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Hirshfieid Digs lTp $9 Vttack On tlonestDari Objeri* tO U*e of Captain Costigan in Graft Probe hy Teliing of Saloon PJant*' Five Yeara Vs*o >feant to Trap Grafter Cwnmissioner of rVecounta Iu-.i>-tv That Small 8um in City Deal Was Misplaoed Ps> id L. HirshfieM, Commbsioncr unts, hastencd yesterday, upon ? that the Meyer log'slativo coni wanted the eervic. s of Police Captain Daniel ?, Costigun. to make public a report the Commissioner had T.sdc to the Mayor concerning a saloon Captain Costigan opened several years ^o in Astoi a. with tho BanctiOB of his ors, to test the honesty of the captain then in th&t preciuct. oner II u-sh field said in his -??:?? ie had ovidence that i"aptsin Costigan never accounted to rh- dty for $o" wbich he received for his stock in trade when he closed the saloon nor for 53 which he received for n bed used hy John J. liaie, manager af the saloon. Morteovex, said Com H ner Hirshfieltli the whole project, g as it did the opfning of "a low-down bcer and liquor joint," intention of "seducing a police ? i criminality." was on a >ral plane and not to be com r-nred. morally speaking, with sending x well-heeled cop to "bet on horse er to enmesh raalefactors." Ab*urd. Says Costigan ner Hirsh . upon him East night, Hap d tnat it was hardly worthy of h repiy, and declared that rtl in establishing ths so-cal!ert '-plant" in Astoria had been ted for to the Police Depart raent iri< I idii r the $? received for the in the saloon when it $3 for which Hare's bed waa f plac? was opened for the par catching a grafter who had ng down the v.-hole neigh borhood," said Captain Costigan, "and istified the means. The plan Jered carried out by my Buperi I had the approval of Commis Is. The main thing is that ? . . ho grafting." ron--- ioner Hirshfleld's statement ? mployrttent by the Meyer leg i committee of Police Cantain Dan' Costigan to get his fel ? s i f the police force would gan's first activity in thrit "During the last administration, un der Police Commissioner Arthur Woods. I employed a great deal of ame manner. One of where Costigan em? ployed his effort apd the Police Depart an endeavor to ensnare tain and get something on teltl in a report recently made to Mayot Hylan hy Commissioner of Ac ta David Hirshfield, "According to that report, Captain, ran in January of 1916, in his of-' fcial capacity. fitted up, opened and con a.s a. 'plant' a bcer and liquor :? oon in a tumbie-down. two-story ycoden Rtructnre at 740 Vernon venue, the Astoria section of Long Island . Borough of Queens, and in so do red a store, paid the rent with ':?''-? money, procured an excise in the name of John J. Hare, stocked the saloon with bc-er and liquors stalled Hare as manager. "Patrolman Beine, who at that time ??...- an acting detective sergeant at tached to Lieutenant Cosfcigan's Squad Bupervised the. beer saloon after it was opened, and Patrolman Kiernan ?tailed and acted a? bartender therein during the entire period of its ?? r;ce. "Vernon Avenue ia the first street rom the East River and runs parallel No. 740 Vernon Avenue, where this liquor business was located, !8 situated too far from somewhere and too near nowhere, and, with the excep a che.ap-looking liquor store of ?ormer days, at the corner. grimy-look ng giassworks opposite and a few di ted small wooden dwellings. it .-urrounded hy mosouito-breeding '?' ampg. -or.al observation it would that this particular location wotjld bethe last. place for any one to ',fjk to catch anything but malaria. ? John Har? is is best told by Patrolman Beine, who, after testifying n J. Hare. known as Jack Hare, a'i had connections with for 'ner Lieutenant, now Captain, Costigan, made thr- following answer to a ques? tion put to him: "Answer -Tfes, he?meaning Hare ? pigeon.' "When asked whether Hare was a racetrack tout or gambler, Patrolman ;;ene answered, 'He was a gambler.' "When further asked whether this 'OnB J. Hare, in whose name Costi nresenting the Police Depart Bient, had opened a business and whom 't had intrusted with tha receipts and expenditures of the city's monevs. was BO itiformer, Beine answered *YeB.' "When asked whether the under- ] *orid would not call Hare a rat, i Beine answered 'They would.' "The saloon or 'plant' was continued! ;n operation for a period of approxi mately seven months and wa.s c'.osed j "1 the early part of January, 1917, I QWing which period it .was run at a j loss to the city of approximately I According to the testimony ' *f John J. Hare, he not only managed j the saloon but made a handbook there , hy accepting and placing wagers on ' ?orse races and for that purposo used nhone paid for with city money. ! f>bject .for which this 'plant' ablished was t'rustrated soon: *'ter it was opened, as the captain j ^'??om Costigan had hoped to get tock ' ;1 and did not report '"or duty for j J"me months. and thereafter was trans- j "t'.d to another precinct. M'ould Have Been Futile However, be that as it may, under ' !|>* conditions and as described by j Hare and Kiernan, the 'plant.' such as ! would oot have tempted the! ?apidity of un ignorant, hardened crim- I ?w, much less an experienced police ; vouchers filed by Co.stigan in ; Department shbw that dur-j ?en months that this kept open $1,737.48 in ^'ty money waa expertded for rent,1 *Wr, whisky and fre? lunch, hIso in ! *1*??s 1,,r Manager Hare, wbile the '.'.al reccipta during the same pprioti | . $-1^4.15, thus S**in8 ;' total loss of city moneys of ^;-"/.;;i: besidea the services of Aet Sergeant Beine nnd Pa- , foinian Kiernan. thing to have a polieeman I ?<z. on horse ruces in order ?o enmesh ! t'iilei'actors, but it is quite another \ -"fig to open a cheao, low-down beer i w liquor joint, assigti policemen to 2*** as bartenders ami engage in -? and making a handbook in ; 1,1 of sedndne ?<* police captain' ?lfurn .. Hty." Trademien Join Inn Keeper To Uphold Villages Fair Name ; Social Association Going Right Into Court s to See Whether Reformers Can Malign Tea Shops and Get Away With lt; Business, in Meantinxe, Rotten rhe merchants of Greenwieh Village yesterday girdtd up their loina and j alued themsf'ves with tho Innkeepers defenae of t,he fair name of their community. They feel thi f it ia being ; maligned by the Washington Square ! Assoctation's nttac.ks on the ulleged disorderly conduct of the neighbor bood's- tearooms and quaint eating houses. A meeting was held by the Green W;ch Village Social Association, of which the innkeepers are members. and plans were formulated for taking their cauae to the court s. Mrs. Josephine Emery, known to i*re quenters of the Jolly Friar's Inn as "Mother." has started a counter at? tack on the Washington Square As? sociation by engaging counsel to suc it and its attorney, Michaol Horan, for Blander. Mrs. Emery's inn was one of the places which the Washington Square Association opposed in its cru sade to bavo certain places denied li censes for dancing. A delegation from the Greenwieh Village Social Association will call on thfl Mayor to-day and ask to be repre? sented ? Thursday at tbe next hearing or. the Washington Square Associa tion's charges. Business ls Rotten ln the mean time, business in the village resorts is rotten. Ttomany Marie's Russian Tavern, a [gloomy cellar with a lurid reputation, ; was raided by Inspector Boland's men | seeking contraband beverapes. Either j bocause they did not flnd any or else I because they did, a red-headed police man has been stationed there to ob ; serve the so-called ravels, As a result Marie's subterranean j cstablishment is flounsTiing, while all the other Village cellar* and stable re sorta, denied drink and dancing, are i wilhering for lack of patronage. The ' distrait proprietors, waiting vainly for , the chimes to sound on their cash" reg Jisters. are considering- the prospect of : returning to Coney Island or wher over it was they came from. At the end of a lon^ board table in Romany Marie's cellar carly yesterday the police guard was waiting for his relief to arrive. The rest of the places at the table were occupied by chatter ing men and Women sipping tea and | puffing cigarettes. The bluecoat's eyes i were bhnking sleepily, and one ear was , deaf to the convcrsations about him, ; for he rested it on the palm of & hand | supported by an elbow on the table. Speed the Parting Censor i A heavy foot clumped on the sta;rway I ? from the street. The policeman came ; to life. He looked up hopefully and | saw his relief. a younir policeman who I i spoke with a hiffh pitched voice, stand- j . mg in the doorway. Jumping up. ho j j started quickiy for the door, but Marie l ; stopped him. "You haven't said good-night *o the I | guests,' she protested, and as the tea : ari-ikers at the tables arose the blue i coat sheepishly shook hands with each i of them in mock ceremony and then went home to his familv. As *:>v the j relief. he Ieaned in the doorway and ; with a critical and unabashed eve took j in the Bakst decorations on the wall j the brass samovars, the coarse tallow . candles resting each on half a bricl: |-? Lapland Brings In 1,431 Passengers; Two Born at Sea - jU. S. Con^ul at Antwerp, Among Arrivals, Tells of High Retail Prices Pre vailing at Belgian Pori The Red Star liner Lapland, from Antwerp, Cherbourg and Southampton. I arrived here yesterday with 1,431 pas? sengers. She passed the health exam nations at Quarantine and landed her ' travelers in the forenoon. Among the saloon passengers was | George S. Messersmith, the American censui at Antwerp, who returned with I his wife on ieave after a service of | two and a half years at the Belgian i seaport. He said that high retail ipiices such as existed during the war i prevailed now in Belgium, and that | there seemed no Hkelihood of imme diate reduction. Another traveler on the Lapland was ' Rear Admiral Phillip Andrews, U. S. N., who was in command of the Adri-'i atic souadron. He was accompanied by Mrs. Andrews and his son-in-law I and daughter, Ensign and Mrs. C. C. j j Champion. Two chiidren were born on the run | across the Atlantic, one of the infants j dying of measels and pneumonia ahort ; ly before the vessel came to port. The body was buried at sea. The Toloa, of the United Fruit Com ! pany. came to port yesterday from the i West Indles with William McPhee, novelist, as chief engineer. Mr. Mc | Phee had been in the service of the company for several years as second | in command in the engine room, and on | the trip north reeeived his appoint ment as chief engineer. Among the 134 saloon passengers was General Garcia Valez, Cuban Minister to England, accompanied by his son ! and a secretary. Also on board was Mrs. Eleanor Puyol, wife. of the quar termaster general of the Cuban army. She was accompanied by her son and daughter and will spend the summer with them in this country. -? Harvey's \iews on War Declared Not Soldiers' "The distinguished American who told the English the other day that America entered the war for 'safety first' and to save our skins may have voiced the views of the government, but he did not speak for the boys who offered their lives in the army," the Rev. Dr. Herbert Shipman, of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, declared yesterday, referring to Colonel Har? vey's recent address before the Pilgrim Society in London. Dr. Shipman ad dressed more than a thousand New York letter carriers assembled in the Temple Emanu-El for the annual memo? rial service for their comrades who died during the year. "Nobotiv could have persuaded one of those boys that this great country, so remot,e from Europe, wa.s in the e-'ightest danger," Dr. Shipman cont:n ued. "The inan who says thoy were fight tng merely to retain our prosperity, to gain from the world's dlstress, de niea the whoks Bpiril of knight er rantryand consecration which actuated them. And that spirit was not imposed by law, but grew from beltef in God. lt in to-day. as it always hsa- been, the (iod-given Htrengtb of this country." Dr. Shipman Waa followed by Dr. Joseph Silverman. of Temple Emunu-Kt, who declared that the way lo honor our dead patriots is not by flag-waving but by carrying out their ideals. Before the service the letter carriers in three battalions marched up Fifth Avenue from Twenty-sixth Street to '.he trnipl'* ?t Forty -third Street, headed by their president, Peter .1 lrValters. All were in unifomi. cakcd with old grease, nnd the big Ru8 Han ovon of eement, This objecl tinally eaught. and held his- eyes. "Is that," he asked. "where vmi hidc the bodies?" Marie shrugged an uncorseted figurc and tossed black bobhed hair as she passed over the question and replied: "Don't. you think that if tbe in? spector is going to keep you here 1 at loast should be allowed to dresa you in harmony with the decorativc scheme? A Cossack's uniform, perhaps, with red top boots and cartridge loops in j the tunic." ? Joshing a good-naturefl cop ia run. i but elsewhere in the Village the police I were making an unending round of ! calN. popping their heads suddenly into j cellars, suggestlng hungry pussy cata i seeking h meal of unwary rats. Stimu i lating the policrmen were Sergeant | John Schmidt, with tho rumbling voice of u giant, his words of reproof or in struction pouring forth hollowly with a sound similar to potatoea poured from one bariel to another. Watching ; Sergeant Schmidt was Inspector Bo ' land, who in his turn was hnunted by j fear of a nocturnal visit from Mayor Hylan. Under mch circumstances Don Dick erman'a Pirate Den was about as dead as an abandoned livery stable should be. Pirate-waiters lounged at small black tnbles that might have been oc? cupied by customers but for the card on an eapcl in the center of the dunee floor, just half the size of a pirate's conscience. This card bore a hand painted announcemont that dancingwas forbidden until a permit was obtained under the provisions of the recently enacted dance hall bill named for Sen? ator Cotillo. Duc to certain Villagers who refer to themselves as "nativo Ninth Warders," such permits are go? ing to be difficult to get. Next door in the Bl\ir ITorse, a base ment for which the blamc is jointly borne by Pickerman and Celia Kemper, there were even fewer customers. A trip from one place to the other re vealed that half a dozen polieeman were loitering on the curbstonc and giving hostile glarcs to each paaserby with the prccision of well-trainod chorus men. The Tavern, Tho Jolly Frlars, The Red Head and the Black Parrot were as sombre as the neighboring business of W. F. Connerton, whose undertaking establishment is next door to the Studio, in Sixth Avenue. Dancers Sternly Rebuked The windows of this former grocery store were frosted with blue paint two thirds of the distance to the ceiling and there they encountered curtains of a checkerboard pattern in blue and gold squares. These had been roughly cut. with scissors?a typical village touch of artistry. Two couples who had entered to gether began to dance on the un scrubbed floor. The solitary waitress rcmonstrated with them and they sat down, peevishly. A few seconds later Sergeant Schmidt poked his head in the door and after a look around with drew it. "Do you remember what Barnum said?" asked the sergeant as he pre pared to go down the Coal Mine. "He said there was a sucker bom every minute. He didn't tell the half of it." Boy Held as Thief Says Filni Taught Him Safe-Craeking Lads 14 and 11 Years Old Accused of Looting Store; Elder Said to Have Com mitted Nine Burglaries Howard Ward. fourteen years old, of 215 Smith Street, Brooklyn, who, ac? cording to the police, was re leased recently from the Catholic Protectory, where he passed six months for nine Brooklyn burg laries of which he was found guilty, was arrested last night on a charge of entering a Myrtle Avenue. Brooklyn, shoe store and stealing $30 worth" of shoes and rubber heels, Oscar Ander? son, eleven years old, of 119 Dean Street, Brooklyn, was arrested with the Ward boy and held on a similar charge. Deteetive Reardon was leaving the Adams Street police station shortly after 9 o'clock last night when he was accosted by a breathless pedestrian, who told him that two burglars had entered the shoe store of Jacob Harris, at 30 Myrtle Avenue, and were then work mg on the sale of the store. The pe? destrian said that he had tried to enter the store, but found that a large pack ing case had been moved against the door. As he hurried away to report to the police, he told the deteetive that he heard the regular beat of a heavy sledge on the steel door of the safe After hearing this report Deteetive Reardon returned to the station and enlisted the aid of Deteetive McKerina in the desperate adventure which seemed ahead of him. A block from the station house the two detectives saw the Ward anrl I Reardon boys scrambling hastily over i a back fence. Becoming suspicious they chased the boys and eaught them after a lively race. With their two prisoners the detec? tives then proceeded to the shoe store. There, they allege, they found a full set of burglars' tools before, the safe ? the combmation of which had been knocked almost off. According to the detectives, the safe had every appear? ance of having been attacked by expert crackers. When asked where they had learned j to crack a safe in such a fashion, Ward is said to have confessed that he learned the trick from a motion pic-! ?ture he had seen while in the Catholic ! Protectory. Boy, 13, Hangs Himself After Spat With Brother XKW BRUXSW1CK, N. J., June 5,_ -, rhirteen-year-old Leopold Fiabach took ; his own life to-day by hanging himseVf : from a rafter in the garret of his j home, 315 Wayne Street, Highland Park. a suburb of New Brunswick His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph i 1" labach. can assign no motive for the ' deed. He had had a quarrel with his brtther shortly before he coramitted I suu-ide. they said, but the incident waa unimportant. He was in his third year in high school and had passed his ex aminations for promotion. Art Treasures Stolen From Morgan Memorial in Hartford HARTFORD, Conn., June 5, -gev eral thousand dollars' worth of valua ble tapestries and painttngs were stolen inysteriously last night from the Morgan Memorial, the costly edifice erected in this, his native city, by the late J. P. Morgan in honor of his father, Junius Spencer Morgan. Tho buildings are Buppfased to be ' closcly guarded. Although the p ?1 ??? and the trustees of the Memorial re- ! fuse to talk, it is believed that the thievea effocted an entrance through a reai window of the Watisworth Ath:v neum, whicfc is connected with tbe! Morgan Memorial, and rushed the loot | out of to\' ii in autoinopilea. Hylan Prepares To Obstruct Meyer Inqiiirv W 1 a/ iContlmifd from pago on?) investigation into graft charges made bj rhe Tribune, which rcsulted in nu i,n roua Indictments, asked that certain policemen in whom he had conftdence bc assigned to assist him. The Mayor changed hia attitude, howover, when Mr. whitman threatened to put some one in Jail if his request was not com plied with. The fact is that the mandate in the iTsMution creating tho legislative com? mittee was written for the purpose of preventing the Hearst-Hylan-Tammany administration from refusing to assign mtin in the city employ whom the leg islatora could trust. The present attitude of Mayor Hylan and his administration toward the graft investigators is held to be a complete reversal of his professions of willlng ness to help, which he announced on April 8 he and all his subordinaates would maintain toward the legislative investigating committee. On that day the Mayor made public b statement, in which he said: "To facilitate the efforta of the leg? islative committee; 1 have directed every official and employee under my juris diction to furnish the beartiest and most helpful codperation." City's F.\p<-nditurcs Cited Yesterday the committee issued a Btatement in which it announced that the constructive side of its work would luclude: "Search into the accounts of the city to determine. with fair allowances for inereased living and construction costs, how moneys are being .spent and whether the volume of the cxpendi tures is fair, prudent and justifiable." The statement went over the rcceipts and expenditures of tho last ten years and showed that the net debt of the city to-day was $1,138,000,000, com? pared with 5753.000,000 ten years ago. In this period the city's expenditures were $1,623,645,215. Using this sum as a 100 per cent basis, the committee's accounts showed that the Hylan admin? istration spent approximately 10.5 per cent in 1918, ]0.9 per cent in 1919 and 14.8 per cent in 1920. In the ten-year period covered by tho committee's cxperts it was shown I that the city's cash receipts up to the | end of tho term, December 31, 1920 j were 55.482,932,667. inclusive of $3, 181,988,456 borrowed, leaving an aggre I gate in taxes. assessments and rents, j interest on taxes, ctc. of 52,300,934,209. i The largest single item during this | period was 52.798,923,259 for debt re , demption?almost double the cost of ! running the city government. Connolly Gives Queens Officials a Clean Bill ! Borough President Maurlce Connol I ly of Queens, in a statement which he j issued last night in reference to the ' subpoena served on Comptroller Craig i on Saturday by the Meyer legislative ! committee, said the committee would j find nothing irregular or improper in i the actions of any of the Queens offi : cials. "All of the matters and things in Queens referred to in the subpoena," the statement said, "were inquired into, in turn, first by District Attorney O'Leary of Queens, whiie he was run? ning for office, later by Comptroller 1 Craig and Governor Whitman, and I ) understand that these matters were ? preBented also to the Lockwood com : luittec and to the Almirall grand jury. "The result in every case was the | same. Nothing irregular or improper 1 was found involving anv officials of the ; Borough of Queens, or any subordinate, and what is more, nothing will be j found now. "When the legislative committee ; was appointed and given $100,000 of the j taxpayers' money of the City of New , York to spend, the people and the press had a right to believe that there - would be an end to suspicion and to accusations by innuendo and secret in I quiry, and that the full light of day i would be thrown upon all of the activi I ties of public officials and public ; bodies. | "The result is most disappointing. I The committee insists upon excludingr | ihe press and the public from hear 'i.jr-. They seem to seek .the darkness, j they fear the light. "It is well understood that this com mittee is being prompted by Comptrol j ler Craig, whose hostility is under 1 stood. and that he has for several months past been engaged in private | consultation with counsel for the com : mittee. It is a remarkable coincidence : that the Meyer committee suggests its intention of 'investigating' all depart? ments 'but that nothing is said of in? vestigating that of the Comptroller." Swear You Didn't Gouge, Untermyer Tells Lenders Samuel Untermyer, chief counsel to the Lockwood committee on housing, has sent telegrams to the heads of sev? eral of tUje largest insurance and bank ing institutions in the city inviting them to take the witness stand if they desire to make an official denial of the testimony offered before the committee last Tuesday. It was testified then by several wit? nesses that thes.e financial institutions had made as a condltion of loans to builders that the latter accept "cat and dog" lots, properties of uncertain value, and Liberty and Victory bonds at par as part of the loan, In addition, the borrowers, it was declared, frequently j were compelled to return a substantiai part of the loan as a bonus. Edward D. Duffield, vice-president and general manager of the Prudential \ Insurance Company, and represent- I atives of some other institutions j mentioned in the testimony have de- ? nied these assertions. Mr. Untermyer ! has asked Mr. Duffield and some other j financial leaders to make their denials, J if they wish, on the stand when the j committee resumes its hcarings to morrow morning. Soft ground, steep grades, and wide ditches. cannot make the "Caterpillar" Trac tor lay down on the job. Can as much be said for horses and mulcs, cr for motor trucks and other automotive equipment depending solely on their wheels for traction? There is but one ?HOLT builds it THE HOLT MFG. CO. 50 Church Srroet, NewTork ractorieas Peoria, QL; Stockton, Cal. Skipper, Adrift on Crippled Speed Boat, Refuses Rescue Anxiety was fxprrssed last night for the safety of William Smith, pilot and engineer of the forty-fiye-foot power boat The Breakers, which became dis nhled twelvc mile* off the coast of Klorida on Thursday. Mrs. Smith, ht3 wife, who was rcs cucd from the disablcd craft Thursday morning, was brought to port last night on the tanker Solit.alre, of the Texas Oij Company, which atood by for sev? eral hour8 on her run north from Port Arthur, Tex. The Solitaire came to an anehoragp off Stapleton, S. 1., lust night, but Mrs. Smith, Harry Jacks-on and William Brown, who were rescued with her, did not come ashore. Mrs. Smith made in quiry as to the fatc of her hnsband, who declined to leave The Breakers after the others had been taken off. Captain Morris, master of the tanker, said that he offered to take off the entire party, but that Smith inststei on standing by the boat. which is owned by Charles R. Meye.rs, a wealthy hotel man of Atlantic City, who had been Homes for 13,279 Families Started Since Tax Relief Increase of 157 Per Cent Over Last Year Reported by Curran; Many Lendiug Reasonably, He Declares Plans for homes to hou6e 13,279 families have been filed in the five boroughs since February 25, when the tax exemption ordinance took effect, according to records compiled by the building burcaus. Henry H. Curran, President of the Borough of Manhat tan, who made the figures publuc yesterday, pointed out that this rate of 1,000 a week fcr the first three months that the tax exemption ordi? nance has been in effect. was an increase of 157 per cent over the same period a year ago. Mr. Curran's statement follows: "New homes in Xe.w York at the rate of 1,000 families a week is the net result of the first three months' build? ing since tax exemption took effect on February 25. Figures from the five boroughs show plans filed for this first quarter of the tax exemption vear which will take care of 13,279 families, as against 5,171 families for the same three months of a year ago. This is an increase of 8,108 families, or 157 per cent. "While the number of apartments planned has taken a sudden jump the most encouraging feature to me of the building that is going on all over town is the great number of one and two-family houses that are under way. Out of the 13,279 families provided for in the last three months 7,569 families will live in the little houses, as against 5,720 in apartments. That means a substantial increase in the number of New York families who own their own homes. The more we can have of these little houses, where people can go up ataira to bed and downstairs to break fast and begin to live like human beings inetead of cliff dwellers, the better off we shall be. "The pace that tax exemption has set of 1,000 families a week must be not only maintained but increased. This means money, and more money, at reasonable rates of interest. The estimated cost of these 13,000 new homes is a little over $63,000,000. Such a total means that while there has been profiteering in some quart* there must be somebody around town who is lending money for new homes at decent rate?. It takes a lot of people to hand over $63,000,000 at rates that are bearable, and those who have proved their wisdom and public spirit in this field ought to receive full eredit. I believe there is plenty of honest money in New York and I know it is sorely needed for new homes. The housing shortage is not yet over.y -? Dead in Lot, His Head Almost Severed With Ax Fifty Cards on Brooklyn Victini Bear Name of Owner of Cafe Just Closed A man was found dead last night, hia head almost severed by a blow from an ax or cleaver, delivered from behind, in a vacant lot at Twentieth Street and Xeptune Avenue, Brooklyn. The body was lying within ten feet of the side walk, and blood still flowed from the wound when it wa3 found. Michael Mommones, watchman for | the Independent Coal .Company, whose ' yard adjoins the lot, saw the body and ! teiephoned for the police, thinking that the victim was intoxicated and had fallen. The body was that of a man about' twenty-five years old, apparently an Italian. He wore a new gray suit and new black oxford shoes. Fifty cards inscribed "Venezia Restaurant & Cafe, i 19-21 Kenmare Street. Proprietor, Sil vio Melchiorre," were found in his pock et. Silvio Melchiorre has run a cafe at that address for three years, but the place was closed last night. NON-A1CONOUC ttmmm ouqtutj Restaurant & Wine Co. 140 Prince St., N. Y. Tel. Spring 584 S | wintering in Florida. The skipper said I that he gave Smith a nupply of water | and provisinnx to last him i weeli and | sent a radio to Key West at Smith's re quest aaking that a tug or coast guard jcutter be sent, to picl< him up. Mrs. Smith, who carried 50.000 worth ; of jewiilry and clothing with her, had ; these transferred to the tanker before | she went aboard hers'elf. j She Maid last night. that she and her i husband, accompanied by Jackson and I Brown, left Stuart, Fla., which is near | Palm Beach. on Tuesday morning. ! When they were fou'ricen hours out | on their course to Atlantic City, where ? they were to take the launch, the en S gine became disabled and they sig | naled for help. They were not ob | served unttl Thursday morning, when : the Soiitaire came by and ofFercd as i Bistance. Mrs. Smith said her husband was ! confldetit that the launch eou'd b? j saved and he insisted on st.aying with it until help came out. While dis | abled t.he craft had drifted out of its course with the Gulf Stream and was I about 140 miles northeast of Palm ! Beach when the Soiitaire came by. Crowd of 300,000 Visits Coney, but Few Take a Phmge Chilly Weather Keep* 100. 000 in Bathing Suits on Boardwalks; Girls Find Body of Man in Water A crowd of more than 300.000 visited Coney Island yesterday, despite chilly weather. At least 100,000 donned bath? ing costumes, but most of them paradcd the boardwalks in preference to entcr ing thd water. Two girl bathers who had ventured bryond the surf line came shrieking to the beach with information that. a dead man was being washed shoreward near the foot of Ocean Parkway. Police and lifeguards brought the botiy in. lt was attired in a suit of black color. Three cents were found in the pockets. The laundry marks on collar and shirt were "L.K.63." The man was five feet six inches tall and weighed 150 pounds. He was apparently about fortv years old. Dr. Levine, of the Coney Island Hos? pital, said death had taken place less than two hours before the body was found. Jamiis Oliver, twenty years old. of 157 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn. narrowly escaped drowning when he was eaught in a heavy undertow at West Thirty fifth Street and Gravesend Bay. Oliver was brought ashore after a Bensational fight in deep water by Janies Stewart, o'f 154 Fourth Avenue. Brooklyn. He was unconscious when rescued. Dr. Levine attended him and he was re moved to the Coney Island Hospital, where it was said he would recover. Greco Petrochlos. twenty-eight years old. of 230 East Twenty-third Street, Manhattan. who was arrested by Pa? trolman Pilch, of the Coney Island po? lice station, for loitering. fought for fifteen minutes before he was subdued. Both policeman and captive were taken to the Coney Island Hospital for treat ment. Petrochlos V> was charged with felonious assault.. A large crowd witnessed memorial services for unidentified sailors of the United. States Navy who lost their lives during the war, conducted by the Sons of Veterans of the Central Me? morial Committee of Long Island and Brooklyn. The ceremonies were held at Dreamland Park. One featore was the loading of a smali boat with flow ers which was towed two miles to sea and there sunk with a salute. 4I Cleaned Up New York.' Enright Says in Church Police Commissioner Speaks From Chancel Where He Was Christened Special Diapatch to The Tribune HORNELL, N. Y.. June 5.-Police ? Commissioner Richard Enright of New York stood within the rail of St. I Joseph's Church in the adjoining vil- j lage of Campbell this afternoon and | from the chancel of the edifice in j which he was christened told his old j fellow townsmen he had made New York one of the cleanest citics in the ? world. He recalled his boyhood days in the little hamlet and said he never had ex pected to be east into such a tumult as had followed his administration of M1U.BROOK. Tan Ituitsia Calf White Nu-Buck. Blark Ruaaia Calf; Style and Consistent Quality That it is possible to build both style and comfort into a woman's shoe has been amply demonstrated by the Dr. Reed Cushion Shoe. That's one reason why our shoes are so popular with New York women. Another reason is found in the in variably high quality of ma terials and workmanship. See the shoes in our win dows; try on a pair and satisfy yourself of our statements. CUSHIONSHOES For \vom?m Mad? by JOHN EBBERTS SHOE Ca SOLD ONLY AT 1372 Broadway. at 37th Street 12 Park Place, Woolworth Bldg. Stnd fur Hlustrated Boaklet. police affairs Un New York. The oc iotl was the fiftiet'n annivcrsary of the founding of the little Catholic < burcfa in the hamlet and the only other speakers of the afternoon were members of the clergy. Father Kobert Walsh, of Salamanca; Father Edward Britt. of Buffalo, and Father William F. Doran. of Elmira, praised Commissioner Enright as an eiample.of a small town boy who had achieved saccesa by adherencc to prirt ciples of honesty and integrity. Mr. Fnright said to-night that he had intended to take a ten-day vaca? tion, but as there sermed i*) be con slderable stir in New York over his absence he would return to-morrow. "I'll be back on the job some tirii>. Monday, and if any one has anything to say to me they know where to find me," he said. -.- r IJnemployment in May Increased Onlv One-half of 1P. C. Department of Labor Fig? ures Show Grcatest Lay Oflf in Food and Kindred Trades; More Work Here ??^_?? WASHIXGTOX. June 5.?Unemploy i ment increased approximately one-balf j of 1 per cent in May, according to a ! statement made public to-day by the I Department of Labor, based upon re? ports from 1,428 firms employing 500 i or more persons in 65 principal In } dustrial centers of the country. The same firms, the statement said, em i ploved 1,573,538 workers in May, against ' 1,580,749 in April. The number of employees in tobacco manufactuie decreased 5.5 per cent in May, while lumber and its manufacture feil off 2.9 per cent. The number of Workers in iron and steel decreased -S>: food and kindred produets, 7; niftal and metal produets. .004; chemi cals, 1, and miscelleanous industries grouped together, 4.9. Increases in the number of employees were shown in railroad repair shops amounting to 8.4 per cent; in leather, 4.3; vehicles for land transportation, 3.8; tpxtiles. 2.7; stone, clay and glass, 2; liquors and bevcrages, 1.9, and paper printing, 4. Cities reporting employment de creases in May were: Chicago, 2.9 per cent; Boston, 3.2; Portland, Ore., 26.4; I Xew Haven, 15.9; Memphis, 15.6; San l Francisco, 14.3; Peoria, III., 11.8: ! Perth Amboy, N. J., 10.9; Louisville, 9.5; Paterson, N. J., 8.1: Buffalo, 7.9; j Cincinnati, 7.2; Birmingham, 5.4; Xew Orleans, 5, and Richmond, Va., 2.9. Increases in the number employed were shown in New York Citv amount I mg to .3 per cent; Philadelphia. 1.5; I Detroit, 4.4; Xew Bedford, 8.6; Denver, 22.4; St. Paul, 13.3; Bayonne, N. J.. 12.9; Seattle, 9.8; Flint, Mich., 8.3; I Chattanooga, 7.4; Grand Rapids, 7.3; I Atlanta, 6.1; Indianapolis, 6.1. ! Unsatisfactory transportation condi . tions, continued depression in steel j and iron, dullness of the foreign mar ; ket, high cost of construction and gen eral apathy of the buying public, the j department said in its statement, con i tributed to the decrease in employ I ment. Body in Hudson Believed That of Launch Victim Friends of Belle Lewis, Brook? lyn Woman Drowned May 25, Give Partial Identification A body which waa found yesterday in the Hudson River off 225th Street is believed to be that of Belle Lewig of 326 Twelfth Street, Brooklyn, who was lost May 25 from a motor boat be long-.ng to her employer, Louis Ger main, while the boat was between Nyack and Tarrytown. Mr. Germatn, in whose 5 and 10 cent store in Brooklyn Miss Lewis was cashier, was unable to identifv the body with certainty last night, al? though he had known Miss Lewis for j lifteen years. Miss Lewis . wore val i uable jewelry similar to'some which' ! was found on the body. and Mr. Ger ! main said he believed that the body ! was hers. Her sister, Mrs. Cassie Campbell. of ! 326 Twelfth Street, Brooklyn, will visit I the morgue to-day. -#--_? Bostonian Killed in Subway Accident Causes Jam on Grand Central Platform A man believed to be Sumner W. Robinson. of Boston, was killed by a ncrthbound express train last night m. the Grand Central subway station. Patrielf l. Sullivan. motorman i train, wss tuiablc to man jumped to the tracks or fefl piatforn was crowdVd a seebtag to watch effe the body caused such a jam that patrol men were sent from the ? first Street police station to hold them in check Trains were deLayed f.fteen minu'e?. A Y. M. C. A. card in the man's pock<-t bore tb< Summer W. !'-?? of Waltham, Mass., an.l the reftorn ad ress aa a package ne wa* earryiag was "Sumner Eobinson, Tr-H St " Batolpo Street. Boston." Fireinen Respond a* Tov Balloon Sets Boy Ahlaze Yoimgster of Four Seriou>lv Burned af? Ife Touehes Mateh to Playthintz and It Kxplode* Charles La Bella, four year- old, ef 321 East Forty-fifth Street, was aeri ou.sly burned at hi? home last night when a toy balloon with which he vva playing expioded. The explosion, it was said. rejulted when the boy brought. a lighted match in contact with tha balloon. Tne Doy's clothing eaught 6re Rr,-i h<t was badly burned about the bodv. Tbe screams of the mother sttract*-.? the attention of a neighbor, who e tinguish"d the flan.es by wtapping a rug around the boy. In tbe excitemeht j a fire alarm was turned in. Tl e ; men arrived as the !ad was being re moved to Bellevue Hospital. uc STRIKE Cigarette To seai in the delicious Buriey tobacco ftavor. It's Toasted CHILDS DE LUXE Another CHILDS restaurant has been opened on Hfth rvvenue, New York, situated in the former Holland House, near 30th Street. 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