The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1922, Page 3

pF: ARTY TS | Iie gtrnatnd TTT Th Ta tet mens “The fact is, we're all poor liars—though some of us are poorer than others.” FIREMEN INJURED, HUNDREDS EVICTED IN OIL TANK BLAZE: Fe —— Greenpoint Tenants Ordered | Out by Police as Explosion Endangers Their Homes, TWO FAMILIES IN PERIL. Policeman Jumps From Pass- ing Car and Rescues Four Trapped on Top Floor. Three firemen were injured In a spectacular fire early to-day in the yard of the Sone & Fleming Com- pany, a subsidiary of the Standard Ol] Company, at Kingland and Meser- ole Streets, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Because of fear of oil explosions @nd consequent destruction of near- by tenements hundreds of residents of the neighborhood were ordered into the streets. Afterward the police found shelter for them in stores and garages. Firemen hurt are MURRAY, LIBUT. JOHN, Engino Company No. 238, scalded and hit by @ piece of pipe. St. Catherine's Hos- pital; condition not serious. CLANCY, JOHN, #ame company, thrown to pavement and cut and bruised. Attended by Greenpoint Hospital surgeon and sent home. TUITT, JAMS, twenty-five, same company, similar injuries; sent home after treatment. There had been three fires within *® vear or so in this yard, one of them burning almost a week, and thou- sands rushed to the vicinity when two alarms were sounded shortly after 12 o'clock this morning. Resi- dents of the neighborhood added to tho confusion by carrying their be- longings to tho street ‘The fire is believed to have ted from a safety valve on an agitator, which contained about 1,500 barrels of It received the oi! ufter it had through its first boiling and be: it passed into the still. es spread to two stills, each about 1,500 barrels of oil, agitator exploded jreat and flame fitied The flames rose ounding vury pnpoint Avenue oil gone fore War containing When volumes the of air for high, lighting su Police from the ition under Capt, Charl first to reach the fire. joined by reserves from the Bedford Avenue, Clymer Street, and Stagg Street Stations. They ordered from their familie had not vacated aided them in obtaining sl After the tire was under police permitted these families to re turn to their homes. smoke blocks. c Ss Lee we ney homes them, 3 who then control the Battalion Chiet Patrick Maher re- sponded to the first alarm and im iately ttrned in a second, which brought "Smoky" Joo Martin, who took charge. It was feared for a timo that Mames might reach some of the forty large tanks in the yard, but the com- Herbert | pany had taken the precaution of drawing off the ofl from these and! ing tt to tan in the Blissville rd The fire we under contol in half an hou Damage was not vs- dimated. coMAR TWO » Him t John Bentham, No. 441 Bast 12d 60 Kane, No. Weat aoth SI accused West Std. Court this morning by Max Hilttlema ss gollector for lower's brewery, No. 525 Weet Wh street, of holding hin up a at Strect and Lith Avenue on Oct. i5 @nd sobbing dim of 1160. THE EVEN SATURDAY, ING WORLD, “Lying is due to fear, or to egotism, or to the natural desire for artistic expression.” “The average child lies as normally as he breathes, be- cause he is afraid of -punish- meat” SS Mrs. Stillman and Indian Guide, Fred Beauvais, in Canadian Wilds jist for data on JANUARY 14 ce oe Sam mw . “Even when it is a question of ‘Texas oil stocks, the lies about them are not what hart—it Is the truth,” We Are All Born I@ars And Improved by Practice, Says Ellis Parker Butler Man Can Tell Lie Better Than Woman, but She Can Act One Best—Person Who Doesn’t Lie as Obviously Abnormal as a Four-Toed Foot—Most Lies Add to the Joys of Living. “Sometimes _a_man_ lies _he- cause he is afraid of his wife. It doesn’t get him anything.” times to fear, some times to egotism, some tlines to the natural desire for artistic expression, “The average child lies as normal- ly as he breathes—untll we teach him that it is nobler to be spanked for stealing the pte than for lying about Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Of liars and the theory and prac- . Ellis Parker Butler, who hing, I. T, and in “Pigs humorous classic, he br shamefacedly admits, is now @ part of of the equipment of all lunatic a it. He lies because he ts afraid of lums), talked last night at—of all|trouble or punishment. [ know—I places—the did! ‘The Hes of women often have strictly honest and tncor- ruptible City Club I had applied to the famous hutmor- a subject of genuine Il of us, novel, been due to fear; for so many cen- turies they have had to rule men by sulle, hypocrisy, untruth, jome times a man lies because he personal interest to almost imad because in his new and amusin PA ee 8 MA wh (I might add that {t usually doesn’t get him any “In Pawn,” he has made a heroine of | |) s . the cheerfulest, most unmitigated Har | thing. She knows that he isn't T have ever met in fiction, Further-|!"& tf truth, ynow what th truth Is. | “The only He to be utterly condemned is the mean lie told to injure some one and to exalt the liar.” ARMED BANDITS IN $4,000 HOLDUP COW BlG CROWD Grab Payroll and Make Way Through Throng, Escaping in Stolen Auto. The ease with which a New York crowd may be cowed was attested te- cay by detectives of the East 35th Street Station, who worked all night n the $4,000 payroll robbery in front tf the main office of the dyeing firm Recs & Rees, No, 282 East 40{h Street, almost at busy Third Avenue Yesterday afternoon W. Roberts, raanager, and Mich: Hennessey and of Charles Doran, employees of Reos & Rees, went to a bank at 42d Street end Fifth Avenue and got the $4,000, | Which was put in a small leather bag “| even if she doesn’ tl t: ri en, | More often, | for and tossed into the company's wagon they had driven to the bank, Just a3 ney had done every Friday afternoon | more, he adinits, in this book, that he] | PO" en a ee months i9 an authority on lying, a sort of | VOWSNers eas ee et Doran drove the wagon back to the walking “\WWho's Who in ia about. himself ail his gehlevementa, | Mala store and Roberts and Hennes- _ ; scar og { Thi Sort of Iying, in the case of SY 6t Out, Roberts with the bag. lave given a great de | net : : : von | three men, who had ben lounging Cre nea i men, women and even children, hought to lies,” he says, “having Deen) ote into the desire for artistic ex. | 2bOUt an automobile across the streec, & well-known liar myself and being an | on the impulse to create, Osten Walked over and intercepted them. A:1 admirer of the late Mark Twain, 10 | oes een eel tie masterpiece of thFee had revolvers in thelr hands and was a connoisseur in this field I S = ove 4 i fiction e sald: have classified human beings in four| "4,00. | “Nand over the bag or we'll Ki'l Son Posen | “And it ts hard to shake the nar-) “Mand t yey |rator’s faith in a fable of this sort, | ¥&U both, + Those who sin not and tell NO! © dite ¢eiend of mine in Brooklyn! The bag was dropped and Roberts whos : {ues came home and told her mother Pd Hennessey put up their hands, ¥ hose who sin and tell the truth) oe pad seen a lion in the corner of, The robbers grabbed the bag an * chet Resa yeouineyscannst jMr. Smith's yard, She was rebuked backing their two vietims Into « door- ere Phone who lie romantically and! toy tening an impossible fb, ‘Oh, {Way ordered them to remain at feast ie tige intent, but who Are | well,’ said the child, ‘if it wasn’t a! fve minutes if they valued their Ives weakened by it that, alt oush (ey! ton it was a eodfish!!* | 4 large crowd quickly gathered, but Dida not lie to do intentional harns, | it did not include # policeman, and no ; de come, in time, to lie in selt-pre-} tp, Butter paused, in the consump-|Cne was armed, apparenuly, exce ot tection or to protect another tion of excellent filet of sole, to! the bandits, = 4. Those who will lie to do an-Leull trom his pocket the notebook he| They backed through the crowd to FRE De ene MRS STILL MAN * jother harm or to win the liar personal]! carries—presumably that no stray | thelr automobile and drove away. The ; Vent EAS PA of | advantage, or for any ott " ‘}sced of a joke shall fall by the way-|police were given the number of the Fred Beauvais, Indian guide co-respondent in the Stillman whatever wide j automobile, but it proved to be tha divoree action, adjusting Mrs, Stillman’s snowshoes at Grande he only diffleulty with this eh “Lt occurred to me the other day," ler a car stolen Wednesday night un Anse, the Stillman camp on the St. Maufice River, Canada, the ifoation,”” I told Mr, Huth that} he observed, “to start two sepa a2dBtreet. It was found last nigut other day. Mrs, Stillman is resting there and gathering witnesses {t 1s incomplete. ‘Ther r sv} columns of observations, In this book. |1y a polt in front of No, 63 for her defense, inany more kinds of lit one to be called ‘meticulous veracity’ | west A black . an Won't you nan ind the other *trutt ally, they Feviven bar and the leathes bur that Mh | he begged, deftly tmpulit not at all the same for eX-| contained the $4,000 were left. Only | combined dining with the discussion} looking man, you would be meticu-|\itue to the robbers were left in the r cf mendacity lously veraciuus—that goes without ie, ' ying—but would unybody know that a a There ts the Pre it i 1 mu spoke the truth” t SPORM COMENG, + “the man v t a ie ‘The somewhat chubby bumorist] ‘The Local Wen Bureau to-day a "t a thing lett wher i ghed, a little pensively ived the adv me full of it, or who - n “The trut obs ed, ‘is fre- | 58s" (Higa the Wash . . $i . a ¢ on ie! 2 home bre: e tas 1 r ; 2 3 Southwest rm wrt +President Instructs Portmaster General Hays eine: eam ywien i618 \ aueniy a terrihle thing! of Have) ale |p star ta) toakiport. St | jsrds. There is the income tax | ways thought of myself as tall and . “ : ite rita : marked inten central over to Confer With New York Authorities to {he has to be clever, but 1 Uy} svelte, Not long ago, at a certain | iy z Minnesota and ' | naan to get away wit unction which I attended as one of | y a . ritct 8 tO ge AWAY i ” n attended ai ward, Wind will Cony Remove Eyesore From Ci ity Hall Park. “'Xnd there is the golf lia t| the speakers, my wife waa on onelcreasing te night, and re r, Bute: ot to be « of the room and 1 the other, |p: da rn wit President Harding has instructed!an ¢ ante t be arranged | MY. Butler, not to t E theron ang, the ovier. ts Bund a Postmaster G " ' 1 Government |"4Kes untrustworthy a | heard a feminine say to|weather and or Fi -ostmaster ner ys to take up € t di ihes oi " } «| wnothe *Which is Mr. Butle == Sy une ‘ ee Neila cent alvin the new Court | b!# Score. And the sulur jeer AN Which 1 ytley = = | la Aen ew ork City) House site on Ww the city Is now | figu you must always | Oh,’ said the Indy qugstioned, | person too good to tell a He; some authorit the matter of removing! planning te i in exchange for |ten.* | ‘he's that little, fat man just oppo- ' 1 1 ! what oftener, an ividual may be |the ok st Office Building and city | the ¢ Hall id the Board of *Men't fore Aer Mar," te and Federal officials belleve this | bstir mem have favored this en's FOreet she: As A born without the power of lying, an art eco ae Lillie Fut in, “who regales “ “L was unhappy, when my wife] abnormality as obvious 14 toed a ae ala ieee he end of | Camptroiier ¢ 1 this morn- |storles of the home-truths 1d me about that, Think how hap-| toot, But practically all of us are he long agitation to clear City Hal that t urned over to|the boss.’ y UE might have been, had the lady|porn lars, and our average tmproves Park of the structure the Medera menta map of the | sphere are the Utleal told @ be!" the fe Wy The matter was discussed at the Me € What part | Lae } oe ne longer we ’ Feet ee a aera algae Cie ea aT hment will use can- |Mentioned the author of “in Pawn.” | Which is th t Har, a man or Tipasident. authorised, atc. yt not be 1 the size-and| “There are the pre 1} I remarked that I kuew of no] woman?" I asked, us we sipped our ERe eh AUGON EAT OG: Hane tol shape of the bullling 20 be erected | euntributed greater pest than the professional | coffee jparellate he ehanan\o & site| has been determine Asal the) walian Wt nuth-teller A man can tell a le hotter than a or u me on which to erect - - " ‘ : i er love affal ” } That is true,” Mr. Tut probably because he has had | Mederat buildings. | emosmnG prive FOR K. C. iret, [ebout her love affairs, ° alate “And the man who Even when tt isa qu practi I . owonun can Iustmaster General Hays has been) T) ipreme Bowrd Directors of | ' i the te " t act a lie better t Aman,’ he re York officials in the plan to establish | {nal event w Fork (, “rhe fact if, we're a) that team y ° Chapt t K the K. c,|though some of us at pen a m {4 centre of municipal, State and Fed- yap diyat ¢ an tH 5 F t them too ' " ! World 4 eral Government activities, We has | vaudes by oe a. AR The only wort of tle te he utterly hhin 1 . : ‘ BY Al Rte a te ‘onsomme or me | \ full authority to make a settlement ’ Mon POM. w Mie the walle: thowinis jomned is the men told te ine | ‘ ci tg “A with New York from re | Cast " 1 tars % indi ' I | t wnt rh City m the wi (atare plates. Whiley ndividn t the ma standpoint of post office efticiency 5! r lie ty orl ww nt with H T New h Vhs ow our consomme Tou panes h ‘ Effort to demolish the old Post cams Hi ppodr tion of tk a ‘ mn) ing ort “eyesore, as many have | benefit: except Mount eaten Aes th Ante : ; \ealled {t, has been under way s+ aeveral | bur nd 5 } le eral years. Local Post Office auth- | Mayor Heian, ou Pandan Lying 1 ie ' new! Lave learned orities some time ago suggested thut directora will utiend. blue-eyed bumorist, “we ofp eve e million years, perhaps, Were le} sell ous: + Ellis | Parker Butler, Fictionist, Talks on Lies and Liars That Smooth Life’s Madea and Other Kinds “Practically all of us are born liars, and our average improves the longer we live.” GUESTS AT PLAZA WATCH RESCUES AT SMALL BLAZE Down Near Firemen Carry Several Ladders at Fire Vanderbilt Mansiun. Residents of the exclusive district near the Hotel Plaza and Vanderbilt mansion were thrilled by the spec- tacle of sovern! persons being carried down ladders during a small fire in the ground floor hallway of the six- story studio apartment at No, 34 West 58th Street, almost opposite the hotel, early to-day. L. Plerle Valligny, who has per- fumery showrooms on the #econd floor and lives on the third, was as- sisted down an extension ladder py and Cousins of Engine Company Ne 8 after they had helped down his wife and three- year-old daughter, The child was so affected by the smoke she was at- tended at the Hotel Plaza. T. W. Minot, a member of the Knickerbocker Club, was” assisted down a ladder from his apartment on the second floor. v Pepperman, assistant to the President of the Interborough, found Firemen Darrow with smoke and went to the roof with his va! . Shiah, Firemen ran an aerial ladder to the roof and assisted them to the street | The clanging of the gongs had /brought out many residents of the |neighborhood, The fire did not get into any of the stores or apartarents in the building. MOTHER WITH BABE JAILED FOR THEFT ‘Gets Twenty Days for Stealing Infant Waited Outside Store— Aged Woman Freed, as Mrs. Ttose Rayney, fifty-six years ob} of No, 90% Sixth Avenue, was in General Sessions to-day charged with stealing $26 worth of toys Dee. 19 from I. H. Maoy & Co. Detec- tives of the Stores Mutual Protec- tive Association testified they found the toys in her possesston, but Mrs Mary Mangan, a probation officer, pleaded for leniency, and Justices Kernochan, MeInerney and Salmon suspended sentence. Miss Mary Zombo, twenty-two, of No, 615 Bast 16th Street, also ar- rested by detectives of the Stores Mutual Protective AXsoclation, who testified she stole $49.60 worth of xoods from Hearn & Son while her Jone-year-old son was outside in a baby carniage, received twenty days |in the workhouse, Mrs, Zembo had her baby in her rms when she was sentenced, She ald she would have to take the baby to the workhouse with her, a aieaen YOUTHS SENT TO PRISON FOR CARRYING GUNS venalties Imp: jan to Check C Severe ® Justices _Kernechan, Salmon and Mc Inery, in the Court of Special Session| jto-day {imposed severe penaliles, as part of the campalgn to stamp out crimes of violence, on three youths. Al- fred Bittner, nineteen, No. Pitt cot was sentenced to an indefinite liorm in the New York City Reforma tory for Qaving an automatic pistol and | a tment of cartridges in a bux which he had the key, He was ar ) narootic xquad agen sraphanalla was found with the re The othena sentenced were Willis H wentysone, No. 28 Wes, 138t Street. Boris w their po and 0 from six _m: ta tases jauca ln the peaiteniters, mths his apartment on the sixth floor filled | See Ree eee ee a ee Li! “A man can tell a lie hetter than a woman, but a woman cam lie_better than a man,” HYLAN FLAYS STATE FOR MEDDLING AT HOME RULE PARLEY Conference of 42 Mayors at Buffalo Moves to Urge More Local Autonomy. BUFFALO, Jan. 14.—Representn= tives of forty-two cities of the State mét here to-day to @iscuse tegisiation and amendments to the State constt- tution that would bring a greater measure of home rule to the cities, Chief among the ends sought aret Non-interference of the Legislature in public utility matters affecting le calities. Empowertng the cfties to run pubite utilities, particularly with reference to bus lines, If they see fit tu do se for the benefit of taxpayers, e | Prevention of the enactment of laws under the guise of general stat utes, which are in reality special statutes affecting one locality with- out giving the Chief Executive au- thority to approve or veto the | measure. ‘ In the event that the Court of Ap- peals holds that the Legislature under its police powers may inter- fere with the conditions imposed by localities on traction companies, @m ctment of a constitutional amend ment and of immediately legislating that franchises are inviolable and that the consent of a locality to the use of its streets by traction coms panies may never be int@rfered with. Mayor Hylan of New York City opened the conference with a denun- ciation of ate interference with home rule." He said, in part: “What our cities need is less Als bany rule and interference and more local autonomy. Give the people the right to #ay yes or nay to thone things whic of vital interest to themselves, Let us have home rule permitting cities to exercise local self- government, the right to own, cone trol and operate public utilities. us present a united front against exploiters of the people, the special privileges seeking Interests und the lickspittles on the subsidized and the double-fi political and manipulators in both urties who have betrayed the people into the hands of the railroad, trae tion, public utility and self-seeking rings.”* “In New York City there are two conspicuous elements that make con= nt assaults upon the citadel of gov= th ment. One comprises asping traction, telephone and food monopolle) other represents the viclous yambling and underworld crew The gambling and underworld in- ts, whose sun has set in the City of New York, Want to amass tainted fortunes through the creation | of plague-spots at the expense of the virility of our youth and the ,Scald~ ing ¢ our womanhood.’ \ the City of New York we have given especial attention to the require- nients of our schools and the admints- tration of our Police Department. We feel that the record made in both of tucre branches of our city government jus earned for us the hearty approval of the eltuzenship of the City of Nek York Here bitt Hylan launched into @ denunciation of the Rocke- felle Foundation, declaring the Foundation caused’ to have riveted on the statute books the “pay-as~ you-o law''—"a law that stood as & Chinese wall, preventing the ade vance of school _construction.’* KUMMEL NOW HEADS JERSEY CONSERVATION Mr Vakes Over Job of Garkill Whe Remaina For e TRENTON Jan 14.—The State Roard of Conservation and Develop- ment has accepted the resignation of | Alfred Gaskill as director, He (vill | continue as ate Forester, The Rourd appointed Dr. B. B Kumme! as the new director, He te now the State Geologist and will ree ceive jn additional §