The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1921, Page 3

"+ fino asked that the bail be fixed at ~s/ Following six indictments in Mem- . . It was trow _ HELD ON CHARGE Salesman Arrested at Dinner Accused of Stealing From Electric Company. BAIL PUT AT $7,500. Miller, Said to Belong to Old New York Family, Will Have Hearing Next Week. _ Frank Miller, e salesman who said he lived at No. 12 West 9th Street, arrested while entertaining @ dinner party at the Rits-Cariton last night and escorted to Police Headquarters ‘wearing evening clothes, was held in $7600 ball on @ oharge of grand larceny to-day by Magistrate Harris im the Tombs Court. ‘The arraignment of Miller was made on a short affidavit by De- tective Edtwani Kalbflelsch, who charges that he has been informed by Charies Fisher, an inspector for ‘the American Express Company, that ‘Miler, on Oct. 9 last, stole travellers’ checks, Liberty bonds, other securi- ties and currency amounting to $11,000 in the office of the Conti- Mental General Electric Company, No. 190 Broadway. Assistant District Attorney Sabba- $20,000. Milller’s attorney, a member of the firm of House, Grossman & Voorhaus, objected, saying his client ‘was a member of one of New York's oldest families and always had a good record. Magistrate Harris fixed fhe bail at $7,500, which was fur- mished by Isaac Michaels of No, 472 ‘West End Avenue, in the form of seven $1,000 bills and a $500 bill. Miller's examination was set for next Wednesday. Two of the money orders stolen from the electric company were cashed last week by the Hotel Biit- more. The police then sent word to every hotel in the city that if any more should he proffered to hold the per- gon offering them and notify Head- quarters. Miller, in paying for the @inner last night, tendered the waiter @ 850 money order, When the order was given to the cashier the police were told and detectives were notified. Miller said he had purchased the orders in Chi- jgo Feb. 4, but the American Ex- pfess Company, which was communi- eated with and told the numbers, said this would have been inrpossible. Miller then paid his check in cash and was locked up. He had other or- ders aggregating $350. SUSPECT FORGER IN BOND ROBBERY kmaker Also Believed Impli- cated in $460,000 Theft Here Fol- dowing Memphis Indictments. phis, the police here declared they pelieved they had established the links by which $460,000 Liberty Bonds stolen from- Keane, Taylor & Co., Mew York bankers, had travelled from bandits here to prominent Tennessee financiers. I is said an employee of the brokgrage house, fol- lowing an east side crap game, dis- cussed the robbery with Arthur Vanella, an ex-convict, who bas sur- rendered to the police, during which conversation Vanclla expressed wil- lngness to “take a chance,” ‘The police, in looking up Vanella's actions, found that while in Sing Sing he had frequently communicated with a brother-in-law, named Carisi, @ notorious forger who bas served prison terms. Investigating further, they found Carlisi closely connected with a bookmaker at the New Or- Jeans racetrack. New Orleans the first of the stolen bonds turned op Memphis, and the poiice declure it Was through racetrack channele dis- position of loot was made iit te GAVE FIREMEN A RUN, ‘Two False Alarms From Bath Beach Section Under Inqgairy. ‘The Brooktyn police, at the request of "+ the Fire Department, are investigating Wo false alarms sent in early to-day by geome one in Bath Beach. t 145 an alarm came from New Utrecht Avenue and 69th Street and En- gine No. 147, Hook and Ladder No, 147 and Engine No, 143 responded. There was no sign of fire, - Half an hour later a false alarm ame from 6th Street and Seventh Ave- hue, eight blocks from the other. The boys of Engine No, 147 had to turn out again, together with Engine No. 141 ‘nd Hook and Ladder No, 141. a Not in It March 4. Caldwell, N. J., 19 to have an inaugu- ral, parade of its own March 4. The chief figure will be a Democrat, Julius W. Moore, who will push a wheeibarroy eontaining Harvey Williams, u building contractor. A brass band wili follow the wheelbarrow for a haif-milo through The business section. Moore bet Cox * would defeat Harding. Arrangements e parade were made last night by "committee ‘consisting of Counciimen ‘A. Brown and Walter G. Brand. ‘and ex-Councilman Anson V, Ji Wasbingto ie NTZPARTY HOST (DAVIS STILL SILENT ABOUT MOTIVE FOR OF $100 THEFT) KLUNG BROGETS Detective McGlone Tells How Siren Called Armed Workers and of Narrow Escape. Charles T. Davis, the wealthy Manufacturer held without ball changed with the murder of Acting day, had not broken his silence to- on Bridgetts, It is understood hé has refused to disclope it even to his lawyer. + Police Capt. McCluskey made pub- lie to-day the report made to him by Detective MoGlone, who Is still in the hospital with a buckshot wound In his foot, “MoGlone told me,” McCluskey said, “that after Bridgetts went into the private office there was a scuffle in- side and’ Bridgefts called for help. At the same time the siren alarm, connected with the button on Davis's desk sounded. As MoGlone and Horan entered the room a small mob of employees armed with revolvers and heavy clubs poured in, “Tt was apparent that the crowd thought the detectives were hold-up men and that to produce a revolver would 'be to start slaughter. Bridgetts ‘was on the floor with blood coming from bis nose as the result of the ‘low he had received from the butt of Davis's shotgun. His shield, which he had apparently been showing to Davis, lay beside him. “McGlone began to protest against Davis's attack on a policeman and reached for -his own shiéid, Davis then fired the riot gun. The muzzle was depressed. Shot struck Horan and McGlone in the feet and legs. Several shots passed through the clothing of office employees, Bridgetts, aroused by the shot, jumped up and seized the gun and wes about to twist it away from Davis, when Davis let go with one hand, reached into his hip pocket and drew an auto- matic, with which he shot Bridgetts through the heart.” Davis in the Raymond Street jail occupies a cell in which he is under constant observation from the corri- dor and the office. He was silent and depressed yesterday and to-day; der voting himself to Swedish exercising end eating fairly heavy meals. Inquiry showed to-day that Brid- getts was a member in good standing of six of the seven policemen’s bene~ ficial organizations to which he was eligible and that besides his pension there was a considerable sum in death benefits due his widow. The funeral of Bridgetts will be held at 9.30 o'clock Monday morning, when u high requiem mass will be cele- brated in St Anastasia's Church, 62d Street and Bay Parkway, Brook- lyn, The Police Band and an escort will attend, The burial’ will he in St. John's Cometery, Brooklyn, Mra. Bridgetts when seen at her hom ‘0, 1017 Darhill Road, was too ill to discuss at length the death of her husband. “Tt is terrible,” she sald, weeping. “He was shot down like a dog while in the performance of his duty, with- Hs even getting a chance for his te. HORSES RUN AWAY ON OPERA STAGE Metropolitan Audience Alarmed ~ When Animals, Scared by Din, ‘atter Singers. “Alda” proceeded smoothly at the Metropolitan Opera House jast night until the second scene of the second act, when the trumpets frightened the two horses drawing the chariot of Radames, impersonated by Mr. Crimi, and ran away on the stage. The horse on the right almost got the better of the strong man at the bridle, who was dragged o/ong the stage Quiokly quieted, but not yet curbed, the borses, when the moment came to bo backed before turn! to leave ‘he stage, made an abr turn and dashed into the crowd of singers and brass band at the left. Consternation reigned on the stage and in the audience, but the men at the bridles were quick and strong and averted a very serious mishap. No one was injured. 19 BBLS. OF WATER OFFERED AS LIQUOR Salesmen Wanted $11,000, but Wary Cafe Man Called Police —Two Arrested. Nineteen barrels of water were of- fered for salo as whiskey to Louis B. Bell, a restaurant keeper of No, 180 Bast End Avenue, last night, according to Detectives Fitspatriek, Morrell, Foley and Sheehan of the West 100th Street Station. As @ result, the detec- tives arrested two men describing themselves as Ralph Lund, thirty, a broker living at the Marlborough Hotel, and Robert C, Battlerock, thirty-five, of No. 310 West 97th Street, The prisoners were locked up in the West 100th Street Station, charged with attempted grand larceny.’ According to the detectives, they endeavored to weil the nineteen barrels to Bell for $11,000, claiming the contents to be whiskey Bell became suspicious and notified the police, Posing 48 friends of the res- taurant man, rage in West 107th Street, where they gay they found the nineteen bar- rels with nothing stronger than water them, Sergeant Joseph Bridgette | Brooklyn factory Thurs-| day as to the motive for his attack | ’ In These AY, PEBRUARY 1 1921, > MISS MeRSORIE HELMICH WEARING A OSTUME CENAVY BLUE TRIMMED WITH Cc EMBROIDERED SK — MSS N.HOWSLE IN A THeEe PIECE SUIT OF SLUR Wire TRIMMING OF PerencT LEATHER ANS “Tew Suc IN~emWaATIONas ° Three stunners from Wortzman’s shown at the “Social Day” dis- . play in the Fashion Review at the Astor. Miss Marjorie Helmich (left) is wearing an attractive costume of navy Dlue, trimmed with emoroidered Roshanara silk and black and tan wooden beads. On the right, Miss M. Howel is wearing a three-piece suit of blvfe with em- broidered tan patent leather and tan silk as trimming. Miss Beulah McFarland {s wearing’an attractive afternoon costume of black and whife Canton crepe, embroidered with jet. 1,200 Girls, in Beauty Riot, Storm Judges for Awards As Fashion Show Models Arbiters Perplexed, Hotel Employees Swamped as Surging Waves of Feminine Pulchri- tude Dash Against Bounds. Girle—1,200 of them—including tall, short, slender and plump, blonde, brunette and auburn haired damsels, ‘besieged the Pennsylvania Hotel Roof Garden last night to compete In @ beauty show in which the prizes were places as models in the Revue de Fashion, to be held on the roof | Feb. 26 to March 5, inclusive, Some of the girls were prosperous enough to arrive in their limousines: others sought the job to make a liv- ing. Many declared thelr eagerness was due to belief that their selection , ag models would be the first step to- ward movie stardom, Their arrival created a ript not only of beauty, but of the kind that kept hotel employees and promoters of the show on the jump. They swarmed into the exhibition hall to await their turn before the judges, who were almost distracted by the concerted and insistent attack by beauty, plus determination. some of the employees braced them~ selves against the doors into the! judges’ ‘room, which threatengd to collapse under the weight of the crowd, the models struggled to force their way to the judges. Some of the less robust girls collapsed and had to be carried out by rescue parties of heroes brave enough to force their way through the crowd. The judges, rank L. Talbot, Stelia Talbot and Albert Tovel, did a rapid flre act of lightening-like judging as the girls were marshalled in one door, the lucky ones \uraed to one side and the rejected applicants shered into the hail through an- »ther goor. Shortly after the contest opened, the mana, announced that Mine, Gaul-Curel of the opera would be .asked to be premiere of the 250 beauties to be selected"from the 1,200, Then the rush began. ‘Too short—got enough short ones,” shouted Mr. Tovel, waving his hands in despair, as the rejected ones ght to argue with him, ‘00 tall—got enough tall blondes,” was his decision: a moment later, 80 Those who did not stop to argue went on their way, some dejectediy, some haughtily, and most of them scampered through the corridor and back to the exhibition hall take another chance on getting past the judges’ eagle eyes. “The first consideration for a model is a kind face,” said Mr, Toyel, in one of the rest periods following a furious round of judging, “Even to display of lingerie or stockings an agreeable countenance is essential, After that the other considerations must be met, but no one wants to buy even 4 pair of shoes, no matter how beautiful the foot on which they are displayed, if the model has a hard or unattrac- tive face, Bhe need not be to agreeable appearance.” The revue is one of the entertain- [mente which have promised aid to While | beautiful the detectives went to a OF even pretty, but she’ must be of |demonstrated by investigation of the PLAN OPERA SEASON AT THE MANHATTAN Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein Says She Is Collaborating With Toscanini for Next Year. Mrs, Oscar Hammerstein said to- day thdt she and Arturo Toscanini, who is touring the country with the La Scala Opera House Orchestra of | Milan, Italy, were collaborating in jarrangements for an opera and on- |cert season at the Manhattan Opera House next year. “Mr. Toscanini and 1," she said, “are negotiating to do some very wonderful things in musical produc- tion at the Manhattan in 1922, This will include high class grand opera and concerts, In fact, it will be just what Mr. Hammerstein used to do. plans just now." This statement was made by Mrs. Hammerstein in response to an in- quiry concerning.a report that Mr. Toscanini had approached the Man- hattan Opera House management with a proposal to lease the house. She would not discuss this report save with the foregoing reply. | JAMAICA CHANNEL WILL HAVE TO WAIT (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, D. Feb. 19. Muyor Hylan, Borough President of |Kings John Riegelman, President of the Board of Aldermen La Guardia. Commissioner of Docks Murray Hurl- burt and a representative of Presi- dent Connolly of Queens came Washington to-day and called members of the New York delega- tion and Congressional leaders {n an effert to expedite the Jamalea Bay improvement work. to on They urged the passage of the Rivers and Harbons bill at this sea- sion, so that ‘the money to come out of the lump sum appropriated will be available for early use. They also unged the making of the channel 30 instead of 18 feet. A bill to that ex- tent ia pending. The Fe ral Government has au- thorized $450,000 for the New York Harbor development on an original 37,000,000 commitment. Hylan was told however that both an extension of appropriation and authorization of a wider channel probably would have to walt until the next session of Congr The Evening World's American Le- gion Service House for Wounded Sol- diers, of which the bitter need has been which Amer suffered. 1 | neglect maimed heroes have ;be given from the profits | revue. I prefer not to say more about our| agents. He wants to have them all chosen on one ballot and to have them serve afterward in rotation from district to distriet, which will prevent, he says, “combinations |SOLD U..S. AGENTS his ald will | tials w of the! were fo Black and White, Biack and Tan-Prevail . Saucy Styles for Spring Wear SIZED IN RAINS: ASKS CARPENTERS TO CHANGE RULES INPUBLC'S FAVOR Meeting of Twenty-Six Locals Called for Monday Night to Consider Plan, Acting in the light of revelations made by the Lockwood Committee, the 26 locals of the United Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners will meet on Monday night to consider radical changes proposed by Edward J. White, No. 434 t 148th Street, Chairman of the Welfare Committee. “The workmen,” he said to an Eve- ning World reporter to-day, “must show that they have learned thelr les- son. With the passing of the tax ex- emption ordinance many builders will come forward to relieve the housing situation by new construction, It ty doubly important, therefore, that there shall be complete public confidence In our labor bodies, which accordingly must undertake a house cleaning.” He recommengs that the Compen- gation Department of the Building Trades Council be disbanded at once and its surplus funds distributed among the locals, He also recom~ mends the “imyediate !mpeachment of all the present district council delegates" and the e n of new ones. Ahd he recommends a change in he method of selecting business banded together t» maict the public.” WHISKEY PERMITS Two “Curb” Operators Held in $5,000 Accused of Dealing in Forged Orders. Charies Donin of No. 48) New Utrecht Avenue and Elias Adama of No. | 1501 39th Street, Brooklyn, were held by United States Commissioner Hitch- cock in $5,000 bail each to-day on a charge of selling rged permits to withdraw whiskey. ‘The complaints were made iby Agents Wilson and M ey of the Volstead enforcement fore Wilson sald he got Into touch with the pair on Feb, 7 und represented to thom that he wished to withdraw fifty cases of whiskey from a Warehouse and needed permits “They sald it was easy to get per- mits,” Wilson testified. “All they had to do was to go to the ourd market at Broome and Mulberry Streets or an- other curb market at Spring und Lafay~ ette Streets,” they said, “and give the right sign,” “F gave them $400 in marked bills for the permits. ‘They produced five per mits, each for the removal of ten cuses of whiskey, ‘Then we arrested tham and found the marked bills in their pock- ou.” J. Lyneh, withdrawal ol Mee Charles K. O'Cons Prohibitfon Director, swore that his Int ish appe on the permite *. e is no record in the office of the permits, $105,000 IN DRUGS SMUGGLERS HELD List of Possible Customers Here, Compiled in Europe, ’* Found on Prisoner. ‘Additional arrests to-day In the Brooklyn Contributes’ To Service Appeal Made to Former Ser- vice Men of Wealth Who Are Members of Clubs to Give Their Bonus From the State to Help Establish Home, crusade of Deputy Police Commis- sioner Gimon against narcotic Amy glers led to the confiscation of $! 000 worth of cocaine and brought the total seizures in the last twenty-four hours up to $105,000. ! The latest arrests were made at noon when the steamship R. H, Mal- lory arrived from Italy. Two women, Benectite and Amelia Bertolotta, were stopped as they landed, and the cocaine. was found In bottles about have told him how they planned to bring the drug in and how the amug- gling was arranged by others, A small bound handbook, tdund in the apartment of Ernesto Araco, No, 441 East 12th Street, which was. raided last night by detectives dl- rected by Dr, Simon who seized $60,000 worth of drugs, is being closely studied by the police to-day, who expect to find in it some clues that will lead to the exposing of an international drug ‘ring which is using New York as a distribbution all you soldiers know you are going Iitzer, point for thousands of dollars’ worth of drugs prepared in various parts of the world and shipped from European ports, The book, which was appar- ently compiled in Europe, contain the names and addresses of persons, here to whom It is easy to sell drugs, A number of these persons will be questioned at Headquarters to-day. Araco was arrested after the police had been halted for some moments by a ferocious bull dog. When they threatened to shoot the animal Araco called him back and the raiders en- tered his flat where, they say, they found $60,000 worth of heroin and opium. About $10,000 worth, they say, had been thrown down a sink in the few moments the dog held them at bay. The police will exam- ine other tenements where they have been informed Araco had cached other supplies. In Araco’s home the detectives found $5,000 in cash and a bank book showing entries of $15,000 for deposits in the last month, Information leading to Araco’s ar- rest was obtained, from Joseph Felt- man and Joseph Bauman, stewards of the Shipping Board steamer Sus- quehanna, now under arrest, who yes- terday admitted smuggling in) $25,000 worth of cocaine, which has also been seized. Bauman and Feldman were held tn $1,000 bail each by United States Commissioner Hitchcock on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United ‘States by evading payment of duties, Bauman had 600,000 German marks in his possession—a little less than $10,000, ONE CENT A QUART MILK CUT, MARCH 1 Consumers Will Benefit by Dairy League's Reduction to Distributers. A drop of one cent will be made in the price of milk to the New York consumer March 1, it was announced to-day. Grade B milk will go to 16 cents a quart, and Grade A probably to 18 cents. The reduction is the result of the action of the Dairymen's League di- rectors at Utica in cutting the price of milk a trif_’ more than 1 cent a quart to distributers. The latter on hearing the news announced they would pass along the decrease to the consumer. Ps President Fox of the Borden's Parm Products Company sald to-day: “If the report is trhe that the Dairymen’s League directors have de- cided to drop the March price to ua from $2.58 to $2.10 per 100 pounds, approximately a cent a quart, the de- crease will be passed on fully and at once to the consumer by the Bor- den Company.” LEAP UNDER SUBWAY TRAIN KILLS WOMAN Terribly Mangled by Wheels of a Local She Dies in Hospital, Mes. L Sohwegel, thirty-five, who lived with her husband and five chil- dren at No, 10 West 98t) Street, died in Flower Hospital last night as the re- sult of injuries rece yesterday afternoon after she had jumped from the subway platform at Bas’ 68th Street and Lexington Avenue in front of a southbound local train. Her injuries included amputation of the left arm, Cracture of the right wris’ and scalp, and chin lacerations, She was attended by Dr. Hamilton of Flow- er Hospital, who was summoned by Pa- trolman Reder of the East 67th Street Station, Willlam Fitzgerald of No. 202 St, Ann's Avenue operated the train. STABBED IN A FIGHT. John Mabanad, twenty-two, of No. 227 Union Avenue, the Bronx, is in| Harlem Hospital suffering from a stab wound in the right side and a posible fracture of the skull following a Might) in front of No, 169 Street Isaac Haitikan' . of the same address, under arrest on ay charge of felonious assauit, The cauve ef the trouble was not learned, By Lilian Beil. There is th every large hotel in New York some brilliant woman who jectures to the guests on absorbing topics of the day. Many of these women have told me that they have talked of the wounded and of my worn for them, but I have never had a col- lection from these worthy women for our fund. Now I am wondering if these leo- turers will not set aside thelr rules the money. Surely you need not be told. again how pressing is the need. Surely you know and your own heart bleeds with your knowledge. Then make your hearerg hear with you: ears the stories I tell. Make them see with your eyes what you yourself have aeen, and atiove all, make them understand with your own under- tanding heart. If you do that, they cannot fall to give. I have heard of another thing. The State bonus ill has passed and to get your bonus, But many of the wealthy ex-service men have publicly stated that they did not know what to do with it. Of course I know you haven't re- ceived it yet, but give it to us. You know you will get it. Advance it to our fund. - You are \probably all American Legion men, Do this for your own Service Hou ASKS EX-SERVICE CLUB MEM- BERS TO AID. The Yale Club, the Harvard Club, the Cornell Club, the University Club, the Princeton Club—all these and many more have ex-service men of wealth, who could easity do this, And it would be such a help. 1 went over to Brooklyn last night to speak before the Consumers’ League of the Ridgewood-Bushwick sbction, and I wish New York would follow the example of these snappy Brooklynites, They are organized to fight the H. C, L, and fight it they do. Last night they brought their gas bills and framed action to reduce them. Several ladies anndunced that suits against landlords had been d cided in thelr favor. Prices of exes and other food were discussed, and, while boycots are illegal, there need be but the knowledge that a certain section of a street is given over to food profiteers for the Consumers’ League to find that they need pothing that these men sell. : Mrs, Furst and I sat on the plat- form having the time of our lives over their wonderful work. Then they called on me to tell’ them wbout my work in The Evening World for the wounded. I told them frankly that as soon as I was through speaking we were going to take up @ collection, and that any man who wished to save more than carfare would better leave the room and hide hig money, for if he stayed to hear me out I was bound to get it. No one moved. Dr. Ottarson was one of the speak- ers, and had intended to ask for collection for loans to soldiers at Fox | Hills, but I beat him to it and took mine up first. He had to contribute to my collection, Mrs. ‘Furst followed my talk. She told about the Stage Woman's War Rellef Service House and made the audience ery over the story of boys she had to turn away from lack of roont in Service House No. 2. Then she said: “We need your money, but if you can't give that, give us your good wishes”—— I hated to do it, but I interrupted her. { just had to. “Pay no'attention to her!" I urged them. “Your good wishes are ac- ceptable in the right place, but L want your money—all you've got-—and I'm here to wet it. That's what 1 came for. Don't discourage them.” Mrs, Furst was crimson with laugh- ter and the audience was having a fit. So while they were In that good humor we passed the hat, and I got a bag full of moncy—$109 in all. But given with such spontaneity and good will! WOMAN'S PRESS CLUB ADOPTS WARD AT FOX HILLS. I had a letter from Haryot Holt Day, ident of the Ne- York Women's Press Chub, Inviting me to be their guest at their annual lunch- con at ‘the Waldorf on Feb, 26 and telling me she wanted me to speak twenty minutes. I'll practise up and manage to tell ail 1 want to in that time. [can take up a collection there too, She says thac the Press Club has adopted a ward at Fox Hilla. Several other clubs have adopted wards, and I think the idea excellent If you would all take Evening Worlds to your buys, they might like to read about what we are doing. The Service House Ia becoming * reality. Money is coming in just about the way it did in the Christmas Fund, slowly the first week. This ix the beginning of the second veek, and | have great hopes of what it will bring forth. The public Joves the wounded sol- dier, It only doesn't know his needs until we tell it, ‘Then they give and give generously, Wounded soldiers are walking the streets half starved with nowhere to go, Everyone knows now that we need a Service House Everybody admits !t. So now they will give until we have all that we want to make jt hs beautif ike, a# attractive as the most ardent admirers of the wounded eon wish. And If we got enough—as we surely will—to fix it up the way I want it we sure will be going some. If you haven't alrendy sent in your ontribution {t would be a good idea to do it NOW, Send all contributions to Evening World Service House Fund, Room Nu, 1a, as home- | ouse Fund ‘ LAST TRIBUTE PAID SONG AND FLOWERS Noted Men and Women At- tend Funeral Service “at “Little Church.” Funeral services over the remaing of Sylvester Rawting, musio critie of The Everting World who died om ‘Wednesday, were held to-ddy in the “Little Church Around the Corner* at Twenty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue. Rev, Dr. George Houghton, the pastor, read the Episcopal funeral service and the full choir sang sev- eral hymns. ‘The altar was banked with beawtt- ful floral offerings from the, friends politan Opera Company, Harfold Mé- Cormick of the Chicago Opera Comi- pany, Sophie Breslau and Ralph Pu- Nahan Franko played a setection and Orville Harrold, of the, Metré- politan Opeta Company, sang. The church was filled with celebrities in’ the music world, members of the Manhattan Club, artists and writer. Among the mourners were a oum- ber of printers who were associated with Mr. Rawling in the days when he was the make-up or night editer of various newspapers. All the musle critics of the New York press were present, ¢ Marguerite Sylva, Albert Payson Terhune, William Guard, Edward Ziegler, Arthur Weil, Antonio Bassi, J. LC, Clarke, Mrs, Thomas Bull, Louis Seibold, Mr. and Mra, Frank 1 Cobb and Charles Henry Meltzer were some of the close friends of the deceased who attended the funeral services. Interment was in Wood- lawn Cemetery. Confesses Again, But Police Won’t HelpHimtoN.Y, For Thirty-First Time Deckster Tries to Get Free Ride From Ohio to This City. Detectives at Police Headquarters laughed to-day when shown a press despatch from Akron, O. saying David E. Deckster had been “moved by the Scriptures” to confess robbing the Mercantile Restaurant Company, | No. 92 Franklin Street, of §2,170, and | that he was to be brought back to New York to answer for the crime. “That's the thirty-first time Deck~ ster has ‘confessed,’ sald a detee- tive, “in the hope the police will sup- ply him with transportation to New York. It's true the Mercantile Res- taurant was robbed of $2.17, not $2,170. But the offense is not ex- traditable, and we don't want Deck- ster here.” According to the despatch, Deckster wandered into the Union Mission at Akron and, after being “moved” by @ preacher to corifess, said that Robert Marty of Brooklyn had been sent to Sing Sing for two years for the crime he (Decketer) had committed. The chief regret of the New York police is that they will have to spend money for a telegram to the Akton police to release Deckster, EEE 8 LEE DR. STEPHEN SMITH 98, Venerable Phy fled With Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Stephen Smith is celebrating his ninety-elgbth birthday ann{versary to- day at his home, No. 1000 Park Avenue, Dr, Smith, who was born in Onondaga: County, was closely connected with Bellevue Hospital for many years. From 1850 to 1852 he was resident surgeon of that Institution, He was founder and firat President of the American Publie Health Association. He was twice ap- pointed to office by the President of the United States, seven times by the Gov- ernor of New York and three times ty the Mayor. id be your own landlord, er ‘2 most persons realize, A Wonderful Assortment of tunities to either the fand upon which to ‘ould home or buy one al built is offered the readers To-morrow» Sunday Word. ‘| 1,000 Separate Real Estate Offers For Sale & Wanted | For Wounded Soldiers —