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3 More Doetors
Are Involved in
Drug Traffic
Alleged by City Officials
to Have Given Prescrip
tions for Large Qnanti
ties to Addict Patients
Copeland Calls Meeting
New York and Federal Police
Officers Asked to Help
Him in His C r u s a d e
?
Developments in the fight to break
the illicit traffic in drugs in New York
City yesterday were:
"I Statements by officials that they
? have evidence incriminating three
physicians said to be wholesale viola
tors of state and Federal narcotic lawa.
e\ A confession from a convict drug
? addict and formerly a notorious
"bootiegge.r," that on one occasion ho
obtained 210 graihs of heroin from a
physician under the pretense that it
was to last him six days. A man known
to him made the same nrrnngement
with another physician, then they ped
dled the drug.
0 Announcement by Commissioner of
**? Health Copeland that he would
call a special meeting of the Board of
Health to-morrow. Tlns will be at
tended by representatives of the State
Narcotic Commission and Federal and
local police oiiiciala, to consider amend
ing the Sanitary Code so as to compel
registration of all drug addicts in this
city. The amendment is intended to
make it a misdemeanor, punishable by
fine, imprisonment, or both, for any
physician to prescribe for an unregis
tered drug addict.
Admir'stration Crlticised
A Criticism of the Hylan administra
? tion for its action lnst year in
Closlng down Warwick Farm, nt War- |
wick, N. Y., which formerly was
Uaed by the city ns a rehabilitation
centre for inebriates nnd drutr addicts.
City officials say they are being ham
pered in their crusp.de by the lnck of j
inatitutions to which to send addicta
after they have received hospital treat
tnent.
ftecorda abow thnt deapite ,!i? facl
that one-half grnin of heroin, one
olghth grnin of morphine nnd one half
to two graina of cocalne are considefed
fnir doaes, preacrlptlona for the follotv
ing doaea have been handed day after
day to nddirtq by ioc;tl doetors:
Preai ? .. I Ii n ' '?<. I. !') t"iii-, ! b( n-in.
16 graina cocnlntt) ,%'?>. ;:, ?, ^rnina
1 10 ?','?>.':,'..
neroin, B <.i n< . I e t. \'i gt&int moi
? '?. 16 graina heroin, 18 eo
' ? 7, 40 ftrains heroin, i<> ee
eafne; 1 le 8 30 g ? ??? g merphlni, 8 eo
r,uj,t>; .\... y, ?.', gralng heroin 1 >?? r
!"? ? pl ? ? ofl ' -. iay, ar? ' ?ani
plea" from the reeorda ot ila iocal
docl oi -
fiua Treutvd Tlinusniida
Dr. Forry Ltehtenatoin, attachi d to
the Tomba. who haa treatod thonsanda
of drug addicta, ?aid that us a result
of the Harrison and Whitney uets,
which ho declared had BWung the drug
trame from pedlar to unscrupulou-i
phyaciana, the menace is now at ita
peak.
Addicta who formerly bought from
pedlars, Dr, Liehtenstein said, uaually
got a small quantity mixed with milk
sugar. As a resiflt they had a mild
drug habit. Since they have been
patronizing unacrupuious doetors they j
are getting large quantities of the pure
drugs, he said, and the new crop of
addicts are in "horrible ahape."
There are eighteen addicts in the
Tonib^ now. charged with various
crimea, according to Dr. Liehtenstein.
< ommissioner Copeland gave out his
announcement of to-morrow's confer?
ence in the following formal statement:
"In view of the large nuniber of
addicts reporting daily for trcatment ,
at the department clinic, 145 Worth
Street, and the difficulty of adminis
trativecontrol of the nroblem, it seema I
deairable to have the sanitary code !
amended to meet the situation.
Must Be Card Indexed
_ "Unlesa s^me mea^i of identification
nothing to prevent a
patient from eoming to us and getting
drugs and then going to a legitimate
practitioncr for more narcotic without
making known the fact that he has been
here.
"Under auch a condition we can never
hope to wipe out the drug menace. Just
what method of registration will be
ured is to be decided at a conference I
will call Monday. The card and photo
Kraph system of registration now seema
probable.
"One of the plana under considera
tion ia to amend the sanitary code so
as to defme drug addiction, then fur
ther to provide that no addict shall be
treated un-less he has presented regis?
tration credentials from the Depart?
ment of Health. Physicians giving
drugs to patients without credentials
would be guilty of a misdemeanor. The
legitimate doctor will rejoice in such !
regulations, which will relicvo him of i
the reaponsibility of treating an addict
without his full drug history, which
would be contained in the registration
credentials."
Five hundred women are needed to |
aid in the work at the Worth Street
clinic and others aoon to be established
Mrs. Philip M. I.ydig and Miss Sarah
Graham Marshall, of the Advisory
Hoard of Drug Addiction, announced
yestenlay. Volunteers should apply at
14o Worth Street.
Trolley Line May Quit
Intimations from S. W. Huff, preui- j
dent of the Yonkera Rallway Company, !
that tnr, trolley aervice from the Yon- '
tarra city hne to Hastings-on-Hudson
BUirnt be abandoned as a result of the
agltation against a faic increaae inati
tuted by the board of troateea of that
vuiage have been reeeived by Thomaa i
J. ',<?<> iv.ij,, president of the board
Birorts v/ill be made, ,t waa said yea- i
SSfVlM0 l'"'"' th" N?'ti"f'"1 Condoit
and Cablei Company, which has a bi*
the lino. It Ia believed that company
fwoi?^fa," 2,*,,iM at M-rofit'on a
OBJCIflK
TOOTH PASTE
FkaMnt KfT.rtivq
T-J??"u:(lh0'' foy f>enn*tn
JPOK wliitenmg the tccth
Will n,fn rem,ovin? mucin film.
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HEAUtVO AM) CLEANSINO
'Plane Dealers Plan
Selling Campaigns
Rehiilers Will Have Sevcn Dis?
trihuting Companies Through
out |he Country
Seven distrihuting companies have
been organized in various. parts of the
country for the purpose of selling
; aeroplanes by retail. The companies
j are incorporated by the Curtisa Cor
; poration.
With the eatablishment of these
j companies, a vigorous campaign has
j been inaugurated for the sale of aero
i planes for commercial purposes. The
j first showroom to open will be the
Curtisa Eastern Airplane Company, at
Philadelphia. G. S. Ireland, a former
army aviator, is president and general
manager of this concern. The Ameri?
ca Trans-Oceanlc Company will be
the distrihuting agent in this city and
Florida.
The other concerns are: the Cur
tiss South-vest Airplane Company, at
Tulsa, Okla.; the Curtiss Northwest
Airplane Company, at Minneapolis, the
Curtiss Aircraft Company, at Atlantic
City, and the Curtiss-Humphreys Air?
plane Company, at Denver.
The America Trans-Oceanic Com- |
pany is headed by Rodman Wanamaker. j
It has double hangars at Port Wash
ington, and will conduct a school there.
It will also engage in carrying pas
sengers shortly by inaugurating an
air line between New York and
Atlantic City.
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Sweet Aims to Thwart
Insurgent Republicans
Threatens to Recess Assembly
Without Passing the
Welfare Bills
Staff Correspondenee
ALBANY, April 12.?The Assembly
will recess April 19, and unless the
Senate adopts the resolution setting
that date as the time for final adjourn
ment, will mark time from then on.
This is the threat made to-day by
Speaker Sweet to the insurgent Repub
lican-Democratic coalition of the' Sen?
ate, which has blocked the flnal ad
journment resolution.
The Republican insurgents and i
Democrats of the Senate have decided '
to put off ndjournment until April 26, J
to give the Assembly a chance to act;
on health .insurance, minimum wage '
and other progressive legislation !
passed hy the Senate, Speaker Sweet I
ing ita that these bills will be sent to
the Rules Committee and thnt the As- '
sembly Republicans aro botind by n :
cauclis until Tuesday not to support
nny motlon to dlscharge the committee.
TJi<? Speaker is confldent. the p?m<> de- .
eislofi will be refldied nt the next cnu
3US, The committee, which is under tho
control of speaker Svvn-t, will Uttdoubt
adly kill thdM bills if posslble,
N. Y. Notables
To Testify in
Bribe Inquiry
Whitman,Shonts and Stanch
field Expected to Appear
at Albany as the Result
of Thompson's Testimony
Brady May Be Witness
Senate's Sergeant - at - Arms
to Subpoena Mr. Thomas,
Gas Company's Treasorer
Staff CorrMpondenc*
ALBANY, April 12.?The investigation
into the alleged $500,000 fund which Sen
ator George F. Thompson ha3 declared
was offered him for his support of the
Martin Street car fare bill may bring
to this city next week some prominent
financiers and ?ublic men.
The Senate sergeant-at-arms,
Charles R. Hotaling, has already be*n
sent to New York to subpoena C. M.
G. Thomas, treasurer of the Cortsoli
dated Gas Company, who, according to
Thompson, offered to supply him with
$100,000 to establish a trust company
in Lockport. Former Governor Charles
S. Whitman, who, Thompson testified,
held out the Governorehip as a bait to
him to support the Martin bill, has of?
fered to come here voluntarily. It is
the beliei here that Theodoro P.
Shonts, John B. Stanchfield, Nicholas
F. Brady and Jaraes L. Quackenbush,
chief counuel of the Interborough, will i
be witnesses.
Richard H. Burke. who, Thompson I
says, offered him 4 $500,000 campaign I
fund if he worked for the bill, and '
who denied Thompson's allegations, it
is expected, will again take the stand !
when the ,hcaring resumea Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Before ho left here yesterday after- '
noon Chairman Hurlingame ordered
Burke to report to tho committee at '
that time and to consider himserT still I
a witness.
No Bribe Offered
Thompson, Belief
Of Senator Walters
HYRACUKE. N. Y? April 12, "1 do
not belleve Senntor Thompson wns cvir '?
offered a bribe," declared ;?' ito !
f. Henrf W Iters r>n ' ? ?. ???? \ ? ? ?
! Albany to-day. "I think he simply
, talked his head off and thep looked
j around to find some one on whom he
could put the blame. I don't believe
he was ever offered a bribe. In fac".
he told me he did not, know of a:iy
I slush fund in Albany or any attempt
' to bribe any member of the 3enate.
: He told me. that there had been a
suggestion that he might get support
? in a campalgn which would mako him
j Governor."
i "I don't know what there is to
, Burke's statement quoting Thompson
| on the opposition of the 'Syracuse
' crowd' to him. Thompson did say
' that he believed the Syracuse organi
] zation would not be with him. I feel
| certain that his conclusion was drawn
nearly right."
; "To rny knowledge there never has
j been any action taken by the Syracuse
; Republicans on Thompson's candidacy
: for anvthing. Ilowever, I have an idea
I that if any action were taken it would
not be in his favor."
New Yorkers Dfamed
By Thompson Get
Albany "Invitations"
Ex-Governor Charlea S. Whitman
and Charlea G. M. Thomas, treasurer of
the Consolidated Gas Company, will
both appear before the Senate Judiciary
Committee at Albany when the inves
tigation into Senator George F. Thomp?
son's $500,000 "doughbag" charges is
resumed to-morrow.
Mr. Thomas was subpeenaed at the
Consolidated Gas Company'3 officcs,
130 East Fiftecnth Street, by Charles
R. Hotaling, sergeant-at-arms of the
Senate, soon afternoon yesterday. Mr.
Whitman received the "invitation" of
the committee at the Hotel St. Rcgis.
later in the afternoon. He had pre
viously, however, wired the committee
expreasing hiB desire to appear be?
fore' it.
All the other traction men, iinan
ciers and lawyers definitely mentioned
by Senator Thompson in his testimony
concerning the Carson-Martin bill to
increase New York City carfares will
also be summoned before the Albany
investigators before the hearing is
concluded. This announcement was
made by Senator A. W. Burlingame, jr.,
chairman of the committee, at'hisj'
Brooklyn offices, 391 Fulton Street, I
yesterday.
Morgan May Be "Invlted"
The list includes Theodore P. Shonts, I
president of the Interborough Rapid
Transit, which has long been leading
the ngitatiort in favor of a 7-rent
fare; Nicholas F. Erady, leading B. R.
T. stockholder; Jnmes L. Quackenbush,
chief counsel for the Interborough, and,
if his health permits, John B. Stanch
field, attorney. There is also a fltrong
possibility, it was intimated yesterday,
that J. P. Morgan referred to simply
as ".Morgan" by Senator Thompson
Fndny in connection with the campalgn
fund which the latter alleges was to
have followfld his support of tho Car
-?'?n-Mart in meniure will also be called
? y t' i iludielory Commii tee
said, "will in the tirst instanee be scnt
these men. If, however, they should
decline to accept these, forrnal sub
pa>naes will be issued for them."
Most of the other men whose nnrnea
have thus far figured in the case
j stayed out of the limelight yesterday.
Karly in the morninjr Mr. Shonts
stopped at the office of Mr. Quacken
bush and asked if minutes of the
Thompson te.stimony had been received,
Mr. Quackenbush told him they had
not. The Interborough president then
went into conference with his attor?
ney. Thereafter he was not see again.
Mr. Quackenbuwh said he believed
Mr. Shonts had gone for a week-end
motor trip into the country, but that
hc himself would have no idea how
to reach him. The subject of his con?
ference with Mr. Shonts the lawyer
refused to go into. He likewise de
clined to say whether or not Mr.
Shonts would voluntarily appear be?
fore the Senate committee.
"Mr. Shonts himself," said he, "is
tho only proper person to answer that
question."
Asserts I. R. T.'s Innocence
For his own part, Mr. Quackenbush
cxpressed himself as entirely ready
to answer any invitation the Senate
might see fit to send him. In a gen?
eral way he denied any improper con
duet on the part of tho I. R. T. in
connection with the seven-cent fare
agitation.
"But it is impossible to ertsenss the
situation intelligcntly," ho insisted,
"until we have secn copies of the
official minutes."
Like Mr. Shonts, John B. Stanchfield
was not visible yesterday. His office
declared that he has been absent, ill,
for two weeks. His rcsidential tele?
phone did not answer.
Ex-Governor Whitman .was also a
difficult man to locate. Even Sergeant
at-Arms Hotaling got him only as the
result of a telephone call from Mr.
Whitman himself, after the latter had
learned that the man from Albany had
been vainly searching for him for sev?
eral hour3.
Whitman Issues Statement
Ex-Governor Whitman, in declining
to discuss the case further before ap
pearing at Aibany, issued a statement,
saying:
"Anything further that neods to be
said on tho matter will bo said before
the Legislature.
"Some tell me George (Senator
Thompson) has had an ambition to be
Governor for a long time. Maybe he
still has it.
"There was no discussion between
Senator Thompson and me of a $500,
000 campaign fund. I never heard of
such a thing."
Navy Bomises Spwdcd l p
In order thnt discharged sailors
may get their $60 bonus money with
as little inconvenience as possible, a
navy paymaster has beon added to the
Btaff of the office at 1238 Brondway.
Already an average of $15,000 is being
paid each day, and sailors are now
glven eurt'ency instend of checks
T h is office also is furnlshiny irnn
p t-ttUioti home for many rnnded
Fourth Avenue
To Be Opened
OnWednesclay
82.501,150 Improvement
Project Completed and
50 Years of Patchwork
Comes to an End
Congestion Is Eliminated
Park Avenne Traffic Tie-Ups
Will Be Lessened 50 Per
Cent Under New Plans
Announcement was made yesterday
by Borough President Frank L. Dowl
! ing that Fourth Avenue, with its con
tiriuing street, Park Avenue, ia to be
I opened at noon on Wednesday a3 a
I through and uninterrupted thorough
1 fare from Astor Place to the Harlem
i River. So, fifty years of patchwork
| improvements, including the opening,
i closing and relocation of various
; streets, come to an end.
Since 1869, when the first Grand Cen
I tral Station became a reality and the
! city closed Park Avenue to the public
? from Forty-second to Forty-fifth
I Street, there have been scores of proj
I ects ft>r "impi-oving" the avenue.
. Various cross streets north and south
| of Forty-second Street have been suc
i cessively opened and closed.
Plans Cover Fifteen Years
A little more than fifteen years ago
| agitation was first started for under
; taking a general reconstruction of Park
j Avenue, which is the continuaton of
i Fourth Avenue. Work along these
lines?the rebuilding of the highway
from Thirty-second to Forty-fifth
Street - was actunlly begun fifteen
months ago.
In place of the blank wall afc Thirty
fourth Street there is now a vehicular
roadway twenty-five feet in width and
dewalk for petlestrians, fifteen feet
in width, which connects lower Fourth
.'.' me with the remainder of that
thofoughfarc and with Thirty-fourth
Street.
Under the old conditiona, too, Thirty
third Street was partially closed, so
that vehicles and pedestfiafls were com
pelled to go through Thirty-second
Street to get into the first-nientioned
reel w< -1 of Fout th Avenue. A like
"! " e?t on ?'. I\irk
,,!" '"'<. urilasa the
staira at Thirty-fourth Street were
used.
The most noteworthy portion of the
Park Avenue improvement Js the erec
tion of the steel viaducr extending
from Fortieth to Forty-second Street.
This viaduct, which will bring into
aervice the hitherto unused roadway
surrounding the Grand Central Ter
minal Building, involved the set.ting up
of six steel girders, each weighingfrom
sixty to seventy-five tons, which will
serve as its main supports.
Congestion 50 Per Cent l^ess
The new roadway to be brought into
usage with thc opening of the viaduct
leada to a high level roadwav on the
west side of the terminal building,
thirty-five feet in width, which is in
reaaty an upper story of Vanderbilt
avenue.
On the east side of the building
there is a similar roadway, varving
f?m Jorty to sixty feet in width,' but
?l113 .,, \ng a' P"vate right of wav,
it will be closed to the public tem
poranly until negotiation3 for its use
are terminated.
It is estimated that with the new
thoroughfare used to its full capacity
there will be a 50 per cent lessening
of traffic congestion on both Fifth and
Madison avenuea between Madison
Square and Fifty-seventh Street. It
is expected, too, that traffic congestion
on Forty-sccond Street will be ???.-.
climinatcd. ? eatl*ely
The total cost of the str??f ?~ ?
?has been set at $Sf501?16 ! Th?eSB-,t
share amounts to $1,220,000, tha ? 5
thG. N,fwvYork Central to $1 isi ,?f
and the New York lUilw.y.' '?' &0'
pay3 the remainder, $150,000, >8tcm
Objeots to Woman's Vfeitg
Mrs. Margaret Wpight, "f 211 n
Street, Brooklyn, was sent to B,ll.
HospitaJ yesterday ,?0rnL f,?e
YorkviUe Police Court for oftfrntS?
The complainant in the case was l? '
Davis, a Christian Scienca practitioJ"8
having officos in the Aeolian Bu ufn '
West Forty-second Street DUU<"?>f,
According to Davis, Mrs. Wrigfct ?.,
Bisted m goingto his office and annov"
ing him. He declared it had h.T"
necessary twice before for him t? k.
her arrestcd on a charge of disord*"
ly conduct. u?aer
Mrs. Davis in her own behalf. 8Wof.
she was perfectly sane. She adm^? J
going to Davis's office, but said she^
so becauso hc had promised to mttH
her and that because of his promi
she had divorced her husband in lttf
Mrs. Davis is about thirty-eight
years old. She has two children rhl
custody of whom was awarded' W
when she secured her divorce
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imported ^ container and artistically dccorated in "Thf
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Easter Basket No.
1 Containing:
Tu/kish Delight,
Assorted Chocolatei,
Spiced Dropa,
Rice Sticks,
Lime Mints,
Spiced Nuts, $-|
F'ricc. X
Easter Basket No.
2 Containing:
Spiced Nuts,
Lime Mints,
Pecanisque*,
Sugared Almonds.
Awortcd Chocolates.
Jar Jelly.
Chocolate, $Q
Price. ?*
Easter Basket No.
3 Containing:
Cinger, Spiced Nut?.
Crystalizcd Pcel, Lime
Mints, Pecanisques.
Midzuame, Chocolite
Ginger, Rice Stirks.
Chocolate. [ar t*\
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Others according to contcnts, up to $25.
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