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Hylan Hints He kWiUVetoPolice, Fire Pay Bills ?'Where Are We Going to Get the Money?" He Asks as Many Urge Him at Hearing to Sign Measures Angry at City Employers Disgruntled Because They Went to the Legislature; Has Tilt With McCuc Proponents of the bills passed by the last Legislature providing for in? creases in the salaries of about fifteen thousand membors of the Police and Fire departments got little satisfac tion from Mayor Hylan yesterday when he held a public hearing on these and other bills which have come to him for his approral or diaapproval. While the Mayor did not announce what he intended to do with these aalary iti crease bills, he indicated strongly that they would have his veto. "Where are we going to get the money?" was the burden of the Mayor's query throughout the hearing. His Honor appeared disgruntled over the fact that the police and firemen hid gone to the Legislature, instead of consulting the city administration about the matter. He said that the Board of Estimate had given the fire? men and patrolmen an increase of $700 in the last four years. About five hundred policcmen and firemen who were off duty attended the hearing and cheered whenever a kind word was said for the salary in? crease bills. The heads of the various benevolont associations in both depart ments urged the Mayor to approve the measures. They were backed up in their appeals by State Senator Martin McCue, Borough President Maurice E. Connolly of Queens, James P. Holland, president of the State Federation of Labor, and Stcwart Browne, head of the United Real Estate Owners' Asso ciation. Mayor Cracks Joke In answer to the Mayor's query as to where the money for the proposed increases was coming from. Senator McCue said he would lop off the hcads of certain commissioners and cut into the city departments. He declared he would begin with the Comptroller. "But you voted to increase the Comp troller's salary, didn't you?" asked the Mayor. McCue admitted he had, but ex plained he wanted to be consistent be? cause he had voted for increasing the Mayor's salary. This explanation brought one of the few smiles the Mayor showed during the hearing. He complimented McCue, an ex-prize righter, as being an "excellent sparrer." The Mayor greeted coldly Joseph P. Moran, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, and Albert E. Guinness, president of the Uniformed Firemen's Association, when they spoke ia favor of the bills. He asked. them why they had gone to Albany instead of coming to the Board of Estimate for the increases. They were . both more or less evasive in their replies. The Mayor insisted upon a frank an? swer. "There was no desire to embarrass any one." Moran finally assured him. "We simply wanted to make the sal aries mandatory, so that another ad? ministration could not reduce our pay." The Mayor frowned. Mr. Holland urged the Mayor to "play good politics" and sign the bills, and "put the people on the hill in Albany in the hole." The Mayor re plied that it was not good policy to i "play politics with the people's money" and that two wromgs never make a right. Stewart Browne surprised everybody at the hearing by not ocposing the increase salary bills. He declared that $2,500 was not too much for the fire? men and policemen of the ftrst grade. He said one good feature of the bills was that they did not go into effect until January, 1922, and the only seri ous question was where the city was going to get the money. He said he supposed the budget for next year would show an increase of $50,000,000 and that this salary increase might ap proximate $3,000,000. Other Bills Discussed Of several police bills discussed at the hearing, one would confer upon the Police Commissioner authoritv to retire the commanding ofticer of the detective bureau at an inspectov'g pay. Representatives of the Civil Service Rei'orm Association opposed its ap proval as special legislation, because it was "vicious and permits commis eioners to play favorites." Opposition to a hill concerning the pensions allowed widows and orphans of members of the police force was registered by the Civil Service Reform Association, because policemen would become beneliciaries of the pension fund. The association also disap proved of the bill creating a military police captain which is designed to reward Lieutenant Charles Schofield who has long been in charge of the recrUlta' training achool, Severnl bills eovered npplications for relnatato mont to the police force. They also were oppoaad by the association nnd others upon the principlo that. they were subversive of discipline in roator ing men who have been dismiased by another administration. Chiropraetor.s Aid Veterans Free Trealment Offered Dis ablod Ex-Scrvico Men Tho Veterans of Foreign Wnrs of the United States announced nt the local headquarters, 622 Fifth Avenue, yesterday that the New York State Chiropractic Society haa ofl'ered the services of its mombcrs to disabled soldiers. The offer was made by the scciety in a letter to Captain Reuel W. Elton, Adjutant General of the Veterans of Forcign Wars. Any ex-service man may obtain for the asking, through the National Serv? ice Bureau'a temporary hoadquarters at 522 Fifth Avenue, the name of the New York Chiropractic Society- mem ber* in his district, who will render whatever service he is able without pay. ?? Governor to Hold F i 1 m Censor Bill Hearing Tuesday Will Listen to Argnment on Teaehers'' Loyalty Test Same Day; Bill to Check Improper Dancing Signed From a Staff Corrcspnndent ALBANY, April 20.?Governor Miller to-nlght announced that he will give hearings next Tuesday on the follow ing measures: The Lusk-CIaytaii bill creating a state motion picture censorship com mission and the Lvsk bills requiring public school teaehers to undergo loy? alty tests and. empoworing the Board of Regents to regulate courses of in struction given by private institutions of learning. Governor Miller also announced he had signed some non-controversial measures, among them the fololwing: T\:e Cotillo bill, regulating public dance halls and giving a commissioner power to revoke licenses where proprie tors permit immoral form- of dancing. The bill abolishing the State Military Irsining Commission, thus saving the state about $600,000. The measure giving roformatory of ficials authority to permit inmates of the institutions of which they are in charge to attend the funeral or last iII ness of a near relative. The Knight bill, which authorizes tho mcorporation of companies for the operation of busses in New York City and gives the Transit Commission power to grant certificates of necessity for the operation of such lines: The bill which gives tne commission the power to permit the Nassau & Elec tric Railroad Company to discontinue the issuance and acceptance of trans fers on its Church Avenue line; The amendment to the State Income Tax law, providing that, in cases of a debt incurred on or before January 1, 1919, no more than its fair market value shall be deducted; The measure prohibiting the use of the state's coat of arms on motor vehicles not state property. Seeretary of State Lyons to-day re ceived the nine concilrrent rcsolutions adopted by the Legislature and which in one respect or another would amend the state constitution. ? Of the nine proposals seven are to be submitted to the electoratc this fall. They include the following: The Baifmes-Martin resolution, which would give World War veterans civil service preferment in appointments or promotions. The Fearson resolution, providing that no person who cannot read or write the English language shall be eligible to exercise his or her i'ranchise rights. Permission for Wcstchester and Nassau counties to adopt the commis? sion form of county government and discontinue boards of supervisors. Increasing the pay of members of the Legislature from' $1,500 to $8,000. 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Roger Bacon's Cipher, Showing \ He Had Telescope, Is Explained Sclentista Assert 13th Century Monk and Philosopher Also Was Acquaintedl With Microscope; Tell of Facts Learned hy Decoding Manuscript PIIILADELPHIA, April 20.?The first public oxplanntion of the key discov ered to the cipher code used by Rokot Bacon, the thirteenth century philoso pher-monk, which hns revealed that Bacon kncw of the telescopo, micro? scope and scientific fncts hitherto sup posed to have been unknown until cen? turies after his death, was made hero to-night before tho Collego of Physi cinns and Surgeons. Addresso8 were made by Wilfrid M. Voynich, of London and New York, owner of the Rogcr Bacon manuscript in which the key to the codo was found; Professor Romnine Newbold, of tho University of PePnnsylvnnia, who is working on the cipher, and Professor C. E. McClurg, also of the University of Pcnnsylvania, who is assisting Pro? fessor Newbold. At present it is only possible to con jecturc tho extent nnd importance of the discoverios, said Professor New? bold, for the art of reading the cipher is yet in its earliest stnges and it is not cortain that the wholo manuscript can be rcad, but a study of the draw ings alone proves their importance. "The manuscript falls in four di visions," Professor Newbold continued, "dealing respeotively with plants, the heavenly bodies, the generation of ani mal life nnd the preparation of drugs. Tho common link connccting all four probably is Bacon's interest in tho pro longatidn pf human life. Plants are discussed because of their medicinnl properties; the stars because they de ttrmine a man's character at his bi-rth and influence him throughout life; embryology because of tho bearing upon later life of all factors influenc ing conception, and pharmncology be? cause drugs are .essential to the cure of disease. "The evidence of ccrtain discoverios is found in the drawings of the second and third sections. Use of Tclescope Proven "A drawing in the second section, the late Professor Eric Doolittlc as serted, was a drawing of a nebula, and he declared the man wbo flrew it must have had a telescopo, as he correctly depicted features invisible to the naked eye. The legend attached to othis pic ture says the object was seon in a con cave mirror, and gives its location in the sky. The location is that of the great nebula Andromeda. "This is the first record of the use of the telescope. "The embryological section contains Held as Owner of Trunk And $100,000 in Drugs Baggage Check Holder, How ever, Says He Was Arranging Transportation for Wpman Detectivcs seized a trunk said to con tain $100,000 worth of gum opium nt the Grand Central.Terminal yesterday and arrested M. H. Gordon, allcged owner of the trunk, on a charge of pos sessing narcotics illegally. The trunk was in ih'e care of the Westcott Express' Compan'y and Gordon and a woman are said to have nppeared there Tuesday with a ticket for^Detroit and asked that the trunk b6 shipped there. As the police had informed the company employees of their suspicions concerning the trunk, the couple were asked to identify it and, finally, to open it. They left the place, ostensibly to get the key, and there'was no further in quiry concerning the trunk until Gor? don appeared yesterday. Althoujrh he is said to have claimed the trunk Tues? day, he told the police that it was not his, but the woman's, and that rhe also was the owner of a memorandum book found in his pocket in which the names . ?"""""" ==n thirty-one drawings. As a rule they are symbolie, for Bacon w?a unwilling to draw objccta recognizable by the cnsual observer. - "But there are drawings which so aoourately portray the actual appear ance of certnin ob.iocts that it is dif ficult to resist the infcrence that. Bacon had Been them with his microscopo. It ia possible that the dccipherment, of the text may reveal unsuspected meanings in the pictures, but at present the in terprctation 1 have put upon them seems obvious. Such ure the spernia tozoa, the hody cella nnd tho semi ferous tubea, tho ova with their nuclei dlstinctly indicated. "The spe rmatozoa were not agnin seen after Bacon until they were re discovered by . Hamm and Loeuwen hoek. It seems impossiblo to doubt that Bacon was the first to discover these important structures. "The symbolic. significance of the drawings is as yet imperfectly under Istood. It relat.es in large part to Ba jcon's bellef that the soul lived in tho jstars before birth and returned to the stars after death. Diagaoacd Reforms In Education "Bacon possessed an intuitive grasp of the principles of philology and of the textual criticism, nnd dignnosed needed rcforms in eduention. He told of the necessity of endowing research worlc, foreeast the development of medicine in the direction of hygiene anfl preventive medicine nnd of the applicntion of chemistry to physiology, agrieulture nnd indaistry. "The drawings which ccompany the Voynich mnnuscript prove that tho author possessed both the telescope and microscope or lenses of consider able power. "That Bacon was tho author of the mnnuscript possessed by Mr. Voynich is proved by the fact his name is \vrit ten in cipher on the last page. The key to t'he cipher is also written on the last page, partly in Roman and partly in cipher characters." Mr. Voynich told of his researches which led to the discovery of the manu script, snying he was compolled to read the biographies of several hundred persons to lind one which shed any light upon it. This concerned John Dee, who, Shakespeare said, "had vo! umes he prized more than his duke dom." Dee, it appears, enme into pos scssion of the manuscript now owned by Mr. Voynich. Mr. Voynich pointed out that among the persons who were influenced by Roger Bacon through the medium of John Dee was the great English phitos opher, Sir Francia Bacon, who is bo lieved by some persons to have been the author of works attributed gener ally to Shakespeare. pf various drugs appeared in several lists. Copies of telegrams found on the prisoner led the police to believe that he hnd been using the name of M. H Miller as well as Gordon. He has been staying at the Hotel Aberdeen. ?-?-~ Convict, Bullct Removed From Brain, Would Stav in Prison OSSINING, N. Y., April 20.?Roman ? Leondowski, from whose hraili a bullrt I was removed three weeks ago in the ; prison hospital here, was able to walk I outdoors to-day for the first Ume since the operation. Dr. Amos 0. Squiro, prhon physician, ! regards him as completely cured of the i depression and mania of which he had been a victim. Leondowski says he ?likes; it at Sing Sing and would rather stay here than be sent back to Danne mora to be discharged. KJ **? k' Mr ?*. A Rolls-Royce can be fitted with Coach Wofk designed by Rolls-Royce, built to their high stand ards, and for which full responsibility is assumed. A chassis, fitted with a Scdan Jypc of Body, fully equipped, is $ 16,250. ROLLS-ROYCE 785 FIFTH AVENUE*, NEW YORK Tenants File Protests Against Rent Raises IVIayor's Board to Act on Com plaints; Majoritv of Incrcases Range From 33 to 50. P. C. The report that landlords through out the city were going to demand ex orbitant incrcases in rents from ten? ants on May 1 next was confirmed yes? terday by Junius Pendleton Wilson, chief counsol to the Mayor's Commit tee on Rent Profitecring. "We are receivinp a large number of complaints from tenants from. every part of the city," he said. "The ma jority of these show that incrcases ranging from 33 to 50 per cent are being demanded by the landlords. In a few cases the demands have been 90 per cent and 100 per cent increases. "Now that the rent laws have been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States, the com mittee is going to try to bririg land? lords and tenants together for the pur pose of reaching an amicable settle ment of disputes in each of these nase3. "There will be no sentiment in these conferences. Everything will depend upon the figures submitted by the land lord, after they have been veriiied. If the facts warrant it, the tcnant will be urged to pay sufficiont inerease as may be needed to meot carrying chargos, interest on the equity and a j sniail percent'age for depreciation. "We also wili take into nccount the expense ofnocessary repairs and deco rating. Any attempt at evasion, how ever, will bo inet. This has chiefly taken the form of transferring the I equity on paper and by manipulation, j making it appear the landlord has a I greater equity in the property than I he really has. By doing this some landlords have sought to benefit from : the 10 per cent of the equity we have i been ullowing." La Guardia Predicts City Bankruptcy in Ten Years F. H. La Guardia, President of the Board of Aldermen, speaking'yesterday a"; the weekly luncheori of the Adver tising Club of New York, at 47 East Twenty-fifth Street, expressed his con viction that the city could saye $5,0, 000,000 a year through charter revi sion and businesslike administration. He predicted that the city. which is now spending about $1,000,000 a day to run itself, would be bankrupt within iive or ten years unless there is radi cal revision of the charter. "No business could possibly survive if it were to operate in the same man? ner that the city government is com- \ pelled to operate to-day." he said. j "Money is wasted right and left on ; account of cumbersome and unscion-! tific administration, duplication and j overlapping of governmental func-j tlons. I would completcly change the county governments, combining the County Clerk, Register and Commis sionor of Records in one department. "The charter should be so framed j that the power of a-dministration runs j evenly with the power to provide j funds. I am confident that the consti-: tutional limitation' keeping the city's ? expenditures, not counting debt serv ice, within 2 per cent of its assessed real estate valuation is wise and wholesome and I know that the city can be run within that limitation. I think that the commission to investi gatc nnd recommend charter changes has a splendid opportunity to do some thing useful for the City of New York." -~* Clergymen Cheer Verdiet Indorse Arquittal of Rev. Rhine smith on Misconduct Charges Clergymen attending the final session of the Newark Methodist Episcopnl Conference, in Newark, N. J., yester ? day, arose and cheered when the Rev. i Herbert Rhinesmith, of Haverstraw, i N. Y., was acquitted on charges invoiv | ing his character. It is said that his accuscr, the Rev. William E. Palmer, may face counter-charges of malicious j persecution. The adjournment of the conference | was heid up awaiting the findings of 'the committee invostigating the charges against Mr. Rhinesmith. Previous in i vestigating committees had found that Lru'mors concerning Rhinesmith's char ',.acter were not .sustained. Considerable y [interest had boen evidenced by those attending the conference in the action of this ne*.v committee. When Bishop Wilson announced the Rhinesmith ver dict the clergymen arose and cheered. f^urstremfch may ifanish /t?e the smofye The Man with a Savings Bank Account Faces the Future with a SMILE SAVINGS BANKS ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 56 West 45th Street, New York City STORE HOURS 9 TO 5:30 GlMBEL BROTHE 11-. SlfcMT - 6aOADWAY . ?!*? STRKtT ntvv RS voa.H e, New York's New Kind of Sale Creates New York's New Value Slogan belS' or Orientals "How are you keeping it up?" they ask us. 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