The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1921, Page 3

All Law - Abiding Cabbies } Would Be at Mercy of ° a the. Street Pirates. HONEST MEN PROTEST. + Companies That Have Not {. Robbed People Would Be Driven From Business. ) U A By Sophie Irene Loeb. » The agitation for higher taxicab ates by a certain minority group of exit chauffeurs in the City of New ‘ork bas brought no small amount "ft comment from experienced taxi | Avers and organizations who ate | jt only satisfied with the rates but [9% frank to state that the agitators rt endeavoring to foster higher ates and other so-called “reforms” _ > as to leave no possible chance for Jompetition, which is the life of good ervice in all business, public or pri- ate. The one big answer to raising the * aximum rates prescribed in the resent city ordinance is the fact spat thousands of taxicabs are not mvailing themselves of what they can ly charge, but are running at a er rate, / As to tho rates, the city has the table éxample of the Independent Owners’ Association, which been in business for many years ‘, end whose members have never g@yvailed themselves of the maximum job they could charge under the ordinance. ,Bthave made a thorough investiga- yy “Yon of this organization and have |) fdden im their cabs constantly for | (@&e past.two months, I have not ANI RATES TOO HIGH NOW, UT CONSPIRATORS PLOT 10 CHARGE PUBIC STILL MORE found a single cab that has not been | Shoroughly cleaned, the drivers cour- | Beous asid the rate for three orffour | Pmasengers the same as for one or | wo, namely—50gcents for the first { le and 40 each succeed- mile They Gould charge double, to law, for the latter ser- Bocording fica, if they wished. Upon inquiry at the License De- ent I find that rarely is there complaint against any driver of organization—hardly one or two -@ year, I am told, ‘The Blagk and Whitq, Company's rates are the same and they too tharge @ single tariff. They couldy mecording to the law charge about twice Bs much as this for three or four ngers, but they have never fvailed themseives of the right to wharge a higher rate. ‘Then there. is the Twentieth Cen- tury Company (the brown and white). To-day 1 talked with Otto Gutfreund, the Treasurer and Business Manager, fend to the attorney for the company, Samuel M. Katz. Their cabs have been ramning In New York for three business has grown} In the new | gear they will probably have a thou- sand cabs licensed and they are giving © lowest price taxicab service in ) city. jOME. COMPANIES CHARGE / UNDER THE LEGAL RATE. They also refused to charge double | tariff for three and four passengers, which they can under the city or- inance, and are even running at a} price below the single tariff maximum } | that is permitted by the cityé ‘The prices of the ‘Twentieth Century Com- } pany are forty cents for the first mle and thirty cents for each succeeding | ter, @ certainly unnec mile theres ) “it the city ordi said Mr. Gutfreund. “We are p feotly i they stand, and we are now run- 25 per established by law [ per cent. below the double tariff maximum prescribed in the city ordinance. We are thoroughl our business, Al a fair chance for patron am frank to say our ri ways be as low as possible. “There is.enough margin between the rates we charge and the rates thagy we could charge according to theflaw, for any one to avail them= vse of the higher rates if they wish 0 68. “The most important thing in the City of New York among the taxi drivers is to give good service, Any man can live and make money In this yusinéss if he will keep his cab clean a nd give the best service possible, wr men own their own cab. They have an investment and a future iin the business, which they want to re- tain. | “What is most needed is a good housecleaning inside the business. | The good men, or any group of men, are aiming to build up a good trade, \ and that is what we are trying to do in our organization—to get the con- fidence of the public at the lowest rate possible. “We believe in small,profits but in constant, assured business, The best business in the world has been built up in this way. For example, it has \jtaken considerable time, energy and money in the courts to establish the color of our cabs and our trade mark, whioh Is at once a recognized symbol ot low rate and good service. WOULD OBLITERATE THE DIS- TINCTIVE TRADE MARK COkORS, “And now a group of drivers come along and want to have all the cabs one color, go that there will be no spirit of competition, which would create chaos, and the public could not decide which cab they wanted, “As to @ minimum rate suggested, that would be absurd. It would pre- goribe that we could not charge lower than the maximum rate which the pinto the business over night, as It — Pity the Poor Bootlegger! He’s A Maligned Man Whatever Else Is Said gf Him, He’s Honest and No Profiteer; No, Sir. To the Fititer of The Brening World: In your editorial, “The Fruits,” of yesterday evening, among other things you remark about “profiteering @ootleggers.” I think that you are doing an injustice to thie class of men who are rendering a real service to the community. If you think that we profiteer, you evidently do not take,all factors in the case into consideration. In the first place, the distillers. | get no mean price for their goods; then the wholesaler who draws on permit has to pay a pretty penny to get his with. drawal permit approved—if, the wholesaler draws on a forged per- mit it costs him just as much, tf not more, in graft—and on top of it all the bpndifig companies are charging effrmous premiums for signing a bond. Then, after the wholesaler gets his liquor into his warehouse, the Prohibition hounds begin coming around— droves of ’em—every one with an itching palm. Every time a load of booze goss out there is some | @gent waiting around the corner to grab a case off the wagon for | himself. By the time the stuff reaches the real bootlesger—the | litte fellow who buys in ten and tweRty-case lots—its accumulated costs have brought its price up to around $60 or $65 a case, That's over $5 @ bottle—for remember that.the wholesaler has to make enough profit to set aside a fund for the politicians when he does get pinched, which happens sooner or later. And so you think it is profiteer- ing to sell rye whiskey at from $6 to $8 a bottle? [ never got more for mine—can't get it; there's too much competition. Belleve me, if you, Mr, Editor, were all the time dodging flatfeet and preachers and nosey gu who want to know “Whatcha got in -hat bun- dle?” and then cop a bottle for themselves, you'd think that $8 was a cheap price to pay for your booze. Taken as a whole, the bootlex- gers of this city are a hardwork- ing, law-abiding class of citizens, and it pains me to hear them called by so unworthy a name as “profiteer.” Just remember that most of the money—and the easiest bunch at that—goes to the Government employees. AN HONEST BOOTLEGGER. New York, Jan. 11. WOMAN CAPTURES ALLEGED BURGLARS Mrs. Merritt, Hackensack Ticket Agenf, Marches Them at Re- volver Point to Police. Captured at the pistol point by the| woman station agent of the New Jer-| sey and New York Raflroad at Williams | es hibition, Indifferent or Hos- tile, He Declares. fort to enforce the Volstead Act, Fed- eral Attorney Le Roy W. Ross, ineMfclent.” Mr. Ross sald, in part: “The office of thenProhibition Di- rector originally consisted of the di- rector, an assistant and five clerks. But, because of the vast number of permits issued and applications for withdrawals, the oflce was rapidly haps too carelessly selected, so that,. as shown by the revelations of the past few weeks, the office became honeycombed with graft and corrup- tion, “The office of the Chief Enforce- ment Officer was also hastily*organ- ized and men were employed at $30 a week at a tims when motormen and conductors were receiving §40 and $45. These $30-a-week men were clothed with authority to make cases againstyand arrest people who were making far larger sums of money ans LARGE “SCARF OF BLACK LACEL expanded and the personel was per-| * |Here Are the Very Latest Thrills in Hats; Three-Cornered, Straw and Lace Affairs Maire ates See Ovreres te Konocewooe.6- un aan wooar ANY DRY AGENTS TWORK ON BUDGET [Fee Reve Star LARE GROOKS, SAYS] FOR NEXT YEAR | Cavtat 11 Cents US.ATORNEVROSS) BEG MARCH Public, Who Should Aid Pro-|Board of Estimate Decides to Start Consideration and Pruning Early. In an appeal for support from the] ‘The Board of Estimate decided in “so-called betfer citizens” in the ef-| executive session to-day to begin the work on the 1922 budget on March 1 speaking before the Rotary Club at| ext. Ordinartly the preparation of the Hotel Bossert, Brooklyn, to-day,| the budget does not begin until June, declared many Prohibition Enforce-|‘but from what could bbe learned to- ment men were “absolutely crooked} day the 19% budget ts much different and a still larger number absolutely| from previous ones. Its size wil be enormous, It is realized, and for that reason the budget slashers want to get busy early. If they don't do this, the city’s financial experts say, the tudget will be far beyond constitu- tional limitations and euffjcient lop- pihg off cannot be accomplished in ime. ‘The $27,000,000 whortage in the De- partment of Education appropriation jis regarded as @ lesson ‘by the Esti- |mate Board, Attempts are being | made to raise enough money to meet | this deficiency by saving seven per cent. in each of the City’s depart- ments. The Hylan Administration officials who are back of the early budget making start, point out that*the 1922 Pudget must be completed and made public by midnight of Oct. 1. This means that if the amount ts very Avenue, Hasbrouck Heights, Hacken-|(iegitimately than they had been| Bish anti-administration politicians Sack, “N. J., two yout charge of burglary, ani Merritt gf, No. 28 Union agent, i Teceiving warm praise from the Hackensack police. The accused youths are Robert Bradley, fifteen, of| Carlstadt, and Stephen Montgomery, | sixteen, of Hasbrouck Heights. Burglars entered the station Monday | night, but found little to steal. They| left d note saying they would’ return, | and Mrs. Merritt spent the following | two nights on watch in a house over- to-day face a Mrs. H. B. Street, the) looking the station. Seeing lights in the station last ‘night, she hurried thither, accompanied bya man, Ap- | proaching a window, Mra, Merritt fired a shot through an upper pane and her companion shouted, "Hands up!" The burglars capitulated. Still holding h gun in a business-like manner she Marched her prisoners to Hackensack Pollce Headquarters, that could be charged for a mile, and I or any one would want to’ give service for 40 cents a mile, we would not be permitted to do so. “Nothing could be more detrimental to the life of good service than this idea. There would be no incentive for any taxi driver or group of drivers to try to give better service at lower rates and the cutthroat, criminal driver in the business would get the same price and would have the same colored cab as the man or group of men who had put forth en- ergy and effort to build up a service that.had created confidence, “Gradually we are eliminating from our organization all the questionable elements. Our very latest move, for example, is to exclude from our or- ganization any small type of cars, in order to give the best kind of ser- vice. ‘ “We have developed a telephone business and secured valued co-oper- ation of our customers. Shall this be broken up by the people who come were, who have ho care for the future; who want to get ‘easy change,’ and go out of the business again at a moment's notice? I do not think the public would stand for any such amendments to the present ordl- nance.” T have talked with a number of the most prominent men in th cab business who voice the same opinion as Mr, Gutfreund. The gen- eral feeling is that some of those who are favoring higher rates in the city, able to make legitimately, The re- gult was inevitable, and there was undoubtedly a lange amount of crook- edness in this bureau.” / Mr, Ross cited among the difficul- ties his office met in enforcing the law, the necessity t@proceed “with- out any co-operation upon the part of the local police and the indiffer- ence and in thousands of cases the absolute hostility id active oppos- ition of the very ty citivens who should be most Interested in seeing lww and order upheld. “If you have the right to decide that you will not obey the Highteenth Amendment,” gaid Mr, Ross, “Your neighbor hag the right to decide that he will not obey the law murder.” He declared that under Mr. Ailen in charge of the Brooklyn office and under Mr. Chapin in charge of the State as a whole, the Prohibition Bn: forcement Office is undergoing a@ thorough cleaning out, —— THREE INDICTED IN HOOTCH REMOVALS Woman Is One—Bribe of $25,000 Alleged to Have Been Offered, , ‘Three indictments were returned by the Federat Grand Jury to-day in con- nection with the forged permit for with- drawal of liquor from warehouses. ‘Those indicted were Sigmund (Beanay) Rosenfeld, Hdward Donegan, alfas Joyce, alias Lynch, and Miss Regina Saasone. Rosenfeld 1s charged in the indiotment with offering a bribe of $25,000 to Fed- eral Agent George EB. Golding, Walter D. Murphy and Frank J. Sieb on Dec. 29 at the MoAlpin Hotel. ‘The Oribe waa to affect the release from custody of Donegan and Miss Sassone, who had been arrested. ‘The indictments against Donegan and Miss Sassone charge conspiracy to get out withdrawal permits on the forged signature of Charles R. O'Connor, State Prohibition Director. No indictment was a. so-called minimum ‘rate and cabs all one color are doing it with the prime purpose of taking away some ty, would set us the highest price be charged, Who would be the VGser? The public of course, conte as the maximum ile Dye of the busimtess of men who have taken pains to build up a low rate, ee. mean that if the law. good service business, with an OF: | pa ede oa found: against Mrs. M. E. Parkins, who | was arrested at the same time aa the | other defendants. Her lwwyer, Joseph W. Schwartze, of No. 271 Broadway, will appear before United States Com- missioner Hitchcock to-day and ask for hia client 14 at 4 ( | will have material for the Mayoralty ¢lection in November. Although Mayor Hylan repeatedly promised while on the stump in 1917 that he would redilce ine tax burden, it has grown considerably, ‘The bud- get for 1918, which was the first year of the Hylan Administration, was made in the closing months of 1917 by the Mittchel Administration, It amounted to $238,123,759.20. The 1921 budget for which the Hylan Administration 1s responsible, amounts §345,671,399.71, or an increase of $107,447,640, Mayor Hylan himself realixes that if the 1923 bddget goes above this figure, tt will be difficult to explain the reasons in an election campaign, although he contends that & good part of the tncrease is inherit- od from other administrations, a WOMAN, 71, CAUSES RAID ON A SALOON Says She Patronized Place and That Owner Used Aged Women to Drum Up Trade, ‘A woman, seventy-one years old, her name withheld et present, made the compplaint which brought abou the ar- rest to-day of John J. O'Brien, owner of a saloon at No. 216 Jay Street, Brook- klyn, and his bartender, John Carmody. They were held in $1,000 and $500 bail respectively, charged with selling whis- key to inmates of the Ozunam Home for yrieotions ‘Women, No, 48 Concord tre The women complairiant said she had spent about $30 in the saloon. She said O'Brien had women agents work- ing for him to drum up trade and he $2 dor half @ pint of whiskey. eiieiieeeeee ‘These 144 jettles See Immene. Untted States Commissioner Hitch. cock refused to-day to imsue a search warrant for the seisure of swelve cases of thquar because it was not alleged that the property to be seized was used in the commission of « te Be Olney, Astistant United States District | Whittler Avenue, telephone operator Attorney, who had the papers | for @ firm of lawyers in Broadway, She sald he would have executed an affi-| disappeared Jan. 3 and among her ef- \davit by & witness fn whhh It would be| fects at the office of hen employers. it set forth that the liquor was held In is a |, we found twe letters from ; violation of the Internal revenue law, | Geta. The girl waa found in a “Y. Tt was not disclosed twelve nished room in Philadelphia afd cates ot brought back to perenta or Texas; Joint Got as Far as Morristown— Brought Back Tired and ‘Hungry. Five adventurous lads of Jersey City who, reading of the perilous trip of the three naval balidonists and their hair-raising experiences, decided that life on a Texas ranch was more interesting to them than watehing ‘the Erie choo-choo cars roll into the local terminus, Three days ago they scraped together exactly 11 cents be- ‘tween the five, ‘and left home, neg- fecting to leave the usual note of reffret. To-day they are back in school, after @ thrilling trip to Morristown on a freight train andtwo days’ wan- dering in the wilds of the Morris- town woods, The 11 cents pur- chased the biggest loat of rye bread that the lads coulu buy: Aside from that, they sald, no food had passed under their noses until they arrived home this morning. ‘The lads with the daredevil spirit were Andy Bannor, fourteen, of No. 128 Fremont Street; Jerry Tyner, four- teen, of No. 160 Academy Street; Ed- die Appleman, thirteen, of No. 47 Wayne Street, and Al and Harry Craw- ford, thirteen and twalve, respeotively, of No. 79 Mill Road, all of Jersey City. The parents of these lads decided that Capt. Jim Larkiws of the Mont- gomery Street tation whould speak with their sons, After this they were taken home, fed and sent back to school. BASES SUIT ON BLOND HAIR. Tatlor’s Wife Says she Found Sus- clous Stra: in Comb. ‘Mrs, Rose Gala, in her suit for absolute divorce from Michael Sala, filed in Su- Preme Justice Aspinall's Court, Rrook- lyn, to-day, alleges, among other things, she returned home one day to find long strands of blonde hair in her ¢ombs and hairbrushes. Mrs, Sala is a pronnuoced brunette. Her husband {s a tailor at No. 14 Central Avenue, and, according to the wife, his Income is $10,000 a year, Until they parted the Snias lived at No. $836 78th Street, Queens, Mra. Sula, in her aM@davita, says that on Nov. 26 iast her husband induced her to spend the night at her mother's home, en returned the next day, she declares, the blonde hair wus entwinod in her combs and brushes. The husband denies the charges and ys he has given his wife every fort in @ fine home. ARRESTED AS BLACKMAILER War Veteran, Said to Have Con- feaneds Needed Money. Btforts to get money to pay @ quack dootor for treatment for Mines resulting from tds experiences in France while ocving with the 18th Heavy Artillery, led Hilton Re Koop, No. 232 Logan Street, Brooklyn, to write letters at- tempting to blackmail Paul EH. Albert!, of Alberti, Baird and Cgrleton, Koop's employers at No. 60 Pine Strept, the police said to-day following Koop's arrest. Several days ago Mr. Albert! began receiving letters defanding —$4.006 death. He sent two under threat of Koop packages contalning went to the postaffice Detavtt and Herman of the Bomb Sq reated him. Koop then confessed, the police allege. Koop was in army hospitale five months under treatment for wounds aru! lilneas, the police say, He has a brothor and sister employed by the insurance firm, = eae with ‘his wife and ¢wo children at No. @ charge of abduction, ‘William Getz, a mail carrier living 2014 Gleason Avenue, was held in $1,500 bail in the Morrisania Court to-day on The complaint was by the parents of Rose Klein, sixteen years old, No 832 get At! WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BACHELORS HERE Census Figures. Expected to Show in U.S. ‘Nearly 10,- 000,000 of Them. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. HE world’s largest single collection of bachelors now is included within the pop- ulation of continental United States, a forthcoming official an- alysis of the Census Bureau re- ° ports is expected to show. ‘The analysis may reveal nearly 10/000,000 ‘bachelors, estimates in- dicated to-lay, counting all un- married males over twenty years old, Western States and cities harbor most of the bachelors, Later the figures are expected to show throughout the entire United States 106 males to each 100 females. This will put the United States in a class by itself agong the great nations. Gary, Indiana, now out with 135 males 'for each 100 fe- males, Troy, N. ¥., 90 far, has the distinction of the greatest ex- cess of females nits population, the proportion being 100 females to 84 males, ‘The city has a total of 38,938 females and but $3,075 males, white Gary has’ $1,819 males an but 23,559 females, © FIRST WIFE ALIVE, SO HE QUITS SECOND Wealthy Grocer Says He Thought She Was Dead When He Married Again. Declaring he has learned that hii first wife, who he thought was dead, ts alive and is on her way here from Italy to rejoin him, Modestino Vollilo, wealthy grocer of No, 404 Madison Street, Hobo- ken, has applied to the Court of Chan- cery in Jersey City for an annulment of hia marriage to his second wife and to the Domestic Relations Court for an order restraining her from compelling him to support her. Yellilo saya he married his first wife twenty-two years ago in Italy and his second wife on Feb. 16, 1920, Recently, he says, he got a letter from his brother saying hin first wife was ative and about to start for Hoboken. He promptly left his geoond wife, Cecilia, and she in turn obtained an order compelling him to support her, —————_—_. Attorney Wins $10,005 Fee From Mrs. B. 0. Bergdoll. PHILADBLUPHTA, Jan. 183—A jury in Common Pleas Court to-day ewanied Henry J. Scott $10,005 tn attorney's toca and expenses against Mrs. Emma C, Bergdoll, mother of Hnwin and Grover ©, Bergdoll, convicted draft dodgers, The lawyer had represented Mra. Berg- doll in actions brought against her by the Government. Her defenee was that the fees were tant. CONSTITUTES A GOOD NATTR' LET US SH YOU, BEFORE you BUY 90-Pound Bandit |™ Carries Weapon Big as Himself" Shivering . 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