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The New York herald., 1922-08-26
SUBWAY PREPARED
FOR FORT HAMILTON
Transit Board Orders Plans
for Extension of the Fourth
Avenue Line.

The Transit Commission has directed
Robert Ridgway, its chief engineer, %
prepare plans and form Of contract for
construction of an extension of the
Fourth avenue (Brooklyn) subway from
its present terminus at Eighty-sixth
street and Fourth avenue to Fort Ham
ilton. The commission also has named
September u. at 10:30 A. NJ. as the
time for a public hearing in respect
to the location of a station or stations
upon the extended line.
Tho action of the commission in ad-
the promise made through Chairman
McAneny a few weeks ago at hear
ing upon new transit facilities for
Staten Island. that the Fort Hamilton
extension of the Fourth avenue system
would be constructed whether or NOT
the commission should determine finally
to select for the Staten Island tunnel
the alternative route proposed from
Fort Hamilton across the Narrows.
which is the route included in the CON-
missions program for new rapid transit
lines scheduled for early construction.
Chief Engineer Ridgway. in reporting
IdNOrdDly lIc tALtHSlOl 10 TIE
commission, has estimated that the cost
WIN Ne apr,i v4,iirIat-iy ei,ooo,ooo and that
considerable territory would be con-
veniently served by 1t. Though the
commission has given consideration to
both the alternative routes to Staten
Island, 1t has not yet announced its
decision.
Members of the State Transit Commits
sion offered no comment yesterday
upon the announcement that the transit
plan sponsored by Mayor Hylan ami
his associates is to be given to the
public next Monday. Mr.. McAneny said
several weeks ago that the commission
would be glad to give consideration to
any constructive plans for subway ex-
tension the Mayor and his advisers
might formulate.
Though details of the Mayors plan
are carefully guarded secret, it is
known that they will advocate city,
owned. as we'll as city-operated system.
the nucleus of which shall be forced
by the recapture of parts OF the exist
ing subways under the recapture clause
of the dual subway contracts, together
with number of new lines.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
WILD FIVE TON FIRE ENGINE
AND is POUND GIRL CRASH
Driver Dodging Boys Loses Control and Sends Baby
Carriage From Sidewalk Twenty Feet Into Air,
but the Little Miss Inside Escapes

Fire engine No. SO weighs more than
five tons and Sylvia Brooks weighs no
more than sixteen pounds. She won't
be months old for three weeks. Sylvia
and fire engine No. 33 met head on in
East Third street last night. But that's
not the way TO tell about It.
The great fire engine has its home at
AZ Great Jones street and Sylvia lives
with her mother, Mrs. Bessie Brooks,
at 27 East Third street. Just before s
o'clock last night fire engine No. 33
was called out by an alarm from Seventh
street and Second avenue. The shining
monster got under way with her crew
hanging on her guard rails and Alfred
Maloney at the wheel
At Third street. and the Bowery two
very small children and a fox terrier
pup bolted across Third street Right
in front of the roaring truck they ran
and Maloney did the only thing he could
do. He swerved the engine to the right.
missed the kids and the pup by an inch
or so. but lost control.
To make IL worse one of the forward
wheels hit an open manhole throwing
the big engine further out OF hand. and
then the rear wheels came upon break
in the asphalt, swinging the rear OF the
engine around. The result was that
Engine No. 33 took off diagonally across
Third street toward the stoop at No.
2s. where Mrs. Brooks was taking the
air with neighbor, and in front of
The New York herald., 1922-08-26

which Sylvia was sleeping in her car
riage.
Only a mother can tell what Mrs
Brooks thought of when she saw fve
tons OF steel bowling down upon Sylvia
She made a futile snatch at sylvia
carriage and then the crash. Witnesses
say thta the carriage went twenty feet
into the air and came to the pavement
mass of splinters thirty feet away
Engine No. 33 came to a halt with It's
fender against the stoop where Mrs
Brooks had been sitting.
Without waiting to investigate Pa
trolman Pohel of the Fifth street sta
tion called for an ambulance from Belle
vue. The firemen and Mrs. Brooks
whose leg had been bruised a bit but
that's all, ran toward the broken car
riage to gather up the remains of Syl-
via. Sylvia was not in the wreckage
But from under Engine No. SO there
came a plaintive cry and there lay Sylvia
cross at having her sleep interrupted
but otherwise normal
DIR. Haight, the ambulance surgeon
refused to believe II, so he took Sylvia
to the hospital, where whole corps OF
surgeons might hunt for injuries. But
not so much as a pink finger nail had
been broken. Besides, by the time the
ambulance arrived at the hospital Sylvia
had gone back to sleep again.
As for the fire at Seventh street and
Second avenue there wasA't any. 1t was
q false alarm.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
MRS. Y. A. STEWART
SEEKS SEPARATION
Merchant Denies Cruelty and
Submits Note Wherein He
Is Called 'M0usic.'

In answer to charges Of cruelty made
by his wife, Isabel Crawford Stewart, OF
the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan. Virgil
Augustus Stewart, commissscn merchant
submitten to Supreme Court Juetice May
in Brooklyn yesterday a letter written
TO him, he said, by his wife in 1917. 1t
was as follows:
MY Dearest Husband: How your Lady
Buggess does miss her boy. Tinz and !
came home and locked the windows at
and this A. NJ we drove down to Mrs.
Goods and she gave us some pretty
little flowers.
Tomorrow we are going to hear
Joffre speak in Prospect Park. / wish
my 'Mousie' was to be there too. Well,
my gentleman bug. If you were here we
would go down to the sea waves to-
gether. Love from us and heaps of love
and kisses.
Your Loving Wife"
Mrs. Stewart is suing for separation.
In asking Justice May to award her $500
a month alimony, $4,000 for expenses
and $1,000 for counsel fee, pending trial.
Mrs. Stewart said her husband was a
member of the firm of V. A. Stewart &
Co at 207 Duane street and had an in
come Of 100000 a year. The couple
were married in 1915.
-Gs---aae .viu sitting, --~ltar lIor
mother at u performance of Love
Birds" and seeing her husband there
with another woman.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
TANGO AND FOX TROT
TO JOIN AS ONE DANCE
Teachers Say Combination
viii Be Winters FoUorife.

Survival Of the Argentine tango and
the fox trot will be combined and in
troduced as the ballroom dance of the
winter. according to teachers who yes
terday at their convention at the Hotel
Commodore took up the question of new
steps. The tango fox trot may be
-anced to regular fox step music with
a change of tempo. The movement will
be waltz step. According to Fenton
Bott. director OF the reform movement
OF the dancing masters association, the
combination dance promises to be the
winters favorite.
]. Henry Smythe. Jr., son Of the late
Rev. Dr. J. Henry Smythe OF Phila-
dolphia. Methodist pastor, predicted in
a speech before the associa ton that
inside OF two years the Methodlsts
would lift their amusement ban, pro-
claimed In 1872. Along with dancing
are blue laws against theater going.
card playing and the circus The two
dance conventions. the American Ma
tonal and tho International, will end
to-day.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
FATHER GETS YEAR
FOR BURNING CHILD
Another Claims Her as Adopt
ed Daughter Kidnapped Four
Years Ago.
GOES TO LEGAL PARENT
Bay0nne Recorder Gives Real
Father Year in Prison for
Stove Outrage.
GOES TO LEGAL PARENT

Dorothy Moore the six-year-old
daughter of William II. Moore, "a, OF
s97 Broadway. Bayonne, who is alleged
to have held her right hand against a
stove until the flesh was burned to the
bone In places, sat on the lap of Re-
corder Cain yesterday. her hand still
bandaged, and heard him sentence her
father to a year in the county penlten-
tiary. Recorder Cain had made friends
with the little girl and when he asked
her who burned her nano she replied,
Daddy burned 1t while he was drunk"
This is the most atrocious thing |
ever heard of in my seven years on the
BENCH said the Recorder in imposing
sentence on Moore. Jail is too good
for you. The only fit punishment for
you would be the same as you gave The
child-to hold you over fire."
Just before Moore was arraigned his
sister. Miss Lilly Moore of 272 Chapel
avenue, Jersey City, who made a COM
plant against him Sunday, after she
had taken the little girl to her own
home, withdrew the complaint. but T..
A. Ransom, Jr., secretary OF the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty TO Chill
urel, iinHieuldteiy Hidue y fresh chdIse
and prosecuted the parent for violation
of the child welfare act.
1t had been charged that Moore also
cut the fingers of the little girl. but
Dorothy cleared him Of this charge by
saying she herself had cut her fingers.
Moore told the court that he only sought
to scare the child by holding her hand
over the stove and said she herself
caused the burns by doubling her fist.
causing the knuckles to come in contact
with the stove.
After the hearing Wilfred r. Hess.
contractor of Cataline Bridge. N. Y.
told Recorder Cain that little Dorothy
was his adopted daughter, that she had
been kidnapped from his home four years
ago and that he had since spent thou
sands of dollars in trying to find her.
He said that her mothers relatives
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
CONVICT ARMY AIRMAN
UNDER NEW FLYING LAW
Leikari Case First to Come
Within Ordinance.

Second Lieut.. Mkko Leikari, 25, OF
1921 Thirty-ninth street, Brooklyn, pilot
of the army airplane that crashed at
Far Rockaway on July 26. was found
guilty yesterday by Magistrate Miller in
Far Rockaway Court of violating the
ordinance which prohibits flying lower
than 1000 feet. Sentence was suspended
when Inspector John L. Dwyer told the
court that Police Commissioner Enright
had been assured by the military au-
thorities that Lieut.. Leikari would be
tried by court-martial. The conviction
Is the first obtained since the ordinance
went into effect.
Lieut.. Leikari and Lieut.. Murray, both
of Mitchell Field, We're cut and bruised
when the plane crashed. narrowly miss
ing several children playing in back
yard.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
NO NEED FOR DESIGNING
FRENCH BATHING SUITS
Not Enough of Them to Make
Design, Says Nine. Droeshouf.

Nine. Lucienne Droeshout, a hat de. /.
signer. returned to the United States
on the steamship Chicago of the French
Line yesterday. bringing with her the
information that bathing suits at Deau-
Vile, the famous French watering place.
do not need designing because there IL
not enough paterial in them to make
a design.
They would never pass the beach
censors here" she said. They are just
something; that's ALL"
The Chicago brought $40 cabin passen-
gers. consisting principally of Ameri-
cans who have been abroad on business
or pleasure. Among them was Judge
and Mrs. Abraham l.. Sutton of Omaha.
Neb.. who have been in France and
England for two months. He told or
arguing with a Socialist speaker In
London who was attacking tho United
States for entering the war. Other
passengers We're Mrs. Madeleine Fus-
SELL Mrs. NJ. i. Adams. Miss Marcelle
Fallett and Morgan Farley. an actor
who played with Lionel Atwlll In
Deburau.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
CRAPS GAME WITNESS,
ABSENT, PUZZLES COURT
Soufherner's Default Arouses
Judges Suspicious.

When May Byrne, former actress. and
Gertrude Gordon. manicurist, both OF
115 West Seventy y-first street. and Louis
hubenstein of 203 West Fifty-fourth
street. was called for hearing In West
Side Court yesterday on charges of grand
larceny made by Samuel Oberlander Of
Charleston, S. c.. house detective OF
the Hotel Pennsylvania informed Mag
istrate Levine that Oberlander had
Checked out" and returned to Charles
ton. The Magistrate expressed amaze-
ment that the complaining witness
should fail to appear and sent court
attendant to the hotel to make inquiry.
The attendant returned with the infor-
nation that Oberlander had not Checked
out"
"This looks very suspicious" remarked
the Magistrate. He then adjourned the
case until to-day.
Oberlander charged that the defend
ants had swindled him out of S303 In a
craps game in the apartment shared
by the two women defendants.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
LANDS PLANE ON SKIDS
INSTEAD OF ON WHEELS
Sperry Stops Machine so Feet
From Spot First Touched.

IN the presence OF officials Of the
Aeronautical Chamber Of Commerce and
members Of the Aero Club Of America
at Farmingdale, l.. r.. Lawrence s.
Sperry, president Of the Lawrence
Sperry Aircraft Company, to-day demon
strated landing an airplane equipped
with skids, and stopping within fifty
feet Of the spot first touched by the
skids. The airplane Is United States
air service Messenger" plane. and due
70 Its small wing span, twenty-six feet,
tho machine took off and landed in a
roadway In the flying field While in
the air Sperry released the wheel land
ing gear. permitting II to fan safely to
the ground attached to parachute.
Then the plane came down on the skids,
which are part OF the fusilage.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
u. S. LINE SHIP BEATS
GERMAN LINER ACROSS
This EDcrs Matters Up as the
Hanover Won Before.

The steamship Susquehanna of the
United States Lines scored a victory
over the North German Lloyd Line
steamer Hanover yesterday when she
docked here at Hoboken after race
across the Atlantic with the German
ship, winning by a slim margain. This
about eyens things up. the Susquehan-
mas crew said, as the Hanover had
beaten the ship in a race going east
ward the last voyage.
Several large wagers are to be col
lected by the Susquehanna's crew, which
will about clean out the payroll of the
Hanover as the latter's seamen were
paid off in marks. which dropped their
pay very low.
Among those arriving on the Susque-
hanna was Major Garfield L. Mckinney.
L. S. Medical Corps, who had spent
three years in Coblenz. He was accom-
panied by his wife and his sister
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
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DIR. COPELAND RETURNS TODAY

Or Royal s. Copeland, Health Com
missioner. viii arrive here to-day on the
French Line steamship France and
large delegation OF officials and friends
have planned to go down the bay to
greet him. DR.. Frank ]. Monaghan
acting Health Commissioner. will head
the delegation. Some members OF the
Stationary Firemens Union. Local $40.
will also meet Dr. Copeland. The
Health Department boat Riverside Will
takct the party down the bay.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
SAYS S25, 900 SALARY
IS REDUCED TO So, 500
Marine Insurance Broker Asks
to HaUe Aiinrony Reduced.

Contending that his salary had been
cut from S25, 1000 to S3.500 year, Law
renee r. Beatty. connected with the
Frank B. Hall, Company. marine insur-
ance brokers OF Manhattan. said that he
could not pay his wife alimony Of 500
month and asked Supreme Court JUS
tice Seeger at White Plains yesterday to
reduce the amount to $50 a month.
Some months ago Mrs. Beatty OBJ
tanned a divorce and alimony was fixed
at $500 month. Then it was gradually
reduced to 800 a month.
Lawyer Zukert contended that since
the war there had been a big falling off
In marine insurance and Mr.. Beatty's
salary had been reduced in proportion.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
LINER BURNS IN DRY DOCK.
Fire Of Unknown Origin Badly
Damages the Rio Grnndc.

The steamship Rio Grande Of the
Mallory Line was damaged yesterday by
a fire Of unknown origin discovered
while the steamship was being over
hauled vim the Alderstin ShipbuildlnE
Company's dry lock. The fireboats
William j. Gaynor and John Purroy
Mitchell had the fire under control in
a short time.
IL is believed that workman dropped
n lighted cigarette Thursday while
working in the hold Of the ship and
the fire was discovered only early yes
ierday morning. Extensive repairs will
have to be made before the ship Is able
to put TO sea again
The New York herald., 1922-08-26

John Altman Stewart, chairman OF
trustees of the United States Trust
Company OF New York will attain his
latter day ambition to-day by becoming
100 years old. Until early this year
he spent three days week at his Of
fice and was the oldest man in active
business in New York. or late he has
remained at his home in Morristown,
n. }. For man of his age he is in
good health; but on the advice of a
physician as well as his own wish. no
special notice will be taken of his
centennial beyond a gathering of rela-
tives and closest friends.
Mr.. Stewart long ago said he in
tended TO live TO be hundred and
thought with bis good physique and mod
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
MERCHANDISE FAIR ENDS.

After three successful weeks the Ma
tional Merchandise Fair, the first of its
kind held in this country. ended last
night in Grand Central Palace. Those
in .harge of the registration Of buyers
declared that the s73 booths under one
roof each exhibiting merchandise. Of
fered a rare opportunity to the buyer
to make his purchases in lot and that
the fair had brought out the greatest
number of buyers ever known to be
bere at one time. There We're $50 rep
r,senting foreign countries.
~ is virtually assured that the fair
will he repeated annually.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
J. A. STEWART is 100 TODAY;
STILL CHAIRMAN OF BANK
Princeton Trustee and Official of United States Trust
Company Attains Ambition Friends and
Relatives Will Observe Occasion.

crate living II would be easy enough.
DIR. James NJ. PEBBLES of Los Angeles
also hoped to round out a century. but
died last winter. within few months
of the goal. DIR. Stephen Smith. who
this summer received an honorary de-
gree from Columbia University, OF
which institution Mr.. Stewart Is the
Oldest living graduate. will be 100 Feb
ruary 10. 1923.
Mr.. Stewart was born August 2s
1922. in the last year of the civil war
he was Assistant Treasurer of the
United States. He has been a trustee
of Princeton University since 1868, and
as senior trustee he became acting pres
ident when Woodrow Wilson resigned
to run for Governor of New Jersey.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
FAULTY INSULATION
DELAYS B. X. T. TRAFFIC
Smoking Wires Compel Re-
routing of Trains at Bridge.

Traffic on the b. r. r.. subway sys-
tenn suffered a half hour interruption
between s and . o'clock yesterday
morning. a West End train bound
for Manhattan by way Of the Man
haitian Bridge entering the DeKalb
avenue station developed trouble from
a defective insulation Of wire con-
Meeting the motor with the contact
shoe Of car. The train continued
tc Manhattan Bridge. At that point
the wiring began to smoke badly and
rlost Of the passengers insisted upon
leaving the train.
The motorman was again halted at
Canal street when the connections were
found to be smoking badly. For an
hour trains following the disabled one
were routed through the Montague
street tube instead Of across the bridge.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
TO EXAMINE DRIVER
AFTER 3OTH ARREST
Court Sends Chauffeur to Hos
pitoI for Observation.

Hyman Warhaftig. chauffeur, Of
.1S7 Clinton street, Manhattan. has been
arraigned In the traffic courts so cfrcn
that Magistrate Fish, sitting in Brook
lyn, sent him yesterday 10 the Kings
County Hospital for observation.
The latest charge against him is driv-
ing a motor car without a license. He
was arrested by Policeman Wilson on
August 20 at Rochester avenue and Ber-
gen street, after collision between his
car and another. Four persons were in
jured.
Magistrate Cobb revoked his license
in Manhattan year ago. He has rec
ord Of some thirty charges OF violation
Of the traffic laws. He tearfully asked
leniency.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
GIRL sT0WAWAYS FREED.
Court says Next Time they VIII
Go TO Institution.

Arna Mullen or ii9 West Seventeenth
street and Katherine Fleming or 40
West Seventeenth street, who went to
Europe recently as stowaways on the
steamer Majestic, got q stern warning
when arragncd before Justice Collins
In Chidren's Court yesterday and then
discharged.
sentatives OF the Children's Society
that the girls had good homes and were
treated well by their relatives. Justice
Collins said that IL they ever came up
before him again he would commit
them to an institution.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
First
In Portland, Maine

At the intersection of State,
Pine and Congress Streets.
$40 drivers of all types of
motor vehicleswere asked a
short time ago which gaso-
line they preferred. The in
vestigator s report, duly
sworn to, showed that So
cony, by a score of 3 to | over
thesecond choice. isunques-
tionably the overwhelming
favorite among gasoline
users in Portland. which
confirms results obtained by
similar investigations in the
principal cities Of New York
State and New England.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
JAILED FOR PINCHING
GIRLS LEG IN THEATER
Thompson, Besides HaUing
Face Slapped, Gets 10 Days.

Louis Thompson, 2s. Of $50 Fifty-eighth
street. Brooklyn. was sent to jail for ten
days yesterday in default Of payment Of
a $40 fine imposed after he had been
found guilty Of pinching che leg Of a
young woman.
Miss Hilda Herbert, 20, Of 44S Fifty
first street Brooklyn. said she was
sitting beside Thompson in a theater
Thursday night and that he pinched her
leg. She slapped his face and then fol-
lowed him to the street and caused his
a nrfnat
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
LIFTS WoMEN'S SMOKE BAN.
weehawIscn Chief Docsn't Like IL
but won't stop II.

IL woman wants TO smoke in the
street, the city Of wcehawken won't
stop hsr. That announcement was made
yesterday by August Klassen. Chief OF
Police Of Weehawkcn. who has been
looking up the law since policeman
in Manhattan took cigarette away
from a woman who was smoking on the
street
Personally" said Chief Klassen, "Im
opposed to women smoking. and when
| say they can smoke in Weehawken all
they please I'm not saying I hope they
viii or that ! want TO set up smoking
reservation"
The New York herald., 1922-08-26

with the consent OF Moore. had put her
in an institution four and one-half years
ago. She was legally adopted. he said.
but was kidnapped after she had been
in his home only six months
Papers showing that the child had been
adopted By Hess were produced and
Recorder Cain directed that she be
turned over TO Hess by the sister of
Moore as soon as her burns have healed.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
WIFE MISSING SINCE JULY 20

John Il. Neville. salesman. who lives
at Manhattan hotel. reported to the
police yesterday that his wife. Mrs.
Anna Neville, SO years old, had been
missing since last July 20. Neville has
been searching for her through a pri-
vate detective agency, but has not been
able TO find any trace of her. Mrs
Neville and her husband lived In a
Brooklyn.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
QUEENS BUDGET $e,2ss, ,o21.
Connolly Asks S1.5Z2,6O0 Nor.
Than last Year.

Borough President Maurice e. Con-
molly of Queens has submitted to the
Board of Estimate budget request
for 81, ,299, ,02l.72
This is $1.572. G06.12 more than was, as
signed to Queens in the 1922 budget
of this increase S1.0o2, ,s77.2s is for per-
onal service
The New York herald., 1922-08-26

NOTE-"B Boiling-point is common term in
the gasoline testing laboratory. Most liquids
boil (vaporze) at one uniform temperature. In
the case of water this temperature, or boiling
point, is III F. However, every gasoline has
many boiling points-a whole series range
Of them in fact. 1t is this range of boiling points
and the proportion Of each group Of them
Glow. medium and high) that really determine
the quality of a gasolne-its volatility, power
and mieage-economy.
The New York herald., 1922-08-26
FOUND DEAD BY WIFE.
Louis McGuire sIashes Throat
While Despondent, Police Believe.

The body OF Louis Mcclure, 6s. of II
Seventh avenue. Astoria. was found
living in the kitchen OF his home last
night by his wife. Margaret. McGuires
throat was cut with kitchen knife
Dr. Kallinn Of st. Johns Hospital was
called, but the man was dead.
Police reported the case az one OF
aucide. Relatives said he had been
despondent because OF Ill health.