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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

Because of the piecemeal fashion in
which the school Midget appropriations
this year are being made, the percent
age for 1912 needs further explanation.
The total city budget less debt service
this year was S24O,O42, 872.47 and the
amount originally allowed the schools
last fall was $50,720,S eO.S3, which was
only Il per cent of the total. On June
II, however, four days after the expose
of the old school buildings, the Board
OF Estimate appropriated an additional
Sl0,63s,3l6 (not including 1925, 900
which will be paid back by the state)
making the total to date $61,259, 1868,
or 25 per cent of the total city budget
less debt service. 1t is estimated, how
ever, that to meet the original budget
estimate of the Board of Education
which is needed to run the schools
until January J next, an additional
$9,461 ,836.77 will have to be provided
which will bring the total given to the
schools out of city funds up to $7O,-
721 038.77, or 29.5 per cent of the total
city budget less debt service.
Trailing Behind Mitchell
1T will be seen from these figures
that Mayor Mitchell outpointed Hylan
IN every year and that even if Hylan
tafnIly makes good on the full amount
needed this year tho percentage of 2o,5
per cent for his last year will be less
than the SO3S per cent in the last
year Of the Mitchell adn1inistrati ton
which was the largest percentage given
to the schools in the last seventeen
years, being exceeded only by that of
lSO2, when 30.81 per cent was allotted.
70 Much emphasis has been laid
upon the $52,00O,000 program for new
schools, which will eventually provide
IN the neighborhood of 1880 new
school seats. While not wishing to
detract from the Importance of pro-
viding this large number of sittings it
is essential to point out clearly lust
what they will do.
This sum is not to be provided &ll
at once, but over period of years, SO
that the full number of seats will not
be available before the next four or
flve years at best. In the meantime.
II the average annual increase of $4,000
In enrolment for the last ten years
keeps up, as there is every reason to
believe that it will, since the war is
over, it is obvious that large propor-
ton of these new seatings will be
absorbed by these new pupils and that
only small number will BIZ left for
the elimination fthe vast amount of
part-time, double session and over
crowding enumerated above.
While due credit should be given.
therefore, to the Inauguration of this
large building program, it is evident
that it will fall far short of giving all
the children in the city schools the
reserved seat which has been the hobby
and the glowing promise of the Hylan
az DIM n Of - tiop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Schools Grow
Steadily orse,
Review Shows
Blight of Hylan Admins
tration Is Graphically Re-
vealed in Figures of
Education Association
Repair Funds at Low Ebb
Meanwhile Children Are
Packed Into Buildings
Which Endanger Lives

complete review showing the
causes for the deplorable conditions
now existing in the public schools of
the city was issued yesterday by the
Public Education Association. The re-
view is based on all the facts show
ing the indifference OF the Hearst
Hylan-I ammany administration that
nave been gathered by various organi-
cations during the past two years and
which are confirmed by the official sta
tlstics of the Department. of Educa-
ton.
In issuing the review Howard w.
Nudd. director of the association, said:
"The Importance of placing clearly be-
for the public the data will serve to
clear the issue and place the RESPONSE
bility." The review follows:
-Four years ago Mayor Hylan Bit
seriy attacked the record Of Mayor
Mitchell and made glowing promises of
accomplishments for the schools. In
answer to recent startling disclosures
he has endeavored to side-step his re-
sponsibilxy by blaming everything on
his predecessor and claiming unusual
achievements for himself. In letter
upon these disclosures, published in
The New York American on Friday,
June "a, Mr.. Hearst said in defense of
shS payoI' mayor Iiylan ana inc
present city administration have done
more than any city administration for
great many years to improve the
condition of the schools and to lift
them out of the condition into which
they lapsed through the neglect of the
former administration Is that true?
But Here Are the Facts
"Here are the facts:
"1. The growth of part-time in the
elementary schools during the last
eight years, as shown by the April
figures of the Department of Educa-
tion, are as follows, showing the per-
centage of the total elementary school
enrolment:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
9 Crippled Women
Carried to Safety
In 100000 Fire
Flames Sweep Brooklyn Fac.
tory Next to Home for
Friendless; Seventy Chill.
dren Away in the Country

Fire started about 4 p. m. yesterday
in shaft in the first floor OF a s;x.
story factory building at Concord and
Liberty streets, Brooklyn, just south Of
the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Although four alarms were sent in
quick succession, the fire was beyond
control and swept through The entire
building, causing damage estimated al
more than 100000.
The factory is just south of the
Home for Friendless Women and Chill
dren which abuts upon the incline used
by street cars in leaving the bridge
structure and great pillows of smoss
swept across the tracks, half-strsn-
ging trolley passengers bound for
Brooklyn Seventy children had been
sent from the home to the country q
few day ago and only three remained.
These and six crippled women were
carried out by policemen.
A hose line on the Concord Street
side of the building near the police
lines burst early in the fire, knocking
down Corporal Alexander McManus, Of
the Adams Street police station and
causing q panic stricken rush for safes,
By the crowd gathered there. In the
confusion Henry Golfried, Of 223 Full
ton Street, Brooklyn, was knocked down
and trampled.
His left leg was dislocated and he
was injured internally. He was taken
to the Cumberland Street Hospital,
Corporal McManus suffered severe
bruises of the left leg and reported
sick.
Fireman Thomas Gonyon, of Hook
and Ladder Company Ito, was show
cred with broken glass as he chopped
his way through door on the Liberty
Street side of the grocery and was
cut about the face and legs He re-
turned to quarters after receiving med
ical attention.
The first two floors Of the building
were occupied by the Bushwick Paper
Box Company; the International Wood
en- Heel Company occupied the third
floor; the Sanford Pen Company, the
fourth; the B. G. q. Shoe Company, the
fifth anG the Steinkamp Shoe Company,
the sixth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Doctors to Lead
Marchers i'm Wet
Parade Tomorrow
Whisky Cures La Grippe
To Be Slogan; Mothers
and Children To Be With
the More Than 100000

All is in readiness for the big pro-
test parade of the anti-prohibition
forces tomorrow, it was announced
yesterday by Frank c. Drake, parade
director.
1t is promised that the parade will
be peaceful enough, but will be strong
in its denunciation of government re-
strictions, particularly those curbing
light wines and beer.
At the head will march a contingent
of doctors, who will carry signs an
nouncing that whisky Cures La
Grippe" and "We Have Right to
Prescribe Alcohol" and "Malt Drinks
Build You Up"
Following will be the American
chemists, who claim millions of dol
lars worth of industries are threatened
by alcoholic restrictions. Then will
come veterans, mothers clubs and rep
resentatives from nearly every popular
and liberal organization.
Children, too, it is said, will be seen
in the parade, accompanying their moth
ers and fathers. The force which has
responded to the call to protest is
variously estimated at from 100000 to
100000.
Isaac zlotnick, of 80 Throop Avenue,
it was reported by the police yester-
day. evidently feared the drought of a
long summer and it is charged he be-
gan operating two stills of Wholesale
capacity in the rear of his hat manu-
featuring plant at go Glenmore Ave-
nue.. Brooklyn. Besides the stills the
police say they found two barrels of
mash, two five-gallon cans of liquor
arrested.
Three detectives bearing search war
rants issued by United States Com
missioner Hennessy raided two cafes
in Nostrand Avenue yesterday where
it is charged they found beer of $40
per cent alcoholic content. The alleged
proprietors were arrested.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Arrested for Driving Car
Policeman Thought Youths Did
Not Look Like Owners

Steven Conway of 233 West Street,
and John Little, Of 20S East Forty-frst
Street, were seen driving an automo-
bile by Patrolman Hood, of the East
TlSrty-ffth Street police station, in
East Thirty-frst Street yesterday.
Hood recognized Little as youth of
tho neighborhood who owned no car
and Conway didn't look like car
owner to him, either.
He stopped them and made some in
quiries which, it is alleged, they failed
to answer satisfactorily. Hood started
for the police station with them.
On the way Conway threw away an
overcoat he was carrying, remarking
that it was too warm for the garment
i. he wasn't going motoring. Hood re-
covered the overcoat and found re-
volyer in pocket, he asserts. Both
men were locked up on suspicion of
grand larceny and a charge of viola
tion of the Sullivan law was made
against Conway,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Loses $3.50 Gold Bag
And $1,7OO i'm Jewels
Guest at Biltmore Believes She
Left Valuables i'm
Tox;nol,

A gold mesh bag valued at $3.50, con-
tanning jewelry valued at $1,700, was
lost early yesterday morning by Mrs.
w. K. zeigfeld, who is stepping with
her husband at the Hotel Biltmore. Mrs.
Zeigfeld reported her loss to the police
of the West Forty-scventh Street sta
ton, and Detectives Daley and Nancy
were assigned to search for taxicab
used by the couple in going from the
Little Theater to the hotel.
Mrs. Zeigfeld told the police that
the bag was studded with nine dia-
monds and five sapphires and contained
dinner ring studded with twelve dia-
monds and six pearls, large jade and
pearl necklace. She said that she
remembered having the bag when she
entered the cab and discovered her loss
inssn ediately after alighting from it at
the hotel. She told the police she paid
little attention to the description of
the cab and doubted that it differed
from any other.
To reporters Mrs. Zeigfeld declined
to say where she came from or what
business her husband was in.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Heavy Damages Awarded
In Suit Against Doctor
Frank stranz Alleges wife's
Death Was Caused by Illegal
Treatment

jury in Sheriff Knots court. Fri
day, awarded Frank Stranz, of 337 East
125th Street, $4,000 damages in suit
against DR.. Fred Van Vliet, of Sc West
Tenth Street, whose alleged illegal
treatment. Of the plaintiffs wife re-
suited in her death
Stranz brought suit against DR.. Van
'Vliet in the Supreme Court. The
physician did not defend the action and
it was sent to the Sheriff's Jury
for assessment of damages, the sum
awarded being the full amount de-
manded. The plaintiff alleged that in
April last, few months prior to the
time when Mrs. Franz expected to be-
come a mother, she was treated by
DR.. Van Vliet.
Without his knowledge or consent,
said the husband, the physician eat
tempted to perform an illegal opera
tion," by the prescription and admin
istration of drugs and the use of in
struments, which it was charged
constituted an assault and battery on
Mrs. Stranz. 1t was alleged that DR..
Van Vliet treated the patient careless
ly and unskillfully and that her death
resulted a few days later.
DR.. Van Vliet did not appear to
answer the case before the Sheriff's
jury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Court Warns Kings
Grand Jury Against
Political Trickery
Mountebanks Often Be-
smirch Worthy Men, In.
vestigators of Craig-Shal-
low Charges Are 7 Of d

County Judge j. Grattan MacMahon,
in addressing the June grand jury of
Kings County yesterday, which is held
over pending the investigation Of the
charges made by Comptroller Charles
l.. Craig against Edward B. Shallow,
Associate Superintendent Of Schools,
in connection with the selection Of
Coney Island school sites, without
names referred to political
who seek to use powe r.
and influence of grand jury to assail
the character Of men without cause"
Judge MacMahon declared that this
sort Of thing happened every four
years when the city campaign was on.
He assured District Attorney Lewis.
who said he had not investigated the
Craig-Shallow case sufficiently to de-
termine whether the facts should go
before the grand jury or not, that his
remarks were not directed at the Kings
County prosecutor.
Every four years we have politi-
cal upheaval." said Judge MacMahon,
"and it is a crime that political
seize upon this condition
y" "o9aii HheH AK IhelI Cildfdct1r WIN
out cause, little reckoning the result
ant wrong to man and his family.
To spread their factionalism these
political mcuntebanks do not hesitate
to try to turn to their cause the great
powers and influence of grand jury.
"Of course indictments are not con-
victions, but they are stern assertions
of charges which carry penalty. One
indicted may be freed Of the onus of
an indictment, but the stain and sting
of it remains with him to the end of
his days. Gentlemen of the grand
Jury, l know that you will not be the
tools of factionalism. I have felt it
my duty to speak to you as I have,
for unfortunately at the present day
we are suffering from the nausea of
too many little men in big mems
places and of big men being rejected. +"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Miller Frees First Convict
Liberates Firebug on Condition
He Returns to Norway
Special Dispatch to The Tr5un,

OsSINING, July PA Communication
Of sentence was received to-day at Sing
Sing Prison for Arthur I. Fosse, a
Brooklyn frebug, who is to be sent
back to his home in Norway by the
Norwegian Consul in New York City.
Fosse is the first prisoner in Sing
Sing whom Governor Nathan L. Miller
has ordered liberated. The only other
pardon received there this year was
issued by Acting Governor Wood to
Frank Shanks, an inmate said to have
been incurably III.
Fosse was committed to Sing Sing
from Kings County in August, 1918, for
alleged arson. His sentence is reduced
by executive clemency to seven years,
ten months and eight days, which he
has served. He will be released on
parole with the understanding he will
go back to Norway and not return to
this country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Mother Wins Two Children
Court Orders Husbands Kin
Return Them

Supreme Court Justice Francis Mar
tin, in the Bronx, yesterday granted
the motion of Lawyer Denis O'Sulli-
van, of 1856 Brook Avenue, appearing
in behalf of Mrs. Elizabeth Tifverman,
of 235 East Sixty-ninth Street, in a
habeas corpus proceeding to get Gus
tody of her children-Henry E., nine
years old, and George j., seven.
The Children have been in the Gus
tody of Mrs. Augusta Pearson, of 534
East 134th STREET, the Bronx, Mrs. Tiff
verman's mother-in-law.
On account of her illness Mrs. Tiff
verman was obliged some time ago to
go to Wyoming and leave her children
IN care of her husband and his mother.
On her return here, Mrs. Tifverman
said, she found her husband had been
sent to Blackwell's Island for assault,
and she Immediately instituted pro-
ceedings to regain custody of her chill
dren,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Bedford Escapes Prison;
To Enter Sanatorium
Oil Mans Son, Convicted of
Auto Theft i'm Indiana, VIII
Be Brought Back East

Charles Bedford, whose father is
Charles E. Bedford, vice-president of
the Vacuum Oil Company, will be
brought to a sanatorium in the East,
his mother said yesterday, instead of
serving the sentence of from three to
five years which was imposed upon him
in Michigan City, Ind, for the theft of
an automobile.
Mrs. Bedford lives in Bellport, L. l.
For more than year her son has been
in an irresponsible condition owing to
an attack of scarlet fever and recent
ly he eluded physician who had him
in charge and stole an automobile in
Michigan City.
eve received telegram from the
West last night" said Mrs. Bedford,
"saying that arrangements had been
made for my sons return for medical
treatment in the East. His father has
not yet decided where our boy shall be
placed. He will remain there until his
father has decided"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Accused of Stealing Plans
Draughtsrnan Admits He Took
Company prOperfy

Max Doring, forty-nine years Old,
chief draughtsman for the Giles En-
gineering Company, yesterday was
held in $4,000 bail for further exami-
nation by Magistrate McCloskey, in the
Adams Street court, Brooklyn, on a
charge of grand larceny. Doring adj
mitted to the court that he had taken
drawings and plans valued by the
company at $4,000. The plans were
for sandwich wrapping machine.
Doring told the court that the ideas
involved were his own and that he
had s1,370 in back pay coming to him
from the company, and that for SAL
airy of $50 a week the company ex-
plotted his ideas at great profit. He
will be further examined next Friday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Two Roomers Arrested
i'm Death Of Woman
Held as Witnesses After All
Night Crilling in Case of
Slain Tenement Keeper

Following a grilling which lasted all
Friday night, two of half dozen ROOM
ers at 115 Chrystie Street, where Mrs.
Anna Kospovich, fifty-seven years old,
superintendent Of the tenement house,
was found dead late Friday afternoon
with a gag in her mouth and hands and
feet bound, we're locked up at the Clin-
ton Street police station yesterday as
material witnesses.
They are Vera Yensca, twenty-four
years old, cook, who discovered the
dead woman when she came home rom
work, and Samuel Leursch, forty years
old, shoemaker employed in Hoboken.
Each denies having any knowledge as
TO how Mrs. Kospovich met death, or as
to the motive of her assailant.
Detective William Keane, who con-
Quoted the investigation, expressed the
belief yesterday that robbery had not
been the motive, inasmuch as both
money and jewelry were found on the
dead woman's person. An effort is be-
ing made to learn the identity and
whereabouts of two men who visited
the apartment Friday afternoon, bring
ing with them several bottles of whisky.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Woman Leaps From Train,
Love Letter in Stocking

CAMDEN. N. j., July 2. - An
unidentified woman is in the Cooper
Hospital, here, in critical condition
following jump from a train on the
Cape May division of the Reading rail-
road this morning. She is suffering
from a fracture of the skull and is
unconscious.
In one of her stockings was found
love letter signed Louis Larsen and
giving an address at 1 Fulton Street,
NY. The woman also had about 500
in money and mans gold watch. She
is about thirty-five years old, Of dark
complexion, wore PINK waist and a
dark tailored skirt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Bedford Inmate Escapes, but
Ia OuickIy Recantured

BEDFORD, N. Y, July 2.--One of the
inmates of the State Reformatory for
Women escaped to-day tsnd started
cross country afoot. A guard and a
matron in an automobile espied her
and took her back to the institution.
Amos 7. Baker, the superintendent, re-
fused to tell the name of the fugitive.
Helen Nixon, May Daers and Eta
Van Setter, who got away from the re-
formatory early in the week, were re-
captured Friday after passing three
wet, dismal days in the woods living on
berries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

paired during the Hylan regime, but
have gradually become worse, Mr..
Hyian's total of $7,196,9S9.S4 for a
period OF four years included the tidy
sum OF S280o,00 couragaously allotted
IN this year to school repairs by the
Board of Education on it's own initia-
tive out of the greatly reduced budget
granted by the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment last autumn. This
Sz,soo,o00, moreover, Is but small
part scarcely 43 per cent~-of the
Se,4o6,00o originally requested by tho
school authorities for the maintenance
Of the school plant this year.
ut Is difficult, therefore, to see how
the Mayor can claim much credit for
or rave about this inadequate sum
which he never willingly gave. But,
even granting the full credit which Mr..
Eylan thus claims and ignoring for the
time being the question, why were all
available appropriations not spent
promptly in view Of the crying needs
OF the schools?' the fact remains that,
in view of the depreciation in the value
Of the dollar, the appropriations for
repairs by this administration to date
have not only been totally inadequate
but in practical effectiveness have COM
pared unfavorably with those of the
Mitchell administration.
Fraction of Sum Needed
"How unfavorably they compare with
the $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 needed to
put the schools in initial fit condition
and the 100000 required annually
thereafter to keep them satisfactory is
so obvious as to need no further COM
ment--particularly in view Of the
Mayors promises four years ago.
ID. Perhaps the best measure of what
successive administrations have done
for the schools is indicated by the way
in which they have cared for them in
comparison with other city depart
ments. The city superintendent has
shown this in recent report by means
of a comparison of the percentages of
the city budget less debt service that
have been appropriated to the schools
from year to year. These percentages
for the last eight years are as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Held as a SwindIer

A new method of swindling was
charged yesterday in the Jefferson
Market court to Joseph Mestri,
twenty-seven years old, of ITO Wash.
ington Street, who was arrested on
complaint OF Manuel Chisa, of 143
West Tooth Street.
Chlsa said Mestri got $1,000 from
him by falsely representing himself as
manager of large, department store
and promising him a job he never got
Magistrate Joseph E. Corrigan held
Mestri in $4,000 bail on a charge Of
grand larceny. The case was adjourned
until July 8. - A01
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Freed as Murder Suspect
Witnesses Testify Prisoner l.
Not Man Wanted i'm Jersey

Giuseppi Acciardi, of 119 Elizabeth
Street, who was arrested on the re-
guest of the chief of police of Franklin
Furnace, N. j., ins connection with a
murder there, was discharged in the
Tombs Court yesterday afternoon BIZ
Magistrate Francis x. McQuade when a
number Of witnesses testi4 fed that Ac-
clardi was not the man wanted.
Ihese witnesses had been shown a
picture OF Acciardi and had identified
murder, but when they saw the nr;s
oner to-day they admitted their mis-
take. ''iis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
z Held ON Mutiny Charge
Members of Oil Tanker Grew
Brought Here in Irons

Seven Mexicans, alleged mrtinous
members of the crew Of the Texas Oil
Company tanker Harvester, brought up
from Port Lobos in irons, were placed
by Federal authorities in the Hudson
County jail, in Jersey City, yesterday,
pending their arraignment Tuesday be-
fore United States Commissioner Hen
Erickson in Jesey, City. Charges of
mutiny, felonious assault and assault
with intent to kill have been made
against them by the captain and first
assistant engineer of their ship.
Captain Hilliard B. Millbank and
First Assistant Engineer Andrew M.
Greve allege that they were attacked
by the men in the harbor of Port Lobos
when all other officers were ashore.