The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1921, Page 3

Sie RT FLOOD PUT PISTOL TO HIS BACK. BOY SWEARS ON STAND + Also Says He Was Struck While in Dark ‘Hallway On Way to Street. POLICEMAN ON TRIAL. Accused of First Degree Mur- der in Death of James Cush- ing—Whitman in Court. The trial of Patrolman Cornelius J. Flood, indicted with Patrolman Robert A, O'Brien on charges of murder in the first-degree, was start- ¢d to-day before Judge Nott in the Cotrt of General Sessions. O'Brien in to have a separate trial later. ‘The evidence already outined that the two policemen, in civilian] clothes and with revolvers drann, went to the roof of No, 540 West 50th Street on Sunday afterpoon,| July M4, 1918. A group of boys were there, playing with pigeons. When. they saw the policemen approaching | | they were frightened bby the revolvers and fled over the roofs. It is alleged that several shots were fired by the policemen, and that one of the boys, James Cushing, sixteen years old, was mortally wounded Former Gov, Whitman, who is to be| associated with the prosecution, was present in the court room this morn- | ing Dr, Otte H. Schultz, medical exam- (ner for tne District Attorney's of- fice, a witness, said the bullet en- tered the boy's ck about three inches from the and between penetrating din t spine the ninth and tonth ribs, th lungs pullet lence. Patrolman he went to the nd had the body removed to the station. He he de- scribe the clothing “because it was 80 long “Next The was pla shannon testified that the shoot- oof after Ins ead could not ago.” time write it every policeman should the case of important evidence in a homicde case," the court cautioned him. | Under cross-examination, Gilshan- pon said the police had received many verbal complaints of theft by ova who went to the roofs of bulld- ings in which they did not live. John St. John. No. 548 West 50th Street, one of the group on the roof, | said ho and other boys went there because it was a hot day. He ad-| mitted that he knew the defendants to tbe policemen when he saw them coming even though they were not! in uniform. He said he and the others ran because they “did not want to be beaten up.” “Were you ever beaten 1p before?” he was asked. down—as do in es, iw he said. “and this boy,” interjected Mr. Whitman, “was only fifteen years old at that time.” Mr. Whitman was cautioned not to make remurks like that in the midst of testimony | St. John sald he hid behind a sky- light, where he heard the shooting. | He said Flood found him, thrust a revolver against his back and took him to the static He Wag convicted of disorderly conduct, he said, and | sentenced to three days tn the City | Prison, In a dark hallway on the| way to the street, he said, somebody | it him. | Uline tact that (he two policomen are | held in the Tombs, not admitted to pail, was the mrbject of criticism yes.) lerday by Mgr. Lavelle of St, Pat- Tick's Cathedral, who spoke at a} breakfast given in the Hotel Com. | inodore by the Holy Name Society of | the Police Department. | What makes me sore,” he sdid, “ig that they should be refused their Liberty on bail. Nobody believes that it was murder in the first degree.” | When the case first came to the at- tention of a Grand Jury in 1918 it dismissed, It was recently re- Vived and indictments were brought About through the investigation of police affairs under former Gov. Whitman \ WOMAN DEFENDS | WOMAN FOR MURDER: First Time This Has Happened in | History — Appeals for a | | Mixed Jury. : the firet time in the history the State, a woman lawyer ap- yed to-day in the defense of an- ther woman charged with firat de- gree murder, Mise ‘Theresa Hi, Dubin fs counsel for Mra, Dontatella Massi- a, forty years old of No. 40 South Street, Corona, L. 1, Who la charged | with killing her neighbor, Mrs, Con- atta Altiero, In a quarrel last Janu- ary. ‘The trial started this morning Wine Queens County Court before age Burt J. Humphiey. ‘The morn- ng seasion was taken wp with select bg the jury. | An extra panel was | Hered drawn by Judge Humphrey. According, to counsel for the de nae, Mra, Massi ived a revolver font merely to Mra. Aitiero and , Aineuade her f cking = Mrs. Massiclia’s. fourteen-year-old son The bullet, hit. Mra. Altlera. in the | heck, Killing her instantly, Miss Du- Hin suid that she had no desire to u ite case before a jury of women. | re more accustomed to tak- | 1 ction on serious questions,” aald | thE Woman lawyer, “I should like a| mixed jury.” | fatyict. Attorney, Dana Wallace | a his assintan!, Robert Price Bell Sle prosecuting the case | atin JOMN'S MEDICINE | ATHER emae Should Spare the City And State This Wrong AN the Legislature of thé State of New York afford to blot C its record by the passage of the Traction Bill in its present form? > To misuse the legislative power to wrest from the city all con- trol over its transit affairs in order to clear the way for. speedy authorization of higher fares would put an everlasting stigma upon representative government in this Commonwealth. The City of New York has done nothing to deserve what the Traction Bill seeks to impose upon it. Granted its present Municipal Administration has proved worse than futile. Granted the Hylan-Hearst defense of the 5-cent fare has the counterfeit ring of political calculation, deceiving only the thoughtless, Granted no honest, competent dealing with the transit problem can be expected from a Hylan-Hearst regime. This is no reason for setting up a new State tyranny. The temporary plight of the City of New York under Hylan rule cannot justify permanent nullification of municipal authority in this and every other city in the State. . \, There is still sound public iritelligence and opinion left in this great community. There are still able, conscientious men who now hold and who will in the future hold municipal office. It is preposterous to assume that the government of this city is to be forever unreliable while the government of the State will be at all times what it should be. In five years exactly the reverse might be true and the safe- guards of city authority sorely needed against conscienceless misuse of State power. ?) Nowhere in the United States can the principle of local self-gov- ernment be consistently destroyed on the plea that bad forces are for the moment dominant. The principle is a greater thing than mistake or accident by which it miscarries. The voters of this city were blind enough to elect Hylan Mayor. Their transit systems are in a mess, But these two facts do NOT combine to warrant Governor or Legislature in sweeping into the discard local consents heretofore required in the settlement of local traction problems, Those problems in the City of New York are the problems of 5,600,000 people—more than half the population of -the State—with $300,000,000 of their own municipal money invested in subways— 5,600,000 people whose nickels, poured by billions into the coffers of transit corporations, have created the most valuable traction fran- chises in the world. In justice and equity these 5,600,000 are entitled to a voice in determining how their transit lines shall be reorganized. The $00,000,000 the people of New York have invested in their subways specially entitles them to voice in any revision of subway contracts. They are entitled to relief from the burden of a preferential that stands in the way of their getting fair return from their investment. They are entitled to more than summary decision of State author- ity as to whether an increased fare is the only or best means of meeting present financial exigencies, Nothing that can be said about the present Administration in the City Hall alters the fact that no settlement of New York's transit difficulties can be just or lasting unless it satisfies the intelligence and wins the approval and consent of a majority of the people directly concerned in that settlement. And that is exactly what the Traction Bill ignores or overrides. Gov. Miller started out with a plan which would empower a State commission to deal with transit companies and change fares regard- less of local consents and contracts. In response to protest, the Governor gave assuranees that his programme in elaborated form would provide for municipal voice in the settlement and prevent arbitrary increase of fares. The Knight-Adler Traction Bill does neither of these things, but comes back to the original insistence upon complete State power— including the power immediately to raise fares, New York is forced to conclude that immediate fare-boosting was and is the all-important thing in the Governor's programme. From the point of view of influences now in the ascendant at Albany, this city’s worst failure as regards its transit situation has been, not the general incompetence of its present Administration, but its failure to submit to fare increases, That is the ugly present aspect the Knight-Adler bill has for the people of New York. Hylan and Hearst are against the bill for the capital they can get out of it for the municipal campaign next fall. A majority of the people of this city are against it for a bigger and better reason. ‘They are not ready to surrender the principle of municipal home rule merely because the low standard of the present Municipal Admin- istration in New York City plays into the hands of interests that want a higher fare. Voters who reason thus now are not going to reason differently next fall or a year from next fall. Passage of the Traction Bill as now framed would be perversion and abuse of the legislative function. Let every legislator at Albany think well before he casts his vote. Can he afford to have his name among those who would destroy city rights in the interest of higher fares? Have the home people he represents and upon whose support and votes he depends expressed the slightest wish to see local self-govern- ment sacrificed throughout the State in order that the people of the City of New York may have no part in settling how much they shall pay when they ride on their own transit line: Let every Senator and Assemblyman at Albany ask himself: Will his conscience acquit him, will his constituents absolve him if he aids or abets this wrong? GOES AFTER KRUMHOLZ. | PRO-IRISH MEETING IN ROME. Detective Hopes to Bring “Travel| George n Feln Gavin Daffy, ing Pawnbroker" or Money Back | Member of Parliament, Makes If there is anyway of bringing Ist-| Addre: . dor Krumholz, alias “Ike” Rotter,. the ROME, March 13.—A Pro-Irish meet- “Travelling Pawnbroker," back fzoroling, held by the Popular Party in the Vienna it will be done,because Detective | Bits o Theatre here to-day was attended Sergeant Barney Flood is on his way to} by @ large crowd and leading members Austria to see about it. Even it it|of the Catholls Party, should be found impossible to bring ‘orge Gavan Duffy, Sinn Fein men- Kruntholz to New York at this time) ber of the British -House of Commons, there is reason for belief the detective| as the “Envoy Extraordnory of> the will be able to, return a consilerable | Government of the Irivh Republic, sald; part of the $200,000 Krumholz \s ac-| “Hngiand wages war against us be- cused of stealing fronr his oountrymen| cause we are Catholics and a rich cona- on the east side, in the Brong and inj try," Mr. Duffy declared, — ‘ngland Brownsville. PRA ath Krumhols was arrested tn Vienna tast| December and has been in jail there | ———_<—>—— OCaliaghan Talks of Repri: since. It took Detective Sergt. Flood] GingyNNATI, March 14—dDonaid ho was Major In command of the} GGarncetal riminal Investigation Department, 4 Callaghan, Lord Mayor of Cork, wh Wm ®, in France, duyin he wer, three ariived in Cincinnat! to-day said the nonths to straisaten oul the | diplo- ‘embers of the afmy SHOOTS HIMSELF ‘ON WAY TO ORL James L. Baum Jr., Fires Bullet Into Temple Before Cadets Can Interfere. (Sonoial to The Hreniog Wort.) WEST POINT, N. ¥., March 14.—| James L, Baum jr., twenty, a second | classman at the United States Mill- tary Academy and a son of Mr.and Mrs. James L. Baum of Pittsburgh, shot himself jast Saturday in the presence of many fellow cadets whil on the way to morning drill, and died# a few hours later in the Fost Hos- | pital, News of the suicide was not made pubilc until to-day, Worry over the possibility that he might hot pass vhe approaching ex- aminations was said to be responsible for the shooting, This was denied at the office of the Adjutant. Baumethe Adjutant stated, had no cause to fear the examinations, which do not come ufitil June, but was suffering from | & moroseness that has affected many young men. Baum left three notes in his room, all of the same tenor, expressing fear | that he “would not make a good offi - cer” and that there was nothing else for him in life. | Baum was apparently in high spir- its when reveille sounded at 6 o'clock | Saturday morning, his classmates said, and while dressing and at breakfast. at attention. in company formation when Baum and the other upper classmen, leaving the barracks, started for their companies. denly drawing a ‘45-calibre auto- matic Baum raised it to his temple and fired before the cadets nearest him could interfere. Despite the tragedy. class formation proceeded, strict military discipline preventing the plebes trom even turning their ‘heads. Six of Baum’s classmates were se- the army reser tion MYSTERIOUS MURDER vemetery here. Martin Tracey Found Dead Belleville With Bullet Wound in Head. A body Klentified as that of Martin Tracey, forty-six years old, formeriy a watchman In the Silver Lake plant of the Thomas A, Edison Company, found last night at the curb near the Community House In the Silver Lake district of Belleville, N. J. Dr, Willigra Miningham, Deputy County Physician, announced to~lay the man had been shot In the head. ‘The shooting, It developed from the police investigation, took place between 10.30 and 11 o'clock last night. A woman In the Community House, which je a centre for sockal activities of the fhborhood, saw him talking witn two men. The police found a man who passed two men who were walking rap- idly in Belmont Avenue not far from the scene of the murder, and overheard ‘one of them say, “Well, he's gone.” TWo $50 Liberty bonds, $83 in cash and a gold watch were found on the body ASKS $5,000 FEE IN JERSEY DIVORCE Mrs. Runyon Who Sues Husband Opposed by Counsel for Woman Named in Suit. Conover English as counsel for Mrs, Henry W. Runyon, who is sued for di- voree by her husband, a member of the jaw firm of Ortendyke & Runyon of Jersey City, asked for $5,000 counsel fee in to-day, At the same time former U. 8. Attorney Thomas G, Haight asked leave to intervene in the suit on behalf of Mrs. Mary Bishop Shera, wife of Dr. George W. Shera, a prominent Jersey City physician named by Mrs. Runyon in her counter charges against the charged Mrg_ Runyon with misconduct SAY FOLKS CUSS SUBWAY ON WAY FROM CHURCH Plea That Three-Car-Trains Re- sult in Religious Harm to Wrathful Passengers. 667TUE running of three car trains by the Interbor- ough on the subway north of 187 Street on Sundays is detrimental to the relgious fee!- ings of the passengers,’ said Regi- nuld P. Bolton, Secretary of the Washington Heights Taxpayers’ association, at a hearing to-day before Deputy Public Service Commissioner Malley. “The company should put five- cars on, instead of three,” said Mr. Bolton, “for after attending Sunday services the passengers are crowded into the cars and stopped on. and spend their time mie Kinks attending she Keumhols ublic may reeult in sping af sa Pa et eho while riding home from ehurch in oursing the Interborough.” The plebes were already standing , Sud- | lected to wet as pallbearérs\ at the private funeral services this) after- | noon. His body will be interred in IN A JERSEY TOWN | as | in the Chdncery Court in Jersey City | lawyer involving incidents at the Shera home, No. 44 Clifford Avenue, at the) Globe Hotel in Red Bank, at Lake Placid in, the Adirondacks and Hot Springs, Va he troubles of the Runyoys have when Mr ast Decem: when an complaint THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921. WEST POINT MAN Kiddies. Here’ To Share i. InSwat-the-Fly Campaign ward Hatch jr, Has Given FPund,to The Evening World to Induce Children of Ten Years and Under to Com- pose Essay or Eight-Line Verse Setting Forth What a Menace the Fly ts and Sug- gestions for the Best Means for Its Destruction. HERE ARE CONTEST CONDITIONS IN THE ESSAY COMPETITION Any Kiddie, Ten Years or Under, Living in New York City Is Eligible. ALL HAIL KIDDIDS! Here's a chance to earn geome money and do a good deed besides, The good deed i« to swat all the fies you see, And when you get through swatting them in your own home go into your neighbor's house and swat all his flies Now about the money part of Edward Hateh jr., father of the “Swat-the-Fly” slogan, has given The Evening Wortd $1,000 to be distributed in prizes. And, mind you, the prizes are not for swatting and collecting the flies but for writing a poem or essay on your adventures with this common house-fly. Any in- formation which you may gather about this little pest will make | good material ‘Phe contest ix to begin to-mor- row (March 16) and last three weeks. The immediate aim of the con- test is to Invite and induce chil- dren of THN YRARS OF AGE AND UNDER to compose an es- say or an elght-line verse setting forth what a menace the fly is and suggesting the best means for the fly's destruction. The contest is to be limited to | the five boroughs of New York City. | <The prizes are to be awarded | through the medium of The Even- | ing World and the names, ad- dresses and ages of all prize winning contestants are to be | published Prizes will be awarded to the | quthors of what are judged to be ‘the BBST essays and verses. Essays are to be limited to 200 words and verses must be unt- formly of 8 lines, with the second and fourth and sixth and eighth lines rhyming. = As tentatively decided upon, the prizes shal! be in number and amount as follows: 4 prizes of $50 each. + $200 6 prizes of $25 each. + 200 | 16 prizes of $10 each. + 10 88 prizes of $5 each 440 $1,000 | gome good auggestions for the essays and verses might embrace in general: A—How dangerous the fly is as a disease carrier, as a typhoid | medium. B—What a dirty insect it is to have buzzing about one’s ‘food or body. | C--wWhat should be done to destroy existing flies or prevent the development of fly larva D—Personal experience of the child in helping to get rid of flies | in the past. E—What the child has person- ally noticed that tends to con- demn the fly. —Or any other reason or de- tall that will indicate the child is enilsted In the anti-fly cam- paign. Only such essays and verses will be printed as space devoted tothe contest by The Evening World will permit. Each con- tribution must be written on one side of the paper only and must bear the name, age and address | of the contestant Address communications to | “Swat the Fly Campaign, Evening World.” es | By Fay Stevenson. Do you want to know the name of the foxlest, smartest but meanest and moet dangerous little creature on earth? Now, don’t all answer mt once; of \etiurse, it's the FLY Flies are usually put down yn the ‘insect class but Edward Hatch jr the father of the "Swat-the-Fly” slogan and crusade, calls ‘em “ani- mals.” : ‘And what Mr. Hatch doesn't know avout files wouldn't make o thimble- | tul of words, Why, even the mother fly doesn't know as much about the little and horrid ticks of her boy gir) flies Mr, Hateh does. If ahe did she'd) spank th until they couldn't fly any more. | And just because the soclal season of the flies is starting up, Mr. Hato! who ix one of New York's wisest philanthropists, has decided to get ght on hig old job of swatting Mies But you can't expect him to swat flies In your home! You've got to a little swatting yourself. ‘That is Hatch is offering $1,000 in | prizes through The Evening World \to the children of ten years or under who write the best poem Tor interest avout the fy | have you been after ked Mr. Hatch. a jolly, healthy, do {why Mr. or cusay Mr. smooth-faced man of middle age and medium Keen, twinkling gray eyes are the first thing you |notice about him, and somehow or other you feel that it would take a | pretty sharp My to xet away from them. . “Por years, since 1907," he reple |Hateh has waged as Cl ew s Chance $1,000 Prize EDWARD HATCH JR., | WHO AIDS CAMPAIGN TO SWAT THE FLY And there are 99 of them to one of every other fy." Perhaps they first became inter- ested in you,” 1 Joked, “and you de cided to eliminate them.” And yet, let dd right here that Mr. Hatetr has always been interested in eliminating any\hing, whether pests or politicians, if they affect the people. Remenvber that $20,000 he offered to Gov. Whitman to look into graft conditions in this city and how he forced funds to be appropriated? Well, when Mr. Whitman returned Mr. Hateh’s check he didn’t put the money back {n his pocket, he just fi » it to the Bub! Welfare Aaso- ciation, And then, of course, ther ig the long thirteen-year war Mr, man of the Merchants’ Axsociation Committee on Pollution in the Waters of New York. nd thit verks right into our stor: You remember [ iad just nsked M Hatch about flies becoming too inter ested in him, but Mr. Hatch wasn't worrying over the personal side of it half as much as he was about the bables who were annoyed and the kerms which these “animals” were carrying all over the city, “This fly was sort of an incident or an accident in my life," explained Mr. Hatch. “Right after [ started cn this pollution in our waters Prof, Jackson told me that the fly caused lots of the pollution and so | began to think. The professor could give all sorts of scientific terms and inci- dents about flics, but 1 hunted the fly down in a more personal way. 1 wanted to find out what ort of a chap he was “And 1 wish every little boy and girl could sce the fly as | have seen him,” continued Mr, Hatch rs. Fly always selects a pile of refuge for her home. § lays her eggs in moat untidy beds and where they will find plenty of unhealthy, horrid food the moment they are hatched. But aside from all the filthy conditions and habitats of these flies they are the smartest and the hardest things on earth to cateh. try to get one? “With all fuzzy pretty And sneaks? their 4,200 eyes and all hair on their bodies it's hard work to get near them. The fly is the biggest th. He gets on your your hat and rides in when you get in bea he tickles your nose and buzzes in your ears a ‘Get-me-if-you-can’ And if you knew where his feet had been and what horrid stuff his lips have touched you'd just get up and swat him theniand there “But he won't let you do tt ‘the chuckled Mr. Hatch 1 have chase him abont and get him ‘there. “Is this fly so much worse than the mosquito?” L interrupted. FLY 18 MUCH MORE WORSE THAN MOSQUITO, *Worse?” exclaimed Mr. Hatch “Say, the mosquito is only a special ist, ‘He only gives you Yellow fever and malaria, but fly is 4 general practitioner. He has every dixease germ oo carth from mumps to white plague, sore ey whooping coush and chicken-pox in his fat, pesky tt. tle body A fly can carry from 1b to 6,000 germs. Are you going to | away with all that? Or née to Swat him? Hecause this fly ix so clever looking both ways Sund swatters it makes jt all the m to trap him. [ve spent fitte utes getting one fly, b w consider the germs | wu worth while.” “Speaking of sald, “What iy ( About Fund fun A min en you tou for fiy's cleverness,” 1 tory of the brain fest fly you Gver met? Mr, Hateh smiled “Phere ls one fly [ shal! never for get.” said h Phis chap waa hang LONGER AND MORE TRANS PROMISED BY INTERBOROUGH Shuttle Trains Also To Be Abolished--Construction Bids Drop 20 Per Cent. Assurance additional trains will be placed In local service on the Broad- way-Seventh Averue subway by Sunday, and by Wednesday an extra oar will be placed on the trains going to Corona, Queens, were given to Deputy Publle Service Commissioner Halley, to-day, by James 4. Doyle, Assistant General Manager of the In- terborough He also stated during morning and evening rush hours through trains, instead of shuttle trains, will be run on the Westchester Avenue extension of the Lexington Avenue line, and promised through trains during yush hours on the White Plains Ave- nue extension of the Lenox Avenue line. Doyle said there had been a 20 per cent, increase in general traffic dur- ing the past month. ‘The Interbor- ough is running 33 trains an hour on the east and west aide tines. This it has been able to do, he explained, iby placing on platforms a darge force of station men who thave fneilitated closing doors, thus getting trains away with stops averaging but 20 seconds instead of % seconds. The re-pitohing of the Lexington Avenue line curve at Grand Central Station, he said had enabled the company to run thirty trains an hour there in place of twenty-four trains, When Transit Construction Com- missioner Delaney to-day opened bids for constructing « 600 by 120-foot concrete workshop and Inspection shod for the Interborough at ' 180th Street and Bronx Pask, the lowest bid was found to tbe $297,361, offered by Frank Willetts. Commissioner Delaney compared the bid with the lowest received in November for the same work, $68,564, which he reject- a saving of $61,313, or more than the new figure. eaiienines HEDGES ASKS COURT od, 20 per cent. on Wants Instructions on Running Third Avenue Railway—Bond Holders Pressing Sale. / Job New ' York peared M. Mayer Instructions regarding Hedges, Railways Company, the manag, “continue to disintegrate.” Mr the for a gale of the property. ‘To meet their demands wiuld mean, he de- clared that numerous small railways would into existence which would have no or rights with other amall companies, He pointed out that the Broa line would ‘be broken Into three parts, one from the Battery to Union Square, one from Union Square to Columbue Circle and one above that. Qn March 20, 1919, Mr. Hedg suid the New York Railways Com- pany controlled 150 miles of tracks. This mileage has now dwindled to miles of tracks, Over these 75 miles of tracks the companies car- ried 910,642,480 passengers last year, he sald, come Ses > eens NO TIME FOR PLAY, BOY TRIES TO DIE Stapleton High School Pupil Drinks lodine—Had to Work After Lessons, He Says, Joxepl. Casthenetti Jr, No, 21 Water Street, Stapleton, Staten Istand, tried to nmit sutctde this morning by drinking jodine a Rosebank, At the Staten Island Honpital It was said his chances for recovery were slight. He told the police his parents allowed him no free time of his own but in- aixted on him working to earn money after school hours Joseph, instead of going to the Stapleton High School this morning, walked three milet to Rosebank, where he bought the lodine, Police- man McCannon saw him throw down his books and drink from the vottle, The policeman forced the boy to drink milk, then called on ambulance, What's the use of living if T have to work 4 the time and have no tm: for the boy was sald to declared to the policeman, addi wanted to end it all,” play hav moisture which Ne obtained from the paper where their hands had been. I'm always watching tho mats,” concluded Mr, Hateh ve these files clever lit beasts. There are only 450 varieties, you kr bat I've followed them ali Atl {4m on most int te up with them and shrewdest varie! the meanest and the FOR ADVICE ON CARS' Receiver for the ap- before Federal Judge Julius this afternoon to ask for, ment of the company and specificaiiy as to whether he should permit it to Hedges snid that the holders of refunding bonds were pressing transfer agreements j occupation by DOUBLE FARES 60 INTO EFFECT ON SOME B.A.T. LUNES Changes Approved by Public’ Service Commissioner in Force To-Morrow. The B. R. T. aystem announced tow day that beginning to-morrow ; ing fares will be doubled on several the surface lines, while other fines’ will be shortened to effect a second fare. This is putting into effect the changes authorized by Public Service Commissioner Barrett Saturday. The Broadway line will terminate 4t Broadway and Alabama Avenue instead of Crescent Street and Jam- aica Avenue, and a new Fulton-Crea- cent line will run over the discontin- ued part of the former route from Fulton Street and Alabama Avenue to Jamaica, The Utica Avenue line is extended to Bastern Parkway with free trans. fers to Reld Avenue eliminated. The Franklin Avenue and Smith Street lines will terminate at Park Circle and 4 new Coney Iviand Avenue line will conuplete the trip to the sea. All transfers are abolished. The Wilson Avenue line will stop at Rockaway and New Lots Avenues, bhi a new Rockaway- Parkway line WiM operate over the discontinued section to Canarsie, ending trans- fers between the Wilson Avenue and Ralph-Rockaway lin ‘The West End trolley line, whieh runs over the old street level tracks of the present subway, making stops only at former stations, will end at Ulmer Park, instead of Coney Island. ¢ with no provision for service from this section to the resort, DIVORCE SUITS HIS SWINDLING GAME ‘Prisoner Held for Using Mails to Get Money on Alleged False Promises of Evictence. The divorce mill brought plentiful. grist to Frank Hanscom, who was: held in $5,000 bail by United States Commissioner Hitchcock to-day on charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, according to Assistant United States District Attorney” Joyce. Hanscom, who is sixty-thres, and gives his home as Troy, N. Y., was arrested yesterday on a warrant issued Nov. 8 It is charged he was in the habit of watching the @ling of divorce suits, When the principals were well to do people he would write to one or both parties to the action offering im- portant evidence. If the prospect asked for the evidence Hanscom wrote for expense money and tf he got It that was the last of the nego- tiations. . The complainant against him t# Mrs. Rose Wieland, No. 628 West End Avenue, who sent him $1,000 for evi- dence to aid her in a divorce action.~ Mr. Joyce says Hanscom hag obe tained money from principals in at least six sensational divorce suite whiph have recently come into public notice, ——— COLUMBUS RELI HERE FROM SPAIN Small Carved ‘Ohapel for N. Y. Ourio ‘Dealers, Said to Have Accompanied ‘Discoverer. A small carved chapel, said to have been presented ¢o Christopher Cotum~- bus by Queen Isabella of Spain, was ‘brought here to-day by Angel Curras, curio dealer of La Coruna, Spain, a passenger on the Montserret, of the Spanish line, ‘This i# said to be the. second visit of the curlo to America, for Columbus was reported to have brought ft with him on the Santa. Maria, Signor Curras, who brought the carving to deliver to a New York Grm of curio dealers, presumably for a elector, said its value would be difficult to determine. It was sent to the Appralser’s (Stores for appraisal. The little chapel, 16 inches high by 14 wide, was carved In the fifteenth century from oak. It is richly inlaid with gold, The opening of its two doors discloses eight bone carvings,, eight inches in height, on which are paintings depicting scenes from the life of Christ. It also cont statues of Ferdinand and Isabell A ALLIES EXTEND LINES ON RHINE Town of Hamborn Is Now In cluded in the Ocoupied Area. DUESSELDORF, March 14 (Agnocl- ated Press).—The town of Haniborn, five miles northeast of Ruhrort, was in- | cluded in the area of Germany under the Allies in an order tasued to-day by the Entente military authorities here, A state of siege bas | been proclaimed in Hamborn, but no garrison has yet been stationed there, ‘The AlHed order says that ail arms, a da hotel register bc "j| wish that every kiddie in New ink around ab tol Femister bo antl Would ket busy on them this spring, | including bunting pieces and sabres, wrote his name in th ok down}L Wish he'd eyen get so busy that| must be turned over by to-night, and Would come that By and run along | When he goes to play at his friend's | alt former German Army officers must the name. house and discovers a fly he'd drop! cogister before Tuesday night, Now I have sven some pretty| bis toys and frat caoture the animal.| 4 meeting of Independent Soctallats smart flies, but’ never any, to my|And he might rather intimate th. wan habe re yesterday “te protest knowledge, one who could da. 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