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Conducted by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
This department is devoted to separating the sheep of
advertising from the goats?and hanging a bell on the goats.
It deals with a very serious topic in a way that is not too serious.
Its honest endeavor will bo to answer with fairness, either in
print, or, where that is ineapedient, by private letter, all fair
questions about advertisements, while reserving the right to plead
ignorance when that is the right answer. It asks nothing for its
services except the confidence of its correspondents in giving
their names and addresses, a confidence which will never be vio?
late-!. Please etate clearly whether you prefer to have your name
withheld from answers printed here. No unsigned communications
will be read. Address: The Ad-Visor, The Tribune, New York.
Do you thlrk It Just of the l,oft Candy Co to Include the Weicht of box
In purchasing (Query: "selling"*1) cuais " l purchased a box of candy al 10
cents, whi.h Included the weight of box, ? ?f ?-ourse, they specify and adver?
tise the weight In? indes container Bui ?lo you not think m? cents a pound
a good trice to pay for car,lloar.i'.' I.. JACOBSON.
Perfectly just. Why not? On the complainant's own showing the
vendors rpecify aid advertise that the weight includes the container. A
legend on the I-oft box of 80-cent candy purchased by The Tribune an?
nounces: "This package weighs one pound. This weight includes the con?
tainer." Careful weighing brings to light th?; fact that the statement is
inaccurate; but, curiously enough, it errs to the advantage of the pur
ihaser. The total weight of the box (unwrapped) and candy is not one
pound, but one pound one-and-seven-oighths ounces. The candy it-self
weighs 'within a quarter of an ounce of the full pound. Therefore, Mr.
Jacobson's expenditure for cardboard was in the vk-inity of one cent,
which would hardly seem ruinous. He received, in fact, a better deal
than he paid for.
Had he bought a two-pound box of the 40-ccnt-a-pound candy he
would have made a poorer bargain, since in that purchase he would have
paid approximately 60 cents for candy and 20 cents for accessories.
Even h--re he would have had no rightful cause for complaint; the
transaction is quite fair and above board, as the customer is honorably
informed that he is buying gross and not net weight. There is no gen?
i-ral rule or custom in the candy trade as regards weight. Some day
svhen this department is feeling light and frivolous it will turn its forces
apon the confectionery trade, and inform a sweet-toothed world
where it may buy candy by weight, undiluted with cardboard or other
inedible ballast, and where not. Hut there will be no criticism in the
article for the dealer who, like Left, tells the truth on the package.
o pen are P'ish'n?* honest advertising so fre-dv. 1 wonder If you could
? to tell me what von ki ow or think of a preparation for
Health, is it a dye. pure and Simple*
'. M
Another correspondent, Allan D. Emil, inquires about the same prepa?
ration. Hay's Hair Health is a srluticn of lead acetate and sulphur. The
interaction of the drugs browns the hair, .-?s with all such dyes, the hair
soon becomes dingy in color, requiring frequently recurring applications
cf the preparation. Hence the profits of the dealer! Further, lead
acetate is an active poison. Rubbing it repeatedly into the scalp is not
a process, therefore, which will commend its?. If to the wisdom of the
cautious.
I was rtading with a great deal of interest your columns ur.der
"The Ad-Visor" this morning, snd as I had about completed the reading
I glanced across and my eye happened to fall on the ahov?? announce
If all Cuse things, circus, concerts, etc., are free, what is the
n to I.una Park for? A. If. CAREY.
The announcement inclosed by Mr. Carey is the regular advertise?
ment uf Luna Park.
E B IMA Free Sh0W8' Free Votait
\\mm*sm9mV% p\ Vocal *,nd ,'""li ?-oncerts
FREE DANCING CONTEST THURSDAY NIGHT
As the letter implies a criticism, copy of it was forwarded to the
general manager of Luna Park, and the following answer was received:
Dear Sir: The manager of our Joke Department is sway on his
vacation, and we are therefore not in a position to answer the inquiry.
I a -hfully yonrs, LUNA AMUSEMENT COMPANY
Perhaps it is the Joke Department of Luna Park that wites its ad
verti-iiir*. At any rate, there is a distinctly light and care-free respon?
sibility to the advertisement reproduced above, and the joke would cer?
tainly be on any one who placed credence in it. None of the enjoyments
offered as free is, as a matter of fact, free, any more than a ride in the
subway is free after one has paid five cents to get by the ticket seller.
The only feature about Luna that really is free is its brand of substi?
tute managerial humor. And that is worth about as much as most
?articles that come gratis.
I read the inclosed ad. and being somewhat interested I clipped
the coupon from the right hand lower corner and sent it some days
ago. To-day I received the circular matter, all of which I inclose for
you to see. After lookin?; it over and noting the claims and professlona
will you he kind enough to give me what evidence you can of:
i Th< ? ;i. as i" i rating In Dun'a or Bradatreet'a,
which are given as reference on ?he circular letter.
?
?.. The proepeci of the firm ?oiitlnuin?- ion?; enough to make the
ten-year guarantee on th? article of any real value to the purchaser.
Any other information which you know that will be pertinent to
the muttir tnat would guide me in doing business with the firm.
W. J. C.
The inclosures consist in circular matter from the Robinson Cabinet
Manufacturing Company offering the familiar bait of 100 per cent profit,
exclusive territory. "?300 monthly," "no experience needed," and "sample
furnished," to secure agents for the sale of a folding bath tub. Without
going into the matter of the Robinson concern's financial rating; its
volume of business, cr its prospects of permanency, it may be said that
the primary object of the advertisement is to sell the bath tub to agents,
and that the agent1- mutt purchase and pay for sir tubs before r/ettinp the
sample tab free. Otherwise the sample costs the agent $10. The scheme
i* by no means a new one. But the ingenious Mr. Robinson has given an
extra ??uirk of persuasiveness to it. Whatever may be the reliability of
his tub, the reliability of his advertising is distinctly below par.
While on a week-end visit to Connecticut on Saturday I picked up
a Copy of "The Bridgeport Telegram" and, swivel-eying the ads., SSW
one by a "Prof, llooge" of The Hague, Holland, who for the small and
insignificant sum of two jitneya would send a horoscope of the con?
tributor, the said Prof. Hoogl being very highly recommended by
Prof. Roxbury, the eminent astrologer. It looked to me like a syn?
dicat, d "au" .ihout a quarter column in length. Can it be that a
blanket-breeched, wooden-shoed Dutchman is "taking" our astute
Connecticut wooden nutmegged Yanks for the kale in this manner1
It must he .-o. else he wouldn't be paying for advertising bait Is not
this a violation of the postal laws? J. p. K.
J. P. K.'s sad surmise is, I fear, only too true. "The Bridgeport
Telegram's" clientele must be indeed sweetly simple souls, and the news?
paper itself is not in the least particular as to whom it helps on a per?
centage basis to get their money away from them. Astrology is not yet
banned from the mails, I believe. It is from every self-respecting ad?
vertising medium.
The practice has grown, among some unscrupulous keepers of coun?
try hotels, of advertising in the newspapers and in their booklets
vat.oils sports and pastimes which have no foundation in fact.
1 refer particularly to the "New Hotel Breslin," at Mount Arling?
ton. Lake nopatcong, New Jersey, from which 1 have just returned.
hotel advertiaea golf among its diversions, and their booklet
allunrglv sets forth that the links are in close proximity to the hotel.
There is a little lawn in the rear cf the hotel, with two holes therein
part. I his ami the "nineteenth hole," Which
adjoins the aforementioned latin, arc ihe only signs of golf within
a ?. oi more. If something could be done to restrain
th. others from publishing this misinformation, that
would seem highly desirable. "A DISAPPOINTED GOLFER."1
Two opportunities have been afforded the New Hotel Breslin to re?
ply to the complaint above. The hotel has deemed it best not to reply.
Silence is perhaps the wisest policy in this case. For the golf misrepre?
sentation is not the only flight of imagination in which Mr. (". Frank
( ope, who sipns the hotel's advertising, has been indulging. For ex?
ample, the advertisement claims an elevation of 1,400 feet; the actual
elevation is 912 feet. The advertisement all?gea that the hotel is "only
one hour from New York." That must be by airship, for the running
time of the 1). !.. .V. W. to Lake Hopatcong M given by that railroad is
one hour and twenty-six minutes, and about twenty minutes more is re?
quired to reach the hotel. Elevations marked up from i'lL' to 1,400; tun?
ning time marked down from an bou. and three quarters to an hour; golf
reduced from nine holes lo two (atid the profitable nineteenth) -the New
Hotel Breslin appears to be qualifying in the Finkelstein class of sum?
mer hotelc un. .? |
[POLICE GUARD FUNEI
Surround Slain Man's Horn
Two Murder Arrests.
Charged with homicide in the
shooting of Stephen Curran
j ?? cdncsday at Nassau Avenue
Banker Street, WiMiamshurg, Ch
Mutz and Edward ]>ulTy, alias "
?both of 111 Grand Street, Mat*
; were remanded without bail in
Manhattan Avenue police court
tcrday.
Mutz was identified as the man
? fired.
The funeral of Curran took
j yesterday from hi*, home, at 767
i hattan Avenue. There was a nu
I of policemen assig-ned to the 1
1 to prevent disorder.
| ELECTRIC WARSHIP SC
! Work on California to S
at Navy Yard Next Mon
Preparations are under way foi
; laying of the keel of the Califc
the newest dreadnought, early
month at the navy yard. The
fornin will be the first warship o.
nation with an electr-.c power dri
Steel for the new Rhip has beei
riving for several months, and I
nr.? about 12,000,000 pounds of i
: hand at the yard. As the C?lif<
? will be 800 tons heavier than the
I zona, she will wrest the titli
' world's greatest super-dreadno
j from that vessel. She will be r
for launching in about thirteen moi
NUNS HALT PANIC
IN HOSPITAL FI1
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Calm Patients in St. Catherii
by Shutting Off View
of Flames.
Patients in St. <V,herine's Hosp
Brooklyn, were thrown into a p
last evening when the neighbo:
cooperage and barrel storage h?
owned by Morris Solomon, at Mor
! Avenue and Stagg Street, was bur
, to the ground. Fed on barrels, m
Of which were pern?ate?! with a
hoi, the flames mounted to a trerr
?ious height and ?hed a glare into
hospital that convinced the pati?
the building was doomed.
Those patients who could walk f
to flee from the ho.vital. Others .
Were bed ridden became hysteri
Tie Catholic Sisters who serve
Kurses went among their frightei
charges, who could oi.ly be quie
after all the shades on the side
tie hospital facing the tire had b?
I'uHed down.
Although three a'arm?, were sent
it was impossible ?o save the bui
ir.g, which was a frame Mructu
three stories in height. Earlier in 1
afternoon fire had Seen discovered
the building and iiad been c\t
guished without trouble. When t
firemen were called out again, a f
hours later, another blaze had ga,n
such headway that it was impossil
to extinguish i?. Most of the sirrai
were turned upon t!ie adjoining bui!
ings of the Fries Coal Company, whl
Were threatened by .'al.ing embers.
When the inter.c?.- of the buildi
had been buried out its walls a
roof collapsed, throwing a great sp?
of flame and burning particles
wood into the nir. Sparks shower
down on all the neighboring buil
ings, none of which was ignited.
Frank Cody, a Right watchman
the building, discovered the fire. A
ter sending in an a'arin he ran ba
to the office and gathered up a pi
of the company's boots. As be n
down the steps with these he stur
bled and fell, cut-.ing his scalp ai
causing a slight concussion of tl
brain. He was taken to his horoe, L
Knickerbocker Avenue.
The lire did $15/100 damage.
BROKER'S FIANCEE
CRUSHED BY AUT(
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Fascort Hurt as Car Upsets?Cj
clist Killed?Tire Saves Five
from Live Wire.
Flmer Green, a real estate broke
of 98 Fast Thirteenth Street. Brool
i lyn. and his fiancee, Miss Hazel Feed
of .'.O Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, wei
! both seriously injured near Oyst?
Bay, Long Island, yesterday, when thei
(ar upset at the foot of a steep hil
Miss Leeds will probably die. -
The couple were to have been mai
ried within a few weeks. Green los
control of his machine, which skidde
and overturned. The girl was pinne
beneath the car and suffered sever
lacerations and internal injuriei
Green's arms were broken.
Automobiles exacted a toll of on
death and six injuries in and alou
New York City yestcrdsv.
Henrv Fuchsius, of Savville, I.on
: Island, while returning to his home oi
\ a bicycle, was hit by a machine drivei
by Selah Hornstein. of Patohogu?
Long Island, and crushed to death.
F,ght-year-old Flmer Sauthard los
i his head in the tangle of auto traffi
? on the Roekville Centre, Long Island
road yesterday an?! walked in front o!
a car driven by Harry M. Jackson, o
620 Hast Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn
He received a fracture of the skull.
Patrolman August Purden was badl]
injured near Tottenvile, Staten Is'and
yesterday while learning how to run a
motorcycle.
Five persons narrowly escaped elec
troeutioti yesterday while driving along
',61st Street, The Bronx. The nat-hine
ran against the dangling end of s
broken trolley wire, which luckily be?
came entangled wiih one of the tires
of the car and was insulated bv the
rubber. There were several bright
? i when the wire first touched the
machine, and all five passengers wer??
-.eil. -Mrs. Ophelia Havidson. of
??'.'J Teller Avenue, and Mrs. Alberta
Klein, of the same address, were
burned.
$1,200 FOR FRANK FUND
Governors Will ?e Asked to
Protest Lynching.
Two detectives ere ;n Atlanta in
gating the lynching of Leo II.
Frank, and Sl.L'OO has already been
subscribed toward n fund to emolo"
inore detectives and lawyer- to assist
in the prosecution of the lynchers, ac
cording to a statement made last nignt
by Max Scheinert, of US5 Fast S.-v
th Street, K: itbuah, acting
cha im?n of the I.?i> If. Prank Pro
tective Societj of Brooklyn. Mr.
Scheinert also said 'fiat a letter ?i-'*..i
le si i ? ? irei -. \xi I he govei noi s i f
all the ?-tates, calling apon then? to
join in a protest acainst lynching*! in
Georgia. Mr Schemen said Wi!li->m
J. Burns would not be employed.
The membership of the association
I ia now 130, according to Mr. ?ehernen.
NO CONFESSION
MADE BY FRANK
WHEN LYNCHED
Victim Refused to Answer
When Asked if He Killed
Mary Phagan.
WALKED FIRMLY
TO FATAL TREE
; Stories of Maltreatment Before
Hanging Denied Execu?
tion "Orderly."
Atlanta, Aug. 22. The first actual
1 story of all that happened on the death
ride of Leo M. Frank from Milledge
ville to Marietta between midnight and
dawn last Tuesday morning became
nvailable to-day. The recital did not
come through second or third hands,
' but in a manner which seemingly
placed its authenticity beyond all ques?
tion. The narrator, however, will not
be a witness before the Cobb I otinty
grand jury, which will be asked on
September 1 to undertake a thorough
investigation of the lynching.
Governor Nat K. Harris has received
several anonymous threatening letters
purporting to warn him not to go "too
far" in his investigation of the lynch?
ing. The Governor is not inclined to
take the letters at all seriously, but
looks on them as the outgrowth of the
disturbed sentiment of the moment.
The "inside story" of the events
which preceded the lynching clears up
many phaaoi ol the tragic incident
which heretofore have been veiled in
mystery.
Made No Confession.
Points as-irte,I by the narrator
wen :
Krank did not eonfeaa. He twice was
asked if he hail anything to My. but
?m tacli occasion replied "No." When
asked pointedly if he killed Mary
Phagan he ii laid to have made no re?
ply whatever.
NO attempt was made to force a con?
fession. Prank's statement iust prior
death, that he loved his wife and
mother belter than he did his life,
tame unexpectedly ami without (Uie.s
tioning.
Prank wns not maltreated in any way
prior to the actual lynching. Stories
that he may have received violent
treatment before he was hanged are
without foundation.
Prank walked 200 yards from the au?
tomobile to the death tree without a
faltering step, without a sign or sem?
blance of a protest. Fearing, perhaps,
that his boily might never reach his
relatives, he Baked that the wedding
ring he wore be delivered to a news?
paper man with the solemn promise
that it would be turned over to his wife.
This wish was carried out.
Fxetution Was "Orderly."
Prank was told from the start that
he was to be executed aa the courts
had directed that he be, and every
effort was mad?- by the so-called "vigi?
lance committee" to see that the "legal
hanging," as they termed the lynch- :
i nig, wa-? carried out in an orderly man
| r.er. Members of the "vigilance com?
mittee" are laid to resent anv intima- ?
, tion that Frank was maltreated.
It is asserted that he had exactly the
consideration usually given to a con?
demned man on the day of his execu- ;
; tion. The rough handling of the body
after it was cut down was a matter
concerning which members of the
"committee" Gel they were not re-1
sponsihle.
Members of the "vigilance commit?
tee" felt they had a sacred duty to
perform in "carrying out the man?late
of the courts cf the state and of the
United State " There was no mob
spirit, no demonstration, and there is '
said to have bien no uL-a of hanging
Frank in the public si-uare at Marietta t
or in the cemetery where Mary Phagan
is buried.
Seven automobiles were required to
carry the "vigilance committee" from
Marietta to M ?Hedge ville. Only four
returned, incluiling the car in which ;
Prank rode. All the machines were ?
? small cars of a popular make, selected
because of the difficulty in identifying
t) em. No car of conspicuous color or
design was wanted. There were prob?
ably twenty-eight men in the lynching
party.
Three cars were left at Little River
1 as a rear guard. These were the cars
which successfully baffled those who
first started in pursuit of the lynching
party.
Mistreatment Denied.
It is earnestly denied that when
Frank was taken from the prison he
was dragged or "bumped" down the
steps, or that one of the party helped
carry him by the hair. It is pointed
out that when Frank's body was cut
? down the only mark on it was a --light
abrasion of the right arm. This, it is
said, was i-aused either by striking the
arm against the door of 'lie automobile
as he was lifted into the machine at
Milledgeville or by swinging against
' the trunk of the tree.
Daring all the long seven-hour jour?
ney from the prison only two syllables
left Frank's lips. These were his
?"No" to each Of two questions as to
whether he wished to make a state?
ment.
TRIBUNE'S 'PHONE
MYSTERY SOLVED
Trail Led to "Sun's" Old Home,
Where Copper Cables Tempt?
ed Wire Cutters.
Telephone service in The Tribune
Building was demoralized shortly be?
fore noon yesterday. A few trunk lines
1 going out from .he switchboard were
! working, but extension wires connect
, ing various departments and offices
were "dead." Even the buzzer refused
to bUZI. rhc offices of the Public Ser?
vice Commission were also atTected.
An emergency man from the New
.York Telephone Company sized up the
situation with 'he laconic comment:
"You've got no juice in the switch?
board." His investigation tinaily
brought him to the cables in the base?
ment
Flawless the leaden pipes of elec?
tricity rambled around the lower re
, g'.ons of The Tribune Building, and
i then disappeared through a wall into
; the basement of "The Sun's" old home,
adjoining. There, wnere sparks flying
the junkman'* hammer disturb
newspaper | t have refused to
forsake the old building, the raystery
cf the tongue-tied Tr:! ,ne was
A section of inch and three-quarter?
cable, sixty feet long, carrying 150
pairs of wires into The Tribune Build?
| ing, had tuen cut o'T and to'.ed away.
Along with it went generous slices of
*:d*ad" cables owned by the Western
tnion and the Postal Telegraph com?
panies.
All three cables had been first cut
close to tbj? duct thai carnea them
out to the manhole at the corner of
Frankfort Street, then cut again down
In "The Sun's" old sub basement.
In nil forty-four telephoner. in The
Tribune Huilding were out of commis
mission, according to the Beekman *x
change's wire chief. Yes, he admitted,
on a weekday there would have been
more trouble. A rtpair gang got to
' work right away and expected to h?v->
the working lines in order before ?????
?night. With sixty feet of gem-rater
and battery "feeds" missing, it was
?not surprising that The Tribune's city
I room was paralyzed. Normal service
I was restored under the mercury light
before f> p. m.
Friday the Sun Publishing Company
I turned the old building over to the
1 Gowanus Wrecking Company, of
| Brooklyn. P. Goldfob has the contract
' for metal In the building. "The Sun"
j watchman quit the job Saturday morn?
ing. _ _
P?1?NT5 FORGIVE
$2,000,000 BRIDE
Tumulty's Secretary Guest at
Love Feast Given by
Wife's Folks.
Thomas C. O'Sullivan. secretary to
i Joseph P. Tumulty, has at last been
forgiven by Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Lynch,
whom he made his parents-in-law last
June without consulting them about it.
Since the secretary eloped with their
daughter, Louise Foster Lynch, young,
pretty and worth $2.000.000 in her own
right, he and his wife's parents have
not been on speaking terms.
Last night the hatchet was formally
buried at a big dinner at Spring Lake,
N. J., given by the Lynches to the
newly wedded pair at the New Essex
und Sussex Hotel. Mrs. Lynch, who
was especially wrathful at H'Sullivan
! immediately following the marriage,
beamed upon him all evening long, and
the young man smiled back as though
no unkind feelings had ever passed be?
tween them.
In spite of the fact that parental dis?
approval should have been resting
, heavily upon them for the last two
months, neither Mr. or Mrs. O'Sullivan
have seemni particularly grieved a' the
wrath of the Lynche;. Following their
Wedding tour they went to Washing?
ton, where thpy remaii.ed until three
weeks ago. when they returned ?o
Spring Lake w;th the secretary "o
President Wilson. Some time between
then and now the anger of the parents
softened, It is understood that their
daughter and son-in-law have dined
with them privately /.'veral times be?
fore last evening.
Mrs. Lynch denied last night that
there had ever been any estrangement
between her daughter and herse'f. At
the time of the elopement, however,
she asserte?! that the girl had deceived
her, that she did not know O'Sullivan
and did not intend to forgive them
immediatelv at least.
. inre the arrival of the young peo?
ple at Spring Lake they have been
staying at the cottage of O'Sullivan's
m./ther at one end of the town. The
Lynches have lived at the other end,
and each family has kept strictly to its
OWfl district. It is now expected that
th--> young people will stay wtith the
bride's parents for the remainder of
their sojourn.
Mrs. O'Sullivan inherited $2.000,000
through the will of her grandfather.
He.- father is wealthy, and it is prob?
able that she will ais?? rece ve a large
share of his estate. She was married
oi June 1*?. in this city, after a two-,
year secret courtship.
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SEVEN DROWNED*
1 DIVES TO DEATH
Yachtsman Lost When Motor
Boat Capsizes During
Storm.
Seven drowned was the toll of
wnters around New York City yester?
day
Kudolph Weissker, of 2465 Devoe
Terrace, Fordham, for many years
chairman of the house committee of
the Harlem Yacht Club, lost his life
yesterday while cruising in a power
boat with John Jarchow, of 449 Second
Avenue. They started in a storm from
the club at City Island to board the
-loop Kdiana. The boat capsized and
Weissker went down. Jarchow was
saved.
Joseph O'Neill, thirty-eight, a driv?
er living at 127 Fast Broadway, was
instantlly killed by a dive from the
Rutgers Street pier. His neck was
broken. His son, Frank, was on the
pier at the time of the accident.
Charles Simon, of 141-2 Richmond
Terrace, West New Brighton, Staten
Island, wss drowned while bathing at
Midland Beach yesterday morning.
While bathing at Rockaway Beach
at the foot of Oceanic Avenue Ralph
(demand, twenty years old, of 7421 New
Utrecht Avenue, Flatbush, became ex
ha'isted and was drowned before fifty
rescuers could come to his assistanc?'.
James McTague, twenty years old.
of 415 Wes7 Fifty-seventh Street, fell
overboard from the boat Twilight off
Mount St. Vincent early yesterday
morning while on a moonlight trip up
the Hudson with about forty couples.
He was lost.
Arthur Blend, eleven years old, son
of John Blend, of Brooklyn, was
drowned i" Lake Hopatcong, New Jer?
sey, on Saturday night. Miss Lillian
Cordon, a school teacher, made several
attempts to get the body, but failed.
The body of an unidentified man
about fifty years old and weighing 200
pounds was nicked up in the Fast River
"if ?>ak Point yesterday. He wore a
black shirt, blue overalls and rubber
I.'-. and had a ring inscribed "Anna
and Amelia, !H94."
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PLANE MODELS
WRECKED IN GALE
Crash to Earth at Hempstead?
No Lives Lost- Prizes Won
in 4,609 Feet Flight.
Several aeroplanes crashed to earth in
a thirty-tive-mile gale on Hempstead
Plain, near (i.irden City, Long Island,
yesterdaty afternoon, but no ambulance
calls were put in. The planes carried
no aviators, and they were driven by
larga elastic band-. One of them Sew
4.',"'.? feet before com'ng down and an?
other 4,030, thereby capturing two
prizes offered by the Aero Club of,
America for the best records by model
aircraft.
These contests are to be held month- '
|y to encourage aeronautical ambitions
of young Americans, who begin their
flying careers by experimenting with
toy models.
Twelve monoplanes competed yester- i
day. 'he entries being from the Harlem
Model Aero Club, the Aero Science
Club and the Bay Ridge Model Aero
Club Alfred K. Barker and J. B.
Barker, both of the Harlem ?lub, were
prize winnirs. The eonteit was judge 1
by Baron d'Orcy, W. H Phipps and
L. D Gardner, of the Aero Club of
America.
The club making the best record for
three consecutive months will be I
awarded a trophy by Henry S. Villard,
of the Aero Club.
ELECTRIC LIGHT
BULBS UNDERGO
QTY SCRUTINY
Commissioner of Weights
Told Candle Power Ex?
ceeds Label Figures.
CONSUMER PAYS
MORE, IS CHARGE
Innocent and Industrious Meters
Blamed for Guilt of Pasters,
Hartman Says.
Joseph H. Hartigan. Commissioner of
Weights and Measures, who ?3 "sol
! diering" at Plattsburg. will begin an
; investigation of the electric illumi
nating companies of this city on his
return.
"In the last five or six months." Com?
missioner Hartigan said. "I have re?
ceived scores of complaints that aller**
a violation by the lighting com
of the new fraudulent advertising law.
"On almost every electric light bulb
there is a paster giving what is ?up
poaed to be the candlepower of that
bulb. But the fact is that the bulbs,
in most cases, are of higher power than
1 the paster advertises. Where the
candlepower, for instance, is given as
32, it is often 40 or more.
"When the consumer contracts for
electric lighting he estimates from the
| figures on the paster what his bill will
'? probably be, and he finds it difficult to
reconcile tho bill with the amount of
light that he believes he has been sup?
plied with. He suspects something is
wrong with the meter, so he notifies
the company, which sends, un a man
who --hows him the meter is accurate.
"Then the consumer decides to brims
the matter .0 the attention of the Pub?
lic Serv.re Commission. The commis?
sion senils an expert to investigate.
After the expert ha- ?inishe?! his work
the consumer receives a bill for 11.50
for the services of the expert. After
that the consumer layi *<>h. what's
the u.ic'." and decides he can't get jus?
tice.
"I have had men working on this
matter for several weeks, and they
have accumulated a mast ?rf facts
which we shall use in going after the
men responsible for this situation.
The electric lighting companies have
been taking in in this way hundreds of
thousands of dollars a year.
"The company might say to the man
who prptests against this excess light?
ing that h" is getting the benefit of
the illumination that it is not lost.
Hut the answer to tha* is that the
consumer asks only that amount of
light that he contracts for. If there
were justice in the company's action in
this. eli'ctric lighting corporations
could supply anil charge for ten times
as much light as is ordered.
"Everj person who buys electric
light is being hit by this fraudulent
advertising, and even to the small con?
sumer the difference annually reaches
a considerable figure.
"When I get back to .New York and
go over the work that has been done
by my investigators I shall go after,
not the little fellows, whose positions
would be jeopardized if thev refused
to carry on this deception, but the
man or men who order the misrepre?
sentation."
HIGH MASS* ATOP HILL
Ruthenian Catholics to Have
Pilgrimage in Jersey.
Lyons, \. J., Aug. 22. A peace pil?
grimage of Ruthenian (?reek Catholics
from Newark and nearby places will
take place Sunday, within the octave
of the festival of the Assumption in
the Greek Church. High mass in the
open air will be celebrated on the
summit of a hill in the Watehung
Mountains, near Lyons Station, on the
Lackawanna. The service wiU be con?
ducted by the Rev. P. Pomatishin, rec?
tor of St John t'ie Baptist, Court
?Street, near Belmont Avenue.
The Rev. William I. Rean, rector of
the Church of Our i.atiy of Perpetual
Help, Bernardsville, and his assistant,
the Rev. Louis Guzzardi, will attend the
services, and many Roman Catholics
of the Latin rite will join in the pil?
grimage.
Thereby hangs a Sale!
4378 scarfs.
Clean-up of our stock of
fancy silk four-in-hands and
ties, plus a special purchase
from our regular manufact?
urers.
3224 regularly $1.00.
1 1 54 regularly $1.50.
55 cents.
3471 scarfs.
Four-in-hands from our
own stock.
50 cents regularly.
35 cents.
3 for 11.00.
Summer Suits!
$15, $20 and $25 are bar?
gain prices.
Rogers Peet Com pan y
Broadway Broadway
at 13th St. "The at 34th St.
Four
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 41st St.
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Come Running!
HAVE you ever experienced the helpless
rage that follows being flim-flammed and
then having a clerk coolly ask you what you
are going to do about it?
He knew you knew there wasn't anything
you could do?but rage.
Now that's changed. You can come to
The Tribune's Bureau of Investigations. If
you don't know what to do about it, we do.
And what's more, this bureau, and its spokes?
man, "The Ad-Visor," exist solely tor the
purpose of seeing that the right thing ?a done.
So come running with your complainte on
advertised merchandise. Mighty satisfying to
be able to do something as definite as that,
isn't it?
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Firs? to Last?The Truth:
News Editorials Advertisements
YONKERS CASHIER
OUT OF BANK JOB
Officials of Savings Insti?
tution Blame Careless?
ness for Discrepancies.
Irregularities in the ac?
counts of Charles P. Marsden, f
years eashier of the Yonkers Savings
Hank, the lar ?est in '?'? ' Co in?
ty, have resulted in the ?
his connection with that institutton.
Officials of th hank attribua
errors to carelessness, and say the
amount missing is easily covered by
Mar-den'1? bond.
It is not known whe'her the cashier
was discharged or whether he resigned.
While he was on his vacation las
inspectors of the State Bank ng De?
partment visited the bank. When Mars
? irned to 1 I 1 r.ot jo
?
At h the former
ca hi? r ..- o:!?t
of another po
turn to I
? ISBBs?
: been no
ftiCtion ovei
? on.
rer? reticent
concerv ? I ? "", ?In'
bers, ?
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a* of tlis
assets! in?
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co m pai
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the bank foi
-osition?.
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own-i h s -
nue.
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