The evening world. Newspaper, April 21, 1922, Page 9

© SEVENBADLYHUR WHEN CRUSHED BY OVERTURNNGTAX Man Just Welcomed From Eu- rope Suffers Fractured Skull in Hoboken Crash. PRENDERGAST WON'T GO TO GAS MEETING Chairman Doesn't Believe He Should Discuss Case Pending Before Commission. Chairman William A, Prendergast af the Public Service Commission will not take part in the mass meeting of gas consumers at Town Hall next Tuesday night called by the Com- munity Councils to protest against the Presosed lowering of the legal gas standard to 625 British Thermal Units instead of the present 22-candle power or 650 B, T. U. requirement, In a letter to Jabez ©. Dunningham, Executive Secretary of the City Par- liament of the Community Councils, Mr. Prendergast begs a previous en. gagement and also believes it improper Seven persons were badly injured late last nfght at Hudson and Sixth Streets, Hoboken, when a taxicab struck a curb and overturned. The oe ——— THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRYx 21, 1922, for » member of the commission to discuss publicly @ case pending before It, He suggests, however, that the councils obtain some well known gas engineer “of high professional stand. ing to speak on the subject. Hy continued: “You must also appreciate that the case now pending before the com- mission will have to be decided upon evidence submitted to the commis- sion and not upon speeches made at public meetings or newspaper articles concocted by people who are not sub- ject to the critical examination or cross-examination incidental commission proceeding.” to a —- DEPENDS ON THE ' (From the New Haven Roxister.) “Don't you admire determination in a man's character?” “That depends. If it brings succes I praisé it as splendid perseverance, if failure, I denounce it as confounded obstinacy.” Police Lieutenant Takes No Chances on Being Held Up Lieut. Daniel Scannell, in a Police Department flivver, was waiting at Morris Avenue and 166th Street, Bronx, at 11.80 o'clock last night, when a shabbily dressed man, his hand reaching into a hip pocket, leaned over a door of the car. Scan- nell leaped out and bore the man to the sidewalk. ‘The man was giving an account of himself when Detectives Hughes and Mills ran up. They helped Lieut. Scannell to subdue the belligerent. Search revealed a revolver in the pocket he,tried to reach. The captive said he was Stanzi Majewski, twenty- nine, No. 208 Bast 155th Street. He as held on a charge of violation of the Sullivan law Lieut. Scannell said he believed he spoiled an attempt to hold him up. The® Offerings Also at NEWARK STORE These Offerings Also at BROOKLYN STORE Broad Street and West Park Fulton Street Near Hoyt West 34th Street—Thru to 35th Street Including the Most Fashionable Fabrics & Colors Cccupants were caught under the wreckage, The injured were taken to St. Mary's Hospital. Ernest Thompson, twenty-four, of Np. 117 Bay Street, Orange, suffered @ fractured skull, The others, who suffered lacerations and internal injuries, are Slegrid Thompson, twenty-six, No. 2 Halsey . Street, South Orange; Berteene Opsal, twenty-four, Carbert Place, Orange; Dora Thompson, twenty~ two, No, 111 Haywood Avenue, Or- ' ange, whose right arm was broken; Boody Thompson, seventeen, No. 111 Haywood Avenue, Orange; Thomas Hendrison, twenty- 0. 111 Hay- wood Avenue, and Mrs. Anne Mo- ran, twenty-three, No. 318 Washing- ton Avenue, Hoboken, who has a posible fracture of the skull. osmpson had returned tast a steamship of the Scandi which docked at the foot Street, Hoboken, and the alm, They got into a taxi, owned and driven by Thomag Blicton. twenty- six, of No. 227 Washington Street, Hoboken, to drive to Orange As Blackton drove down Hudson a car shot across Sixth Street. lon Blacton swerved ‘ont wheel striking passengers were caught and witnesses lifted them out Mrs. Moran was pinned against a railing. Blacton w nical charee o driving. 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