The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 9

CITY DEFRAUDED | OF THOUSANDS IN ~ BIG WATER GRAFT One Inspector Arrested and Sensational Revelations Are Promised as Inquiry Begins WWater Supply, Gas and Mas discovers Puntires of throug arate: whos: Jerse, As gation has The o the commis. @oner was the arvest of John Klap @ city water meter inspector, who will be arraigned late: in the Jefferson Market Court on a charge of violat- fg Section 1432 of the This concerns tampering meters Seals of sixteen water meters in the Brony aione have have been tampersd with, Like ions have been found ia Manhattan nd in otic: boroughs. A special probe & being made of Frooklyn A concern manufactures water meter seals called up Commis sioner Hayes Jast Monday and said man giving the name of “Clarkson” Hayes, Commissioner of Electricity, that the city has lost thousaitds of dollars systematic tampering wit! meters located » con: snnual water bills are unusually A resul been ordered step taken by L sweeping investi with water been discovered to ‘ond: which fhad called and wanted to buy a water! seal with a certain serial number. The| eommissioner told the manufacturer to arrase a further meeting and Clarkson ‘stained the seal he asked for. Pp rial numbee it contained, investi on showed, was the same that installed in the Armington Co Poration, a steam laundry at Nos 540-518 West 58th Street, When rkso' lead for the Meter seal at tho office of the manu facturer two detectives were hidden in > room. ‘Thomas M, Murphy, Chief erk of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, lark ind Klapp sre the sam “Our inspectors visited the plant of the Armington Corporation,” said Me, Murphy, “and which had been handed to Klapp was found on the Armington mete!. the meter show a evidence of having | been tam) tis the poin Comm missioner of says, he seal one of | ished back.” es called Com- Accounts Hirshfield to his uid. The latter issued subpoenas for Miesident Armington anda Secre- tary lerguson of the Steam Laundry Company The Accounts Commissioner claims that on Monday last Ferguson made out « check to cash for $125 and that the check is credited to “gratuity” in the laundiy company’s books eS SLAUGHTER’S LOOT LEFT HIDDEN IN TIRE, Told He Was to Have $102,500 Lay Death Cume First. PINE BL IS, Ark. Dec. 12 Buried somewhere in an automobile tire in Northern ‘Texas $102,500 worth of securities, Tom Slav Where but is bank W. Mills, con) pany Mr, Mills said he had had an ap- pointment to meet Slaughter at the penitentiary to-morrow, and the bandit was to have told him the hid- ing place so the money could be re- turned before Slaughter went to the electric chalr. Following Slaughtee's conviction he professed religion and was told he would have to return the money be- fore he could be forgiven. The out- law had ‘eed to do this, but he saw ints chance to escape and did so, being killed in the attempt tng the hiding place. James C. Howard, fellow convict | who killed Slanghter, was hurried to the penitentiary here for safe keep- .fme. Feeling against him was running high and officials said to-day ‘had been talk of lynching him. robberies, acc igent for ding an insurance without reveal- there COCKTAILS AT HOME You can have just as fine Oyster, Clant or Crab Meat Cocktails at home as in the best restaurants, A really wonderful dressing, is made with 2 parts of 'Lea & Perrins’ Sance and ‘4 parts of catsup! Be eure you LEAS PERRINS SAUCE THE ORIGINAL: WORCESTER Penal Code.” Manhattan. | © counter of | f Joot obtained by his band all hed W. S. Menden, General peer lly of the B. R. T. for Receiver [EDISON FINDS FORD SCHEME | banner of thn AT MUSCLE SHOALS “GREAT’’$ (sc 'siecs0 crs” |whom the condition described was WOULD KEEP UP ARMS TESTS. “me it aps {iva pith bec collected their 10 annum right up to the k From (rapeetion Trip. Hel I ieee wren the grip of the B roves Fertilizer Pl: slid off the end of the financial line} \pproves Fertilizer Plan fe which it had been long sus- Heartil the system was disintegrated, ded many hundreds of transfer points) were abolished and extra fares were | (Patel all over the borough fe st | Before Mr. r. Shearn read a letter nee R. Sheffleld, trustee in bank- | ruptey for the Interborough-Consoli- replied | through WANTS U. S. Preranes| Inventor Says America Should Continue Submarine and Gas Experiments. | dated Corporation. ‘The letter explained certain points Facelveraiy Might Have Been! in the loan made Dec, 31, 1919, by who has beea Mr. Sheffield to the Avoided if Constituent Line | Rapid rransit Company. The letter Had Cut Annual Per Cent, cleared up any doubt about the In- anes Edacelal Consolidated loaning the the Government returned : : R. T. $1,000,000 after collecting settles RCI INU $500,000-—*which left the account just as it was before the checks were in- Rapid Transit Com- | terchanged.” It was also shown by Mr. Shearn that the entire funds in the hands of Receiver Sheffield out of which he made $1,000,000 ioan on New Year's see, cotton seed in some places just eve to the I. R. T. lo avoid a re- sprouts and dies. 1 am heartily in!sn annual dividend cf 10 per cent. and | ceivership, came in part from his col- favor of thevauheitiec’ ‘put Some of the profits back to form| lection just previously made that Mr. Edison, turning to the Arms| hara| Same day from the Interborowdgh Conference, declared himself for go- | Rapid Transit Company of $500,000 limes ing ahead in experimentation with | Mr. Menden said that w the death-dealing materials. ; Por many years, the inquiry dis-| disintegration of the BR. 'T. fol- America must keep ahead of the closed, the Brooklyn City Railroad | towed the receivership the Brooklyn other fellow,” he said was a moneymaker and up to June | City Railroad Company, composed of “It would be a great ‘mistake to/30, 1919, paid an annual dividend of |44 per cent. of the entire mileage, stop experimenting. I, for one, would /10 per cent. The Bréoklyn City | was dropped from the system., Mr | have it ahead of any other country in | Railroad amounted to 44 per cent, of |Shearn showed that the Brooklyn ity experiments with gases and sub-}the BR. 'T. system City Railroad had been paying its | suggested to the| way until the lease was dropped. | Discussing an invention by his son,|directors and they never brought up| The dropping of this lease, Mr ‘Theodore, tye inventor said of the}the matter themselves that the divi-|Shearn pointed out, could have been |War Department that it was like a|dend, in the light of the outlook,| voided by a slight reduction of the man with concussion of the brain,|should be decreased?” Clarence ‘10 per cent. dividend on the stock and ; dazed by the war. It accepted noth- ing and adopted nothing. | He described the invention as a | gyroscope run wild. It is a machinc | gun in the form of a wheel 3 feet in |diameter with a velocity of seven miles a minute. It is run by a Ford motor | “We tried it out at Montclair and jWe tried it on an island near Key West,” said Mr. Edison. “We strung wire entanglements 100 feet wide and , | 100 feet deep and then set the gun sg) | Work on thm. It penetrated them." It was whem he was asked whether the War De; artment had accepted the |invention of the son, who is a student jat the Massachusetts Tech, that the |inventor gave his characterization of jthe War Department. “The country,” Mr. Edison said, “is coming through its fifth period of de- | pression that I have seen. I expect pre-war conditions to be reached in |four or five years. America is like a |great curve, the angle being 14 de- |srees. It gows ahead, swings down land then comes up. ‘Things are im- ving now I hope the Irish peace comes through. It is hard to get two I jmen to agree. The Irish Parliament will be a real argumentative body. |There will be plenty of real hot stuft there and the American newspaper men that cover it specially will not lack for live copy." ples tf |GERMANS SEEK TO OUST | U.S, FILMS IN EUROPE °| Bie Organizations Unite to Com- | pete With American Product. | BBRLIN, Nov. 21 (by mail).—German | motion picture manufacturers have per- | fected a co-operative organization, one of the prime purposes of which is to capture the European trade held by American producers. They are endeav- oring to develop a ‘screen humor," which heretofore has bean lacking in their productions. Virtually all Teuton fil until recently,, have dealt only jwith historical, legendary and romantic | subjects. Some ‘of the German companies have engaged American directora and are striving to put American ‘pep’ into their plays, to meet home consumption 48 well as export demands, for Ameri- can films smuggled into ‘the country during the last several months proved surprisingly popular. ‘Thomas A, Edison looking over the Mussel Shoals pro- ject fur which Henry Ford has made an offer te to West Orange The ‘Transit to-day. but he to-day revealed that the now bank- Brooklyn “Ford is a great mechanic, isa little shy on chemistry, .That is pt the reason he asked me to go down! pany might possibly have avoided a said the inventor.” I think it’s) pecuwership had the stockholders of | pfoject. ‘This country needs] i. Brooklyn City } Needs it for its cotton. You Railroad, one of the constituent lines, taken less than ja surplus against impending | marines.” “Nobody ever OPPENHEIM, GLLINS & € 34th Street—New York Introducing New Exclusive Model Slippers For Women and Misses — A Clever Dance Model Equally Smart for Street and Evening Bronze Kidskin, Patent Leather, Black Satin, Black Suede and Gun- metal Calfskin, also a combination of Patent Leather with Black Suede. Complete with hammered metal buckle. Exceptional at 10 75 e Store Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P.M. Until After Xmas OPPENHEIM, CLLINS. & C 34th Street—New York A Special Purchase and Sale—Tuesday 650 Women’s High Grade Silk Blouses idee jrevenues at & Interborough A _PHENIX PRODUCT § | Milk is the greatest vitamine | thus enable’ the B. RT. to maintain| Ri, Me, Menden denied there was] thet whole ayatem Waittorence ne To eed ttettween| CITY AGAIN SUES Mr. Menden said he could not tell! the coal prices pald by the By R. who was responsible for the failure to | und the TR. T. agree to @ continuation of transfers | "t would ‘be a decided beneft _ between the disintegrated lines, e/the public and some materia advan- ,. ‘ iti denied that the motive behind the|tage to the company in the matter of Second Suit — Instituted dropping of the Brooklyn City Ruil-| costs.” said Mr. Menden in answer! potisyille Man Who Picked | p road from the 1. IT. system was to) to the question, of existing franchises | 4 Book as Antique. new Municipal Building in New York, discontinue the free transfer privilege. | ¥« disregarded and all the Brook: Mr. Mende nitted that the Yn lines rerouted for more economtoa! | ir. Menden admitted that the sec: | POTTSVILLE, Pa, Dec. 12.—The| SPanuth demands $3,000 for its re- City of New York, through local coun- | ond fare zone on the Coney Island | and more effisent service, line from Delancey Street was moved! The finan reports of the New York | farther west, ‘#0 that more pec Consolidated were put in evidence. alia would pay a double re than they did sel, to-day filed a second suit against TWO TRY SUICEDE BY GaAs. | Jacob Spanuth of this city to recover! James Bozér, Afty, of No. 241 West Deed Book No. 1 of the City of New ,°24 Street and an unidentified man, York, which Spanuth picked up as an |about forty-eight. five feet nine inches, Seton KENTUCKY LAW 18 UPSET, antique collector while in the metro. |Srey hair and eyes, sttempted sulcide Similar westward movements of | WASHINGTON, Dec, 12.—The Ken- double fare points were made on | tucky law requiring corporations to reg- i Bozer's addreas to-~day. They ware polls some years ago. moved to Bellevue Hos; Franklin Avenue and other lines to|Jater before doing business in that nu the first suit the city's bond of from illuminating gas poisoning. $10,000 to cover an action in repk ¥ was found to be defect! FOR LOST RECORD] conaton ine "sats" tase! secre ae ‘ - ownership of millions of dollarw worth Against | 0 Astor and other property holdings. | lt had been thrown out as funk fol- lowing the transfer ef records to the exact more double fares |State cannot apply to a corporation en- ‘The witness sald that the fare} saged in Interstate commerce, the Su- | have ‘resulted, in additional | preme Court ‘neld in a decision handed 10 cents’ per passenger. | down to-day Mr. Menden supported Receiver Gar- ms testimony to the effect th 0 transfer points had — been |. dropped. tt h the breaking up of the 8 m. ‘The rage ger in 1919, including two cents, double Receiver nsfers including | reused: aaa" iburs FIFTH ‘AVENUE AT O8e'STREET: FOR TUESDAY ONLY has been an increase in’ labor eftt- clenc urface cars are :carrying more engers with less cars. 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