The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1921, Page 3

GENIOUS LITT New York Wants Depew Place Back to Relieve Conges- tion at 42d Street, UT RAILROAD OWNS IT. Would Make Present Viaduct System 100% Efficient, Instead of 50%. ‘ By Soph’e Irene Loeb. Tust how railroads acquire city operty for their very own with very ie dificulty and against the pub- le welfare by an occasional joker in Albany bill is forvibly demon- trated ft Depew Place, on the east- erly side of the New York Central tation, Such a is now being Strongly urged as the one means of lieving congestion around the Cen- 1 Station from 424 Strect to Park Avenue. The city has built the well known Wiaduct on the westerly side of the Biation at a cost of more than §1,- Bt IBeavy on the westerly side and great- ity congested. On the east side {s also a thor- Oughfare which the New York Cen- tral Company claims as property” and for which It asks a oble sum,’ cording to the late Borough President Dowling. The present viaduct Is incomplete @ the other ion is turned to the city, to which it for- merly belonged, The width of the elevated roadway ©n the south side of the Grand Cen- tral Terminal Building is forty-tive feeX This roadwny leads to a high level roadway on the west side of the terminal building that is thirty-five feet in width and is tn reality an upper story of Vanderbila Avenue, Depew Place, however, on the east Bide of the station, has dimensions varying from forty to sixty feet in width, but for the present the public 4s to be excluded from this thorough- fare because it is believed to be legal- &@ private right of way, as the re- sult of hegot @nd the New York Central offictals. “railroad Just how thia place, which w once @ city street, became the “pri- Yate property” of vhe railroad com- pany, which was fa intentions of tie former city officials Who gave the railroad the right %% erect its station, i# Interesting. CITY GIVES RAILROAD CHANCE TO MAKE THE GRAB. Tt seems that in 1884, when Millnoud company sought to enlar; ae city sion to do rthest from the 4 now known stre i this stre the Mayor, Aldermen a New York, “in like ma same bad been lait out s 2 ae- fd city for street pur- “i company enlarged ite passenger depo’ nd acquired title to, graded, paved, curbed and improved Qs a street, the parcel of land fifty fect in width on the easterly side thereof, extending from the north- treet to the south- Street, and aocord- me vested in the erly Kine of 42d erly Vine of 4 ingly the titi City of New Y¥ years street owned by the { K, when all of a sud i Depew ity whieh, ostens! regulate the te of the railroad at Btreet and in connection wi highway structures over suc Js, including the motive power to be used. Now in this bill providing for these highway structures around the muil- road #tation, there was @ little joker which authorized the City of New York to pany any trolled IT TO RAILROAD, ied that the Bou nment, the tg statior t happe 4 of n ap railroad montl hat the t, which now became its very own And the same t Mg was done ve Dullding t New York vie froin t f Now the orp what oan be dor demnatior wi reet make viru 1g now only & THE ONLY WAY OUT. Tue Corporaiion Counsel gives its pinion as folvwa: “Do open Depew }000,000. The traffic at prasent ts very] ns between the city) CORPORATION COUNSEL POINTS | a HUNT FOR CONVICT WHO ESCAPED FROM KEEPERIN SUBWAY Thomas Burke, Permitted to Visit Dying Child Here, Fools Guard and Flees. Principal Keeper Thomas MclInerny and Sergeant Roy Hill of Sing Sing | Prison are to-day leading a search heres for Thomas Burke, a former member of the “Rex” Hope gang serving a fifteen-year sentence, who took advantage of a subway rush’ hour crush to escape late yesterday. Frank A. O'Neill, a Sing Sing keeper who at different times has brought about fifty prisoners to New York to see relatives, was in charge of Burke, who had been allowed, to come to Manhattan to see his little daughter, dangerously ill from pneumonia at No. 311 West 26th Street. O'Neill said he left the Burke home with his prisoner at 4.30 P, M. yesterday to Sing and did not think it necessary to handcuff him, They went to the Seventh Avenue subway at 28th Street to go to Times Square and change to the shuttle for Grand Central, O'Neill said he kept his prisoner in front of him and that Burke entered the side door of the ar first. O'Neill stepped right in after him and declares Burke had disappeared. He looked through the packed car without finding him and, thinking Burke would get off at the next stop, got off ut the Pennsylvania Station. Burke did not appear, O'Neill said he decided to logk through Burke's old haunts for him and did 60 for several hours, not taking time to no- tify Warden Lawes at Sing Sing or the New York police until 1 o'clock \ this morning, Warden Lawes then sent the Prin- cipal Keeper anf others to aid New York detectives, headed by Detective Clarence Daly of the West 47th Street Station, who mude the original ar- rest of Burke, The warden suid O'Neil! would probably be put on charges, Acvording to the police, Burke was arrested in 1918 as a member of the “Red” Hope gang, suspected of hotel, store and park hold-ups. The mem- bers used pistols and blackjacks, and b jured several of their victims. Burke was sent up for # robber: the Sherman Square ‘Hotel, He for merly was a chautfeur, and the po- lice think may have obtained a car and escaped to New Jen i CAT PUTS KITTIES IN HEN’S NEST—SCRAP While Fur and Feathers Fly New- Born Pussies and Chicks Snuggle Together. TRY, Conn, Jan. 2 Joh tars and his wife were dis- turbed by excitement in one of their en houses to-day and upon invests tion found an old female cat had given birth to a litter of kittens in a nest already occupied by a proud old Butt Rock mother of a dozen little day-old chicks, While both mammas were tour- ing up things to prove ownership the little downy peepers were struggling \to vover ‘neath the new-born wiggli kittens. us one to the death I das he did, pussy t food eye peing missing from mother minus one of feathers hen, BANDIT THIEF SURRENDERS. More Jersey Justice Meted Out to Paterson Silk Theft Leader, Adam Kale ntowsky walked into Pat= erson, N. J Polica Headquarters to- day and announ d he w. of th bundits who on Dec, 7 held up the offi of the Paterson Silk Dyelng Company and stole $5,000, Within two hours he was on his way to the State prison at v having been sentenced to from eight to fifteen y 8 by Judge W. W. Wateo} | red he was pinned wutomobito when it part y were captured and are Place, between the northerly line of ! 441 Street and the southery line of 45th desired, be is held by road company, and devoted to a pub- lic use, it will be necessary, before a proceeding to acquire ude’ can be insuitned, to obta lal authority for the purpose from the Legislatur by an wet which will permit the ¢ to open and acquire ttle thereto.” the nt Legislature give the street back tothe city or will the lroud be able to, keep it? That is A THE EVENING WOR LD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921, BRNDELL'S. AD TRS AS WITNESS TOCLEAR HS CHEF i | | Declares Building Trades’ Council Was Not Founded by Accused Labor Czar. Patrick Crowley, Vice Pres'dent and active head of the Building Trades Counck, was the first witneas in PrP, Council, qulled to-day by Martin Littleton he defenso of Robert of the of extortion. opening Bripdell, who ls accused the ‘Treasurer President He is Bus'ness Agent the and Secretary- of Marble Cutters Union. Mr. Crowley told of the consolida- tion of the boards of Business Agents in the five , in pursuance of Mr, Littleton's promise of proof that the Building Trades Council was not rument of oppression built up 1 for his selfish ends, but pment of organized labor Brindell had nothing to do until after it had been organized and was invited to become a charter member and elected President, ‘The Council, be said, had succeeded in advancing wages of its members from $5.50 and 86 to $8 a day. ‘There was a long line of question- ing tending to uphold the defense theory that Brindell was not sole boss of the strike situation in New York. ‘The witness answered from memory. Mr. Untermyer suddenly asked that the minutes of Brindell's and Crow- ley’s organization, the Building Trades Council, be produced. Justice McAvoy ruled that Mr. Un- borou was a det wth which he termyer, in impressing the jury with his inability to subpoena the min- utes, had furnished proof that they were not obtainable by anybody within the jurisdiction of the court Crowley's memory of the proceedings he said must therefore be accepted. Mr. Untermyer’s cross-examination an with a demand to know what be the witness had done toward finding The witness The Court those missing minutes. said he had done nothing. staued no such effort posed on him Did you ever hear of delegates Q elected for life? A. I have heard bhat ragsart of the Lathers and Ken- neally of the Steam Fitters were. (This Alderman Wiliam Ken- neally from Charles F, Murphy's dis- trict.) NEW KIND OF FRAUD CHARGED Owner Accused of © = Car was Stolen After Giving It Away. Rudolph A. Fink of No. 2% Spruce Street, an min, were day by Jude Indictment: d his chauffeur, Michael Loft- onch held in $5,000 ball to» Crain in General sessions charging on attempted bian Insurance Compan 28, told Loffman to give it away, ap it was run down. The car was given to two strange men, who tovk it to @ friend's garage in Corona, circumstances, On his 4 5 the police, telling him inguin car had been stolen, MRS. VANDERBILT QUIETLY WED TO S. J. COLFORD JR. Engagement Rumored, but Never Announcéd—Bride Former Wife of R. C. Vanderbilt. Though an engageiment had been rumored for more than a year, many friends were surprised to-day to learn of the rriage of Mrs, Cathleen Neilson Vanderbilt, former wife of Reginald C. Vanderbilt, and Sydney Jones Colford jr., prominent in New York, Newport and Philadelphia so- ciety, and once husband of Mrs, Clara Knight Colford. They obtained a license late yes- terday in the Municipal Building, not then intimating a speedy wedding. | and were married at 5.30 in the pres- TRIMMING «& vf BROWN STRAW / TO Are New Spring Styles in Hals Here? They Are! LEOKER INLAWGAVEN. ¥. CENTRAL SIREET CITY NEEDS NOW RAD) S RBA —— HE TRIED TO WING MR. WING CHUCK “Bottle on the Hip” Leads plosive Mr. Richards to Clean Up Chop Suey Place. A pint flask “on the hip” blamed to-day by Wing Chuck. 0} of a chop suey restaurant at No. Broadway, ance of Joseph Richards, No. 209 Mof- fatt Street, Brooklyn, who was ar- rested in the restaurant ofter what looked like a mob scene In the movies Riohards, said Wing, ate a meal and declined to pay for it, Then he began to chuck china at Wing. Wing tried to chuck Richards out, but Richards drew a reyolver and tried to wing Chuck. Wing flew out of the window onto the fire escape and patrons of the placed dodged under tables, all shout- ing “Police!” Pattolman ‘Govern of Ralph Avenue Station took Hichards to the police station. He awaits ar- alignment on such charges as carry- ripper? and a revoly t Wing Chuck, refusing to for his n otherwise diverting himself, was ence of a few friends in the bride’a| home, at No. 405 Park Avenue, by} Supreme Court Justice Henry D.| Hotchkiss, | Immediately after the ceremony Mr and Mrs. Colford left to spend their honeymoon at Sagamore Lodge in the Adirondac In making their application for a marriage license, Mrs. Vanderbilt said she had obtained a divorce from Reg- inald C. Vanderbilt on April 9, 1920. on the ground of wilful desertion. The decree wus granted in the Superior Court of Rhode Island, which award-| €d to her the custody of her young daughter, Cathleen, She gave her age as thirty-five years, as did Mr. Col-| ford. Mr. Colford married Miss Clara W. Knight, only daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Edward Collings Knight, of Philadelphia, in December, 1907. They were divorced about a year ago, He {s the only son of Sydney Jones Col- tord, of Nowport, and nephew of Mrs. C. O'Donnell Iselin and Mrs, Francis R. Wissman of Now York. Mrs. Colford, who was born Cath- leen G. Nelson, fa a niece of the late Frederick Gebhard. eerie $450,000 Fire Damage tn Pullman the Pullman Car pany, seven freight cars and twelve coaches were destroyed by fire to-day J.B. Weavor, one of the Vicr-Presidents of the company, estimated the losa at The shops covered an ares nearly two blocks squ No alght shift 19 operated in them and the origin of the fire was not discovered. Do you know why it's toasted ur'ey tobacco flavor. LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE nt District Attorney Harol} said it wad one of the moat cages he ever had handled, Fasting pooullar @ exane Brooklyn, for the exuber-| HAT OF CHINESE SILK TRIMMED With PEARL HAT PINS med : A nereeaen an (qiieetineniacsntineteinitimeeima | STILL DEMOLISHES BROOKLYN STILLNESS And Also Wrecks Building, Singes Alleged Owner and Shatters Nerves of Sleuth. was quiet in Willlameburg this morning. Up to 3.46 o'clock Policeman John Peterson, trying to please Com- missioner Enright by prowling around in elvilian clothing looking for crooks, bad not even found so much as a« busl- ness man carrying a revolver for oelf- protection, Suddenly Peterson got a ciatomer. There was an explosion, and, glancing do Morrell Street, he saw the fol- lowing objects exiting from No, 62 Windows in fragments, part of a stock of dry goods, amoke, David Saltzman, who was burning brinkly and making a noise Wl a dog fight. In the rear room Peterson found what he described as a twenty-allon still, six marrels of mash, bottles and demi- johns. Shocked by thia apparent dis- regard for the Volstead law, Peterson arrested Saltaman, By that time the All hud arrived, Killed by Fa George Hazel, a brakeman, of > East 83d Street, fell from a freight train on which he was working at 67th SU and the North River, and was ki to-day, inspected and departed. _ Bishop McDonnell Recovertn: ROCKLEDGE, Fla., Jan. 27.— The Rey. Charles McDonnell, Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn, who has been Ill here, was reported to-day to be con- valescing. PPENHEIM.CLUNS & C 34th Street—New York To Close Out Friday and Saturday About 175 Sizes 6 to 14 Years 12.75 150 Girls’ Fur Collar Coats Sizes 6 to 16 Years 22.50 Values to 45.00 Velour Silvertone Mix. tures and Polo Cloth, Australian Opossum, Racccon and Taupe Nutria collars. Girls’ Dresses Values to 29.75 Serge, Velveteen, Satin and Velvet and Jersey Combinations. Straight- lineand Two-pieceEffects |39 TICKET AGENTS | $800 a Week. police reserves and the Fire Department | Night in Plan to Save ‘Thirty-nine tleket agents’ Jobs on! the I. R. ‘'T, will be abolished by Re- Garrison on the ground of economy, begining to-night with the removal of agents from alx atationn on| the Fulton Street “1.” Fventually 39 [Jobs are to be abolished with a saving colver Btreet, jticket agents between 6 P.M. and & A. M. and at Vanderbilt, Cumberland and Myrtle Avenue, none between 6 A.M. and @ P.M. Agents are to be removed entirely from Montauk, Ches- jnut and Crescent Street stations. Present incuinbents will be tranaferred to other work, a ‘company official said. The plan was experimented #ith lant night at the stations named and all passengers boarding trains at those stations paid thelr fare to the guards, room Wool Plaid Separate Skirts For Present and Early Spring Wear Specially Priced at 10.75 22.50 Value A Smart new combina- tion stiiched Box and | Side pleaced Model (as illustrated). Attractive two-tone colorings. cut. Lisle bottom. Very Special | 95 Heavy Glove Silk. top, Very Special 2.50 Elastic at waist and knee. Very Special 2.95 ESCAPING GAS KILLS TO LOSE B. R. T. JOBS| 2 WOMEN AND 2 MEN These Three Striking Up-to-Date Models Prove Tl sos maid inal adeeosl \ A eS ‘| en Jeis Cause Two Deaths; Unlighted Stove Blamed Returning home shortly after mid- night John Flaherty, found his aunt, Mrs, Anna Patterson, forty-five, are, a boarder, dead in the parlor on the first floor of No, 313 West Houstoa open jeta. The flow of gus waa Interrupted by froxen pipes at 8.30 last night, and Of $800 a woek. stored von afte it is baiteved At Lafayette Avenue, Duffield Street b poeta Leg a er attereoe. a = he roway an hot notice when nod Coctum Place there will be 01 cos" went out. and when i came on Sgain they were asphyxiated, Mise Anna Ainasin Rose, years old, wan found dead in a niahed room at No. 122 East 121at Street by Mra. Anna Murphy, the housekeeper, last night. amall stove. but out the flame. n Kolleher, fifty-five, a doorman, was found dead wife waa saved by to Flower Hospital. from a kitchen stove. ‘ OPPENHEIM, CLLINS & G 34th Street—New York Remarkable Values Friday OPPENHEIM, CLLUINS & G 34th Street—New York Also on Sale Friday All Silk-Jersey Pantalettes ExtraordinaryValue 3.95 Ankle length all Silk Jersey Pantalettes in Petticoat Shades. Shirred cuff bot- tom. Fully reinforced. Silk-Top Combinations “Kayser” Superior Silk-top combinations, Bodice and band Fully reinforced. Flesh only. ff **Roselle’’ Glove Silk Vests Band and Bodice fully reinforced, Flesh only. “‘Roselle’’ Glove Silk Bloomers Heavy Glove Silk. Full cut and reinforced, Flesh and Black, for Others. fifteen years old, aml Thomas Bowles, same jas was escaping from two fifty-five tty: the Gea was escaping from a it ls supposed a draught n the floor of his bed. 7 Went 68th Street He conwclous but her life was pulmotor and she was taken Gas wan escaping é Full top.