The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1920, Page 3

, | ie | { \ i A THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST. 16, BABE RUTH SAYS: GOUGING LANDLORD ~ WL NOT ESCAPE “TAX RATE BOOST Must Pay: Added Values in Same Proportion as He Jumped Tenants’ Rent. RENTALS FAIR INDEX| Deputies Will Be Aided by} Mayor’s Committee and Mu- nicipal Court Records. , Profiteering owners of apartments | have brought on themselvés the heav- H fest part of the increased burden of | the city’s finances for the next year, due to the necessity for increasing | the city’s debt limit. ‘The plan to in- | crease the assessments of landlords who through the camouflage of sub- Jensen are gouging tenants into pay- ing tremendous advances, enforceable only because of the city's scarcity of dwetlings, was suggested long ago by members of the Mayor's Com- mittee on Rent Profiteering. It is now found to furnish the brpadest and easiest way out of the city’s financial straits, The salary inoreases for city employees, the tens of millions needed for schoo! tmprove- ments, the falling off in vevenue be- cause of the loss of liquor excise tax- ation, the $20,000,000 appropriation for © new court house and numerous other items can only be met by in-| creasing somewhere, somehow, the | total of the assessed valuation of olty property. It has been decided défnitery to hang the added values on the" profi- | teoring landlord in exaot proportion to his exactions on hig helpless tenants. ‘The amount of rental received un- der leases has always been pleaded | by landowners as a fair index in seek- |" ing lower assessed valuations upon whioh to compute their taxes. Deputy tax assessors bave found ‘it diMcult) to determine the reai income from euch property. Tenants who have revolted aguinst } demands have furnished a way for-the aaseqpors to learn what property is producing in revenue. Jacob. A, Cantor, President of the Bonrd of Taxes and Assessments, states that the rental which property | will produce.js a falr index of value unless unusual elements of value en- | ter into computation. The question | of the relation of rentals to market value was put up to» Mr. Cantor to determine this point, “The very fact that the two houses produce different amounts of revenue | shows they, are not the same," he replied. “How oan they be the same? "That tact of itself shows the calues are not equal, and. therefore the as- serements do not have to be equal. It you were investing money, which would you pay more for—a house producing $5,000 a year or a house producing $10,000 a year?" ‘ DEPUTIES GUIDED BY MAYOR'S RENT COMMITTEE. ‘Tho deputies who have hesitated to boost assessed values in line with boosted rents, this year will have the Municipal Court records and those of te Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering to give them some guid- ance in determining bow much rent- als have advanced and on what prop- erties, If they levy thelr assessments in accordance with the rentals it is not probable that any landlords will #0 into court with the plea that they are overassessed, because their rent- ls are plain profiteeriimg and there- fore not an index of the real value. If the deputy tax assessors fa'l to take advantage of the records avail- able,’ there will probbly be a good deal of public interest to know way. If the deputy tax assessors will look into Mupicipal Court and the Mayor's Comimittee records, they will fond a basis on which td produce the addi- tional taxable values necessary w raise additional revenue. For in- elance: Tenant at No. ‘514-516 West 152d Street complains to Mayor's Commit- | tee that George Zanderer demands | $50.50 for apartment renting for} $40.50; rate of increase, 25 per céht.: | assessed Valuation, $43,000. I in- creased in proportion to rental, 192; | taxable value will be $53,000; increase, | $10,000 ° } Tenant at’No. 40 West 127th Strect complains to Mayor's Committee that Mayers Kahn Realty Company de- | mands $70 for apartment renting for | $45; rate of increase, 66 per cent; asseaged valuc, $71,000, If thereasdd in proportion to rental, 1921 taxable | value will be $110,000; increase, §39,- 000 ‘ Tenant at No,, 560 West 165th Street compiaiAs (6 Mayor's Commit- tee that Arthur Du Cret & Co. demand $2,400 for apartment renting for $1,500; rate of increase, 60 per cent.: Assessed value, $430,000. If increased in proportion to rental, 1921 taxable vatue will be $688,000; increase, $258,- | 909. ‘enant at No. 211 Amsterdam aye-| nue complains to Mayor's soe (Continued on Tenth Page.) re the Who-A Name Your Choices to Compare With the ‘‘Prettiest in England’’ SUNTESS. - \ANS “GErRmRaAepy LANDLORD FINED FOR FALSE OATH AS YO RENTAL Bronx Justice to Turn Over Future Cases of Perjury to District Attorney, - Municipal Court Justice Morris: in the Second District Court, Bronx, to- false swearing as to his rentals, and announced that he would tur noyer to the District Attorney for perjury pro- secution all future cases of false oaths. As the Sustice Had promised last Fri- day to tne the first landiord proved to be swearing falsely and carried out hig threat to-day his promise of more serious consequences thoughtfully : Frank ‘Bodo, landlord of Brook Avenue, tenants, was regarded > 1319 appeared against fi who said his advances: con- templated increases of between 30 and 40 per cent, Bodo protested that he was asking only the leful 25 per cent advance. Justice Morris made him swear to this, and upon records, ruled that the tenants had told the truth, He fined Bodo $10 and costs for each of the five total of $50. “This reckless swearing and wiliful perjury mus stop,” announced the Justice, “From now on 1 don’t intend to assess fines and costs. I intend to, enlist the aid of the District Attorney! and prosecute these unscrupulous larfilords to the full eatent of the law." ‘A landlord named Hess appeared against Mrs, Davies, a tenant at No. 2779 Briggs Avenue, who pays $47 4 month. Hess asks $65, Mrs. Davies said that last week when the case was to have come before Justice Shields, hut was delayed by a press of cases} Hess said to her that if she would pay $65 he would “let her live in peace.” Hess alleged she was an undesirable tenant, Mrs, Davies gaid she did not understand why, he faid 80 : 1 know why,” “If you give him the money you would be a ver desirable tenant. I'll give you a year’s stay at the old rent.” There were 2 and the tenants were, represented al- most unanimously by and children, As they clamored forward to be heard the Justice rolled yp his sleeves and announced he would hear the women with the youngest chil dren first. Arguments as to which had the youngest diverted the women tenants. Justice Morris settled thirty-five cases to thé mutual satis- faction of all He urged a landlord named Shapiro of No, 1880 Washington Avenue, to spend his vacation painting the uparpment for which he, wanted his women nam Zurkman to pay $29, an in- crease of $4. Shaptro agreed to do so. Landlords became apprehensive and began retaining counsel and ask ing adjournments ; m wise,” announced the Ji tice. "You want to take these cases away from me. I'll either give ad- jouriments until September or for one week o! Je them now." i i Two Robbers Get Long Terme. Because he prevegted his accomplice from sheoting Mrs, Mae Van of No. 366 State Street, Brooklyn, ater they pad beaten ang robbed her, Milton Mauer's sentence out Im thal to-day by Judge MacMahon in the County Court, Brook- jyn, Mauer, who lived at No. 601 Ford Avenue, College Point, L. 1. "was sen- ced to serve only ten Years in Sing Sing Prison, while his pai, Vncent Kor- osondewlez of No. 505 mtenced to twenty years, tenants, al said Justice Morris. | ‘ord Avenue, was You Watch the Pitcher Trying to Kid You but KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL Five SF MASSERENE TASY SANS PUFF COOPER, DEO Horrs : | Artist E. O. Hoppeé Submits ‘His British Selec- | , tions and Evening World Readers Are Asked to Tell df Yankee Favorites. - W HO are the five most beautiful World. The reason for a contest at this time is because E. O. Hoppe, a well-} known artist-photographer, has arrived in our city for the sole purpose of | | finding the five most beautiful American women. He has already decided | 1 women in America’? Evening World readers are asked to*submit the names of Ameri- can women who, in their opinion, qualify the term beautiful. | Send in your selections, or, better still, clip out the pictures of beautiful Yankee girls and send them to the Art Editor, The New York Evening who are the five prettiest English women and desires to make a com. | Pariaon. Artist Hoppe has picked Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, Viscountesg Masse- | reene, Viscountess Curzom Lady John Lavery (born in America) and MillII-| cent, Duchess of Sutherland. Their Famous judges of beauty in this city, when Interviewed to-day con- day fined a landlord $50 and costs for! corning the English artist's purpose here, were of the opinion that Mr.|matca to carry to Manhattan from | Hoppe will experience no difficulty in picking beautiful American women, |varions points along the line covered but may .be forced to raise the number selected pictures are shown above. COURT BARS $1.75, Justice Hendrick Refuses to Hear | | Argument—Staten Island Raise Also Forbidden. Tustice ew. hear arguments to-day on the mat permitting the Bronx Gas and F Compnny to increase its rate for Kas from $1.50 to $1.75 pe rthousand feet The temporary stay of injunction P sion to interfere wth the increase was allowed to remain tn force until October, when {t will be heard by Justice Mul l1an, who Justice Hendrick, said is fa-| | millar with the case? Corporation Counsel John F. O'Brien | to-day announced “a signal victory for) the city” and for the Staten Island | Kas consumers when gJustice Seridder | refused to permit the New York and| | Richmond Gas Company to charge «| |rate higher than the $1 a thousand | | cubic feet pending hearing of the com- | hémy’s action to set aside the exigting rate.\ The company charges the pres. Jont rate is confiscator: Mr. O'Brien estimated that it would | take five or six months to get the case to trial, He announced that. if the| company takes an appeal frony Justi Scudder's decision he will fight it in} the Appellate Division of the Supreme | Court, ‘ OFFICIALS DISCUSS DRY ENFORCEMENT} | Federal, City and State Authorities | Confer sin Corporation Counsel's Office, e | City and county officials to-day |held another conference with Federal SMicials in Corporation, Counsel O'Brien's office in the Municipal | | Building on the matter of enforcing Prohibition in the city, The details | discussed were not given out | Those present were: Prohibjtion Enforcement Agent Shevlin, Deputy | | United States Attorney General Mat- District Attorney of | Kings County-and his assistant, Capt. Hemstreet; District Attorney Maloy lot Richmond, Assistant District At torney Adelman of the Bronx, Assist ant District Attorney Myers of Man- | hattan, Police Commissioner Enright, | Police Inspector Thor and Corpora- tion Counsel O'Brie - IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. | Independent Order of Odd Fetlowa, | |Grand Lodge, convention, Metropolitan | |Temple, 7th ‘Avenue, near Mth Street |morning and afternoon. Commemoration of the Independence of the Dominican Reupublic, celebration | | Waldorf-Astoria, & P. M | Wool ‘Stock ' Graders’ Association meeting {n the state apartment, 10 A.) |M. Luncheon in the white and gold| room at 1 P. M Pansy Brassiere Company, exhibit | thews, Lew { Roosevelt Central Park Memortal League. Women's National Democratic head- quarters, Hendrick refuned *to |, was asked before the }MOB LED BY WOMAN GAS RATE IN BRONX, CAPTURES FUGITIVE Angelo Gaynoni ing Purse, Expects No “Goods by” From Judge. assembled de tives at Police Headquarters to-day he had ever been arrested before. was charged with highway robbery yex terday In the pushcart market at Past | mining the|sorbidding the Public Service Commis-| Houston Street and Avenue A peak the bum E elo, apologetically. glees,”” “Were you ever pinched before by a the Gaynoni nodded and cop—put in the official inquisitor. held up four, fingers hoosgow?"’ asked “What did you get?? was the next tuestion, “The Judy me ‘goodby, He paused mournfully; “The Judge no ‘goodby’ this time.” Angelo, in the opinion of the police, js right. He Whitman, into ased by n g ra trailing behind Bessie 22 Metropolitan Av whose pocketbook the: seen Gaynonl snatch. i FIND CLERGYMAN anid Angelo, whose arms he nue, Brooklyn emuid they had LYING UNCONSCIOUS |Unknown Man Picked Up in Taken to Hospital garb of Street Harlem A man tn was found unconsclous early the aidewalk at nth L24th Street. Patrolman Ste West 1230 Street Station cal bulance from Harlem Was taken there, but has not b tufted, his allment Avenue ns an am. en iden dus nor has about thirty-eight Hia ¢ striped, cal type He Is old Ave feet nin dark, his trousers and collar of th purp his vest hia hose DROPS DEAD IN TENNIS GAME, |« John M. Heron, New York F Victim of Hetet Dincas Spbcial to The ¥ GREENWICH, © Heron, momber o} Improved ¢ Great. § drop playing ening Wortd n, Aus Great Cour Joh M States, of United Men State heart his hen ped dead fron: snad past of of Callfornia, diseasy while home in Sound Hach, ¢ He was fifty w York exporte two sone. Francisco, tennis n near The body will t buth place _ Army ‘and Navy Bea Week at Long Army. and Navy Week opens at Long Reach thia afternoon with a tea dane at the Hotel Nassau, wh also be an entertain Scandals of 1920" company navy bands will gt pncerts in afternoons and eve 4, excepUng Fri day ngeht, when the aemy and ball wMll be given Accused of Snatch- Angelo Gn}non! of No. 13 Mott Street -| headway, if He! said An-} “he give nd added, a me the was caught by Pollceman was mall mob of pushcart ped- Moldoza of | a clergyman an} ¢ the | Hospitaland he at was porter, iL of Red at} years » will Army and the | c navy Exhibition airplane ¢ Most Beautiful Women in the United States? |Babe Ruth Explains How VISCOUMNYTESS (\CORZONM Breve der HERCHARLES + ITY BUSES CHAE DOUBLE FARE 1 STKE VICTIMS Twenty-Seven Put in Service To-Day Get Few Patrons From Queens to Manhattan. ’ A fleet of twenty-seven municipal | buses gathered this morning at Ja- lby the Manhattan and Queens Trac- \tion Company the passengers re- | ported to have been left stranded by the strike of emplofves of the com- pany. Commissioner of Plant and Structures Whalen and a corps of supervisors were on hand to direct the ‘start of the temporary bua Ine. Arrangements, were made to have the buses run unger five minutes’ but when the first one start- Itt but two par-engers ‘and few patronized the buses during the The fajiure of the genoral of the bu whose runnin to the | Manhattan end of the Queonsbo1o | Bridge was expected to cut consider ably the fiftystwo minutes’ running time of the trolleys, was attributed to the fact that their advent heralded. When the gers were we ed it} more next two hours public to mak use time wax un- paid thelr fares passen surprised to arn they e required to pay five cents from Jamaica to Forest Hills and an addi- *) tion five-cent fare thence Man- hattan, or 10 cents in « city operated bus for « trip the trolley which waa five cents. The trolley corporation tained It loses no | fare. | General fare for has main. , on a five-cent ney Manager Duncan of the 4 prepared figured on rev- enue and cost of operation to be sub | mitted to the Public Service sion this afternoon. The refused company’s 5-cent increase. "The strike has not serlousiy incom moded commuters in getting to the sjelty. The B. R. T. and Interborough olevated and subway lin#s 1 have given the on without company the offer of a and the Long Jaland Kalle +| majority ing W transpor hay to’ walk long a B receivers of the trolley company asked tor what th effect if the company were pef 10 re. neces Duncan, general manager for when tay would be | mitted plied “4 financial computation quired to answer that. Howey 10-cent fare: undéubtedly would coward solving the diffi culties now confronting vs throug operating for cent fare | > - to charge @ 10-cent fare, would be « long way Decoration for Liner Captain Capt Kull of American Mner® Berger his whip to Broekiyn to tatia wearing the Cross of t cheat gift ef bis Governtr upon and upon HH raon, chi in Btickne 4 vely to port ww ater her engine room ¢ Mh aniles mn New York on voyage he wegian her ~~ Dinner to Hesolute’s Crew. of the of th of the Amer mth, ‘in to be given to by William H Todd, Preaident of the Todd shipyards poration. There Will be other Kuents from among the friends of the crew and Mr. Todd, Most of the members of th were recrutted In the neighbor honor orew Cup — ow flights and war movies will be features hood of the Brooklyn yarda of the com: @f the week's programme pany. Commis. | strikers have | trom | 1920, With Watch It Come Up and, Bingo He' Makes Home Runs; Uses Free, Easy Sw Essential Things Are a Batting Eye, Position | _ the Plate, Strength, Weight ~ and Confidence. By Babe Ruth. CHAPTER Vil. | OW do [ pit home runs? H I have been asked this qtestion thousands of times ali t close of the @eason of 1919, when I broke the world’s record, with joMcial total of twenty-nine home runs. Really 1 got thirty-one, other two went down in thé score books as two-baggers. This is q | happened in each case: There was a man on second tn the ninth | who brought {na winning run, officially ending the game by the times reached second base, Both of these blow were made on ou: own ! | Fenway Park, Boston, Both timea my hits were long enough for me te Haye scored without getting out of breath. But I'm not crabbing about the ors | 4 1 ie. of those two honiers.. They won bail games, and [ was playing for | Red Sox and not for Babe Ruth. | I suppore, when you get down to it, # la mad ta bit home runt betting axe | WOOD ALCOHOLgiag how he stands at the plate, how he} “RASH” WORK OF ? ; INDELIBL PENCIL |swings, is strength and weight and | jhi# confidence, Let's take them up| lin order: y You stand there at the plate watoh~| pyr mm S i grieses ling the pitcher wind up. You haven't | be of Ds on Pg 4 ened Joke Victim's Chests ee ard therefore fume OWN SAVERY Horner’ a way In the world of knowing wat | | he ts going to serve you and {t is not | jmuch use trying to guess because a | good hurler can disguise his windup piciously potent whillkey” drunk yesterday by an um- named man war followed by what he considered queer enough ‘Gon-— }so that you get a fast one when you ithink a curve bail is coming. The } thing to do is to keep your eye on LAPY. Q £.0° ) = the ball. And I never go up to the ‘ | plate that something inside of me, Sauences to bring him runale | | doesnt whisper, “Keep your eye on} Bread Stregt Hospital. the ball, Babe. Keep your eye on it. “It may have been wood aled- hol,” he panted to Dr. John BH” Hammett, baring his chest, where he exposed hundreds of tiny, Bur- pie dots. “it's a rash of kind," ne walled. “You can't.tell | what you're going to get drinking these days.” se Wateh it come up.” | | Don'r LOSE THE BALL AS IT) | NEARS THE PLATE. } | 1 don’t mean, to say that anybody | | can hit the ball atl the time even if | he’ keeps his eye glued on it, but the | fellow who has bis lamp trimmed, . TWO RESTAURANTS keep# It on will make a whole lot 4) “al i oat ee he ‘ons a more hits than the (ellow who doesn’t, | [ie CO's, ti6 muratelled tt | oan Saree them, — |1t's easy enough to follow the ball; S04 @pplied it to one ol } | é | ‘hen he delivered his diagndeis; | After |halt way from the box to the piate. GS Gh" hated: tke SRE a ] that is when the pltoher fools} + Yonge) bath. Some one has played fob on you, ‘fnose marks were madey Bandits Flee in Taxi | $200 Robbery—Police esha Recover One Till. That's wien muni baiiern | + begin to lose the ball. ‘They are not| wish an indelible pencil! |prepared to watch the break which tt eee |Comea Just betore the apple reaches | NOT SO HOT OR HUMID. Giers. ¥ tealleve. that’ one et the eb-| 0 the Hamilton Lunch, No. 548 Eighth |ordts of my hitting is my ability to | Bat Temperatere Drops Only Avenue, from a taxteab with’ four |Kkeep'my eye’on the ball longer than| Desree—Mere Thunder Showers, men asked the proprtetor, |@ny other batter, even until {t starts) i Binal st igs pele sry, to Dreak, We all know that a seal | nd al Abraham Guryan, for a package of | 10 (60 Nt Course and does aot |on the Whitehall Bullding |jump until it is almost at the plate, ecioe-terarsy tbersegmvetse, Seen = rettes he saw two of /and that is why a batter must watch | seq preeses, stood at only 78, havi the men carrying betworn them | ro thatehe doesn't swing where the| fatten one degree sinco 1! o'ologk. Hi Ne te seer see cash register, |pall ought to be but ain't | ie tok jeagure, In announch Which contained about $200. | at is in thin business of keeping | Me bumidity had decreased a! Guryan shouted to them and the| your eye on the ball that golf and| “phe usnel Shower of wart Sater § other men pointed revolvers at him| ui! run side by side for a little | Slectrical fireworks and noise was and forced him to the back of the fstey Whey also resemble each ithe, | be, exPected thin evening. ‘he restaurant, They then ran out and|in the feel of ghe home run and the other | there was hope that the high ter area now in the northwest Jumped into the automobile with the | feel of the long drive but I will speak of that later. A man who alighted at the door of other \clgarettes, When Guryan was hand- ling out the ci | toward ‘088 the Missinsippl and come tl Bringing dry and cooler weat 5 first two, rT cab went up Bighth t 1 didn't go ati ping down to the In standing at the plat: Tagain put : 4 Avenue to 69th Street, By the time|myacif in the ponition of the golfer. | Rerhish Barcmeitie wens, sete ryan. followed by a waiter and| He addrenges the ball: I address the| Way of doing for the luat ten dags: cook who had been | the teh | pitcher. Firat of all I get my feet Peter Rogan, ky -mim, No. : Deen in the kitchen | Fine exact position, the wimht one « Street, Brookiyn, was ove during the robbery reached: (he "C0. ee eee eee rere My right | the heat, (o-day while at work at Me. ner the cab wad vanished leg in bent juat a little at the knee | st So. aoe Peliaades “Aven Policeman Patrick Mitohell of the see z City, wea overcome at Pler 26,” West 126th Street Station saw two | (Gy ued Fitteenth Page) (Riv pen coming from the re: reshiment room of William Costello at No, 1590 Amsterdam Avenue ats2 o'clock this morning, carrying a gash register be tween them. As they turned into | {136th Street, Mitchell fired a shot | Dandy tor Iced Tea after them on the run, Around the), ] corner he found Daniel Murphy of | , } No. Amsterdam Avenue standing - beer | over a cash register, his arms in the @ ‘2 | air. Another man was speeding away | on 186th Street and did not stop | , ] whem Mitchell fired two more shots ‘ | Murphy said he knew nothing about the gash register and had stopped to | look at it out of curtosity, but Mitchell £ charged him with burglary in Wash- | Wurant had been 6 in the cash ’ New 4 lb. Size i ain | ' for Convenience | |HYLAN TELLS B. R. T. MEN TO SEE JUDGE |Says He Believes Mayer Will Di- | rect Garrison to Meet Them on New Agreement If Y Se 1 } seu entn Oteti ou Sel | gation of th oklyn Rap embers of the Art ry % [fers dere oie) oe t olesale Judge Juliae M, May f the United ; States District Court “when thoy es plained the car situation to the May P. J “a and James Sheridan headed that Lindley M. Garrison, receiver for the purpo of discussing an agreement 1 i for the year herinaing Aug. 2h iv The most complete and accurate eee Ee res Cerra | list of incoming WHOLESALE mene BUYERS is now printed every dion te judas Mayer el aell aicpar Bo morning in jcelver Garr to m you," said the Mayor eo receiver an officer of Judas Mayer was too busy to wlve a hearing to # delegation of the Amal! gamuated BR. T. employees tn reference te hele dlitarences With tie: corabenr when they called on him this morning at his chambers in the Woolworth tower They were told to return: later the da Immediately after the delegation teft Receiver Garrison arrived and went inte conference with the