The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1921, Page 4

FRAUDS ON ALN NOT CONFHED TO EAST SIDE BANKS Complaints Are Now Made Against Concerns in the Wall St. District. EAST SIDE IN METHODS. Acted Within Law and Can’t BeeReached by Criminal Action, By Martin Green. ‘AM the bankers whose customers Dave lost millions of dollars throvgh @elays in the transmission of money to Burope or through the non-de- livery of money sent to Burope are not on the east side or around Mul- berry Bend. The Evening World has Tecelved numerous complaints against sonre of the foremost private banking firms in the Wall Street district, and Phere complaints have been checked up and found to be justified. diseussed at length almost everything lee connected with her new post. fied than a man to handle the tem- peramentad ones, and she indicated “Woman Better Than Man to Handle Temperamental Ones,” Declares First Woman Opera Czar on! Taking Reins in Hand. “I Don’t Believe in a Star Regime—Opera Is the! Thing,” She Says. “I; Would Have an Under- | study for Every Role.” (Special to The Brening World), CHICAGO, IL, Jan, 15.—Mary Gar- den, in assuming her position as gen- eral director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company to-day, declined to discuss the problem why grand opera | is not more popular in America, but She thought a woman better quall- These bankers furnish the same excuses ag the little fellows. that kindness would go a long way in ‘They | dealing with that class. -the person who originally intrusted blame the war and tho after effecta| Miss Garden from the day of her of the war and the dishonesty of | “rival here was outraged at what people in Central and Eastern Eur- she called the Italian season arranged ope. In cases where they have held|!" Chicago this year. money for four years and it has de-| “Twenty-five Italian operas to one teriorated in value because of the|% French!” she said. “Well, we'll see fall of foreign exchange they offer |®bout this matter, I think.” It is apparent that she proposes to Ht to them a return at the rate of |® about it thoroughly from her new ‘THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, fer. Mary Garden to Be Captain and Rudder Of Chicago Grand Opera Ship, She Says; But Kindliness Will Be Golden Rule bought exchange with those dollars exchange to-day. In this they are within their rights. The sender of the money has to ac- cept what the banks offer or bring civil suit, In every instance the courts baye upheld the banks. Here is a case I have looked Into ich involves one of the leading private banks in the Wall Street dis- trict. An official of the bank admit- ted the facts, but sets up the claim that the bank cannot return the original dotlars because the bank at the time and the transaction was imitiated and the bank has lost ex- actly the amount the customer is shy, This benk has enormous credits abroad and produced records to show that it bought foreign exchange on ‘the account of the customer. ‘The amount involved is small, but it serves to illustrate what appears to be a serious defect in the matter of|Gaten in Chicago there was dissen- sion, and then the failure of Ganna Walska to appear in “Zaza” after a refunding foreign exchange. There are hundreds of thousunds of cases like this, and the claims are against by Marinuzz! and Johnson brought all of the artiste differences of the company members to a focus. every class of money transmitter from the small grafter on the foreign born to the biggest institutions in the city, WENT TO RESPONSIBLE BANK, MONEY GONE. In January, 1917, a man who has a small manufacturing business on the Bowery received a letter from his brother-in-iaw, who was a prisoner of war in Koamodemiansk, Siberia, tating that the brother-in-law's family—wife and eight children— were starving in Lemberg, Austria. ‘The little manufacturer, to be sure that the transaction would be carried out honestly, went down to the big nancial institution and paid $17.25 for 150 Austrian kronen, The bank agreed to transmit the money, ‘The manufacturer wrote to his sis- ter telling her he had sent her 160 kronen and asked her to acknowledge receipt of it. She replied, some weeks later, that the money had not arrived. ‘There was another exchange of let- ters, the woman in Austria again saying she had not received the money. Then the United States went into the war and all communication with Austria was cut off. in December, 1918, the manufacturer received a let- ter from his sister stating that ehe had not received the money sent to ‘her in January, 1917. ‘The little manufacturer is an ex- citable person. He hurried down the bank and asked for his money. ‘The clerk who attended him eaid the money bad been paid in Lemberg. ‘Thereupon the little manufacturer be- came vocally explosive and a special policeman escorted him to the doof and tossed him out on the sidewalk. ‘That ended the matter for the time being. The little manufacturer sent his sister money through other chan. nels and kept up @ regular corre- spondence with her. Ghe wrote re. peatedly that she had never been paid the 150 kronen the big bank under- took to send her in January, 1917, On Jan. 5 last, the little manufac- turer received letter from the big tank stating that they could not find any record that 150 kronen forwarded by them in January, 1917, on his account had been paid to the person it was intended for, “If you will send us the correct address of your aister,” the letter concluded, “we will take great pleasure in in. structing our ‘correspondent in Lem. berg to pay to her the sum of 160 kronen.” The sum of 180 kronen Is now worth in Austria, the equivalent of avout 25 cents in American money. In other words $17 has been wiped out of $17.25 deposited with the bank for transmission four years ago, Lf the little manufacturer does not ac- copt the offer of the bank to tranemit to his sister kronen to the value of 25 cents the chances are that his whole investment will soon be wiped mse conditions in Austria in- ‘Ubis season and allot next season. derstood that Miss Garden made no effort to obtain any greater remuner- ation, being confident of her ability to lessen the deficit materially if given free rein in Chicago matters operatic. hi began that the dual directorship of Johnson tried out thoroughly, but if friction | 5 or scandal developed there would be @ new deal, The first rift came when Ganna| the” Walska left the company. opera into the ambitious hands of Miss WILL EMPLOY STARS BUT GIVE and artistic situation after plans to] ing Department is concluded, because £ ) MARY GARDEN point of vantage. Her duties will begin at once, and whe has consente’ to take the respon- aibility, with no change in her present remuneration during the remainder of With an’ annual deficit of $250,000 | 1 in the Chicago Opera fund, it is un- It was understood when the season and Marinugzzi would be Even ‘before the arrival of Miss violent opposition to her appearance In giving the full direction of the] I Garden the authorities ex- bressed entire confidence in her ability to make the opera situation here a complete success. NO “STAR” OPERA. Miss Garden is equaily confident of bringing about a satisfactory business which she outlined in full, as follows: “J will surround myself with the greatest people and 1 will pay artists at their real value, With such artists| t as Gallj-Cure!, Muratore, Titta Ruffo, Baklanoff and Vanni Marcoux | would not have any discussion as to the fee they demanded, as artists who draw are the cheapest in the long run. Thon I would fill in with good people, 1 would not pay them any fancy salaries, “L don't believe in a star regime. 1 belleve in good ensemble perform- ances and in making the opera the thing and not the artist, 1 would have an understudy for every rol It such and such an artist were il! another one would fill the place and opera. The one announced would always be given even if all the princi- pals were sick, as no one js indispen- sable jn this world, “Tt want Lucien Muratore, a very ence on the stage adde distinction to a performance, and let me tell you right here, he will draw and be given tiong involved cannot be used until ufter the investigation of the Bank- it is believed the inwestigation will disclose many similar cases repre- senting the loss of thousands of do}- lore, THIS STOREKEEPER’S 00 SHRUNK TO $20. An east side storeks Went to a bank In November of last year and) inquired if he could send some money to his father in a little town called! Mir, which was supposed to be in Russia, The banking officials and the head of another organization, AMli- | ated with the bank in money trans mission, undertook to send the money | by cable. The storekeeper put up 4400 for which he received credit for 100,000 Soviet rubles at the arbitrary rate of 360 rubles to the dollar, At that time one could obtain in Russia from 4,000 to 4,500 Soviet rubles for a dollar. The storekeeper paid $11 for a cable gram transmitting the money. On Dec. 16 the storekeeper rece!ved a letter from his father stating that in the war between the Poles and the Botsheviki Poland had seized the dis. trict in which Mir is located and tha Mir is now 4 Pollsh town, The en- velope carried Polish stamps. The let- ter also stated that there was no communication between Russia and Poland. The storekeaper went to the bank and demanded his $400. The banker and the agency affiliated with the bank first denied that Mir is In Po- land, When they saw the Polish stamps they admitted that Mir ts in Poland, but said they would try to de: liver the money anyhow. At the prevailing rate of qmchonge 100,000 Soviet rubles will be worth in. ‘ea te that A be at at kronen will soon be worth porn tt Here in ind Jp len tention of the : v9 ‘The names of two ane oes t has been| the way from $400 to $2er Anstita« matter Pollsh marks only the equivalent of now,” said Miss Garden. preme hand, sary. rector who can dictate to hundreds, who can direct holding the rudder, and at the same who can navigate straight eourse und whose judgment will be law with the personnel. great artist, who alone by his pres | lieve . not be impaired in any way.” bert commented. will surround herself with competent men, why she should not succeed as oper- atic chief. ovations such as his art so well de- serves, : WILL GIVE AMERICAN OPERA WHEN IT 18 COMPOSED. “I will give 60 per cent. of the epertory in Italian, 35 in French and 6 in English. These figures are only for the present, as | hope soon Wag. ner and other big German composers works will be presented in the lan- guage intended, them all alike—33 per cent. Italian, French and German, and when good opera comes to be written by English and American Then I would treat composers I would ave their work performed in English, for English as a singing language is as understandable as any other, as demonstrated by John MeCormnack, the greatest exponent of English inging 1 have ever heard, “if McCormack, why not others’ But singing French, Italian or Ger- operas in English—no, no. At Metropolitan in New York I heard “Parsifail” being massacred ,in BPngiish and I thought the language as outrageous to the ear as the scen- e not deserve such treatment. ry to the eye. Wagner surely did “I am, of course, for opera in Eng- lish, American opera, of wourse, nov French, Italian or German operas. Real American operas sung in Eng- | lish {s my most cherished hope, but would not hurt the chances of American composers by presenting in English operas that are written by run well “Any or- ompany is not ve a head, and the opera t season without a su- That hand is neces- There must be a general di- the ship, forcibly {me a captain who knows his job, his boat in a “People will say that this has hap- pened because of Ganna Walska, was Maestro Gino Marinuzzi’s com- ment to-day. “I do not know the meaning of it at all. At 6 o'clock Thufsday evening I was with Miss Garden rehearsing ‘Salome’ with the piano when abe told me she had been appointed. I has- tened to congratulate her, “But T was thunderstruck when Mr. Johnson told me he had resigned. I there never would be a change of did not connections with the company, thought he would continue under Miss Garden, just as I hope to continue as chief of conductor what it means, but dream he would sever his but I don't know trust and be- that the opera's success will “Tam glad to be out of it,” Her- Johnson, executive director, FRIENDS. RESENT ENRIGHT’S. ATTACK ON DAN COSTGA (Continued From First Page.) olency and the squad placed in “more | Rent Profiteering, said he fully ap- efficient hands, those ‘of Inspector MoDonald,” why was \t necessary to remove McDonald and put the squad under command of Inspector Belton? Other questions referred to the forty-eight houses of assignation to which the Commissioner referred as \ } BIG WHISKEY STILL | | REVEALED BY FIRE. | Was Operating in a Garage in the | j | Residential i | ' Omaha, OMAHA, Neb., Jan, 15,—Spontaneous Whiekey ts by firemen to have | cared the fire In a two-story gars ——— n the residen tion of Omaha rly | Other Litigants Suffer Because (i. yr Snimoy and moonsniatae equine | Housing ‘Troubles Take Up |» Most-df Calendars |,TH partly destroyed stilt was eon- i vi lars. | tod by police, who said it waa the equenenenseies | largest ever tak in this section, More! “The condition of affairs in our bel 2,000, auartes of corn liquor were Municipal Courta is becoming posi- m seni inartip Ceuleceed aan eit vont tively disgraceful,” said Justice Confacated: Jacob S. Strahl, sitting In the Sixth | A motor truck loaded with flied District Municipal Court of Brook- Polley (was pomplotely burned. Ten lyn to-day. “And,” he added, “it is daily becoming worse and wors “ ” eters Soe ‘count, ecu DANDERINE storm centres of landlord and te disputes they were known as ¢t | ” “poor man's courts,” but now, sin it frequently takes nearly all day, Girls! Save Your Hairt merely to call the calendar of land- lord cases, the smal] merchant or other poor créditor who seeks relief bas to wait sometimes for tiffs of the poorer classes have with- | drawn meritorious actions, or let them go by default, because of the) time wasted in going to court day | after day only to learn, after hours} of waiting, that their cases could not be reached. | Make It Abundant! Asked to suggest a remedy for this situation, Justice Strahl sald: “in my | opinion, and in that of other Jus-| tices with whom I have talked, it is not necessary to create more Munici- | pal Courts or to appoint additional | Justices. We think the problem | could be solved by the appointment of temporary, or monthly, assistants —call them referees, if you wish~-to | hear nothing but landlord cases and Immediately after a “Danderine” | cases and massage, your hair takes on new life, Feport their findings to the courts. | justre and wondrous beauty, appear- Ran end per idmiart of other | INE twice as heavy and plentiful, be- cases and give prompt relief to the | cause euch hair seems to fluff and perons for whom these courts were | thick Don’t let your hair stay life- originally created. ‘These appoint- less, colorless, plain or seraggly. You, ments might terminate when the|too, want lots of long, strong, beau- congestion in the courts has been | overcome.” | hot of delightful Justice Strahl said that he had} ye your Seuss frequently tried from elehters t0 | checks dandruff and falling hair. This twenty Jury cases in a diy te new | Stimulating “heauty-tonic” gives to find Coa Leal death beata | thin, dull, fading hair that youthfui castliue Applebaum of No. 26 Court | brightness and abundant thickness— Advt. Street, Brooklyn, who has given| All druggists much time to hearings as voluntary counsel to the Mayor's Committee on proved Justice Strahl's suggestion, and added that the referees could sit in the evenings, thus obviating the necessity of hundreds of tenants losing their days’ work by waiting hour after hour in court only to be flourishing without police interfer- ence and the nine racing information bureaus that were raided. | Those familiar with the work of the Police Department recall that when Arthur Woods was Commissioner and the World War was on he realized that the police force was depleted and asked for the service of the United States Military Intelligence in clean- ing up the city for the benefit of the soldiery as well as civilians, These officials, co-operating with the police, did clean up the city completely, the work continuing under Enright, as the war was still in progress, Gam- blers and other offenders appreciated the fact that, while they might take a clmnce with City Government, they were in no mood to cross swords with the National Government, and they closed their disorderly places. In his speech, the Commissioner said as to Costigan's demotion: “Men have their likes and dislikes and become so strongly attached to one administration that they become, in some co actually insubordinate ind disloyal to the succeeding admin- tration. Some have enjoyed reputa- jons wholly out of proportion to their achievements. “I have tolerated the disloyalty and inefficiency of some of them far be~ yond the limits of reasonable tolera- tion, I have no apology for any change I have made. All were ab- solutely necessary for the proper reg- ulation and control of this organiza- “I believe Miss Garden and therefore I see no reason ‘The action of the Opera Association in giving Miss Garden supreme con- trol, conaider stunned the artists of the company. They met in groups at their various apartments for hours after the nouncement, without which the refused to the new — responatbility, an- and the majority of them, Italian artists particularly, await developments with somewhat ul curiosity, The real power in determ!ning what singers shall sing the roles has been held by Joseph C. Engel, stage mana- ger, Who has advised Mr, Johnson in cases and whose advice has nearly always been followed in casting the operas, Marinuze! has had practically no power at all, even when he pos- aeased the Utle of artutio director. The members of the opera cow- iy hold & meeting yesterday an’? Joined in a letter to Harold MeCor miok, the most responaible facty in the organization, in which they said “We send you this note just to aay that we all stand ready to do our part in helping Miss Garden to the Wimost of our ability.” “MANY THANKS,” SAYS THIEF Much Politeness Newark's polite burglar, who holds 4D women and apologizes for stealing from them, has added another victim. fo, hie list rs, George Walker of No. uminer Avenue was preparing gees wen he knocked and asked for tion, “During the former Administration it was proclaimed that an Invincible and sustained vice crusade was pur- sued from day to day, but when I took office I found there were forty- eight houses of assignation flourish- ing and insolent in the fancied se- curity bred by huge profits, and long free from interference.” ss eee STOLE LIQUOR IS CHARGE. Four tn Party of Five Captured at ¥ Long Brauch, 12) BRANCH, N. J., 5.— Patrolman Huhn captured four of a party of five robbers early to-day. They are sald to have stolen 150 cases of whiakey from the storage barn of J. B. Sacco in Morris Avenue, and were tak- ing it away in @ large motor truuk. Sine ‘ringleader escaped, Patroiman Huhn saw the truck stuck in the mud, At his approach the men attempted to told to come again at some future time. < i CUTS OFF FINGER course, you've TO FOOL EXPERTS: |. Senet ar ine strat but you cannot ap- Preciate its full fine- ness until you have had it on the road. Poertner Motor Car Co. 1759 B'way 1432 Bedford Ay. w York Brooklyn Brennan Admits Ruse When Con- fronted With Records Showing Fifteen Arrests. When Michael Brennan, thirty-seven, of No. 10 South Street, a tugboat fire- man, was arraigned before Magistrate Tobias in Essex Market Police Court! yesterday charged with intoxication, he| said he had never been arrested before. | He was then taken before William Beirns, the fingerprint expert of the! court, who discovered there were fif- teen previous intoxication arrests | againat the prisoner. “Well, what have you to that?” asked the Magistrate. | Brennan pointed to his left hand, which was minus a finger, and replied: “Well, this is the first time I had been | arrested since that.” | ‘Then he explained that he had cut off a finger in the hope the fingerprint ex- perts would not be able to identify him. He was sentenced to ten days in the Workhouse, | BOY FINDS PARENTS | WITH THROATS CUT FRUIT OF THE Police Declare Father Killed Wife | Then Himselé After Violent | LOOM say to} muslin ask for Quarrel, { When John Di Maio, fourteen, went into his parents’ room this morning in thelr home, No. 1467 De Kalb Avenue, — Brooklyn, he found them both, John, his father, and Andresia, his mother, | | most LET TS SALE OF dead in bed with their throats cut. In An Wool, Sample his father's hand was a large jack-| rete, | 4 SUITS & 0’ COATS The boy ran to the Wilson Street | . g Made by Sth Ave, Tallon “7 ao" Vales The police nd patrons of Di M. lard room just be learned aio'é pool 4 had heard “a violent quarrel . rooms overhead some tine ‘betore VERY LARGE ASSORTMENT night and decided Di Maio had killed Y his wife and thea himself. He was COHEN'S, 265 6th Av. forty-nine years old, she thirty-eight. Oven Evenings. Cor. 17th wt 2 eeeenr | Daughter of Jap Barred as Citizen) Miss Phyllis Miri Komori, an art | For repairing chin: student of White Plains, N. Y., whose | Scum klaseware, furniture, meer- billiard ‘cues, use application for citizenship was held up honneonanmmmmreriona MAJORS CEMENT Young of the Supreme Court because her father was a Japanese, although r her mother ts an American’ by birth, withdrew her application yesterday’ | when a Federal agent appex run away, he said, but he drow his re- volver and ordered them to stop. All Cone obeyed ‘his ord "man old friend of George's; may tt he maid the kitchen for a So if by change the father in Mir, Poland, it will have sh: abo nother cane of a different |of the storekeeper receives the money | the Ri Dk on there ° er le When she returned t honey and dre Sea Caer him y any, stank ae anit, “Give my wb ’ For Matchless The Standard of Puri jurist and announced the tt would not permit a anese origin to be natural es oe Real Estate OWN YOUR HOME nd be four own landlord. than most persons A Wonderful Assortment Of opportunitics to either, buy the land upon which to bull & home or buy one already built is offered the readers of To-morrow’s Sunday World. 1,000 Separate Real Estate Offers For Sale & Wanted Quality is far | sig A New Series of Great Interest HOW MUCH BOLSHEVISM IS THERE IN AMERICA __ Arno Dosch - Fleurot (World European Staff Correspondent) Who Has Lived for Years Under the Bolsheviks in Russia, Has Just Completed a Tour Over the United States, Studying Social Unrest. Mr. Dosch-Fleurot travelled about the country to see how much Bolshevism he could find. He has been trying to determine how much effect the social revolution in Europe has had upon America. Re- turning to New York, he has written five articles: In No. 1 he contrasts the industrial situation in this rich country to the war-impover- ished countries of Europe. In No. 2 he tells how much Bolshevism he found and how much he did not find. In No. 3 he gives a new picture of what the industrial unrest in America is and ex- plains the efforts to organize labor industrially instead of in trades. No. 4 goes into the ques- tion of industrial peace and how it can be reached by “in- dustrial councils.” No. 5 shows how the farm- ers’ orgarfizations are succeed- ing in doing what the “‘prole- tariat” has not been able to do in the way of organizing industrial unions. ¥ These articles by Mr. Dosch-Fleurot begin to- morrow in The World and continue daily thereafter, from newsdealer beginning to-morrow, and | morning edition for all next week. If not con- a venient to newsdealer, write direct to Circula- ol tion Department, New York World. q