The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1922, Page 3

2290S 000 00 00800 S28 08 SSS EH= eH ows “BOGUS LORD GRAY y CONFESSES THEFT; | WON BRIDES HERE | Counterfeit Nobleman Who } Married American Girls Ad- mits Stealing in London. ; f h i nicl tice maug Despatches to-day from London tel) how the son of a Glasgow cab drive | ; he { fooled Broadw - and Picadiily a few! “Lord Gray, a cousin of the Dulp of wr Arsyll,"" in 14 and 191 when the I yi fanzo craze was at its*leig . He is thirty-two years old and was| so successful in his masquerade 7 won two wives in America. Ie was | 2 well known, especially in Bustanoby's | : Maxim's and Churchill's | y James Douglas More ( came 5 into New York when, th 1 | erage was at its height ju to the war. He was good-looking Scotch - and if any one thought he 'BOGUS NOBLEMAN HELD FOR THEFT, AND FIRST WIFE ANABEL bounder they didn't say so at to! HENDERSON time. He claimed to have been an| % aviator, just to learn to fy and 10) be about to join an Arctic expedition. | Things, he admitted, had gone rather badly with his plans, but thot made no difference. He was the son! of James Gray, Bart of Glenmore Ar- gyle, and was Lord Gray, but he didn't use the title, he explained, not in America, anyway. Things .goi pretty bad with his lordshiy being a good dancer he became goist at Bustanoby's. Bustanoby’s has since ceased to be @ profitable place and been through bankruptcy, due to Prohibition. But in that day before the name of Vol stead was heard it was quite a place in the middle village on afternoons and evenings and even until the morning. In the afternoon it was the home of the flapper, the chorus girl and the movie star At the Charity Ball of Gray became acquainted with Miss Anabel Dade, sixteen, daughter of Mrs. Charles Henderson, wife of a broker of No. 24 West 59th Street. ‘The friends of Lord Gray admitted he was a fast worker and in three weeks Miss Dade had been won and had agreed to elope with him. The young woman knew that con-| sent of her mother was out of the question, and the first mamma heard of it was after a marriage license had been issued at the City Hall and a re- porter had called up the home of the, Hendersons to ask about the mar- riage. Soon after Miss Dade called up ani her mother questioned her. She de- nied the marriage license story. Abus} the time mother dried her tears a wo- man relative called up and confirmes it. She had been invited to the wed ding. Mrs. Henderson called a cab} and started out to stop the affair, but lost the trial. Instead of being i ried at the Little Chureh Around Corner the pair were marricd in Marble Collegiate Church. There was @ reconeilliation with mothe: but M Henderson after he had turned ove+ the Henderson apartment to tie couple for a honeymoon, announced he would give “Lord Gray" a week to find a job that would support his wife. In, three days they had signed to dance at Bustanoby's twice a day. It] was a short engagement and they 4d the circuit of Broadway in a few weeks. In five weeks annulment pro- ‘ceedjngs were brought, and in Octo- ber of that year the annulment was granted by Justice Giegerich. Leaving court the former “Lady Gray" was asked if her ex-husband was going to go to the war that had started, and replied: “No, he is going to marry that girl UP at the Hotel Remington Four months jater ‘Lord’ jmarriea Miss Peggy dun of the then propr \ ton Hote! in West ing the World Way j in the Royal Air Forces. The story of his “Lord Gray” ex- perience came out in a London court yesterday when, as James Douglas More Gray, he pleaded guilty to steal- ing silver plate and getting money by false pretenses, —>___. TAX! RATES CUT 20 PRR CED The Twentieth Century Brown White Taxicab Association, of No. Broadway, announced to-day a 20 ent, reduction of taxi rates to folders of coupon books. The books will be sold for $8 and entitle the elder to $10 worth of transportation, at the meter rate, The company explains that the coupon plan is adopted to avoid the vost of installing new meters, 1914 Lord Wilson, J AMES. ai RONGLAS By World Staff Photographer. FORD PLANT FIRE KEEPS 1,800 IDLE Company Had Just Called Back Former Employees ai Kearny. The fire in the Ford Metor Com- pany plant in the Lincoln Highway at to-day, the plant was to have turned out 550 cars per day ‘The fire started at 8.15 P. M, on the fourth floor of the main building, when 200 automobile bodies, put into the sheet-iron oven after being paint- ed, caught fire. A rag had been left in one of the bodies, instead of being put into a container of water where all the workmen regularly put their rags after painting. ce eee ELDERLY WOMAN DYING, KNOCKED DOWN BY AUTO Chauffeur Tried to Avold Crash and Struck Her. woman about sixty y a Gressed in black clothing, was knocked down and mortally hurt at Amsterdam Avenue and 96th Street at ten o'clock this morning by a limousine driven by Thomas Bush, of No, 680 Lexington ‘Avenue, chauffeur for Mrs. Nancy B, Grant, of the Hotel Apthorp, Broadway end 79th Street, Mrs. Grant was not in the car, According to witnesses, forced to turn sharply to the left avold collision with a car driven from 96th Street at high speed. The elderly woman stepped from the curb directly in front of his car. Policeman ‘Trivero, of the 100th Street Station, took her to Reconstruction Hospital in a taxicab, Bush was held at the West 100th Street Station pending an inv tigation. The police have the licens number of the other car, Bush was out THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, | | | | | | Organization Whic Which Financed | Mayor’s Campaign Opposes Him on Port Authority REPORT IN TO-NIGHT. one of, if not the, most important pleces of legislation that has affected is taken with a grain of of the Tammany men, for who, nessed a battle royal between mem- hers of its own house | with former Gov. Smith with the “enemy” it was that the presence of His Honor was a dire necessity. All had bech led to believe, up to the last that the Mayor was going to lead {he forces which were to lay siege to the Port Authority. His hurried retreat to Palm Beach with the city its greatest peril at Albany didn’t the fierce battle he lined ap deemed |measure up to |had waged against the comprehen- sive plan from afar. ‘And while his train was rumbling on its way to Florida the Assembly |chamber was tumbling with roars of applause at the remarks of the | former Democratic Governor of the | State in his defense of the Port Au- thority. In the message the Mayor sent to be read in the Joint Committee His Honor had this to say about the Transit Commission which he oupled with the Port Authority: |eoupis city of New York will be | f-governing if the State will ediend BeNmut the extent of this | permission may be gauged by the lereation and infliction upon the city jof the Transit Commission and the proposed Port Authority. These two beth to decide administer i its of full authority local politics and t» local affairs.” LYNN, OPPOSING MAYOR, PALM BEACH. It was learmed here to-day that a committee of seven, appointed by Preston P, Lynn, Chairman of the Hylan Business Men's League, has prepared a report which is to be handed in at a meeting to-night of the league, 41st Strect and Madison Avenue, which declares against the five-cent fare slogan of the Hylan campaign and in favor of the Transit law. The league has already ap- proved the Port Authority: plan, IS IN The Business Men's League fur nished most of the sinews of war for the Hylan campaign. It furnished nearly alt the finances; anyhow, and got credit for most of the work re- sulting In the election of Hylan for Mayor. After the smoke of election had cleared away and Mayor Hylan had been sworn in for @ second time, Chairmen Lynn appointed a com- mitvee of seven to investigate and re- with the éxception of the so-called “barometer fund.” first time in more than a decade, wit- | minute, | BUSINESS LEAGUE QUITS HYLAN IN TRANSIT FIGHT; “S-CENT FARE CRY FALSE” through fhe elimination of routes and the abolition of transfers.” Every own tenant of a $10,009 house or apartment, the report con- tinues, pays 3 cents daily in ad¢ tional rent or taxes, on uccount of the subway deficit in tho debt ser- vice. “Thousands daily pay » or a 10-cent fare, port composed | Cunningham, a boiler | William C. Conran, Christopher manufacturer; manufacturer of pressure valves; turer of label: John Foy, manufae- Frank Murphy, banke' dealer, The members majority report declare that the ott two members have agreed to it and will sign before the report is presented to the Business Men's League. TAMMANY MEN, LIKE MAYOR, making the ARE “UP IN AIR,” Now, there are a number of Tam many men wondering whether the Mayor, having been presented with advance copy of ‘this committee re- {port, thought it best to go to Palm ach before going to Albany, for the son that his former backers were against the propositlon—the 5-cent are and the opposition to the Transit |Commission—the two factors most potent, in addition to the money fur- nished by the Business men's League in thaking him again the Mayor New York City and which could not| stand behind him In his opposition to the Transit law and the Pert Authority and therefore left him ‘up in the air.” The Tammany men here are thinit- ing that Mayor Hylan will find in the seclusion and the soft airs and thr babbling waters of Palm Beach a surcease of the sorrow n of Albany ani a new acquaintanceship with M Lynn, who had already gone to Pair Beach for his health. Whether M Hearst, who wishes to be Governor of New York next year, will be at Palm Beach 1s not of so much moment to the Mayor as the fact that Mr, Lynn Is already there. For notwithstand- ing what Mr. Hearst may h ready promised the Mayor in tt of support, the Mayor has had oc ve al way Kearny, N. J., last night did $200,000 gtate-created agencies have been im-|sion to realize that he cannot cxert damage, it was announced to-day.| posed upon the city of ier aon any influence on Al Smith to stand : le t of the} with him in his combination with ve ps ding, |against the emphatic protes: with ; 1s Here HENS of Acid becca laacined | people and their representatives. If} Hearst, and that his best het is to hie jwhich is 800x860 feet in dimension, !TVOR® Qe ov ceve desire to promote! jimeel? again to Mr. Lynn, ae and parts of some 300 automobiles | municipal autonomy let there be an| city of New York is lett { as were destroyed. The company re-|immediate abolition of those two] of itselt as best es and every other] I; Mayor Hylan had been at the cently alling back | State ted bodies ani . May cently seat out jetters ‘calling back) © sitical agency of the State; and hearing in Albany yesterday he mur 1,800 former employees. Beginning |i o according to the city of New York | have naturally suffered in compayi son with former Gov. Al Smi would have recogn nd ed that there wa Carelessly, Says Physical Director, PHILADELPHIA, eb More than 50 per cent. of | 200 freshman ca-eds at the 4 versity of Pennsylvania are fering with curvature spine, according to Miss Maygavs Major, physical direct f university women “Most of the oped curvatures and standing carele: tls have de through sly,' said M port on the transit situation in New! Major, “They are accustome! t Yark Ci | carrying their books in the 5 A copy of the report has been] hand. Then when they stop the signed by the committee, It favors! est on the right foot, That rats |the Transit Commission and its plan! the right hip and lowers the shoulder, and soon, without da counteracting exercises, they hi “Too much talk has been heard of| developed a curvature. Also mi the five-cent fare," this report ‘ays, of the co-eds sit with the “and too little talk of service. The! jeg crossed over their left people of New York paid last yeu: $9,000,000 more than a five-cent fare likewise tends to raise the hip and lower the shoulder, | and R. C, Airuone, antique furniture FEARS VENGEANCE IF HE GETS AFTER HS STOLENS30,000 Gittelmacher’s Wit, From Whom Thugs Took Cash, | Gives No Aid to Police. an -cent | Mrs. Max dittelmacher who was . The adoption of the Transit Com- Albany Democrats See itt) mission plan,” the report corltinues, | oD of $30,000 by bandits inher _ | “will Insure a 5-cent fare, the | home at 0 Manhattan Avenue Break New Reason for May- ‘question of a s-cont fare fades into | yesterday rnoon, informed de _ an Tri Sor} insignificance by compariso: SEE iceau etait or's Sudden Trip to Florida. greater question of service, Shui the | ives Ofte West 128d Street station eal present immoral, unsanitary, over-| police — Head sabe ea 5 owding of transportation lines con-| Rogues’ Caller pletares been, a By Joseph S. Jordan. | inven phe man who, for fear ats PEDAL FE EONAR. rine (Staff Correspondent of The Evening» cent or 4-cent increase ie dune net lyst) reesvered sume World.) | the subways or elevated roads, would I ate Fo | the partial suffocation she suffered in AUBANY, Feb, 1—The explanation | allow his wife or danghters to travel | the closet in which they locked her . 2 from the| Mdefinitely under sting conditions) “dyer jushand ad ited that he did of Mayor Hylan’s absence fr Jin GARE NO HA'a lEienn ah Coroner Ware er husband admit hat he did hearing of the Bort Authority bilh| yore jEat oars to give er latance to the are 24 ; = F , police because he feared the ven- conceded by his administration to be Gate ittee that signed this re- éatiee of the phe PG ene s intended, he said, a “for transaction requiring cash, busines: nd he the City of New York in a century,| automatic sprinklers and hydraulic [CUM look forward -to replacing: the alt by some | the! amount by nother tr But, ns ction within said, his wife was nant her treatment that) insisted on a vigorous effort to! bring the robbers to justice. Gittelmacher until recent! lrug store Broadway nd 7lst Street. He and his wife went to the Harlem Branch of the Bank of the United State: at 116th Street and Madison Avenue, early rare day lafternoon and drew from their joint | account $20,000, according to the x y told by the police. It was to be used transaction and she piaced the money —$1,000, $500, $100 and $50 bills—in three long envelopes in the bosom of her dress. | Mr. and Mrs, Gittelmacher got in the automobile of their Morris Nincowitz, and he drove tem to thelr home, Mrs, Gittelmacher went in and Nincowitz drove Gittel- | macher back to the subway station at | Lenox Avenue and 116th Street to gO | downtown, | Gittelmacher flights of stairs to her because the ¢ ‘ator operator was moving something for another tenant, She was unbuttoning her coat, according to the story, when the | door bell rang. She asked who it was and a man replied: “We're from the dison Company." — She -ush the bill under the door of the men rejoined: ‘Your broke. We got to fix it When she opened the door a “big blond man and a short, dark fellow” pushed their way in, The dark one had a at in a business then nd, fr walked up the nt One meters looked up and down the hall and drew a revolver as he turned around, “Come through with that money or we'll drop you right She did not respond and keep quiet here,” he sald. quickly enough and they her dress, tore it open and got the money, The ers then threw Mes. Git Iinacher into a closet rly filled ith clothes and the door she was found by her sister-in-law Mf an hour later _ | CAN'T TAX APARTMENTS no chance of Any combination between) FOR WORKING WOMEN Mr. Smith snd Editor * Hearst => HALF OF U. OF P. Basin by Will, CO-EDS VICTIMS OF ae Cee HAR Be testa elie SPINAL CURVATURE (0 co vines ok nmarsied working Caused By Sitting and Standing held by Suprome ¢ Tastice. leving man \ The city has me a xes on propertie ton, Gir taxable value i more an $100,000, T was rmed to earry out a prov 1 the it of B. Woebstar i i a red 0 1 ried 1 J t 1 POOK POISOy By HitROn site says. siety=Uh ant q 7 tenta 1! and ce no Dr. Hy me Street at- ded 1 0 <_ 1422 World Almanac. the ready reference book cents ver copy om stands: by mail, postage are aid, 30 cents. Address Cashier, New York World New’ York Clty FEBRUARY 1, EVENING” ki be TEN-SECOND apart.) replied: | 1922, fe WOMAN FROM WHOM THUGS TOOK $30,000 IN HARLEM HOME Pepecumte can vamn: MRS. MAX CITTELMACHER. BUDDY HE HOUSED AND FED STEALS SISTERS S000 RING Youth, Sieticen, Who Fought for United States and Britsun, Admits Theft. Samuel Levine, eighteen. w been a soldier in both the American nd British Armies, admitted in Mor risania Court to-day that he had, stolen a $600 diamond ving and $11.50 from the sister of a British buddy who had fed and clothed him for two “ks and tried to set him on his feet, Magistrate Frothingham held him in $2,500 for the Grand Jury The buddy met Levine two weeks ago and, finding him in sore need, took him to the home of Mrs. It Addis, at No. 985 Og: nue, Bronx, und asked that he be taken jim and rehabilitated © buddy's sister did all she could for Levine for her brother's x: even supplying him with clothing, She went out day hefore yesterday, leaving Levine alot in the hous d when she returned the ring and the money and Levine wer ne Her brother, remembering that 1 vine hud come from Waterbury, Conn., went there in search of hin He learned there that Levir fiiends were plannin. eome ft him and that he to ar ) ternoon train vi pfort exraphed by him to the High tt q feteotiv Levine at Grand Cen to take the train for bh In court today 1 the theft, saying he had th ving for $150 and sold to $ All the mone e added, he ha matching ve 1 THEN SLASHES THROAT Shows wi patalbano, thinty-t M Fonh EN-SENATOR Jamex A. Emerson, forr ‘ ator, « Y.. died o heart disease yest in the 1 Island Com Hospttal, 1 ted earlier In the day o eamship ig Rico of th ’ I from Juan. Ho was taken lo th hospital from the ship. Sei — + CALLS SCHOOL CHILDREN, ae MOVIES The $3: for Port be raised by and cannot be tuxpayers of New Yi is to be mac Suginius Outer 560,000 for oss New Ridge, on Greenville the Jersey City; th tunnel trom Ba: to the nals on Jersey cove the continuous the Gat Borough to Bay under the Bay thenee along the Newark Bay and River to the on the Hudson, tap trunk line railroad also covers a con| ing southward to connecting with the Ohio ana city piers on St lem River Ri on ‘3 the connections tunnel will form marginal from the Hudson River at Spuy- ten Duyvil along the east side of the Hell Rridge and crossing Queens running eenville, side Hackens: foot of the Palisades ove st Ow © © OOS OO © SOS SOU HSY COS SS 28 6 PHT ST8 AG OT CELSO SE YUMESEST HSE CADE HOOD SES ce eee eee) CSURTESY Fox Mim Naw HOW STATE PORT AUTHORITY WIIL SPEND $329,560,000 TO DEVELOP VAST BELT LINE PLAN. ‘ork te bridge committees: the York the reight shore appropriation hn part dige, c east ping all freight to by wh) of rallye which must the Port Authofity itself through its own bond issues a charge upon th and New as follows, ing to statements of Chair freight Bay Narrows termi- | below Baltimore Island thus reaching the n a oh yards ction statt- | zaboth pork & we | he LIFTS BAIL TO LET Jules Larvett Can Now Go Wiere | He Wishes Pending Trial $201,000,000 for Electric Transit Under Mar- hattan and $128,560,000 to Link Harbor’ Railroads of Two States. 100,000 outlay required complete development of the Authority plan, plan calls for the construction of only ten miles of new track con- struction using 51 1-2 niles of tracks already built *-- varlour railroads and terminal belt nes 2. Two hundred and one millio: dollars to be spent on an auto matic electric raijroad, so dee dwn under Manhattan that two subway lines may be built between its level and the surface, Thi road is to carry perishable freight in aclentific modern containers terminals throughout the city fo: delivery at the terminals or at th: store door.of the copsignees.: Immediatdly on the completior of the construction contemplate under these appropriations, cording to the commissioners, will be the beginning of direct sayings of $4,800,000 a year because ot eheapened deliveries in New You! City and indirect savings of over $7,000,000 a year. The saving in freight transiv: costs to be made by the Bas Ridge Greenville tunnel connec tion are estimated at $6,700,000 The Port Authority Commis sioners assert their plan makes |i susceptoble of a connection be tween Stapleton and the Ba Ridge terminal to meet the de mands of Staten Island re: for a closer passengef and freight link between Richmond and th vest of the city GAIN IN FLU CASES MAN EARN LIVING’ AND DEATHS TO-DA% Total Cases Reported 1,052, ( pared With 812 Yesterda With Mrs. Chew. Few Pneumonia Deaths, dues : ry Wun General Sessions | Wor the first day this year influen: Me lay “ he : mie $0,000 bail | cases reported to the Health Depi vond under which Jules Larvett has ment exceeded 1,000. There was wo heen held since Nov. 14, 1921, when | inerease shown in influenza and pne ‘he was indicted with Mrs, Marjorie | mon es reported to-day as co) | Blanche Chew on a charge of grand pared va YeNLelvAyy 4 Influen: see A carne ted i <_ | “eaths also showed a slight Increa larceny dni thie: tirmti deere is- | An encouraging feature of to-day's 1 charge of the bond leaves Larvett tree trial. to where he His lawyer told the court that Lar- under deprived of an vett by being kept in the bond was being the city opportunity to earn a living, as in the theatrical business and h chance to join a troupe playing in the West Indies and Cuba if assured that his preset in New York for trial will not be required for sev pleases pending port was Pneumonia death. as Pneumonia were 240, against 186 yesterday. fluenza deaths to-day were 20, an crease monia deaths to-day were 68, as com pared with 91 yesterday. substantial decrease in vT ay’s influenza cases were 1,052 compared with 812 yesterda cases reported to-di 1 ae of 8 over Pheu yesterday ——oareieeeneiiaees MEXIOAN CHAUFFEURS RIOT, ME months, The court was also told that | 180 CIPY, Feb. l-Dlatuse the co-defendant, Mra. Chew, is un- [ances in Mexico City accompanied bees aoe tiesten: & hospital aie trations by chauffeurs yesterday f bile drivers to furnish certificates « Assistant District Attorney Joyce! good conduct before obtaining licenses did not oppose the motion for dis: |The order followed protests that m charge of the bond merous chauffeurs were In reality erim The indictments in both cases are | inals | Mundreds of drivers were unable vased on charg ide by Lieut, {& show certificates and were dep eet eee ee aaa of their licen Wild scenes followed, ‘ , ’ in which several automobiles the two with converting to their own |yrocked, ‘The capital this morning | Use two deposit certificates for $3,500] virtually without taxicabs, intrusted to Chew by Turner to be sent to his brother in Ohio. Lar vett admitted handling the certificates t Mrs. Chew, # ished them throu, ive her the money “L believe,” Larvett | cave the money to ‘Tur | certificates were brow ace for the name of left blank, If Turner for his Inother, his brother's name? a why di ner ght the pay: int 1 he 4, “that When the to me nded them } not fill | PRESS SERVICE OWNER KILLS SELF IN OFFICE Harta steps ea | Himself. at of his v red hls th ¢ No. offi 1 Wife and shiv there this she the was in ited 799 Hroad-