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THE SUN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1915.
PROGRESSIVES FAIL I
TO 0. K. C0RR1GAN,
BUT MAY LATER
Arti"M N TikH Bi' He-
lection f CoL Boom
volts Advice.
BARNES FIGHTS TO KEEP
LEG I SLA TORS' PA Y DOWN
jm II DKPEXD8 ON
HAT TAMMANY DOW
Effort to Raise Salaries and Expenses Defeated in Con
vention Reapportionment on Federal
Census Basis Favored.
Co:
tin:
rlra 1
of N'
edc
mi""
Rtf
rToc
(JM
ThrodoN Roosevelt of Nassau
hnpe M aft it rati .tnseph B. Cor-
,. elected Instrtct Attorney
Vork county, with full knowi-
' this fact the executive com.
of h PrOgfeaal rounly iflin
indorsed laM night a "strniKht
John .1 i I't'onnell. fir I'ls-
,--.-. i ll s WlMlglg Hal-
alao these
mrt Will
Ml
Albany. Auk 2- -William Hnrnes led
the flarht In the convention tn seen the
salaries of the State iMlMon and Aa
MmblJIIIMII at $1,500 tid allowing Ihrm
their actual rallroail fare between Al
bany and their homes ami return once a
week, not Including- a Pullman ticket
and meal on th train.
I The convention has discussed thla
! question on two different ix-cAslons, and
I when It -a laat considered It was de
1 terminer! that the salary should be
: $2. .SOU, with weekly train exnensea al
I lowed It wii thouirh: that travelling-
cacneca mlfrht Include much more than
I railroad fare, and It wa finally decided
' to-duy to limit the expenses allowed to
ii4-tual railroad fare in order to make
abuse Impossible
In the amendment reported by the com
mittee on legislative ol eranlsntlon to
day thla provision la charmed to pro
vide that New York city a at present
constituted ahall not have more than
half the Senate mrrjbershtp. thu mak
ing the limitation apply to five instead
of two counties, and to that extent
making It operate more hnrshly against
the Cltjr'fJ representation at Albany
Mli.t It rash Work.
MURPHY LEANS TO
WIGWAM HARMONY
Eye on 1917 Mnkos Him
AtfaiiiNt Straight Tniniimn.v
Ticket in Fall.
NEW NAMES FOR SHERIFF
MONTREAL RECEIYER i PIRATE WITH SQUEAKY 1 N. Y. PRISON CENSUS
A LEGISLATIVE CASE VOICE MADE CAPTIVE
Business Men Told That Pre
mier and Cabinet Cannot
Appoint One.
THE CITY'S Rio DEFICIT
1 - ear-old Buccaneer Trapped
by Tones After Series of
Small Change Crimes.
SHOWS LARGE GROWTH
Increase of Tnmates In Plfi
Years Is 1.037 City
Prisons Lead.
pn rrogreaaiv e, no I An efforl wax made to have adopted
i- :i i-iriu.riiniKi- mini-.. MiuMit X tiir I .e s.ll-
.1.. , . . I'..nrl Will- I.. ....... ,. n.i..
Hothkies. .lam.s J raajwaw I sarj hi inmi uui m .iru uur,,,
3.
kvii H
tad W
John
gatm
the C
h
Out
of '
,
tk.r
mT it '
dri w
rtgan
Holdcn Weeks, l'roirrceslves. and j
. larke. Hcpum.can, ana
. ;-. . nhiium. lvmorrst, and for
I) Court, Micha.-I Schsap. PfUfllMI-
I!
does thla mean, however.
immlttc rejected the advice
oesvelt a conveyed to them
eral m.-mtirrs. "n the contrary.
, . ,.r llkilihood that if, Tarn
M isrlstrate CMfBM
didati the crgrr shiv e will with
l tVConnatl and substitute Oor
. niMie Oil the ticket.
on Tammsinr.
r.9 to
Ttie committee on legislative organl
xatlon rejvirted an amendment provid
ing that the next legislature shall make
the. legislative r apoitionmciit b-a.el
upon the State censua taken this year,
and thai the api-ortlonmenl then made
shall not l changed until Merc
after apportionments will le pMtd Upon
the Fedenil enumeration In this State
as the taking of State census In the
future Is to be ahandoned. a.s it costs
about $500.1100 and possesses no ad
va Mages ivvt found in the Federal cen.
sua.
i The
Mymcn
Orpellds
If Ti i ' does not name Corrigan
., . , , other man acetptaMa :o the
Prosr-'SMves. the lttar mty k ep Oi on-, s,nntois
nail m the campaign to ijy end s mi
lsrl. if T mmany a -p-s Bl BUI Kd
wsr! for nherllf, or some other man
mn ... , r ngraaalvea '.ike. the speo.a
4a ol m- Hatpin withdrawing and the
-s "used w.th Tammany aner
lim Number of Members.
to.mt-r of Senators ana as, in
to
ami
Pro-
may be presented to the
she pnmariei
wjter-"
The Bupreme four: slate
As tute, I aln Th re Is ItlU
at a ri oimiltri Indoraemers
Cton-nce J. Bhearn. There is
may be
a chance
fur Jutl.e
ilo g osm
d-d.-.- n TIM Bn in t.je pi Kea, the
ilxth place on the ticket having ben left
pen list inch: Moat o: tn.- aomm'.ttM'i
htdoreementa ni be reira'del for the
nrff-ri is fillers in. Tin Progressives
tr- still waiting
remain M at pnsent. .1
in Assemblymen. ini
apportionment rules In me pi 1
CotlOtHUtlon remain unchanged in the I
new ameraiment. 1 m . ....t
ins Just taken gue-ns county will have
two Senators Instead of one. K nas tune
instead of e'ght. New V. rk nine, and
The Hron'x thiee. ItlMN two counties to
...hr now having tw.lve Senator.-.
Ilichmond nd Uockland
Senator Olntly as at pr
will have twenlyllve
kimb twenty-four. Th.-
rive, .ii.'i i'
and
II have a
ant. New
Assembly men.
Bronx eight.
chmon.l one at 1 pos-
ih.- pri ent
Now York
R publican leader Wiokersham notl-
fle.d the delegatea to-day that the con
vention must complete lit work by a
week from Saturday, to give the revision
committee a week to put the revised
1 Constitution In shape and that Friday
and Saturday of this week will he full
session days. He warned thr deb-gate
that the sergeant-at-arms will be sent
after them if they leave the city
The Constitutional Convention re
versed Itself again to-lay when It de
cided that the short ballot and Tanner
Slate government reorganisation plan
should be considered as a special order
to-morrow, Saturduv and Momiay. with
an understanding that a vote upon the I (,m
general proposrtlon should not be had
before all the delegates reached Al
bany on Mmday A motion to this effect
was defate,J last night
An effort wis made at a conference
of the Iemocratlc delegates to secure
a concert of action upon a substitute
short ballot and State department re
OTgMllMtlon plan but with no success
Morgan J. O'Riien pointed out that It
looked too much like injecting politic!
Into the delllieratlons of the convention,
notwithstanding the suggestion that if
the Hemocrats had a plan of their own
to vote for titer were enough Uepubli
cans who oppoaa the Tanner plan to
prevent a majority of II vies for It to
sc. lire its paseaKc by the convention
It is expected that such Democrats a(
Morgan J. tVHrlen, He Lancey Ntcoll.
Jpdga Dykraan and John IS. Stanch-
vid will support the Tanner plan, but
that AsaeiriKym n Smith. Senator Wag
ner and other delegate will get behind
a ubali-,ute article.
There were Indications yesterday In
connection with tnlk of candidates for
Sheriff at Tammany Hall that rharleH
F. Murphy Is doing his beat to frame
I a slate of candidates who ran get the
I full Democratic vote In and out of
I Tammany and who In his opinion will
1 be sure to win.
In a sense he has Joined the Derm
cratlr "hannonliere." He wants to
; the organlxation achieve a smashing
victory this fall and bullet itseir up .01
UM l-resldentlul campaign next year un.l
the Mayoralty light of 1!17. There are
those who believe that Mr. Murphy, now
j Mfty-slx years old. will step out of the
leadership after 117 If he can succeed
In carrying the cliy in the next Mayor
alty contest. He has said that he will
I never quit when things are going against
which nay the
Den..
In
mum
Re
par -
re'
nan
Act
tti
to v
r.: ind napubucana jump
behalf of Magistrate Cornsai: a
! friend of the Magistrate and Col
1, Cambridge uvtrngMM, law
Wail atrcat, enltad on the -oio.
. the eirneag of :be MetrgpaHWig
tint yeaterday.
. rdlnl 10 a raporl o' the interview
uueei
..... . . .. .1 ..f VTV-TO'.li
- S.IM iw... .w.-. ---
, ki. panraientatlon fOI
citv being alxty-inree
Kh S.UM) ll to get an s. ,n. -
man as ... p. -sen. before the remainder
of the Uaembtymeri ;re dto u dimen
among the counties I'lldj - ' IvtneW p.
DorUonmeni Broom county win g.i.n
L . .. -e Hrons four. Richmond
e uueVis one and BehenecUd) one
w!'ieu; , ..
will . I 1' l ic an .'e .
1 v ... vl win lose six. acooroing
th.v
Atl
no'
r
rut ;
si later. Mi BOOOeVOM explained
UvtngatOn that .t did not wish
rfrre in New Vork city matters
.i his belief that the District
should in- taken o-.n of
' attogethor and that aa he ithe
1 . w is a resident of X issau
so .lid ..t .. t" m.x in matters
her
He toll Mi Livingston that although
it c Im ....' -It- for him to declare for
rv particular man . hoped thai Which
' . ejrty WOO Otn man 'f 'he stand-lr-r
. :t and repUtaUOQ of Judge Cor-
vvo ild is- elect d
-:,-u.i
.ini Met Vurs.
to the new cem-us figures
1 jr.'Vls.on in v.- i"
thai New Tl I and K' igs
have WO!l mar, iron
uf tin- (Hat Senate.
Th.r. I
Conotltutl
Miuntv shall not
of th.- mambarahlp
ranni-r Plan seems ,afe.
The Demo, rat Will hold anothei con
fen -ice tO-mOrrOW, but nothing la ex
pected :o come of It. and the adoption
01 th.- Tanner plan b) the convention
seenis certain since ComptrOtlOf Travis
WLili.lrevv his opposition to it
Tite convfiitlcn ndvau.vd to the order
o. Anal paaaage the Blauvoll amendmenl
auU i ling iht state fcllghWa) Oom
mlai .... -,, gpend toward the completion
of Stat notes a suiplus of ll.ftO.tOO
01' State approprtntlOM artolng 'n mne-t.-eii
countle ftl th State roads In
those cOtintKM aie fin. shed This sur
clue cannot be utilized MCOpI throuuh
a . onstitutlonal amendm. nt and the
Blauvelt propoaal permits the State
H way Comml oner to till .n gaps on
Slate routes With ihts surplu.
SMOKERS A PERIL TO
JERSEY MOSQUITOES
CAUSE A $2,000 SUIT
rte- .
Talk of Moss slopped.
Th. Pr-igrlv leaders In thla county
have known for several days of the
Co! : leaning toward his friend.
Magistrate Corrlgavn. His mdorseenonl
of Judge i 'orrigan was discussed at the
meet . I,. si night, but the strateg'sts
h .... heal not t" Mm out for the
. indldacy until they were sure
lhal I" WOUld be Tammany' choice. It
his been ilie tall; that Judge Kdward
,- n was b ailing Judge ( 'orrigan In
Timmai . The ePe.-t of the lioosevelt
h for Cotrigan upon the Tammany
late ina'.ers remains to be seen.
There as much talk of Frank Moss
rd ..ther outside candidate In laat
r ghl - ting until a re, lution that
Only Progreaoiv should be ronldered ,
Attorney and Sheriff wa
passed mill only one negative vote.
V - .i, nie 1 .11; Mr O-'ConnolV who
w-i- andldat for Supreme Court last
ftar, -aid : '
ourt If the Interests of the
er: - require change In the slate 1
bve no 'Ion!.' tint the mm now on the
lata w II willingly tep off We have
from KepTrmber to September 13 to
,..-. 1 make ubtltutlol
Fvery man lodged to run. but the
part) f.-els th t the interests of the
pa i nc first, personally I think we
w" iee . fusion movement started
within twenty-four hours"
HIS PHOTO A DRINX CURE.
Mlasnarlaa'a Basitagroel iiet to
Remlwd film of Ills hame.
Kansas i'itv. Mo. Aug. 1!. James
Meff - gol ng to stay on the water
Wit r aft.-- ( looking at hie own
p' - i-'i whenever he feels a thirst
f"' Ii'iuor.
in ippared in court with half
1' ' . head shaved and bat-dnged. He
d 1 remember how he rt colvod the
ll fui . - which caused surgeons to leave
, I 01 that condition. All that he
V- a - hi had become Intoxicated for
thi '.-.! 1, aie in two y aars.
Oet your picture taken In that re
ralla ind look at it whenever you wn- t
idvlaad Judge Welch "I be-
One Hcnsoii Why Board of
Elections Will Experiment
With Ten Only.
Extermination Commltaloner
Aceuaed of Ruining Park
hv Cutting Trees.
Two new possible candidate tor nuer
Iff were talked of In Tammany circles
yesterday One Is Joseph J Met'ormlck.
a boyhood friend of Murphy. The ot!r
ii, luted Stales Marshal Thomas
Hot arth .
Th.. district leaders who resent
idea of Tammany accepting Big Bill Bd
wards as Its oaUrdidate have ben urging
Mr. Muridiy and th other inaideis IU
oil on a district leader instead Thi
I have insisted that Mil Democrat! arc
sure to win. 110 matter w ho is num. d.
and that the Job tllOUUI go OP Ol IB
in.n who has fougin the organisation'
batlle on the tiring line
ll is understood, howevti. tiiat th ir
p.eaa nave- had 110 aff-.: Tuer.- is a
strong belief among tin shrewder mem
bei! of the Tainman) controlling sioup
thai trn? p. oib- 'lie. .leleat I!) end -d.ue
so nose to trie organization uf a
drstr.ct U-ader
Thi retort so n- ol i". nnll'Mward
men are searching lor .1 candidate out
side their oVa Tammany group tti nds
of Mi. afcCormlcb are trying hard to
"put htm ovr." lie weii born In th
llou-e district, wncne r, aaurpnj
t merged to fame, and is now a h ath, r
ll reliant at at Chambers str.et.
t'ther Who have ta.ged to Marshal
UcCarthy bav got utile noourag-
moot He ng! told them io.it his
present i.-.. I-'edeiai Job la good
enough Anil ng the !rgumnt' em
iduyed b his partnan at Tanin. ;:
Hall la lb luct Ihul as an aUJOlIlteJ
of the Wiieon Admlalatratlon i is pre.
sumabi thought wail of m Washing
ton ami could get many VOtel ot inde-
pandtni Democrata here.
Tammany'a buprem Court ticket is
still in Che making As to one of the
six vacant places ther.. is a division
of feeling as regard Senator Boborl
K Wagner an i Senator Jam s A. ("Oley.
If Foley is picked Surrogate iltorge M.
S. Schul of The Hro.-ix Is likely to
gel cne of the other 110m. nations
If Foley has to give way to Wagner
gchUll Is not llkily to be named, for
both Wagner and Schul! are of Herman
extraction, and it is not political eti
quette to put two eggs of the same
kind in one basket. Hi.mx Democrat!
are fighting hard for Surrogate Schul
Monthfiai.. Aug. M.- BtttlneM men ..f
the city who are anxl ills that Sir Isomer
(iouln. the Tremler. should gppOinl a
(sammlsslot er to lUpervl ihe tlnaii. iil
fldmlnlstiatlon of Montreal were ad-
e.t bv their counsel to-day that such
n appointment could not be made hv
the Premier and Cabinet themselves,
but only with the sand! n of a major
ity of t,he member." of t e Legislature
Unsleess men are becoming seriously
lrmed over the handling of the civi
flnani s
The cttv at present owes 1101,900.000,
Its borrowing power Is at present 1
per cent. T.e flnanciers in the City
Hall nre considering an application to
have the borrowing pnwor Increased t..
1.'. per cent., but this will be sternly
opposed
The ContrOllort Who are faced with
the tusk of drawing up in lilt budget
are in a quandary, for Ihetr prelimi
nary Caiculwt iofi show a detlclt of
f 1 ,.".110.01111. a decree! in rovMMM and
Ihe total extinction -f borrowoig power
are the Mumbling blocks.
The-e will be little or no Increase In
realty valine for the present year, and
the meaning ..f this Is that there will
110 excuse In 1111 'j go ahead and
tl millions for perma
r main years 1 ast the
entire hnriowlrg power has rested or
the enormous annual increases of as
sessed realty The law enable the oof
poratlon to borrow 1! per cent, of such
Ircreases.
ear
nnd ihe deep laid The comparative
m.fl.e liis' numner ! niiiinies
1 1 borrow additio
I rent w- rk. F
th
l.oaaer a ssessmenl s.
In M:i iat the SJssjoS started
their iit.nual rotthdl of levying the ar
ena! realty assessment, and their la
bor Wiil close about the end of th
pr sent month. Whil. no definite st ite
mert has bee. Issued In '11 assessors
as to the result of ine.r work it is
kin.wi n- member of the B- afd of
Control that. 111 various bUslROM die
tilcts. it had boon Incumoenl on the
asseeaors to lower th.- seejjd valuo
lntad of Increasing therr
Ther. .11 A 11 or wi . admit that
tins action ana abaoluti ecessar)' .n
account of the msnmr ised valu t
h id bein In oste.l during thi -t sl
seven years Th.- lowering of assessed
a'nes will be found t 1 hat bee pal -ticularly
general in cert ila sc. tiotut of
st Catherine street and also --f s:
Jaime atf-ret. I" man) Instance ihe
Assessors had the plaint! proof laid
bef tc th bv proprietor that th" SI
aessnients w.-rr much higher thn ihe
market value of th- propertlra
With th: knowledge m the poeaeoslon
of Controller and AM rmotl special
meetings Will be convened at th City
Hall to ligur. out th. complex uuesti in
of flnanc'al administration f..r Itll
elans to OVeather Ihe lorm.
F.ven the hoys Who play with Frank
ilravas admit that he Is an unusual boy
Me stands six feet one Inch despite bis
lf years, and ha a voice that snuenks
That voice was the most fearsome bit
of eualptnenl that a pirate ever had.
It la responsible for Frank's downfall
He could turn on a tremolo of sound lhat
made his victims want to walk the plank
Just tn get away from the noise.
Frank lives at 110 Flushing avenue.
I Ixiita Island City. A few months ago
1 he gut hold of a book about the Spanish
1 Main. From that time on It was hard
1 10 (Ind Frank without a bandanna tied
i under his hat and fusees In his pocket.
with which to emulate the Immortal
1 llachheerd.
Yesterday Frank aCOjUlNf half a
dollar In some way
Plots lhat had been forming
bandanna led hliu to North Beach, where
he hired a boat for one hour. Then.
. arefUlly muffling his voice, he Invited
lxiuls Ouldono. also IS, but small, to
lal I a row. and Irfmis a.-. epled When
1 hey were off the shore a way Franks
ol... rose to a pitch at which it crmked i
ami hi- yelled
" Staii l and deliver I"
He g.t his terms mixed a bit. bull
Ixuls caught his meaning and gave up1
i:. ..-its He explained Inter that If he
l-adn t Frank would have made him;
walk ihe plank, and he never had cared :
for walking planks The next victim
wa.- Nicholas Botonne, 11 yeafa old. who'.
had earned cents during the morning
by selling gum Nb holas also gnve up
Without a struggle, but as soon as he
got ashore he SJId the unclubbv thing'
of telling Policeman McQuenny ail about
In pirate with the Strang voice.
Tha- was the end of Frank's career
under thi hla U Hag It took two men I
get him to shore Judge H iyt. in the1
f"h id rem i-our' in Jamaica, hold Frank
until Mondn) to decide what to do with ,
ao anusual a young man
A 1 rant. Aug. M. Convictions and
Imprls-.iment arc keeping pace with the
i; crease In population and the attend
ant Increase In crime In the Bmplfe
State. On June 1. 191.', there were
no less than I.KS7 more Inmate In the
prisons, the reformatories and the peni
tentiaries of Ihe State than on a ltke
date five years ago. The State census
taken under the direction of Francis M.
Hugo, Secretary of S(ate, In June re
veals some interesting features In con
nection with the Inmates of the larger
penui Institution.
tn June. Ilin. the Stale prisons, re
formatories, penitentiaries, and tee New
York city Institution such as lllack
well's Island. Randall's and Hart's
Islands, had a total of 11,111 inmates
Within the past Ave years that number
has grown until It Is now 1T.1S2. an
Increase of 4.037, or nearly 1,000 a
THTNK VICTIM TITLED GERMAN
1iai.1l.1n Hospital Voii. ..rules fit
lent tl.mil i.lo accident Patient
BaBTt.oN, I, 1 , Aug. 26. The man
who was hurt In an nmomoMl aocl
deot aaar Fannlngdule and who la aw
recoverlng from concussion of fjts Sssafn
In the South Side Hospital here. Is aald
to he a titled Herman. The hospital
authorities refuse to tell who he Is, and
tils Identity y ill remain a myotery.
Ir. James S. Ante, one of th hos
pital staff, said to-night he didn't know
the man's name At the hospital it
was announced that the man la a pri
vate pntlent.
The man Is believed to have been on
his wav from a week end party at th
home of Capt. Hans Tnusohrr. husband
of Mine. Oadlkl, the prima donna, and
he wax riding In Mine. Hadskl's rsr
when It turned over In the ditch, the
chauffeur explaining afterward that h
turned aa.de to permit another oar, Ver
non Castle's, to isiss
HOTEL SUES 0SHAUQHNES8jT.
i: etttutlonfi of
1111 follow;
the
figures showing the
In the larger penal
State In 1910 and
Si -it. prisons
Penitentiaries
New York .-ity institution.
Refnrmatonea ....
tain
l.ns?
, l.iej
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. ram
tat-,
a an
I in',
nan
2.aM
Ine
at
l.fiti
"SI
Hlts-rarllon
niploninl
Nelson W.
Serves Paper on
n rinttsbnra ramp.
I'Shaughnessy. formerK'
In charge of the American Embassy 11
Mexico., recently attached to the Km
bassy to Austria, nnd now In camp at
riatubuig, was sued In the Supreme
Court yesterday by the Rlts-rarlton
Hotel for a bill uf 1478 contracted In
1912.
The pjipers were served on Mr.
O'fmaUgttneaay by the Sheriff of Clin
ton county In camp.
13.315 17.3T2 4.037
DEMOCRATIC SLATE CHOSEN.
.ich erswn Ian lllaH4 Pgomlea to
support BatWatHla for slirrlff.
N
I n..ii-
Y.-rk
: day by
era or th.
effet sot
uppori w
aum. Ci 1
.1 1 aeli ton
all. slate of . a'
county w-as altfi
he . W Yot k VI
ee. iltlve
Alliance
promised
ke. ithrar
fldatei f..r
unced 1 es-
..unity mem
mmlttee of thr
4L- Broadwa)
Justices Ir.-.-ti-
ind Delehanty
c.riioi a-.ion Counael rVanb
dlk for Jll.l 11 .- M.!iin 1' IVillsr. .ir
stuart ; Olbboney for Dtotrlct Attor
- v and Will am 11 Rdwardi for Brier-
Total!
Sing Sing. Auburn and the other State I
prisons had S.904 inmates on June 1
laat. as ComparOd with .0: Ave years
K ' th same date Sing Sing leads In
he number of Inmates, having a total
of 1,741 under confinement last June.
Clinton taking second place with 1,504
.id Auburn third with 1.420.
Ikith Institutions for the criminal In-!
-air Mat tea wan and Pannemora. show
.11. -reases in the number of their ln
mate over the past five years. At
Matteawati there were 7J persons cvan
finod in 1910 Last June the n.imher
l ad grown until there were "46, an ln-i-rie
of stx-v-two. At the state hos-
ptta at Pannemora there are now til
, peraona, In tomimrlson to 3S3 five years
ago, an Increa .f 1 33. or ahput one-
i third.
I The greatest Increase In the number
I ol persoi . under contlnement Is shown
! in the New York city peeinl Institutions
.In ll't" the City I'rlso: . Manhatta
I familiarly k' own ss the Tombs, had
r.ov prisoners. On June I, 191."., th
I number '.ad 4m reused by J4V. The City
. Prison of Brooklyn . ihownt by the
! recent census as having a total of MS
' inmates, as compared with 2
! ears ago this time.
Th, total number r-f inmate
New Y.nk city Institution "f corree
tion June i amottnteo to s.aait.
aiiiili '.'1 were women ami IJJOO WOP
males, up Jute 1. IKK', the same In
tltution iheltered s.sr.t vrmat. o
Mrhtcb Tt were women and the
ftv.
he
Several plana to w
will be proposed In
determined effort will
down the ah: ormal
rather the storm
the first plad '
be m ide to cut
Kempt Ion The
It
the n
.rati.
ay,
men I
for .
New
a new
of I he
Having heard that the Hoard of F.lec
tlons Intended to use as polling places
ml ten of the 500 public SChoolhOU
available for that purpose under
w i.- Youker. aacretarj
in . . -- - -
.i.i.e. I-nlon. wrote a letter yesterday
to Kdward F lloyle. pre
board, challenging him to
sons for this action . , .
... eel more lhal. ten school
heaaaaa that OOJl and should
used." wrote Mr
.dent of
give hi!
the
rea-
I'vsSAtc. N". J Aug 26 On top of
the worr.es that have fallen to his lot
because uf the billions of mos.Ultoes
in iv.ssal.- county. John Scott Pavison,
president of the Taisalc Mosquito Kx
terminitlon Corrinisslon. was served
with nanus to-day in a suit for I2.000
start. d by Mrs
l lelawanna
thus be
Is hard
If vour
Touker, "it
. , . . ,,i inpi. i .......
board has concluded lhat the elec ors
....f, r to register and vote In butcher
allor. barber and bakery shoi. oi de
lire to have polling plgo designations
handed out as political patTOWS.lt
will be very Interesting to have those
fads made known "
Mr Hovle replied that the board was
Just as much interested In the use of
s. h.H.lhoui.es as anybody, bin Its en
thusiasm was tempered ) saaee ......
He spoke of the tire tut Sara
is prohibited In s. ihOOlhOUM.
... . .. . ,jrui or i.ven the pri
in loin ...... - ....
on
ill, d
llev
I,.., i
thai will keep you. away from sa-
Smoklng
but a sign
seni-e of a
policeman would not Insure against
latlon lie wwm ,
A lighted elggarotto or cigar thrown
carelessly In the corridor or hallway
might poaalhty bring results far more
serious than a delay of six month, or
ii presidential primaries next
spring, when the situation .an be
i rolled unon a basis of experience.
practice Instead of upon theory.
Commissioner lloyle also told Mr.
Youker that the equipment of many
schools with furniture for election pur
poses would be costly He said that
the Hoard of Election! wa- working
toward permanent and complete use or
Ik sellouts, "while 111 considered. Im
mediate and general application of he
Id might Jeopardlxe the lUCCO of this
splendid Idea."
in past year the rental "f the barber
shops and such places for primary and
Uctlon days has always been an Im
portant Hem III district political patron-
Hertha I.. Whitney ..t
btcau Mr. Pav.BOns ex-;
termlnatlun corps attempted to anni
hilate the pes's on three acres of her
laud.
In her complaint Mrs Whitney seta
forth that up to Apttl 1. ll. she had
three acres ..I land In P.hi'vanna, close
to the ifantlcaw hrvk, which borders
the VounUkah Country C ub s golf links,
with some .100 or more shade trees,
all fifteen years or more old. The
time was coming, she contends, when
this would be a tine park for Pelawanna:
In fact. It was already the playground
of the youngster of ihe town.
Hut on April 1 the engliie.-r of the
mosquito commission and his men came
and cut down eviry one of the trees
Her fine park was wiped out In one
treat sw.ep To put It mildly. hc will
settle for $2,000.
"If that ult were all the worry 1
had," said President Pavison on perus
.ng the paper, "I could realise quickly
there are some Jokes in life. Suits are
few. but the mosquitoes are many, too
many
This park, with the hundreds of fifteen-year-old
trees was a swamp, a
breeding place for millions of mosqui
toes, covered with thick underbrush.
Trees? Why. I'm sure there wasn't a
bush thete bigger around than one'
arm.
"No. I shall not worry ab.-iut the suit
The mosquitoes require all my time"
The action will come up in the Passaic
Clrcutl Court some time next month.
LET UP ON CAPITAL, TAFT URGE
AGAINST FIVE COUNTY PLAN.
Hrwlalera' iini.es Should He Ira-
trnllsrd, ns John J. Hopper
John J. Hopper. Itegister of New Y'ork
County, think all th. County ltegist rs
ottlces in this city should he central
ised and pieced under municipal con
trol. This is the plan advocated by
Commissioner of Accounts Wallstein
and Chamberlain Hruere. In a letter
to th se men Mr Hopper said ester. lay
that tin- centralisation principle is ac
cepted bv all "except these who are
willing to aaorlflc the public welfare
fo, matters which are ..f temporary p r-
sonal b.-netlt to themselves." He con
tinued w
"If all the work rvL.twig to all classes
of Instrument Which affect t'tle to real 1 ma
property were placed under one oftlee nad
management with branch offices in the
several centres of population, it would
greatly add1 to the convenience of the
public, decrease operating expenses and
increase Ihe stability and safety of
title
If all the titles In Manhattan were
registered and the scale of fees now
charged b) Ihe till companies were
adopted the income to the city for Man
hattan alone would be M0,00(l,000, most
of which would h proht. The scale of
fees In use In Massachusetts would
produce a rOVOnue of ,00,0O0 for
Manhattan alone I montmii these fig
ures to show the economic reason New
York city has In favoring a true Tor
rens system, aside from the incalcula
ble benefit accruing to the land owner!
directly."
egompttoni In vaitie cover iaor than
flfth of the entire realty In the c.ty
This is seen bv the following figure"
Biemptlons, Itls.llll.MI Total as-
s.ss-d valu-' of r al estate t(0,tt0,itl
All the revenue available .11 be swal
lowed up In administration expenses, no
loan fund will be at hand, and so far
as can be ftaoottalned now, th- only
money op.n for public work r.egt sea
son will be about 11,000.000, which can
be raised by a loan fl itd on the se
curity of moneys owing to the city by
fronting proprietor called on to ii
proportion of Improi mctits carried out
on city streets.
"But whatever happera. there win be
no Increase in taxes.'' a as the flat decla
ration of Controller Hebe rt, who has
the bud, t in charge., 'The altuatlon
now Is that the city may expect a rev
enue of pet-hips somewhat less than
llt.000.1 and so far as I eag find by
very tentative calculation, the gpendl.
. lure on th- administration next year
Will be about 1 1 1,401,000, thus lea' 'r,g
a deficit on the January budget .f 11.
402.000.
"That I hope to mike up on the sup
1 piemen tary budget whi -h la due in May
for ve shall have at tli , nd of this year
more taxes own g to us than we
it the end of last year; the supple
mentary budget this year wis about
1200,000."
Ii certain, iy the alliance, "iiiat
Conatltutlon will be undemo-
and reactionary. Senator Hoot
and truthfully, that .he govern-
f the Stat.- has beet Venezuelan
Its pail, We hereby de, hire t: at
York city will no lonner allna
self to ii,. treatad as a conquered prov
.i ce." Without hom rule, the alliance
- ys. i: will be Impossible to put through
the new COMtlttltlon this year
mi hlng 1,101 were males.
II aggro rln ns Indorse "waan.
The candldac) of Judge Kdward
gwann for the office .f Dlatrlcl Attorney
was Indorsed yesterday hv the Hun
garian National Democratic Club, X4
Fast Eighty aOOOnd street The Indorse
ment was made in the form of a reso
lution representing the desires of lO.onn
Hungarians.
$1925
Niagara Falls
Over Labor Day
$1 1 00 RoundTripia
PI 1 WEST SHORE
Round Trip via
NY. CENTRAL
Very Low Fare algo to
AdironJacks
Thousand Islands
Green Mountains
Lake George
Lake Champlain
NUff Palls 1 H
iag Illy hntc! rni'l b
line map Prtt I
IpMv" Bn -kle ffhft.
tardloi hnuMi nd bj
t ti gt tiH rs.
New York 'Phone, 6310 Madiioa
Brooklyn Phuno, 167 Main
TRAPPED BY FAKE PICTURE
Twa Men Held for
IiitoIvI nar
r'rjur
V imii:i II.
A ronil-'-J-.l " photOfTgipki ttAVr1)
p.itt'ht'ti ami dtvopd, 11 io Mrjur
DhotrCMI a tc.tl nsl two in it Hf ri) i bf.
fnr Justin. O'Knfi, PrMchl nd Fl-m-
itlg r tht C.iuTt 0 S;ti iil gtotllotll
Th1 picture wui produp4 by & wltnwi
t ii- i. t tmuny
.' w.st Thlr-
T .s'inrr promtMd and was (MB ; f
HOLLAND FOR LABOR HEAD.
iteeeltes Ini.'IOll I nun Fril-
eratlon of Labor t nneus.
21
ind of
Iht f.u
K-de
d lhat
N Y . Aug
New York was
president of the
-,ti f Laboi
ins election lonoiTOw
James P,
nominated
New Y'ork
It
118-
. oiii-luslon
Loegl No !
i Bnglnoer.
l racugSi Mr
a a
He is business
1. Stationery Flre
Thomas V. Ilaff-
Holland'a opponent
at
and In-anothei
wa dfi td by a vi.ti
iiirus
t-' i. ;.
ited that Mr. Holland has been
1 , plan on 'be new .flats Indus-
h , million by linv. Whitman. He
i d r: tat eummenl on the matter
SEEKS MORE CASH FOR PARKS.
iMllselftgaf t a nl
iihi fur Keai
tska g 1,0.12,
v ear.
t.
Ward, I'ark 'omnilasloner for
I'd Richmond, 1 a akrd
i ..f Kttimat to appropriat!
i r... tin use of his depart-
.- Thi 1 an II iwr cent
ivei hum ear's allowuner,
f 'lie ill. Tease ll,6:i Is
tl asrt lot The only Impor
Joh avhtch would la ereat-d
forester it It.eOO a yer.
mi,, i rn Museum ..f Natural
. .' i is requested by th
m .,S4. ..f 111,004 over ihe
s . i u inoreaa or ,ggg is
Ii Hie tquariliaa, for which thla
mi . was tiT.iiiio.
DEATH THRILLS AT FAIR.
Woman Balloonist Knllsi Partner
tries ggtoMOl la "I'rrlaliir.
Tout Jkbvis. N. Y.. Aug 31 -gpectg-
tors ut the Chenango county fait wit
neaaed lines rifcted thrills to-day when
u woman performer arhoa stunt it IS
to aaccnil In a balloon and Jump with
a naractlUta fll from her iraiee at the
name moment that her partner
tempted eulolde by shooting
aal of hitting hlmaOlf "hot
woman.
Miss Helen Smith, the balloon Pr
former, of Newark, noticed the moody r
iitiiiie of her partner, John Mack, "' sin
prepared for her aaoanti but paid Utile
attention to it. Ah she aaoended, Maoh
drew a revolver, proaaad II to IiIh temple
and then exelalmed "It wont go off."
Just then It did go off and a woman In
Ihe crowd dropped to Ihe ground,
w inded by I bullet
I Almost siniillt. dials' Miss Smith
' reeled from the trapeze and fell The
parachute failed to work until she wa
I only a short dlOtlMlc above tin- ground.
Then ll spread out BUfllcllietly Io break
1 her fall
iioih women will recover, M la though'.
Min k era arrested.
i lilaapproa r of Nlgrkl ttaa ls.
Suit me t'ourt Justlie Sheam ih
fuaed yesterday t" sign a eertiflent of
Incorporation of the Nlghl iwia of
j Yorkvlll beeau h didn't approve of
the nam of the iorporgtlon The m-
! eorporators said lhal th puipose of the
organlMtln Is "raising to a higher
I standard the physlesl eontfl Ion of It
I members" anil "enlightening It
I br op th topic of the day."
ItrKnlnllon and
l.aaas Ills Pirn.
Henso nahlr
Labor
Sav pTgAftOIOdb, Aug 10. Heasonable
regulation of capital and less discrim
inatory labor legielattOn acre urged b)
William H T.ift to-day before the Com
mercial flub
He said it look the rallroails twenty
yenrs to find out that the Interstate
eommerce act really meant something,
hut that the lesson had been learned.
"Now," he continued, "we have
reached a time when we ought to have
reaction and not hind and harass the
enterprise and Inatonulty of our Amerl
, inn businen communities."
Ijabor unions, he said, had done good,
i hut he hopixl for better lenders
' .Men like ilomper are lobbying for
legislation which Is discriminatory," Taft
explained "I.Ike the capitalists, they
are Intoxicated with power."
O'LOUGHLIN PETITION SECOND.
I it r I II. Mill, r Tfikm First rinrr
In Klrclliinn Honrd lim
Kdwatfl T ' '!xu,thli!i. who Ik trying
ft.r i.o1M'tion an It(rtor of Kimts
i-ouTity, wn tht wn-tmti rHtKlMat-- for
urtlotn nriinnry ilfttijctuitltia: isotltloiw
WWft tiloal when thi' BoWd Of Kltnitions
npeiif". Its hooks for T;hat purpotM' -ten1a
The HrMt petition wan that of Pari FT,
MtlltM, 0WwM(h.U f'r rh-aMiam a Ikmihi-i-nU:'f
Awillhlymwn in th. Thirty thtnl
dtrW4 ' IstHig'hliti'H pstltlon wav HtpntHi
lt lndptndnC6 hau VlMtm, Me hp'.s
til he ileMitciuitiHl by tht- 1 tnpK'r,its it mo,
IwivIiik het ti turned down b th- !rKk
lyn Hepuhlh'Hn ord;.tMi7..iti'ii.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT C0RRY.PA.
Ilrnirs Slanina Waiver.
t'harles tag Hi rider, attorney for I)r
and Mr a. .1 ''e 'Hers, ho nre seek
ing to adopt the daughter of Clarence
A Stevenson son of Mrs He (Hers, an
nounced yesterday that he has a signed
statement tn gtVnOn relating to the
published stories yesterday that Htev-
enron would oppose the adoption In
this statement Stevenson says: "It I
' not true thMl I signed anv waiver of I
I my rights to my child and I did not '
make sii.-h a statement.''
r'red llraediin, Health) Printer,
Kills Wife and I onimlts Suleldr.
CoggTi Pa., Aug. II Kred Braadon,
Junior partnsr of Weeks 4 Hrued'ui.
printer, shot and killeil his wife. (Jpal,
to-day at their home on Wright street.
The man then committed suicide.
Mrs. Braedon and a woman guest had
been out for the evening As the were
returning B fated OH met tliein and walked
home with thorn. When they reached
the house Braadon drew a revolver,
placed It behind the woman's ear and
fired He then shot himself.
in an -.ffori to enniridi
-if Marl 1 'umlki ... of
tifh street.
The woman alleged tint 0org Kar.
infill. .s. a waiter of 2.',:, Well Tlurt
ninth street, is the father of tor twin
children. On of the defendant'! wit
negaag. laador Kakaki 21 Wl Tlnr-
ty-ninlh street, showed a plctur of the
woman and himself, which he said aw
taken .it I'onev Island a short lime ago
When she d nied ever accompanying
Eakakie, tiu, justic.s carefully ques
tioned the witness. Apparently one
of the ,1 list Ices saw the defect In t la
picture, nnd aft r a vigorous oro
animation Bakakll idmitt.d thai the
photograph was made and given to him
by a friend
Bikukli was immediately held m
$1,5011 bail and Kartafuln was ordered
to pa It a week for the lupporl of
the children Later he a-as arraign d
in the Tombs court and held for egaml
nation to.mnriow b) Maglatratu Kr-'ih-liigh
im on a charge of perjury
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on the lost lsianci ot Linnabar.
from New York Harbor to the
mines
and scenes range
Spanish Main and back
and you will anxiously
chapter of this serial.
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Characters
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The llev .lames
I lilies .i nil re.
Carheiriy of
Toronto, a Hat hollo priest attaches! to
the Church of Our lady of Iemide
IhOre, fell in faint while crossing Times
Solium last nlafht He was taken to
I 'on Mm. linsvpltal, where he will prnh-
gbfy rardeln it day or two, although
was said his condition was not seriou.
k.
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By the successful novelist, author of "The Red Mouse,"
a trained reporter and widely informed student of
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WILLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNE
begins in the
EVENING SUN
MONDAY, AUG. 30th