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Tenants to Ask
Injunction on
200% Increase
Sixty Occupants of Apart
menta at Forest Hills
Retain Counsel to Oppose
New Leases in Couri
Would Prevent Ejection?
Seek to Restrain Owneri
From Rerenting Homes 01
Refusal to Pay, Advanc,
?* "Wealthy tenants of apartments i:
' Forest Hills yesterday retained Harol
G. Aron, 50 Pine Street, as counsel i
?injunction proceedings to restra?
.their landlord from leasing: thei
apartments to persons other than th
tenants, who refuse to submit to 10
and 200 per cent increases in ren
' Guyon L. C. PJarle, agent for the own
ers of the apartments known as th
Gardens,' has notified the tenants tha
if they decline to sign new leases o
March 15 for another year beginnin
next October he will let the apar
ments to other tenants.
A committee appointed by abot
sixty tenants employed Mr. Aron, wh
announced that he would bring injun?
tion proceedings against Mr. Earle.
"This will make a good test case 1
determine what power the law has i
release rent payers from the dead:
. and binding form of lease system whic
for years the landlords have employ?
in New York,"' said Mr. Aron. "W
shall first obtain an injunction r
.-.training the owners from letting tl
property to other tenants and then fig!
the rent profiteering out at leisure."
Fighting for Middle Class
The committee appointed by the te
ants is composed of William Walla
Bruce, E. F. Shiel, P. L. Robbins, Frai
Y. Low and Albert Rohrback. Many
t'?i tenants are business men with o
fieos in lower Manhattan.
"We are taking this action to ke?
th?; middle class rent payers out of t'
anks of the Bolsheviki," said JV
Bruce. "We do not consider that a
pri' merely lighting our own battle.
tho land'ords itf Forest Hills can il
pose 10J and 200 per cent increasi
landlords in other sections of the ci
vail taKC the hint and do likewise."
Construction of residences out
public funds as a means of fightii
rent profiteering was urged on May
ilylan by Philip Berolzheimer, Ci
Chamberlain. Mr. Berolzheimer su
?jested that as a starter for a gener
building campaign the city might co
struct bungalows on 7,500 lots it ow
at Jamaica Bay.
"It is a pity that the city shoul
own idle land when the whole solu
ton of the rent profiteering problei
lies in the necessity for more homes,
aid Mr. Berolzheimer. "The Jamaic
Bay property might be built up an
'be bungalows disposed of ultimate]
without any loss to the city. In th
neantime tho congestion would I
relieved and tho experiment wou'
fhov.' whether it would be practicab
fc.r the city to do more building."
Whether t're city will undertake u
building has not been indicated by 1
Mayor. James F. Gannon, director
" *enue and finance of Jersey Ci
laid the Mayor Monday that, the c
i -?;, to bring down rents was to p
1 uia mare apartment buildings.
said ir. was feasible for tho city
r.rovide the funds and then sell '
buildings to tenants. After his c<
ference with Mr. Gannon the Ma;
? ! he would take the scheme un?
; ; ?seme nt.
invitations to tenants to attend
s meeting at Central Opera Hoi
day night were sent out by
ayor's Committee on Rent Profite
Arthur J. W. Hilly, chairman
c committee, said he had been
formed that the uso of the hall 1
i.< en obtain???1,
"We propose to get public sentim
behind tho Boylan-Donahue bill i
pending at Albany, which would per
'he courts to decide what rents
landlord should receive on a build
he owns," said Mr. Hilly. 'We h
to get this bill passed before Ma*
when many leases expire. Under
rroposcd legislation a tenant might
peal to the courts to decide on
reasonableness of any increased re
Tho fact that such litigation was o
to tenants would discourage many If
?ordn from going into the courts."
Xo excuse exists for some of
high increases asked by landlords
the opinion of W. F. Algeltener,
(liarle of rentals of the Trinity est
He said that the first increases in i
?m residence property made ,by
estate in the last thirty years rece
went into effect. Most of tho increi
were for $5 a month.
"Our mod'^st increases show
there is much profiteering olsewhe
sai?! Mr. Algeltener. "Our tenants
satisfied and the. increases seem
offset our increased expenses."
Drastic increases in rent in the i
few months will not be justified,
ffetl E. Marling, president of Ho
S. Ely & Co., said. "We ought
find out some way of stopping
skyrocketing, of rents by speculate
he said. "Rents can hardly be r
lated by law because that would
? courage building. Most of the p
I Leering with which tenants have
contend is done by speculators. Le
mato real estate dealers do not f
it."
Rent Bills To Be
Ready Next Wee
From a Staff Correrpondcnt
ALBANY', March 11.-Speaker S
.?aid to-day that two bills aimed t
lieve the rent and housing crisis a
the course of preparation and tha
' entire question would be taken up
conference next week.
"Ont!/ of the bills," he said, "ha;
purpose of curbing rent profitee
but it does not provide for a renj,
mission. We have found that mai
ihose who have been favoring rent
mirsions are pushing the recons
tion plan of simplifying the go
ment and doing away with commis?
This bill will seek to control the
profiteering situation without a
mission. We, however, want to dc
in a way that will not discoi
building."
The Speaker said he would rathe
reveal the purpose?* and provisioi
the companion bill until its dra
had been completed, lip to a few
ago the legislative leaders liad bel
that the only way to curb the
situation was through city rent
mission.-,, but they have since cone)
that the creation of such bodies v
only add to the cumbeTsomeness o
government. Taxing of excess p
from rents and removing* the rigl
summary proceedings from land
until they prove the rent they
charging is reasonable are also 1
favorably considered.
Aa a relief to the housing situ
Anseroblyman J. Fairfax McLaug
Oemocr??, of th? Bronx? introduo
bill to-dsvr on-tiaf s> Und l**a do,
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U. S. Puts Road Down by Night
Through Old Pilot's Garden
Authorities Apply Strategy in Building New En?
trance in Marine Hospital; .Skipper Discovers
Peony Patch and Chicken Ranch in Disorder
Like ? good seafaring roan, Captain
Oscar Spoffriden, a veteran Sandy Hook
pilot of Viking descent, rolled on his
side from port to starboard toward the
end of tho middle watch?say about
3:45 a. m. yesterday?and opened his
eyes in astonishment. For, staring
straight through the window of his
bedroom Jn the rear of his homo in Bay
Street, Stapleton, was a searchlight of
dazzling power, and from without came
the drum of unmuffted motors and the
thud and crunch of pick and shovel.
Never in all his nautical days did
Cap'n Spoffriden pull on his trousers,
boots, reefer and slouch hat more
quickly, for he had a notion what was
in the wind and it looked worse to him
than a falling glass in tho doldrums.
All Hands Piped on Deck
A moment later tho skipper came
striding off the poop deck of his home
so fast that Ms whiskers were parted
by the breeze he created. The sight
that met his eyes almost set the skip?
per's mental chronometer back to his
unregeneratc second-mate days. ?
In the glare of the headlights of two
automobiles whoso engines were run?
ning with mufflers cut out to drown
the noiso of their labor, a dozen or
fifteen men were toiling With shovel
and pick. Already there was a great
gap in the thlrty-fpot fence Cap'n
Spoffriden had erected to protect his
chickens and his peonies from the con?
taminating influence of the United
States Marine Hospital at the head of
Brownell Street.
The entire bow of the chicken house
I had been torn away, and the cap'n's
| choicest Rhode Island Reds were dodg?
ing frantically about the workmen.
I These same workmen were trampling
l ruthlessly on the very ground where
! Cap'n Spoffriden's gorgeous peonies
j soon would be poking their varnished
; noses through the soil and a roadway
: of ashes was being constructed, as an
j extension of Brownell Street to the
j rear of tho Marine Hospital.
i For a fraction of a second Cap'n
I Spoffriden forgot that ha was n lay
| preacher, a substantial taxpayer, a pil
? lar of society and the Church. His
i countenance became incredibly scarlet
; through its apparently impervious
j mahogany veneer. Tho scar above his
! eye throbbed crimson, his whitening
j whiskers bristled and his mouth
i opened to shrivel the interlopers with
i a blast akin to that which had with?
ered many an incipient mutiny. But
| just in time the cap'n remembered, and
j before the wondering eyes of the
ment, which is to lend money for the
? construction of homes on easy terms.
| The loans shall be at 5 per cent interest
I and shall not exceed $100,000 or be less
j than $500. No loan shall exceed 75 per
? cent of the assessed valuation of the
j property as improved. The loans shall
j be secured by bonds and mortgages on
| the property, which shall be amortized
; in such a manner that the principal
i shall be discharged in annual install
j ments equal to the number of years
contained in the terms of the morl
I gage, which shall not exceed twenty
I five years. No loan is to be made on
: property unless it is free from defect
? in title in the opinion of the examiners
i appointed by the head of the depart
I ment. Fire insurance policies for at
I least the amount of the improvement
I must be delivered to the department.
j "The opportunity of gradually paying
! off mortgage loans upon the homes of
j the people," said Assemblyman Mc
! Laughlin, "is not the least, of the ad-t
j vantages of the bill. The eventual
! liquidation of mortgages upon homes in
; New York would be a godsend, and it
| is also in the interest of the state as a
j whole that the owners of dwellings
i should be freeholders in fact, as well
as in name."
Landlord* Fined? at Once
Announces Rent Increase
_
Failure to reckon with the retributive
instinct in their landlord cost fifteen
families an increase of nearly 100 per
cent in their rents yesterday, Begin
! ning May 1. the landlord advised them,
they must dig up an additional $27 a
month or get out. They have been
paying $28.
Abraham Redner, operator of the
apartment house at 68 West 102d
Street, returned there after paying a
fine of $100 in Special Sessions for not
sufficiently heating the rooms of his
tenants and forthwith announced the
increase.
Redner told his tenants that he had
not intended to raise their rents move
than $5 this year, but that since they
had gone to the trouble of humiliating
him and forcing him in court to fork
over a clean hundred or go to jail -
j as he did for a few hours--they could
expect to pay just $55 a month after
meeting their April rent.
An indignation meeting of the ten- j
ants will be held to-night at a hall at
10od Street and Lexington Avenue.
Ways and means of combating the raise
will bo discussed.
The mother of the recalcitrant land?
lord accuses tenants of carrying on
like Bolsheviki. She told a reporter
yesterday that they had threatened to
kill her, thus forcing her to take up
her abode on Third Avenue, where she
is required to pay $50 for two rooms.
"It's a shame," she declared, "that
they should pay such small rents for
these rooms, so big like meadows."
"It is impossible for us to pay the
increase," Mrs. Dolobovsky, a leader
of the rebellious families, says. "One
of the tenants is a widow with font
children and an invalid mother. She
works as a dressmaker. Even now she
has to get extra money from her boss
to pay the rent."
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Portable House Plan to
Cut Rente IJo Be Studied
Chicago Experts to Consider
Proposal to Build Low-Cost
Homes Outside City Limits
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, March 11.?A special
meeting of the Chicago Real Estate
Board has been called for to-morrow
to work out details for President
?Adolph ?Kramer's plan to house suffer
j ing tenants in portable houses of their
own. Announcement has been made
I that every real estate linn, bank and
; business establishment it? the city is |
to be enlisted in the campaign. Ac- |
cording to Air. Kramer n study of the \
estimates has shown that it will be J
possible for the man of ?small income ?
to own a portable home and abandon j
it after the return of normal rent con?
ditions at a cost below even low rental
figures.
Harry Olson, Chief Justice of the
Municipal Court, to-day made plans to
establish special courts to handle the
avalanche of legal battles that are ex?
pected to result from rent disputes.
However, he suggested that friendly ar?
bitration betwean landlords and tenants
of rent increase quarrels was the best
?UffgesHon to provost chaotic condi?
tion? on Mar L
laborer? the pillar of flame, reverted
suddenly to the pillar of society.
The Captain Resorts to Sarcasm
"G-g-get a right here, maybe?'
boomed Cap'n SpofTriden in a voice that
made bargemen shiver in their sleep
over in Great Kills. "Thought you'd
drop in an' help me with my gardenin',
hey? Wanted to see if my chickens
could do a six-day bike race, I guess."
It was lucky for those workmen that
all were too amazed to smile; the
shadow of a grin on any face and the
Norse skipper would have scattered its
owner over the entire borough and
parts of adjacent Jersey townships. As
it was, the skipper had it back and
forth hot and heavy with the foreman
until their stentorian tones brought a
half dozen of Staten Island's police
reserves.
The might and authority of the re?
serves availed nothing save to remind
Cap'n SpofTriden anew of his dignity
and prevent bloodshed. A patrolman
was summoned from the station, but
after looking over a letter from At?
torney General Palmer he allowed that
there was nothing to be done unless
i Cap'n SpofTriden wanted to start a civil
j action.
For Dr. William H. Young, chief of
staff at the hospital, had decided that
i the safety of the patients in case of
fire depended upon the hospital having
I a rear entrance. The Attorney General
: had been consulted and it was decided
i that as the institution once had a rear
I entrance at this spot the thirty-foot
i fence erected by Captain Spoffriden
'. could not prevent it from reopening that
: entrance.
Government Employs Strategy
? But, knowing Cap'n SpofTriden, his
; chickens and his peonies, the authorities
had decided that discretion was the bet?
ter part of valor and the thing to do
was tor build the roadway and tell the
^.cap'n about it afterward. And that
was the way it would have turned out
if the cap'n hadn't been a seafaring
man and rolled over along toward the
end of the middle watch.
As it was the roadway was completed
. and the entrance opened. Cap'n Spoff?
riden, who says he has owened the land
eighteen years, retained an attorney
: with orders to start suit against the
: government at once and strode up and
; down his ravished estate vowing that
? he'd have that thirty-foot fence up
i again in jig time. And so seriously
\ did the government take the promises
: Cap'n Spoffriden was making that a
| sentry was stationed last n*tght at the
i rear entrance to the hospital with spe
: cific instructions to demand the coun
: tersign of any thirty-foot fence he saw
' coming his way.
Bergdoll Withdrew
$50,000 and Fled,
Banker Testifies
Half That Sum Taken Out
on Day U.S. Entered War,
Court Martial Hears; Pros?
ecution May Close To-day
Grovcr Cleveland Bergdoll drew $25,
000 from his account in the Tenth
National Bank of Philadelphia the day
the United States declared war, John J
F. Baudcr, president of that institu- !
tion, testified yesterday before the j
court martial at Governor's Island, !
trying Bergdoll for alleged desertion, j
I The following August, said Bauder, |
I Bergdoll withdrew $7,500, and up to
the time he fled his withdrawals j
I totalled $50,000.
The prosecution may close its case j
I to-day. No intimation as to the nature |
of Bergdoll's defense has been made, i
| although it was said he would prob- I
j ably take the stand himself.
"This boy has the truth to tell and !
will have no hesitancy about telling j
it," said D. C. Gibboney, his counsel, i
Major William G. Murdoch, disburs-j
ing officer in the office of the Penn- j
syivania Adjutant General, testified
concerning draft notices sent Bergdoll,
particularly his notice of delinquency.
Policeman Charles Carroll, of Phila?
delphia, who found Bergdoll hiding in i
a window chest in his mother's home j
| and arrested him last January 7, de
! scribed what took place on that oc- !
| casiori. Mrs. Bergdoll had stood off j
! fourteen policemen and Department of
1 Justice agents with a revolver. He
described the house as an "arsenal."
"Bergdoll was huddling in the chest,
partly dressed and covered with cush?
ions," said Carroll. "He refused to
i come out until 1 had poked my gun into
j his ribs and threatened him."
Charles F. Macready, another police-'
?man who took part in the ?aid of the
I Bergdoll home, testified. He said it
?had been necessary to hustle the pris
I oner to the police station because a
crowd of workmen had cut a rope
from a nearby building with the an?
nounced intention of hanging Berg?
doll.
?
Ice Man Out $2 on Nicky;
Hunt "Progresses Nicely"
Assistant District Attorney John T.
Dooling said last night the hunt for
Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein was "pro?
gressing nicely" and that developments
of "considerable magnitude" were ex?
pected "momentarily, if not sooner."
This illuminating statement com?
prised the sum total of yesterday's de?
velopments in the Arnstein case. De- |
tectives, engaged in hunting for the
"master mind" that is alleged to have j
planned the Wall Street, bond thefts.
flitted in and out of the District At- j
torney's office from early morning un- i
til far into the night, but not one of '
them had "Nicky" in tow.
Detective Sergeant Irving OTIara,
brother-in-law of Mayor Hylan, has
been assigned to the Arnstein case. He
covered more ground yesterday than
the six-day bike riders in Madison
Square Garden. Where he was going
was not divulged, but that he was go?
ing somewhere with the throttle -wide
open was obvious to the most casual
observer.
District Attorney S wann, according
to Criminal, Courts Building rumors,
has instructed his staff to "soft-pedal
en Arnstein,'' and the result was that
when asked about the case yesterday
his assistants grinned broadly and said
nothing.
The only person willing to issue en
official bulletin was tin* in* man who
fills the coolers in the Criminal Courts
Building. He said he lost $2 on a
horse named "Nicky" in the fourth race
yesterday at New Orleans. The jockey's
name was Bond.
$100,000 Gift to Cornell
ITHACA, N. Y., March 11.?A gift of
$100,000 to Cornell University for the
erection of a new dormitory to be named
in honor of the donors' parents was
made to-day by W. G. Mennen and his
sister, Mrs. Emma Mennen Williams, of
Detroit, ?ocording,to announcement to?
night.
Ticker Firm Sued
For False Report
On Court Decision
President of Dow, Jones &
Co. Says Error in Income
Tax Opinion Was Due
to Reporter's Aberration
A test suit was begun yesterday in
the Supreme Court to ascertain whether
Dow, Jones & Co., operating a financial
news ticker service in Wall Street, are
liablo foT losses sustained by individ?
uals who sold stocks last Monday fol?
lowing publication on tho Dow- Jones
ticker of an erroneous report that tho
United States had declared stock divi?
dends taxable as income.
The suit was brought, by Martin C.
Ansorge, a lawyer, of 100 Broadway, in
behalf of Gaston Jaillet, against Jo?
seph Cashman, treasurer of the Dow
Jones organization. The damages
sought amount to $2,210, which Mr.
Juillet, a customer of the Stock Ex?
change firm of Josephthal & Co., left
on a transaction in Crucible Steel. Mr.
Ansorge declared the court proceed?
ings were instituted in the interests of
other clients, some of whom, he said,
had been ruined.
In the bill of complaint Mr. Jaillet
charges that. Dow, Jones & Co. "delib?
erately published and caused to be
transmitted" on its news tickers an
erroneous report of the Supreme
Court's decision and that he was in?
fluenced thereby to dispose of stocks
at a loss.
"The decision in said case," the com?
plaint continued, "was of the greatest
importance in the determination of the
value of stocks, bonds and securities,
and said decision had been anxiously
awaited for many months, and it was
well known to this defendant'that its
report thereof would have a material
effect upon the stock markets of the
country/'
The publication of the false report,
Jaillet alleges, was due to "negligence,
carelessness and recklessness," and for
a long time afterward Dow, Jones & Co.
"negligently, carelessly and recklessly
failed to correct said false report,"
even though they knew that brokerage
houses and customers were relying on
the erroneous information. "?Stocks
subsequently violently reacted," the
complaint adds, "and rapidly advanced
upward before the defendant correct?
ed its report, and before the defend?
ant knew of the falsity thereof and
was able to and did act thereon."
Clarence W. Barron, president of
Dow, Jones & Co., declared yesterday
that the first impression of the Dow
Jones reporter and many others was
that the lower court's decision in the
stock dividend case had been reversed
by the Supreme Court's finding, and,
therefore, that stock dividends were
taxable and the word "not" was strick?
en out of the bulletin which had been
prepared to send to Wall Street. Then
the message was held for confirma?
tion, Mr. Barron said, and in a few
minutes it became positive that the
lower court's decision had been af- |
firmed. He continued:
"By some mental aberration, which ?
nobody on earth can explain, the re- j
porter was confident, as he handed
tho bulletin to the messenger, that he
had put back the word 'not.' He sat |
in the courtroom for more than fifteen
minutes with no suspicion but that he!
had delivered the first flash and deliv- j
erod it correctly.
"When the brokers' Washington I
wires in about fifteen minutes began I
to doubt the correctness of all the ?
previous Wall Street reports, the
Washington office was asked to con- ?
firm. It was a few minutes before the j
reporter could be reached. Of course,
the correction came back promptly and ?
thereporter was nearly crushed when;
he learned of tho lapse that he had '
committed."
Taxes Paid on Stock
Dividends May Apply
On 1920 Income Return
Collector William II. Edwards an?
nounced yesterday that claims for credit
of taxes paid on stock dividends, which
were recently declared non-taxable, may
be taken in connection with the payment
of this year's income tax, provided a
claim is filed at the same time giving
all particulars.
In the event the credit to which the
taxpayer is entitled exceeds the amount
of taxes to be paid, a claim for the re?
fund of the difference may be filed.
This information was received from
Washington yesterday, and is in re?
sponse to a large number of inquiries
that have been made at the local col?
lector's office.
Women Republicans Dine
Women of the Kings County Re?
publican Committee gave a dinner last
night, at the Imperial Hotel, Brooklyn,
to Jacob A. Livingston, chairman of
the executive committee. Mary Garrett
Hay warned Republicans against over
confidence, saying that defeat lay in
liait direction. Other speakers were
Comptroller Eugene M. Travis, Presi?
dent F. IT. La Guardia of the Board
of Aldermen and Mr. Livingston.
There were about 500 at the dinner.
Weather Report
Sun ripes... fi :13 a.m. ?Sun seta... 5 :5!) p.m.
Moon rises. .12 :">2 a.m.lMoon sets. .10 :42 a.m.
Local Forecast.?Rain to-day and to-night;
probnbly clearing to-morrow ; increasing
south nnd southwest winds.
Local Official Report.?The following of?
ficial record shows temperatures during the
lnst twenty-four hours, in comparison with
the corresponding date of last year:
1.120. 1919.1 ? 1920. 1919.
.1 a. m... 1-1 11! 3 p. m. .. 58 48
fi n. m. . . It -10: G p. m. .. 56 42
il n. m. . . 45 40 9 p. m... fit 39
12 mion... ">2 4a 10 p. m... 53 38
Highest. ."8 decrees, at 3 p. m. : lowest, 39
degrees, at 7 a. m. ; average. 18 decrees; av?
erage same date last year. 42 degrees; aver?
age same date for thirty-three years, 3G de?
grees.
Humidity
S a. rh.... Gill p. m.... 50 8 p. ni... W?
Barometer Readings
S a. m.. S0.25|l p. m.. 30.18 8 p. m.. 30.14
General Weather Conditions
WASHINGTON, March 11.--The disturb-!
anee that was over eastern Colorado last
night has moved to central Illinois with in- I
creased intensity and general rains have j
fallen east of the Rocky Mountains except '
in the Atlantic states. There wero also i
snows in the Northwest and the central .
Rocky Mountain r?gi? n and rains on the !
North Pacific Coast. Elsewhere the weather '
was f ai r.
It was warmer east of the Mississippi :
River with temperatnr?; well above the sea- :
sor.al average and considerably colder in the
Dakotse, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and
the ?-entrai Rocky Mountain region.
There will be rain to-morrow cast of the
Mississippi River, turning to snow i;i the
.a ior Lake region. Rain will continu" Sat?
urday in New England, while in tho Middle
and South Atlantic Etales clearing weather
il indicated. 4 '
It will be colder to-morrow in (be upper
lake and west 'lower lake region.-?, the lower
Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys and colder
quite generally on Saturday to the eastward
except in the Florida peninsula.
Forecasts for Special Districts.?Eastern
New York, rain to-day and to-night; to?
morrow probably clearing and colder.
Western New York, rain to-day ; to-mor?
row cloudy and colder, probably local snows
near the lakes.
Southern New Englandi rain to-day and
probably to-morrow, colder ?to-morrow.
New Jersey ?nd Delaware, rain to-day ; to?
morrow probably clearing and colder.
Eastern Pennsylvania, rain today* to.
sierrow probably olearias and ooMst,
JOHN
Broadway at Ninth, New York
Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co.
AKER
Store opens at 9; Closes at 5
Good morning!
This is March 12!
The weather today will
probably be rainy.
Real excellence
is nr* generally found from egotis?
tical advertisements.
Good qualities will always be
discoverable, like violets along
the country streams, with their
little blue eyes, from their per?
fume. Nettles grow high and
much spread out, and have a
blustering way about them as
well as a stickery sting.
Now in the sixtieth year (at
the close of this month), if there
is anything in this Store that
approaches perfection the people
who know us well find it out for
themselves without our parad?
ing it.
All we know for sure is that we
are far from being perfect, and
that we shall never cease to strive
for the best, and that we shall
never play fast and loose.
(Signed)
New Dinner
Sets Enter the
March Sale
$40 sets, American porce?
lain, for $32.50.
100 pieces ; choice of four
decorations; designs are all
new border effects, with all
pieces gilt and traced gold
handles.
$45 sets, American porcelain,
$35.
106 pieces; gold band decora?
tions, solid gold handles.
$52.50 sets, American china,
$40.
$77.50 sets, American china,
$60.
$90 sets, French china, $70.
$180 sets, French china, $130.
$42.50 sets, English porcelain,
$35.
$45 sets, English porcelain,
$40.
EXTRA SPECIAL
$100 sets, American
china, for $80
Gold band decoration, solid
gold handles; 107 pieces; from
the Warwick factory. French
china sets with gold band and
handles?are $175 the set/ in
the March Sale.
K ss> *
Second floor, Old Building.
March 12, 1920.
Beautiful array
of China silk
For curtains, lamp shades
and pillow covers.
Tan backgrounds with
reds, blues and browns;
pink ground with Chinese
scenery ; two shades of blue,
Alsatian and mayne, on a
beige foundation; and new?
est and best of all?orange
with an aflover pattern car?
ried out in curiously con?
trasting shades.
32 and 36 in. wide.
$2.50, $2.75, $3.50 yard.
Fourth Gallery, New BIdg.
Wrist Watches
on Ribbons
$42 grade, plain case, for
$30.
$44 grade, engraved case,
for $32.
They are all 14-karat gold,
small size, octagon shape,
with 15 jewel movement,
guaranteed. Just a few.
Jewelry Store?
Main floor, Old Building.
Lamps
IN THE MARCH SALE
Electric table lamps, with
shades of art glass, wired
ready to connect and light.
$22 for $30 grade
$18 for $25 grade
$16 for $22 grade
$15 for $20 grade
$12 for $15 grade
$10 for $13.50 grade
Solid mahogany floor lamps
and silk shades, at a fifth to a
third less.
Hundreds of solid mahogany
candlesticks, 75c to $2 each.
Second Gallery, New Bldg.
Women's Gowns
Varied are the materials.
Lovely are the modes.
The Gown Salons for
Women have a most com?
plete and lovely collection of
gowns for immediate and
later spring wear. The fab?
rics that the springtime mode
favors most are developed in
models for every type of
smart woman.
One frock is of beautifully fine
Poiret twill in midnight blue,
made with an Eton jacket. The
little jacket and the wide pocket
effects over each hip are em?
broidered finely with black silk
and black straw. An exquisitely
made underbodice is made of silk
the color of old red lacquer and
the fringed sash-girdle matches.
Price $185.
Most un usual
The bodice of another frock,
with its long waist-line loosely
confined by a string girdle, is of
deen magenta colored Poiret
twill most beautifully embroid?
ered with black silk and dull
black beads. All very fine and
delicate. The finely knife-pleated
skirt is of midnight blue Poiret
twill, as is the magenta lined
girdle. Price $150.
The penchant for real lace
frocks is undoubtedly .
increasing
Both afternoon frocks and
gowns for informal dinner
wear are lavishly trimmed
with real lace. Combinations
of satin and real lace, Geor?
gette crepe and real lace,
and taffeta frocks with over
frocks of real lace and or?
gandie are to be found in the
Gown Salons in most en?
chanting models.
Typical among these is a slim
gown of soft brown satin, long
of waist and featuring the loose
silhouett'e. This is made with an
over-gown of cream colored
hand-made lace combined with
matching- chiffon. The square
neck and short sleeves are new
and becoming.
A twist of two-toned blue and
brown ribbon and a touch of
French flowers complete the
gown. Price $195.
Gowns featuring combinations
of organdie and satin are also
featured by the collection in the
Gown Salon.
Second floor, Old Building.
For Miss U to 20
This Wrap.
$69.50
of a wonderfully soft
English woolen. Silhouette
is stunning, is it not ?
Besides be?
ing smart,
this wrap is
decidedly
practical?
Just the kind
of wrap that
may be
slipped on in
a jiffy ? the
kind that will
not crush a
frock ? just
the kind to
slip on over a
suit when
motoring or traveling. Il?
lustrated.
Material is soft and
spongy, like polo cloth?and
comes in natural color and
cocoa brown.
Another stunning wrap
with quite the same silhouette,
but a little more dressy because
of rows of stitching (the idea of
Jeanne Lanvin) comes in navy
blue or beige gabardine at
$79.50, and in fine velour de
laine, bright tones, at $110.
New Coats
Severely tailored and typical
sports coat's in polo cloth, $39.75
to $110; in English homespuns,
plain and cross-barred, $59.50 to
$89.50.
Second floor, Old Building.
1.226 pairs
Children's
Shoes
9x12 ft. Rugs?
Sale
40, to be sold at less than
to-day's mill price. We have
sold out of the smaller sizes,
and re-orders must sell at
higher proportionate prices
than these. So, to avoid the
confusion of two prices for
the same grade, out go these j
40, quickly,-before the new |
group comes in. All in de
signs that are good copies of
Persian rugs.
18 seamless Wilton velvet, |
$80 grade for $57.50.
12 imported chenille, $105 j
grade for $87.50.
10 Royal Wilton, $115
grade for $87.50.
Third Gallery,-New Bldg.
Bed-coverings
New Arrivals
Imported camel's hair
blankets, of a very fine text?
ure, in tan with a brown
Grecian border, size 62 x 78
in., $32.50 each; size 72 x 90
in., $47.50 each.
"TRAPPER" blankets, all
wool, made for use indoors or
out-of-doors; khaki with*a black
border, size 72 x 90 in., $15 each.
Gray with black border, size 72 x
90 in., $13.75 each.
Hand-spun, all-wool Canadian
basket weave blankets, in block
designs in rose and white, Copen?
hagen blue and white, yellow and
white, pink and white, brown and
white; size 64 x 84 in., $22.
Fourth Gallery, New Bldg.
So very
wonderful
is the AMPICO
that it is now being featured
by public entertainers. It is
announced to appear in the
regular course of Concert?
Diplomatiques, a brilliant
series of concerts given in
Washington at the Belasce
Theatre, on Sunday after?
noons. And, on Sunday eve?
ning, March 21st, you will
have an opportunity to hear
it in the Hippodrome as part
of the regular Sunday eve
ning musical programme.
Victor Herbert, De Koven,
Geraldine Farrar, Gitz-Rice
?these artists have played
for the AMPICO, and for no
other Reproducing Piano.
You will never hear De
Koven play again?except
through the AMPICO. Rec?
ords played by him will be
ready in a few weeks.
MOISBIWITSCH, this sea?
son's phenomenal success;
LEVITZKI, the success of
1918-19; ORNSTEIN, the
individual; and the Russian
master composer and pian?
ist, RACHMANINOFF-all
these play exclusively for the
AMPICO. They have never
played for any other Repro?
ducing Piano. And there are
almost one hundred other
great pianists whose plaving
the AMPICO reproduces.
Can't you picture the hap?
piness and inspiration the
CHICKERING - AMPICO
could bring to you and to all
wTho are in and who visit
your home?
Outside of the CHICKER?
ING-AMPICO, there are
more than 90 makes, styles,
sizes and grades of pianos,
player-pianos and Reproduc?
ing Pianos in the Wanamaker
Piano Salons. Convenient
terms on any instrument
chosen.
Piano Salon?,
First Gallery, New Bldg?
Candy for
St. Patrick's
Day
Not only for the "wearers
o' the green," but for all who
know that March 17th is a
big day.
Candy is twice as welcome ?
it comes in a box that can be put
to practical use when the candy
is gone, such as one of our soft
straw. Baskets at 25c to $1.2f>.
Great . variety of sizes and
shapes, practical for sewing.
gloves, handkerchiefs, manicure
sets; and smaller ones for but
! tons, hooks and eyes and so on.
Eighth Gallery, New Buildinf.
1
Steamer
trunks. $13.50
A special price.
36-in. trunks, three-ply
veneer construction, black
fibre-covered, fibre-lined,
brass-plated hardware, snap
lock, reinforced corners;
tray lined with cloth.
Just the thing for week-end
journeys.
Seventh Grilerjr, New Bldg?
From our regular
stocks, reduced
Sizes 2 to 5, were $2.75 to
$3.25, at $2.35 ; sizes 5 to 8,
were S4.50 to $5.50, at $3.90;
sizes Sy2 to 101, ?>, were $5.50
to $6.50, at $4.75; sizes 11 to
2, were $6 to $8:50, at $5.25 ;
sizes 21/2 to 6, for big girls,
were $8 to $10, $6.25.
They are the shoes needed
for Spring wear, especially
for Easter, when every one
must have a new pair of
shoes. If you buy them now
you can save anywhere from
50c to $3.75 on each pair.
They are smart in style, good
in quality and every shoe
adaptable to the child's foot.
We cannot duplicate these
shoes to sell at their present
stock price.
A few sizes are missing here
and there in the lot, so we de?
cided to sell the, whole line at
these remarkably low prices.
Sizes include baby's first shoe,
size 2, and misses' size 6, with all
intermediate sizes.
Range of styles is equally com?
prehensive.
First floor. Old Building.
I
Men's Spring Neckties
Are Ready!
These new-comers make us vividly aware
how tired we are of the four-in-hands which
have been our companions of the winter. We
want the winter, to go. And we want to pack
the old neckties off with it. We wish it more
acutely as we look at the new four-in-hands.
will
Knitted ties
be worn this
1 smalPwhite designs or fig
! ures on black grounds,
spring, j These are ?2.50, tax 5c.
, groups are already , At the sam(/ ice are
here?six or eight patterns ? moirft aMnf>a \nl various
in black, heather weaves,
heather stripes, solid colors,
ajl silk, at $5, tax 30c; and
silk mixtures, at $2.50, tax
5c.
A famous
French weave
moire stripes in
combinations of colors and
fancy designs.
English
four-in-hands
silk mixtures in a variety of
effects, and American silk?,
wit'h broad diagonal or col?
lege stripes?black and
blue, black and green, etc.,
are $2.
(excellently copied by an
American silk manufac?
turer) is shown in change?
able silk, one color in the
warp, another color in the ! r> * * ' ? U*
woof, and in diagonal moire t-ut Straignt
stripes "of green on blue, 1 Straight-cut poplins, ?O
brown or red, lavender or tapestrv designs and neat,
green, etc., at $3, tax 10c. ?fancy "patterns, are Si
After Spitalsfield ! ??ronVf ?????? ?t
. , ? ' they 11 outlast their vur.
Another American manu- ? come, they'll wear so long
facturer took Spitalfields1 A <? *?' -*?? ~~? si-1
silks for his standard, and
has given us some very fine
silk four-in-hands with
At $1, also, are silk
taffetas, moire stripes and
diagonal stripes, in deep,
dark tones.
The Men's Store?
Burlington Arcade floor, New Building.