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Avian's Transit Plans Favored In Brooklyn ai Representatives of C i v i c ami Political Organiza? tions Discuss Mayor's $600.000.000 Program A*k Crosstown Subways ??r-iiJ Cropsey and Cal* lachan for Hindering Bu* Lines by Injunction The Board of Estimate and Appor tt?&ment met yesterday for a public dis? cussion of Mayor Hylan's $600,000,OOC transit program, with special reference ,1 the Borough of Brooklyn. Roprc -Kfttativcs from numerous civic and po? liite-1 organizations attended and gen ?Tally expressed themselves in favoi of the Mayor's project. \\ was whispered about, in explana? tipn, that the board members had taker I lesson from their previous hearing ?W-'f-n .some pointed criticism was lev Spf-t the Mayor's plan, so that it ?ppoarcd that only thoso who were pre r-irrd to indorse the Hylan plan were W-'ted to tho hearing. There was, Mwever, an adverse note here and y re from a few, who thought that omething should be done to remedy transit situation at" once, Assail Cropsey and Callaghan A large portion of the discussion was taken up with a series of attacks upon aterierence with transit affairs by in arctio". *nc sallies for the most part v-inf- aimed at Justice Cropsey and '?lstice Callaghan for their orders ro strainii'.g the operation of busses in certain sections of Brooklyn. "I hope the citizens of Brooklyn will ranember those gentlemen," remarked ;he Mayor, liberally prompting the dis f_s*ion on (his point, "who issued the injunctions, so that if they ever,run igsin for office the people will know iow to deal with them." At another point the Mayor said.: "When judges in the future are nom? inated we will have to find out how they stand on injunctions." Wants Vote of People F. Cornelius Wanamakcr, represent? ing the Flatbush Taxpayers' Associa? tion, while in favor of the Mayor's ?jian, said he though the question of municipal operation of the subway line." should be put to a vote of the i-ople. To this Murray Hulbert, presi fat of the Board of Aldermen, replied: "Don't you think the people voted on it last November?" Mr. Wanamaker I?. 1 it was r.ot a direct vote. Thomas A. McQuade, of the 15th As '?;i"b!y District Democratic Club, \j*wAt up tho subject of the lack of lft?s in Greenpoint, reminding the hoard that the busses liad been put ut of business there by injunction of ?iiisfice Cal high an. "Oh, that wasn't Cropsey," com '?".otUed the Mayor. "No," replied Mr. McQuade, "Crop "? issued the first, taking away some ?:*ii of transportation, backed by ?ge Callaghan. Both gentlemen are ?embers of the same club." Uderman Peter McGuinness then rk the floor, lauding the Mayor in ?perlative terms, and concluding with '"is tribute to the Greenpoint district, "fhich in? represents: "Greenpoint, Mr. Msyor and members of the Board of Htimate, is the garden spot of heaven." Get a Job You Like and Stick, Says Railroad Veteran of 73 Station Masler Kane, of Mamaroneck, 53 Years in the Business. Wishes He Had 53 More Coming; Misses Car of Beer He Helped Load Now and Then " 'Ti.* my vocation, Hal. "Fia no sin for a man to labor in his vocation." J. Ci Kane, seventy-throe years old, ticket agent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at Mamar oneck, who yesterday finished his fifty i third year of consecutive service with ! a scornful rejection of the road's offer ; to retire him, never read Henry IV, but ,; he is poing to, just to read the speech j to Hal. "Railroading is the grandest of iran?es, and it's the glamor of the thing that holds you and won't let you go," he said last night as he rocked in the parlor of the cozy home at 12 Palmer Street which he and his wife saved for and of which they are so proud. "It's fifty-three years I've been a railroad man, and it's fifty-three moro ? d like to be,'' he wert o?. "I've sen lour of my boys through college, nnd i the pay check looks pretty good when you go up to the pay. car each week. But it isn't, that. If it was only the money I'd hav ? retired two years ago, when they almost threw me out. They asked me if I wanted to work forever and I told them I wouldn't, mind." The steady rock of the chair stopped while Stationmastcr Kane ?the title that pleases him most- -chuckled at the absurd thought of any one thinking a railroad man wanted to retire. Then he reminisced a bit: "We used to load a car for the New j Rochelle brewery and the owner would j come out and give us a couple of bar- j reis if we'd promise not to touch them till we were off duty. Maybe you think that beer didn't taste good after we'd been looking longingly at. it all the way up here. Nothing like that now. ; "The roundhouse was down at Forty-1 second Street then. They've built ? three Grand Central terminals while! I've been with the road, "When I'd been working ton-* years: Frank Trumbull was Starting in as an ! auditor or something like that. He'd j been water boy for a section gang in ; Texas. He's chairman of the board .of ? the Chesapeake & Ohio now, the road! he started for. "About that time Daniel Willard was | a track laborer and F. D. Underwood j was a conductor. Willard is president of the Baltimore & Ohio and Under? wood of the Erie. None of them think of quitting. I guess maybe there's something in it that gets in your blood.? "My baggage man, Mortimer Geb-j nee, has been with me twenty-nine years. 'Course, he's only a boy, but he has the right idea. Find something you like and then plug at it and you'll be happy." The chair stopped rocking, tho briar pipe went out and Stationmaster Kane was back with the boys, watching thai barrel of beer that couldn't be opened until the run was over. Robert W. Higbie, of the Queens borough Chamber of Commerce, Bug- ? gested that something ought to be done at once, despite the Mayor's assertions that his plan contemplated the "reeap turing of the lines by 1925." Herbert L. (Carpenter, representing tho Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, sup-pested that the Board of Estimate and the Transit Commission get to? gether on a cross-town subway line for Brooklyn and that the Mayor call a hearing for a discussion of the Tran? sit Coimnission's cross-town proposal. The Mayor said a hearing was called for October 2 on the subject.. Mr. Carpenter also read a letter by Her? man A. Metz, chairman of the transit committee of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, in which the latter urged immediate consideration of the projected cross-town line and the early consideration of those points upon which the Mayor and the Transit Com? mission were agreed. Borough President Riegelmann of Brooklyn pointed out that if the Transit ! Commission's cross-town plan were | adopted two schools would have to be j torn down. The Mayor broke in that the city expected to build 100 new schools next year. Others who Bpoke in favor of the i Mayor's program were Senator Jere? miah Toomey. former Senator Charles | A. Russell, .lohn J. Keene, of the Pros i pect Hills Citizens' League, and Stew | art Browne, president of the United Real Estate Owners' Association. > ? Treason Charge Against Von Hoegen Is Dropped Lawyer Was Indicted After He Had Boasted of Being a German Spy NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 26.?The case against Maximilian von Hoegen, formerly New Haven attorney, who was arrested in December 1917, on a charge of treason, was nolled in the United States District Court here to-day on the recommendation of Assistant United States Attorney Cohen by Judge,.Edwin S. Thomas. Von Hoegen was not in court, and it is believed that he is living in New York. Von Hoegen first came into notice j soon after the beginning of the World War by publicly expressing his sym path y with Germany and condcmninir ! the attitude of the United States. Ho I claimed to have been in the employ Of j Captain von Papen to obtain informa- j tion gil contracts being filled by mu nition makers in Connecticut for the ; British government. He also boasted ! of a close friendship with the German J Ambassador von Berristorff. Fire Record A M. nA*?3AC*K ! -; :oo? 6 M W. 38th st.; Julius Schmidt. I Unknown | 9:46?384 6th av.; A. Nicholas. .Unknown 30:15~B7 A'.'. 135th st.; Mr*. Leslie. Unknown ! 10:50?At 45 W. 12th st.. auto; .lohn ? Crawford.Unknown 11:40?Wcatchestar anil Rlomlell ?vs., tlio Bronx; unknown.Nono | P. M. 2:15?86th St. and Amsterdam av.; New York Telephone Co... .Trifling 2:30?290 E. 3d st.; unknown.. .Unknown 2:40?240 W. 98th st.; Daniel Croner. Sli-jhl 2:45?363d st, and South?rn Blvd., the Bronx; unknown.Unknown 3.00?350 E. 84th st.: Isaac Prank. .None 3:10?328-330 I.V. SDth st.; unknown..Slight 3:45?144th st. and Canal place, (lie Bronx; unknown.Unknown 6:06?200 Allen 8t.; unknown... .Unknown 6:45?915 Hoe av., the Bronx; Thlllp Aggrischousky.Trifling 6:69?888 W. 18,0th st. ; Nathan Dehrls, Unknown 6:05?866 W. 31st st.; John Jones. Unknown 6:15?Cathedral Parkway, taxlcab; Raymond Romctto.Unknown 7:50?4063 3d av., the Bronx; !.. ]{. Novelty Co.$1,000 7.55?38 Madison st.. basoment; Vas qua'.e Pedesco.Unknown 9:05 ? Southeast corner 46th st anil 1st av.; Wilson & Co.Unknown 9;30?645 6th st., awiitni;; Tony Kf-loshi.Unknown Million - Dollar Fraud Charged; Three Seized j Accused of Selling Client's Stock for Double Mar? ket Value, Holding Out a Big Share of Proceeds Thirteen Others Sought Crager System Said to Act as Agent in Unloading Treas? ury Shares of Companies The use of tho mail? in what Fed? eral prosecutors term "one of the most stup? ndous stock swindles unearthed In years" was revealed yesterday when two postoffice inspectors ended a long investigation of the methods and af? fairs of the Crager System, Inc., with a raid on its extensive offices at 140 West Forty-second Street. Two ar? rests were made on the spot, and a third man was taken into custody at 2 Hector Street half an hour later. The prisoners were arraigned at once befen. United Stales Commissioner Hitchcock and held in $10,000 hail each for examination October 10. Warrants are out for thirteen others. More than $1,000,000 is the ligure named by'Peter J. McCoy, the As sistant United States District Attor noy handling the case, as tho proli which these connected with the cor poration aru alleged to have taken ou of the business in the nine month since the Crager'System started opera ti?ns. Disposing of tn*? unsold trcasur; stock of concerns in need of immedi ato cash was the Crager specialty, an evidence i?i the hands of the govern ment indicates that its directors sue ceeded in obtaining a price for th shares in many cases more than doubl the market value of the old issue when they volunteered the services ?3 their selling system. Only one concern is mentioned in th complaint filed by l'ostoffice Inspecte Noile as having retained the Cragc System to relievo its iinancial nmba rassment. but the plaintiff alleged thi the stock of many others figured in tl fraud. Mr. McCoy pointed out that tl amounts the defendants are said to ha\ made from each venture were hard' large enough to arouse suspicion, ar as soon as n quick return had bee made on one proposition the sales co poration was able to turn to a new oi without gleaning after the harvest. Another advantage enjoyed by tl Crager System in its alleged frau? lav >n the fact that, a new "sucker lis was furnished them free of charge when they undertook nny financing. The stockholders of record were the only parties approached, and they wore the more easily deceived, it ?9. alleged, because the sales letters were sent out to thi'ni on the company's letterhead? stating that the shares were being of? fered to them exclusively in order to let them in on the new prosperity <?.*? peeled by the director? of th<? "iOtl cern. The letter? stated that a repte.? ? sentative would call personally within ? B few ?lays to explain the rulv.uitn;*?** < f j ?he proposition the company was icak ing, ana with this introduction to Iho confidence of the alleged Intended vie? i tirns it is said ?o have been easy for the ! ?ystein to put. across its scheme. One false statement mentioned in the-! complaint as having been made by lhe| defendants to induce prospective in j ?esters to take stock off their banda was to the effect that A. B. Helm ft Co. was prepared to market its new invest- j ment at once On the New Yoi!; Stock Exchange. No such concern exist* here, it is alleged. Joseph E, Doom, the third man ar? rested yesterday, is alleged by ?Mr. Mc? Coy to have been employed solely to run down companies in such need of ; financing that, they would fall In with the Crager scheme, which callcl for the placing of one of the system's em? ployees in the concern's offices and the co-operation of the officers in floating the stock. The Altoona Glass Casket Company ?s the company mentioned in the complaint as one of the many which retained the sales corporation, but, no charge is made that It was a party to the alleged conspiracy. Benjamin Crager, of 710 Riverside Drive, and his father. Henry Crager, who lives in West 160th Street, are al? leged to have been the ringleaders in the fraud. They were the two men arrested in the raid yesterday. The others foi? whom warrants have been issued are said to have played minor parts. Postofl'ice Inspector Noilo investi? gated the case with Inspector Thomas Fitch. The Associated Advertising Clubs of the World made a sui*vey of its own into the Crager scheme, which was made public immediately after the arrests. Borah Threatens to Subpoena Rahkmetcff if He Returns WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.?Word from abroad that Boris Bahkmeteff, former Russian Ambassador, was planning to sail to-morrow for America, was fol? lowed by a statement to-da> by Scna i tor Borah, Republican, Idaho, that he would call Mr. Bahkmeteff before the I Senate Labor Committee if he should I com?* within the jurisdiction of a com? mittee subpoena. Before leaving the United States Mr. ! Bahkmeteff claimed "diplomatic immu I ity" when subpoenaed and was ..upport S oil by Secretary Hughes. Senator ! Borah said there was "much informa? tion" he still desired to obtain from the former Russian Envoy, particular? ly regarding the disposition of Ameri? can loans made to Russia and taken over by Mr. Bahkmeteff. Big Interests Want Alien Bars Let Down immigration Restriction 1? Fought by barge Employ? ers; See Need of Workers With ReturningProsperily j Frnui The Trlbune'B l*'i?.?Mnf'/?>? I'.uyanu WASHINGTON, Sept. 26." Just when ' Chairman Johnson of the House Im? migration Committee is announcing vi ? plan to reduce immigration to a m'.ien lower figure than now, a strong move? ment has started to relax the immigra? tion laws and increase the number of; admissible aliens instead of dec eas? ing them. 1'ig steel companies, big copper min? ing and smelting interesta and other giert employers of labor aro back of j this mbvomon! It promises to become powciful, and indications are then: wi.l ' be a slru'p clash between the pro- , motors of a liberalized policy of ad- < muting aliens and those who would re- i strict tho influx. Recently it was indicated thnt Chair? man Johnson would seek to get the 3 per cent limit cut much lower, even to ? one-half of 1 per cent. Mr, Johnson declared the country seemed to want complete restriction of immigration. It is already apparent there will be great difficulty ?3i driving any such pro- ? gram through Congress. Shortage of men competent and will? ing to do the ordinary manual labor of the mills, the fui-nnce3 and tho I mines is what is alarming the great employers of unskilled labor. It. is true that a large Immigration is still i coming into the country, but then- rep- , resentntives say a gren; part of it is ! unwilling to do the hard work of the ! steel plantai the copper mines and ; smelters, the Hack work of the rail? roads and the like. Not long ago the country was aston? ished when the l/fited States Stcei Corporation suddenly raised wages of , employees a large UUTtl in th? aggre? gate? Much speculation was caused by ? this action, It d ctc ?oped, however, thai the corporation saw ??. return '?f prosperity no! tat distant and then found that in oidor to avail itself of thli i! would haV? to put ??n more men : and l.eep the old men. I; discovered that the shutting down of Immigra* ADVKKTISFMKNT tion hnd tended xtrongly to red . supply of men ** va ilabl?* ??> i'.i, the hard work of th'- steel manufacturing in? dustry. Partly th.R is d'lc to the i&"t thn; immigration Ig low ?rom the eoui tri?-:-; vvheic ihei 9 are *):e beat worker.-? and that of the Total immigr?t ?on ft large ??'?rire drift.? M?t.ura.iy ir,! life. A groat ?J?*-*t of talk is current to the effect thai a wave of proi is just -i70un?i the corner. If * the case big employers nre wond*rlr.*j where they are poing to gel the i ply of what is generally called com? mon labor. If the immigration law?, are tightened up still more !hnn they are, from the viewpoint of t? employer?, the situation will i. Impossible. AI?VERTISK.\IF.NT When toxis poisons penetrate the intestinal watis?EXPECT THE WORST! Next follows polluting of tho blood! This means tho poisoning of every organ in tho b?dy't Vitality and energy becomo loworfcaeh day; the brain becomes flluggiai. 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Flavor Always Assured. ?m?ters were discussing the worries ftthe modem furnace' .i Ever ?top to think who regulate* ?he fumsce while yovi are at butin?e** ess Winter is here this morning?" ? we begin seve|_ t heater on the mi when we get up." ave solved my heat **-?.fir* er the wages, a SSBR e?feSS? Phone Vanderbilt 5388 3684 % a. / "Prjt; snappy mo rted my did I. o^Puroflfbry. Got b?YIfty house is alway "Thank Goodness problems! I simply attached a Min Regulator to my furnace?then all m over. Saved coal?nearly half and always had just the right ,te the house^ day and night. I sa besides, of the man who used to tend furnace for us. All I have to do now is to put on a few shovel? fuls of coal before 1 leave in the morning and again before I go to bed. My wife doesn't even have to think of the furnace any more, because the Min? neapolis constantly maintains the exact tempera? ture we desire during the day, no matter how cold it becomes outside. At night the Regulator auto? matically keeps the fire low. Then at six in the morning old Minneapolis gets busy, -opens the drafts of the furnace, and by 7 when we get up, the whole house is fine and warm. It's not only the greatest boon to health and perfect comfort ever invented, but it soon saves its cost in fuel." CLARENCE O. BARING, INC. 5635 Grand Central Terminal Bldg., N. Y. City N. J. Branch, 671 Broad St*., Newark. Phone Market 3542 Heat Regulator The Heart of the Heating Plant The Needless Worry of a Cautious Father HE WAS an elderly gentleman living in Montclair, New Jersey, and had come to our office to dis? cuss plans for the settlement of his estate. He had never before done business with a Trust Company. Much of the money which he plannejl to leave in Trust for his two sons is invested in marketable securities. We could see that he had some fear?. some reservation in his mind. Finally he asked his question: "If the Columbia Trust Company is a Bank, i what's to prevent your using my securities to help run your bank?" This was a natural question to ask?and we replied in substance as follows: Our Trust business is kept entirely separate from our banking business. For convenience and econ? omy both branches are housed under one roof. Securities left in our keeping during the settle? ments of estates or for Trusts are in the custody of our Trust Department. They are recorded in the Trust Department books. They are handled by Trust experts. They are kept in the Trust Department vaults. They are never mingled with our Banking Department securities, and under the law thev may not be so mingled. In our Banking business we use onlv such securi? ties as are purchased with our Banking Department Funds. They are recorded in the Banking Department books. They are kept in Banking Department vaults. The above facts which were news to our Montclair friend may also be news to you. A depositor recently characterized us as ''the bauk that explains things/' Please feel free to ask us any question about our business-??-especially those prompted by caution. ?". COLUMBIA TRUST C0?F?N? In FINANCIAL DISTRICT: 60 Broadway In SHOPPING CENTRE: 5th Avenue & 34th Street In PARK AVENUE SECTION: Park Avenue & 48th Street In HARLEM: 125th Street at 7th Avenue In THE BRONX: 148th Street & 3rd Avenue Member of Federal Reserve System ^-apyr'gatlVfh.c.T.Co.