The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1922, Page 3

"PAW DEPARTMENT PUISOFF LAWYERS ASKS MORE MOREY Brien’s Budget Demands Increase by Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars. 22,000 FOR CARFARE. ip, Two Years $16,875 Also psWas Expended as ‘Meal Money.” According to Corporation Counsel statement to the Board of » While the force of the De- ent of Law has been gradually d since 1914, the cost of ad- hi ng that office has risen from 18,705 in 1917 to $1,550,120, as pro- ded in the proposed budget for 1923. With 112 lawyers on the regular sal- Ust, the Law Department never fhéless spent this year $436,566 and 8 credited in the 1923 budget with 508 more for fees and commis- In these two years It will have ded a total of $150,000 for gen- ral special counsel; nnother $150,000 or counsel fees, expert services and cpenses in contesting transit com- jon matters; $95,000 for expenses telephone investigution, and $36, 00 for special counsel on special fran- bhise affairs During the same period it will also spent $225,604.30 for fees of ex- ts th general and $116,270 for fecs he experts in special franchise cases. information {s published as to these fees and commissions or are to be pald, nor the nature extent of the services rendered. ‘In these two years there will fur her have been expended $22,000 for ‘cartaro and $16,875 for ‘'meal Corporation Counsel O'Brien ex- Jains that the ‘‘carfare’’ disbursement caused by trips of Assistant Corpo- Mifion Counsel to Albany, Washington nd other places, and by local trans- hortation expenses of his examiners ind other employees. But no detailed pformation is given of the number ff trips and by whom they have been The “meal money” item is thus xxplained by Corporation Counsel D Brien: ‘‘When examiners, clerks. nographers and others work until w after 8 P. M., they are allowed 75 bents. supper money; I understand hat in all other departments em- bioyees are allowed $1. I do not see ow I can further discriminate against he employees of this department. [t also necessary to pay for meals of esistants at Albany, Washington, D » and other out-of-town places when WOMAN NAMED. NIVORCE SUD BY OWN HUSBAND Both Cases Scheduled for Trial by Court at Same Time. A domestic rupture in two familtes was revealed in Supreme Court to- day in the divorce sults brought by Milton K. Spurgeon, a former United States Navy Lieutenant, against his young wife, Lilllan Schwenk Spur- geon, who ts named as corespondent in Mrs. Ella Nicholson Silber's ac- tion for divorce from Carl F. Silber, manufacturer, of No, 139 Spring Street. Both sults were scheduled to be tried before Justice Glegerich to- day, but were postponed until to- morrow. Mrs. Spurgeon lives with her five- year-old daughter, Catherine, at No. 411 West 115th Street. The other child, George, eight, lives with his father, who has offices at No, 310 East 23d Street Following the postponement, Mrs Spurgeon told reporters the whole af- fair was a “frame up."’ She avered that Silber merely was a friend of her tamily and that she made him her confidant in her hour of domestic trouble. Mrs. Spurgeon added that she recently had been left a generous legacy and expected soon to be named a defendant in a suit for alleged alien- ation of Silber's affections eeacaiaepee a FIXING TANK ON ROOF, FINDS DEAD MAN’S BODY Unidentified Victim Hang From Rope on Ladder. Harold Foreman, engineer of the Puck Building at No. 295 Lafayette Street. went to the roof this morning to fix a valve in the tank, which ts housed In the narrow space between the wall and the tank he found the body of an old man hanging by a rope from a high rung of the ladder which leads up the side of the tank, There were no marks of tdentification save a acrap of paper with the pencilled figure “47."" There were a few silver coins in the pockets, and an unopened bottle of fodine The man had been dead apparently for several days. He was about sixty five feat elght Inches tall, with blue yes and grey hair. He wore a brown sult and black overcoat their duties call them. ‘The cost of lunches for witnesses under subpoena at trials must also be paid."* Yet elsewhere explatning his “‘con- tingencies" appropriations, amounting jin 1922 and 1923 to a total of $44,250, | Corporation Counsel O'Brien says that among other things these con- tingency funds go to pay hotel bils of assistants on out-of-town trips, Vidow Receives $100,000 a “ashburne of Grace Church Street, ‘aithful Servants Get $200 Each, Secretary $2,500 inWashburne Will nd Two Children Fund of $200,000—Estate Valued at $450,000. An estate of more than $450,000 is left by the late Frank Sherman Rye, according to his will which was d for probate this afternoon with Surrogate Slater in White Plains. He leaves his widow, Irene Russel! Washburn, the sum of $100,000, a ife interest in residuary estate, nd personal effects said to be worth 2,500, a trust fund of $200,000 left 0 his two children, Frank S. Wash- burn jr., of Larchmont and Elizabeth Washburn, of Rye. He provides that hen they become thirty years old pach shall receive the respective Bhare of the principal Evelyn sbitt Washburn, wife of he gon, receives the interest on $50 p00 of the principal of the sum in rust for her husband. Should he die befgre his thirtieth year, leaving no issue, the entire principal will revert o her. Margaret G. Logan, of New York js left $2,500, in bis will the ys she was “his secretary und faith- ul friend Elizabeth Swan, of Evanston, 4 Emily Stashburn Dean of Chicago, share in income from a $50,090 trust Four servants ‘who have faithfully nd cheerfully served me during my testator « late iNness” receive $209 each. The testator directs that his property le prudently handled “rather han Haz arded in wha may promise great gains’? Mr. Washburn moved to Rye from Nashville, Tenn., where he had spent ‘a good part of his life — ACCUSED OF EXTORTION POSING AS A DRY AGENY Morrin T. Morrin Snid to Have Got 3,000 by Threat. Charged with extorting $3,000 from Joseph S. Furlong, real estate operator of No. 50 Greenwich Street, by repre senting himself as # federal phohibition agent, Morris J. Morris, twenty-seven of No. 402 Seventh Avenus, walved ox amination In Centre Street Police Court to-day and gave $3.900 bail pending ac tion of the Grand Ju Furlong entd Morris, after charaioz him with having « big supply of whis Ker at No. 31 Moore Streat, Oct, 12 threatened hfs arrest un he ‘paid over 5,000, He settled for $5,000, he sald PANTOMIME Harvey’s “Women Have No Souls” Leads Woman Author to Call Him A “Survival of Another Era” Maria Thompson Daviess Ridicules Ambassador's Ut- terances as Futile Words of an Old Man—He and His Kind Need Monkey Farms, She Intimates. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Has “No ish vote for all time nen souls? It's been so long s haps he thought dras' way, when he ne © me assured Au- thors’ Club in London that the bulk of the evidence is pre derantly against the assumpt that women | ave so The soul of the female, ted, is not recognized in the Decalogue, and he added, in belated attempts to appease the sex, that therefore th injunctions contained in the Dec- alogue are not binding on woman. We all know thut the soulless- ness of women is a the on he tn accepted be- Hef among Mohammedans. Not Oo many of us knew that the question once was a matter of de- bate among Christians; a debate settled at, I believe, the Council of Nicaea, when the Fathers of the Church by a mafority of one vote deviied that woman did in- deed possess a soul. ‘Twas only ON v but it served—until Mr. George Harvey came along to open the discusuton anew Not being able to reach any of the women of the London Autho: Club, before which Mr. Harvey oke, I took his challenge to an American woman author, Maria Thompson Daviess, who wrote “The Melting of Molly," “The Tit Box" and most recently “The Matrix,’ a charming fic tional version of the romance ¢ Lincoln's mother, N Hank Miss Daviess happens to be in New York just now in connection with her work for the Lincoin Memorial University, located in the mountains of her native Ten- nesseo, and when I saw her at the National Arts Club she was more than ready to counter-attack, “Mr. Harve nin her soft, slurring voive, ays that women haven't souls t then Mr. Harvey said only # little while ago that Amer doughboys hadn't souls, that Per g hadn't a soul when ald here,’ that shi ‘Lafayette, we America itself had no soul, no ideals. 1 was pretty angry at first when I read what Mr. Har- hed to say about But I concluded I'd classed with th whom Mr, Ha vey women rather be Harvey uself who has what he considers a soul. S question really she continued this: Has Perhaps he But I can't it's shrivelled “Mr raises 2 evenly. Mr. Harvey @ sou did have one, once help think up and blown as he She leaned forward in her blue eyes, th tails of he framing face “They're al plaine "all Harv other ‘and that's fe that so old twinkle little ducks nd eurled hie so old!'’ she com- the men who are now running this young country of ours. Do you know what T think we need more than America, {ust T think It would be the finest investment the country could make. Monkey farme—for all the dried up, feeble. hidebound politicians! Wouldn't ft be great! And we women would have all the monkey fur we wanted. anything nkey f! Then we came back to Payche, the soul, und the American Am bussador to the Court of #t Tamen'e ‘Of courns,’’ Mise Daviess ron ceded, “I don't k of women have r aM Murvey throughout ife, Pe haps he hag known women who either had gc souls or who, hae says Ambassador George Harvey; thereby coralling the Turk- Mr. Harvey achleved the front page that per- sures Were necessary. He took on ny~ ing them, did nat feel inclined to cast such pearls before—Mr. Harvey. Therein may lie the ex- planation for his strange attack But I do think he’s misplaced as English Ambassador. He should be transferred to the East—with his beliefs, he'd be so much at home among the Turks.” “But don't you think,” I sug- gested, ‘that Mr. Harvey {s only one of many men who havé never been especially interested tn con- ceding souls to women? Bodies by all means. Hearts—yes, in deed. But feminine souls and minds, s0 far as these men ar concerned, are excess bageag: They want women for playin) not for praying. Souls mean nothing to masculine comfort. They might even operate toward maseulin discomfort."" “Yes,"" admitted Miss “that's the way many the Past has thought women 1a ow Mr. Harvey proves himself dis ern—distinetly a another era “The denying « is, If you look point, the last etly unmod survival of to women t {t from one view- le snatch of the male toward lal privilege For all those years, he sald to women can't have a vote you can’t have a pay enveli you can't have a latchke can't have knickerbockers. One by one women have seized all the prohibited —_ plaything: Now, driven into the last Mr. Harvey exclaims: ‘Well, a women can't have s' are reserved for me: “But have men souls?” I » gested. ‘The eeem me quite as open as the one raised by Mr. Harvey “I don't believe any prove in court that he had a sou unless he could get some woman —hbis wife, his mother, his sister, somebody who loved and believed question man ce in him—to be a witness in favor!” declared Miss Da “Women are the gardener souls—their own, thos ft dren, those of thelr men folk “"Anyway,'’ L reminded her, Mr Harvey says that not having a soul lets women out from obey- ing the Ten Commandments.” “Of course he'd say !" eniffed Miss Daviess. “The Ten Com- mandments are what every ma spends his Ife trying te women to break—all ten “Where,” she concluded, ‘wo all the churehe la and the religions eo if {t weren't foy = soul-support—and What would every husband do If he couldn't keep his religion { is wife's name? But the touch men, thelr support? stone for discovering a soul is a soul, Is that, perhaps, the reason why Mr. Harvey thinks women have none?” > " JERSEY WOMAN KILLED AS AUTO HITS TREE Car Skldded as Driver Swarved to Avoid Collision, ASBURY PARK, N. J., Oct, 28,—Re- tuming from @ hospital at Long Franch where ahe visited her #laterin-law, Mra, Alfred Tome of thia etty waa ine atantly kilind early to-day whe her automobile crashed Into a tren om Nor wood Avenue, Biberon, Tha car, driver by a» the chautt | @ collision, Mrs, marvied ten menthy E E. the THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, GUILTY OCTOBER 25, 1922 Bromley Rodgers, Fradu- Sentenced Friday. Bromley Rodgers, Sctentifie Corporation of Delaware, convicted of Judge Nott of so-called grand General la Session lent Advertiser, Will Be President of Automotive was to-day ny before s in having swindled » machinist who ap- piled to him for employment ir spon Worl Assistant Distr Wallace, who prosecuted the c The was Lenos Griktos, of No. set 1d. mont Av 10 an adver tisement in n re The The World collaborated with complainant against Toe Maspeth, L. 1 t Attorney James G. dgers 42 Clare- He read an advertisement in The World in May, tool work to apply at an¢ 1921, calling for mechanics, 1 diemakers who wanted the offied of F, Broadwe The Murray Hill, No. 11 advertisement ger Griktos, with several other there and all were sent to No. is wag inserted by Rod- alled 1i4 Worth Street, where they found a tool and machine corporation, which, how- snot in with ever, connected headed by was the the slightest factory in Walton, N. Y They were told this was their tory, but it was proved to be cupied piano factory, which had be rented for month as an evidert one aid to the swindle an un way organization rs, and a picture of a The workmen were told they could not. have jobs unless they subseribed to the stock of the Scientific Auto- motive Corporation at ktos bour Rodgers, paying $250 for th Rodgers, Bloomfield St G the his a Friday. Magist Is Right Ther t twe who ty H to Griktos t. He will —- rate $10 per ty-five share share s off oboken, returned at the time of be sentenced on With Scripture Refers to Luke VI., 26th Verse and Adds “‘Sixty Herman Fishe of N no evidence to show that 0, 146 Rivington Street, arraigned before Magistrats Folwell in the Adams Street Court, Brooklyn, had picked the chet of Jacob Bernstein on a subway train, but Pisher pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Kesselmann, at torney for vid to the Magis trate “LT know your reputation for fair ness and kindness. All men know yp there, if you please Mr. nn," interrupted the Magis- T want you to read the sixth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke, You will find there tnt th verse, if my memory serves me right ly, ‘Woe unto you when all mon peak well of you, for so did their hers to th ts “Committe workhe tor ixty days.’ ———— RAIDED, INTRODUCED COMPANION TO RAIDER Co-respondent Was “Gind to Meet” re son of the Husband's Friend. Supreme Court Justice Fawertt heard efended divorcee action of Joreph ‘arroll, of No Mon tre Kisn, against Edith McCarroll, of 854 Flatbush Ave today. A couple, fourteen years old, was not permitted to testif Archibald W. Poh! testified he accompanied McCarroll to an apartment wherein they found Mr McCarroll and a man Mrs. McCarroll. he sald, turned to film and said, “Mr. Pohl let Introdu to Mr. Beene What did this Mr. Feeney do? asked the court He put out his hand 4, (IAA to meet you, Mr. F 1 the witness, and the court room t into a laugh, while even the Judge tiled Col. Pohl said the clothing worn by Feeney, who was named as co-resuond- ent, na by Mrs. McCarroll was @ neg- ligible quant COUNTRY GOLF CLUB Is “EVELESS EDEN” WHEN IT BARS WOMEN Men Wear O14 Clothes, Seve Money on Social Affaire, CHICAGO, Oct. 26 The Bob o' Link Country Club at Highland Park, I has proved the success of “Bvoelese Eden,'' C, F, Carlatrom, re-elect - ed President, announced to-day, The club lest November voted to excludes women, except on special occasto: Social activities were vying a with golf until the club was made strictly a golf Caristrom sald, made {t possible to the conventionallties of dress, and b, (President The change also heart's content, the membership Umit has been reaohed and there on impoing waillag Hat ee = Snell Sk. saree STOCK PROMOTER (HUDSON TUNNEL IS FOUND ANOTHER AMERICAN WOMAN TO BECOME A BRITISH DUCHESS INQUIRY STARTED STARTS TO-DAY, |e) | OF REGISTRATION OF GRAND LARCENY) — OPENIN 3 YEARS! j Big Shield Began to Bore This Afternoon From Foot of Canal Street, One of the big shields used In driving the vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River to-day started for Ward from the foot of Canal Street under a hydraulic pressure of 6,000 pounds and the actual work of tun neling was then under way. The shield 1s 29 feet 6 Inches in diameter. Within a few weeks six of them will be at work The workmen labor und air pressure. 50 pounds. If the schedule t» adhered to the shields will Advance about two and a half feet a day through rock and fifteen feet a day through silt. The shield will move on a downward grado of about 3% per cent. for a distance of something like 1,200 feet and then it will proceed westward on a level line under the river, It is expected that the shield mov- ing from the Jersey City waterline will meet with the westward bound shield 700 feet from the Manhattan shore, for the reason that for this dis- tance practically all of the obstruc- tive rock will be encountered. The entire length of the tunnel will be 9,250 feet, of which 9,400 feet will be under the river The cost of preparing for the actual work of construction has amounted to nearly $200,000. Chief Engineer Clifford M. Holland of the Tunnel Commission said that lie expected the work to progress according to sched- ule, and that if it does vehicles will be running through the tunnel with- in thirty-six months 40 pounds Tho legal maximum ts me COAL LOADINGS MONDAY WERE 49,041 CARS. WASHINGTON, Oct —Bituminous coal landings on Monday as reported by the American Rallway Association were greater than for any other day in eral yea ‘The output wns 43,243 cai Anthracite Joadings amounted to 6,398 cars, equal to the maximum output for any day this year. RCHIONESS One Marchioness of Curzon, the Favored One, Is Slated for Honors. LONDON, Oct esses, The woman if he ts he will Brazil In European and fred Duggan, Buenos Ayres After his death Europe and sho married in London on Nab the Lover for “Rough Wooing.” Aside from the discomfort caused by a mild wallop in the eye and another on the jaw, Miss Maria Morgera of No. 44 Columbia Place, Brook- lyn, was feeling fairly well this morning in spite of her experience with an affectionate caveman She went back to her daily job of @—————————————— making button and ey time she thought of those two wallops she sighed and couldn't make up her mind whether she would marry the wal- loper or not Maria told Detectives Bonanuo and Murphy that she had been pursued for some time by a good looking Sicilian by the name of Steflano Shiacochi- tano. All her folks, however, Neapolitan, and they lians. So does she, but this one Js an e loves him are object to Sicl- general rule ption and’ she Last night she says he was walling for her when she came home from the factory. He had two friends with him “Well, are you going to marry me he demanded “You know I can't would my people say?" Whereupon she say that—what ha answered. he grabbed her and carried her away to his cavo, which proved to be a taxt. arouna, wallops were administered by way of argument. she says, Steffano declared that if she wouldn't marry him he would marry ceremony eral hours they rode the punctuating her—and that tho take place with surprising p: So she promised and he home. But now she is not promise given under such stances is binding. Detective Jerry Murphy was house when Stephano morning and arrested him oner said he was a Clymer, P You ought to be then, We got a sho declared Murphy IT love her 60,"" ano, who will have tell=it all to the Magistrate Butler Street Court this afternoon an Weseearam v 25.—Another fair American may be added to-dity or to- morrow to the list of British this time ts the Marchioness Curzon, whose husband 1s to retain his place as Foreign Sec- retary under Premier Law, Lord Cur- zon, it is reported, will be advanced to a Dukedom by King George, and be the first British subject so honored since 1874 Lady Curzon, a native of Alabama, 1a the daughter of the late J. Munroe Hinds, former American Minister to She spent much of her time South Duch- American capitals, her first husband being Al- a wealthy resident of in present They were lan. 2, 1917. Cave Man Walloped Her So Nicely Maria Gives Her Promise to Wed But Ceremony. May Be Postponed Indefinitely as Police there met the British Foreign Minister. The Vinally, would go a cireum- at the this from out there mining Ste- to| The wagon horses were the FRAUD CHARGES Fourth Assembly District In- spectors and 10 Voters Examined. Deputy Attorney General Abraham S. Gilbert, in charge of the Attorney General's Election Bureau, started at his offices at No. 1819 Broadway to- day an investigation into alleged rem- istration irregularities in Tammany strongholds. In response to subpoenas, the reg- istration books and records of the 24 Election District o {the 4th Assembly District had been turned over to Mr, Gilbert's office yesterday Three inspectors of the district and ten voters who had registered, and recorded as needing assistance to mark thelr ballots, were examined, At the close of the hearing, Mr. Gil- bert said only one of the ten examined admitted asking for assistance, while the other nine denied they had asked or sought assistance. He sald only one inspector claimed any requests for assistance were sought, while the other two stood by the records with- out explaining. y ‘The inspectors were Martin’ Gott- letb, Theodore Goodman and Beatrice Bernstein. It was Miss Bernstein who said she had heard those regis- tered Tequesting assistance. Mrs. Anna Schneider of No. 409 Madison Street, sixty years old, indig~ nantly denied she had asked for as- sistance “The old lady, who is of German descent"? said Mr, Gilbert, “was the most indignant person I have met in some time, regarding her ability to vote, and she didn't hesitate to say, Marcellus Hawkins, twenty-four, a Negro, of No. 118 Bast 100th Street, was arrested to-da by Detective Kochman, who found him walking through 101st Street with a registra- tion book under his arm. The book had been taken from the election” booth of the 10th Election District of the 18th Assembly District, at 183 ast 103d Street, where Hawkins was in inspector According to the detectives, Haw- kins said he was taking the book home to copy the names for his Cap- tain, a Ane tebe EXCUSING TIRED COP, JUDGE RAPS BUDGET Criticizes High aries of Some City Officials. After a policeman had asked Judge MacMahon {in the Kings County Court to-day to permit him to get away as early as possible as he had been on duty all night and wanted to get some sleep. ‘The Judge made arrangements for him to leave the court and expressed dissatisfaction with conditions that forced a policeman to spend so much of his “‘off’ (ime in court without recom- pense. “In all other lines of endeavor those who work overtime, get paid for it,”" Judge MacMahon sald. “There is little hope that policemen can get any such Justice, however, in view of conditions under which efforts are being made to boost the salaries of highly-paid city commissioners, while a deaf ear is turned to all requests for increases for policemen, firemen, school teachers and minor clerks A TRAVELLER IN OKLAHOMA. A party passed through town re- cently that has the record for his way of travelling. He was riding a horse, he wore chaps and was otherwise togged as a Westerner. He was driving ten head of horses, two of which were bitched old spring wagon fn which was a motorcycle, and to thie wagon attached a second epring wagon, in which was a roll of bedding. being driven with the loose bunch and there was ab- eolutely nothing in the two ns exe cept the motorcycle and roll of bedding. FATIMA. CIGARETTES now —and after all, what other cigarette is so highly respected by so many men? for TWENTY