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a | THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1921. CORKING FEATURES CARPENTIER’S OWN STORY OF HIS RING CAREER ' Begin in Evening World Monday, May 9 “PECK’S BAD BOY AND HIS PA,” With Illustrations Posed by Jackie Coogan BATHLESS, 1-WINDOW HOMES | COMMON ON THE EAST SIDE, APPALLING REPORT REVEALS Survey of Mulberry Community District Shows Almost Unbeliev- able Housing Conditions—129 Apartments, 56 With Two Win- dows and 73 With One, Shelter .., BOTH SIDES CLOSE DECISION ON UL Plaintiff Who Was to Be a Witness Is Still Said to Be Sick. ~ LAWYERS ARE WARNED. Justice Finch Rebukes Counsel on Both Sides for Tilts in Court. ‘ t of W. B 598 Persons. . D. Stokes, who is sick, the trial end ed at 2.45 this afternoon. _ Mr. Smyth, cou for Mr, Stokes By Sophie Irene Loeb. and Mr. Littleton for Mra. Stokes Most appaliing conditions relating to housing are revealed in a study Tega erg CGE. | of 600 families, presenting a most poignant picture of “how the other half urt instructed the attorneys lives” in actual facts and statistics. for both submit briefs be- This exhaustive survey was made by the Mulberry Community House |”" Tee tue ee cone a é euch side ten days additional in| aad presented to The Evening World in its crusade for better housing and waich to reply lower rents, which has already resulted in new statutes upheld by the Justice Finch said he did not ex- Supreme Court of the United States. peet there would be a decision be- fore Ju 1 These 600 lies repres 8,318 $ e@ average fi bei : we 600 families represent 3,213 persons, the average family belng aye frequent ted tilts which made up of 5.5 persons. have cecurred between Mr. Littleton, Not a single bathroom was found in the home of any of these 600 and Mr. Smyth, during the trial.) to-day provoked from Justice Finch families, and the practice of bathing is frequently entirely abandoned, ithreat to fine them both heavily no’ only because there are no bathrooms, but because of the ever-lack of should they f privacy, The kitchen is the only room warm enough for the purpose, and The admonition of the ¢ came the only room with running water, and it is difficult to find time when @Utins the testimony of John Vreel- it i: not occupied by the family. TARA Eda Gin SIG SE, 1 3 who Was giving his opinion upon the Truly, to paraphrase, in the centre of death and disease live the 60% chirography on the register of the And more astounding still is the fact that these are not the poorest Hotel Stanley at Pstes Colo- families. They represent only the average family living in the Mulberry “@0: 0"? © : eb Stokes. accompanied children, Community House district, |? er sieter and Hal B spent a Fifty-six per cent, or more than half of the 600 families, represent: | week-end ing an average family of more than five persons, live in three rooms. Mr. Wellman, chief counsel to Mr. Stokes, sought to show by the witness Twenty-two per cent. live in two rooms, with an average number per family of 4.6 per cent. at there had been a change in the Twenty per cent. of the 600 live in four rooms, the average number | “USUrES Showing the assignment of i paracha iii eachitamily bela? jrooms In the hotel, 114 and 115 being set Stokes, spposite the names of Mrs, Only 1.6 per cent. live in five rooms, the average number of persons | Wildnag-andicthen man per family being 7.4. : bers of the party, and No. 323 oppo- Of the two-room apartments more than half have only one window that of Billig and the remaining number only two windows, | On cross-examination Mr. Littleton In the three-room apartments, forty-nine families have only one | pointed out that three different clerks had assigned the rooms, which accounted for the difference in the |making of the numerals, At. this |point Mr. Smyth remarked sotto voce, window in the entire apartment; ninety have only two windows and 199 have three windows. In the four-room apartments only eighty-four out of 122 have four windows, twenty-two of this number having but two windows in all the four rooms. Fifteen have three windows in the four rooms, and one of ee it take three clerks to fix this h rtments has only one windo: the four room: ue Shenevanarsments eer Oy, Che SNS IA ne | “Just as many as it took to fix up The average rentals per family tre $12 for two rooms, $15.50 for three | y.., PELSERSBUGMMRS atecictaws rooms, $21.50 for four rooms and $22 for five rooms. landi@heraupod the Onuet tonica hand In this research work every family was visited. Concerning the condi-/jy the interchange of remarks, tions that we loped, Miss Mary A. Frasca, head of the Mulberry Com-| «1 to) make it sunderatood: munity House, makes the following o}.servatiuns: {Justice Finch said, “that I shall fine “Murberry Community District, which is located in the downtown east | counsel if they persist in these retorts, Italian district, is bounded on the east by the Bowery, on:the west by |and I will make the fine enough to ease," e dev wish 1 sil Broadway, on the south by Canal Street and on the north by Bleecker Street. | be felt, and it will be enforced. Just It is made up of forty-six city blo Seventeen of these are given over to |try It again and see. The court has business, thus reducing the residenco area to twenty-nine city blocks. In| PEen courteous, but don't take cour- tesy for ii these twenty-nine blocks about 40,000 have their homes. Of this numoer | '°S9 there are approximately 14,000 childr-n under fourteen years of age In this |, Bu ig , g sies We ecngested district there are no parks, no playgounds, no libraries, and indeed leane ee ihe Seles ae eater a Tor the, lnree pues icf onllaren: in the column of the hotel register. He Most of the tenements in this district are of the oldest type, with hall- ways narrow and close, and the ventilation in most of the bedrooms ja|*# Sure that the hund which had possible only through tiny windows opening into the halls, There are also | Mle the figures 14 and 116 had not Many rear tenements still further shut away from light and air. made the 333, but he was unab! to “The average apartment consists of very small bedrooms and a large |st whether had been an kitchen, the latter d also as a dining room, living room, and in a number| erasure before the 323 was written. of casi night as a bedroom with several folding beds. The kitchen and| potermination of the position of usually one bedroom opens either on the street or yard; the other bedrooms| tno camera with which were taken admit only such light and air as find their way through the doors, which are | a lack of schoc there constantly open, through sash windows placed into the partitions, and in| the pictures of Edgar 7. Walluce's ome cases windows opening into the halls, bedroom and outer windows at No. Since the kitchen ts the only room which is heated, and the only one in| 18 East $5th Street, which Stokes's most cases, with the exception of the front bedroom, which is fairly well| attorneys have pue in evidence, was Iiehted, the doors are always thrown open, with the result that the steam/the task undertaken early to-day by and odors from cooking and washing permeate the entire apartment. The|Mr, Littleton in cross-examining fire- ape is very often completely filled up with boxes and is used as a Lionel Wurts, who took the pictures. The photographs were submi:ted to prove that it was possible, as sworn to by two of Stokes's witnesses, to have stood on an adjoining rear ex- tension roof and seen Mrs, Stokes in the bedroom, Aided by @ miniature pasteboard model of the premises, Wurts sought to make clear just where he bad ‘a to produce, among which sort of refrigerator because there is too little room in the crowded apart- ment “phe alartaing waste of human life through bad housing {a without ques- tion prevalent in the Mulberry Community District. The community 1s in grent need of a practical and reconstructive housing programme. For indeed, we cannot prevent disease and distress where there is inadequate ght and ventilation and bad plumbing. Most of the people are sleeping in interior bedrooms where there is no ventilation. “This brief study, I hope, will give you some picture of the conditions under which the people of this district are living, However, I wish to state again that these families do not represent the poorest nor the largest of ths district.” The following is a summary of the housing of 600 taken at random and live in Mulberry Community Distric TABLE 1—CLASSIFICATION OF TWO-ROOM APARTMENTS, Number of families living in two-room apartments can milies which were hers, a pictur »wed clear- jly @ man sitting on an improvised Jin the apartment and another sh Jing a man standing near a wido’ je eeee Mr and Mra, Zenos Matteoss a Pumber of two-room apirtments with two windows... tified early trial that o Number of two-room apartments with one window. P Be ni! i they saw Mrs. Total number of people living in the 129 two-room apartmen Stokes in the exten: Ave mber people per apartment ARE Medien 4.6 |sion roof outside their Average rental per two-room apartment (per month)...... ‘ £12.00 \3 had sald they saw TABLE 2—CLASSIFICATION OF THREE-ROOM APARTMENTS, F opiptiheg Micopengenth kabel Number of families living in three-room apartments. north winde of Wallace's room. Number of three-room apartments with three windows... Several of the photographs showed a Number of thre .om apartments with two windows... man nding in m near the Number of three-room apartments with one window... : north wall of the building. Total number of people living in the 328 three-room apartments 1,776], When closely questioned “Wurts Aver number of people per apartment 2 4 es sorahy Anatug picturen had Average rental per apartment (per neunth es $15.50 |rectly behind the middle 1 J TABLE 3—CLASSIFICATION OF FOUR-ROOM APARTMENTS, |the windows. “It wouldn't ha Number of families living in four-room apartments eg Bonen so" Poke: auch”: pictur umber of four-room apartments w:th four windows. 80 |" le curther testified that he bad Number of four-room apartments witn three window: aS raven oleturee sremmiuel paaltione? N ember of four-room apartments with two windows,, 22/a man standing or sitting on the roof. Number of four-room apartments with one window 1| Mrs, Stokes 2. : fctal number of people living in the 122 fou 857 |nial that she Average number of people per apartment. : 7 | the premises Ne z ‘Average rental per apartment (per month)., Mie etiuse $21.50 1 oe role Prat Metis me TABLE 4—CLASSIFICATION OF FIVE-ROOM APARTMENTS. |model and a ee ee ene, Number of families living in five-room apartments... OTC ui lof the afores ntographs, testi- Number of five-room apartments with five windows.. x 7 \fied that it wguld have been possible Number of five-room apartments with four windows... 1 {te see part of a human figure stand cs 3) ine between the windows, but that Oo | no tures were taken of any one standing in this position Number of five-room apartments with three windows..... How many more centres in New York reveal like conditions? STOKES TRIAL ENDS; Charles Edwin Mitchell, New President of National City Bank, Believes in Hard Work, Stillman’s Successor in Office | From 9 to 6, and Often Walks From Home on 76th | Street. Marguerite Mooers Marshall | “As dead as Chels —that's a suy- ing they have over In Massachusetts, j around Boston. | And yet out of gray, shabby, in- distinguished Ma |town never did anything except al- most bum itself up a dozen y ago—has come the exceedingly “ti »w President of the National City Bank—Charles Hdwin Mitchell, forty three years old, organizer and Pre dent of the N just elected to the |James A. Stillman, what Wall Street | Dollar Bank. Mitchell is the son of a one-time Mayor of Chelsea, a graduate of Am- herst College, and his first job paid exactly $10 a week. | “In one word," a close friend and | business associate to-day summed up the new executive's business philos- | opny. “he belleves in work—wo jcarly and late, hard work. He thinks that work, morte than any other tor, is what gets a man anywhere. “Here at the bank he is one of the fimt on hand in the morning, begin- jning his day a little after 9 o'clock, and he is the last one out In the | ning, rarely leaving his desk till after 6. All his life he has worked like that. He Is able to do it because he | keeps himself physically strong and Chelsea, “Ars resigned by headship of “Billion post the calls the ve fit. For though when he works he | works hard, yet when he plays he pla, uN, | "Golf and walking are bis favorite forms of exercise. Every morning in the week he walks from his home at Fifth Avenue and 76th Street to Bleecker Street elevated station, At least two mornings he walks all the way down here to the bank at No, 55 Wall Street “He 18 4 real human being and « thorough Democrat. He duesn't care whether a man has a cullege educw- tion ur not—wbout half the men here in the bank are vollege men and half didn't go to college. He doesn't c ubout a man’s religion, race, soci: surroundings, political affiliations or any such relationships, provided hoe can do his job and make good at it He believes always tn keeping on tho job, He believes in accepting respon sibilities, instead of dodging them, He thinks a man should not spread himself out in too many di- rections, He considers that more e! fective work may be done by concen- trating on one job, This’ may sound strangely, in connection with the an- nouncement that he now will hold the two posts of head of the National City Bank and th jonal City Com- pany, but we're all ike one big family here. “His door ts always open; he is one of tho most accessible persons down here, poth to the people in the bank and to the newspaper men—always provided that he personally 1s pot quoted. For he does not care for per- sonal glorification of any sore, and the thing furthest from his thoughts is to pose us any remarkable exam- ple of sucess.” Nevertheless, {t ts generally ad- mitted downtown that the appoint- ment of @ man as young as Mr, Mitchell to @ post as important as the presidency of the National City Bank !s an almost unprecedented thing and Indicates that he not only tremendous energy aad utive ability but unusual fore- nd judgment. Amherst friends evidently alities in hit, for they him to such important posi- e college world as manager team, leader of the 2 Club and editor of the cc In collage tao ihe gave probuble development lines ®y becoming interested in economics, His first job “ week post in Chi with the West ern Electric C Itefore he left Amherst his ul for tunes had declined, and he eked out mall aS & DuUsiNeRs b by doing overtime work at the large sum of 40 cents per night On some evenings aino studied in a commercial school, and studied law. Naturally, earned prompt promotion. He went to the head of the credit department and finally to the New York office, where he was shifted from post to post in ord possesses exe sight His found these q elected Dram: lege woe proot alongs ot his bu! 1688 was y business ideal of combinati suggested to @ certain Now banker his plan for bring toget! the component parts of Rises From $10.a-Week Job to Head Of the. Largest Bank in America tional City Company, gain a thorough understanding whole business, At this time he made 4 special study of electrical engin- | eering. coming greatly interested in EDNA ALEXANDER ENGAGED TO WED ADALBERT VOLCK | UNTERNYER URGES JAN SENTENGES FOR ~ GUILTY BULDER | He Describes Them as “Fla- grant, Persistent and De- fiant Offenders.” Samuel Untermyer add: | Lockwood committee to-day seed the urging of the Jail sentences for the memt | ie | Mason Palilders' Supply Association ind the Builders’ Supply Asso » have entered pleas of guilty to of the \ indictments charg ation Donnelly Act. for physical examination and those | ———— Nineteen individual who entrain, Technically, = a ne ter ind duals and thirteen 1 ‘4 } the last clias is composed of dee | | CK EOW. MITCHELL oorporatio 7 made orters | CEs Be Hain agenaue rporations have pleaded guilty | Bo ta nen Gy the district hay } aGEE ANS HAC Saag | So far, on Uy the distrie : ; 4 ng the individuals being John A ACwkawone [been inv nd bench warrant McCarthy, political a businexal i ; Sa, (have been for 18 Four, a [Andustry. ‘The banker promptly sn ; : Aland business! Kingsion Girl Will Become Bride | Grippies, hu sada weullt oe |vited the young man to become his | Partner harles BF. Murphy; Jamen Mine: da Gama’s Son cases of the other 462. have besa assistant and representative in var- | A, Philbrick and Wright D. Goss, “the | “spa turned over to the Department of Iahis pont Cnarhed hie wal ontsenee| Urick ‘ihe | on May 44. Justice for investigation. ipto downtown business life in New) tr, Untermyer recalled that at ine} Miss Edna Mae Alexander of Kings- ork asa to ty t hese Ho formed hie: own company for|outnet of tle Lockwood! pragecutions| tere AA TANG Led Ca) HnanGing OUUNINERS Jenterorises. like ge | Adalbert George Volck, a son of Mme. 1911, and was makin, Oh |e Sante se menNy fOriscine da Gama, wife of Domicio da Gama. |it when he was asked to put on its mestone Rir "in spite | Brazilia nde vat it. feet the newly formed National City veers [te ae eg ae ease are | Company... He felt that. the work | OS om former 8 ain and for nine years Ambassador Jwould fulfill in the highest degree jan, asa mecns to “wet” John T. Mote | © te United States, It was announced [his business ambitions. Now, in ad a ‘ Aa? yesterday by Mra. BL ©. Alexander, on to his most competent per- Miers who have aince bec Iformanan of thin Job, he taken on | “put BY] mother of Miss Alexander, ‘The wed- ONE-ELE' lthe dutles of he f America’s : ding to take place May 11 fm tho [iateat na fiona! afk and, fond as| The members of the group now| home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce, Cigarettes he is of work, he probably ‘will have ee. ho . pee ot oe te renee to handien ;|AMating sentence were “fugrint. | ay, uid aunt of the prospective To tell you wee pons Ur |versistent, and defiant offenders.” | bride at No 114 Upper Mountain of the carein Mr. Untermyer stl ie Owatonna 2 o | Land hiv own] “Mies “Alexander in seventeen. years blending to view was that they | AND WINS A WIFE houid be severely | punished. | | Bride Balked at Him Yes-} |Picture Ho asked the committes te “dinret | | abs ea he or request him to ask the Attorney | terday, Kisses Him Twice at |General tu make representations, to | Marriage To-Day. the Court. as to its sense of the | After a night's thoughtful dell OO amment ots ia euley eration, Ruzica Rometvie, a pretty +o TO RULE ON SUGGESTION TO- MORROW. Members of the committee indicated that they were In agreement with Mr. | Untermyer. An executive be held to-morrow to deel form to be taken by Mr protest as Deputy Croatian “picture” bride, changed her mind about marrying her coal miner lover, Rade Vuletich, who left his pick and shovel at Masontown, F and met her for the first time at the Mar- riage License Tureau yesterday, and Deputy City Clerk John R. Dalton, asion wil) je upon the Untermyer's Attorney jeneral with the ald of an interpreter (Dalton and counsel to the committee in op- doesn’t speak Croatian fluently) tied posing lenient sentences the knot to-day. Franks) Haniey, $11,000'\ayear sess pdihen, Ruzica met Tade yesterday retury of groups of open price manu iP Boe i sa La atoredl Lyk turers at No. 261 Broadway, con romantic fancy. He 18 big-boned, tinuing his teatimony to-day was heavy shouldered and bashful. She 18 warned by Mr. Untermyer that his well educated, ; refusal to waive criminal immunity | are slished aa ha. choos Hon ef the Sherman law by the Un'ted Lest m cata States Department of Justice. When Deputy Clerk Dalton pro). tos ee eee OF fever de nounced them inn and wits, he in- | pendent of vole and melancholy alt eae as tate F to tall them over his hiseh domed head, said to shake hands. The bride did not ! Know! I know!” and shook his tanderetand and jumped up. and kissed "ead a8 he sees ap $11,000 Joby Vuletioh, The bridegroom placed aj Stine inte the mints beyund the ring on her flager—and she kissed him | 44" Huliag |_ Mr, Hantey’s compantes are: 1. ‘The —_—_—S- | National Committee of Confederited SIMPLE WEDDING Supply Associations, made up of (a) the Central Sunply Association, (b) IN DUPONT FAMILY | ine rastern supply Association, (¢) —_——_— the Sanitary Potters’ Association, (d) Mrs, Paul Wilson to Be Married at |e Enameled Ware Manufacturers y : and (¢) iT ange Ol be Manu fue- Witmington to Doughis Buck — |iurers’ Association; 2. ‘The Bastern of That City. Supply Association, imoluding many ‘The culmination of a romance|fitms# manufacturing and dealing tn which began In their schooldays will| Plumbers supplies, and x meniber nf the ational Committee; 3. The be the wedding to-morrow of Mra,|% 4 Paul Wilson, second daughter of Gen, | Plumbing Supply Association of New T. Coleman DuPont, and Dougias|YOrk the local bureau; 4. The Greater New York Association of Jobbers tn Plumbing and Steam Heating Sup- Buck, at The Mili, the DuPont estate in Wilmington, Del. Mra, Wilson has been a widow for four yeans and has | Pie ; two children—Paul jr., aged siz, und| One estimate of the total annanl sales of the member concerns of these Alice DuPont, four. Because of u Pont fan froups to house builders ts $200,000,000. | boing in mourning for the death of| Mf Untermyer'a examination in the therstrames do Nomoure) t arly session to-day was directed to nteen-year-bld son, who died laat| Securing admissions that by ap. ar, the wedding will be very parently Innocent “standardization” one but the immediate family |0f products the auseclation enforced bride and bridegroom belng|UNifermity of production of minge present bollors and prices and labelled all the} Amor relatives who wit [PF RU GHa WIEN a STA S AER REET be pr Eilon Holladay | for “Natio Comm hie | Men of Gen. dulg Mr Hanley sald his assoctations | Pont; Mrs. Join Donneison of Levin had at one tine about one thousand | ton-on-the-Hudson, who waa Rene . Ave ite du Tent Frank du Pont, whose [rms a1 me Fue Heuthers: bride was Catherine Clark of Norta- | {rea Pipe relation, the ss hampton, Mass. \™ anufneturerm and others have dix Mrs, Wilson, who wan married when | solved or reorganized since the Lock he was Wonineteon years old. 4 4 Committe evn act |now twenty-seven he teride m|* nn SEtVS: jis a Wilmington busir nar | urn his nts, said Mr. | | aa Hanley, were the Jordan Mott | d-p Man and the Crane Company, | atencs, t manufacturers and job ex-convict Be ee Ne |bere in, the trade | {|SCHOOL TO TEACH INNOCENT utloy | PLUMBERS. | ¢ supply companie 1] t n Trade Extension ux Golde Street. and. robt nirast EN The other robver | [Bt 1) was edtieational—tn tevch Id and whit country lv and his younger brother, Morr’ the sons of Mme first husband. se toh wife of S cer Mr. ited his fortune. my nd performed ut Mrs, Elbert H. Gary. plumbers the uniformity of prices? A. Oh, no, Q What ts Its course? Neve the president, Mr. Wanley, has arranged for courses in two Western univers! tics. Q. Whe are the universities and when the master plumbers get Ume to attend them? A. The Ex- tension Committee sends field lec- turers—-seven or elght—out on the roud all the time Q. Isn't this educational stuff ju 1 blind tor a propaganda to enfe uniform high prices? A. 1 would not nO, vent from the Hanley August, 1919, talling all Ul cheap materials were He asked If this lents that to be eliminated ugh authorized by municipalities, nd if it didn’t show that “standard ization had me thy curse of th building trades, making it Impossible fora man of moderate means to bulid 4 modist home ?* Major P. EL La Guardia, Preeddent of the Board of Aldermen, asked leave to take the stand. He wanted to deny he was responsible for the procedure hy whieh members of Aldermanic committens sign orta in blank— never seeing the ryports until they are presented before the full board. He pointed out he s a member of no cammittess and w for rir methods, res L. Bennett, agent for Pieree, Butler & Verve, manufacturers and assemblors ges, radiators and boilers, suid cust tron fittings advanced from 1.19 in to in} Othor prices had advanced in proportion. Mr, Untermye? undertook by recall ing Mr. Hanley, the morning wite that the n price association hud a lot to do with these Increases. not responsi- ble Ch purchusing : Rose | in attending school in thiy at Montclair, Mr. Volek are da Gama, by her Arthur Hearn was her ond husband, and on his death she She became the hor da Gama in 1912 at a the home of lovely advantages of AI be- ant elimination of cheaper grades | Evangeline Chocolates An achievement ‘The supreme gift box IOGMEN CLEARED. OF SUSPICION AS DRAFT EVADERS | \Indictments Quashed, But U. | S. Takes Up Cases of 462 Others in Brooklyn. Charges against 106 alleged slackers were withdrawn in the Federal Court at Brooklyn to-day by United States j District Attorney Ross at the diree- tion of the Attorney General. Mr, Ross requested Mederal Judge Chatfield thi men because, it had been found thelr names were put on the draft dodgers’ list by mie~ Either their draft boards made the error, he con 7 were etually F tnent at the time they were to fill out their que Three classes of men failed to com. ply with the draft: those who falled tor those whe falled to report indictments he said, > quash against se nud, in wervice the men eniist- or by baccos for ONE-ELEVEN Cigarettes would behigh COFFEE NEW YORK OWN DRINK’ candy making One dollar the po vd