The evening world. Newspaper, November 16, 1921, Page 9

CHANGE IN HOURS OF PUBLIC URGED AS SUBWAY RELIEF Transit Board Engineer Says This Is Only Way to Reduce Crowding. Daniel L. Turner, Consulting Engi- neor to the Transit Commission, who was Chief Engineer under the former ‘Transit Commission, testified to-day at the resumed hearing into transit problems before Transit Commission- ers McAneny, Harkness and O'Ryan that in his opinion no additional rapid transit trunk lines can be built on Manhattan Isiand within less than five years. Therefore, he declared, the only possible temporary relief rom the overloading of subway cars 13 a readjustment of the working hours of the travelling public, such a8 was done at the suggestion of Health Commissioner Copeland three years ago during the influenza epi- demic, Mr. Turner told details of the enormons overloading of subway cars during rush and noon houre. He testified that during a fifteen minutce’ tratue period in the two evening rush jours t! was a 290 per cent. load, © an overiwad of 190 per cent To spread this tremendous fifteen minutes overload over the entire two rs' rush in the evening by a read- justment of working hours, Mr. Tur- ner said, would still reeult in an iwerload of $2 per cent. Without apenuing a dollar for new trunk lines rhe teluporary relief by spreading the gad would be 60 per cont relief in the trattc capacity, Mr, Turner de- clared in answer to questions asked oy Clarence J. Shearn, special counse, to the commission. “It is imperative this should be done,” Mr. Turner said, “until some rt of permanent relief can pe had. ‘ansit plan or no transit plan, some~ hing must be done along the: S. “Phe dally aver increase in pe-eson- in the subway lines in 1920 was WO a day over the average day in 1019.” In the year 1920 there were carried on all transit lings in this city a total ‘of 2,865,000,000 passengers, which was just aouble the trattic carried on all the ateam railroaus of the country. Thig was an increase of 285,000,000 pna- engers over 1919, The construction of new subway iney in subduroan districts and -tho sxtension of existing elevated tines ited in main n the Greater City } idditional congestion on trunk ines in Manhattan, ceclared, He said tne mistake made a the past was the failure to de- jop trunk lines in the elty con- rrently with the extensions in the uburbe. “In four forty-etghths of the time, ixteen forty-eighths of the traffle 14 varried,” Mr. Turner ifi “and be morning peak 18 the fitt utes just before 9 o'c evening peak ts th just after 6 o horough alone there js carried-..1 «ne sifteen minutes evening peak 68,000 passengers, while the company pro- vides only 28,300 seats,” It was further testified that the sur- face lines carry 1,000,000,000 passen- sers a year, which ts 40 per cent of The total annun! traffic of the alty. “And chese@re the lines which some people suggest be scrapped?” Mr. Shearn asked. Mr. Turner said they are Frederick W. Lindars, chief ac- countant for the commission, testified on the expenses of the traction cor- porations. His evidence was based on the companies’ financial reports and was accepted subject to a future examination by the commission. It wae intimated at the commission's cffices that the commission “wants 10 be shown” when‘it comes to state- ments of expense. Lindar said all the companies been operating under a gradual increase in expenses since 1915, when the operating expenses of all com- panis were 478 cents per revenue passnger. The figure was the same in 12918, 4.25 in 1917, 6.19 in 1918, 5.91 in 1919, 6.12 in 1320 and 6.43 in 192) ‘The statement shows that Inter- borough expenses he from 2 81 cents per rev car- red in 1915 to It was Jigheet in 191 #40 cents for passenger The expenses on the clevated tines jamped frem 4.74 cents per revenue passenger carried in 1915, to 6.90 cents ja 1921. The B, R. T. subway lince’ expense per passenger was 441 cents $n 1915, and tt climbed to 6.56 cents | tr 1921 Assistant Corporation Counsel Kd- ear J, Kohler was an interested spec- at the hearing to-day, Bach introduced finncial sted on behalf of the Cit the data .COLGATES RIBBON DENTAL CREAM Lasge Size 2c — Medium Size 10¢ Refreshing as the Morning - "Colgate’s in Time Saved Mine” ° Good Teeth Good Health , when the cost was! GR OF 181 COURT ON MURDER CHARGE OFERS AN AL (Continued From First Page.) have plenty of witnesses to prove the following version for the defense: “On the night that Garbe was shot | Miss Humann and Lebasc! met at her | home and he took her to a dance at | Sch.aven Hall, Knickerbocker and {Myrtle Avenues, Brocklyn, When they reached the hall Lebascj found that he had only 35 cents, not enough to buy tickets for two, He borrowed $5 from an acquaihtance, giving his overcoat as security, and he and Miss Humann went in to the dance. “Soon afterward Migs Humann re- ceived a telephone message from her father saying that her mother was i. She left the dance immediately and Lebasci took her home. We shall prove by forty witnesses, if nec- jessary, that she and Lebasci were at the dance at the time of the murder. “Lobasci never owned a pistol, The leather holster found in his room was | tor a pistol once owned by his father. | “As for the story that Miss ‘Hu- mann had deen engaged to Garbe, it {s false, She knew him, she had gone with him a few times until about a but he had insulted her last Christmas an had had nothing do with him since.” Assistant District Attorney Voll- ner, who presented the Statb's cas sald he would not deny that the cou- ple were at the dance when they said they were, but would prove that she murder was committed before the dance—hbetween i and 7.40 o’ciock in the evening. Earlier versions had placed the time of the shooting at 10 P.M. Voliner said he had witnesses, who saw Miss Humann with two men near the scene of the shooting, and he sald Lebasc! would be identified as one of the men. Garbe's statement, made at the hospital shortly before his death, wae that he had broken with Miss Hu- mann a long time before the shooting and that she had come to his home on the fatal night and asked him to take a walk with her because she wanted to talk to him. He said she told him she intended to become a chorus girl in New i York and argued with him about it while they walked around It was whe. he said, who route of the walk, and they came repeatedly to the corner of Madi: and Woodhaven Avenues. The las time they reached that point, he sala, a man, or two men, jumped from be- hind some bushes. and one of them shot him. He sald he saw the pisi plainty, that {t had a shiny ba and a light colored wood handle. T man who fired, he said, wore a brown overcoat and a light colored cap. Lebasci, accoritng to his will admit that he was wen that did net belong to hin tho when he took Miss Humann He got the cap by mistake, he in hurry.ng away from the hall. * ‘Tie State will attempt to show tha da shooting .2n after the man who had fired the shot, and that in her hast she nearly knocked down > gray haired ma’. in her path. ‘The trial was set for N ——_—-— P, 0, Aske Aid tn Rapid Delivery. Postmaster Morgan to-day ed an appeal to owners of buildings to see ¢ are properly numbered and that proper provision is made for the reception of mail—elther by convenient mail boxes or by mail chutes. He declared that the Inek of these two things is [requentiy the cause of delay or error tn the deliy~ ery of mfil. 684+ Colored Bohemian Glase table decoration. $20 OM 39th Street and ifth Avenue, gifts are sent every day, to every stute in the Union, Even as you are reading this now, some- body, somewhere between Newport and Pasadena is getting a new thrill from the freshly arrived Ovington gift. OVINGTON’S “The Gilt Shop of 5th Ave” Fifth Avenue at 39th St. Your eyes do e@ great deal for you. What do you do for them? They surely need attention—they may need glasses. Don’t neglect them. Relii Eyesight Exarnination By Registered Eye Specialists Pehikich te Sons New York: 184 B'way, at John St. 228 Sixth 15th St. 350 Sixth Av., 22d St, 101 Nassau, at Ann St. 17 West 42d Street B’klyn:817 Fulton St., opp. Nemu's Mies Hurcann immediately atter thy] THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1981, SCENTFAREBAGK. ON 90 DAYS TRL NBROGEPORT Fate of Jitneys Held in’Abey- ance by Connecticut Public Service Commission. | HARTFORD, Nov. 16.—Two dect- sions of the Public Utilities Commis- ston to-day restore for a ninety-day experimental pertod the 6-cent flat trolley fare in the City of Bridgeport and reject additional applications for ‘itney routes in that city and to suburban towns. The controversy in Bridgeport has been a lively one for monthe. The commission, under a law of the last General Assembly, drastically curtailed the" operation of Jitneys because “public necessity and convenlence did not require them” in| competition with the Ss of the! tonnecticut Company, a former sub- sidiary of the New York, New Haven} and Hartford Railroad Compan: now heid by five Federal trustees. | The support of jitneys was euch in| rolley-Jitney Bridgeport that the trojiey company | had repeatedly threatened to stop] operation. fonths ago It did stop! for a short period. of Bridgepo: ed for another hear-| i - aksence of Col, Henry L. Stimson, cou ng on the question of allowing more) ssi for many of the manutacture Jitneys to operate, and with the|tence, was deferred until oy "7 | morning. Manufacturers’ Association asked tor} Col, William Hayward, Feéeral Pros a 5-cent trolley fare. | The decisions to-d give oppor-|{ tunity to try out the 5-cent® fare,! Recently the city |" am withhold, pending the experiment, any further development of jitnoy transportation, The commission finds Bridgeport | has not co-operated in supporting | the trolley lines and has aided “ruinous jitney competition.” ie willing to have the people of Bridge- port themselves demonstrate to what extent they will patronize the trol- leys, The commission doubts that 10 cents {s the economic fare for dally | riders {n populous centres. The trol- | ley company is ordered to make strict accounting of all factors entering into the experiment. a KEEPS WIFE, DESPITE HIS LIE ABOUT AGE Falsehood 1s Ground For Annulment. Falsitying age and concealing a pro- vious marriage do not constitute grounds for annulment, Justice Gannon dectded to-day in Brooklyn Supreme Court. He dismissed an action for an- ulment by Mrs, Annie Mendelsohn, No. 208 Milford Street, against Abraham Mendelsohn, No. 607 Warwick Street, . Brooklyn, Mrs. Mendelsohn alloged that prior to thelr inarriage Mendelaohn told her he was thirty-seven and had been married | only, once before, and had only two| children, She discovered after the mar- riage, sho alleged, that he waas fifty- one, was married twice before, and had| four children. She complained also that) Mendelsohn waa not as romantic in married life as he had been du’ his courtship, ‘The court decided these} things were not enough to justify an] annulment. “ spams TILE AND GRATE MEN SENTENCED TO-MORROW. Prosecutor Will Urge Jail tences for Som: ination of memvers of the Tile, | and Mantel Association w! tkoded guilty was completed to- | Judge W. C. Van Fleet in the States District Court. In w Court Ne) Sen-| rate United culor, renewed ‘hin notice that he w: going to urge the court. to ‘mpono Jul sentences on some of the confess’ offenders, WIFE’S LOVE NOT DEAD BECAUSE SHE KISSES ANOTHER Divorce Judge “Amorous Affairs” Not* Conclu- sive Proof of Loss of Affection. CHICAGO, Nov. 16. Kissing another man, and even the existence of “amorous affairs,” does not mean a wife no longer loves her husband, Divoree Judge David declared to-day im holding a wife's love is not limited. The court was commenting on a jury verdict against John IL. Walter, who had sued Samuel Johnson for $5,000, charging aitenation of Mra, Walter's affections, “If {t t# true,” Judge David said, “that the defendant and the plaintiff's wife were too friendly, it does not follow that she lost ber affection for her husband You lawyers would not contend that in the olden days of France husbands and wives did not love each other because they had other amorous affairs.” Walter alleged that Johnson tn 1218 had been too friendly with Mrs. Walter and presented wit- nesses of their Kissing in Mrs. Walter's boudoir, Walter later secured a divorce and soon after Mrs. Walte: died ‘ Horlick’s T ORIGINAL Malted Milk Declares Even Stree Women’s Separate Skirts | } | plaited of fine quatity; in plai is mow in pro A Sale of for to-morrow (Thursday) wil! comprise a new assortment of choice, all-woo! skirts, finely tailored, in fancy stripes and checks offering remarkable value at $11.50 (Department on Third Floor) | | Scotch Chenille Carpeting nm colors and 9, 12 and 15 feet is being offered at $9.00 per square yard (War Revenue tax additional) in the Rug Department on the Fifth Ficor | A Special Offering of Blankets, Bedspreads, Etc. ress on the Fourth Floor in widths of New Location when Decorations and Equipment are Completed, Fifth Ave. at ‘56th and 57th Sts. 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