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this dacwry. Lind dae rene to the alec © quities that surround Ge Geroon Gevernment in the execution of “be oblfgaticns which have re- Salted from tho Treaty of Ver- sailing, They have formed the hope ‘that’ the German Govern- Mont will not place the Al who confirm their previous de-, gisions, under the necessity of iq the grave situation whieh will be created if Germany persisits in failing to meet her Qualified delegates of the Ger- man Government will be invited to a meeting in London at he end of February with delegates of the Allicd Governments, Referring to payments, the note Says: “1, Fixed annuities payable halt- Yearly in equal parts as follows; (a) @wo annuities of 2,000,000,000 gold marks (a gold mark is vornally 24 ents) from May 1, 1921, to May b 1923; (b) three annuitica of dino. 000,000 gold marks from May lL 1974, % May 1, 1% (©) (hree somul ie of 4,000,000,000 fol ywrks Crom May 1, 1926, fo May 1, 1929; (4) three an- muities of 6,000,000,000 gold tnarka from May 1, 1929, to May 1, 1% te shirty-one anpuitics of 6.000,000,000 @old marks from May 1, 1922, to May 1, 1963. 2, Forty-one annuities running from May 1, 1921, equal tp amount to 12 per cena od valorem of German exports, payable in gold two months after the close of each half year, “In order to insure complete ful- filment of paragraph 2 above, Ge many will give to the Reparations Commission every facility for vari fying the amount of the German ex-* ports and for the establishmont of the supervision necessary for this, purpose. “Article ©. The German Govorn-| ment will trausmis forthwith te tho Reparations Commission notes tr bearer payable ot the dates specified im article 1, paragraph 1 of tho present arrangement. The amouns of these notes shall be cquivalont to each of the half-yearly sums payable under said paragraph. “article 3. Germany shall be at lib- erty at any time to make paymonts im advance on account of the fixed portion of the sum owing. ‘Advance payments shall be applied fm the reduction of the fixed annui- Mes provided for in the first pura- graph of article 1. For this purpose @nnuities shall be discounted at tho fate of 8 per cent. until May 3, 1924; @ per cent. from May 1, 1923, to May 4, 1925; 6 per cent. from May 1, 1925. “Article 4 Germany shall not di- reotly embark on any credit operation ‘outside her own territory without the approval of the Reparations Commis- sion. This provision applies to the Government of the German Empire, to the Governments of German states, ‘to the German provincial and munic- dpal authorities and to any compa- mies or undertakings under control of aid Governments or authoritics. “Article 5. In pursuance of article ‘248 of the Treaty of Versailles all the and revenues of the empire assets nd of the German states shall be Ne Yo insure complete execu~ tion by Germany of the provisions of ‘the prosent 4 Sryangoment” NEW $6,000 T TRUCK AND LOAD STOLEN Boki Thieves Operating in Day- ight, Drive Out of Gamge ‘ With Booty. A new $6,000 truck loaded with $2,000 worth of bags and twine was Stolen to-day fram the garage of John Crochessy at ockaway Beach in a bold robbery. Clochessy has been moving She stock from tis salesroom and factory at ‘No. 21 West Fourth Street, Manbat- ten, to his new factory at Rockaway Beach, When he got the last load over Saturday night he left the loaded truck in the gurage, which adjoins When he arrived this morning the truck was gone, and there were fresh foouprints about the | garmge door, A workman in the factory said he had een two men drive off with the truck, ‘but @uyposed they were agents of the company, ‘The thieves entered the garage through a smal exit door which under the fire regulations must be kept open while there works it wung rve away With thet ruck ana its vontents, Livestock in en Staten Valued at 580,000, —Livestock Jan, 1 were compared with Department d to-day: WHAT IS DOING TO-DAY IN CONGRESS SENATE. Fourteenth day Duster. Senator Gerry to speak on dis- armament and naval programme. Post Office Appropriation BIN to be taken up, Calder Reconstruction Commit- fee to decile date for opening lumber trade investixation. Report on Pacific naval base wcheduled to be made to House and Senate Naval Committees. 3 HOUSE, Agriculture Committee takes up Packer Regulation Bill Appropriations Sub-Committee _gonmiders Nuvy and Deficiency < Bills, Ways and Means Committee of tariff fl. RAILROAD WAGES MUST BE CUT, HEADS OF LINES DECLARE —_-— Immediate — Abrogation Agreemenis Made With | Men Is Urge :NCY IS MENACED of SOLV| Executives Wish to keturn to Rates Prevailingedefore Recent Increases ene 2, Jan. Bi.—1 fuection of the national ag-eemapts brewer and was proposed to the Rutlroad Labor Tard te W. W. Atterbury, the Lahor Committee sine Tiate ratironds eurployess <day by (airman of of the Association of Railway Bxec- utives and Vies President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, ‘The’ solvency of the railroads of the country must be assured hy a reduction in operatin# expenses, Mr. Atterbury @relared Unies prompt action affords relief to the roads, he eid, many of the lines of the coun- try may be forced into insolvency “The Labor Board can prevent this trophe,” Mr. Atterbury said, “by deaating that the national ugree- ments, rules and working conditions coming over from the war period aro terminated at ones, That the question of reasonable and economical rules and working conditions shall be re- manded to negotiation between etch carrier and ite own employees, and (hat as the basls for such negotin- | tions, the agreements, rules and work- jing conditions in effect on each rail | roud as of Doo, 34 1917, shall be re established.” On the question of wage reductions in connection with the requested action by the bound, Mr. Atterbury said: “If the board will do this, the Labor Committeo of the Association of Railway Executives will urse upon every railroad company a party to decision number 2, that no proposal for the reduction of basic wages shai] be made within the next succeeding ninety days. This will afford an op- portunity to gauge the oconomics which can be accomplished through more efficient rules and working conditions, It will also Afford ad- ditional Ume in which to realixe the benefits of a further decline in the cost of living.” ‘The national agreements, rules and working condifions forced on the railroads as war measures,” the state- ment sys, “cause gross waste and inefficiency. 1 estimate that tho elimination of this waste would re- duce railway operating expenses at least $30,000,000 per annum. It would | be far better to save this sum by restoring‘ conditions of efficient and economical operation than to reduce wages.” Conditional upon the abrogation of the National agreements by the labor Bound, the roads ask in ad- dition that the basle rates for un- skilled labor, fixed at 39 to 48 1-2 cents ‘per hour in the award of July, 1920, be Immediately retracted. The et , made that inasmuoh as rates for un- skilled labor dn other industries have been greatly reduced since the award | became effeotive, the higher scale on | the rallroads works to the disadvan- tage of other employers, and “bears with grave injustice upon the great bedy of our farmers,” The appeal 6f the railway execu- tives is concluded with the declanay tion that “in our judgment, unless the proposed measurey be taken promptly by your board, a situation will shortly develop in which orderly procedure will became entirely ln- possible." — Nol German Traveller Dead. BERLIN, Jan. 31,—Prof, C. G. sehil- ing®, noted as an African traveller and zoologist, died here Saturday. X-RAYS ABOLISH | AGE OF WOMAN, SAYS PROFESSOR 25 Clear, Wrinkles Disappear and Her Eyes Brighten, Under the Treatment. VIENNA, Jan. 31, RAY of hope for aging wo- | A manhood has been discov- ered, according to the an- nouncement to-day of Prof. Holz- neoht, director of (he Roentgen Institute here, It is the Roentgen ray. “Woman is rejuvenated physio- logically and psychologically by the treatment I have devised,” Holenecht declared Blurred voices have become clear and fresh, he asserted. Complexions have cleared, eyes brightened and wrinkles disap- Peured while the patient entered her old life with new zest, The treatment, he said, con Sisted In playing the feeblest rays upon the patient, “Age is banished,” the profes- sor, declared Thirty ments wuld, per cont. of his expert- have succeasful, he CIGARETT® SLAMED FOR HOTEL FIRE IN WHICH 13 PERISHED i} Hundreds View Boxlies in Ho- boken Morgue in Search for Kin or Friends. BEGUN FOUR INQUIRIE Seven Women and Six Men Dead—Four Bodies Uniden- tified-Man Goes Insane. The death to-< Kahler, No. of Miss Blanche thirty-eight years ol, of 76 Madison Avenue, Jersey City. Increased to thirteen th n per of fatalition caused by fire early yeaterday in the Colonial Hotel, Nos 39 and 41 Newark Street, Hoboken. Miss Kabler had been found in room 26 of the hotel after the fire was practicaHy out, She was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, where she died without regaining consclousnoss. Nine of the persons killed in the fire have now been identified. Phe latest was Irene Woerts, twenty-five years old, of No. 824 17th Avenue, Irving- ton, N. J. The bodies of two men and two women killed in the fire have not yet been identified, County Proseoutor Pierre P. Garven declared to-day he would conduct a thorough investigation into the man ner in which the hotel was conducted If any violation of the law was shown, he said, the ownera, managers ‘ind all ay In possible violations of Lhe law at the hotel. Mr. Garven has three detectives working on the case, led by William | J. Charlock, head of the Homicide Squad! In addition, investigations ure being conducted by the Coroner, Director of Public Safety and Pi Chief. So fur, it was sald by ire Chief Gildea, no violation of the fire jaws hdd been disclosed. It is he- which accounted for the rapid spread | of the Names. Mayor Griffin of Hoboken suid to- day that the Fire and Police Depart- ment investigations had been pract)- cally completed and that no violation either of the fire regulations or tht proper authorities at once to consider the advisability of drifting stricter regulations to prevent such a fire in the future | Besides Milas Kahler and Miss | Woerts, the Identified dead are: | GREY, DAISY, twenty-seven yelrs old, No, 321 Pacific Street, Jersey City, divorced wife of Charles May. LINKB, HERMAN, forty-two, 619 Grove Street, Irvington, N. J. LOGAN, FRANK, thirty-six, truck driver, single, No. 221 First Street, Jersey City, occupant of room No. 29. No. served in France with a New Jersey regiment. SCHUMACHER, MRS. forty-two, saloswoman, No. ond Street, Jersey City. SNIDER, ELMO G,, twenty-eight, No, 560 52d Street, Brooklyn, B. R. T. Inspector, These are the descriptions of the Unidentified dead: sian, about forty, 5 feet 7 inches, As, vn or auburn hair, apped teeth at right and lef. -* upper jaw, gold ring, set with white at on third finger of hand, Man, 6 feet 9 inch 160 pounds, three gold tecth In upper jaw. Man, about forty, 5 feet 6 inches, 160, pounds, gry eyes, black hatr, partly bald, good teeth, gray union underwear, Woman, 5 feet § inches, 150 pounds, gold bridgework in upper jaw con- taining five teeth, ope broken tooth left. of lower jaw. ee Missing Since Found Dead. SOMERVILLE, N. J, Jan. 31 body af a woman found in the ive of @ canal near hem has been Identified as Mrs, Willtum Chamberlain of Plain- field, N. J, the mother of two ohdldres. She left hame Dec. 14 to go to a store and apparently wandered away, The MARY, 217 Sec- Dec. skull fracture and break in the left arm, it la belleved, were caused by the propeller a dont ea FATHER DOMINIC TO SERVE 3 YEARS FOR SEDITION Lord Mayor MacSwiney’s Chaplain Sentenced to Five Years, but Two Are Remiited. DUBLAN, Jan. 31.—-Father Dominic, chaplain to the late Lord Mayor Mac- Swiney, haw been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude, but two yoars of the sentence were remitted, He was accused of possessing seditious litera~ ture. Father Dominic was arested when two monasteries were raided in Dub- astic sportunvoman, being an adopt he mud, at | Gir | terrupted. |comptishment that was she said, mov- along with DISLIKES TO COOK BUT OTHERWISE SHE IS A PERFECT GIRL . oe neuen Miss MILDRED s sheucupns Miss Seplowin Wins Honors in Latin and Algebra and Is Physically Perfect. Miss Mildred Seplowin, fifteen- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mus Seplowin, of No, 60 Forbell Avenue, Cypress Hills, has the dis- tinction of being the most perfect girl in a physical sense tn the senior class ut Girla' High School, Brooklyn. Miss Seplowin is also an honor pupil, and is the only girl if the school to win five honors, Miss Seplowin won these in Latin, French, mathematics, chemistry and history: The most perfect girl is known as the “Health Girl” and is selected responsible would be prosecute. Mr.| from the senior class. A dainty Garven also if sedking to en ae en eer a] vere involve aah . whether any policemen were Involved |" sin, seplowin ts 61 inches tall weighs 105 pounds and is an enthusi- . basketball, tennis and skating. The only girl's sport Miss Soplowin has not mastered ts swimming ‘It will be able to swim next year, you may rest asvured of that," she Vhen one likes sports it is not all hard to be healthy,” “Llow does it feel to be the ‘Health she wns asked. lieved the fire started from a cigar- | * ette dropped by a man or woman| “Oh, Just healthy," she replied, who left room No, 12 shortly before | !#Ushingly the fire. [Tt was near an air fuo,|- “There is something else ahe bas not mastered,” one of her sisters in- Questioned as to what ac- ing toward the door: “Helping in the kitchen, Mr, Seplowin, however, declaréd the girl had little time for housework! her studies, iss Soplo- tenement house lawe had been re-| win said she would enter Hunter Col-| vealed. He declared, however, that| {eye and become & \oucher of mathe- he would call a conference of the! matics a — BRINDELL DEFENSE NEARING ITS CLOSE: Mr. Littleton Had Aimed to Begin Address To-Morrow, ‘but Plan Goes Wrong. Martin Littleton, Brindell, counsel for Robert Pe on trial for extortion, was prepared to Introduce enough witnesses to enable him to close tho defense to- day. But Mr. Untermyer’s plan didn't PETERSON, HESTER — CON-| jibe with such hope. STANCE, twenty-six, No. 639 40th) When to-day’s session opened Mr. Un- Street, Brooklyn. termyer said he had still one hour of RIKER, JOSEPH, twenty-nine, No, | s-examination for Vladimir Sanke, 109 Oak sStreey Jersey City, He| the one-time Russian baHet dancer, later business agent of the Polish House- wrevkers’ Unipn and now Interpreter for the Bullding Trades’ Council Comper- sation Bureau at $75 a woek, The elaborate detail with which Mr, Untermyer questioned ke practically disposed of Mr. Littleton’s hope to start to-morrow with | summing up for Brindell Mr. Untermyer went into a line of examination tending to further estab- lish his domination over subsidiary | unions and the war service of the! members of one of them. INTRASTATE RATE CASE IS ADVANCED U. S. Supreme Court Agrees to Expedite Settlement of Wisconsin Suit. WASHINGTON, Jap. 31.—The Su- premg Court to-day agreed to advance the arguments on the appealed case which will determine whether the In- terstate Commerce Commission under the use law can inereaso intrastate as well as interstate rates The suit, brought to the Supreme Court by the Wisconsin Railroad Cam- mision after the Federal commission was upheld in a lower court, Ix consid- ered one of the most important in rate making history, ‘The date for the argument was fixed as Feb, 28. EASTMAN (KODAK co. WITHDRAWS APPEAL -Cummins Will Conform to Court Decrees Holding It to Come Under Anti-Trust Act. WASHINGTON, Jan, 31.—The Wast- man Kodak Campuny to-day withdrew his | FOR CONSPIRACY IN BUILDING SUPPLIES ales Bail Fixed at $1,500 in Each} ( Case—Trial May Bein March * or at Special Term. Fifty-elx members of the Ansocin- tim of Deqers in Masons’ Bullding Materials, accused of conspimcy to control the siles in this district, were heb! in $1,600 ball each in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court to-day on a blanket Indictment charging vio- lation af the Donnelly Anti-Trust Act. | Mart Conboy appeared ax counsel twenty-<«ix of the defendants, Others were represented by George % Medalte, Don Carios Buell, James A. Deahanty, Meier Steinbrinck and |A. f. Nova, Supreme Court Justice | McAvoy gave the men until next ondhy to plend. _ | Counsel for the defendants pro- | tested against’ the wholesale charac- ler of the indictment and sald that some of the defendants were not in business at all and that at least one of them was dead. “We can’t take your word for that,” said Deputy Attorney General De Ford TM it be neceseury him?” was the retort. Mr. De Ford said he would not be Justified in discussing the indictments for publication. He said he would move the case for trial either ut the Mareh term or at an extra term. The defendants are James M. Ames, Harry W. Bell, John M. Kilcullen, Pa- trick J. Heaney, James A. Hea: Francis N. Howland, Dan’ Wright D. Goss, John P, Kane, Will- am K Beattie, John A. MeCarthy,; William MH. Schmohl sr, William H. | Schmohl jr Graham Mursha, J: Noonan, Albert Sohwartz, Nathan Peck, William J. Peck, John A. Phil- brick, Joseph Philbrick, Alden J. Har- court, Walter W, Krider, Prank E Wise, Andrew J. Briglin, John Bris- in, John Wilson, John W. Gayior, Cornelius A. MoGuire, John Cruiek- shank, Audiey ke, Reginald A. Clarke, Frank D, Creamer, Byron D. Creamer, Stephen V. Luffy, John H. Duffy, Francis V. Dufty, John 1f./ Mahnken, Goorge B. Raymond, A. Alexander Edelman, Maillard M. Cunda, Theodore C. Wood, Walter C. Howe James E. Clonin, Robert W. | Main, William H. Barnes, Henry J. Jova, Richanl J. Morrisey, Bhenezer & Emmons, William ‘’. Roberts, William K. Hammond, frank Te Holmes, Irving J, Rose, Alonzo Rose, | Henry 'R, Bingham, John 8B. tose and Jobn J. Betl. | Fifteen witnesses appeared before the Grund Jury which returned the | indictment. fo disinter nes 'COLLECTS TITHE ON EACH PAVING BLOCK | ‘Granite Association Gathers $21,- 000 a Year This Way—No Malched Bidding. | James J. Tobin, Field Secretary of the Granite Paving Block Manufactur- ers’ Association, was a witness before the Board of Estimate to-day when it resumed its Inquiry into city contructs, Mr, Tobin explained that the associa- tion levies an assessment of one-tenth of a cent per paving block on its mem- bership, and that this produces an an- nual revenue of about $21,000. | Of this sum $7,000 is spent for sal- | aries, a little over a thousand dollars for magazine advertisements, $2,000 for small brochures or pamphlets and | about $5,000 for travel and entertain- | ment. . Joseph Leopold, owner of a paving Jeompany in this city and quarries in New England; Frederick Schneider, of Frederick Schneider, Inc., and Bernard Rolf, of the Riverside Contracting Com- pany, denied coflusion or matched bid- \ding on city contracts. aie Printer Falls Dead in Shop. Charles M. Borger, twenty, who had a small print shop at No. 678 Bver- green Avenue, Brooklyn, was found dead in bis place late last night by John Ray, who baa a room in the rear, Dey was due to heart disease, ONE IN 5 DOCTORS — HOLDS A PERMIT TO PRESCRIBE LIQUOR Large Decrease Recently—in 24 States Such Prescriptions Are Forbidden, WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. F the 150,000 physicians in O the United States, 33,379, or 22 per cent, have per- mits to prescribe liquor for their paitents, according to a statement just issued by the Anti-Galoon League, ‘These physicians are in twenty- four states, including seven in the Atlantic Coast, There jas been a large decrease in the number of liquor preserib- its ap to the Supreme Court from} {98 Physicians, however, the lower court decrees in ths Govern-}| Leasue declares. — Twenty-four ment’s wotl-trust suite againat it. States prohibit prescription of ‘The lower court decreos, issued in liquor under State laws, August, 1916, provided for the diasolu-| “We will not usk for any change tion of certain trade combinations a! contracts which Were held to be in r straint of trad In withdrawing: compuny asked that ing jagued at onve, out this decision be * at present in the Volstead act, which permits the prescribing of one pint of whiskey ever ten days." said Wayne B, Wheeler, counsel for the League. INARMY BARRACKS Ce ey nounce Double Tragedy in CAMP DIX, N. J. Jan 81.—Corpl, Albert Linville, twenty-elx years old, whose home is in West Virginia, was shot and killed Saturday evening in his barracks by his wife, Mrs, Flor- ence Linville, whom he married’ tn November. camp authorities an- nounced to-day, Mra. Linville, according to the story she ts alleged to have told the Military Police, had been ont borse- back riding, When she returned, she said, she found traces of another woman in the apartment. Upon in- quiry, the pollce say she declared, she found her husband had entertained another woman during hor absence. While preparing supper, according to her etory to the police, her hus- ‘band came in, and o quarrel ensued. The polices said she shot Linville once in the: side, and then, as he appar- | ently started for the stove to get a poker to defend himself, ‘shot him twice more In the back. ‘The Mibtary Police found the man dead on the floor, and Mns. Linville lying near him witn the reyolver clinghed ‘in ber hand and @ bullet through her reas. At the Camp Dix Hospital | the woman admitted she shot her tus- tand, the police suid, and declared she did not want to live. She will probatiy die. ~|POLICE DETECTIVE GETS 30 DAYS FOR COURT CONTEMPT (Continued From Fire Page.) May 6, 1920, did you receive a reward of $100 for the recovery of a Hudson ear?” And that the witness refused to unewer it on the ground that an answer would tend to degrade or in- criminate ‘him. He took that ground although he liad cen granted im- munity, “Would you like to have me assign counsel to advise you?" Judge Crain aetked \Arenetrong. “Yes, T would.” replied the deter- tive. Fudge Crain appointed Prank Ara- now, who was in court, instrudting him to tmit bis advice to Armstrong's refusal to answer the questions. Mr. Whitman, who wns near Mr. Aranow and the detective, interrupted their conference by appeailims to Judge Crain. “I object to the advice the lawyer ts Siving the witness,” he sud. “He ia telling him he has no right to refuse to answer any question if it tends to degrade him. 1 contend that is not the law. ‘The law is specific—it cannot de- grade him because he has already been granted immunity “Your Honor," replied Mr. Aranow, “that is my understanding of the law. He can refuse to answer any question that tends to dogrmide or incriminate him.” “That Is not 50," man. Judge Crain sent for a copy of the Constitution of the State to deter- mine the question, and while he was awaiting its delivery, the Grand Jury stenographer read the other two rejoined Mr. Whit- questions which Armstrong is alleged to have refused to answer, ‘They were: “On March 19, 1920, did you receive $50 in cash from an Insurance man named Listner for the recovery of a Dodge car?" “On July 18, 1920, did you get a re- ward of $40 in cash for the recovery of a Jord car: “It seems to me," said Judge Crain to Armstrong “that it is very plain that to anawer these questions would hut tend to degrade you and as they cannot incriminate you ‘because af the fact that you have received im- muniy, I instrict you to answer them." “Your Honor,” said Mr, Aranow, “can I confer with Mr, Anmstrong before he leaves the court room?” But Mr. Whitman objected, saying that the witness was before the Grand Jury, and Judge Crain, after denying Mr. Aranow’s request, warned \Alrmstromg that if he dis- obeyed the instructions of the court he would be punished for contempt. “Your instructions re that I must answer these questions,” said Anm~- strong. “Those arc my instructions,” re- plied Judge Crain, whereupon, led by elective Thomas and Armstrons, Mr. Wihitman and the Grand Jury tiled baok to the Grand Jury room, It became known to-day that in- surance companies whicl specialize in protection of automobile owners have paid out nearly $260,000 in the last eight months in wus county alone, The Special Gran “ury tn- vestigating the Police Perartment Quarters There. | if INTO THE B.R.T. mae SR Camp Dix Military Police An- Representative Volk Introduces Any One € a Resolution Attacking Methods! of Receiver Garrison. (Special from a Staff Correspendent f The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Repre- sentative Volk of Brooklyn ay introduced a resolution in the House Providing for an inquiry into the operation of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system by Rece|ver Garrison and the discontinuance of certain branches. Mr. Volk says that upward of 0,000 has been paid out in fees to the receiver and others in a year with the sanction of the United States Court, These sums, he says, , are gros#ly excessive, and if applied to the work of operating the trans- portation system of its branches would obviate the necessity of dis- | to- jcontinuance of tiie branches which have been discontinued or the dis- | continuance of which are threatened. The resolution further sets out that the commencement of this receiver- ship was not tn furtherance of the Interest of the creditors of the com- pany or its seourity holders, but has worked great hardship on the credi- tos af the property The Government is a creditor of one of the defendent companies to the ex- tent of $17,000,000 loaned by the War Finance Corporation. The committee will have power to send for persons aad papers and take the Step to examine into the a ton ofthe atfalrs of the transit sy ten. N.Y. DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATORS UNITE TO FIGHT CAR PLAN (Continued From Firat Page.) present: Senators P. J. MeGarry, D. M. Farna!, J. 8. nancy a ¢ Walker, J. J. Boytan, Bornamt Down- ing, Nathan Struus fr., M.D. MoCue, S. A. Cotillo: Amsemblymen A. fh Henderson, Fdwant J. Flynn. WiMtan Lyman, Thomas J. McDonald, Joseph V. McKee, FE. J. Waish, Framk J. Tay- lor, I, A. MoArdie, J. J. Kelly, N. Reilly, Peter J. Hamill, J. J. Me- Laughlin, F. R. Galgano, F. L. THack- enburg, Maurice Bloch, M. Kanan, M. BE, Reiburn, B. Schwab, T. h Cos- grove, Thomas F. Burchill. LEGISLATORS GIVE PLEDGE To VOTE AGAINST PLANS. There was much upplause from a good-sized audience as each Legis- lator gave his pledge to vote aguinst any bills brought out by Gov, Mik | ler, aimed at contro! of utilities in| New York City. Senator Walker suld | there was more involved than a qucs- tion of the fare to be charged on the subway. Every utility in the city, | he dechkired, ix to be affected. He asked each Legislator present to avoid anything like «peechmaking and to make @ clean-cut statement of just where he stood. Semmtor Boylan suid the Legrwdation proposed by Gov. Miller was a detiber- ate steal from the people, Senator Straus said if the Gover- rort plan goes through no contract with a public utility conporation will be worth ‘the paper it is written on, The proposal attacks the right of con- tract and ‘the principle of home rule, he said. Senator Downing mid any repre- sentative not opopsed to Gov, Miller's plans misrepresents the people of New York Gity. Represen ative jgano said the big issue in the traction situation is the ned for ibetter service for the present fure, not a higher fare €or the present wretched service, Assemblyman Huckenburg sid he had cunvussed ‘his district and found this constituents opposed to any such neasure aS Was Ssupgested in the Governor's message, He aaid he be- lieved every legislator in whe city will find the eame situation if he will give his people a dhance to express them- selves, Representative Cosgrove said the people in Staten Istand atreuly have an 8 cent fare saddled on them and want to get rid of it. ‘The municipally operated line is better operated than under the old management and thc 5 cent fare on that line, the only one Sak ae HED FR TRL ‘BRIDE DYING AFTER IVE CNRS STEERAMUCKON SLAYING HUSBAND FOR INVESTIGATION EAST SIDE SEEKS | Maze of limousines, ay sii Ps HAVEN IN GARAGE oan enue Dead Ani« mal by Paying for Two Damaged Automobiles, ‘ A Texas steer which looked with Aistavor at the sunway leiding from his pon to an abattoir at 44th Street and the East River, lowered bis head. shortly after 1 o'clock to-day flaunted his ‘tail, snorted and tufhed with a flash of his Rind feet through an cpening into 44th Street, followed by butchers with fassoms and a crowd that grow ever greater as fhe cavul- cade journeyed westward across Fintt Avenuo. The Biltmore Garage, at No. 923 Past 4th Street, with its hospitably: open door offered a refuge, Bull and crowd surged in winding through the touring cars, roadsters, coupes, cabriolets and whatnots of motonlom, scratching varnish and bending fenders on the first floor tif the buf found the run- way leading to the second floor. Still he elided his pursuers, turning over two cars in his anxiety to evade cap- ture, and then made the third and top floors, whence he could go no. further, i Out of breath now, the onull Inid down, keeping off captors by «taking heartily at every approach, A pottee- man was sent for. He fired owls ‘The bull fay quiet, but he was only playing possum as the cop soon learned, and then the copper, being out of ammunition, sent for the ce- serves. ‘Twenty shots inter the steer wan dead, end then, looking about at the avoe the bull had created, no one would claim him. He was lying on the top floor of the gurage this afters noon, the property of any one whe would pay the damage of the two cars he overturned. 100 LBS. OF WOMAN TOO MUCH FOR GIANT, Janitor Asks Court for Police Pro- tection But Defendant Is Freed on Assault Charge. Thomas Walah. 6 feet 1 Inch and weighing 190 pounds, ts agraid of Mrs, Anna White, 100 pounds, a ten+ amt of the apartment house at No. 203 West 34th Street, of which he ts superinteratentJjanitor, hy testified before singtstrate Douras in West Side Cour. to-day. airs. White wae arrested jast night by Poltceman George Kelly om Walsh’s compfaint of felonions as~ seurt = Amcording to the testimony, Mrs. White mformed Walsh, whe was running the clevator, a fuse had blown ont ln ter cpartment, asking it be replaced. .f6 answered, sha eald: “I'm too —— Guay to bother.” ‘Mra, Whites uwenty-year old son, Licyd, struck Walsh when, as be said, | be heard him cal ths mother names, |and Walsh was chmshing the bor when Mrs Walsh, as she admitted, ham on the Read with a file. “Your Hones” Sextd Warm, “Ym afraid of thet wana want pole protection.” Mus. White ewore that eleven wi- tempts hud been made to get her out of the apartment hogse, al of which she fad beaten. Her lnase espired in Septomiber. Her $1,000 bail was furnished upon her teleplonie request by Charles H. Salvin of No, 14 Fast 62d Street, Preside of the waranty Trust Company. Magistrate Douras ores discharged her, CITY PREPARES FOR HEAVY SNOW Street Cleaning Department Onders Out Full Force to Remove Stush. Street Cleahing Commessioner Lea in preparation for the Weather Bu "Ss prediction of from five to elghs inches of snow before nightfall, with r temperature, to-day ordered out y available man in the department to remove the slush from the streets If the weather gets colder, he said, the city Is likely to experience the eame trouble it had last year when thick layers of jce and frozen snow and slush covered the Flushing treet Crear ing Department, with the aid of ux Fire Department, went to work early to wash away the slush from the mate thoroughfares. The snow tractors dre in readiness, Commissioner Leo re= ported, and with the first sign of beawy show will start out == ticularly of the Borough of Brook. lyn.” ‘The resolutions call upon the left in Staten Island, is ample to pay running expenses, he enid. BROOKLYN LINES UP IN TRACTION FIGHT Executive Committee of Demo- cratic Organization Demands Defeat of Miller Plan. ‘The Exeogutive Committee of the Kings County Democratic Organim- tion met to-day.in the Jefferson began to dig into this informe tn to- day with the object of trac: ¢ the direction this large sum took, 6 ‘+ te the belief of Mr. Whitman, sv directing the investigation, tit does not all stay with the mu policeman or detective, © Fullding, Brooklyn, and adopted reso- , lutions denouncing the traction pro- | sreenmne of Gov. Miller as a “grossly arranted exploitation of the peo- we. members of the Legislature from Brooklyn to use al! legislative means to block the Governor's bills and also to support the Twomey Bill which would empower the city to install and operate @ municipal bus systam. John H. MoGooey presided at the meeting. ‘There was considerable warm denunciation of the B, RT prior to the moving of the adoplion of the resolutions, The B. R. ‘tC. the speakers and the reaotutions agreed, has Violated and disregarded its franchise obligationa The mehtod by which a receiverstig wae obtained from Judge Mayer is criticised. The receivership is de. scribed as a “steady process of de- integration.” It is asserted that » | five-cont fare can and does yield a profit on an honest capitalization of eyadou * the city of New York, and par- | the B. R. T, serra erect