The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1921, Page 3

GENE WATKINS THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921 PRENOLETON ROGERS, LUDLOW STEVENS, FRED'K ANNO MAY ROGERS AnD) RENT PROFITEERS EXPOSED BY HEAD How Landlords’ Boosts Were Double Their Extra Costs. Raised 200 Per Cent. With- out Justification. 6 per cent. a year on the of the prevailing average incre was exp! to the directors, The company houses more than 12, 000 persons in its Manhattan model jes in four big 8 working women in its Junior League Hotel and 253 families in its group of Homewvod dwellings. It was founded by Bishop tenements, 190 fi Brooklyn houses, Potter and a circle of civic betterin but it has been conducted on ec» paying 4 depreciation President Kobinson handles proti- teering landlords without glov ferring to them as “unspeakable vul- tures who have seized upon th selfishness at the expense of helples People Who happen to be at their merey,” but he believes the rent law: Umely as they were a year ago in re y be encouraged.” sing rents 200 per cent. Instances, “cold water’ ments, he lemns as unne such houses, tenants, PURE PROFITEERING. terest rates and insu —the items which ch owners of ‘cold wate rien in the past four y “put they have not ri proportion: going to make imereases in rents ture.” the avers increase “Thia ine f only 46 per cent. 8 he, “th a our operating expen .rease in our morts. to set aside a fair and tear, obsolesc and to carn an amoun warrant an incr mount for wea pay 5 per cent. unles unforeseen jnroads into our earnings but the company hi spel systematizing ope effect Ceding costs of labor and materials. @OOD FOR SMALL HOUSES. situation as u tain be is not a proper incentiv that bulldcra pro! OF BIG SYNDICATE Model Housing Reports Show CALLED “VULTURES.” Rents in Some __ Instances How flat dwellers can be housed comfortably with a profit of more then capital in- vested and at rentals showing not balf ed to-day by President Allan Robinson of City and Suburown Homes Company in his annual report nt workers more than two arcades ago, nomic, self-supporting lines and ia er cent. in addition to 1 replacement charges. sourcity of home to gratify a brutal leving “a distressing situation which Tany tenan » facin: should be amended in interests of the that new building of ten- This form of profiteering haa borne particularly heavily upon the poor. says ihe increase in costs for as a rule, has been less to the landlords than in buildings of higher type giving more service to HALF OF RENT INCREASE WAS “It is true that taxes, mortgage in- ance premiums concern flats—have ars," says he, en as much ely as have the items Pp service, such as wages, coal, supplies, materials, It js not fair, therefore, that ‘cold water’ tenements should sustain the same s higher type apartments, where service ig a fea- President Robinson quotes Real Estate Board figures showing that an increase of 80 per cent. in rentals, on e, 13 needed to maintain properties on the pre-war rate of in- vestment return. Then he reports his own figures of operating model tenements from 1916 to 1920, showing 8 en- labled us to pay all the increase in es, all the in- se interest rates, r noe and depletion, suffictent to ase in our dividend rates irom 4 to 4% per cent. The company is earning enough now to conditions should arise during the year making These profits have been earned even while the company was giving its tenants more service than the average in such houses, The average house spends 60 cents of every dollar collected in rent for service account, t 65 cents. ‘Mese results were obtained, accord~ ing to the Bresident’s explanation, by ation and promot- jng efficiency, He says the economies ted have placed the company in {tion where it will be able to Stor its homes to tenants at still more advantageous terms, as com- pared with similar buildings, with re~ OUTLOOK DUBIOUS FOR FLATS, President Robinson looks on the {mmediate future of the city housing ause there t for flat building on the big scale needed. re so high—mainly for labor— ig ee their way to Hotel Guests See Man Cut in Two; No Attempt To Arrest Perpetrator eS For It Was Only New Trick at Annual Dinner of Magi LONE BANDIT ROBS ALCHEMY a Bi | CREW AND SEIZES Houdini Immortalized in New) Dictionary—No Valuables Missing. Magic ran rampant last night and] up to an early hour to-day in the Hotel McAlpin, the occasion being the seventeenth annual dinner, en- tertainment and dance of the Society of American Magicians. A bounte- ous repast was set before the hosts of conjurers an@ disappeared like IERSEYTROLEY | Believed to Have Been One of Two Who Held Up Office Clerk. Fred Arman, motorman, and Otto Haselmann, conductor, were ready to begin a trip with a Jackson trolley car at Ocean Avenue and Meritt Street, Jersey City, early to-day.!Generous Thespian Thinks New magic, They cut the cards without #when a man appeared at the back hurting them and changed near-beer into ginger ale with an edge on it sharp enough to cut off the finger of an inquisitive cop. Not only that, but Goldin performed a new trick by “cutting a man in half’ before the very eyes of his audience. Dr. Frank Vizetelly, editor of the Standard Dictionary, announced he ad tied Houdini up in a knot from which he couldn't break away. He put him in the new dictionary by inciuding Houdinize—to slip out of a difficulty, The handeuff king respond- ed it beat the life out of a three-sheet poste nd declared he wouldn't at- tempt to break away from the liga- ture of lexicography, Professor Mulholland, a Horace Mann School teaoher, made a thimble look like eight thimbles, and a great sigh went up that the discovery had been made subsequent to the passage of the bartender, The Floyds read the minds of those present, but de- veloped nothing startling. B. M. Ernst, an amateur lawyer magician, threw some seeds in a box and shook out a bouquet of American Beayty roses, which he presented to Mrs, Houdini, Then the society gave a silver vase to Handcuff Harry, which he said he could change into money without any effort, but hej promised that he wouldn't. The band played and it was no trick at all for the magicians to dance, ‘The! wizards broke up at 2 o'clock this! morning without breaking anything else, and there wasn’t a watch or purse missing when the wizards! whizzed home in taxicabs, which they brought into being by a mere clapping} nds, ests of honor were Dr, and of the ha The 5 Mrs, Vizetelly and their daughter, | Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thurston, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Donaldson, Simeon Silverman, proprietor and editor of Variety; Epes Winthrop Sargent, dean of vaudeville critics; Tom Lewis, ) Postmaster Patten, M. Douglass Flat- tery, Dr. A. M. Wilson and Mme. Herrmann, widow of Herrman the| wizard, producing adequate new structures to | rent for less than $20 a room a month, “There are many persons who have| saved $2,000 to $3,000, and they are in a position to obtain homes built fo them on an easy-payment plan,’ concludes President Robinson. “Many such homes are likely to be con- structed in the next two years, but the mmulti-family house, which after all is the only solution for the housing problem in New York City, will not be erected in any considerable num- until labor production materially and the labor wage some- Labor says that if it could not afford to rent at the present it could not afford to rent at a lower wages, There is much to be sald for this point of view, but the fact remains that rents are a matter of supply and demand, and the great- er the number of houses produced the greater the fall in rents will be. A a market to-day, but t for a $5,500 still larger one for a $4,500 house. If we could get our building costs geared to a $3,500 house such a large number of them would be produced that rents throughout the entire city would fall and labor would benefit along with the general com- munity.” platform. The conductor told him they were taking no passengers. The man pointed a revolver at the conductor and demanded all the money he had, The motorman came back to investigate the trouble and also was made to put up his hands The bandit took from them $23. Climbing aboard, he marched the motorman up to his box and forced him to back the cur to the Bayonne City line, where he got off, waved a farewell with his gun and disappeare toward the Morris Canal, A short time before, two bandits went to the office of the Grenville Coa! and Ice Company at Cator and Princeton Avenues, Jersey City, and found H. J, Gerachey, a clerk, alone at work, They fired their revolvers into the ceiling to frighten him and he put up his hands, They gagged and bound him, tied him to a chair and robbed the sate, which was not locked, of $63, After satisfying themselves there was noth-|July 1," he t Ing else valuable, they fired a few| more shots into the ceiling and dis- appeared. From descriptions the|Mugistrate 3 police believe the trolley bandit was | further examination. 2 WOMEN ON WALK RUN DOWN BY AUTO Mrs. Bloom, 82, and Mrs. Bruning, 62, Badly Hurt by Car Driven by Mrs. Steilman. one of them. ————— FEWER JUNE BRIDES IN BRONX THIS YEAR Cupid Seems to Be Taking Vaca- tion in the Northernmost Borough. Reports from the Marriage License Bureau of the Bronx indicate fewer couples being married this year than last. Certainly there ts a reduction in the number of June brides, On the first day of June, 1920, seven- ty-three couples applied to the Mar- riage License Bureau for iicenses, Sixty of them were married there and then. ‘This year on the first day of June only thirty-five couples applied for cer- tifcates and only twenty-five of them were married on the spot. On the second day of June last year fifty-four couples were married; this year, on the same day, only thirty-five applied. pone ae FACE SHOTS IN CAPTURE. | Detectives Arrest Alleged Auts Thiet After Pistol Battle. Detectives Norton and Jennings of sey City to-day reported the arrest them in Chester, Orange County, N. Y., yesterday of John Brantinger, No. 545 Grand Street, Jersey City, The Jersey City police say Brantinger stole an automobile March 29, and while running {it struck @ pole and killed George Halfiager. The detectives say Brantinger darri- caded himself in the attic of an Orange County farm house. For half an hour they had @ revolver battle, and did not capture thelr man until his ammunition was oxhausted, ———— ‘Two Burned as Moltem Lead Ex- plode: A pot of molten le: A.M. to-day at 2%4 8 a Avenu A, where a Gang of men were repairing ns, forty, No, 537 West 152d Street, and 4 the trolley tracks, David William Jacques, thirty-one, No. West 67th Street, were taken to Belle vue with serious burns about the face and hands, but It is believed thelr eye- sight will be saved, Pat Miss Lucy BALOWwIN, WZ COUPLE “SEEKING HOME” ROB WOMAN ACTOR OFFERS COP PROMINENT SOCIETY FULK AT THE TUXEDO HORSE SHOW Meas M. MITCHELL ano Mrs. A, CARHART.. State Bonus Distribution tay Be Delayed by Doubts | Of Bankers as to Legality Not Enough Funds Available for the Preliminary Task of Classification, AMERICAN LEGION AIDS Banks, Red Cross and k. of C. to Take Hand in Help- ing Claimants. | Unless doubts of bankers as to the} legality of the obligation on the te of the bonds to be sold to m he payment of the New York bonus f $10 for each month of service in the World War are overcome, the | distribution of the bonus may be postponed indefintely after July 4, A DRINK—PINCHED Beat Her on Head and Steal Gems and Cash While Inspecting Apartment. Found Friend a Volstead Vic- tim in Distress. actor playing in a Broadway tton and living at No. 8 eating in a and woman as homeseeker: the police to~ taurant near Broud- way and 42d Street at 1.30 A. M day when a well dressed young man on table started 4 for robbing and beating Mrs, Mary Tobin, twenty-six No, 706 We bors found Mrs. the floor of her hom! they entered after h t 179th Stre After they had panned pronibition to ’ aring groans. called, Mrs stranger expressed a wish for a drink thing on the hip and invited his new- found friend outside, where there would tisement offering to subi Che man wore blue ed a silver medicine a blue taffets ‘Tobin said complied with their request to show stranger pocketed the actor learned he burg of Insp ‘The three w Tobin started to The man drew a revolver and rained blows upon the woman's head sank to the floor. his companion then in a bedroom when with violating the dry law @ Kuest of the police for arraignme “Th certainly be tn that hooch in the front ranks, took a diamond gold watch \N. J. DRY LEAGUE .. . MUST PAY $5,000 ‘Connell Was Called Bootlegger in Official Paper With No Justification. ee eee minent real es- tate dealer and brother of the Chief Brunswick, was 5,00) damages Ia Bruning, th Street, Manhattan, are in in City Ho: critieal_condition awarded a verdict of by a jury last night against the Anti- Saloon League of New Jersey, result of a published Anti-Saloon League “bootlegger.”” an automobile accident, walking along Boulevard at Jewett Avenue last nigh an automobile Stellman of No. 156 Jewett Avenue ran to the sidewalk and struck them. cammeaaediieeeemmeas LOOK AT YOUR $10 BILLS. Reserve Bank Warns of Two Counterfetts, The Federal tention to two While they we suit was the that O'Connell O'Connell asked for $50,000 exemplary The Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey in its pleadings admitted the @, but argued that actual damages, as there Was no chael O'Connell, of New Brunswick, has a brother who their applications unl to unayolda cur when # man ¢ Join for some good r ys or weeks later and there Police | cloar record at Washing nd John Burke, Treas from two crudel tched plates ———>_——_. DEDHAM JURY COMPLETED. Court Sits Until 2 4. M642 Tr one hand is Al trin) of Nicole lemeo Vanzett! on Sacco and Barto- 106th at Camp. completed early to-day id review thi will spend th from the king e men who served in th: essary to call 612 t ‘onx Grand Jury Praises Glennon, | 4 biow up at 3 their | mended District NAMED FOR need last evening that munici- | atter of the renained one n-Gage Liquor fares "Mr, Herbert neipal thorough- enforcement of the M foover Strasse" when it was to begin. ‘There already was a prospective telay from June 1 of two or three weeks fore application blanks would be available due to trouble in the printing trade A million blanks ¢ to be printed, he work is nearly half done and some tens of thousands of the appll- cations have been delivered. There will be no oMeial distribution of the blanks, however, unl] the quota of the American Legion and the r agencies wiitch are helping the s tate in the bonus distribution is com pleted. Any person attempting get pre nee by sending in his ap pheation before the blanks have been oMcially distributed will probably have it put at the bottom of the list entailing a delay in payment of from weeks to three months. rhe appropriation for administering the bonus distribution was not suftt cient to pay for the work of collecting and classifying and correcting the ap plication t enough funds were provided for a bureau to check over from the records of the Adjutant Gen. eral’s Office at Washington the state ments as to length of service made by applicants and to attend to the book- keeping and handling of check For this reason the American Legion a voluntary assistant to ate, has undertaken to furnish s, notaries public and advisers to all former service men who think they are entitled to the bonus: whether or not they are members of the American L uch post of Legion h bonus a whe an get all sistance they need for putting their applications in shape. BANKS TO HELP OUT IN SMALL TOWNS. Some banks in the smaller cities, many local Red Cross ¢ tions, ag well as Knights of Columbus coun cils have established a similar ser- vice Applications which have been win- nowed over by these agencies will go in alphabetically arranged bundles to Albany, The loss of time and clerical work necessary for calling for uncom. pleted information and errors in the form of answers to the application questionnalre will thus have been eliminated Under this system It ts believed that checks can be sent to ap within two weeks after the m: exact date « particul ly to be the ¢ frecting ficers who were ordered to duty ate army post from whieh they may h been immediately transferred. 1etive duty began not on the day of the date of order, but on the day on which they reported, Such applica- tions will be referred back to local bonus appeal boads for investigation ‘Those entitled to the bonus are en- listed men or officers and in cluding the rank ot in the arty or Marine Corps or Lieutenan Senior Grade in the navy and mem bers of the Nurse Corps. They must served honorably and for a months between April §, 1917,| d Nov, 11, 1918 They must have had a legal’ residence in thia when entering on active duty with t United States Army and up to Nov 2, 1920 (NOT up to the time of dis- charge) th bond hou cannot sue the State if the bonds are declared invalid without the permis- sion of the Legislature. under n scholarship at the of Street }to Wa MUST BE CERTIFIED BY NOTARY) OR OTHER OFFICIAL. Tt will be ne ary to take the original diacharge paper to a notary| public or @ commissioner of deeds! and have him certify lo the correct- BELIEVES BONDS WILL SELL QUICKLY Comptroller Wendell Has No Doubt, as One Syndicate Wants All. ALBANY, June 4.— Comptroller Wendell said to-day he has no doubt that the soldier bonus bonds will all be sold next Thursday “in |spite of the question of the validity of the law authorizing them which has been raised by certain financial interests in New York City.” “I know of at least one syndicate that will bid on the entire tssue, and possibly two others will do the sime," he continued, Comptroller Wendell said he was acting on the advice of Attorney Gen- eral Newton. Recause no taxpayer has contested legality of the present bonds the will take no risk, as they —_—~———— TANNENBAUM WINS COLUMBIA HONORS Former Radical Who Stormed Church Turned Into a Lib- eral by the War. Obanged from a “radical into a “lib- ein the shipyards and the war, Frank ‘Ta erved a year on Bi eading a mob of une vasion of St. Alphonsus urch in 114, has won high honors at umbia, It became known to-day, Following his graduation last Wednes lay et honors in history and "Tannenbaum has been to Phi Beta Kappa. He will con- s studies to win the degree of tor of philosophy, and is workings New School earch, No, 465 West 23d baum, who jal F His change of views during the war ind his patriotic duties attracted favor- able not nd caused him to be called on on various occasions, He is married and lives at Bayonne, ge ———<———— SEVEN HURT IN AUTO CRASH ‘we Cara Wrecked in Right-An~ wled Collision tn Queens, Seven persons were injured late In night when two touring cars crash| ‘ght angles at Jerome Ave sth Street, Richmond Hill, ‘1 * were driven by John MaDermott, No. H§ Hedford Avenue, Brooklyn, and rs, No, 83 Brandford Ave fratriek Laur Mr. a, sDenmott suffered a possible fracture of the rieht leg. Walter F. Fisatero, a contractor of No. Mis Morris Averrue, Morria Park, suffered \ possible fracture of the right acm. Other members of the two parties suf fered lacerations and abrasions, Botit cars were wrecked ———_———_ Didn't Admit Engagement, Says Mins Kap Mis* Deborah Kaplan has requested ning World to deny that shi of the young women in. th: Barnard, who admittest published in ‘The rthe title “Poten t It wa eevee young women the matter a great Joke, suid surprised n the an their parents, 4 were published. inal discharge, even to the rubber stamp marks made when Victory buttons and medals were issued or} upplied for. ‘The certifying official then required to note on the back | of the discharge that a copy has been made to be attached to an application w York bonna and to note on the application that the di has been so m ked The residence quallf be certified to by « county or elty of. ficial In a responsible position, There 1 lint of ix who are qual n Supreme Court Justie a ith village yn has un- proper offic nm the presented to tt Men whose rges show they were wounded 1 service will have preference in action on thelr appli @itions. Such applications will be marked “W" in red ink. Any appli cation ma 1 in red K Which ts not from & man whose discharge shows « wound in service will ba put at the bottom of the hat, and « referred to the local app LN ant In an infantry camp during) py gy sult during a period of a yea haunge | ation must 8 Iso will be ul board, | ness of a copy Which shall include the causing a delay of from one ty threo appreciation of Hoover's relief work, indorsement on the back of the orig- montha PHONE RATE CUT LMTED BY NEW PS CHARMAN Company Admits Jump of $877,800 in Month’s Net Earnings Under Boost. ‘The New York Telephone Company, . « which was granted an increase in rates on March 17, reports a jump tn net earnings for the month of April over March of $877,800, with®a total for the month of more than $1,000,000, Chairman Prendergast of the Pub- lio Service Commission in making y, hinted that rates might be cut again soon. The figures were furnished to the Com- mission by J. L. Swayse, general public the report to-d counsel to the phone company. “According to Mr. Swayze's letter, it ly shown that the admitted true earnings of the company for the moath of April will be $1,006,000," said Chairman Prendergast. “The order approving the increase in rates mado March was issued primarily upon the assumption that the company had been called upon to make .n- creases amounting to $11,000,000 in fis lary and wage accounts, It would ‘ppear from the figures now submit- ted that if the admitted earnings for April are kept up the tnerease will ater than the amount it was proposed to cover in the order re- ferred to, "Ths is especially significant im view of Mr. Swayze's frank state. ment that on the company’s claimed fixed property investment, the earn- ings on the April basis would be a tif_le over 8 per cent, It ts the pur- se of the commission immediately to make a thorough analysis of the ligures submitted with a view to such action as the earnings justify.” In submitting his statement Mr. Swayze pointed out that it was only for operating expenses and earnings, und included no items to cover divi- dends upon the stock, interest upon indebtedness, or any returns received by the company on outside invest- men He said that in January, 1 the company failed to earn its operating expenses by $144,831, but that in February lt earned $38,822 more than its expenses. In March the net earnings grew to $128,208, and in April they had become $1,080, 098. With the April earnings cor- rected by the charges which will be made ata latter period, and the tax adjustment as the company antic!- pates, Mr. Swayze sald, “the result will be that the true net earnings for April will amount to $1,006,009." “The company has presented evi- dence which, carried down to May ° 1," Mr. Swayze continued, “would show a yalue ol property of ap- proximitely $140. 10, So tf April is a fair oriter what the rev- enue will oe during the rest of the year, the earnings of the company are a trifle over 8 per cent. We do not believe, however, any one month cun be tuken as indicative and rep- r entative of what will be the re- Tho methods of charging and readjust- ment of accounts by departments may be reflec in a particular mouth abnormally HEN you W Peete the bts have your favorite paper mailed to you every day. Evening World, 25¢ per week two weeks 38¢ Daily World, 25¢ per week two weeks 38¢ SundayWorld,10c perSunday you" want the Dager emt and he El Srrange with The World to mail te yOu, or send your remittance die te Cashier, New York World, Pulltaer uiiding, New York Gig,