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He Saw
Prohibition
Coming
In 1626 the Dutch
Burgher Peter Minuit
made a good invest?
ment; he traded his
rum (value $24.00)
for this Island of
Manhattan contain?
ing twenty-two thou?
sand acres.
He is now in the
Land of Spirits.
Cross Hand Bag
f?lark or .?lore,! duvctw. HVt ?tninp.
purse eircl mirror; designed metal
frame, chain handle. Hau 0 Vi inches
?W .$34.65
Cross Bottle Set
Four colored alas* bottles, nitH t nickel
tope; Inn Itidr leather case, (>Mz'?%x?
inches. Complete .$20.00
Cross Refreshment Set
Comprising : Cut crystal pitcher and
six glasten; glass npoons with colored
tops. Set without trau.$28.35
Wicker and mahogany serving trays,
acith glass bottoms extra.
Js shaw? aboie, thwr bag when not
in> us? lotas flat and compact to one
half its site and 8-inch thickness,
taking no apace in travelling; tan or
black hid? leather. 18-inch.. ..$55 25
Sir? W-incH .$57.45
Initials stamped without charge.
GLOVES
Real Capeskin
English Handsewn
Better than machine sewn
Women $3.25 Men $3.90
The World's Greatest Leather Store?
NEW YORK
404 Fifth At?. 253 Broadway
,At 37th Street) '.Opp. City Hall)
Boaton Loaders
145 Tremont St. 89 Regent St.
Dealers Throughout the World
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'Smith Pledges
Are All Bunk.
Says Whitnev
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Ex-President of P. S. C. As?
serts Tammany Uses New
Commissioner Plan Only
to? Distribute Patronage
-
! Assails Economy Promise
expenses Increased, Work
Decreased; $20,000,000
Added to Subway Cost
Travis IT. Whitney, former president
of the Public Service Commission,
I speaking yesterday at the Caf? Roule
1 vard to the speakers' bureau of the
| Rpublican State Committee, sharply as?
sailed Governor Smith for unfulfilled
pledges, charging that the Public Serv?
ice Commission spends more and does
less than before Governor Smith's elec?
tion.
"The Legislature generously allowed
the Governor to experiment with the
Public Service Commission," said Mr.
Whitney. "It passed the Governor's
own bill for the reorgani.mtion of the
commission, separating rapid transit
and regulation, each under a single
commissioner.
"Governor Smith was given full op?
portunity to prove, according to his
own assertions, that reorganization
would increase efficiency, produce
economy, reduce personnel and abolish
bureaus and positions and that politi?
cal patronage would be reduced. He
proclaimed before the Legislature
passed his bill that he would appoint
William Barclay Parsons or some
other emiment engineer as Rapid
Transit Commissioner and that he was
not interested in patronage.
"Overconfidence by the Legislature
in the promises and good faith of a
Tammany Governor proves that his
assertions and promises to the voters
and to the Legislature were bunk, to
use Governor Smith's own language.
What are tha facts?
Expenses Go Up, Not Down
"Economy is one of the benefits
claimed for Smith's reorganization.
One of the first acts, when one Public
Service Commissioner v.-.is substituted
for five, was the purchase of three new
automobiles for $10,000 and Commis?
sioner Delaney, not to be outdone, ac?
quired an expensive limousine for him?
self. Expenses Wv'iit up and not down.
The Public Service Commission with
one commissioner instead of live now
costs $40,000 a year more.
"The Rapid Transit appropriations
for the first ?uarter of 1919 under the
former commission were at the rate
cf about $1,000,000. The appropria?
tions for 1920 with Rapid Transit as
a separate department, ave ?2,200,000.
The former commission said that its
rapid transit expenses would decrease
year by vear. In 1016 the appropria?
tions were $3,700,000; !.n 1917, $3,041,
000; in 1018, $2,272,000, and first quar?
ter o! 1919 at the rave of $1,000,000.
In the second quarter of 1919 came the
Smith-Tammany Rapid Transit Com?
missioner and the appropriations going
up, The final total for 1919 was nearly
$2,000,000 and for 1920, $2,200,000.
"As to the promised reduction of
bureaus and positions under Smith re?
organization principles,- three counsel
at $10,000 per year now grow where
only one grew before, two secretaries
at. $6,000 instead of one, two auditors
instead of one, two chief clerks in?
stead of one, and so on, with the num?
ber and total salaries of all exempt
places increased and not decreased.
Dual Subways Are Forgotten
"The prompt completion of the sub
! ways has been forgotten. Some of the
! contracts remaining from the former
i commission have been completed, but
! of the $25,000,000 of work necessary
; to complete the dual system virtually
i none has been contracted for. Yet
I with the dual system still uncompleted
i Commissioner Delaney published new
! systems to cost $250,000,000.
"The paralysis to rapid transit con
I struction during the three years ?of
! Governor Smith in the Board of Esti
] mate and as Governor will add more
than $20,000,000 to the cost of the dual
; system in loss of interest on work part?
ly done and paid for, contracts forfeit
i ed and delayed work. Such is one item
j to the voters and taxpayers of New
j York City as the result of Smith-Tam
' many reorganization experiments.
"Service has decreased. Rates have
j increased. Expenses have increased.
Work has decreased and, above all, al
| though Governor Smith said he was
1 not interested in patronage, lie turned
i over both departments to Tammany
; 'Hall, and that organization has used all
j the patronage to bolster up its desper
; ale situation with various classes of
j voters."
Roads Appeal Hiding
To Withhold Funds
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.?The rail?
roads of the country appealed to-day to
President Wilson against the ruling of
the Comptroller of the Treasury that
the Treasury Department might with?
hold from? tho roads all further pay?
ments duo them under tho guarantee
provision of the transportation act
until final accounting1 had been com?
pleted by the carriers.
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Speaking of
Pearls as
Investments
TT is true, one can
?** raise money on
Oriental Pearls,
but one must first
raise money to
buy them, so it is
as broad as it is
long.
Our recommen?
dation is, that you
buy Tecla Pearls
and invest your
money in secur?
ities.
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The Testimonial
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"In recently settling an estate 1
was forcibly struck with the
contrast between Guaranteed
Mortgages, which yielded full
principal and accrued interest,
and a variety of high grade
bonds on which 30% of the
original investment was lost."
!f you want to be sure of all
your principal buy Guaranteed
Mortgages.
Full details In booklet I?-104, went
on request.
LAWYERS MORTGAGE CO.
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5th Avenue Tailors to Strike
?Quit To-day Because Employers
Refuse to Renew Agreement
Members of Local 390, of the Jour?
neymen Tailors of America, who are
employed in about 100 men's tailoring
shops on Fifth Avenue, voted last
night at a meeting at 321 East Seventy
third Street, to go on strike at once
because of the refusal of members of
the Merchant Tailors' Association to
renew the agreement entered into last
year.
Strike headquarters is to be ?stab
lishcd this morning at 229 E.v.i, Forty
seventh Street and pickets sent to
Fifth Avenue. About 2,000 mon nre
affected. They have been getting $40
for ? forty-four-hour week, with time
and a half for overtime, and say the
employers want to reduce their holi?
days and nay only single time for over?
time work.
Southern Tyrol Now Italian
City of Innsbruck in Mourning
as Transfer Is Made
VIENNA, Oct. 11.?-The Southern
Tyrol, allotted to Italy by the Austrian
peace treaty, formally passed into Ital?
ian hands yesterday. There were
solemn ceremonies in the churches and
public places. The city of Innsbruck
was draped in mourning.
KLAGENFURT, Lower Austria. Oct.
11.- At Austrian official headquarters
it was said to-night that on informa?
tion received, it was estimated that tho
vote in the plebiscite to-day to deter?
mine whether this region should con?
tinue a part of Austria or go to Jugo?
slavia would show fil per cent of the
population in favor of remaining
Austrian.
Miss Bra i nerd Released
Betty Brainerd, a writer, who was
arrested Saturday at the request of
Seattle authorities in connection with
the abduction of a baby, denicckknow
ing anything about the kidnapping,
when arraigned yesterday in West Side
police court. There is no evidence
against her and she was released in
bail for further examination Friday,
when it is expected that information
will have arrived from Seattle. .
The child who was kidnapped in that
city is Bobby Stagg, twenty months
old, the son of George T. Stagg, who
is divorced from his wife. Mr. ?Stagg
and Miss Brainerd are acquainted. Miss
Brainerd is the daughter of Erasmus
Brainerd, editor of the Seattle Tost
Intelligencer.
Coal Goiigers
Delay Mayor's
Plan of Relief
(Continued from phijb ?ne)
only about 25 per cent of the total pro?
duction of coal is mined by independent
operators, while a majority at these
maintain prices within a reasonable re?
lation to those charged by the railroads.
He estimated that about 10 per cent of
the coal mim>d was being sold at the
exhorbitant prices, which ranged from
$13 to $16 a ton at the mines.
Although most of the coal sold at
the high prices is said to have gone to
New England, some, it was saidj has
been purchased for the New York mar?
ket and may have formed the basis for
exhorbitant prices charged in some in?
stances to -householders in this city
and vicinity.
Frank Burns, of Burns Brothers, one
of the largest coal retailers in the
country, sadi his firm had not been
quoted any prices so high as thosn re?
corded.
"We couldn't handle coal at such
figures," he said. "If we attempted to
it would mean we would have to raise
the retail price to nearly $20 a ton."
Burns Sees Itelief in November
r. Burns said the firm was com?
pelled to pay a wide range of prices
for a: TJiracite coal in order to get
sufficient to supply its customers. He
said the situation might relieve itself
somewhat in November, when it is ex?
pected a larger portion of the produc?
tion will be diverted to the New York
market.
"We are selling stove and nut coal
at $13.75 per ton, delivered to the
consumer," Mr Burns said, "and do
not expect a material change in the
price. The chiet problem is to keep
the supply distributed so that all may
get. enough to keep themselves going
until the shortage is somewhat re?
lieved."
Edwin O'Malley, Commissioner of
Public Markets, returned yesterday
from the Pennsylvania coal regions.
He reported to Mayor Hylan that
a group of independent operators had
offered to post, a bond of $100,000 to
insure the delivery o1' 300,000 tons of
hard coal to New York citizens at $14
a ton. The Mayor, at whose behest
Mr. O'Malley went to the coal fields,
at once asked John P. O'Brien, Cor?
poration Counsel, fo# an opinion a., to
what course the city might pursue.
Mr. O'Malley said the coal offered
by the operators is now available at
the mines, but delivery would not b<
made until the end of November.
Foreign Buyers I'ay Premiums
Commissioner O'Malley said one oi
the chief causes for the shortage if
that Swedish and Canadian buyers arc
paying premium prices for their coal
He urged the Mayor to make an im
mediate appeal to V/g' Federal govern
ment for an cmbar^i on foreign ship?
ments, and pronhijfiied that unies:
some drastic measure were adopted im
mediately anthracite, might retail at
$25 a ton before the .winter is over.
Immediately after conferring with
Mr. O'Malley the'1 Mayor addressed i
letter to Francis G. Caffey, Unitec
States District Attorney, putting a
hi; disposal the services of the cor
poration counsel, the commissioner o
accounts and the detective force "for
use any way that you can utilize their
services to aid in running down thou?
conspiring to violate the Lever act, or
any other Jaw which is being violated
that has any be-.r!ng on the coal
monopoly."
Lawis Nixofl, 1 ablic Service .Com?
missioner, summoned representatives
of all public utilities corporations to
his offico for a ] caring on the coal
situation. He said he intended to ap?
point committees to check up on all
public utilities and seo that each was
getting the coal for which its priorities
and pormits had been issued.
Ninon to Go Aft? TTtilitles
"I hope through this hearing," the
Commissioner told the representatives,
"to be able to put a stop to some of
the pernicious practices of certain pub?
lic util it ios concerns in regard to the
disposition of coal obtained under Fed?
eral permits on representation that
they needed the fuel for their own use.
There have been instances where pub?
lic utilities have presented priority or?
ders for coal and then sold it to tho
jobbers."
Ile asked those present to do what
was in their power to police the coal
situation as it is related to their sev?
eral institutions and to avoid a repeti?
tion of recent scandals. He referred
to the Brooklyn Edison Company, in
which case indictments were found for
alleged misuse of coal permits.
Healers and consumers in greater
New York continued to complain yes?
terday that they were unable to get
coal. Some dealers reported that cer?
tain grades had been offered them at
prices ranging from $13 to $15 at the
mines. Consumers said they had been
unable to obtain anthracite at any
price. In one or two instances house?
holders reported having paid $19 and
$20 a ton for stove size. These cases
are under investigation.
Restaurant Manager Held
In Pancake Poisoning
; Says He Ate Cakes From Same
Batter That Are Blamed for
Man's Death
ASBURY PARK, N. J., Oct. 11.?Pan?
cakes, eaten in a Main.Street restau?
rant, are alleged to have caused the
deatli of one man and the serious ill?
ness of two other persons. The night
manager, alleged to have baked the
pancakes, is held on a manslaughter
charge. The waiter who served them
vas arrested as a material witness.
The manager maintains he ate two
caki's, made of the same batter and
baked from the same griddle, and felt
no ill eifert s.
The tragedy fol'owed a pancake feast
Saturday night ii which four members
of an automobile party were partici?
pants. George Greenway Smith, forty
live years old, of 333 Central Park
West, Manhattan!] died yesterday
morning. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Grarlt,
of Whitesville, N. J., also members of
the party, were stricken, but are re
covering. The death certificate issued
for Smith gave arsenic poisoning as the
"probable cause of deatli."
The men arrested are William Oell
man, niirht manager of the restaurant,
ami George Hardy, the waiter. Police
say the baking powder, syrup and
other ingredients of the pancake mix?
ture will be analyzed to determine
whether thev contained arsenic.
R. G Shannon, Late Envoy
To Brazil, Leaves $1,025,000
ROCHESTER, Oct. . 11.?An estate,
valued at $1,026,000, was left by Richard
Cutts Shannon, former Minister to
Brazil, who died in Brockport on Octo?
ber 5. His will was admitted to pro?
bate by Surrogate Seiden S. Brown
in this city to-day. A brother, Charles
Way Shannon, of Sago, Me., receives
$265,000 and $50,000 is left to four
churches and school.
! Kidnapper Says
He Smothered
Coughlin Baby
(Continued from paga an?)
started for the window. Tne child was
! asleep when I took him from his crib,
but he awoke and cried. There was
no one else in the room, but the door
of the adjoining room was open. I
stood very still for an instant. Then
I heard a noice in the next room. Some
one was moving, and I had to hurry.
Says Baby Was Smothered
"I knew some one was coming Into
the room where I was, so I buttoned
my coat over the baby and ran to the ;
window. I climbed out and down the
ladder with the child still under my
coat. I knew that some one was astir
in the house and I was afraid.
;'So I did not wait for anything, but
ran. I did not stop until I was some
distance from the house and 1 thought '
I was safe. Then I unbuttoned my
coat and looked at the baby. The child
was dead. It had smothered."
Major Adams said that while Pas- :
qualc had told him what he had done ]
with the body he would not make it ?
public at this time. I could not be <
ascertained to-night, whether Captain
Gerhardt went to Egg Harbor to-day ?
under instructions from his chief or j
whether he made the search on his I
own responsibility.
Taught Greek With Hammer
Father Aeeused of Beating Girl
Who Failed at Sehool
According to the police, Kyriaki Klida,
eleven years old, a pupil at Public School
33, in West Twenty-eighth Street, went
to her home, 443 West Twenty-sixth
Street, for her noon lunch yesterday,
and while there her father, August
Klida, asked her how she was getting
along with her Greek. According to the
police, Kyriaki didn't give a satisfactory
answer to her father's questions, and
when he put her through a few simple
tests, he discovered that Kyraiki's
Greek was lagging far behind her other
accomplishments.
Klida, it is charged, beat the girl with
a hammer, and agents of the Children's
Society caused his arrest. He is a pris?
oner at the West Twentieth Street
police station. He is charged with felo?
nious assault. The Children's Society
took the girl in custody.
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IERVING several purposes with retail at London's wholesale cost,
equal smartness, combining Conservatively tailored in rain
practicality with British dis- proofed gray or tan?a protection
tinction, these gabardines from in drizzly weather and notably smart
across the Atlantic, as the repr?- topcoats for auto or sports wear,
sentative of a great London house or when the air of Autumn, begins
tells us, are sold by the mans shop at to nip a bit
Mackintoshes at Twenty-Two to Forty Dollars
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Today
COLUMBUS DAY
Extraordinary Price Cuts in Apparel
for Every Member of the Family, as
Well as Household Needs.
SALE of
Sample Trimmed HATS
8.50
Today, Columbus Day
Georgette Blouses
Our reg. $11.97 and $12.97, $9.65
It seems hardly necessary to add a word, for the pictured
styles are their own best description. There are still other
models besides those sketched, all just as charming. The
laces used are fine Val and real filet, and there is a great
deal of fine handwork and embroidery' used to m.
still lovelier. Majority are flesh and white.
I Today a Columbus Day
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Special Reductions in
Boys' and Young Men's
Clothes
Boys'* Extra Trau ser Boys' Fall i'.o;\\*
Suits Double-brc: -ted, i.
of newes ?
14.50 :i: ??" "erpl
Our regular $19.50 pleated backs.
Plain and pleated Norfolk mode!.-* in ! our _e_ ?074 e ?, ; c CQ
every kind and color of material make
up this ?arge assortment. There are
our reg. 511.94. 7.5C
dozens of styles. Each suit has extra o;ir reg | .8.50
trousers. 9 to 18 years. , our reg. C16.fi 9.50
Boys* Corduroy Suit?
11.50.13.50
Our regular $13.50 and $16..">0
Corduroy suits in brown and drab are well lined *?
Many have extra trousers. Sizes ? to IT years.
Young Men's Suits Boys' Mackinaw?
38.50 13.50
Our regular $45.50 to $52.50 Our regular >
New single and double-breasted sack \? w
suits come in shades of gray, brown with m iff or
and green fancies; also navy serges ed '
and unfinished worsteds. Sizes 33 70 c
38 chest.
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Today, Columbus Day
Special Purchase Sale of the Entire Surplus Stock of
One of the Largest Mills in the Country
50-inch Drapery and Furniture
Velours
2.88 3.88 ?
Our regular $3.95 to $4.95 Our regular $5.95 and $5.95
The fine qualities and unusual beautiful colors in this mal
velour are noted among the best interior decorat i- In our
special purchase there is a range of twent: a nong
which may be cited Copenhagen, Gobelin and K tl
rose du Barry, mulberry, Burgundy, crimson, maroon, ;
ohve, forest green, buff, old gold, wood browns and otl
Of unusual interest to hotel keepers, decorators, upholster?
ers, as well as housekeepers, and an ideal opportunity for c'd
?j Te tnterested in interior furnishings, whether for tt?
'a ,mands of tne Private home or the quantity needs of
a hotel. For new hangings, cushions and upholsteries there
can be no more fitting time to purchase them than now, when
such splendid economies can be had.