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SCHOOL CONTRACT INQUIRY WILL BE FIRST TAKEN BY BOARD OF ESTIMATE a Corporation Counsel Tells Plans for Investigation Into City Work. *BIG DROP IN PRICES. | BUTISSTAL HELD 30 Per Cent. Decline Shown on Some Supplies Since Lock- wood Hearing Began, Plans for the Board of Estimate in- Vestigation of all outstanding New York City contracts were announced Corporation consultation hearings wil] be held on days ‘When there ts no meeting of the Lock- lative Committee on Hous- first confracts taken under considera- tion will be those having to do with and furnishing of echools, "The inquiry will be thorough and in every respect. has instructed me to get at the hot- tom of every contr fghtest susp The Mayor ct where there is clon of collusion or fraud on the part of anybody. matter how high up the be he will not be sp reads us toward 1 person may red if the light! of| mpany, prod-| ¢y¢ d's largest construction ably the wo! certain Lines of bu e lackwood Committe al investigation bought for from estone contractors ace of om STARTS FOR DETROIT caused the raid on John T. Hettrick’s ractice™ cont lower figures d from contractors records of t CONTRACTOR SQUEEZED BY A CEMENT COMBINE. entre coun- s divided into dis- and manufacturers do barrel, Jones w mated at $700,000 tee got Into swing, TAP at a saving of the committve's contracts were e contracts on testified the | sevived up to five wee this job Mr. ago was $6: ago the contract @ SAVINg of $14,000. 4 al $38,000, When Port- ng at $1.85 Ro- Build ng on ‘ received Seven bids on each ed were ident! BRITISH ASK TO SEE VANDERLIP PAPERS fused to Show —Washington HOSPITAL IS 50 YEARS OLD.) stort Haven, dovtn st . Catherine's In Drooklyn Begins hoapital In Brooklyn, will begin to-night | son next we SPECTATORS GIVE VERDICT.) | allot Taken in Polfee Conrty) | srookiyn | staff will give a dinner to-night | tend solemn high mass which Monday Former Kaiserin a Little Worse, mpress Augusta Vic condition has Wilsen Likely to her STOCKHOLM, Nov, Uile her declared to-day morning, “Her (omporature wes waid to fot several days given alarm FUREY ACQUITTED ‘IN EXTORTION CASE, Must Stand Trial in Connec- tion With Theft of $5,000,- 000 in Bonds, The trial of Edward Furey before Judge Rosalsky in General Sessioss ended to-day by his acquittal. Furey ‘was arrested and indicted because of the confessions of Joseph and Irving Gluck, messenger boys for Wall Street firms, wiro admitted stealing were taken in the succession of euch robberies a yearago, They said Furey had helped them dispose of the bonds. But Furey was tried on an entirely different charge—that of attempting to extort $5,000 from Charles Pfitséh, President of the Baltic Steamship mpany of Montreal, at his offices in the Woolwor N14, 191 tnd The bond theft conspiracy nents are still pending against and he returned to the Tombs ofter his acquittal, William J, Fallon, who is also law- |yer for “Nicky” Arnstein and others whose names have been implicated a o big bond robbery, defended Iurey in the extortion charge on the Furey's thre eas PENNILESS, WOMAN Reaches Buffalo on Her Long “Hike.” Sinvial to The Evening Worl BUFFALO, Noy, 20.—Wearing @ raincont und a red straw hat, he shoes badly worn, Joan Jones, t one years old, who lust Mo doy started from New York to walk to! Mich, urrived last night in Ruffalo penniless and weak luck of food. Two weeks ago in Detroit, Mrs # attracted by the fut sums which stenographers were r ported to receive in New York and arrived there Sunday, The ni day, while she was In ono of the de- partment stores seeking employ- ment, her heavy coat and her lang bag containing all her money, about $100, was snatched. She made a futile attempt to catch the thief Fenniless and t couraged, she decid Detroit. “Accordingly, she t Lillian P. Morrison, a pol he sent her trunk home ned carrying a little b Detroit on foot. REMOVAL WARRANT DENIED. Vederal Judge Hol atein’s Friend for Parther Proceedings. ad Mrs woman, b denied the application for the tae aval wut M. Ne Wa ton, With Jules W. (Nicky) Arnat Cohen, WW. ast Molls and David by. $5,000,000 bond th deaying the warra r winun to Washington, Judgo Ma directed Federal Comini Mi ‘ock to take further testimony tn. th vnae before the appileation ‘an man was held in $2,500 bi nmissionar Hitchcock yesterduy removal proceed} ne: rt Norman an in th Dmergeney 1 Commit * retail ceal dealora will pen \argenoy fhel stations tn ti nx for the purpowe of diluviating { onl shortage situation locally, tutions will be located a bd nue West Farm ‘arms oad Woodlaw Avenue, It is expected they w! 7 and Woat Judge Follows Finding. TOLEDO, ©., Noy, 90.--Ior the fi rts, a police court Judge tos sed dalle Chars h the court ro: 4 i asked tho spectatora to writy the verdict on the slip | ore i not wullty b> Nobel peace prize, oor = ith! REDS SNEAK INTO p _UNTEDSTATE BY Plot in Europe to Get Rid of} Criminals Causes Increase in Stowaways. ane! and others country the Immigra- is attributed by Com- A. Wallis to a definite Plan by at least two Buropean coun- dump undesirables on Am-~- ? tremendous tnorease number of stowawa: seeking admission to without supervision b tion Bureau miasioner Tho desperate condition of Muro- pean countries caused by Bolshevists and Anarchists and persistent incoming ships the inspect the the examination holding ticket With fiqures before him, Mr. Wal- in the next six’ yeare which total over 10,000,000 from Germany, Italy and Holland alone. told of the some of the $5,000,000 bonds which| establishment Holland of a branch of thetr Bmigra- tion Department in Dr, Vennstrand. r. Vennstrand told mo,” he sald, by “that the lu emigration from Holland was due to | sussis h Building on Nov. Russia and informed me a commission | /8 hop .pproached | Who must go down hil tho;am here. Take me to Greenwich help] Village and lot me hay Germany ship 8,000,000 of iis nation- | of your N als to America." TWO BADLY HURT, FOUND ON STREETS through the night toward the abodes! of art and Mterature with a big L “Where do you take me?" I M$|my friend in a hollow voico as y |sped under the Washington Arch. vd in husky, muffled tone: High Privates rmany lately bad & proposition theory that Pfitech had imagined | Peter J. Walsh One of Vi Injured—Other Man Unidentified. Two men, one of them {déntified by| A few minutes later we stumbled | papers in his pocket as Peter J. Walsh, | down into a narrow basement ». 6L East 12d Street, | Knocked three times like this ious, both euffering | nd five times like that from possible fractures of tho skull, on| There came into the pale the upper east side Inte Inst night. Walsh was found on the sldowalle in|! ©. 155 Kast wth Street by Pa-/ in hig best avany of the East | 4. w SSth Strevt Station, wo took him in w| pure Bulgarian, "Golobkir ty- | passing automobile to Mount Sinai Hos-|exchanged a few more | goiobkins, and we were admitted into 4 sepylehral Pe- treat somewhere in West 10th ut ane Robbed Her of All Her Money, She | forty-five, of > | were found unco: 4 | trolman entified man was found at! ing to. the * Third | o City Hospital 0 pounds, with and ri, y hat namo, “Be. | with ‘uw fob | ulous | t, dark wtrijy | Dearing thy To a HIS GRIP FULL OF BRICKS. Young Man Accused of Beating the Waldorf-Astoria and McAlpin, “I'm off that bird for life," grumb oughly dis- |% rd to return to|ago after he had deposited In a room suitease of David Heimaon, twenty Jeeman of No, 2518 Wood- on express weighs a ton later at} Hotel MeAlpin When a boy In blue | SUTPrIse, a rea who hopped aealously to graup Heim- 5 and with Deteo-| come from Meky" Arne Broad: | atulned tne | found it} yy, eral District Judge Mack today » Nicky | |DR. MORDORF QUITS SCHOOL si." Ab ag fr retinement ani ‘aw | thum He one « of COHAN A FRIAR AGAIN. Friars | some one na organia 1 Street and Webster Nab scatienind (0: The Govarnors cation for reinstatement re was @ rumor to-day that Jol be lta operas sctor-| “Come and see theesh MOTOR PLANT TO OPEN UP. | iow time, {t la eaid, in the history of local Neaame [! t £00 of tte It fs undere mont | Bel The| TE 4.000 employees at the first of 1,000 men will be baci iA Wilson probably will bo awarded the] pormal output of the factory is between} admiration for thin extraordinary born t High 200 and 600 cate @ day. is not worth knowing. jand, w jno plume "I take th to th | of the Village. fell from the street lamp what? half opened avy door, My friend whispered mysterious hand which urkish aor an's 8w fhe Rendeazvou. 8 looked Our host beautiful “Oh, Me c~ a man, thank God, French than ‘ ‘savey' and ‘toot 40 here, Monsi¢ ot," | "Madam, I come od. What! Heavy But I lived y{t Knew m peop 1m toc e long: tit ny distingn ou know, he Wh danced with Lecea, th | murdered a little later tt girl of the Place Pigul herod how he explaines he would. strangle |} woman who might 1. «Upon my word |my neck--I curried th a These Ki W Frede in Montmartre w d to ibe to on his Muor t 41) good stomach.” | yroty: ¢ dish ating the At P Another | still eatin ag hort | Dorothy | diab turned t wills T found Sarah bor ad Julia Mar ph stn | ered a tiny ¢ of wood bowl L was eating the pips of melon. 1 entertained Priestess and begged of her to infant’ New York’s Night Lite As Seen Through Eyes HIDING ON SHIPS Of Parisian Humorist SEARLES ACCEPTS THe PASSIONSTE LOOKER BORLO TREDODLERS in after-war confu- HE GLa sion has suggested this method of get-| | ting rid of habitual opponents of law and order, For this reason, the Commlasioner sald, inspector# of have been asked to go through vessels and crews carefully before proceeding tO of the immigrants ic e Descri take us to the most Interestin; as ed de Kobra scribes of Waverley Place and Washington ancing e ‘Glen vine " igh Shawl And MEI. oar tome pen Wic ish shawl and simply dal LL Be Hees. with me, my Parielan ami. trodues you to, the hostess of The Garret, whore the Marquis do la La Fayette aat by the window and #aw three mon being hanged by the neck In the Square,” Ten ininutes Inter wo entored The and shook hands with @ charming young lady who palr of riding broeches, a white shirt “This in Grace God- Written and Illustrated by Maurice De Kobra. T havo a good American friend who caters for my Intellectual recreations lie quoted estimates of immigration |!" New York. Ifo is a man who knows. What he doos not know be- tween tho Battery and 47th Stroot| 024 & black tie, ts who loaf of pocty and between dusk und dawn. The riding costume made mo think more of a ranch in Texas than of a | Bohomlan den in New York. suppose that In Mr, John B. Kock- feller’s country a real Bohemian may ride a thoroughbred or drive a forty you far-distant, The other night I sald to him, ‘Mon Ami,’ when you were in ‘Gay Hoboken under|Paree’ you made me go 6 A. M. every clock turn, because you wanted to see our Montmartre behind {nerease in| the stage. Remember how Ltook you to the most indescribable dens of the x Into that country of Bol-| ‘sacred hill? So much I did for you that my reputation In France ag @ serious man and father of seven ( ly rulned. Now it ts for I, Maurice, horse-power. York Bohemt | Voila! We jump jnto pped in dark mantles with on our hats, we slipped} hairy poets and shuggy cattoonists French Montmartre, would you say to all this, you who |live the humble life of nature lovers! “Now, you must see how they dance | in Greenwich Village," our kind guide “Let ua go to The Inn—there \you will learn what duncing means, In the swell places of Hroudway they don't know the real thing. Walt and nt Madame Dorothy was right. Public hoofing thut I had previously Keen Was just % of I per cent, danc- What I saw at The Inn betweon inidnight and ; compared with near-bver band was playing a kind of fox trot.) were Kolng to and fro| under the dim orange light that fell} trem the lamp shac A few coupl There was, first, the senti- ntal couple who foxtrotted eye In Homeo and Juillet, after the ‘call of ark; and there was also the pas-| couple who foxtrotted wiidly, Huir against balr, eck, they atured ke persons scared by ghost and jumped right or left as if| | thoy were atepping on a red hot iron, thelr bodies, made of India their bodies they twisted violently, and I of snakes writhing around the arms of a snake charmer, Then I discovered another kind of | Jazz fans—those w | Imagine two peri o danced toddlos. ons Jumping up and + | down at a rhythm of ninety jumps per | minute! These tod lera seemed to be mi tasse,” | They looked bored to death, they kept on toddling: one, two—ono, when the band ceased to y became wildly excited and slapped and wanted some moro tod- Where do you lust m Deorla, Il} Mon Dieu! ! Lhappen to be born} band started again, whereupon| e: thelr springing | § ers resumed the: Iso knew sor I felt T ought to go, for {f L kept on watching theas people I f toddling up and My friend's fw $5,000 00 OFFER TO DROP CONTEST Nephew Relinquishes Claim to $50,000,000 Estate—Wiill Pay Other, Heirs. 1. Walker, former employ and now thelr of the late Edward P. Searlos, having yesterday acquired a sure title to a sum estimated between $25,000,000 and $45,000,000—will go to tho football game this afternoon, It may be an extravagance, but ho tn going, Ho Is taking the whole day off, including the morning, And that 1 oil that could be learned by rvs porters at Ma office. It was announced Inst night that the contest brought by Albert Victor) Searles, A nephew, has been rottled. | The nephew ts to receive $5,000,000 and call it square, The rest goom to] aiker, Whether the nephew with the $5,000,000 can go to football game too remains to be ween riere called this I, Delafield, No, 20 Exch counsel for W. but all he would say was that the will contest had been settled reporter, “as to t residue of the ¥ amount tate whieh Mr, Walker ty to receive, Some say the estate ls worth $50,000,000, which will leave $46,000,000 to Mr. Walker after the 96,000,000 eettlentent with tho nephew. Mr. Walker Iimeelt ts said to havo outimuted it at only $25,000,000." “L cannot tell you anything about that,” said the lawyer, “for 1 never discuss the affairs of my clients.” He refused also to discuss the re port that Walker is to use a gre benefactions. Out of the sum to be pald him by Walker, and which by the terms of scomea a first Hen} Albert Victor Searles {s to make provision for collateral helra who joined him baa the agreement upon the residue of the es the contest, These are cousina scat tered from Mechuntcs Falls, Me., to Bt. Louls, Searles will also pay bis own legal expenses, ‘This settloment loaves Walker, on hia own showing, about $25,000,000, ex- clusive of a large amount of property @yclarea by him to be valuable, ‘but of not easily determined valuo at this Eatimates by counsel for Al- jbert Vic tim tor & of the estate at $50,000,000. From this carry out © hiv lifetime by Kdward: 1, se ‘These provisions, wills than tho oni Include 4 youn, proviston estate. . By tho settlement agreed upon yess terday, the door ts closed upon what promised to become one of the noted will conteste of America, a contest ed by | » denire | which would have been 4 much medical testimony to avoid this, and to prote «ft possible the inemory of the millionaire, are understood to been factara in de and Delafield to sett On the death of Searles in Meth Mass, of Aug, # last, It was nounced that Walker, until then clerk in hie oMfcve at No, way, had been given ato and the neph 0,000. There were Hberal bequest to Mrs. Maury Ann-Rowla in Philadeipie, and her chil all of the ants on the bij in Methuen were remem) gifts ranging up to $10 —<—»>—_ — bulk of SUBWAY EXTENSION TO OPEN : rhway marks of erward ntures,”* chaming called better go hom suggested, “because after 2 these sur dangerous,” ts appetlaing “Every man's duty ts to have do not fear them, When | wero ‘Burglary Considered all are my friends. {th and we started | b this kind hooligan | yyy y would never b ° 1 had written ;Raret about sthesr the | said that nd will net turtu urdt, Hoy Born at Sea the glasa 4 email canary bird whi 6 whip to go Ko tar ‘the storm. The ‘s name is Leon Odesky. a Street Sunday Midnight, minute aft (1 the Interborough Kapld ‘Tran ait Company will extend its Mrooklyn from Utlou Avenhae und Bas ern Parkway Pa jew extonaton wi ecw Jvilie nection with stations ot Sutt WW nrutema Avabis Pier Min rush houre tun-car tral [udnute headway will be ope ‘ In honerust hours elght-ca dn vightminute tead *ay | BRIDE DIES SUDDENLY. Redbank, N. J, W theed in Apparent ¢ Mra, Hertha Meld Lit bride of a week, d t her home, No. 96 Trond St had retir Ith, und t her hw of hoart dine morning, shortly after midn Me He Lt fF impend: { when awakened ¥ | guep Wii Dts 3 | Caprese Rams Local su | Neither ‘Crain Damaxe northbound subwa: truce a local nour idnight last nigat rowded with homeward |WEDDEDIA THIEF, NOT HAT MAKER, SAYS MRS. HELLER morning on) Roem ane Uhemaee 1451 Kelly] deprecated and do doprecate the xranted | tion of unscrupulous parties wii She testified | have ta luisband represented himself] situation to exact excessive and ut turer and later ad-| warranted prices. Their action hi itted he was a pickpoo the 4,000,000 POUNDS at part of the ostate {n carryinx out the plane of Mr, Searles for various : distribution In the non-lake territo FOR THANKSEIVIN (north of the Potomac and east of @ od Turkeys this year will be more pten- tiful for Thankegiving than they were rording to tho Department of Public he turkey market." saya Mrs. Louls d Welzmiller, Deputy Commissioner, not he established before Mon: Retalle © no tting from 6 Hae ent there Ie no|th© books and records of the con- to @ cents a pound, commercial by market la not o} ing ua yet, because the rlea placed the value dyemwied turk at 47 and 48 cents, grade wells at 4 und 65] Burns Brothers, testified for an hour Hold wholeaute nure, Walker, ucconling | | to statements mado when an attempt juze| Way made to probate the will without) sottling with the younger Searles is to| ain provisians mude in| ries. referred to in cartier now to be probated, among other things directions for the care of Milton Angelo Hlilson, jreek. Just what these other are haye not been disclound, | Dut counsel have said that thetr execu. tion will require @ large part of the t the ve turkey supply fore twenty to ‘Thanksgiving, ranges from making a Llotel of about 4,000,000 pounds of live But mbered that most of the In New York come | cents, this it muat be re turkeys consumed Live poultry Ja consumed ively by Jewlah people, almost excl » poultry,” way , little doubt f the dressed product | “and phe adds: at G2 vente a pound retail” MOVIE HOMICIDE CHARGE DROPPED]\°: 31, Far Rockaway, who lives 71 Browd- | he! s+, | nut coal, 2,000 po tof with Six n Panic Held in Reduced Bail Max Schwartz and Barnett Weinberg, rine Street moving to Hun to of the} that if th PEOPLE WILL LIVE TO BE 1,000, SAYS WOMAN WHO IS 95 Sister, Who Wants Bust to Have Her and satd she mind developed need her mind.” With Two Grand Juries Sit- ting, Dealers Undergo a Change of Heart. With a Federal Grand Jury in Mane battan and a County Grand Jury in Brooklyn sifting evidence in a search for profiteering tn anibracite coal, 1 Was forecast that there would be ait~ other reduction, possibly to-day, tm the price of small lot coal for needy consumers. The price yesterday was reduced from $0 cents for 100 pounds to 75, and @ further reduction to 70 cents appears likely. District Attorney Lewis of Brook- lyn, after conferring with Mayor / Hylan by tolephone, announced that, arrangements were being made, whereby Commissioner of Markel O'Malley would turn over the facile tios of his office to help tn the distri bution of emergency fuel. The Anthracite’ Bureau of Info: tion in Philadelphia issued a stat mont which sald in part: “The responsible operators and a tributora who aupply 96 per cent. the total tonnage of anthracite hav on advantage of the presef! paved the way for Pacing on th consumer excessive prices for col that Jeft the mines at reasonab| and stabilized prices.” From tho trade it was learned t! because of the cessation of lake shi} duction, there will be available fo line drawn through Pitteburgh and Buffalo) approximately 2,500,000 tonsa additional, It is reported the pro- / duction this year will be almost equal There Will Be Forty Cars of}to that of last year, ‘The 1919 pro~ Turkeys for New York— Prices Not Lower, duction was 67,000,000 +046.) OF which 2,600,000 tons went over the lakes, In District Attorney Lewis's efforts to learn more about the profits of , |middiemen, H. B. Holtse, Secretary of the Seller Coal Company, appeared, but the price will be higher} by hig attorney, G. A. McLaughlin, \, of No. 2 Re or Street. Mr. Lewis Qemanded to know why Gustav We Seller, head of the firm, had not ap- peared. He was informed Seiler waa in Maine, It was arranged that a» witness would appear Monday with cern. Willott Martin, a wholesaler of No, 143 Liberty Street, also agreed to be */om hand Monday. | Michael Burns, President of and a half before the Federal Grand Jury mm Manbattan, He brought with tim two clerks and 4 load of records whowing the operations of his com- Tho price of live turkeys ia Pany from June 2 to date. ‘These r ords #how that the highest prices stove size anthracite was $13.76 a top und the lowest $12.70. When the coal is dumped through chutes there i# an additional charge of 35 cents a In baskets the extra charge is 60! Avents of Armin W. Riley, Speck f| Assistant, United States Attorney, seid Hs $ » of thia| General, were at work to-day on the? pon-Jows would take udvantake of thl® li cons of Lurns Brothers, coal deutel ers, which had been obtained by #! dleral Grand Jury subpoona, Thee “The | purpose ia to examine each of thi nkawiving bird is & mat- > the : Simply | ome entering Into the high pri however, thioy chicken: duck, goome, rabbit, roam | Htiley's men have undertaken fo, which} make similar Investigations in alt’ for] caséa wher ecomplaints have bed@é! won Market|/ made, One complaint, origin that sumers have to pay for con turned 1 nto United States Distrii Attorney Ross of Brooklyn and him forwarded to Riley, was made Surfman Still of Coast Guard Stati No, 1236 Seneca Street. He said he bought a short“ton ft ds, from the Conat y-Sullivan Compiny, Far Roel on Oct. 8 for $19 plus 75 centy’ abor. : Riley’s agents saw the head of the’ Conerty-sullivan firm and obtained? in Price paid for ry 2,200 pounda;t freiuht war tax, 15. vents; overhead, $2.65, The total net® cost to the retailer was tigured ait £16.50, und Riley's agents therefore! | deolded that there was no profitesr-f ng. It was pointed out, however? dealer was selling coal hought at the mines earlier than Oo" tuber the petit was bigger, The price fe ton gt the mines twas #19, $10.75 in September, § in August and $9 in July, = —_> — Identifies Mot Body. Tdward Regan, No, 12 North Oxtond Brooklyn, to-day fc entified the Streot his mother, Mra, Ann ae a sare otd, whe was kilt ning Avenué trolley car yeas erday, ! ise Real Estate OWN YOUR HOME our own landlord. than most persons A Wonderful » Assortment of opportunities to either the land upon which to bull ® home or buy one already built Is offered the readers of ‘To-morrow’s Sunday Work. 1,000 Separate Real Estate Offers For Sale & Wanted in answer to a subpoena before the\ | Brooklyn Grand Jury, accompanied \ ) -—— ton, and when jt 1s carried to the bins + © following cost figures for nut id]