The evening world. Newspaper, October 22, 1920, Page 2

<a e e eet + a ~ ARE INDICTED IN BASEBALL SCANDAL. “ aThree Others os heaved to Be on the List Include “a Former Prize Fighter.” CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—dBleven indict- ments against baseball players and @amiblery will be voted this after. toon, it ie reported at the Criminal Courts Biniding. Bight are against White Sox players against whom tue Illa were returned Inst month, The other three are understood to involve & former prizeth¢hter and two former Bell players, one of whom was & mem- ber of the New York Giants and the other at one tke was a White Sox player. Several men, including Roy Closs- man, a attest car employee, have been ealied to tell about bandhall pools thin afternoon. Clowmman is reported to ‘Dave won the $10,000 capital prize in © Vasal! pool, but asserts that the pool aperatons refused to pay bim and proposed he compromise his claim for $500. ‘The State's Attorney's offce an- Pounved that investigation of one pow! had dinclosed that 13460 combion- ‘Mons were wold during (ho. past sea~ i eaeh. Only $25,500 in priaes oh after all expenses were gamblers bad a profit . oI Pretiident af the ‘American League, ‘who returned to-~ where tt weat Jn an effort to obtain additional wit- BOARD OF ESTIMATE -REVOKES 4 CONTRACTS FORNEW COURTHOUSE (Continued) Porm, one, for brick work, $580,000, and ‘one for cancrete work, $567,000. The vontract allowed to #tand in the one awarded to Rodgers & Haxgerty, for, exowwation and foundation, $1, 190,009. A. separate resolution covered the revocation of each of the four oon- tracts, ‘The wording was virtuully the same tn eadh instance After iting the name of the successful Bidder the resolutions evntinue: "The bidders were required to cer- Wty, and did certify, as follows SeThe undersinnal declares that ‘this bid or proposal is made without yany connéction with any other person, or corperation making a bid or Spropeaal for the same purpose and is in all rewpocts falr and without co! umen or traud, ‘There are no per mons, firins or corporations directly or indireetly Intecsted in Wiis proposal except. * * # “and, whereas it tye be 00 the atlention of the Cha the Hoard of Emimate and Appor Ponmment that a combinal existed Jat the time. the @aid bid was inade between (here the bidder is named) Jamil obher persons, firms and corpo nm called rman of rativas to Prevent open compoution| par voluntarily, | oppose any fur in bidding for the work called for by} iher ap arance by his counse maid ovntcaes. Mr. Untermye reed. “A marde “Therefore, be it rewolved, that the} son with the methods in the tasur- Ce ee te ts, 10, awards | AN® Investixation conducted by ing said’contract to (name of bidder) |Chartos E. Hughow and the money be and the wame hereby i rescinded | trust inv ation, the present pro- awarded sald) enoding offers eral considera. Ae bidd tion o pnor aid Trindel had not re. As soon @s the vote on the fourlorived the letter went to him yerter renolubiona was announced Alder- | gay manic President La dia JUMbUAT «re 44 Mad ot heen intentionally to hin feet and exclaimed 4 “Mr, Mayor, | want to congratu-| delayed he would have eon hore, late you. This ts the best day's work | O'Connor declared you have performed since you as- "He in not here now," Mr, Unter sumed off myer Said. Mr, O'Conn Reisiceartir Gielen wove fon peste | Ment nan unfustified Insult poning action on revocation of the PRINDELL’S COUNSEL REFUSES coulvact#, said he had ordered t TO TAKE THE STAND. Gommisdonor of Acc gale Lie school contracts "If necessary,” shouted Mayor do he was not under sana am in faxes at Gierie wubpoona, Mr, Untermyer first sata pavers pati tmpro PO te ey [ne would give bin a subpoeng to gund in jail thone who are re-|™ ud 5 iin a AULpDEHA, Ch pdhaible Yor frauds, 1 shall stop| changed bis mind, every improvement If we ‘wet’| 1 will ak hin, Delng present, to Saree VP have. evn and ere DOW) wynnmut to examination on two pointe trying to mulct the city ii gamete atatement 4 *] move,” said the mptrotior, | Miret, reaaniing | h spe shat we end for Will Hatilin | Rewsapers that this inventigtion AP ilies to find out about sil the paving | part of an organized conmpimey to contracts, tack tnbor, when in fact, it is to =r protect onimnised jabor meninst or YOUNG ELOPERS CAUGHT. | joniccg rim Second, his ts ar ey | ment to newapnpers that “they hav Detective Vater ef the Pourth P }duad tadeor trou before,” and in our einet, met the steamer Northland, trom| re orton on her arrival to-day and ar juny gamit: they eh Tibet, Be rested Rose Hease Fence, Mass, Frank Hinnero, nineteen, | they mm w + about thiw investiea @f Lawrence, who had come here to! tion” Marry, and Peter Roreiil, sixteen, also| O'Connor atill declined to testify of Lawrence, who hid to = pind man, despite hin ore | ane Entermyer said unde ’ |» ” he would not h re the Wanero was held in $500 ball at th . diet s + Ton on the chates of k pein rivile h " dressing the Rorelli wan held tn $590 on the share | Committ After Weavinuethe rear Waerancy and younk Mins Heasey DiGos citantasind hie ack ainent ve taken to the Children’s Sor n ™ em pia. is atomed' The polles wore told of the wlopemient | oF Hrinell which th nmittoe re In a telagram from Capt. Lawrence of | : Sa ade ae © Nonna, who ped turned over the ted > (hin he a a hed th et as fe bride-to-be to the matron of | dene of the Committee aa (legally he ship. i produced and hearsay, and chatlonsced 4 CORRECTION. Any pervon to ghow he ever took a ‘Throurh error wu ne ekunk furs " advert joe Ot sibeied “tn ton page 18, to: na THE WHITE SOX 'BRINDELL FAILS 10 unte to investi . fourteen, of Law- uinrel imibel | = = : red in the PETE, nina Gaerget price ‘séia goide db dod: Mi for nlmwdied "ANSWER BRIBE CHARGE BEFORE COMMITTEE (Continued) help. 4\. But you are not going to aio- Mifice me in the brenking of it up? Q@ Weil, I am going to sacrifice alt the peowe tn it if necemry! A. 1 will Anawer you truthfully, wo far as tho Plater Bills from the roof of my mouth, bet Task In all fairness, 49 man (© pan, not to merifice mo on the altar, . Q@ What plaster do you mean moved from your mouth? A, 1 don’t want to be Q—You emmy you will tell the truth ABOLISH FIVE BORO (Cont cents for Queens, $8,100,958, or 116 700, or 125 per cent. TREMENDOUS INCREASES Taxpayers who have proceeded salaries, The Increase of salaries hattan Is $1,565,311, or 91 34 per 120 per cent; In Brookly $2,185,704, or 166 8-5 per cent, and cont, Note how closely the percentage the percentage of salary increase in centage of total increase; AO far as the plaster ta removed: A. You ak me questions, and T will answer you as free as 1 can, and araewer trathfulty. Q. Can you explain about thie plum ter? A. L will answer you truthfully Q You joined thin amsooiation of Hettrick’s because of a preanure? No, sir. 1 want to be honest In that, the presmure? A. 1 remained tn it TELLS OF ORGANIZATION OF MASTER PLUMBERS. Schnaier tontified that the master plumbers have an orantration known ne the “S8th Street Organization,” with about 400 members, of whom aboot forty-one belong to an inner orgaaization, known as the “Sad Street Organization,” mecwune these Innke thelr headquarters in the Hulld~ ing Trades Employers’ Axsociation on 3d Street. One of the functions of the tarter organtaation is to “protect smaller contractors’ by compelling owners af property to agtisty elaiins any of the members may bave aguinat previous owners of the p aperty be~ fore the owners can get any work done, the witness admitted Announcement of the adjournment followed this, Off. Untermyer said} he required time to sift and investi- gate «& tyann of evidence that has come into the hands of the committoe. Moat if not alt of the members aro running far re-election, he declared, but they have offered to ancrifice the interest of thetr campaigns by atick- ing to the investigation, at was at the request of counsel, be declared, and not the wishes of the committes, that the adjournment was taken. Amy pentony who will send informa- ew tien to otfice of Leonard Wall- stein, associate counsel, No, 293 Tiroadway, In the meantime will be protected, Mtr. Untermyor declared The morning session wax marked by 4 hb between (Mr. Untermyer and J, JO'Connor, attorney for Brin- dell, who Dad een Invited to festity in refutation of evidence given yester- dey by Ephraim Lovy, who declared he had given a bribe of $25,000 to call off @ ntnike on bis building on seventh Avenue, Detween 30th and Blet Streets, last spring He guve the| money to bis construction expert George Backer, himself «a millionaire, whe, Levy ewore, told him the money wast to go to Brind OMonnor demanded that he be al- lowed to fle a written «tatement by Brindell denying the chareos. Chairman Lockwood ruled that the committee cannot accept a written statement [a answer te sworn tenth mony. Any person nan In the tentimony may and testify, | Yat wil] he subject to crom-exnim tion, he mata “Mr. Brindell havte failed to ap- ry ry refused flatly to take the dollar fr ere of labor em PEND, ON IT. | budget. points lew; in Queens, Tn Manhattan the Borough Presid 1921, 126, an increase of 193 per £0 par cont.; Brooklyn, $226,500, an of 128 per cent. high. considering that the Preside building since 1917 COMBINE JOBS, Jar attention to the paragraph starting here, be of 1917 in the appropriations for the President of the Borough of M with the percentage of total increase In in the Bronx, 1 108-5 paints leas, and UGH PRESIDENTS, TO REDUCE BUDGET nied) rr cont, and for Richmond 8999, N SALARIES FOR 1921, thos far are urged to pay partien- suse ft deale with alone In the cents in the Bronx, $1,005,152, $2,167,550, or 145 per cent; in Queens, in Richmond, $664,354, oF 119 por of salary increase marches upward ppropriations! tn Manhattan only 6% nts less than the pers jess; in Brookiyn, 17 Richmond, 6 pointy lonw. lent haw been allowed for supplies in! cent; Bronx, $46,792, an increase of increase of 124 per cent,; Queens, | A, | $47,426, an Increase of 86 per cent. and In Richmond, $42,455, an increane | Thean increasex can probably be axcribed to the added Q. But you stayed in tt because of | Cost of supplies, including coal, but the percentages appear to be pretty of the boroughs have not done much | For materials the President of the Borough of Manhattan 1s author- lued to spend in 1921, according to t erense over 1917 of $219, $276,100, an increase over 1917 of $ of Brooklyn, $104,900, an increase ove: of Queens, $319,250, an Borough of Richmond, $158, 805, oF 100 per increase of 60 per cent, and the Preaident o: an increase over 1017 of 180 per cen’. he tentative budget, § t.; the President of the Bronx, | 1.913, or 98 per cent,: the Prosident © 1917 of 60 per cent.; the Pros dent the MORE MATERIALS AND SALARIES, LESS WORK DONE. | Now comes the item from which it {8 possible to chock up from fg: | urea what the Horough Presidents did {n 1917 in the way of having men! out doing work on public Improvemen anticipate in the way of accomplishment in that direction in 1921. find that the total amount expended public worvice which the public can see, 1917, cost $1,204,0 ‘The amount set aside ts and what the Borough Pre idents We in open order service, or tangible by all the Borough Pri nts in for the same kind of public tervice by the five Borough Presidents for 1921 is only $1,142,410 Here we have the five Borough Presi appropriations for salaries, supplies and materials figuring on te with their vastly increased joing leds work than the five Borough Prosidents did in 1917 with lows Wian balf the money. Only two Borough Prosidents figure on putting more money into the product of men who work on public improvements in 1921 than was devoted to the purpose in 1917. whose extimates ave above those of of Brooklyn, who exceeds the 1917 f Manhattan falls off $49,264, or about 15 per cent., They are the President of the Bronx, 1917 by $114,047, ures by $25,148, and the President Tho President ot | the Prosident of Queens by $142,021, or about 33 per cent, and the President of Richmond by $19,836, or about 83 per cont. What do they do with the people's money’, Borough President Curran objects to Uhis statement in an article in The Evening World of Oct. 16 | “The President of the Borough of Manhattan, Mr. Henry Curran, reformer, finds in the 1921 budget places for 145 new employe Mr, Curran protests that he asked for only twenty-oight new places and that he voluntarily dropped eleve: seventeon new jobs. n places, leaving bis net tnerease at ‘The fact remains that Mr, Curran's estimate of bis needs for 1921 included 156 jobs that were not in the 1920 budget. and The Evening World didn’t say he He didn’t get them got them, The Evening World said he found 145 new places. This statement was based on a hurried exam- ination Of the evidence, Mr, Curran asked for appropriations to pay 104 new employees out of the tax levy. Ho asked for appropriations to take caro of thirty-one employees transferred to new positions at increased salaries, And he asked that twenty places be pald for ut of funds accrued. Dropping his eleven positions abolished leaves tim demanding 144 new jobs, If Mr, Curran desires, The Evening World will publi@h, for his ta-| formation and the information of the waated included tn the 1921 budget. taxpayers, a list of the new jobs he | Other Borough Presidents and some city officials have stated that | criticixms of the budget are based on Jon that nobody outside the Board of If all the knowledge concernt Board of Extimate 4 would appear t scatter somo of that knowledge throu! ignorance. ‘This carries the Imputa- | Estimate knows anything about the ing the budget js concentrated in the o be up to the members thereof to | xh the community, (More about the high cost of goverament fo-morrow,) raid he had incurred the enmity of | the employ by organizing the building trades and that nothing haw shown to show that he ever had b 1 fale to the crush of labor. Mr Rrindel), when seen earlier at No. 42 St. Marks Hace by an Evening World reporter, declined to make a statement JARCHO ON STAND SAYS HE “ASKS JUSTICE.” n the heariag was resumed the witnesses pres been wh Chairman asked the ent to announce themselves and Mr. | Good, Herbert Smith, Wo G. Cornell and Milton Bebnaiser did #0. A Maurice Jarcho of No, 50 Wont i)1th Street, a plumbing gontracto: uikod permission to make a state mont before being examined, 1 had read The yesterday's World's proceedings said that he account of and was # amased by what he read that he pinch himself to make sure he was himself, He as ‘anking Justioe,* that to tell all he know. Hacker and for haa to he waa w sortod he wna linge that he did work for avy, but that had not bef: ween any one connected with the In- quiry and that he did not know any thin Hrindell. Jarcho sald he never had ven Brindeth Jaroho, ff oxdunination, 4 contractor in pl denied he was “a vl ely 1 plained that 4 pluses sells plumbing pontractor, but contractor He said that iv trade besa with the p fla) manufac th pumber's aupply ater areho he un said he Ding mate kn’ was rial, but neber’ ie re supply alte a plum the plumbing well materials sions of the mbing mate n came the man aod the retell ox an mater that not told of "he of Mr who followed (ho covering methods Hotice of intention to f bidding filing iplining of thaw Who violated code.” und contrituting 4 por hin gros Dus teturns to frov Hottrtok ty 4 ne ving ty hie He maid ther on several tovignations, includ ewe, waco Ou 1, but denied the wuthorixation by the of the prewunt sponsible In 4 statoment which myer intended as a reply lacks on the investigation, he sid) | In point of fact no greater service to the cause of legittinate orguntzed | labor haw ever been rendered than that of exponing, punishing and eject Legialature Investigation was re- | Mr. Unter-| fo ail at-| ing from ite councils the wolves and vult who have been fattening upon » given comfort | to itn on soumht to dis. | oredit and destroy it inthe home of its| friends It will Indeed be a sorry day | for organized labor when every ex- | Posed crook operating under the shield of tho «rent cause of organized hi lwbeor can cover his tracks and rally the ranks of labor to his support by the hypoerttical cry that the exposure ft his wtubs in the back of labor| are an attack on the institution Pi we are trying to rescue from his sor- did cluteher “Dhem: men may us well know now, | and the public will, Iam sure, be glad to know that the legitimate elements of organized Tabor are actively sup- porting, encouraging and assisting us jn our efforts to bring out tho facts, | It will be cheerful news to the work- Ingmen to learn that the opprenaion | Tupt despote has reached limite and that relief is at band. "It not inte jod that this branoh of the subject should play ao} Prominent a part in your proceedings. Th it has taken this course te due to an unexpected current of events, “What we intend to show i a band. ng togethor among he matertal men, first, In separate assooiations in es line of thirty two lines engaged Huldinge materiale Crom the mi turer down to. the banding together soriations under the Building Materials Employers’ Aaso- ation; and (hen we purpose to show that not only has labor been drug. netted > inte the Hullding Trades ce yell In many instances Dut that empl ra been dra, tied and forced into eertain of these associa tions by relntion that oxista be tween Tradex Councils and the ‘Pridton ' As anol that w rand not hap. ‘naKOoK A prices, and dia may, although he unton labor, wake up to find hie mea one by one pulled eWay from his job. {t sa case of you Hokie me aud d tok sou, am Basweee "eure in ailer, the Building Sruliding MLO, Building rate tion that tribates is employing only | 121 badwet over that | | | nave the strike called off Luvy'a building, was prodent under subporna, but was not recalled Haoker in his testimony first said THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1920, Robert | P, Brindell, Labor Leader, Mentioned in Strike Bribery Talk the fact that tha very precipitate ae- tion of the rallway Hxecutive has & sreat misfortune has added "are to the difficultios “It wae interference egecedingiy leh exceedingly indisereet and ap- parently aot dest d by unybody. Ao- jon of that kind encourages irrespon- | wble sections that are behind the re- (Continue sponsible leaders. Lf hope the diseus- ions will be rexumed later, but it . would be y much easier tf they the infivenye of the general otticers | ¥¢ tC to the minera themselves, apparentiyet™ on the wane | cate expromed regret that he was un- In dolivering bin ultimacuin on ths |; eo ie I i TE a a art of the railway unions, J. a Phomhas, General Secretary, was comparatively conservative, but this was followed by a'tiery statement from {| the radical Secretary of the transport jj workers, Robert Willams, He tesued something twenty pverninent and wld have to f the work- nu fa challenge that untoss tangible" happens in sours belween the € the miners the lew be between “the ing classes and thove porting the Government in thelr obs duracy"—in other words, a general strike of the most dangerous, drastic |) | character, foun whe who are ROGER Ty P BRINOELL | trade tn w “SAM PARKS ONLY A CHEAP GRAFTER” WITNESS SWEARS Go Between Who Paid $25,000 Bribe Says Old Leader Would " Have Done It for $250. ay Lage hh ita hg AG . . EG 15 aT was om ng ie Bt wan A Brondside of Week-End Specials wae nats trea nl Which Deals a Smashing Blow phrase used by George Barker, « ce to 4 witness b he Joint Logiata- |i f aa - sli peti fice Dgtinsind shat 7 ARDS rca |] Our Big Daily Special for Fri. and Sat., Oct. 22nd and 23rd Fated by Mr. Untermyer a hi LAUREL “ENTRIES. sere Wad at th wry qeney MALLOWS—More frend vew theille for the testimony the previoun day that AU IREL ruil he had paid $25,000 strike. The examination continued to settle a Q. Did you give the following teatimony ow TL want to tell you the story about union erec tors, Tell your story. A. Four ; agbone, AML tite yeiratar teon years ago if you remember Trey Ace —T he tert, for at aaa tinvurra if you remember the Parks in yi land MATE cident hero—that delegate that ity "ph was fin sont to Jail and t Pre EO : 79¢ think died In jatl, to-day he wor POUND Box be & saint who wax only a cheap krafter, He way 4 hundred doi lar rafter. I wish he was 5 to-d Did you say that? A - SRE Laid CUFAM CHOCOLATES | Q You mean you wish you had ine of ir most | the cheap erefter to deal with Bewulur msnuet ment | e inde eile Bo ee fe readily Intenttfte instead of the highbinder, the big | ler nse centres of the grafter; 9 that what you wean? | Srercan rut A That is what 1 moan hg Ral Q Now who are the bigh- | Pow, 112: Farwane, bt wert binders and big grafte ith NRT TAYE HLare Chorghate. binders and big graftera with RVI ARN ture whom you have to deal to-day HR, Hos Keine bor? ou way You wibh dhe wan her to ss d@uy; you must have had some- |) Rd lh ey hr a ge dem thing in mind? A. ‘That was the [reef Lavy incident 00, Parke would have take for that, these organizations, each one strength ening the other, ail at the expe: organized labor "You will fud as you go on that men aro drawn away from building ‘y 00 e $ 00 enterpriion in this elty without knowing what it lu wbout. ‘The work Va ingmen never wing ablo to find out no questign of w ho quostian o hours of Inbor, no question of unten labor, which most of us, in those en- lightencd days believe in, but some question or other outside that they Know nothing about, “LE think you wall find that, as we go on, the charge that was formd toy in a small and trifling Stem in at nH upon the building Industry, and that t in wo wiiespread that until i haw been cheoked and punished, bwilding operations in the City of New York re simply im Gvorge Lacks , Levy pays, ab: tajnod the $25,00 from hin on the rep- | resentation that it was for Rrindell t then had he lost the Money on the hanged hi and given it to ruces, fald he libby of th looked ke x-workineman’ is he explained, Hacker is ry an milliv dis regarded nx one of the largest Dullders in the city. He cause of bid contradictory testimony & request will he made te Gov Smith to direct the Attorney Gener to undertake any action ranted by the record, A letter will be sent to commendation nvestigation en out tby wiih this re uemested Y will not be amit! ners Chairm yckWood ualil the letter has 2 French Government Sues for BLT 2, 100, started an Court in 100,49 ninton h dovernment nwenlth Landon. i the rs act 1 other war equip Jost with Steamship North mbria On Aug. 2 1818, seventy miles ut of U Mt, ‘The eompany has of- Wien of Me toot of Clark Bt t ts atloged that the 4 another of the same line crews were saved HELP WANTED—FEMALE, i) RY Sasi SL i ee rebrencew af ILLEGALLY FOUND INSANE. Court Decision ‘Chat Witkins | In Incompetent Amide. The Appellate Divisio th irre and void Wh diruce | Wililame ansuénced in regard Jinvent unteors by t overnment whieh een nu that the ttansport r k upon) yy the danger of the enrullingat of ¥ ' inteers, capecially from the middle.) 7 a. inaw and white eriacihe ee “JUDGE LEVY LOSES POINT. munity, a# of more provocation , alts MIAIANY, r , Consequently, continued the ane) joy cart Sed ase pect |nouncemont, the transport men : ; Joonnidering the granting « ni hieal ad . n the event of an extonel t “i |cout agrike, by which the | ovat ‘ Hd Provide :t AY nm ¢ food for the 1 | sury Dikousm mattor i Tmawe a Chorel ¥ apa ier Hesoe Iker Atkin, Men’s Hand Tailored Suits A saving of *20” After a conjurer has made gold pieces out of your half dollar he returns your fifty cents. Saving money on a price and losing it in the quality is a similar illusion. What was formerly our 895 quality in suits is now $75 in price, and still $95 in quality. FIFTH AVENUE Men's Shops—2 to 8 West 38th Street