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New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
|. r.. L. Prepares
ToOperateN New
Lines Aug. p
Two BROOKLYN Extensions
from Eastern Parkway
Will Connect with Utica
and Flathush Avenues
Practice Trains Running
Transportation TO All of
Manhattan Through, Clark
Street Tunnel Provided

Two new extensions of the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company's lines in
Brooklyn will be put in operation short
ly after noon on Monday, August %
it was officially announced from the
office of Frank Hadlev, president OF
the Interborough, yesterday.
One of these is the Eastern Park
way extension from Atlantic Avenue
through Flatbush Avenue to Prospect
Park Plaza and then east through
Eastern Parkway to Utica Avenue The
other begins at the Nostrand Avenue
station of the Eastern Parkway extern
sion and runs south through Nostrand
Avenue to Flatbush Avenue.
Following it's practice before open
ing new lines, the Int thorough has
begun to operate practice trains for
the schooling of the employees until
all concerned are familiar with every
detail Of actual operation.
Delay in Opening Some Stations
On account of the uncompleted up
Plaza the stations at Bergen Street,
Prospect Park Plaza and Eastern PARK
way Brooklyn Museum will not be
opened at once.
The stations to be opened immedi-
ately are those at Flatbush Avenue,
Nostrand Avenue, Kingston Avenue
and Utica Avenue, on the Eastern
Parkway line.
The stations to be opened on the
President Street, Sterling Street. Win
throp Street, Church Avenue, Beverly
Road, Newkirk Avenue and FIatbush
Avenue
Ihe new lines are equipped with the
automatic signaling system, as are all
the lines Of the Interborough, and all
details will be completed by August 23.
In announcing the proposed opening
OF the lines, President Hadley said in
part:
This service will furnish rapid
transportation to every imDortan. cen
ter IN Manhattan; financial, shopping.
theatrical, residential and the parks,
Van Cortlandt and the Bronx. and (hy
changing at Grand Central Station) in
Queens.
Routes of New Trains
These trains will enter Manhattan
through the Clark Street tunnel and
so northOrly over the west side route.
touching stations at Wall Street. aPrk
Place, Chambers Street, Fourteenth
Street Thirty fourth Street (Pennsyl-
Vanta station, Times Square and the
theater district, Seventy-second Street
and Ninety sixth Street. from which
point part Of the trains continue north
through Washington Heights to Van
Cortlandt Park and part turn to pro-
ceed to the Bronx and Bronx Park.
The transfer point in BROOKLYN for
Brooklyn passengers desiring to 20
on the East Side lines in Manhattan.
70 Bowling Green. Wall Street, City
hall. Brooklyn Bridge, Fourteenth
street, Grand Central Station, Lexlng-
ton Avenue points, Jerome Avenue or
me Bronx or Queens is at Nevins
Street station in Brooklyn.
At the Nevins Street Station there
Is an island platform and passengers
wishing to 20 en- the East Side lines in
Manhattan have only to step across the
platform from the new West Side
trains to the East Side trains"
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
K. Z. Marine Men Stay Out
Refuse to Join Other Port
Strikers IN Resu,s,ing Work

While the longshoremen and team
sters who have been on strike in this
port since last March have returned to
work and the operations Of the port
have thus returned 20 virtually normal
conditions, Thomas B. Heaey, presi-
dent Of the Marine Workers Affiliation,
whose members are employed on rail-
road craft in the harbor, and who have
alao been engaged in the prolonged
strike, announced yesterday that his
men would remain out until such time
as the railroads agree to their de-
mands
Mr.. Healcy said that tne railroads
are operating only so per cent cf their
harpor craft as result OF the strike,
although he adm tied that number OF
men have returned to their posts on
tugs and lighters of the Pennsylvania,
New York Central and New Haven
railroads.
M Heaiey declared that the decision
to remain out was taken by 4000 rail
road captains engineers, deckhands and
nremen at meeting in Webster Hall
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Upland Owners Given
Right to Filled-In Land
Curt Directs That Buildings
Erected by Authority of
City Be Removed

A decision by Justice Stephen Cal
iaghan in the Brooklyn Supreme Court
yesterday gives upland owners posses
sion of filled-in land between Neptune
Avenue and Gravesend Bay. and the
city, which has claimed the property.
has been restrained from leasing it.
Iae court directed that the buildings
erected on the land by authority of
the city, shall be removed Immediately
The land IN controversy was made
partly by tn United States govern
ment and partly by accretions, and
with the addition Of new land the
city imm ediately laid claim to it..
Ellen Nevins, owner of upland areas,
watch, j. was alleged, were deprived
OF wa1er front by the citys action.
began SUIT to establish riparian
rights, and the decision of yesterday
was made in connection with that &C
ton.
Judge Callaghan based his decision
chiefly on the riparian rights of own
ers Of shore lands, holding specifically
IN the case of Mrs. Nevins that, while
while she had never owned the soil
under water, no agency mad the right
to come between her land and the
shore land
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
No Strike ON B. R. T. if
Settlement Is Possible
Arn alga7nated Organizer Says
All Means Of Reaching Agree
menf VIII Re Tried

There will be no strike on the
3. r. T. system until every avenue of
amlcaole adjustment Of the differences
oetWeen the employees and Race;oor
l-lnd!ey NJ. Garrison Is exhausted suid
fatrlck =. Shea, organizer and member
OF the executive board OF the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and Elec-
trlc halfway Employees. yesterday.
As the hrst step 10 avoid a strike
commlttee representing the men, headed
oy William d. Mahon, international
pre- es!dent OF the lgamated, wiz call
on Mayor iylan tom orrow morning.
IN the afternoon the same committee
Will call on Judge julius N. Mayer at
rs chambers in the Woolworth Build
'ng, wAen 1t will endeavor to persuade
ann 20 alter his lnatructious to Re-
celVer Garrison agsinat the granting
OF Some OF the mems demands
II necessary the committees will go to
Albany to confer with Governor Smith
and request him to use his good Offices
10 BRING about an accommodation Of
the differences between the B. r. T.
and its employees.
{" The policy CT the amalgamated as
sociation," said MI Shea, is to exhaust
all possibilities Of arbitration before
venturlng to call strike Only when
a!l other means fail do we resort to a
wal l..-0ut."
Despite Mr.. shea's optimism, how
ever, inquiry among the men in
brooklyn yesterday revealed that SEN
tlment for strike on August 29 at
midnight, when their present agree
ment with the B. r. T. expires, is
growing.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Sweater Strikers Defied
National Manufacturers Back
BROOKLYN Makers in Fight

a. B. Shaftei, Of 29l1 Atlantic Ave
nue., president of the Brooklyn Sweat
er Manufacturers Association. an-
nounced yesterday that support has
been offered by the textile department.
Of the National Association OF Manu-
facturers, Eastern Department, to re-
ieye pressure resulting from the strike
Of 5000 knit goods workers who have
been cut at the Rrok'vH shops for the
past twelve days. Vita this assurance
the Brooklyn Sweater Manufactures
Association have decided 20 hold out
in spite Of the fact that forty-seven IN
affiliated manufacturers. making trf-
collctte and sweaters, have yielded 70
the strikers demands.
In the settled shops strikers have
returned TO work at I25 an hour for
knitters. s5G.25 q week FOR power ma
chine mechanics and 1925 week Tor
ucndcrs and cutters.
To date thirty-one arrests have been
made I the strike, and all these cases
viii be tried a. the Bridge Plaza Court
Monday morning at o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Anderson Renews Attack
Against Vice i'm Yonkers
Mayor Says He'll Pay No At.
tention to Anti-Saloon
Leaders, Statements

william H. Anderson. state superin.
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League. sup
piemented yesterday his remarks CT a
week ago on the subject of vice, gamb-
ling and Illicit liquor selling as prac-
uced in Ycnkers. His second install
ment Is like the first in that it contains
afhdavlts that certain so-caled "dives"
sc'spense alcoholic refreshment and
harhor other illeyitimate enterprises
without interference from the city's
officials.
Have you seen what Mr.. Anderson
says about you and Yonkers in his
statement of this afternoon Mavor
William J. Wallin was asked yesterday.
"Tk-tk," said the Mayor. another
Yes, cir 1t says you and the heads
OF the Police Department must be the
onlN innocent officials in town If YOU
kers is"
Oh" said the Mayor, GIVE seen that
one. He makes so many statements |
find it hard to keep track of them"
"Well"--
81 have nothing to say. am not
going to pay any attention to him. He
lives on publicity and I'm not going
to nourish him"
Mr.: Anderson says in his statement
that he has just begun to fight to make
ionkers law-abiding place.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

not alter its decision not to grant an
increase OF more than cents an hour.
Inc men demand considerably more.
General Manager Duncan said yes
tcrday:
We are not employing strike break
era. If we had money to do so we
would pay it to our men. The 6 cent
increase we offered was all we could
onsr, and all we can offer, or are JUS
sined In Offering on our receipts,
we have run behind $4,000 in op-
Grating expenses for the first six
months Of this year. During July cur
receipts were only $4,000 Our re-
celpts are less now than they were in
80 wnen we were paying our men
only % and 20 cents an hour, and we
are now paying them 81 and SO cents
an hour"
The men are not unionized. but c.
j.. Tighe, their leader, said thev had
oeelded to quit only as last resort
The Manhattan and Queens Traction
corporation line is located on Queens
boulevard, and operates from Second
Avenue and Fifty Street NJ Mn
rattan, about eleven miles to the Long
Island Railroad station at Jamaica.
Last year this company applied to
the commission for an increase in
fare and for permission to charge by
zones. The present rate of fare is FIVE
cents. The commission was stopped
from acting by injunction, which was
later upset by the Court of Appeals,
which has decided in favor Of the
commissions power in respect to the
ates.
The company has supplen ented its
application with a new one REQUESTING
that the commission establish two fare
zones. One from Manhattan to Grand
Street, Corona, in which the fare
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
In Viiew of the Fact

that the high standards OF living have become general
people with plenty Of money and willing to spend it are
attracted by and readily advertisements that worth
while that business and that do beat around the
bush"
There part of this newspaper known as "The Want
Ad" columns that daily appeals to this kind of people
These Want Ad columns contuin numerous items of in.
classified and conveniently arranged for the enteprs
ing reader who may be an employer or an employee buyer
seller landlord tenant unfortunate loser of
something valuable lucky fnder-in fact every one
Consult them and be convinced When answering any Of
them say you it in The Tribune
If what you want is not listed call the want Ad" De-
parnen of The Tribune, Beckman 5000 and arrange to
have advertisement insertod--or 90 to anv of The
Tribune Want Ad Agents-ovcr five hundred in Greater
New York-or The Tribune Office l54 Nassau St.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
March Was Best Month

Maximum receipts for T. year we're
.spos.-a fe- N1sch, when the gross
iereaae amounted TO SO 095 ,530.62 and
me su-plJs after meeting all charges
vas $i1l,45-.07 Il was during March
in-s suriace ca- tIathc vas crippled be
cause OF local weather conditions.
During june Of The current year gross
reVenues were &5Z6.427S2 IN excess O.
he spond.ng month II 1919. In
dane, 1878. The deAc4t, after meeting all
charges, including the preferential. was
S23S-95s.9l, as against $1a9, ,703,lS for
June. 1870
The company de.icit during the first
six months Of the fiscal year was ST.
49, rs but during the last six
months O. the fiscal year there was q
surplus Of Sl41 .31681 after meeting all
company obh ga tlcIs, including tie pref
eren-!al
Statements fled by the Interbor9ugh
company for operation on the Manhat-
tan elevated division for the same
9sr3od snow gross operating revenue
81 Sls,e-s. 1895 aud expenditures, in
c.04'ng operating costs rental, main
tshaAcs, depreciation, interest charges
and the preferential OF $l589 S48,
amounted to $25, 4,26991, leaving a
gsnc-t ior the year of $6,384,75d.95.
1he Manhattan Railway deficit prior
:, 70 TIE fscai year 1929 was $3 ,23l ,994.31.
Ni'h interest, the Manhsttan deficit is
LOW rep rted at SIS ,320 1852.
figures en- Brooklyn Lines
Reports made to Commissioner De-
s'sy - the Eew York CONSOLIDATED d
1nfaAsit '4naS Of the Brooklyn Rapid
transit system during the fiscal year
saaed Jane 80, 1920, had gross earn
laSs or Sl9 1852, 1880, and that the de-
-nCc'ohs Ior operating expenses, taxes,
seN'ai, 1ntes It on road srd equipment,
-."'l.enanee and depreciation and the
'ValFact preferential OF So, 500 900,
@~ouA5ed 70 S22 1886 ,406.lt, leaving 8
a-aclc of s. s24. 1881, exclusive OF the
interest Charges oG the city's invest
AIeht IN CRY owned rapid transit lines
operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
system
- %sSsnge- revenue for the year was
lZ,9S4.St, as against $l5,255, ,72Ol2
1or me preceding fiscal year, an in
SIeaSe ot S8,aS, ,274.19 There was also
sa increase in receipts from advertis
.ag snd station privileges. Operating
expenses Tor year ended June so, 1920,
t we're Sll,27a,l21.58, al Increase over
st sne preceding year of S3,165, ,9T478.
oa,a'htenance ., expenses were $2,629,-
.ii4'ez an increase of $5s6,51195 over
sne year ending June 80, 1919 The
maintenance account for the yer ex-
~. -ed the contract allowance of 12
W. cent Of gross revenue by $7T9 1868.
:. o-S' eevenues Of the company since
- ae contract between the Brooklyn
aas4f Transit Company and the city
vas signed on August 4, 1913, have
smounted TO Sss. .9e6 .034SS. snd total
speFatns expenses since that date
ave been $50 ,365.229.e5. Allowances TO
Ne company under the annual prefer
en1'e- Vi So 800 600 since tho date of
lsoI07.5l.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Higher Gas Rate Halted
Restrainer Put on N. Y. and
Richmond Co. Pending Suit


The New York and Richmond Gas
Company was restrained by Supreme
Court Justice Townsend Scudder yes
teTday, in Brooklyn, from increasing
its rates pending outcome Of the trial
Of the case Of the company against
Lewis Nixon, Public Service Commits
siol -; The Pu5lic Service Commission
and TIE City of New York to deter
NJ whether the company is entitled
to The increase.
The trial began July 19 before Ref
eree Arthur Fl. Sewell. former JUS
tice Of the supreme Court. A week
later tn gas eompany went before
Justice ScrdJcr with d motion for an
order restricting the Public Service
Commission and others from enforcing
the lew preventing the raising Of rates,
pending the trial.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Inquiry Ordered
In Queens Strike
AS $4,000 Walk
Hearing ON Traction Esn-
ployees'Action To Be Held
Tomorrow; Company Re-
fuses Pay Raise Demand

Alfred M. Barrett, Acting Public Ser
vice Commissioner, yesterday ordered
hearing and investigation to be held
tomorrow into the strike of the en-
ployees of the Manhattan and Queens
traction Corporation. The strike be-
gan early yesterday morning and is
inconveniencing $4,000 residents who
use the line daily. 0
Mr.. barrett issued his order after a
trip through the shops and car barns
OF the company. He found that none
OF the shop, line and platform men was
at work
Thousands who use the line were
totally unprepared for the walkout
yesterday morning. Motor cars and
buses picked up some who were rush
ing to reach their places of employ
ment, but most of the residents were
obliged to walk.
1he strike was called after g. confer
ence between a committee represent
ing the employees and General Man
agr Duncan of the company. The lat
ter declared that the company could
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
British Labor Applauded
Christensen Endorses Workers.
Stand Against War

CHICAGO, Aug. Ia. - Farley P.
Christensen, Farmer Labor party can
d'date for President, to-day cent s.
cao!egram to William C. Adamson.
chairman of the British Labor partv
congratnlating the British workers ~,
eneir determination to resist military
intervention against Russia.
The message follows:
British labor's magnificent deter-
m,natlon to resist any form of militnry
IN intervention against Soviet Russia ;s
numanltys most striking victory over
th oS Sp'ta,lst sa, militarism. You have laid
lhe FOUNDATION of a real world ]ea
OF labor by setting the eloyion. r ue
ample of labor's power to veto war
flease extend to British rahnr
party heartfelt admiration of Amor;n.n Du,
Farmer abor party" 'ea'i
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
[.R. T. Subway
Profit I'm Half
Year $l4l,3l6
Rapid Improvement in FL
nanciai Condition Re-
vealed by Statement of
Earnings Up TO June 80
March Was Best Month
Revenue Received for Fiscal
Period is S3l,622,973,
an Unprecedented Total

The financial condition Of the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company i'm
n-oved during the last half of the
sseal year which ended June 80. This
vas revealed in financial statements
lied by the company yesterday with
John II. Delaney, Transit Construc-
ron Commissioner. These surveys,
zhIch were made public in condensed
torn, show that during the fiscal year
he receipts of the company on the
city ownesi subway division were suf-
scient to pay all operating expenses.
.axes, maintenance and interest
charges and S5.33o,oO5 of its annual
prefe-ential OF s6,S35.ooO.
Il Is explained, however, that earn
,ngs during the first six months OF
the fiscal year were insufficient to
meet all fixed charges. Since that
tine earnings have been adequate,
except duriag June, to pay all charges,
inclad;ng the preferential. In June,
charges, including the preferen ial,
exceed the income by $l99,703.
Total Sets New Record
For the fiscal year the total revenue
Of the city owned subway division
reached the unc crecedented total of
ssI, ,622 1913. n the previous year the
subway division OF the Interborough
received So So EOS as revenue from
operations.
Operating expenses amounted to
sl9'7S 5Sl. The other principal out
laws were: Maintenance, s3,7e4,756;
rental paid to the city under the
or.gin-i subway contract. $2.429, ,4S7;
interest en- company contributions Tor
cons Ic-ion, S-.93S,944; interest on
equipment. s1,520, 600; eompany's pref
erental, S6,3 5000 The total COM
s32e o6s.
Including the cNmpany's preferen-
tial o. income before the city gets
any, the Hgures for the year show
that The com pany charges were ST.
oa4oa5 in excess Of total revenues.
The deficit that had accumulated prior
70 the fiscal wear just ended wss 90
225 ,4S3 interest IN the deficit for
lie fiscal year ending June % amount
ed to sos 627 and interest on the prior
aefc- amounts TO $e5,663, bringing
the total deficit of s3,370,879 on the
subway division up - June so, 1920.
Thsse deficits are cumulative and are
prior charges on surplus before in
.erest is paid on the investment of
he city government.
s. according to the monthly reports
of receipts and expenditures revenues
were sua1c.ent to pay all company
caerges, including The preferential,
dining the months Of December,
Fehl 2ry. March. April "a May. The
non Aly gross revenues and surplus
~ deneit, exclusive OF Interest on the
eltv's investment, during the Ascal
ysAr were as follows:
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Rufus Gavnor on Trip in Car
He Didn't Know Was Stolen

County Detective Carman Plant. Of
Min~ola, L. l., began TO wonder yester-
day when Rufus Gaynor, son of the
late Mayor. was going to return from
his vacation.
Mr. Gaynor, according to Plant, was
just starting on motor trip when it
was discovered that his newly pur-
chased automobile was one which had
ben stolen from q woman in New Jer-
sey. Mr. Gaynor bought the car in
coed faith and the detective granted
his request that he be permitted to
take the trip he had planned in it..
Plant said it was time Mr.. Gaynor was
home
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Employer Never Raises Rent
irish Linen Manufactures Tells
How He Avoids Strikes

Sir Robert Liddell, a linen manu-
facturer of Belfast, who arrived yester-
day on the Red Star liner Lapland, told
hom he avoided labor troubles. He
built cottages near his mills, ne said
which ne rensed to his EMPLOYEES, ask
ing from one to five shillings week for
each dwelling and never raising the
rent His plant at Belfast employs
1900 persons AID supplies 500 hotels
in this country with linen.
Six members OF the American trap
shooting team, which won first, second
and third prizes al the Olympic games
at Antwerp, returned on the Lapland.
They are J. Clarke, captain of the
team; Frank Wright, F. N. Troch, H. R.
Bunser, Nick Arlie and r. " McNeir.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

company's pay roll of $l,1oo and es-
capped in an automobile. In their haste
to get to the street the thieves dropped
two OF the pay envelopes containing
about $40 each
Twenty-Five persons were at work in
the factory, which adjoins the Office
The head of the rm had come in with
the paw roll few minutes before and
departed after leaving the funds with
the bookkeeper. The thieves had evil
IDENTIFY been trailing the owner. Patrol
nan Harry Bachtle, Of the East 12eth
Street station, WAS standing about ffty
feet from the building where the hold
up occurred.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Former Member of Commons
To Re Manr,;x Protest Speaker

Lawrence Glnnell, from 1916 to 1917
g membe Of the British House Of Com
mons and at present an elected MEM
Der of the Irish Republican Assembly
will he among the speakers to address
q nl1Js meeting in protest against the
reatMent accorded Archbishop Man
ernment, to be held tonight in Madl-
son Square Garden. The meeting also
will be called upon to pass resolutions
denouncing the new Irish crimes bill,
introduced in Parliament.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

shall be five cents, and a second zone,
from Grand Street to the Jamaica
terminus, in which the fare shall be
eight cents
The commission has not yet ordered
a hearing upon these applications de-
spite the request Of the company that
the commission should direct an in
crease in the fare forthwith.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Pest Officers To BE Retained

WASHINGTON. Aug 14.-Comrand-
ing officers Of regimental and coast
defense units of the army who VIA
the rating OF superior" and above
the average" viii be retained with
their comm onds for at least two years,
he War Department announced today.
The policy was adopted with view
to obtaining and maintaining tne
highest efficiency, the announcements
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Thieves Get SI,lCO PAYROLL
Two Armed Men Hold Up Office
of Iron Works Here

Two men with revolvers entered the
office Of the Madison Iron Works, 459
East ll9th Street yesterday, held up
the bookkeeper, Irving Brodsky. 21s
East Ninety-ninth Street. seized the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-22
REAL ESTATERS
OF GRADY BUSY
on ORGANIZATION
Chickasha Real Estate Firms Repre-
sented in Session, to Become AZ
filated in Move to Advertise
Oklahoma.

Grady county real estate men met
here this morning and perfected the
organization of the Grady County
Farm Land bureau
The county bureau will be affillat
ed with dhe State Farm Land bureau,
the purpose of which is to national
ly advertise the states agriculture
resources. Jonas Cook was elected
president of the county organization
r. + Major, vice-president and G..
Schlotterbeck, secretaryltreasurer
President Cook has appointed com
mittees as follows Membership, p.
C. Stacey, James Stacey, w. S.
Richards and T. f. Major Print
ing, A. b. Cochran, W. II. Catterall
c. Schlotterbeck. Bylaws, Jonas
Cook, r. r. Major, G. Schlotterbeck.
Membership fee of 500 annually
payable in advance, will be charged
The next meeting Of the Grady
County Farm Land Bureau will be
held next Wednesday morning at 9
o'clock in the office of Good G. Com
pany here.