The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1921, Page 3

> % | germs i T sl ~SOHOTEL GUESTS RUSH FROM ROOMS: AT FIRE ALARM \ —_—_—s Kitchen Blaze in Seville Fills Upper Floors With Smoke —Damage Slight. ORIGIN IS UNKNOWN. Bellboys Man Elevators and! Carry Half-Clad Passengers to Safety. Fire was discovered in the kitchen | tm the basement of the Hotel Seville | @t Madison Avenue and Twenty- | ninth Street at 6 A. M. to-day, and after the night watchman had noti- tied fire headquarters, the hotel alarm was sounded, gongs ringing on all the twelve floors, The 450 guests, excited by the gong and the smoke pouring up three elevator shafts, rushed for the stairs, Most of them were barefooted and in nightclothes covered with wraps, The elevators were manned by bell- boys, who went to all floors and tried to reussure the frightened guests. ‘The grease and other inflammable material inthe kitchen made such thick smoke that most of them weit | to the street. i By that time guests in other hotels in the neighborhood had been aroused and accommodations were found for the refugees in these hotels until later they were able to return to ee own rooms tn the Seville. Firemen under Deputy Chief King poured a lot of water into the kitchen before tho blaze was under control. ‘They had to work in relays because ef the smoke. Tie big dining room and office. were badly damaged smoke, There had been no fire in the kitchen ranges, and the origin of the viaze is unknown. The damage Is estimated at several thousand dol- vars. MARINE ON TRIAL | AND GUARD VANISH Desertion in of Germany Flees After Leaving Private Accused United States Court. Search is being made by the navy authorities for Private Lewis B. Clark of the Marine Corps and a guard who started from Federal Court, Brooklyn, with him yesterday for the Navy Yard. The ipvVestigatory think possibly Clark slipped away from the guard who, fea s to return without bis prisoner, took up the search atone There is a possibility, however, that t ard was attacked Clark was put on trial before a court martial recently on a charge of dese It said he left the 6u) Marines in Hon- ningen, Germany, on June 6, 119, and was turned oyer to the American au- tharities in Paris on Oct. 18, 1920, He ad been taken to the Federal Court on a habeas corpus writ SEEKS TO REDUCE 310,000 ALIMONY Dr. LeRoy Shepherd Asks Modify Agreement With Rich New York Wife, Seca] to The Evening Wo GINCINNATI, Mareh 16.—Dr, Le Roy K. Shepherd of Cincinnati to-day filed a petition in Domestic Relations Court aeeking to modify an alimony agree- ment entered into April 16, 1918, when he was being sued by his wealthy New York wife, Eugenia Foster Shepherd, the agreement, embodied in a decree for, divorce granted soon thereafter, gave his former wife $10,000 as alimony. Dr. Shepherd now declares it is im- possible for him to meet the divorce agreement and also declares his former wife has a large income herself, FALLS UNDER TRAIN IN SUBWAY, LIVES Conflicting Stories Told After Two Cars Pass Over Man at Pennsylvania Station. Conflicting reports to-day puzzled the Police, after Jacob London, a cloak maker of No. 104 Hast 40th Street, was found injured on the express tracks of the West Side Interborough sub few feet north of the Pennsylvania Sta- tion. London, who sald he was fifty- to two yeurs old, was suffering from bruises, a broken les and possible frac- tured ‘wkcull, He he boarded a train at 14 th Stree! nothing after that Motorman Burns reported to his periors London leaped from the plat form as the train was approaching and y ® passed over him. “HE DID" — “HE DIDN'T” fealth Inspectors Charge Code Viola Inspectors Say No. Inspectors of the Health Department and of the Tenoment House Depart- ment clashed to-day before Magistrate Harris in the Municipal term of the Magistrate's Court in testimony over ‘the alleged unsanitary condition of the 29-family apartment house at No. 1203 Fulton Avenue, the Bronx. The owner, William J. Diamond, of 1646 Monroe ‘Avenue, ‘the Bronx, was before the court, charged by Inspector O'Meara of the Health Department with un sanitary violations described in seven- conn specifications. O'Meara's tosti- jony was supported by that of elven tenants, Ohief Inspector White, of the Tene- ment Hous» Department, testified the and remembcred ‘Here's the Surest Sign Spring Is Here; - Latest Street Costumes for Young Women a FORCED TO SIN AT PISTOL POINT Exporter Also Says Armed Men Robbed Him of $860— Two Held. am Hassin of No. 350 West 58th sailor and a native of Bom . and George Cervates of No. t 43d Street were held in $10,000 bail each for the Grand Jury by Mag- istrate Corrigan the West Side urt to-day ery n charged with robt he was met by a man who greeted him and condicked him to a room on the third floor where he found a man introduced as “Flood” sitting at a desk Flood spoke to him, he said when two men burst out of a closet and by threatening him with a revolver forced him to sign a check for $20,000 in favor of Stewart, who also ap- peared in the room, He told Stewart the check was not good unless coun- tersigned, ut, he said, Stewart merely cursed him, After Stewart had left, according to Gerstle, the other men bound him to a chair and took from him $75) in money and jewelry worth $110, and left him Gerstle worked himself loose, he said, and reported the robbery at the West 68th Street station at noon. Detectives Kiernan and Manning ar- rested Hassin and Cerates last night. ENSIGN ACCUSED OF THEFT. Herman Schware Wefore Navy Court on Charges Ensign Herman Schwarz, a member of the navy for eight years, was put on trial on a charge of embezzlement to-day ‘before a general court-martial in the Navy Yard. It is alleged hd took §10,085,69 between May 16, 1919, and June 30, 1920, while paymaster on the steamship Tacoma of the navy. which was in Southern waters. Schwarz pleaded not guilty, He ad- mitted that the available records showed shortage, but declared that every cent of the money had been apent for Government purpones. JAIL IN LOVE 0 MIKE CASE. mole of Lest Baby Sentenced tor Perjury. Henry Joseph Lise, No. 176 West Houston Street, who figured in the celebrated “love o’ Mike’ lost baby for six months to three y rs by Jddxe Koenig in General sion: Lise pleaded guilty last w jury, He has been in the 92 days, The baby belo Alert Lise, No, 1 took it to the Grand Central Sta on Dec, 8, 1919, and told the polio had begn left with him by a "strange woman,” caine five Burned to De: Car. PUEBLO, Colo., 15.—Five persons were burned to death when a rear Pullman car on the Denver & Rio Grande cgught fire carly to-day. Seven persons’ were asleep in the Street Mare’ bullding was not in an unsanitary con- pee. Magistrate Harris reserved iagies gausht fre. Twe by ay aja Tee OS wore CHECK FOR §20,000' ———— ie case, was sentenced to the penitentiary | | nth ’ Mt \ 1 i Be SeShe wre f PQVE COLLAR awe) BROAG: eh ROTH: ‘SERVICE HOUSE FOR THE BOYS — WHO NEED OUR HAND MAKES ITS OWN APPEAL TO THE PATRIOTIC, And Coming Display Be in Keeping With Prompt Help for By Lilian Bell. In the Board of Estimate room of the City Hail this afternoon will be held the weekly meeting of the American Legion's investigation of hospital con- ditions in and around New York, Also delayed compensation claims and testi mony from patients as to why organ- complainant is Ralph J Gerstle, of No. 628 West 111th Street, an exporter and importer. He said that by arrangement with a man named Stewart he went to a house in d Street near Amsterdam av. to} a transaction affecting Staten and real estate. At the door he said | plucked trom ized relief operating in hoypituls had 80 signally failed to function in speci- fle cases, The meetings are presided over by Cornelius W. Wickersham of the law firm of Cadwaluder, Wickersham & ‘Taft, and the time Mr. Wickersham must necessarily take from his busi- ness to devote to this gratuitous work speaks for itseif as to the purity of the patriotic motives back of this Ameri- can Legion investigution. J am conducting, first and foremost, a drive for funds for a Service House for the American Legion to operate. it will be able to take these boys, most of them discharged from hosp!- tals prematurely, and care for them until normal strength returns. One tubercular boy wrote me yes- terday for a job and told me to ad- dress the letter to a certain number and to add “Ground Floor, 2d Door Back.” It did not sound to as if it were a good place for a soldier of the American Expeditionary Forces, who had been two years in his coun- try’s service, twenty-one months of which he served in France, He does not belong in any Service House in a city, He belongs to the Goyernment.and should this very mo- ment be at Oteen or Johnson City or Saranac. Let him eek to go to one of these. Funds to operate this Service House are what we most need to take care of such cases until the Government can function and do its obvious duty The whole country is being awak- ened by The Evening World, Let- ters from the Dakotas and California come to me begging that the patri- otic work this newspaper has started me a be continued under some form or other aft our Service House drive ends, They like tye way tho work is trending. The people want investigations: Wartime restrictions have worn the public patience thin, The time has como when everything connected with the soldiers is going to be in- vestigated and spread before the American people, ‘The press is going to open its columns to these investi- gations as they come, one by one, be- fore the publ and the public, whose purse 18 been drained through seven long years, ls going to rise up and demand to know why, with all those miulcted billions the people whose pa- triotism was at white heat, under promises that all money was to go to the soldiers, many of these same soldiers are now in need, and why the most patriotic evening nowspaper of New York must conduct a cam- paign such as this drive for a Ser- vice House, Now let me give you a few figures ag to what will bo the main item of expense in operating the American in the Hotel Astor Will the Ideal That Should Our Sick Heroes. | Legion Service House No..1 The United States Army Quar- termaster's Department, buying for all its soldiers, allows, I am told, 54 cents per day per soldier for food. Mrs, Charlotte the Stage Women's Service House No. ing for forty Furst, operating War Relief and purchas- only, supplies them with thr of the best meals per day that I, personally, have ever tasted at any price, for only bo: 69 CENT day In other words, Mrs, Furst averages 20 cents per square meal and buys for only 40 boys That, I consider, is a financial feat worthy of comment: So now, if you are contemplating siving your moncy to any worthy cause, Why not give to one where kngw beforehand that the main stom in the oyerhend is, beyond words, economical, and, by employing a most excellent cook, palathble? My office has been filled with wornout boys, many newly dis- charged from hospitals, footsore, hungry, discouraged, turning to The Evening World in thelr extremity be- cause they feel that one great news- paper, at least, is their friend. And why not? Is not The Evening World the only New York newspaper raising money for the service home? Now, so many inquiries have come to us concerning the class of boys we intend to take in the Bennington Camp that I must explain a Little further aout it, 1 inadvertently wonderful place all day referred to what a it would be for tubercular boys, without considering two things. One is that the Gov- emment is making strenuous efforts to take care of its tubercular ex- service men, and the other is f we started ours as a tubercu camp we could take no other class of tone So the boys we are going to take are these: ‘Those prematurely die- charged from hospitals, too weak*and sick to be able to work and needing a few weeks’ or a months’ rest bofore un even try to look for a job, nse are the ones for whom Camp Bennington is designed, and on month js the limit of their stay, W could not, in fairness to all thase who wish to go there, let boys stay Ionger than tht. So understand this, please and be sports. Don't beg to stay longer. Take your turn like mgn, fall out and make room for the next The motion picture, “Out of the Dust,” which John P.’MeCarthy has made for the Apex Film Comps will have its first showing for benefit of The Evening World's Ser- vice House Fund in the Hotel Astor ballroom, It isa cean love story with a wonderful child acting a# one of the main characters, I, is made around the drawings and paintings of the famous artist, Frederick Reming- ton, ox-President Rooseyelt’s favorite Western artist. It takes us back to the days of Bret Harte and the camps of the’ 49ers—that most romantic part of America’s history And as Europe still thinks of America as wearing leather leggings even to stato functions and settling all disputes iby the bow and vk he 1 should think it would hi wonderful sale abroad. They would think it cave a striking picture of present day so- clety. Wait till you see it and you will re- i alize how funny it in. The entertainment will be In the . N.Y. C. EMPLOYEES REFUSE TO ACCEPT REDUCTION OF WARE Representatives of of 23,000 Men So Decide in Conference With | General Manager Fripp. At 4 conference ‘between ‘W. } Fripp, General Manager of the New York Central lines east of Buffato, and A. 8. Ingalls, General Manager. of the Western lines; on the one hand, and Wiliam Parker, Genera! Chairman of the Maintenance of Way Employees, BE. R. Ballinger, Secre- tary of Joint Protective Board of Employees, and other labor dele- gates, representing 28,000 unskilled workers, on the other hand, the rep: res@tatives of thé workers refused 1¢ accept any cut of wages effective April 1 ‘They also refused to join the rail- road in asking @ revision of wages by the War Labor Board, saying the pres- ent rate was entirely satisfactory. ‘The railroad asked the outdoor work- ers receiving from $3.80 to $4.57 a day and the ojerks at $4.50 to accopt an average reduction of $1.04 @ day. ‘They believe that by submitting (he | proposa! to the employees they have | complied with the regulations and after, the conference ‘Mr, Frigp an- nounced that the company would re quest, the War Labor Board tq an thorize In wages effective April 1 A similar conference ix to be held | with the New York Central's machin- ists and shopmen probably on Apri 1 The Erie Railroad has dismissed 285 jolerks, messengers and other em- ployees in the general offices in this city, it was announced to-day. In ad- | dition, a large number in the office force of the general manager's de- partmei were dismissed last Satur- day. 1t is sald reductions are being made in the office staffs all along the line. Representatives of from 3,000 to 5,000 unskilied employees of the Lacka-| wanna met this morning with General Manager E. M. Rine and other offi- clals to discuss a proposed cut in wages on April 1 ranging from 81-2 to 181-2 eents‘un hour, The labor repre- sentativés took the matter tinder con- sideration and will report back to the raiiroad executives on March 2. Despatches from Philadelphia re- port great interest is felt in the con- tinuation there to-day of the confer- ence between high officiais of the railroad brotherhoods and members of the Executive Committee of the Association of Rallroad Executives The meetings are being held in the offices of T. De Witt Cuyler, Chutr- man of the ussociation. Penusylvunia Railroad officials, re- fused to discuss the conference, but admitted the stage was probubly be- ing set for coneerted action by the railroads and their employees to bring the wage question to a final showdown before the Railroad Labor Board us soon as possible. CAUGHT SEARCHING HIS VEST, HE SAYS | Alleged Burglar in Arverne Home | Had Jewelry and Skeleton Key, Police Charge. William D. Appelton, said to be a member of @ prosperous family, was arrested early to-day after a figat with Isadore Bender in Bender's home at No, 221 Beach 75th Street, Arverne, Queens, according to the police Bender allegess that he discovered | Appelton searching a vest hanging on a chair, Bender grappled with ppleton and Patrolman John Beal- ler, who was passing, heard the noise. He overpowered Appelton. It is claimed there were found in Appel- ton a gold watch, a skeleton key, a pockef flevhlight, severa! gold watch | { | chains, a stickpin with nine dia- monds, and some pawn tickets, An effort is beimg made to determine whether Appelton committed recent burglarios Appelton said he lived at No. 221 Fairview Avenue, Rockaway f SAVED FROM DEATH: FIGHTS. Gorman Gets & mi Claude Street, scious tracks ys After Kepri- for Ingratitude. Gorman, No, 220 East 16th who was found lying uncon- on the ‘Third Avenue clevated near 126th Street early this morning, when Motorman John Sohaef- for stopped the train barely im time to prevent running him down, was carried to the 125th Street elevated station by Schaeffer and Patrolm Patrick McCormick. He revived there 0 and began fighting his rescuers. arrested by th He was wrged in Gorman was McCormick, who Yorkville Court that 4 and disorderly, manded Gor- to the men for ballroom of the Hotel Astor and the tickets are 35 each, Tho entertain- ment of a private showing of “Out of the Dust," speeches by famous per- sons and music will be followed by dancing. So it Is cheap at the price, The tickets have not even been printed yet. Nevertheless 100 have been sold over the telephone. If you don't want to mixs * good ntertainment eal! Beckman 4000 and e your tickets, nd Evening World, marking plainly on your checks which fund you wish to And support, Camp Bennington or the American Legion Service House No, 1, My office is Room 11 World Building, ad = all contributions to The | HE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, loan. “SWAT-THE-FLY”’ STARTS WITH T Children of New York \- “KILL THE BUZZING DISEASE CARRIER We're off, kiddies, and that is our slogan for the start of the great “Swat-the-Fly” essay and poem con- test which ‘The Evening World will Wold for the next three weeks. And 116 youngsters @ome time in April will be richer because of their inter- est in wiping out the deadly fly. One thousand doflars—just think of alll that money—is going to be divided) among the young enomies of the fly And it's all due to the generosity of Edward Hatch jr, who started the “Swat-the-Fly" movement some years | Ago and who loves kiddies as much as/ he hates flies, Mr. Hatch has given $1,000 to The Evening World, and told this newspaper to distribute It among the phildren af New York who do the most to help him in his war against the terrible disease carriers. Two of the busiest men in New York, both of whom devote a great | part of their time to the welfare of you youngsters of Ngw York, have declared their willingness to act as judges. One of them is Dr. Royal 8 Copeland, Commissioner of Health, who was found in his office Inst night reading over his daily report of New| York's health. . “Surely L will find time," he de- clared with enthusiasm after being told of the campaign of Mr, Hatch and The Evening World against ths fly. “One of the worst carriers of disease js’ the fly, and it is imperative for the safety of such a thiakly popu- lated city as ours that stich a pest be fought as flercely as possible, Typhoid fever, cholera and various diarrheal diseases, to many of which babies are particularly gusceptible, are carried by the fly. his pest is so prolific and propagates so rapidly that it is vitally important that its deatruction begin at once. I am very glad that Mr, Hatch has continued his manifest interest In the community, as shown by this liberal gift, and’ that The Eveming World has begun this invai- uable campaign. When New York's million school chjldren realize how dangerous the fly is their activities will go far toward eliminating this disease carrier. Dr. William L. Ettinger, Superin- tendent of Schools, likewise deciuzetl his readiness to help such a movernent for the public good. “The young children, when edu- cated to regard the fly as a public menace, are the best propagandists for the ‘health of the community, that one could wish,” he said) “Mr, Hatch and The Evening World have under- taken a very desirable campaign, and I am happy to be of. some assistance, and with Dr. Copeland, to help decide which essuys and poems are most worthy of reward, Without a doubt much good will result.” Here are two sample contributions to show the kind of essay or poem you should write, But you can choose your own subject and write anything you know or think about Mr. Fly (Baunple Wore.) THE PEST. | The fly, he wanders all around, He lights on you and me, Though reared within the stable faul, He's swimming in my tea. His little logs, they wiggle fast, } All cavered with bacilli, I do not wish him in my tea, | T will not drink it, will I? (Rasneio Kanay.) HELP TO KILL THE FLy. When I was very young I used to think a fly was pretty as he flew around the room.” Some- times I caught one and killed it and I was very sorry I did itt But when my father told me that flies gave my little cousin cholera infantum and caused ie death T 58 Ramona and Veldyn Reindeer. Women’s and Misses’ Smart Spring Coats and Wraps Remarkable Values 00 Exceptionally attractive models of Tan, Malay, Taupe, Black, Navy and Silk lining throughout. CRUSADE WO NOTED MEN TO DECIDE PRIZE WINNERS Recruited for Most De- termined War on Disease Ever Waged in Greater City’s Five Boroughs. RULES GOVERNING THE “SWAT-THE-FLY” ESSAY CONTEST $1,000 in Prizes’ V Be Incen- tives to Cleanlin and Sanitation. The contest begins to-day and will close at midnight Saturday, April 2, All contributions, to be by the judges, must be mailed before that time, The imm ite aim is to invite and induce CHILDREN OF TEN YEARS OF AGE AND UNDER to compose an essay or an eight- line verse telling of the me of the fly and suggesting the best means for tnd fiy's destruction, The contest will be limited to the five boroughs of New York vi prizes, don: by Edward ity the fly's greatest enemy, will be awarded thro the medium of THE EVENING WORLD, and the names, ls, ‘and ay f prize- winning conti be pub- lished in th r, a will be awarded to th: authors of the contributions which are judged, to be the best. dges will be Dr. Royal peland, Sepmissloner of Health, and i iNiam Lb, Et- tinger, Superintendent of Schools. SSAYS8 MUST NOT CON- TAIN MORE THAN 200 WORDS AND VERSES MUST BE OF . EIGHT Line WITH THE SECOND, Cece: SIXTH AND EIGHTH RHYMING. NO OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED, The $1,000 will be follows. . of 6 omnes $1,000 All contributions shall _be ad- od to the AT-THE- CAMPAIGN, iE EVE- NING “WORLD, 'NEW YORK city." Each contribution shall be ‘on one side of the paper, p@ferably in ink, and shall bear the name, address and age of the author, and de up my mind to kill all the 1 could: pu says one By carrion 5,000,- 000 germs of sickness that kills 4, aud that if one drops In a oup coffee and you drink you might be poisoned, Every- ‘body ought to be sure that no fly hus fallen in thetr drinking water, 1 used tu laugh when I saw the flios all pushing uround to get at the augur, But when you come te think that they have just come In from the street be- fore they were in the sugar bowl it makes you feel sick. Summer before | 1 got a swatter achvol und L think 1 killed mor than 6,000 Mies in three days. I'm going to get up a fly hunt among the boys of our crowd and break up all the places where they say the fly lays eggs. Send in your little stories and ems, AFT! READING THE RULES CARE! LY and tell us what YOUR opinion of Mr, Fly is and What you think ts the best way to kill him. Tell all your friends about the contest, and if they're not over ton they can try to get some of the prize money too, But “SWAT THE FLY!" Swat every one you see! Swat him hard! APPELLATE cue ; OF EX-SALOON Violation of Liquor Liquor Sale Agree- ment No Ground for Evictions. ‘The Appellate Diy of the Su preme Court upheld to-day by @ unantmoys decision the right of for- mer sal keepers to use property leased from brewers for other tBan alnon purposes, notwithstanding re- strictions in their leases, The overt held that the enant holding a leane could not be penalized because the passago.d tthe Volstead Act made it impossible for him to comply with special agreements In the lease, ‘The original decision was rendered in August by Justice Peter A. Shiel ia the Municipal Court in the Bronx iit favor of Charles Kling, former saloon- keeper, and against the Adams-Fiah- agan Company, a department store. Kling sub-rented in 1910 from the J. M. Haffen Brewing Company on a lease running until June, 1924, with the stipulation that the property should be used as a piace for the eale of lager beer and that no beers ales manufactured in New York New Jersoy other than those of Haffen concern should be soid there, or or we cause of his inability to keep the beer ‘agreement, and sold the remainder of their original lease from William As- tor Chanler, owner of the property, to the Adams-Fianagan store. Proceed- ings to eject Kling were begun. Kling had sub-divided the saloon into twelve small stores, which paid him, it was asserted, more in rents than Bis tue come from the saloon had ‘been. Justices Burr, Lehman and Mullan upheld every point of Justice Shiels detision in favor of Kling. Millions of dollars’ worth in leases held throughout the State by brewers are affected by the decision. pec sine See ES “WOMAN IN BLACK” IN SEPARATION SUIT Took Her Often to Surut’s Apart- ment, Never Took Her Away, Says Elevator Man. ‘Testimony woman given In fore Supreme Court Juytice Mullan. Bdéward McQuade, elevator operator, testified he often took the woman $n black to Mr. Surut'’s apartment, but never took her away. Ho declared he often wondored how the woman the apartmont. McQuade » said “practically every night” since Or, Mrs. Surut parted in 1919 he bad partics-of mon and women to Mr. Surets apartment and all except the woman in, black ‘the. way Mrs, Surut is recetvi ng Ta30 ns a month mn in her suit. allmony ending a dec: Her >usband is the eon of Elias Surut, 4 wealthy woollen wholesaler with of- fices at No. 670 Broadway. Woman Found in Bay Ideneified. Sons of Mrs, Laura T. Suttle of Mo. 447 ‘Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, to- day identified as hers the body found Pint Gunday atternaom, their mother disappeared while under care eg iis FERRER They Jan. dbrangeemnt. has not found any evidence Pt e ‘The medical Suttie met with violer was drowned. e in Sorento Blue, 34th Street—New York Wednesday—A Very Special Offering UPHOLDS LEASES regarding a > mysterious “always drossed in black" was the soparation suit of Mrs. Birdie H, Surut against Henry Gurut of No. 600 West 150t! Street to-day be-_ ” i a a4y a a ot we. ae al § pe pe ie 7 we ey ~ ein eee Hates