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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
WINS HER ALIENATION SUIT
AGAINST M0THER-IN-LAW'
Mrs. Haley to Get $4,000 from Mrs.
Motley

Mrs. Marion Steere Haley obtained a
verdict for $4,000 in the Supreme
Court yesterday from her mother-in-
law. Mrs. Katherine II. L. Motley. She
had sued for the alienation Of the sf-
fections Of her husband, Charles Aer-
ton Haley.
Mrs. Haley alleged that her husband
deserted her while they lived at the
Hotel Biltmore This abandonment
Mrs. Haley said. was due 20 the IN
fuence Of Haley's mother.
All the parties concerned in the se-
ton have been twice married. Mrs,
Haley. when she was seventeen years
old, eloped from a private school IN
Boston in 1907 10 marry Howard Allen.
Haley was formerly married 20 Miss
Honore French, daughter OF general
in the United States Army. She d.
vorced him.
Mrs. Motley, after the death OF her
first husband, was married 20 Thornton
l.. Motley, a wealthy railroSf supply
man.
Haley inherited a fortune from his
father and grandfather in Boston.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
$4,000 FOR JADE BURNER
PAID AT CHINESE ART SALE
seven-Inch Fei-ts'ui Specimen Of
Ch'ien-Lung Period Brings High Price

seven-Inch Fei-ts'u Specimen Of
Ch'ien-Lung Period Brings High Price
A cauldron shaped Fei-ts'ui Jade
,ripod incense burner of the Ch'ien-
lung period brought $1,000 yesterday
at the opening session Of the sale az
the American Art Galleries OF the col
lection OF antique Chinese art objects
dispersed by Lee Van Ching, Of Shsug-
hal.
z. X. Pan was the purchaser. He
also gave 500 for another incense
burner Of carved jade. said 20 have
been obtained from the Yung Wo
Kong. a temple Of the imperial family
in Pcking. +. J. Farmer gave 81 $50
for a white Jade temple set OF the
CbTen-iung period. c. Field obtained
FOR 81 .O4O a Fci-ts'ui jade ststuette.
John Wanamaker purchased for $3.50
n lapis-lazuli tripod incense burner
with cover made Of natural stone from
7 bet.
The total Of the session was s23,52G.
This sale continues this afternoon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
Suggestion for Playwrights
as to Reason for Sway
of Sunday
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

Billy Sunday hurts the show bust
ness because he offers a more varied
entertainment In their devotion 20
sex, playwrights have allowed a num-
Der Of interesting subjects 20 drift out
Of the scope Of the theatre. One Of
these is religion. Although essentially
dramatic, religion is neglected by men
who write for the theatre. It does
not seem strange 20 US that greater
crowds flock 70 feel the thrill Of the
doctrine that salvation is achieved
through Gods grace than seek sdmis-
sion 10 the temples which preach a
new birth in peach jam.
OF course, Billy is too good a show
man 70 neglect sex, but he is also too
careful an observer 20 proceed on the
theory that men conquer the world,
write poetry or swear OF drinking only
because the leading lady is a presenta-
bic and unattached ingeuue.
Over and over again We have the
drama Of Jacob serving his seven years,
or doing whatever stint the playwright
may require, for love of Rachel. but
the swift and sudden drama Of the
service which Saul took Up on the road
to Damascus Is neglected Shaw has
considered some aspects of this drama,
but. strangely enough. such excursions
into the field of religion as The
Shewing-Uo of Blsnco Posnet' and
"ADdrocles and the Lion" were consid-
cred blasphenous by many. Reticence
concerning the Lody no longer exists in
the theatre. but il is still somewhat
indie icate TO mention the soul.
Gilbert Chesterton's joyous play
Magic is an attempt TO smash down
these barriers and make the theatre a
suitable place for the Interpretation
of the spiritual world. Fortunate. in
deed, is the fact the playwright is a
humorist. Not without justice does
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
To Mark Douglass Birth

Colonel William Hayward OF the
Public Service Commission, will repre-
sent Governor Whitman at a celebrs-
ton o. the one hundredth anniversary
Of ths birth Of Frederick Douglass, ar
ranged for tonight by the negro citi-
Gems Of New York. The celebration
will be held in Sc. Marks Methodist
Church, 25l West Fifty-third
Street. Colonel Hayward is commander
Of the 18th Infantry. y. G.. n. Y, the
negro regiment organized last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
SHOWS LATE ACQUISITIONS
Spanish RomSnesque Sculpture and
Italian Wedding Chest Among Displays

Italian Wedding Chest Among Displays
A stone relief from the Church Of
st. Leonard. Zsmora, Spain, which pre-
sumably formed reliable behind an
altar dedicated 10 the saints worship,
is an important recent acquisition 10
the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. This
piece Of Romsnesque sculpture has just
been placed on exhibition in the wing
Of decorative arts.
Another interesting accession is a
Colonial doorway from = house IN
Westfeld. Mass OF the new displays
of Italian art a striking specimen is
a large cassone or wedding chest OF
the fifteenth century, purchased at the
Nolpi sale. Il hears a beautiful relief
design in gilded gesso. Other pieces Of
furniture acquired are a sixteenth
century Florentine walnut cabinet, an
ecclesiastical fsldstool and a Madonna
and Child, by the master Of the Pelle-
GRIM Chapel
The department of prints, now IN
charge OF William ". WINS, IT., was
opened yesterday, showing the recent
additions. among which are set o.
ten colored etcrings by Mary Csssatt,
given by Paul j. Sachs, assistant direc-
tor Of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard
University. lie also gave trial proofs
ia black Of three of the plates, two
proofs Of Miss Cassatt's dry point
known as LA Bonnie et PEnfant,' and
single impressions Of the finished
states OF "Bibi Joue" and LA Femme
au Perroquet"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
CITY TO FILL WINDOW BOXES
Children This Year Will Share Mould
To Be Placed in Parks

City children may I'LL their window
boxes this spring from piles Of mould
10 be placed in the parks by the De-
partment Of Parks, Commissioner Cabot
Ward announced yesterday 81 luneh-
con given by the Women's Municipal
League a. the Hotel NeAlpin.
Our move is not altogether altru-
istic," he said, "for in times past the
children have helped themselves any
wsy. without improving the appearance
o. the parks"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
News of the Play World

the public distrust the disembedied
drama. IL has come 20 be associated
with the "MAeterlinck moan, little
light and most Of IL green.
On the other hand. CheSterton points
out that there really ought 10 be a
supernatural life, because IL would be
good fun. He does not even ask that
man should exhaust himself in the ef-
fort 20 extend his vision; he merely
shows the fclly of forever seeking ex-
plantations for those miracles we have.
Magic" is an entertaining drama, de-
spite the fact. II you like, that u IS
stimulating and Electrically radical. ~.
10 seems 20 US entirely fitting 20 call
Magic a great play in spite OF the
fact that il has little technical facility.
George Cohan could improve Magic
but he could not write il. Chesterton,
for instance, does not know just how
20 get people on or off stage, and now
and again he forgets a character and
leaves him stranded on the stage with
nothing 20 do. These things are not of
great moment beside the fact the play
tells much that Is beautiful and sug-
gests more.
SGcceSsLul OhAAnlty u pIty 70
make every person with blue blood in
mis- veins exclaim Not half bad, really"
Replying 20 the criticism that the
sudden change of mood in her play was
defect, Miss Clare Hummer replied:
Life is like that" Now, Miss Hummer
is a delightful dramatist and "A Sue
eessful Calamity" is one of the most
pleasing entertainments Of the year,
but its relation 20 life is only round
about. A person is endowed with
artistry for no other reason than to en-
able him to look at life and then go
and do little better.
Life is like that" indeed. Does Miss
Hummer think she is Fannie Hurst?
A careful study of the American IN
Gslsworthy's Little Man" eonvinces US
that the English author has formed hls
estimates OF this country from reading
the articles of the other contributors TO
Hearst's magazines
Alexander Wolleott lectured last
night at the Columbia School Of Jour
nalism. IL was a great success. We
thought it would run out the season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
TAXI KILLS BOY AT TAG
Lad Runs into Brooklyn Naehine-Dies
Before Hospital 10 Reached

Chased By another boy in a game Of
tag yesterday. Louis Bsssno, seven
years old, OF 362 Columbia Street,
Brooklyn, dartsd at Columbia and Cole
streets directly in the path Of taxless
driven by Thomas Eagan, Of 81 Verons
Street. Brooklyn.
The boy was knocked down and was
unconscious when Eagsn picked aim up,
placed him in the machine and drove
a. top speed 20 Long Island College
Hospital Physicians there pronounced
the boy dead A technical charge OF
homicide was placed Agsinat EaEan-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
Yacht in Drydock Burns; 3 Hurt

Three employees in the shipysrd Of
Brown & Son, Tottenville. Staten ISL
and, were scorched and bruised yester-
day. when the gasolene tank OF the
auxiliary yacht NormRnia. on which
they we're az work, exploded. The
Yacht was in drydoek. The boat, which
burned. was owned by William l.. Wolfe,
Of Moline, III.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
LENR00T OFFERS BILL
TO KILL ADAMS0N LAW
Wisconsin Republican Drives Wedge
for Fight on Wilson X. X. Legislation

Washington, Feb. 14.--Introduetion
to-day by Representative Lenroet, Of
wisconsin, Republican, Of a measure
designed as a substitute for President
Wilson'S railway labor bill, already
submitted by Representative Adsmson,
OF Georgia, foreshsdows a lively fight
IN the House.
The Republicans are preparing TO line
I'D in support OF the Lenroot bill. which
would permit employees % strike, but
make lockouts Illegal and pronbit en-
ployers from advancing wages o. other
wise settling any controversy With their
employees or raising rates while dis
putes were being Investigated by \
Federal board.
The section relating 20 the orgsniza-
ton OF this board is copied from the
Adamson bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
Hospital to Keep Charter

Al a meeting of the State Board Of
Charities Yesterday IL was decided that
the evidence brought out in the recent
of the Philsntbropin Hos
pital, l2sth Street and Fifth Avenue,
did not justify the reyoking OF the hos
pitfalls charter. The board, however,
denied the applications for charters
made by the Jewish Receiving homs
Society Of Brooklyn and the Fivt
Ladies' Day Nursery OF The Bronx.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
CARDINAL GIBBONS HEARS
WOMEN'S PLEA FOR THE VOTE
Majority Of Catholic Delegation Dis
appointed BY PreIate's Attitude

Baltimore, Feb. IA delegation Of
twenty-four Catholic women from Bos-
ton. New York. Philadelphia and Balti-
more discussed woman suffrage with
Cardinal Gibbons to-day. They said
that while they were opposed 10 the
feminist" movement and other So
called movements they felt that in the
question OF voting women should have
voice d.
Af,erward Cardinal Gibbons was
asked y he had changed in his opposi-
ton % woman suffrage. He said.
a man does not quickly change the
views he has held for fifty years"
Most Of the women we're disappoint-
ed. but several said the Cardinals atti-
tude inclined them 20 be encouraged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
100000 Have Faced Magistrate

Magistrate Barlow announced yester-
day in Harlem court that he had dis
posed OF 10000 cases year since his
appointment, fourteen years ago. He
has kept a careful count OF the cases
that came before him, and after hold
ing two men yesterday on charges Of
violating the narcotics law announced
that the total was 10000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
100 INDIAN WOMEN TO AID
SUFFRAGISTS ON MARCH 4
viii Take Part In Demonstration
Planned for White House Grounds

Washington, Feb. 1+.-one hundred
Indian women, who lost the political
power which their tribal relations
guaranteed 20 them when the braves
OF their tribes became American citi-
z.ns, will take part in the suffrage
demonstration which the Congressional
Union plans 10 stage at the White
House grounds on March 4. Mrs.
Dorothy Hile. OF Boston, will be in
charge Of them.
Foreign women Of all nationslitles-
French. German, Italian. Russian, Aus
trian, Spsnish-will also join in the
demonstration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
To Remodel Fifth Avenu. Church

The Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
and parish house are 70 be rsmodelled
at a cost OF $4,000 Plans were filed
yesterday by n &. Patton. architect
The roctory. az West Forty.sixth
Street. 10 to be made hreproof.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
Last Church Pension Collection

The last general collection for the
Sc 600 900 Church Pension Fund. which
h being raised by Bishop Lawrence.
will be taken up on Sunday IN all Epis-
sanst churches throughout the country.
wsreb il the date set for the com
plcti0n Of the fund.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
Other American Paintings
Bring High Prices at
Hotel Plaza Sale
FIRST SESSIONS
YIELD is S43,255
Wyant's "A Gray Day. and
Moran's Fiesta" Go TO
John LeyOy

There was brisk bidding last night at
the Hotel Plaza at the first session Of
the sale by the American Art Assoeia-
ton OF the collection Of paintings by
American artists made by DR.. Alexander
c. Humphreys. president Of Stevens In
stitute. The eighty-three pictures sold
yielded s43, 255.
Low Tide-Honheur,' one Of Homer
Martins canvases, was sold to Will
lam Macbeth for 5000. The painting,
which shows a sandy beach in the fore
ground, with a matched hut near the
middle of the picture. was sold TO DR..
Humphreys by last nights purchaser IN
1907. Mr.. Macbeth bought the picture
from Mrs Agnes Farley in Paris. It
was presented to her by Homer Martin
shortly after II was painted.
The next best price was $500. paid
BY John Leyoy, for a Wyant, entitled
"A GRAY Day." one Of his pastoral
scenes The same buyer gave $1,000
for "A Venetian Fiesta" a canvas by
Moran. W. T. Cresmer's bid of 81 $50
purchased one of Rangers canvsses,
- AkhNeAI -hdsOh loAohNf hAh 49,
Blaekmsn gave Sl,l00 for another
Ranger. entitled VALLEY of the Somme.'
Following is list OF the paintings
that brought $500 or over, with the
title. the artist, the buyer and the price
in that order:
'Byblls Loeb: ". G. Hirdeasts .......... 'NS
soa 900
'Prois.Nonns at Ksassr.Ii'' E.nns: J. D. -.
'.Psssias o. the wIy." D.rth. voss Gal -.
The End ., he Dsy." walker o. Bsrust -,
suisse suisse on he Mcor. D.r.. ". T Crssmsr zoe
A Cray Day. Nysnt. yohn L1ty -. zoo
Tow TIDE HonssirY Marin ". Miebe'h. 3 e9o
hlllsrnes' Wysnt. ". HATdeasi.e ..-....-. Jvo
Head q spanish GIRL" Hunt. ". Mac 49,.
comfy Soj% kerry Ireland wJsa, ". barn :,
A vHl.s, y 10, sea" wbiir.ds, o. B,r- -.
Brusny coast" Dsarth; o Bsrn,i assnt, 40
or The Avenue no Nintrr.' Hsssam. d. 49,,
In dc cooi or The Evening" Ilas., ir: 49,,
"spr.Hs Est ISms Ranger. u. Bernst
Oh Nsriea Hunt. " Macbeth -. '5
A Venetian fies,a" Moran. John iesy..... / 500
Valley OF tus sOnms. Ranger: NJ BlAos- 90,
'.NounE Vssabo0ds Howe. B.. : MARION 80
Mar OrsnEs New jersey. Jones bscA- 49,,
"A Af,b scsoo. ia Ayers sauain ". 49,.
rue Mountain 81 IOalstO.s' Arabian
Nishtgi Moran: AicDoucIEh GaIerl......- 100
The Drama o. the Mountain Top. Dam -
ssraed: Henry Rsinhffdt ...........-... ses
The VilsUe Carpenter Potihasti .. Der -.,
rst tsEsutl ......... ,..... .....'.. 49, ID
IN The Teton Rsnse-Id4ho" Moran. W.
". oetUsn 49, ~, 'S5.n ., Ds...r.
W W. Sssmsu ........... -...s-..s.-. w
Cloud and Ses-Pe,to Rico Ranger, g. -
'P,.s.fai Mon sh, E-isns" Ranger. NJ -.
ms IncomlnT tide A." Dousaef,y; vosz Gal ,,.
'.Ths Return Evening Dessar. voss Gal 80,
'Es.tsrly stoun-Bosrs Head Dolshsry
\ Cls,.le-Mssou.s Island" Ranger. W A.,
T. trestner .--.r-..-. 49,. .t.. =. 4. 4''s'
"Smssr -M,ts sld Shadow" Daingernsd; a..
"Lanmn TTIiishr" oca'm.n. ,. y. Nc 49,.
IaIthy ........... .....-., ..'ts. ....' Wv
Cornwall Ro-s" Doushsrty Henry Schult-
Lois ...t.sr.t..-.-s 49, 90 .'-..r -
.Triisht a. SEES" Smell. ". N'cbeih.--... 90
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
The Coming Tower
Maggie Kelly: 4 Mother
tYsrbdtim)

VERBATIM
Vbv YES. ma'am, Andy's workin in a laundry,
ue makes his five a week to help US out
Van saw you saw his boss that he discharged him?
I know he amt sixteen and it's Illegal
Know it as we'll as you do. But there just
mont seem no other way for to manage
His father? He's a bum. He's gone good radiance,
Though Martin, Chats the little one),
He saws he seen him up First Avenue Monday,
An vralltn' with a woman too, both drunk.
An SAYS Martin what did you do?'
An he says. Ma run block"
MANY night I've sat out in the hallway
U.;.h the five Children waitin' for the mornin
Sure every place we lived we was put out Of
I'd work; but I'm too heavy for my crutches.
Nv left leg it got broken students set it
Young BOYS they ooked-al foolin' there and aughin
I've never walked a step from that day on.
The Children?
First. there's JIM his fathers SON. He's in the Army
In Texas at the war Miss
And fifty cents day is what he earns
No. never sends a cent. He drinks it ALL and says
He has to pay for shaves and extra laundry.
Jim's twenty-five.
I wrote his captain Says he can't do nothing.
Then Johnnie, he's in Panama since August,
Twas Jim that put him in the Army,
7 never signed for him; not me- wouldn't
Jim took the father to the recruiting sergeant,
Himself being drunk, signed up for John to 90.
John sends me home a dollar when he
But in the hospital where he is
He's never paid at al
Why can't they let me have my Johnnie back?
I've wrote the War Department, twas a lawyer
Took up the case. Says John should ask his captain;
Saws no one can compel Jim to send money;
The Country needs the soldiers. Can they drinkin
And runnin' with the women
What kind Of felers would they be TO fght0
There's this much in the Army;
They're free to live their lives without folks pontin
Sayin' where's your old man. jimmy
Or Fathers on the street outside of kinneys,
Help me TO bring him home"
Seven times my Johnnie took his father in
He'd pawn the clothes John give him.
And walk the streets in winter almost naked
The Courts. Miss?-Them probation felers
THEY'LL always take mans word drunk or sober
Then there's Mary. She's stock girl at six dollars.
With Andy's five that's all we have to live on.
Then Andy-you know him. Miss
And Martin Chats the little one). I've had trouble
Raising my Martin, what with this an that
Sometimes wonder if there's any justice.
And do you know as | sit here,
sometimes curse the day first saw Kelly?
DOROTHY BROWN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15

I'VE closed Lincoln Day services writes Porter Emerson
Browne "by all rising and singing the weknown anthem
Columbia the damned off the Ocean
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15
DOROTHY BROWN.

oInce Sam is becoming and less like real human and
more and more perfect lady.'-Admirs Fiske
Are ladies people?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15

Fbo 12-Wth Mistress Alice to dinner, had
ing albeit the coolest night OF the year My ora
Woodrow hath done naught and he be right as few k
he is and he may be wrong many think he IS do not know
knew l could prove it, and if could prove it, should go TO
him and tell him But ignorance meseens Is no greater IMAM
that Of others
l3-An day at much peurbed by cough my first IN
many years j. Darling the draughtng artist home to dinner with
me and We had veal which seemed like better than dd
and raspberry pasty which excellent To the playhouse
and saw Mr. Chesertohs Magic fine and thoughtful thing
ever saw yet merry and sarick witha and Mr. o. r. Mcgee
acting warming delight The line liked the best was FacaS
Norris who asks her the shadows name we nave
no names there" says Patricia nearly as can recall You
never really know anybody if you know his name
l4To the Office found valentine from Helen Scott as
ALWAYS do Heaven bless her. All day the Office labourng at
many things the evening to work some more
". guess Mr. Chesterton (Magic) bases his American"
dstit is worse than Welss in Mr. Britng Sees 1t
rougon the dialectcs Of eight or nine Americans ne mas
We calculate all Of US don't say i reckon anu '
soones"! Gosh all hemlock!
They nut over that ancient The bells Of hell ting alnga
Ing on many on Mr. v Lucas among others Here is anOhg
song that r. heard Amens It also may be Old Stun ne
heard the British soldiers sing 1t:
ye beggars, cheer
Britannia rules the WIVES
Ard times, short times
NeverT come
Shoutin' outs the top o yer lungs
Damn the army"
OH wot lovely pyce England
s, for c,4ribs who have more fountain pens than they
want A. J. B. requests that if he win the prize for frequency
racket be awarded him. The request refused We @
because they neeo ""y''e'
thing that u except expression and glory The amateur spirit
forever, - .,,cz
There +, simple way Of Judging girls simpler even tnSn
Aess method Of Judging They be divided INTO uee
classes most conveniently. -, .. oeor
There is the girl who viii accept anything you nave 70 @
long you have offer, or until someone else can ".
thing better she the girl you discard after your salad days are
done
There girl who lets you take her around WIN yo
az you eooge but always protests feeby that you really
mustn't spend 70 much on all the time Ana She' Il you "
Siae also discard; she - a bluher. ,, re-, -, ill
And there IT, % borrow from Mr. Brisbane Ih Ill., VINO VIZ
sp nothing that costs money; who will encourage your vne
Ter but will discourage your taking her 70 | GO S nan
east they cost you money who makes II nara ior 'a MAJ
sso V the type 10 think up ways Of entertaining
The girl you marry and live happily with ever after MORAN
"Ths management" says the Playhouse programme WI
deem g,s &c. - 81 n.tyon this theatre VIII report any
act incviy On .bs part Of the employees to the Manager
never zee them together" writes Ida.
The days Of grace have expired and the situation reminds "
Toe Introduction 10 the morning paper stories on e ' "
i''pal game or
Both slaes the sound Of the whistle f. = ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15

The Boss Gallery announces an ex-
hibition Of pictures by Mr.. Raphael
kirchner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-15

The current exhibition in the print
room at the Public Library is devoted
to the etchings Of Max Klinger, whose
art has not been thus illustrated here
for a long time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Accident Ties Up Car Lines
Oilers Fall Hats Elevated
end Part of Surface system

Rudolph Stigeller, seventeen years
old. who works as an oler in the power
station at Seventy-fourth Street and
the East River, Numbered into bar
projecting from the big switchboard
just before IL o'clock yesterday morn
ing The shock of 1000 volts flung
him twenty feet, and Second, Third,
Sixth and Ninth Avenue elevated trains
all over the city stopped wherever they
happened TO be.
For nine minutes the elevated tie-up
lasted By the time that the trouble
had been adjusted and Stigeller taken
TO Flower Hospital, diverted throngs
had swamped the surface system and
the overload resulted in a burned out
cable leading to the East Houston
Street sub-station, which controls all
surface lines south of Fourteenth
Street.
Surface cars went dead, some of them
in the middle Of crossings, and the con-
gestion of Saturday morning trucking
piled up at such points despite the traf-
fe police Transfers were issued to
elevated lines. On Broadway the cars
began TO run again at 1905, on Sixth
Avenue at l2:45, and a few minutes
later other lines were in operation.