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} AL GINY’S TRANSIT LINES an TT hte _THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1921, TO BEIN THREE BlG GROUPS — DIRECTED BY BOARD OF 7 Mayor Will Appoint to This Opera- ting Commission Three Members— Lines to Be Taken Out of Influence of Stock Manipulation—New Sub- way Systems to Be Rushed. Municipal ownership of all transit lines in the Greater City without financial outlay. A five-<cent fare and restoration of all transfers guaranteed for one year. Operation by a Board of Control ot seven members, three to be chosen by boards of directors of three transportation groups or com- binations to be taken over by the city of New York, three by the Mayor and the seventh by votes of the other si Participation of the public in the fixing of a rate of tare after the first year through the Mayor's appoisitees on the Board of Control. A profit sharing system for employees. The expenditure of a quarter of a villion dollars iu tive years on new Subways at the rate of $50,000,000 a year. Removi forever of the securities and shares of the city owned and “operated transit companies from possibilities of stock mazket manipu- lation, These are the chief features provided for in the comprehensive and constructive plan formulated by the City Transit Commission and made public oday. Unie: the law the commission has the power to put the plan into effect after a ninety-day interval whether the City Government fndorses it or not, Opposition is expected both from the traction companies and from city officials of the present administration, It means the squeezing out of water in the traction stocks and the end of leasos at exorbitant rates. THe Hylan administration, professing to see a plan to boost fares, and resent- img State interference in the local transit situation, has been prepared to fight any suggestion of the commission at any time. But only the Legislature can block the commission, aud that only through repeal or drastic amendment of the law creating it. Nothing of this kind is looked for. ‘The city, the law provides, may suggest corrections or changes over a minety-day period, but if it fails in that time to accept the plans of the commission, that body may put them into effect for the city. Through foreclosure sales of the traction companies and the proffer of increased values for bonds, the commission plans to force the companies into line. George McAneny, Chairman of the commission; Le Roy T. Harkness, ‘who drew up the dual subway contracts, and Major Gen. John F. O’Ryan, @ommander of the New York National Guard, as the three members of the ommission, are those to whom the credit for the report must go. Asso- elated closely with them in the work were Clarence J. Shearn, special @ounsel of the commission, and Travis H. Whitney, traction expert, who has acted in an advisory capacity to the commission members. Gov. Miller, who was in this city last night, praised the commission ‘and its work and gave to it full credit for the report, asserting he had “merely started the ball rolling.” ‘The report 1s the first truly scien tific analysis of present traction con- @itions in New York City and what @an and will be done to cure them that has ever been promulgated, it is the result of six months of study and hard work on the part of the @ommission itself and its several hundred employees. Under the Transit Law, when the plan announced has been formulated into fina] agreements and the consent Of the companies has been obtained, | ine city for a single fare. the Board of Estimate is asked (0| Perhaps the most vital and inter- Pass upon them, It Is entitled to a) esting point in the commission's plan thirty-day period in which it may |'# that winch provides: a baroine: ehanges. At the end of that time it) inined. For the first year a 6 cent Must return the agreements to the | ‘are ie eubren eed i 4h mission must return the agreements operating expenses. pay interest on to the board, whether or not they| the bonds outstanding held by the have been changed. The board then Buplie and the ay ens ane surplus Bas another thirty-day period to ao-| "Hie'tne available surplus keeps this cept or suggest alterations. After a! und above a specified maximum the third thirty-day period, if the bourd| fare is to be automatically lowered; has failed to accept for the city, tae| it ss fund falls below 8 apsciged um the fare is to be automatl- Transit Commission may put the) Cally increased until the reserve. Is pemenects into effect, acting for the| restored," the plan states, Half of the eity in the transaction. surplus over the figure set for the “If the city authorities shall oppose parometer. cporkune aeeeeey divided immediate municipal ownership of the) “"At'the present time, the commission trangit system,” the commission's re-| finds, increased fares have not been port states,” with its present oppor- | avolded “They have been seoured through maruy. 22 reform completely the ex- indirection the report explains. ich isting situation, the commission 18] creased taxation through fallure to Prepared to consider the alternative) pay off the Interest and course of vesting title to all proper- ties not now owned by the city, includ- ing the subway leaser, the the consoli- @ated company with provision for de- ferred ownership by the city.” The attitude of the companies toward the plan does not worry the commission, Although it expects opposition, it feels that it holds the whip sand. ‘The stockholders it plans to force out, eliminating in the process more @losure sales by the bondholders, | Ip the case of companies still sol- vent but operating under diMculties, the threat of recoivership witb the consequent wiping oul cf the stock, | and the proposal in case of acceptance | F@POrt, see page 28.) of the plan that new securities be js- ——— sucd covering the vrlue of the roads | SHIPPING BOARD DENIES but including a percentage of the stockholders as well a» oute and bond holders, is expected to be sufficient to force them into Iino 1p the case of | mosolutely solvent companics, it . pected they will cout> in. in view of the fact that the squees- fog out of the stockuoiders wiii ma- Qerially increase :6 value of the |e Gr bonds and notes outstanding, it Is no; | annou Not only does the board refuse to re enth to act as Chairman to be select- d by the six other members, will nave direst financial control of the new unified system of traction lines, The Boarad of Control will alsu be- some the directorate of the holding ompany of the unified aystem. ‘The institution of free transfer points, with the scrapping of useless surface lines and the institution of new bus and rapid transit lines, nned by the commission. the reorganization planned a car- rider may travel the full length of investment has added 1 cent to the fare, it states, while the actual charge per person for travel, counting trans- fer passengers, has increased in Brooklyn since 1918 over 1 cent, and in Manhattan and the Bronx seven- tenths of a cent. New York City, in brief, more for carfare than {t was in 19 ‘The commission, in its report, place: the blame for conditions squarely upon the roads, small degree to {nefdenta of their own selfish and often unsavory history,” solution to the problem. Downward i Tonnage Prices an WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Refusal the United States Shipping Board to ex tend any further Mnancial concessions t n Star Line of New York wa. d to-day Re e —— in| Under | ainking fund charges on the city’s $240,000,000 paying $9,000,000 annually “attributable In no |and upon the Board of Estimate for its refusel to co-operate in finding a (For full text of transit GREEN STAR LINE AID. If the plan is sucee: means to you: Transit Commission's ful, this is what For a first trial year at least you will continue to pay 5 cents for each ride. ‘he 2-cont transfers and addi- ional fare points within the city wili be wiped out, enabling you to ride the length of the city over a single unified system for a nickel. If you live in the Bronx where formerly you paid an additional transfer charge of three cents and now pay two full five-cent fares to go from the elevated or subway trains at 180th Street to either cast or west bound trolleys, or to the Bronx-Van Cortlandt Park trolley, or to the Fordham Road line, you will in the future be able to make the same trip on one five-cent fare, This is cheaper than It was even In pre-war days. | If you live in the outskirts of Brooklyn and are now paying from 7 to 20 cents to reach your home or place of business you will in the future take tie same ride for 6 nts. O06 BITES TWO INNIGHT AND FIVE, MORE NMORNNG Big Animal in Harness Runs Wild in Jersey City Till Shot Down. A dog, frothing at the mouth and supposedly mad, ran wild this fore- the neighborhood of Grand noon In and Washington Streets, Jersey City, | tne banking section of the community, | and before it was killed had severely | bitten four persons, one of them the | policeman who eventually shot it. The dog, a big black animal, wear- | ing dog harness, had bitten two per- last night and another this| inorning before starting on its ram- page, making seven victims in al The first person th. dog attacked was Michael Carder. sixteen, of No. 252 Seventh Street. Corden attempted to strike the dog with a stick but the animal dodgod and bit him in the left sons | WHAT NEW TRANSIT PLAN, CARRIED OUT, MEANS TO YOU ‘The plan includes prov ‘ons for a reserve or fund based on earnings, When this fund goes above a fixed lexel fares will come down. If it sinks below the fixed level fares will be increased until the fund again reaches normal proportions, The plan provides for a division of profits with employees in the operating personnel and also for insurance and pension features. In every vital decision in regard to traction mat you will have @ voice for tho first time in the history of the city, as the city will be the ultimate owners of the great transit system aad will have equal Pr presentation on the supervisory Board of Control with the operat- ing companies, Instead of betng operated for Profits for certain classes of securl- ty holders, the enti.e operation will be centred in cheap and efficient service. New lines, new cars, and the substitution of buses for the an- tiquated surtace cas ines will give you speedier, p! nter and less crowded transportation, EACH COMMUNITY IS ASKED 10 HELP ITS OWN JOBLESS (Continued From First Page.) number of workers plant, used by each Operation of factories and mills in the making of stock where possible, Continuation of repalr and similar work on a normal scale, Doing of repair and alteration work by office building, hotel and home owners during the coming winter in- stead of in the spring as usual, Expansion of street, sewage, repair and building work by municipalities to the maximum volume. Establishment of part time work by municipalities, Co-operation by State offictals with local leaders in the unemployment re- lief movement through the hasten- ing of State road building and simi- lar construction. Construction immediately by the Federal Government of buildings and other works for which appropriations are available, log. Then it dashed across the street and flung itself upon Mrs. Mary O'Reilly, siyty-six, who lives at St. Mary's Home, and bit her jn the left fore- arm, Sister Mary Frances, a nun walking with Mrs. O'Reilly, tried to eat the animal off but It turned upon her and leaping up fastened its teeth first In her upper lip and then in the lett side of her fave, Traffic Patrolman Gannon, on duty a short distance away, heard the screams of the two women and ran the tescue. He struck at the dog | but It leaped aside and then attacked nim, springing high im the air and | side of the face. nog several times with his club and | knocked it to the sidewalk, ‘Then he put taree bullets into tts head An ambulance surgeon from the City Hospital cauterized the wounds of the four victims and the dog's head was sent to the S. P. C. A. for examination for rabies. | Charles J. Hoerter of No. 167 Pear- sall Avenue, while returning home last night about 11 o'clock, was bit- ten on the right arm, Raymond Ding- ley, fourteen years old, of No. 307 Ocean Avenue, while playing near his home a short time before, wis bitten on the left arm, Both were attended at the City Hospital. | William Brashing, thirty-three years! old, of No. 882 Forrest Street, was attacked this morning by the animal, | which bit him on the left arm. Brash- ing also went to the City Hospital. | The police are endeavoring to learn! if others were attacked, The animal belonged to Mrs, Mary Stewart, of, No. 191 Ocean Avenue, Jersey City ———<—___—_ ANTI-BEER MEN WITHDRAW OPPOSITION TO TREATIES. Date for Ratification Vote Likety to Be Fixed To-Day, WASHINGTON, Sept. $9—Advyocates of antlemedical beer legislation to-day temporarily blocked the programm. of senate leaders for « final vote Oct, 14 n ratification of the German, Austrian Jand Hungarian peace treaties, but later | withdrew their obje on both sides #aid the ably would be Fr Frank Fay, & vaudeville actor of Ni LS Weat 48th Street, Mled a vou) petition in bankruptey to-day. He pl ris Mubillies at $19,700 and t creditors Lrances es White, who have a y nst hin for $2,956, ob- ; Louis F. Bach! $116 Parker, } Gladys Bush ‘o $1,000, John” Marky’, | $4,000. | a _|Liwhintag Deestroys biting him in the upper lip and right Made in a stat Gannon struck the Cummitte Action by Congress at the present session on road construction legisla- tion, Enactment by Congress of the pend- ing Railway Funding Bill with ex penditures of funds conditioned on an increase in employment. The full conference will receive the | Steering Committee's recommendations at a sexsion to be held late in the day. Some changes ii the recommen- dations, It was said, might be made prior to the meeting of the full con- ference. Declaration that the farmers of the ation, if permitted and aided, could help in relieving unemployment ts t to the Conference on Statisties by W. L. Bur- North dick of Dakota, representing the American Farm Bareau Federa- tion, who is a member of the conter- thee, The statement pointed out that if the buying power of the Nation's farmers were increasel, manufactur- ing and all other lines of trade would be benefited, and as a means of in- creasing the buying power recummendations wer: made as fol- tows: Reduction of freight rates; develop- ment of deep water ways connecting the Great Lakes farmurs’ with the ocean, elimination of middlemen between the farmer and consumer; financing of crop movements and permission for the farmers to sell in a “pro- tected” market if compelled to buy tn a protected market Sainte JAMAICA ENTRIES. JAMAICA RACE TRACK \ Sept. $0.—The entries for to-morrow's races are as follows FIRST RACE—Conditions: twoyearo'da: five oda alt firloniy lore" hi wt Modesty ibe Tenes andlor My" Tay hime! Liab Telan fig 202 Wisck Hancai a 8) Leghorn SECOND RAt ler Ww Insh THIRD pwisnd Trea RAC ‘oie. tlle ie | 8 tnd ‘GOVERNOR DOES NOT BATTLE IN “L” CAR ENDS IN CAPTURE _—OFPICKPOCKET Shrieking Whistle Brings Rein- forcements to Detective Fighting Thief. | | ! | | i Bernard Friedman of No. 174 Moore Street, Brooklyn, was swinging to a strap in a Third Avenue elevated train at noon to-day. Detective Mor- rissey, who just measures enough to be a detective, was taking the weight off his feet in the same manner. At | Houston Street he saw two men jostle Friedman and take a pocketbook from his hip. .Morrissey grabbed one and, tNe other escaped. ‘The pocketbook went to the fir The fellow Morrissey grabbed was in the six-foot class, They fought all over the car, while the prisoner kept trying to reach Mo 8 face, tell- ing him as they struggled that his ambition in life was to mar the de- tective's features, Meanwhile the emergency cord had pulled, and the motorman was letting off blasts from the whistle that could be heard for blocks. Policemen were running from’ places a quarter of a mile distant. When the motor- man saw a policeman on the Grand Street Station he moved his train in, There was a reception committee for the pickpocket and all of them wore bigger than Morrissey, who still had his features intact, At Headquarters the prisoner proved to be Joe Ronsky, twenty-nine, of No. 83 Geand Stre who, according to police records, ha! been arrested nineteen times.’ He was released yesterday from the Island, where he had been since July He will be arraigned in the Tombs ‘ourt this afternoon. Texas Marshal WithGun GetsHis Man on B’way A,man wearing a broad brimmed ‘slouch hat and brandishing a big re- volver dashed across 33d Street at Broadway at noon to-day, grabbed snother man by the collar of his coat, jammed the muzzle of the revolver vinst his abdomen and ordered him to throw up his hands. “If I'd a had this gun up at the ball park you wouldn't have got my shouted the slouch hatted risse been money, person. | Under the impression that they | were witnessing a hold-up, bystand- ers hurriedly retired, calling for the police, and Detective William Quinn of the Tenderloin Station arrived to investigate. The man with the gun proved to be William Reeves, United States Marshal of Dallas, Tex., and he demanded the arrest of the other man who said he was Joe Hendricks | of Brooklyn. Reeves said he attended the game at the Polo Grounds | lay accidentally displ which Hendricks alongside him abbed and away With, He met Hendricks on street to-day and made his own| st Police Headquart rec hat Hendricks has been ed several times, SUL JUDGE GIVES $5 TO YOUTH WHO STOLE TO GET FOOD. | Mart wht) James Ryan, nineteen, of No. 53 South Fighth Street, Brooklyn, was arraigned te-day before County stage Martin in | Brooklyn on a charge of tr jinto a grocery sto: ing to break |} “I was hungry and had no money jand no work," he told the court. “IL did not want to do wrong, but 1 wanted |to get arrested so I could get something \t» eat. Judge fered pended sed and of- on a sus-| Martin was tmpr to free the pris sentence, hat means getting hungry again,” | said 1 “How can 1 get’a bite to eat, Your Honor, when 1 am broke and] have no Job | “With this," repl court. He handed the prisoner a $5 bill, and sus- pended sentence, ——_—=>_—— |Naval Tog Ashore on Fisher's land. | 'y | 2 | naval tug Bagadu onn., Sept, 30.—Tae , bound from Ports- | mouth, N. H., to the “submarine base. this city, ran ashore on Booth's Hum- mock, east snore of Fisher's Island, eight miles from here In a dense fog late yesterday, Twenty-four members of the crew were taken off in surf boats by members of the Fisher's Island Coast Guard Life Saving Corps. Several naval craft were sent to her Assistance SEEK SECOND TERM mination the Last Thing | Should Look For,” He Declares. ALBANY, N.Y. Sept. 30.—Gov. Nathan L. Miller is not a candidate} for Republican Gubernatorial | nominatio& next year, he declared to-day shal! certainly not look for renomination,” he said, “That is ast thing I should look for. handling the am too busy now Jpolicy of the Q | ment CHARGES OF FRAUD NBS MADE FOR POLE SUPPLES (Continued From First Pare.) ules showing that on Jan, 1, 1914, when Lieut. Enright was head of the Bureau of Repairs and Supplies em- | ployed thirty-two men at a cost of $50,500 a year, Mr. McDermott es- t'mates that with normal increases of salary between 1914 and 1918 this force would have cost $54,500, Under the Hylan Administration the name of the bureau was changed tu the Quartermaster and Supply De- partment and {ts cost began going up. June i3, 1919, it had risen to $62,380 for thirty-eight employee: Jan, 1, 1920 it was $66,160 for thirty- six emr ees; June 30, 1920, it was $83,199 for forty-four employees; Jan. 1, 1921, {t was $85,988 for thirty- seven employees, including a Cap- tain, two Lieutenants, one Sergeant, twenty-one patrolmen and twelve civilians. Senator Downing Interrupted to ask the witness if there had not been a large increase in the salaries of the uniformed force made mandatory by law during that year (1920) and the witness replied that there had been, from Commissioner Enright to Mayor Hylan on March 27, 1918 was read, It extended to the Mayor the hope that (based on economies the Commissioner said were “already effective’) a reduction of $500,000 might be made in the police expendi- ture for 1918 and a big decrease in the budget estimate for 1919, Mr. Wallstein showed the cost of the Police Department actually in- creased $301,947 in 1918 and the budget for 1919 increased $1,300,000. A letter from Secretary Sinnott of the Mayor's office to Commissioner Enright was read announcing that supplies for the Police Department were to be bought by the City Board of Purchase, and directing that a list of police quartermaster employee concerned with supply purchase be furnished for transfer to the Board of Purchase on Jan. 1, 1921, @ How many persons were trans- ferred to the Board of Purchase from the police quartermaster? asked Mr. Wallstein. A. One bookkeeper. Capt. Willam T, Davis, promoted from Lieutenant and Treasurer of the Livutenants’ Benevolent Association (of which Lieut. Enright was Presi- dent), became successor of Mr. Me- Dermott as soon as Lieut. Enright became Commissioner. Mr. Davis be- came an Inspector and Capt. Charles A. Zane became head of the quarter- master department. ENRIGHT PUT ON COPS, CIVILIANS, NOT The Mitchel Administration ar- ranged for nine automobile civilian machinists and seventeen civilian clerks to take charge of quartermas- ter transport. Mr. McDermott testl- fied the Enright Administration did not make these appointments but put men from the uniformed force on the jobs. M Wallstein then went into the urtermaster Depart in making purchases by what he called illegal methods. In prepara- tion for the police parade of 1918 forty-one flags and a number of flag rying belts and sockets were bought, Under the law if the amount ox- ceeded $1,000 the pure’ must have been made by competitive public bid- ding. The requisition was split into two parts. Bids were asked by tele- phone. No records of c successful bid were Dermott said, : As a result the Eagle Regalia Com- pany got the business on one order for flags and another for $453.75 for belts and flags together. Mr. McDermott characterized this as a plain evasion of the law. The records showed also that no depu commissioner formally approved hase orders until two weeks after goods were delivered. her than the mule, Mr. Me cident of the letting of the contract for th in 1919 and 1 He prefaced it by saying that under the Enright ad- ministration a great deal of printing additional to that done in the Depart- ment planc went to the firm of Oberly & Newell. The story briefly was that in Feb- ruary, 1919, bids were asked on print- $13,000 copies of police regula- Company, $990, and Warren Press $1,150 Mr, MaDermott called attention to Mr, McDermott then recited the in- | » printing of Police Regulations | had been unable to do their work for! the amount of the bid the order be cancelled, FIRM BIDS AGAIN AT HIGHER PRICE. New bids were asked for and opened. Dec, 24, 1919, Oberly & Newell bid $926.70; Burland Printing] Company, $ Atlas Statlonens| GERMANY RATIFIES THE PEACE TREATY ‘WMT THS COUNTY U. 8, Senate Action Only Pro- » cess Necessary to Com- plete Agreement. BERLIN, Sept. 30.— (Associated Press)—The Reichstag to-day passed the bill ratifying the Peace Treaty with the United States. Only the Communists voted against the meas- ure. ‘The Reichstag devoted less than ten minutes to the ratification formal- ities, as all the parties except the Communists agreed to dispenso with debate on the floor of the House. The bill approving the treaty was accepted in all three readings by an overwhelming majority, the Na- tionalists also voting for its accopt- ance when Herr Loebe, President of the Reichstag, called for a rising yote. The passing by the German Reichs- tag to-day of the bill ratifying the Treaty of Peace with the United States completes the legislative pro- cess necessary to ratification on the part of Germany, The Reichsrat, or upper chamber of the German Parli. ment, ratified the treaty on Sept. 17. The treaty is at present before the United States Senate for debate. with an effort In the making to ex pedite ratification through an agree- ment to take a yote on Oct. 14 or 15, ages WANDERER SINGS AS HEIS HANGED Murderer Walks to Scaffold With Firm Step and Pays Penalty of His Crime. CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Singing a popular song, Carl Wanderer, con- victed of the murder of his wife, her unborn babe and a “ragged stranger” whom he hired to stage a fake hold- up, was hanged at the Cook County | Jai] at 7:19 o'clock this morning, Wanderer walked to with firm step and as h place on the seaffold rer prayer after a minister, Asked if he had anything to say, he replied in the affirmative, and as a shroud was adjusted on his head started ‘o sing, “Oh, Pal, Why Don't You Answer Me?” He was singing when the trap dropped. a FREAK SUN SHOWER DROPS TEMPERATURE 10 DEGREES. Vifty-Kive Mile Wind Brings Re- Mef on Hotteat Sept. 30. Something new in the freak weather line was served to New York this after- noon when in the midst of bright sun- shine halt a skyful of raln was dashed in the City’s face. Sun showers ha ated a short been seen before, but seldom if so bright and splashy as this, It was all over in a few minutes, the Weather Bureau sald the preeipl- tation was not more than two-tenths of i But it came on a nile wind ond jt brought a delightful drop in tempcerature—about ten di Incidentally, until the the mereury was stand equals the high record for an Cooler weather is promise morrow. Afr storm in Newark this after- noon lasted for about five minutes htning struck a corner of the Proc- tor's. Theater, Market Street, near Broad Street, and knocked down pole; in various parts of the Cit was the was no rain and the sun the shining when lightning hit theater of Oberly & Newell was accepted again. They did the work. | Mr, Wallstein then put on the stand Morris Salzberg of the Warren Press, He swore his company had not the facilities for doing the work called for in the proposals on whicl | its bid had been submitted. He said the bid was put in by David Cassidy j of the Warre Press, a broth of ‘Joseph P. Cassidy of Oberly & Newell. ‘Then Samuel Rabinowitz and Sam- uel Weinstein of the Burland Print- ing Company swore they had not au- thorized thelr bid on this work, Mi Weinstein said his name had been |torged to that bid and to other bids. | Out of ten or fifteen other Police Do: partment bids shown to him purport ling to be signed by him Mr, Wein- |stein said he was able to find only ‘one to which his name had not been ue forged. Both men said they had no tions, facilities for doing the work on which re ceived a they were represented as ng. Bids w recelved ue follows: | they wore represented fe MIG ng Overly & Newell, $898.60; Climax] ,PRIP, Nath Cor company pro- Stationery Company, $462.80; Eugene | tyced this afternoon before the Meyer ©. Lewis tinformal), $1,040; Clarence | Committee records sbowing the fol- + vag | lowing transactlo: Barney: 00, The work was | Othe purchase of a car made March awarded to Oberly ewell. 018 by Dr. J, A. Hurriss, at a cos ded ly & Newell 4, 1b ey t On Oct, 30, 1919, Capt. Davis recom: | «f $4,622. The car was ordered to bear mended to Deputy Commissioner| the Initials “R. E. F ; at Poocatae Oberle oF lice Commissioner Enright has Wallis that because Oberly & Newell LAT Shas wuecia’ Deputy Come foner Harris, who was appointed 15, gave him a car “for his use commissioner ‘ purchase of a car by the york Police Department, costing $4,248.20, with the initials “J. FH.” | ‘The purchase of a used car by “the Mayor's office, by J. J. Glennon, Chief Clerk,” at a cost of $6,500. Mr. Wallstein asked Mr. Mann if this last purchase did not refer to a limousine which was mistakenly charged to "the Mayor's office.” He ‘sald It was. The car was paid for Mr. Wallstein remarked that he un- the gallows | took his | net cmemeO i PRESIDENT ASKS NATION TO PAUSE FOR PRAYER NOV. 11 Calls Upon Country to Pray Silently for Two \Minutes as Tribute to Soldier Dead. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. President Harding in a procla- mation issued to-day called upon the entire nation to pause in, si- lent prayer for two minutes on Armistice Day, Nov. 11. Cessation of all business and other activities from 12 o'clock noon until two minutes thereafter was asked In this manner, Mr. Harding said, the entire nation can pay tribute to the unknown American soldier dead, Coremonies attendant upon the burial of the unknown soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery here and the opening of the arma- ment parley, which hopes to make future wars unlikely, will occur at that time. CHECK PUTS POLO PLAYER IN CELL. Importer Arrested at Practice on Charges of Gedney Farms Stable. Maxim Kerminski, an exporter and importer with offices in Manhattan, and said to be a member of the Ged- ney Farms polo team, was arrested last night on a warrant charging | him with giving a $978 worthless | check to William McMath, proprietor of the Gedney Farms Riding Stable. Kerminski placed his horses som} time ago in McMath’s stable, The: was a bill of $978 due for board, Me- Math refused to release the horses despite the plea of Kerminski that they were needed for the West Point- dney Farms game on $ 4 of the game, according to Math, Kerminsky yave him a ci for the full amount. The check returned marked “insufficient funds.’ Police Inspector Shay w y Farms to make the arrest, found Kerminsky a practice ame. The player led to be al- nved to continue ed until the m i |COURT TO INVESTIGATE ORPHAN HOME PARTIES. Magistrate Geism: wait- in the Gates Ave- nue Court, Brooklyn, to-day undertook to find out whether the Baltes Orphan Home, Inc,, No, 133 Herkimer Street, 1 a nuisance or On the complaint of residents of the neighborhood, who iwake at the H ummons they nightly | trate kept noise of mag wert by the me, the or’ the of the ation ind set the ease f Oct. WW. This date w ted because Magistrate Geismar will be again in the Court at that time, —ang, var this case myself,” he The home was established for Russian | orpha t has no inmates Plans are orphanag | parties hav i= Zaz ot to make it an for all child and the beon held to raise money, s p The | all-Ceylon Tea NEY Ceylon juces tea sod’ enough for WhiteRose. ite Rose is the 100% Ceylon tea. —— YCLE ce uaen Podi.tar, © Steinfeld ros. WOW. 32d St. NewYork relics to Snstitute forcateeune vaniea | vise downward the tonnage prices on| DAYTON, Ohio. Sept. 30—The baby on N2 NGea) Ngo, Nf, Gutles of the office to think Of AM¥-/ene fact that bidders earlier in the gerstood the third car, the limousine, s then accept the commission's) the nine shipe purchased by the com-|bilmp bullt at Akron and brought p a) ania Yen he concluded, year Were not invited into the second was ordered by Mr. Hylan personally ENN’ POUND PROFIT Rervion of ite indebtedness of ‘s13,vuesoo| McCook Ficld here for experimental close to the Governor it] bidding except Oberly & Newell and had been charged to the Police Under the plan of the commission a | oe te eat dian refuses ta ‘cx, |DUrposes, was completely destroyed by | Wither rminita: thok mune Pons was learned to-day that ‘the Gov-| The bids were again cancelled be- Department by mistake. The motor ot Control, to be gonstituted of | tend financial ald to the extent of $40, bers by the | 000. or $60,000, which, according tot the three by the companies, one jals of ‘the board, the company asked f group. and a ecv- for to relieve its immediate needs, ‘Trade Mark. dvt. on Page.21 cause no 1919 funds were left avail- numbers of all three cars were dif- able for the work. But the same ferent. The purpose of introducing bids were used in a renewal of the the evidence would be revealed later, requisition Jan, 2, 1920, md the bid counsel said. an explosion caused by lightning arty | po to-day, ‘The hangar also was destroyed. n The airship was 95 feet long and Was |wnen tye nee OOP aE driven by two 800 horsepower motors, | Medicine. Pure fooy.—advt. wor had declared that on Dec. 81 he will be glad to step out of offiee and return to his law practice, anew regio