The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1922, Page 2

2 —— 0 that they may not be patched Up of substituted. * Indeed, I think that at this time Fou should airect your Commi Bioner of Accounts to Institute « Peal investigation into the collec tion of these moneys so that he Might determine the channels int which they lave gone. if wore legally collected, they are tho Property of the City of New York if they we illegally collected, they should be returned to the poor peiliiers from whor they were exacted. in any event, it ts the manifest duty of the Cor tion Counsel to recover them by civil process, and it is the duty of the Commissioner of Accounts to inform him where they may bt found, 1 think that the att of both of these officers should be called to Section 1651 of the City Charter. Very truly yours, JNU, BE. RUSTON, District, Attorney. District Attorney Banton, when th letter of Mr was handed to him by an Evening World reporter, read it through car fully, said it was “very interestin but that he had no comment to make on it. Mr. Banton said no complaints tegarding the tioned in the letter had been received by his o tt ston to the Mayo matters me From his statentont it was under stood that the cases of two inspectors spended for appropriating fees after an inquiry by Commixstoner of Ac counts Hirshfield a year ago were not referred tu the District Attorney When District Attorney Ruston’s letter to Mayor Hylan was callvd to the attention of Murr Hulbert president of the B Aldermen, who is acting Mayor during the ab- sence “f Mayor Hylan on a vaca tion to Saratoga und Lake Cham- bert fH Mei ‘I haven't seen the letter yet and I must wait until it comes to me from the Mayor's Secretary. T cannot com ment on a letter addressed to the Mayor which comes to me through the press. : If it comes to me 1 shall take proper action. It may, however, be forwarded to the Mayor himself.”’ — ANSWERS CHARGE OF MARKET GRAFT Hirshfield Replies to ILun- dertinark. Commissioner of Account ficld has addresse Hundertmark, York Market Association, regarding the charges of Mr. Hundertmark that farmers who bring produce to the Public markets are compelled to pay graft in the guise of*fees for night watchmen, water for truck radiators and for help in unloading. The Commissioner informs Mr Hundertmark that while the city is bound to extend police protection, private watchmen, city water and ua- loading, labor cannot be expected fre by out of town merchants. He does not discuss the question as to whether tho farmer should be com- pelled to pay these charges whether he wants to or not if he wants a Profitable location, or whether ‘he fees charged are excessive or subject to official regulation and accounting. Nevertheless, the Commissioner suys, he desires to study the matter "from every angle,” and asks Mr. Hundert- mark to appear for examination next Wednesday. FEDERAL AGENCY FORCDAL PROVIDED BY CUMMINS BIL Winslow Also Plans Hous Measure to Same Purpose. Hirsch letter to W. 1 ecretary of the New WASHINGTON, Aug, 24,—Estab- Ushmeat of a Federal fuel distribution agency to meet the present conl “emergency” and the extension of road powers to the Interstate Com- merce Commission with respect to the issuing of embargoes and priorities, Is Proposed in a bill introduced to-day by Senator Cummins, Rpublicean, Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Inter- state Commerce Committee The office of ‘Federal Fuel Dist rib- utor" would be created by the bill and that official would be empowered to determine facts relative to fuel prices, shortages and supplies generally, pro- duction and marketing methods and the reasonableness of profits taken within the industry, He would make reports of his findings to the Inter- state Commerce Commission which could act thereon as warranted. Chairman Winslow of the House In- terstate Commerce Committee, said that he was preparing a bill of his own to enl ‘ge Vederal control over the distribution of coal. He would not say n the bill would be in troduced, nor what it would contalu _— UP-STATE CITY FLOODED FOLLOWING CLOUDBURST 5-Finch Ratofall Destroys Bridge, Invades ROCHESTER, Aus. 24.—More thar 100 families were forced from their marooned in homes, prisoners were water filled cells and thousands of dol lars damage was done by Tate last night that to-day had tnu dated Ger according 10 reports Five inches of rain fell, accompa by hen homer. ‘The forced from its pilings b; the overflow fms creek and transportation is at # Prisoners marooned in their cells in the cellar of the City Hall were who waded in with hip Atandecill rescued by me boots. Reports say the business sec- then is flooded to # depth of one to two feet, ! Sines, exe THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1522, i YEAR FIGHT 10 BREAK HUGE COAL MONOPOLY bY U.$. CONTROL NEAR SUCCESS — eee - |Flying Parson Weds Couple in Clouds BARY'S. a1 Over Hudson River in Groom’s Plane st Pl he ll day by Gov. Edwards as the unopposed EDWARDS AND SILZER FILE THEIR PETITIONS a candidate for the Democratic Guber- alorfal nomination Representative Francis PF. jr. of Ca Patterson n Med @ petition for the Republican nomination for Congress tn the First District Woman Interested in Irish Fund Reports Robbery on Train Here. vening World’s Demands Are Met in Presi- dent Harding’s Plea for Abatement of Un- justifiable Profits Through a Government Commission—The Facts in Brief. Officials of the Seaffa Detective a cloudburst Nghining thet fired barns and ain Street Bridge was Agency, No, 11 Stone’ Street, reported “ ” to-day that the yhad been en to search for jewelry valued at more than $15,000 belonging to Mrs, Helen Camp bell Willlams, of 2 44 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, whieh was said to have been | By Sophie Irene Loeb. “Because of the Impressions of many cares of unjustifiable profits in the coal Industry and because public interest demands investigation and de mands the finding of facts bo given to the publ hands the authority to create a commission to mak« t oon an incoming Pennsylvania railroad train at Mun- hattan Transfer. It was said by the Scatta officials | | that Mrs, Williams is believed to interested in efforts to tie up the Trist relief fund which I am asking at your a searching investiga- ite lawful activities “ion into the whole coal industry wit and the bestowal of author sale and disteibutibn.” provision fo They are GOOD! to reveal every phase of coal production, s deposited in New York banks, but just how she is in In the above words President Harding at last practically echoes the words of The New York Evening World jn ita five year fight to secure a commission that will settle the coal question once and for all and reduce the price to the consumer, a ae President Harding further states: ) ful is this corporation in the “The necessity for such a searching} county in which it operates that national Investigation with construc- th Ridius Vis hs pave tive recommendation 1 imporative.| tion similar to adjoining counties At the moment the coal skies are terested was not made clear. Tt was said she was coming to this city to take a hand i nthe court proceeding to keep the money from De Valera and his followers. | to] | Bay this Cigarette and Save Money 10° Circulars were sent out to Pawnbrokers of the city nd rounding communities describing the jowelry that was lost, according to the detectives, who announced that ¢ large reward would b offered to 1 morrow It was said the jewelry was carried ina adstone bag by Mrs Williams and that another Gladston . reat i foot t Notice to Advertisers clearing, but unless we find a cure EODING PARTY ABOO TT TT The Roading Company owns and = Oo, lai ro) for the economle ills which affect the |controls 194,000 acres of land in the A thousand feet in the al West 14 industry and therein find a basis for | Schuylkill region, of which 109,644 hip, we shall be {acres contain anthracite. h Street, was married Lieut. Lloyd Bertaud ceremony in the seaplane owned by the to former above the Hudson River yester Helen, which righteous. relati of the Air Service by 7 ridegroo ‘yg | Nou i ngratians daaeA iva INES YuenKGlNe: RE Enormous dividends have been de-| day afternoon Miss Helen Vir __mebyide! by former bridegroom. b containing pair of baby's] Miva Of z catanigay ‘aced with a like menacing situation | ciared annually by the Reading ¢ Iieut. Belvin W. Maynard, the Photo shows the party just be- | stockings and two lumps of sugar.|” pigtar on next Apri The Evening thorough ginia Lent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David B. Lent of No. 1% pany, In unmistakable and forceful World, after tts} terms the Flying Parson Nine persons witnessed the was substituted for it the list of the jewelry are -rincess ring containing 70 dla- peal . ew ‘ bn ed nth by The Worid must be received by sel atch containing =") sumday Sain sheet cone of big polic ) did its best not to[diamonds, pair of diamond earrings, | not bey reeetved by PS look foolish butterfly brooch, set with rubles and | ails cope mich has, no, A great crowd of sympathizers of }diamonds; diamond bracelet, nine arden kee all sexes and surrounded the ]st oss and chain, 17 diamonds; problem was followed by a@ Senate/ isting in the Reading Company, as Coal Commftee investigation at} {o these gigantic coal corporations. Washington and at the instigation of} ‘The Interstate Commeree Cornmis- t policemen and told them what it]solitaire ring, two diamond cluster thought of them. 1 remarks were | Pings, one with seven and the other 80 moving that Shi necessary to falt procession { ae “i Saal sion also in its exhaustive rep this newspaper, this Senate Coal Com-|ii'tus ay to these coal raitioad con. mittee went into the coal regions. All hnessy felt it] With nine diamonds; a ruby and dia- mond 1 and an imitation pearl make a speech, saying that th were a lot of grown people going to be arresied if they didn't know how to behave themerlves see Ses Lage Included in| meat Section he Sunday World must Teorlved bY P.M. ‘Thursilay. preceding publ and release tus: be received by 21, Mf. Iss Copy containing engra to be nade fore their ascent to the wedding in the clouds Attorney Generaj of ihe Unite ates presented to t preme Court this state of affairs ex- Investigation of the coal Su- character, rootract of ol here THE WORLD® and have full jurisdiction in eliminat- ing the monopoly existing in the anthracite fields, whence New York gets its coal. In the words of the Interstate Com- merce Commission: ‘The evidence in this case conclusively shows that the — rates on this commodity were estab-|t1arding Exnecte, cel Nine Auiupits pertinent tacts are theldahea Ge anv edeerslve, busier and EET UO e Expected to Make] Nine following: clearly it wan 20 done for the pur-| Another Offer to Mediate , ose of eliminating the independen j ‘The ‘entire supply of anthracite cna) | outut as a factor of competition ta in Deadlock, is confined to an area of 496 square | the markets with the railroad inter- miles in Pennsylvania, four counties] ests’ output.” producing 86 per cent. of the total] In fact the porations that the rates “were made nll pointed to the dire need of hav-| unreasonable with the express pur- necklace With seventy stones The uproar itomediately incre: and a prosperous Ing some such specific body as the| Pose and effect of giving uch an- from the Bowling nc ior. £0. i a estion | thracite railroad a monopoly of che commission go Into the coal question | oot oaiced along ite line.” Dripping Divers for} came spokesman. His manner was so Pennies Captured by En authoritative that Shaughnessy condi- scended to explain that the play of circling Movement. Ng elderly man en Building be- the kids and the carclessness of the spectators had threatened injury to the iron fence around parking, which was very pree vecatse It Reading Railroad By David Lawrence. While lunch hour idlers at Bowli cats. Company Atself has in ity own} (Special Correspondence of The Eve-|(reen wore enjoying their usual out-] WAS Walt by Pete uk Nearly one-third of the total output | POrt, Made the following _sig- ning World.) door sport of throwing pennies into] J. monn other a Nearly one tht he total output) nigcant statement: “The intrinsic y Fe Rene nC LGLNGL OOS see of anthracite cont goes to New York|yalno of the coal lands it is] WASHINGTON, Avg. 21 (Copy-|the basin of the fountain to;day for crowd hooted, hut let the pris- tidewater points. almost impossible to n:me. No such|right).—The next move in the railf[{Me fun of seeing eight small boyspeners be taken to their doom Eighty-six and forty-five hundredths SIR heal ever Peer created, norlatrixe is President Hardin The] tive and spatter and duck each other] | Ww UL nit oie 6 cna bee IK Dar Rent ot yall amined: BAtRSSCALS | cc ireione ny Lier ae collapse of mediation on th % of for Shem; Police is at William} indignation beat up such a storm le coal is owned by four companies. and the future value of a body of|the brotherhood chiefs and the railf=’ushnessy and Policeman Seiss of hind the prisoners that a Licutenant The two largest companien are the! jand containing over a third of allfexecutives leaves the situation exactly {the Oak Street Station appeared, eross-] rose up and. stated the you Philadelphia and Reading Coal and] tj, .ics=eite coal known to exist in i ing Broudway miscreants at the bar had been it Iron Company and the Lehigh Coal | 1... Q-wuiy, and connected by a rail-{"2ere It was when Mr. Harding Qe ae the copa | for the: protection public and Ni tion Company, voad of less than a hundred miles | ¥ielded to an impulse and allowed the] * : te COpS*” | morals becnus enographe ° The Reading Company owns both the coal end the raljroads. That ts to say, the Reading Company owns the the dripping youngst climbed out lengthy with a populous manufactur-|disputants to try settling the strike Ing city at tidewater, cannot be over-|themselves. ‘This effort has failed, estimated.” sindows of buildings overlie intain had w the automobiles parked in front of the Jing axa kin and scattered, only to gaaher between tten letters protest Philadelphia and Reading Railroad = and the effect of it has been tof"! on Ge ciency of clothing’ worn hy 1 ' . and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal strengthen tho belle¢ of the rail|S**nderd Oll Building, No. 26 Broad- | ricr Be s Iss or rs. ‘ Gad Siok Ocmspany: Therefore, (ihe Supreme Court oft) acutives that they, haya tle sliop- [Ney Wet? they, could dodgevalliet (NF ee ‘The Lehigh Coal and Navigation |the United States in October, 1920, | executives that they have the shop-Jo i. of 11. wie policemen to lay hands Ne Brea RS ST Oa RGe aN AS Company also in the owner of very | Ordered these coal railroad corpora-|men ‘‘on the run” and that by Per-1 oo) tiem, shaughnessy and his sup- | oes, sei lai SO Every time you wash or bathe with large railroad mileage in the anthra-| tions to divorce one from the other. | sisting to the end they will crush the ‘i aly; a A : cite district. The Supreme Court decision ordered} resistance of the union leaders and {Portis force went back to the station. | Bogusky, No Lifebuoy you wake up your skin. and Stephen Nennet ich Street 2 No. 35 Washington Frank Mills, No. 3 wich Street: David as much clothing as its owners dared |winiams, No, & Greenwich Street to shed in a neighborhood so populous}John Fischer, No. 83 Washington treet, and Mighael Drajen, No. i hington Street. They were from to thirteen ye Hed. ‘The criminals, one by one, came out | John the dissolution of the trust made up| force an absolute stirrender of the following companies: The} ‘There ts no question that the shop- Reading Company, the Philadelphia}men have been placed in the position and Reading Railway Company, thelor begging for reinstatement. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and) inanimity of the executives in reject- Iron Company, the Central Rallroad| ing tele pleas is directly attributable of New Jersey and the Lehigh and}to a feeling that by showing a united Wilkes-Barre Coal Company Kront RE this Ue ‘The Evening World foresaw. over| would be dell a year ago, the possibility of this|euture strikes. Supreme Court decision, but urged the] put will the shopmen surrender? Senate Coal Committee. to whom this | witl the brotherhoods allow a crush- newspaper presented the evidence it ling defeat to be adininistered to union- secured in its investigation, for some ism? Many of the rail executives legislation that would not only divorce} tnink it inevitable and wee secretly the coal monopoly from the coal rail-] rejoicing over the outcome peg road monopoly, but would actually|icping Mr. fatdine wilt do nothing assure lower priced coal to the people. | at this time to spoil what appears to In view of the enormous royalties} them a most favorable situation being charged by the coal vie tions, which to-day reach orbitant sum of $3.10 per ton, as set forth in these columns last week, It is imperative that some measure be taken to prohibit such further boost- ing of royalties as now shuts out in- dependent operators and keeps the price sky high. The two existing water routes of Pennsylvania, the canals from the an- thracite coal fields, are controlled by these two companies. The railroads belonging to these companies have superseded the canals, which they now control, Raymon of hiding, made sure that Shrimp Street It is a wonderful thing to watch it grow in health and beauty every day. Drajen, who was acting as custodian of with demure clerical maidens, had not betrayed his trust, and climbed into the water again Shaughnessy meantime went back] FIFTH AVENUE BUSES and got several more policemen TO EXTEND LINE SOUTH When next he descended on the youthful criminals at a whistle signal, Branch Route From Ninth Street the circle was entirely surrounded. to Latayette, The eight were captured, and Shrimp} On recommendation of rol, as well, and were marched, bare} Whale Commissioner Rlant and shouldered, bare legged and some of| Structures, the Board of Kstinate to- day granted a erary permit. for them very nearly bare all over, their} sixty days to the Fifth Avenue Coach few garments hanging wet on them,| Company for a branch route in order hat the lower Broadway shopping dis- to the Old Slip station, while the fie] that the lower A Sith thet main an line on Fifth Ave Theroute of the extension follows ‘om Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, necting with the lines operated in h Avenue, easterly along Ninth Street to Fourth Avenue; on Fourth It is delightful to see the growing admiration of your friends. » the rail exeoutives ing a body blow at In 1918, whem Tho Evening World began its investigation, the followtus facts were disclosed and obtain ‘o- day: 1, A few coal barons control almost the entire output of an- thracite in the United Staces. ‘Thus the Philadelphia and Read- ing Coal and Iron Company con- trols 2,000,000,000 available tons of coal, the Lehigh Coal and Navi- gation Company 500,000,000 avail- able tons, the Lehigh Valley Coal Company 400,000,000 tons, 2. 'The largest company, the Philadelphia Coal and Iron Com- pany, has steadily acquired all available coal flelds until It now controls 45 per cent, of the entire anthracite output in the United It is so simple, so easy. Why not give yourself this hap- piness and satisfaction? Unfortunately, there are signs of a determination on the part of the shopmen to carry mutters to the ex- treme and to involve, in so far a8 they can, the other railway organtza- tions, Already the Interstate Com- merce Commission in an official report to the President has reported on the defective equipment on American rail- of a free hand in dealing with the seniority question Under these circumsta in the Administration elrcle a ces many | § © of the States. The proposed commission might e from Nintl to Astor the t G ve ~Jopinion that the strikers made Avenu 8. The two largest coal Interests | wej] ascertain if indeed these corpora- roene one petinemen hey fe nie epteia Meror when they declined | Pace: thenice on 4 eto Lata are owned by the same interests |tions have “dissolved” sufficiently to oe Mr, Harding's last proposal and that} Yette Streets & BRS Bape 50 excuse for refusing to run trains Their mistake was in stopping traffic abruptly and without warning to the water price and the price charged | Passengers. Tho question of whether for coal at the time it reaches the| the brotherhoods will announce a consumer 48 enormous, being some- | Complete walkout on a specified date times double and even triple in price | Unless the shopmen’s strike is settled from the time the coal leaves the|!s Quite another phase of the matter. mouth of the mine until it reaches the | They could !f they chose use the In- consumer in New York City, a jour- |terstate Commerce Commission re- ney of less than a day. port and the continuance of the shop —_— men's strike as an excuse for such “ANGEL-FACED BOY” tance < President Harding, however, will GE'1S 21-2 YEARS] not permit transportation to be tied up, His message for Congress con- tained the sicnificant statement that he possessed power xisting that own the railroads that carry the coal 4, Other investors have been kept from the fleld by everlasting obstacles. 5, When outside operators do get leases, they have been met with the provision that the coal they mine must be carried over the railroad which is owned by the same interest which owns the 1 from whom the operators lease 6. So close a co-operation has resulted from these activities that the whole matter has been brought to the attention of the Supreme Court of the United Fourth Avenue Alleah ates streets and avenues as may be encoun 1 in the new route eS eliminate the strangle hold on com- petition, Not only this, but the di criminating rate as between the tide- they would have been better off un der it than they are to-day, That's one reason why it is believed th: President will be persuaded to mak: the same proposal, perhaps with slightly different phraseology, #0 as to afford the machinery for a settle ment, It is concelvable, of course, that the shopmen will endeavor to rally the brotherhoods to their support by sympathetic strike, but it is doubtful whether the brotherhoods will eure to join the Throughout th mediation they have used no threats or indicated that they would take an particul of action if the ra wl ‘They Official Voting Coupon. Greater New 2 iow York. or One Vote for, the, Most’ Beautiful Woman, Who, om Bept. 1, 1922, at the s MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL ¥ AT CONEY ISLAND N Vacation hi World follow you. Maile very day to your summe' Will Be Crowned KING AND QUEEN 1922 Coney Island Mardi Gras Revue Week of Sept. 11. ddress, a WORLD SUMMER RATES|] | Peder or RAI Tha Evening World.... .25 scheme Has Record 6f 25 Arrests for Mis 43 Yours of Aue, under ¥ roads ve ed is media 1 vote for. States and startling charges have ftn. ts statutes 10 prevent interference Witt [tors simply becuse they have had ex Sunday World 10c. per Sunday ‘or Queen) been made by the Attorney Gen- Elmer m, Known to the police @8}transportation, und there is every ein af tt » ses 12 No Sat., Sept. 2, 1922 y : . ere perience in negotiating With the rail (be now for any length of tine. Contest Closes oon, Sat., Sept. 2, 1922, eral, “the angel-faced choir boy," was sen-|reagon to believe he would use the foxecutives and they have the cont) Ruuteun changed ae often ae destred, 7. Enormous royalties are charged to leaseholders, ‘royalties that have increased from year to year, and unnecessarily inflated tenced to Sing Sing for two and one-| power by wecuring the indictment and half years by Judge Talley in the Court}arrest of any persons suspected Ol of General Sessions this morning after} giving orders to tie np transporta he had pleaded guilty of attempted} tion ywadealer will arrange Fra nares ae St tra Cashier, New York World, dence of thy shopmen The brotherhoods are not throu yet, howeve Their efforts a Oi th f coal. $ f thi ation having fuiled in New York, th Park Row, New York City. © price of coal, Boma of these Yersea larceny. ; will naturally turn to Washington t Mail Votes ‘te EVENING WORLD MARDI GRAS royal isa silane have amounted to . althous j, Biion Seanly-tiires Mi ae fink. howe s bein] persuade the DP Jent to make 4 © :DITOR, P. O. BOX 247, CITY HALL STATION, 8. ‘The largest corporation, the Ja reord of twenty arrests and ten lation, ‘The propomitl of the rail somal eg i exe the foun | 38 NEW YORs NEN TORK blieves 5 , elphin and Re % convictions, Ney muy that recently he} 94 i . of psging. tna @ hed . 2 sates may be handed in at The World's various branchest Philadelphia and Reading Com onvipecomie & skilful plekpocket” te pecutives to Mi. Harding a week ae Aine cauasiion ofan \ Lick head | Leak ate near Third ave; Uptown, iJ0% Breadway, pany, has been able to bold these Merrrentad ti the Aiud tihng, | Was mich mo to. th eas WNT VL AGHER. PRANK. THE FUNERAL aN Seth oh fe W2 Seventh ave, mene 1h Hotel enormous properties by constant- [oy aug. 16 charged with stealing. the | Strikers than s reply handed {te the Labor Board to work out utier ) Ciinert (Campbell Building), B'way, ith Sen Mulldings Hoobizn, 209 Washington t., wnd Yulitrer’ Bulld- ly keeping others out of the fleld | puree of Henry Haifer of ¥ the brotherhood: New York on{ the men have returned to work. Th at, Notice 1 | i 4 Queen on this ballet. Vote for in thelr district tontaining $5. Dillon's Wednesday. Ax the nogotintions drug {doen't differ materially from the ‘st | eeeemeeeeeee ees ey per i for Ring and Queew it. will 4, ‘This company has been pay- [48 Middagh Street, Brook out, the executives, feeling the |Sussestion made by Mr. Harding PERSONALS. blk eign ——_—_>—_—_ VATRER JOHN'S MEDICINE Te componed of ‘ihe purest hvalth-bullding ingredientaAayt. ing taxes at an estimated valu- ation of 2 per cent, of the real worth of the property. So power- put in view of the New York nego tiations it may stand a better chan of woceptance, strength of their position and the greater Powers of endurance, are going back to their original position (For Story See Page Eight) Not r ait owes bili that Ab home. ———— +