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THE YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, iai Light Weight Tbe tcht-wdtht Franklin goes twice as far on a set ot tire a the ordinary heavy car. You also get two to three times the gasolia: mile-' fe Weight is not essential to strength if proper design is used. Electric furnace steels highly ctcvcloped methods heat treatment also stake it possible to aecura treat strength from comparatively very ht weight. Light weight mean greater ability, easirr driving and lower cott of opera ion. FRANKLIN MOTOR CAR CO.

GLENN A. TISOALE, Manager. 7Jrd Street Amsterdam Are. 11. Bt C.t AMtmUm art tkMr rtt HwalS hum, Irwmr, S4tk to Utk St.

Critical Men Spring Clothes The man-who comes to Macy's for his Spring Clothes mayi choose from the best products of the best 'builders of clothes for men. -v. The man who goes to many stores must, perforce, select from the product of one maker, for the majority of clothing stores sell the prod-: uct of one 'clothing manufacturer, who may be a good one, withal, but who nevertheless has no monopoly of the best styles, the best adapta- tions of certain styles to certain fabrics and col-, orings, the most dependable cloths, trimmings and finishings. Clothing houses that handle one or two' "lines" of men's to the exclusion of. others, have to accept "mistakes" of designers and manufacturers when "mistakes" occur.

Not so tt Macy's. We are so critical that the most particular man' can find exactly what wants. The man who is most clothing wise as to quality cannot but ap-' prove. The man who is most by instinct appreciates the rare combination of quality, style and price. Clothing manufaet-.

vers compete for rep-' mentation in Maey's Men's Clothing Store. Every man knows what that Spring Suits ayd Overcoats Are Ready- Suits, JH.7S to $32.50. Orercoats, to 4tS0. i Cut-a-way Coats and Vests, 522.59 to $29.75. Evening Dress Suits from $25.75 to $58.50.

Dinner Suits from $27.50 $55.50. fifth Hoar, Broadway. WARltS CITY TO HALT BETTERMENT OUTLAY i Municipality Must Curtail Its Ex penditures for Improvements Prendergast Tells City Club, 5 UNDER HEAVY BURDEN NOW Mitchel Outlines Railroad Terminal Project and McAneny Describes New City-Beautifying Work VWRK 3 Parker MAIR BALSAM at rm ttw Mvrar Taim to BMtor Bmir to it Toauau Borouah IreMrnt ilrAfienr. President MiUhel of th VouM of AMernwn, and Controller rrrnd raaat save tho City Club at Urn Mrh mwtlnir last ntcht an account of their Ktfwardxhlp of their ofne by dcsoribliig the -work accom pllhed by aiJ unalvim ail th imir. tant problems Ovfom the Board of Estl- iiiu.r, u.irni)s i.jfj on which, by coniiiioo coiwcnt; ln.e ipv they atrrwl to jftiy nothing- at alL Charlea A.

KtronK prealded at the hiftlnjf. MoAiuny emphasized the ned of the Board if Estimate' ftabllsliln a rrntral commlfKlon tt rxtxTtsi on tt I'laniifns-to report to It In an advisory topaclty on problems connected- with the Improvement and development ot the citvi leaving tne final approval or disapproval auclj reports to the Board. At presents defrplte the disadvantage of scattered authority In the Board of Kxttmate In this renpect, he taid, that body had aocom- pliMicd remarkable results. He told of tfi widening of the road way of almoftt'luO Important streets and avenues and the clearing: uway of prti ate encroachmeuU on the sidewalks, a savfns. he said, of about $10,000,000 to the City; tso op niiijf of new streets, the pro posed itabllHhmcnt of r.

civic centre In the neighborhood between City Hall and Mulberry Bend Parka. He said that tho Board of Estimate' was now considering-the acquisition of at least two blocks southward, between the Municipal Build. Ins and the new Court House, and that the city would renew its appeal to the ederal Government to make appro- prlatlon for a new Office Building; in th neighborhood In Iview of the tlr of Conaresn tn rIA art i i Mr. Mlt-hei took un Hi' xeork- hf oaru ot in iniprovlns the wx-la) 'inn oi tne niy, empliustziiiK espectatty he imiortnnce of the edueationul mirvev mado at Its rfKiuest by the rommitwiioii under Prof. Taul II.

Hanus of llarard. aN the flrnt udmllnle rerinrt of I ho kind. lie outlined the ilaiifi for the ronstruc- uon oy tne city ot new or foot Piers, between Forty-fourth nnd Fiftieth f-treets. on the North River, to aecnmmn- aate longer sliips, and said It was practically Bottled that such Khipa would, as a result of the plans now drawn, continue to hind at the went sido of Manhattan. He fald the city liud reached a tentative agreement with the New Vork Central liailway whereby the railroad would conceal ita tracks by tunnela or roofina where now they poil the water front alone Rlv- rrnidw and other parks, from, the citv line lo Sixtieth street, and thar he believed an agreement Kiiitahle to both th! city and the railroad would be reached In a few days, whereby the New York Central and such trunk lines from -Jersey -aa desired might have free access to a orooosed Joint terminal railway along the down- lown west sice water, xront, on terms lair to the city.

Mr. Prendersast. the last i soeaker. ex plained what the glowing pie to res of mu nicipal i improvement sketched by the mate: would mean In terms of dollars, and the city's ability to pay for them; and his Picture was alowlnar. Rhetoric he declared, wouldn't "construct those Improvements.

The subway contracts for construction, he sald already -meant an outlay of the new subwav contracts obligation of about by the citv; the building of new schools. to th changes in the tracks of the New York Central, from SlMSM.rnit to 12.01 he pier S4.MMM: the South Brooklyn water front. the new Court House In the civic centre, he said. wnue ne am not want to raise undue hopes in. property holders in that neighborhood, had been estimated to cost ut.iKB for tbe slt alone: the Brooklyn Court House.

Sj7.0iHi.iMat. nnd its new Mu nicipal tiniidinfr. the epart-ment of Charities needed and that of correction. for a new I louse of Detention for Women, and the Health Department. Sl.IVin.Ouo.

"Wo cannot take care of nllS-these matters this year." he said, "and we dare not ci-ntlnue the careless policy of disposing; of all these problems by saddling th'm on to future generations with easy recourse to fifty-year -bonds. I am not a a. alarmist nor a pessimist, but I tell you frankly this sort of business has cot to stop. 1 hink It is a much better policv for New' York City to pay as it goes along for a great many of Its expenditures for public improvements, rather than to throw them on the'iuture. Tbe ability of the Miopia to pay for those expenditures out of their tax budget directly.

moreover, would be the best test of their sincerity hv urging those improvements." TROUBETSKOY A SCULPTOR. Appraisers' Court Reverses Loeb's Opinion of Prince's Bronzes. Trince Paul Troubetskoy, the Russian artist and was officially adjudged yesterday by the Board of United States General Appraisers to he a sculptor within the meaning of the Tariff act of' lOOIl. Tlie Prince brought last Fall. collection of his best, bronzes which were put on exhibition i In tha rooms of the American Numismatic Society and afterward sold to J.

Pierpont Morgan. ex-Senator William A. Clark. Thomaa F. Ilyan, Mrs.

Vanderbilt, nnd other collectors. Although the Prince enjoys an international reputation as a sculptor. Collector Ioeb held the productions to be the work merelyrfun artisan, and exaeted duty at per cent, as manufactures of metal, i The -Prince, throhgh Ms attorneys, Web-ster Walden, took the case on appeal I to tbe General Board. Prince Troubet- iskoy wa unable to be present In this rcountry to testify. William B.

Tread-iwell, the Customs Examiner of fine art -merchandise at- New York, identified the 1'rinee'a importations and declared them to be the work of a processional sculptor. Judae Waite-sald In his decision the Collector that the professional Handing of the Prim- entitled him -to 'enter his works as sculpturcskwltb duty jpf 3 per crnt, ad valorem. i BUFFALO FOfTPARK ZOO. Gift Received' from, Corblrr Estate 1 a Ruppert Donates 32. Swans.

1 Tbirt'-two Central American swans. jth' gift of Col. Jacob Ruppert, tbe brew-, of tha coltcction of- swans at his country estate in Long Island, were received yesterday by Park CommUsion-tr and will be placed on the Ceti-trat I'ark lakes and in the flylns cage tle Central Park menagerie. In presenting the swans to Commissioner Stover, Col. Kuppert explained that the birds presence on bla estate whs not approved Of bv the other sixties of swan in his collection, and that tUlitj among the birds had resulted.

An. American buffalo was also added to the animal colbH-tion in Central Park, having leen received from the Austin Cort.in estate in New Hampshire, on Which la one of the larcest collection of buffalo in the t'nited States; The gift, a three-year-old. mode frantic efforts to free himself from the small inclosure in whit 11 tirt placet i I lovwans to Vote on Suffrage. IVKii MO INKS. March Iowa State thu woman i suffrage nmciidaicut to-day by a vote oi llaxing passed both houses, woman suffrage now will be submitted to th people.

525,000 FOR MISS HASSLER. 6ht Won $50,000 Breach of Promise Verdict, but AecepU Half, fptcUil 19 Tkn Hew Torfc Time. INWANAPOLI March Gertrude llaaskf, who obtained a verdfcA for damages against Carl O. Fteher. capitalist and sjiortsinan, for alleged breach of promise, will receive $25,000.

Through her attorney to-day aha agreed to accept that amount in the Superior Court, where the case was' tried a few weeks ego. Fisher is to hava elxtjN days to pay. i V'- -y: -j' What caused Miss JIatssler's attorneys to agree to cut tbe verdict in half is not known. The arguments on the motion for a new trial were heard several: 'days asw. judge Orbison called all the attorneys and discussed the arguments.

I Miss Haasler waa hurriedly called from Chicago, her borne. Tha defena waa confident it should have a. nw trial. Miss liassler's luwvera said thev xmKtilered fSij'nt in hand better than the chances involved in an apieai. EXf ENSESCLOSETO SALARIES Inquiry of Philadelphia Trolley Company Shows Men Can Save Little.

PHILADELPHIA. March average' monthly housekeeping expenses, of married inotormen and conductors in the employ of tha Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company are JG.110 or $31 leaa than, the kvtram wegea. according to an investigation Into the coat of living conducted by the com pany, the result of which was made public in a bulletin Issued to employes to-day. as a Dasts tor computation, the expenses of 600 families were taken bv the company, which is investigating plans for co-operative buying to cut the cost of living to Its employes. The wages of the men were 17a.S2 for tha month, an average of $11.42 more than iney received lor the same month last year.

It was found that moat families eon. sisted of four members. The average rent paid was 114.01; the food cost was $32.18. and othfr exnensea aver. aged 120.71.

DELAWARE FLEET CHAMPION. -i Dattleahip Leads Atlantic Forpo at Gun and Torpedo Practice. 1: WASHINQTQnC March The- battle ship DelawUro- won first place in elemen tary practice with guns and torpedoes lust year with the total score of 46.020. The other battleships Included In the honor Ust of the first ten ofthe Atlantic flcwl were the Florida. 43.184; tha Idaho.

42.5.".; the Connecticut, JM.ali the Louisiana, the Missouri. KI.S73; the New jianipHinre. and the Utah. 30.SIP7. The Georgia, stood at -the foot r.f lint of twenty-five ships for combfned prac- BARGE DESTROYED IN GALE.

The Whitman of New York Goea Ashore tear Boston -Crew Rescued. BOSTOX, March 7. A northwest gale blew the bare Whitman, owned bv the begman. Transportation! Company of New ashore on Devil's Back at the entrance of the harbor to-day. The three men of the crew were taken oft with some difficulty by the towing tug Fred B.

Richards. With the falling tide the barge broke up, and. Willi her cargo of phosphate rock, is a total loss. BIG SHOW WINDOW BROKeW. Bottle Is Thrown Into Store of Rogers Peet Co.

Some' one who escaped In the Broadway crowd last night threw an empty beer bottle through a large plate glass window in the store of Rogers Peet at Thirty-fourth Street and A large crowd which gathered was 4ls ICE PRICE TO HOIJES WILL HOT BE RAISED But Wholesale Buyers Will to Pay Moro to Meet ths Great Shortage. ave MUST CUT C0NSUMPT President Oler Says That Is the Way.Out No Hope Now for Full Crop. bnly the needs of 1 als-montti consumption in a shartage- 04 any -taiughr-'y iu r. is absolutely only one rorauil of coping with tha- awurediy impending Ice famine this year. That ts.

to curtail consumption. There is no where there bS been a more wasteful prows than in New Vrk's consumption of its Ice, in hotels, restaurant. stores, and homes. Only notk-a how, In any hotel, jour drtnklnjr water, tn these cola days, contra to table literally stacked MP with chunks of ice: Ord. i' a of rtanv, and It will broupht -to you covered with a great heap of broken or chipped k-e, lee is wasted in a thousand waya in these cool day, when It would ant be needed; and in the hot isontna of the glimmer the city- pays -the piper.

miitw failtie was threat? rtlSnncd last Summer tb Water Ctemmts-1 slorier tnt out frantic appe' tor a policy of water economy, the Pfwspapf'" took up the crusade with a will, and tne people curtailed their waste of the city 1 water supply very prompuj -Hively. isut when- an ice fmlo lm- pndtt. tin? procedure or newspaper public allko first of all, to lampoon or ths grc-dy ice mm or the com-liiie. Aaulng the ico companiew not golns to roke more V-e. Instead, miotic should be urged-to avoid ice a practically certain shortagel waste." 7 Oler said mit mi wmwi'; year peised by Patrolman Murdock of the West t-.

Jvide about per cent, of the city ss ic Ihlrtleth Street Sutloru There was no I sunolv. above, the 2.5oO.OijO Cons of at attempt at robbery. wa $125 for French Engraving of 1664. A portrait of Grenault," drawn from life by Robert Nanteuil. the French engraver, in 1884, the only state, brought the highest price in the print sale at Anderson's last evening, going to B.

Peckel for $125. An-toine Masson's Emanuel Theodosius He la Tour after Mienard. went to R. Kriedenberg for $70 and ISanteuil's Pomponlus de Bellievre." one of the masterpieces of portrait ngravlng. to the- same buver for V7.50 Max Williams paid $50 for The Life nf Christ hv Cri' tano.

Itacr $70 for Rembrandt's etch- "Jan W. M. Mill. Chi. tairo, paid $70 for llartfn Schongauer's 'The Adoration of J.

Babin $60 for Tissot's The Arcade." and Billingsgate," by Whistler sold on praer for $44. The sale waa concluded last evening. T. A. Elects-Vivarttas President.

The Traveler' Protective Association. New York Division, Post A. held its an- tual meeting last night at the Hotel Vlc-orla nnd- elested these officers: President K. R. Vivarttas: Vice Presldeats DUr- Mos- U8U.

and O. V. Williams: Seeietary and TreamirepT Oosselln; Directors W. B. Chave, Ciosselin, C.

O. Winnie, W. C. R00U H. Hunt and George W.

Bell. i Despite 01 tons in the Ice crop this It was announced authoritatively jiesjter- day Lesley M. Oler. President the Knickerbocker lee Company, that the family price of lee, at present 40 jef nts a hundred pounds, would not hm rained by bis company thla year, and would be kept at that figure throughout the jKnn-mer. It la equally assured, however! hat tbe wholesale price of ice and therpHce to large consumers will be raised to meet the enormous shortage in tlie ice crop, and in order to maintain thejprea-ent litJce to families.

Mr. Oler said that there was absolutely no hope for belated freeaing of new Ice sufficient to eke' out the deflelei. of the present supply, and that iti Was Imperative that a thorough and systematic crusade be started against fee wa)4e in thla city, similar to. that cand on against water waate when; a water shortage was threatened last year, he taM, when there jstai a warm Summer, the consumption of Natural ice in thia cty waa tons. The normal yearly consumption, howyer, he said, w-ua S.noti.wo tons.

Toward I this, he said, there was practically no possibility of harvesting more than -a (total crop ori.u0u.ouu tons this year. I the Hudson, which is, our ih-clpal ffeld for the annual liarvestlUB," ha aaid. we have been able thia jyear to gather in only W1.0U0 tons. The Hver waa open to navigation untilv Keb. and the Ices harvest, is usually bi-gun in December or early in JanlTry.

could not be started till Feb. 17 this Winter. Even so. we began on ice Horn eujni mcnea miek. Instead ot ten Inches, as usual, and the quality Ice harvested bus been very poor.

IndeOO. it Is quite likely that there may he alloss 6f fiu per cent In shrinkage by the it pie the Ice is brought down to New Y01 H. "There is absolutely no lianeo of further ice harvesting on the Hudson. 'The Ice fields are broken 11 completely, i Wo lost many horses by drowning, and many the thin even before tlio scant liarvesUnc tliere 15 -Practically come a stretch of len consecutive aero days in March to 3 10- JiidlL for 1- harvesting there. That hypothesis is netflgible.

6r ini the Maine fields, on the Penobscot 'and Kennebec Rivers. Dut. whllo the rfud-son is -w ide and provides an ice field I for seventy-five miles, these rlvera are nar row and provide lew fields for bnlv twenty miles on the Kennebec and (five .....10 vrii 11m. reiiuuH-ui. nave IH-en Lin-reiore.

10 Harvest only tons in atalne so far, 11 conaitions prove the iniioui gei more man a toal of riOO.UUO tons from this source, We cannot Increase the harvesting facilities there, since it is too late to build additional, ice houses at this time. i To these SUO.ono tons from the Hudson, and possible Soo.ooo tons from Maine, may be added some GoO.UK) tons UGHT HILLSIDE MONUMENT. l5X3W soldiers "and Sailor' Memorial Longer a Menace to Autos. Many automobiles hare been wrecked by ronnlrig against the' Soldier' and bailors' Monument at Hillside and isr gen Avenues. Jamaica, because the ba not 4een llebied.

It th mttidlo of Htllsidi Avc- verul antomolMlo -liila hive No i lrisl to have It removed. btt -the Monumt'fit Association ua oevn vic torious IttTr-ry itlong tlii line. Tha niotmntefit baa been Ituhte'l throurh orders issued hy the Queen Parte and it wilt be rio looser a menace at to automobile i about and even best possible of old ice left over from last vear's mm. That represents the total available supply-of natural ice the year, to meet New York's avarage consumption oi i Ire supply, above, the tons of nat ural ice normally consumed here, cannot Increase their output, and it wouldj be impracticable to put up new plants! on expensive property, such as here, to meet iiir vrr r- i v. ir am In t.uxinrss to stay, ana that it was essential that hoold have the good will of the puuJki In-order to ty in business.

The, company, he declared, had no desire or Intention to take advantage, of conditions, such, ss the impending ones, and to take au unfair ad-vlntaal of tin, public With ithta policy in view, he authorised the. following statement: 7 i The Knickerbocker Ire fnp7 and tha lialtimor. I'WUrtelphi. and With' the marhlne eapacltjr tlx-r hv bee" ena(vl tn botMtnK tor some thoJ Teroo ther h3v so far "rwL h.y f.l Jfo tx that thn WtJ. ta r.mllies, hkH no rrevmils in tlKM Ctties.

will not changed this year. Thi Knickerbocker lea Conny Sc. lording to Mr. Oler. supplies about 40 per cent, of the natural ice of New Vork City.

At present the price of loo la3 a to at the wharves, 40 cents a hundred pounds to families, and 2U cents to- large consumer. If the family price. Is to be maintained at 40 centa. the large consumers ill have to bear the brunt ot any raise that mav bo made. These consumers ln-r elude hotels, restauranta, soda fountains, ii-e cream manufacturers, pixylskn stores, delicatessen stores, and business nouses of manr sorts.

How large the prospective increa in price to such consumers may toe could not be firecat yesterday. In pant years of conditions similar to those this year In tho ice fields, however, with the exception the. price of ice was raised to $1 a hundred pounds, and the price to large consumers to from to 30 cents n. hundred pounds. Those famine years, Mr-.

Oler said, rer enrred at regular intervals of ten years- lsrt. 1SS0, 1SU0. and VJUtV The first break rn this rule, he said, was in lOUK, when there was an ico famine, but when he. as ti.iiiUnt nt the American Ice Company. mttiiaged to kep the price down to i0 cents a nunareo: pounas ior iuu TUNNEL OPENING TO-DAY.

New Im'poirtat Ions of Spring: Summer Silks, comprising new ideas in Crepe 1 mprime. Brocaded Bulgarian Silks, Wash- Silks and Moire Crepes.v;1 i Sli oe Departm en isv directed to Celebration to Mark the End of Hill Climbing at 191st Street With a brass band to lead theway and city officials in high bat following after. there will be a parade througn ew York's only' tunnel street at 11 iW, o'clwk this morning. The street has been uug from the p.roadway canyon into the high bluff beneath Fort George. It extends on a level from roaqway to inn jis.

Street station of west side branch of the Subway, -and is intended to permit residents of the Broadway canyon to reach the Subway without climbing up over the bluff and hen dropping back In an ele vator the entire distance tney nave Before the grand march through the tunnel begins a special Subway train will a record run from the Brooklyn Bridge with tho official party, which will be in charge of tbe Bureau of Highway. The tunnel street waa built the Bu reau- of Highways with money raised through a special assessment of property owners in the Broadway canyon. This as sessment, amounting to arj.uoo, waa lev-led upon the' property -pwnera- at their own request. To residents of Washington Heights 'the openhiK exercises, will be tbe most notable local celebration wince mat nonor-oi tlie comnletlon of the- Street ta- lion ana me proviuing vi an uauiuunai elevator at lSlsf Street." the commit tee cnarge. are tienry- xuorgentnau, Frank Hedley, John: H- Borchen.

Col. Jacob "Ruppert. Max S. Orifenhagen, James A. Lynch." Randolph" Hurry, David Ktewart.

K. P. Bolton, C. IL Woodward, R. C.Simm, and Beals.

AH Shoes, Oxfords and Pumps for, the younger i set are made on approved lasts, constructed especially to meet the requirements of juvenile feet, Individual attention of expert '-A fitters is made a special feature of the depart- ment service. 1. Altaian OIo. "There may be things that, are better than money, but it takes money buy them." Very little money will buy a Victnola and records the greatest providers of harmony in the home. VICTR0LAS, $15 TO $200 Special GmbinationNo.

14 Victrola, Cabinet ana tu oetecuons, Perfect Service ii S66 Fifth Ave of $5 St. SdmconiD i Terms 1429 Broadway at west Iravitfe inspection of their newand. comprehensive assortiniesiits of American Rugs for the ensuing; season. Included are Wiltons, Brussels, A minsters "and High-pile Rugs in Oriental and conventional designs, in the subdued colorings now in vogue, -i These jugs are In stock, at moderate ''fit' -i'--' i alt- the desirable si2es, from 22)4x36 inches to feet. SjSOi Atmuie.

341f? attH 35th 2Cr IJork. II Let Posttini GHeer 'v j- 1 Year Ever stop to think that we make" most of our own That wrong living causes more doctor bills than Wave away, the nervous, bilious, fretful days cnange to troubles? iepidemics? of coffee drinking by a NSTANT TTT) lltOSTUM I A great many coffee drinkers out the value in xviore wiu in ivi. of Postum by actual This delicious beverage tastes much like mild Java, but is euaranted ir' lutely pure and free from "caffeine," the harmful, Grocers everywhere sell more and more "Th ere a Reas on -1 1 Madame Lina Gayalieril will be accompanied tomorrow night in her concert at the New York Hippodrome by the 1 i Madame Cavalieri, the. great Italian uses the Hardman Piano at her public appearances in the United States, and also uses in her own home; the-Hardman Autotone (The Perfect Player- aMadame Cavalieri says of the Hardman Autotone: -i jiways the great, pianist whose genius not fascinate his audience but lis the key. which unrA 'locks the vast treasure house of.

music for his own private this envy is a thing of the past, for now, with the 'Hardman Autotone, I can enter this realm of piano music as freely a he can, unbmdcred by the difficulties of technique. 1 1 is marvelous with what precision the Hardman V- Autotone interprets the most intricate and brilnt, .7 passages. And horr, with alt this technical perfection, V-hit yet so responsive in musical expression to every varying mood of the See the Autotone (The Perfect Player-Piano) and play it yourself at our warerooms.v. Prices of the Autotone from $550 up. -a nurchitet' cooreateace.

Liberal allowance fruc; Term, of payment Dloslrated Catabcue seat on rewesi. for old piaw? takcn HARDMAN, Brooklyn Store 524 Faltom St. PECK COMPANY FouiMka 1842 Ilardman House 433 Fifth Avenue '(Betwoas) 3tfc 39th Sis.) New York i i A1 A.