The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1922, Page 3

as TP ae A satin CITY COMIMUNTFY- COUNCILS REVOLT AGAINST GAS BURDEN: ~ DENOUNCE P.S. COMMISSION ' ign i gas, the legal standard in thirty-five give Bodies Demand That! States, in which a targe saving 1s ats ‘overhor Rethove Prender- |‘*!"e4 in the smatior-amount of gas Joil required. 1 want to make it clear gast and” Associates. jthot for every B. T. U. that the gas tis reduced from the 650 in a 22-candle EVENING WORLD WINS. gas (he eople should get a cdrre- sponding reduction In price. It was ridiculous when the Public Service Commission here permitted the Kings County Lighting Company, a short time back, to go to a lower B. T. U. standard and then dropped the price only 10 cents a thousand. Then there is the coke oven’ pro- cess, where, through the sale of by- products and residuals, the gas could be put into the mains of New York for almost nothing. ‘And there is the Dayton method, where only four gallons of gas oll ahd no other solid Substance is used. This can be served for 45 cents a thousand, I have been) reliably informed. And to-day I was shown é@nother gas which costs only 15 cents thousand to make. “One reason this city has not the advantages of any of these. cheaper methods isithat the corporations have done absolutely nothing and the Pub- lic Servicé, Commission has lagged be- hind wofully in not compelling* the companies to make a change. It {3 high time the Public Service Commis- sion came to be what its name means. “I believe the corporations stipld get a fair return, but this Is ao rea- son to charge the highest, rategm the country. One reason for this. high rate is gas oil, This ingredient is sold mainly by the Standard Ol] Company —some 200,000,000 gallons annually in New York State alone. The same di- rectors wifo are in the gas corporations are in the Standard Oil. It is like tak- ing money from one pocket and put- ting it into another.”’ EXPERT SHOWS OIL AND GAS COMPANY GOUGING. H. H. Edgerton, one the old- est gas manufacturers and engineors ih this country, spoke after Miss ioeb and agreed with what she had said. He declared there is no high gas oil in this country; it is all ‘heap, and quoted figures to show that when the Standard Oil was ‘ug 12 and 15 cents a gallon during the peak of the war it cost 114 cents te put it into the barrel and about much more to ship it to this city. oil now, he said shofild not cost more than 2 cents a gallon and they, vre asking about 5 cents. ‘There is no dear gas oll,"" he said. “The price put up in New York was a purely fictitious price. Ships came here in 1920 and 1921 begging to sell Mexican crude oil. But they had to sell it to the Standard Oil because this company had inserted in the contracts ith the gas companies this clause I liquid gas making requirement must be purchased under this con- traet.’ That ¢ why gas oil was high In this, city ahd why gas was high." THE VITRIOLIC ADDRESS TO THE GOVERNOR, ‘The petition addressed to Governor Miller, that was adopted reads: “The undersigned, yotera and _con- sumers of gas in the City of New York, reminding you of your pre-election promise to regulate and controf prices to be charged by public service corpora- fons, to conform to value of services rendered, and the forced passage of the Knight-Adier bill. creating a .Public Service Commission, with practically unlimited powers, perform such promise, and your’ appointment of Commissioners thereunder, sworn to carry out the terms thereof. Now after such Commissioners having Been in of- fice over 4 year, we charge: “First—That instead of the commis- sion fixing the rates tobe charged for gas, they have allowed the gas com- panies to fix their own rates, upon thelr own figures as to cost of operation and value of plants, without allowing the consumers or thelr legal repre: antatives to inspect elther books or p! der to controvert such figure: “Second—That on question of change of standard from a light to a heating standard, while pretending to be un- prejudiced and upbiased, the commis sion called its own engineers and at- torneys to testify in favor of ghange and then presided as judges over cases presented by their own employees, “Third—That in all hearings the gas compaiies were allowed full latitude to prove what they chose, but the com- mission refused to receive any evi- to dispute such prog, aid evi- ices of complaining condtimers wa: ed stricken from the record. Fourth—Abandoned the consumers in Its Campaign for Cheaper Gas Is Unanimously In- 5 dorsed by the Council. pine Moved by The Evening World's de- nunciation of the Public Service Com. mission for failing to compel the gas companies to abandon antiquated methods of gas production in favor of far cheaper processes; the City Par- Nament of Comminity Councils last night adopted resolutions asking Gov. Miller to remove William A. Prender- gast, tho Chairmag,-and the other four members of th®@ommission. Miss Loeb addressed the meetjng In the Aldermanic Chamber of City Hall Just night, at the request of the coun- ctis, to explain personally the facts the has been presenting in a series of articles in The Evening World. “The only thing the Public Service Commission has done;” she said, “is to let the gas companies charge higher prices, and the only thing the companies have done is ‘to go to the Supreme Court to maintain these high rates, It is preposterous to think that the largest city in the world shquid be paying the highest rate instead-of the lowest for its gase GAS COMPANY MACHINATIONS MADE CLEAR. “The gas companies for sixteen “years have done nothing to lower the cost of gas and they never have told just what it costs them to make a thousand cubic feet of gas. As a re- sult fhe gas consumers have been unable to rise out of the chaos of ‘depreciation reserve.’ The price of gas has gone up from 80 cents to $1 afid from $1 to $1.50. Then the com- panies go into the Supreme Court with their figures and the Supreme Court says, ‘Sure, the high rate is justified.’ “Y want to tell you It is high time that the people take up the fight themselves, and there !s no better body to do it than this City Parliament, © which, through its Community Coun- cils throughout the city, represents the ultimate consumer.’ It was after Miss Loeb's' speech that James B. Emerick of the Ridgewood Community Council, inffoduced the petition for the removal of the Public Service Commission, This was unan- imously adopted and will be circulated not only through the Community Councils but through the labor unions, \ ‘eigar stores, drug stores and other meies, It is sought to get the namex of every gas consumer in New. York dity. in The Evening World's campaign W sor cheaper gas Miss Loeb has empha- sized the following facts The present 22-candle power gas could be changed to a Brit ish thermal unit, the price low- ered and a fair return to the cor- rat assured. PNot since 1906 have *the gas corporations made any move to change the present costly method Thirty-five States have already adopted the British thermal unit indard, while New York has stood still. There is no reason why New York should not have the lowest rate of any city in the world, because of its constant other small cities have and more pro- 4 oes was lowered accordingly. The British thermal unit proe- eas is the heating process, and the reason the candle power has outgrown ite usefulness is be- | iti nuit before sopmine eee cause ‘the lighting needs of gas | United States, to uphold Sos, wan ne consumers have changed and to compel companies to refund mill- with the use of g the | fons impounded in suit, thus allowing companies to retain same without any effort on thelr part to prevent it. “Fifth—That notwithstanding heating value of g: im- portant than the i According to the statisticians only 10 per cent. of the here is used for illuminating pur- And these could be ‘read- the ent ing into the manufacture of gas, to 1,000 cu. ft. of pric as), Why g be $1.25 and $1.50 while a 78-cent average per thousand feet pre- vails in Milwaukee has not yet been explained. GAS IN N. Y. SHOULD BE NO HIGHER THAN 80 CENTS, “There is no reason,’’ Miss Loeb said in elaborating upon these points Jast night, ‘‘why 80 cents shoula not be enough for gas in this city snore than enough. For in- stance, in Milwaukee, a far smaller city, the average rate is only 78 cents a thousand, and I have a lei- ter from thé head of the gas com pany in which he says the Public Service Commission there is going to reduce the rate substantially. And he looks forward to this reduction with favor, “’There are several new methods te manufacture gas far ate than the obsolete 22-candle power now. used in this city, I am not here to advance any particulur method; I only want to point out what can be done, “There is the British Thermal Unit . s of dollars out of the consumers of gas. the letter and spirit of the act which they were created. “Wherefore we . Prendergast mission, and his associates from and that you de any and all ota te necessary to effectuate such purpos —_—_— ULSTERITES WILL PROTES A meeting will be held at formed in jor and publicis: Larkin, an Ulsterman leader, Thousands of Jubilant Under- radical urop In prices of all commodities to wit, drop in prices pf gas oll gron 12 to 4% cents per gallon (four-gallons reduction in of wages and of all other commod- ities, ll of which is known to the pubs lic geMerally and to the commission said commission has refused to compel compantes to reduce the price of gas in conformity therewith, but have allowed and sanctioned thelr mulcting millions “Lastly. That your commission has been unfair to the consumers, being in favor of the gas companies and faloo and untrue to their oath of office and under demand forthwith call a special woealon oe the Legislature for the removal of Wilifain Shalrman of such com- “4 Bryant Hall, Friday night; under the auspices of the Ulster Defense Alliance, recently of the against the Among the and James id Socialist a eS epee |THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1922, Participants in Campus Night Activities he ha. At Columbia University and Barnard College an LEO JOHNSON THE CHAMP ORATOR J Hersert HASSINGER R PRESIDENT CLASS PROPHET K (\ AY See CHAIRMAN wn EVELy! SuAss Vy ¥ evening's events. The class of 1902 dined at the Southern, the class of 1906 at the Pennsylvania and that of 1909 at the Crescent Athletic Club. The Alumni Association of the Grad- ate Schools met at thé Faculty Ciub. Classes of 1880 and 1885 mines also had reunion dinners, A programme ® of organ music was rendered In St. Paul's Chapel under the direction of Prof. Waiter Henry Hall from 8 to Roperta DUNBACKER — graduates and Alumni : BARNARD Attend. “Campus Night" at Columbia last night—the first since the war—re vived an old time custom when alum- mi returned to greet alumni, andj ve me rest ort tt ts A ay Most important among other even’ esis and undergtadutes, par-| Ware une of yesterday were the Barnard Class ents and friends thronged the moon-| “(Bunny) ay exercises held at Students’ Hall Mt campus in that intimate reunion] 44 Humorist 80, At this time. the saluatory, Which precedes the, formalities ot IGLEY. by Five Jacoby, President of the class THE CLASS Aol? SENEDICT = SAF covve of 1922, and the valedictory, by Bve- lyn Orne, were read and the class ri tory and. prophecy given. Anacunce- ment waa also made of nineteen elec. 5 > _ Th : the quadrangle. Searchlights from | forms at the first Campus Night to] tions to SE niiweatiehan: itary the tops of buildings cast a pic-| be eld in six years. peek bitty et bob turesque gleam over the moving! Varlous class dinners preceded the! reception on the } a ————— Blind Honor Girl of Barnard =|? buerep cir Tells How She Fought Handicap} ife Protests When Sea pan cla Captain Is Arrested in Hotel Catherine Genin Burke The wife of Thomas Smith, a sea Wants to Help Other Sight- less Persons Succeed, commencement. Some sat on the wooden benches which surrounded the ‘quadrangle, some wandered arm afd arm about the familiar spots, while the younger and more adven- turous danced on the hard paving stones to the tune of the “Blue Dan- ube Blues." All ages were there. An illumi- nated sign hung above StudéNts” Hall —1754-1922—for Columbia is older by twenty years than the United States All types were there, too. A young couple abouf to be graduated on the morrow strolled side by side, a little wobered by the approaching farewell to college, while a jovial gentleman of the class of '96 greeted a fellow uproariously, “Bless your bopes; old timer! Haven't seen you since we left. Where have you been keeping yourself?" A proud undergraduate pointed out the sites to his mother. ‘There's my class room—see, on the second floor to the right, That's the School of Mines building.'’ Tien, too, there were elderly gentlemen with a Phi Beta Kappa key conspicuous on a watch chain, and two middle-aged women in shirt waists, who had evi- dently travelled from the plains to see their nephew graduate Men of note were pointed out in the gathering, for President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia haa just given his annual commencement din- ner at his home, No. 60 Morningside Drive, at which were present the Bel- gian captain, fifty years old, of Fall River, Mase, appeared in Yorkville Police Court to-day when hé was arraigned on a charge of abduction and pro- tested against his being held in $10,- 000 bail. Smith was arrested yester- day at the Hotel Commodor telegraphed request of the F chief of police, with fifteen-year-old Josephine Hawkins, To ro to college handicapped by blindness, to complete her course in the’ regulation four years by means of a stylus and a point system in note taking and a typewriter in examina- tions, and then upon hér graduation to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the ee ‘They were registered as “Mr, and highest scholastic honor, is the SS ae , Mrs. Thomas Kelly.” The telegram achievement of Miss Catherine Genin ala his wife charged him with ab- Burke, who is graduated from Rar- ducting the girl. Mrs, Smith denied aan eoceny ret omen this, She hurried to New York when iss Burke was not always blin¢ She lost her sight at the age of six- she heard her husband had been ar teen and has hid to learn to rely on rested. other senses since then. She said “It was not easy,"’ she admitted Nouenhine icur qeare ako “One *must have great patience to Z ine learn and one is not apt to be very HOMO AE Fal Fiver, On Monday patient at sixteen. My blindness her husband left with the girl, saying seemed a horrible handicap at first he would take her to New York, buy her some clothes and send her back When the child had All my plans had to be revised and my whole life was upset."’ yesterday, Mra, Smith said she asked the Fall River police to ask the New “But is it not still a handicap?" she York police to look for her, but did was asked, “Really it seems easier to me now not ask that her husband be arrested." Josephine Hawkins is in the eus- adopted She lived ber husband not returned = 7 Se HERINE G BURKE Ambassadors, Minister of iss CATI Portugal, Paderewski, Governor Harding of the Federal Reserve Board, Bishop Herbert Shipman, the to work without my sight than with) — it,"" she replied. ko into social service work for the She learned touch typewriting and] adult blind, but somehow I have a Reverend Caleb Stetson, rector og|the ‘New Yori point'’ system of} desire to teach. I should like to be] tdy of the Children’s Society Trinity Church; Augustus Thomag,|Writing after her loss of sight.) uble in that way to go on with my S ——— Frank J. Sprague, Dr. Stephen Smith] She believes in taking rather few|work in romance language and his-| ALIMONY AND CHILDREN and digested notes of her lectures, and Says that what she does take she finds tory, my major subjects." “Would you teach in a school for who receives an honorary degree to- day at the age of 100: Col. Wifliam ® FOR MRS. ZITENFIELD Barclay Parsons, Stephen Baker,| Very readable, which is more than] the blind Pe ieucon John G. Milburn, M. Hartley Dodge,} Many students can boast, Her mother) “No, I should prefer to teach in a i; Joseph H. Grace, Dr, Walter B,|ssists in the preparation of her work] smail college, Schools for the blind : James, Col. Willlam T. Donovan,|by reading to her. She prepared for] nave only high school age pupils. 1] TR¢ domestic affairs of Juitu college in Chicago, which is her hor and went to the University of Wis fleld, paper and twine merchant of No. 5 Seventh Avenue, who wassued last Jackson E. Ri Pritchett, Wi! nolds mH Dr. Henry N. Crocker, Prof. should like to teach people who have desire to learn, I did not have Charles T. Terry, Dr. J. Bentley} consin for her first two years. She! ich desire to learn at that age, did| September for $50,000 by Roberta Dia- Squier, Adolph 8. Ohs, Clarence J, {18 enthusiastic over the intelligent co-} 9 mond, an actress, on an allegution of | y. Krech, G vis breach of pr into court Shean, Alvin W. Krech, George B,|9Deration she received at both Wi , : ; in Post, Lucius H. Beers, N. L. Baylies,|Consin and Barnard from teachers} Miss Burke ts enthusiastic over her | again to-day Tesye, ap: election to Phi Beta Kappa which she considers the crowning happiness to her school career, The award had vniy been announced at Class Day ex- ereises yesterday afternoon and a stream of people kept coming up to ongratulate her, plied in for an absolute divorce, Miss Diamond in the action did_not contest. Mrs. Zitenfleld 1 Avenue, 4 arles Ket- terer, Zitenfeld’s chauifi gave th evidence against his former employer Justice May granted Mrs, Zltenfield $60 and students, “Then you approve of girls like yourself going to regular colleges in stead of schools for the blind?’ Yes, indeed,"’ she answered, ‘es pepially as Where are no school the blind above the high school stan’ Seldom has the campus seen more illustrious guests. Among the out of town guests we! William H, Crocker, San Francisco banker and member of the Board of Regents of the University of California, whose name is borne by the Crocker Labora- She named Zitenfeld 5 Mott tory, given to the university some|!g. There is no need for any. ‘They| “1 8m #0 Happy," she said simply | OUyeey MAY Bronte’ the custody of her time ago. . would be too narrow fi they did exisi.|te all’ who Hive nant clasped her) cighteVear-old twin daughters, but ro- The university buildings were open | It $8 good for a girl to gingle wit! ¥, sensitive hands so warm and | served decision as to the divore to visitors. An alunmus with @ baby|*he average college girls. Blindness > aes Burke, the second blind stu- to be graduated from Bar- CLAIMED ANOTHER WI nard, 18 one of ninetcen to win] riout A : + Davidson Fleming, t honor for excellence ir: scholar-|c. Camp sherman, On an Margaret Hogan of Orange, N, i ‘ only makes one do things fn a round about way, but it does ngt make thein impossible."* Shé spoke In a delightfully author)-| th tative manner that was convincing. | sh!P ‘on his shoulder was seen showing his ASKS DIVORCE wife through the corridor of the Wbrary, pausing to look \n at the de- serted reading room. Another alumni ROM WAN WHO M sred to yisited St, Paul's Chapel. perhaps} she is a ch T hha thet Ms i Ye Justion Mul _ Spwcial charming’ person, this re- ne cther Ulind student, was grad he fanrama Court ab for the first time, A man from India| markable girt with hor cleur cat fex,| uated in 1911 ‘Term of the ‘Bron Suprem rt escorted his mother, who wore @ sari, tures and straightforward way at ure notes by ult of Mrs. A y-f Ni 0 or scarf, over her head. Two Chinese talking, She is interested in the out) hold > FOE 1 e divor kdward 8 girls danced together, ani 1 group of : iA pee aie ri mus! Mas- |] The couple we ied N 1 Japanese men ywatched the crowd Her expressi¢ " us. Her] Lieut Fleming said dion with deep-eyed attention arin to system Ree ecsamilas giort H cid wale During a lull a group of under- Ahan aad whet Heat ina bann as his wife a graduates Btarted up « (loss song, lang for the future she repite tN 8 West 114th street, as- |“ 2ORe [O/ whon 4 , Ti dhe oa omy Justice M lap reserved decision, and fraternity whistles echoed across” Dhey are undecided as yet, 1 may |elials by reading ty her, HYLAN WILLING — [RAN 20 AV. LINE. T0,GO TO AIL FOR /ON $40 BANKROLL, CONTEMPT, HE SAYS) RECEIVER RELATES. — But Board of Estimate Votes $1,500,000 for Transit Commission, Tells Transit Commission of Rigid Economies He Practises. — ge Charles E. Chalmers, receiver for the Second Avenue Railroad Com- Pany, whose regime as receiver started in February, 1920, with only $40 in the treasury, testified to-day before the Transit Commission to his administration of economy and re- form to make the Second Avenue line ay paying instead of a losing proposi- tion. Mr, Chalmers said the road oper- ated through the most polyglot see- tion of New York. When he suc- ceeded to the receivership,, having served under two previous receivers, Lynch and Kalbach, who died, he found Tie equipment and rolling stock in very impaired condition. Tn those days fifty cars a day were towed into the barns as disabled. Now only two,or three cars a day go out of order in service, he said. Mr. Chalmers related how he saved money by converting the cars into the one man operating type. He also made summer cars convertible and instead of having two sets of cars— one for summer and one for winter —he now has only one set for both seasons, and saves $36,000 a year, he said, The closing of the 92d Street and the 99th Street Ferries five years ago ‘stripped the Second Avenue of con- siderable revenue, Mr, Chalmers said, The opening of the Queensborough Bridge added to the losses of the company, and the operation of Inter- borough trains on Second Avenue” over that bridge took $900 every Sun- day from the Second Avenue surface line. Even with the 92d Street Ferry now operating again Mr. Chalmers doubted if it would ever again brin: back all the business his road lost when the ferry shut down, The elimination of transfers at 59th Street reduced traffic, but it brought more revenue passengers as he ex- Plained that ‘‘the promiscuous giving of free transfers is not economfeal. Mr. Chalmers said he is operating fgrty one-man cars successfully. COMMISSION LETS THREE CONTRACTS FOR IMPROVEME ‘Mayor Hylan expressed his willing- ness to go to jail for contempt of court to-day rather than vote any more money for the Transit Commila- sion in the absence of an itemized account of expenditures from that body. The Miyor declared himself in meeting of the Committee of the Whole of the Board of Estimate. Nevertheless a resolution appropriat- ing $1,500,000 to the Transit Comm! sion was passed and will come before the board for final action on Friday. Through the regular channels the Transit Commission asked for $1,500,- 000 to pay salaries and expenses until December 81. In the course of the discussion aroused by the request the Mayor said: “I shall vote no. I don't care whether [ am committed for contempt or not. “The Transit Commission has spent more than $8,000,000 and now it Is asking for more. | want the people ‘o know that they have done nothing ‘or this money but give out propa- ganda to the newspapers and show a movie of what they are going to do. They should give us an itemized ac- count of thelr expenditures before they ask for any more money and £ shall insist on such an account", Joining with the Mayor in opposing the appropriation were Alderfhanic President Hulbért and Borough Presi- dent Cahill of Queens. The other Borough Presidents and Comptroller Craig voted for it. yd MAN SHOT AT PIER BELIEVED DROWNED Another Rescued After Div- ing Overboard on Alleged . Bootleg Trip. Two Negroes, rowing a boat earl, this morning near one of the sh moored at a North German Lloyd pler in Hoboken, were called upon by Robert Maile, the dock guard to hait, but refused to do so and began pull- ing away. .Maille summored Ben- Jaihin Pandolfo, customs guard, and he repeated the order and then’ fired at the bout. One of the men, obvi- ously Struck, fell overboard, the other dove over, ‘The second man rescued gave hin name as George Roberts, saying his Construction of -Inter- borough Sheds Are Pro- vided For. home was in Philadelphia. His com- The Transit Commission to-day panion, he declared, he knew only/awarded three contracts for rapid as Ralph. They were on thelr way. ltransit improvements to the Inter- according to his story, to buy some liquor from a West Indian sailor. Roberts admitted that they stole the rowboat from the Weehawken ferry- boat Suffern. Efforts to find Raiph's body falled. Roberts was given into the care of the Weehawken police for prosecu- tion for theft of the rowboat. SARE SU RICKENBACKER OFF ON FLIGHT TO COAST Leaves Mineola in All-Metal Monoplane With Three borough sheds at 147th Street and Lenox Avenue and also’at 180th Street and Boston Road. To John B. Roberts, Yor $27,825, was awarded the contract to con- struct a temporary car shed at Lenox Avenue and 147th Street. : To the Reynolds Engineering Com- pany, for $23,285, the contract for switches, frogs and track equipment in the Lenox Avene sheds. To the Slattery Engineering Com- pany, for $7,606, the contract for the tracks and switches in the 180th Street yards, All these additional improvements are to meet the Tran- sit Commission's recent orders on the Poec, 7 Passengers. Interborough Company to buy 350 Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker — left] cars to meet orders for improved Mjtchel Field, Mineola, at 11:15 this] Service. ‘The commission also announced to- day that it had advertised for bids tf be submitted June 26 for tracks and switches for the 14th Street-Eastern trict subway. The commission reaffirmed to-day its previous order to the Interboroug!: Company to construct an additiona! stairway at Mott Avenue and 138th Street. The purpose of this additional stairway is to enable passengers to go to and from the subway kiosic from the east side of the avenue without risking the dangers of very heavy automobile traffic on Mott Avenue. The Interborough Company demurred’ to paying one-half of the cost of construction on the ground that the new stairway would benefit pedestrian traffic, but not subway traffic. READY morning in @ Larsen JL-6 all metal monopfane with Pilot Eddie Stinson, Steven Hannagan, a writer, and Theodore Lovington, a mechanic, for his transcontinental commercial flight. He expects to reach San Francisco Sunday. The first stop will be at Bellefonte, Pa.,‘.shortly after noon, and Detroit is to be reached thi afternoon for an overnight stop. A perfect ‘get-away"’ was made, weather conditions being excellent. The monoplane is. equipped with a 186 horsepower motor. In addition to practically all parts of a monoplane, the machine carried a considerable quantity of baggage. ‘The itmerary-of the flight, which ts scheduled to end about September 1 at Mitchel Field, included sixty-four cities where stops are to be made. The principal purpose of the trip is to gather data on commerce flying. eee MAYOR ANGRY AT THREAT IN NEGLECT OF RECORDS FOR TRIAL Man Who Drowned Baby Oppones Request Dronx Surro- Will Be Sentenced wate f Funds, . r Mayor Hylun became angry at to- Next Week. day's Committee of the Whole meeting} Walter Liddle, nineteen, who of the Board of Estimate ter was read from when a le! , ‘barronate drawned M. 8. Schulz of the Bronx threatening|the bath tub at his mother's home, to complain to the Bar Association un-|No, 507 Kast 179th Street, pleaded los the Estimate Board furnished $500] guiity of manslaughter in the first de- for the rebinding and repair of im-| ree in the Bronx County Court to- portant county records, He wrote: = “Lawyers sare constantly complaining | 4@¥ and was remanded to jail for @ week to await sentence and records are in a scapdalous condi- tion, For three years requests have} Liddle’s action in pleading guilty to a charge less than frst degree mur. b enied, and unless the money ided I shall place the matter be-| der, thus saving him from the electrie chair, was a surprise because he had the Bar Association so that body Now that the Bar Association Is to|ecuted and ‘Join my boy.’* » brought In," declared the Mayor, “I| His trial was to have started this suppose we all ought to drop dead. I} morning, but following a consultation am going to vote against the request! between his counsel, Louls C. Hart now on general principles, and, #0 {rl man, and Assistant District Attorney. Br ite nigiee ao * Oliver, the plea was accepted Seca Judge Gibbs will question the mem- UNDER WEHLLIAMSBURG|bers of (the commission that pro-~ BRIDGE APPROACH nounced Liddle legally sane before Sparks of undetermined origin imposing sentence. The commission to the tarpaulin co: two| decided he was save but his mind wea t of a fourteen-year-old child. Liddle, separated from his wife, borrowed the baby, Billte, for a day, his six-months-old baby in p fore may judic FIRE Kiyn Rapid Transit’ surf ara} th ‘under the Brooklyn approach of the Willamsburg Bridge at 11 o'clock slight, though sie ibe cars ws] took tt to the bathroom,’ placed him crowd [0 gather on the bridge and/0M @ pillow in-the tub and turned em alowed tr the waters = — NRE a