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"THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS
$4-22 H-?2 $5-22 $6-22 $7-22 & $822
IF you have been paying $10 to $12 for fine shoes, a trial will
convince you that for style,comfort and service W.L.Douglas
$7 and $8 shoes are equally as good and will give excellent
satisfaction. The actual value is determined and the retail
price fixed at the factory before W.L.Douglas name and the
retail price is stamped on the bottom. The stamped price isW.L.
Douglas personal guarantee that the shoes are always worth the
price paid for them. The retail pricesarethesameeverywhere.
They cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New York
Stamping the price on every pair ot shoes as a protection against high
prices and unreasonable profits is only one example of the constant en?
deavor of W.LDougias to protect his customers. The quality of W. L.
Douglas product is guaranteed by more than 40 years experience in
making fine shoes. The smart styles are the leaders in the fashion
centers of America. They are made in a well-equipped factory at
Brockton, Mass., by the highest paid, skilled shoemakers under the
direction and supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest
determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy.
BOYS' SHOES
Beat in the World
?3.00 ?3.50 ?4.00
For ?ili? by 106 W. !.. Douptas store* and orer 0000
W L. Poujflss dealers,or can be ordered direct front
factor?? hv mail, Parcel Post Chartres prepaid. Write
fur III b?. t rat tdt at ?log shon lug hon to order by mall
President XX. I,. Honda*
Shoe Co.. ','10 Spark St.,
Itrorkton, Mass.
CAUTION
Before you buy be aure
W. L. Douglas name and
the retail price ia stamped
on the bottom and the
inside top facing. If the
stamped price haa been
mutilated,
BEWARE OF FRAUD
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W. L. Douglas Stores in Greater New York:
Nassau Street. ? ? 2779 Third Ave.,bet. 146th <5c 147th St9 ??-?-" -???-??--- ?- ?.
Broadwuy, cor. 8th St. ! 347 Eighth Avenue.
? 250 West 125th Street.
BROOKLYN.
421 Fulton Strict, cor. Pearl.
? 70(5 Broadway, near Thornton St
? 1307 Broadway, cor. (?ates Avenue
? 47?S Fifth Avenue,cor. 1 lth Street
Broadway, near 14th.
Broadway, cor. 36th St.
Broadway (Times Sq.)
Third Avenue.
Third Avenue.
Third Av., cor. 120th St.
Stores marked with a -fe carry complete lines of IV. L.
? 859 Manhattan Avenue.
1779 1*i 11?, i 11 Avenue.
.IKKSK.Y CITY- IS Newark Avenue.
?ROBOREN- -120 Washington Street.
?UNION HILL 270 Bergenline Ave.
. ' -A-NKWAKK 831 Broad Street.
. ?PATERSON 192 Market Street.
. ?TRENTON 29 Last State Street.
Douglas Shoes for Women
General Strike at
Limerick Stops All
Industries of City
Copyright, 1919, N'~?v York Tribune Inr.)
LIMERICK, April 16.--Limerick has
original notions on the subject of
strikes. Never before has a city vol
untarily abandoned every form of gov?
ernment in order to ventilate its griev?
ances. There have been no fireworks
nor outward excitement of any de?
scription. Passivity is the watchword.
All shops are shut and offices closed
and only a few private vehicles are
running. For the last two nights the
city has depended on candles for il?
lumination.
G
OME right in, broihers, light
the calumet and smoke up ! I am
glad to know that my fellow
guildsmen of the National Associa?
tion of Merchant Tailors are plan?
ning concertedly to advertise their
technique to the Well - Dressed
Men of America, just as I have
advertised almost singly to the
Well-Dressed Men of New York.
Too long lias Custom Tailoring hidden its light
under a bushel, while clothing made-by-the
bushel has put more art into its pictures than
into its product. Quantity-cut clothing has its
place, but it must always stay in second place,
Armv And
Navy Uniforms
Of Slashing Srvank
vLivilian,/\rmy
And NavyToilor
Broadway at 39*-hSt
2? Years On This Corner
The people arc? uncertain whether it
is Sunday or a holiday. They just
loll against, the shop windows or stroll
aimlessly about the streets.
All this is a protest against the new
military regulations, compelling the
inhabitants to obtain permits for leav?
ing or entering the town, and follows a
proclamation of martial law, which
was the result of the recent troubles.
Possibly the extent of the popular re?
sponse has surprised even the origin?
ators of the scheme.
Punctually at the stated time the
whole life of the city stopped. The
bakers even ceased to bake and the
dairymen to deliver milk, while the
saloons refrained from opening their
doors, anil a stranger in the city was
unable to purchase a single cigarette.
Hotel guests have fared the worst and
have been experiencing the sensations
of semi-starvation. A restaurant
meal in England's severest period of
rationing would have been a feast com?
pared with the luncheon offered the
guests of the city's biggest hotel to?
day. Perhaps the strikers also began
to feel hunger this afternoon, for
?lueues were forming outside the
shops. A peculiarity of this strike
lies in the fact that it seems ultimate?
ly to injure only the strikers them?
selves. If directed against the mili?
tary, it does not affect them, because
their supplies arrive, with the usual
regularity. Nevertheless, apart from
the natural inconvenience, the strikers
? seem to be enjoying the sensation
and are particularly pleased with the
opportunity of seeing ih?? beginning of
the transatlantic ?light.
How long the strike will last if
problematical, but the strikers pos?
sess a wonderful organization.
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Epidemic in Australia
Keeps All Ships in Por
MELBOURNE, April IB.- The Com
monwealth government has decided t?
prohibit the movement of all shippinj
from Australian ports in consequenc?
of the severity ?if the influenza epi
i demie in Australia and New Zealand.
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BY THE
ALIEN PROPERTY
CUSTODIAN
52 share.-* of the common stock of
THE WOLF SAFETY LAMP COMPANY OF AMERICA
and other property, of
BROOKLYN
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, Francis P. Garvan, Alien Property Cus?
todian, will offer for sale, at public sale, to the highest bidder, at the office of the company,
at DeKalb-Avenue and Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., at 3:00 o'clock P. M., on the first
day of May, 1919, 52 shares of the common stock, par value $100 each, out of 100 shares
issued and outstanding, of Wolf Safety Lamp Company, a corporation organized and
existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New York, and Letters Patent
of the United States, as set out in the Order of Sale.
Full description of, And inform?.?on concerning the property
to be ?old, the term? and condition? of ??le, nnd the order
thereof, may be obtained by application to JOSEPH F. GUFFEY,
Director, Bureau of Sale?, 1 10 Weit 42nd Street, New York City.
FRANCIS P. GARVAN,
Alien Property Custodian.
Tax Valuation
On Real Estate
Due for Boost
Advance of $200,000,000
to $300,000,000 in City
Total for 1920 Is Pre
dieted by Tax Experts
Reflects High Earnings
Even Old Buildings Are To
Be Included in the (?en
oral Plan for an Increase
The general and sharp increase In
real estate rentals ami sales during the I
last few months is interpreted by ex
ports as presaging an increased as?
sessed valuation by the Department of!
Paxes mid Assessments of from $200,- \
000,000 to .$.'100,(100,(100 for 1020, and
giving a tax base, including personal?
property, of close to $'.),000,000,000.
The increase in valuation may be
looked upon by the owners and land- |
lords as a penalty for raising renta, but i
t the Department of Taxes and Assess- I
monts yesterday it was said the in
crease would be due to natural causes, i
following seven or eight rather "lean" i
years in real estate experience.
"The buoyancy of the real estate |
market, duo to better earnings, war?
rants the prediction that the increase
in assessed valuation of ordinary real
estate will reach $200,000,000 in the
greater city," said John J. Halleran,
who served as Tax Commissioner on
both the Gaynor and Mitchol boards.
Slack in Building Taken Up
"Until last year it looked as if New
York City was about 20 per cent, over?
built," he continued. "Owners were
losing money every year. With the
shut-down for the last four years in
building, due to the high cost of labor
am! building materials, the expected
thing happened. Gradually the 'slack'
was taken up, so to-day real estate is
very active, owners and landlords are
receiving increased rentals, and it is
speaking within bounds to say that
the city is underbuilt. This will re?
sult in building up the undeveloped
sections of Brooklyn, Queens and The
Bronx.
"While I don't see just where it is
coming from, still it looks as if the in?
crease in assessed valuations for next
year would reach at least $200,000,000.
Tins is about what it should be. in nor?
mal times, in view of the fact that the
city increases in population about
200,000 a year. The high cost of build?
ing construction tends to depress
rather than increase the market value
of undeveloped lots, but as soon as the
cost of materials and labor lets down
a little I look to see great activity in
building all over the outlying sections,
especially where the new subway lines
have reached."
Increased Rentals Reported
The Tax Commissioners a few day3
ago had all the deputy commissioners
in conference, and the deputies all re?
ported increased rentals. As a result
it is understood assessed land values
will be. increased where there is proof,
afforded by recent sales, that the raise
is warranted, and also that the depu?
ties will increase assessments on
buildings, on the ground that they are
earning handsomely and that they
cannot be replaced for anything like
the present valuations.
This is where the owners and land?
lords are likely to protest, as it is an
unwritten law in the tax office that
the assessed valuation of an old build?
ing cannot be raised. . Probably the
answer of the assessors will be that
the land assessment cannot well be
raised owing to the cost of new con?
struction, but that on account of the
r?ntala the entire property is worth
more, and that if the increased value
cannot be reflected in the land it
should go on the building.
Nineteen hundred and eleven was
the last "big year" of increase in
realty valuations. Tho Gaynor board
increased assessed valuations for I'.Ul
in the round sum of $800,000.000. This
was practicable because valuations
were on a basis of about GO or 70
per cent, and Mayor Gaynor directed
tin? hoard to assess realty according to
law at its true market value. Sinco
then the annual increases have run all
the way from $-10,000,000 to $100,000,
000 a year for ordinary real estate.
Present Rents
Called Merely
Fair to Owners
Real estate operators asserted yes
tenlay that present rentals merely
gavo property owners an adequate re?
turn on their investment for the first
time in years and speculative building
would not be encouraged until the cost
of labor and materials decreased.
Labor men declared that wages must
' not cr;mc down; if necessary, they must
i go up to meet increased rents. Inves
? tigators said that real estate specula
j tors were seeking to mako up in one
; fat year the losses of ten lean ones.
j Reports of rising rents came from
j every side.
"Rents are not too high," said an
! official of one of tho largest title and
i trust companies in New York. "They
I are not high enough. For years real
? estate owners havo conducted their
i properties at a loss. There was not
| the demand for space, and they re
! ceived no ade?iuate return on their in
? vestments. Now rents are approach?
ing a point where they can meet the
cost of operation, pay the interest on
? their mortgages und make 5 per cent
I on their money. Not many are mak
I ing 5 per cent as yet. The real estate
; men have been doing business on a
basis of profit of 2 and 3 per cent.
j The whole matter is ono of supply and
1 demand, and cannot be met or solved
by legislation. This company is ready
, to finance a building the owner of
i which needs it for a specific purpose,
' but not to finance speculative building,
i as the cost of lab?..* and materials are
; so high such structures will not pay.
, Wages have got to come dov.il. When
they do, and costs of materials de
i ere?,.?-.', building will be stimulated and
j the demand met. We are getting a
real estate market, and agitation of
this question is going to knock that in
the head. I uni told there is plc?ity of
space if it is looked for."
Against I^ower Wage?
Edward I. Hannah, president of the
Central Federated Union and a mem?
ber of the Mayor's Rent-Profiteering
Committee, said thero could and would
be no reduction of wages. "Tho very
men reduction of whose wages ia
asked," he said, "arc those who arc
Buffering from the increase of rents.
They cannot meet these rents and live
on whnt they are getting now. There
is nothing so dear* to a man as a bom?;
for his familr. When you interfere
with that it is worise than extortion
ia food or unjythiiuc else. IX Xaod, i?
high people may be able to cut down ;
on consumption, but a man with a
family must have shelter for it.
"If rents continue to be raised he
is affected vitally and discontent will
be created which will drive them no
one knows where. It may be neces?
sary for every workman in the state
to go on strike for increased wages to
meet conditions."
Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, secretary of
the Reconstruction Commission of New
York, under whose direction a canvass
of the rent situation is being made,
declared the speculative builder and
k-aseo were the persons to be checked.
"Real estate investors," .she said,
"should not assume that they may
make up for ten bad years in one good
year, yet some of the increases re?
ported are as high as f>0 per cent."
Several hundred complaints were re?
ceived yesterday bv the Reconstruc?
tion Commission. One man wrote that
his npartment, formerly renting for
$65, now coat $00, A llnrlom tenant
wrote her rent had been raised from '
$31 to $:i3 in October nnd would bo
raised again to $4(3 Mas' 10. Sin? said
the apartment was in had repair, and
the lessee told tenants to make the
repairs thomselves.
Occupants of a building in Tho
Bronx wrote they had been raised a
total of $12 each since January 1. A
soldier, who served nineteen mouths in
France, wrote the day he was dis
charged his rent had been raised from
$16.50 to $10, and since had been in?
creased to $20. The rooms, he said,
had not been painted for four years
and the agent declined to make repairs
as he wished to get rid of the tenant?;.
This man has a wife and six children
and no money to move.
Bills Aimed at Rent
Profiteers Are Rushed
By Bronx Committee
Statt Correspond? nen
ALBANY, April 16. A definite leg?
islative programme for relieving New
York City tenants, suffering from rent
profiteering, was mapped out before
Senato and Assembly leaders to-day
by a committee of Bronx County offi?
cials. The committee was appointed
by The Bronx County Democratic
County Committee, and comprised
Register Polak, Municipal Court Jus?
tice Harry Roblitzek, County Clerk
Joseph M. Callahan, former Demo?
cratic leader of the Assembly, nnd
Mrs. Harry Arthur, Democratic leader
of the Third Assembly District.
The bills tho passage of which they
particularly urged are:
Assemblyman McKire's bill requir
?T g a notice of twenty days to be
given by landlords to tenants before
a raise of rent would become effec?
tive.
Assemblyman Fertig's bill extend- .
ing from fivo to ten days the notice
j that must be given before "hold
i over" proceedings are commenced to
oust tenants.
Mr. Fertig's bill to repeal Chapter
303 of the laws of 191H, which act
required all leases in the City of
New York to be in writing.
Senator Schaekno's bill, which
would give municipal justices power
to give n stay to tenants of not
more than twenty days when dis?
possess warrants are issued, pro?
vided the tenant deposits in court
the rent for the period of the stay
at the rate charged the month previ?
ous.
A bill was introduced by Senator
Abels at the request of the com?
mittee to permit tenants to answer
orally in dispossess proceedings,
thus removing the burden now cast
upon them of having an attorney
prepare a written answer.
Philadelphia Brewers
Will Be Prosecuted
Special Correspondence
PHILADELPHIA, April l<i. Phila?
delphia brewers who have been sell?
ing beer manufactured sir.ee December
1 containing more than one-half of t
per cent alcohol, despite tho govern?
ment orders, will bo prosecuted.
This announcement was made to-day
by Ephraim Lederer, Collector of In?
ternal Revenue, on orders from Com?
missioner Roper, Brewers generally
have been selling tiic proscribed beer,
' on advice of Klihu Root, that heir con
i taining less than 2% per cent, of al
| cohol is non-intoxicating.
The news came as ti blow to the
brewers, who thought they tin? 1 found
ii strong ally in Roper following a
statement lust week, when he tried to
shift tho responsibility for enforce?
ment of wartime prohibition to the
United States District Attorney's of?
fice.
Roper Says Congress
Will Act to Enforce
War-Time Prohibition
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 16. Daniel
, C. Roper, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, to-day stated his belief that
Congress will pass an enabling act for
onforcoment of war-time prohibition,
? effective July 1.
Mr. Roper, in an address before the
Southern Wholesale Dry Goods Asso?
ciation, called attention to the bulletin
I of the Internal Revenue Department
! under date of April 12, reciting that
I the act had not then been passed.
"However," he continued, "Congress
j probably soon will be in session again
! and no doubt will relieve the situation
; by lodging tho prohibition work defi
! nitely and by providing the necessary
1 money and other facilities. While the
Secretary of the Treasury will protest
? against further responsibility for in
I *ornal revenue work, yet, of course, if
! the work finally is lodged with the bu
? rcau wc will proceed with it just as
: we do with the enforcement of other
: laws."
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Shipping Board
Will Build Vessels
Of Motor Type
,V,-ie York Tribune
Washington Fnrer.it
WASHINGTON, April 16.?The Ship?
ping Hoard has finally decided to build
a considerable number of motor shins
' of R.000 tons dead weight. There has
1 been much criticism of the board be
' cause, with unlimited resources for
carrying out the most stupendous ship?
building enterprise ever undertaken, it
made no provision for motor ships,
which some shipping men regard as
the coming type of cargo vessel. By a
motor ship is meant one that is pro?
pelled by internal combustion engines,
usually of the Diesel design, using
crude oil as fuel.
The Submarino Boat Corporation
originally favored the internal combus?
tion engine for tho 5,000-ton fabricated
shipH it is building for tho Shipping
Board, but for some reason this idea
was rejected and oil burning steam
engines of the turbine type were adopt?
ed, with disastrous results, though the
I Hog Island yards have had no difficulty
i with their turbine engines, which are
at iuiuthcr design.
Blizzard Holds Up
Ocean Air Flight;
?^
Outlook Is Gloomy
No Start Is Likely Within
18 Hours; Mechanicians
in Night Fijiht to Save
Tent From Wreck in (?ale
Special Correspondence
ST. JOHN'S, X. F., April 16, A
blizzard lure last night nearly caused
disaster to Captain Frederick Philip
Kaynham's Martinsyde airplane, which
has been completely assembled, ready
for tho transatlantic air race with
Harry (!. Hawker's Sopwith 'plane. The
tent in which tho Martinsyde was
housed was damaged by the storm,
Tho Martinsydo engine and com
passes were tested lh?! afternoon, and
Major Partridge, olllcinl recorder for
tho British Ano Club, affixed n seal to
i in? machine, as he did last wook to tho
Sopwith. Both airplanes are now
ready for the start, which will be made
us sunn as weather conditions warrant.
This will not likely bo within forty
ours unie ? I here is a marked
change in the weather.
A seventy mile northwest galo has
been blowing since noon and, with the
intense ?.?.? I ?I, make, flying impossible.
To-night reports from tho ocean are
somewhat similar. Competent observ?
ers believe that it would be suicidal for
airplanes to attempt to make tho voy?
age before Friday.
Hawker's machine is in a wooden
il i ? and escaped to-day, but the air?
drome : covered with eighteen inches
? E : now.
IS aval Heads Confer on
Plans to Safeguard
Air Flight Over Sea
WASHINGTON, April 16. Admiral
Henry T. Mayo and Bear Admiral C. P.
Plunkeit, commander of the destroyer
force, arrived in Washington to-day
from New York and went .nt > confer?
ence with officers at the Navy Depart?
ment to discuss the disposition of the
destroyer force which will lie assigned
in duty mi trie route i?> b?3 followed by
the naval seaplanes on their proposed
flight across the Atlantic Ocean next
month.
It was understood that two separate
plans were considered, one should the
route be via the Azores, and tin? other
should the planes be sent direct to Ire?
land from Nefoundland. Several high
officers are known strongly to favor
the direct route.
Navy Flying Boats to
Get Real Test To-day:
. New Propeller Tried
Assembling the NC-4, last of the
navy's three giant flying boats, was
commenced at the- Rockaway Navai
Air Station yesterday. It is expecte?]
I the craft w-11 be ready for her first
trial flight some time next week.
While the stormy weather precluded
j flying tests with the NC-2, the mechan- ;
j ical staff of the transatlantic section
worked hard all day putting the fin- I
1 ishing touches on trie N?-3. The lat- I
? ter probably will make her first flight !
' to-day in company with her sister, the
1 NC-2.
It was learned yesterday that a new
, type of propeller is to be tried out on
the NC-2. Should this device prove
, as successful as is anticipated, it will
be used on all three of the navy's Hy?
ing Boats in their flight across the
Atlantic next month.
The propeller is the invention of Dr.
Charles M. Olmstead, of Buffalo. Ac
i cording to naval officials its efficiency
is 85 per cent, as against 60 per cent
for the usual types of propellers. Its
chief characteristic is the very thick
? hub and short blades.
' _ The new propeller was placed on the
NC-2 for one of the short flights last
Monday. Naval officers declared them
, selves satisfied with the result.
?light of Major Wood
Delayed by Squalls
I IMER1CK, April 10 (.By The As
I sociated Presa). While the weather
hen? is fine, reports from the west
coa t of Ireland, over which Major
Wood will have to fly on his trip
, from Kastehureh. on the Thames,
to prepare for his .attempt to cross
the Atlantic, are discouraging. High
I winds, with ram squalls, are prevail
i mg and all hope of his arrival to
: day has been abandone,1
Every train is bringing additions
: to the small army of newspaper cor
; respondents, photographers and mov
'. iug picture men here.
Coles Hill for Roosevelt
Memorial Passes Assembly
ALBANY. April ltl. The Coles bill
to empower the Roosevelt Memorial
Association to condemn lands in Oys
, ter Bay which may be considered neces
? sary for a memorial park, passed the
' A^'omhly to-day without opposition.
Secretary Wilson Calls
State Conference on Jobs
Governors Asked to Assist iit
Forming Employment
Bureaus
New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. April 16.?Secretary
I of Labor Wilson to-day sent a roQUcal
to the Governors of all states to sena
1 representatives to a conference on em??
ployment to be held from April 23 to
2,"> in Washington with him and John
B. Dinsmore, Director General of th?
United States Employment Servie?.
The conference will consider a na?
tional legislative programme for the
creation of a permanent national em?
ployment service in cooperation with
slates and municipalities.
" Th?? purpose of the conferen?.?,*
said the Secretary's letter to the Gov?
prnors, "will be to define and estab?
lish the most effective form of rrla
I tionship between national and ?t?te
'employment activities, and in general
agreement bringing out a definite ob
?ectivo toward which all may work to?
tin? end that a thorough and compre?
hensiva? public employment service
may be permanently established."
Heroes Out in Cold
Compelled to Sleep in Bark
Yard of W. C. C. S. Billet
Ten heroes of the Belgian army, part
of a group of 108 here for the Victory
loan, have been crowded out into the
back yard of their billet at 35 West
Twenty-fifth Str.a-t.
The l>;u'k yard is the best hospitality
tin? War Camp Community Service can
afford them. They are of the machine
gun i'orps, and ?hag tin? machine gun
of the Belgian army.
They are ten stout and loyal Belgian
police dogs.
is not more characteristic of the metropolis than Arnheim's
Tailoring for the New York men.
The showing of Spring suitings is now in full bloom.
The variety is practically unlimited. The styles exact.
Satisfaction above question. Suits $30 to $60.
TWO STORES
BROADWAY & NINTH STREET
30 EAST 42D STREET
' ; p. s
In this world the (/real feat is defeating defeat.
Srnljriins axioms.
The Compliment Paid the
Hot Spot Chalmers
I by other Makers
?|: ?^1 O successful has been the public response to the
|| l^J ^ot Spot nature of the Chalmers and so readily
%\ v^.-J' and consistently has this device made good that
, '-X\ imitations are now beginning to appear on other cars.
ij "Yes, we too have a Hot Spot device on our
car," is a comment to be heard daily in other motor
| |j establishments.
?I There are two vital weaknesses in the imitations.
b|! First, the I-lot Spot is not efficient without the Ram's
|Il horn. Second, the Ram's-horn is not a device that
:;.>i|| can be "fitted to" any motor. The motor must be
I! designed to fit the Ram's-horn.
It is the proper co-ordination of all three?the
; ijj Hot Spot the Ram's-horn and the Cylinder block?
,--||| that has made Chalmers one of the few great cars1 of
? HI the world.
s'lj It is always a compliment to be imitated. None
"Ml greater can be paid. But you will be full of compli
? ments for the present day Chalmers after you've
I turned the thousand-mile mark in one.
Chalmers Motor Car Company
New York Branch, 1808 Broadway
Corner 59th St., New York City
Phone Circle 5550
OPEN EVENINGS