The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1921, Page 1

| i ia | f | \ Delaware and Hudson, and the Pubilc | TO-NIGHT'S Weather—WARMER; RAIN, FINA EDITION VOL. LXI. NO. 21, 650—DAILY, World). ‘NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, GERMAN PAYMENTS TO TOTAL $71,000,000,000 The Caren ton Books Open to All. Coprright, 1921, by The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Ctrentation Books Open to oe “teal. Pow orn THE , FINALY EDITION TL Second-Class Matter lee, New York, N. ¥, | TRANSIT GRAB MENACE TO 34 CITIES WAGES GUT; FARES RAISED ON ALBANY LINES SHOW PERIL IN MILLER'S TRACTION PLAN State Control Forces Capital Resi- dents to Pay 8 Cents, Though Neighbors Ride for 5—New York| and 33 Other Cities Menaced. By Joseph S. Jordan. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 29.—Practical demonstration of Gov. Miller’s plans to take away from the City of New York the control of its traction lines, im which $300,000,000 of the people’s ntoney has been sunk, was given to-day right in the shadow of the Capitol. Th. Public Service Commission of the second division, which the (Governor contemplates putting in charge of the transit affairs of Greater New York, after his own personally selected commission has straightened things out in the interests of the subway, surface and elevated road finan- Gicrs, to-day put into effect an 8-cent fare on the cars running on the streets of Albany. At the same time there went into effect a reduction on these lines of | SS SE THREEINONE HOME @% per cent. in the pay of its em- ployees. Motormen and conductors momen "=" */ ARE SECRETLY WED ents an hour. ‘The result was a strike at midnight and to-day the people of Albany are WITHIN PA HOURS walking and cursing the United Trac tion Company, an off-shoot of the} geen Bervice Commission. 1S WARNING TO NEW YORK AND) OTHER CITIES. The situation js a timely warning to the people of New York and to the cities up-State as to the effect of | Retired New York. Merchant and Daughters Joined for Life Unknown to Each Other. Gov. Miller's traction measures, if they aro permitted to go through.| ®TIAANTIC CITY, N, J., Jan 29— Fhe United Traction Company oper-] a triple elopement involving three ates its franchise in Albany with the members of one household, none of eonsent of the city, but there is no : @lause in tho contract with regard to| "OM knew of the other's intentions, fares. The power to increaso or de-| Was “isclosed to-day @rease fares is vested in the Public|nouncement that William M Service Commission, and the city has| no voice in the matter, as will be New York's position if the Governor bas his way. Albany is the gold mine from which | the United Traction draws its wealth and the profits from the city will make up any losses of the Hudson Valley lines. With the situation is a fine exem- Plification of the unified system by with the an- Chase, retired New York manufacturer, and daughters, Edith and Hvelyn, had married their respective be- trothed within twenty-four hours. Miss Edith Chase started the mat- rimonial race yesterday by slipping away from home, ostensibly for a shopping trip, She married Robert Crofts Mr his Chase quietly left home to which the Governor and the up-State|meet Mrs. Elizabeth Obergtell. They Reputlican leaders would sew up the| were married. transit facilities of Greater New| On returning home they were York. wreeted by Mr. Chase's other daugh- ter, Evelyn. who had become the bride yesterday at Greenwich, Conn., of Donald Riddle, eldest son of for- mer Mayor William Riddle. —_- FIRE TRUCK DRIVER HAS A CLOSE CALL Thrown Off Seat and Man at Tiller of Machine Hooked On Steers Past Him. Frank MeGough, The United Traction Company op- erated its cars in Renssalacr, Albany, Troy, Watervliet, Green Island and Waterford. The Albany line was formerly operated by the Albany ‘Traction Company. The Delaware and Hudson saw a chance to shut off competition by forming a merger of all the lines mentioned. Here's what has happened: CITY CONTROL OF TRANSIT HOLDS FARES DOWN. In Rensselaer, where tho franchise vests the control of f: in the city, the fare remains to-day at five cents; a Fire eDpartment in Troy the same power resides in| ‘#uMeur, was jolted off a truck hy was the city. But during the war the/ driving through crowded Delancey Common Council voluntarily in-| Street this afternoon when the machine ereased the fare from a nickel to six and then to seven vents. The Pub- Mc Service Commission to-day con- siderately decreased the fare to slx| gents whilo it raised that in Albany fo eight cents and promised to restore [ struck a rut. He fell directly path of a heavy Fire in the Department ma chine that was coupled to his, Charles Scudiari, second machine, at the tiller of the 1p a world war vetersn the nickel fare to Troy when p | and ‘used He mae Common Council of Troy can make] i. Guverices apparatus for en ees that reduction right now, if it 80 de-| from Alien Street to Orchard Street aires, because it controls the rate.of| mere « man whose name was not fare. jearned leaped to th. inning board of In Albany, which is completely at) the first machine, climbed to the driver's the mercy of the Public Service Com-| seat and applied the brakes. mission with regard to rates of fare,| McGough was treated in Gouverneur HS yeEES Hospital for scalp wounds and then (Continued « on Fourth Page) eer, Dome . ~c DEATH TORESCUE. DROWNING SISTER in Vain to Pull Child From Bronx River. Year-Old Daughter of the Rev. David S. Agnew. While David Agnew, six years old, | son of the Rev. David S. Agnew, pas- | tor of St. George's Episcopal Church, on the ice of the Bronx River near his home to-day, k» heard a scream and saw his little sister Eleanor, five, disappear through a hole in the thin ice. Shouting to his playmates— Albert Kalinin and John Veh—to join hands, David placed himself at the end of the human chain and with his free hand began to grope under the 1ce ¢or Bleanor. For several minutes he searched frantically. while the other lads watched the ice crack dangerously near them, thredtening at any mo- ment to engulf them all. Other chil- dren in the meantime had run to tho home of the Agnaws, and the pastor dashed out of the house in his shirt- sles and plunged into the hole, where his daughter had gone down, After repeated attempts the father clutched the skirt of his little daugh- ter and brought her to the surface. Patrolman Britt of the Wakefield Station notified Fordham Hospital and Dr. Rose, with a pulmotor, rushed to the scene, After working for twenty minutes ovet Fleanor the physician pronounced her dead. Young Agnew’s playmates bad pulled him away from the hole only when he began to shake with the intense cold of the icy water. ‘Phe father and son were put to bed immediately and treated for exposure. ‘The Agnews live at No. 661 Hast 219th Street, “DOUG” FAIRBANKS IS HURT BY FALL Actor Will Not Be Able to Perform Any Movie Stunts for a Month, LOS ANGELES, Jan, 29.—While attempting to leap from a window during one of his famous antics, Douglas Fairbanks caught his foot and fell six feet to the pavement, sustaining the following casualties: Wrenched back, twisted neck, broken finger. Fairbanks was taken to his home, where physicians said he would have to remain in bed for several days and would be unable to appear be- fore the camera again for a month or more > WILL ASKS FRIEND TO SCATTER ASHES Messner Ordered to Do This on Fishing Trip in Respect of Mem- ory of Gustave Sprotte. Fred Messner, of No. 531 West sith Street, as a murk of respect to hia friends’ memory, is ordered in the will of Gustave Sprotte, filed to-day for probate, to take Sprotte’s avhes and ncatter them to the winds when next he finhing. Sprotte died Dec. 29 lust, at the West sith Street address. The peti- tion accompanying the will declares the estate to be $4,000 in personal propert all of which is left to his son, Robert, No. 1011 Seneca Avenue, Brooklyn, ian Auaghter Gerteade, of NO. B51 West sith Street - —_ Bandits Werce Cahier to Bring Them 814,000, OIT, Jan, 29 thin forenoon branch of locked room bE bandits north e Bais Bank Three armed entered the the American three employevs rear and escaped with Hiab00! "tne “bandits compelled the gages to bring the money from a With Two > Casmiies Strives, CHAIN FORMED ON ICE.) Pulmotor Fails to Revive Five-| |was playing with several playmates, BOY, SX, BRAVES | VASSAR GIRLS NOT TO SHOCK MODERNISTS BY SHOWING EARS AND ND COVERING THEIR CALVES Reform That Hark Harked Back to , Mothes’s Gown Was Merely a College Joke. HAVE HAD MUCH FUN. Old Fashioned Styles Gave Them Many a Laugh in Classes, | | (Soecial to The Brening World POUGHKEHPSIE, Jan. 29.—"Re- |Delling against the mandate of styles (that carries dress to their knees, Vassar College students have gone jon strike and reverted to the trail- ing skirt.” Oh! Bluest imps of Blue Sundays! Is the comfort and convenience of the short skirt to be abandoned for the dust collecting, germ gathering garb of ultra modesty? What will become of the univer- sally admired hosiery “ads” if tho silk clad ankles are to be modestly dridden? Elaborately dressed arid volumin- ous colffures have been abolished and students have reverted to the tightly bound hair “like mother used to wear.” Heads are assuming their long forgotten ehape and ears are visible, Ye gods! How shocking! Is the fluffy, distinctly feminine coiffure, which every man secretly admires, to be discarded for the plain, slicked hair dressing of half a century ago? Or are the reformees reforming the reformers by proving the adage, “after you get what you want, you don't want it?’ With much curiosity and poign- ant anxiety, I hastened my unim- paired pair of locomotive apparatus to the centre of dress revolution “Is it true that the Vassar stu- dents are going to wear long skirts? Tell me, are you going to pull your hair tight, back and expose your ears?" 1 asked with bated breath of several students dressed in contra- distinction to my questionings, Peals of laughter echoed as they hastened to explain; “It was only a joke, but really we had heaps of fun over ‘t," they ex- plained. “You see, some of the alumnae have been criticising the Present extreme styles and asserting that we are excessively plutocratic in that most every student has a fur coat. Why, they are more econom- ical, since they last for two seasons.” As I burried acro#s the campus to the main building two bicycles coasted down the walk with two capable pairs of feet at the pedals and @ beatific peace atole over me as I noticed they were free of cum- betsome skirts. Praise be, Pandora! escape. The social life of the student body at Vassar is under the direction of a hth Page.) Hope did not (Continued on Eli THE POPE DEFINES TWO WORST EVILS Show Themselves in Immodesty of Women’s Dress and the Modern Dancing. ROMB, Jan. 28,—Pope Benedict, on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the foundation of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi, addressed an encyclica] to-day to all Hishops through- out the world which man. kind to work for world p e and Chris tlan. reconciliation The encyclical saya true peace in ‘ased on the tranquility af the soul and | Christian virtue is necessary, The two {| worst contemporary evils are the inaa- Saale avidity to possess worldly goods and the unquenchable thirat for pleas | ure | These ev ways the en a |"ahow themeelvex in perpetual nt tween the pro if) as Hi as. in immodeaty of women's dress w and modern dancing. “Let women be convinced that they cannot better acquire merit toward the chureh and their mother country than |by working for the correction ef cor- Fupt customs.” LONG ISLAND RR. AND STATEN ISLAND LINES BOOST FARES Court Die ves Injunction; Against Raise of Rates on Both Systems. The Long Island and Staten Island Rapid Transit Ragiroads increased alt except commutation fares to-day on notice of the dissolution by the Ap- pellate Division of the injunction la- sued by Justice Benedict In Brooklyn forbidding the putting into effeet of the authorization given by the Inter- state Commerce Commission Nov. 12 last. ‘The ruling of the. Interstate Com- merce Commission according to Gen- era) Passenger Agent Woodward of the Long Istand' did not authorize an inerease in monthly commutation, fifty-trip, family and school tickets, but an additional order will be sought at the next meoting of the board of directors covering these classes of tickets, ‘The Staten Island Rapid ‘Transit, according to General Passenger| Agent Murray, has asked the New York State Public Service Commis- sion for the right to Increase com- mutation rates 20 per cent. and ex- pects an answer within a few days. ‘Tho application, Mr. Murray sald, also includes the right to charge five cents for a transfer at St. George between the north and south side short lines, making the fare between Stapleton and New Brighton, for in- stance, 13 cents. {The interpretation of the order by the Staten Island Rapid Transit au- thorities enraged those who make daily trips to New York from Rich- mond, The short lines between St, George and South Beach and Mar- inera’ Harbor, on which the fare has been 6 cents for several years, in- creased all fares to 8 cents; this was on the: theory, apparently, that the only just way of collecting a 7.1 cent fare, as authorized, was to take nine- tenths of a cent additional from the passenger, Many walked from their homes to the ferry rather than pay 8 cents On the Tottenville line the 0- cent one-way fare between Totten- ville and St, George was increased to 40 cents; irate passengers could get no better explanation from sta- tion agents for the arithmetic by which 20 per cent, had been trans- muted into 33 per cent, than “that's the orders.” The telephone in the ofMfces of the Staten Island Civic League was reported “busy” all day long transmitting kicks from citi- zens. The Long Island increase applies to Jocal rates on the road's electric lines within the city limits and the largest mamber of persons affected will be on: these routes, Shopping trips to Brooklyn and Manhattan to- (Continued on Fourth Page.) ss NEW YORK WOMAN ‘| member of the Sunday Rights Asso- SWALLOWS POISON Registers at Harrisburg Hotel as | Mrs, Grace Rose—Says She's a Widow Sueelal to The Krening World HARRISBURG, Pa. Jan 29.—The © of Mra * Itoae, New York placed on the reginter at the Col- umbua Hotel, ia all thut local officials here have been at learn concern ne identity of a fusilonubly at tired woman who lx now in a serious condition at the Harrisburg Hospital, result of having swallowed poison. | “I'm a widow,” was ail thé informa- tion hospital wuthoritica from the could obtain} ne Yesterday morning, the Which twice crossed the Atlantic in 1919, was towed back by | destroyers. Although hundreds of nm tried for hours, they were ne !6 Ket the airship back into| the han because of the high wind, During the night the dirigible's noas BLUE LAW ANGELS OF CITY OF ZION SENT TO NEW YORK On Way to Metropolis to Force Sunday Statutes Upon the Inhabitants. VOLIVA GIV ERS DOWIE ONCE TRIED TO SAVE NEW YORK Founder of Zion, Voli Predecessor, Brought Army of 700 With Him John Alexander Dowie, the bald headed. white whiskered and ro- tind founder of the City of Zion, came to this city in October, 1903, with seven hundred of hie follow- ere to “save New York" ‘They held two meetings a day in Madison Square Garten, at which Blijah the Rewtorer used Djistering words regarding? the sins of “the.modern Sodom." Attendance dwindled after pub- lic ouriowity wes satisfied and Dowie rotumed to Illinois de- nounsing New York and its people as utterly abandoned to un- righteousnens and wickedly indit- ferent of his financial needs. ZION OLTY, Mi, Jan. 29,—#irst eoldiers of the City of Zion left here to-day to force Sunday blue luwa on the rest of the nation W. G. Voliva, overseer and owner of Zion, started the first two blue law angels, Helen Buhman and Belle Schelhorn, off to New York as fol- lows: “Tell the wicked people of New York it is far better to sit in church all day Sunday than to sizzle in hell for eternity. Capture New York first, then the rest of the country will be ensy “I'll show them that it's more blessed to give up Sunday amuse- ments than to reveive everlasting punishment, “The same folks who used to laugh at Carrie Nation for wielding a hatchet for propaganda punposes are the ones who don't take me seri- ously. But just watch! Liquor Is gone; Sunday amusement is going.” ‘This is the kind of a Sunday the law giver of Zion would have the nation observe: . No amusements of any kind. Nothing to read other than the Bible. No work other than cooking—and very little of that. Street cars and automobiles to be used only for hauling persons to and from ehurch, Ten hours to be spent in chure! And the bastile for the offender. ‘I'd just a8 soon sizzle in hell for eternity as to suffer all day Sunday under the Blue Laws,” was the re- ply to-day of Dr, Royal 8. Copeland, ciation, to the challenge from Voliva, overseer of Zion City. The association, organized to oom- (Continued on Eighth Page.) —— DIRIGIBLE R.34 IS WRECKED BY GALE Aiter Rescue Airship Practically Ruined Because of Inability to Get It Into Hangar. Special to The Weenie Work!) LONDON, Jan, 2%—The British dirigible R-34 War practically wrecked aa the reaull of being moored outside Its hangar last night during @ gale After being alrdro: blown out REPARATIONS BY GERMANY 10 AVERAGE $1, 700,000,000. ANNUALLY FOR 42 YEARS Council Agrees on Fixed Annual In- stalments Aggregating $56,000, 000,000 and Taxes on Exports That May Reach $15,000,000,000 More —Must Complete Disarmament 6f All Civil Guards by July 1. : PARIS, Jan, 29 (Associated Press),—-The German reparations plan, @s drafted by the Special Committee. of the Supreme Council of the Allies, was signed by the council members this evening. The German disarme- ment agreement also was signed. The council likewise approved a plan for a 200,000,000 i il ‘to aid Austria, The plan provides for the payment by Germany of 226,000,000,000 gold marks in forty-two annual instalments, on a rising seale, beginning with payments of 2,000,000,000 marks the first two years; 3,000,000,000 for the next three years, 4,000,000,000 marka for the next three years, 5,000,000,000 marks for the next three years and 6,000,000,000 for the next thirty-one years. pots ee eee O’CALLAGHAN TOLD TO SAIL BY FEB. 11 Order Issued by Labor Department | —lIs Waiting to Ship as aig Seaman. VASHINGTON, Jan. In addition Germany is to pay 12 ber cent, a year on ber exports, It is provided that the 12 per cent, tax would extefid over (he same perted as the stipulated reparations pay- Germany is to be allowed an. |® per cent, cash discount on par ments made in advance, as [The total of 226,000,000,000 29.—Donal J. O'Callaghan, Lord Mayor of Cork, han been ordered by Secretary Wilson, o¢| marks of German reparations pa: the Labor Department, to leave tho y r United States by February 11. ite in| Mente celled for By the: ping now in the country as seaman awalt-| Would equal approximately $56,+ ing an opportunity to reahip. 000,000,000 at normal exchange ‘The Irish official arrived ia the te the 12 United States ax a stowaway without 9:12 (per cents (on tam @ passport, He waa clausified as a seaman, however, which permitted him to remain until he could find a ship. LLOYD GEORGE CALLS ELECTION Instructs Coalition Party to Make Ready for It in May or June 1ONDON, Jan 29—Premier George, says the London Times, has sent instructions from Paris for the Coalition Party machinery td be ready for a general election In May or June, German exports were continued: for forty-two years it would totals. about $15,000,000,000 on the basis of the exports of 1913.) The delegates left the Foreign OF. fice after the forencon session jk what appeared to be far better hunger than had prevailed among them i@t Any previous time during the confer. ence. The demeanor of Premier Lloyd George was particularly cheerful. Premier Briand told the newspaper men that the Council had achieved ts results in a spirit of the greatest cordiality, The tendency in Freneh c.rcles is to regurd the outcome of Lioyd after tatroduction of the budget early! the conference as a decided success {a April for him It appears, the newpaper comments, The plan will be communicated to the Germans in a few days and thay will be invited to a conference @n Feb. 28 to consider the terms. that the Premier and Chancellor of the Exchequer have decided it is possible to Introduce a budget of £950,000,000, which would allow considerable remis- sion of taxation, and thus afford «| The Brussels Council of Boonomic favorable opportunity for appealing to| Experts will resume its sessions Feb. the country. 7. The penalties provided tn thé DRASTIC CUTS MADE IN ARMY EXPENSES same as under the Treaty of Very including both military and economic measures. As @ guarantee against Germany sailies, WASHINGTOD , Jan. 29.—Drastic defaulting on her payments, the ec eanay. a sie feted ana bagi committee mimended that in sugh wes ordere y Reormary °Flevent German customs might Be to-day due to an impending deficiency of $94,000,000 under appropriations for the Quartermasters Corps Among retrenchments ordered were a 40 percent. cut in the Quartermus- ter General's civilian payroll by 15; reduction of water transportation activities to a minimum and the seized and new Or incréased taxes be imposed without prejudice to any Allies might take if this proved inadequate, Finally many would be forbidden to com tract any foreign loan without pert mission from the Reparations Com) measure the em- | roission, ployee discharged; expe for] ‘The report of the Military Commit- transportation to be cut off; a 60 per-|tee on the disarmament of Germany cent, curtain in the use of gaso-! also has been virtually approt line and lubrica ore economieni|tny council, It provides for ip. bd routing of shipments and curtailment ' , 0 oe disbandment of the Einwohner and other so-called civic guard nigations not permitted under thé of telegraph and cable expenses, a Father asd Twe Childres Bure to| Death, ‘Treaty of Versailles: ‘The disband: KINGSTON, Ont., Jan. 29.—Patrlek : ‘ :. Burns, & locomotive mechanic, and two| Men? MY bars ry ; i of his childre were burned to death | at he » for Rallure, _ here last night when fire destroyed their | Mer Briand , are stronger thas home. Another child is near death in| those anged for at the Spa Come hospital and Mrs. Burns is su/fering | pore: ssa Kk and minor injuries, Burns | ference - was broken off and it was - wes e other: | Going the fire ran ‘upstairs and oungest Bon oUt Lhe windo for the others he was over- ‘The Counc! cic ot at che final meeting Will discuss the A) ls expected to Daa at oe ‘ | } z | | ot J | ' | -* secane poenc saga, 30 | | reparations plan are in general the /*2