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Principals Asked if Officia
Recognition Should B??
Given by Board.
^NOW KXTST -SIB ROSA
Harry B. Chambers Susfgfests
Faoulty Supervision Might
Be Introduced.
JtecoKnition of high school fratern
ities. which have never ceased to exist
in most schools. although technically
barred by the Board of Education, may
l>e brought about through a question- ?
naire which Harry B. Chambers, a new
member of the Board, has had sent to
the high school principals.
The questionnaire was sent out on
Monday by A. Emerson Palmer, sec
retary of the Board. It asks for in
formation on the advisability of per
mitting secret societies in the high
schools sublect to faculty supervision.
Edward C. Zabriskie, principal of the
Washington Irving High School, said
;aat night:
T have no opinion to express on the
question propounded, for the reason
that we have never had any practical
experience In Washington Irving High
School with fraternities. Hence I have
had no opportunity to form an opinion.
?My belief is that fraternities were large
ly confined to the boys of high schools."
Arthur A. Boylan, principal of the
O?o*ge Washington High School, said:
"I think it would be a great mis
'?tofc perhaps, to allow legislation at this
time on this topic, but T do feet that
a frank recognition of the fraternities'
right to exist might be good. There
Is now a bylaw prohibiting fraternities
in high schools, hut as a matter of fact
the fraternities have never gone out of
existence. They have flourished In prac
tically every high school in the city, so
that in effect we have been teaching tiie
voungstera to evade a law by subter
fuge.
"The fraternity In itself does no harm
and a<t tile same time It does no good.
But these young animals arc social ani
mals and will gather in groups. It
matters very little, in my opinion,
whether you call the group a team or a
fraternity."
William I<. Felter, principal of the
Olrls* High School In Brooklyn, will ad
vance another view. He said :
"Other cities took the lead in abolish
ing the secret societies and New York
followed them. The secret societies de
veloped social butterflies and a set of
snobs. We have had faculty supervision
and found that It did not work. The
fraternities can be abolished in any high
school If some spineless principals will
take a firm stand."
Gilbert J. Tlaynor of Commercial High
School In Brooklyn asserted that th?:
fraternities are undesirable and "a bs.i
thing for students " He recalled, as did
Mr. Boylan, that a few years ago, when
fraternities were rccognized, a teacher
was assigned to each and sat in the
meetings. He said these teachers be
lieved the "fra.ts" were undesirable.
Mr. Chambers, who has been men
tioned as a possibility for president of
the Board of Education, says he has an
open mind on the question.
"I have not decided whether the fra
ternities should be permitted or not," h?.
said yesterday. "They may work a lot
of harm, but on the other hand, under
faculty supervision, that misrht not be
true. If they arc to be permlted at all
It certainly should be under supervision
Some fraternity members asked me to
took into the matter and I thought the
hest way to investigate was to request
the opinions of high school principals
who are betetr able to Judge than any
one else."
FULL DRESS TWINS START
! 'EM SEEIN' THINGS BY DAY
! Ex-Governor Whitman and a Virginia Judge Left Run
ning in Circles by Dusky Baggage Handlers
at Pier.
The dusky Louisiana iwlns, Grover
Cleveland Hall and Alfred Bianchard
Hall, who handle baggage on the piers of
the Ward L.ine, introduced themselves
yesterday to former Gov. Charles S.
Whitman of this city and Justice
Arthur M. Chichester of Leesburg. V?.,
who arrived by the steamship Oyijsaba,
and later caused some confusion in the
minds of the New Yorker and the Vir
ginian. .Mr. Whitman H?ked Grover to
attend to his baggage and when a twin
came down a gangplank dragging the
baggage of Justice Chichester Mr. Whu
man remonstrated. A broad an 1
radiant l^ouisiana smile greeted Mr.
Whitman, who was Informed that the
twin, who was the other fellow, had re
ceived no orders from the ex-Governor.
The other twin, that is. the one Mr.
Whitman had talked to originally, ap
peared at another gangplank with the
baggage of Mr. Whitman and was In
formed by Just.ce Chichester that the
b&ggh^e was not his, the Justice's, but >
Mr. Whitman'*, and the twin said lie (
knew it and that he reckoned Justice (
Chichester must have griven an order
to his, the twin's, brother.
The Justice and the ex-Governor then
began to run around in circles, seeing
twins with large flashing smiles every- j
where. Francis l^ewis, In charge of the
baggage handlers, stopped their evolu
tions by explaining things.
The Hall boys, who are 28. are called
the full dress twins by men on the pier,
as they always report for duty with ;
their uniforms pressed and their shoes j
highly polished. Grover may be distin- I
guished from his brother by a little red ]
feather he wears in his cap and when \
he transfers the feather to the cap of i
Alfred Blanchard the latter beoomes
Cirover to everybody cn the pier except j
the twins themselves. They attend a |
night college in this city.
AGREE TO SETTING
ASIDE ENO VERDICT
Case on Calendar for Trial
Again Next Month.
Counsel for all parties interested In
th? will of Amos K. Eno appeared be- '
fore ijjurrogate Foley in chambers yes- j
terday and gave their concent to the (
formal entry of an order embodying th?
ruling of the Surrogate setting aside the i
verdict of the jury, which declared in ;
favor of the heirs of Eno, who brought j
a content of his will on the ground that j
he was not of sound mind when h? |
made It.
If Eno's relatives desire to appeal
from the order setting aside the will;
they have twenty days within which to
file notice.
The Surrogate declined again yester- '
day to make any comment on the pro- ;
test of the eight jurymen who gave out '
a statement on Sunday saying that they I
considered his setting aside of their ver- I
diet a distortion of justice. A. Monti- 1
flore Levy, chairman of the committee
on practice and procedure of the New
York County Lawyers' Associatioa
Bald:
"The Eno case is an excellent exam- j
pie of conscientious jurymen erring, and :
corrected by an able judge. On account |
of Its legal and pmblic Interest I fol- j
lowed the trial of the case with care
and in my humble opinion the setting
aside of the verdict was a vindication i
of Justice."
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POLICE SHOTS IGNORED
Two Gunmen Hold Up Messen
ger on His Way to Reserve
Bank, but Get No Loot.
A bag containing: a payrol! of $6,500
was snatdhed from Miss Ray Abel, book
ktepor of Deirtsch Brother* Furniture
Company, at Third avenue and 123d
streei. yesterday afternoon, virtually In
the presence of a detective and scores
of other persons. The thief grabbed the
fag a9 Mis* Abe) stopped out of a taxi
cat- In front of the furniture store, and
she grappled with him. The detective
tired a shot that ?o scared the young
woman that she released her hold of
the robber, enabling him to Jump into
a taxicab that tfcen disappeared in a
maie of traffic. The machine was found
abandoned later in Th| Bronx with ISO
In silver lying on the floor.
Miss Abel had been making the trip
to the Chatham and Phenix National
Dank, J>nox avenue and 126th street,
at rhe same hour every Tuesday for the
five years she 1 as been in the employ
of the furniture company. She rode
yesterday, as was her custom, in a taxi
csh. hut dl'l not learn until after the
robbery tiiat ?he had been followed by
the thief in another machine from the
t'me she staited for the bank until he
relieved her <?f the payroll.
Detective Michael Mnrphy of the East
126th street station was only a few
hundred yards away when Miss Abel
screamed. He saw the young woman
grapple with the robber anil fired a shot
into the air, intending to scars Che thief,
but it had the opposite effect.
The robber darted into the waiting
: taxicab as Miu Abel released her grip
and the machine turned east in 123d
i street. The chauffeur of the automobile
that -Miss Abel had used tried to turn
around (o give chase, but he found it
impossible to do so because of the dense
traffic in Third avenue.
Detective Murphy got another auto
mobile and started after the taxicab.
Ae his machine turned into 123d street
he flred two shots at the fleeing taxicab.
but both shots apparently went wild.
The taxicab had obtained a good start
and turned south into Seoond avenue
before the detective waa half way eaat
through 123d street. When Murphy got
to Second avenue the taxicab had dis
appeared.
Miss Abel collapsed soon after she
entered the furniture Mtore and had to
be attended by a physician. When ahe
was revived ahe gave the police an ex
cellent description of the robber. He
*ai about 30 years old. ahe said, clean
shaven, neatly dressed in a dark auit
and wore a fedora hat. Miss Abel said
she never had seen the man before. The
police believe that the robber was well
acquainted with the movements of the
bookkeeper and thHt the chauffeur of
th?> tax I cab was a confederate.
Policeman Carver of the Alexander
avenue station carne upon the abandoned
tnxicab in front of 5.13 East 149th street.
The Bronx. Witnesses said the machine
had been driven up to that point by two
men who had got out and walked toward
St. Ann's avenue. The policeman found
two roll* of quarters and one roll of
half dollars in the wrapper* of the Chat
ham and Phenrv National Bank, in the
rear of the car. The sliver apparently
had bken dropped by the thief in hia
haste to get away.
Two men armed with revolvers tried
to hold up Benjamin Garbowitch of 122
JL.udlow street, messenger for the Bank
of United States at 77 Delancey street,
when he started from the bank last night
at midnight carrying a brief case filled
with checks on route to the Federal Re
serve Bank at Pine and Nassau streets.
They fired ono shot at Garbowitch.
which went through the messenger's
overcoat, but they did not succeed In
getting the bag.
Garbowitch told the police of the Old
Slip station that he went across the
street after leaving the 'bank, intending
to take a Second avenue elevated train
downtown. At Allen and Delancey
etreeur, he said, two men jumped at him.
One of them pushed him against a
wall and grabbed for the bag, and the
other fired when the messenger strug- ,
Sled. After firing both bandits ran. j
Garbowltch said he chased them for a
block, but they escaped.
The messenger then went on to the
Reserve Bank and delivered hi* checks.
The police say that Garbowltch some
times carries as much as $500,000 worth
of checks in his trips from the Bank
of the United States to the Reserve
?ajik, but that he never carries any
cash. It is not known how much was
in the bag last night.
Four bandits who tried to hold up
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Brooklyn, manager of the almoner's of
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West Broadway, became angry when
they found that he had nothing more
valuable than a %'i watch. One fired at
him. the bullet grazing Langley's abdo
men on the left side and inflicting a
slight flesh wound. Then they ran down
stairs and escaped in an automobile.
Herbert J. Siabery, who said he lived
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avenue. The clerk. Joseph Mann, was
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register wa? looted. Mann chased Siab
ery to Second avenue, where he was
caught by a policeman.
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