The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1921, Page 8

- F'GRAND JURY GETS. WOMAN WATS | COLLUSION CHARGE | WORD FROM MAN | OTT won HN EAED LE ’s Accusation in Queens Committed Suicide to Put to ‘oad and Sewer Construction} Test His Theory of Spirit , to Be Looked Into. ‘Communication. leesee Humphrey to-day directed) DETROIT, ef. 7—Mrs. Ruth the Bebruary Grand Jury in © poran of Detroit ts waiting to hear Queens County Court, Long Island) prom Thomas Lynn Bradford, Brad- , to Investigate the charges made | tog 4g dead, but Mrs, Doran in an Comptroller Craig that there bed | interview to-day said ahe ts certain collusion in bidding for road sewer work in Queens, The Jury, of which William A. on of Jamaica is foreman, was spare no, one if facts bore de wil communicate with her. Bradford, lecturer and theosophist, ended his life in his rooming house, No. 2600 Howard Street, on Saturday, #0 that he might prove to a skeptical world that the living can communi- cate with the dead. firm of Peace Brothers) ‘when found in tis room, there lay which was one of the frm! geeide him an unfinished mamuscript by Comptroller Craig, was! on apiritualiam, in which he told of for duty on the Grand Jury, | nis welief that through scientific facta, be coukl prove his assertion made to others in the rooming house, ‘that he could communicate with the ltving from his @rave. Among his other effects ware papers showing that he had advertised in Detroit papers adking that any one interested in spiritualiam please com- municate with him. A woman, to-day identified as Mrs. Doran, answered the advertisement. Ghe was shocked to hear of his death. She said that from what they had discussed she wna positive Brad- ford would first “communicate with her. She offered to defray bis burial expenses rather than see the body go to the Potter's Field or to a scien- tile college “for the purpose of science.” Mrs. Doran, a widow, eaid she came here from Duluth, Minn. She said she was a student of apiritinm, but at times doubted Bradford's sincerity. Mr. Bradford, who was born in De- Connolly, who last week from | frott about forty-cight years ago, sick bed said that his illnes@| was a graduate of Cohmnbia College \d Not be permitted to prevent) of Oratory, Chicago. His tnterest in ‘hip testifying before the Grand Jury spiritism grew until it transcended unchanged to-day. his interest in worldly matters, and } . when be was found dead, five cents NONI R. LOCKWOOD | speared to be nis eoie financial re @ources. |) WED THIRD TIME |"wnen 1 ate my ody goes to a Dara ic “py | Btioncs,” be was quoted as saying to Wife Recently Divorced J. B.| str. maroctte, with whom he lived, noun, and This Is Also _|@ ehort time ago. “It Is to be sant ‘, 4 to the Michigan Modical Institute. ' Her Third Marriage. Anyhow, my body docan’t amount to ‘Tt was not until to-day that tt be | mich” known that Benon! R. Lock-| 4 number of typewritten sheets on and Mra. Joseph Baker Bournt/“Gan the dead communicate with been married “somewhere i%/the living?” were found near bis ticut” last Wednesday. They} body. Evidently they had fallen trom now on the Aquitania on thelr| nis hand. Whether they were written to a honeymoon in Burope. by him or by the ginl who answered ‘of, them, as Mra Lockwood's first} Bradford was convinced, according \Tvusband was the Marquis de la Tour} to his friends, that his theory of | du Villard, from whom she obtained | communiontion between spirits of the ia Wivorce in 1897, after @ix years of| departed and human beings could i Six months after this di-| bent be tested through the finding | voree she was married to Capt. Joseph |on earth of @ soul perfectly attuned Maker Bourne. News that she had|to his own, and then severing his ‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, It’sa Boy! It’sa Girl! But ’Twas Grand Old Time ! tian svecerres yuytent tothe com. waaatasios “Happy” Dad Wins Bet, Then Loses as Stork Decides on Twins. Advance agents of old Dr. Gtork were bustling about the neighbor- hood of Highth Avenve and 126th Street last night when Wiliam Dow- ney, feeling unusually well, thanks, eame around. to visit his brother-in. the increased fares will “get the money sooner.” According to Mr, Shonts, the “preferential” so constantly com- away in a@ safe, wae never oon~ summated.’ He said to me: it was the damndest mistake the city ever made, It was the most stupid thing that has ever hap- Pened to, this city, “He went on to tell how at that pany under the dual subway arrange- time their (Interborough) credit was ment, That is to say, that the city not 6o Morgan was storming becomes a fifty-fifty partner just as #round, he said, about the $50,000,000 soon us the Interborough has earned that was lying in the bank and which approximately $6,335,000 annually, be- Was drawing no interest or doing cause of the old investment claimed anybody any good. (I didn’t quite get by the Interborough Company. what adi this meant. 1 didn't quite In short, Mr, Shonts explained that Catch it), We had great difficulty in the reason they wanted @ higher rate getting Morgan and other bankers to of the roads increased, #o that these that we were having meetings with “preferential” could be pid by the Willcox and other mi of the city quicker to the Interborough in- Public Gervice Commission in an ef- vestors than at the ‘prewent rate of fort to get some kind of a contract -|fare, “and the city,” he asserted, that would be acceptable to the city. “would save for itself deficits cumula- At that time we were not consider- - | tive at compound interest.” ing any dual subway at all—in fact, FEBRUARY 7, of fare was to have the earning power underwrite us on any proposition, so | the jaw. Downey told the rest of the story to Masistrate Frothingham. “I bet my brother-in-law ft would be a boy,” eaid Downey. “He bet tt SI would be a girl. Well, I went out length Site poamenitien of? Set for a Uttle preliminary celebration, cent fares, explaining how the city had a few drinks and came back. A) boy had just been born, so I collected the bet and went out again. After a ttle more celebration I returned, and my brother-in-law was wating for me on the steps, “ ‘Gimme that mongy,’ enys he, Tt's ‘However, & girl. ‘The first ond was & boy, Dut Meroe gh viet oem of reveniie on iva vwins nd I win on the second.’ | account of an inoreased fare, It only “Well, naturally I wouldn't stand /meant assurance that they would get for anything tke that. I dot on a toy | their ‘preferentiais’ agin sis aes and @ boy was born, eo I figured | WOU (Sole Seta gee lire tad won the bet. So I went and had that Nbas teony ha titerborough es some more drinks, When I got back |the subway contracts, a ee rother- woul “Tt Is in ses maprtad . sisi ane Yet the velty can take anything out at * al, it must at the end of cer- Patrolman Lebroun said he round oan to ¢ oroug! WITH MR. SHONTS, The memorandum of Deo, 23, 1918, states: to an 8-cent fare. If it only raised to & 7-cent fare, it makes it posible for the Interborough to @ecure its ‘pref- erentials,’ Out if they make it an 8-cent fare, then the city can umke some money, too. id, as far as the In- cerned there would (Continued From First Page.) tain periods to the Interborough cer- Downey hanging around and refusing | tain sums of money. If the city is ‘to move on, #0 he arrested him. The borough compound Interest on the sum. Shonts explained that with a 7 of 8 cents increase of fare, the city ‘would meet the preferentltls as the) fell due, and therefore save the in- terest money as well as increase the amount of money the city would get, ELECTRICITY WOULD which it could use for the debt. He 100,000,000, | "He sald that at the time they fs- . ured out how much money the Ititer- borough was putting into the thing, which represented about $200,000,000, ————= that It was on a basis of 8 76.100 per cent. At that time the city officials sald, ‘Well, if your honey \s worth 8 76.100 per cent, why is not our the public would mean « saving to| money worth that much? To which the consumers of $15,000,000 annually. As to the city itself, which in the 4 ‘was also reckoned at 8 76.100 per cent. five boroughs the lighting alone costa | “ii. said he went to seo Mayor approximately $3,000,000, for lightand|trylan to pay his respecte to him Power of public buildings nearly a| shortly after the Mayor was elected. Beets At that time he told the Mayor of the Om Lame f08) Wen b: © Power/two most important things to the such as pumping water, nearly | city—one was a7 and & cent fare and $100,000, a total approximately of|the other was this enormous power year—that ta to say, that uftor the The cost to the city for these puh-|1.1 of January, when tho city has be- poses ranges from 2 to 10 cents. For | come the partner of the Interborough, Instance, 10 cents is paid to distant | there will be available without any inte addition of lands or buildings ap Lvs bar th aly proximately 1,000,000,00 kilowat per . Shonts estimated how much the/ year that the city can sell to con- | city could save on power that would| sumers or manufacturers, cost only 1% cent per kilowat. In fact, 1 cent would practically cover unable to pay these certain sums of Magistrate suspended sentence. money, then it must pay the Inter- — ee than It figured out how the city could be lifted from its debt burden about ‘he said he had ‘no answer, and there- fore tho rate of return for the city $4,000,000. (The game is considerably | over and above the peak load which higher to-day.) amounted to a billion kilowats per EDISON COMPANY CONDITIONS NOT CONSIDERED. the actual cost. THE UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW | We Rory talking about the Inter- financing the whole scheme. “Finally, after a herculean effort, 1 socceeded in drawing up that contract that you printed in the paper, and sacceeded in getting all these bankers agree to underwrite it, and ran to the city’s interests would be protected the same as they are now. I went to Wilicox’s house in the afternoon one day, after he had this contract a few days, and he said to me: “Yes, I think we will a t this, but we will have to put !t ‘betore the commissioa (P, 8.) in @ more practi- cal form,’ “What do you mean, practical form?” I said to him. “Well, we want to be sre about some things in it,’ and he hee-hawed around. “Finally he eald: ‘Well, the fact ts, we will putt before the Board of Es- timate and let them go over it before we do it.’ “Then | got up in my seat and said, ‘Here you have a proposi tion that would make you immor- tal in the City of New York, and ie want to let McAneny and is crowd steal the thunder away from you when they have no legal status in the case whatever.’ we he said, ‘that’s the way is! “It seemed also that some person employed in the Public Service Com- mission had gone over the thing and bad told Willeox, "You better sign this as quickly as you can. This is the best thing you can ever get.’ (1 have forgotten the man's mame who told him that.) “No mention of thts contract wus ever made to the public, and, as stated in The Evening World, it was hidden in the safe, although Secretary Whit- ney knew all about it and never re- turned It, and the next thing you heard was the dual subway contracts, To ¥y ; S 1921. ' hud whiten the ofty pays these numer- ous millions. * “ ‘Why,’ sald Shonts, ‘I tad to have that contract signed right.away, in order to hold my underwriters. I was afraid that any minute they would fail me, becanse it was a gigantic thing to do, and I thought the city had the chance of its life.’ “As to the city and the present dual contracts, he said: “"The solution of this problem is for the proper authorities to concede promptly the right to the clectric ruilways of the State to charge a rate of fare sufficient not only to offset increased costs due to the war, but to preserve their credit. “On the Literborough, for instance, & T-cent fare would cover the prefer- ential which is due to jt under its present contract with the city, with Nothing left over, however, for a re- turn upon the city’s $100,000,000 in- vestment, which is junior to the In- terborough, An 8-cent fure, however, would: “"1, Mest the interest required on the city’s investment of $100,000, and “2. By making this oity invest- ment self supporting, would immediately release it from the debt limit. This would empower the city to use a like amount of oredit for other much-needed improvements. “‘Inasmuch ae the city’s contract with the Interborough allows the city to earn 8,76 per cent. on its in- vestment before there 1s any division of profits between the city and the company, it is estimated that the city would earn. on the §-cent fare basis, over and above the first two ftems just mentionad, $4,500,000. This would wo Into the City Treasury and ‘would be a credit for such purpose as the city might desire, It would be used to reduce the tax rate or could be used aa the nucleus of a fund to ac- quire public utility properties.’” Mr. Shonts said nothing about the necessity for an increased fare; he outlined a business policy based on a fare increase. a To-morrow’s article will deal with the reasons and urgency of the present agitation. UNMUZZLED DOGS SEIZED. Owners of Only Six Show Up to Claim Them, Forty-stx unmuzaled dogs were cap- tured by the police of the Classon Ave- nue Station, Brooklyn, early to-day and six of the owners appeared later to claim them. One of them, Anthony Guida, of No. 275 Tillary Street, was fined $2 in the Gates Avenue Court. The others plead- ed guilty and recelved suspended sen- tences. The dogs that remain un- claimed will be sent to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. during February DT Me rw Sn DA I =H Lamps ¢& Shades discounts of 10% to 50% VINGTON’S second floor is devoted to lamps and shades How easily the City of Now York could sell this surplus electric power for 4 cents a kilowat hour, or less, and make a considerable sum ot money, was shown by a map which Mr, Shonts produced. This map pro- sented the 52 sub stations through. ont the olty which is creating elec- trical power, Therefore, without any addi- “J then tried to direct the conversu- | at | Mo nor tis with tall ved the bur- |e lary liad been compritted while they WHO GAS VICTIMS) * 2% 8 the house, but the pollee have. 4 ne tel that this was the case, r 4 The Japanese, who was a servant Woman Arrested in Gang Whol'in the Ayuto Borne. aided scpe and - ; his companions. © Ffassan, who had Robbed. Peruvian Legation At- |Pganénus been seen loitering around tache of $200,000 the house, was one of the party, Jon the woman’ ind Schilte were PARIS, Fob, 7.—With the dramatic trapping of five burglars, one of them | the A¥enve de la Viotorie. euught in thelr robme at a hotel in @ woman, whose exploits culminated | = in the robbery of more than 1,000,000 a KAP W py francs in oash and jewelry from Se- GRAND RAPIDS URNITURE.- nor Alfred Ayulo, Commercial Attache APARTMENTS FURNISHED TRAP PARIS THIEVES of the Peruvian Legation in Paris, police authorities believe they have put their hands on the leaders of a gang who have plagued the most fashionable hotels and villas in Nice and other Riviera resorts for weeks. The robbers, who used a hitherto unknown “asphyxtating gas revolver” in their oprations, are Jean de Jong, his mistress, Antoinette Staverman Raat, Girardas Sohilte, all Dutch; Adduse Hassan, a Turk, and a Japanese, Kusaka. Jong, with the Dutchwoman, en- tered Senor Ayulo's apartment after putting the Peruvian attache and his wife to sleep by means of fumes emitted when the mysterious gas re- volver was fired. Neither Senor Ay. aye “a re) artuwmerie Cd Pinaud 18 Glace Voned me “ Paris The Glory and richest fragrance three | As a lovely flower blooms to perfection of daily care, so a “woman’s crowning glory” is brought to perfection and made fragrant by daily use of ROS COLUMBUS AVENUE BET 103° € 104" Srs of Nature e with the stimulus ED. PINAUD’S tion in the interest of the power prop- osition. I asked him what would be- come of the Edison Company in case t|the city did this thing, He said, ‘Well, in the process of transition there might be ways and means for them to take up some particular part of the distribution.’ He did not seem! to be concerned about what was to happen to the Edison people. “The | only way necessary to serve all light~ | jing consuiners would be to increase of quality and charm. The best lamps from the best sources are all that Ovington’s ‘try to show, Yet always the prices are reason- able. Once a year, you will find them lower than they deserve to be, That time is now—and all Ovington lamps and shades carry ee ee ae ee the volume of pulsation in the .cur- tional lands or buildings, ao- | rent’ (At loast this is his idea. ‘Thin cording to Mr. Shonts, the city ‘cbiained a divorce from him came|tife ties with the promise to com- | siabultaneously with that of her hird}municate at the earliest possible | marriage. moment. | Mr. Locicwood’s first marriage was | ite Mise Mary inabetlo Bonner, whe] MISTRIAL ORDERED tS we ward wid domoe, ts| IN THE BAIRD CASE Jury Unable to Agree After 38 Hours in Trial of First Ace Mr. Lockwood, a Harvard graduate cused Guardsman. di and a lawyer practising in this city,| TBAMILTON, Ala, Feb, 7—Aa mtetriad | P)lis\a nephew of the late Thomas F.| Wa# declared at 10 o'clock to-day in i one time Minister to the| the came of Serst. Robert J. Lancaster, NiGdest of St. James. Alabama National Guardsman, indicted 4 ——————— in connestion with the lynching of '3-CHANCE FRIENDS [onsen aa * SN OE Tues /ROB SAILOR OF $109 on Jan. 13, | Pays to Theatre and Dinner Then ‘Tho jury had been out thirty-eight hours when the foreman reported an | Led to Lonely Spot and at Badly Beaten, agreement on a verdict was impossible ih eee seamen, who had been show- ing the town to John Horn, a sailor- ‘rap stopping at the Seamen's Mission| Me™ Occerred Last Samm: Bt No. 50 West Street, beat him un-|_ THO trial of John J, MeGraw of the Fonsctoun early to-day near 1th Street |New York Glants for violation of the and Twelfth Aveuue, ané left him on Volstead act was postponed to-day until the railroad tracks. Mareh 7 by Federal Judge Learned aad eral West, Shore detectives chased | Hand at the request of Assistant United and Sed several shots, but thay | #tates Attorney Reynolds, who sald the “dlaeppeared. Horn was taken to Belle- |PFeParation of tho case was not yet , > vue suffering from many cuts and | Complete. McGraw was not in court Druises and was $109 poorer, He ead | Md It was understood that he ts in he had taken his new found companions | CUD® Land Judge Sowell discharged the jury. Sener M'GRAW’S TRIAL PUT BACK, Presecator Not Ready, Although ia 14 go with them. It was the attack |"! found unconscioun with a frac- - police arrested t 3c i od te - ‘The nite for the $1,000,000 hotel to be Hi. J, Hardenberg, who bullt the Wal- B. RT. men who sorved—there nearly 1.800 at tham—will receive their Martinique Hotels, has been chosen ar- & theatre and bought them food and| The “se frows out of the story that tured skull after being out with Mo- w. It was charged that McGraw at that’ time "bade bot fine o je of liquor in .|)bullt on Glen Inland’ has been selected, prosentod to-day | It 1# directly opposite the lagoon, in « Gort-Astoria, the Plaza, Manhattan and ‘on Washington's Birthday at the chitect and builder. He will be assisted New York club house of the em- py members of his syndicate, inoluding See ae ak Ga eatiattonton centred in the Lambs Club jast sum- Ma real touch of high lite” if he| er When Joba C. Slaving, an actor + SINTRA BUY $1,000, HOTEL SITE. : pe 7 position whi lew of the Bound f members of the oMfoe statt cone rare: ¥ lor Wis Rapid Padi pote Boag many milds can be obtained. Daa 6d during the war. The rest of the wers sentation of thelr dis Charles Leigh Tuylor, Walter Gilsen and Walter Schumm. —- . for Cant © gf. AUGUSTINE. ‘Fu, Fee 1— pEIetar Whzese Fone, teelnet Harding ts being flooded | GRANVILLE, Pa., Feb, ,—Josepe You- Mp ing him to name boa & miner, committed suicide by light- = ame ag $9 one gel ‘ary ot 18 the fuse attached to a stick of hus tonobel, a high explosive more powet- was merely a detail, he said). “T then asked Mr. Shonts would tt cost very much to connect up the present consumers with this new city ! power proposition, He said that he could not only produce all the Power needed for all the trans- portation for the Interborough lines, but with the me ma- chinery produce nearly one lion kilowats annually for the purposes mentioned, And this one billion kilowats is over the peak of the Intérborough needs, That is to say, the sur- plus power is the power left over after the peak load requirements —the margin of safety. Just how vaiuabie this proposition ia to the city as a revenue producer, and how readily it could be utilized was explained to me by Mr. Shonts ag follows: In the subways already built are ducts, now carrying electricity which can be utilized by the city. CAN BE PRODUCED AT 1 CENT PER KILOWAT HOUR. he had no figures on that, but di- rected his secretary to see if he had, but turned to me and suid it was merely a detail—'certainly, we won't have to add any lands wo; buildings, and that is a small jp.) in com- parison to the installatiy: of an elec- tric plant.’ “He said that this power thing was it up years ago, believing that some | day the dual system would be estab- ‘only for the city but for his company. | He pointed out that if you would ad 2 cents per kilowatt to the cost in connecting it up to the consumers this would make 3 cents per kilo- watt hour, and if this sold to the con- sumer for 4 cents there would be a good margin of profit and the con- Sumer would be saved from 3 to 4 gots per kilowatt. “HIDDEN CONTRACT” THAT COST ‘The cost of this sumplus power has CITY MILLIONS. been estimated at various stations at from 36-10 mills to 7 mills, Also, It}, “T then want poh ties matter OC ale- 0 its tribution and sald that there was hes beep authoritatively stated that | something in the subway contracts 1 cent per kilowat hour would cover! that made a clear and easy passage the entire cost, including all invest-|for this current by way. of ducts ment, overhead, depreciation, &c. being Satatiaied. ” bate yet tbe i i and while we Wore talking abou i Assuming that the city, with subway contract 1 asked: } the Interborough as ite partner, “‘By the way, Mr. Shonts, f charges 2 cents for this pow. am very curious to know why it the Interborough makes // cent wras thas that sonsrasti whet we: and the city makes 4 cent, my | oxeoend in The Now York By this operation, the city makes ning World, which was hidd more than $3,500,000 on the 1,000, 000,000 kilowats annually, which ECONOMY SEEKERS could be utilized for reducing the Here’s Your Chance city debt, Assuming that the consumer paid 4] $ guy A2ere Sonar raecateice AND cents per kilowat hour, there would| 2 “URtfaNNes MUST BE TURNED INTO be a saving te the consumers of §18,- be pit eda peg 000,000 annually. Net only could the consumers be cupelled, but the system could be ex- Phone Fitzroy 2560 or write for estimator to call with samples, 5-Pc. Suits Reupholstered jed within 2 of more than dion” Venther, 100 miles. ° New rage 50 Mr, Shonts went on to talk about elles ike wows ‘ae increased fares and what they would 5-Piece mean to the city und the Interborough.|@ Slip Covers By raising the fares the com- bo ig ae | pany could get its “preferentials” jamaak andor now or in the immediate future. where if the fare remains at eents the company will have to wait for the “preferentials” until the roads really earn it some time within’ the forty-nine years, the period covered in the contract with the city, It im said that the city, according Furniture collected, detivered and stored Free. 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