The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1922, Page 3

RENT LITIGATIONS LAST YEAR GAINED 47 P.C. OVER 192 Large Proportion of Increase Ascribed in Report to Hous- ing Legislation. MILLION HOM SASED. Work Was Performed With- out Additional Justices or Clerical Force. e Board of Justices of the Ma- a! Court to-day made public the report of the committee of the Mu- nicipal Court Justices on General “Ghosts undoubtedly Welfare of the court dealing with exist, even ii they are rent litigation during the period of not exactly what the the emergency rent laws. A com- eT ATT RTE person who sees them Ct thinks they are.” Se parison of three years follows 1919 192 bed ghost is a visual hallucination, Back of itis a spiritual entity.” ‘THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, purely “Many ghosts pathological, the result of indiges- tion or bad nerves.” ure in “I myself have been haunted _ hous: where was not done by rats the haunting or cockroaches,” “There are haunted apartments in New York City, hannted houses in Jersey sab- arbs.” “If you see a gho don't There’x no reason for fear.” 1922. be _ frightened, ‘an help it.” “Look at a shost as intently as possible. If it lingers, ask if you “Every proved whe y fs another bit evidence to prove the Survival of the spirit.” sto G*) EVENING WORLD TEN-SECOND NEWS MOVIES Ce<) | |S9/,000 SHORTARE Dr. Prince Believes in Ghosts, Even When He Fails to Find Them "| IN JERSEY CIIY'S WATER ACCOUNT pect Further Investigation of Water Register’s Books Will Double This Amount. Commissioner of Streets and Pub- lie Works Michael I City announced to-da Fagen of Jersey, y that account- ve partially completed the exe of the books of Water Register Charles K. Hart, and that the has grown from $2,000, originally discovered two weeks ago, to $67,190.12. Jer officials would the total excess of is protected by & ants amination shortage City not be surprised it shortage $100,000, proves to be in The city bond, Hart, who was suspended when the was disc has refused ording to hort to make any statement. vered, Actions commenced 148209 17: Summary proceedings conimenced Total actions and pr ings commcnced . ‘Trials he increase in the number of ac- tins and summary proceedings com- menced in 1921 over the preceding years 1919 and 1920 is striking and noteworthy,” says the report. “The increase over 1920 is 115,000 in round figures, or in percentage 47 per cert, and over 1919 slightly in excess of the figures stated. Probably a large pro- portion of this increase in the volume of actions and proceedings com- menced in the Municipal Court in 1921 is to be ascribed to the so-called hous- ing legislation which was enacted by the Legislature at the general and special sessions during April and Sep- tember, 1920. “This great increase in the work of Theories. 4 By Marguerite Mooers Marshall This is a ghost story. It ts a story of mysterious ap- paritions, of loud footsteps made lin course of duty in the interests of the mark on the addition either in the yet leave never a public. No roadway; of the room that is number of Justices of in the clerical | wlth (tie “presende, ot evilt to fo: s been supplied, The tremen- of the suicide who returns to de- tion due te the increase in . dous cong declared. which Dr. Prince, Investigator of the Supernatural, Says They Don’t Hurt Mortals and Relates Some Spine-Chilling Thrillers to Prove His of home talent in the haunting ‘There are haunted apartments right here in New York City “There are haunted "he the Judges of the court as well as in : = fc pea ee ‘by no human foot; of the carriage houses in New Jersey and Long e work of the clerical force was HE Rmea CHEE Baligh Bah RO TRiGNIDNE Island suburbs. Why not? The shouldered and performed in the Wha da tat SAL TLL d 4 place which a ghost usually haunts is a spot: of which it was particularly fond in this life, or it is bound through some chain of tragedy. ‘I used to lve in a haunted the volume of business naturally] scribe his own death; of—shades Nollie eeninuadiie cena gaused some inconvenience to lita-| of yagar Allan Poe—the severed calmly. “I can’t tell where it is Bere) snd) te] ener) ot bai] os man head whose teeth close | because I don't want to injure the This condition was only natural and eeetk cere sae SwnkTh | CanUateVaree nOniniproveS was unavoidable wher no increase] gently on the hand See Ea TeReetetary UL Sint ey im the clerical staff was supplied. In] mant \ say that it is in a small New many instances the clerks and at- Jersey town a few miles from tendants of the court as well as the Ry this time I trust that the New York, and that I spent three justices have labored far into the} srivers are chasing up and down years there. night to meet the gency condi-] our spine, that your blood is “My daughter is extremely tions. Pesala ar nacEroulre Psycliic, She was the first to “On Jan, 1, 1920, according to re-]} properly curdled, and that y Hear-the/odd soundain the house) gent census reports, New York City] piunning to acquire at once @ REE TAOS TIMER eeona pied a hopulationson igs) Dte: oe ee rabbit's left hind foot heavy boots walking down stairs Pe i Gar The Antigonish ghost has been and she said that it sounded like irried Women. s per- f E a lame man. I knew nothing ; inference that more t laid, thanks to that sheneok HI ararararareee oper emi ter one million families were les: in] Holmes of the spiritual world, Dr. eave hie fpemes coc pent Ey thecoity. of tew.: Lark of nowy Walter, Branilin Hing. Ns the matter to the owners, two one sort or anoth ; BUTS fete oe 2 eel ete cultured women, one of them a ta tlalites Oc SeHBy VOIMING tO CARS ADS hae eae aie: college graduate. They said at icted in the court in sixteen-year-old Mary Ellen Me- Simen (Our Nano dled ine Lint ed to demonstrate | Tonal was innocently responsible " : Supe house—he used to go up and crete manner the im this particular set of sup 1 f ie down those stairs—all his’ lit tusk which this court sdly supernatural phenomena. posedly One leg was shorter than tle on to perform and which | TY" \\hen T saw Dr. Prince at the Coals we believe, in ses of the American Society for her. satistactory ee OE eee No. 44. Waat “My daughter and others fre- Line Une aeeking A \ Hi deeeae ay hare ature quently heard raps in different iture se a 80 od Street, 1 asked Are A a : 5 Rhee i lution of difficulties — existing ts? Do you believe in them? Darts of the house. She was In Xe SAGE Nouslnk 0 frequent communication — there through the shortag S| Do they exist : ” J are with a man who died England under the emergency laws enacted by And Dr. Prince answered Ee . 7 several years ago. He committed it, cust the bur upon the courts of romptly: ‘Yes. Ghosts —un- H meet the difficulties existing | y ekint oven if tueg. a8 suicide by drowning, and it was , doubtedly exis " afterward that my daughter first conditions, not exactly what the person who ke Nee actly an saw him, with the water dripping he Municipal Court ew es them thinks they are Y whi prior to the enactment| ** from him, He deseribed to her hy Het ; anys st how the act was committed, of the statutes, had probably taken - c a -to-date Just . La oe pe Wh Here follows the Up: the weeds that wound about him, eare af fully 95 per cent. of all lit _ of what @ tion growing out of the relation of | setentific definition the size of the pond and other de- Kndiord and tenant, naturally became | ghost really is—and is not: tails which I later verified in a 4 court of transcendant public ny “A ghost,’ middle -ag , calmly trip to KE Bland: cael “a had a portance under the new laws. That] matter-of-fact Dr. Prince told great deal to say to her about the the Legislature should place solution| me, ‘is a vieual hallucination. survival of the spirits he was a of the difficulties between landlords | But back of the hallucination, sceptic about spiritualism during and tenants upon the courts was in] eauging it, there stream of his lifetime. itself a mark of great confidence on | consciousness, a spiritual entity. ss : the part of the Legislature and ¢ In short, when you think you ‘Ghosts often have a sense of the public in t ourts."" see a tall white-robed lady, or OUR humor," Dr. Prince added. “This The report shows the number of] 4 ine Fanaa SHer Hesbeed one told my daughter—he com als for 1921 increased 24,590, « ‘ eches and a tricorne hat, é Spt let yi Benross on # wieoray tak, | Contant her tanos : ee present, That explains why more and through antomatic writing: in ona perfectly good ghost has other spirita had criticise SUNDAY SCHOOL HEAD, en Hidied with bullets, or has vas ae ene ae Han snl jddsec kg spending so mueh e FRANK L. BROWN, IS DEAD] svemed to melt through a locked ee rea ae AEG Sat = a a On the other hand, the ap- would intert with his progress Frank UL, Brown, LI. D., parently material vision whieh Maat Pedant uncwetbat dim: 6o 9. ary of the World's Suid your matqrial eyes perceive MAY 1 much inter in this progress,” asociation, of which John W represent cither tie aChua) Visitee he comment “L don't like the } the Chairman, died of hear flea Uf 9 Aopariod Spsin ene idea of progivssing to the point at ulght in his home, No. > a form Which you can see—or inay where I'd be an eternal jelly- sore Availue Bree He pi inean that the same spirit is hav- fish!’ vived by a widow, « son and a daughte ing a particularly vivid reminis- Was Mir. Brown was born in Brooklyn inf cence of the old home which it is eauiVine a uk aos ainae 1862. In 1898 he retired from the bank-| haunting ‘ound — New ecame his life work. In connection ‘Not all ghos cautioned Dr oF E paced a with the organization of the Sunday] prince, * earth that Tm goi sleep next sum QR! of Japan, Corea and the Vile Lf assault mer in of house down pines he made our ps tu: he ey eae rs . ol e said, “where Beales” | f SEPA Nas spirit. Many ghosts, in fact, a Seti oN ee Soe For twenty years he was Superin-| purely pathological; the result of tie, aaa ee endent of the Bushwick Avenu» M. 1.] indigestion or bad nerves. Other ee pegrtepdas Church, Bushwick Avenue and Madison | ghostly sounds have been traced om peihia nt reaps St Funeral services will be held] to purely material cause But I +s i Ee P ; in the church Sunday afternoon at 2.36 believe firmly there is a residuum FISD OS RRERSI RSH as eee am * o'clock: of apparations which cannot be 1 m haa wept in tis Senate gente. aaeptipagetes explained by so-called natural Peers Ne LER ROLE Ga eat COP CHASES STOLEN CAR | Causes. , There are authentic in- | of the night by the sound of ear. stances of the same gt being age wheels, galloping horses ai THROUGH THREE TOWNS | Cat fee a iaca Ne nares the conversation of persons in the Mackie Necevers Auls Alice Fe tere atiana itoune Or ATAU TRS nS window—to see nothing. or sould foe Shy divide fore them who had be- any trace be found in the road of y 1M i ld the identical phenomena, 1 the passage of an equipage. motoreyele policeman of West ~| myself have been in haunted - York, N. J. saw an omobile c houses where the haunting was “LT know ¢ rartment here Palisade Avenue | ixt not done by rats, or cockroaches n New ith a haunted to wa stolen ¢ As Coak ¥ and [ consider a scientific interest room, Two women, in two fami- preached the driver stepped on the x in the phenomena occ lies who oecup! t at different and led the policeman a chase through | 4 houses quite as | times, stept in tis room, Neither Weat New York, Guttenberg and Woor as « scientific interest 4 was acquainted with the other. elif! to Hudson Cou Park, wher roaches |} Yet excl i the same experience our men jumped san the automobile oe ee ee eae property of John J Warrell, sporting | #N especially interesting asserti some dreadful, oppressive evil editor of the Hudson Dispatch of Union] Ghe he says, are 1 anfined vermeated the whole atmos MAM) and that it had boen atolan ahoug| te rbling foreign cant ' ! 1 ) @ Beek aay, rede v vs years old. Loe te vlosta Bb eDe bie ih hei ‘ “Ghosts Do Exist,’’ Says Dr. Prince, Who “Laid the Antigonish Spook, ’’ But Folk Needn’t Be Afraid of Them bear to pass another night in the room, Unfortunately, nothing is known of the past history of the apartment—of whether a crime, for example, had ever been com- mitted there."’ Then Dr. Prince told his most grue- it as a “coincidental dream,"’ but it has all some story. He describes the makings of a ghost thriller. “IT was living in Flushing, L. L, he said, dreamed walking toward “when that I saw a night I woman me, sobbing bit- one terly and carrying her own death warrant written ters . She said red let- ‘I shan't in huge to me, mind if I have to die, if you will only hold my hand.’ “Overwhelmed out my hand suddenly had been cut touched it as it toward 1 knew with pity, 1 put her—and her head My hand ard, and that off. fell for as I stroked her hair the blood ran down over fingers. ing of sick horror this head, though de still alive, “Well, at this The next day, papers, I found insane my hand. moment I felt the tecth severed head close gently over my I can still recall my feel- through the The next of th atthe idea that tated, was point I woke up. ne out that a poor woman had ¢scaped from a New York asylum, had wandered through the streets of the previous evening—very | Flush ly passing my house—and had laid rail- until her head on the edge road track and held it there uln cut it off as n Q re as if she had You remember whai a of the been guillotined. t ‘hand’ played in my dream, wom- an's nu was ‘Hand.’ To cap the climax, a letter was found in her handbag in which she had written that she knew her hea was going to be cut off, but that {t would remain itation. alive after deca The face of the woman, however, was not the face of my dream,"* The explanation Dr, Princ gave me for this extraordinary happening is itself by no means commonph: It is the explana tion given him by one whom Le describes as ‘a man of intel gence''—one of the beings, 01 forces, w Dr. Prince © communicate through his psy with daughter, This being spoke of Dr Prince's urious dream,” and the doctor asked for an explana- tion of it “When ybody is going to the other side," was the answ nil there Is time, a mes is sent ahead. You unconsciously in your sleep listened in on the messa announcing the message was not it was slightly mixed the w and her name ‘Hand’ wv your own didn't see ted for you a arrival of that poor woman, mong us Reeause the tended for that is, man's own fare § object ‘hand It seemed to me spooky remin one would be I asked Dr H Prince that any more hees after tt unti-elimax for a few sur gestions as to correct etiquette in with Jing you 4 hosts re a trained ps stigator, don't go lol josts. If you do, and if you pe anything, it probably will be a genuine apparition. You will imagine it, or it will be tr 0 to som. mormal pathol 1 condition in yourself, It wi t E what we call ‘evidential If you see a weve without looking don't i frightened, Probe w be, anyhow, It is a singular fact that, while almost every one thinks he would \ gh t pparition when occurs seems rp al rifying, And there's for fear. There is no single a thenticated instance of a ghost’s having done physical to an living creature see a ghost he first thing to CAPTAIN'S WIFE BALKED AT POLICE RULES IN HOME Court Plea times Policeman’s Wife Is Not a Happy One. Hie Some- A policeman's wife Is not a happy one, if she is forced to live under the rigidity and formality of police rules, such as he must obey outside the home, according to Mrs. Helen N Collins, wife of Police Capt. John J Collins, retired. lay to- a M ghan, day, for temporary alimon: month Coli y of $: in Supreme Court, Brooklyn. applied to Justice Cal and $500 counsel fees, pend ing trial of her action for separation, in which she charges crue! and inhu mi Wilson Avenue tirement two weeks ago. an treatment. The Captain was in charge of the Station until his on East 17th Street, Brooklyn According to his wife, he His home is etimes: drank to excess and used abusive lan guage, but the heaviest burden wa his practice of treating her though she were a subordinate of his on the force, He addressed letters and complaints to her commencing ‘Deur Madam" and ending, ‘Respectfully,’ she alleged Capt. Collins, the wife says complaint, never took her to c| instead he “supplied her with written rules out te ch ning her 1 ne of duties, required time for u ndya schedule such as he might policeman over whom he Lrg Following is a r policeman husband oiling submitted as affidavit: letter rec wh an ex “ny "Mrs, John J. Collins: dear Madam: Up peated requests Uh 10, n ye nto vide ance of June 10, tw you with a home $28 weekly penser, $3 a week for laund sufficient for clothing for and the children, In the same you were care for the house, provide quate amount of food for th and co-ope with me nu have fea 191 nd. top not eement the the above ame as follo ilure to co-oper Dene 1 home tre M, Saturday, May ing no one in charge: + ing 111. M. Sunday, reement between us was enter: to pro table ich of conduct, wived from Mrs fit with 1921 pur re allow ex ry for roperly an ad e tam following d and yourself return, 1 with about 1921, eturn lay 7, orkang nd pr 1921, elaving mechanics w there in violation of my wishes “3. Failure to provide ar © food durin . tioned pertod eft house w men 1 Sat 1 t 8 INS for several hours afternoon, May 14, 1 ‘3. Deserted home abou i Saturday, May 14 ning midnight ‘As a result of these J will be compelled to maine angements “Respect! ull (signed) ‘JOHN J. COLL Decision Was reserved nd you want to accurately, J peak to it. Ask if y it in any way. Agk it ntity Kemember," cone! chical researcher, ost story is anott © tending to pro’ ty the evere er bit hurvival of the apirit—1 vity. And remember, too, the most remarkable spir- tual phenomena may seem no more strange to the world fifty ears from now than the phe nomena the radio teiephone woutd have seemed filty years apo.” -_ FOG, COLDH, ARIE OB INELUUNEA ) wemaave Former Fiance Of Girl Loses Suit for Arrest Blow Struck and All Figure in Case. othy Meltzer of 480 Street. Brooklyn, won a verdict from a jury before County Judge ‘Taylor in Brooklyn to-day against her former flance Leaks of No. 152 Quincy Street, who sued her tor $2,000, alleging false and malicious arrest. When the engagement was brokea Leaks's efforts to recover a diamond Hug led the courts and to his arrest when the young woman al leged he struck her, Leaks was exon- A Magistrate's court of the charge and then brought sult, Leaks declared the Meltzer broke off the that she Diamond Ring, His Salary Miss Dor No, 1181 Isadore to crated in reason Miss engagement was decided she couldn't keep a home on Leaks's sulary of $30 a week. She said her husband would have to big man and make $10,000 a year, Leaks asserted, Leaks said she refused to give up the ring and he obtained a judgment against her its value. He then discovered, he says, that she had ob- tained a loan on it, —— WOMAN GETS DIVORCE, FATHER HER ATTORNEY Mer Mother Al Infidelity unusual be a in The being ths rituation of a father counsel for his daughter in a divorce sult, occurred before Justice Winch in Supreme t to-day, wher Mrs. Josephine W o 15 West 1th Street, sued her husband, Bradford Wickes, who lives at No. 5 Mast 58d Strovt. Frederick MH. MeNish, an at torney of No. 110 Williay his daughter t, was counsel for Georg? Featherstone 3 Wash- ington Square, who had been 1 frend of Mrs, Wickes before her riage at Elkton, Md 1917, and vd known her husband for eight years, Id of finding Mr. Wieks« and an uni Ientified young woman in a compro ising position in room N vat the Hotel Astor on Dec, 1. 1 Mrs. Ruth Gould MeNis plaintiff, identifed — | ord Wilson and on the hotel pogister, as ing of her daught Fish granted (he the bench fa JERSEY JURY DISAGREES IN CHINESE MURDER handwr Justice New Trial WIL Be Ordered for Matthew MeCab After seventeen hours’ ati the’ jury in the Me tbe, who was y trl in the Special Sevalons Court Jevsey Clty, for the mur Jan, 14 of You Wing Fung, a Chinese iaundr nan, at No, 163 Second Io vken, reported a dis with eleven for conviction and one to: iuittal, The jurors were diac ed and M » was Bent back to Ja wa rial TeCabe The w is twenty-nin 4 old asin the nay In 1918, Mectn n ISS and served n. He alao in « up fall Coal Company of J Jnegel & Belles ¢ the Hobok > FIRE ON BROADWAY ATTRACTS BIG CROWD Keserves Called When Blase cars in Demolished Batiding A fire which gaye Broadway crowds excitement eked that thoroughfare for a block und a half occurred to-day when rubbis! a few moments of Nh paper blazed up in the ing which is being demolished TALLEST COUPLE IN WORLD HERE TO JOIN CIRCUS Commissioner ‘agen, is to the ages have the only persons books in which been checked up were Hart, who became Register about. ten years ago; a clerk named Thomas who had acee the shor =~ Lyuch, who died several weeks ago, ; and another clerk, unnamed, who » e e| He vy : Pair Are Met at Pler by Man] aiea two years ago 8 Feet 7 1-2 Inches The st eis due to the abstrac- Tall, tion by some one of portions of pay- ments for city water made by The tallest married couple tn the M SoG word peace Reilgweatl Standard Oil Company, the Hudson & ‘orld, unte ir. Dexte owes IS) Manhattan Railroad, the Lehigh and misinformed, came to New York to-} sue Ratiroads, Colante & Co, ag arie Railroads, Colgate & and day on the Royal Mail liner Orbita, | i. iy ge qs re oe joard of Freeholders. which is from Hamburg, You wit) i. a count a t page » accountants have gone bac! have to pay money to wee these hu-! into the books as far May, 1917, man telegraph poles unless you hap-] and they say the further back they pened to be at the pier this morging] Ko the heavier the thefts that are sav they ke woken thee disclosed, Thus far twenty-nine sep- ree bes ons, The} #rate abstractions have | discov: They are the Van Droysens. Tho] 0’oq. ‘the largest, in May, 1917, waa husbana/ William, is twenty-one years old and stands 7 feet 11 inches. His a of $8,465 in the Colgate account ee wife is Masiana, twenty-four, and is Tteet 6. With them was Litte F_~s, | —_—_—____—_—_—_———T a gentleman 291-2 inches tall. In order that the Van Droysens vhould not be too vain about thelr dizzy altitude, Prof. Fellowes took IMg fellow to thi George Augur, § f body 1s Fellowes, himself, recognized as tlie P, A. In JERSEY CITY GIRL pier taller , although press agent of t than that, the business, cae abe Judge to meet them, % inches. No- says Capt he Fellowes show, 9 tallest truth-telling MISSING FROM HOME Alarm Sent Out for Audrey Newer and Man Who Lived at Same Address. Good from Parents of pretty sixtecn-year-old ce Audrey Newer of No. 2503 Hudson! Start to finish Boulevard, Jersey City, reported to the police at noon to-day that she a A has disappeared and they want tol The choicest hand-picke locate her and Vrank Williams, twenty-nine the A of New cities to this afte same eneral years old, address arm Newark, the pa York, look for rnoon asking the and HYLAN AS PROPHET OUTDONE BY POUNDS Mayor Sald He'd Vote \uninat Zone rol cause T want aid May RZrookly Pounds at a F proposed change of building sion of a Va yutheast corner of a7th c ‘lames caught a woodr panning the sidewalk ta lumber atop It and were soon roaring high in the air Reserves from the West 30th wel sent out which gathe: ad the blaze aut in about ten Bat Didn't whieh ou Hiylan to-day 1) Borough Pre oth to sident Lewis H. Estimate diccus- a =< BROOKLYN GIRLS HOME, CURED OF WANDERLUST police other was issued ed beans to start with— the Heinz method of slow baking in real ovens to preserve all their natural flavor and food value— and the famous Heinz Tomato Sauce to add zest and tang—they couldn’t be better. ’ HEINZ whg lived at Former in Flatbush “ you Will not vote against me.” He ween Avenue L, and Avenue M. omtprrg me p r a : Tomato Sauce Rorous: President el TM peete if ur | | 4mproved Package Ar ee ee and Lower Price 2c per cake reduction since Merch 1, and a greatly im- proved package, xe Like “Home, sweet meee Ser Sane) ANCRE | i Mrs. Albert WE With te Genuine Loguefort Faso a ‘ CHEESE A 1. By Maeve by SHARPLESS, Phila, ‘ eae sae a nel Notice to Adver‘ise:s cerry Pru RESOUR Pia conta Hos? was tT “ o i r . % a wa “ eer] bospital pavente. | ie THE WORLDS,