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New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
DEATHS

BACOT-John v suddenly. on Sunday.
October 80. Funeral private. from his
late residence. Jewett Place. Utica.
BLAcKwELL-on Friday. October as, 1891,
after lingering illness. Louis Black
well. beloved husband OF Rachael A.
Blackwell. Funeral services Tuesday
evening, November !. 1924, at the Metho-
Friends invited.
BULLARD-On the Goth day OF October,
1927, at her late residence; Flushing
Bullard. in the eth year of her age
Funeral Monday, October 81. at St.
Georges Church. Flushing, on the ar
rival OF :22 train from New York IN
terinent private. Boston papers please
copy.
CACINATOLO-Cario. Campbell Funeral
Church, Bway and Seth ST. Notice later
CAIN-suddeniy, on Saturday, October 90.
louise Henrietta. beloved wife OF the
late Elmer Ellsworth Cain. Services
AZ her late residence, 4esA Hancock st.
Broo klyn. Monday evening, October 81,
at 1880 o'clock
terlakcn, Switzerland, October 7. 1891
aged 81 years. Funeral services at the
Church of the Epiphany, Lexington av
ana 35Th St, Monday, October 81 al
CARoLIN-o5, Saturday. October 2s. 1921.
Ann E, beloved daughter Of the late
ihilip and Eliza beth Caro.in and sister
OF Mrs. Agnes o Brien. native Of SIane
County Meath. ireland. Funeral from
her late residence. 1903 Lexington av.
Iuesday' az $3.50 a m; Solemn mass OF
Francis De Sales. 96th st. near Lexine-
ton av., at 10 a. m. lnterInent Calyary
CHAsE--Mary E; Chase. of Norvalk, Conn.
at the home OF her sister. Margaret Jen-
nings Weeks of PAS Steuben st. Brook
lyn. at the age Of So. Funeral Monday
ESQ Norwalk papers please copy.
CHI RC CHILIr-On Friday. October 2s 1921. .
William Churchill. beloved son Of the
In n
cumming. Funeral Tuesday, al D. M
from the residence Of his sister. Mrs
Daniel J. O'Connsll. 52s Sth st. Brook
iyn Interment Calvary.
CLEARY--On October o., 1921. after a
short illness, Thomas P Cleary, beloved
husband OF Mary Cleary (nee QUINN
F&neral from his late residence. 24o 7sd
St. brooklyn. Monday. October 81. at
$50 a IN. Solemn mass Of requiem q
the Church OF Our Lady OF Angels An
av and 74th ST. 1nterment St johns
Cemetery.
COSGER-on October go 1921. Maria L
Conger in her slst year. Services at
the Chapel Of the Home. Amsterdam
av. and lo4th at. Tuesday. November
]. at II a III.
LEf-sergeant John J., in France. on
March 70, 1918. Company NJ, sth Infan-
III fnneral from the residence OF his
sister, Mrs Annie Foley. 12s Bank st.
on Monday October al at 10 q N
thence to St Verontca's Church. where =
solemn requiem mass Will be celebrated
ior the happy repose OF hs soul In
terment Calvary.
C0RCORAN-On October Is. 1921. Frank
Corcoran, beloved husband OF Mabel
1oreoIan lnee hcGay), In his eth year
Funeral from the chape. OF Edward
sehlert & Sons, 81 West t27th st.. on
Monday at $50 a. m. thence to All
SAINTS church, 1Zsth st. and Madison
~. where q. mass viii be offered for me
repose Of his soul. Automobile cortegs.
CROWIEf-On October %. Elizabeth fnee
Carhn), beloved wife OF Peter J. and low
ing inother OF Winirped and the late
County Louth, Ireland. Funeral from
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Broad St. Hospital building
Campaign Extended for Week

The Downtown Hospital Associations
campaign for the fund required to com
plete the building program of the
Broad Street Hospital has been extend
ed through this week. During the week
just closed the total was brought to
$43o,429, d little less than half the
amount needed.
Among the large subscriptions were
the following American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, international Mer-
camille Marine, Norton, Lilly & Co,
Kidder, Peabody & Co, Henry 7. Mich
OILS aud Otis Elevator Company, all
81 900, and the Allied Chemical Com
pany. 800.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Going On To-day


American Museum of Natural History. Ad-
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Admission
free.
AQUARIUM. Admission free.
New York Historical Society Admission
Van Cortlandt Park Museum. Admission
Geological Park. Admission free.
Luncheon of the China Society Of America.
Bankers Club. 40 Broadway, 1910
Lecture by Stuart L.. Tyson on The Bible
To day" Brooklyn Institute OF Arts and
Sciences. Academy of Music. O'Clock.
NIGHT
Dinner OF the Japanese Association Of Neg
York TO celebrate the birthday of tho
Emperor of Japan. Hotel Astor, :
Joint non partisan meeting Of the Park
Gommunity Council and the League Of
Dinrer dance of the Advertising Club. AZ
East Twenty fourth street. o'clock.
Dinner OF the Brooklyn Rotary Club, Hotei
Meeting OF the League OF American Pen
Women. Hotel McAlpin. TO clock
BOARD OF EDUCATION LECTURES
Manhattan and Bronx
'.Tror1 aeslie Times" by Professor Nelson
?. Mead, Washington Irving High school,
Trend Of the Times" by Professor viii
liam &. Otis, Pilgrim Hall FIFTY sixth
street and broadway.
Trend OF the Times." by Arthur D. Rees
Morris High School. ls5th Street and
Boston Road, the Bronx.
Books That Every One Should Know by
school ls5. 2e5 West losth Street
Influences of the Latin Races Ameri-
can Music and Poetry" by Miss Sally
Hanllin, Public School IS. 15sth Street
and st, Nicholas Avenue illustrated
with recitations and plano selections
"Fors gn influence Upon American ArcAi-
lecture" by Ernest Knaunt Public
School SO. 22s East Fifty seventh Street,
Stereopticon views.
II c. Norris Public School 1871 St
Nicholas Avenue and l27th Street.
Modern Hi gh Explosives and Their Use"
by w. l.. Estabrooke. Phi. D., at Labor
Temple southwest corner of Fourteenth
Street and Second Avenue Stercopticon
The italian In American Music" by Misa
NJ. Josephine Wiethan. ST. COLUMBIA Hall
Ss3 West Twentyhfth Street. Piano
selections
Social Customs OF the People OF India,
by Professor \. X. Dhalwani, y. Y. P L.
l05 West 135th Street
The Spanish Contribution 20 the United
States by Peter II. Goldsmith. Evander
Chids High School, lsith Street and
Field Place. the Bronx
Brooklyn and Queens
Trend OF the Times" by Miss Jennie NJ
Davis Bushwick High School, Irving
Avenue and Madison Street.
Trend OF ths Times" by sydney ~
Ussher. Eastern District High school.
Mare Marcy Avenus and an Keap Street.
TonJorotf Public School 50, GIeans
Street and ,Br!tton Avenue. Elmhurst
I. /.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Society to Aid
'Joyous Hour
Series at Plaza
Book Committee of the Chill
dren's Libraries to Give
First of Six Afternoon
Programs; Open To-day
Mrs. Cawtry Is Chairman
Marriage of Miss Minton
and Howard de Ridder
TO Take Place Tomorrow

The first of the series Of six "Jovous
Hour Afternoons" given under the
auspices of the book committee on
ehildren's Libraries, will be among the
social activities marking to-day, and
will take place at the Plaza, under the
direction of Mrs. Lewis Gawtry. who is
chairman OF the committee on enter
tsinnient, and Mrs. John Lewis Griffith,
chairman Of the book committee. They
will be assisted by Mrs. Jay Horace
Harding, Mrs. William Warner Hoppin
il, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs.
Hamilton Fish Kcan, Mrs. Herbert L.
Prstt, Mrs. Samuel Sloan, Mrs. Carl
Tucker and Mrs. T. Tileston Wells.
Among those who have subscribed
and who will be present this afternoon
sre Mrs. J. Herbert Sstterlee, Mrs. Fin
ley J. Shepard, Mrs. Nicholas N. Brady,
Mrs. Junius Morgan, Mrs. W. l.. Hsrk-
ness, Mrs. Henry NJ. Tilford, Mrs. V.
Eyerit Macy, Mrs. E. +. L. Gould and
Mrs. D. Hunter McAlpin. An address.
Literary Flights" will be given by Ar
thur Guiterman.
The wedding Of Miss Maud Minton
and Howard de Ridder will take place
tomorrow afternoon at the home of
the brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Mau-
rice N. MInton, 115 West Seventy-third
Street. The bride will have no attend
ants. Charles Scribner will act as best
man. The officiating clergyman will be
the Rev DR.. Herbert Shipnan, rector
Of the Church of the Heavenly Rest,
and the guests will include only a small
group Of relatives and close friends.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Vassar Shop to Open To-day
To Swell Endowment Fund

The Vassar Shop, operated entirely
by Nassar graduates and girls now at
tending the college, wild be opened to-
day at 348 Madison Avenue. Every
thing sold in the shop will be made by
Vassar girls, either now at school or
engaged in business.
The shop will be managed by a
committee made up of Miss Margaret
Hooker, Miss Mary Preider, Mrs. S. O..
Affeld, Mrs. Wilson Fitch Smith and
Mrs. Louis Guttman. On the shop door
will be picture of Matthew Vagsar.
founder of the college. The shop will
be carried on in connection with the
Vassar endowment fund compaign.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
New Scandinavian Students
Entertained by Foundation

The American Scandinavian Founda
tion. of which Hamilton Holt is presi
dent, gave tea at the Waldorf Astoria
yesterday afternoon in honor of the
tWenty-three young men and women
who arrived recently from Denmark.
Sweden and Norway to attend Ameri
can colleges under the provision of the
foundation's scholarship fund.
Niels Poulsen, scandinavian who
made his fortune in America, created
the foundation ten years ago. 1t nro-
.vides for the annual exchange OF Amer
lean and Scandinavian students.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Spain Seeks Healthy Marriages

MADRID, Oct 30.~Persons Intending
to marry in Spain would be compelled to
produce medical certificate showing
that the would be husband and wife are
in good health, under bill which viii
soon be introduced in Parliament by the
Minister of the Interior, says the news
paper, "Correspondenc. Espana.'
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
JUDGE GEORGE W. BRUSH

GREENWTCH, Comm. Oct. 3O.--Judge
George Webb Brush, descendant Of
one of the Oldest families of Green
wich, died at his home in Cos Cob this
morning He was born in Greenwich
June l9, 1S40. For twenty-five years
he was Justice of the Peace here. He
was formerly member of the Connec-
ticut Legislature and was also harbor
master here.
Besides his widow he is survived by
a stepson, Frank G. Stevens, OF Mount
Vernon and Greenwich.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

Favore authors beautifully printed linen paper before the dy.
of wood pulp and in charming contemporary leather bindings
We do depend of bu,sr
but o. Of
buyers ofourew London House
mouse
ord
= London branch hstabishe in AN
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

Robert Underwood Johnson, former
Ambassador to Italy, and Mrs. Johnson
arrived on Saturday on the Paris, after
two years spent in Europe
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Chandler Bates and Wife
To Entertain at Dinner

Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Bates will
entertain at dinner at the Plaza to-
morrow evening in honor of Miss Edith
Jacqueline Smith and her fance, John
Meyerkort, whose wedding viii take
place in st. Bartholomew's Church next
Saturday afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

Mrs Buchanan Schley ir. has re-
turned from visit to Central America
and Cuba and viii be at home during.
the winter. at 43 Fifth Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs Frederick ". Rhine
lander, of &c East Eighty fourth Street,
will close their villa at Newport to-
day aud return to New York for the
winter
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

Count and Countess Jean de Percival
were among those who sailed for
Europe on Saturday. Their wedding
'ias brilliant event in Baltimore So
iaety last week, the bride being Miss
Iherese Strothers They will go TO
Paris for brief visit with the parents
Of Count de Percival before proceeding
to Budapest, where Count de Percivai
IS diplomatic attache OF the French
Legation
Miss Catherine Adams. of Cedarhurst,
b. l.. was the weekend guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Grswold Lorillard at Tuxedo
Park, attending the ball at the club
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Caruso's Brother OH Wav Here

ROME, Oct. 30.--Giovanni, brother Of
the late Enrco Caruso, has sailed for
America on board the steamship Dante
Alighieri. He was accompanied by an
attorney and will undertake the settle
ment of the singers will
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Corflandt ID. Barneses
Hosts at Dinner and Dance

Mr.. and Mrs. Cortlandt Dixon Barnes.
who are still at their country place.
Nonesuch House, Manhasset, L. l.. en-
tertained at a dinner Saturday, preced
ing dance arranged for the benefit
Of one of the charities in which Mrs.
Barnes is interested.
Colonel and Mrs. Frank Brown Keech
gave luncheon yesterday at the club
at Tuxedo Park, at which l5O guests
we're entertained, following the tomb
stone golf tournament
Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Chat8eld
Taylor, of New York and San Fran
cisco, have arrived in France, where
they expect TO spend the winter.
The Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Duane Pell
will return from Tuxedo to-day and
viii open their town house for the
winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Alexander
who sailed last week for France, will
be the guests while in Paris of their
son-in-law and daughter. DR.. and Mrs.
Sheldon Whitehouse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Carr. the for
mer Mrs. Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff,
have returned from their weddin -,rn
and have taken the house at 1913 Eat
Ihlrty-sixth Street for the w.ntc4.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Birth, Engagement, Marriage,
Death and In Memoriam Notices

may be tclephoncd 10 The Tribune
any time up TO midnight for IN
se7tion in the next days PAPER.
Telephone Beeknan 5000.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs. James Fl. R. Cromwell
arrived from Philadelphia yesterday
and during their stay in New York will
be ct the Ambassador
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Friday night and participating in the
golf tournament yesterday.
:. Mrs: Burke Roche returns to New
York from Newport Tomorrow and will
spend the greater part Of the winter in
New York.

The American view of the overseas
exhibition of American paintings win
be given at the studio of Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, at West Eighth
Street afternoons, from November 9
to November Is. This exhibition.
which, though in no sense officially ex,
pressing Mrs. Whitney's personal belle (
in American art and artists, was taken
abroad and shown at the Intern ational
Exhibition in Venice during the sum
mer of 1920. 1t was later viewed in
the Grafton galleries in London, and
then IN the Georges Petit galleries in
Paris before being sent back to
America
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry R. Baltz, Of 13l
East Fifty fifth Street, win entertain
at a reception on Saturday, December
10, for their daughter Miss. Rosemary
yelling Baltz.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
John W. Lyon 8 oas:. z ESP T.. d '3as sssl:
CEMETERIES

THE w0ODLAwN CEMETERY
SSSo 81 BY rrlsrn Train or by subway.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Soldiers and Sailors Club
WiU BE Opened Tomorrow

The Pail Mall Supper Club will meet
every Saturday evening during the
winter in the Della Robbia room of
the Hotel Vanderbilt, beginning No
vember IL
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

TULLY-On October e7. 1921 william.
Thomas. beloved husband Of y.llie Tully
and son Of the late Thomas Joseph
Tuliy. Funeral from the residence of
his sister. Mrs. Austin. 255 West 33d st
on Monday. October 81. at 9:aG a. ~,
thence 10 St Francis OF Assist Church
West slst st. where a requiem mass
VIII be celabratet
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

WHEIAN-.Annle. Campbell Funeral
Church. B'way and Goth St Notice later,
WHITsON-At Briarcltr Manor \
October 80. 1921. Hessie Purcy Whftsor
wits OF Charles II. Whitson. aged 81
years Funeral services Tuesday. NJ
venber !. at 3 o'clock. from her is.,
residence. Briarclin Manor In,er1nenf
at Fair Ridge Cemetery. chautauqua
WIILIAMsoN-At Milford Conn. Oc-
toper ~ Aboie Weeks. widow OF the
OF her age. Funeral services WIN h.
held at the home OF her daughter. Ms
Sarah E. Haviiand IN Milford, Conn a.
sunday afternoon az o'clocl, fntsT ~
ment al Friends' Cemetery. prosnecr
Park. Brooklyn, Monday morning. 10
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

COSGER-on October 80. 1921. Maria 7
Conger. in her slst year Services al
the Chapel OF the Home Amsterdam
aF, ana lV4th st, Tuesday. November
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

October q. 1921. after e
short Illness, Thomas P. Cleary, beloved
husband OF Mary Cleary (nee QUINN
Fsneral from his late residence. 24o 7Sd
St. brooklyn, Monday, October 81, at
5:SV a. IN. Solemn mass Of requiem q I
the Church OF Our Lady OF Angels An
az. and 74th ST. Interment St Johns
. --~~ =
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31

sTENGEL--At Newark. n. J., on Friday.
October 2S, william H. husband ot
Annie Louise Pabst Stengel Funeral
services Will be held at his late home,
Ga johnson ay., Newark. on Monday, Oo.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-15
Agents Held on
Bribe Charges
In Liquor Deal
Bail Fixed at $1,000 for
State Inspectors Accused
of Taking $500 to Cover
Fake Removal Permits
2 Federal Man Arraigned
Chapi,a's Enforcers Agreed
to Split $500 in the Same
Case, Prosecutor Alleges

The four dry agents who were ar
rested Thursday by operatives Of the
special intelligence unit of the Depart
ment of Internal Revenue in connection
with the removal from the Essential
Chemical Company, 60 Cook Street,
Brooklyn, of what is said to be 1000
cases Of whisky by means of alleged
false permits, were arraigned yesterday
and held in bail for further hearings
William II. Hurley and Frank Strep-
pone, inspectors attached to the offic
Of Charles R. O'Connor, State Director
OF Prohibition, were brought before
United States Commissioner Hitchcock.
They were charged in a complaint
drawn by Robert Peattie, Assistant
United States Attorney, with having re-
ceived 5000 from Mamie Kessler, =
wine agent, of 118 West Twenty-eighth
Street, to deter them from their duty
as agents of the government
James w. Osborne, counsel for the
two men, pleaded not guilty for them
and opposed their removal to Brooklyn.
Warrants Issued in Brooklyn
Warrants for the defendants ar
rest were issued in Brooklyn. The
alleged crime was committed in Brock
llyn. The men were brought to Man
haitian. and on Thursday, after their
couasel had interrupted their removal
to Brooklyn, they were paroled by Com
missioner Hitchcock in the care of
Mr.. Osborne.
Commissioner Hitchcock held the
men in $1,000 bail each for hearing
next Thursday.
): j. Dunn and Louis Eilperin, pro-
hibition enforcement agents under
Daniel j. Chaplin, supervising prohibi-
ton enforcement agent, also were
brought before Commissioner Hitch
cock. They waived removal proceed
ings, and their counsel, Harry Kopp,
agreed to produce them in Brooklyn.
This was done. The men were ar
raigned before United States Commits
sloner Barn ore there and held in SO 900
bail each for hearing next Friday.
$500 Bribe Is Alleged
Dunn and Eilperin are charged with
malfeasance of duty and with having
agreed to accept bribe of $500 to per-
NIT liquor to be withdrawn from the
Essential Chemical Company on alleged
false withdrawal papers.
Three others who were arrested in
connection with the alleged conspiracy
are out on bail. They are Mamie
Kessler, Philip Coffey, formerly an in
spector of prohibition and now in the
employ of Kessler, and Kessler's
brother-in-law, Samuel Cohen. They
will have an examination next Tues
day.
Max Wasserman, of CT Stanton
Street, was sentenced yesterday by
Magistrate SAberman in the Harlem
court to seke three months in the
workhouse. Wasserman is said to have
represented himself as a prohibition
agent.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-15
Senators Urged to Help
Improve Newark Bay
Marine League Head Says New
York Will Be'Compelled to
Serregate Shin Activities

For every dollar of Improvement
effected in Newark Bay 50 worth of
benefit will come TO New York, accord
ing to P. H. w. Ross, president of the
National Marine League, who spoke at
dinner to eight United States Sena-
tors at Jersey City last night, as a
preliminary to their inspection Of pro-
posed projects on Newark Bay and the
Passaic and Hackensack rivers TO-
morrow.
Mr.. Ross also said In time New York
would be compelled to follow the ex-
ample Of London and segregate its
shipping activities. He pointed out
that in the last fifty years London's
docks were gradually moved farther
away from principal business streets,
owing to congestion, until they now
were twenty-five miles from the city
proper. He said:
Much TO my amazement, some one
told me that high official in New York
said that in this matter Of harbor i'm
provements on Newark Bay, the Jersey
people were trying TO put one cycr' on
New York.
The visiting lawmakers include mem
bers Of the Senate Committee on Com
mercc. They were met a. Newark by O
delegation of prominent citizens. bcated
by Governor Edward, and including cf-
ficers Of various oubl. organizations.
The committee will to-day make a
tour Of the bay and rivers wherc barber
development, with Federal cir, is pro-
posed. A subfna r,ie boat launching IN
Port Newark, will Le watched.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-15
Asked 500, 600; Gets 6 Cts.
DR.. Barrie Wins Verdict in Libel
Suit Over Letter

DR.. George Barrie recovered verdict
for six cents in the Supreme Court yes
terday in his 100000 suit against DR..
Percy w. Roberts, based on a letter
written by the defendant, which the
plaintiff alleged was libelous. Six cents
costs goes with the verdict. 1t will
cost Dr. Barrie $1.10 to file the judg-
ment in the Office of the County Clerk.
DR.. Roberts, formerly a major in the
medical corps of the United States,
Army, turned his practice over to DR..
Barrie when he joined the army. Upon
his return from his war service DR..
Roberts wrote the alleged lbelous let
ter, in which he said things which DR..
Barrie complained reflected upon his
patriotism and professional ethics.
DR.. Roberts said in his defense that
there was no publication of the letter,
an element that must be present if DR..
Barrie's action was to prevail, as the
only other person who saw the letter
was DR.. Roberts's woman secretary. to
whom he dictated it.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-15
10000 Men, la Tractors, and
Rain Clears Away City's Snow
Commissioner Leo Modified Street Cleaning Army
With All Its Field Equipment, but by That
lime Most of the Enemy Had Vanished

At 6:85 Captain Rankin had walked
up Chief Kenlon and told him that the
city was In the grip Of snow storm
and the tractors were to be ordered
out. At 6:30:10 Chief Kenlon pressed
the button beside his bed which
sounded for the first time in Fire De-
partment history, the signal 14-14,
which calls out the powerful little
caterpillar tractors with the scraper
in front.
At 6:35:2o Chief Kenlon was sound
asleep again and ia tractors were
ga1umphing through the city hunting
snow to plow, and at GAO it stopped
showing and began to rain. At that
moment LIZ inches of snow had fallen
by the measurement of the United
States Weather Bureau at its station
on top of the Whitehall Building.
The tractors were unable to reach
the roof of that building, however, and
found pretty poor hunting on the low
er levels. The entire street cleaning
force Of 10000 men reinforced the
tractors in the search, but falling rain,
rising temperature and an increasing
throng of vehicles which ruthlessly
splashed the snow. into their mudguards
or onto their wagon bodies and car
ried it away made their task doubly
hard.
BY noon scarcely trace of snow
was to be seen, but the logged little
tractors clanked diligently through the
byways until the last vestige had van
ished. 1t was one Of the most thor
ough jobs in the history Of the Depart
ment of Street Cleaning.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-15
Bulkheads Needed
To Keep the Court
House Site Dry
Contractors Tell Estimate
Board Basement Must
Be Waterproofed to Con-
tinue the Excavations

Convinced that "the Atlantic Ocear
is seeping into the excavation" made
for the new Courthouse on site
north of the Municipal Building, F. H
La Guardia, President of the Board OF
Aldermen, told the Board Of Estimate
yesterday he thought it might be
necessary to build bulkhead to keer
the water out.
The contractors making the excava.
tion reported they had completed thei1
contract as far as they could do unless
something was done to stay the water
They said 100000 gallons of water
daily were seeping into the hole and
suggested they be given supplement
tai contract for making the basement
waterproof.
The city engineers were authorized Il
to consult the Corporation Counsel and
the architects to determine what could
be done to clear the excavation of
water.
A suggestion by the Downtown
League that the removal of trade waste
and ashes be done by the Street Clean
ing Department instead of by private
contracts was referred to the Commits
sioner of Street Cleaning. David
Robinson, president of the league, pre-
sented brief in which he said mer-
chants and property owners were at
the mercy Of contractors