The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1921, Page 3

HYLAN'S OWN MAN PROVES HIS SCHOOL PLEDGES BROKEN Or. Ferguson’s Official Survey | Revealed City-Wide Lack of Class Rooms. 4,000 JUMP IN YEAR. Board Minutes Show Promise of “Seat for Every Child” Unredeemed, The best and easiest way to find ut just how Mayor Hylan hag ful-| filled his 1917 campaign pledge, “a @eat for every pupil in the schools, and how the facts compare with hie statements during the present cam- Paign Is to glance at the minutes of the Board of Education. These are public documents and can be ob- tained by any one. The minutes of the meeting of Aus, §, for instan » has an item tlon of seh which Feport of Dr. Sohn AL Mayor Mylan'’s neighbor and close friend, muinber of the board and Chairman of the Committee on Sites and Buildings. The first paragraph refers to a thirty-six-room addition to P. S. No. 72, Lexington Avenue and 105th Street, in which Dr. Fergu- fon reports that: P. S. No. 72 now hae twenty-six in excess of the number of room: The school has been over- erowded for a lang time. The neigh- boring schools are all overcrowded.” ‘The next school considered is a site and 48-room building near Avenue and 170th Street, the Bronx, “to give relief primarily to Public Bchool No. 56, which has seventeen of the number of Then comes the third school, @ 48-room building to be erected near 269th Street and Franklin Avenue, the Bronx. “In five of th schools in that part Dr. Ferguson writ are over 100 cl. In excess of the number of rooms.” He adds that the new 48-room building now being bullt at Boston Road, Charlotte ®treet und Crotona Park East, and| the new addition to Public School No. $5, Washington Avenue and St. Paul's “will not take care of the ex- erguson speaks he Mayor's home bor refers to a site and new building near He; Berriman Street, Brooklyn, and re- | ports: “In three schools in this neighbor- hood, Public Schools N E 174, there were 90 classes i of the rooms in Webruary, 1921 Public School No, 182, at Dumont and Wyona Avenue, will be ready & tember next (that is, last month). It has 48 classrooms, but there will be At this point it is w that Dr. Ferguson's figures of excess Glasses all pertain to last year, Since February and June of the last ear there has been an increase of|Hylan. tween 50,000 and 60,000 pupils. At|yesterday for his arr an average of fifty to a class, whic’: 1a more than twice what an efficient class should be, this would mean| tend more than 1,000 new classes above| Washington. Gen. Jacques, Chief of Staff of the | Belgian forces, is due on the Lapland, r under| Thursday; Admiral Beatty is expected ving an|Saturday, and Marshal Foch Oct. 29. will be rece erages more than a class a school| Committee. Motoreycle and mounted police will Diaz from the will afterward take him up Lafayette Street to Ninth Street, to Broudway, 46th Street and Ritz-Carlton last year. As pointed out in The Evening World last month, re be only 400 classes of fifty the new buildings opened construction sin Sept. 1, le: additional surplus above cla ef more than 700 classes. throughout the city. Continuing with Dr. port to the Board of Ferguson's achool to relieve PB. S. 119 and 1 with also possibility of relieving P, 99, all in the South Flatbush distric are twenty-six classes in excess of the number of rooms,” he declures. The report continues in this for pages. In one reports: “The nec for this new school building appears in the fact that in the five surrounding schools to be relieved there are about sixty classes in excess of the number of rooms.” And then he says that a new echool near East 97th Lenox Road, Brooklyn, care of the exc pupils in Public Bchools 125, 156, 175 and 145, where there were at that time ninety-two clasi in excess of the number of room: Here too, he shows, a new building now going up will not take care of the exc In Corona, he says “there are four- teen classes in excess of the school: and there are five or six more at Jackson Heights, with “the popnla- tion growing rapidly.” In Flushing, he says, “the neighboring schools are all overcrowded.” The situation, then, as Dr. Pergu- eon's report Indicates, ts city-wide If these figures ure disputed by the Mayor or any one else, they can be found on Tages 1411-1491 of the Board of Education record 1921 “VOLIVA THEORY Dr. Ferguson OF FLAT EARTH |FALCONER TIES UP FREEDOM OF CITY FOR NOTED GUESTS TAUGHT IN ZION §chool Children Learn It Is Sur- rounded by Ice Wall to Keep Folks From Falling Off CHICAGO, Oct. 1s schoois ef Zon City have adopted the fdeas of Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor of Dowie, and Bow teach pupils that the earth is Pole ‘n the exact centre, no South Pole, and surrounded by a wall of fee vhich keeps mariners from falling off the rim. but «mains stationary in space, T..at the sun is a iittle orb thir- two miles across and only 3,000 THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, OOTOBER 18, 1921, PICTURES IN T A Goat-Getting Goat Milady in Boots MISS _EDITH WITH RUSSIAN BOOTS WHICH! ARE ALL THE 1N LONDON NPE R Woe ANE UNSER Soe WrHicH' Sor TH GY & SCORE OF m0 BYYS MAScor COAT? OF PRINCETON WIPE WoRLP Prote. HE DAY'S NEWS Paris and Berlin Styles THE LATEST STYLE OF CONVEYANCE SEEN IN BERUN BEING A BICYCLE Wiru A MiorTOR AND A TRAILER WHICH 15 ATTACHED TO THE FORKS (OF LE YORE? SECOND AND THIRD OFFENDERS TURNED LOOSE ON BAIL IN N. Y. TO CONTINUE LINES OF CRIME Court Records Spotted With Cases Where} Confirmed Criminals Are Left Free to Mur- der and Rob, Though They Have Criminal Records Well Known to Authorities. he discovery that Harold Burns,,ments pending against him, of No. 298 West 112th) bus been arrested ten times and has, » bail of $3,000 has been | declared forfeited for non-appearance | purg in Washington Heights Court to an-|1 swer a charge of homicide, ready on $10,000 CITY ALL READY TO WELCOME DIAZ TALY'S WAR HERO Arrive To-Night—- Other Notables on the Way Here. twenty-four, penitentiary. Joseph Allendorf, twice indicted for Gen. Armand Diaz, Commander in n armies during the will be the guest of New | World W ments against him for grand larceny the dates of the indictments being] Aug. 17 and Aug. 24, 1921, and Si Bufano has been arrested | four times and once was acquitted of | a charge of rape. Frank Halligan, ail on two burglary 8 and had been discharged last week in the same court on a charge ol has called atten- Giuseppe Verdi, which ts due to- night, Gen. Diaz will be taken off the liner about 50 classes in excess after the|om the army tug Lexington at Quar- opening of the school.” antine to-morrow morning and brought 1 to note/to the Battery of carrying a pis tion to the fact that the be little difficulty in obtaining releas . From there he will be taken to City Hall to be officially re- Miller and Mayor was decorated val and the com- ing of other foreiga notables to at- the Armament Conference at and'on July 6 and 29, 1921, as James | Halligan has been arrested eight times. Dominick Alberto, Indicted Dec. 24, burglary and tor attempted ‘grand | charge is not first degree murder. been numerous stances lately of men arrested who were already out on bail for similar | offenses or for others as grav [had a criminal police documents, which began back hool {ceived by The City Ha | Alberto has been ar- 1, according to | Strand, Indicted Aug. 5, 1921, and on Aug. 18 and as Albert Weiner, for grand tar- show that Weiner has been under arrest five times and ved one year for grand larcen: Catholic Protectory. was on Oct, last arrest | A surety company | furnished his bail at this time, when he was charged with homicide Jn con- OC of Thomas two, of No, 1845 Seventh pollision with a taxicab | which seven others w was this bail nd forfeited yes The records All the Mayor's escort Gen. mitted Aug. 8, he reters to a new| the City ivrested three tim for grand larceny 12 the “In these three schools now there | will yom ton to There will be from Governor’ City Hall. nd 18th Street after 1 year in the penitentiary as ident Harding. shment of re Island at the R for burglary, and as Jacoh Sidrar way | tars r burglar J 30 Irving Ui orts, Chairman of the n’s National Commit- ed with four bu was out on $10,000 hail furnished] He said he held} American Leg ries and that ter lished heada Vi S | for attempted burglary Dasaro, indicted Juno 6, for assault and robbery f homicide on Dee. out on $10,000 bail, anied by a girl he “stuck up" ters yesterday at the up Miss Cohen to get the premiums on his bail bond, as the had threatened to send him back to jail if he did not pay, learned from the Headquarters the numerous cases, of burglary ceny and the like in which the a culprit 1s out on ball are the follow- fe Committe Bernardi, Italian Consul Gen- Diaz was as fole by T. er low: Avenue, on June 6, sued into West dlst Nicholas Moore shots with the policeman. Ira Holmes, Dasaro was Silvio Schie- vanbattista Vittelll, and exchanged Peter Palmer,’ indicted 0, and again on June , Luigi Costa, Pasquale Mar- | garella, Ciambelli, Girl, caught In a cellar Ewil Beatty, |NEW BROOKLYN SCHOOL IS OPENED BY MAYOR Adolpho Arena, Antor iia hare HExt RAtUIaAS Koch, Commander in ¢ Glove | Antonio Carlo Savini, Flavio Passella Kudolpho Bolla, im Brief Spee: yseph) Cattan: Aldermen does ty’s freedom Mayor was recelys dew Principa informal welcome Omission—He Also Protested Prof. Einstein, nu) at all ume » get to school five Objections by Republican Braunstein, @ flat circular world, with a North | vented the Board of Aldermen from to-day extending the freedom of the City of New York to Generalissimo Armando Diaz, Commander and Chief That the earth hus no motion, | of the Italian Army during the latte: part of the war, who is due here Jucques, Chief of Staff Whee away, revolving around the | Cf the Belgian forces during the war, who is expected here Thursday; Ad~'he asked “Who is Einstein?” board as a whol can act Rules Committee gymnasium and ree playground modations for who the city’s guests ‘oner replied that he did not object of the morrow; stein of relativity fame name of the scientist was mentioned, |s SUBNORMAL PUPILS TO BE PUT ON DIET OF SHEEP GLANDS ‘Chicago School Experiment Ex- pecte dto Improve Brains of Children. CHICAGO, OCT, 18. Pupils in subnormal classes at Chicago schools will be fed on a sheep glund diet at soon as ar- rangements can be completed, it was announced to-day +by Dr. Frank G. Bruner, Director of the Special Schools Department of the Board of Education The gland diet is the idea of Health Department physicians, and several thousand children will partake of the sheep glands, pre- pared in the school kitchens. Special report blanks are being prepared to record results of the experiment uch has been done with the transplantation of monkey and goat glands for reviving phys functions,” said Dr. Bruner, “and we expect to meet with success in putting new brains into the heads of subnormal children through the exclusive use of a sheep gland diet.” DENIES EXTORTION CHARGE OF MODEL x-Soldier on Trial Has bormer Mayor of Mount Vernon for a Character Witnes Ux-Mayor Edwin W. Fiske of Mount Vernon and fifteen other prominent testified In. the residents of that ¢ Court of General § ions before Judge Talley to-day to the good charac Harry H. Rove, on trial for attempted extortion. fose’s hame fs at No Mount eVrnon Ayenue. He served in the Intelligence Department of the ny during the war On Maroh 24, 1920, Mabel Wild model of Wes omplained at th ation that Rose had de a dresamaker 70th Street, 68th Street & manded $700 of her and threatened to arrest her for sheltering a defaulter of army funds if she did not settle Detective Thomas F signed to the case. Two days later Miss Wildey met Rose at 91st Street and Brondway, Foley hand. As Miss Wildey was about to hand Rose a small pack d the soldier. Rose immediately disclaimed any interest in the package ose’a defense was that he was ar tually on trail of a detar en sitive in the compan Mie dey and had asked her tor ir formation about him. He denied d manding money ieee NELLIE BLY FIGHTING FOR $75,000 FURNITURE rees Brother ried Property She Lent to Mot Nellie Bly, & newspaper writer, why at the Hotel McA appeared to day In Flatbush Court, Brooklyn, with inad week to pre out counsel and obts rothe verly Albert ¢ Mr fend ture and ‘ D while had lent to her mother during her lifetime, and which her brother had no fight to ell, A Y a summons to-d r of West ley was as close at eo which, it TWOMEN'S DEATHS LAID 70 OATMEAL; WOMAN ALSO DIES Downtown Lunchroom’s Stock Seized by Health Board— Autopsies To-Day. VICTIMS HAD PTOMAINE Restaurant Owner Unable to Explain How Poison Devel- oped in Food. The Department of Health obtaine’l y requiring the of- ficers of a corporation conducting the Postal Lunch, No. 54 Liberty Street, to appear in court and answer 4 charge of serving wormy oatmeal which caused the deaths yesterday in Broad Street Hospital of two men who had eaten In the place at noon An investigation is under way to as- certain if a woman who died in the hospital last night also was polsoned by the Postal Lunch's oatmeal There ig little doubt that the men were killed by the oatmeal, Other food found in the rest ant by Health Department inspectors was fresh and palatable, ‘The oatm was condemned and destroyed Health Commissioner Copeland this afternoon said that if the faets justify, the lie taurant will be revoked, It was said Health Department inspectors are making inspections of various res- taurants Maurice Madden, forty-four, of No. 205 Gold Street, Brooklyn, a waiter in the Postal Lunch, became Il after midday and was removed in an a bulance to the hospital by Dr. Lub; nse to Operate the res- poisoning. He sald he had eaten oat- meal, ham and potatoes. He died at 6.30 o'clock. clerk in a bank in the Wall 1 o'clock suffering from acute nausea. He sald he had eaten oatmeal, ham died at 10.30 o'clock. 5 o'clock from the offices of the An- glo-Mexican Petroleum Company, No. 65 Broadway, where she wus a ste ter her death the surgeons expressed doubt concerning this d.agnosis, say ing there were evidences of a differ: could determine the cause of death, —> BEATS 3 OFFICERS SENT TO SEIZE HIM Alleged Violator of Parole Arrested Only With Aid of Policeman. Peter Kleinowiteh sent three parole officers to St. Catherine's Hospital for brief visits to-day when they tried to serve a warwant charging him with violation of his parole from the pent- tentiary, With the aid of a patrol naw, Magistrate Liota in the Bridge Plaza Court, Brooklyn, in $5,000 t ation on Fwiday on felonious assault | Koch, Hern Thomas Duigan, par il tor ex arn an Stern and je officers, wea ing bandages and other marks of the confilet, said they tried to handeutt Kleinowitech near his home, "No. 37 Debevoise Street, Brooklyn. Hr showed fight, kicking Duigan and Koch severely below the t and taking the handevffs from Stern and wating him violently over the head, 1e officers said Patrolman Christopher — Zimmer joined the parole offi und brought Kleinowltch under contre —_— BRONX GAS CO. ‘EXPERT’ URGES HIGHER PRICES Figures Used by Mr. Cart Purely Hypothette Hearings on the applicatic Bronx Gas and Eloctric Cor crease the gas rate from $10 were resumed to-da vice Commissioner Van Voorh! Most of the time of to-da ing was takens up by Assi: poration Counsel Donnelly 4 amination of Robert A, Carter ey f the Treasurer of the ¢ Compa Young M Consolidated and it i Mo fiuren eubInitied by Mr. Carter tbstantiate th , ft ' hat i titled to reage Int ion of 6a } ' 1 ) A alin’ " from Nis own vind and not from t m bo. they were entirely hyporhoticnl Donnelly devoted | If to an effort te show that alt Carter 14 9 hig leed executly noth ve practical s ufacturit vemally Warns Hotel Yellowley Men to End Kum Sa ©, Yellowley, Acting Proni 1 formal nott tors that th Unless tt aald, “1 ha the law. th 1 Street Car Men Cut Own Wager. DES MOINES, Oct. 14 —The Street s Union nas ma t t osu ted Aug r id ald in bringing about a lower fa The reduction {s from 59 cents an ho to 52 cents, and means a saving to tho company of $125,000 a your, He was suffering from ptomaine mer Oct. 26. Alexander Costa, twenty-three, of| to-day $500,000 worth of articles that No. 3024 East Sixth Street, Brooklyn, | have been selzed from travellers arriv- treet dis-| ing at this port. On Oct. 26, he will sell trict, walked into the hospital about] them at auction and eggs in the Postal Lunch. Costa Miss Nellie Parker, thirty-one, of|oid newspapers, valued at $1, to a set of No, 859 Southern Boulevard, the}200 C! Bronx, was taken !n an ambulance at | Suiz nographer, She died at 9.30 without) perfume from France will fall under recovering consclousness. Her all-|the hammer with thousands of fest of ment was diagnosed 4s poisoning. Af- he was subdued and held by| charge of | Were! | HEALTH soap 3 —— BRYANT PARK RAID | “sowie”“CAwera HERE FROM PARIS: NETS 7 SLEEPERS | 1, rset orm and Is Set in Motion by camera seen here arrived on the Berengarla yesterday in the pos-«* ~ it session of C. D. Barton, an Auss Only Three Claim to Be Ex,] tratian, who got it in Paris tor’« Service a ‘i i) $100. It uses twenty-five feet of Service Men Most Admit hist) ahd ia! aot in ahlon dee Life Idleness. pressing a spring Pak He believes it will be popular xclal events. “ The police made an unexpected rald on Bryant Park, Sixth Avenue and ar 42d Street, early to-day and gathered] BANDIT GETS $592, . In fifty-seven men, who were taken POLICEMAN NEAR | to West 20th Street Station and ques- tioned, after which they were locked]... .. as up for violation of park ordinances.| Victim So Frightened by Revolver It Was intimated this is the beginning in Store Hold-Up, He Lets, of a clean-up of the parks. aie Only tires oF the treysseven otalihed Cop Stroll Past. Zn to be service men, and th had] Arnold Degner, owner of a dell- no pap to prove it. Only six were} catessen at Seventh Avenue and 54th more than twenty-five years old, most | « Street, feels slighted unless he of them being between seventeen and ud * twenty-five, and only ten claimed to|e!4 up every so often. Evidently live in New York. Most of them ad-|/eallzing his loneliness, an armed mitted they had never worked in their} handit walked {nto the store ealy up they began shouting: “When do we Degner says the man who strolled eat?) When do we eat?" in just as he was counting his casi ot until breakfast time," they] didn't look like a bandit and aw? were told. They cheered when led to] nounced that he was seeking a squafé bunks for the night, saying they would] 1 As Degner turned around to at lea 5 A. M. there was not a “homeless”|oggs he heard a « man in Bryant Park, There had been|hind bun. Turnin three, but they ran when they saw a|the muzzle of a big resolver. reporter comin The police say very| “Just at that moment,” satd Dewe sor street panband-{ ner, ‘a pol strolled by my ving and that to-day's! store, 1 ow to yell, but the round-up proves it pistol seemed to say ‘No!’ so I didn’t, panes The bandit got my money and therf LACES FOR $500,000 | sivang into a waiting automobiteand CUSTOMS AUCTION] ‘22% Diamonds, Wines and Many Other Articles to Go Under Ham- licking noise bee w park loun, are des Peter F, Bradley, Deputy Collector of Customs in charge of the selzure room of the Appraiser's Stores, will exfloit ever in the history of the port has there been assembled such # costly and varied collection as will go under Brad- y's hammer. Tue 3,500 pi 8 to be sold vary from a 350-pound bundle of 88 A 300-horsepower Hispano- engines, appraised at $262,120. nother article is a trunk containing 8 feet of developed motion picture appraised at $8,705, rare and costly lace, which will be sold in small lots of about thirty yards each. ee ee sou), worth oc diumonde| {| The three greatest. Oe ible and that an autopsy aionn | Varying in size from two to six carats.) H cigarette tobaccos, Also on the sale list are ninety-fv hotties of Chinese wine, said to have a | MILDNESS- tremendous kick. -AROMA But there 1s one article upon which Mr. E ley feels he will get no bids, because of Its grewsome appearance, i 1 eit anan head with « urge shoe | ONLE-Eleven of black hatt and 14 supposed to be that wha Now Zealand warrior slain about 200 Shave ago Cigarettes See Retired Police Lieutenant Dien. forty-eight, died to-day at his| f 20 forl5 Police Lieutenant Frank T. home, No. 1418 ith Street, Brooklyn, He was retired because of fil heaith on Aug. 15 last. Lieut. Lane BD 4 . appointed 10 the force on Dec | Ge Mea was 1896, when sodore of the board nt in 190 | Preside Ke brings it within reach of every home. Its cleaning and beau- tifying qualities will delight every member of your family. Pure, unbleached, palm oil gives ‘Lifebuoy its RED color. | The S Es sia lives, They embraced all nationall-|Sunday and robbed Degner of $59% tes. \ few months ago another bandit) Before the fifty-seven were locked] robbed him of $429 t get a warm place to sleep. At} do the honors to a couple of fried” he gazed into’ z