The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1921, Page 3

\ . ALBANY BOSSESIN TRACTION BATTLE | Interests Will Rally at Capital Next Week to Push Miller Plan. BOSSES CLEAR PATH. | | ‘Measure to Have Right of Way in Legislature After March 2 Hearing. By Joseph S. Jordan. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb, 18.—The Miller ‘Traction Bill is going to have right of way in the Legislature, no matter ‘what may be the final outcome of It, und no better line-up has ever been +seen here to make smooth the pass- age of a measure. In the Senate the bill has been read twice and or- ered printed. In both Houses it hus been sent to committer. To-day there will be hundreds of fopies in printed form ready for dis- tribution, and it is promised that one of the greatest traction lobbies that ever camo to Albany will be here ext week to remain until after the Vublic bearing, which has been set Kor the afternoon of March 2. Im connection with the Governor's message on traction and public utili- ties there is a story going the rounds bout the Capitol which has to do with what has ‘been given the title yt the “Conference in the Rose too.” ft doubtless rofers to a little dinner given by or to Gov. and Mrs. Miller in the Rose Room of the Hotel Astor, New York, on Friday night. van. 21. t Present at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Charies Evan Hugtes,"Mr, and Mrs, NicholasMurray Butler,Former Judge of the Court of Appeals Wil- jard Bartlett and Mrs. Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs, William D. Guthrie, Gov. and Mrs, Sproul of Pennsylvania, Judge Almet I, Jenks and Mrs, Jenks, Judge John Proctor Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan J. O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs, John B, Stanchfleld, Mfr. and Mra W. N. Dyckman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Suith, Mr. and Mrs, Charles S. Whitman, Henry W. Taft, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Wickersham, Adelbert Moot and others. It is said that after the dinner the men of the party adjourned to an- other room and went over the Gov- ernor’s traction mtssage, copies of whioh the Chief Executive had with him, and that they expressed them- | selves perfectly satisfied with the \ proposed ineasure. The Governor's message was re- leased for tho press in Albany the next day, and on the following Mon- day night, Jan. 24, it was submitted fo the Legislature. Senator Walker, inority leader, complained then ft the Inck of copies and declared on the floor of the Senate that copies of it had been scen in New York City on Saturda, Mr. Hughes, who was at the con- ference in the Rose Room, argued for She passage of the Carson-Martin bill tn 1919, and former Goy, Whitman was credited with having received a fee of $10,000 to aid in putting the | measure through. Some of the word- ing of the Carson-Martin bill is used tm vhe traction measure now before the Legislature, and the Car: iin bill Was defeated in the by Senator George F. Thompson's | exposure of a $500,000 slush fupd which he declared had been raised to effect its passage. 16 words of the Carson-Martin bill used in 1919 which are used in e present bill are: twithstanding that a higher or Jower rate charge or rental hus been etufore prescribed by general or | al statute, contract, grant, fran- condition, consent or other froin of Nttes, but th uWay Was not as thoroughly | ed a8 itis In the present trac- gion measure of Gov. Miller, f the other guests at the Rose Wom conferen Mr, Willia W) Guthrie is the chief counsel for the ellied traction interests and John B. Blanchfield is a special counsel for| the Interborough, y. N, Dyckman ts of the firm of! Dyckman of Brooklyn, who | allies of the Brookiyn Rapid) any and the big gas in- of the dents who cong upon his traction ‘mes- he, Mr, Moot, had read nee in the Rose R it may st ‘te mem and it mo eoingidence that are more or less tied up with the city’s traction interests were a unit in volving their satisfaction of its contents. Be that as it may, tifese in ere now among the strongest porters of the Governor's traction rogramme, and assurances are given their representatives that the bill will go througit im its suviiited fo) it may have been for the reason of the general satisfaction expressed | over the measure that the framers jeglected to pul any restrictions on the traction companies; taking it for granted that the compaiiles will ac Sede gracefully to the provisions of rhe bill, But Speaker Machold says that an amendment covering this oversight will be inserted. The bill has been ead @ sccond Ume in the Sensle ans The ainendment hasn't been addaw vet, ne amendment may be made whil ouge rests sup- Setiladaicn ivi attonantetaemonie 4 hh bods jong before you ascent |to the Pacific Coast, when you hit 'THE EVENING IGLOBBYTOAID |New York’s a Shrinking — Violet Compared With | Chicago and Its Boasts Windy City Admits Its Superlativeness in Everything but Dirt—And the Women Don’t Seem to Have A Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Chicago is broken to you gently its freight ards trom afar. Rather, I should eay, it is broken to yqu uproariously, The blight of the booster is over the placid plains of Indinna and, in the words of a poem popular from Lake Michigan the trail of the booster you know “that's where the West begins.” As everyone in Chicago will tell you, New Yorkers think they know # aN and go around patronizing the rest of the world—even Chicago. New York, I cheerfully admit, is no modest violet. But neither is it sufficiently the blatant braggart to tall the world from biltboards just how good it is. Chicago screams the glad tidings. in letters two feet high, after the man- ner of those who advertise some- body's stove polish or somebody's pancake flour. “Take a day off and see Chicago,” he who entraing may read. (Those of us who have been there before mentally add a cynical footnote: “Take three days off to RECOVER from seeing Chicago “Greatest Educational Centre in the World,” one billooard modestly admits. “Healthiest City in the World,” diffidently murmurs another. INQUIRED ABOUT HIS FAVORITE MAGAZINE, “NIPPY BITS.” When I read this last statement 1 decided it might be true, tor to live in Chicago at all, one must have the iron constitution of an army mule or an army tank, And visitors usually muinage to escape before the vital spark becomes entirely extinct. It is, I suppose, impossible to say anything new about the smoke aui- ance in Qhicago. Such a thing as a perfectly original oath probably does not exist. The ast new joke about Chicago laundry bills must have been e at least ten years ago; even ¢ them to a Chicagoan of nt is as tactless as remind- ing a San Franciscan of “the earth. quake instead of “the fire.” But it is so charming an experience, it gives one such a happy impression of Spotty Town, to go to bed at night with a clean face and wake up in the morning with soot streaks on one’s nose; to push up a window and ruin one's white gloves; to make sure one is speckless before interviewing a lo- ‘ reat Man, and then to find a ack smudge above one’s left eye- brow just before leaving his sanctum; to discover soot in the heart of the beautiful butter rose served one ac breakfast, If cleanliness indeed be neat to godliness, then as far as the at is from the West, ao far is Chi- cago from yirtue. “Hut you've routed my trip so I shall be in Chicago on Lincoln's Birthda I protested to the New York editor who recently set my un- willing fect in a westerly direction. “[ shan't be able to see anybody on that day—it will be wasted, “Oh, they don't yet know, in Chi- caro, that Lincoln is dead.” he cyni- cally reassured me, And he was right! his birthday, In Lincoln's own legal holiday State “A STRAW HAT ON A VISITOR FROM NEW YORK ATTRACTS.” though it bo, seems practically ig- more | don't pay birthdes: any attention to like you do buck observed a Chi- commented on the t the town’s slogan for Feb. 12 The big who the offices, 0 as any day. Yes, somebody did once remark that & prophet is not without honor gaye in_his own country, Latest arrival among the world's great. citics, feago still retains somethi of the candid simplicity, the childlike curiosity of bucolic ife, country no womatl ever wears the stores, all open just the sanz he bill is still in the Aseemibly com- ny New Clothes. “CHICAGO SCREAMS THE GLAD TIDINGS UPROARIOUSLY.” ter, Neither Goes a woman in Chi. cago. In the bountry, IF a woman, brazen outlander, ventured to wear @ Straw hat in the middle of the winter every one would turn around and stare at her. So does every one—al- most—in Chicago. :Apparently the milliners of Chicago have been to New York, for their win- dows, just now, are filled religiously with the spring confections in straw and flowers, But if Chicago women buy them it must be to put them away in bandboxes—to await the Easter parade, doubtless. And while a straw hat in|& milliner’s window does not make Chicagoans walk around in cir- cles, a straw hat on the head of a vi itor from New York attracts from ery surrounding eye those little lines of dashes by means of whic! Frueh registers his faithful Ouija’s abounding curiosity. Nor is it merely in the matter of the season for straw hats that the women of Chicago differ trom those in New York. Probably we spend too much | money on too few clothes, in this town —the reformers say so. But one of the | first things any stranger in New York notices is the multitude of its smartly dressed girls and women—downtown among the skyscrapers, along Broad- way, on Fifth Avenue, even in the upper reaches of Lenox and Amster- dam Avenues. If there are attractively and fash- jonably clad women in Chicago the leaven is too small to leaven the lump| of badly hung skirts, worn, near-fur coats, battered velvet hats with neither color nor shape, Boston| women look as if they were wearing| yesteryear’s good clothes; Chicago women look as if they never had any to wear. h Yet a friendly, cordial commu- nity. Eating one’s lonely 11 o'clock supper in the corner of a celebrated 0 hotel, companioned only by @ magazine—still the buman touch is not absent, “What you reading?” queries the kindly waiter. “‘Nippy Bits?’ * I might say something, too, about the human “touch,” which is raised to @ fine art in a hotel where minute steak, French fried potatoes and raspberry ice cost the sum of $2.35, but 1 refrain—New York has her profiteering caravansaries. But I cannot resist paying a meed of tribute to the curbstones of Chi- vago, raised so high above street level that after a day or two in town a woman wearing a narrow skirt auto- matically gives a rabbit-like hop every ten steps. And if I were a Chicago girl I should rather dre having my photograph in Chicago's best newspaper, which neatly guillo- tines most of the pictures it uses, cutting them off just above the col- lar bone. ‘The civic motto of Chicago is “TI will". The motto of one eastward- bouitd New Yorker, as she washed the cinders out of her eyebrows and tried to wash the roll of the Middle FATAL WALL STREET SEEKS TEMPORARY BLAST DUE TO PLOT, ADMINISTRATION OF GRAND JURY FINDS Evening World’s Revelation Sustained in Presentment to Judge Mulqueen. | ‘The Evening World's exclusive rev- elation, published on Nov. 11, 1920, supported by overwhelming circum- stantial evidence, that the Wall Street explosion of Sept. 16, which killed thirty-nine people, was a deliberate infernal machine plot was fully sus-|t tained in a report made ‘to Judge Mulqueen to-day by the Grand Jury/t investigating the crime for the past five months. In a presentment read in court to-day by W. A. Douglas, | ti foreman of the Grand Jury, this state- ment was made; “after carefully sifting the test!- mony obtained, the Grand Jury has come to the unanimous conclusion that the explosion was not due to any accident; on the contrary the Grand| was intentionally committed and that Wall Street in a horse drawn wagon and there abandoned.” The Grand Jury recommends that the city raise the reward for informa-) tion leading to the detection of the]. perpetrators of the crime to $50,000 and allow the offer to run indefinitely. | If this is done the total reward of- fered will amount to an excess of $100,000, Further recommendations made, as follows: ‘That a committes of experts be appointed to review and report upon the laws governing explo- sive risks in New York City, ‘That a bureau be formed, inde- pendent of the Fire and Police Departments, to enguge in te control of explosives, protection of life from them and the detec tion and exposure to the prose cuting authorities of Ube criminal handling of or the accumulation of explosives for unlawful pur- poses. Such a ibureau could con- sider, as they arose, all germane wpics, such as new explos.ves, new ‘safety progesses, &c. It should be & bureau which, through its chemical engineering forces, would investigate the pro- posed introduction of sufe ex- plosives, notably the use of liquid oxygen. ‘There should be attached to this bureau a secret service agency. ‘The presentment reviewed in a general way the voluminous evidence obtained from numerous witnesses. It was found that there was no le gitimate delivery of explosives in the ‘Wall Street district on the day of the explosion. Many eye witnesses gave contradictory testimony, but seven witnesses were found who agreed that they spoke to a man at the oor- ner of Broad and Wall Streets some time after the explosion, who said the horse and wagon destroyed by the infernal machine belonged to him, The Grand Jury while convinced | that the infernal machine was aban- | doned in front of the sub-Treasury | was unable to determine whether the | were perpetrators of the crime intended the explosion to occur at noon. An additional reward, the Grand Jury concluded, will prevent relaxation of effort on the part of the men who have been working on the case. The Grand Jury found that ex- plosives are stored in magazines} within the city limits and recom- mended that dynamite and other ex- plosives shall not be allowed in stor- age in any parks or public property in sufficient quantities to do damage to life and property and that the de- livery of explosives should be sur- rounded with still greater precau- tern “R" out of her ears, was T won't—ever again!" tions than are now employed. ‘The evidence appears to be against Wife’s Council,Says She Needs Joseph J. Fortune Ryan, who ts contesting the will by which her husband out her off with $100, to-day asked Surro- gate James A. Foley to appoint a band’s estate pending the outcome of of September, 1920, which has been|that close tabulation shows value of Mr. Ryan's estate to oe $60,900, senting Mrs. Mortimer L. @huford, the lawyer who @rew Mr. Ryan's will, should not be appointed administrator as he was a legatee under the will, a friend ot Miss Dorothy Lucile Whiteford, Jury believes that a dastardly crime|to whom Ryé estate, and was, therefore hostile to the infernal machine was brought to|the interests of herself and children. Attorney Shuford denied this. closed, ts now in Rome, two children. said. He asserted that hie client was ance made to her and her children by | "* her husband under a separation agree- ment. To insure this allowance, he! I Said, it was necessary to appoint an administrator Immediately, other side, said that Mr. Ryan's ea- tate consisted af two $25,000 life in- surance wirth $500, a one-fifth interest in the estate of his mother, a gold watch and a etiak pin. the allowance of §540 a month had never heen paid to Mrs, Ryan by ber husband, tut by her father-in-law, ‘Thomas Fortune Ryan, who, he said, would continue these payments re- there had been a conferenos at Suf- fern, N, Y., recently at which Onter- bridge Horsey, representing Thomas Fortune Ryan, discussed a settlement and told Mr. Shuford that, failing in & settlement, Mra, Ryan would apply for letters of administration and that when the Administrator settled the estate theré would be nothing but an empty accounting, elder Ryan had been paying $540 a aration agreement. | Company. machine pieces of sash weights were ‘The Grand Jury found thet it is easy that chemistry is necessary to make in- and said he would send the present- gent WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY | 16, tvet Wounded Soldiers Eat Up ~LLRYAN ESTATE Monthly Allowance Under Separation Agreement. Mrs. Nannie Morse Ryan, widow of Ryan, son of Thomas emporary administrator of her hus- he triaL The Court was informed the Mrs, Ryan had estimated he value at $100,000, Attorney Richard H. Clarke, repre- Ryan, deciared that T wd left the bulk of his Mrs. Ryan, Attorney (¢ ke dis- ly, with her She sent him a cable ‘to go the limit in the contest,” he] 1 at in need of the $540 monthly allow- Attorney Joseph A. Fangant, for the| policies, and old Stutz ca: He also sald that Attorncy Fangurt curther suid that Fox speak, All the Ingredients Before Shortcakes Hills Veterans Don’t Mind Hulls and Take Cream for Chaser—But Stuff Too Stale for Children Is Not Wanted for Them—Motto of Many Seems to Be “Let Gearge Do It.” By Lilian Beli. When people do the great big sur- prising things for the wounded it is a pleasure td tell about it, Here is the story of strawberry shortcakes and what happened to them. The last timo I wanted to sve eats to the Fox Hills boya was in January, just after Christmas, when the price of strawberries was fairly high, !f you remember, saw a wonderful strawberry shortcake in the window of the Cad- illac Restaurant. vhing I had ever seen. ravishing, and the longer I stood out- sido and looked at it the more I want- It was the biggest But it looked the boys at Fox Hills to have it. But could I get one? ‘That was the question. presumption even to ask for one, I fmally went manager and showed bim one of my stories in The Bvening World, “How much is that cake It seemed the height of in and asked for tho Tasked. 'wenty-five dollars,” he answered. didn’t say anything. I just looked him and smiled. I was afraid to He thought # minute. Then said: “I'll give you four of those short- cakes for your boys.” nearly fainted. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE GAS- TRONOMICALLY MADE. A friend called in her automobile and be gave it to us unmade, The angel-food cake was in eight huge siabs, fresh strawberries, a five-galion con- tainer of double heavy cream ready for whipping and a box of powdered sugar. We gaye it to the boys to put together, but ibefore we could stop them they had eaten the strawber- res, hulls and all, had gobbled the cake, drunk the thus made themselves, which, when you come to think of it, does ‘save quite a There were twelve boxes of cream—plain—and the shortcake inside of ittle trouble, I recommend the process to gardless of Sie outcome of the will! mothers of large fainilics when time contest. preases, Now I don’t thank anybody to send to a hospital for wounded soldiers stuff which is so stale the children won't eat it. ‘Dest in the house—made especially If you can’t send the Can Be Made for them, if you Kindly please—then Keep away altogether. Now here is another thing. Many people write in offering used clothing, and wanting to know where they can send jt, I wish some lady who is at home all day would come to see me and offer her home as a place where I could send these boys “oO get clean outfits, Mr. Guider of Guider's Health Sehool, No. 1947 Broadway, will a cept used clothing for a short tim so any one having it may send there and [ whil send the boya up from my office, 1125 World Building, where Mr. and Mrs. Guider will give personal attention to each case. ‘The first girl to promise a box of strawberries and a home-made cake for Minnie May Van Nort's party at Polytechnic Hospital on Washing- ton’a Birthday is Miss Sadie Goodkin of the Pioneer Blouse Company. She will deliver them in person at Red Cross room on the morning of the 22d, and she says tle cake will be cocoanut marshmallow. TO-DAY’S BEST LETTER SMACKS OF PATRIOTISM. Now here is the best letter I have received to-day. I print it because of its patriotiom. If there were more men like this Mr. Fleiach f would be a happier woman in my work for the wounded. Did it eyer occur to you businoss men how littie you help me? You send checks, but as to the actual work of rehabilitation your motto must be, “Let George do it." Read this letter from William H. Fleisch & Co., Nos, 46-49 John Street, and then other business men with poet- tions to offer please write me the Rood news: “Dear Miss Bell: We shall certainly appreciate it if you will be kind enough to use your efforts toward recommending to us a young man (preferably an ex-service man) to op- erate a small switchboard, four trunk lnes and ten extensions, “While the switchboard tn question is smal! and not busy, it requires an operator who can talk intelligently over the telephone, At present we are paying a salary of $20 per week. “WM. H. PLEISCH & CO.” Ex-service men come to see me every day, trying to help, so that the Service House which will take them. off the streeta will be @ blessed reality. Mrs. Furst is hostess of the Stage Women's War Relief Service House, which the American Legion is going to take as its model, I asked several members of the State organization to dine there that they might taste and see what sort of food she gives the boys, Capt. Hugh Robertson, Assist ant to the State Commander; Majot W. FB, Deegan, Vice Commander, be partment of New York, and Col, Wat- kins were the threo I asked. all said they never ate a better din- ner and I know I never did, Now If you want to help us to get They VANDALS STRIP HISTORIC P “Vieux Charles” Used by Gul nemer Practically Destroyed ih Front of Orange, N, J., School, ‘Vieux Charles,” historic war shot down while being piloted Georges Guynem French ace, has been destroyed in Orange, N. J, tw vandals, It was sent to this pig | the French High Commission York, which loaned it lo Orange Post of the American Legion, ‘The vandals stripped the famous ma~ chine soon after it was placed on thel lawn in from School. ton motor, parts were rivetted pellor. The Post will send the French Commission an apology. Tt haw An investigation of the vandalien, it Ja understood that it will protest the City Commission on the alleged fi hire of the Police Department to, oo1 with the post's request to detail a po- liceman to guard the machine. RAWLING’S BODY TO LIE IN STATE ‘The funeral of Sylvester Raw! music critic of The Evening W who died in St. Vincent's Hospital Wednesday afternoon, will take place toqmorrow morning at 1 o'clock In the Church of the Transfiguration, 2th Street, near Fifth Avenue. The pastor the Rev, Dr, George C, Houghton, will conduct the services, 2 o'clock thie afternoon “ani the hour of the funeral the bod tig tn state in the chapel of the obe he honorary pallbearers wi George F. Harriman, Loula Duval, sole omon Hanford and Joseph . Row rat oni ends 1 iH HO", Wcehniel, We ft. Henderson, Re % tye Ainegican, ‘feupectivaly. aid Hd, Whe alae tarence PD. White Angus Shaw “and JohnH. Tennant of one just ar homey, just as clean, just as well k pt, but much larger than the 8. W. W, R. No, 3, just reach your check book and send us help that will count with the cashier, Make all checks payable to ‘The Evening World's Service House Mund, Were you thinking of waiting until next week to do this? Don't! OW. Don't! Don't wait! You are specially invited to taste Ancre Cheese at one of the nany demonstrations now running in grocery and delicatessen stores. There is absolutely no obligation to buy. Look for the Ancre Demonstration. INC Stor iy & arpless, Phila. Attorney Clarke admitted that the month to Mrs. Ryan under the eep- {ndictments were returned by the Federal Grand Jury in Brooklyn to-day against the Brooklyn Union ¢ pany, the Brooklyn Borough, ¢ pay ‘and the Barrett Manufacturing Pollution of the waters of the harbor 4s charged. the assumption that dynamite was used by the makers of the infernal It is more likely that chlo- rate wos employed. Lead pipe and used. for criminals to obtain explosives a.nd little technical knowledge of fernal machines when the makers have the formula, Judge Mulqueen thanked the jury to the proper Legislative au- thorities, | OPPENHEIM.CLUNS & C 34th Street, New York ‘ Very Special Saturday New Spring Millinery Modes Milan, Hemp, Lisere and Hair Braids. Large, Me- dium and Close Fitting Shapes. Ribbon, Burnt effects, Floral, Ostrich and Ornament trimmings. Also on Sale in our Brooklyn and Newark Stores 8.75 BONWIT TELLER & CO. The Specally Shop of Opyinaions FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET Will Close Out Saturday Several Hundred Pairs of Women’s and Misses’ High Grade HIGH and LOW SHOES Below Manufacturing Cost Formerly 12.00 to 18.00 BROKEN SIZES—MOSTLY NARROW WIDTHS To Close Out Saturday Remaining Winter Stock 6.00 Women’s & Misses’ Coats, Wraps and Evening Wraps At Final Reductions Exceptional Values Saturday TAILORED SHIRTS OF CREPE DE CHINE 9.50 nn ent a lt A A CC LC A AL LL i sapien