The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1921, Page 3

ng N.Y, LEADS NATION INST 850,000,000 BUILDINGFOR 1921 Micaelieteas Tax Exemption Chief Factor in Metropolitan Contracts for $446,608,000. HOUSING 55 PER CENT. Outside City Vast Projects Await Financing on Better Terms, Bulldera throughout the country &re breaking all high records in cost and volume of operations, Their projects for three quarters of the year call for $1,850,000,000, or 10 Per cent. above the average for the preceding five years. Their Septem- ber total is near $250,000,000—the largest on record for that month and the largest for any month this year. In twenty-seven _—northeastern States representatives of F. W. Dodge Company reported to-day $246,186,000 September —_ contracts Qwarded, and $1,774,295,000 for the year. During the same period con- templated work has called for $3,750,- 000,000. Residential operations for the past Month took $95,303,000, or 89 per cent. of all. There was a strong increase in business buildings, the total $41,- %9,000 representing 17 per cent. Public works and utilities called for $85,414,000, or 14 per cent.; educa- tional work, $25,459,000, or 11 per cent. That the building revival grows 1s @hown by September's tncreuse over August—11% per cent—against an average decrease during the preced- ing ten years of 14% per cent, Build ers regard this as @ sure sign that the movement ts heading ttt greater volume, defying as It does the usual seasonal reaction, HEAVY METROPOLITAN GAINS FROM TAX EXEMPTION New York ant the metropolitan istrict score most notable advances, residential projects taking over 55 per cent. of al) op account of the big stimulus due to tax exemption In New York State and Northern New Jersey Dodge figures show Septem- ber contracts awarded for $8. the largest total for any. sif month on revord. It erceeds Aug work by 41 per cent, the previous highest aggregate having been $80, $00,000, In August, 1919. The rnonth's work brings the total for the year to $446,608,000, or 48 per cent. ubove the average of the preceding five yours, Additional contemplated projec ported would take §73,2 Home building contracts reach $47,- 90,000 on 1,334 projects. with three ing more than $1,000,000 each ninety tnvolving from $100,000 to $1.- | for 000,000 each, 1,291 ling for less | than $100,000 each. 8 shows how tax exemption has spurred builders of small homes. Builders of business stractures geached the yen ssiume during contracts for $17,590,000, cent. of the total. New nd, with $16,026,000, fails | #2 per cent. below the August volume. although the norma! seasonal decline | ia 1 But its residential work holds excentional strong, with 48 per cent 3.984.000 hatdings fe $2. 40,000 plated work is reported to th of $22,257,900. For total !s $191,828.00, under the five-year average MONEY NOT SO PLENTIFLI AWAY FROM NEW YORK UOutalde the metropoliter contemplat Projects al tonch faster than those place wisiness Céntem: exten nine mone the 19 cent if | | from the preceding month, wiiot the average seasonal yeaction templated work amounts to $5 000, Nine months’ work reaches $ 288,000. Current residential projects | show 83 per cent. of the total, or $11,452,000 for the past month, public works and utilities taking $7,373,000. Pi sburgh and neighboring States with $40,885,000 score a gain of 24 per cent r August while the sea- sonal movement wvuld call for a de- crease of 11 cert. Contemplated work calls for $4 from the first of tue year 078,000. Home bv iders are claiming 25 per cent. of current activity, the month’s work taking $10,268,000. Kdu- cational buildings witb $9,134,000 take 22 per cent » 6,000. T is $331,- ‘Central West projects for the month take $62,241,000, an increase of 3 per cent. in place of the usual averare reaction of 22 per cent. ( plated work would take $105,485,000, Con- tracts for the year thus far call for $506,659,000. Residential work s run- ning at 27 per t.. or $16,777,000 for the month, public works and uti ties getting $13,180,000, or 21 per Northwest contracts for-sept amounted to $7,015,000, with ner cent. residential at 900 ana $14, #34,000 work in contemplation, For the year the total is $65,199,000, ee > Wwaars GOING ON HERE} Gt The young Romany, Capt. pay Pat" Sinith, to-morrow night opens a month's campaign tn the Hanson Place Methodist Chureh, Broo! This “Gypsy Pat's" fourth visit to the Un States and the second thne he has heid meetings in this church. Vice President Coolidge addre the Pilgrim celebration in Newar America must think th though: live the ideals of the Pilgrims and Pur tans, Accepting a reduction of § cent 500° men ts Refining water, N. J. who | for the last five days, returned to wo esterday. ‘The employers ant ere would be no further reduction before June 1, 192% RIVERSIDE DRIVE = GIRL SENT T0 JAIL FOR SHOPLIFTING Ruth Boring, University Grad- uate, Admits Theft and Gets Six Months to Two Years. On her plea of guilty to a charge of shoplifting, Ruth Boring pt No. 624 Riverside Drive tof/day tenced to from six months to three years in the penitentiary by Justices Moss, Freschi and Herbert in Special Sessions, She was accused of tak- ing $36 worth of stock from Gimbel Brothers on Sept. 28. According to William A. Murphy of the Stores Mutual Protective Association, she {s of a prominent. Washington society family and a graduate of Northwest- ern University. In her home, where she was arrested, he sald, detectives found $5,000 worth of property stolen from New York stores. Frances H. Haskit of No. 92 M received was sen- a telephone op- unhattan Avenue, erator, the same sentence on her 780 worth of proncety from Macy's on June 13, last. A woman who was her alieged assistant {y awaiting trial Edwerd Powers avd John Hughes, waiters, who gave 4s their address Mills Hotel No. 3, were given simi sentences for the theft of three pairs of hose, valued at $6.21 from Hearn's pe 24, HOBOKEN MAYOR AND AIDS ACCUSED ance Governing letting of City Contracts. Complaint waa filed to-day with ihe Uresecutor of Hudson County by seph P. MeHrid a taxpeyer, of Wil- Avenue, Hoboken, agninat Mayor and four other comm ners ot Hoboken. MeBride charged the elty officials with violation of the law which forbids the letting of a con- tract for elty work 1) excess of witbout ctising for bids low the adv. It ts alleged by Melride that the aw w ed in the mattee of an tron fe around Hudson Square Park, for whtoh the Fagan Iron Works S Jersey City was paid $3.4 The jaceosed officials will appear defore Tames Mo of Common PI i thy in the Court s on Monday, © members of the Board of City Commissioners are: Patrick R. Grit: in, Mayor; Gustav’ Buch, Director of ven and James H. Londrigen, Dir of Streets and Publ Imprevements; Rernard N ctor © ublie Satety; Harry L. Sehmulling, Director of Parks and Pub Pre y - — |BARS HER HUBBY’S WEDDING Keturns Home After 22 Years tw Hime to Present Varctage After an of twenty-three care Mre. Madigan of No. Me Bee ned to find he hushan? rry another wo men ding to a statement made at the law sffier ef Charles 7 Stelerman 2 loft home May 19, 1&8, after a fam: ree! and Madizan had not seen ‘ except ones, whan, re after she had lett refused to xo home with him. contract. This reveals continu Aiea Ka ae ohie ite AiMeulty in finarcing much needed | , ipa! ys i peeses an wife dead operations tn comparison Wh “3 ys eae Rs e Ye to marry, York's ability to start a f jess. as a matter of precan uine than those left watt! sn- | tion, advertised, and much to his tracts, Jumazement. shy appeared Oct. & at tha Middle oMe of Stelerman. According to law, A1e,000 she became legally dead after she had n away seven. years ntends to claim her rights ann’s wife, says her counsel see Sai but &he as NEWS OF U. S$. IN BRIEF. i WASHINGTON, Oct. 8-A totel of 46.007 persons in the State of Muasa- chusetts, ten ake and oy ¢ unable to write in 1920, accordin » 1920 census. ‘The acy in the rea in the el JAME S Oct. 8.-- Bu s entered the Cherry Cr Na tlonal Bank Friday night and earried away everything in the safe except a bundle of $1 bills burned in the open g of the safe. There was taken mM in cash and many thousands fi securities ROCHESTER.--Michael Gerner, Néw ork Central Incer, who was pinned beneath his engine here and directed the work of rescus, is dead. ‘The last rites were administered hefore le taken from under the w PHLUADELPHIA.— Andrew I y wn assistant disbursing . the United States Shipping B n claimed he had bee of $19,000 by bandits last Tues: onfessed that he and his assist stolen the money themselves, DETROIT.-William = Howard Tats, Chtef Justice of the Unite States, has been re-elected President o: Uni tarlan. General Conference. He was elected without opposition for a third secutive term WASHINGTON, —F¥ Presi “nt Marshall was th in r last night of Ty {arding. Senators N lvrwood and Pomerene guests, WASHINGTON, radio com Jmunteation from 18 may result frow: srime he Navy i $ are being Ceaducted from havy . wirel tation on St, Paul Island, off the coast of Alaska, \t. ‘The Vaxpayer Charges Violation ot Or-| THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER Some Society Leaders Who Figure on the Screen In a Movie “The Kick in It,’’ at Tuxedo To-Night Miss Be ie SHE Wit MRS PHILIP EDITH MORGAN bel Scenarioist. NELANOE O00 sunow! MRS: eos Cc SCHEMERHORN THE FIANCEE” mi65 ROBERTA WILLARD euore 8 8 Stone Miss ALEXA STERLING KEN STONE | ——_————— LLL Wiss £ COMMING S WIDE wore MRs LETTS SRE REE fa, dead was the DIES IN WIFE'S ARMS sein t : IN DOCTOR'S OFFICE. | bi Was an Frnt | nan ha athern urs} Waiting for _> nee ' WAN BEATEN TO DEATH ot Noa . | IN STREET; THREE HE!.D i : rh Viethue said vit Tiffany Str B phy we arrested In @ian came to the recevtion ream the Newark (o-day in connecwon wilh the ¢ MISS MARION HOLLINS KETONE 1 Young Women Who Have Been Playing Brilliant Golf i In National Championship Matches on Deal Links ELAINE OSENTHAL oYBIL KENNEOY “lem woalo. mornin TUXEDO SOCIETY FOLK TO SHINE IN MOVIE TO-NIGHT Men and weer of Fashion- able World Will Twinkle Film Comedy Stars. 5 All thoroughfares jeading to Tuxedo Park with happy occupants, bound for the initial showing of the soctety three-reeler, “Dhe Kick in It." This comedy cinema was written by Miss Edith Percy Morgan and based on a report in the newspapers last spring of a wild fam- ily found in the Ramapo Mountains within-a few miles of Tuxedo Park. La Roy Baldwin, President of the Empire Trust Company, gave the film, | and two-score soclety gentlemen, a Ia soup-and-fish, fit hither and yon with as many more dainty maids and | matrons, The picture is for the bene- fit of the College Settiement at Mount Ivy and the Tuxedo Hospital this evening will be crowded horseless carriages and their An Evening World reporter who glimpsed the rehearsals is able to| unfold the plot, It is the story of the | Ramapo Mountain folk; there Is aj} mconshine still, a jealous lover plan- | ning revenge on the flancee who jilted | him. There are lots of other Intrigu- ing elements; but why give them uway before the performance? One of the laughable Incidents dur ing one of the rehearsals was induc- ng twenty of Tuxedo's most influen 1 omen to dress up in evening clothes and sit for two hours in th hot sun one afternoon in the grand stand while the camera men cranked They were recompensed, however, when they repaired to the gardens cf Mrs. Henry M. Tilford, wi xamboled with the moonsh Here is the cast: The Wild ise) Mountalneer ‘pares | Jt. Tul | Chi Others tn ¢ Lucius Wilmer David H. Preston Davis, Mr tare and Mrs, | ng. Mr. and Mrs. Wagataft, Mr and Mra Mr. and Mra. Chaun- cev Olcott, Mr. and Mra J. Insley | Blair, Mr. and Mrs. John Cowdin Mrs, Amos Tuck French, Mr. and Mra, Paul Fitz Simons, Mr. and Mrs, Mid~ dleton Burrill, Mr. and Mrs, Alfye Steon, Mrs. Price Collier, Mrs. Olive | Piiton and Mrs, Montgomery Hare. ‘DRY ENFORCEMENT INNEW YORK CITY | DELIGHTS HAYNES: } National Chief ? Says Yellow. ley, in Permanent Charge, \Wiii Have Model Office. | Rov A Haynes, Chief of the Na Prolibition Enforcement New York he Or. tional ganization, was at quarters conte: phee ow th] State Chief B.C.) ting a lot of satis-| finds Acting New Vellowley, and ge faction out of Vork conditions as he them tn N b city, oMr ¥ lowley, he said, cll be the perma- nent New York State Direc M Haynes confided to new men t he has his own ‘deax gbhout what constitutes news Of course,” he said, “the a newspapers that consider it of pub |lic interest ro give the names of Pro \hinition agents who have been dis charged and why they w lia. | charged. But that isn’t news 1 shall not sfy the desives of the of newspapers that deal in that) kind of news. Iam going to feed the} people real news on what Prohibition jenforcement is doin: | Thereupon Mr, Haynes retired into privacy for an he On his return he haaded ont the following state | nent | 1 am delighted with conditions ws }T find them in New York After nferring with Foe. Yel-| Jlowley, Ta appy to state there is] niet satisfactory progress, J find he |has a complete grip on the situation Jund expects with short time to Jaemonstrato to the puli n New | York that we have one of the model | offices in the country “All persons having business at the lairector’s office can come in person jana always get # square deal, So fa |der my administration there no boundary lines “With the backing of ail good |zens and # favorable pr the en forcement of the Bighteenth Amend | ment will succeed witho Jest doubt. In fact Jtion cf this condition Already there is concer that the machinery wh inidentified man early this! go auspiclo' inaugurated ts Hty Hospital from al ing splendid result Thy prisone save, Mr. Haynes re to. ga he Krank 1 Ben’ in rs ae 64) Market 8 H tree: avi De. ’ Str All the eve; alle to i im Mr. Mayr ‘ 1 tine City of Ne Groark.” show hs that a t ' Mid aa “J Mu quor to guests will be h i accouptability, block away, SAYS NEWLY WEDS SHOULD KEEP AWAY FROM RELATIVES “They Are Mussers and Trouble- makers,” Says Justkce After { Court Reconciliation, After hearing evidence of too much mother-in-law on both sides in the separation sult of Julia A. Spain against Louls M. Spain of Ossining, at White Plains yester- day, Justice Morschauser left the couple with their baby In his chambers to “talk It ove! The wife agreed to return to the hus- band as soon as they could find rooms and he agreed to give her $10 a week till the new home was ready. Commenting on the case, Justice Morschauser sald: “My advice to the newly wed ts to keop away from relatives, They are the mussers. Their sneaky advice always causes dissension. The couple's home should be thelr own love nest with no relatives interfering. ‘They should live by themselves and be happy.” BANDITS STAGE THEATRE HOLDUP ATCHMAN STAR Masked Men Force Lone Guard Into Dressing Room and Clean His Pockets. lwo masked men held up Willlam O'Connor, night watchman in the Hal- sey Theatre, Halsey Street and Broad- way, Brooklyn, early to-day, and es- caped after taking from him $68 In cash, a gold watch and chain, valued [at $100. a diamond stickpin worth $80 Jond a ring of keys. The ringing of a buzzer brought O'Connor to # rear door on the Macon { side of the bullding, where he wie confronted by two men wearing caps pulled well down over their eyes und black masks. One of the men thrust a revolver at O'Connor's chin. With hands over hic head O'Connor backed Into a dressing room on the ground floor, While one of the men yt him covered with a revolver, (he ther went through his pockets, ‘Then they compelled him to accom- pany them to the front office of the Jeatre, In which was @ aafe. The Mice coor was lock’d, however, and | orconnor told the man he had no keys \ ror ‘t, ‘The pair tried every key on the ring ey had taken from O'Con- nor, but none would open the door swith a final warning to O'Brien to no outcry for at least twanty nau tha two men left the thea- tre. O'Hrien had not even a nickel left to tolephove | atot machines {9 the theatre, and minutes he ran t depot of the B, T. and tslephonad to George | Powell, manager of the theatre, and the Ralph Avenue Police Station. O'Connor could give only @ meagre description of the two men, Detec- tives Cavanaugh and Thornton of the Ralph Avenue Station learned that a car, With @ man sitting at the sl, was Keen Waiting at Saratoga nue and Macon Street, half a at the time of the robe {9 belleved the anen es- whi AV bery, and it aped in that ee PATROLMAN ‘WITH NOOSE SAVES BOY ON PALISADES. Vout Henry Kalser and Paul Muller, both shout fourteen years old, started to lint down the sharply Inclined face of he Palisades at (he foot of 38d Street, North Bergen, N, J, to-day. The dis: tance at that ‘point ts approaima Kaiser, when be got half way down, bee frightened and shouted for velp. Muller Joined his voice to Kaiser's Patrolman David Andros got « rope, made a noose und dropped it to Kalser, who fastened it ander his arms, frox drew ‘lin to the cliff top who was not down #0 far, unself. An Muller, climbed up oe | STEEL SHIPPED BY WATER FROM BUFFALO IN 9 DAYS. Minatrates tes ae ¢ Barae at Cut Poastbint- of the Barge Canal as a in cutting down the cost of com city has been strtk the 3 of two barges sine! bars, which Ruffalo and were actual (ransit, Al- rond freight ts supposed’ to ork from Buffalo in 36 experience of shippers 11 taliroad Ume is close tro whied ts build Hay, recelved railroad rate rton, GR 5 a ton on. th Ving of $2 n Not Editor of Moving cture World, The § World yesterday print ed # story to the effect t Frank N Richardson, who is being # r Rertha L. Ric on for A waa edit the Moving Piet ftiehar rding to Mra, Richard nf . past © years was edi ajection department of the} Locked Up on Bria onTh to Kin wur ily brides polnting tening t said the bride stayed Out late of nights frem any of the) ceipt in Mill} 50 | FOOR HURT WHEN FIRE APPARATUS HITS TROLLEY CAR Motorman and Three Passen- gers Injured by Wagon Re- sponding to Alarm. Damage estimated at $10,000 was caused lastnight by firo that started in A. P. Bigelow's lumber yards at No, 605 West 64th Street, The flames spread and dostroyed several vehicles stored in the lots, Ni 22-626 West 65th Street. On its way to the fire a Fire De- Lartment fuel wagon. driven by Goorgs Rogers, hit a Lexington Ave- aie surface car at d4th Street, All glass in the car waa broken and the netorman, William Chenko, thirty years old, of No. 207 East 96th Street, suffered a fractured ice. Three of the forty passengers in the car were slightly Injured and went home after attention from an ambu- iance surgeon. They were Mrs, Cath- cine Walsh, forty years old of No. 1014 Lexington Avenue; Emil Wern thirty-five years old, of No. 334 Bask bist Street, head waiter at the Hotel Astor, and his wife iremen on the wagon escaped Injury and continued to the fire. Policemen Ward and Winklemas and Night Watchman Joseph Jan- gosky rescued twelve horses at 1 A. M, to-day during a $10,000 fire in the two-story building of Sklar && Cohan, woodworkers, at No. 612 Hop- Kinson Avenue, Brownsville. The horses were in the adjoining stables of Jacob Shilansky. Tenants of sev- eral two-story houses in the neigh- bo#hood left thelr apartments until danger was ove WOMAN'S QUICK WIT PREVENTS HOLD-UP; SAVES CAFE'S $190 =e , Armed Man Gives Chase as She Slips Out to Give Alarm and Blunders Into Arrest, . Mary Smith, a friend of Mra. Horwerth, proprietor of a re taurant on the ground floor of No. 44% Kast 16th Street. prevented a hold-up man from getting away with $150 betug counted by the proprietor at her cash register before closing early to-day Mrs. Smith. who lives in the house, Garted through m side door as ithe robber entered at the front. As she began to call for the police the hold- up man ran out. Mrs. Smith found Patrolman Ber- nard Goldstein and was trying to ex- plain things to him when the alleged robber, pursuing her, almost ran into them. He was arrested and held on charges of attempted felonious as- sault and violation of the Sullivan Law. The prisoner said ne was Vincent Eckert, twenty-four, a patnter living at No. 406 Hast 75th Street Arraigned before Magistrate Froth- ingham in the Yorkville Court, he was held tn bail of $5,000 for examination on Monday, FLYING BOAT MAKES 171 MILES AN HOUR WITH THREE ABOARD Record Achieved by Hydro-Mono- plane in Philadelphia-to-New York Flight. designed by Loening, carrying two pas- sengers in addition to the pilot, flew from Philadelphia to New York yes- terday in thirty-one minutes, whieh is sald to make @ speed record for planes of this type. Clifford Webster A hydro monoplane, Grover C. was the pilot and the other two men aboard were Mr. Loening and a me- chanic, The speed rate between the | two cities was miles an hour, The quick jump from Philadelphia New York was incidental in @ t from Port Washington, L. L, to vernment proving ground ay Md., and return, The re- to | mus th Aberdeen, turn from Aberdeen to Port Washing- ton, 188 miles, was made in seventy minutes, This time includes a briet Jetop made at Philadelphia where a fourth passenger, picked up at Aber- deen, alighted, plane left Port Washin, | rday morning, and, on the return, started from Aberdeen {at 2.90 o'clock in the afternoon. | Philadelphia Was reached at & jo'clock. Without following a water route, the plane, equipped for alligh |\ng only on the water, attained a | height of 10,000 feet and cut straight Jew Jersey nd Found" n The Worid nd Bureau, World Building, will be listed can be left at any ‘The World's ‘Advertising ncles, or can be lephoned ly to The Worlds | 4000 Beekman, New York, og Brooklyn Office, 4100 Main, e Fit eS ot,