The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1920, Page 4

| | | pitalin. STRIKERS GATHER AT LYCEUM; SHOW JUBILATION AND INTENT TO STICK IT OUT TILL THEY WIN Become Interested in the Struggle— Banners With Strange Devices. About 4,000 strikers assembled this hands, while the old men were ready } morning at Myrtle and Willoughby} ' avenues, Brooklyn, and at least 2,500 4 Of them jammed their way into the | Labor Lyceum at that point. About | Atty wompn were present, The gut- ering was orderly, but there was con? Siderable yelling und cheering and } general show of jubilation. The | Strikers arrived in big trucks, in buses { and automobiles from various sections { of the borough, The trucks bore large placards in- scribed with various devices, amunz them being these: “We Were Locked Out. Btay Out TiN Wo win.” “Remember the Ninety-one Killed in the Brighton Wreck.” “If You Want Another Malbone Btreet Wreck, Ride on Scab Cars.” “We Were Locked Out for an in- Leaders of the strike said that they will make an appeal to L. G. Griffing, Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, to permit thé {1,800 motormen of the B. R. T. to en- ter upon a sympathetic strike. The leaders of the Amalgamated say that ‘uumbers of the motormen have been to them and declared their willingness to join the strike for the reason that their agreement with the B. R. T., which does not expire until Nov. 1, hag been violated. They claim that cars were ron yesterday by green We will {Mysterious Man Intimates Washington Has t ‘ ‘ : to go to work. An First Vice President Patrick J Shea of the Amalgamated was about to call to order the meeting of the strikers in the Labor Lyceum a man unknown to him mounted the plat- form and engaged him in conversa- Washington, and that the Government pendent of the Federal authorities in New York, He said that he was go- ing to motor back to New York and use the long distance phone to Wash- ington. the Government, but refused to say with what department he was con- nected, * Leaders of the atrike declared that all the electrical workers were pulled out of the Nostrand Avenue barns this morning, and that they now had the men In every branch of the ser- vice In their ranks. Jobn E. Carney, a lineman, re- ported at headquarters that he had been beaten up by an official of the Nostrand Avenue barns. He sald that he had not attempted to picket the barns, but had just gone there to see what was going on. His appear- ance left no doubt that somebody had “beaten bim up.”* 1,000 CITY BUSES AND TRUCKS RUNNING AT FIVE-CENT FARE IN DISTRICTS HIT BY STRIKE, New Municipal Ferry Operates Between 69th Street, Brooklyn,-and the . Battery. Numerous five-cent bus lines have | {heen established on which more than) 1,000 buses and trucks were in opera-! tion to-day under the supervision of Commissioner of Plant and Struc- tures Grover Whalen, \More were promised by evening. A new municipal line betweop Sixty- ninth Street, Brooklyn, and the Myt- tery was slurted to-day and will run from 7 A. M. until midnight every ‘while the strike . The police boats Patro! and Johp F. Hylan and the steamer Correction will run at twenty minute intervaln. Service on the Thirty-ninth Street ferry line from Brooklyn has been doubled so that boats leave both ter-| dminals every ten minut § The following bus lines have been lestablished: Route No. 1—Nostrand Avenue and Flatbush Avenue station, I. . T. sub- , along Flatbush Avenue to Avenue IN to Ralph Avenue. Return by sume; troute, | } Route No. 2—From Nostrand Avenue | Flatbush Avenue station, I. R. 'T. oerey, along Flatbush Avenue to fRings Highway, to Ocean Parkwoy, to we Avenue, to Sea Gate. Municipal ory will operate between Iron Steam- t Co, pier at Coney Inland and itehal! Street, Manhattan. Return Route No. i—From Nostrand Avenue | nd Newkirk Avenue station, I. R, T, bway, along Newkirk Avenue to {Foster Avenue, to Ocean Parkway, to {Bay Parkway, to Bath Avenue. Return | yy same route. Route No. 4—From 100th Street and along Fifth Avenue to! WFitth Avenui Ridge Parkway to 4th Avenye to subway tation at Atlantic Avenue, I. R. T. sub- Bas. Connection at 39th Street and 4th Yavenue to Municipal Ferry at $9th frees to Manhattan. Additional ferry rvice will be provided, Return by feame route. 1 Route No, 5—Coney Island Avenue nd Kings Highway, along Coney Island are to Windsor Place ¢o Eighth jAvenue, to Flatbush Avenue to subway pation at Atlantic Avenue, 1. R. T. sub- way. Return by same route, Route No. 6—63d Street and 16th Yavenue, along 16th Avenue to Graves- nd Avenue, to Ditmas Avenue, to Dor- easter Road, to Flatbush Avenue, to} Beverley Road, to Nostrand Avenue | pubway station, I. Ro T. subway. Re- furn by same route, Route No, 7—15th Street and Ninth venue, along 15th Street to Hamilton venue, to Court Street, to Borough jall subway station, I. RT. subway, nection at Hamilton Avenue to ferry Manhattan. feturn by same route, Route No. &—Buth Avenue and 18th favenue, wivng 18th Avenue to New| Utrecht Avenue to 39th Street, to 39th Street Municipal Ferry to Manhattan, Additional ferry service will be pro- vided. Return by same route. Route No. 9—Rockaway Parkway and Shureh Avenue, along Chureh Avenue Manhattan. Additional ferry serv yl be provided. Return by same joute, + [Route No. 10 — Pitkin Avenue to tnut Street, along Pitkin Avenue to ern Parkway, to Utica Avenue sub- station, LR. T. suoway, Return yy name Fouts Route No. 11—Ocean Avenue and mons Avenue. along Emmons Avenue gheepal ead Bay Road to 14th Street feck Road to Ocean Avenue, along an Avenue to Foster Avenue, |cau jo 36th Street, to 13tn Avenue, to agth | to 39th Street Municipal Ferry | Park Ullen Avenue subway station 1 ROT. subway.” Return by same Route No. la Wyckoff and My tts +yenuos, along Myrtle Avenue to Aventte,"to ‘Neontrand Avenues to. Fas ort) Patkway subway station, I, R, T, | subway. Return by same rout Route No, 14—Onderdonk and De K, Avenue. along De Kalb Avenue to Fu ton Street, to Hoyt Sereet subway ata. don. L RT. subway. Return by same route, 16—Wyckof! and Myrtle Route No. Avenues, along M: Bor H T. wub- Axgau Str ton Street, to Hoyt tere way sta- tion, L RT. subway. Return by same route. Route No. 17 — Driggs and Meoker Avenves, aiong Driggs Avenue to Man- hattan Avenue, over Bridge to Fourth Street, City, to Hunters nt Avenue subway station, 1. RT. way. Return by same rou Route No. 18—Metropolitan and Flush- ing Avenues, along Metropolitan Ave- nue to Grand Street, to Havemeyer Street. to Lee Avenue, along Lee Ave- nue to Avenue, along No; trand A: Bastern Parkway sul Way. station, T. subway, Retu 19 — Broadway and A! ™ along Broadway to Wi'l- Jamsby Bridge Pin: Retura by some route Route No. 2—Hunter's Point Avena R. T. subway, along Hunter's to Jackson Aveniie, to over Vernon Avent Bridge to Manhattan Avenue, to Driki to North 1th t. to Roeu- v ling Sti Plazn An emergency ferry tween 69th Street, Brooklyn, and the uttery was ostablished at 7.30 o'clock thin morning. The municipal steamers Jon &. Hylan and Patrol, police boats, and the Correstion made | the trip at twenty minute {ntervals, The Hylan, starting at 7.80, arrived at th pas: Battery at 7.58 with over 250 ngers, They were jubilant be- no one had thought to collect fares, The service will be malntained on the same schedule from 7 A, M. to midnight while the strike continues, Ths headway of the boata of the 89th Street Municipal Ferry Line was changed from twenty minutes to ten minutes, All the boats were crowded to capacity even after the service was thus doubled. HEARING ON WAGE DEMAND. U. Ss. Employ on Macy Award, Commissioner Genera! of tion Caminettl presided to-day at a meeting on Ellix Island to consider the Immigra- situation brought about wy the de- mands of the engineers, firemen, elec- triclans and all mechanical workers, ‘They are asking that the Government pay them on the basis of the Macy awards, It was said that many of the workers would probably quit their Jobe if the demands were not met Heads of the tmmigrntion segvice from Washington and from all the At lantic coast stations attended ‘the meeting, whieh was held in the office of Commissioner Wallls, who said he understood the employees of all other |Federal bulléings were making similar demands except in cases whi the cy uwards were already in effect BAD CHECK PASSER JAILED. Negro Song Writer and Singer Saya He Studied Law Walter R. Montague, twenty, a song writer and singer of No, 227 Weat 134th Street, was sentenced to-day in | Special Seasons to the itentinry for kink Avenue wubway station, Gubwey, ‘Municipal boats will o een iron Bieamboat Co. ple Istand ‘and. Whi ‘Street, Return by sume. route 0. id talsey Bircet and Venue, along Halney | ‘Avenue, to Fulton Avenue w Myslera © not leas than aix months » r passing oxeph Mi ox Aven | me worth of hams, gettin, jthe change. He suid the bam and th change were for a moonlight party | Montague sald he was a correspond ent for the Associated Negro Press of Chicago aludied Iai tion for ten or fifteen minutes, This man, who refured to give his name, said that he had just come from was taking part in the strike inde- | Ho sald that he was connected withg ‘| front een ST TTS aenwewr Spee cee aes ‘TRE EvENtNG WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1920. {ODD INCIDENTS COMES PREPARED | TO CAMP IN OFFICE, BE PrepArepD! | Brooklynite allies Forth With Bicycle Bearing Food, Army Blanket and Rubbers. Foot-weary marchers toward Man- hattan were cheered at Fulton Street and Myrtle Avenue by a forehanded man of middle ago pushing his bicy- cle toward Brooklyn Bridge at a speed which parted hin luxuriant brown whiskers, He had an army blanket Toll over his shoulder and carried a huge lunch Box on the handle bars. He obviously was prepared, once he got to Manhattan, to camp in his of- fice until further notice. The assurance that the expedition had been lovingly supervised from home wns supplied by a pair of rub- bers neatly tied to the blanket roll. ELEVEN INJURED IN CRUSHES DUE TO TRAFFIC JAMS (Continued From First Page.) Mr, Woll, his wife and Jacob Woll, his father, for contusions and abras- fons, A wheel flew off an automobile op- erated by Salvatore Parrazzo, of No. 454 Hicks Street, which was strug- fling in the vehicle jam in Flatbush Avenue near Pacific Street, The wheel struck Miss Zenna Henderson of 256 Pacific Street in the ‘back, slightly injuring her. 1 Four Brooklyn men were alightly Injured to-day when a motor truck collided with a motorcycle at Elm and Worth Streets. Meyer Cohen, No, | 44% Alabama Avenue, and Isadore Lerner, No. 469 Hinsdale Street, were | on the truck, Cohen driving, motorcycle was driven by cent Str Connavale, No. 3860 reserved for soutiybound traffic, of Volunteer-Hospital Edward Pronkrou, thirty-four, No. 279 Sxth Avenue, Brooklyn, losiiue his footing in the crowd at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, lurched in of an automobile and was | struck, He was trampled by the| crowd. Several minutes passed bo- | fore a space could be cleared around him. Thon he was treated by a doo- tor from the Brooklyn Hospital and sent home, suffering from lacera- tons, George Link, No. 237 West 146th Street, Manhattan, was driving home in his automobile from Coney Island with his wife when his car struck a senger-carrying trugk at Ocoun| Parkway and Avenue C. Link and his wife were cut by broken glass, treated by an ambulance surgeon and sent home, WAIVERS ASKED ON PITCHER SALLEE Twirler Ruether and Catcher Allen of Reds Fined For Break- ing Training. OINCINNATI, ©0., Aug. 30.-—Pitcher Harry (Sim) Salles, will be given his unconditional release by the Cincinnati Nationals iw none of the other > tional League Clubs claim him by the waiver route, it Announced at the Cincinnati Baseball Club offices to-day Walter Ruether, another left handed pitcher, was fined a week's pay for not keeping himself in condition to piteh and Catoher Nick Allen also was fined ® small amount. PONZI CASE GOES TO GRAND JURY His Activities In All Their Phases Are to Be Fully In- Mrs, Sommer Didn't Like It, and OF THE STRIKE { HER RUBBER PLANT SURE OF ITS WATER AER. PLANT, Brooklyn .Man Carries Wifey's Treasure to the Big*Town in Swirling Mob. In the swirl of pedestrians who had tramped over the Brooklyn Bridge there wan descried a disconsolately worried looking individual with a drooping mustache who was butting his way backward in a ‘rave effort to save from injury the foliage of a potted rub- ber plant which he embraced in one arm, fending off the crowd with the other. “There was no telling when T'll got back to Brooklyn to-night," he explained apologetically over and over again when he bumped. “And I promised her I'd water it at exactly 6 o'clock every day until she came back no matter whi happened. Excuse me, please, ma‘ HUSBAND WHISTLED TO CALL HIS WIFE Now She Is Suing for a Separation. Her husband whistied for her instead of addressing her by name when he wanted to attract her attention, Mra. Adelaide M. Sommer alleged in her sult begun to-day in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, for a separation from Andrew I. Sommer, a tailor whose shop was at Fulton Street and Oxford Street south, The | Avenue, was held to-day for the Grand James Jury. by Magistrate Corrigan tn York- Jackson, No. 982 Fulton Street, whose | ¥ille passenger on the back seat was Vin-/on Aug. 21, Pacific M8 one of the survivors of the ‘tug Cohen naid the motoreycle cently. Was going north in a one-way street tqulity and sald Kolb shook him by the ine All four were treated by Dr, Alvarez ener She alleges that although he accumu- lated $50,000 hey refused to provide enough money for household expenses and clothing, that he refused to pay an ocullat's bill for her and that he re- mained away from home three weeks without expiaining where he had been. Laura, their seventee-year-old daugh- ter, supnorted her mother's allegations with an affidavit alleging inhuman con- ruct. Sommer dented the charges, He said that his wife moved all of the fur- niture out one day while he was on the roof of thelr home. —— , Duty Held For Kil William Duffy, 23, o is Tug Oller. No. #58 Second ‘ourt, in $1,000 ball, charged with ie in connection with the death of Carl Kolf, an oller who ‘bor, sunk off Montauk Point thls month, Duffy pleaded not nd and hurt a sore finger, at whi pushed him. The olle striking his head, and dled a ew hours later in Bellevue, STRIKE BULLETINS FOR DWELLERS IN BROOKLYN BORO How Traffic Is Regulated on ihe Bridges—Street Cars and “L Are Feebly Operating. In the morning hours vehicle tra Me over the Willlamaburg and Manhattan Bridges is permitted during the strike only from Brooklyn to Manhattan, The Brooklyn Bridge, in the morning hours is restricted to vehicles moving from Manhattan to Brooklyn, At 3 o'clock in the after- noon the Manhattan Bridge will become an eastbound way exclus- ively and the Brooklyn Bridge a westbound way. The Williams- burg Bridge will carry only Brook- lyn bound traffic beginning at 4 o'clock. No surface cars are running in Brooklyn to-day. No promises are made by the company as to , to-morrow’s surface line service. The report of the Public Ser- vice Commiasion shows the fol- lowing operation of B. R. T. sub- way and elevated trains to-day: Broadway Elevated — Two-car trains on ten minutes’ headway, instead of five-car trains every six minutes. Fulton Street Elevated—Two cars on ten minutes’ headway, in- stead of three cars every six min- utes. West End Line (Broadway, Manhattan Subway)—One car every fifteen minutes from Ninth Avenue to Times Square, instead of three cars on seven and a half minutes’ headway. Brighton Line—Two cars on twenty minutes’ headway from Prospect Park to Queens Plaza, instead of"three cars on six min- utes’ headway. Culver Line—Two cars on thirty minutes’ headway from Kings Highway to 36th Stréet instead of three cars on ten minutes’ head- way from Coney Island to Park Row. Fourth Avenue-Bay Ridge Lino —One car every fifteen minutes from 86th Street to Chambers Street instead of three cars every six minutes from 86th Street to Queens Plaza, Fifth Avenue-Bay Ridge “Elo- vated—Two car trains every thirty minutes from 65th Street to Sands Street instead of three cars every 10 minutes, Lexington Avenue Elevated— ‘Two cars east of Hast New York every fifteen minutes and west of East New York two cars every ten minutes instead of three cars every seven and one-half minutes. Myrtle Avenue Elevated—Two cars on ten minutes’ headway in- stead of three cars on seven and one-haif minutes. Sea Beach Route—No service: ordinary operates three-car traing évery seven and_ one-half minutes. from Coney Island to T.mes Square. Deputy Public Service Commis- sloner Donnelly ‘requests persons using Interborough subways to buy tickets in quantities of ten or twenty to decrease congestion at tioket booths during the emer- gency, and especially asks persons using surface cars on the east side of Manhattan to board cars prepared with change for the pay as you enter boxes. Commisaioner Whalen says it 5,000 PUMPS & Hanan 516 Fifth Ave., cor. 43d Se, 411 Fifth Ave, at 37th Se. 1255 Broadway, cor, 3let St. 1391 Broadway, cor, 38th St. vestigated. BOSTON, Aug. 30.—The ‘‘get-rich- a Ponzi, in all | {ts phases, including the alleged active | participation of members of the Bos- ton police department, will be #ub- | mitted to the Suffolk Grand Jury Wed- nesday, {( was announced to-day. ‘The activities of the Old Colony For- eign Exchange Company, —Ponal's ‘rival, will also be, submitted to the special seasion of the Grand Jury. FINAL CLEARANCE SALE Among Our Stores as Listed Below of WOMEN’S Are Placed on Sale at $9.85 a Pair Not all sizes in all lines, but a splendid assortment from this Summer's Stock and represents extreme reductions. Many other lines reduced to prices upwaid of $9.85 Good Shoes are an Economy Pairs OXFORDS & Son 297 Broadway, at Dua 187 Broadway, at De; 1095 Broadway, at 23d St, 438 Fulton x, Brooklyn | Gave 4 MARKS TO BEMyAN. ts vitally Iniportant EV ANSVI LUE, ind. Aug. 28.—Adoiph BURGLARS' VEEDS VOR WABASH, Ind, Aug. for’ persons to select routes which take them | 3 Melzer, a retired manufacturer and ° ould- over the ferries which’ have not llanthropiat, has announced 6 gift TERe AMeAre Livwrae’ Caihke send ae aoe nearly reached thelr capacity | marks {othe city of Berlin, Ger-| the Albert Bowen barbes shop a : Y 7 MANY, aa a tontine fund for nonu- | Ver Lake one evening and sto! thus relieving the dangerous con- inet t to his brother € sparies, CHA Re eet ee th Let hn 4 j Melzer sald the gift had been made | Ct halt SeMion of the bridges, There are t fati and We ‘had ‘neurd indiveoty Genk ten le arabe | ample provisions fot carrying | that it had been accepted and would x In the shop, leaving @ note vehicles on the 89th Strect ferries, | be used for a public buliding, & brary saltig that thoy wore Comeldering A list of the additiona! muntci- | oF #ome other worthy cause.” Melzer an a barber shop uf thelr awn . < : 10. wtipula at A portion of the} oun and neoded tie ** suppling pal ferry and five-cent bus line fad roteitan “cs is printed elsewhere. 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