tenants had ob- tained summonses the- Clayman brothers appeared before Magistrate McGeehan and asked for a summons for Mra, Heaton, They asserted her charges were all spite work. Bm- manue Clayman admitted setting off ashiights but sald that as his com- pany owned the building they had the Tight to take finehlight photograph of It If they wanted to, Magistrate McGeohan refused to issue any more summonses in the case until he had heard the tenant's complaint, >. Grectings to Haig Neate, Greetings on the alxth annive of Great Britain's entry Into World War to-day were cabled, to Field Marshal | Halg and Admiral Beatty by Franklin D'Oller, National Commander of tRe American Legion, brushing 5 Why pay more? w= Getter Chocolates CAN Miller's Licks —Long-iasting, an assortment of fresh fruit flavors. box. Hox of 10,.,... Hox of 20 Turkish Lacoom—a really oriental delleacy of candy- craft, Flavors of real fra- grance as sweet to the nose to the palate. After one nibble you'll 39c declare an Cert elet 421 At Cit 5a5 At un- swerving favor At ant oritinmn for this delight. wa AU Ath JAIL toothaoi u, and grown-ups who relish a tasty morsel. 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Thp condition of Victoria Gallo, eigh- teen, of No. 59 East Third Street, who waa taken to Bellevue early day suffering from iodine poisoning, Is tm- Proving. Accotding to the givi's mother, , Who returned home wfter her daughter ‘had run into the street screaming for help, the lodine was taken by mistake. Neighbors assert the gigi had @ vio- Jent quarrel with a young man who has been much in her company on the steps of her home last night and that fifteen minutes after he left her she appeared in the street, running in the direction of | the Fifth Street Station, orying out she had poisoned heracif. fe aumaaniaeey oe NSA ‘med im Gas Stove Explosion. A gaa stove exploded in the kitchen of Mrs, Mary Curtiss, at No. 166. Sip | Avenue, Jersey City, early to-day, aet- ting fire,to the house, Edward Whr~ hardt, thirty-eight years old, a boarder, was reverely, burned in fighting the flames, his clothés catching fire. 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