The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1922, Page 3

Ny @ & eo MYSTERIOUS DEATH THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1922. HVLAN WITHHOLDS [ees anny OMAN, AD 1 OF ELDERLY COUPLE] Lege Thrown on Spirit han and Levitations | RT. EVIDENCE IN BROOKLYN HOTEL Fremont M. ‘Mlsdoon and Wife ; Believed to Have Died From Poison. (DOUBT SUICIDE THEORY Friends Say They Were Hap- » py and Were Considered } Wealthy. Fremont Madison Jackson, a retired tarpet merchant, seventy-four years old, and his wife, Annie, sixty-nine, ‘whom he married about a year ago, ‘were found dead this morning in the bathroom of their three-room suite In the annex of the Hotel Margaret, at No. 114 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. What caused their death, whether it ‘was by poison taken intentionally or induced by chemical action of some- thing they had eaten, can only be de- termined by autopsy. Medical Exam- diner Wuest said that he would per- form this late this afternoon or this evening. From all accounts, there was no reason for the suicide of either, They ‘were ample of means and devoted to each other, Nowhere about the rooms they occupied was there any- thing to indicate that they contem- plated or desired death. On the con- trary, they had sent out invitations for a card party this coming Satur- day afternoon and Mr. Jackson had an appointment with a dentist for Friday. There was evidence in the bath- room, however, that one or both had been actively nauseated. The food thus voided will be subjected to anal- ysis. It was the opinion of Dr. Wuest that Mrs. Jackson had been dead about twenty-four hours and her hus- band about four or five. But Dr. Er- nest C, Vaughn, representing District Attorney Ruston, thought each had had been dead not less than ten hours. “The plasma is part of the medium’s body exteriorized in space.” “At nearly all seances the noise accom- panying the birth pangs of the plasma is distinctly audible.” “With thin silk stockings the friction of plasma on the threads as it disengages itself is unmistakable.” “There is strong evidence of decrease in volume of the fleshy parts of her (the medium’s) body, especially from the waist down, while the plasma is ex- truded.” * * Dr. Crawford, Investigator of Psychic Phenomena, Wrote: * Discovery of the bodies was made at 8,30 o'clock this morning by Mary King, a chambermaid. She found Mrs. Jackson lying, fully dressed, upon the floor of the bathroom. She summoned the manager, who found Mr. Jackson's body. He also was fully dressed. Dr. Wuest said it seemed to him that both of the victims had died of some quick-acting poison. It was learned that Mr. Jackson was in the habit of cashing checks, appa- rently dividends, from the New York ‘Telephone Company, the Wool Ex- ehange and various cotton brokers. Also he cashed bond coupons from ime to time. A nephew of the dead man, Howard D. Brainard of No. 15 Midland Ayo- nue, East Orange, N. J., was sum- moped and said his uncle had been in the carpet business in the Bowery, There he made a fortune and retired. His stock and bond investments, the nephew said, were comparatively small, his main interests being in real estate, Mrs. Jackson has a son, F. A Warren of No. 227 Bruce. Avenue, Lawrence, Mass. ‘tye couple came to the Hotel Mar- waret last May, soon after their mar- Mame. They always seemed to be very nappy, Mr. Brainard said, devoting their evenings to cands or the movies nd being together practically all the ime. Save for $75 in Mr. Jackson's pocket, nothing of great value was found in the apartment. There were pass books of several banks showing deposits as high as $8,000 : ee MAGISTRATE SENTENCES PEDDLER IN ITALIAN No Interpreter in Court, So Fol- well Takes Case in Hand, ‘Magistrate George H. Folwell to-day fn the Gates Avenue Court, Brooklyn, took charge of the case of Joseph Mo! dolia, No. 288 Bushwick Avenue, charged with peddling produce without license, when it was found there w no interpreter in court and Mendoi was unable to speak English, The Mag- istrate read the formal complaint of the patrolman who made the arrest, translated it into Italian, listened to Mendolia’s explanation and then fined him $5. pons <= TR Se WIRELESS PHONES WILL BROADCAST SPIRIT MESSAGES Station to Be Be Established i Chicago, Convention Dele- gates Are Told. PHILADELPHIA, April 26. —From a radlophone station in Chicago spirit messages will be broadcast to spiritual~ ists throughout the country, Mrs. M. E. Cadwallader of Chicago told delegates attend- ing the fifteenth annual meet- ing of the Pennsylvania Spir- itualist Association. Mrs. Cadwallader, a Vice President of the national Spirit- ualists’ organization, sald she and John Slader, a Chicago ~sedium, had made plans to broadcast all messages received from spirits during the con- vention, The delegates adopted a res- olution recommending legisla- tion to recognize Spiritualism as a religion. The proposed bill would exempt mediums from prosecution under many Btato laws. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ot) aera Sir Arthur Conan Doyle told New York the other day, into a trance. substance, which surrounds her like a fog. it becomes more dense. Tt can be photographed. “In some cases ectoplasm ex- udes from a medium in a rod-like formation which drops to the floor, runs along for several feet and then mounts in a thin white column which, operated ‘on the cantilever system, develops a po- tency sufficient to lift a table.”” To-day The Evening World prints photographs of ectoplasm in action, They are taken from a remarkable book just published by E. P. Dutton & Co,, through whose courtesy the pictures with this article are reproduced. The book is called ‘The Psychic Structures at the Goligher Circle’? and the author ts the late Dr. W. J. Crawford of Belfast, a trained investigator of psychic phenom- ena, to whose experiments and earlier books Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself refers in his book on spiritualism, “The Vital Mes- sage.” The medium in Dr. Crawford's experiments, which extended over a long period of time and were furnished with every safe- guar against fraud, was Miss Kathleen Goligher. The point he makes is that in all the typical seance phenomena—table levitation, rapping and others— contacts with matter in ths room are made by “psychic structures” or “plasm: These structures, he declares, possess a variety of shapes and dimensions, and have various methods of action. Dr. Crawford's extraordinary pictures show that the plasma may exude from the medinm’s legs, feet, chest or other parts of the body, Sometimes It takes the form of rods, sometimes of lumps. which may separate from the me- dium altogether and lie on the floor, sometimes of atms, so flex- {ble that they tle knots around the table legs “Once the plasma ts extruded from the body of the medium,"’ writes Dr. Crawford, ‘the oper- ators can mould it into the var- ious shapes and forms required to produce the phenomena, I have showed that if a light table was to be lavitated, the psychic struc- ture employed was a cantilever firmly fixed to the medium’s body at one end and gripping the un- dersurface or legs of the table with the free or working end. If, however, the lavitated body is a heavy one, the psychic structure is so modified that the reaction, instead of being thrown on the medium, is applied to the floor of the room. “The invariable rule with re- gard to these psychic structures is that they are as simple as pos- sible consistent with the carrying out of phenomena, “The head, or what corresponds to the working or gripping end of the structure, is denser or more opaque than the body.” Persons in the circle with the medium frequently feel these psychic structures rapping them, but under the ordinary condi- tions of the seance room they are quite inyisible to the naked eye, according to Dr, Crawford, Not, however, to the camera eye as s a thick, vapory, slightly luminous substance which exudes from some materializing mediums... of giving off this substance is placed in a darkened cabinet and goes Immediately there comes from her body this vaporous As the ectoplasm increases It coalesces, becomes sticky. the accompanying flashlight plic- tures show. the following account of how they were taken: “Only months or so has it been found possible to photograph the stuff which body (I call it ‘plasma’ for want of a better word), and from which the psychic structures are built up tha of raps, &e. Fi photograph each seance night, in the hope that success might ultt- mately tors informed me success would finally come if [ would be persistent enough. ™ ON “TOP ea Age ogous ABOUT A =f Se A médium capable It can be felt. Dr. Crawford gives within the last six issues from the medium's t produce the phenomena levitations, touchings, ‘or about a year I took a be obtained. The opera- by raps that “The chief difficulty seemed to be in medium, The was necessary gradually to work her up the flashlight upon the plasma; nor is at “after howeve: plasma between the medium's ankles. As time went on these increased in size and variety until great quan- tities of this psychic stuff could be exteriorized and photographed. “Then the operators began to manipulate it in various ways, building it up into columns or forming into single or double arms, moulding it into the differ- ent shapes with which I had been long familiar in a general way, “The medium and members of the circle,"" concluded Dr, ford, women prevent subconscious action af- fecting plasma, graphs present series was obtained."* The plasma, Dr, Crawford found, had weight —one of the pictures with this article shows it being welghed. He thinks that the psychic rods vary in diameter at their extre- mities from about half inch to three or four inches, The free end of such rod seems to as- sume different shapes and dif- ferent degrees of hardness. Finally, description of the physical phe- nomena which occur in the body of the mation “The muscles of the medium's feet and ankles are, occurrence of phenomena, in a state of much stress; they seem to be squirming,’ he notes, “There is no bodily movement of the foot, but there Is @ whirlpool of internal muscular movement round foot and ankle and lower part of the calf, The evolution of the plasma must be accom- panied by much friction between stocking and boot. when it plasma is part of her body ex- teriortzed in space, “are open to any tests, I have gone to most elaborate pre- cautions to make sure the results are genuine, have called to my preventing Injury to the operators said it to withstand the shock of this much to be wondered is considered the innumerable attempts, r, very small patches of were obtained in full view.. Craw- and among others alu men and of medicine. In order to the moulding of the I withheld the photo- from the medium until the he has an Interesting medium during the for- of the plasma, during the leather of shoe or At nearly all seances the DRIVES $8,000 CAR, oecupled b ythe U, Company as storage warehouses The loas will include $1,00,000 in finished products of company, $10,000 worth of lumber owners of of REACHING FROM BUYS WIFE SILKS; FOR RELIGION 25c Churchmen Told City Church's Collection Plates Yielded 1,700 Pennies One Sunday. ATLANTIC CITY, April 26.—Rev. THE bf jethetog) TS Reled EOS Dr. Luther E. Lovejoy of Chicago ir an address to-day before the conven tion of the Federation of Churches church members sriticised wealthy who make small contributions in the collection plates, a thing of the past. but expressed the hope that these conditions will soon be “A man can still be the respected member of a fashionable city church, ride in an $8,000 motor car, clothe his ligion,’’ he declared, day's offering.” wife and daughter in silks and furs ind pay 26 cents a Sunday for his re- “The treasure: of a metropoiltan congregation re- cently found 1,700 pennies in one Sun- “The Christian people of America," he added, consideration than they man porter who shines for past neglect."* SEMENOFF REFUSES ‘are waking up to the fact that they treat their Creator with les: treat thel: waiter at the restaurant, or the Pull- their shoes, and they are eager to make amends TO ANSWER QUESTIONS je to Commitment Gen, Gregorie Semenoff, Ataman of the Cossacks, lafd himself Mable to con- tempt of court to-day when he refused to answer questions put to him befor Referee Peter B, Olney by David W. , for Kahn, trustee of the Louroveta whose failure the. General {s alleged to be responsible through the seizure by hts soldiers of $476,000 worth of that in Siberia, Semenoff brought the to an abrupt close after Hzra P. hearing Pren- tice, on of his attorneys, had been over- ruled by Mr. Olney on a long argument that the hearing ought to be tinued on the ground that United Courts must take judicial notic status of foreign governments and ca of the not compel an officer of another country to answer for acts performed under the authority of another government. On agreement between counsel the motions for vacation of the order of ex- amination and for contempt will be p sented next Monday in the Unit e District Court. Semenoff will continue at i HOBOKEN FIRE CAUSES DAMAGE OF $125,000 Warehouses of U. §. Willow F ture Co, Destroyed. Fire of unknown origin to-day stroyed a series buildings fn. Tenth and of one-story Jefferson Street leventh Streets betwe ‘hipping rooms. about the belonging to the Farr estate the property, and $16,000, thi the buildings. value noise accompanying «te birth pangs of the plasma {es distinctly audible. With thin silk stockings, the friction of plasma on the threads as It disengages ttself 1s unmistakable, "I asked thé operators to take paychic matter from the medium in the ordinary way, I put my hand on the lower part of her back. The rise and fall of her flesh was very apparent, as paychic matter was supposed to be taken from her and put back I put my hand on her haunches just above the seat of her chair The flesh seemed to become soft and cave in. The medium did not seem to move bodily, but her flesh seemed to fall in, It could be distinctly felt filling out as the psychic stuff apparently returned to her, “Generally speaking," the in- vestigator sums up, “it can ba said that the evolution of plasma from tho body of the medium is accompanied by strong muscular movements all over the b that there is strong evide decrease in volume of the parts of her body, especia the walst downwards, whi the plasma ia extruded, fleshy om the Hoboken 8. Willow Furniture Liberty on de- frame " and A PAIR OF PLASMICARMS Avenue, Cran! Elks. He wa: Key, iXey to write He aughters, Harry Snderson wi time variety old land. month, who wrote Years. Harry Schley Sanderson, years manager of ‘Tony Pastor's old Fourteenth Street Theatre, ward associated with the F, cheatrical enterprises, died this morn- ing at his home at No. 405 ford, N. J. years old and inciaentally Past Exalted Ruler of the the song. Wanted J HARRY S.SANDERSON THEATRE MAN, DIES Veteran Was Manager of Tony Pastor's Theatre for 30 He the known to more actors perhaps than any man in the United States or 1 He became business manager for Tony Pastor just fifty years ago this a SHOTS HALT FLIGHT OF PEPPER THROWER Sidney Brown, York, Caught in Jersey. HAMMONTON, N. Sidney Brown, April April several for thirty and after- F. Proctor Springfield was eighty oldest New York He was also a Mason, a member of the Mecca Temple and the Shrine n New York, a cousin of Francis Scott “The Star-Spangled 3anner,"" and nephew of Margaret Pet- igill, who made the flag that inspired Mr, Sanderson had been in ill health for two years. leaves a wife and three married New 26.— for whom the New York police have been searching since 1, was captured to-day on the Pine Road after four officers fired BANTON ASKED FOR Prosecutor Wanted Specific Instances Where Nuisances Occur in Subway. Although Mayor Hylan was in- formed by District Attorney Banton on April 4 that the best way to pro- ceed against the Interborough for creating a public miisance In subway operation was by laying the evidence before a City Magistrate, Mr. Ban- ton admitted ‘to-day that up to the present time the evidenoe he asked for has not been delivered by the Mayor. The records of the correspondence between the Mayor's office and that of the District Attorney show that the Mayor's office did not reply di- rectly to Mr. Banton’s communica- tion, but waited until April 19. Then, instead of accepting the District At- torney's advice and offering to sup- ply the evidence, with which Mr. Banton would have been ready and willing to proceed, the Mayor's office merely acknowledged receipt of the District Attorney's opinion. Twenty-two days have passed and not a particle of evidence against the Interborough had reached Mr. Banton up to this morning, Mr. Banton ad- mitted. “Has the Mayor sent you any evi- dence on which you might proceed against the Interborough?” Mr. Ban- ton Was asked to-day. “No; not yet,’ he replied. Asked how he would proceed, Mr. Banton suid the Mayor would have to give him some specific instance of where the Interborough broke rules of the Transit Commission and thereby created a public nuisance. In his charge of criminal negligence against the Interborough, which is contained in a letter to Mr. Banton, written March 23, Mayor Hylan said in effect that the overcrowding in the MISS DAGMAR Db CORVAL RY BNE Miss Dagmar de Carval Ryboed Soon to Become Mrs. J. Whitla Stinson. Mr. and Mrs, Cornelius Rybner, of No. 816 West 94th Street, announced engagement Miss Dagmar de Corval Rybner, to J. Whitla Stinson, an at- to-day the daughter, sorney of this city, been set for the weddin; Miss Rydner is a skilled musician, a planiste and composer. was for many years at the head of the Department of Music Mr. graduate of Columbia, class of 1906. He is a member of the Metropolitan bia University. Club. COLUMBIA MAN HASSTR.OOOYEAR, SAID TOBEINSANE Nephew Secures peinith Cvcis to Ei amine Mrs, Duncan, Once Well Known Musician, The alleged mental incompentency, of Mrs, Gertrude I. Duncan, a former well known musician, who is néw seventy-six years old and Ives at No. 209 East Sidney Avenue, Mount Ver~ hon, will be tested by a Sheriff's jury on an order to examine signed to-day, at White Plaina by Justice Mor chauser, ‘The order appoints Jeremiah D. Toomen of Mount Vernon com- missioner to examine. Mrs. Duncan, whose husband died twenty-one years ago, has three trusts, aggregating $200,000, held by, the Brooklyn Trust Company, from which the annual income is about $15,000, but It ts alleged she is em- tremely parsimonious in matters. of dress and food. It is sald she takes her meals in ‘owl’ wagons, The action to have her examined is brought by her nephew, George Allen Ingraham, of Rutherford, N. &h cashier of the American Express Co., at No. 8 Broadway. Ingraham claims his aunt is incompetent to manage-her affairs and that she fails to recog- nize relatives, He also asserts that undue influence is being exercised over her by one W. F. Turner whose address is given as No, 610 West 116th Street, Manhattan, An affidavit of Caroline B. Witson of Mount Vernon states that Mrs Duncan has many eccentricities among them talking aloud in churches and expectorating in pews. Milton W. Hail of Mount Vernon, a Vice President of the Mount Vernen Trust Company says in an affidavit that, Mrs, Duncan being dominated “by this man Turner.” ‘The nephew alleges that Turner has obtained over $30,000 from the of their No date has yet Her father Colum. Stinson is a subways had reached the point of in- decency and that the health of the community was menaced because of inadequacy of the service. After receiving the report of Assis- tant District Attorney Myers of the Appeals Bureau Mr. Banton wrote to the Mayor on April 4, submitting the report and adding: “As the offense charged is a misde- meanor, may IT ask that you supply for salaries for Gaynor, auditor for Company, showed that the Brooklyn $4,000,000 for discounting bond issues and amortizing the bonds, $26,000 for directors’ fees for ten years, $76,000 officials and their staffs and $89,987 for legal expenses, all allocated against the Brooklyn ex- tension of the subway. Testimony given by Edward F. J. estate by stock achemes, Pe titans rset MRS. CARUSO SAILS, DENYING BETROTHAL Tenors Widow Gees to Italy te Settle His Estate. On the French liner Paria, sailing for Plymouth and Havre to-day, were Mra. Enrico Caruso, her daughter, Gloria, the Interborough such information as the memorandum requires in order to submit the case to an appropriate Magistrate's Court upon an application for a warrant or warrants against the offender or offenders ?"" The report of the Appeals Bufedu said the matter was not one for the Grand Jury, as the Mayor had sug- gested in his letter to Mr. Banton, but for the police court. This report also says: “If the Transit Commission has issued an order prescribing the ser- Nf vice to be rendered by the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company, extension of the subway cost $14, Of this amount the city paid $8,920,000 and the Interborough 962,267. $9,568,000, leaving $1,462,000, payable either by the In- terborough or by the City of New York to the contractor, the Rapid Transit Construction Company. Judge Shearn then brought out that the Rapid Transit Cor Company had sublet the work and the sub-contractor failed job, due to delays in plans, changes in specifications and tals all mitigating against original es. The Interborough’ subsidiary, the Rapid Transit Con- timates of cost. and Mrs. Charles Hopper, a friend and companion, The tenors widow will spend six months In her villa at Flor- ence and In August will go to Venice a settle her husband's estate. a with evident feeling rumors t! engaged to Commander A) staff. “How could anybody be cruel enou, to cireulate such a report?” she “Both my husband and I knew Com- mander Wagstaff, but T have not seen a balance of ruction to complete the Mrs. Marie D. Bustanoby, widow of the restaurateur, Loul stantinople to settle an estat. 000 left to her and her brother by “thelr mother, Callppi Dadidoviteh. "Burke-Roche was another Das- other inciden- shots to stop his flight, arrested in New York April 3 charged automobile ed by throwing pepper of the pollceman who had with being thefts, and es into the eye him in char When Detectives Fields and Murphy ate Trooper Frank Ju- Hano and Patrolman Patricity of Ham- monton went to the house where Brown had been boarding, ot New York, run away. implicated Brown started Julfano fired, Brown in tinued to run and then all four fired, Brown fell and when t up he surren back to New ered. York He will be taken ——— OFFICIALS SEEK HOME Own: ler’ abandoned barn. FOR VAGRANT’S DOG Pa Forced to Leave Canine, Prefers Celf to Al The Poundmaster of Jeracy City will try to-day to coax William Standmtl- mongrel dog into a good home, which he belleves the animal will find when {ts story becomes known. Standmiller, with no home or friends, took up his abode last winter In an His dog was bla only houne. companion, and they seemed happy, al- though food was scarce fc toaster Murray thought both. the old Poor- needed attention and arraly the Jersey City Police Court. miller was best place for him. ‘Can I take my dog?" he asked. Told that this was impossible, he rant, be treated as ay: told the almshouse was the asked to and was sen- tenced for sixty days to the peniten- tlary, The dog ts still in the deserted barn waiting for his master to return, WIFE SAYS HE CLAIMED $3 A WEEK EXTRAVAGANT When Mrs, for the table Mrs, Glory sald the Police Magistrate before whom she waa arraigned ordered her husband to give her an allowance of $6. Had Her Ari Rose A Sheridan Avenue, Brooklyn, her husband's allowance and her own fore a Polte of extrava Foster at Vice Chancellor allowed her $7 @ week as «imony pending trial ed When She Ob- Jected, She Chargen. Glory, No. 59 objected to of $3 a week xp Ane Newark —_ SEN. WALKER DENIES MOVIE APPOINTMENT Strong Faction Among Exhibitors Work for Hin Ca Senator Jame: Hotel Astor to-day that he date Pict for the Theat a. Tt that he «ton in isu to put Walker now the owners bi n the J. Wi presiden re Owners’ is still understc will be vention probably n Muy stro Presi lieve t division of the organization. x faction 4 t cy, Howe is a ecandi- of the Motion Association of how- « candi meets in that w to Brown con- *|terborough valuations to-day th ker denied at the that company 1s under the legal duty of oveying such order. If the order is not obeyed the corporation is lable to money penelties (one year im- prisonment, $500 fine, or both), and every officer and ogent of the corpora- tion who shall fall to obey, observe and comply with any order of the commission or any provision of an order of the commission, or who pro- cures, aids or abets any such common carrier in its failure to obey, observe and comply with such order or pro- vision is guilty of a misedemanor.” The Board of Estimate will take action in a special session this after- noon on @ resolution by Mayor Hylan dissolving the partnership between the city and the Interborough and the seizure of the subways operated by the latter unless all terms of the dual subway contracts are lived up to. The first step in the city’s proposed ouster action was taken at a mieeting of the Estimate Board March 81, This followed the Transit Commis- sion’s drive against the Interborough because of inadequate service. Under the law the city is required to give thirty days’ notice to the Transit Commission of its Intention to proceed against the Interborough. It is understood this notice has been given. Inspectors in the employ of the city have since carefully watched schedules of the Interborough for the purpose of deteriining whether the service has improved since the May- or's resolution, Although no official figures are obtainable, it is sald there is no appreciable improvement It is understood that there will be a report submitted at this afternoon's meeting further indicting the Inter borough and bolstering up the cit claim for dissolution SOME ESTIMATES OF INTERBOROUGH CALLED A “JOKE” Transit Caine Says Public Will Get a Shock If It Takes Valuation Seriously. Characterizing as a ‘joke’ some of the claims made by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in {ts own es- timates of the value of the traction property on a cost to reproduce basis, Judge Clarence J. Shearn, special counsel to the Commission, told th Commissioners at the hearing into In- t “It people of this city are allowed to take these valuations of $400,000,000 seriously they will be shocked Judge Shearn was reviewing the testimony. He charged that an over- valuation of $6,000,000 was claimed by the Interborough as part of the cost account of the Brooklyn extension ¢ the original subway me of these claims © $14,000 for the souvenir books distributed on the opening day of the Brooklyn route, Others were struction Company, looked to its par- ent corporation for reinfbursement of the losses sustained tractor—as guaranteed tract subletting the work. The Interborough claim of the Rapid Transit Construc- tion Company to the peacefully resting in the Comptroller's The construction company ts owned by the I, R, T. through stock office, ownership. Mr. Gaynor denied ant Corporation Counsel De Ford that the Interborough in agreeing to build the Brooklyn extension for $3,000,000 knowingly assumed a loss in order to keep the B. R. T. out of Manhattan. He denied that his company believed the reasonable cost the Brooklyn extension would be be- tween $10,000,000 and $14,000,000. “Wasn't it a deliberate loss to avold competition?’ Mr, Giynor was asked. it was a deliberate investment, “No, he answered. not on an original Commission will later EB. Cc. terborough, said he City of New York. Mr. De Ford, no property to nell certain contract righ’ use of the property— The Transit small contracts work on various stat! $31,000, Some of th station finish OAKLAND, Cal., ference of amateur clear receipt of transcontinental radio telephone message from house station at Newark, N. J., station Rock Ridge afternoon, ov cific Coast notables w to Newark, were n > oN Jury by Magistrate Le » Dr eh y. Miss € vaudeville actre stealing a diamond ring valued at $300 from her, Mr, Gaynor said the statement ai fecting the Brooklyn rather on a basis of cost to reproduce, Commissioner Harkness said: on the accounting propriety of kee ing these money costs in your capital account during a fifty-year issue."’ Edwards, counsel for the In- mission did not expect the Interbor- ough to give the subways away to the “You don't own them, “the Interborough has terest to be conserved, title to which has passed to the city." Commission let to-day for lines. The total contracts amount to doors, rails, gates, &c. Bese AMATEURS JAM AIR, SPOILING RADIO TEST April Portions of it were clearly audible across the rece Plans for another test, de Court, on a charge senger who will spend six months on the Continent. See SUES AUGUST BELMONT , FOR $100,000 DAMAGES by the sub-con- in the con- Presented the city whare 4¢ ta ffeur Alleges Injuries When August Belmont, es owner of the Park Row Building, was the defendatit in Supreme Court in @ suit for $100,000 damages, brought by Louls Coughlin, @ chauffeur, who was badly injured on November 16, 1921, while loading giu- cose on a sidewalk elevator in front of the building, It ts alleged that an elevator chain broke, precip tating Coughlin and the glucose three stories below ground. The chauffeur suffered fractures of both legs, a broken arm ‘and jaw and other injuries. Ho still is receiving ‘hospital treatment. Coughlin lives at No, 525 Hi Brooklyn, and was the support of a younger brother and sister at the time of the accident. He (ie twenty-seven years old and was on the eligible list for appointment when hurt, —— ; GAVE BABY NICKEL AND IS ARRESTED A boy about two years old was stand Ing at Essex and Rivington Streets last night and Joseph Muccia of No, 128 Mott Street, who has some little brothe ers and sisters in Italy, gave the young+ ster a nickel. He was arrested on @ charge of “impairing the morals of @ minor,"" Muccla had to spend the night in jatt, but he was discharged this morning by Magistrate Frothingham in the Essex Market Court, ‘It's outrageous to lock up & man for an act of kindness,” said the Magistrat ‘ —_—_E—_——_——"—— ; HALF HOLIDAY FOR CrTy (oo PLOYEES, Mayor Hylan to-day signed a resolu- tion of the Board of Aldermen grani- ing ® half holiday to-morrow to city, employee in honor of the one hun- dredth anniversary of the birth of Gea. nt, Alderman Samuel R, Morris, 17th introduced the resolution, —= lepine eine eanaaares district, JOHN KENLON’S SON, CHIP OF OLD BLOCK, PUTS OUT BLAZE Hardly had Fire Chief Jobs’ Kenlon sailed for Burope yester« day than his gon, John Kenlon jr. distinguished himself by putting out a fire on the roof of the marquee in front of Shanley’s res~ taurant In Weat 434 Street, while a crowd of 200 applauded. Young Kenlon was driving his. automobile south on Broadway,” when he noticed rubbish on the marquee on fire. Stopping, he, rushed to the side of another car,“ unstrapped a fire extinguish: pt dashed into the reste jumped from @ second-floor wing; dow and attacked the flames. In flatly to Assist- of constructing extension was cost basis, but “The want some proof hoped the Com- * interjected the city—it has ts involving the an equitable In- ten sundry ions of different @ work inc udes 26.—Inter- ations prevented the Weating- to the yesterday here iving room, how in which Pa- 1! send speeches atc CHARGE BY vaudeville Street, was vine, in the West of grand lar- enon, nineteen, @ arged him with © fam majitan the Ace wae ote 4