The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1921, Page 3

) Meagre Funds, Inadequate for| (i —_— __. THVLAN ADMINISTRATION ~ PROVIDED ONLY 18 PER CENT. UF SCHOOL REPAIR MONEY —— ¢ Required Upkeep, Quickly Gave Out. SURVEY IS INCOMPLET Three More Schools in Brook- lyn Found as Bad as Worst Reported. from the fact that the approp ation was not normal, but only about 18 per cent. of what it lent, if desperate humans leap over- >: East Third Street, East 112th Street, all in Manhattan, aNd Metropolitan | and $5,000,000 in other cities. This, wha have bee Jack Lipkin, armed with a revolver Col. and Mrs. Henry Huddleston joarg head first and with mouths! jn addition to the $209,000 in 71-$| Avenue or Nenh scoens Sree Or “ an ” hae sald, Beoved the financier is ees igs peers from a AY and a sharp butcher's knife, fell two Rogers, who are in London, have an- open, and if the tenants of tall build- | per cent, wnotel! “Keported tolen In Poy o the music there wi motion picture shows an ¢ et nee teens as a Texan. ; Bd er, Superintendent of | sees to what may prove his death nounced by cablegram that the en- ie hus utarbent fori Gat - games for children. ravers sa rs. Gates since the : School Buildings, to William L. Et- pagent ot thei nt ix SAL SL Sth ade ds |from the Sinclair Consolidated Olt — — _ — death of her husband spent but short tinger, Superintendent of Schools Feb. | While, according to the police, he was KASt Se ba eae utes: Me eee tetome ers me | Company on Monday law, it was an- only ones present at the ceremony, | Periods in Texas, and erectea « 2, 1920, explains why the existing | climbing down the rear of a building Millicent Rogers, to James M. Thomp- “breath of the sea"—which Will Pe) voiced to-day that the company had aside from the witnesses, chief of| $100,000 mausoleum at Woodlawn, PONE are in tha whumondl condition|| toll his wit son of New York has been ended, No Some SEN th ae able at Po | discovered that $149,000 more of the whom was Bugene Higgins, cousin of| where she and her husband are now exposed in the report of several civic] Lipkin, who Is twenty-seven, went explanation was obtainable at Col. ee wall 1m obtainable a’ notes are gone. Just why the full ex- ithe bene oh Werialate carerpoles buried. j bodies and why the number of new|to the roof of No. 516 East 80th Street Rogers's office. i Aad ieee 1 ithe dolefal answer. |tent of the robbery was not discov- |\tosmorrow.. Walter Horry, I. C. Ren- | a public school buildings Is #0 far be-| just before the sun rose to-day, tied ig bel tie red at the time the company safe auit and J.T. B. Sewell were the other| GEORGE HAZELTON DEAD. fiw Ghovclty’s neodu ‘Pils aentonce Mr, Thompson, who is connected First Deputy Police Commissione! | - the city’s ds his sentence) one end of a clothesline around the was looted of these negotiable securi- | witnesses, = derives added significance in the| chimney and the other around bis With the John Iilingworth Steel Com- John A. Leach this afternoon ome. | #8 | pathy | = “rn light of the following paragraphs|Wrser tte then started to lower him- PNY, was quoted as saying that the ated as funeral director at the burial) OUR 8 NOL MANN a |REVEAL MRS. CHEW __ Witlow Treet ana “vettow Jacke taken from the same letter: wit to the eecond floor, where he be- OBIY explanation he felt at liberty to of John Barleycorn, when the remains | | (1° (00\00¥ At DUM A Ny bse | George Hazelton, writer and play “In 1918 we expended for emergency] jeveq nis wife wna living. offer was that the engagement had of anywhere from $25,000 to $50,000 or |) hk" oa ai sy speek Sehig IS A MOVIE STAR | wrignt, aiead at nis home to-day of \ repairs and unforescen work the sum! Wien he had descended from the Pee broken “by mutual consent." some more wine and liquors were lowe |e nde ragiaet neh iid ie eri a cancer. ' : a of $805,515. * * © In 1919 our ex- The engagement was announced last ered into the Sheriff Street sewer. Poe eee sation) veuce Obes Gald to Bal Patew siaoeace hin he rota tn i roof to the fourth floor the line gave Gonbany 1b waa nesabaaey te go —.— in Said to Be | yellow Jactet.” which he wrote in penditures were $640,322. They should] (der nis weight and he fell to AUSUSt, about a year after Miss Police Inspector William Coleman|isssigh three doors protected by | (iyi = Peete | py and Make | Sgliaboration |with Benrimo, and “rhe have been much larger, but funds] (ey eeeee ae very extension, In. Rogers's introduction to society. She acted as chief gravedigger, and with | ort tne aces eoninations haa| Civil Wedding of Duke and Joan Sothern, and to Make | willow ‘Tree a at ternal Injuries are expected to re- “Md her parents are expected to twenty reserves kept back the crowds | not heen forced or tampered with: Boston Girl Performed | $24,000 a Year. 4 You will remember, 1 think. that) ot in nis death. Lipkin is now in ™ain abroad for a few more weeks. of mourners. |@kie only placo ‘where violence Wak seinem a close ¢ 0 ears, otwith. . it e J J Fy . - my ci edad) . Marinade th-liellevue Hospital under arrest The police band being otherwise | seq was on one of the compartments in Paris, ‘The defense In the case of Capt. Bev- Pranding the most rigid economy: | narzeq with attempted felonious 3 engaged and the Police Glee Club | or the safe and this had been broken erly Grayson Chew, being tried by court there was much work which could not lack of funds performed because of In other words, work ; were married four years ago, but she sledges on barrel heads. bonds $800 (in. chahi, Chay: lett: bellnd| Hue: which should have been done in 1918] 1.r1 nim with their child Isadore two! Promptly at 2 ofclock the cortege | geyera} million dollars in non-nego- Duchess of Marlborough. aa Joan H. Sothern, motion pleture star. | was necessarily held over until 1919. ars ago when he failed to support! moved out of the old Union Market tiable securities. The civil ceremony of wedding her| A letter, contract and cancelted check | The same condition of affairs Seat \ > tale off arn sh to the Duke of Marlborough took| Were produced by Jules Larvett, a ua Tubes ch tae r. He returned from out of town Police Station into the middle of|” with the report of the robbery on |*°, the Dt MRSS Coe Ta ical promoter. of Ne 1817) BEE Ob cA ned) ee che. eleenlon is Atiy a recently, Mrs. Lipkin sald, and threat- | Sheriff Street, between Houston and| Monday the company sent out a list |Pice to-day at the British Cone) oo nt joan sothern's slated | fo that at the beginning of this | unoq to kill her. Yesterday on her Second Streets. In the procession | of the $299,000 of securities to prevent |Sulite. It took but three minutes) oo lied for a salary of $24,000) year (1920) we were cenfronted Were nine barrels of wine and booze, | their sale. As the theft of the $149,000 | for Consul General H. G. Mackic to with an enormous amount of re- pairs, especially in the sanitary and heating work, * * * much WENT TOKILL WIFE, POLIGE SAY, FALLS 2 STORIES; DYING Apartment House. sault and carrying concealed wea por According to his wife, Irene, they return from work she said she found her husband standing !n front of her home, but he fled when she appealed THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE MARY M. ROGERS’S ENGAGEMENT OFF, HER FATHER CABLES = ———_- Mie WM MILLICENT ROGERS - Man, Is Broken “By Mutual Consent.” TINY PATIENT SETS 24, 1921, BOOZE VALUED AT THOUSANDS, SEIZED BY ThE POLICE, 15 CAST ~ INTO SEWER BY COURT ORDER WERE STOLEN IN ~ SINCLAR OFFICE Funeral Is Held. LEACH WIELDS SLEDGE. Deputy Commissioner Bangs In the Head of First Barrel and the Flow Is On. little fishes go crazy and become vio- That at First Reported. being on traffic duty singing “Watch Your Step,” taps were sounded with open. The thieves took in addition to the worth was not known at that time that list cannot be made public, so it is figured in Wall Street there has been ample opportunity to dispose of two kegs, 115 bottles, seven demi- johns, one pitcher, one little stil! and a solitary pint flask, Deputy Police OPEN RECREATION PIERS | TO-MORROW, MAYOR ORDERS; BAND CONCERTS PROVIDED Granted to Begin Jul: 1, but Hot Spell Demands Quicker Aid to Public. Because of the intense heat, Mayor Hylan to-day ordered that the six recreation piers put in condition this season as a direct result of | an appeal made through The Evening World by Miss Sophie Irene | Loeb, will be thrown open to the public to-morrow night at 8 o'clock | instead of July 1, as originally intended, | “The Evening World can also announce/’ said Mayor Hylan, “that its suggestion that the recreation plers be provided with a number of band concerts will also be carried out. 1 have called a conference for Monday at which will be discussed plans for band music on the piers, I fully realize that good concert music greatly enhances the pleasure of those who visit these pliers on hot nights for a breath of fresh air, | The conference will be attended by Police Commissioner Enright, Fire Commissioner Drennan, Street Cleaning Commissioner Leo, City Cham- veriain Berolzheimer, who has already done so much for the city in the matter of band concerts, and Dock Commissioner Hulbert.” The piors to be opened, as announced by Commissioner Hulbert, are as follows: Barrow Street, West 50th Street, West 129th Street, Deacon of Boston to-day became the read the services and nesses to affix their signatures to the certificate, martial at Governor's Island for forgery and other offenses, to-day disclosed Mrs, Marjorie B, Chew, wife of the accused, PARIS, June 24,—Miss Gladys a year and that she earned in addition royaities amounting In some months to several thousand dollars more, Mr. Larvett told the court he called for the wit- MRS. J. W. GATES’S DOMICILE ARGUED Surrogate Foley Hears Contentions on Which Right to Tax on $17,000,000 Depends. Whether New York City or Port Arthur, Tex., will benefit by the tax Evening World’s Appeal for ‘Their Use Was} on tne $17,000,000 estate ut Mrs. John W. Gates will be decided by Surro- gate Foley, who to-day listened to | arguments whether Mrs, Gates was a resident of this State or Texas, A. L. Humes, one of the executors of the estate, argued that she was a Texan because in her will, executed two months before death, Mrs. Gates held that she wus a resident of Port Arthur, He said that an apartment in the Plaza Hotel, although contain- ing $400,000 in paintings and costing $30,009 a year rent, was considered a temporary domicile by Mr. and Mrs. Gates, Charles M. Travers, for the State, said Mr. Gates in 1905-8 regtstered —— noite n ‘ z Dock Commissioner Hulbert says the Fire and Street Cleaning jas a voter from the Waldorf, He “The difficulty of our situation | ROPE Breaks With Husband Trott M. Th Stee! If wreat ships come staggering tv | Burglars Now Known to Have] pepartment bands will volunteer their services for to-morrow night's |rald Gates once placed hie Port SE the ‘present moment arises After He Scales Roof of roth to James M. Thompson, Steel os ascke in the nwxt day or two. it} Secured $149,000 More Rete aay ene oan EO aie tio AU a rolls at $13,000, although he held securities in Texas worth $3,000,000 eto oe an RETR TE A TO ISLAND WARDS to a policeman for protection. on Mrs. Chew relative to renewal of 1 some of the $149,000. Any house may the result of slow deterioration Miss Deacon was gowned simply de who digs a grave for any one, Commissioner Leach read the death Taya DECI t at the home of her brother, in . , ‘ ° 5 | hav e an innocent purchaser. ; : uh due to the postponement of thor specially his wite, must expect to Little Sufferer Doesn’t Know warrant which had been signed by|""In the notice sent out to-day telling | & blue street dress, with a Blue aural Wviists vexthanaan’ veteeen | ough repairs. I into it himself,” sald Mrs. LApkit. | vai He Called Apparatus t Justice Alfred J. Talley, and at a|of the newly discovered loss it is said|C*Pe and a large blue, transparent) binwelf and Mra. Chew several times A LUMP APPROPRIATION MIGHT| who lives in.an apartment other than alled Apparatus to sien the manhole covering of the|some hope Is felt by officials that |hat trimmed with red roves, The} to show, that she was in the southern city during practically all of that month. | Thix was the month in which numer- | ous witnesses for the prosecution tex! CURE SHAMEFUL CONDITIONS. | ti Duke wore a morning coat and light ene in which her husband ‘they may be located, sewer was removed ‘The iron disk struck Ue stones with | Miss Deacon did not a Metropolitan Hospital. gray trousers, Here, in a dep rental letter pub- Nely published in the minutes of the Peril 4 5 7 a clang which sounded dismal in the Of bones yes consmed tn ee eer give her age, but the Duke set his hat Capt. Chew called at th Hi | BP) Board of Edu nA meeting of Meb EST $1.25 GAS RATE. A litle iad in the tuberculosis ward superheated street, and brought @/any city banquet that used to be, |A0W" 98 fortyenine: an and | IB tenner at: Snes the) cates a | ae cf the Metropolitan Hospital on concerted moan from the mourners, | Some said the estimate of the amount | American newspaper men were the squandered on the sewer was $50,000 | Still others suid that the booze was Brooklyn Union Consumers of the Ask Biackwell's Island got curious in the Commission for Purther Reduction cure present situation, who were being kept back by the ° f sense of noon hour to-day as to the workings serves. Deputy Police Commisstoner | jricojees, economy has kopt the appropriations, A Protest against the proposed rate -+ 6 signal 3-329, and all unaware Leach, uncoated and bare armed,} But one of the pallbearers sald that STORE OPEN ALL DAY THIS SATURDAY t0 18 per cent. of what they should | of $1.25 for gas supplied by the Brooklyn} , ewung a sledge hammer, [t swished | there was a lot of hooch in the nectar \ ave been. ‘This same attitude over! tinion Gas Company, was ted to-day he Trae ; . through the air and hit the head of a IA rnp eae IOUS aad al WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY SATURDAY DURING h period of years, with repairs in ar- | by 200 consumers with the Public Ser- he effect was electrical. Through jarre! with a sickening whack, 2nd|,ueht to know. ‘i 7 cars, accumulating in mathematical| ico Comnilssion, The petition soteltne length and breadth of the island thw life giving or lite taking contents, | fle was an” old-time cop! | JULY AND AUGUST AND SATURDAY, SEPT. 3 forth that a thou ve the consumers now paying id cubic fect do not be. |the alarm was sounded and the fire, © of $1.25 effective! drill formed, notwithstanding that all ee ne eee yrogression, has resulted not only in nsufficient schools but in inadequacy as one feels about it, went gurgling| Unable to stand the sight of Deputy | Commissioner Leach pouring out the | and splashing into the Sheriff Street) conients of two bottles of bonded | GEN AREA LEE: new fof many of the schools which do exist.) Ang, 1, js «ufMcien: ae A sewer, and on and on and down to the | zoods, one in each hand, Ell Lefko- | ‘i } Tho obvious remedy is through ie petitioners wak thut their attorney| he TUberctlosia patients w ut of | insuspecting bea Witz, of No. 470 Miller Avenue, Brook: | { ptonement, in kind, for the sins of be allowed to cro: ine witness for|the ward. The little boy was whisk-d| ysut Commissioner Leach's blow was|!¥n dashed forward and shoved a/ J ae wis ci ‘i ‘ >Ubl A ‘brand new straw hat under the flow. | H Bevasicn sia: tho naat—-to firpiah) thelithe: pee Som pey yeas the Public Ser- | away by @ nurse while Fire Company! so mighty that it broke the handle,! “phen he put the hat to his mouth 'e a ft Pmoney in one huge appropriation, | Ver Cn voneral bas situtiean | No. 49 was rushing to the building!and the hammer went into the barrel, | and drained what he had taken be- | ia which shuold have been tortucoming, == > eae abesla two companies were clattering | SPiashing the contents over Mr, Leach | fore Policeman Sheridan could get to . | the past, but which was provided | and iene panies were clattering | 214 his Palm Beach trousers. him, He was pushed back into the | Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets ; @ 3 prived of luncheons at home, with over the Queensboro Bridge. canwhile bottles were being un- | crowd still draining the lid. | i ; > the extent of only 18 per cent. of | Mean’ were 5 h sf \. the consequent disastrious effect Trucks and engines and hose carts corked and their contents poured into A group of sctfool children from} i | ] e req ments. upon their digestive systems halted near the middle of the bridge, | the manhole, cleansing the sewer and|P. § No. 122 in Sheriff Street stood Nov o1 have general repa and NO RELIEF FOR 1,900 PUPILS IN . = watched the object Pi ‘ adding to the height of the tide. And ‘ar ound and ‘right over the island, with Battalion sy Chief Patrick Barry in charge. At this point of the bridge is a big ele- | vator for just such emergencies, and down went the lift with the fire ap-| paratus, landing the latter on the ts!-' and. All were at the hospital before Chief Barry Jearned that there was no fire, Up in the air went the apparatus again, just as a fireboat, which had sped from 99th Street in the East] River, nosed into the pier nearest | the hospital. ‘The Fire Department | takes no chances when an alarm | comes from the hospital, and espe- | cially from the T, B. ward. So, if there had been a fire to-day, nobody thou: orth Aitation suffered from lack of funds, | ands of dull: out read the following paragraph from Mr. Snyder’ i-annual report, also ig the minutes for beb. 6, 1920, show- | ing the comparative value of money apd children’s liy the estimation | Of the “City Fathers he work of fire prevention, which is considered to be of the reatest importance, affecting as it does the safe occupancy of our schools, together with the reduc- tion of fire risks, has, because of lack of appropriations, come to a andstill.’” Any one who walks through the eity schools can see the result, It is also apparent that appropriations for the years -920 and 1921 didnot e@hange the conditions so forcefully \ inted out by Mr yder. What lew repairs were accomplished were LESS THAN A YEAR. ‘The city has started work on a new school two blocks from re said Miss b put it cannot be finished in less than a year. It was originally designed to ve the neighborhood, but it will only ju care for our needs. There will WILL CLOSE OUT—SATURDAY a MISSES’ SUMMER DRESSES 4 J49 Fifth Mone a3 frea 9 75 a: To-Morrow (Saturday) A : A Most Extraordinary Sale , i for This Time of the Year p Heretofore $16,5° to $39, 50 ia for Septembe without the last two years from 7A to 8B. Our attendance increases at the rate of three classes a year, so there is little hope of relief in the new school for long. We now have 1,900 pupils.” Here, again, is seen the inability of the city to keep pace with the grow- ing school demands, not to mention quidating part of the deficit in buildings and sittings. “When we get out of here,” Miss \readily counterbalanced by new fail- ings in the same schools or elsewhere. BROOKLYN CONDITIONS WORSE ! THAN IN MANHATTAN. A tour of Brooklyn reveals cundi- tions which even outshame those in fManhattan. if the survey drawn by the civ scieties had been at all complete Brooklyn would have occu- pied many times the space it does. Three schools in one district, which come readily to mind not in- cluded in the survey, are in many as bad as the worst men- There is nothing so old and > and unsafe the New School. The annex to Nos, 1645-1649, 86th Street, a block away, is in three old stores’ without sanitary conveniences or educational equipment A mile to the north is I’. 8. No. 180, in a con- demned old farmhouse at 18th Ave- nue and 67th Street. The structure would fall at a giant's and | should a spi i would be found as dry as tinder and there- fore a menace to life ‘A particularly Brooklyn is). Walworth Street, classes in 4 tores and @ kindergarten blocks away. The cain structure was built eighty Years aco and is inadequate in every Way. Classrooms are mere band- boxes, Additional seats have en- croached upon aisle space and @oakrooms have disappeared, to make room for new classes. Stores and supplies are kept in whatever nooks and corners are available There will be forty-five classes hen school reopens in September, Behnken, the principal, four on part time. ith the kindergarten far away and | ith children in the last two years | mpelled to go to the school at fayette and Classon Avenues—in | ny cases a walk of more than a MMe, These children are thus 4 KP. 8. t glaring case in No. 54, at No. 151 which has three Behnken added, ‘this building should not be torn down. It should be con- verted into a neighborhood swimming pool, something we need here badly, ‘This is a yery crowded neighborhood and the people need something like it. Now here is a dirty boy who has come to school unclean,” singling out an untidy youngster, ‘We teach the children hygiene, yet I am unable to get him cleaned up, for we have not even a sink and faucet here. The only way I can wash a child's hands and face 1s to catch in a basin some water from the drinking bubbles in the basement.” MODERN CONVENIENCES, BUT CAN'T USE THEM. Miss Behnken keeps this basin her own office—there place. At P. and Taaffe Pl In is no. other S. No, 157, Kent Avenue ce, not far away, there » shower baths, she said. But in |this modern building, completed dur- ing the war and equipped with all modern improvements, refusal to ap- propriate, money tor ndants makes impossible for th. school to use the showers installed, Probably the greatest shame of ail at P. 5. $4 is found in the adjoining annexes. Tiree stores jiave been con- verted into class rooms, They are heated with ordinary base burner stoves which exhale coal gas and furnish insufficient peat, while the roofs are leaky and’ the sewage is bad, ‘The yards around the rooms are filthy to the extreme and impos- sible of use, When it rains the odor is unbearable. The school is located in the midst of fur factories which send out fine particles of fluff to be inhaled by the youngsters and also acid fumes which turn clothes on the neighbor- ing wash lines yellow. The sidewalks are in ‘errible shape, so that in fire drills the children break out of Une, upset the discipline and retard the emptying of the building. would might have happened to the old hos. pital buitding is another story, The acthorities refused to divulg started all the didn’t even tell done. excitement. | The All-Ceylon Tea “Wut RosE is packed in lead-foil Packages in Ceylon. t at the start— and at the end.” have been hurt, but what) the name of the little patient who They | him what he had © HAT IN THE HOUSE will be offered to-morrow, regardless of former prices, HATS OF THE DISTINCTIVELY SMART TYPE FOR WHICH THis HOUSE IS NOTED —FOR— SEASHORE—MOUNTAIN—RESORT- STREET AND DRESS WEAR. This season’s most desirable models in organdie, gingham, chambray, ramie linen or voile, in all the smart coloring: SIZES 14 to 20 YEARS WILL CLOSE OUT—SATUR DAY WOMEN’S & MISSES’ SMOCKS l Pid Heretofore $3.45 to $4,95 Smocks of Japanese cotton crépe, Pickwick cloth or Franz linon in Copenhagen, rose, orange or brown; hand-embroidered in contrasting wools. NO CREDITS MISSES’ DRESS SHOP—Second Floor NO EXCHANGES Baise