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SUHIOOL FIRE PREVENTION | WORTH ONLY $62,500 A YEAR BOARD OF ESTIMATE DECREE FEUDATBEACH 3 SHOT, DING Thousands of Lives Jeopar- dized, but Needed Funds \re Not Voted. WARNINGS NOT HEE Bronx No. 1 the Latest Addi- tion to List of Shameful City Schools. ; = Occupants of Staten Island ire prevention in the schools is - r worth exactly $62,500 a year to the| Bungalows Go to War— Board of Fstimate and Apportion-| Taxi Riddled With Bullets | ment. Despite a condition which the, ,. rss school authorities openiy admitted | Three men, believed to be mortally was causing them deep concern and | wounded, are unconscious in Staten which, according to C. B. J. Snyder, | Island Hospital, and three others are Superintendent of School Buildings, charged with felontous required more than $4,000,000 to rem- edy, the Administration after four years of waiting saw fit to cut down under arrest assault as the result of a shooting in Dunlee’s Hotel, Midiand Beach, early the modest $500,000 asked in the bud- | to-day. The men in the hospital are: get to $250,000. In his semi-annual! David McCarthy, twenty-seven, No. ereport submitted March 23, 1921, af-/203 Chambers Street, Manhattan, ter saying the city went on the as-| shot through the left breast near the sumption that sufficiency of stair-| heart. ways made the schools safe, Mr.) John McCarthy, thirty-two, of No. Snyder adde 203 Chambers Street; bullet through ‘Whether or not this is justified|the nose into the head can only be demonstrated through} ‘Thomas Murray, twenty-five. No. that which we are all in constant/s7 Midland Avenue, Midland Beac dread may occur—fire and panic.| shot in the left side. * © © It is sincerely to be hoped that a resumption of this work (fire prevention) will not be delayed until! the peach last night. The men who something of this kind brings us to a} |were shot occupy a bungalow and bial! Uoeaantete oe iia it inten. | tte men who did the shooting are is report from the Superinten-| t a noet Oe ee dent of School Buildings to the futi| Sid to have one near them, Follow The shooting is said to have been the result of a row which began on Board of Education cannot be con-| ing the row on the beach the men eidered in the light of propaganda|met in the hotel, The police have intended to alarm the people. Mr. | been able to learn only that there was Snyder has been in charge of school buildings for nearly twenty years and knows their condition intimately. And his fears, substantiated by the} facts, failed to move the Board of Estimate for four years. FIRE PREVENTION WORK NEG- f LECTED. a shooting. When three policemen reached the hotel, having run toward it at the sound of the shots, a taxi- cab was going down the road. The police fired fifteen shots at the cab and learned later that six of them had struck it, A general alarm sent * or of e prevention has wenthe Fae) pret nctically | out through the island resulted in the three years,” Mr. Snyder said in this| holding up of a cab by Patrolman report drawn up early in March.| Kemmel, stationed in a police booth And the Estimate Board instead of on Richmond Avenue, In St were Hugh Connell, No. 103 Charles Street, granting the insufficient $509,000 in- cluded in the budget cut in half, to $250,000. Manhattan; William Texlumbo, No. Here « i ant para-| 17 Watts Street, Manhattan, and John graphs from Mr. Snyder's report: ‘4 “Oct. i918—Communication of Meagher, No. 868 Smith Street, Fire Commissioner Drennan—1918 Brooklyn The cab had six bullet recommendations not complied with. holes in it. Cons was lenis Cina te ee ‘8 The three men arrested were taken eee ee ENMU) ee ty the Staten Island Hospital where the wounded men were. The latter were unconscious and so unable te niake any identification. The prison- ers were then locked up. The police are also looking for three other men as they sity they “In 1919 * * * an item of $250,- 000 was made a part of the corporate stock budget, but this was omitted when appropriations were granted by the Board of Estimate and Appor- eee on Dec. 30, 1919, and Jan. 920, has been made a part of the 1921 men in the fleeing gang and shooting | corporate stock budget, the was very generar. being before the Board of Bs - = and Apportionment (March 16, “The estimated cost of work call for by orders now on file is in the neighborhood of $4,000,000 “This (orders by the Building and Fire Departments not complied with), with the continued growth of the schools and consequent overcrowding term Pack- Bids for the work of restoring the roadway and street park over the sub- way on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, from Prospect Park Plaza to Nostrand Avenue, were opened to-day by the ruses me great UN- Pransit Commission. Michael J. O'Hara nd distress of mind. If the 71,5 fire prevention work was and is re. Was low bidder, $171,560. quired for schools under normal eon- === ~ ditions, how much more important coy, . must it be when a building contains foneseions oe Ae gore Ae. ee quite one-half or more in excess of fronx, is an example of all a, schcol normal? should not be. Said to be the oldest SOME SAY CITY WILL HAVE TO sehool in that borough, Gating from SPEND THE MONEY. 1866, it serves more than 1,000 pupils “What better evidence of the needs i) the vicinity of 15th Street and of our buildings can the Board of Es- (vllese Avenue. The entire school in timate and Apportionment require 00 double session, and two of the than the orders themselves, lawfully ©leven classes are on part time, Tire- issued by the Fire Department?” — less work on the part of the janitor r. Snyder then declared that, if; prevents plague conditions, but the the city would not provide funds for|old plumbing and toilets make the this work the Board of Education| sanitary conditions entirely unsatis- would have to consider the advi factory. bility of diverting all moneys for| Once upon a time there was a small other repairs to this work, rest room for the teachers in the at- “No amount of ‘fire prevention’|tic. Now it is used as a lunchroom, work will render them (the old build-|/a dispensary, the school nurse's room ings) entirely satisfactory," he added|and the office of the visiting physi- end declared that if the Fire Depart-|cian, in addition to its original pur- ment should insist upon carrying out| pose, A gas jet gives illumination on of these orders “there would be no/dark days, such as yesterday after- alternative, it would seem, except to/noon, and the sun and air fight their lose such structur for the time|way through a little porthole in the eing, either in whole or in part, until| wall and a dingy skylight overhead. funds had become available and the/ Fire regulations compel the ladder be orders executed kept constantly against the skylight, “The last grant of funds for fire|thus taking away more of the already protection work,” he continued, "made] scant floor space, in April, 1917, was exhausted some] In @ report drawn up June 20, 1921, time since.” Mr. Snyder gave a chrono-|py the Principal, Abbey Porter Les Yogical history which showed theljand, the following unsatisfactory Board of Estimate sent a communi-| conditions are noted: Non-fireproof; n to the Board of Education dur-| yard toilet for men and boys obsolete ing the first week of January, 1918,| and unsanitary: no toilet facilities for Sanne Srerivencien ee Women ‘students of evening achool: in fil only six rooms adequately lighte ‘An interesting sidelight on school] electricity, and three rooms, in addi, conditions was told by a former|tion to the kitchen in the basement, teacher in the old Washington Irving | have no lights at all; playgrounds in High School at No. 60 West 18th! semi-darkness; presence of gas fix- Gtreet, now occupied by the Jullaltures makes accidental asphyxiation Richman High School. One day|or fire possible; furniture needed for about fifteen years ago while she was] nearly all classrooms, and plano is 60 teaching in a rear top floor room alpad it is not worth repairing or tum- anc man well over 5 ny one ai ing. gmiling reminiscently sald: eat | TE ys : qrrenat seat during the Civil Warleqaty, space, Is reported entirely in- adequate and most of the building !s badly in need of paint, New floors | a = needed and a wash basin should | be installed for the men teachers, In cold weather it is impossible to clone some of the outer doors; the der pipes leak and the roof is in bad con- dition, In bad weather rain leaks into the building. ‘As I wrote to the City Superin- tendent on Dee. 10, 1919," the report goes on, “when I reported a minor ac cident, the number of ‘odd steps’ at the foot of exits 4 and 6 might be the cause of a very serious accident, The stone steps in front of the main en- trance are badly worn,” Although petitions were circulated through the neighborhood last year and scraped lint for the soldiers He pointed to a seat in the front row. ‘Although this happened more than @ decade ago, the same desk ts in the game spot, it was said ‘This same teacher declared that a few days later the Fire Department @mmarily ordered every one out of the top floors. For two days clas were held in the dark, cramped base- ment and the order was as suddenly rescinded as it had been issued, To this day, sie said, nobody knows the Feason pupils and teachers were per- mitted to go back after the Fire De- partment had declared the structure unsafe. But nothing has been don to the structure since, and classes are a@tiN being conducted in the con-|calling for immediate repairs or @emned building. erection of a new school building, Worth of the Harlem River school nothing has been done, THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 192 FALCONER CLAIMS FOULIN BOUT WITH BILLY KENNEALLY Says Tall, Dark Man Cut His Lip in the Two-Wallop Scrap. MAY BATTLE = AGAIN. Silk-Stocking vs. Gas House Title Interests Alderman From Hell’s Kitchen. Who is champion heavyweight slugger of the Board of Aldermen? Is it Bruce M, Falconer, Harvard Braduate, age forty, weight 185 pounds at the ringside: product of a Carpentier-like scientific college representing ‘ocking Madison 6 Board, Or (s jt Bill Kenneally, ex-walking course in boxing, and the highbrow silk Avenue district in t delegate, weight 199 pounds, age fifty-five. born and reared in the bare-knuckie Gas House District where every man’s son is as good as he can ‘hit, and where the Jack Dempsey type of ruggedness is the goods—because it's needed in one’s business, Kenneaily and Falconer went two rounds—wallop to a round—right oa the Lrussels carpet of the board room yesterday. Kenneally emerged with a grim smile. Falconer's bran! new imported suit looked,as .f it had engaged in 2 catch-as-catch-can witn a threshing machine; his lip was cut and there was a bump as big as a squash on his forehead. He says several Tammany Alder- men swung on him while he was down and that Kenneally repeatedly tried to kick him. Bill Collins, ma- jority Jeader of the board, laughed when he heard what Falconer said “When a man trained in the Gas House District hits a jentific boxer,” said Collins, “the scientific boxer always swears either that he ran foul of a wake, had been thrown from the Brooklyn Bridge or attack- ed by a gang of piano movers. A Gas House wallop just makes a mun feel that way. You ask Willie Lewi Kenneally didn't show up at City Hall to-day, but those who saw the fight say that he hit Falconer where and when he pleased. Falconer swears Kenneally never touched him, and he threatens to repeat the per- formance of yesterday if the same provocation should arise, Falooner’s official chronicle of the bout: “Kenneally had made a ruling while he was in the chair that was unfair to me and I approached him about it after the meeting. Right in the mid- dle of my talk he showed outrageous discourtesy by walking away. “When I remonstrated he stuck out his chin as only Kenneally can and grossly insulted me. “Now, you see, Kenneally is not quite as young as I and I did strike | him, ‘tis true, But it was merely a tap, fairly mild, I should say, on the lower part of the cheek, a kind of a ‘half hook, half swing. You see, I took a year’s course in boxing while at col- lege, and I know how to land, “IT have a cut lip, but Kenneally didn't hit me, Positively not. I par- ried every blow. It was, oh, so easy. You see Kenneally isn’t so young. “Now about that cut. Several Tam- many Aldermen grabbed me. I realiy don’t think they meant any harm. in the struggle I half slipped. Whiie was down a Tammanyite 1 know by sight but not by name swung on my mouth. It was a terrific, stinging blow. I was also struck cver the loft ear. My greatest concern aa» over an imported suit I was wearing. I charge that while 1 was down Ken- neally repeatedly tried to kick ae I want to say that if Kenneally again lays himself open as he did yesterday I shall repeat the performance.” “I hope they advertise the hour and date,” sald Fighting Jack MoCourt, who comes from the Hell's Kitchen section, where peace !s the hardest thing to find. ec eeantedineamemmeens ‘LEACH DECISION RESERVED. Meyer Committee Asked Depaty's Pontshment fer Contempt. Decision was reserved to-day by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on the appeal of the Meyer Committee from the refusal of Justice Edward G. Whitaker to punish Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach for con- tempt in declining to testify before a subcommittee of the Meyer Committee. Senator Meyer has received a letter from John F. Sinnott, Mayor Hylan's secretary, informing him that the in- vestigators can have the use all Sum mer of either the Board of Estimate Chamber or the Aldermanic Chamber The first public hearing of the Meyer Committee will be held next week. It is understood that either Mayor Hylan or Comptroller Craig will be among the first witnesses called, City finances will be one of the first matters investi. | gated. The committee expects to reveal in- stances of waste and Inefficiency in the city’s financial methods and to recom- mend remedies, Here is) YOUNG WIFE BURNS A CROSS ON HER BREAST AS PENANCE FOR SIN AT HUSBAND'S DEMAND Confesses Unfaithfulness, Then Applies Hot Iron to Breast as He Prays, Following Ancient Russian Custom. A tradition of old Russia, stronger | her hushand was arraigned for ex- Jacting the cruel penalty Farlier Sunday she had c naming the than written law, holds that a wife who has been unfaithful shall regain PIORHI A, aie 981d; nfessed to her husband, foreman of a buliding in brand | West 42d Street, where she worked She told her husband she had done this atter a quarrel at home, and that the love and the trust of her husband | if, in his presence, she shall a cross in her sullied flesh with « hot iron t she now hated the man. She was In the kitchen of a three-room flat! ready, whe waid, for the ancient pen- At No, 534 Weat 50th Street on Sunday ance, 11 wag then he went in the morning Mrs. Vera Hoynoski, twenty-|cther room to pray while she applied jthe brand Winding herself unequal to the task of holding the iron steadily sgainst hee she tried to make the brand on her arm, but again she failed afier making one bar of the cross. There i« now « vertical bar on her one years old, a pretty blonde, hea the iron over the gas stove, I a can opener breast Her husband, Benjamin, was on his knees in an adjoining room, praying. Her two children, Joseph, two years old, and Stanley, eight months, were| breast and a horizontal one on her also there. that the two may be consid. The young woman bared her constituting the eress, breast and applied the iron. Then, | 18 one of the stra trlengle lacking the stoic fortitude of the old) Stories 1 have ever heard,” said the Russian peasant that the occasion! Magistrate. And then, heeause it was required, she cried ont and took away | clear that husband and wife were the iron before it had completed the Still in love--perhaps more so than cross. ever he suspended sentence, The man She told the rest of the story in, and the woman kissed in the court- the West Side Court to-day when room and went out arm Ip arm. ‘Lady Churchill to Right Hon, Lord Randolph Spencer urchiil, who died in 1895, Jond husband, whom she married in |1900, was George Cornwallis West, | Dies in London Froma Bad Fall 3..3. ee ee on ee | She was made Lady of Grace of St. , , 4, [John of Jerusalem in 1901 and became Former Famous New York|a member of the Royal Red Crosa in | Beauty Failsto Recover From |1992. She was proprietor of the ‘4 +4 Anglo-Saxon Review. She had charge Operation on Her Foot. jor the hospital ship Maine in South Africa. Her sec- LONDON, June 29—Lady Ran-| Lady Churchill was an author and |dotph Churchill, who was Miss Jennie|Playwright, She published “The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Jerome, of New York, day. ied here to- Churchill,” 1908, and “Small Talks on She recently underwent an 0p-/| Rig Subjects,” 1916. Among her plays eration on her right foot, which was|were “His Borrowed Plumes,” 1909, injured in a fall down a flight of/and “The Bill,” 1912, She was a istape: member of the Ladies’ Athenacum jand Ladies’ Automobile Clubs. —— KUBAL IS INDICTED. for Mrn, Rartlet Set for July 6, An indietment charging muMer in the first degree was returned Mineola this afternoon agalnst Lawrence Kubal, jalleged confessed slayer of “irs, Min- | nie Bartlett, in her home at West and one of| Hempstead, L. L, June Kubal was taken before Justice James Lady Randolph Churchill's death occurred suddenly from heart failure, following a hemorrhage. her son, Winston Spencer Churchill, Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, with her at the end, She married Lord Randolph Churchill, second son of the Seventh Duke of Marlborough, | England's most influential political] ‘Trt Murderer was |. Cropsey in Supreme Court, Ie sald jleaders of his day, in 1874. he did not desire an attorney, declar- | ing that he would be his own lawyer. | Lady Churchill was the daughter pet Gropeey, Poe er, oasign ranklin A. Coles of Glen Cove, jof the late Leonard Jerome of New |iigtrict Attorney of Nassau ‘County. | | York City. | | She was married in 1874! ‘The tria} for July 6. TOE OF MADISON AVENUE 2200 Pairs DISCONTINUED $7.00 Formerly $18 to $26 All appropriate shoes for any } sion in the latest models. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY ONLY yy No Returns NEW ‘ORR AES y. Hie “st MT ee HENNING 29, — i, ‘BOLSHEVIST ARMY -ATEAGRGUS SAYS NAN FROM BAKU Lions, Monkeys, Giraffes and Reptiles All Disappear Down Hungry Gullets. eaten up by the Bolshevists, may bear all the earmarks of truth, it must be recorded first of all that the steam- ship Pittsburgh Bridge of the Ship- ping Bourd arrived from Stockholm this morning, docked at Pier 39, South Brooklyn, and lowered the gangplank for Henry J. Benson, twenty-two years old, to get off. He headed for Sullivan Street, Brooklyn, but first he talked to The Evening World's ship news reporie “Thirteen yea nine years old,” he said, “L ran away to Burope, where 1 joined Clark's cireus and grew up with the animals. We Europe, and had some tough times during the w Hil skip that “After we had played in Vladivos tok and Teheran, Persia, we wound up in Baku, in the south of Russia, where Clark died and the show went ago, when | was and went went all over belie me we broke. “Thi in 1917, ‘Phe Bolshe vists came along and they w hun- gry. The circus looked like a sqi meal to them and they proceeded to loa, they devoured the elderly tiger, they made steaks of the clophant and the eat it, They ate my favorite camel and the giraffe and all che monkeys and jagusrs an hyenas and bears and lec ds and snakes, “The fat lady grew as thin as the living skeleton and the living skel- eton, td he had always been a Bolshevist anyway, joined the and grew almost as fat as used to be. “They took all the cages that used to contain the animals and they turned them into jails to keep Princes and Dukes and trapeze performers in Thay took the spangles from the skirts of the ‘lady equestrienne’ and used ‘em for money because they eso much more valuable than rubles, “Gradually the whole circus dis- appeared, excepting me and the snuke charmer. The snake charmer charn who § feasters the fat ! we |him help her escape, though 1 don't |know where she escaped to. L ted up in a prison that used to be was a G k Orthodox church, but I got way and was helped by a Batkan | Red Cross nurse, and an American | doctor named Berger gave mo seme to get to Stockholm.” ngon arri ! none a tutesastia Gi FINAL DISPOSAL PTT NT es occa- Incom- plete sizes compel us to dispose of these shoes at this price. HENNING Boot Shop Inc. 577-519 Madison Ave, at 57¥St Grench- 676 Modtson Aue. o 6487" Sim S . emery fo” wa In ovder that this authentic tale of the tragic oof Clark's at Amer can Travelling Circus, whieh was] the chief of the Bolshevists and mady ry received @ telephone call from Capt A. Asbron of the Munamar. 3 “There will be no n ing the Munamar this trip,” explained Capt. Asbron, “I've ralded the ship myself and found 150 bottles of whisk You cun confiscate It at your leisure. According to the Captain of the Munson Line vessel, the chip Lad been raided each time It got hers. He de- cided to rald It himself this trip. HIS HARD CIDER TURNED TO VINEGAR ON WAY TO COURT y of raid- Chemist Says This Is Possible These Hot and Very Dry Days. Three half bottles of supposedly bard cider figured in the case of August Kayan, a anioon keeper of No, 228 Fifth Street, in Essex Court to-day. Hundreds are starting bank accounts in the “Have you had this stuff analyzed?" Magistrate Corrigan MercantileSpecial Interest asked the detectives. They re- Department. They have determined that they wil/ ed they had not. City Chemist Edward Kelly, who was in court, was asked to sample it. He did have a bank account. 40 Many started with a single “Your Honor, this was bard dollar, und already see their cider yesterday, probably,” he re- ts ported, “but it's vinegar now accounts GFOW. Nobody could drink Why not do the same— He explained that ¢ ‘ ter might now—today? easily turn to vinegar in twelve hours these days Interest from July 1 on The Magistrate discharged the $5.00 or more deposited defendant, who went off with his by July 11. ‘clder,” declaring he would use it on salad. Emrcvoyers: For encouraging thrift among your employees, Ask about the Mercan- tile Thrift Plan, He said his home used to be on Sulll- van Street, but he did not rem mber he number, Thin afternoon he siart- eu to walk along Sullivan Street to see if he could recognize the old y place and find his fol M RCANTILE ee i TRUST CAPTAIN RAIDS OWN SHIP, HI company Manson Line Man Ge javing U. 5. De t The first Instance of a ship captain raiding hls own vessel for contraband hooch became known to-day when Al- bert Horkensen, Chief of the Mederal ralding squad for vessels In the harbor, H. Altman & Co. 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