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

‘ ] . A ‘ ( ] J J }) | | , i : j KEEP RELATIVES IN HIGHLY PAID POSTS Fa ee { City Counsel Declares Many in Big Positions Know Lit tle of Business, | CUT ONLY IN QUALITY | Cheaper Standard Adopted, | Then Price Boosted—Two More C; es on To-Day. Charges that sons and other close relatives of directors and officers of the Confolidated Gas fecupying high salaried positions with the Consolidated and subsidiary Company are com- panies, although they know nothing | about the inanufacture and distribu- tion of gas, were made by Assistant Corporation Counsel Morrissey Public Voorhis to-day application of Flectric Company rate from $1.50 to $1.70 per thousand | feet. | The first witness called was Coltn} €. Simpson jr. general superinten- | dent of mains and service of the Con- | wolidated Gas Company, which owns | the Bronx institution. Mr. Morrissey om cross-examination brought out} that Mr. Simpson, who claimed to be an expert on costs, never personally bought suffplies or employed labor and certified to figures prepared by others. Mr. Morrissey stated that Robert A. Carter jr. son of the Secretary of the ated Gas Company, who was scheduled to tes- | tify as an expert, has no practical| knowledge of the gas business, al- | though he is a high salaried officer of | the Consolidated The hearing proceeded Commi hearing on the rons Gas and to increase its gas rvice joner Van in a the also | Consoiid under diffi- culties because Mr. Morrissey has been refused access to records and the company’s plant for investiga- tion for cross-examination purpos Commissioner Van Voorhis ruled that the hearing should go on and that the Commission would order records pro- duced when Mr. Morrissey specified} what he wanted. | Hearing on the application of the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company for permission to increase rates was ad- journed to Nov. 2 by Chairman Pren- dergust to allow tht company to ex- amine an affidavit and exhibits sub- mitted by Archibald Little, the city gas expert, setting forth that a rate) Bete wiNcnilew ihe cormieg- ust Mrs, Francois Le Vapresco, whe/tion, then I'l) be around working, Charge and Mother’s Con- saat . any |savs she is the oldest woman on|hard and enjoying life for many! fas envaayend tes profits. ‘The company is now charg-| years to come dition Is Critical. ing private consumers $1.83, but hag| Staten Isiand, celebrated her bun-}*") "5 0 Om | “ : “L ike the movies very much and! ~ ae not advanced its rate for gas con-|dredth birthday to-day in Grant Clty,! take a trip to Manhattan at least! sumed by the city for street lighting} Staten ‘Island, by doing family | once a month just to take in a couple! purpose At the conclusion yesterday eve-| washing, partaking of a glass or tw>|}of movie shows. They are a graat| ning of a hearing on the rates of the] o¢ wine, praising hard work and reg-| education.” /chstaira after she) had) charged bim, Kings County Lighting Company, ; aoe day | The aged woman bas been twice with the theft of 8500 worth of bonds, Samuel I, Moran, counsel for the] ular hours, lambasting present-daY| \ 5964 she has one daughter and| Horace Gregory, sixteen years old, of any, called Mr, Little, the city’s AYS GAS C0. HEADS 0 THE EVEN ING WORLD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 wn That Grew From Hula-Hula Dream; Made ot Silk, but Gives Feather Effect Alise of Paris dreamed a dream of Honolulu and the Hula-Hula costume, charming gowns of white silk, setting the autumn | In one, trimmed with bunched strands of floss silk over skirt is made of heavy floss, gathered into a mode. bodice a) Gown so there are novel and | FROM PARIS SHOWING HAWAIIAN INFLOENCE dozen half loops by vertical braiding. the strands fs carried to the hem—if hem it can be | called—forming a petal effect. e of tricot or silk jersey is The shoulders nating Roos The dip of A long cape of the silk strands depends from the The entire effect is unique and fasci- " WOMAN OF 100 CELEBRATES SAY YOUTH THREW. BIRTHDAY BY DOING WASHING; SPRY AS EVER, AND TELLS way “HS MOTHER DOWN 1 STARFUEATS “Granny” Le Vapresco Partakes of Good Wine and Says “It Never Hurt Anyone’—Con- | - demns Present Styles upon gas engineer, as a witness. He at- tempted to show that Mr, Little, in| trine a court proceed affecting the Con-| ,. solidated Gas Company, had un-| The aged qualifiedly indorsed the British ther-4 onipper nal unit system of measuring gas , A Air. Ldttle, in maintaining that looked) ou oran was not correctly quo vidence, said: “T distinctly stated that I favored of her littie farm off Railroad Ave- ° the B. T, U. only if, when the changs| ° ae F f Was made, Um consumer would bo |BWe, just hits done almos umsetf a frome protected by a corresponding change |every morning for years, and turned in price. To which the master in the] to greet a crowd of fower-bearing 1 ittle Herbert, Adopted by Mr, and, hav case replied, ‘Why, certainly, school children wno had come to ns Mr. Morab then made several ate] oii tor well on the day that com Mrs. Holland, May Be Fighter tempts to undo the damage created i by Mr, Little's testimony.” Mr. Lit-| pleted her century. of lite or Musician. He had been, called In an effort to) Ail morning long ncaa Rat ata me day Herbert Holland, three Gregory missed $5 amination by Willlam 8. Jackson,|o little ones trailed he ttle cot-| and one-half years old, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of the/ tage of the aged woman and left @! gixtyone pounds, may be woman, needed no glasses. women’s styles and delivering a dia- on smoking. 1s many women half her morning through clear blue eyes that | She and Smoking. all call upon her during bright and risp Octob. made a tour day Baby “Vamps’’ Visitor and Wins ° He Is Arrested on Larceny Witham J ten grandchildren living. They will] No, 187 Bainbridge Street, Brooklyn, | | was arraigned before Magistrate Licta |in the Gates Avenue Court in Brook- | lyn to-day, charged with jarceny, Hospital with her right and internal injuries. internal injuries, leg she will | 1s regarded as critical. According to the police, grand ‘The boy's mother is in the Bushwick | broken Because of her probably | ensuing year | tion, physicians say, and her condition Mra, 0 in Irish Repub- weighing He bonds from her home yesterday. world's Her son was out and she was talking | | The Board of Estimate and Ap |portionment to-day departed from ita polley adopted by resolution against any budget increases of city departments in the Child Weifare Board after a plea made by Sophie [Irene Loeb, President of the Chitd | Welfare Board, and a member of the Evening World staff, | An tnere’ of $563,000 in the leita Welfare Budget for 1922 was] $903,000 ADDED TO BUDGET FOR —GHILD WELFARE Increase Granted by Estimate | Board After Plea by Sophie Irene Loeb. granted at a henring before the Fi- | nance and Budget Committee in the City Tall. Miss Loeb asked for more clerical help and gave reasons why clerks, stenographers and others were needod to handle the Board's increasing busine The Konrd handles 3,000 cases a month | | After listening to Miss Loeb's plea, Mayor Hylan moved to allow an as- sistant secretary at $2,750 for next Six new investigators and three year. new stenographers were allowed at an increase of $28,000. The sum of $8,530,000 was allowed for widows and omphans next year, This ts an in- crease of $2,500,000 in three yea The total budget for child welfare tor 1922 will be $3,634,979. At the con. clusion of the hearing, Miss Loeb said Vit the members would read the report DONDEE | to submit to a surgical opora-| of $5,93 has ing nd that the bureau economy, they would see exercised great che good it is doing for widows orphans. “The Child Welfare Board has re- lieved the city of public charges as conside other department,” she stated getting under the underlying of distress and destitution and eliminating poverty stricken dren from the court Police De partment, Soclety for Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Hospitals, to nothing of orphan institutions. month will be the hardest of aud the Board of Child We re Will get these poorest families care for.” Miss Loeb deciared forty-one States to have taken up child welfare work along |ines copied from the New York Bureau. She declared in an- to & question by Commissioner Fiynn of the Bronx that ‘le present adiministyation “had done sure to get at the underlying causes n child welfare work than any pr vious city regime.” "Every member of awe this Board «i Alleged to have thrown his mother, | wstimate at this table has helped as Mrs. Alice Gregory, down two fights! no other administration has helped,” she declared. The Department of Plant aid Structures budget for 1922 shows a net saving of $641,396.26. The budget was approved by the committee in “the same form it was presented, In xplat ig the budget Commissioner Whalen said: “The budget of the Department of Plant and Structures, existing con- ditions of Aug. 31, 1921, amounts to $6,577,250.63. ‘The tentative budget submitted by the department for the 1922, represents a total or & nejgsaving of 854.) $641,396.26." Jommissioner Whalen stated that this result has been obtained by ex- ercising rigid economy. The new a tivities added to the department dur- ing the past year include the opera- |\CHARLOTTE PHILLIPS! IS ENGAGED TO | | PAUL E. JOHNSTON Boys Scattcr | CABBY HOLDs UP | - | JAPAND Stolen Hens in | JIU STTSU LESSON Brownsville Demanded Il Victim Had! but | | ; ' Was Glal to Get Away Sell All They Can and Turn} Without Even Fare the Rest Loose in the Samuel Milani, twenty-six, @ Street. Japanese, living at the Orange |" anere wero chickens gutore in| Tennis Cloy im Orange, N. J, * | Brownsville last night ine J ig beh ae tye) decora 5 were ruaning about the streeta and] tons in Chinate hired a taxt- Jman: a family had a feast. In the| cab at Chatham Square at 2.30 | Brownsville station two youngsters A. M. to-da were locked up charged with enre Ne Stvect and Seventh | ng the Gordon poultry house at No. Avenue {t ur stopped, | Junius Street, Brownaville, and] otdered jim 1 demanded taking several dozen fowl ‘The boya] all his money. The Jap used jiu are Horman Koenig, cloven years old, jite and the chant jumped | of No. 45 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn, back t seat and dove rap | and Naw ») Benjamin, clght: yeara ee Without getting even | old of No. 441 Sutter Avenuc ( tae clock showed wis due Ut ig seid the Inds put the chicken wm. Mitamt reported the at. Fi nh bog’ and set out to peddle them . ed holl-up at the Weat 30th Many housewives purchased $4 wort),| St’cet Station and left his ad- for 60 contf, When the youneatera, dress so the chauffeur can call | found they couldn't sell thelr entire | fF his fare if he wants it. FATHER OF TEN ARRESTED FOR STABBING AT PART/. ock they let tho rest out of the bags. —_ ‘WORKMEN'S BANK SYSTEM Wedding Will Take Place at the URGED BY JERSEY LABOR. us | Morgue Employee Aceaned of Home of the Bride's | nsor Wontll Keep ines! Woundl ‘ | Biren | Away From Onen Shop Advocates, . RS Gaent ta: Generel k te by Dr. anid] .8 resolution cating for consideration With Wire. nnouncement fs made by Dre OMe) oe iy watabliihment of a workmen'a| Chia Degener, fifty-four, father of Mrs. Wendell C. Phillips of Noo 40) ing ayatens iy New dorsey waa ine (ten children, wns arrested ently to-d [West 47th Street of the engagement oauend today at the convention of [In connection with the stabbing of John of thelr daughter, Charlotte Allee | ihe New Jersey. Ke on of Labor in| White, forty-seven, No. 49 s7th Stroct Paul Bawin Johnston of New York] ke Chib, Jersey City ‘ listinhiirst, at a party In Dogenur's ; : | re GuaGlViOn eae crererrnd’: (a thall hares Wes BON Ieee A@onwell on and Harttord, Conn, Committes on Resolutions. it fellows | rome: No. G08 Birst Avenue. According The ceremony will be performed) the su on made oy aterday ty | t a pollee, ene und bie wife u A . s,| J rr § , Viee President of the | gued over another gu » and Wh in the home of the bride's parents, | James Tine : ile, United ‘Textile Workers of America, in| who interfered, qi by the Rev. Cornelius Woelfiin, 4-|q ‘speech to the convention. | Mr. Starr | pentenite Ser area Sean Sore Wath ew : i fontended that capitalistic’ groups are | Penenife. tor of the Wirth Avenue Baptist) Cone. the continuation of the open | When Detective Burns reached the Church, ‘The best man will be Relpl| hop.” and that’ the orraization” of | kouse Mrs. Degengr had taken White 10 - ‘, workinen'a savings Inatitutions would |Tiellevue in @ taxicab and the te: Wolf of New York. The ushers will) Wertman d sibie to withold from auch |dren were crying. White's condition tm be Harold F. Gibson, J. J. Van) groups large sums of capital obtained | serious Schaack of Havt’ord, Charles McKay | (rough workmen's savings deporit. Degener is employed at the Morgue and Gardner Johnson. | Matron of honor will be Mrs. Cram) Francis Cullinan of Houston, ‘Texas. sister of the bride, and the bride's maids, Hortense Garish, Elizabeth Vernon of Newport and Rebecca Brown, —_ DELAY IN 80-CENT GAS CASES ASKED Take your first step toward a beautiful, healthy complexion— Use Lifebuoy today. ¢ Consolidated and Other Companies Claim State's Brief Did Not Come in Time. WASHINGTON, Oct arguments on several cases involving the validity of the New York City S0-cent Gan Ordinance was asked {1 the Supreme Court to-day by the Con- solidated Gas Company of York and other companies. Postponement was strongly oppoxed by attorneys for the Btate Attorney General and the New York County Dis- trict Attorney. The cases are set for 4,—Delay of the New hearing next Monday, and the court took the question of delay under ad- visement The companies now claim copies of the State's brief were not xe them within the required time. | a |TWO JURORS GET TEN DAYS FOR INTIMIDATING OTHERS. | ved on Driscoll and Cochran Convicted of| ‘Trying to Affect Plant Verd Justice Cropsey in the Brooklyn Su- preme Court to-day found William J.) Driscoll and William R. Cochran, jur- ors In the trial of Carman Plant, a Nas- sau County detective accused of recely- stolen automobiles, guilty of con- empt of court and sentenced them | each to ten days In Sail Durlng the Plant trial, the Justice found, the two men tried to Aniluencr fellow jurors to free Plant. Drtseoll, the court said, drew a revolver during th Geliberation. removed the. cartridges, exhibited if and then reloaded jt. “He also threatened to “fix” other jurors who were against Plent and threatened to injure the business of one juror general, he sald, Driscoll was "nol ingentlemanty, Insulting and offensive ind was. in truth, a Duily. Teveu bes | e fore the came went to the tury, the | court, ald, Driscoll told another Juror | that "Plant was a good follow.” EALTH soap tentimony of Hobert Searles, mana-| tribute to “Granny” Le Vapresco, WhO) heayywoight champion, Or perhaps) With @ neighbor in the hallway on the/ton and maintenance of the = = — J Jackson's queatio: d bean. de. | haa always been thelr friend. he'll follow his new daddy and be-| second floor of her home when he re-|Street-Greenpoint Ferry, Clason | Jackson's questions had been d uy it . S x | Hgned to undermine Mr, Searles’s| When she was told that to-day 18) come a great musician. | turned to the house, It is alleged that |Point-College Point Fer ability to testify ax an expert and at] known as Le Vapresea Day i@Grant| To-day he was formally adoptea by Mrs, Gregory taxed her son with |Street-Broadway Brookivn | eer Mew aisthing about tha mechanical Cm mua miusned/enravEn Hep furrows | Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Holland of stealing the bonds and when he|#2d maintenance of the following (o) features of a change from the candle] and said: No, 72 Elwood Street, Surrogate; dented it attempted to search nhis|Viaducts which wore transferred to : power to a B. 'T. U. standard, say-| “Pshaw! Why are they making all) Cohalan signed the adoption papers. | pockets, the Department by the Legislature ° sn Cae this fuss? I don’t think it 1s any-] Herbert up to a year ago was in| Then, it is stated, young Gregory at the request of the President of the Uy as to Dlackening of mantles. \rr.| thing so wonderful to live to be one the care of the Child Adoption Com- | seized his mother and threw her down | Borough of Manhattan: Park Ave- Little If he did not agree with Mr| hundred. 1 certainly don't feet a bit! mittee of the Free Synagogue, where| the stairs from the second to the first |MUS% 40th-42d_ Streets; Riverside | 4th Street—New York Searles's tostiniony, the city's engi-| aier than 1 did years and yenrs ago. | he was placed following his desertion | floor and, following her dgwn the re; ie7th-185th Street 1ssth| poe aia most certainly do} i. yeght and happy and can run by his parents. Mrs, Kate Holland | stairs, struggled with her on the first |Stteet, Edgecombe Avenue to Mac. | During subsequent questi Mr.] around and do the washing and iron-/ one day saw Herbert. It was a case | floor landing and then threw her from | Combs Dam Bridge showed that every order tie| ing and take caro of my Little farm. of love at first sight. Herbert tod-/the first floor to the ground floor. In spite of these added activit involving a change toa | ‘78 feel they'd only (died over to Mrs. Holland and, plac- r, Weisle : und the additional equipment of six > 4a A ax ay old as I feel they'd ont: v H pli Dr. Weisler of Bushwick Hospit 5 zi gas from a candle power gas|!f 1 wa cat : te tt ’ alS “J 5 T. fas from a candle power gas! “about fifty candies on the cake | ine his fat baby arms about her neck, | found Mrs. Gregory in a rerious con-|{¢rryboats, the mechunical force of On Special Sale Wednesday nny to pass the great saving in-cost|they sent me, There were so many | coed. It sounded to Mrs. Holland|aition and took her to that Institu-|t%® department how not been In-| manufacture on to the consumer | candies on the big cake that 1 was, Hke "mamma." tion, ‘The police say that young Greg. | “eased And the otties than personal Moran ‘interfected? But the 'iines| curious and 1 counted them, They} Mra Holland immediately applied) ory admita throwing hie mother |**rvice has been reduced, approx New Fall Coats County Lighting Company, which has| were right, though, there were just{for the baby's custody, He went’ downstairs, but said that “he lost his; ™ $300,000 | Aever OBR Ae tae cea ns Gee LAW 18) a nundned home with her on probation for. a ead." He also admits the theft of a Wm en Fe m opened: Sever ; mmaraing {4.80 a toeusand fOF Bae, 2” <aiow did I live a0 long and feel! ORF Yesterday the prouatleANry | yaton! and chain trom hla mother,| 7 on0 ce estes we Monee DenenNey For Women and Misses ents, at which time the gas supplled well? ‘That's the simplest thing) DOriod WAS UP tne ene oe Mea, | {Hey 2% but denles that he stole any (Uh VoOtns axelast-anisppropration: to was admittediy unfit for the useslin the world. Any one can do it If] 200 Ble Oot eee ht Weg, | Bonds. He was held in $1,000 bait to- | PAY the anlary’ of (Me). Oheriea, 6. ede ' men aeG, 1 they try, I have always lived aj 10U ne aaa 5°.) day tor examination on rsday. DANI RORL ANBOIIE RCSMIDE THESE» Distinctive Wrap-Coats | don't belleve in the consumer] they ‘Chairman of the Free Synagogue | 44 mourasay, ment in the Fire Department as Chiet fi, i setting A Tz-ounce pound and belng}elean, decent, life. T have SIVAYE Cig Adartion Conimitiem toes aps —_———— ee eemeeuesiae it Sear one be Semi-fitted and Belted. charg ‘or 16 ounces,” is the way] worked hard, and still do. T have al-y) 00 ©” 4 “s OF VORSEUSHOB in ¢ OF . Mr. Little put it when pressed by] < plied to Surrogate Cohulen tor the 24 FAMILIES ARE pair shops. ADC, iatttley Die pressed DY! ways taken a glays -of god wine | P! phe | E ti livaPriced Yt gas for Brooklyn, “t faver the | Whenever £ could get It. Good wine, “UTOY Mt SM Are eee ROUTED BY BLAZE __."!.'°*! 28%" reir ment =xceptionally Priced at mT. hut only if you change] never burt any one Weg ereteete RE TEE l sla Best of Mr. Demarest.” aid the Mayor e price accordingly and adjust the} “1 think smoking one of tie curses Greenwich uge Hollies orehe ware . ; “because he retired under the law msumers’ appliances at your own] oe ine universe. ‘That really shortens Mr, and Mrs. Holtang be- Fire in Cellar of Double Apirt-| atter twenty years’ service on a pen mer xpense. of the u a lieve that Herbert will some day L ment House ag Nir. Little's testimony substantiatea| life and Is useless. As for the styles, grout musician, as he now can ment House Sends 150 io sion of on-half his pay und since his suggestion made some months|t ug worn by the women of to-day™| carry a tun perfectly Herbert, t S retirement the salary of his position b he Street. r e ) by The Evening World that thelthey are an abomination, The only| however, likes Jack Dempsey and swaninctoue tauiltf has {ncreased, and > were to be| B BA bs yes be eck ag ney thing the young girl nowadays seems | MAy choose th more 8' enliaus pis story buildings, Nos, 3 an re Lt ted there is n fo prevent | ork because of the saving In cost to wil ays peoma| . d, an he may be & 3 Ni utoer IEUNKEe A : he consumer. But the Kings County|te be bashful abou Tes ears, 1) president of the L States or a | AYenUe, near Birst Street hia reinstatement on an increased Beautiful soft-piled fabrics, Lighting Company, although admit-| belleve that the styles of a few years! captain of finance. to tio street at 430 A. M ee Letey? fy aye PRD bin ting it has been sewing this | pee Ent aadaate Gat, Geet Le PM St ter pen : including Pollyanna, Arcadia p vearh hed raised the \ predomina part, were) Mra Edith M. Pautmier Dies biage stared in con iweilee Goccicae at rie and Bolivia, handsomely silk- rather than’ decreased “hem. Mra. Edith M, Paulmier, 0 ored tn the eslive : . “ ‘ ‘ Mr. Searles's testimony was dam-| the best } Louis 8 Paulmier, died yesterday at {y No.6 before « mits Suother on Strike lined and warmly interlined. aging both to his previous gestimony| “To-day wearing | her home PLLAMebuant Aone ae a The tenants ia No. 4 Yon iftrad : # under direct examir mand to th npaace (Ol Montetair ? i seal ec ¢ ‘ re 4 } 5 * company. He admitted the plant of|¢ ~ seed feo Ate ARO Lane Ahn , Sunt | Re Tees 4 Malay Brown, Beaver, Taupe, the Kings County Lighting Company| Sls of as} She was prominent sin, chu and 4 c ate BY ree : j was inulequate and F change to] bathing su n| gharitabl cae tae uan A ; wun in You Navy, Volnay Red and Black. the T. U. standard, under these caine Van M f a 1 i “ conditions, would no necessarily In i Chnirma Phau ‘ thing. and hund toate R yolve better service to the consi : ¥ arse chan, s rie H ’ ean i ; - I The hearings were adjourned unti| unser t sha It Healing well MnO te MBBOgia Led Ww hy Mbt The Bea danke ATrae Ferrara * \ Wowens Coat Dept. 2ud Floor 2.30 oclock, Nov. 2. aud chipper and apry is any indica sons and one daughter, ihe apartments, legee Giuffrado threatened him." a