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Business Men
Of Brooklyn
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Fight Bus Plan
Mayor Hylan's Proposal of
Corporation Under City
Control Is Opposed by
?Chamber of Commerce
\fill Complicate Transit
Resolution To Be Read to
Estimate Board To-day
to Offset New Scheme
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The Brooklyn Chambea of Commerce
,r*nt on record yesterday as being op?
posed to Mayor Hylan's plan for a i
city-wide system of busses operated
by a corporation under municipal con?
trol. The Chamber's committee on lo?
cal transit adopted an unfavorable re?
port, which will be read to-day when
the Board of Estimate meets to con?
sider the bus question.
The committee's report declares that
a city-wide bus system will serve only"
to complicate transit difficulties, th.?t
it will revive the old spirit of compe?
tition, which was discarded when pub?
lic utilities were made subject to state
regulation, and that adequate and effi?
cient bus service is impossible on a
5-cent fare. Herman A. Metz is chair?
man of the transit committee.
The report reads in part:
"The present transportation situa?
tion is a menace not only to the City
of New York, but to the transportation
systems throughout the country, and it
is incumbent upon the city and the
companies to find, if possible, an early
snd constructive solution of the
problem.
Busses Will Complicate Trouble
"Dut a city-wide bus system, in our
opinion, will not solve our serious
transit difficulties. It ?ivill only tend
*o complicate them and make them
more difficult. While the motor bus
has, we believe, sufficiently proven its
worth ir. urban transportation to jus?
tify the conclusion that it is here to
stay, its usefulness will not be found as
a separate aj?d independent system, but
rather as a feeder to existing trolley
and rapid transit lines.
"Just when we are beginning fully
to recognize the monopoly character
of local transit service and to subject
it to public regulation for the purpose
of making this public utility a service i
established for public convenience and
welfare- under the jruidance and control
of public official, the city adir.inis- :
tration proposes that we reverse that
policy and return to the policy of cut- j
throat competition, leaving each utility !
to be a speculative enterprise whose
obligations to the public are dictated
by the chance of financial profit.
Will Disorganize Service
"A city-wide bus system established
as a separate competitive enterprise
will only tend to further disorganize
the transportation service and will re?
sult only in added riisconifort and in?
convenience to the 'raveling public.
"The Mayor believes that a city-wide
bus system can be successfully
operated and made to nay on a five
cent fare. He bases rus conclusions
en the rather limited and scattered
experior.es of the City of New York in
its brief and stormy period of bus
competition.
"In our opinion the experience of
this city hardly justifies the Mayor's
conclusions. The experience has not
been for a sufficiently long time to
furnish any reliable data as to the
actual cost of operation and the extent
of depreciation. The bus lines hav??
been taking the cr*?.am of the service
from the trolley lines without handling
the les- profitable business which the
trolley lines have been compelled to
receive."
Woman and Two Men
Kidnap Baby Gir!
Father Savs Cloak Model I*
Mother, nut Wife Refused
to Divorce Him
A woman and two men are involved
in the kidnaping of a two-year-old girl
from the rooms of a Mrs. Burns, 162
Queens Boulevard, Woodside, L. I., yes?
terday afternoon.
Herbert Verga, an inventor, who lives
at the Queens Boulevard address, told
the police of the Hunters Point station
tint he was the father of the kid?
naped baby, whose name is Angelina.
The mother was a former cloak model
at a Fifth Avenue shop in Manhattan.
Verga said that he separated from
his wife eight years ago. Three years
afro he met the cloak model, who de?
serted him and the baby about three
months ago, he told the polic?k Verga
engaged Mrs. Burns to care for the
child and he has been awaiting the re?
turn of its mother, whom he would have
married, he said, had he been free to
do so. Verga said his wife had refused
to divorce him. ?
Verga was absent from the Queens
Boulevard address yesterday when a
motor car was hatted in front of the
house. The woman and two men
slighted. The woman, according to
-?1rs. Burns, asked to see the baby.
Nrs. Burns showed her the child and.
with Angelina in her arms, the woman
snd her male companions fled in tr?
motor car. Mrs. Burns says the kid?
naper was not the mother of the baby.
Verga i. said to have invented a
process for the manufacture of arti?
ficial pear! i and to have made big
profits from it. Verga's father is -the
owner of a lurge siik-dyeing establish
it Woodside.
Two Cents a Mile Fare
f)rder Opposed by N.Y.C.
?Federal Judges Hear Arfru
menta on Railroad Rate Rul
ing by Public Service Board
Tin appli ?.I on of the New York
[ road Company to prevent
if*e Public Service Commission of the*
New York District fren putting
Into effect the pre-war rate of two ?
lents h mile for passpngers between ;
Albany and Buffalo was argued yester?
day before Federal Judges Ward, Hough
*M Cooper.
Charles C. Pauldi.ig appeared for the
"?ailro&d comnany and Joseph A. Kellogg,
Public Senjbe Commissioner of the
cecodd I)*istrict, appeared for the com?
mission. A brief was tiled by Ledyard
* "a?e, counsel for the commission.
n? Mr. Kellogg submitted an oral
??gument against the granting of the
order.
The Public Service Commission issued
*" order on June 15 directing the rail- ,
*oad company to thow cause whv the
^o-cent rate should not be put into :
?p?ct on September 1. Mr. Kellogg de
?'??rcd that under Chapter 16 of the "
r ?of. 1853, b3r whi<"h th? ?N?w Y?rl?
?-entrai and connecting lines were char?
ged, a rate of two cents a mile had
Man written into the charter, and that i
?is rat.? Was now a contract which'
"??st b?. tnfcreed.
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league Seeks a Weapon
Council Will Take Up Block?
ades and Mandate Problems
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, July 27 (By
The Associated Press).?The secre?
taries of the League of Nations arrived
here to-day to make arrangements for
the eighth meeting of the league coun?
cil, which begins July 30.
This meeting of the council is re?
garded by officials connected with the
league as the most important yet held,
the principal subject of discussion be?
ing how to effect organization of a
blockade to enforce the decision of the
league in case of the belligerency of
any nation. Mandates for the colonies
and territories detached from the Cen?
tral Empires and Turkey, whose inhab?
itants are not yet considered ready to
exercise self-determination, will also be
discussed.
The report of the committee of jur?
ists on their work at The Hague for
the purpose of organizing an interna?
tional tribune will be presented by
Leon Bourgeois, the French represen?
tative. The relations of the council to
the full assembly of the league will be
taken up in view of the full meeting
called by President Wilson for Novem?
ber 15 next. v
Lloyd Is Called a Coward
Millionaire Communist, on Trial,
Assailed by Chicago Prosecutor
CHICAGO, July 27.?William Bross
Lloyd, millionaire serjreant-at-arms of
the Communists-Labor party, was to?
day branded a "coward" by Assistant
State's Attorney Barnhart in his clos?
ing arguments to the jury. Lloyd and
nineteen other alleged leaders of the
Communists are on trial, charged with
conspiring to overthrow the govern?
ment by force.
"Lloyd indicated his contempt for
this government by displaying the red
flag of the revolution when arrested,"
Mr. Barnhart said. "Lloyd said that if
he could not display the red flag here
he would go to Russia. He'll not go
there. He'll go to the penitentiary,
where he belongs, when you men re?
turn a verdict. He is a coward and has
? ot the manhood to go to Russia."
The state expected to close its argu
!..?:.*.? to-day.
Craig to Grant
Pay Increase
Despite Veto
Comptroller Says Mayor Had
No Legal Ri^ht to Reject
"Proposed 20 Per Cent Ad?
vance and Will Fight Act
Bonds May Be Issued
Taxpayer's Suit May R?e
strain Payment of Sal?
aries as Officiai Plans
Following the veto by Mayor Hylan
on Monday of the proposed 20 por cent
salary increase for about 43,000 city
employees, Comptroller Craig issued a
statement yesterday, declaring: that the
Mayor acted without legal authority
and that the Comptroller would pay
salaries based on the new schedule if
presented to his office by any of the
departments.
Comptroller Craig insisted that the
Mayor did not have the power to veto
the resolution of the Board of Alder?
men, taken on recommendation of the
Board of Estimate, providing for the
increases. He cited Section 56 of the
charter, under which salaries are fixed.
Mr. Craig interpreted this section ??
giving the Mayor power to affix his veto
only in instances where the Board of
Aldermen vote to reduce salaries. In
the present instance no such action was
taken by the aldermen, and, therefore,
according to Mr. Craig, Mayor Hylan i
could not act within the power as de?
fined by the charter.
Mayor Can't Veto, He Says
Besides this, the Comptroller argues,
the Mayor has no power of veto over |
the action of the Board of Estimate or j
over the combined action of the Board !
of Estimate and the Boarcr of Aldermen. !
"The situation is analogous to that ?
of the passage of the annual budget," ,
said Mr. Craig. "After the Board of !
Estimate and Apportionment adopts the I
budget the Board of Aldermen may re- i
duce items, but it cannot make in- ?
creases. Such reductions are subject
to the veto power of the Mayor, but
no one would suggest that the Mayor
can veto the entire budget after it has
been passed by the Board of Estimate
and the Board of Aldermen. This is
precisely what the present attempt
amouts to in a similar situation. The
power does not exist."
Comptroller Craig added that he has
ample power to raise the necessary
S5,0Q0,000 by means of cpecial revenue
bonds to meet the 20 per cent salary
increase and that he will exercise that
power.
Will Approve Increase
"Every pay roll duly presented for
the increased rates will be honored,"
he said. "If there are any employees,
exempt or otherwise, who?o compensa- !
tion shall hereafter be found to be
excessive, it can be corrected in the
1921 budget."
Whether any department head will ;
present a pay roll with the new schedule
of salaries, in view of the announced ;
objection of Mayor Hylan, remains to !
be seen. Also there is a possibility of
a taxpayer's action to restrain Comp?
troller Craig from paying salaries '
1 under the 20 per cent Increase plan if
such pay roll is presented.
Mayor Hylan, in returning the meas
ure to the Board of Aldermen, said ho
had found on reflection that the plan j
was not. equitable, in that it gave little
to the city employee;, of small salaries
and much more to the higher paid em
ployees. ...
The Board of Aldermen had two
! weeks from yesterday in which to act i
! on the veto of the Mayor. President j
I La Guardia of the Board of Aldermen
! gave out a statement taking issue with j
j the stand of Comptroller Craig.
Two Alleged Thieves
Plead Somnambulism
: Magistrate ignores Story of Pair
Found in Wrong
Apartment
An alibi that was new to even the
most experienced detectives in New
York City was produced yesterday by
two men arrested in distant sections
of the city on charges of unlawful
?entry. Somnambulism was held re?
sponsible by both for their predica?
ment.
Cres Stesi, a Spaniard, was one of
the prisoners. He was arraigned in the
West Side court on the complaint of
Charles Frolich. of 134 West Sixty
fourth Street, the same house in which ?
? Stesi lives. Frolich alleged that he j
| caught the prisoner removing $85 frpm
his pocket while he was* feigning sleep
in his room. Stesi was held in $2,000
bail for examination to-morrow.
When Stesi wa3 caught by Frolich,
the police say, ho asked dreamily;
"Where am I?"
"You know where you're gonna be," :
Frolich is satJ to have responded.
The other '"somnambulist" was Grant !
Pettis, colored, forty-two years old, of
406 Lenox Avenue. When he was j
arrested by Patrolman James J. Doyle,
of the Morrisania station, after he had !
entered the loom of Mrs. Josephine:
Sullivan and her eight-year-old daugh- ?
ter, Josephine, at 400 East 150th j
Street, he told the policeman:
"I guess I had a bad dream and was ;
walking in my sleeD.''
He was held in $10,000 bail for the
grand jury.
(?ambling Charges Cause Row
Among Japan's Representatives
TOKIO, July 27 (By The Associated
Press).?Disorder broke out during'
yesterday's sitting of the House of
Representatives when Baron Taka- )
hashi, Minister of Finance, and other '
ministers submitted written replies |
denying allegations made recently in I
the House that they had indulged in '
stock gambling. The session adjourned
in an uproar after it had been decided
to send M. Shimada, who made the
allegations, before a disciplinary com- ;
mittee on the charge of making false :
accusations against the ministers.
Army Flyers Reach Edmonton
EDMONTON'. Alberta, July 27.?On
their second day's flight across Canada,
on a trip from Mine?la, N. Y., to Nome, :
.Alaska, four United States Army avia
tors who loft Saskatoon, Sask., this ?
morning arrived here at 2:12 p. m.
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Hoke Smith Asks Re-election
ATLANTA, Ga., July 27. ? United
States Senatcr Hoke Smith to-day an?
nounced himself as a candidate for re?
election to the Senate. In his state?
ment Senator Smith declared he would
stand squarely upon the Democratic
national platform and his public record.
Junketers Reach Manila
MANILA, P. I., July 27.?The army
transport Great Northern, carrying a .
party? of members of Congress, arrived
here to-day after a tempestuous voyage.
Coast to Coast ?
Air Mail Begins
In September
Three Pathiinding Planes
to Leave Central Park To?
morrow on First Flight
Over Projected Mail Line
Rush New Landing Fields
Metal-Winged Monoplanes
Wi!l Be Used on Leg From
Omaha to San Francisco
New York-San Fancisco air mail
service will be inaugurated the firs!
week in September.
This announcement was made yes^
terday at Washington by Assistan
Postmaster General Praeger. The ex
act date on which the service will be
gin is not known, aa it is contingen
on the completion of landing fields ii
cities along the route. Three all-meta
J-L 6 monoplanes will leave New Yor!
for the Pacific Coast to-morrow as
pathfinding party. These machine
will carry bags bulging with loiters.
Landing fields and hangars now be
ing rushed to completion at Cheyenn?
Wyo., Salt Lake City and Reno#are ex
pected to be ready early in Septembe:
The first, leg of the transcontinenti
route, terminating at Omaha, will b
covered by the J-L 6 planes. DeHav
lands will soar over the. second le
from Omaha to San Francisco.
Designer Heads Party
The three pathfinding planes thi
will leave New York to-morrow wi
be in charge of J. M. Larsen, design?
of the J-L planes. The rcconnoissan?
party will make numerous photograpl
and maps. The trip will be conduct?
jointly by the United States Army A
Service, the Air Mail Service and M
Larsen. Special attention will be giv?
by the flyers to that portion of tl
route between Omaha anjl San Fra
cisco.
The pathfinding machines will sta
from Central Park, L. I. They w
locate intermediate landing fields h
tween the regular mail routes, erne
gency landing fields and gas statio
and will make final arrangements f
airdromes between Omaha and S
Francisco.
Will Keep Sabbath
No attempt for speed records will
made on the transcontinental f?g
Regular mail stops will be made
Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Che3reni
Salt Lake City, Reno and then 'Fris
There will be no night flying nor w
the machines fly on Sunday.
Two of the monoplanes are owr
by Mr. Larsen. Among those in 1
reconnoissance party will be Capti
"Eddie" Rickenbacker, the Americ
ace; Major L. B. Lent, general sup
intendent of the Air Mail Service;
E. Allyenne, of Cleveland; Lieuteni
Roger, naval aviator; Lieutenant Co
nel H. B. Hartney, chief of the tra
ing group of the army air service, ?
Colonel W. K. Wilson, of the gene
staff.
Colonel Hartney will pilot the arm
plane. The pilots of the other i
chines will be Bert Acosta and S.
Eflton. With photographers, mechar
and passengers the party probably y
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