The evening world. Newspaper, April 3, 1922, Page 3

WANTS $1,500,000 FOR 9 FERRYBOATS: 19 VALUED ATLESS Entire Fleet of Union Co. Ap- praised at $1,432,000 30 Years Ago. CITY’S OFFER RE JEC Corporation Threatens to Quit Service if Its Price Is Not Paid. How nine of the ancient ferry-bouts of the Union Ferry Company can have an assumed value of $1,500.000 when thirty years ago a court de cision held that nineteen of its ferry hoats——or more than twice that num her—had a value of only $1,122,000, is one of the outstanding puzzles of tie attempt of the Union Ferry Company tu sell its present feet of boats to the city. Prices for all kinds of ves els ave now ive market Im announcing that the city would offer $350,000 for nine ferry-boats thirty-one to fifty-nine years old Commissioner Whalen of the Hepartment of Plants and Structures Grover fave the impression that the city would get a great bargain if his of for were accepted. The Union Ferry Company, he said, demaniled $1 500,000 for them. {f the deni went through, it was further announced the city would spend $200.000 in re pairing the aed boats. But if experience of the Union Ferry Com pany itself is any the would eventually have to spend much criterion city more in repairs. In fourteen nione the Union Ferry Company spent nearly $800,000 in repairs to keep i old fleet afloat The Union Ferry Company has noti year ts Tied Commissioner Whalen that it rvefuses to sel} its nine ferryboats to $350,000 and that it will discontinue Sis service altogether. presumably case its demand is not accepted For more than a quarter of a ven tury the city has had contention with the Union Ferry Company. When early in 1891 it Fund Commission for a renewal ifs lease its property was At $3,803,000. in the spring of 1. G, McClave brought suit to vest: the city from accepting the amount of $3,808,000 as a proper appraisal of the ferry company property. Mc ‘lave's suit was later joined by the City of New York Chief Justice Daly. Common Pleas, in June, 1892, handed down @ decision in which he placed a value of $1,432,000 upon its nineteen 1891 in terryboats. Its ferry houses Judge Daly valued at $1,161,401; its real estate Including land under water at 556,000; and its repair shops, tool snd supplies at $80,000. ‘The entire uppraisal amounted to $8,220,401 During the fourteen years from 3891 to 1900 the Union Perry Com pany had made semeénts of $1 9,000 for the repair of its fer hoats and ferry houses So reported Charles S. Hervey, Auditor of Ac counts, to the Sinking Mund Cominis sion, “Of this amount his report said, “a sum exceeding 5) per cent the appraised valne of the in 1893 has been expended in taining the boats since that time, Schedule C of Hervey's report, pul }shed in the Pund Commission detail for total sum spent in heats during $791,817.82 he official city records of tie repairing t records Purtt « od the fact that ptroller 1 was the first city official advance the proposal of municipal owner r ot ferries. ‘This be did in a report te the Sinking Mund Commission on May 2, 1905. After he lett ¢ 1 became counsel tor the Ur Company Ik was Gro who a bn duced at Alban > 1906 ¢ for the purchase ferry prope that year Grou 4 for th pany, together 4 Mikaw Db ehild, its 1 1 Jon Xv {eClellan and off: com hvoken down prone for $ This sum wa ude i erry boa 1 n and f ‘ The very s taken to put “a Uharter an aut 1 viously had been lack 4 te 450, Laws of 4 charter the her of Loe with the appre f the sin Fund Commiss 1s to make pure half of the city — DOROTHY ARVOLD Ss FATHER PO BR BURIED TO-MORROW, Funeral services for Francis 1. \ nold, father of Miss Durot \ Who disappeared twelve who died Saturday at hig residence, N 65 Bast 80th Street, will be held t row morning at 1) o'clo hs Stephen's Episcopal ¢ West 69th ee Buria Greenwood Ceme CUP WINDOW; STOLE WPoHEs, some. Ume during the nigh ut a hale in the plate window of Joseph Mor te , 1003 Hast 1 numb at No, stole a summoned Mo stimaied hip bows as abou Ge) EVENING WORLD TEN-SECOND N George Barr McCutcheon, Author, Tells What’s the Matter With Our Juries in applled to the Sinking of appraised n in the Court of fourteen years was “The jury insures justice to every erin the inal who otherwise be leit to t mercy of the law. the Law.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall What's matter with our juries Twelve ood men and true filled day in the F The trial of the box the other eral District Court one Edward Din, a saloonkeepe accused of sellin half pint was about to b One after another the jurors stood up in court and admitted that they were against the enforcement of the Volstead act. They were ex cused There are, of course, plenty of folk hereabouts who would at least hesitate to condemn the jury system on this showing. They have their ow anion the Volstead act. But consider an ame day's other happening in the news. ‘Thomas Stuart, a juror in. the the S. W bridge Company against 1h Lawrence Con tensed Milk Con was ac. cused in open court by Samuel D Jones: counsel for the milk com ny, of seeking a bribe, and is n het on fiat charge = Me Jone A that Stuart told him her men in the jury box we e Supreme ¢ Justice ared mistrial! and an ' ‘ ave ft ne Natio’ n le fi 7 Ita buckle and A the bone tin Bn t » MeoM Cuteheon, wi ' the enormously popular ark stories us just broug vali, sli me which alr 1. ralle Court o Se ns says ought ty be ie ou 4 “bandh Y ¢ Voller nd Le n ny ' r vrites ob Wi ns up Mr. ut ol me lie " M Carehee Joni \ ' , law 1 e the ¢ Ww aL in \ vin ld n ) . ' tho add c ex he 1 1 e law i Se Spewialists haw pe plain, and the din iemares between oven! ‘ mop delined. Were i Vins “Juries add spice to often drab istence of the jurist and the Inwyer. Sur- prises abound” ox ‘Let the Judges Judge! is vm ol George Barr McCutcheon Sneers at Our Juries Famous Author, When Asked “What's the Matter With Our Juries?” Insure Justice to Every Criminal Otherwise Might Be Left at the Mercy of of the law glisten with romance and thrills rprises abound, and one never can predict what the day may bring forth, for juries have vitalized, vivified and romanticized { aw “Their chief function is to ine sure an entirely new, contrary and’ hitherto unprecedented ver dict The mission in life is to make law books, laws and law obsolete, vu Says: THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 192%. “Our juries need no evidence, They need case solely by tha! no instruction, They strange mixture of in need no facts.” “They Who unintelligible and innecessary, They have fulfilled their duty when they have ren red a veraict entirety irveleva the case, the evidence, the Judge's charge ana the law Days of argument by compe tent lawyers, masses of evidence for and against, a master!y pres entation the case by a dis tinguished Judge--of what use ny Waste tie f Om nee. ‘They They need They, and they atone, can de cide a case solely by that strange mixture of i and endin ance they lon e Hele snow whet ent if ‘he Lony Isla ® shooting one’s husband y is eve gentlemanly ax to make a bea incommtortable She shakes hands with all of hem nd of the trial, and asnion thee Met them. An ‘ police are ‘ dere ‘ s expla paled b * Aptiy Mr M Aon w® a ' Ka aie H fest a An y t 1 av be u AL to igh the or Vos He wu n HELM would be th ed nic abou sinol 1 with 1 1 bon nodded sed . iefendant is he p wi t sarcastic Ltt ot m can't foo! wyman wil every cage ia a ourt and t conspiring who onl n the las nly chance nvictin arr jury ‘\olitior ¥ wonld ac evidence.” sumny ip tuition and endurance.” PET HEN LAYS DAILY ON THE KITCHEN TABLE Considerate Plymouth Rock Makes Noise If Door Is Not Left Open YORK, Pa, April 3.-—A pet Plymouth Tock hen, owned by Charles F. Laucks of Red Lion, delivers an egg each day on the kitchen table with more grace and intelligence than the ordinary buckster. The fow! found the kitchen door ajar one morning, slipped in, flew upon the ‘table and scratching together several pieces of paper, deposited clean white egg, ready for use Since her first effort the door has been left open, but when Mrs. Laucks forgets to do so, the pet cackles for admission The hen has been so regular that a small hion has been placed on the table, and eacl day she comes in and deposits an exe CHINATOWN QUEEN HAS $40,000 FURS White | Woman Handsomels Garbed, Taken by Police in Raid in Pell Street But cu sometimes called the of China own, an nese id Chony sweater, baggy ppers were in strange bs mort no Tombs q now cha t KI otics Detectives of the Narcorim Sq say they fond in the Chu apartmer No, Wo Pell Street, under a foos kin rung. 4 a ipes, Chu and his wife sa ~ JUSTICE FAWCETT HURT IN BAHAMAS, IS REPORT and try nine of tuem on or re em unbiased ferent, and one \ ndtetive ) who talks ! gives 1 jar Da 1 says M i at blew in en window above ' Wet © dvatt eat \, that k ow 6 sad suffocating hin ounded him and mand called tim vet ib piace Sald to Have heen tn Ante Vecident Transt on then Mis Kaw ‘ s B await nk 4 Faw sald A t ep abled ' tha bdges served ten ¥ ' devoted t 1 . ' to t tud aw oan terpretation. How » the miscarria often would t H ff Judges 0 f] 44 ‘ 4 “As soon they kat the defendant they know whether he as is guilty or_innoce: “WITNESS TRYING TOTAKE MY LIFE. MISS STONE WEEPS Denies She Knows Cincinnati Prosecutor Who Is Present in Court. Olivia Stone broke into a torrent of weeping at the first question put to District At- in the for the er to-day Wa Supreme by Assistant torney rbasse her in trial Court, Brooklyn Kinke “De murder of Ellis Guy The question was. think M on would know James R. Clark Un es Attorney in) Cincin ld I know him? I've replied 6, how sho ever seen him in my life Miss Stone. Mr. Warbe then asked Mr. Clark » step for This was the cue Tor Miss Stone's ontburst, She lifted ev hands high above her head and with her face distorted with emotion screamed “He's got a political story to. tell 6 take omy God strengthen ne More letters which Miss to Kinkead were bye Stone wrote ht into the case May 22, 1919 o-day. One, written sails “You are not worthy of me and 1 owoulda't have you were the t man on eart Stone admitted having written tdmitled having written abeu bs nonths Kinkead suid: Don’) think LE want you back ened” te Kinkead was be- | that Warha M the Garnte nds ¢ M Stone Sixt nn, in 1 oman Wa abo: i " so who lived next d husband, She also den | allie fom n j No. 1001} Ave | Both M.S Mi Hagan] were brour | j | | t address.) Miss Stan Mfusior | Iwo matron Raymon ‘ Jail teatitied that Miss 8 ' O’ BONNY SCOTLAND Visite His Pipes SKIRLS ON PIER TUNES | | | ve-Vear-old wit tains Many K rest his cas him who t and Burglary Firm Started‘Factory’ To Make ‘Shirts’ But Police List Their ‘Machinery’ as Crowbar, Drills, Goose- neck, Ete. A burglar’s kit and a fairly co police record has seuttled the frm of Harris & Kline, shirt eutters, with offices in the loft building at No West 28d Street. According to de eetives, both ends of the firm were captured just after “sizing up” the safe of a neighbor ata No A desk and a chair comprised the office furniture, but neighbors told the police the new manufacturers had declared (he machinery was to moved n to-day ‘The detectives, however suy that the machinery had been moved in, for a purchase voucher howed: One drill, $15.20; one crow har, $2; one goosnencek, $2; Six 1-2 peed bits, $6; office furniture scording to the police, Abraham Harris of No. 977 Prospect Avenue sronx, alias Katz, has served two terms for burglary in Sing Sing. A warrant from Worcester, — Mass., charges a fur burglary there dn Finger prints gave the police there the clue, Louis Kline of No. 76 Grand Street, Hoboken, alias Krouse, eived a suspended sentence for bur and then went to Sing Sing for two and a half years, they say. A charge of carrying burglirs’ tools ts how pending him STABBED TO PARTYER Ar 5 Michael Sambi. forty Ove, was stabbed to death to-day in his restaurant at Harrison, N. J, and his partner, Michael Cracul, thirty-eight, was locked wp by the poliee, charged with homicide Cracul’s wite told) the police that the two men had quarrelled over business affwins GERMANS STOPPED FROM MARRYING BY BIG SLUMP IN MARK Man Tas to Work Whole Day to Bay Pound o Coffee, WASHINGTON Marriage in Germany for the emedy ditt quit day by # Hang, ¥ rinan Cha THE ADVANTAGE “In their ancient predatory incursions into England,” says Sinclair, “The Scottish warriors fastened to their saddles a | bag filled with oatmeal, mn great ad. y whose Wich gave the vant ver an arn cre more numerous,” wants Deliciously creamy oatmea still vives idvantage to great its devotees at CHILDS, besides ple uuperts vi vitality, WS MOVIES Cod | 2 STATION SAFES ~ OF LACKAWANNA, ROBBED OF $3 50 3urglars’ Take $2,500 “in Greenbacks at Newark-— Leave $300 in Silver, n the Lacka- vona KR ad hay en robbed of ' n to-day, From s ' Hroad Street Station N sese lolen and $i, Roonton, NeJ. Burglars also rifled a small safecéf the Western t wh Com ‘Lock up the juries, HEAT i Then throw the ke ' t n the AWAY. Let the Judges 5 clare feanar’ 1 ent ind left $300 n sil ‘ atter é the t 1 up fast SUFFERING WOMEN Join xo con ! IN LEAGUE AGAINST |' “i : Me THE TYRANT MAN [hoi station stutter’ Bevin OMEN Pertidy because skeleton keys will not fit the ite tambler locks t ors. ‘The Ingerprint expe the f Do- Apartment are photographing the gate opyriaht, 1922 (New York Evening World), |! tt Md HEL Drinta "TH: hy’ Press Publishing Conipany ible to the eye. ‘Thirteen em NI April 8 ployees ingthe station who have ac is fighting man, some bellicose |fnserprinted. The rints willbe women have founded an anti-man [0 0"! ee AR aD hem soclety, the L "a of Woman Joseph Conlan of Chatham, a thors Victims of Men, which is gaining Jing ticket seller, discovered the robber recruits along the Riviera to carry [When he came in on the 6.10 A. AE on the struggle tr Ne re found the doors of the The leaders are convinced that [UCKet pfice closed ona keds ee half the members of their sex > have grievances against some |WANTS TRADE RELIEVED ma Phe first meeting of the nace , Ke a Sea del aH OF ANTI-TRUST LAWS discuss the scope of ganiza WASHINGTO neil a Conie First qualification ti mher sane exemptto 8 s that the candidate prove om the anti-trust haw Congte she has suffered from “s: pe ‘ ted to farmers was ure fldlous male." It is undersrood ny Kd. Ne u Y. to-day members 80 are m jilted d polution fon flancees, secretaries and typists |" Hay Spe i who have lost their jobs hecause asain Ha Getta nah) their em 8 favortrtsm att theatndstorstan: GF ; have been mismanaged by a man une ee ee A note of cheer— It’s springtime now, and tea time! Rose The ali-Ceylon Tea - POULTRY THE WORLD'S | GARDEN & FAR! 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