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  • PROBERS NAMED FOR

    THE SERVICE BOARDS

    T.rzMntlve CoinmiUcc Will Re-

    fill Hi'iirinirs Here NextWt'ilnosday.

    Vt 1I.IA OX .MAY GO JJACK

    Ata-- Jhii. :i. The Joint legislative,i which Is to InvtstlRiitn tlio Slntc

    c Si i re Commissions wns appointed.j,v r i.I inmittlliitclyotKnnlzoilbyclect-- x

    set K. Thompson of Nl- -.,, i ., chairman. Its llrst public bcs- -

    ,;t .v MM In the AluVniianlc Cham-,- ,.Niw York olty next Wednesday

    iftti t'vrnos of tlio two I'ommU-o- n"' tlx- public service corrdm-,,- i'he principal object of tlio In- -

    i '' in. H Hi"1 said It Is be- -,. P tliut nil lUo New York city.winners w III so.

    u lit.. in It- - Willcox, of themin'.-uii- . had a lone conference with

    ,,,v W n tman y at the Executlv?that he Is la.tedm o i 'l repoiti'U

    . i.i.nii.in of the board.Xf ..nt nimbrrg of the New Yorki.hiiii" ' Kdwuril K. McCall, chair- -,',n I Cram, lleorge V. H.

    v Milu It. Maltble and 11. CoKmUho,i,I. Te members of the com- -ni-io- Seymour Vim Santvoord,- u.jn .Martin S. Heclicr. Dcvoo I'.

    'ln.un William Temple Kinmet andI'rAtik M Irvine.

    The ummlMlon also Is to have, ntw mi mbemlilp. Oov. Whitman .ild

    n of the N'-- York city Commissioners,d ri but he declined to tuta

    i try of i ne members had Benti v r resignation.

    iii Mnnclnril lln. Dropped.T.-- r grnet.il chars? asalimt each com-- n

    - that tli hUh Mimd.ird etub-t.- ytho two Public Service Com-ii-io- r-J llrst appointed by Uov.

    lugJi-- s ha not been maintained slnco thej.niocratlc Commissioners were added Inn four year of DcmucVatle rule.

    It Is 10 planned to change the Jurl-i.c- t.'n i the New York city commission

    y g.xlng t control of all of Long Island,nd Wtchester county. It Is conceded,iat two I'uMlc Servlc- - Commlsiluns wille conllmi-d- . but whether the membership1 ei h i m.ntlon will be uducul fromne to tin e ts not et decided.

    Chalimin Thompson aked whatn f ii'iulry It was proposed 'to followi,d ie k.i' this uusuer:"We will follow any line that look

    is Ihoucii !l ought to b-- i followed. IfJirte weeks ti not sufllclent time we

    II tinv longer. 'W ,lum llayward, counsel to the Oov-:no- r,

    w is oftlclnlb designated a coun-- -I to tue prole committee alter u. con- -nre the committee had with Oov.

    Mr.-- in. The iiovernor and th- - com- -, tf i . n talked the l'tiblle Sen'lee Com-ii.0- !-

    over thorotiBhly. All complaintsMen ii.ne bten sent to Oov. Whitmaninf 'tiliiK the commissions will be turned

    ,ti to ,M.. llayward for use In thei' ion

    "We wili make this Investliration b- -ut so .naiiy complaints have been

    naif iiraliist the commission that Itn:tm." proper." said Chairman Thompson.

    I'rolic l He ThoroiiBli. iT i committee will be clad to hear

    nyt '.inB of Importance that oiiKht tor m -- o iKated. Communlcatlonn to thoomnilt:e should ho slmied, for I do,ot think much of anonymous oommunl-atlcm- s.

    This lnvstlBatlon will be thor-ough '

    .Senator Thompson will (to to New Yorkto meet Senator Mills, another

    ,iemjer of the committee, and tnakowith Mr. llayward ror

    the probe. A. of ihiee had named to make

    for the meetlnc. Serseant-t-Arm- sCharles It. Ilotallm; of tho Sen-U- r

    ha Ix-c- selected to act a eerseant-t-a- ,tii' for tho committee.

    Temporarily the headiiuarters of tham.'i ttee will b- - at the Ulltmore, but

    subsi'iuently ii conls,llu;f Senators Cromwell and Uiwton

    yni A"emblyniati Maler will iirrance aorninent luMiUiuarters.Ueut Oov. Schoeneek nnnouncfKj tbe

    o:t"Wins as th Senate members of theoiinut'ee : Oeor;e Thomn.on of Nl-fi-

    Owjrire Cromwell of Richmond,Hlon I.. Mills of New York, K. It. Uiw-o-f

    Brooklyn. Republicans, nnd JnmesKolev of New York, Democrat.

    Sneaker Sweet announced these mem--- sof t lie rommlttee from tho Asetnbly:

    Uf" of Seneca, Knlcht of Wyonilns.McOultlon of Kings, Klncald of Ouon-ig- i.

    lle.iubllcanH Hull of Klnxs andnen hue of New York, Democrat;.

    BOARD MUST GET OUT PEB. 1.

    Whltmnn Ilenles Itninest of Civilervlr- - llends for llelny.

    Avsamt. Jan. 21. Oov. Whitman was,Ved v to extend tho life of the

    . ruent state Civil Service Commissionte-.- February 1, when their reslgna- -

    necoine effective, ho that the .New,rk , tv Civil Service Commission may.lam away charges made against tho

    omI The rciuest cam from the ritate'on ni.Hsioi.er's counsel. Frank Moss, for- -inriv Whitman's nsslhtant.

    Vol one day." was the Governor'senl

    T. e Oovernor was asked if hfl expecteds nw boarl to continue the Investlga

    ' on or tlio New York city commission.i ins nser was that ho expects th

    resn-- board lo make a report to himnetore the commissioners go out of officen February 1.

    GLYNNS SAIL NEXT WEDNESDAY.

    I'l-I.- nt ernnr nnd AVIfi- - Going lo I"pnsltlon Vlu I'nnnnin,

    Ai.n.VT, Jan. 21 Olynn andI't ii inn will sail from New York on

    'stMiin ;7 for Panama and from therenrmjgli the canal to San Francisco,

    'Uiere the will be present at the opening'ho Panama exposition.

    Mrs Charles S. Whitman will be thehonor guest ut luncheon to be giveno. morrow by Mrs, Udward Itowdltch,

    HIT BY C. F. MURPHY AUTO.

    Nnllllo Vonllri'iil to Letl'lilrlnit lie Called,

    Cisrlfs F. Murphy's automobile, Ini Ins wife and daughter were riding,

    t millo Nonllrenl, 5, of 24S Westnth htreet as he was crossing Fifth

    'Hue 111 front of tho Holland House'I't night

    M s Mabel Murphy Jumped out and'red Nontlienl to the sidewalk, where' iskrd him to let her call a physician,

    nfis.d. however, and went home.

    NORDICA WILL CASE PUT OFF.

    1'iirtlier ProeeedlliK" In .vr Jer- -e I Mill I'Vlirunry I,

    I' rr.Knoi.ii. N. J., Jan. 21. After a briefn'nieiit by counsel before Judge Johnw Sim urn hue this morning further

    4l ivoveedlngs 111 the matter of thell an N'o-dl- Young will were put off

    ii' 1'ibruaty 4.ijcorge W Young, husband of Mme.o. dl ,i. and one of the nieces who object' t'u. will ha offers were In court.

    ,'iiduineiil Asnlnsl lirnrm' W, YotuiKJudgment against Oeorgo W Young

    1 ir.s: by default was entered In theCourt jesterday In a suit In behalf

    estate of Herman Srhaus, the art.1,., tr. rwoitr foe nleliir and hang- -

    polu to Mr Young in J910.

    ENGLAND FEELING STRAIN,END NEAR, BANKER THINKS

    J. Selwin Tait Points to Stoppage of Foreign Loans asAdmission of Financial Distress, and Also

    to German Minister's Fears.

    Washington, Jan. 21. J, Selwin Talt,a prominent banker here, describe a re-cent order of the Ilrltlsh Treasury as themost momentous financial developmentthat has como ulnce the war began. Howrites to a local paper:

    "Wo lenrn by cable y that the Ilrlt-lsh Treasury, under n new ruling, forbldnfuture capital Issues outvlde of the em-pire In Its Imtnedlato bearing on tho lmternatlonal commetve of England, and onh cotisdiuencc of the United States, this Istho most momentous announcement madeIn living memory.

    "Kmnec has always teterved to Itselftil.) right of control In tho last anallover the rorclgn Investments of Its people.

    "llngland, on the other hand, has al-ways allowed absolute freedom to her In-vestors. Her Investment machinery litbeen co developed during the past sixtyyears that. Instead of being open to theold Napoleonic reproach of being a na-tion of shopkeeprrs, she has become anation of stockholders, so that when Ixin-do- n

    opens a subscription list for foreignloans the rtoue.Q conies not alone fromtho clients and connections of the houseof Issue but f I cm the whole of l"nKlundfrom John U'UrusUs to Dover.

    "Trndc Follim the I.onii.""It Is her readiness to raise ciulckly

    vast sums of money for foreign coun- -tries more than anything elso which hasgiven England her International com- -merclal superiority, and no phrase was!over truer than that 'trade follows tholoan.' So long as this condition of tlnan-- 1

    JUVENILE DETECT1YE

    IS AGAIN POLICE HERO

    Louis Goldstein. Sonrennt at 13,Causes Conviction of

    Lottery Man.

    Morris Hoffman, a lunch counter waiterat 1 Kssex street was fined S3S In SpecialSessions yesterday for operating a lottcyin wnn minors were parcel, auiis. -convlrtMi of Hoffman, who paid his tin Irather than serve live days In prison, wasbrouglr about by Louis Ooldsteln, 12years old, of i". Second avenue, a detectlvosergeant In the juvenile police force at-tached to the Fifth street station.

    This was the second conviction obtainedby Ooldsteln since h Joined the force,which was orgaulaed six months ago by1'ollco Captain Sweeney and now has amembership of about 300 boys. A weekago he watched Hoffman Invite youngstero risk a cent on the chance of picking

    a tucky number on a Urge cardboarddivided Into numbertd squares. The for- -tuuate "gammers" receiveu canes oirhooola'e as urlzes.

    Goldstein knew this was against thelaw. and drew tho attention of PatrolmanJohn O'Nell to it. Then the jmennesleuth. In otder to procure evidence In theway follow sl by all grownup defectives,laid down his penny and tho policemanthen arrested Horfman.

    His previous "collar" occurred threeweeks ago, when he saw two men break-ing open a showcase on the East Side.The thloves were si nteneed mtt monthseach In the workhouse.

    SHOW EVILS. , of New Mt fr Washing-- ,'

    . . . ... .. , President Wilson In optosltlon to theinunrrn r.- mir.vi.u .,

    I.enxur llxlilblt.a moiel tenement and a very un

    model" one. with babies, dirty rooms andcrowded beds, were on exhibition yester-day and will be for the rest of the weekit the of the Womin's Mu-nicipal League, 42 West Thirty-nint- hstreet.

    The tenements were so tiny that a smallchild would have delighted to play Inthem, nnd yet fo true to life that not adetail In the sordid life of the slums wasmissing.

    "They have been Invaluable for ex-hibition purposes In the schools and atmany public meetings," said Mrs. T J.llowlker. president of tho Hoston Munici-pal league. In a lecturo yesterday morn-ing at the "and have donemore than anything else to show thochildren the real conditions of the homesIn which they live as seen from the out-side. Many children have gone home de-manding that things be cleaned up, andhave refused to bny groceries at storeswhere things were not clean."

    The New York Woman's MunicipalLeague hopes to make some arrangementby which similar exhibits will be shownIn the public schools to Instruct childrenhow to live better.

    SUED BY WIFE; TELLS OF BILLS.

    Tailor llenles He Jlns 3(,O00 In-come Object Alimony.

    Frederick William Whltaker, head of anKngllsh tailoring establishment In B88Fifth avenue, who Is being sued for $200 tmonth alimony and 2,u00 counsel fe-s- sby his wife, Mrs. Mllllcent U.

    the trial of her action for divorce,told Justice Souddcr In the Queens CountySupreme Court yesterday that his Incomehad been cut to about J 10,000 a year be-cause his patrons were slow In payingtheir bills. It been asserted that hisIncome was J5u.H)0,

    Mrs. Whltaker named asMrs. Daisy N. Morgan, housekeeper In Mr.WhltaWs 150,000 mansion In Hayslde,L. I. Mr. Whltaker said his wife's chargeswere baseless. He asked the court todeny the motion for alimony. JusticeScuddcr reserveu iteciston.

    IN AUTO THEFT.

    Former llnormnu nt lliistiinoli) ' lle- -miiiiilf-i- l for Sentence,

    Hugo Werber. formerly doorman atHustonaby's restaurant In West Thirty-nint- h

    streot, was convicted of receivingstolen property yesterday and Judgo Mu- -lone in General bessious reniandtsl mmfor sentence. Tho complainant was Har-old Frank, a Yale student who wont tothe. restaurant June 11 last, leaving htsautoinobllo outside. After dancing anddining ho discovered his enr had benstolen.

    Frank reported the loss of the car totho then manager. Anthony Martogolf, whoadvbl against reporting the theft to thopolice and suggested the name of u private detective agency uoing iiusmcss under tho name of the Interstate SecretService Detective Durenu, Inc., with

    In the Aberdeen Hotel, This Frankdid and Anthony Cennes, who turned outto bo tho detective bureau head, was putto work on tho Job.

    Tho car was recovered later when, OC'cording to the prosecution, It was beingtaken to a hiding place to be Kept untiln reward for Us return was offered,

    y.",000 I'lre In Snlrm,Sai.um, Mass., Jan, 21. Fire In the

    business district ht did J125.000damage. At the outset It was feared thatthe flames would sweep a great part of thecity, hut by hard work the tire depart'ment got the blaze under control.

    THE FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1915.

    clal supremacy prevailed no other countrycould compete with England In the for-eign markets of the world.

    "(lermany hoon rooognlied thismade the most desricrato efforts to lendto outside countries, and especially toSouUi America, what money they re-quired. Her efforts to do this In theearlier days were almost pitiable, Iwrmeans were so small, but she persistedand In a very few years had greatly

    even wealthy Franco In her loansto foreign countries, with tho result that(tar trade grew phenomenally,

    "Now all Is changed. Germany, l'Vanceand, now, Kngland arc practically out ofthn race for foreign trade by way offoreign loans, and the Held Is left freoto the United States to establish hemelfIn their place to establish herstlf too.

    MODELS TENEMENT .nt. Yorkbill.

    Iteadiiuarters

    headquarters,

    Whltake-pendin- g

    had

    corespondent

    CONVICTED

    SUN,

    and

    we hope t.oon. as tho inoney centre of thishemisphere and of the OrUnt. Tho phratsdollar exchange versus sterling exchange'Is no longer an Iridescent dream, but apending actuality. If only we have thocourago and unanimity to take the won-derful tide at tho flood.

    "in this last action of Kngland thereIs. however, seen moro than the merestoppage of hur foreign loan.. There Isthe tacit admission that she Is financiallyfeeling the strain of the war and needsall her money to help hear Its burden.Coming a this announcement dots attho same time us the announcement thatthe German Minister of finance Is re- -signing from his position because of hisdoubts as to whether lio will be able tofloat successfully the second (Jorman loanof a billion and a quarter dollars, the veillifts Just a little and tho end of the warIs probably not o r miote as It has seemedto be,"

    TAMMANY SENDS TEN

    TO FIGHT LITERACY TEST

    Jewish Leaders Will Also fjeoPresident To-da- y and Ask

    for Veto.

    Tat executive committee of TammanyHall selected ten men yesterday who willsee President Wilson In the White Hous

    tQ he HmU1).Hurnctt immigration bill, because of thliteracy t.tit for aliens. Tlw bill la beforethe President and he is to glvo a hearingupon It this motnlng.

    Tammany's ten are Senators Robert F.Wagner, James A. Foley and ChristopherP. Sullivan, Judge Aaron J. Levy. ThomasF. Smith, secretary of Tammany Hall ;'Alexander 1. llorke. Morris Cukor. AlfredI', ftlnlth, minority leader and iof tit-"- ' Assembly : Salvatore A. Cotlllo andAlfred J. Talley. Several of them are tlie

    ,w 'immlirriinix. The nartv left forv.ishtm-to- ii :tt ! :30 o'clook this morning.

    A resolution p.issed by the executivecommltteu yesterday says that the literacytest would "exclude from this rcpuollcnumberless alien Immigrants who havedesired but been denied a literary educa-tion In their native) land." The clause oftho bill tempting from the literacy testallem who seek admission to the UnitedStates "solely for the purpose of escapingreligious persecution" will rtiult. In Tam-many's opinion, "In the deportation ofsucn aliens as ek ur shore; !r. order toetcape religious persecution If they areunable to prove that escape from religious

    was their sole purpose."A delegation of seventy-fiv- e Hebrew

    tho i ,n. nartv were llaUPl .11.7, Margolle". llabbl Philip Klein, HabblDavid Lcvetithal and llabtu soiomon jane.Jacob Maieldoff. editor of the Jrurfsh .Worn.iiij; Journal, and Judge Leon Sanders.

    i ICamalky. I. Irving Llpschltz, SamuelMason and John L. Ilernsteln, represent-ing tho Immigrant Aid Society

    A. mass meeting will be held In CooperVnlon on Monday night under the auspicesof the llbrew Sheltering and ImmigrantAid Society to continue the protest againstthe measure.

    DENIES ROW WITH WHITMAN.

    Mtr KiiKlnerr Sbti There Is XoI'rlfllon User Cnnnl I'lnnnres.

    AtBANT, Jan. 21. State. Engineer Will-iams denied y that there was anyfriction between his department and .heOovernor because of the condition of thebargo canal finances,

    "I am now preparing an analysis of thework and finances connected with thecanal Improvement," said State EngineerWilliams, "and when this statement Is,ready In a few days we will know Justwhere we aie at.

    "The more I dig Into the barge canalfinances the worse the condition seemsto be. While I am considering the offerto go to Ohio to build roads, this hadnothing to do with my criticism of .hecanal llnances."

    "Tills financial situation will bestraightened out at some cost to thepeople, I am afraid." added Gov, Whit-man.

    WIFE SMOKES, SAYS McCORMICK.

    Assistant District Attorney In TarnAccused of C'roelty.

    An allegation by Assistant District Attorney Hobert C, McCormlck that his wife.Mrs. Frances H. H. .McCormlck. who Issuing him for a separation. Insisted ongoing Into the men's compartment of arailway car to smoke cigarettes while re-turning from the funeral of her motherIn Milton, Pa a year ugo was made yes-terday In the Supreme Court. Since theMcCormlCks fceparateu the Assistant district Attorney has been staying at theItepubllcan Club and his wife has re-mained at their home In Hronxvllle.

    McCormlck alleges thit on New dear'seve, 1313, ho ana his wire were tnemoersof a party or eignt, at me ititi-caruo-and that after Mrs. McCormlck had par-taken of a good deal of champagne shewanted to smoke cigarettes, but he ob-jected because no one else In the diningroom was smoking. He says Mrs. .Mc-Cormlck nevertheless took one from hercase and rmoked, almost breaking up theparty.

    Mrs. McCormlck charges her husbandwith cruelty and says he told her severaltimes to leave him. She alleges thatwhile he was courting her he drank mildbeverages, but after marriage he beganto drink heavily.

    Justice Cohalan reserved decision In thecase,

    NO SECOND GRIFFIN SENTENCE.

    Woman to Sersc Federal Trrm He,fore Stale Court Acts.

    Mrs. Clara 11. Griffin was not sentencedby Judge Crain in General Sessions yes-terd-

    on three Indictments for grandlarceny to which she pleaded guilty onMonday. Sentence was deferred until sheIs reluased from Auburn prison, to whichinstitution she was sent for six years byJuil so Holt In the Federal court onWednesday.

    Assistant District Attorney Dickinsontold tho court that he computed that thelarcenies of Mrs. Orlffln would total atleast ?:5C,??n.

    CLEARY PROSECUTOR HOTEL DE GINK OPENINGMUST FACE CHARGES A REAL SWELL FUNCTION

    1

    Vliltninn Asks Gngnn to An-swer Accusations of Keep-

    ing Hack Evidence.

    HEARING OX FEMIUA11Y 3.

    AttuHi, Jan, 21, Charges againstDistrict Attorney Thomas Oagan of nock-lan- d

    county because of his conduct of theprosecution of William V. Cleary werefiled y with Oov Whitman. TheGovernor served a copy of the charges onthe District Attorney and notified hl- -i thathe would get a chance to answer themat rwon on February 3, cither In personor by counsel.

    Frederick II Newman, father of thoyoung man Cleary shot and killed, bringsthe charges, fifteen In number, whichallege that Oagan was "wilfully negligentand derelict In hg duty."

    The District Attorney Is charged amongother things with having purposoly over-looked certain formalities In the drawingof the special Jury panel to make a loop-hole on which Cleary could havo ap.pealed should the verdict have been dif-ferent; with acting In collusion with thedefence to suppress evidence which wouldhave shown that Cleary did know of themarriage of his daughter, and with sum-ming up in such a way.as to make a pleafor the nmcused man,

    The Snrrlni! Chances.The specific charges against District

    Attorney Oagiut are that he was "wilfullynegligent and derelict In his duty" In thofollowing Instances:

    Falling to have Cleary arrested im-mediately after he presented himselfnt tho District Attorney's ofllce anilsaid h had shot Newman and askedto be arrested.

    Falling to call as witnesses Mrs.Kate Cleary, Mrs. Anna Newman andDr. David P. Hhultz, who could havegiven material testimony.

    FaJling to call representative busi-ness men of Haverstraw JohnSpringer, William Waldron andothers who were on the train withCleary and noted his "rational man-ner and conduct Just prior to theshovrtlng."

    In not seeing to It, when the Jurypanel was drawn, that tho formali-ties prescribed by etatuto were ob-served, leaving the verdict open to thequestion of appeal had thn resul' beenunfavorable to Cleary,

    Falling to require Cleary' to b' pro.duced In court at the beginning of thetrial, until udmonlshed by the court.

    Falling to ellc.lt all th faols fromthe witnesses Hugh Sheridan andJoslah Felter which they testlrted toat the Coroner's Inquest.

    Complains of Jurors.In excusing Jurois satisfactory to

    the complainant and In accepting Jur-ors who appeared favorabb to thedefence.

    In not consulting material wit-nesses, Mrs. Vandeizee and Mtv Ly-man Appleton. who could have testl-tle- d

    that Mrs. K.itu Cleary, wife ofWilliam V. Cleary. admitted thatCKiry knew of tho mnrrluge of theirdaughter prior to the shooting, andIn curtly dismissing the petitioner(Newman) when ho attempted to ap-prise the District Attorney of tinfact that these two witnesses werematerial witnesses to Impeach tho tes-timony of 'Cleary.

    In not furnishing the facts for then of witnesses to

    Henry Hacon. his associate In theprosecution, when he permitted Tbieonto cross examine certain witnesses

    In suffering to bo enacted In thecourt a eoenc between tho defendant.Clean', and his daughter, Anna, onher way to the witness stand, and Inallowing It to be repeated on her wayfrom the stand, and In vividly pictur-ing to the Jury- - this scene In his sum-ming up, and recallng tho scene totheir minds with its sympathetic ap-pe-

    and characterizing It as anunusual display of parental attention.

    In failing to establish the characterof witnesses called In tho defence ofClear'. ''H Intimate associates ofClean-.- Including Hugh Sherldnn.the ofllcer who saw the shooting anddid not arrest Cleary.

    Tells of Letters 'ot I'sed.In not attempting to Impeach Anna

    Clear', Mrs. Knte Cleary and Will-iam V. Cleary by statements In let-ters of Anna Cleary In his possession,which "said letters the D.etrlct Attor-ney has refused to return to thnpetitioner, who entrusted them tohim."

    In permitting the Impression to goto the Jury that any and all kindsof mental excitement might be legaldefence to Justify th taking of ahuman life.

    In not prosecuting the case In goodfaith with the object of proving thecrime charged, but In acting In col-lusion with the defence with the ob-ject of aiding tne defence to obtaina verdict of acquittal.Accompanying these oharges are the af-

    fidavit of Newman and the Grand Juryminutes containing the testimony of cer-tain witnesses Newman mentioned In Illscharges.

    DANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED.

    Contest for Amntenrs Is One of theFeatnres.

    In the largo ballroom at Sherry's lastnight a danco was held In aid of theUnemployed Heneflt Society of this city.There wsyre features In the way of specialdancer, among them an exhibition of mod- -em dajces by Miss Joan'Sawycr and herpartner, and there, wcro also classicdances by the Haroness von Itottenthal.Miss nessle Merrltt und Mr. Draper dida minuet In Colonial costume and ufterUie exhibition there was a dancing con-test for amateurs In the waltz, onestcpand fox trot for prizes.

    About tho ballroom were arranged sev-eral booths at which were sold flowers,candy and cigarettes and these were pro.sided over by girls In costumo. MissJoan Sawyer's Persian Garden bandplayed for general dancing.

    Among the patronessoa who were activeIn arranging the dance, we;re Mrs. Arte-ma- s

    C. Plummor and Mrs. William O.Eno. Adulating them wcro the MissesAlice Wilson. Eleanor Sampson, ClRraCornell, Jfu- Kno anfl Morjorlo and Dor-othy Hancock.

    Doings Start for(Fair When Hon. Bat Nelson Appears

    Wearing Gold Teeth and Openface Scenery Schubertand Dvorak Played for Hoboes.

    Not until the Hon. Battling Nelson,champ, ainered at Worth and

    Centre streets last night at 10 o'clock,beautifully decorated from crush operahat and open faced clothes down to hisdaintiest dancing pumps, could one say

    that the tremendously formal functionthat marked tho opening ot the Hotel daOlnk had really" caught Its full stride.

    City Chamberlain Henry Uruere andother celebrities already had madespcecheA Flashlights hod banged. Thomusic of Dvorak. Schubert, IJceUiovcn,Haydn ct al had been sawed olt steadilyby a string band, Vaudeville songstersfrom Hammersteln's had raised tho roofand everybody within sight had got thrtelusty cheers repeatedly.

    Hut the entranco of the Hon. Hat cladIn Ms gold teeth and evening scenerywas tho master sma,li of a mastorfulevening.

    Everybody knows, or ought to know-- b

    Uis Umo that tho Hotel de Olnk Is anunused. live stcrlwl building at Centre andWorth street, owned by the city and un-occupied until Jeff Davis, tho hobo king,and the city auUiorltles got together on uscheme to let Jeff's followers clean tne,place up nnd run it on H community planto houso and fled tho down and outers.

    Their WiirU Well Done.For four or five days Jeff and his band

    have been sweating over piles of old lum-ber, cleaning up rubbish, scrubbing thefloors and generally making the long un-used building habitable. And last nightwhen Mr. Hrtieru and members o tho.Mayor's committee Interested In th"scheme entered the Hotel de Olnk tseysaw nt a glance that the hoboes luid donethe cleaning up work well.

    There was a Hag decorated rostium atthe east end of tho big loft when- - the mensleep, from which spewhes too many tomention were niado while the flashlightbrigade tiled to blow the poor old Hoteldo Gink apart. Out In tle rentre of thefloor, roped off like a sublimated prizering, stood a piano of the old fashionedsquare kind which had been donated byth" people.

    Uirgc Hags of nil nations hung In fes-toons Indoors and two Ininienso AmericanHairs fluttered from tho Centre and theWorth street sldos of tho building. F.lec-til- c

    lights ".lad the dingy bslldlng trans-forni'- itInto a brilliant spot whre usually

    ut ulghl all Is dai knees.Inside b'tw-- the walls r. tho four

    sides of the toped square tho floor wassolidly packed an :he night wnt on withstuiidies, most of them wearing black orKr.i iinmi'i BHiru. unu liiiu i uunrm

    ,i "'..r'""of commerce. For you should understand!

    Rii. Here u- - ur.i ...... o l".forcibly In ono of his speeches of theevening. :h- - hobo is an artisan or tlaborer willing to work and looking forIt who tramps only bocatwo he's look-ing for work from town to town, but atramp. In the hobo's way of thinking. Iswell, a tramp, and beneath the notice ofth- - great Industrial army of hoboes,

    Along the west wall Jeff and his as-sistants had roped off smaller squares.In th firs; of the.cn stood the Hotel deGink's I'm

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    Mipropnnteiy enough, the ropd MallHoul de Gink's llrst aidj' lo tho Injureddrug store ,t present presidedHobo Do.- - Jack Heckfr. with volunteerr.KUl..r physician soon to be on the jobroped siioe repairing hop is ..ex to hedrug .torn und a tailor shop Is building

    Hobo Df n..ie sat at a typo- -wiite" In one comer laboriously typingthe Friday menu on many sheets of paper.over at sat Jams, thehotel clerk, Inside a railed enclosure, witha small pad before him. Bach ofthe pad was printed as follows:

    See .MrHOTEL HE OLNK

    Henceforth you to address Man-ager Jeff Davis" personally or con-verse with any of the patrons of theHotel d you will kindly fill outtho slip and Slim Jnms or an assist-ant will havo gentleman paged.

    The .Menu.Hero's a of thn menu which Hobo

    Doc was typing:THANK vot: A I.I."

    do (linkCorner Worih and Centre Street"

    MF.N'tllrejkfu.nl

    Coffee and Chi. filylLuncheon

    Junsie Htewecl OnionsPolatofs

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    superior MullWitn a la "De tllnk"Oraure a U PaeAdena, Cal.

    rle Adsrade Hobo and Ilread

    Aqua de Croton"Hi: IT F.VRR SO IM'MHLK OVFt HOMr."

    Orunrt Opening'While the bright lights were

    ngalnst the arrival ot Hon.Nelson, upon the flag

    Happy Fr.edd Long, treasurer ofthn Hotel de made a rpeeehthe heating plant which even those cllyolllclals who arrived seemed to hedelighted with.

    Happy Freddy Long told how Jeff nndtne nremern nan caueu ujion wirestringers among tho patrons, steam titterstempornrlnlly residing nt the hotelother skilled workers to string wires, Hx

    boiler of the heating plant so thepressure reduced to Vfteen poundsfor safety's altogether hadthe place shlpsliare.

    "Hut after we've got fhn boiler in grandworking said Happy Freddy,Police so far ain't seen fit togive us a permit to start the Are. So Isays," he concluded In even and quited!spasslonae tones, "start the tiro andt'll with the Police Department!"

    applause.)should not be supposed, however,

    the oratory of the evening wisNot once were the hated classes de-nounced nor a hint of lawlessness aired

    jlf fine excepts Happy Freddy's nonchalantremark about police dewy In grantingthe boating perml"

    In faut the two occa-sionally wandered In nnsjng crowdwero greeted happily and J(T his,secretary oh. yt, Jeff has a hecrotary,Mr. Meyers and lesser otllcluls

    nr Per MONTH UPON PLEDGE1il OF PERSONAL PROPERTYTHE PROVIDENT LOAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

    MANHATTANAvenue, cor. 2Sth Stft Courtlandt Av. cor. 148th Street

    ll&AvrSnfth's Graham Avenue?" DebcvolftW'?; a,hdstreet Mn Avenue, cor. RcKkaway Ave.e2?7St bhn"oniAAvs. l LOANS REPAID WITHINpSt Houlton S St. . TWO WFFKS FROM DATE

    pinned foot long whit badges of muslinwith "Hotel de Olnk" printed on the mus-lin In big black letters on tho policemen'schests.

    An amateur string quartetone was aphysician, one an artist and two werebrokers, and all asked that their namesbo not used played Dvorak's "Humor-esque,- "

    Schubert'n "Death and tho.Maiden," Ucethovon's C minor quartet,opus m, No. 4, and. the "Kalsor Quartet"as a starter.

    In the meantime patrons woro leglster-In- guntil limit capacity of 100 were

    on hand. They wrote their real onthe register, but Jtff, when asked whatnames thoy wcro known by to thobrelhern, recalled Terrible Teddy, HostonSlim, Jersey Hllm, New York Ited, Vtlcawho played the Juwsharp divinely andChamp th lleef.

    Opposite their real names the ginksmust write the names of their trades, for

    l a rule of the Hotel de Gink that no-body may tay there unlewt ho Is willingto work. Opposlto ono namo In the reg-ister the imtrou had written. "Painter,Plumber and porler." "Short order cook,stovo moulder," wrote another.

    Still another was positively gifted. liewroto that h knows how to be a "decknana, tin-ma- waiter, porter and cook.'And one, appropriately from Hoston, gavehi occupation as "interpreter, nurwa andharber."

    In among ull these willing workersstrode the --plight' Io Llppa, chief ofhouse deti-Olvc- of the Hotel de Olnk undonictally known a "Chief of ;lic JungleHulls." Hut all was orderly. Chief Llppahud nothing to do except playfully toPlnoh .Mr Uruere. Secretary Joh.i It. Shu-lad- y

    the Muyor"s Committee on Unem-ployed, Frank I. Cohen, of Pub-lic Works of Glasgow, Scot.imd. whose

    hat and broad Scotch burr made ahit with the ginks; Secretary Allanson T.Hriggs of the Court House Hoard; CvrusL. Sulzberger. Leon Arnstcln ni.d otherswho have Interested themselves in Hiewoes of the unemployed. All werobrought Wore Judge Jeff Davis and sen-tenced to he cheered three times andto make speechs.

    "I"v been pinched, as you say," NaldMr. Hruero when hauled before Judge

    "but I believe that what has beenstarted hero In this building willmuiiy from bring pJnchcd this winternot pinched by the cops, but by tho coldwinds of wintry nights."

    Mr. Ilruere and the other speakers allhad words of encouragement for the ho-bo-

    and their hotol. At ono point KingJeff was m akin if his xnrech ul thntime ana wearing Mr. Cohens high hatabove the Davis sweater while oratingenthusiasm roso to the point where oratorywas interrupted while Mr. Cohen handed

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    Tin- - Hon, lint Appenrs.Th. IIni.mf.nlnn. T.V.. .11 from

    Hammersteln's. burst forth "TheLlttlo Houso tho Hill" then and ioilier songs and were in iZ Y.tCS,n !,,i .1,11 th. n." 1,'l,tll,I,fr

    Vt ,entcrei1 wU!lMlss tho !lou car yourlf the Kinir of thn

    HoWs, ehr' grlnnud Hat In happy scornwhen formally lntroduccil to Klmr .Ten'Davis. "Maybe you're the king hobo, but

    bade. Kid?" cried lKns- .I,.rf "I henarouna ?n world twict and around theStates three times und T covered 3tl5,00miles In my time."

    "Well, what's tho fastest you evervv on 1 7" demanileo mi !

    month ir.ilii' ihrnui-i-. r...M..onuc.. .,. T.i, ...

    Hut the Hotel do Gink had grown Im-patient. Out onto the floor they led Hatumld clieeia such .is some commander ;nthe Kuropean war get when headingtho big parade through Paris orBerlin, as the ca may be. In days tocome.

    turner. Jimmy Presto, shaves frceiure a piker compared to muh. thnand a clean per each Slgnor of the world, or was. I'vePresto lives un to his las: name; 75.U00 miles."

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    Sknla professional nertonsof stage lipped Into wastlmo ror Manager to shoo his childrenunder blankets on theloor

    and to sleep.

    nlvorce for formerTke.s'ton'. N J., Jan. "1. Chancellor

    Walker signed this morning decreeor divorce Florence F.lsworth Hazardwife y of Prince

    Francis of Austria. She wasdaughter of lHto Hazard

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    is most vitally related toour areat business of living. kOur health, disposition, andfortunes depend thecharacter of foodstuffsadmit into our stomachs.

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    innfja rsn ra r( frtt K0I1IIV Ul IUUV1 VTV E"V.intend eating. This is the b!distinction of the epicure.

    understand the real de-lights of good and savory

    one should frequentthe McAlpin Restaurants.

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    MAY AID UNEMPLOYED.

    Tlint Is. "lii'nfrnl" Id TellMiiynr .llltrliet llntr.

    If Judgo Klbert H. Gary, chairman ofMayor's Committee on Unemployisl. or

    Mayor Mltehel himself will drop a1n eire thu Waldorf-Astori- a to

    famous "General" Jacob S. Coxey of Mas-nlllo-Ohio, askin- - his cooperation In

    solving the unomplosod problem ho willbe to will see to itthat all tho uneinplojed In tills city p..lJobs.

    "They twn laughing mo foryears," said "o.ey. "but 1 know how tosolve thn pioblem. I wrote the Mavortelling him how glad I was to see him ap-point su'-- able ma.n as Judge i.larv

    nssurtsl Judge Gniy and his commit-tee can s.olvo tho problem, but slmplwon't."

    "General" Coxey. who was attired Incoat and who wore In hie

    a diamond whs lis a huppvmood. "We come to the construc-tion period," said he, wh-i- i tliero Isno demand for lalw In production I Huggtst that wo wnploy the unemployed

    and Improving. Our roads srrIn a mot disgraceful condition and thenare a thousand other Iniprownienr thaishould ho made. Few people reallzo the

    the nation by tlio of R,- -hh-- .u an average

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    wc'p f'nployod in hu Idlng roads ut SIR.- -

    of eighteen foot roads u year, whichwould In less than seven months completo tho roud of Ohio."

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    tlme--s m He pi edicts localise ho go order nbmit four

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    BALL FOR OUR OWN POOR."

    Mnjnr IIiiii'cIhiI to AfTnlr atnlltliKire n.

    118 Mayor anu jonnperisiim in in

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    Hie committee of the ball Include Mr."Ira IVirros. Mrs Lindsley Tannin. Airs

    A. A Atidoreon, Mrs. Kdwln Gould, Mr.1 Warren Iine. Mrs. McCoskryMrs. Ira and Mrs. CorneHus 'Hllss, Jr. There will w s.mo sped.,features In the line of dancing and 11Natzy's orchestra will play.

    ,, wmm,.r.IOr"'r .'00; '.l1' "LL pI,V to f''InspectorO'Hrien has put Into oporatlon In tho Mad-ison strfct precinct. This comprise thecollection of 10 a week prop-erty holders and storekeepers to make upthe salary of a reputable unemplod cltzen who keep the sidewalk and urea-way- s

    clean in the block In which sub-scribers aro located.

    Although the had Just been Inaugura-t.-- Inspeiuor O'llrKii ' persumlodover a hundred property owneis to con-tribute, and the was througluiuseven city blocks In the prnolnct If

    successful the Commissioner willplace It In lorce throughout all the pr'duets. Tho money will not pass throne'the hands of the who will a.-- imerely supervisor lo seo that the worlIs faithfully performed

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