The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1921, Page 3

} FIGHT FOR GRAB OF TRACTION FARES Ready to ine ¢ Contest in} Legislature After His i Illness, LINES UP THE BOSSES.| Patronage Whip ‘Used by Up-| State Men in Threatening Koenig and Livingston, | By Joseph 8. Jordan. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening! World.) | ALBANY, Feb Gov, Miller, tt ® expected, will be on the job to- morrow, after a rest of ten days, made | Necessary iiness and physical weariness. The Governor is reported} to be much improved and ready for he task ahead of him, which, he recognizes, is no light one, beginning of course with his rapid transit pro- sramme. He has been examining the measure which would take from New York the control of its traction Ines and leave e fixing of fures to a three-headed ommission of his own or the Inter- horough'’s selection and reorganize the Up-State Public Service Commis- fon and put all other public service utilities into their keeping. He has sad the measure with him at the Ex- ecutive Mansion since last Friday afternoon, and if he has made any hanges in it they have not been an- nounced, It is expected that the bill will be utreduced in both Houses at to-mor- ow's sessions, when the fight will be m and the fur will begin to fy, ‘The Governor, il] of not fll, has not over- svked anything which would serve to trengthen his forces on the field of | pattie. ‘He began by lining up his forces dirst, notwithstanding bis defense that ue is not playing polities, This de- ense is now looked upon as a smoke sereen, behind which the Governor worked on the quiet. The appointment of Herbert 8. Sie- ons as Commissioner of Highways prought into camp the solid support of Fred Greiner, the Erie County boss, There are Deputy Commissioners to be appointed—engineers and other hotce morvels of patronage for tho neal leaders. And then there are “jobs” (not positions) for tie gang which does the work on Blection Day at and around the polls—the real vote tters—jobs for about 900 of the tthtul, . To bring into line Monroe County, ever Which George Aldridge, “Big Chief of Rochester, presides, the overnor made Charles L. Cadle Sup- rintendent of Public Works, This is uwnother post with tremendous possi- ties of patronage—almost without | along the banks of the big canal. Now the locks are operated by elec- tricity and the lock tenders get any here from $1800 to $2200 a § shile they listen to the splash, the canal, The Governor hasn't ov Jd home town, Syracuse pointment of Lasiia Kine: int General has brought joy Unondaga County. Coming down to Albany Bil Barn has mana. splash County ed to gran usual chunk of the lion's share, His man, Otto iperintende Th supe Jentz, has been made t of Public Buildings. naming of the Deputy ntendent and has already had The ghway Commissioner, patron- age which goes with these jobs wit tep the patriot Albanians in Recs ape arescie ticle crommiacency «g well as their avoirdupois. = Mr Barnes will see to it that Albany's contingent in the Legislature will vote for the Governor's programme. Ben Odell's bailiwick has not been overlooked. Rosche has bccn, picked from his judicial garden aud planted n the Supreme Court, and the former Governor has assurance of further sare, So Ben has lined up his legis ative forces in favor of Gov. Miller's programme, W. Ward Smith, the Goyernor’s pri © secretary, is credited to Bill ard, the boss of Westchester, but rother Ward will see more of the sun shining in New York's backyard ind is content to bask, for the time ving, in what he's got. John F. O'Brien, leader of the North, hasn't ome in’ yet for his division of’ the po- itical loaves and ‘fishes, but there yer remains plenty of them for distribu- ion, But not a gop—not yet—for Sam | <oenig, leader for Manhattan, nor for ake Livingston, Brooklyn's Republi. ‘Phe Governor's trying out from down New York way/ their votes on his traction | aders were against | yasion rule in their e towns, because they knew that » people won't stand for it. Sam ig 18 still worrying over the po- on, but Livingston, spurred by the esaity of polit pap, has sub- ribed to the old Republican policy, he people be damned.” Jake has become the most active nan within Brooklyn's boundaries in 1s effort to make the people believe t they don't know what they want d that Goy. Miller dé He he backing of the Brooklyn Union as Compa the B. R. T. and their suk He has been holding ‘packed meetings of Boards of Gom- nerce and 1 f Trade, and hi nog “resolutions” sent to Albany, and s urging private individuals lo write the Governor to hofp out the ‘s propaganda yday the propaganda s from the Governor's office cons f letters and wires from Governors f other States, Well, the other Gov- rors know as much about running | Now York's trolleys and subway o the farmers from up-Slate, Heek!! | step OFFERED $10,000 TOBE EDIVORCED | Accepted His ‘Defeat in ‘Most Ungracious Manner, De- clares Mrs. Erdrich. Mrs. Elsle Murst Erdrich, who ts suing for a separation, told Supreme Court Justice Bijur to-day that her husband several weoks ago offered her $1,000 to divorce him, and that when she refused he raised his bids by step until he had offered $10,000. When he saw she would not consent to the divorce, she said, he accepted his defeat “in a most ungracious manner.” Mrs, Erdrich, who is twenty-five years old and gays her husband is thirty years her senior, is applying for $100 a week alimony and $1,000 counsel fees. She declares her hus- band, Samuel Enirich, has an income of $20,000 a year as a salesman of women's blouses, but has been nig- gardly in eupplying her with funds, and since leaving her last November has not contributed a penny toward her. support, Mrs. Erdrich asserted that her husband, on returning to their home at dist Street and Riverside Drive one evening last November, struck her, threw her against a chair and kioked her, inflicting permanent sears. She now lives with her father, Alfred Furst, at No. 1157 Boston Road. Justice Bijur reserved decision on application for alimony. In her sep- aration suit the wife charges cruelty, abandonment and fuilure to support her. The husband's attorney admitted | that there had been differences be- | tween the Erdrighs and that efforts at reconciliation bad been fruitless. On one occasion recently, he said, the husband went to meet the wife at a downtown kuwyer’s office, but .sh | failed to appear and while the hus- | band awaited ‘her she obtained the services of a moving concern and stripped the house of all its contents, which she placed in storage. The husband in a replevin action got the greater portion f the property. He | said the question of ownership of the | property, which the wife claims as wedding presents given by her hus band, will be decided in a separate action. RETURNS WITH TH STOLEN GEMS| Mrs, Hoomer Had Gone to Londen to|* ‘Testify Aguinst Si! Steward. ‘The Lapland came in to-day from} Antwerp and Southampton. One of the! passengers was Mrs, L. M. Boomer, wife of the director of the chain of Dupont hotels in New York. She went to Lon- don recently to be a witness at the trial! of a ship steward accused of stealing! $0,000 worth of Jewels from her state-| room an an cariler trip across. She brought the jewels back with her. Another passenger ww: the Countess | Julia Zichy, formerly Miss Julia Moran | of Pittab h, who married Count} Michel Zichy of Hung ner two children, Mich Countess Iaubel de Ba in Paris, came over to BLOW MAKES HIM DUMB. | y She brought) Conductor Unable to Speak Since Driver Hit Him, Charged with felonious assault for an alleged blow with his fist that paralyzod the vocal chords of Philip Addis, ab. R T. conductor, ef No. 111 Vun Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn, Frank Ackroff, milk Wagon driver, of No. 218 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brook, Was held in. $1,500 bail to-day by Magistrate Mc Now Joracy Avenue Court or examina tion Wednesday Addis, it w wk ff has been unable so] ssault on F having an al vhen the latter ¢ th: ad Detectives in Memphis Get Clue to Rest of $465,000. Detectives MeCoy and Roddy of New! York, who were sent to Memphis to| trall bandits who stole $466,000 worth of} Liberty Bonds In « Brooklyn holdup, be- | eve the entire batch was taken to] Memphis by two chauffeurs arrested | 2 for haying liquor in thelr pos-| “The Memphis police say they are| confident the bonds were first taken te rksdale, Miss, and then to Mom-| d have a clue to the $100,000] tare still missing, G. 0. P. MAY FIGHT MILLER. Kings County Committee Expected! Oppose Traction Po! Miller is expected to Opposition to Gov the uatic traction s raised by members af the Kings County | Republican Committee at a meeting to-morrow t at Klamet ‘Temple Herkimer § t and Nostrand Avenue, | Brookiyn, despite the fact that men: bers af the Executive Committee Ins Thursday approve ures. the proposed meas- The Mayoralty situation also will t cussed, One of the proposuly ex- js the appointment mittens of five to act with Republican gommitt consideration a other boroughs in the fusion candidate, KILLED IN | GANG FIGHT. Two Injured in Row Following a| Dance. The police expect to make an arrest to-day ag a result of the gang batt in front of No. 158 Park Row last night| in which Michael Demarce, a seaman | of No. Pearl Str was killed. | rank Uale of No, 6605 ‘4th Avenue, | irooklyn, a former prize fighter known 2 Frankie Yule, gs dirin as shot Mirough the the battle and is dying wrt] pital orge Hellitti, | |Wo. 81 Baxter Strect. who wam wounted but not seriously, Is locked Up aa a ma- witness. quarre! at a 1 lub and was Chinatown sight | pilaity in hem FOUR BOYS OFF FOR \CAPITAL, END IN JAIL) Youngsters Eager to See Inaugural, Held After Robbery of Brook- lyn Grocery Store. Fired with a desire to see the in auguration of the President he mont! four Brooklyn boys started for Washington, tut yund up iF the Brooklyn Children’s Court to-d: where Justice held them examination Friday, ‘They were Walter McNally, urteen ulip Reilly, fifteen; feorge, thir teen, and William We een, They were arrested last night L Detective Gray of the Fourth Inspec tion District, while buying tickets for Washington in the Pennsylvania sta: tion, Thomas Martin, manager of a chain grocery sore, No, 114 Court Street, Brooklyn, oharged them with taking $250 from his s Saturday ght Detectives Gray and Rrosman said the boys admitted entering the store and taking the money from the safe which they found unlocked. Tt Spent $100 on clothes, the detect | said they told them paca end Was « he was imprisi —— ¢ Did Not Start In Low's, THE EVENING WORLD, MO NDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921,' ILLER Mrs. South, ‘Triplets’? She Returned, AER KESES SNS HERS * And Children She Says She Will Keep PLAYMATES. TO HUNT sexbrsenth MISSING SCHOOLGIRL inter Vikas! Pont - aaa tary Colby stating that the cuse had Letter Only 12 to Grace E been recon: ed and that the Ameri- No trace heen found of Miss Under the rule prohibiting entrance of ©: tage: baa been, ee me Sierman Nationals without particularly | va Anderson, fifteen years ‘good reasons. old, honor pupil at Manual High School, Brookiyn, who disappeared MRS, HARDING last Tuesday from the home of her | aunt, Miss Grace T. Cole, No, 92 Ster- BACK IN CAPITAL ling Place, Brooklyn. Her aunt says she home and forsive School chlidren for her to-day, ar * will n whe FE a@sound n sh MRS be weleomed | Tired After Shopping Tour in returns expected to look e. DR. LASKER CAN VISIT UNITED STATES | Will Get Vise to Enable Him to Play Capablanca Chess Match in Cuba. | Dr. Emanuel Lasker of Berlin, world’s champion chess player, will be per mitted to visit the United States on his way to Havana to meet Capa- blanca, Cuban champion, mateh Jose in a Manb ded w! ttan h the o-day received a morsage hegx Club, whieh partment, from Seere- York—To Join Husband in South, | RAID STORE NEXT Friends of the gil said to-day she) Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of | TO POLICE STATION’ "2 22%@ she might run away, say- | the President is back in Wash s Ng she wanted to’ go to a boarding on to-day school “where you can do as you! She left here Sunday at u Scholbahm, 1 proprietor of | 1K When she left home she had| ® Shopping tour in New York, accom- | foetionery at Eg not Ones a new sult ease and $150, Several, panied by Mrs, Harry Now and | . Yorke twenty-two | hours r she was seen near her| Mrs Edward B, McLean, She will] Sonn Police Court a base y in the | nome. |remain in Washington three or four] onkers Police Court on citarges of yess Sine fn" &t, caus | bookmaking and gambling as a result, ‘Thursday one of her schoo! friends, | custing, E lag and accom gay him to} transferred the police ‘eaptar,| Brooklyn, received a card from ber! Washington just before his inaugura-| commanding the precinct after the! saying sho had ived gate and| tion. rald ar Th a/FORIRE WITH, cWor aie ithe! Along with the party went trunk- | Scholbohm, 8 mail carrier, was In unl: | Reilly girl sid Miss Anderson was| fuls of clothing, which’ Mra, Harding form when the place was’ raided, and| sna o¢the companionship of beye of accumulated during her visit, In the detective ound a mail pouch| f se ec se preparation for her duties aa mis-| awaiting delivery to the Post Oice| her own age, but no der boys, | peepee the Waite Houne after ing been filled from: letter & looked much better than when pore N phones, betting charts and para.| WIFE SUMMONS POLICEMAN.! sno urriv hen she showed some pliernalia used in many am- | | evidence of the fatigue {bling were sald to have been dit =| Aichman Mast Stand Urial for Ate) > - tie place: ure In Weekly Payments. “BIG TIM” MURPHY n Charles Alchman, who | STIVERS GETS 6 5 YEARS MORE, ford Branch ¥ M,C. A GIVES HIMSELF UP | tteean 4 Convict Muxt Now Serve Lae a : ges Pwelve Years After Life Term, rai f ; Ohicago Labor Leader and Politician f lice Meadquarte ppeared George W. Stivers waa found guilty | pefore Magistrate te t Sought ia Conte With | of aasault in the first degree by a Jury Domestic at am ) White Plains to-da entenced | complaint of hia wife, Mra $100,000 to five years’ imprisonment, He at-| man. She said he had fu behind OHIOA GE Aur: tacked a guard while escaping from tho | Me weekly Imiyiments of $20 ordered by prison several months ago with Marcus! the support of her it tw Hasavtt j ehiiaren | Stivers prison for chman told the ¢ ; term of twenty life for cum- | be gid | ouneud 2 » Eyening World's rape | Feb |i | of the $100,000 blaze on Westches > slonatd ¥ VS. HIRSHFIELD AGAIN)‘ Aven between Tiffany re Kelly Pre C: 4 Borotgh President Brockner Has Bye Streets, the Hr {t was stated tha | Commit sioner of Accoants Sayn| HOre"s! nina m | the bleze appeared to have started in| Comptroller Won't Honor | Henry Bruckner, Rronx Borough Low's upholatery shop. Thi was a mis Regalsition, ACENiaGht Nenini te Neral e, which lor Low, owner of the Presiden ute nis m ove on Mm skort Evening World ts| More trouble between Comptr ble and haw been ordered by hia phy eorrect, It was the amit of Ts) ag: Low |Craig and Commissioner of Accountalsician to drop all ofcial duti and who discovered sinoke coming Into her] Hirshfield was revealed to-day wh k comp t ws ntated to- | fled her hushand, who located the fre|Mr. Hirshfield announced Mr. Cra by af : ary ne ran * mptly sent in an al over the | refused ‘9 honor « requisition fo bin Hy Ves ner wes will auavisia ere Sent Department. This anak esmary - conrintee obner sonienced: | {Cer Huenield 12 snd bie A ot t| notion ‘Teeth Onmuaian Reatnn, | Manhattan, found guilty of robbery in | Records, where, ays, th have to An educational film on Dental Hy eth aie Ae ae work in @ ind a high tome] weno" w shown to-night at the day by Jud May in Kinga ¢ A Peat od mA Gee mer) Academy of Medicing, No. 17 Weat 43d Court to Sing nx for seven and | Hirehbfield sald it i ther bern wer v pieture is being presented f to ten years. the cha, d|the custom gf the ( to vonor the Dental Hygler Sorlety in co: with being one of 8 Kank of four ha requinition*for the f sso they rution with the rd of Health, und States Trucking Corporation at No. 24] loMces provided for that purpose on Health Commisatoner 4d, of al North 8 h Street ou 4 welith floor | compa for cleaner and better teeth, | 4 WOMAN WHO FAKED Husband Agrees to This After Denouncing Deceptions | of Mrs. South. Feb. 7—The family of Mru. F.Y, A. South has been reduced by three, ynd ‘only children “born' | in the last fourteen years remain. All! of the children were secrotly adopted | by Mrs, South because of her love of | babies, Mrs. South, who ts fifty-two years 1d, “faked" the birth of triplets on New Year's Evo, but owing to her failure to register a birth eartificate, it was learned that the “triplets” were in reulity the bables of three | mothers, and had been born in a ma-| ternity hospital en Dee. 4 5 and 10. They have been returned to the hos-| pital. ‘The other six children will be kept. South, a grocery clerk, agreed to this afver denouncing his wife's deception | and threatening to send the others ATLANTA, away also, ,The “twins,” Ruth and/ hard it was to find suitable homes Jewel, were born four years ago.|for growing Hohs, She herself lives Before that, Mrs, South had an- nounced ‘the birth of another et of twins,who have since died, and four other children, all of whom she wanted to bring up, Mother love and an offer of her church to educate as missionaries the first triplets born to a church mem- ber prompted Mrs, South toe adopt three babies and pags them off as her own. She has promised her husband, | however, that she will be -content with her present family of six chil- dren, When the mother first confessed to South that the children were not his own as he supposed, mined to send the was detor- back to the he » all hospital, but Mrs. South refused, say- ing: Mins TAllian J. Wilhelm, twenty-four “Whether you leave home ot | years old, of Travis, Mich., who has whether you stay, these children are/ heen studying music here since S going to remain with me and Twill raise them to be good men and wom- en.” Mrs. M. R. Mitchell, from whose maternity hospital the children came, eold she had cared for 800 children in her twenty-five years of practice, un- fortunate mothers coming to Atlanta {rom every part of the United States. |” stiu Philips, called to the. station, er practice nin the law, | % though frowned upon by societies | “td Miss Wilhelm had been acting caring for babies GIRL’S APARTMENT LOOTED. Victims So Hysterical Unable to timate Stolen Property. Rurglars ransacked the apartment of | Miss Ilizabéth Hughes on the ground floor of No, 414 West 120th Street Inst night and departed by way of the fire | evcape with silverware, Jewelry andy An®ld, unoccupied building on the wearing apparel belonging to Mian| &Tounds of the Ridgewood (N.J.) Coun- Hughes and her sister. ‘The victima re-| {7 Club burned late last night, attract- turned shortly after midnight and | {1s & crowd of motortats and others who found two heavy chains barring the | housht the clubhouse was on fire. {halde. Of thelr apartment. door, The puilding was of little value and ‘The girls were so hysterical over| WA* NOt near enough to endanger the their loser to-day that they could| clubhouse, one of tho finest in New sive no definite estimate of the value | Jersey, according to the Ridgewood of the xtolen sood« police, ‘The lowe was mall H. Altman & Cn. MADISON AVENUE + FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Thirtysfourth Street assortments; a, jat the Hotel Churchill, Broadway and ‘Cats That Growl And Wear Manes Give Them Plenty. of Air and Keep Them Quiet, Court Te ells Owner, Cats is catse—theoretically But when you get down to cases there are practical differences be- tween your pet Angora and tho five, “cats” of Mme, Adgies Costitlo, who | Was fined $26 in the West Side Court | to-day for treating ‘em rough. The fine w ¥. But the rest of | the problem confronting Ue intrepid jlady—who is now unforturately “at| liberty” in the theatrical as well aw the legal aenae—is diMeult. People who live in the vicinity of No. 609 Wiest 46th Street complained they were kept awake by the “rouring | of wild animal Agents of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals found Mmo, Costillo’s “cats” stored on the’ second floor in boxes which they had outgrown, The prem- isos were those of the Progressive Transfer Company, which undertook | to board the lions for $10 4 week. Ob, | yea, Tlons are “cats” in circus parlance. | Mme, Costillo, in court, told how 14th Street, but is not permitted to receive lions in her room, The Bide- a-Wee Home, which takes other cal takes no lions, She said livery stable men refused to mix: lions with horses, ‘There was nothing she could do, And yet the court, in addition to Imposing a fine, ordered Mme, Cos- tillo to aee that her Uons hereafter |wet plenty of light, air and exercine. The Matristrate did not advise her as to whether she might leash and nruz- le them and lead them up and down Broadway GIRL FOUND DAZED ON PIER. Wandering | Music Student In Sent Hellevue, tember, was found dazed and wander- Ing on a pler at 920 Streetand Bast River last night by Patrolman Welss of the Bast 88th Street Station. She was taken to that station, where she sald | she shared « room at No. 109 West 82d Street with Miss Irma Phillips. | strangely several days, The police ware about to release the latter in Miss Phil- | lipa's care when she became hysterical, An ambulance from City Hospital took her to Bellevue Hospital, sia FIRE IN RIDGEWOOD. In Destroyed. Exceptional Value will be offered to-morrow, (Tuesday) in A Special Clearance Sale of One Thousand Women’s House and Morning Dresses some taken from stock, others being the residue of special all of them attractively made of pretty cotton fabrics, and marked at the greatly reduced prices of $2.95 and. 3.85 (Sale on the SIXTH FLOOR) 1M BIRTHS MAY KEEP Zeadtos25 Vine F| BOFTHECHILDREN one-fifth of the m0 WOME EINCOMETAK RETURNS INSTATE ay From One Cent to Theu- sands of Dollars—101,191 Are Unmarried. Singie and married women to the nunvber of more than 144,000 filed Jm- me tax returns in this State during 1920, statistics made dny by Yhe Now York tate Income Tax Bureau. This means that xpayera of the the total_of re- The tax patd by nN ranged from 1 eent te many thousands of dollars, Of the single women, 101,191 of them, met heads of; faanilies, fled returns, ‘The single women of the State made @ remarkable showing when it is con- sidered that the number of single males totalled only 190,000, More than 30,000 single women filed returns as the swpporting heads of families as against 54,000 single males who so registered themsely Hu». bands and wives are permitted to file separate returns, tut the joist return proved the most popular, as $40,000 of these were sent in, made out by the husband in practioally every case, Statistics for 1920 show that 61 out of 745,000 individuals paid a. tax and the other 194,000 fled returns, Out exenmptions ate up their income A sunprisingly large number of women are disclosed as deriving ex- , cellent incomes, not only from the theatrical or moving picture feldg fut frum big financial and business eon- ticularly in this city, according to public ta nen, turns being 715,000, State wern we the wom cerns, By way of assisting taxpayers to Make out their returns for 1920, the State Bureau hus assigned expert women auditors to cities and villages. Women are alao working with » staff of “Minute Men” who are daily ad- dressing gatherings of members: of Chambers’ of Commerce, Rotary Clubs and similar organizations, The assignment of women to speak on tn- come tax problems is an innovation, — Ms PNEUMONIA THRICE—LIVES. Rare Case In That of John J. Cur- ran, Again on His Feet. _ Rarely around these parts has it oe curred that a patient stricken with pneumonia a third time weathers the attack, But that's exactly what J. Curtan, Chief Investigator of the k tomobile Bureau in the sot State's office on West 65th Street, Ras done. Mr, ‘Curran, who was Deing contrat ulated on his convalescence at home, No. 1669 Second Avenue, merous friends Inst night, said: “ H. Wells, who had me in hand, erste * a physical wonder, But they built thelr men of enduring material in thé yold First, Ward I was born under the wing of Flynn and J ‘Thirty Daya’ Duffy. ‘The brothers old St\Petor's in Rarclay Street didn’ goin ich for molly-cAddiing r hoys, elther, So to these things T 1 owe the vitality that pulled. me through from the jaws of death,’” Thirty-fifth Street