The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1920, Page 3

if ' } t en tm | mae oo | HOIST THE TAXES WITH THE RENTALS; FIT PROFITEERS! That's the Fairest Way of Raising That $50,000,000 City Will Need. LET THE GOUGERS PAY, Would Have Increase In Tax Rate Which Everybody Would Pay. be reer aad If fate In a building are worth More rent than they were worth a Year ago, ought not the owner to pay more taxes on the building than he paid a year ago? That is the question that @ up to seventy deputy tax assessors making up the 1921 rolls of assessed value on’ New York City reai estate, The owners of thousands of parcels have raised their rents from 25 per cent. to 100 per cent. since the last tax: rolle were made up. None of them is willing to admit he is a| Profiteer, The owners and landlords say the flats are worth the money they are demanding. The complaints of the tenants, made to tae Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering and the Municipal Courts, do not disclose the figures that would prove these rentals, just or unjust. All they show is the amount of rent the landlord is re- ceiving, and what he demands for the premises, usually beginning next Oct. 1. These figures are available to the deputy tax assessors. If they fall to base their assessed values on the tn- creased rents as disclosed by these complaints, it is equivalent to ex- cusing the owner from paying taxes on the excuse that the rents are not a real index to the actual value the property. This is an ‘hat there ts profiteering. Thousands of tenants throughout the city who have been burdened with rent Increases will wateh with much interest the opening of the tax rolls next to see what the deputy tax assessors have accom- plished. They readize that !f the val- ues are boosted all along the line those landlords who have raised little, 1f any, will begin to feel that trying to be moderate !s a thankless t nak. There qwill be a huge increase in the total values, because it is neces- sary to raise not less than $50,000,000 -Comptrolier Craig estimates three times that figure—more than was raised to run the city this year. The Mayor does not favor an increase in the tax rate, so the money must come from increased valuations. The Mayor has expressed the wish that the additional burden be placed on ¢ shoulders of the landlords who have greatly increased. their rents and therefore are best able to bear it. The assoasors can find records that will enable them honestly and fairly to carry out the Mayor's wishes fn thie respect. For 4 SHOWING HOW EASY IT IS TO BOOST CITY'S REVENUE. Tenant at No. 2460 Seventh Ave- nue reports to Mayor's Committee that St, James Court Apartments de- mand $82 for apartment renting for $52. Rate of increase, 60 per cent. Assessed value, $190,000. If increased in proportion to rent, 1921 taxable value will be $304,000. Increase, $114,000. Tenant at No. 266 Went 97th Street reports to Mayor's Committee that Bthel,E. Schaefer demands $1,900 for upartinent renting for $1,500, Rate of increase, 25 per cent. Assessed value, $106,000, If increased in proportion to rent, 1921 taxable value will be $182,000. Increaae, $26,000. Tenant at No. 706 Riverside Drive reports to Mayor's Committee that Philip Meyrowitz, No. 198 Broadway, mands $1,500 for apartment renting for $900. Rate of increase 6 cent, Assessed value, of jon 0. It increased in proportion to rent, 1921 taxable value will be $700,000. In- srease, $280,000. Tenanteat No. 112 Riverside Drive reports to Mayor's Committee that Hrnest Tribelhorn demands $2,400 for apartment renting for $1,200. Rate of increase, 100 per cent. Assessed value, $160,000. If increased in pro- portion to rent, 1921 taxable value Will be $320,000. Increase, $160,000. ‘ “Tenant at No. 2731 Broadway re- ports to Mayor's Committee that Paul H, Zagat, No. 641 Fifth Avenue, demands $1 for apartment renting ‘or $80, Hate of increase, 60 per cent Aasessed value, $90,000. If increased tn proportion to rent, 1921 taxable value will be 000. Increase, $54,009. } ‘fenant at No, / reports to Mr \Ibert: Ashforth, ‘eet, demands $1,6 ating for $1,000. sm per cent Assessed value, 000. If Increased in proportic ent, 1921 taxable value will be 900, Increase, $ 000, Tenant at No. 15 Wes ors 67th Street that 00 fo’ Rate of Increase, $355, reports to Mayor's Committees that art & Calhoun demand $2,500 for partment renting for $1,600, Rate of increae, 66 2-8 per cont” Assereen value, $185,000, If Increased in pro- portion tor 1921 taxable va‘ue Will be $309,000. Increane, $124,000. Tenant at No, 0 Audubon Avenue reports to Mayor's Committee that Jouls Gelb, No, 1074 Second Avanue, lemands partment renting for $600. ini 60 per cent. Assessed value, $150,000, Ii inereased in proporiton to rent, 1921 taxable value will be $225,000. In- | crease, $75,000, Tenant at No, 166 Wost 87th Street reports to Mayor's Committee that landlord demands $8,300 for apart- ment renting for $1,450 a year. te of increase, per cent. Assessed value $400,000. If increased in pro- ‘a rtion to renf, 1921 taxable value Mil vet ah rah 0006: | Yemen me Wem Btrect reports ts rs Committee that * , Bétends BABE RUTH'S WIND-UP: ‘ | 174 West 79th Street He, Like Most Men in Other Lines, Are These Beautiful Women, Selected by The Prettiest to Be Found in the LIKED ’EM STRAIGHT AND FAST. Evening World Readers, Whole of the United States? ae = { F. 1 ' ete > ‘To the Editor of The Brenine World: I bog to submit the following names for consideration in the discussion of America's five most beautiful women: 1, Mrs. Gurnee Munn. 2, Mrs. Lydig Hoyt. 8, Miss Billie Burke. 4 5. |. Mra. John Wanamaker §r. . Mrs. Juda Smith of Philadelphia. the professional women, would eubinit the following: . Miss Betty Morton, . Miss Billie Dove. , Mise Mary Eaton. . Miss Alta King, . Miss Jessie Reed. FLORENZ ZIEGFELD JR. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: For beauty, as well as for every- thing else, “See America First.” 1, Mrs, Angter B. Duke. 2, Mrs. Lydig Heyt. 3. Miss Billie Burke. 4. Miss Betty Blythe. 6. Miss Katherine McDonald. E. W. OBSERVER. To the EAitor of The Evening World American beauties cannot be sur- by the beauties of other na- tions, and the following names I am sure will be recognized as American 7 \WHO ARE THE FIVE PRETTIEST ~ Artist E. O. Hoppe Submits His British Selec- tions and Evening World Readers Are, © you know who is the most beautiful woman tm the United States? Whom do you nominate as the five “American Beauties?” E. O. Hoppe has picked his selection of the five most beautiful Women of England and their pictures have appeared in The Evening Beauties,” Many say that It can’t be done, not because American women are less beautiful than their English sisters, but because it is impossile to pick five from the hundreds of peerless beauties of the United States, Suggestions are pouring in with cvery mail. Scores of women repre- Shortly the choices of the readers of The Evening World will be tabulated jday by day. Send in your selections to-day. If you think some of those whose pictures have been printed are the American ideal make a list of them or your own list and 4, t_to this office. Or, better yet, if you think you know one of the mpst beautiful women in America, mail her picture, after carefully writing her name and the return addr on the reve side, to the American Beauty Editor, The fioation must be beauty. ’ eo To-Day’s Selections by New York Readers - E ’ Only Four of Crew Saved So Far—One Woman Said to Asked to Tell of Yankee Favorites. World. He now asks this paper to help him choose the “Five American senting the Perfectiop of the real American beauty have been selected. clip their pictures from the papers. If they have not been printed, make out Evening World, New York City. She need not be of society. Her only quali. Have Been Aboard, CHAPT. Writing a story about yourself because in writing the “wind-up” is you my best delivery and tried to t Would interest you. Whether I've a1 made a hit, is for you to say. But @ home run as soon as I get to the than I do about books. Some what was the best game of ball I ever played, the one I enjoyed most Perhaps you'd like to hear about it. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Aug. 21-—The lives of twenty-nine persons, one of them a woman, are believed to have been lost shortly after nine o'clock last night when the steamer Superior City, a freighter, sank four ing Edward Sawyers of Albion, Mich. were saved. Names of the missing could not be learned to-day, as all records of the Superior City were lost, The misaing woman is known other inning I got «nother run. At the end of the eighth Inning the score wag seven to four against the Red Sox. But in the ninth inning, with three men on the bags and To the Editor of The Erening World | iret of all, Mr. Editor, for safety as weil as accuracy, let me say that | the most beautiful) woman in this) |country, or any other, is my wife, | But ahe won't let me vend her picture Six Homers in Six Times at Bat a Feat of Ruth’s; No Pitcher ‘Poison’ toHim Babe’s Best Game Was Against Cleveland When He Drove in Every Run for Boston —Gives Advice to Youngsters. By Babe Ruth. So here goes for the “wind-up!” ‘me ago n fellow asked me® BREWERY IS RAIDED ion in Elizabeth, N. J., After Charge Real Beer Was Sold in Brooklyn and Coney. For the first time under the Prohibi- tion Amendment, beer took the center of the stage to-day, whon local en- forcement officers raided a brewery 1a Elizabeth, N. J. ‘The ratd followed « week's blowing of foam from a proauct which was keoping bartenders, working overtime at Coney Island and Brooklyn cafes, Chemical analysis showed the liquid alcoholic content ranged from 1.17 to 2.75 per o ay out by James 8, Shevlin, Chic sealed for analyals all this product Feltman’s at Mike Finn's place, Hamil- ton Avenuy and Simith Street, and at M. Goldman's, No, 6 Foster Avenue, Brooklyn, Agents were sent to-day to Blizabeth, Instructed *o haye Internal Revenue Collector Charles V. Duffy welze the $100,000 bonded brewery of the Peter Breidt Brewing Company which duced the brew. D. F, Collins ts pri ER XI, is very different from pitching a ball, the last thing of all. But I've given ell you all about myself that I think | truck out as @ “literary batsman,” or I know one thing, I'm going to make | end, for I know more about baseballs PONZI SCANDAL eat f * dent and J. M. Nolte secretary-treaa- ‘beautle! Sir cttaees. and one-half miles northeast of|it was in Cleveland last year. In the ver be the Kiewit nemeenaycr All haw 1, Mrs, Lou-Telloge: Whitefish Point in Lake Superior r ’ ie 2. Mrs, K, Van Vechten. after colltdl with th first inning, with Fred Coumbe on the York State brewery stuff recently 3. Miss Olive Thomas. Sitti Ps a ns @ steamer) mound, there were two men on bases f passed the legal one-half of 1 per cent. 4. Misa Anna ah earere iS te ADE, and I got a home run. That, as you test. 6. Miss Mary } MISB Loner B Four members of the crew, includ- | gee, brought in three runs. In an- John J. Stamler of Elizabeth, attorney for the brewing company, stated to-day that an anatysis of the product, made after the revenue officers had’ taken sam eurpr the brewers by nhow- ing aligh ty more than half of one, per cent, This, he said was due to weather ditions and Im TREASURER OUT [ine Tih start my lint with No. 2 to have been the wife of the second| hie pitching, I poked out another] . holiaing. ” Of six anmple be eR eee ceeirinare ongier, . home run, so the game closed eight|GOV. Coolidge and Other Mas-|inont offices, he said, only ono sample ' fy ae me | Capt. Sawyers would make no state-| 14 seyen in favor of Boston, Lack wea found to contain a .704 per cent ment except that the night was clear, no fog being in evidence. | Waiter Richter, boatewain, one of 5. Mrs, John Wanamaxer jr | To the Editor af The Rrening World | Your contest, which puts the solu- of modesty compels me to say that { made every run for our side in that tion of the problem up to the readers game. ‘of The Myening World, i» an ex-|the survivors and who was brought} Oh, yes, since we're talking about cellent idea. if they can't pick them, |here by the steamer Turner, is in a that fellow Ruth, I was playing In alcohol Danis F, Collins, pounds, Presi- dent of the Poaple'es Bank of Eliza beth, N. J. Clty Comptroller, officer in the Elimibeth Elks, one time General in the old Naw Jersoy Stat Militia, a politician, is President sachusetts Officials Order Audit of Burrell’s Books. BOSTON, Aug. 21.—Governor Cool- after seeing the many excellent | ioca! hospital seriously injured . in| !4g6 and members of the Financiallof the Peter Breidt Brewing photos every day in their pager, no- | ca nowbltal seriously injured. an exhibition game In Baltimore tn ae ae ie ncntye ence eany.” He ie the, husband a body can, And here's my list lust two minutes before the dream [Abr 2918, and made six home rune) =9l) J © Counoll,| Boslit’s daughter. "1. Miss Gertrude Olmstead. 3 J May cefore the arash,” |i. six times at bat, The gumo was|at a special meeting to-day author- — | 2. Miss Mary Millicent Rogers ald Richter, “if we had had two es 3. Mra, Vincent Astor minutes more no lives would have{ really two games, played On tW0/ 176d State Auditor Alonzo B. Cook AUTO KICKS UP ON BRIDGE 4. Mra dais ot ot tee eb Toe tae asia by Ml days, and on the aiiaas i ecipael to make ap audit of the books of : 5. Mrs. Lewis oodru: Meg c je port aide, and the next I slammed out] g a ee ot Fee \and the impact took away the entire ponerse hes Kilda ae ne Knocks Over Watchman nty es jatern, The crew kept their heads | ‘W°- sl aulvalent to a and Nearly Falla im Creek. 41.350 tor. apertiagat Sidi cot | and all waited caimly for the boats to |GLAO HE PLAY EDLBY ERY. POB!-tcomplete investigation of tho Treas-| ne steering whoel of am automobile D 000.” be launched, but there was no time. TION ON + urer’a office. ie 90,000, 5 : ven by John B t No. es ere eet eet tapunia| Several of the boats were torn away | i'm glad that I've played every po-} Tho resignation of Burro is ox-|sUver wreokivym Imeded No, bat Grand \ymlun will be $227,000, Increaso, mene, eae were attempting 10] sition on the team, because I feel] pected within tho next few days by| ois’ oroming “Metropolitan Avenue | $47,000 . c : .»|that I know more about the giM¢| Republican leaders of Maawachusetts,|Rridge with three others in his car and ‘Tenant at No. 611 Wost 112th Street| | “A hoat 1 wan attempting to taunch | 17% vat to expect of the other fel- was thrown overboard carrying me it was eaid in Repabiloan circles here | knocked over « watchman's shanty, hit reports to Mayoy’s Committees that) oi ite puchti oh lows, Lote of times I hear men be- |, n upright and caromed e@ainat the landiord demands $1,800 for aparts | rot My Gover aod fates ae Bowes J ing roasted for not doing this or|' Posh Daal Piss On rN cetee a tow task Settee MERE ment ren for $1,160, Rate of Ine] en eae rn were Gal Teed. | thet when I know, from. my al he Republican Club of Massachu-| seemed a aure plunge into Newtown | crease, 56 por cent, Assessed yalue,| Chicago, second mate, and Poter [Around expertenée, that they couldn't) Kette has iswued @ call for meoting of | CF i, Bfteen Set PaO, Aatiiaed) a | $170,000, etree alien wilt, be| Jzedbeon of Cleveland, whoelsman, |bave been expected to do it, It's # uli Republican organizations on Mon-| an ambulance surgeon of Greanpoint ba Wa ila Ahr Theso two with the captain were|pity some of our oriticy has day to prevent the re-election > of| Hompital and wera sent to thalr homoa, $266,000, Increase, $95,000, ‘rought here this morning. joarned the game from every poal- ‘i With Bergen wore Andrew Kare, No, Tenant at No, 440 Riverside Drive edit adit, tion, Burrel PL Oe 156 South Ninth st ‘eet fe. ortha reports to Mayor's Committes that wala Oauait . 1 guess my daya upon the diamond| Gov, Coolidge has issued « atate.| Decker, 135 ‘Ton Eyck Street, and landiord demands $3,000 for apart} "Ron tne pete Act, | io over, although I have played first | ment praising ‘the action of the Te.| Miss Anna Burke, No. 147 Ten ‘Byck | ment renting for $1,600. Rate of in|“ pe ary Petition was filed | vise even this year at the Polo Btreet. ‘Apseased valus, to-day in the affairs of the Netlona! publican Club and declaring; * crease, 88 per cent, a, Tm outfielder now, and Q ere cangute $750,000, If increased in proportion to|Shipbullding Corporation, No, 42 Broad- Ere aatie it, you'll always find| “I have taken every step, in my New v In Discovered, rent, 1921 taxable vaitte will be $1,410,-| ey, by creditors who alleged they mg in the sunny field, whether It be | power against Mr, Burrell, but 1 find! LONDON, Au, 000. e280, $660,000. lnave ‘Total of above increases, $2,814,000, |jimPile | As prancne tax vate this would pre. Qoored ace Mbs20 in increased revenue for Freni right or left, eae a $800,000 one that the ea 9 eorporatt we site Siege” fa Aa et ‘arsous & gommien if \t mate too giary, (Continued on Ninth Page.) and The sun doesn't bother me yery muoh, and often I put on But be» | | M1.--The discovery of ja now star {# announced in a tele- gram to the Royal Astronomer trom Firtetol, Ite position is 299 aaconsion and fhe ster's megnithde is nea Tecan go no further, Iam glad that these Republican organizations a: Rolng (9 make it thelr business to au that a man ia nominated whom Ke publicans can support.” And Now His Story * Is Ended, He's an) NOTE SAYS GIRL FOUND DEAD IN BAY WAS A CANADIAN Anonymous Writer Declares Man Too Poor for Funeral Threw Body in Water. ‘The headless, limbless body found in the water near Communipaw was that of a Canadian woman, accord ing to an anonymous letter received to-day by the Jermey City police. | A name was mentioned in the let- ter, whioh stated that the woman died a natural death on a boat near the Jersey shore and that the pody was out up the man with whom she lived, be- cause he was too poor to afford a burial. Detectives to-day are ques- tioning men along the waterfront in an investigation of the story, The point at which the torso was found is almont directly opposite the Junotion of the Hudson and the East Rivers. As Bast River silt Is de- posited on the nearby Jersey shore the police gt first Inclined to the be- Met that de body bad drifted out from the Bast River. e Assistant County Medica) Bxam- iner Haasking discounted this theory. | Many floating bodies find their way to the Cominunipaw piers, according to Dr. Hasking, all of which are Hud- son River victims, This was borne out by the police, who said the body of an East River vicum haa yet to be washed ashore at Commanipaw. Acting Chief of Polloy Leonard of Jersey City exprehsed the belief to- day that unless the woman's head i» found or one of the om ssing mem- bera that bears @ distinw mark ot identification the murder will find its ‘pince among unsolved myuterios, “1 think it extremeiy unlikely that | the woman was a resiteut of Jersey ‘ City,” aald Chief Leonard. “1 do aot | even think the bedy was thrown jato the river from this shore, 1 base my opinion on the fact that the torso was first seen floating on ‘he ou edge {of the driftwood that passes the Com- munipaw shore, and rot among the drifting logs. WOMAN ENDS LIFE IN JAIL BY HANGING | Wife of Army Sergeant Tied Bed Sheet Strips to Door of Her Cell. | Authorities at Somervilto, day began an Investigation into the mystery surrounding the sufctde of Mrs, eJohn Arnold, wife of an Army Sergeant, who hanged herself in the county Jail early to-day, She com- |plained to Policeman Kenner that sno had been attacked by three men tn Duke's Park. Medical examination failed to give corroboration to this and ‘ahe waa locked up, on orders of Record- or Van Mieet aa a disorderly person, At 9 o'clock she was found dead, having N, J., tow hanged herself to her cell door, using strips torn from bed sheets, Hotel where she It was anid had ing there last night, she announced, join her huaband in camp at Rocky Hill, Sergeant Arnold identitiea Ms wife's body and arranged for her funeral. ee ASKS RELEASE OF DRY SLAYER Federal Proseoutor’s Request for | Bail for McMullin Opposed by Swann’s Men. Application was made to Federal Judge Jullus M. Mayer to-day by As- sistant United States District Attorney B. A. Mathews for the release on bail {of Stewart MeMullin, a Federal Prohib!- tion enforcement agent who is in the Tombs charged with killing Harry Carl- ton, @ chauffeur, in the home of Carlo Carini at No. 234 Bast 76:h Street on ;March 11, The application for ball wax opposed by, Asslatant District Attorneys John Caldwell Myera and John F. Joyce, ‘ Judge Mayer directed that the as- aistants to District Attorney Swann nerve notice on Monday of the date set for MeMullin's trial and sald he would rule on the application for ball on Tuesduy afternoon at 3 o'clock, “TALKS TO PLANE OVER ORDINARY OFFICE PHONE Wireless Used jn Connection With Central Switchboard in London Tests. LONDON, Aug. 21.—What is Claimed to be the first commercial conversation conducted by tele- phone through the ordinary cen- tral and wireless with @ map in an atrplano haw been carried out rucceasfully, A member of a London shipping firm, using an ordinary desk tele- phone, was able to give one of his air pilots flying across the English Channel Inatructions affecting coal supplies at Marsoili Connec- tion was first established with the Croydon Airdrome and it was thea switched through to the Air Min- istry’s wirelec: tnatallation, After two calls an’ @nawer came from the pilot in the air, The caller was able to hear the whissing propellers. The pllot toM bim he was just presing over Folkestoan OFF TO THE LO® thrown overboard by | POLE ILD DAY BRINGS BiG CROWD TOCUD GRAVE Receipts From Tickets This Year Amount to $400,000 for Planned Sanatorium. Never in the palmtest days as 4 Tace track did the old Brooklyn |Jookey Club course at Gravesend ac commodate such » vast crowd as that which attended the police field day ~ stand was filled soon after noon ard (At 1 o'clock the policemen on duty innide the enclosure had their hands full looking after the swarms that were surging Into the infleld. The programme of games and spee~ _ tacular features, scheduled to begin At 2 o'clock, was held back to allow of the arrival of Mayor Hylan, Com-. ~ missioner Enright and 200 other dis- tingulehed officials and ctaens who had attended a luncheon gven by the committees in charge of the games at the Waildort-Antoria, There were twenty-eight athictic eventa om the long bill, 4 Ho luncheon at the Waldorf was attended by numerous city officials and judges and prominent friends of © the poilce force. Fourth Commissioner John Daly presided. Mayor Hylan, the Police Commis- sioner and Sir Thomas Lipton spoke bri Commissioner Enright an nounced thad the receipts from tiek~ ets thin year will amount to about $400,000, a8 aguinst $518,000 last year, and that pians Rave been made for building a sacitorium whiok will ac- commodate 100 disabled policemen. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Coms / pony took excellent care of the im- menase throng which gathered for the police games, While the list of events was being displayed long lines of © extra trains were parked 0} overy de track from South to | Coney Island in readinegs fot the rush | at the conclusion of the programme. *~ Thia wos Mayor Hylan's day at the . | wares and he got @ great reception | When he appeared. \MRS. VANDERBILT —__ HERE FROM EUROPE, - 2 ‘ Husband’s Estate—Myron Herrick Returns. Mra. W. K. Vanderbilt returned te- day on the Aquitannia after @ weeks’ stay {n England, where she vie-~ ited her the Countess d’Osmoy. She was nied by her daughter Cornelia. They will both go to Bilt- more, N. C,, where Mra. Vanderbilt will assist in eettling her huskand’s ontate, 5 Myron T. Herrick, former American Ambassador in France, was among the passengers, When Jn England he wae entertained by the King and Queen 9 the royal yacht at Cowes, Aaron J. Levy, Justice the. Stunieipal’ Court, who hae been fe rd loa vend a re ee soe SaaPe'G festion to Londan Pi hres o® Held For $120 Hotel Bills. Albert H. Anderson, 23, who said he was an accountant residing at Rai.:an, N. J. was arraigned in the Jefferson Market Court to-day charged with grand larceny, = Edward itor hi eee ae arrested at the eee CONTEST FOR BEST HARDING AND COX SLOGANS ENDS Announcement of The Eve ning World Awards to Be Made Monday. HE thren weeks’ contest for the best Harding and Cox slogans of twelve words, for which The Evening World offered $110 in prizes, ended at \ midnight Thureday, Thousands of readers in every State in the Union have partici- pated In the contest, Six hun- dred of tho sidjans have been published, but aa many more have proved to bo entitled to special consideration in deter- mining the winners. Announcement of awards will tbe made Monday in The Evening World, j#ames this afternoon. The grand-- ~ Will Go to North Carotina to Settle 7 7 Wr a * bd, Pe. % x4 7