The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1921, Page 3

yn BET COPIES | OF HETTREK ‘ODE | INPLAN OF DEFENSE & Effort to Show That Scheme} ; to Allot Building Contracts é Was Perfectly Honest, ‘WAIL OF THE PLUMBER His Business the Butt of Comic Papers Until Hettrick Stepped In. | jis, ——encnaneee . Revert J. Elter, counsel for John Mecttrick, in Ms trial with others Kpr conspiracy to defeat competition fn the plumbing trade, unmasked the whole plan of the defense to-day, He : esked that the members of the jury i tbe supplied with copies of the Het- ih) rick “Cede of Practice,” to which Mr, Hettrick’s clients subscribed as | © proper method of “steadying” the | ‘plumbing business. A copy of the “code” was supplied to each juror. ‘The witness on the stand, a con- ' tracting plumber named Gibson, a ‘ moment later put forward another i branch of the same line of defense when attorney Martin Conboy for Mr, Smith, the plumbing contractor : named in the conspiracy charges, un- | dertook his cross-examination, fe was asked to describe the general conditions in the plumbing trade be- Yore Mr. Hettrick devised the Code of Practice, Mr. Gibson launched into a denun- wiation of the trade as it was in the years preceding 1918. Plumbers were outting each other's throats—and their @wn—he said. The trade had a bad * name. A plumber submitted a bid at f cost, just to keep his men and plant ' working. The builder would take this ’ bid to a rival plumber, who would put in a lower bid—a “spite bid’—for the Purpose of discrediting the first man. ‘Then the original bidder must either either meet the spite bid or go with- out the work, ‘To compensate for rthesel Josses phnnbers made out- rageously high charges on non-com- petitive jobs and repairs. “It got so that it was a public scandal,” he said. **Elverycomic paper had a corner where a plumber /was : . pictured as a robber or a thief. Yet we were aM headed for ruin. The man who used the most crooked practices wag the only one who could hope to wurvive. Every decent man wanted 4o get out of the Business; I know I did. But I couldn't afford to let go.” Mr. Gibson told how he joined the Code of Practice oircie, and in course of time estimated that he could sup- ply the plumbing for a building at| No. 146 East 47th Street for $5,964.33. Peabody, Wilson & Brown were the architects, but the estimate was not went to them: it was sent to Mr. Hettrick’s office. The figures; tran- qcribed on a pink card, were returned § fo him by mail. It read: “No, 31"— this was Mr. Gibson's number on the Hettrick books—“Your esti- mate has been received and found to be correct.” He got the gontract. Mr. Gibson identifi for Mr. trick office recording his ibid to the #. 'T. Ley Company for the Liggett Building at Madison Avenue and 42d Street at more than $176,873.36. This included additions to his original es- pence a slip he had sent to the Het- | But She Is Discusses ‘Tulip Bulbs and Theit Evolution; Prefers Harding to Wilson Because “He Got Us Into Trouble With Everyone,” and Then Finds Trouble Herself Put- ting On a Skate. It realiy is a shame to call eight- year-old Susan Mitchell a prodigy. It is true that she passed the Binet- | Simon tests given by Miss Ella Wood- ward of the psychological bureau of Columbia, and attained the reting of the ordinary chtid of fourteen. And it is true that she is extremely bril- lant; that she can talk on subjects that mystify adults, that she speaks French fluently: that she leads her cass at school, and that she is a youthful “master mind" But why |call her a prodigy? A “prodigy,” accordin; ‘9 current opinion, is a child who thaks of noth- jing but Binestein's “Relativity,” ‘who | speaks in terms of Freud and Shaw, |who thinks more of logarithms than baseballs or lollipops. He or she im- mediately goes into the freak classi- fication. And Susan Mitchell is not a freak—far from it. I found her mother, Mrs, Nelite Mitchell, at her home at No, 234 West 7ath Street yesterday afternoon. “Yes, you can ace Susan, and talk with her,” she declared, “but you must promise not to tell her that she iy regarded as abnormal.” I prommed, and just then, Miss Edna B, §} her teacher at the Scudder School, came downstairs, “You simply must not let Susan know that she is an exceptional child,” @he reiterated, “It might spoil hei Miss Speck and I went to the roof of the Majestic Hotel, where the children of the elementary school were playing. I was introduced to Susun as a friend of her teacher's. “Do you know hew to play fifty?" asked the prodigy.” I admitted that I didn't. “Want to play?” When I agreed, Susan informed ine that I was “it.” A dozen boys and |girla, immediately scurried away, |whil® 1 counted fifty. ‘They had to tag “goal” before I caught them. Af- ter several breathless attempts, I managed to relieve myself of the “it” responsbbility. Susan took me to the flower bede. “Look,” she said. “We're planting tulips to-day.” “When will they come up?” I asked. “A week or so?” HUMAN HEADS DON'T COME TO A POINT, LIKE A BULB. A discourse on the habits of the tulip followed. I learned that they were kept warm by the prepared earth; that they wouldn't come up before May; and when I asked her how a bulb could keep warm under ground when a human couldi't, she explained, “You're not like a bulb at/ all. You aren't fat and pudgy, and your head doesn't come to a point From that time on Susan was not “prodigy.” She was a “regular fel- fgg : | ‘As I helped her put on her roller! skates I asked ber if she had met ndent-elect Harding yet. No,” she gaid, “but I'd like to, You know I like him much more than Wilson. Wilson got us into trouble with every one. And say, I'm getting in trouble myself. This akate won't 0 on." * ‘We adjusted the skate and went to the “upper deck.” Susan skated like a professional, made ‘figure eights,” and outraced the boys of her class. “Let's see you go out on the edge lof the roof aud walk ali around,” she suggested. “You don't dare.” 1 looked toward the ground, ten jstories away, and declined. “Your teacher might not like it,” I That's right,” she admitted sol- emniy. “Isn't it funny how scared women are of everything.” There we had Susan's philosophy of women. 8-Year-Old Girl Has a 14-Year-Old Mind; | but it's not particularly good for chil- jwhere there's room for a child ] Aimate of net costs of $140,099, based ‘The League of Nations? Susan was on changes 10 per cent, for overhead, 10 per cent. for profit, and 4 per cent. for an insurance fund. He said Het- fl trick sent for him and told him his thet wkas “way low." Mr. Gibson re- Wlied he thad helped the Ley Com- pany work out the spocifications and was sure his bid wag right; ‘but \ wromised to go over ‘the figures. Mr, Hettrick, he said, meanwhile sub- mitted the figures to an engineer. ( rhe engincer sided with Mr. Hettrick 14 Mr. Gibson stuck to his original figures. He finally got the job. ‘The biggest advantage of the Code of Practice, Mr, Gibson said, was that every competitor ton record and fhad to stick to his bid; fake an- nouncements and spice bids were elim. Inatel, Mr. Giteon swore Sater cross-ex- amination by Mr. Elder that with one exception every contract ‘he got was one on which he had put In the lowest origina! estimate, The exception was & on a $40,000 Park Avenue fob. In this } instance Mr. Hett he raid, had | told him his Mid med too high through er Out jet it go through. The bu awarded the contract none the NEW AMBASSADOR FROM ITALY HERE | Signor Rolandi Ricci Arrives With | His Son and Is Met by” | Prominent Men. Signor Roland Rice!, recently appoint- ed Ambaseador from Italy to thé United States, arrived to-day aboard the steam- ship Duca d'Aosta from Genoa, He was accompanied by this son, @ Captain in the Itatiany Army, and Guido Sabetta, | { former Consul General of Italy at Chi- ago. Sabetta will be Counsellor at the #) ‘Washington Bmivaassy, ; The Ambassador was mot at the pler j by « delegation of prominent Italian representatives, f tary of the Italian Bmbassy, and Con- sul Genera! Bernardi of New York, went Ww Quarantine to meet their chief, The new Ambassador expressed keen desire to'co-operate in the develop- . ment of nomic relations be! Italy and this country, and expects make 4 complete’ investigation of the conditions surrounding Italian immi- tion. Vietorio Fareal, Seore- | against it, emphatically. “It would be all right if every country would abide by its rules, but I'm afraid that all the other coun- tries might make us do something | that we ehouldn't. We wouldn't be able to vote against everyone ele and win, even if we were right.” Not a Prodigy—Just Smart RUSSIAN “BARON” WORKS WAY TO U.S. “ON GATTLE SHIP Says He Ils Relative of Late} Czar—Expects to Wed Rich | American Girl. When the Steamer Welshman, ar rivihg to-day from London and car- North River, there stapped ashore, 1 tal, handsome man of thirty-two gray tweeds to which he had just charfked from the dungarees of 9 cattle tender. - He was, he sald, Baron Rolf Hey- king, late of (Petrograd, a relative of tho late Czar gnd the former Kalser and had come to this o untry to buy a farm, in California #) he could “make his way in peace and quiet.” fk He bad taken the job tending cattle on the Welshman, he said, be cause he wanted to save part of the little fmoney he had ped with from Russia after the Holshevists had killed his father and two sisters. He then had fled to Germany and had got a jab at Kisl en the U. 8, vease: Kekettioutt as a sailor, making his way to England. He said he knew only one man in this country, a Mr. Rutzky, former Consul-General New York. “Although I am a distant relative of the late Czar and the forme Kaiser,” he said, “I have suffered 90 much since the war jl @ seek now In SUSAN MITCHELLS 1 | fairs without being coached before- hand and the next minute demand that her interviewer go down a “slide” which was nearby, She had no knowledge of the recent police scandal; her impressions of police were divided Between those who were accustomed to shoo her from the lawns of Central Park and the one who is stationed at 72d Street and Central Park ‘West. “I like him,” she said. “He's very nice, and I'm going to give him @ Valentine, It's a funny one, and there's a poem which begins, “These twelve darts, lying on the ground’—I forget the rest, but Its a nice poem, and J'm going to give it to him Mon- ay’ When asked about the traditions of Valentine's Day, Susan replied with a collection of facts which, I'll wager, are not known to one in ten adults, “How do you like New York?" I asked her. NEW YORK NO PLACE FOR CHIL- DREN; NO ROOM, “I Iike my school—that’s all. I have fun up here. But there's no chance to have tun anywhere else, New York has great opportunites for education and for later development, dren, from what I've seen. go back to Brie, I like to Pa,, in the summer, to play.” And think—an eight-year-old girl was speaking! Susan doesn't read the newspapers very much, but she likes the comic pictures, and sometimes reads the stock market reports, “because they show how the stocks are going.” ‘The stocks must be worth while, she os- serts, because people buy them and pay money for them. She doesn't read the editorials at all, ‘When it comes to movies, Susan ts énthusiastic, She likes “Pollyanna,” Charlie Chaplin, and wishes that she could see more of Fatty Arbuckle, Miss Speck told me that the girl came out of the psychological ‘tests with a rating of 160.4—that of a four- teen-year-old child. e@ excels in studies, athletics, and when the school theatricals were held last Christmas, learned not only her own part, but those of several other chil- dren. She reads with a dictionary beside her to find out what the dim- cult words mean, and has the largest vocabulary of any child of her age in the memory of the school. Yet she doesn’t know that she 1s unusual Susan Mitchell is not a prodig: ehe's a mighty smart girl, but sh raf It was amazing to interview a child who could talk of International af- of CREPE | exceptionally _ BONWIT TELLER & CO. 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