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Police Search
For Arnstein
To Be Probed
Banks and Surety Firms
Retain Counsel to Inves?
tigate Movements of Men
Who Trailed Fugitive
Many Peculiar Incidents
MeGee, Lander for Alleged
Plotter, To Be Quizzed
in Bankruptcy Case
Dissatisfied with th? failure of the
police to arrest Jules W. ("Nicky")
Arnstein, practically all the big surety
companies and several well-known firms
in the financial district have combined
and retained counsel to conduct an in?
vestigation, which they believe will lift
the veil of mystery that has enveloped
the activities of both Arnstein and his
rlleged pursuers since Lincoln's Birth?
day, when the former disappeared.
While no official announcement to
this effect has yet been made, The
Tribune was informed of it last night
from a thoroughly reliable source. In
making this move the surety companies
end the financial houses have placed
practically unlimited means at the dis?
posal of their counsel, and have
ordered ]iim to go ahead regardless of
expense and the feelings of persons,
official or otherwise, who might he
rlaced in an unfavorable light by the
Investigation.
London Firm to Aid
While the firms which have com- j
bined to support the prohe are mostly
those that." have suffered financial j
losses as a result of bond thefts com- :
mined in this city since last Novem?
ber, it was learned that Lloyds, of j
London, is a party to the investigation j
find will share in the expense.
The inquiry into the circumstances
surrounding the sudden disappearance
of Arnstein and the fiasco in which
the efforts of the police to find him |
have apparently ended will be merged j
with the Federal bankruptcy proceed-j
ing. which have been instituted :
aeainst the fugitive by the National j
Surety Company.
These proceedings, in which Fannie
Brice, actress and wife of Arnstein, j
already has testified, will be resumed
to-day before Federal Commissioner in
Bankruptcy Alexander Gilchrist. The
first witness to be called will be Eu?
gene P. McGee, who, with William J.
Fall?n, is "Nicky's" legal representa- i
tive here. :
McGee. it is said, will be questioned j
at length concerning the events that?
transpired after he left the office of
Assistant District Attorney John T. j
Dooling on the night of February 23 j
with the expressed intention of guid?
ing Detective Sergeants Gegan, Mayer j
and Brown to Arnstein's hiding place. ;
When the quartet left the prose- i
cutor's office a Tribune reporter was !
informed that McGee was to lead the
detectives to Arnstein. who was to sur- ?
render and return with them to the i
District Attorney's office. He then was j
to be released In $100,000 bail.
Mr. Dooling said that he expected the j
party to return in a "very few hours."
After some thirteen days had passed
the quartet apparently demobilized at
sorne point close to tho Canadian
border and returned to New York in?
dividually. They did not bring j
"Nicky" with them.
McGee To Be Quizzed
When he takes the stand to-day, Mc?
Gee will be asked by Haul S. Myers, at- ;
torney for the National Surety Com- ?
pany and also for Edward H. Chi Ids, !
Federal receiver for Arnstein, to re- ?
count all of his experiences after leav- I
ing Mr. Dooling. He also will bo qucs
tioned as to the agreement arranged ?
by himself and Mr. Fall?n whereby
"Nicky" was to surrender. An effort
will be made to reveal what it was
that prevented the arrangement from
being carried out.
Mr. McGee visited the Criminal
Courts Building yesterday in connec?
tion with another case and admitted
that he had been supoena.d to appear
before Commissioner Gilchrist to-day.
After the lawyer leaves the stand
to-day other witnesses will be called
who, it ?3 said, are expected to throw
even more light on the steps that
were taken by the police and the two
lawyers to locate Arnstein.
In tho course of the examination of
witnesses an effort will be made to
ascertain the present status of the
Arnstein pursuit and whether or not
the police have abandoned their efforts
to find him.
"We want to have this mysterious
lull in the hunt for Arnstein explained
to us," said ati official of one of the
companies interested in the bank?
ruptcy proceedings. "We don't under?
stand it. Individuals and companies
vho have been the victims of bond
thefts which they believe wero en?
gineered by Arnstein are thoroughly
disgusted with the failure of the police
to And him and with the evasive tac?
tics the authorities have employed in
dealing with the case.
"We also would like to know whether
there is any connection between the
recent efforts of the police to mini?
mize Arnstein's importance in the bond
theft plot and the letting down in
their efforts to bring him into the
jurisdiction of tho local courts.
"We believe we can call witnesses
in theso bankruptcy proceedings who
can give us a lot of interesting infor?
mation as to how Arnstein kept a
couple of jumps ahead of those who
were looking for him. The police even
knew the number of the room in the
.v? , ,Winton >n Cleveland in which
Nicky was stopping, but the fugitive
apparently was apprised of tho fact
that they had this information. The
entire pursuit of Arnstein is studded
with peculiar incidents."
.,M[- Myers said last night that when
the bankruptcy proceedings are started
to-day they will be continued until
every available fact concerning Arn?
stein s alleged connection with the
bond plot has been brought out. Fan?
nie Brice probably will be recalled to
tho stand toward the end of tho week
French Heroine Acquitted
Former War Nurse Kisses
Judge's Hand at Verdict
Emily Jay. a former French war I
rur.se, who was arrested ten days ago ;
accused of" the theft of $-100 worth of I
clothing from the Hotel Rendezvous,in
West Forty-third Street, was dis?
charged yesterday by Judge Ma lone, of
General Sessions, in chambers.
The grand jury refused to indict the
woman. She kissed Judge Malones
hand when he dismissed the case
against her. Tho management of the
hotel caused her arrest, charging that
*he had stolen several articles ot
clothing left there by Margaret Alles,
an actress. Miss Jay had been em?
ployed at the hotel as a maid.
When she was arraigned before
Magistrate Simpson in West Side
Court she admitted taking the clothing, J (
hut said she thought it had been dis- h
carded. Miss Jay had been decorated <
?with the Croix de Guerre by the t
French government. J?he lost the sight ?
of an eye during her service with the - c
|*?$ *>**?? ,_. |
Dumbwaiter Love Notes
Land Fish Man in Bellevue
Begs "Ebullient, Elating, Efficaciously Ecstatic
Essie" to Fly With Him to Clime Where 296
Varieties of His Wares Abound in Limpid Waters
There Is not one secret hollow oak
to be found on all Morningside Heights
and, though there are a few puny sap?
lings in the park, even the most deso?
?rte would hesitate to hang verses on j
their dripping branches, well knowing
that they would be confiscated by the
early morning nursemaids.
Charles Eifert was a fish dealer and
a practical man. Not his to be em?
barrassed by the absence of tho con?
ventional appurtenances for love-mak?
ing in the city's concrete depths; when
he couldn't have a hollow oak, he used
a dumbwaiter.
That is why Miss Ethel Cozzens, of
520 West 114th Street, who is a blonde,
and nineteen years old, found love let?
ters under her milk bottle each morn?
ing. It is also why Eifert found tho
iron bars of Bellevuo confronting his
leve sick gaze yesterday afternoon.
Not Crazy, Just in Love
Magistrate Sweetser in the West
Side Court agreed with Miss Cozzens
that the dumbwaiter was so contami?
nated by ice and fish bills that it was
no place for love letters. He sent the
too ingenious ballad monger to
Bellevue for ten days observation.
"I'm not crazy. I'm in love," said
the defendant.
"Well, we'll find out if lovo is in?
sanity," the judge replied, thereby
committing himself to an investiga?
tion which philosophers of all the
ages have tackled in vain.
Miss Cozzens told the judge that
Eifert was the son of a washerwoman,
who lived in the basement next door
to the home of her sister, Mrs. Samuel
Sheather, at 350 East Seventy-first
Street; that he had followed her home
and annoyed her with his attentions
for more than two years. Love let?
ters and romantic novels came up on
the dumwaiter. she said, and on Sun?
day mornings he used to stand in tho
backyard and serenade her.
"The only reason we have not com?
plained about him before," said the
girl's mother, Mrs. Leonard Cozzens,
"is that we were sorry for his mother,
who is a hard-working woman and
much distressed by her son's ways.
My son-in-law, Captain Sheather, has
done what he could to persuade the
man to leave my daughter alone, but
wo finally lost patience and asked for
his arrest. Even last Sunday, after
tho papers had been served upon him,
he bobbed up in the backyard as mu?
sical as ever." ?
Miss Cozzens,produced in court sev?
eral prize specimens of the flshdealer's
effusions, in which he pleads with her
to fly with him to a warmer clime,
where 296 species of fish abound. The
latest one, dated March 2, was as fol?
lows :
"Most exclusive little princess of
Nature's fairyland:
296 Varieties
"Will you go there with me and
reign supreme? All we will do for the
time being is to bask in love and sun?
shine. Just think, Es, 296 species of
fish may be caught there. Anyhow,
look over the guidebook.
"How did you like the fiction book I
sent? I feel so very lovesick for you.
"If Bermuda is too far away for the
present, couldn't we go to Central Park
some nice sunny day, so that I may
look ipto your eyes? You'd be sur?
prised how the birds, dove and squir?
rels would welcome you?you dear,
dear, dear."
An earlier letter is more intro?
spectivo?written before tho blizzard,
apparently, before the call of tropic
waters became uppermost in the an?
gler's mind.
"Ebullient, elating, efficaciously ec?
static Essie," it begins. "Please for?
give me, for truly I love you, yes? In?
spired by the infinite power of love I
feel it coming over mo definitely right
now. I think perhaps you thought of
mo at some time. And I feel that I
may express my inmost well being,
though you accept it with quiet uncon?
cern, as behooves tho occasion and con?
ditions of our respective environment,
personality, etc., are such that only
because of my defects I am unable to
woo and win you? My spirit and cour?
age are indomitable.
"Will you go with mo to the Hundred
Islands in the tropics? Or do you pre?
fer the Land of the Midnight Sun?
You never can tell. Maybe in time. So
long dear, till we meet forever.
"Your would-be, if could-be, life
partner, CHARLES A. EIFERT."
Loft Thieves Get
$60,000 Loot in
Two Burglaries
> .-~.
Whole Truckload of Silk Is
Taken From One Place;
Women's Dresses Stolen
in West Thirty-first Street
Two carefully planned and deliber?
ately executed loft robberies carried
out last Friday night netted the
thieves upward of $G0,000 in merchan?
dise, it was learned yesterday. Both
buildings were protected by a burglar
alarm system, and investigation showed
the thieves had an intimate knowledge
of the premises.
The thefts brought the complaint
from police authorities at tho West
Thirtieth Street station yesterday that
companies owning loft buildings were
not cooperating with the police to pre?
vent loft burglaries. The police charge
that the front doors of these buildings
are left unbolted and unguarded by
night watchmen.
The more daring burglary of the two
was that at tho Carlisle Textile Com?
pany, 141 Wooster Street, on the sixth
floor of an eight-story building. The
entire floor is carefully wired with a
burglar alarm system and the windows
on and adjacent to the fire escape are
also protected with tho system.
In this caso the thieves entered tho
loft from the roof, climbing down to
the unprotected window. Once inside
they wrapped up several bolts of silk,
some weighing as much as 100 pounds
each. Apparently they then hoisted
these through the window to the roof
by means of ropes. They were then
lowered to the main floor through the
elevator shaft.
The thieves had succeeded in getting
away with one truck load of silk mer?
chandise when two of them who stayed
behind with the rest of the silk were
alarmed by a policeman and fled. When
tho police entered it was found that
forty-eight bolts of silk, valued at
$9,500, and a bag of silk ties, valued at
$3,000, had been left behind on the
ground floor.
Tho nature of the goods stolen and
the manner in which they were taken
out of tho protected loft show that
tho thieves must have been working
steadily throughout the night. It was
also found that the thieves had entered
the loft on the seventh floor to get
packing paper and twine to wrap up
the merchandise they took.
Max Brustein, president of tho com?
pany, said it had not been possible to
estimate the amount of tho loss as yet,
owing to the confusion in which his
stock had been left by tho thieves. It
will probably total about $20,000, he
said.
The other burglary occurred on the
sixth floor of the building at 31 East
Thirty-first Street. This floor is oc?
cupied by Mannie Solomon & Co., Inc.,
manufacturers of women's dresses. It
is said that $40,000 worth of merchan?
dise was taken. The entire floor is
protected by an alarm system.
Mr. Solomon refused to discuss the*
thoft beyond saying that a "couple of
dresses" were missing.
Professor Todd to Study
Upper Air in Aero Flight
Plane Driven by Army Man
Also Will Attempt New
Altitude Record
Professor David Todd, director of
tho observatory and professor of as?
tronomy and navigation at Amherst <
College, announced last night at the I
St. George Hotel that he will take part ?
in an aerial expedition within the next ?
few weeks in a plane driven by Major !
Leo Stevens, of the United States air j
service, to discover new data of as
tronomical and meteorological impor- i
tance.
The flight will be made from the
field of the United States air service
at Omaha, Neb., and a new altitude rec?
ord will be attempted.
The expedition will be equipped with i
all the instruments and recording de- I
vices necessary to discover any elec- I
trical and other disturbances, the pr?s- j
?rice and proportion of gases in the '
jpper air and similar data.
Major Stevens is in New York at the !
>resent time in conference with Pro- i
essor Todd over the plans and details !
if the proposed expedition, which will I
te the first of its kind in the history I
if altitude flying. Special interest at?
aches to the flight from the discov
ries made *by Major Rudolph Schroe- '
or in his recent record breaking ?Iti?
?tffciJAgM?* ?*fll%-fl*fcr -.
Fifty Battalions
To March To-day
Fifty battalions, comprising
thousands of Irish-Americans,
will be in line in the St. Pat?
rick's Day parade at 2 o'clock to?
day up Fifth Avenue from Forty
third to 120th street, around
Mount Morris Park and through
126th Street to Second Avenue.
Justice Daniel F. Cohalan, of
the Supreme Court, will be grand
marshal.
Each battalion in line will have
its own marshal, the selections
having been made from the most
prominent Irish-Americans in the
city. The Manhattan Division
will lead, those of the other bor?
oughs bringing up in the rear.
Subway Fight Causes Panic
Two plasterers fighting over the di?
vision of pay for work they had per?
formed threw into panic forty passen?
gers, including many women, on a
| West End subway train near the Fort
Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn, station last
night.
One of the men, Giacamo Pattero, of
2245 First. Avenue, is alleged to have
slashed the other, Petro Zelante, of 447
East 119th Street, across the face with
a knife. Several women fainted. At
Ninth Avenue the guard kept the doors
locked until Detectives McGowan and
Mahon reached the scene. They ar?
rested Pattero.
Weather Report
| Sun rises.. 6 :04 a. m.!Sun seta... 6.06 p.m.
j Moon rises. 4 :44 a. m.|Moon sets.. 4 :30 p. m.
Local Forecast.?Local rains and colder
to-day ; to-morrow fair ; southwest and
northwest winds.
Local Official Record.?The following of?
ficial record shows temperatures during the
last twenty-four hours, in comparison with
i (he corresponding date of last year:
1920. 1919.1 1920. 1919.
3 a. m... 40 .16 3 p.m... 54 37
0 a. m.. . 46 36 6 p. m... 64 38
9 a. m... 61 36 9 p. m... 53 39
12 noon_51 36] 10 p.m... 54 39
Highest, 05 degrees, at 5 p. m. ; lowest,
37 degrees, at 12:05 a. m. : average, 46 de?
grees ; average same date last year, 38 de?
grees ; average same date for thirty-three
years, 38 degrees.
Humidity
8 a. m....76|l p. m_89 | 8 p. m....96
Barometer Reading.
8 a. m. .30.00 j 1 p. m. .29.97 | S p. m. .29.81
Genera! Weather Conditions
WASHINGTON, March 16. -The Western
storm apparently is central to-night near I
southeastern Jumes Bay. and pressure has j
risen generally and decidedly throughout the
upper Juke region, the central valleys and
the plains states. There is, however, an?
other distubance of rather marked character
over the middle plateau that appeared to be
developing to the eastward, and there were
light snows in Nevada and northern Utah
and rains in California and southwestern
Oregon. There also wero snows in the
Northwest, rain and snows in the upper lake
region and rains in the Ohio Valley, Ten?
nessee, the east Gulf and middle Atlantic
states, the lower lake region and New Eng?
land. In the Central West and the South?
west the weather was generally fair.
It is much warmer In the Atlantic states
and colder in the lake region, the central
valleys and the Northwest, with quite low
temperatures for the season over the latter
district. In the Far West temperatures
changed but little.
Unsettled weather, with local rains, will
prevail Wednesday in New England and the
middle Atlantic states and local snows in the
Jake region, followed by generally fair
weather Thursday. Unsettled weather, with |
occasional rains, will continue Wednesday i
and Thursday in Tennessee and the east
Gulf states, while in the Ohio Valley the ?
weather will be ?generally fair, although !
possibly followed by rain over the lo%ver por- ?
tion by Thursday night.
It will be colder Wednesday east of the '
Mississippi River, except in the southern ;
portion of the south Atlantic district and i
in New England, but it will be colder Thur. - !
day night and Friday in the latter districts, j
Storm warnings are displayed on the At
Ian tic coast, from Eastport to the Virginia
capes.
Forecasts for Special Districts. ? Eastern
New York?Local rains to-day, possibly snow
in extreme north, colder; to-morrow fair.
Western Pennsylvania-Colder and cloudy
to-day. probably lisht local snows ; to-mor?
row fair.
Western New York - Cloudy and colder to?
day, probably local snows ; to-morrow fair.
Southern New England?Rain to-day, cold?
er at night; to-morrow fair and colder.
New Jersey and Delaware?Cloudy and
colder to-day, probably local rains ; to-mor?
row fafr.
Eastern Pennsylvania?Uni.ttled and cold?
er to-day, probably local raina f taenjtww
Vice Witnesses
Have Vanished;
Inquiry Halted
Smith Blames "Slush Fund"
for Mysterious Disappear?
ance of Those Who Were
to Testify About Graft
Bank Deposits Studied
Detectives Said To Be Un?
willing to Co-operate With
District Attorney's Office
The grand jury was nil ready yes?
terday to begin investigation of the
alleged vice graft conspiracy in the
Police Department when James E.
Smith, Assistant .District Attorney,
asked to be excused for a minuto to
get witnesses ho had promised to
bring before that body. lie returned,
registering dismay and confusion, to
announce he could not find them.
"The men behind the slush fund," it
was proclaimed, had spirited them
away. It has been charged that this
slush fund was created to protect any
member of the Police Departmont who
might be indicted because of the vice
investigation.
Immediately thereafter the corridors
of the Criminal Courts Building were
Jillcd with tho turmoil of detectives at?
tached to the District Attorney's office
who wore rushing out1 to retrieve the
vanished witnesses.
Assistant District Attorney Smith
was confident last night that his wit- j
nesses eventually will bo found and
that other important witnesses whom
he either has summoned or expects to
summon will likewise appear. It was
declared at his office that because of
his inability to cooperate with detec?
tives of the Police Department in the
vice investigation he would accept the
services of detectives offered him by
outside organizations. Detectives at?
tached to the Police Department, it
has developed, are not eager to help
in tho crusade against vice grafters |
possibly involving members of the j
force.
Records obtained by Mr. Smith
showed, he said, that two high officers
in the department during the year
have made large deposits in banks dis?
proportionate to their salaries. One
showed deposits of $8,000 by one officer
in one bank alone, one deposit being ?
$2,500. It is understood that both of !
these officers will be summoned before
the grand jury and asked to explain ;
the transactions and the source of !
(heir finances.
The District Attorney's office heard |
with interest yesterday of the affirma- j
tion by the Court of Appeals of the con
viction of Joseph Shenk and William
Glaser, indicted January 26, 1915, on ;
the charge of running a disorderly ? !
house at 62 West 107th Street. Shenk
was the owner and Glaser acted as his ;
superintendent. Both men were tried :
before Judgo Mulqueen in General Ses
sions and sentenced to one year each ;
in the penitentiary on May 29, 1916. Mr. ?
Smith was tho prosecutor. Both ap- ?
pealed, but the Appellate Division sus- '
tained the conviction, which has now
been confirmed by the Court of Appeals.
At the time of his original trial it
was shown in court that Shenk con- j
trolled 126 houses, twelve of which he
owned, the others being leased. He re- :
ceived more than $1,000,000 a year in !
rentals, and his yearly pay roll amounted I
to $100,000.
Mr. Smith said that he intended to :
use the action of the Court of Appeals i
as a lever in the presetji vice inquiry.
"Application will be mado imme- j
diately," said Mr. Smith, "for a bench ?
warrant for both men, s? that they can |
be taken to tho penitentiary as soon as j
possible."
Mr. Smith announced that he was !
preparing for the trials of Detective
John J. Gunson, of the 4th Inspection
District, commanded by Inspector I
Dominick Henry, and Detective Fred- j
erick F. Franklin, of the 5th Inspection
District, commanded by Inspector Un?
derbill, the two detectives indicted by
(he grand jury on the charjoe of extor- j
tion and bribery in grafting on women. ?
Gunson's trial, Mr. Smith said, would '
begin about. March 30. It has been set j
for March 18 by Judge Malone in Gen- ,
eral Sessions, but it is expected that !
preliminary motions and other techni?
calities will make it impossible to be?
gin the actual trial before March 30.
Franklin's trial, Mr. Smith said,
would begin in about three weeks.
Franklin, who was arrested Monday
night, was held yesterday in $5,000
bail.
Extension of Gas Mains
Ordered Despite Protest ?
Kings Company Official Warns
of Danger in Overtaxing
Capacity of the Plant
Despite protests of the Kings County i
Lighting Company to the effect that it
has not sufficient funds to extend its ;
mains in Brooklyn so as to furnish gas
to citizens who have applied for it,
Morgan T. Donnelly, Deputy Public :
Service Commissioner, ruled yesterday t
at the conclusion of the hearing on the ;
subject that this must he done.
Mr. Donnelly told Ralph Elsman,
general manager of the company, that j
the provisions of the transportation cor?
porations law were clear on the sub- i
ject. .Mr. Elsman insisted that the !
company had no money to put them :
through and could not get any. His ;
protests were to no effect.
''It will be dangerous to take on any ;
mofe consumers," he said, "as addi?
tional consumers will take more gas
than the company can manufacture with
its present equipment. As a matter of ;
fact, if the present consumers use gas
in any materially increasing quanti?
ties there will be a hazard, as it will
lower the pressure to such an extent
aa to cause lights to go out in houses." :
Custom House Flooded
By Belated Taxpayers
Income Levy This Year Will Be
Disappointing in Size,
Says Edwards
The Custom House swarmed yesterday \
with belated taxpayers seeking to Tile j
their 1919 income returns with Will- '
iam II. Edwards, Collector of Internal I
Revenue for Manhattan. Most of the j
excuses presented were acceptable. At |
the close of the day Mr. Edwards said: !
"Judging by what I have seen of the
larger returns coming through this of- j
fice the amount of money from this !
source this year will be disappointing.
This is to be accounted for because the i
normal tax has been reduced to 4 per !
cent; also on account of the slump in |
the market the latter part of last year. !
Tremendous losses were registered by
people holding securities and, of I
course, these losses are deductible for
income tax purposes.
"I am not in a position to give out j
the exact receipts, because Washington
will tabulate the figures from all over j
the country and make a general state- i
?nent regarding them."
Most of those who offered excuses !
yesterday for not having filed their re- I
turns earlier said they had bean out
dhtaraT_ .?_ i
JOHN W?NAMAKEE
Broadway at Ninth, New York
Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co.
Store opens at 9; Closes at $
Good morning!
This is March 17!
The weather today will
probably be rainy.
Kane, the Arctic
Explorer,
whose book Mr. George W. Child?
published in 1856, speaks often 'of
the vast fields of glass in the Polar
Seas.
There is a field of glass on our
Second Gallery, New Building.
It has flowed in?some of it?
many thousands of miles, from
China and Japan.
A few nights ago a man ad?
mired a piece and wished to buy
it, but did not do so because he
could only hold it in his hand?
it had ho feet and simply rolled
over when he laid it down.
This great business has to have
strong hands upon it all the time
to hold it up to its full beauty and
usefulness.
It could not stand up on adver?
tising feet.
(Signed)
Author's Week
During this week ten well
known authors will deliver
informal talks in the Wana
maker Auditorium.
Today Glenn Frank and F.
Scott Fitzgerald will speak. Pre?
ceding their speaking, at 2:30?
there will be a Concert.
Glenn Frank
is the author
of a number
of magazine
articles re?
cently pub?
lished in the
Century. Was
Associate Edi?
tor of the Cen?
tury Magazine
since January,
. 1919. Lec?
tured widely in United Statesand
Canada on sociological and eco?
nomical matters.
- F.Scott Fitz?
gerald is one
of the most
promising of
the younger
writers. He
has been writ?
ing some o?
the most popu?
lar stories for
the Saturday
Evening Post.
His first novel, ^^^^^^^^^
"This Side of Paradise," is to be
published March 26.
Lovers of good music and good
books are invited.
There will be no charge for
admission.
First Gallery, New Building.
Dainty White
Curtains
Brighten the house
for spring
Nothing else gives quite
the effect of cheerfulness,
light and crisp, delicious
freshness that clean white
curtains at the window
manage to convey.
A large, new and most alluring
assortment is in our Curtain Cor?
ridor. The materials are :
Voile, Scrim, Muslin, Net
$9.75 Grades
(Small or large mesh, plain or
fancy all-over pattern.)
Some are ruffled, with delicate?
ly colored edges of white or lav?
ender. Others have the ruffled
edge, shirred on with a band of
hemstitching.
One style in net appeals to the
lover of simplicity. It is made
perfectly plain except for two
broad bands at the edge.
Fancy net's are in unusually
fine, pretty patterns, stripes, tiny
figures or larger designs. Edges
are hemstitched or of lace.
Colors, white and ecru.
Scrim is made in imitation of
an antique curtain with inser?
tions and edgings of heavy lace
?a good copy of the original.
Wide range of prices, $2.45 to
$17.
Fourth Gallery, New Bldg.
Another Great Sale-TODAY
4,159 Pairs
$7.75
Women's SHOES
$8.75 $12.75
For $9 to $20 Oxford?, Pumps and Shoes from our regular stocks
715 pairs of high shoes, 10 styles, \ if/O 77T
were $15 to $20.\ .. j ?pl-W. / O
$8.75 m
$7.75
shoe sale we ever
1,383 pairs of high shoes, 8 styles, 1
were $10 to $12.50./
2,061 pairs shoes, oxfords, pumps, )
12 styles, were $9 to $12.50_J
The Shoe chief says this is "the best
offered."
In our regular stocks of women's shoes we have about 250
styles of high shoes, pumps and oxfords. 30 of these styles
have proven so popular that we are sold out of certain
sizes. So we are grouping them all together, 4,159 pairs
in all (all sizes in each price-lot), and shall let them go
today at the low prices quoted above?far below the prices
of re-orders. All the pumps and oxfords in the sale are correct
spring and summer styles. All the high shoes are styles that
will be worn throughout the year. Examples of each are shown
in the sketches to the right.
Bedspreads
for the Spring
Crochet spreads of extra
fine quality, hemmed.
Single bed size, S3.50.
Double bed size, $3.50.
Satin Marseilles spreads,
very, very good, hemmed.
Single bed size, $4.25.
Three-quarter size, $4.
Large double bed size, $8.50.
Bed Sets
Satin-finished?spread and
bolster cover to match?
with cut corners, scalloped,
.'"! ft. 3 in. (single bed size),
$9.50 the set; double bed
size, 4 ft. 6 in., $13.50 the
set.
The high shoes are all of light
Spring weights; the majority of
them with the popular Louis XV.
heel, and in light weight novelty
leathers.
The low shoes include all leath?
ers, pumps and oxfords?practical
and dress models.
At $12.75
Black buckskin top with patent
leather foxing and French heel;
brown and black buckskin laced
boot, Louis XV. heel; brown kid
skin, colored kid top, button boot,
Louis XV.j heel; patent leather,
gray kid top, Louis XV. heel; pat?
ent leather, white kid, Louis XV.
heel; mahogany calfskin, fawn
cloth top; brown calfskin with
brown ooze top, Louis XV. heel.
At $8.75
Patent leather button, gray
cloth top, Cuban heel; brown calf?
skin, fawn cloth top, Cuban heel;
black laced kid, gray cloth top,
Cuban heel; all-black or tan calf?
skin laced, Cuban heel; black or
tan calfskin, gray cloth top; aill
gray kidskin, Louis heel.
At $7.75
Patent leather pump, Louis XV.
heel; dull calfskin, Louis XV. heel;
patent leather Colonial pump,
white piping; tan or black caJfskin
laced oxford, indicated wing tip;
black calfskin lace oxford, straight
tip; white buckskin low-heel
pumps; black kidskin low-heel ox?
fords; black laced, five-eyelet,
plain toe oxford; white canvas
laced oxford ; tan calf pumps, low
Louis XV. heel; patent leather ox?
fords, Cuban heels.
i m We are giving over the en?
tire Shoe Store space on the
First ?oor to the sale of these
shoes, which will be separatee
into groups in the different
aisles and with a largely aug?
mented salesforce.
Wise women will provide
even for next Fall.
First floor, Old Building.
Silver Plate
a quarter less
Gifts for the Easter bride
Silver is the present most
coveted and appreciated by
every bride of every age.
Trays, dishes, baskets, of all
sizes?she has a use for each
and knows that she can
never have too many of
them.
The pieces in this sale
have all the charm and dis?
tinction of appearance one
usually connects exclusively
with sterling silver.
457 pieces plain, Colonial
and pierced designs
Gracefully simple lines.
Exquisitely restrained pat?
terns.
Bread and roll trays. One
colonial in design with a thread
border. $11 grade at $7.50.
Deeper shape with cut out han?
dles. $15 grade at $10.
Compotes, octagonal in shape,
beautifully designed in their ab?
solute simplicity. $12.50 grade
at $8.50.
Cake basket with handle is
decorated with a pierced design.
An extremely useful shape.
$13.50 grade at $9.50.
Fruit bowl, gracefully low and
unpretentious in appearance.
$12.50 grade at $8.50.
Bon-bon baskets with a hand
die and ball feet are round in
shape, with a pierced pattern.
$6.50 grade at $4.50.
Cracker and cheese dishes are
uniquely attractive and popular
because of their "occasional"
nature. $12 grade at $9.
Also many other articles, such
as:?
Round trays
Gravy boats and trays.
Trivets.
Crumb sets.
Main floor, Old Building.
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Beautifully
bordered
dinner sets
IN MARCH SALE
They come from an Ameri
factory?the Warwick
Yes, they are real
can
China Co. ^_
china. And they compare
favorably with French china
which costs a great deal
more.
$40, $60, $80 a set
They are all first quality,
for 12 persons, and embrace
bread and butter plates and
all important pieces.
French china dinner sets are
$70 and $130, for $90 to $180
grades.
American porcelain dinner sets
are $35 and $40, for $42.50 and
$45 grades.
Cut Glass
Several new shipments have
arrived and been marked at
March Sale prices?25 to 33 1-3
per cent, below regular prices.
Combination bowls, $9.
Ice cream trays, $6.50 and $7.
Flower vases, $7.50 and $8.
Women's charming
afternoon Frocks, $39.50
$59.50 and $69.50 grades
This choice collection includes frocks of foulard, of satin,
of Georgette crepe and of printed chiffon Georgette crepe.
They are the soft little frocks that are becoming for after?
noon and even restaurant dinner wear.
Illustrated are three of the frocks
typical of the collection
At the left is a frock of printed Georgette in blue and
cream color and green trimmed with printed taffeta ruffles
In midnight blue. The silhouette is of the loosely girdle
soft-at-the-hem type.
The middle frock is of midnight blue satin and Georgette
crepe embroidered with old blue. This frock may also be
had in foulard.
The third frock is of Georgette crepe beaded at the
round neck-line and on the sleeves and skirt.
The colors in which the chiffon Georgette crepe frocks
are developed are midnight blue, beige, green, tan.
Satin and Georgette crepe in midnight blue and black.
Foulards in beige midnight blue and black.
Second floor, Old BuikJiaf
Au Quatri?me Wears
the Colors of Spring
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?rfOTTrw
T?
Au Quatri?me has had a spring
housecleaning. The walls have been
painted the colors of primroses and
the heavy carpets have been removed
from the floors for spring and summer
coolness.
One room with its shelves lined
with V enetian glass is painted the pale green-vellow of
the primrose, two large rooms containing lamps"and pot?
tery are the pale mauve of primroses, and a third room
sparkling with old English colored glass is painted the
delicate green of primrose leaves.
The Charm of Glass
There is a particular spring- j glass and modern English re?
time charm about glass, whether
it is modern Venetian or fine old
Waterford.
Venetian glass covered com?
potes in lovely amber, amethyst
or pale aquamarine, gay with
bits of fruit on their covers and
quaint in shape are suggestive
of the country house and its
informal charm.
Old Waterford
and Bristol
?productions of old glass art
most beautifully cut in quaint
shapes and fine in their apple
green, deep amber, sapphire and
ruby color.
White Bassano ware with its
exquisite glaze, comes vases and
Urns and bowls in almost classic
shapes.
Modern Brittany table ware
is sturdy and charming with it?
amusing shapes and gay little
peasant figures.
Fourth Floor, Old Building