NOVEMBER 1. 1923. SUES TENANTS FOR USING ROOF Landlord Says Crowd Watching Picture Show Damages Building. Kew l'ork.?Whether a landlord bag a right to prevent tenants (rum cazigr.-g&iiug nightly on the root with iron. lOu to iXM f i leu da for a free Tl#v.- of an outdoor moving picture ehow next door la to he decided in the Snpreme court as the result of a suit flied by .Incub London, owner of the fcflpo six-story tenement houses at 64 Mid 68 West Une Hundred and SlxCseuth street, adjoining a theater, Afblch operates an outdoor moving gtcture show on the roof all summer. Mr. London in his complaint asks Co*- an injunction restraining lifteeu gsnants. all mimed as defendants, fcrt-in congregating on the roof at any time to witness moving picture per?p nuances; from holding meetings or 1 AMftmb luges on the roof; from gathering collectively on the roof for social or amusement purposes; from occupyto* windows connected with the corngym haila to witness moving picture performances; from Inviting, soliciting. en--our aging or urging pemons ts assemble with them, either on the liirfu or In the halls, on the stoop hf ?t the hull windows to witness mov|hf picture performances or for any 9&lawlul purpose, and from continubg to perpetrate alleged damage. Injfery or* loss to plaintiff's property. Many Views Shown Free. Isaac Stanislaw, agent of the property, said in an affidavit that there fere 24 tenants In each of the houses, fejcli were built 17 years ago. The IfOof- were recently recovered, with a Aas . slate rubber at a cost of $700. he agent said that each night from wiftO in 11:30 o clock the defendants Sangreguted on the roof adjoining the , teatcr, paving no heed to the watchrntn who ordered them away. They CCK>k choirs, boxes and other objects |D the roof, he said, and Invited jhlenla and relatives, ho met lutes as many as 200, to see the show for Bctning. "Tin- roofs ar* not rented to the defendfht*." said the agent. and are J>e exclusive property of the plaintiff, dtoce of the defenduuU has license or athorlty to go on the roofs for any purpose, and deponent has made voVaxuent protest." Alleged dan?age done by the nightly too' parties, he said, was aa followst "Coping on westerly wall ol No. 58 nUi - y broken; root damaged In vatdou places; rent pipes broken from their bearings; bricks over the stairway '.fading to the roof demolished." Reports Building Damaged. The agent said It would be necessary to reiuoTe the sntira roof oovertlg and raise ths roofs to th? proper lave?. because they had sagged under the weight of th* film watchers. He aid there was danger of damafe from water leaking through the broken roofs into the buildings. Repairs mav utch. The document signed by President Adams bore also as u countersign the signature of Timothy Pickering, secretary of state; was dated August. iT'JS: showed the proper nationality of the small sloop Endeavour, and gave leave to depart from Portland, Me., to Demerarra, with a cargo of boards, oars, butter, !?*h, flour, tar. pitch, and beet Pray for Recognition. The most interesting section of these clearance papers was an attest at the bottom of the sheet praying that "most serene, serene, most puissant, puissant, high. Illustrious, noble, honorable, venerable, wise and prudent lords, emperors, kings, republics, princes, dukes, earls, barons, schepens, judges, councillors" and a long list of other officers "of all the good cities and places who shall see these presents or hear them read" to recognize the American . reglst ry. Mr. Koheo has also a number of envelopes showing the difference lr. : postal rates and speed of service since the early days of the post office, (hie contained a letter signed by James Madison as secretary of state, la 1804, \ to James Sheafe of Portsmouth. N. II.. j and bore a stamp showing the foe for the trip to have been 10 cents. Another carried a letter from the j recent Amundsen polar expedition, addressed to President Harding, which | was sent by airplane mail to Nome, Alaska, and thence across the continent to Washington for 12 cents, In 1 ciucung registration fee. Tolls of Fairfax Estate. Another Interesting document In this collection Is one relating to the history i of the famous Lord Fairfax, who was granted larce in Virginia by | the king of England during early | ' colonial history. Ix?rd Thomas prayed the sheriff of London county, which \ adjoined his estates, to take into cua- ! lod.\ Ann Seward who was charged with trespassing upon the Fairfax ; estate in 1768. According to the yel- : lowed, torn manuscript, the said Ann had wrought damages estimated at WO pounds, for which the said Lord j Thomas required payment. Man Tossing Nickels to Boys Halts All Traffic New York.?A well-dressed benign appearing man of about 30 appeared at Broadway and Sixty-sixth street recently and tossed a nickel toward two boys near the curb. They scrambled for It and he threw another. More boys appeared and the stranger, entering Into rne zest or the game, went into a drug store ami got $1 worth of nickels from Miss Grace Wnlley. the cashier. By this time the crowd of hoys numbered a score or more and the wild scramble for the coins caused thd stream of automobiles to halt ami threatened to tie up traffic. The stranger threw $2 worth of coins before the supply In the drug store was exhausted and then he asked the boys tn to have strawberry sodas. There was only five seats and there was a near riot. The disturbance attracted Patrolman Cassidy, who put the dispenser of nickels on an uptown surface car after j the latter had told the policeman he , ' once lived in the neighborhood and i wanted to encourage young American j manhood. I , J************************* . 11 Belgian Queen Gets * j + Pardon for Princess j J Paris.?intercession of Queen J I ISlizabeth of Belgium for Prin- + . J cess Louise has ended the ban * i of more than twenty years + j X against the return of the eldest J j daughter of King Leopold to her j a native lan? or ? >thai Gen. liee "teudereti his sword" to General Grant at \he forma' Surrender arid thai General Grind. J ?d to accept the s'.vord * l.eiy denied ug-utn and again > ) r-ons pre.-ent ??n that hi.-toric -scion, ud denied by General G a- : I rin his memoirs. But noUvn.:; standing the denials, the old fak appear.- on all occasions. And the worst ??f it i.^ that it isn't circulated by irresponsible and ignorant ]> ..I. 1 S - - - - I- -1 ? I (' * I U' .. Altu MK-'UKI ll.Hl some knowiidjri* of history and repeatetily print*. :' duplicating transportation facilities ;-nd destroying real service. The bus company wanted a frun chise to operate in certain towns with considerable population which was posed by the electric railroad system connecting these towns. After a full showing the lower court held that the operation of the hi; iine was not a necessary transportation facility, though granted by a pi.-' Ie service commission. On appeal the supreme court show that it is not the policy of the public utility law of Illinois to promote com petition as a means of providing service. It holds that where one company can serve the public conveniently and efficiently to grant a competing franchise is to make the public pay more if both companies are to earn a fair return on their investment. The court say* that to authorize bus lines to carry passengers at a low er rate in the same territory where an electric line is charging a reasonable rate is against public interest. It says a public service corporator. has no right to make an order' regulating a public utility which amounts to a confiscation of its prop-, erty. A DEMOCRAT HOUSE IN WHICH I FOET ONCE LIVEO i Homes in Old New England Intimately Connected With Life of Longfellow. fa" Mass.?Th?* three fine ol'l New Kngland houses which ire inlinmo conriecttfl with the life of j Henry Wn osworth Longfellow should not ! frgotteu at this time when Bowdoin college, his alttm mater, is planning .? centenary institute in 1 to eeU- rate its share in making pos sible th?? work of America's most popu j tar poet up<) that of his classmate, j Nathan!-1 Hawthorne. Crainie house on Brattle street. | *Jontl?r: lge, the picturesque and state- J ty ltevi itlonary mansion to which | Longf.-i t came in 1K17 as a young j profes-or and whore he lived for many j years, l^est known of the three, j Will: the "House of Seven Gables" and ; the "Old Manse" alone it shares the i honors among historic New England j bouses. | Two "Shrines'* in Portland. Portland, lie., claims the other two ! Longfellow shrlneo. First comes his j birthplace, a square three-storied house ??n the corner of Fore and Hancock streets. In its day It was u fine house. tin- home of Capt. Samuel Stephenson. In those (lays only tii? doorvray, the street, and a little beach lay between it and the water. But for 50 or iiiore years now it has fallen uikmi hard times The water has receded and buildings have sprung up, I heruni UEr it in on all sides. The (mot's parents were spending the winter in this house, visiting his ! aunt. Mrs. Stephenson, when he was > horn en February 27, 1807. A little more titan t> year afterward they moved to the third house, which is today known as a Longfellow house. Then-, in the old Wadsworth home on Congress street, the poet spent his childhood and youth. Perhaps the two houses are not often confused as they were in the Monitor on September 1, when a photograph of the Congress street house was described sts his birthplace. There is no question about It: the lienor belongs to the less welllmou n house on Fore street But the Interest st til centers on the Congress Street house, for It Ik bound up with menio.i'-s all have shared by reading The Rainy Day,** "My Lost Youth," , and other poems. Longfellow's Boytiood Home. The Congress street house in Longfellow's boyhood was not In the heart ?f the business district us it is now but ou the outskirts of the town. In the midst of the fields. From the windows of the boys' room one could look then over the cot* and the farms and the w?mllanda toward Mi. Washing- i to?i; from the eastern chambers the I view wits unobstructed across the hay ; t? Wldta Fload, Fort Preble and the lighthouse on Cupe Elizabeth. Happy j days were spent there with music end j l>ooks and brother and sister. Nearby ' were Deerlng woods, where the poet ! tramped and bathed and dreamed. The I woods have beeji preserved as u city j park and Ihe house has been refurnished as nearly as possible as It was a little more then 100 years ago and 'S now open t?? the public as a museum. ( It is perhaps well that the three 1-ong | iVliow houses should have different 1 destinies; the birthplace, in other j hands; the boyhood home, a museum; and the Cambridge liouse still in possesion of the family. Bermuda's Only Auto Is Destroyed by Accident Now York.?Announoenrt Victoria. The car, owned by a hotel proprl- ' etor, came under a ban when the island passed a law barring motor j vehicles. The engine was removed and : used for pumping purposes and the car was converted into a cnrringe. On his last trip Or. Mabardi and a party of friends were riding in the conveyahce when it toppled over on a hill leading to Hamilton pier. The horses escaped, but I>r. Manardi suffered a sprained wrist. Prisoners Flog Police Chief in County Jail Marion, 111.?Monroe Owens, chief of police of Pittsburg, near here, charged that prisoners in the county Jail handcuffed him to a cell and g ive him 25 lashes. Owens was arrested recently on an assault charge and placed in jail in default of bond. NLne other prisoners, two of whom had been arrested by Owens on liquor charges, held a "kangaroo court over Owens for "breaking Into jalL" He was fined $10. but refused tg pay. The flogging followed. .1 | Triplets Victims of Auto Accident 8 Peekakiil, N. Y.?Triplets were | victims of an automobile accldent here recently when John |3 Morley, thirteen years rjd. was S killed and his sisters. Mabel and g Mildred, tnjureo. The car In g which they were riding, driven 28 by William Gilbert, vra overn turned. MORTALITY RATE FOR MEN LOWEf Women Fast Losing the Ad vantage They Formerly Had, Statistics Show. Washington.?W?men are f ist iosinj the advantage which they have pus sessed in tiie past of a lower rat" o niorta'ity than men. it Is indicated hi lif?* insurance statistics. The ex<-es: mortality of men oxer women, it 1: said, l as been one of the suppose* fixed r itionships in vital statistics. In the United ^ c.tes the death rati of males ban always been found tt be higher than that of females a every ge period from hirth til death and this condition has pre ailed auiie generally throughout tb( civilized world. In recent years how ever, he mortality of females haf actually been higher than that o! moles among the industrial policy holders of the insurance companies It the United States and Canada. In 1911 tfce mortality c*f white males insured In one company was more than 13 pel cent higher than among femaleo While the actual excess In male mor taiity varied aomewliat from year tc year, the condition continued up tc and Including 1018. Changa Also Noted in Negro Race. The year 1919 waa marked uy * udden drop to about 5 per cent, and by 1920 a reversal in the relationship had become a fact, with the female inerti.: ty 2.6 per cent above that o! mal--? In 1921 It was 1.2'per cenl higher in 1922 the oiidition was galx. hanged to an excess of 1.2 per cent in mule mortality over that ol females. In the negro race the difference between the death rate of the rwn sexes was never so strikingly marked, but. nevertheless, between 1912 end 1918 the excess of inule mortality was contluuous, varving from 2 to about 10 per cent. The year 1919 was the first year in which the mortality ol females actually exceeded that for mules and this condition has continued since. Including the year 1922. The fact that reversal appears among both white arid negro lives la considered significant. Very similar relationships In th" mortality rates of males and females are apparently h* dlCHted, it Is pointed out. In the fig ures for the registration area during the corresponding years, and light ia thrown on the possible factors by consideration of the nge periods of life where there changes were most pronounced. Greatest at Child-Bearing Age. It va? net carelessly bef flowed nor v.-as the ceremony private. . ; The happy father, who is thirty-five, i : with hi? wife thirty-two. attended by [ i th?* ten chl'.drw and hundreds cf their I J neighbors. proceeded to the Mai re of j the arrondJssetnent. la resjwmse to an official summons. The at tendance ot J the eotlr.* ten was necessary for tb??j bestowal of the prlfce There coasequently was much formality Begin j niiig with Almerttoe, aged sixteen, the j I Dames of the ten. their ages, places ofi birth, etc.. had to he properly verified, by the mayor's clerk; when the last. Owtton, onl> a few days old. was, reached, the clerk gave a si ph. the crowd ?. cheer, and the money was handed owr to medarae. who tnuttng ly handed It to monsieur THE ROMANCE OF W0R2S j "BEOLAM* t ' TD1 -hi.AM." the word by ^ *-' which we now designate u hubbub, mi excited crowd or * mi uproar, has b^en derived not 4 from "B.iM," as might be ex- $ peeted, but from "Bethlehem." the name of an Insane asylum In L.*Nv"l*r* ami formerly one of the most abominable term re-nous** of the British capital, t Bethlehem" Itself dates back f to 1247, when Simon Fit* Mary, j * n sheriff of London, founded a ^ j priory dedicated to St. Mary of 4 I Rethlehem. Bveryone connected f with thla institniton was com- J peliod to wear a black robe, with J i n single star on the breast, 'n | j memory of the star which guided J the Magi to the siuble at Ret Me- ! heir.. Some throe centuries letet t a London tailor named Stephen ^ {Jennings offered to start a fund t Ito purchase the Rouse of Rethle- i ' hem and turn It Into a hospital for the insane. hat It was not , until lienry VTT made a gtft of T the house to the city of London j j I that it became ni Insane asylum, f j (Owing to the fnct that lunatic were considered at thet time to ; 1 be possessed by devils, Bethle- t j | urui w ^ DIAL | H usands of Bargains next two weeks. Br; Suits 98c |5 Suits 89c . _ on suits 45c ty^i 19c g 2c | 2c ?j i 9c jg 19c ^ ' Hi 4 ~ cr ' - U 45c ^ ^ 4 i >1 2c i 10c H ee our b'g illustrated ular. Deot. Store I ?* dH iU2 *{l Ic?!UcT[l?z?nJffn." ' "~ 'y. ",r' '~*n mp T7=n r=r tcL"USflisrlrC-.'J "" " o