The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1920, Page 3

SUBWAY'S INFERNO, WORST IN WORLD, TOLAST LONG TIME paren Seu New York Can’t Hope Soon to End “Most Sharheful Scenes in Civilization.” “MORE FARE” NO CURE. Bad-Conditions Made Worse by 1. R. T. to Squeeze Monéy Out of the People, A drooping, doleful throng of men and women jammed the downtown | subway station platform at 110th Street and Broadway at $ o'clock this morning, .It was mot an unusual Jam because on a larger or -smaller scale it is there al-} » most every work day morning around that hour, which {s at the peak of the rush. ‘The only variation 4s that it ig numerically sfronger and more impatient on stormy mornings. Locals and expresses snailed atong / with distressing slown¢ss this morn- ‘ng. Sometimes there would be a| Jerky stop, a pause and a spasmodic + start. When one of the packed trains they were all packed—would bo (aligned to haul up t its “proper stop the doors would slowly open and then would follow that most shameful of all scenos possible to find ¢ in any city tn all the civillzed world— - the mad New York rush to get into! Announcem Banker’s ville Man cars already filled to bursting ca-}Pertinax Morosin!, banker, ‘of this pacity. | and Montclair, N, J., that his “Let ‘em off first!” the platform/ daughter, Miss Mary ington men would yell. | Bond Morosint, will ed Jan. Let off nothing! Let on nothing! /19 to Capt. William Lafayette Crabbe, Mobody could hack a way out through the doors the cars on trains. Not even big Pat Mc- ald, the giant of Times Square,| Announcement vould force his way through that de-|to be celebrated termined mass of men and women} home of Miss (i ager to get downtown to their jobs| of the b: in order to earn the moncy to keep}romance in the the pot aboiling. ‘The panting, crush- | estrargeme: ermined army of subwaysters hand his s elbowing, pushing and back-poking their luckless nelghbors—men, boys, women and girls alike—would not yield to those who were violently struggling to get out of the cars and those inside the cars could not #ar-| posed by Att «ine themselves any closer. There | the laie Glovanni vould be minutes of deadlocks, inter- } cier and form vapted with violent ejaculations, rid disputes and viclous epithets doors would somehow slid into place and the train would ep on only to be held up at the end ‘ a few yards of progress by 1 $8,000,0 ckwash of trains blocked by similar |the income nferno scenes at the 103d Street Sta-|of $150,000, tion and the awful mess that reached | $75,000 its full diabolical intensity at the 96th Street junction. SAVAGE SUBWAY BATTLES MUST GO ON FOR YEARS. What causes that doleful look of who hav ordeal day after day, i8| fore t he ion that there |rines in Hayt!, is no possibility of a change for the |ragua vetter ht for the immedi future. fecl that those sa' battles to subway must go on for y 3 hefore there can be any appreciable let-up. ‘They know, from New York's rience with the transit situation, that whatever new subways may be \indertaken will take a long streteh of time to const#uct and that in the war vetera: the and marri » he was in com: pany of marin Soissons. He’ rec teen months ¢ matches on thc were con record at the tary the Captain bec er, as he must inevitably become more acute, owing to the northward trend of the population and the ever-increasing in the business centres (Therefore, the > nour patron w cast down, that is becom But the physical ordeal that hag to be endured is supplemented by the harrowing 4 ssion firmly estab- lished in the minds of the passengers that the Interborough is not doing and has not been doing what it can to mitigate any of the existing ev Such Is Ch hey read nlaintive Dbleats in the| Three men who were coming out of | Subway Sun and | the ba pent of the fur abli shi f the) ot George Fox, No, 16 sth | allowed to IMPROVE CONDITIONS NOW; GET |\ HIGHER FARES LATER. : y improve conditions| were lugging they re operating and | other furs, Simpson to-day, as| he from the subw: BUI rit et. It the a) ter then 3 men Said th Chambers St found the slig ittempt to better the servi Wve suid be prompted to favor d fere, But the way they feet] Was: ‘bout it now they will opposp It tol mvetiga the last ditch, In plain words, T be-|an peck lieve the Interborough is BT down’ on th to i upon the passengers the need a nt 8 no longer|and repair bargla norale in the subwa Time wasjenth Avenue fur when we used to boast of the ease| chauffeur, and tt v and speed with which we got to au destinations; of the efficiency of the guards and pl m men, and of thy atmosphere that made t6r| nm and contentment 3ut now the trains scem to min © n | in no schedule, t ars ere uncle: the platforms ditto, and the comfort | stations horre 8 to} head nor t agement, and it looks a long time ahead be change, Most of us will be let us hop t Jeff HOTEL’S PRICES UNDER FIRE. |), Riley Sends Subpoena to Biack-| |} stone's Manager. Wy Speclal Assistant Attorney, General Armin W. Riley, head of the “Flying Aiquadron iG t subpoenas to 1177 Broadway 41 Cortlandt St, cer or oiher officinie yen day | and their reception, Mr. Riley says, was | anything but cordial, J and Panama, nd of the 66th Com- He range SOCIETY GIRL bad A bare MARRY R HONOR MAN ' | Ree Miss MARY. WASHINGTON BO aad MOR 2OSINI MISS: MOROSIN SOON TOBEBRDE : OF CAPT. CRABBE Daughter and Louis: j Met at Rifle tt Maich in 1919, f9 made by and grandson’ of Admiral George Crabbe, U that the marriage is at ny associate of Ja + Who | bequéatt a daughter, « nchman, ed policeman, being annul! trabbe lives in Louisville and to undergy lis « graduate of Centre ( lv Yow he is in at the Naval oklyn. He’ met Miss Morosini about elgh- t tes' ‘Dgn shot us both.” |ROBS STORE WHERE HE PUT IN ALARM? rge Police Make Against Youth Arrested Near Fur Shop He Wired. | Street, were arrested early and when Patrolmen Brindizi and | ndergrift of the station went. throurh the bundles they found white more than two hundred valued at $15,000, wart Market Cour West | | i A | \ Sha tecss a THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1920. Letlers to Evening World Prove People Stirred Up On Theatre Ticket Gouging | Paper Is Praised for the Cru-) sade on Speculators, Collector Edwards Victims of Greed to Tell Him | Their Experiences, on tm ure to diver- a for sible. position and standing feet all day. Going to the th 6e6 a good show is my only sion, but ly it is impossit me to go very often, as you can never Bet a ticket for a fairly good seat} at the box office, and of course will the salary I get, and having to sup- Port a mother, it Js impossoble me to buy a ticket from one of those, 4 speculators, “So you can just {imagine with what | ten, and} Invites! Pasquale ( somisis, T » last of the CHILDREN ESCORT BODY OF “MOVIE VICTIM TO GRAVE Ten, Is Lat < of Youngsters Killed in Fire Panic to Be Buried. he funeral of Pasquale Comisas, six child victims | conferene where the inte Siar gt AMONG nd the abolition of bal contes in non-Areproof pleture places and changes in the fire laws will be suggested. Police, Inspector, Wi man, Fire Ohief John ammissioner Drednan city off have been by Assistant am J Kenlon, Fire and" othe vited to the District At- First fuisdy l torney ‘Ty site, owner of th The first or 10 all by in New Jer Magis Ie In the Jefferson Market Court, “" 5S EDSON ROR | TRY GRNAL CASE of HMlegally Practising Dentistry. St Quimby PI Mes beth 4 e of WOMENTO ADMIRAL 8c) ley of No. widoy died last night in St of pneumonia, . ster Moriarty of Nea pe Mrs. Frank Larkin of No Quimby Place, West Orange; he "Frank Ge ‘ of No. 4 Clevelarid Street, wife of City Comptroller Coughtry: Mrs. George Naulty a Ney West Orange, and . 206 Elina~ S WIDOW BEES. 565 Park Avenue, Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, Luke's Hospital She was seventy-nine 5 years old. Several days ngo Mrs, Behley sides Accused | fell 1p her bome and rou Mure hospital suffering fron Because of her ady monia set tn. She son, Dr, Winfield Scott pinal before a eto be tried jury com- By Sophie Irene Loeb. Interest I read your write-ups, Lonly | or the fatse fire ery {n the Catherine Clareed with admitting a child posed entirely of women will come up| will welcome any communica-|hope and trust something will be | Of the false dire ery tn the Cathe eloven’ years old into her movie) before Judge Dugan in tho Orange tions to this office as to prices pata | dene. ate ae Street motion picture house on Sun- house innecompanied by a suardian.| migerict Court next Monday when it e of every | day 0% = {She dented the char | by theatre patrons of this city above | sneaureger ae L ovinity ee ie rt hy a Lannie te gies oe agate id ss |the action of the New Jersey State | the prices marked on the ticket," said class, to sing your praises to the| ing eye ° home ae uJ sad 15 AUTOS Lost Fi | Board of Registration and Examina-| |Willam £1. Edwards, Collector of sk Wishing you overy success and | a aciiee On “ hy A jh IN FIRE. [tion in Dentistry ngninst Jack Segall ‘ thanking you for exposing | those | a white velvet casket, was ps old ene sere Leta MO ads) mean people, [ remain, sincerely, Hrooklyn Garage Wertroyed by Springfield Avenue, News} The Evening World's stom (Namie withheld t ‘ Sab OA dab ALES ZE MITGK Bare Started by O11 Stove. re | of ticket speculators has brought @| Another from the hi rs miter “fend moy'a clasa.|, Yitteen automoblies were destroyed | o jury is composed of the fol number of letters, and T am anxious pPieas Ue red LL ie seats alee ed i rassard | {yt oralarm fre, that burned Phit lteenta aes am , One of ne 8, GAC y a 4 rhard’s garage at No. 2: awis e~ Po age 7 to get at the bottom of it. If thelam, owe you their gratitude for °x- | about hig left arm, nue, Brookins at 6 tA odin, | West Oran a | Government is not receiving its Just | posing an unbearable situation, f am} t a th vay to Wi onal eorge Allen, No. o- | wife of former State | share of revenue it is time wo knew |an inveterate theatregoer, averaging A band led the way to Joach- | the night man, was {also of Llewellyn 1 nd the best way is to have citi- |t0,0" three shows a week, and am |Im's Catholte Church in Brooklyn and tt to put out th which | m t Mrs. Jenni , “lqualitied to speak of the treatment " , ott o, | 8 mart oll ato | Pssex County, of | zens let us know about their experi- |New York patrons of the theattes re- | Qi jue Sten mouion Dictate nowse.| Rem two Place, Bast Ofange; Mrs, W use for 32, Year | i, jcelve, 18 i a allah H's Hg dda Lord of No. 218 Park Avenue, OF io otifl aivi “the direct way Collector Hd-| ‘I regard ticket speculators at dbs Rev. Father Januzat oMelat- | rinated ut between § voy, | Wife of the Mayor of Orange; Mrs.| #0 oO gwing, brokers as mob of. parasites. What |!ng, while a full choir sang, and the ead ao Shoenthal of No. 477° Main | wards sets forth his determination | hance wilt the may she daw ; Danked with Mowers. The| sae Street, Orang: ét City Com. not only to see that the Government |ing"to pay the re rgular price (whic De} Held as Conductor'n Asnatiant. i {is protected in the matter of revenue, |js‘hich enough) so lon ae the greedy | tibule of Pasaus mates Was) In a quarrel early (his morning Pat- , but in aiding the general public to ob- | pirutical brokers and specuiaiors (not | # ‘Wreath of red roses, in the centre! rick Hugh, a car inspector, ty alleged | Attillo | Rear the Riverdale Morosini, sister latest ended the tho banker | & ed back to his ngton, Morosini, f about y ‘ing Attilio trust fund off with to Arthur the marria During the war was wounded at ed the Croix de ommand of the Supply he national 1 at Caldwi The g good that | | yesterday, West morn: | 20th Street fox and | and n x st tz, twenty, of Broux, and | ix, of No, 1830 the Bronx vit Sehatt ts the and |. inspert unknown m were arraigned ; tain seats for the theatres of the city ata price that 1s not pronibitive, If the average New Yorker wants | public? | to root out this av!l the best way for| fouse Building, |i ing to get seats at a reasonable price * price be paid amd, Juend the paid for them, difficulty thet desire, following letter, written by a gitl: “[ really cannot retrain from taldng | lat the liberty of writing to you, and of- fering you any sincerest congratula-| tions tor {le mean, contemptible theatre ticket |lator on gougers, "L go to business, having a respon- manager so much of which wa: |men) work speculators as sure-thing together to trim the accident © Miss Dan “T am quite sure The Evening World, by means of a campaign in which no one's fet pared, | ot even the highest the theatrical business, could wipe better still, jout this ¢ T would gladly lend any stubs of the tickets them- assistance within my pow n pre- and how much you actually|paring a case, which, ‘backed by pub- |lic opinion, would force tiie man- write to Col- Sdwards, Custom experience in try- to do it is William H to tho spe lis price, ingly cares no! y going to the theatre and the| experienced in gratifying | are well stated in the “E think it 1s aboug t New ¥o We Wes id and endeavor to mon: © theatre ti fs, without a doubt, to the theatre and amusement “When a new play opens out < ful exposures of| town you will find the ticket and to look the prohibiting t to talk business with tt ticket above ts for the | value, “ pelle | for the tickets. the payer that can the wond should and ready for a block of s be a willing to turn his th ulators provided he, The manager seem- ing about the tl help do tt, {t's printed a clock w tt the banda) to havo st New York’ run, and the manager is | nue, Stewart of No. ¥ City, a tre controll it waa taken to th sey City, with a pos of the skull. Tho quarrel Orange -loceurred in lower Montgomery Streat Hugh, who lives No. 30 Clark Ave 8 High Jersey City, was arrested on a! James 1)/ Moria Kets (Charge of atrocious assault non Avenue, atre- Many letters from all sections ofjagers to protect theatreguer: public whiclrstaps up to the box the city have como to The Evening | “I have never known or heard of a] Sites and iv willing t pay its _gond World, ali of them expressing indig-,gang that necded cleaning out, as|imoney to witness his play—only to nation at the prices theatre patrons | much this horde of New York int r tha, Box Gfles Naold | are forced to pay, Some of these lot-| theatre ticket speculators | z the people with are reproduced. ‘The desire to} . REAVES,” ul money { r hands to do bus Ret away from the sordid things of] And still another letter reads: }ness with the speculator and be com- | the price he demands hie New York Evening World 1s] and 1 rust {t will proceed immedi- ps to help the the- this BILLING.’ “MONE £0 GOOD" SALE OE FALL SHOES Now in Progress . “note lackstone, | PRICES GREATLY hisottice with the book of me hol, {hf REDUCED, Heth hn int t |) 1434 Broadway 1257 Broadway 215 Broadway 254 Filth Ave West 42nd Street (Between 5th and 6th Avenues) The Phenomenal Downward Revision of Prices on our stock of high-grade Stein Brothers West 43rd Street FUR COATS and SCARFS Enables us to offer the most extraordinary savings of recent years on reliable pelts. Hudson Seal Coats (Dyed Muskrat) Several distinctive models with self collars or vari- ously trimmed with contrasting furs, . . . . . 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Tailored&Fur-Trm’d Suits 150.00 ‘ Formerly $195 to $250 fy / Suits of duvetyn, veldyne and duvet de laine trimmed with nutria, mole, beaver or squirrel. Included are mod- els of a Strictly tailored type. Two-& Three-Piece Suits 250.00 Formerly $310 to $415 Costume suits of duvetyn, veldyne, marvella, enriched | With squirrel, fitch, mole, seal, wolf and beaver. For FRIDAY WOMEN brown kidskin, with satin tops. with dull kid tops ; hand turne WOMEN’S DRE Discontinued Slyles NO C. Os DRESS BOOTS High cut, laced dress boots in black satin, patent Teather, black or Patent leather, black kidskin, dark tan calfskin; also | patent or dull leather with fawn buckskin tops. NO CREDITS, and SATURDAY 10.00 Formerly $18.00 Also patent leather button boots, d soles, Louis XVI. heels. S BOOTS 8,00 ty Broken Sizes NO EXCHANGES. 4 ee