The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1921, Page 5

~ PATH CLEAR FOR AT 100 HEFINDS MAKEUNCLE SAN | | “UFE WORTH LIVING. THE RECEIVER FOR | /—INBOTH HOUSES INLD NEW YORK, BANKRUPT EUROPE Backed by Governor, They! “Eat Slowly, Work Hard andl Irving T. Bush Has Plan to Will Be Passed Next Week, | Keep Smiling,” Are “Col.” | Pull Stricken Nations Out | j COTILLO'S BILLS i It Is Believed. By Joseph S. Jordan. KStaff Correspondent of The Evening orld.) ALBANY, April 2.—Senator Salva- frre A. Cotillo is to confer to-day in New York City with George V. Me- Waughlin, State Superintendent of Banks, to determine how much money . Will be necessary to take care of the mew duties of the department when Whe steamship and express companies engaged in the transmission of money road are brought within its juris- ction. Since Gov. Miller has publicly given Asis sanction to an appropriation for @he purpose, there is no doubt of such measure passing through both Bouses with the rest of the Cotillo Bilis. Senator Cotillo before leaving wdor New York said that after his con- ference with Superintendent Mc- ughiin he would draft a separate ill carrying the appropriation, which ¢ will introduce on Monday night. He does not apprehend any delay Bn the passage of the bill which will Dring the big money transmitting wompanies under the control of the Banking. Department on account of Bhe changes he will introduce, which fre merely technical. It was claimed hat the provisions of the original bill would compel the steamship and ex- press companies to incorporate as Brust companies, which the steamship nd express people declared would be fan unnecessary hardship. The mew bill will empower the inking Department to investigate | steamship and express com- panies’ financial affairs at any tim ‘to supervise their handling of mone given into their keeping for trans- mission, and impose penalties upon fthem or their sub-agents for fat! tranamit money after it has been their possesion for five d ‘When the bill becomes a @utomatically start the to heir rightful owners of the millions dollars of unclaimed money now Om the hands of the steamship and express companie The bill has ben made a_specia? erder for Tuesday, when Senator Cotillo will move its advancement to Phird reading without having it re- ferred to the Committee on Banking This done the measure will probably te passed in the S @ before tie end of the week. } Assemblyman George Jesse, a New York Republican from Brockiyn, will fhave charge of the Cotillo bil Whe Lower House, and as they will by the administra- is little chance of nd in passage. their being af Senator Cotillo is to be signally hon- red to-night at a dinner at the Hotel (Butimore, given by the Italian Cham- ber of Commerce. The Order of the (Crown of Italy, the highest honor in the gift of the Italian Government, ‘will be conferred on him by Senator Orlando Ricci. the Italian Ambassa- dor, in whose honor the dinn being given. Very few persons have been given this distinguished honor. One of the Sholers of it in this country is Charles Svans Hughes, Secretary of s Mr. Cotillo sent by ¢ ernment to Italy during the propaganda m ended by form I for his excellent services, He was Iso commended by the Italian Gov ernment, and i ntemver, 1918, was pcorated by the King of Italy with the Cross of Knight Commander of the Crown. 4,000 QUIT WOR IN WESTCHESTER Btrike Against $1 a Day Cut in Pay Causes $3,500,000 Build- ing Tie-Up. More than $3,500,000 of building oper- ations in Westchester County has been completely tied up by the action of about 4,000 union men against the proposed $1 a day reduction in wages ssted by the contractors of Union leaders say it is not a strike, only a lockout. The Cities of White Plains, Yonk- ers, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle were the hardest hit, where practi- cally every union man employed in the building trade line quit work. Members of the builders and em- ion have appealed to the public to stop all building opera- tions in the county and thus force the workmen to accept a reduction in ir wages so as to bring down the high cost of building construction has caused a housing shortage There were numerous nizations, and announced there was a dead- nd tne con- ployers’ asse was lock hetween the union tractors HARDING’S FIRST PARDON IS WON BY A BOOTLEGGER Pitushurgh Offender Has Been Faken From Cincinnati Jail to the Hospital, WASHINGTON, April 2. —The first pardon tssued by the new Administration has gone to a bootiegger. Executive clemency was extended to John E. Zerbey of Newcastle, Penn., serving a five- months’ term in the Hamilton County Jail at Cincinnati, Attorney General Daugherty was instrumental in procuring the re- lease’ of Zerbey, who was con- victed of conspiring in Pittsburgh to violate the Prohibition laws by distributing rum. He recently was transferred from jail to the Bambi LacKuoe of Linsoa _ {this feller Osier I'll tell him. go, too. n | Not} a bit, son; the town grows up and THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1921. a aeeeneeteenneeneenmeeneresenal Oppenheimer’s Rules. You can take it from “Col.” Manny Oppenheimer, this is a fine little old town, Prohibition or no Prohibition. If you don't think the Colonel is qualified to judge, just remember that! European financial tangle, Irving 'T, he celebrates his one hundredth birth- day to-morrow and has been a rest- | dent of the town since 1838. “Col.” Oppenheimer has three set rules for longevity. They are: Eat slowly, work hard and be cheerful. | | served these rules faithfully, and to- day, except for an impairment in his hearing, he is as hale and hearty as his baby son, Isaac, who just passed his sixtieth birthday. | ‘Phe “Colonel” witl not come to the century mark of life without cere- mony. Though he would have it ‘otherwise, his comrades of the Ar- gonne Post, No, 107, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will celebrate the oc- casion by presenting him with a gold medal at his home, No. 485 East 140th Strect, the Bronx. There will be a full turnout of the post, tor the |"Colonel” is a charter member, quali- fying by his service under Generals Scott and Taylor in the Mexican var. “Yos, sir, this is some town,” says Emanuel Oppenheimer, “and there { ain't no such thing like prohibition nor anything else that can make it any- thing but that. I've seen it in all its stages. Back in the days when the old 11th Ward was the show place lof the great city right up to the [present day. It's like all the other real stuff. It gets better as it gets cider, An’ if 1 ever ketch up with “Do I miss the good old days gets old like everything else and it gets nore beautiful. The old sights and places would be eyesores to me now. I like the modern finish that New York has taken on. I'd like to live long enoughu to see its first aero~ plane express stop station, I'm for improvement and the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. “Yes, I can give Evening World readers a little advice that may help them eat long, I don't remember jever being sick and I attribute it all |to these set rules: I eat slowly; 1 | worked hard, and I always kept smil- jing.” The “Colonel,” as he is referred to by friends and by the people of the iower Bronx, where he 1s famous character, has only one hobby, is relating stories of the Mexic War. He has listened to the tales tc by his grandsons of the recent great but nothing that happened leonflict, |tenarian’s mind as the campaign of vera Cruz. “Col.” Oppenheimer makes his home with bis son Isaac. He has another son and daughter living, and his wife, Caroline, died six years ago at the age of ninety-seven, He is at present the head of a family that consists of the three children mentioned, twenty- three grandchildren, sixteen great- grandchildren and two great-great- grandchildren, ‘The old soldier has not missed a Decoration Day parade so far and hopes to be right out in front of the delegation from Argonne Post in the Brooklyn, ‘The youthful) centenarian has ob-' jlooms up so important to the cen-| coming Memorial Day ceremony in. | | | | Teferee. Does not pursue a Fab-ian policy. It acts quickly—but | at the same time | terview with the United Press to-day. present fiscal siuation, but they are charges on its foreign loans to even | a high of Financial Maze. | Voluntary receivership, with the United ‘States as a friendly referee in bankruptcy, is the only solution of the Bush, President of the Bush Terminal Company, declared in an exclusive in- Bush, a recognized business and eco- nomic authority on both «ides of the Atlantic, has just returned trom a tour | of Europe, “The words wankruptey’ and ceivership’ are not exactly the defini- tions of the system that must be em- ployed to extricate Hurope from its ‘re- the nearest to describing the method we have in the English language,” he sald. y suggestion is this “Induce the European countries, which together owe the American Government nearly $10,000,000,000, to scale down the interest rates on their interna] debts—their local ‘Liiberty Loans.’ This will result in the sav- ing of millions of dollars annually. “In co-operation, the United States would then reduce the interest a lower level. For instance, if these European countries would cut the in- terest on their internal loans from 6 and 7 per cent. to 4, 31-2 or 3 per| cent. we would reduce our interest| rates to a half or even 1 per cent. | under theirs. “All of.this, of course, would have to be accomplished through a so-t of joint receivership, with the United States in the capacity of a friendly “There is no question in my mind that such an arrangement would have the immediate effect of restor- ing national and international con- fidence, and eventually would lead to the liquidation of debts that now ap- pear to be ‘bad.’ “Europe finds itself in exactly the same position as a railway which is running with a deficit. We, as stoc! holders, have a right to insist that a reorganization be effected which will protect our investments, And we have an equal right to insist that we shall participate in the reorgan- ization. “Europe must balance her budgets and get down to a firm financial basis or she will face a much more serious situation than she does now. “Some persons may argue that {1 would be poor business to reduce our interest mites to Europe, especially as) many of these securities are held by our banks. In reply I would ask them thi. Vhich is worth more, a bond with ate of interest on which noth- ing is paid, or « bond with a lower in- terest rate which is paid regularly, with a prospect of being re tired at maturity?" Bush expressed the belief that Amer- jean export busine: would soon be reducved to raw ateriais and only such finished arti as we can turn out in quantity production, and that our manufactur would have to de- pend upon the domestic market, “whieh ed has never em." In this con- nection he advocated the est’ lish ment of a protective tariff eccrine! FOURTEEN CITIES TO SAVE DAYLIGHT New York and 13 Others in State Have Adopted the Five Months’ Plan, (Special to Tho Brening World.) ALBANY, April Fourteen cities of this State have adopted daylight saving ordinances, Each city, accord- ing to th ‘ew York State Bureau of Municipal Information, has adopted the ordinance recommended by the State Conference of Mayors, calling for five months of an hour's dally saving. The ordinance is being consldered | by other citi Those which have thus far adopted it are Albany, Buffalo, Glen Cove, Glens , Kingston, Mount Vernon, New Newburgh, New York, Ni- gently. Poughkeepsie, | Broadway at Ninth Street New York. Business Hours— 9 to 5. Telephone Stuyvesant 4700 OOD, dependable rapidly, J Think of buying new Sailors at $1 Banded hats — sailors| and roll brims—in white, black, brown, Pekin, henna, navy and pheasant. So use- ful that few women will be without one. Downstairs Store, Old Building Misses who like Blue Suits —will find something’ here | that impresses us as being rather unusual. The serge is a fine grade, and the coats are lined with plain or fancy silk. We can offer these suits— At $22.50 —in a good, staple model, belted, with notch collar. Sizes 14 to 20. Downstairs Store, Old Bullding Misses’ Frocks reduced to $8.75 This is a happy little flurry of embroidered serge | frocks (some with tricolette tops) that have been in our regular stock at higher prices. The quantity—100 —is sufficient to make many young women hasten here on Monday morning. Sizes are 14 to 20. Downstairs Store, Old Building Gingham Frocks for | home wear, $1.95 Do you recall the old-time} porch dresses—very plain and very unbecoming? These are different. Nicely made, in models that are} virtually the same as street! frocks; and the chambray and gingham checks are! good in quality. In fact, THE DOWN-STAIRS STORE low-price fresh and new because stocks come and go so Voile Blouses ‘cost little, $1.95 Women’s Vestees say good-bye, 65c These good . | Frocks at $12.75 you'll wonder how such! good-looking dresses can be made for $1.95. Sizes 16, 18, 36 to 46, Rotunda, Downstairs Store, Old Bullding Crepe weaves—now so popular in Silks—under-price—$1.95 We bought these sample pieces from a large silk concern uptown. The variety consists of satins crepes de chine, heavy crepes and radium silks. Most of the wanted colors are well represented; and $1.95 a yard averages lower than the original wholesale price. A rare “find” for those who want good silks for spring frocks. Downstairs Store, New Buliding A better grade of Serge, $1.75. This all-wool serge was made by one of the best mills in| Ameri 54 in. wide — French finish — in black and navy. A quality that serves equally well for suits, wraps and frocks. Downstairs Store, New Building, If your home needs Bed Sheets — Here are a few prices that should start Mrs. » Housewife thinking. The quality is good, 54x90 inches. 68x90 inche: 81x90 inche 90x99 inches. 90x108 inches. Pillow cases to 42x36 in., 23 5 25e, Downstairs Store, New Bullding | merchandise—always ponenny Did you really expect to get a good voile blouse at $1.95? Some are plain voile; others are satin-stripe voile. Peter Pan or shawl collars. Dainty and desir- able. Oownstairs Store, Old Bullding These are $1 grades, and the variety is very good. Net and eyelet styles—the kinds that are wanted to wear with spring suits. Two for 25¢ Women’s odd lots—embroidered and sports styles. Downstairs Store, Old Buliding —will help 125 women to have something fresh, new and practical for immediate wear. The fabrics are mes- saline, tricolette, and pretty combinations of taffeta and Georgette. The models are attractive to women because they were designed for wom- en. Sizes are 34 to 44. Downstaire Store, Old Building Voile is seldom so low—28c yd. It used to be—some years ago; but not lately. We bought this direct from the mill, which helps to explain the special price. 40 in. wide—in all the wanted col- ors. The right quality for summer frocks. Downstairs Store, New Bullding meteors, Not only are they useful for the piazza and the floors of the summer bun- galow, but when the best Orientals and other hand- some winter rugs go to storage (we clean and store rugs) the floors of the winter house or apart- ment will look suddenly bare. The summer rug is the solution. Imported Rush Rugs Do not chip off and scatter. Oblong shapes and sizes. Oval shapes particularly appropriate for porch use. Woven in big squares, they have agreeable patterns, and they bear colored borders in all the strong colors that are good looking for out of doors. They may be made up to order in any size, a multiple of 18 inches, the width of the blocks. Oval and Oblong £$20.00 $24.50 Folding Squares 4x7 feet... + $13.75 6x9 feet... 8x10 feet... 9x12 feet... beans Belgian Mazourk Rugs Patterns like the Navajo, i strong primary colors. fibre, fast-dyed. Wear ex- tremely well. 3x6 feet. +6 $5.50 4x7 fee! | 6x9 feet. | Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co. Everybody Needs COR Nice for bedroom uses—little bare feet like the feel of them.) Smooth to the touch, oil-sten- ciled in neat designs, or with| color interwoven by the jacquard weave, their wear is remark- able, for their mesh tightens with age, 8x6 feet. 6x9 feet. 8.3x10.6 feet... 9x12 feet.... For the summer bedroom there is Nothing prettier than the jolly, little, oval- shaped, old-fashioned rag rug. It comes in two styles, The grandmother rug, made of hand- braided gingham and cretonne; the tape-rug of colored hand- braided tape. In colors to match the wall-paper, pink, blue, gray, lavender, with dabs and borders of black. Examples: “Hit and Miss,” 8x6 feet, $2; 9x12 feet, $12. Split warp, 27x54 in., $1.85. Gingham, 27x64 in., $2.50. x54 in, $8.75. 30x60 in., $4.50. 3x6 fect, $5.75. Summer Rugs [T is not big type and big talk in the new: —but the quality, ‘fashion and fair price of the goods in the store which make value and give lasting satis- faction. Braided Rug oval and round 8x6 feet... Orders taken for braided rags any size up to 9x12 feet, at 50 per square foot. Prairie Grass Rugs They wear well, do not chip off, and have this year two and even three-color combinations in their gay patterns. We have soured the Beltox make wears ste 18x36 inches. . 27x54 inches. 3x6 feet. 8x10 feet.. 9x12 feet. 9x15 feet.. 12x15 feet... $26.50 The new Crex Rugs Herringbone De Luxe 27x54 in.....$2.75 $8.50 3x6 feet. $5.50 4%x7T% ft. $10.50 6x9 feet $15.75 7x10 feet $21.75 9x12 feet...$22.00 $25.50 We also have the larger sizes. Third Gallery, New Bidg. Summer Curtains---Best Really a unique collec-| tion, refreshing and dainty —the most interesting we have had in years. Many are imported. Included are: Ruffled Curtains Swiss or marquisette, plain or figured, with from dainty baby ‘ruffles to gathered or fluted 5-inch ruffles; $2.60 to $6.75 pair. Imported muslin embroidered dots, embroidered — scallops; pair. curtains— ruffles with $11.25 Net Curtains Plain net, dainty and sheer, with hemstitched hem; white, cream or ecru; $3.75 pair. “I can’t get the | practical Shoes— any more”—said a woman, looking at the shoes in our show-window. “Every- thing on the Avenue is fancy; some one ought to provide the more practical shoes, 1 like novelties, too, but I also want a plain,| yet smart laced low shoe in| my wardrobe.” If you can't get these A $25 Suit looks good | —to most men this season. | As one man said the other day when we showed him) a blue serge suit at $25— | “Welcome home” The Lower-Price Broadway Store believes that fabric qualit is the main point to consider, and this year's prices begin at $25 for the same qualities that began at $39,50 last year, | Broadway, cor, Eighth | practical shoes on the Av-! enue, Madam, you can get them in the “Avenue of} Shoes” here. | This store gives a com plete shoe service—fash- ionable novelties as soon as created, but also at all times the good-looking, plain practical shoes. Oxfords in black or brown kidskin; ent leather; and white buckskin; with narrow, medium or wide te mili- tary, Cuban or French heels. Prices show a marked) change downward: 11 styles at $8.00 2 styles at $8.50 8 styles at $9.00 1 styles at $10.00 9 styles at $12.50 2 styles at $14.00 Firat Floor, Old Bidg. A little sale tan or black calfskin; pat-| of twelve Safes Net with pretty lace edges, $5.50 pair. | Filet net—great variety—lace edge $5.50 to $10.50 pair. itz-Cariton—with smart stripes in various widths, and lace edges; $10.50 pair, From England Point d’Esprit, attractively trimmed with lace insertion and edging; $15.25 pair. Marie Antoinette—much fa- vored models—effectively braid- ed, some with hand-made Cluny edges; $5.50 to $32.50 pair, From Switzerland Edges and classical or more elaborate period designs in the daintiest of Point d’Jeue, Duchesse or Princess laces; $8 to $65 pair. Bedspreads of imported dimity Less than they were. 72x99 in., $5.50 each. 90x99 in., $7.50 each. Attractively striped. Also, some lightweight cotton pretty designs. -$7.50 ea. - $8.50 ea. —0x108 in. -$9.00 ea. All these spreads will launder well, and give good service, Fourth Gallery, New Building 1,200 Steel Scissors Just off ship 65e to 95¢ grades (ac-| cording to size)—to be sold Monday at 45c pair. Four sizes, of the best non-rustable steel, war- ranted first quality. When they are gone—and we do not expeet them to linger—| tio more will be available at this price, | Notion Section. | Main Floor, Old Building | Adorable Suits of wool jersey 36 to $83—Monday. Were $46 to $104, Wanamaker safes—suit-| able for home or office —well built. $46 safes for $36. 8—size 17%x11 in, $62 safes for $49. 6—(as illustrated), size 22 4.x U4 in, $70 fes for $56 16 in. $104 safes for $83, 1—81 in. high by 21 in, Downstairs Store, New Buliding wide. | use Buttons just here from the East since 1914 Other Curtains Scrim, voile or marquisette, in wide range of styles, with plain hemstiteched or lace- trimmed edges, or hemstitched in hand-drawn work, sometimes with corners ornamented with decorative motifs; with or with- out valance; in white, ivory or ecru; $1.95 to $26 pair. Madras Curtains Variety of beautiful models— both domestic and from Scot- land—some in charming de- signs, others in dainty all-over effects; plain white or in colors; some showing attractive color combinations with black; $2.75 to $18.50 pair. Fourth Gallery, New Bul! So good we simply had to bring them over from England, And they have already received marked favor for little tots to wear during the spring (instead of coats), The suits illustrated are only two of the several adorable models—fashioned of light weight wool jersey, with high or soft roll collars, some with round necklines. Girls’ skirts, pleated or straight. Some models boast patch pockets, Little boys’ suits have tiny trousers; little girls’ suits have bloomers. In navy and French blue— searlet, brown, or white, $7.95 to $14.50, Sizes 2 to 6, Third Floor, Old Bullding 9,500 cards of Japanese ocean pearl buttons; 12 buttons to a card; four patterns and five de- ble sizes in each pattern to select from. Suitable for dresses, blouses, undereloth lingerie and many other uses; Me to 20¢ card—according to size. Main Floor, Old Building