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of THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY, APRIL. 12. 1923.

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BROOKLYN SIX GIRLS SURE OF GOOD-WILL TRIP (Continued From Page 1.) tribution from one of the successful New York candidates. This bonus now amounts to $171. People interested in 'seeing it increase may send contributions to. Miss Rose Flynn. director of.

the election, at Good -Wili headquarters, 186 Joralemon st. This bonus will be divided equally among the four candidates polling the largest number of votes for the three days specified. namely: Wednesday, and Friday week. Announcement of the winners will be made in the Brooklyn Eagle on Saturday. With the end of the election but three days away, candidates and their supporters are preparing for the home run.

Almost every candidate has some affair scheduled for one of the remaining nights. Routine, work in many concerns has slackened to give an opportunity for the last strenuous campaigning which will place their respective candidates safely over the top. Among the many affairs on the Good -Will election calendar is a boxing carnival which the Doehler Die Casting Company has bravely scheduled for Friday the 13th, in Pilgrim This affair promises to be a popular event with smoker and refreshmen's to add to its interest. Proceeds from the evening will add votes to the score of Miss Margaret Fields, the Doehler Die Casting Company candidate. The Brooklyn Edison Company and the Brooklyn Union Gas ComTany.

also fearless of the date. have planned a barn dance and old fashioned country carnival, to be given in the 13th Regiment Armory 011 Friday the 13th! This dance i- to be a real frolic and there will be fun fo" the on-lookers as well as for those I taking part. Prizes will be given for the best dancers and most original costumes as well as for the most grotesque. The articles to be given away on this occasion range from live chickens to theater tickets and all sorts of electric sunplies. bazar of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, which opened last night, will be in full swing ngain tonight.

It is being held in the cafeteria room of the Mergenthuler Company, 29 Ryerson st. The big room has been divided to leave room for dancing and for the many booths at which flowers. candy, kewpies, electric fans and dozens of other articles will be sold. George, "the supreme master of will be present again 10- night with his mystery. He will pluck alligators and ducks from beneath innocent coats and will perform many other still more mysterious tricks.

Music for dancing will be furnished by Grover Dremer's Syncopated Orchestra. Doors will open at 8 o'clock and the price of admission is 25 cents. Patrons and patronesses for the dance 10 be given in the interest of Miss Theresa Haskins. of Erasmus High School, tonight in the 14th Regiment Armory, include Mrs. Samuel Pearsall, Miss Elizabeth Brownell Collier, Miss Susan B.

Hay, Mrs. Charles Peters, Mrs. Georgianna Gilbert a Hess, Dr. A. S.

Fradenburgh, Albert B. Campbell, Captain Frederick Baldwin, Edwin Caffin, Herbert K. Twitchell, and William Hartfield. WILLS FILED Wilhelm Fischofer, died March 20, 1923. Estate, valued at about $3,000, was left in six equal parts to relatives in Germany.

Henry F. Bloomfield, died Jan. 24, 1923. Estate, valued at more than $12,000. left to a daughter, Flerence B.

Morris, of 813 Putnam ave. Emma Hathorn, died Feb. 20, 1923. Estate, valued at more than $5,000, left in small bequests to relatives. Bridget Flood, died Feb.

3..1923. tate, valued at $5,500, is left to relatives. Charles Knecht, died March 20, 1923. Estate, valued at more than $13,000. Unknown amount of stock in the Wayne County Produce Company is left to his son, Edward F.

Knecht, of 158 Meserole st. The remainder of the estate is divided into four equal parts and left to Edward F. Knecht: another son, Peter J. Knecht, of Leonard daughter, Katie L. Knecht Trott, and a fourth to the four children of another son, Charles A.

Kneeht. Sarah F. Parsons, died March 2, 1923. Estate, valued at $1,800, left in equal parts to three children, Natalie H. Kosaki.

Mabel K. and Nathan S. Parsons, all of 318 S4th st. Paul R. Jepson, 278 New York ave.

Voluntary. Photographer. Assets, $75; liabilities. $45.455. Adolph Lievendag, 189 South 21st st, Flushing, L.

1. Voluntary. Plumbing. Assets, $200: labilities, $15,889. Retail millinery.

Assets, $100; liabilities, Tsadore Lopoff, 124 Milton on at. Voluntary. $3.309. Maria Vitolo, 1252 59th st. Voluntary.

Housewife. Assets, $78; liabilities, $6.436. Francis J. Russo, 407 Steinway ave. Astoria.

L. 1. Involuntary, Retail Jeweler. Claims of $575. Angelo Magliocco, 179 4th ave.

VolunOi1 dealer. Assets, liabilities, $74.804. Jacob Rosen, 3311 Jamaica ave. Richmond Hill, La. T.

Baker. Voluntary. Assets, $106; liabilities, $2,233. Appraisals Filed Estate William Henry Nedwill, died Feb. 12.

1929. is appraised at $17,767, and passes to his widow, Mollie L. Nedwill, of 293 E. 7th st. Estate of Henry D.

Nordbruch, died Nov. 11. 1923, in appraised at $20,652. and passes in the to a niece, Henrietta M. Meyer.

of 248 E. 3Sth st. The remainder of the estate Is left in small bequests to a number of relatives. Estate of William J. Rabbitt, died June 11.

1992, is appraised at $3,170 and passes to his widow, Nora Rabbitt, of 37 lat st. THOMAS F. SMITH'S FUNERAL WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY Sudden Death of Tammany Secretary, Killed by Taxi, Shocks Political Leaders. The funeral of Thomas F. Smith.

secretary of Tammany Hall, Public Administrator and former Congressman, who died last night at Bellevue Hospital after being struck by taxicab, will take place Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, will probably be the biggest funeral New York has witnessed in years. Mr. Smith was struck by the taxicab at Union Square, within a few minutes after he had left Tammany Hall at 6:30 in the evening to keep a dinner engagement with his wife. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he died within three hours.

Was With Magistrate Levine. Mr. Smith descended the steps of Tammany Hall in 14th st. for the last time about 6:30. a few minutes before the accident which resulted in his death.

With him was Magistrate Max S. Levine. The two men turned west and walked as far as 4th when they started across 14th st. The taxi-cab struck him a glancing blow that threw him off his feet. As he fell his head struck with sufficient force to render him unconscious.

The driver of the cab. William B. Nelligan, 28, of 506 W. 173d st. who was later arrested on a technical charge of homicide.

appeared 111- aware of the accident and continued on until he heard the cry of Magistrate Levine. He stopped his cab and looked back to see Mr. Smith's unconscious form in the roadway. Nelligan jumped out and ran back. Patrolman Conaughton, on duty at 4th ave.

and. ordered Nelligan to rush Mr. Smith to Bellevue Hospital. Just before the accident Mr. Smith had been telling Magistrate Levine that he was on his way home to meet his wife.

The two were to be the of William H. English, vice president of the Emsire Trust Company, at a dinner at the Plaza Hotel. and notified English of the accident. The magistrate went to a telephone Then he notitied Tammany Hall. Other friends of the injured man who were leaving Tammany Hail accompanied Magistrate Levine to the hospital.

Mr. English, upon hearing of the accident, jumped into a highpowered car and drove to the office of Dr. John F. Erdman. surgeon and close friend of Smith.

at 60 W. 52d st. Dr. Erdman accompanied the banker to the hospital. Friends of the injured man flocked to the hospital when they heard of accident.

Surrogate Foley and Goodwin. Tammany leaders Chelsea district, were among the first of Smith's friends to reach his side. Father Metcalf of the Carmelite R. C. Church.

E. 29th near 1st administered the last rites. Too Weak for Operation. Major John Hardwell, operating surgeon of the hospital, had X-ray photographs taken and had made preparations for an immediate opcration, when eminent surgeons, friends of Smith, telephoned and asked him to defer the operation until they arrived. Later a consultation of surgeons determined that he was too weak to undergo an operation.

Smith regained consciousness for only a moment after he reached the hospital. Then. recognizing his friend. William P. Kenneally, Tam.

many alderman, leaning over him, he whispered, "Bill, relieve me of this pain." Those were his last words. He slipped back into a coma and died at 9:21. Word of his death was carried to the anteroom, where more than 50 of his friends had gathered. Medical Examiner Charles H. Norris, arriving at the hospital a few minutes after Smith's death, issued a permit for the removal of the body to the Smith home, 320 W.

106th st. A few hours before the accident Smith had been in conference with Charles F. Murphy, Tammany leader, who was one of his closest friends. Mr. Murphy could not be reached until after his friend had died.

He said: "The death of Tom Smith is a loss that words cannot express. For THOMAS F. SMITH more than 20 years he has been an invaluable adviser as well as one of my dearest personal friends. My head is bowed in grieving tribute. I am shocked beyond measure at his tragic end." Smith's Political Career.

Smith's political career began in 1892, when he was appointed official stenographer in the Building Department by the late Richard Croker, then Tammany leader. The appointment followed a career as political writer for the New York World, the Morning Journal and the New York Tribune. He was born in the Chelsea District in the lower West Side on July 24. 1865. He attended the public schools and later was a student at St.

Francis Xavier College and Manhattan College. When Croker created the office of Secretary of Tammany Hall General Committee he named Smith for post. When Murphy succeeded the old chieftain some years later Smith was continued in the position. He became clerk of the City Court in 1898 and held that position until he was elected to Congress at a special election on April 12. 1917, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Michael F.

Conry. He continued to fill the Congressional post until January, 1921, when he retired to become Public Administrator at a salary of $10,000 a year. During the Murphy regime in Tammany nominations to high city positions frequently were offered 10 Smith, but always declined by him. Tributes to Smith. Jacob A.

Livingston, Republican leader of Kings County, said: never had the pleasure of a very intimate acquaintance with Mr. Smith but 1 have known him for a number of years by reputation as a dependable and honest citizen, reby all who knew him for his sincerity and straightforwardness. MEN, WOMEN AND EVENTS IN DAY'S NEWS No. 3. Miss Christina Magruder was discharged by Magistrate McQuade in Yorkville Court today when Max Bernstein, a jewelry salesman, of 60 W.

75th Manhattan, failed 10 produce evidence to back his charges that Miss Magruder, 28, a modiste, of 19 W. Manhattan, had stolen $5,000 worth of jewelry from him. No. 4. Political and diplomatic cireles in Berlin.

Germany, have become agitated by reports that Chancellor Cuno was slated to go, and his place to be taken by Dr. Gustav Stresemann. chairman of the Reichst: Foreign Affairs Committee and leader of Hugo Stinnes' German Peopie's party, That the industrialists want to negotiate with the French 0.8 soon as possible 19 reen as the possible cause of such a change. No. 5.

Here is the Elizabeth VIT, fishing smack that sunk off Astoria, L. 1.. a short time ago, and was raised under the supervision of poNice authorities who expected to find 9 of booze. However, they found but 4,700 bush of oysters. Bent Rays of Stars, Shown In Eclipse, Prove Einstein Theory, Says Lick Director San Jose, April 12-Dr.

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity has been so satisfactory proven by experiments made by the Lick Observatory expedition, which photographed the eclipse of the sun in Australia last year, that no further experiments will be made Dr.9 W. W. Campbell, director of the observatory, has announced. Photographs of stars made at night on the Island of Tabiti three months before the eclipse, and pictures of the same stars, taken in conjunction with the photographing of the eclipse at Wallal, on the northwest coast of Australia, on Sept. 21.

1922. show a bending of the stars' rays, Dr. Campbell said, SO close to the amount prescribed by the Einstein formula as "the most ardent proponents of Einstein's theory could hope for." "Two photographs of the eclipsed sun and its immediate surroundings were obtained in Australia with each of two specially designed and constructed cameras with lenses having apertures five inches in diameter and focal lengths of 15 feet." Dr. Campbell said in explaining the experiment. four sensitive plates, each 17 inches square, recorded the images of several scores of stars in the group surrounding the sun.

though in reality these stars were many million times as far away from us as the sun. The same cameras were used three months earlier on the Island of Tahiti to photograph the same stars when they were in the night sky and without the sun in their midst." Professor Einstein's theory, according to Dr. Campbell and other Western scientists. is, however, much more complex than a mere hypothesis that light is bent in passing large celestial bodies. The theory, in its larger proportions, in- UNION PLASTERERS PLACED ON TRIAL Thirty-six members, comprising the officers, business agents and the executive board of Plasterers Union Local 60.

who were indicted last July for conspiracy growing out of revelations before the Lockwood committee, were placed on trial today before Supreme Court Justice Charles H. Brown in Manhattan. Samuel Untermyer, Special Deputy Attorney General, assisted by Abraham Freedman, is in charge of the prosecution. Jonah Goldstein is counsel for the indicted men. More than 100 talesmen from the special jury list reported to Clerk Robert Nicholls and were addressed by Mr.

Untermyer. Mr. Untermyer alleged that the union several years ago entered into conspiracy to interfece with the business of employers and builders for the burpose of injuring trade and commerce. He said that the union had, in its membership, all the STANDARD TONICS Blood, Nerve Body Builders help to guard against influenza and grippe Dew -fer-ol Iron, Olive Oil and Port Dew -ol Glycerophosphate, Olive Oil and Port Approved by U. S.

Prohibition Dept cAt ydur Druggist or 134 Fulton Street New York SWAMP TRAIL PARTY IS NEAR END OF FOOD IN THE EVERGLADES Supplies Being Rushed From Miami to 22 Fighting Way With Cars. Miami, April 12-Supplies are being rushed today to the 22 members of the Miami Trail Pathfinders, who, it is reported by three of their comrades who reached Miami this morning, are about 60 miles west of here and making only snail progress on their trip to this city. Hopes were expressed, however, that they would reach here by tomorrow night. The three members of the trail blazers brought the first word that has been received of the party which left Fort Myers a week ago yesterday for Miami in the first attempt to cross the route of the Tamiami Trail through the Everglades in motorcars. Of the ten cars that lotte Fort Myers only seven are left.

was sent back, another stripped its gears and the third was abandoned with A broken wheel. The advance guard of the party walked 25 miles to the McCrary Dredge, 44 miles out of Miami, to get food. which has been running short since Monday, necessitating the rationing of each meal and making it urgent that supplies be obtained quickly. The party is without meat, bread, milk and sugar and their supplies of other foodstuffs are ebbing low, the three arrivals reported. METHODISTS ADD $22,000 MORE TO RETIREMENT FUND Conference Re-elects Dr.

H. B. Munson to Board of Trustees Bridgeport, April 12-The New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church began its business sessions today after the executive board had met with Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicag0, at the First Church. It. was voted to add $22.000 to the fund for retired clergy.

The report of the co-operative secretary of the board of trustees was accepted. This showed a grand total of funds of $642,070. Dr. F. M.

North, president of the board. recommended the appointment of Dr. H. H. Beattys, pastor of St.

John's Church, New Rochelle, N. to fill the vavancy caused by the death of the Rev. William H. Barton. Dr.

D. G. Downey, book editor of the conference, and Dr. H. B.

Munson, pastor of Nostrand-DeKalb Church in Brooklyn, were reelected to the board. Dr. William A. Layton. corresponding secretary of the BrooklynLong Island section, was re-elected to the office of secretary of the board of trustees.

Dr. George Elliot. editor of the Methodist Review, made an address on the need of further education of the clergy. Prohibition will be one of the leading topics discussed by the Conference, but the question of ordination of women as ministers, regarding which there is divided opinion in the Methodist Episcopal Church, will not be decided. it is believed.

until the 1924 conference, although the present gathering may discuss it. It must go to the General of May, 1924. New York Conference defeated it last week. The examination of students was concluded yesterday. Dr.

H. S. Scarborough of St. John's Church, Brooklyn, is registrar of the board of examiners. Among other members the board are Dr.

W. D. Beach of Eimhurst, L. Dr. S.

O. Curtice of Hempstead. L. Dr. Holmes, superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital of Brooklyn: Dr.

J. W. Langdale of the New York Avenue Church. Brooklyn; Dr. F.

B. Stockdale of Bayside, L. Dr. A. M.

Trelstad. evangelist, Scandinavian work. Brooklyn. and W. H.

Wakeman of the First Church, Amityville, L. 1. Among those who took the tests were M. S. Bulwer, of Brooklyn; Edwin A.

Hartney, assistant to Dr. Robert Mr. Moore. at St. Marks Church, Brooklyn; E.

L. Frost, Orient: W. F. Davis Bay port, L. Albert B.

Balz, of the First Methodist Church. Brooklyn; all of whom took the first year examinations. Second year men are V. W. Mitchell, of East Quoque, L.

Roy Terry. Vally Stream. L. and N. W.

Twiddy, of Brooklyn. The Rev. Dr. George E. Bishop, of Bushwick Central Church.

Brooklyn, presided yesterday after1.00N over the memorial service held for two members of the conference who died last year, the Rev. Drs. W. T. Pray and E.

H. Terry. The Rev. Dr. Saul O.

Curtice, of Hempstead, pronounced benediction after the memorial service. Dr. Arthur Sanford, of New Haven, was re-elected secretary of the conference, the Rev. Minor Harwood, of Brooklyn, statistical secretary, and the Rev. Elmer A.

Dent, treasurer. Pro. Robert W. Rogers, of Drew Theological Seminary, an authority on the subject, spoke last night on "Tomb Hunting in the Valley, of the Kings." Old Cherry St. Building Sold.

Nicholas F. Walsh, broker. sold to J. Cohen, 223-225 Cherry running through to 486-488 Water Manhattan, which has been occupied by purchaser for nearly twentyfive years. This property has been in the hands of one family for about one hundred years.

RAILROADS PLAN OWN PROBE OF PORT AUTHORITY CHARGES Will Take Several Months to Dig Into Things Port Group Laid Bare. By C. A. HEBB. When the railroad lawyers were shown by the Port Authority 'last week some of the "horrible examples" of how the railroads handled their traffic along the New Jersey waterfront, the railroad lawyers were nonplussed, and for once in their lives were not ready with ally explanation.

Their only "comeback' was, in effect: "How many such cases have you got?" They were told there would be enough to make them tired. Now it is going to take the railroads a matter of months to find out for themselves the same things that the Port Authority found out. They must have time to dig into everything that the Port Authority dug into in the course of several months of investigation. The lawyers had no ready -made explanation for the system under which the carriers, with their adjoining terminals and interlacing tracks along the Jersey waterfront, send freight out into the country, as far west as Easton, in order to get it from one point to another, connected by railroad along the waterfront. What is the reason for these circuitous routes? What is the reason why a carload of linseed oil, shipped from Undercliff, near Edgewater, in order 10 get to Bayonne, mies away by railroad, had to make a trip of 1791 miles across the State of New Jersey and back again? Is it inefficiency? Or is it just plain gouging of the shipper? The linseed oil started from the terminal of the New York.

Susquehanna and Western Railroad, which carrier is controlled by the Erie. The Port Authority witness expressed the opinion that it was the "selfish interest" of the Susquehanna that caused the freight to be routed ag it was. Recalls Couzens' Attack. delphia. A Dozen Cases.

Here is a summary of the dozen "horrible examples" of long routes: -Mileage---- No. of Maybe it isn't gouging the shipper but is inefficiency of operation. United States Senator James Couzens has been attacking the railroads for inefficiency, and in a recent blast he said: "There is an immense amount of propaganda being circulated in de. fense of the railroads as now operated. From my observations, there is an absence of discussion about more efficient and economical methods of transportation to reduce the cost.

Everyone admits the cost is too high, but it seems that most of them are trying to solve it by what is the easiest way, namely, the reduction of wages. The first thing that occurs to a captain of industry, or a railroad manager. when he wants to reduce cost. is to cut wages or to increase working hours at the same wage." The Port Authority had maps, as exhibits, of 18 railroad routes and from the Jersey waterfront. These went into the record.

It is known that many more had been investigated that did not go into the record. Among those that did not 20 into the record there was a round dozen that are of special interest. In the dozen cases, a dozen carloads of freight made a total miles in order to make distances totaling miles. It cost a shipper nearly as much to send a carload of cocoanut oil from Bayonne to Jersey City as it cost another shipper to send a carload of corn sugar from Undercliff to Philadelphia. It cost more to send a carload of steam pipe fittings from one point in Jersey City to another point 111 the same city as it cost to send the corn sugar to Phila- Belt line actual daysin Freight Shipment.

route. route. transit. charges Carload linseed oil, Undercliff to Bayonne 13.3 179.5 $135.00 Carload paving tar, Undercliff to Keansburg 12.3 197.3 3 210.26 Carload coconut oil, Hoboken to Bayonne 8.0 113.0 4 92.12 Carload starch, Hoboken to Undercliff 8.0 16.9 18.00 Carload asphaltum, Constable Hook to Passaic 10.0 107.0 2 1:6.99 Carload radiators, Bayonne to Passaic 16.5 165.5 3 08.11 Carload compressor a 11 parts. Nat'l Docks.

Jersey to Jersey City 1.0 58.0 31.50 Carload corn sugar. Underclif to Phila'phia. 98.0 163.0 3 61.64 Carload steel p'pe, fittings, Jersey City to West Side Jersey City 5.0 80.06 Carload cocoanut oil. Bayonne to Jersey City 8.0 21.0 81.21 Carload fuel oil, Bayonne to Undercliff 11.5 Carload molasses Undercliff to Weehawken 4,5 14.0 Totals 1.071.5 11 $1.196.08 The shipments showed in the foregoing tabulation started on one railroad and wound up on another. In some cases the freight was handled by three roads.

That would mean that the freight must be several times. Going out on the Susquehanna from Underelim. the carload of linseed oil that traveled miles to miles was yarded at Little Ferry, Sparta Junction. Easton. and returning.

at Oak 1s- land and Claremont. This brought the time of travel up to 4 days. The revenue was $135 and was split among the Susquehanna. the Lehigh Making the Long Haul; Is It R. R.

Inefficiency or Gouging? Hopatcong Jet 0 Paterson Whorten Dover NJ CENTRAL W5 Route Miles. via Direct High Bridge Route 8thles Passaic ORIGIN High Bridge NEW (ranterd JERSEY Ehzabeth oF AR CENTRAL Plainfield Somerville, Bound (DESTINATION Broek Staten Island, Here is one of a number of "normal routes" that the railroad- use for freight shipments in New Jersey. It is the route taken by a carload of cocoanut oil. billed from Hoboken to Jersey city, via High Bridge. The car traveled 115 miles and was four days in transit.

The direct route would have been along the waterfront, where tracks of several railroads form a complete line- the Port Authority's Belt Line 13-but which is not operated as a unit. Behind Brooklyn Industries 2 3 ble charges her husband with coolness and indifference. No. 2. The model of the memorial 10 Dr.

W. H. Maxwell, first Supertntendent of New York schools, was completed on April 10 by Chartes Eugene Tefft. sculptor, who is shown with model. shown this week at the tion Brooklyn are the Industrial homes of Exposi- BrookIvn 4 The greatness of this community lies not only in its large enterprisesIt rests, also, in the happy homes of the thousands of workers in these enterprises 4 And the homes of Brooklyn are as well known as the steel mills of Pittsburgh or the automobile factories of Detroit One of these homes is fittingly represented by Namm Store exhibit in the Exposition 4 It is not an elaborate home, nor yet a "cheap" one It is a typical home, comfortably but economically furnished Just such a home as the Namm Store has fitted out for many thousands of Brooklynites B.

H. N. April 12, 1923. P.AND A PHOTOS. No.

1. Mrs. Robert Howard ble, prominent in New York and Paris society, has brought suit for divorce in Paris courts. She wag Miss Virginia Bruce Loney and was married to Mr. Gamble in 1918.

There are two children. Mrs. Gam- He was an indefatigable worker for the organization which he beionged. Tam very sorry to hear of his death." John H. McCooey.

Democratic leader of Kings County, said: am quite naturally deeply shocked at the sad news. I have known Toin Smith for 25 years. His was a splendid character and he was a loyal friend. 1. He was good to his family and true to his friends.

I know of no man in public life who was better loved by his associates than was Tom Smith." Former U. S. Senator William M. Calder, a close friend of Smith. said that he had had a terephone conversation with him at 8:30 yesterday morning at the conclusion of which it was decided that the two should take luncheon together some day next week.

Senator Calder said: am 1 shocked. Few men in politics have made a more distinct impression. will be missed by thousands of men who knew and loved him. With his passing away lose one of my best personal friends." Frederick J. H.

Kracke, United States Appraiser, said: "The tragic and untimely death of Tom Smith removes one of the best known and useful men in our city." William A. Prendergast said: am very sorry. I have known him for a long time and have regarded him as a fine citizen." Mayor Hylan said: "In the untimely death of Thomas F. Smith, the city as well as the Democratic party sustains an irreparable loss." Commissioner of Public Welfare Bird S. Coler today suggested that Republicans and Democrats unite in a memorial meeting to demand that reckless driving of motorcars be stopped.

He would authorize "men of responsible position in public and private life to serve tickets on these offenders." Nelligan, driver of the car which caused Mr. Smith's death. was today held in $10,000 bail for examination on April 20. SUNDAY SCHOOLS NO LONGER ARE USEFUL DECLARES MINISTER "Doomed to Grow Weaker," Rev. Dr.

W. E. Gardner Tells Episcopalian Conference. Omaha, April 12 (By the Associated Press)-The Sunday School has outlived its usefulness and is without a future after more than 100 years of Christian service, the Rev. Dr.

William E. Gardner, executive secretary of the Department of Religious Education of the Protestant Episcopal Church, said in an address today, opening the annual conference of educational leaders of the denomination. Boys and girls growing up today will not carry on the religious quarrels of the past. They are looking at religion from a new angle, Dr. Gardner said.

In religious education, he added, the primary question is not one of Roman Catholics, Jews or Protestants, but the real question is "Can you convince boys and girls today there is a personal God; that he has laws. spiritual and physical, which express relationship; that these are invincible laws that cannot be tampered with." "Speaking of the Sunday School," the Rev. Dr. Gardner declared, "we need frankly to recognize that it has nO future because it is doomed to weaker in its appeal to the rising generation." NEWS BRIEFS Charged with unlawful entry, Edwin Carr, 16, of 136 Hooper was arrested early today in a cellar at Broadway and Hooper st. by Patrolman Murphy.

The boy had a bundie of shirts under his arm and wa3 unable to explain his presence in the cellar. Louis Moskowitz, 20, of 43 tieth was picked up last night connection with the holdup last month of Joseph Mintz, payroll messenger for the Artistic Dye Company at 100 Jewell st. The latest arrest brings the total up to five. Frank Benko, 56. of 95 N.

6th was taken to the Kings County Hospital today when he told the police he was special agent for President Harding and was tired of paying money to them. At the hospital it was said he was suffering from dementia. 4 volves a radical change in attitude toward the nature of the universe -at least by scientists. One of the elements of the theory is that light is a substance and because of that is attracted by gravity. Some of the interpreters of the theory also maintain that by virtue of the same quality that makes it subject to the pull of gravity, it has a repelling power because of its weight.

There is also involved in the theory the assumption that the pull of gravity on any substance varies with the velocity of that substance in motion. Light, being presumably the most tenuous form of visible matter, is less subject to the force of gravity than more tangible substances. As far as the man in the street is concerned, Dr. Campbell does not expect his confirmation of the Einstein theory to make any appreciable difference. It will not affect baseball, taxes or prohibition.

But in astronomy and in physics its importance is expected eventually to be more noticeable. One of the more abstruse elements of the Einstein theory in connection with velocity is that the maximum velocity which anything can attain is 186.000 miles a second, the velocity of light. Above that. according to the theory, energy becomes inert. Proof Impossible Says Prof.

See. Mare Island Navy Yard, April 12-Prof. Thomas J. J. See, noted naval observer here, declared that it is a "fundamental impossibility to confirm the Einstein It is likely, he said, that some fraction the sun may be proved, but to prove the Einstein theory is impossible because there is no ether near the sun.

The basis of the Einstein theory revolves around the general acceptance of the ether theory, he said. union plasterers in the County of New York and had ntered into agreements with other labor unions not to engage in work where plasterers other than members of the union were employed. Mr. Untermyer declared that the inion had the employers completely at their mercy and were charged in the indictment with creating rules and regulations for the purpose of creasing the quantity of work and the cost of building. He also said hat the union retarded the work done by its members.

HENRY C. DRAPER DIES; G.A.R. MEMBER Henry C. Draper, 79 years old, one of the best-known members of the G. A.

R. in this boro, died yesterday at his home, 138 Rutland after a protracted illness. He was a familiar figure at nearly every State and national encampment, and for several years had held the post of secretary of the memorial and executive committee of the G. A. R.

of Kings County. Comrade Draper was a past commander of Devin Post. No. 148, G. A.

having served for two terms, and had been the adjutant of the post for 27 years. In all, he was a member of the Grand Army since 1868. For 35 years he was a member of Devin Post. He was born in Brooklyn and enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil War in the 47th serving for three years. He was wounded while in the service, and one of his most cherished keepsakes was a shattered buckle which the bullet struck He was also a member of Cambridge Lodge, F.

A. being its treasurer for 24 years, and Montauk Council, R. A. He is survived by his wife. Sarah: two sons.

William and Chester. and three daughters, Margaret. Mrs. Thomas Anketell and Mrs. William Nagel.

The funeral services will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock and interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery. A. I. NAMM SON BROOKLYN, N. Y.

and Hudson and the Lenigh Valley. carload of cocoanut oil from Hoboken to Bayonne was hauled by the L. and W. and the Central of New Jersey, and was yarded at Seal caucus, Lake Junction, High Bridge and Elizabethport. The trip took four days.

The revenues of $92.42 were divided by the L. and W. and the Central of New Jersey. The distance traveled was 115 miles. The airect route along the waterfront is only eight miles.

The carload of paving tar from Undercliff to Keansburg, near Perth Amboy, N. was varded at Little Ferry, Sparta Junction, Easton. Elizabethport. and Matawan. The revenue of $240.26 was divided among the Susquehanna.

the Lehigh and Hudson and the Central of New Jersey. The total distance traveled was miles, and the route along the waterfront is miles. Is is inefficiency or gouging? Whichever it is. the Port Authority wants a change. It wants "unified operation" of tracks along the New Jersey waterfront.

5 BOARDWALK STORES CASE IS DELAYED The proceeding brought by Frank E. Lonas, representing the Boardwalk Stores Company of Coney I land, against Peter Wolz was called in the Adams St. Court this morning and adjourned until next The charge is that Wolz committed perjury in an answer to an amended complaint, and the boardwalk corporation, through Lawyer Robert Wilson, asked for his arrest. All that is before the court now is a summons, copies of the papers in which the perjury is alleged to have taken place, and a general statement from Lonas. The adjournment was due to the fact that Magistrate Liota raised question of jurisdiction, indicating that the proceeding should have been brought in New York County, where the statement, alleged to have been false, was prepared and sworn to.

Mr. Wilson opposed this view of the case and said that it was not until the papers were served on the opposing lawyers that the alleged perjury became active as a perjury. It was true, he said. that the oath had been taken in New York County, but the papers had been served on opposing counsel in Kings County and had been filed with the official Clerk of Kings County. WANDERING YOUTHS START RETURN TRIP Two students of the probation school are being shipped home from Troy today where their dreams of wild life in the west were shattered by the authorities there who municated with parents of the boys they were picked up.

Samuel Norotsky, 15, of 734 Rockaway ave. and Solomon Snyder, 11. of 638 New Jersey ave, planned a big western migration among the pupils of their school. Something happened and the others got cold feet. Sarn and Sol left on Monday, Their journey to Troy was made via the freight car bumper route.

Max Norotsky, father of Samuel, got a letter yesterday from the Chitdren's Society at Troy. telling him that the boys had been found. He immediately wired back instructions to send them home. The fact that the migration wa: to have been general was learned from other pupils, The school is at Fulton st. and New Jersey ave.

Home for Blind Elects Two Trustees: Needs Grow At a meeting of the board of trustees of the Industrial Home for the Blind yesterday. Frederick Fisher and Stanley Gunnison, of Brooklyn, were unanimously elected members of the board. The present body includes Walter C. Humstone. president: Samuel H.

Coombs. A. M. Fleming. E.

P. Morford. Charles Pastield. Edward T. Jenkins, Fanwick B.

Small. the Rev. Dr. Join Carson. David I.

Rogrow, the Rev. Robert E. Rogers, Herbert W. Herer. W.

L. Chapman and William S. Trish. The needs of this institution. which was hte erst to recognize and meet et the problem of the blind of Brookiyn, are being considered.

That it has outgrown the present quarters has been long evident. New industries are being added from time to time, but the Home could care for many more were there room and the factory department is limited- by the available space. ACCUSES MOTORIST Upon complaint of Miss May Widmyer. 20, of 180 Wyekoff John M. Allen.

26. of 6 W. 122d Manhattan. was arraigned in the hattan Night Court last night on charge of disorderly conduct and held in $1,000 bail for al hearing 011 April 17. The young woman said she cote from Atlantic City upon receiving: word that her mother was sick and when she reached the Pennsylvantt station was approached by Allen, who offered to take her to Brooklyn his motorcar.

She said she was anxious to reach her mother she accepted his offer. At E. 104th st. and Lexington ave. Patrolman John Sucker heard the young woman scream.

and 011 her complaint that Allen had insult her placed him under arrest..