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TROLLEY co. UNABLE
TO PAY POWER BILL
Nassau Electric Owes B. X. T.
$528, $50, Mayer Told.

The Nassau Electric Railroad Com
pany, one Of the most important of the
surface line subsidiaries of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company. informed Fed
eral Judge Julius NJ. Mayer yesterday
that 1t is unable to pay bills aggregating
$52S,SS091 which is owes to the B. r.
T. for power supplied during tn pas,
seventy-hve days. Both the B. r. T.
and the Nassau company are In tina
hands of Lindley NJ. Garrison as receiver.
Carl NJ. Owen. counsel for the receiver,
presented the situa ton to the court.
The earnings OF the Nassau company
for the six months ending June 80
showed net revenue over taxes and ex-
penses OF S144,Ss5. Because of the re-
cent rs per cent. increase in wages. the
receiver calculated that there will be a
constant monthly deficit under operat-
ing expenses.
He estimated that the increase will
add at least 100000 to operating ex-
penses. II earnings continue as during
the six months mentioned, a deficit from
operations Of 100000 Is calculated for
the coming year. He applied to the
court for instructions and declared his
inability to pay the power bills.
Judge Mayer made an order that, be-
ginning yesterday. all power bills shall
accrue as a first Item against the proper
ties Of the railroad company. The court
directed the receiver and his counsel to
appear before him on September 20 with
a plan that will embody a permanent
remedy.
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ANDERSON DENIES
HE CAUSED ARRESTS
Crusader Uses Detectives
Only Against Officials.

william II. Anderson. State super.n-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, de-
MED yesterday that detectives employed
by the league had caused the arrest and
arraignment of James Walsh. AZ. of 100
Judge street, and Charles Hoelderlein,
rs, of 81 Wood street, both of Elmhurst,
Tho were brought before United States
Commissioner Bick In Brooklyn yester-
day and held In $500 ball each for
examination September ~.
The prosecutions were represented as
being instigated by the Antl-Saloon
League, through detectives of a Man
haitian agency. but Superintendent An
dorson declared emphatically that the
league had not and would not hire de-
tectives to obtain evidence except to
show the failure of officials to enforce
the war time prohibition act.
Walsh and Hoelderlein were charged
with selling liquor in a saloon opposite
the railroad station at Elmhurst. A
third man, Charles Speiser. a bartender
employed by William B. Becker. 337
KGickerbocker avenue. was arraigncd on
simila: charge and held for further
touring.
I'VE don't at any time intend to en-
ploy detectives to get evidence as a
basis of prosecution" Mr.. Anderson as
serted. when told that the arrangements
In Brooklyn were said to be tho result
Of AMI i-Saloon League sleuihing. I'VE
don't intend to he any extra official
police department What We may do
and we have noe so far. is 70 hire de-
tectives TO get ey'deuce 70 prove that
the officials arc not Inft rcing tho law.
That Is veiy di ftrtnt matter"
The league is mrt al oil satisfied W.
the enforcement a. .Iohibition law
he declared.
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INJUNCTION BLOCKS
CLOTHING STRIKERS
Rogers Peet Co. Sues Union
Men for 100000 Damages.

Temporary injunctions restraining
sixty-lve officers and members of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America from acts of violence and in
timidation in connection with the strike
called recently by the union against the
Rogers Peet Company were granted yes
terday in the Supreme Court by Justice
Guy. The hearings on the orders will be
held In Part l., Special Term, next week.
Soon after the injunction orders were
obtained, summons and complaint in a
suit filed by the Rogers Peet Company
against Sidney Hillman, as president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, and the other officers and
members of Local No. 4, in which the
plaintiff demands Judgment for $780,
600 damages. were filed in the County
Court House.
The plaintiff alleges that 1t has 200
men employed In it's manufacturing de-
partment at SAP Broadway and that
about sixty of these are members of
the union. The affidavits state that for
more than six months there had been
no complaint from the workers as to
wages, hours or conditions, and In spite
of this strike was called on July 20.
Since then, 1t is alleged, thirty or
more men have picketed daily the side
walk in front of the establishments and
recently have extended their activities to
the picketing OF stores owned and oper-
ated by the company. The defendants
have twenty days In which to file an
sWera
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BROOKLYN GASLESS
SOON. SAY STRIKERS
Company Insists Plants Are
Giving Normal Supply.

At meeting attended by 1900 strik-
ing employees Of the Brooklyn Union
Gas Company it was said last night
that Brooklyn would be without gas by
O'Clock this morning. The meeting
OF the men was private, and it was after
debate lasting three hours that this
statement was issued by James f.
Roach, organizer of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
THE supply" he said despite the
statement by the company that the
plants are running we'll. is only the re-
serve supply that is in the tanks. This
will be consumed by s o'clock to-mor-
row morning and then Brooklyn will
be without gas for any purpose"
Mr.. Roach referred to a statement
issued by the company to the affect that
the strike had not hampered operations.
There is no change" this official state
ment said. 1.-The $50 men who went
out are still out, and their places have
been filled by others. The plants are
turning out their normal supply of gas.
The ranks Of the strikers have not been
strengthened"
Mr.. Roach declared that there were
1900 at the strikers meeting. or six
times as many as the company figures
admit have gone out.
The strikers are planning a benefit
for this evening at the Labor Lyceum.
Willoughby and Myrtle avenues, and
count on talent from the Actors Equity
Association.
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MRS. 7. F. STEVENS
Is STRANGELY I'LL
Removed to Southampton Hos
pital in a Critical Con-
dition.
MUCH MYSTERY IN CASE
Chief of Police of Easthamp-
ton Tells of Blotter Entry
of Attempted Suicide.

great deal of mystery surrounds the
presence in the Southampton a. ID
Hospital of Mrs Theodosius f. Stevens,
whose husband is a we'll known lawyer
and a granddaughter OF Edwin A. Ste
vens, founder of Stevens Institute.
Mrs. Stevens, who has been married
but little more than two years, was
removed to the hospital some time ago
from the Sea Spray Hotel at East
hampton In a very critical condition
No statement was issued as TO the rea-
son, and gradually rumors crept around
which set folk on the far end of Long
Island to doing great deal OF talking
One of these was to the effect that
during a nervous spell Mrs. Stevens had
done herself some physical injury, and
that in the official records of the case in
Suffolk county there was an entry OF
attempted suicide.
In connection with this report, Edwa I'd
&. Milford. Chief of Police at East
hampton, said last night over the tele.
phone that there was such a record. He
was asked specifically IL he would state
that such a record existed, and he re.
piled, "Yes. it is So" He would make
no comment on the matter other than
this.
AT the nospital where Mrs Stevens Is
still confined 1t was stated that she was
greatly improved. would you care to
make any comment upon the report OF
her attempted suicide?' a nurse who
answered the telephone was asked. 81
really can't discuss that" she replied
Attempts TO get into communication
with other persons who might shed
some light on the matter were of nc
avail.
Mrs. Stevens is the daughter of Ethel
bert Watts, formerly American Consul.
General at Brussels Her grandfather
was Henry M. Watts. American Minister
to Austria.
She was married to Mr. Stevens March
rs, 1917. at the home of her parents
1921 Clinton street, Philadelphia, and
has since lived with her husband in II
East Fiftieth street, Manhattan A
the time of her marriage the bride wa:
said to be 35 years of age.
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DICKINSON HIGH ORDERS
SOCKS OFF GIRL PUPILS
Innovation in Dress Causes Jersey City Principal to
Gasp and Students Are Forced Into
Regulation Black Stockings.

Dickinson High School in Jersey City
is as respectable an Institution Of learn
Ing as this heavily moralled country
OF ours can produce. There'll be no
fandangoes or scrimshankings there,
II any girl thinks that she's going to
introduce Innovations into the cloistered
halls Of Dickinson High she needn't
take the trouble to go for she won't be
allowed in.
Dickinson High has Just opened for
the fall term. Dickinson Ia coeduca-
tional and its new freshman class is top
heavy with girls, It used to be that the
average age of the freshman class at
Dickinson High was about 16, but OF
recent years the children have been
getting brighter or the elementary school
teachers speedier, for the average age
of first year pupils at Dickinson has
dwindled to IL and 10 years.
Among the freshmen who reported
last week was an ingenue OF eleven
She was a gangling seraph. Her hair
was bobbed appropriately and her frilly
dress almost reached her knees. 1t Is
likely that she'd have got by had
that been ALL But she wore socks Al
first Principal Hopkins didn't believe Il
even after he'd had a look. He made
careful reconnaissance and after Civ
Ing the new freshman a careful survey
he took her gently by the hand and told
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her that the primary school was two
blocks down and four to the right.
But that child showed him that she
was a high schooler and that she was
through with elementary education. Mr..
Hopkins vised her papers and called a
meeting OF the teachers, The result was
that the prodigy was told to go home
and take her long and shapeless bare
legs with her and not to come back until
there was cloth between her ankles and
her skirts II there was so much material
to be had.
An hour later another girl appeared
and she was as innocent Of stockings as
her predecessor and only a year older.
She was told kindly but very firmly that
stockings we're as necessary to an edu-
cation in Dickinson High as books and
that It didn't matter what the fashions
were--it was up to her parents to choose
between stockings and French. So she
went home wondering what It was all
about.
Yesterday It was given out that thet o
wasn't bare leg in the freshman class :
that the only nudity to be beheld in
Prof. HoplSins's school was confined to
faces and hands. 1t leaked out how
ever that one utterly shameless child of
10 reported for gymnasium hour in socks
and you can just bet that she was
hustled back to the locker ROOM where
her pretty but shocking bare limbs were
properly hidden beneath decent black
cotton.
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10 MANHOLES BLOW
UP, INJURING DOZEN
Explosion of Waste Gasoline
From Garage Breaks Scores
of Windows. st.

Life in the neighborhood OF East
Forty-second street is getting to be just
one darn explosion after another. Ac-
cumulated sewer gases. caused mostly
by waste gasolene draining into the
sewers from the numerous garages in
that district, blow Off the manhole
covers with the regularity of odd
Faithful" the celebrated geyser in
Yellowstone Park.
Yesterday morning fifteen manhole
covers flew up with rather more than
their usual vigor and twelve persons
were injured from the resulting down.
pour of broken glass. The firing line
extended through Forty-second street
from the East River to Third avenue
and north to Forty-flfth street
On the corner of Third avenue and
Forty-second street the two foot iron
disc that covers the sewer hole shot
into the air with such force that It
would doubtless have established an
altitude record had IT not come in
contact with the elevated railway
structure, which it damaged. All the
windows on the block were broken and
the police estimated the damage at
$500.
The persons cut by falling glass were
attended in a drug store by DR.. Hamil-
ingham of Flower Hospital. They were
all able to 60 to their homes.
Five plate glass windows in the
Grand Central Clothing Store at Gel
Third avenue, valued at $3.50 each. were
blown in by the blast Finegold and
Spiro the proprietors. were taking stock
of their losses, including much damage
to their fall lines in gents furnishings"
THE last blowout was August g."
proprietor Finegold said. I'VE were not
expecting another before late in October
or early November. We have had an
explosion here on the average of three
to four times a year pretty regularly
| for the last six years. To-day's was
the worst for some time.
Jake get those slightly damaged
good as new fall hats together and we
will hang out the Explosion Sale sign
again"
Two laborers at work in the sewer
wero driven out by gas fumes a few
minutes before the blast occurred. They
wore both slightly injured but consider
ed themselves lucky to escape with
scratches.
Officials would not say II steps will
be taken to prevent a recurrence OF the
manhole blowups. Neither would they
discuss somebody's suggestion to change
the name of the street to Vesuvius alley.
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IMPORTER ACCUSED
OF $29,I8S THEFT
Guerra Took Bills of Lading,
Says Carl Pustau, Jr.

Charged with grand larceny for fail
ing to return bills of lading on S2s,lsS
worth of malt which he is said to have
taken from the office of Carl Pustau,
Jr., Albert d, Guerra. 81, president of
the Acme Export and Import Company,
i6 Broad street, was arraigned in
Tombs Court yesterday and held in
$4,000 bail for examination. The
complainant was Henry Altenbrand,
Ir., vice-presdent of the Henry Alien
brand Mailing Company. 100 Broadway.
Mr. Altenbrand alleged that on Au-
gust 81 Guerra took eleven bills of
lading for cars of malt consigned by
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which were
owned by the Altenbrand company, and
turned over the property TO Mr. Pus-
tau under the terms of cash on de-
livery contract. Subsequently Mr.. AL
tenbrand declares. Guerra took the bills
of lading from Mr., Pustaus office with
out authority and after repeated de-
mands has failed to return the papers
or to make restitution.
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TWO EX-S0LDIERS
KILLED BY TRAIN
Automobile They Are Taking
to a Customer Is Hit Near
Freeport, L. l.

Two former service men were killed
and a number OF children injured in
automobile accidents yesterday. John
Kreiser, rs. and Louis De Rue, 80, both
OF Hampstead. and both recently re-
turned from foreign service, were killed
when the car In which they were rid
ing was struck by a Long Island train
known as the Fish Express at a cross
ing near Freeport De Rue was en-
ployed by Kreiser in a garage They
customer when the accident took place.
The bodies were taken to Freeport.
where an investigation is being made.
Six persons of fourteen In a passenger
motor bus were injured when the car
collided with a Reid avenue trolley AZ
Eastern Parkway and Utica avenue.
Brooklyn. Some of the men injured
were clinging to the running board when
the crash came. The more seriously
avenue. Brooklyn Joseph Murphy, 22,
$500 Seventh avenue, Brooklyn; Miss
Marie Byrne. IS. 310 West l20th street,
Manhattan. and Miss Valerie Burnett
10, 1892 Teller avenue, The Bronx.
Murphy, the driver, was charged with
violation OF the park ordinances in
driving on a commercial vehicle road
way. and entered plea of not guilty.
The case was put over.
Helen Hughes, 12, 1867 Atlantic
avenue. and Gertrude Ciff, s. 215
Warren street. Brooklyn. were injured
by being run down while playing in
front of their homes. Both are in hos
pitfalls with bruises. Irving Peterson,
6, 231 Sixty-first street, Brooklyn, Is
in the Methodist Hospital with a
fractured skull received when he was
run down by a passenger automobile
near his home. The driver did not stop
after the accident. Witnesses furnished
the police with a description of the car.
Samuel Berry, thirty-nine of l60 West
Fifty ninth street, Manhattan, was held
without bail In Long Island City police
court for killing. Saturday, Lorenzo
Laurita, street cleaner, So.
The police say that Berry was an in
experienced driver and became con-
fused in the traffic.
Louis Stein. 1895 Fifth avenue, Man
haitian, was held without bail In New
Jersey avenue police court, Brooklyn.
for causing the death of Percy Mandel.
s. 25S Herzl street. in an acciden!
Monday. He will be heard tomorrow.
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POLICE RAID CRAP u
GAME, 81 ARRESTED
Tip That $4,000 Was In
uoIued Not Verified.

On tip that there was a $4,000
crap game at 50 Spring street. a
block from Police Headquarters, De-
tectives Sarger and Wheelwright OF
Inspector McDonald's staff took
look In that direction early yes
terday morning. T hey saw line OF
automobiles thanking one side Of the
street, and by the coming and going de-
cided that it must be a shift" game,
the players coming in relays.
The detectives found John Bowers
standing in front Of the building. and
suspecting he was a lookout arrested
him. and then by what persuasion they
had at their command induced him to
lead them to a rear entrance, where
they broke through a door and came into
well lighted room. None of the thirty
one persons they found and arrested Of
ferd resistance, and when they were ar
ralgned in Tombs court paid fines of 50
each for disorderly conduct and de-
parted.
The police found no trace of the $780,
900. although some OF the defendants
were heard to remark that there had
been such a thing. A strong box was
seized, but the detectives did not make
known what, If anything, was in 1t.
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MOTHER COLLAPSES
AT DISAGREEMENT
Mrs. Benkowitz Unable ia
Carry Out Plan to Identify
Mutilated Body.

when tn6 DOuy OF benjamin DeHho-
WITT, the youth who disappeared last
month with s17s.0o0 worth of bonds in
his possession. was lifted from its grave
at Milford. Conn, yesterday afternoon,
the young mans mother who witnessed
the disinterment collapsed and had to
be attended by physicians.
When detectives broke open the pine
box in which the mutilated body had
laid for the last two weeks they discov-
cred natures processes had added con-
siderably to the disagreement previously
affected by the assassins, who had
slashed the face again and again and
had tried to sever the head.
The boys mother, Mrs. Ida Benko-
WITT. 169 Eldridge street, had wished to
view the body to clear up all possible
doubt as to whether the youth who was
murdered near Milford two weeks ago
was her son. In view OF her break
down she was unable to do this, but
no doubt exists in the minds Of the
authorities regarding the identity. With
her husband, Harry Benkowitz. and her
brother, Kallman Goldberg, who accom-
panied her to the cemetery, the mother
was induced to leave the scene.
Detectives of this city who are CO.
operating with the Connecticut State
police in an effort to solve the mystery
were Of the opinion yesterday that Ben
kowitz had been slain by criminal ac-
completes who suspected him of double
crossing them. Despite the fact that
he handled large sums as bank messen-
ger in the financial district, the police
said they learned yesterday that Benko-
WITT was an associate of East Side gang
sters, and that some of. them had a
grudge against him because of his
having "squealed" on another messen-
ger now serving a term In Elmira Re-
tormatory. One of his downtown ac-
quaintances told the police that Benko-
WITT said last July that he was tired
of living on nothing"
The gangsters, according to the police
version, had no confidence in Benkowitz
and were inclined to regard him with
suspicion. He Is said to have been In
clined to trick them, and the police said
they were working on the theory that he
may have tried to get away without
sharing with his own gang.
One peculiar feature of the case is the
arrest here last Thursday of a man from
Benkowitzs neighborhood who is said to
have boosted that he was the owner OF
one of the bonds stolen by Benkowitz
This man is Morris Schiller, a former
street car conductor, of 1874 Suffolk
street, and he is alleged to have admit
ted after his arrest that he had said he
had one of the bonds in his possession.
He claimed. however, that he had
been merely bluffing when he said II.
He Is awaiting action by the Grand
Jury on a charge of receiving stolen
goods. His boast was made a few days
after Benkowitz was killed,
1t is the theory of the police that who
ever killed Benkowitz tried first to sever
the head with a view to concealing
identity. and falling this slashed the
face beyond recognition. A broken
knife blade was found lodged in the
neck.
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LEGION IN DRIVE
FOR MEMBERS HERE
Call for 5000 in NeD York
County.

Next week the American Legion will
conduct a drive for $4,000 new mem
bers in New York county. George Bro
kaw Compton, chairman of the county
committee. explained the plans last
night at a dinner to the press at the
Columbia University Club.
Campaign headquarters have been
established at 261 Madison avenue, at
Thirty-ninh street. There enrollments
from "casuals" will be received. Any
New Yorker who served in the army or
navy in the war, not attached to any
of New Yorks regiments. will be signed
up at the campaign headquarters with
the privilege OF transferring later to
any post in the city.
Major Richard lowering is helping
Chairman Compton carry on the cam
paign, which will be conducted by cir
cularizing ex-service men, through the
various posts in the city and by using
election polling places as recruiting sta
lions.
Harold Bolster. 40 Wall street, is
chairman Of the finance committee.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-10
LAWYER ARRESTED
ON FRAUD CHARGE
Widow Accuses S. C. Lock-
Wood of Embezzlement.

Charged with embezzlement of a eli
ent's money, Samuel G. Lockwood, a
Brooklyn lawyer, was arrested yesterday
afternoon on an order signed by Su-
preme Court Justice Townsend Scudder
The complainant is Mrs Florence z.
Huscher OF Freepori L. l., who retained
the lawyer to bring suit for damages
over the death of her husband, William
b. Huscher. who was killed while at
work in the plant OF the New SEyk and
Queens Electric Light and Power Com
pany.
The widow charges that jury gave
her verdict for s1o,26i, and that her
lawyer received a check for the amount
in April, 1918. She alleges that he gave
her only Sl,46O Of this sum. appropriate
ing the balance TO his own use. She
said she made repeated demands upon
him for the money.
Lockwood was taken into custody by a
Deputy Sheriff and was released on a
surety company bond OF $1,000.
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TICKET PROFITEERS
FACE JAIL TERMS
Court Suspends Sentences to
Emphasize Warning.

Because a suspended sentence Is
more pointed reproot than sTnau G, .S
five theatre ticket agents who p'esoVo 4,
guilty to overcharging were re'eas,,u a,
Yorkville court yesterday on the pea "
Edwin p. Kilroe. Assistant District a.,
torney. The court warned the men ' ,G.
on a second offence they "o11 '' ''''
To a workhouse sentence, ia
Mr.. Kilroe said that the usual l.s, +,
such cases, $40 or SIS, had no ere
checking the operations lie p'aeeu "a =,
condolences in stopping the practice ~
the threat of Jail. The Speculation, , .ss
been dealing in Hippodrome ucSe "a
raising the price from SO cents 70 w.
They were Abraham Levy, 3f- lh'e'' "a
avenue, Tho Bronx: Sam F1i1HH'S "a
West 1l1th street; Ernest Gross, "a,
West Forty-ninth street; AoIa ,,,,
Sharpe, Ss2 West Ninety-ninth sl. ,I,s
and John Brown. S42 West FoTiy-e'S"'
street