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IN “CLERK HIRE” REACHES AL PARIS OF COUNTY <a SyThomas L. F OF CON RES MEN Noted “Economy Howlers” Keep Entire Families On Government Payroll, NEW YORK OFFENDS But Vicious Practice of Nep- otism Is General—More Instances Cited . ’ (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan, 19.—The Eve- ning World to-day completes the list of Congress representatives who have followed the practice of “pocketing” the people's money appfopriated for olerk hire by carrying on the payrolls wives, sons, daughters and near relatives. As pointed out In yeste: day's article, many of these “clerks make their appearance at the Capitol only on paydays, In many cases checks are mailed to the home ad- dress of the relative holding the sine- cure, The present Congress does not respond to economy demands of the country when the personal payroll of the members Is affected, Here is how some of the New Yorkers figure on the House pay- roll: Representative Henry M. Gold- fogle, New York City; Milton Goldfogle, receives $120 per month, Representative Anthony J. Griffin, New York; wife, Kath- erine L. Griffin, gets $120 per month pin money from the Gov- ernment. Representative David J. O’Con- nell of Brookly has M. H. Zin- ner down for $186 per month, and Frank Rizzo $120 per month. Neither of these men has been here since the member was in- ducted into office. Another man looks after the member's office ‘at a small salary, presumably out of the member's pocket, rein- forced by compensation from a patronage job. Representative Daniel J. Rior- dan of New York carried Edward J. Riley at $186.67 per month and Dennis F, Shea at $120 per rponth, neither of whom has ever been seen in his office. Riordan has a eculiarly personal touch with fits constituents, as he writes all his letters with pen and ink. Representative Christoph: ob. Sullivan, New York, has William McCarthy, a New York man, cer- tified for $120 per month. Me- Carthy has never been seen in House Office building. Representative Thomas F. Smith of New York City has Charles J. Ackerson at $186.67 per month. Ackerson has never been to Washington. SOFT JOBS FOR FAMILY AND RELATIVES THE GENERAL RULE ‘The practice, however, 18 not con- fine w York members, but ex- from all to N tends to. representatives parts of the country as witness: Re Leonidas C. Dyer, Missouri; Ciara H, Dyer at $120 per month Roepresen yivanlie; 6.67 per month, Representative Franklin F. ge W, Edmonds, Edmonds at Ells- worth, Minnesota; LM. Bllsworth, at $186.67 per month. Representative Robert FB, Evans, Nebraska; Keith ns, $228.34 per month; Anne M aps, $78.34 per month Representative Simeon D,_ Fess, Ohio, ian Republican Congres- ding econ- has a son, 5 his se year, sional Com: omy how Mary, receiving §3.2 veoh a wom: pffice is al- leged to do practically all the work. She is Clerk of the Committee on Education, of which Mr. Fess happens to be Chairman. Another son, Lehr Fess, receives $3,600 as House Parha mentarian, and Congress always votes the Parliamentarian an extra $1,000 at the end of the session for fevising the rules of the House Manual, This gives the Fess family $15,800 per an- num out of the public crib, not to speak of the small perquisites re- ceived by the member, such as mile- age, stationery Reprosentat! has 2 snother relative certified at $228.34 nth, respectively, itive Benjamin K. Pocht, 1; Brown Focht, at $129 Representative Richard P, Free- ticut, has F. B. Dree- r O84 yentative Chas. Fuller, s Surah EB. Fuller listed at r month sentative John N, Garner, hug wife, EB, R. Garner, ‘listed 7 month, but does not Hannibal L. God- Carolina; wife, M. B. 87, while a tually does all the at $136 per month. fe} U. Waray, Max Hardy receives $136.67 emt orth ntative Ben G. Humphreys, pp. has Sam Vi Anderson 20 per month Mr, Ander- » member of the Missis- Representative Paw) B. Johnson, Mississipp Tiny Johnson receives $78.34 per month. Representative Samuel A, Kendal) certified RBamuel A Kendall jr at 228.24 as Secretary Son does not In office here, It is said, Work! by woman, | nedy, wife, Th Pawn COLD WAVE GRIPS THE GITY STILL; END ISIN SIGHT Only a Slight Improvement in Heating Subway and “LY Trains. THE TEMPERATURE. . M M ~M M M _M _M .M With bitter cold weather prevail- ing again this morning, the Inter- borough showed only partial im- provement in the heating of subway and elevated cars. The Evening Worlds revelation of unheated cars yesterday resulted in one or two points of electricity being turned on in some of the cars but many passengers, especially on the elevated lines, complained that con- ditions again were frigid. As is usual in cold snups, many persons accus- tomed to using surface lines or walk- ing patronized the subway to-day, rewulting in overcrowding, general inconvenience and a disarrangement of traffic, The .congestion was so great at some points that passengers on the west side lines were fifteen or twenty minutes late in reaching their des- tinations. The Public Service Commission re- Ported this afternoon that the Inter- borough was operating its trains with “two points of heat” outside the tun- jing fi nels and “one point’ within them. ‘The Commission will take up the situ: ation with President Hedley and it was said it may be decided to order an additional “point” of heat for the cars, James B. Walker, Secretary of the Commission, said he had received many telaphone complainty this morn- M passengers who «uid they found the cars stone cold. The Com- mission hits inspectors: out watching for violations of the regulations, Temperatures again set a new low record for the winter, weach.ng 4 degrees above zero at 6 o'clock this morning, but after that there was a gradual moderation and the Weather Bureau announced that the worgt of the cold wave Was over. The Hudson ig freezing at the edges here for the first time this winter, Above it is frozen as far south as Tarrytown. A good ice crop Was Said to-day to be assured despite the hitherto mild winter. A man about forty-five years old was found frozen to death on the ice of Wesel Brook, Passaic. He ls un- identified and there are no marks of violence. Several deaths and acci- dents in the greater city were attrib- uted indirectly to the cold. A woman about sixty years old was found suffering from amnesia and | exposure at Boerum Street and Gra- jham Avenue, Williamsburg, at 1A. M, by Policeman Lynch. All she could say was that she came here to visit her daughter, who is believed to live in the neighborhood. Papers she car- ried Indicate she may be Mrs. Mary Eddy of No, 1383 Davis Avenue, Greenwich, Conn. She was taken to the Williamsburg Hospital. Richard Tothill, sixty, a printer of No. 96 Wilson Street, Brooklyn, was found dead to-day in the hall on the fourth floor of No, 175 Chambers where he was employed by ner-Bary Campany, publishers. apparently was due to heart It was the custom of Tothill walk W work and it is believed cold affected him. ne Municipal Lodging House cared for 186 men, 21 women and three children last night; the Bowery Mis- sion for $20 men, and the Salvation Ariny for 604 men. we WEBBER PLEADS GUILTY. Murder of Abraham Yellen Ends Abruptly. 19,—dHarold Webber's trial for the murder/of Abraham Yellen ended abruptly today with a plea of gullty of murder, second degree, He will be sentenced on Friday with his two companions th the erlme, Raymond F, Mulford and Ployd BE, Slover. } ford and Slover were convicted of mur dev, in the first degree. Yellen was shot dead on Thankagiving Day when he resisted an attempt of the trio rob his store In Seneca Street eee Recetvern for Traction Company. Wiliam Paul Allen and John @. Street to ‘Trial fo Buffalo, Jan Moran were to-day appointed by Fed- eval Judge Chattleld in Brooklyn as receivers for the New. York & North Shore ‘Traction Company, which until |July 3 operated trolley ‘oars between Mineola and Port Washington, L. 1. The receivership, reaulted from “action tn equity by the City Savings and Trust which holds an $00,000 mort~ mones advanced, Sompan: f pome fon FEAR OF BRNOELL SHOWNY EDEN ATH TRL TOK Dictated the Assignment of Big Excavating Contract on Subway Work. HE WANTED THE MONEY. Said Fradus Could Have Job if He Paid to the Labor Czar $7,500. The trial of Robert P. Brindelt, charged with extorting $5,000 from Max Aronson, a garment manufac- turer and builder, was adjourned at oon until to-morrow to give Samuel Untermyer, Special Prosecutor, time to appear at Albany to argue for the resolution extending the powers of the Lockwood Committee on Housing. Tn order to show tbat Aronson really had something to be afraid of if be refused Brindell’s demands, fur- ther evidence of other transactions in which the President of the Bulld- ing Trades Council was involved was given by Jacob Fradus, a contractor, who swore that Brindell ruined him. Fradus, bis friend, George H. Clark, a subway construction engineer, and his counsel, Franklin Nevins of Kel- loge & Rose, told how Brindell told each and every one of them how the assignment of a contract involving over $150,000 at Seventh Avenue and 37th Street was to be settled and also told Clark that unless Fradus paid $7,500 to Brindell Fradus could never again do any work in New York. Martin Littleton asked questions tending to show that PFradus held spite against Brindell because Brin- del had refused to give aid to Fradus in @ civil suit, though Fradus had of- fered the labor leader $2,000 for such help. Jacob Fradus, contractor for the Garment Center Realty Company, who charges that Brindell ruined him after demanding and failing to get a bribe of $75,000, was recalled to the stand to-day. Justice McAvoy has sustained the contention of Samuel Untermyer that though Brindell is on trial for extortion of $5,000 from Max Aronson in another transaction, the evidence of Fradus is admissible as tending to show what might have happened to Aronson had he resisted the demands he said were made on him. Martin Littleton of Brindell's counsel, couldn't find out why Fradus. in testifying before the Lockwood Committee did’ not mention $75,000) very red sunset falling upon her blue- as the amount, but said he had been asked for $25,000, Fradus could only explain that Brindell first asked for 75,000 and then “came down to $25,000. Mr, Untermyer's first act to-day was to withdraw all objections to Mr. Littleton'’s request to be allowed to find out what Fradus told the Grand Jury, Justice McAvoy said he would look the minutes over himself first before exposing them to Mr. Lit- tleton. McAvoy showed his desire ail the duration in days of the trial by opening to-day’s proceedings at 9 o'clock instead of at the usual Supreme Court hour of 11 o'clock. Counsel for both sides showed con- straint in exchanging hostile wit- Ucisms follewing the Court's stern warning yesterday that he had tabu- lated these irrelevant and unseemly ins terruptions from the beginning and might take action on them at the end of the trial, Mr. Littleton forebore re- ferring to Mr, Untermyer, with a de- scriptive circular flourish of the hands, as a “Whirling Dervish.” Mr. Untermyer never once paused to ex- plain his grief that he was obliged to “instruct Mr. Littleton fm the rudi- mentary principles of law.” Mr. Fradus told of trying four dif- ferent times to get various contracts, at the Stock Exchange Annex, from the Fuller Construction Company and others after Brindell bad “driven him away from the Garment Center Com- pany.” Mr. Littleton, continuing the cross-examination, continued to call attention to variations between the Lockwood committee testimony and that which the witness gave yes- terday. Q. You have sued Brindel! and the Garment Center Realty Company for $345,000 for putting you out of busi- ness, Have you served any com- plaint on Brindell? A. 1 don't know what my lawyers have done. Q. Had you testified . before Grand Jury when you brought suit? A. Yes, Q, Did you ever talk with Brindell about getting his help to get dam- ages from the Garment Center Realty Company? A. I did. Q. Did you tell him you would pay the this him $2,000 for his help, A. No, Q. Do you know # man named McConville? A. Yes. Q. Did you talk with him about get- Ung Brindell's help in geting dum- ages from the realty company? A. Yes, Q. Did you tell him you would pay $2,000 for Brindell’s heip and ask him to help you get brinduli's aid? A. No. Q. Didnt you tell McConville you would pay one half of all you got out of the realty company as for breaking your contract dell for siding with you? A In previous veatimony ) 8 damages to Brine the on. weer ee are ee oe Lucrezia Rori She Didn’t Lose Voice; - Had Corn Locr ELIA BOR Spanish Songs Birdy BACK Ate et eee Metropolitan, Tells of Her Ailment. By Fay Stevenson. “I didn't lose my voice. I only had a corn on my vocal cord!" ‘ So laughed Lucrezia Bori, the Span- | 8pa' ish soprano, who has just returned to America and the Metropolitan Opera Company, after an absence of five years, and brougit with her “a com- pletely recovered voice.” Sitting in a dainty pink and white boudoir of her suite at the Ritz-Carl- ton, with the last rays of a cold but black hair, Miss Bori made a delight- ful picture ag she talked to me. She wore a dainty white linen middy blouse, very much like the average high school girl wears, a plain blue! w serge skirt and white spats reaching almost to her knees, But it waa her sparkling black eyes which chiefly held my attention, These eyes were so typically Spanish, so piercing, 80 full of romance and keen wit. “And after the corn was removed? tractor has told how the railroad strike delayed the arrival of his steam shovels for excavating the sit+ of the Garment Center Building. He said he paid about $1,000 to have them brought down the Hudson on scows and had got them set up and nt work with the approval of the superintendent of the building when Brindgll ordered his engineers away. A few minutes later, he swore, he got written notice his contract was can- celled, George H. Clark, a civil engineer of the Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins Cor- poration subway builders testified that Fradue came to him as a friend | at the time of the dispute over the| Gurment Center job, Mr. Clark said} he went to see Brindell. A maj named Pierce, Pierce's son and George F. Atwell a wrecking con~ tractor were with Brindell, Q. What did you say? A. I stated I wanted to find out for Fradus why he could not get men to operate steam shovels, They said Fradus was using non-union chauffeurs. Fradus had said he was using union chauffeurs, Brindell disputes that, Brindell said Pierce was new on the contract; Fradus had been put off and was out of it. Q Was there then a discussion as to whether the contract was profitable? A. Yes, Then Brindell made the point that there was no genoral contractor on the job and also asked why I wos butting in, 1 explained Fradus had worked for me and T wanted 1 wid the Garment Center Realty Company had told me that Fradus could bave the contract back if he could get la- bor from the Building Trades Coun- cll through Brindel. Q. What was the outcome? A. Brindell finally said Fradus could have the contract if he paid $7,500. Q. To whom? A, Brindell, He said he wanted the money for himself. The owners were saving a lot of money by not having a general contract and he wanted some of that mo: Q. Did tyeanything more? A. He said lus could not have that job or any other job with- out paying the $7, What part did. Atwait this talk? A. In discussing’ the cost to keep him take In| JANUARY 19, 1921 Declares —_ MILLIONS DUES, SHIP BOARD UNPAID BY FOREIGN LANDS a Witness Before Congress Com- mittee Also Charges Discrim- ination on Part of War Dept. on Vocal Cord Tack of consideration by the War Department which amounted to dis crimination the Shipping treatment of depart- aguinet Board in its mental claims against the War De- partment was charged by Col. Bu- gene Hf. Abadio, former General Con- troller of the Shipping Board, in his testimony to-day before the Walsh Congressional Committee at the Ho tel Pennsylvania. Col. Abadie, buttressed by a trunk- ful of documents, colored charts and legal papers, into which he frequently delved, stated that when he became ControMer on Sept. 19, 1910, the hun- dreds of.miltions of dollars due the board had to be chased through inaze of bookkeeping Aegounts, Some of the acodunts, he wal, included jtems properly belonging in other accounts, while some asset accounts were dis- covered to bo liabilities, and vice versa. “Practically all amounts due from foreign governments remained un- collected on Nov. 1, 1919," said the witness. “Of the War and Navy De- partments the reason for non-col- Kretion given was in many Instances Shipping Board bills were roturned by the debtors, who required more supporting documents to meet thelr ideas of the claims, At .that ume they was unbilled charter hire as follows: War Department, $15,000,000; y Department, $5,800,000: Ameri- can Red Cross, $475,000." On ‘the day he took office, Cot Abadie said, there was owing to the board more than $215,796,000, as fol lows: Foreign governments, $2,194, 092; other United States departments, $107,332,497; Belg Relief Commis sion, $12,120,643; sundry operating ac $86,611,817; other debtors, I encouraged. “Oh, then I had to have a long rest!" replied Miss Bort. “Singers are like birds, They must be happy. And to be happy they must be well. Five years ago I was not well, I began to feel indisponed. I didn't want to sing. So I left Amerie and returned to my home ut Valencia, $7,547,225. A. M. Fisher, clerk and statistician of the committee, stated to a World reporter his elief ‘that less than 5¢ tn. ‘ “Even then I couldn't sing, at least I didn't want to, In 1916 I travelled to Milan and there discovered the reason. So please don't say I lost my voice. Indeed I didn't. I merely had a little obstruction, a corn is what I call it, on my vocal cord, and the Italian doctors removed it. “After that I felt like all well eong- birds. I wanted to sing at the top of iny voice. But my physicians told me Ud better res So I went back to Spain and rested three long “Then | had another sorrow. both my parents. So aga sing, I rested and lived at And my first return to the operatic life was at Monte Carlo and in Italy, Y well, where the cofn disturb- » did not repeat Itself, “Oh, itereally isn’t very. ¢ me to say that, I suppose, Miss Bori. “I mean that about the | corn—but somehow or other, I wish you'd say abnost anything but that 1 at My voice. It's easy to have corns! removed, but it isn’t so easy to find a volce!” AWOKE TO FIND LOVE GONE, HE SAYS concluded Husband Sues Friend and Fellow | Worker for Alienation of Wife's Affections, | Bult for the alienation of the affeo- | tions of Mrs. Alice Doyle was brought in| the Brooklyn Supreme Court by William | H, Doyte against Augustus Angell. Both | men are employed in the Army Quarter: | masters Department at Bay Ridge. Mrs. Doyle lives st No. 82 Amity Street,| Brooklyn, | Doyle nays he brought Angwi home to dinner in 1912, and Angell became a fre~ quent visitor, On Christmas Day, 1915, Doyle affected by liquor, fell asleep, and when he awoke, he charges, found Mra. | Doyle and Angell embracing. As a re-| sult he became run down mentally and physically, and his wife sent him to tie | Kings County Hospital for observatioh, | he saya, When ha got out Angel was living in and hand embroidered. broidered. the house, and dewplte his objections | Hand made of fine batiste, Angell stayed for three years, Then | i Mys. Doyle ordered her husbund out, and hand embroidered Doyle charges. Five months ago she lost @ suit for separation, he asserts, — | WANTS BOARD TO FIX. HOURS FOR WOMEN individual designs. Roosevelt Introduces Bill to Make | New Industrial Body Pledge, | ALBANY, N. ¥., Jun, 19.—Assembly man Theodore Roosevelt, Republican. of sian, to-day introduced in the! ture # Dill Intended to give the 4 industrial board in succession to the State Industrial Commission! power to investigate working hours of woren and children, “This amendment, velt while leaving the present laws In force concerning limitation of hours will! give to the board power to investigate the working hours of women and chil dren and where these bi nan inj heaith, iO prescribe w hours,’* said Col, Rooxe- NO EXCHANGES MM Pate NY, Jn, 19—-The life of the Mullan Legislative CBmmittee inves Liguting the question of teacher's sal- jee war extended to-day until April of the work nd the possible profits. Brindell said Atwell wae back’ne Pierce \ 1 next wher the Assembly concurred with the Senate in the adoption of # > that purpore, aa eee Philippine Nightgowns Hand made of fine batiste 2 1.95 7 Philippine Nightgowns Of fine batiste, entirely hand made and hand em- JANUARY PRIC. JANUARY PRICE Philippine Nightgowns JANUARY PRICE MISS HOMER TO WED SON OF DR. STIRES IN ST. THOMAS’S CHURCH Miss Loulse Homer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Homer, will be mar- ried to Mr, nest Van Rensselaer Stires, soa of the Rev, Dr. and Mrs, Erneet M. Stirea, in St. Thomas's Chureh on April 19. per ent, of these accounts had been ted, explaining his claim that the artment serutinized Shipping nills more loxely than thon other departments, the witness In femorandum charges were ac- cepted from other departments, but they demanded supporting proof of all bills from the Shipping Board, From 10 to 200 papers were necessary to be reproduced photostatically, even though the original papers could have been perused in the Shipping Board office.” Offers Re for Ran Over Wo per of No. 162 East Fourth Lairy Street. a cousin of Miss Anna Bloom, twenty-two, who was killed By an auto- obile Jan. 14 in Third Avenue, near r Seventh Street, has offered a reward for the Identification of the driver of the machine of its number. The chauffeur ene before his tame could be loarned. THEN ABANDONED Man’s Income Is $150:000 a Year, Mrs, Clara Strauss, twenty-oight years old, of No, 1159 Bastern Park- way, asked Justice Aspinall in Kings County Supreme Court to-day for $250 a week alimony and $10,000 counsel fees, alleging that her hus band had deserted her after be had grown rich. The plaintift, is seeking a separi+ twenty-nino years old, is now an of- ficial of the Knitwear Manufacturing Company and has an income of be- tween $150,000 and $200,000 a year, He came to this country trom Burope tm years ago, and when ebe met tim they were botih enrployed in the same garment factory, They married im 1912. 7 ‘Two yeara ago, Mra. Strauss said, her husband became connected with the Knitwear Company and socom 66- gan to complain.of her society, and bégan taking other women to ride ia his automobile, On May 29, 1919, & left her 4vithout cause, sho charged. Strauss denied cruelty and desere tion and sald that his incomes was only $6,000 a year as manager of the Knitwear Company, - “I think,” said Justice Aspinall, “Strauss is one of the men who have got rich too quickly, He probably made $1 a month In Europe. If he had to work as hard for his money ag I have to he would probably enjoy it more. I have never had so many ap- plications for annulment and divorce as in the last two years.” ‘Tho Justice objected to the amount of counsel, fees asked and reserved decision, ———.—____ What Woman Owns This $100 A woman's gold embroidered purse with more than $100 is on the desk of Capt. Jobn P. Teo, Street Cleaning*Com-= missioner, to-day awaiting’ a claimant, The purse wha found yesterday at Sec- ond Avenue and 23d Street by Mantalto, a street sweeper, who it to Foreman Cavanagh. to Supt. MoCarth: to the Commissione: Franklin Simon a Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets Thursday At Pre-War Prices Hand Made, Hand Embroidered Philippine Underthings OMEN’S HAND MADE UNDERWEAR FOR SPRING AT PRICES WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO OFFER FOR YEARS Of batiste, 2.95 in L 3.95 Philippine Envelope Chemises hand embroidered. JANUARY PRICE 1.95 Philippine Envelope Chemises Shoulder strap models of batiste, hand made and hand embroidered. JANUARY PRICE Philippine Envelope Chemises Shoulder strap models of batiste, hand made and em- broidered in special designs. JANUARY PRICE hand made and 2.95 3.95 Women’s Imported Paris-Made Underthings At Greatly Reduced Prices Silk novelties characteristically French, and only one of each model; also fine Paris lingerie expressing the high- est type of French needlework. LINGERIE UNDERWEAR SHOP—First Floor— Take Elevators Help Herbert Hoover feed the starving children of Europe. ; nearest picture theatre Wednesday, January 26th and do your bit for humanity NO CREDITS Go te your HER, WIFE CHARGES “e wy Mrs. Strauss Says Knitwear” tion, She said her husband, Louis, © a 5 ny aren, caeeaeneriaiaienes teaeetet tetera ee