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BLOWN, ONE STORE Blast Goes Unnoticed Only 400 Feet From Police Box at Brooklyn Bridge. BARS FORCED IN BRONX Robberies Discovered When Managers Open Up— About $1,000 Taken. ‘Two found entered and Tobbed when the managers opened up for business this morning. United to Cigar stores were have been One w im Manhattan and the other in the Bronx. One hundred feet from the police booth at Brooklyn Bridge and in the shadow of the Municipal Building, Yeggs blew open safe of the store No. 103 Park Row in piain of the street some time between § urday night and this morning and es oaped with between $500 and $800. Police said this is the first safe rob bery in this section of the city in nin months The store was wrecked by the ex Plosive used to blow open the safe Detective Gray of the Oak Street Sta tion assigned to investigate the rob bery, declared that the charge was a great deal heavier than was required, and that it was remarkable the plate glass Debris wa: window was not blown out found strewn all over the shop when David Baer, manager of the stor 1 up this morning. Roth Baer and Gray were unable to und the blast went undiscove crowd eection, which t night Fragments of t were found throughout the store and on a remained a portion of whieh proclaimed that this Ss pro- tected by the Burns Detective Agency.” Investigation revealed that @ rear door had been jmmied and that windows on the seeord floor occupied by the United Cigar Stores, hairbreadth tur were left open. Fire enea 4 tol Comptroller Objects — and The hese windows. No clues were found a ‘ meee eae) ape teidhe: bupwlara Men Will [lave to Wait. | 4Ppeared In view. When Henry Koehler, manager of] ‘The 150 men employed on the city-| 8n¢ 8 “magic the store at No Willis Avenue, | owned trolley line on Staten isiana| iting, seinti the Bronx, which has a premium sta- : aa nC) nursery tlon annex, opened up at 7.30 o'clock, | WP re clamoring for their overtime he found that some time between then] Probably will have to wait some time and 11.30 o'clock last eve bur- | for Grover Whalen, Comm one ‘ pars aay ; We'll initia glars had entered by forcing the bars)/or plant and Structures, to-day said of a rear window : breezily announ¢ A he had made out the payrolls carrying |) Chapt 9 SeHRRit Rog It A the overtime and had passed them to|* ‘ Fe HEN sates anicae en the Comptrolley., Thera he ‘said Yhe Meek little ripped off. ‘The contents, rollan hid been “held Comps (CW deb mer) ona ce ga {trot ling that puld had Jewelry [POC P ee en nee And then been passed to the Corporation Co valued at $50) am de : ray) ae V Couns) cation, especial partment and left t ney enter- ed. Among the articles taken were couple of silk umbrellas. It was rain- ing at the tine The. thieves. .while.opening the safe amoked several cigars, the butts of which were left lying about, ‘There were left behind six erowbars of fror two to. three t in length, three Jimmies and a br — OIL CO. “EVAPORATED” SAYS MAN, 70, IN SUIT Wants Deed to Brooklyn Property Set Astd George VP. Davis, seventy, of No. 64 Linden Street, Bi n, to-day brought an action in the Supreme Court, Brook- rr 4 Ls bl lyn to have ae null and void, a Phonographs Send Them to deed which he made to property at Nos City’s Relief. 244-215-218 and ecker Strest GULFPORT, Miss Brookly vT rs man claims he . % ) Si AU . tha’ property for 2 iG Albert’ 2 Virtually every phonograph in Galnars ae al ee broker, and that Gulfport is grinding out jazz to- cate purporting to be 16,000 shares of night. The object to stir tho the Baldwin Oil Corporation. He alleges} bats abroad so they will eat up bar woe 2 EA aes the mosquitoes. The bats are there was any fraud. A receiver for| being colonized in specially con- te property 9 - tol BolAGe the structed belfries, but they are ap- rents until the matter is adjudicated. parently partial to their accus- Justice May reserved decision tomed attics and other places, ae It has been found that the only A CRACKER CONCH way to oust them permanently is The Park Department announces} {to play jazz in the early hours that the National Biscuit Company] of the morning. Once a bat hears Band will ¢ a tree public conce*t a jazz record he never returns, it im Central Park at 8 o'clock te night. MANAGES FACTORY SHE OWNS, BUT IS TO MARRY IN FALL MIDS MARGARET GITHENS PANS A. Modern Won mun Clin “Old Fashioned” Ideas. Despite her ultra-mod 8 President, owner Manager of a large factory, M Margare still clings to what are garded a only been in a year, when tory from its fc ployees is usually the men days off is declared. © bou old-fashioned made rn role and general Philadelphia t Githens theo: ht the fac wher. CITY TROLLEY MEN DEMAND OVERTIME up by giving JAZZ DRIVES BATS TO EAT SKEETERS PANTOMIME 5 dene nerally ries about women and the rela tion of sexes, for after her re turn from the West this fall she marry Alfred Dold of Philadelphia As evidence of her fearlessne she is golng to Butte, Mont., don a miner's outfit for two weeks and make a careful study of the cop per mines, She owns and man ages a $50,000 corporation mak inpy valves; | Coup nea AUED clamps and menders. She ha sent position ommissioner Whalen said he did not THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1923, 3 May Christie ‘“‘Does’’ Coney|It ‘‘Civic Virtue’’ Is Art, Island and Tell What It Did to Her! Finds Seat in a Bus, but Oc- cupies It \ Only to ferred to } Sometime May Christie, authoress, 48 v Aw cold winds, and wrapped in furs. than Kimberley in the Afric N in a city hot skies, thir else! “Come dow above the Samaritan, who eyed the F wouldn't. in the street be ens (yes, and 6 arms. And oh! h London Town, 'd reach the “p to discuss “ins! “It's all ov and the ether fi he hauled me 0: sugar !! We corn-from-thecr it did creep int when I put my last)—to glass But ah! the believe in p alone on a a thousand pec to my shoes. | an electric r roaring hurric delighted yell let us draw a hundred! “You w and my him. i har ron) befor Ww radium 1 happen mixture—I 2 of Coney Isla 9 \ Uy Jolts — Takes Coaster and Loses Every- ! thing but Tackles Corn on the Ear, That Coney Island Winds Any Good! EW YORK fh summer-time! trip through Zululand, where the lucky aglish complexion with a neutral and a medite be real, of course in a little cardboard box So Dif we set, merrily boarding New York's the Coney Island bus, whose spring are specially designed to throw young men and maid- r grew cooler, fresher, and at I They started in a slow 4 Only Between Whirl at Her Breath —~ Find It Trans- fer Own—Learns s Blow No One , the isiting “America. fumous Britis The Evening World has engaged her to | write a series of articles on New York life as she secs it. This is the first article. The others wilt follow. By May Christie. yright, 1022,(New York Evening World) by Press Publis eek I said fare ladies (sensibly waistline n to Coney Island for hardheaded and ¢ a breath of air!” perienced bachelor a: but on the other hand it probably d Doubtle: municipal low nider folk as well) literally and directly ow the Jehu of the char-a-bane did drive! where traffle must keep layground of the world” alive! ns! Such violent halts! I blinked, and blinked again. carpe Where had I lating color? Was th p you by slow degrees into all the thril d my escort. “Now what about cars they looked, and trustingly I cent. (“Quite tame!” I thi good heaverls! ly about the pit of one’s inside! ") Was 1 a disembodied spirit? ides finished. n to terra firma, (“Can I have the tooth b, whic o my very ears.) Then back to loop the loop, to shoot the chute, to attend my Derby of the season (‘tother being ten weeks back, in Epsom, Englanv, hirt and a pound note on a wrong ‘un, romping home ths ureer on wooden horses, stare at ratty little 2b. cre: id to thoroughly enjoy ourselves. got to in this mesh of da Why, the Eiffel) Tower in Paris is a kind of ame compared to this! we certainly were off! Extraordinary (How impolite in Eng! Dante and Beatrice, one day would develop into men and women—<(the pounders, not the cages!)—to blush at four-legged ladies, to crack peanut jokes and ins, Oh!.--- hing Company. discarding e remarked a Goot I think he was- ive 1 hail from Pari oye. courting ground, 1 to England, under gray and weeping And seven days later 1 am n hot season, hotter than my ye ipairily about in short bead skirts, and nothing It might the night would tell, although the lady in clever unison with the shell-holes into each other's Fresh from ol e seagoin s of Coney Island,” the Giant Coasters, for ought.) 1 strictly to the left, I never thought Such narrow squeaks! Such miracles of misses! a gorgeous spectacle of lights char-a- ling, Such \ trifle stiff about the joints I crawl down from our vehicle into a | palpitant, gum-chewing, frightfully cheery crowd. hopped aboard them. Well, I might have lost my stomach— You were a brave girl!” burbled the Good Samaritan, prying mo out of the infernal machine as though it were the dentist’ Indeed, his voice had the same far-away croak as T nearly asked.) We hied us to the Maple Garden, and—under the greenwood bous! and to strains of crooning melody—I was initiated into culinary mysteries, with queer intriguing names like—“Crab Flake Ravigotte’— Squab"—"Virginia Ham"—and—queerest thing of all—potatoes sweet as “Broiled Roya ate and danced, and everything was new, and odd, and marvel!ous and my ears were full of music, strange New York lingo, slang, and sweet tastes so good but is so hard ‘to navigate! eco) tu worst Was yet to come, good intentions, 1 am a trustin But when I found & Britisher myself thrust @ rocking stage, facing a giggling audience of at yle making merry by my woes, my heart pped, I gaped, I hesitated! at swirled my skirts—(oh, yes, it df pectators told me that the worst rat the time I wanted no not one v the Good Samaritan, rescuing my f when the whiriwind blew thirsty eyes. “You need e Human Pool,” just a sip tch and—as there was a kinship I required it. And afterwards I fa tas gayly as a Highland brigand on me thro et he drew forth a little flask and dangled it sank dow And a clown prodded mi | darted forward, and from below there came a r had happe ei) but hat tWix e ced a 1 bis 1 peer how euivacallwae aperataccuy ine 4 of us and shot through space, were shrieking like lost souls whose city or other corporktion could be run were still in working order. without overtime and expected the} ouch! that ghastly downward drop!—but I had ht Corporation Counsel's decision to be 27 ; in favor of the men tem. Oh! 0: oh It has heen held in other cases that the city cannot pay overtime. In the Park and other departments extra time put in by regular per diem em | | | | ebair | | | | (Yes, | os tn} | two | aud I Dry Law Is a Comic Song, Says St. Louis’s Mr. Dooley Philosophizing Ex-Saloon Keeper, Famed at Home, Thinks People Don’t Come Here to Find Civic or Any Other Kind of Virtue—Far From It. By Marfin Green. , JOHN THOMAS BRADY, Ix. P. (Survivor of Kerry teh), for many years the best known, if not the leading citl- zen of St. Louis, Mo,, but in the last quarter of a century’ a globe trotier, is on his way to Rio Janciro, where he purposes to en- kuge in his favorite indoor and outdoor sport, whieh Is the manu- facture and sale of soap. Dr. Brady sailed on the Vauban Sat- urday with a regular passport and us whi and he came in to see waiting for the boat. time we resided in 1 during that period 1 was a legitimate Brady kept a and Walnut wo frequented at protracted inter of assimi- philosophy, by Dr We re. crowd upon Dr wt Ninth purpose rand y dispensed ately wat imi 1 were lined up was le md that the of the ice tove acquaintance with impressed by tic style. We 1 day of a po litical -Dr. Brady, by the ran for public office, hecause, as he often explained, it profitable for him to n for public office we sald before, ady his opinion ublie ofeial. "E it guy,” sald Dr 1 stone quarry, unless handeuffed.” 1 you © ling. we asked Dr certain In't t ast th: udent of public ques- Brady's views on men are worth listening to, and that is why We asked him, when he came in to see us, If he considered the, statue of Civic Virtue, the Rough Guy of City Hall Park, a work of art. ‘The eriti¢ Dr. Brady will be found somewhere along in this and we di from it arily to recall when Dr lived in this city, which was in the yday of Big Tim Sullivan, his intimate friend, We were seated at the r&gside, as it were, in the glass-inclosed ion of the Hotel Metropole, at Street and Broadway, one t, when who walked in but John Thomas Brady—he had not then achieved his degree of Doc- tor of Dermatology from Prof, Kd, Butler, Prosident of the St Louis Associatiow of — Horse Shoers. We learned then that Dr Brady had long since abandoned the entertainment of the thirsty and had become.an editur and a soap manufacturer “What are you doing in New York?" we asked. “Um on my way to tral Amoric: replied dy “William Marion me to go there heeause t revolution every week. But I go I'm going an up a of money in Wall Street A prominent Wall Street finan cier, who has since died, was ifflicted with a particularly strile- ing nose. It was large und in- flamed and bump) ' «pm going. to cure that guy,” announced Dr. Hrady. “I'm go- ing to make that beaver of his as white as a lily “And this," he continued, ‘is what is going to do it He pulled from bis et a small tin box labelled “Brady's Horse Salve.” ‘It would make the coat of a horse," he said," “as smooth and soft af velvet and transform the hur ge as unattractive as a hamburger steak into a thing of bloom and beauty “L've tried “it on the worst maps in St. I aid John Thom and t manently beautifie: He was urger te to the eminent finan: nd he did try, being — possesse ' imited nerve but he + ould place the salve on tion he had eelecte " ‘9 remained in wy 1 1912, taking oceas to Europe or South A As ses decreased in he vanged his salve A receipts there ained him in mors aftluence Returning from ¥ 13 {ter a disastrous bout the 1d Voter!” replied H Vin a repeate ‘ 1 the W brothers Hugh and Re the l atic Losses r (CRUSHED TO DEATH IN MAIDEN LANE AS Reserves Called to Move Bik rowd as lronworke1 Is Killed ENINE COLLAPSES ENGLISH BEAUTY, WINNER OF $10,000, ARRIVES IN N, 4. % * swe an iron worker i} N 18th ue, Newark, was instantly kil 10.80 o'clock to | day by the fall of a hoisting engine on a platform ten feet from the bot- | !tom of an excavation on the site of the new building of the Home In surance Company on Maiden Lane | just off Willlam Strect George Putt, an iron worker, of No. 1260 Clay Avenue, the Bronx, was ‘painfully injured but it was said at Gouverneur Hospital, where he was | taken after being attended by Dr | Blutenstein of Beekman Street Hos pital, that he would recover He suf- | fered severe cuts and bruises on the - and body and several of his ribs i N were broken J The hoist was mounted on a plat MAUDE ODELL. Peane &. form weighing about five tons. ‘The vcing of the skids under the hoist Mi Maude Odell, considered JOHN T. BRADY lipped and the machine slid to tt ; ‘ 5 Grae Linavees CHE CHIERGE one of the most beautiful women edge and then tipped the platform . date SRRRUERLS CAST nich ; yaaa in England and winner of a gold Mas, who was often off the \ medal and $10,000 when ac- rest fell full upon Sweeney. who was ero! i i rvation, One of these time c] claimed for her beauty, has at Vv e P yan ny dank over ve three feet of Was when he formed the club a su plank over the thr rived in New York on a return the club paraded on) Broadway Water (hat had collected on the bot sthit Blanding tn front of Ena tom of the hole during the recent ce ; auett vurant was a detec _ na Himore who had [rains, He was crushed beyond recox PH RADIO NEES i engaged for many years in [ition when Foreman Charles Camp Foun the Baltimore t must be Mine to be a ra ‘he flower of Bt $ loett and fifteen other workers en thef | ; ; ra i 7‘ W youn sy , duildin uuceee afte forty min 1 . 2 : to the nitentiary at Jefferson em cit the clib marched by [utes of work in raising the platform 90 per cent, of the membership fand getting his body from beneath t waved uth and yell surface of the water oo A beam of the derrick work the hoist caught Puty «a glaneing blow Them was ths happy or ‘ and knoe him into the water, from batt) Ds Brady when vy which he was quickly dr 1, haif came in to seo ux Friday. “But | Nclous Re eer earn: a The accident caused an enormous SUC RTONe ee L crowd to gather from the wholesale oT jewelry and financial district and the TC vE ae king a garden fe reserves of the Old Slip Station had a th statue vie Virtue, we difficulty in) keeping the narrow said =) streets clear “Oh, is that what that cried Dr, Brady bee utue of SCAPPOLD BREAKS; TWO WEN civic virtue. [saw the HURT. an 1 thought they were di ‘The rope supporting a seaffold on the hole to ry in teopl ae rt which John Murphy of No, 76 West 82d don't come to New York f Street and Lell Russenen of No. 272 it's toasted. This virtue They come here to le West 20th Street were working on a oneextra process it. building at Ninth Avenue and 206th ——— “Don't you think the statue Street broke this morning and dropped gives a delightful urtistie?”? we asked both to tho, atreet, three, stories below quality that can ell ene Murphy swith a fractured) thigh and not be duplicated that’s art the Bighteenth Aw >, i jower leg and Russenan with a broken gy ment is a popular song. ‘The ae look like the average y an old-time burlesqu Billy Watson's They’ not the le The chest is not t man, and the arms are of a =o blacksmith crowned the work and face of a simp. to make that statue lo is to saw off that machet carrying in its hand and die up in a bib and skirt “They say,’ we voluntecred. “that the model was a New York fireman."* “Then why," asked Dr. Brad “did they cut off his head Dr. Brady frequently lapses into literature, ing aed al a taste for it by association in St. Louis with the late William Marion Reedy, Joe Campbell, Charlie O'Brien and Chief of Volic Mat thew Keily. He also worked in pressroom of the St. Lour t-Dispateh when he wi At one time Dr. Bra paper he ¢ LW the a John to make many ns fit to be tied, be knew everything about every! snd was libel proof Through the influence of Ben Brady and against of John ‘Thomas, a North St. Lou character, whose 1 not McGuffey, but something I was mad: tice MeGutfte very much upstag 1 the city by joining a In the next issur Laugh’ appeared a soal shovel with capt udge MeGuffey'’s 1 Iub."? that, Peace. Well, Dr. Brady Mio and the city y talned. “Do you know ar America?” we ash “There's a coup! Louis named K somewhere,"’ he rej them comes up hi years and puts an the bank."” —— SIGNS ORDERED DOWN FROM STATE HIGHWAYS Divert Attention Cause Acetdents, MIDDLETOWN, Patrol trucks are tra i“ shways in Sullivan ond Dela unties, tearing dow adsides whieh do safety of traMe or ne ary to the tra Slate roada in some | ally tine@ with stgns itends these tend 1 of Drivers t driver oval of signs dignation in some sé tr harge of patrol ty ly obeying ¢ OMetals Sas Thousands of at of a rub-down., vigor and fitness. Mr. Athlete — \ hletes and trainers have found that a Lifebuoy bath — with the big lather thoroughly rubbed in, has all the advantages It wakes up the skin. It makes the whole man glow with tc Wake up your skin! ‘ LIFEBUOY HEALTH SOAP . |