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ee eS Sina RRA ni th SE ono® by the Mayor; increabe, $85,190. Police erathas Evia Richard B. Enright, persopai appuintee and friend of the Mayor; increas, $0,080,597, Fire Commissioner Thomas J. Dren- nan, friend and follower of M’Cooey, Demporatio ‘boss in Brooklyn; in- crease, $6,288,263. Commissioner of Health Royal 5. Copeland, fHend of William Randolph Hearst; increase, $1,354,770. Commissioner of Welfate Bird S. Coler, ex-Comptroller and Brooklyn Democrat; increase, $1,584,248, Commissioner Nicholas J. Hayes, Department of Water Supply, Gas ond Electricity, adviser to Murphy; increase, $1,444,382. e@ Commissioner of Street Cleaning John R. Leo, former member of Bu- reau of Standards, close to Murphy and Hylan; increase, 709, Commisstoner of Plant and Struc- tures Grover A. Whalen, former Sc retary to the Mayor and one of hig campaign managers in 1917; increase, $2,943,; H ‘Tam: yA candida for it of "Board dt Aldermen, former Congressman, close to Murphy and former, Gov. Sruiths decrease. of only $293,913, although jn 1918 the op- er.*.uu of city ferries Was transferred to Department of Plant and Struc- tures. ‘QURLADY OF FURS AND NEW HUBBY. 'LNEIN TWO ROOMS * loner of Docks Murray i} Former Anna ie Fores and ‘Richard Rochester jr. Secret- ly Married, The culmination of a romance of two years’ standing between the Bardness Castelli di Villanova, the New York society beauty, who after she relinquished the name of Anna Preston, was known in Paris as “Our Lady of Furs," and who has “gone through,” as her new husband ex- Pressed it, s¢veral millions of de - tars, and Richard Rochester jr., son of the President of the New York Cordage Company, became known (to-day when the bridegroom ad- itted they had slipped away to Greenwich, Conn., last week and been married by a woman Justice of thr Peace. The bride has been married twice before. Her first husband was the Italian Count Di Castelli, who is now fiving in Menajjio, Italy. She di- yorced the Couht and married Dr. sthur 8, Chittenden of Binghamton. She obtained her freedom from the \doctor eleven years ago, “Mr. Rochester and his bride are {tving in\a modest two-room base- ment apartment at No, 2 West 11th jBtreet. The former baroness does her town cooking, while hubby has a cor- “mer for his chemical experiments. }. "We have been beth through jtunes,” admitted the husband tc day, “and we simply got to work to eai! 4¥es; the baroness is going to work leo, She told me yesterday that she jg starting out in a new venture—per- next week!" Mr. Rochester is sulés manager of Mle Scientific Utilities Company of No. 18 East 16th Street. He was livorged from his firet wife by a ree of Justice Tompkins of ‘Nyack April. Two children—Amy Chris tine, aged eight, and Devereaux, three peare with their mother in the Adiron- dacks. The first Mrs. Rochester, it is aid, is a member of the Stanford family, of which Leland Stanford, ‘founder of the California university, was best known, SHOOCH SHIP LIBELED; | _ WILL BE. AUCTIONED “Her Bare Three Mile Limit Held to Be Legal. * The rum running schooner Henry L. Marshall, which was captured off the Jersey coast by the revenue cutier Sen- oa just outside the three mile limit twelve days ago, has been formally seized, together with her cargo of yey and rum by the Treasury De- nt three libels were filed ast the “ship, and her uaknown ers in the office of the clerk of the ‘United States District Court to-day. ‘The libels which were filed by Federal ict Attorney Hayward pray that ship be old to satisfy penalties punting to $4,500 for unloading within he ve miles of the coast and without a ‘pied and that the liquor be forfeite Btn the commerce of the tes. Col, Hay said that the law which ite the seizure of vessels attempt to unload within twelve miles of the odast in an attempt at fraud upon the yas passed in 1799 and has upheld by the Supreme Court ‘There is no law fixing a three-mile “Amit, but it is ancient doctrine that a mn has right to protect itself inst is carrying concealed can. In the old smoothbore days the it of a cannon’s range Was three es, an@ that distance off shore was ‘aa the safety boundary. ie }. —_—_— ROLICE NAVY READY To FIGHT HOOCH INVASION. Posts Motor ~ aries Detroit Waters. WDETROIT, Aug. 13.—Armed with ifies, ‘weventy-five State police to-da ‘@arted patrolling the waters in the * @ileinity of Detroit with motor boats to - .. liquor smugglers from 6 arrived here from Lan- and reported to Charles Detroit representative of Pulte ‘Safety Commis: lias declared war on the This move followed pepcns were being made to States with Teitionns as fot @.coust ruling in Windsor nee Act does ir - ‘ 6 | j th Freeport, Beautiful Venice of Long Island, Strong on Canals, Actors and Civic Pride MARTIN BRALL en South Shore Town Has Had Phenomenal Growth in Re- cent Years, and an Army of Real Estate Agents Is Re- quired to Handle the Busi- ness Made Possible by Tre- mendous Expans Is Famous for a Colony of Noted Thespians—lIts Wa- terways Make Every Man’s Home a Private Bath House, and Bon Vivants Flock There for Shore Dinners. By Will B. Johnstone. Some day Long Island will be as completely settled as } nhattan Isl- and is to-day, Paste that in your scrap book and read it a hundred years hence. The same process of development that swept up nhat- tan is going down Long Island, where | hamlets of yesterday are now lusty villages with «rowing pains that in- dicate approaching cityhood, | The future Astors and Goelets of Long Island are buying now ‘reeport, L. 1, twenty-five miles from the entre of New York City, located on the south shore, is a fine example of this progress. In 1643 the Meroke Indians inhab- ited the place, which was known as Washburn's Neck, and Great South DOMSCHKE wlth Aa) f | 1am where ‘he initiated eighty-four, mem: bers, breaking another record, ‘and is |nlso’ Secretary and Treasurer of the Vreeport Coundil of the United Com- | mercial Travelers of America. nt yet R member of the W. T, U.," laughed his honor. HE SUGGESTED THE NAME OF NASSAU COUNTY. Archer B, Wallace, delegate with Johnson to the recent Blk’s Conven- tion held in Los Angeles, is a. Free- port celebrity. Wallace, as Secretary ‘of the mass meeting called in 1898,to | propose the incorporation of a new county hereabout, suggested tha name of Nassau. The minutes of that mecting, now preserved, verify this historical fact. Wallace, who was a fireman twenty-two years and formerly chief of the local force, |s ex-President of the New York State Volunteer Firemen’s Association and Freeport is holding a carnival this week to raise twenty-five thousand |dolars to cover the expense of enter- |taining the State Organization nt its 50th Anniversary next year. Wallace js inviting the firemen to accept Freeport's well known hospitality. Wallace is a lusty orator and as such is called upon to announce the boxing bouts at the auditorium here, His lung power exceeds that of Joe Hum- . who was challenged by Wal- to a long distance announcing on contest. Humphrey failed to accept John R. Randall, the “Father o| Freeport,” -owner of Randall Park and Woodcliff, is given credit of § ing the active development of F port, As areal estate promoter Ran. dall built three large artifictal ¢ into the mainland from tho ba Woods, adjoining Great Bay, NOW) neing Randall's Bay, whore the called South Bay. ‘The famous Mer-|ors’ bungalow colony is located, ‘The rick Road here gets it name from|South Shore Yucht Chap is here. Ran- » place i HS Me rOnes: ‘ 1 Randall Raynortown was the next name! istructs more canals for given the settlement, coming from the Raynor family, farm@s and baymen (polite term for clamdiggers), whose principal member, Daniel Raynor, built a grist mill on the stream now called Freeport River, In 1868, when the “tub to stack of the first Long Island Rail- road eazin. pulled into town, beleh- ing smoke and wooden cinders, the station sign read Freeport. The vil- | ee was incorporated in 1893. Freeport, the “Venice of Long Isl- and,” so called because its shore is a network of natural canals that wind rough deep velvet grass of vivid green, lies opposite the eastern end Outside 0 of So- Called of Long Beach, where Jones's Inlet) building includes sleept fe where acts are Dp) by club member: in ean to the gives entrance from the bay here. In the old 8 “Iiberty loving inhabitants,” who risked the dangers of the inlet to escape paying duty on goods carried by ships, made this a {ree port—hence Freeport LONG ISLAND'S BIGGEST COM- MUTER TOWN. Owing to its proximity way, Freeport has more commuters than any [Island village, \ "Judge Albin N Broad- round Long to year other Johnson of the law firm of Johnson & Johnson is a 100 per cent. town booster, ‘The Judge's real middle name is Public Spirit Engraved (on his Is Freeport, his second passi Freeport Lodge 1253. Ju time, Albin's le alances | his legal head. ‘TY big fig ure in fraternal or tons here. Last year, as Exalted Ruler of the Elks of Freeport, the hustling Judge increased the lodge membership from, 1,303 up to over 2,000, bringing the rank of the lodge from sixty-fifth to thirty-fifth in the 1,000 lodges of the orde “We had sixty social sessions dur- ing the with a F Pxalted ‘ y month,” said the his boom methods. [reception wa when the ( |Preeport with When the regiment initiates” Exalted vaditoriuam y honored of celebrated last Ap Ruler’s record-breaking et- Johnson's 1 thelr forts in enlisting brother Wks, Com- pany M, parading with other comy | mes behind the Elks’ band of thirt 4 outdid the many war-eries with “stout billd, well bred, short height, square he style, bright smart, THAT'S JOHNSO! R. Judge's village ort Johnson, the law partner, is port is governed by a Presi- -| tion, villagers who desire to dive from their front porch into salt water. AN ACTORS’ COLONY AND CLUB HOUSE. Freeport has long been celebrated Jas an actors’ colony, Names of th -Jatrical notwbles that have electrically jemblagoned theatres all over the country are found in Freeport. Ar- line, Helen and Edgar Gardiner of the |: celebrated Gardiner Trio, dancers, ac- tually sisters and brothers, live here wi thier mother. the bay stands the actor folk's club house of unique design. The club is widely known as “The Lights,” the ord “Lights being composed of the initials of “Long Island Good Hearted |Thesptan Society.” The spacious club quarters, a sented twice and a light- nse which are star bedrooms {with bay-swept breezes. In the lan- | futge of the stage the ht house is tical” and has an electric lamp latop. In the cellar of “The Lights" is the pig pen, where an effect of log eabins and cotton felds is ac Christian K 49 Avenue, | ITs| {st wee ad and in scheme jem appreciation was electe n honorary the wb. Only three others, € 1 an, George Levy and E Randall, share this honor with | The ‘presiding officer of lagnts" is “Angel” George Mck: J with arrillo and Harry V. Tilzer, Presidents and Norman Van Waring, Secreary, Star bed: aring brass plates of those i » Julian atin rey Will- jams, He Frank Tin- ley, Max rangis Dooley, Lew Kelly, Victor Moore and others equally famous, including Arthur Deagon, who has probably forgotten the days when he used to sing “IL att em like the same old smil that you used to give me long ag Fred Stone ia a. celebrated. member f the club. George W. Winslow and “Red” Maurice Billott do the man- | iging for the Thespians, who, like top-liner Jimmy Johnson, haunt the ‘ight house tower vainly looking for a “mystery ship’ to sip in Jones! {Ani | St Vincent Hall, a Catholic institu- that provides a summer bome |for orphans, is handy to the bay here | the children take healthy | | k C. Knowles 1s Commodorn South Yaeht Club and ank P, Alcorn, Secretary. A hun- d boats from the elub w club's annual cruise. FREEPORT’SGUN CLUB ANOTED INSTITUTION, now on the dent, Robert L. Christie, and four — The ort Gun Club, at trust the foot of South Main Street, on the August V. Johnson, another broth Freeport Meadows, hi the finest sky~ er, paymaster of the Long Ie'and ine in the United States for shoot-| Railroad, is Trustee of the Library. Judge Johnson is Master of Morton | Loi dge 63, F. and A. M, at Bamartend | seph P, Shay, Amos V. Pearsall and dangerous things,” ing purposes, so experts declare, Har old N. Walker, Albin N, Johnson, Jo- ( ~OLD_RAYNOR HOMSTEAD, FREEPORT, = COR YION {A few killing and effected the arrest. He 1s | Rete on 'StGON Nend Attor lnew in the Tombs awaiting trial. Pleading Not Gailty, ee Wiliam A. Skahill, the undertaker, of U.S. HAS 12,500,000 LBS, | xo. as West soth Street, who. ras jindicted by the Federal Grand Jury on EXPLOSIVES FOR FARMERS. |. cnange of presenting an alloged false laim to the Government for the burial | Advined, However, (0) April iast of the body of Arthur Cliff, it With Respect. a former soldi to-lay pleaded not WASHINGTON, Aus. 13 —The De-/ guilty, With the consent of Arsistant partment of Agriculture has 14,500,000 | United States District Attorney Mat unds of salvaged “comparatively | tuck, Skabill was released on a bond of war explosives to give to farmers | $1,500 land clearing | According to the indictment, Skabill, Farmers are advised “to treat i, with | who charged $100 for the burial, falled respect, for the, recondy are, filled’ with to anease the casket in an hermetically Storlea of men who forgot this precau-|sealed box, which the agreement w tion din handling dynamite and other the military hospital authorities called THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1021, JuoGge ALBIN N. JOHNSON VNU Lt, | | putting the finishing touches on the | “Sport Lovers’ Nook,” adjoizing the | fun club, where, “after the day with the whirling birds, after a day that's hot; oh, for a swim in the ‘cooling sea, and a meal that will touch the *pot’—all this according to Cecil H. Johnson, poet-laureate of Freeport. The “Nook” has been transformed by “Ruddy,” as Domschke is com- monly called, from an old fishing sta- tion and, is on the river at the foot of South Main Street. When all of “Ruddy's" ideas are carried out, the Nook Wii ve another one of those} quaint Long Island resorts good | Rudolph P. Domschke conceived the idea and with Lewis P. Stone, Joseph Hirsch and Frank P. Alcorn formed the nucleus from which the club has| sportsmen, their friends and epicur grown to a membership of 200, May|"in the know" will seek for fishing 15, 1921, an American flag, presented] parties, monnlight sails, swimming by Moses Bernstein, was raised over| off the dock and incomparable shor the new club building by Dorothy| dinners of fresh picked lobsters and Stone, the daughter of Fred Stone, a) fish. member, who ranks a8 a crack shot| Joseph P. Shay, formerly manager | with the pistol, of the famous old Metropole and Ho- Rudolph Domachke, Treasurer of|tel Marlborough in New York City, | the club, formerly an ice baron, is!acts in the same capacity at the Nook CAMORRA CHIEF, KILLED HERE, BURIED WITH HONORS IN ITALY : Shot Down Near Police Head- quarters—His Body Shipped to Naples. TANIMANY LEADER. HINES KICKS OVER The news from Naples of the burial there yesterday of Alberto with all the henors que to a chief Ozafeo of the Camorra is the closing chapter | MURPHY’ ; TICKET in a life which the police say was one | of the mo jaw les: a er f the most lawless led by a member | sonoma of the Italian banditti In this country. | Oaateo, or as he was better known|Names Talley, Who Was| here, Alberto Alteri, was killed a few 7 steps from Volice Headquarters in| ‘lurned Down for Judge of February last Despatches from Naples telis of the | bedy being received there and an im- mense funeral held for him, as one of the greatest chiefs of the Pelligrini gang. All the flowers in Naples purchased by his friends, in their de- sire to show their high regard for his General Sessions, James J. (‘Simmy") Hines, the \surgent Tammany leader of the 11th in- Assemb!y District, in Hurlem, is planning to put a county ticket in the and borough field to fight the Tam- memory. Alteri, according to the New York|Many ticket in the September pri- police, was the head of gang with|mary, The designation for District hedquarters in this city together to control vice and New England, r eight years| they levied tribute right and left. Im that time, it is said, Alter: nau a hand in six or eight murders and many kidnappings of young women He was arrested several times but never Was convicted, He lived at No. 347 East 3ist Street, but from time to time he stopped at the best hotels in this and other cities. When the Prohibition law went into effect the gang engaged in bootlegging ang it was decided that any interloper into their territory should be kiNed aS a warning to stay out. Protection was promised to their gunmen. Alteri cleaned up a half million and & year ago announced that he was through and was done with the gang. months later he was called upon to contribute a sum of money for some of the gang who had got into that banded | Attorney has been offered to Magis- in New York] trate Joseph Corrigan and for Judge of the Court of General Sessions to Judge Alfred Talley, who was denied # nomination by Tammany. Neither bad accepted this afternoon. | Hines wants to head the ticket as jorough President designate again Julius Miller, the Tammany choic Sven though he may be unable to pi up a complete ticket Hines may enter the primary alone. He thinks he can get more votes than Miller, Although Hines is the leader of the Bleventh District by virtue of selec- tion by the enrolled voters of the di trict, he is not recognized by Tan many Hall, Charles F. Murphy's favor is accorded to a rival Tammany, organization, of which John F, Galvin is the guiding Mgnt. The Evening World received the fol- lowing telegram to-day HORICON, N. ¥., Aug. 13 trouble and he refused to give any. Please publish an emphatic de- According to the police, lots then] nial of the statement in your pa- were drawn at a meeting of the gang in Providence, R. 1, and one of the per yesterday regarding my with- drawal as candidate fort Borough members was designated to come to] 4) o New York and kill Alter. The fellow | President of the Bronx, I am pre- came, but as Alteri had heard of the| paring for a vigorous campaign threat the appointed sin got cold feet. Then, the police assert, Antonio Mancini was chosen to kill Alteri. (Signed) JOSEPH M. LEVIN Mr. Levinue is the Coalition ‘epud- Mancini waited around a couple of {Han candidate, The report that be days for a good chance to “bump off | had notified County Chairman Law- his former chief and not getting al]rence of his intention to withdraw good opportunity waited for him! came from a source that wkas con- almost in the shadow of police head. | sidered reliable. s. Alteri came along between one o'clock while the street since. < Jplete | as tilled. Macini the — pol seestea tut ad led aiken tise | UNDERTAKER INDICTED stepped out 1 IN SOLDIER BURIAL HELD. Two clerks from police headquar- ters and a patrolman | witnessed the | | Shipping MORE EXEMPTION FOR MARRIED MEN INNEW TAX BILL | at Given $500 Mow Than Present, Making Total Deduction $2,500, FURS AND CAND@L OWER Leader Mondell Expects Bill to Pass House Not Later Than Aug. 23, WASHINGTON, Augi 18 — The Ways and Means Comm} of the House will put the finishing touches on the new tax bill to-day ang it is, Jexpeated that, Jt will be PPagted | Monday at the latest, When com- pleted the measure will show a cut of nearly $600,060,000 in the amount | cf the levies. Representative Mondell, the Repubs that ¢ bill : the House not later than ean leader, believes e will pa: Aug ts present tentative form. Among the important changes made at last night's meeting of the com- mittee was the raising of ihe exemp- tion on incomes of married persons from $2,000 to $2,500 a year, the change to be effective Jan, 1, 1921. This retroactive amendment will apply only to salaries under $5,090, No change was made in the vx- mption for singla persons, which is now $1,000. Representative Longworth (Rep, was the author of the amendment Under an amendment previously a nounced a deduction may be made $490 for each child. This was a: oO of in- crease from $200 under existing law. Where there is one child in the tam- the total sajar will be $2 before tax is paid 900 if these changes become effective. The enlarged exemptions will cause a total loss of $60,000,000 in revenue. The committee out 4180 struck | section 904 of the bill which places a 110 per cent. tax on many commodities and discussed placing on the articles affected a manufacturers’ tax of 3 per cent. The change would eliminate ths plan of existing law under which the retailer adds the tax the articles changed are: 3 of $5 and caps in ex- Among Hats fn ce&s of $2; jeach; shirts in excess of $3 each; un- | derwear in excess of $5. The proposed substitute would ap- ply on the value above amounts to ye fixed. The number of articles wilt probably be enlarged. ‘The taxes would yield $10,000,000 Instead of 320, 000,000 as now. ‘Tobacco and cigar taxes remain the same under the committee's decision The tax of 10 per cent. on furs was reduced to 5 per cent. and on candies from 5 to 8 per cent, The tax on ar: was reduced from 10 to 5 per cent. — U.S. MAIL SS. LINE INSOLVENT; NAME RECEIVER MONDAY From First Page.) (Continued four hours, it was learned to-day, consisted of four clerks in the office of ©. D, Mallory & Co, and the President, who came in and out with them, was Frank also of-that firm. All five had been put in control of the United States Mail Company's affairs upon recommendation of Malcolm D, Chace and Alexander Smith, representatives of the security holders of the Swiftsure Of! Trans- Bynum, port Company, which is operating through Mallory & Co, It was sad to-day that Chace, Smith and oth- ers’ affiliated with them had Daan | completely out of the Mail Company’: affairs. On top of these developments the | two De Lancey Nicolls, father and son, who were asked yesterday morn- ing to withdraw as counse} company because they refused obey the order of the new directorate to the Shipping Board, received a request from the restored to to surrender original directorate to fight the Ship- | ping Board to the finish and to dis- rysard all instructions of the other faction, A peculiar complication ts due to the application to be heard to-day by Judge Manton why should aot be entered forthwith yacating the injunction and turning Rourd the n order over to the nine vessels in controversy. As this application is based upon a petition signed by Bynum just before his abdication President to whom the papers are directed will contend the application has no stan: ing before the court. Counsel to the Shipping Board declared last night as rounsel or Bynum’s abdication does not affect the proceeding In the slightest. neckwear in ‘excess of $2! went) , to the | G Are You Ready for the Week-End Motor-Run? | 28 and with few changes from | While Last They Official Auto Trails Maps Suppose you observed this symbol mile after mile, on post and tele- |graph-pole. Would you know what it meant, where it began, the towns passed through, where it ended? It might take you far afiel Id—or it might be the most direct, most picturesque route to the very locality you most desired to reach. Touring organizations have sent their scouts over the best roads in all Motordom to lay out these routes for the touring motorist. 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