The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1922, Page 9

BLAZE BURNS HOME) BY TAX RETURNS; OF TEN FAMILIES) TOTAL DROPS 30% Policemen Arouse Tenants and Rescue Fourteen Ghildren From Doomed House. $50,000,000 Received on Last Day and $10,000,000 More Is Expected by Mail. Fire which swept the Fisher- weeney Bronze Company plant at . 1302 Clinton Street, Hoboken, at wn to-day drove ten families out of @n adjoining three-story tenement and razed that building. Total loss in estimated at $250,000. Four Hobo- ken policemen rescued fourteen chil- @ren before the Fire Department ar- rived, Policeman Paul Hennessey was on trol two blocks oway when he saw fo sky ligiited in the vicinity of che ze company plant. He turned in en alarm, called three policemen oy whistle and they ran to the fire, In an incredibly short time the flames spread from a coke house to the main building of the bronze com- Pany plant and then swept into the tenement The policemen ran into the bulld- fms, roused all the occupants and, Carrying fourteen children, led the dazed tenants to the street. The ten- ement was aflame when the last of the tenants was out there were numerous police and Meantime Names had spread from} armed guards. While the possibility Clinton Street to Grand and destroyed | o¢ hold-up was not entertained buildings half way back from 13th] precautions were taken nevertheless. Eacce treet. To-day's flood of mail required the The police broke open a garage, | employment of twenty-five additional eommandeered the cars and rushed] Cierks to open letters and take out the fire refugees to the Second Pre-| Checks, ‘The big rush of mail. will ¢inct Station, where the morning pla-| start this afternoon toon took up a collection of $180 to] ane limit day for payments not Apc: distress. Residents from] oniy overwhelmed the Collector, but around sent clothing to the sta-|evbry Post OMice and branch in the tion. city was swamped with taxpayers Tho refugees had not had time tolpuying money orders to mail with Grab wraps in their haste to get out.| their réturns. Thousands of appli- Firemen were able to prevent the| Cations stamped ‘Internal Revenue flames from spreading further, but|Gojjcctor’ were scattered on the were unable to save the bronze plant|yabies used by these desirous of pay- or the tenement. The residents there, Jing their tax through the Post Office all poor, were in practically every! 4 bookmaker and a bootlegger were cose uninsured, even their furniture, among the tax payers in ith tho result that their homes are|to-day, The bookmaker paid a tax on an income of $20,000, listing his earnings as “commissions.” The bootlegger paid $2,000 in taxes. It was not revealed how he camouflaged his profits. The revenue officials as- sumed that these men, as well as others who were not so frank, paid up rather than run_ the risk of vestigation by the Federal authoriti later on. eae JURY WILL DETERMINE MRS. MELVILLE’S SANITY Should the expectations of Internal Revenue Collector Frank K. Bowers be realized on this, the las. day of the income tax payments, he will ave $50,000,000 in his office at midnight as the total for the month. Inasmuch as payments mailed to-day will be within the time limit, to-morrow’s total will be added—probably $10,000,- 000. On this basis of expectation the receipts this year in the district will be about 30 per cent. less than the receipts of 1921 So great was the of tax- payeis at the Custom House to-day that the capacity of the offices and corridors was exceeded and for the first time there were lines in the streets and at the entrances at times. The atmosphere about Mr. Bowers's office was more or less warlike in- asmuch as every official and clerk directly engaged in the handling of money was armed with a revolver and B crowd ta B Policeman Hennessey f k Webb, night watchman on the Grand Street side, said the flames Cepread with amazing rapidity. The Vhouses burned like tinder, and the tenants were lucky to get out alive. Relief work has been started by the Hoboken authorities and the refugees will be housed temporarily with friends and neighbors. pelReaite esles alae INEW CONSTITUTION GOES TO IRISH FIRST and Wealthy Plaza Resident Enjoined img $700,000 (Associated in the House of to whether the Con- Mrs. Jean R, Melville of the Hotel Mate, when |Pluza appeared in Justice Francis 1 Government, | Martin's part of the Supreme Court to- 1 to the |day as the result of Justice Guy's order for approval and, if |that she be granted the privilege of ry, for amendment before the |allowing a Supreme Court jury to de- electorate votes on it, Winston [termine whether or not she 1s mentally jeer Churchill, Colonial Secretary, | competent. Her husband, William Randolph Mel- ville, director of the Miner-Edgar Chem- ical Corporation, applied for the order TJand has enjoined her from removing some $700,000 worth of securities from a box in the Guaranty Safe Deposit mpany must neces- liament before plished, but TAQTAY WIE) 87 McCufcheon’s Sale of Men’s Bath Robes, Dressing Gowns and Smoking Jackets ew following special values from our Department for Men afford an op- portunity that should receive consider- ation from the careful buyer: Bath Robes Imported Terry Cloth Bath Robes $12.50 Japanese Crepe Bath Robes $4.95 Smoking Jackets Silk-lined Silk and Velvet Smoking Jackets $18.00 Imported Wool Smoking Jackets $10.50 Dressing Gowns Imported Wool Dressing Gowns $18.00 to $35.00 Silk-lined Silk Dressing Gowns | $45.00 Unlined Silk Dressing Gowns \ $25.00 and $29.50 ! Fifth Avenue 34th and 33d Streets WONDER FOR as possible; to have a that would hold the largest num- ‘ber of people, and to hasten the would be able to time when they open the theatre uilding Department. NO SUPERVISION OF BUILDING] 7M"! INSPECTORS. Of Inspector Finlay says he has been on the city’ roll thirty-four years, though not an engineer or specially trained; he per- |= = mitted” the unauthorized on, inspecting it on giving to the inspection from fifteen to forty-five minutes each ti does not appear that aken of such reports There is no indication as to wi signed him to the building. lack of system in the office ‘there appears to have been no supervision of Finlay or any other Finlay testified that he was guided by bulletins posted in the office tell ing where steel work was being done and that on a building in his territory where such work was being done, he sometimes decision continues “He says it is customary to permit buildings like this and under circumstances to go on until the work is completed, and then if the approved plans are not complied with to see to it that the changes are made. difficulty of doing this after the work Is practically completed is obvious. 18 MORE TRAGEDIES DON'T OCCUR. “In the mean time those engaged in the work are in danger of their lives “The only defense of this ap- parently fixed custom of haphazard, go-as-you- spection is that have not falle: NO EXCHANGES NO REFUNDS RETIRING FROM BUSINESS Entire Stock to Be Closed Out At a Fraction of Its Value Bargains such as these at the very beginning of the season will never be found again Smartly tailored Suits Splendidly tailored Spring suits in the latest styles, including many of the finest models in our stock. Coats are richly silk lined; ‘all sizes for Mostly navy blue. ‘Women and Misses. To close out at New Silk Dresses Ot Canton Crepe anc Chine. High cost Dre for all informal and occasions, made in the ¢st styles; about 400 | this lot. To close out at 19-75 The Magistrate condemns the sys- tem by which the steel work was per- mitted to go on, though only a mason work permit had been work being done under plans which ve had not even been submitted to the attered days," more buildings ‘This happens because the greater number of buildings happily have not Brooklyn} the big roof space as in theatres ani! are supported and held together by partition and party walls and oft Stanley ¢ Me Gibboud belted, richly silk lined throughout; all sizes and in all the new Spring shades. Tailored Tricotine 200 silk Spring dresses, all sizes for Women and Misses, and in all the new colors. Fashioned of various silk crepes and taffeta silks, Tremendous value. New Spring Coats and Wraps Entire Stock of Fur Trimmed Winter Coats Without Regard to Cost or Value. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1200)000 HOBOKEN BOWERS SWAMPED |4 HELD RESPONSIBLE THE COLLAPSE OF BROOKLYN THEATRE (Continued from Second Page.) in the case of dwellings, are built in| rows and where, above all, there Is little steel use 1 in the construction. ing that ¢ being “These inspectors should never be] corrupted by a bribe or are doing Permitted to begin their inspection of] favors for friends, the conclusion work like this until they are ordered] jg unavoidable that for many to do so by responsible people in the} years past in the Borough of office, and after the plans have been] Brooklyn, whatever it may be in approved, and then daily reports] other boroughs, these inspectors should be carefully serutinized and checked up at the office of the Super- intendent of Buildings. “The Superintendent of Buildings says he never knew about this build- ing until it collapsed and that the erection of this steel work should have been stopped by the Inspector. “Inspectors, the Magistrate sald, should have definite orders what to inspect, given only after plans have. teon approved and. their reports should be checked up and scratinized by the Superintendent—who admits he. know of the American Theatre building until it collapsed, The construction engineer of the] subjecte ent was on vacation when the} The District Attorney is informed faulty work was done, but on his re-|that he has the right to present the turn on hearsay or additional] case to the Grand Jury without fur ton | pl he transverse trusses. ther action In 4 Maxistrate’s Court, pay- “Such laxity where human life ‘it he so desires have fallen into a rut of depend- ing on their own assumed knowl- edge of building, regard to their own convenience and without consulting the ap- plan or waiting for the official permit. “It is beyond doubt that under the present lack of system and rules the opportunities for bri- bery and graft are not those to which low salaried men, with no equipment but general experi+ ence as mechanics, should be n auditorium issued, the the di es under work to go The popularity of Signet Shops may be accredited to their thoroughness of ser- rice. 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March 13.—Every Giant {s now signed, in unl- form’and playing baseball except Phil Douglas, Phil still lingers in the old ancestral home at Birmingham, Ala., but Fred Toney and George Kelly both trickled down to business to-day. They donned thelr rompers and got down to work. Kelly loosened a few sign boards in the left field fence in batting practice this morning, turned in his signed contract be-’ tweo meals and played first base for the regulars this afternoon. The regulars were beaten by the sec-' ond team in @ hodge podge contest, 11 to 7. It was hodge podge and lack- adaisical, It is not th thing in All Giant Regulars the world to stir up pennant winners In Action Together to spirited action the following apring, in ae ing any, fd se Prey Ss’. ANTONIO, Tex., March 13, in this camp haven't yet got down to = the business of hustling. They put | teas trace pennitee nal, lone, on two. fighting spurte against the ae ey White Sox, but for the most part the|| Gret base, the first string Gtants till dormant. . together to-day for the frst One Inning Settles It_ thie season, This does not take In the mound, where youngst parveyed for the regulars in afternoon contest, Ralph Shinners was in epnt for the time being at least Baseball inside and out from ‘® Shores, tossed viewpoints of manager and leading, 6 to 0, fan—BILL HANNA covers this nitch the fifth sport for you authoratively @ Bins 08 be catalogued jas the re: daily in The Tribune. “ing wast By that. posite Buy It To-morrow New Hork Gribune FIRST TO LAST—THE TRUTH: NEWS—EDITORIALS--ADVERTISEMENTS tS eT Thi 5 ONOLOGY ARMAMENT 4 FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE §2PONDEOGT 1922 WORLD ALMANAC Complete in Every Detail 35c Per 7 ALL NEWS STANDS AND BOOK STORES act Cc Copy BY MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, S0c PY ADDRESS: NEW YORK WORLD FF} a “ Fy] “ NEW YORK CITY ae a ee i ‘ 1 —_— ———