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Evening World Ten-Secon- d Movie of Ellis Parker Hys tlioupTi some of us are ooror Jluin others.\ FUN INJURED. HUNDREDS EVICTED IN OIL TANK BLAZE Greenpoint Tenants Ordered Out by Police as Explosion Endangers Their Homes. TWO FAMILIES IN PERIL. Policeman Jumps From Pass- ing Car and Rescues Four Trapped on Top Floor. Three firemen were injured In a spectacular firo early to-d- In the yarn of the Sono & Fleming Com- pany, a subsidiary of tha Standard Oil Company, at Kingland and Meser-nl- e Streets. In the Greenpoint eoctlon of Brooklyn. Because of fear of oil explosions end consequent destruction of near- by tenements hundreds of residents of the neighborhood wore ordered Into the streets. Afterward the police found shelter for thorn In stores and pa rages. Firemen hurt are: MURRAY. LIEUT. JOHN. Engine' Company No. 23S, scalded and hit by piece of pipe. St. Catherine's Hos- pital; condition not serious. CLANCY, JOHN, twenty-fiv- e, name company, thrown to pavement und cut and bruised. Attended by Greenpoint Hospital surgeon and sent home. TUITT, JAMES, twenty-fiv- e, same rompany, similar injuries; sent home after treatment. There had been three fires within n year or so in this yard, one of them burning' almost a week, and thou- sands rushed to tlio vicinity when two alarms wcro sounded shortly after 12 o'clock this morning. Resi- dents of the neighborhood added to thn contusion by carrying; their be- longings to tlio street. Tlio firo is believed to have started from h safety valve on an agitator, which contained about 1,500 bands of ml. It received tho oil after It had gono through, its first boiling and be- fore It passed Into the still. Flames hprcad to two stills, each ronluining about 1,500 barrels of oil. When tlio agitator exploded great volumes of Miioko and flnmo filled tlw air for blocks. The flames roso high, lighting surrounding country. l'olico from tho Greenpoint Avenuo S at Ion under Capt. Charles Leo were first to reach the fire. They were joined by reserves from the Uedford Avenue, Clymer Street, Herbert Street and Stagg Street Stations. They ordered from thulr homes families who had not vacated thtrn, then aided them In obtaining shelter. After the tire was under control the police permitted these families to re- turn to their homes. Uutlullon Chief Patrick Mahor to. tlio first alarm and im- mediately tamed in a second, which brought \Smoky\ Joo Martin, who took charge It was feared for a timo that flames might reach somo of the forty large tanks in tho yard, but tho com- pany had taken tho precaution of drawing off tho oil from tho&o and sending it to tanks In tho Hllsbvlllo Vard. Tho flio was under contjol in half an hour. Damagu waj not es- timated. ciMnrir.s two m:i,i nm i p. John Rniitham. No. HI Hint T.M 6treot, and I,i:o Kane. No. js-- j Wo.M 30th Street, were nccuned in Wet Side Court thin morning by Mux nittleiaiu. collector for Jower's brsvvery. No. 5,15 West 4Uth street, of holding him up ai 4Ut Street and 11th Avenuo on Oct. 15. MA mhhlngfrtaa of tiro. \Lying Is rtno to fear, or to fgoUsui, or to tiio natural o fur artistic expression.\ ' ' \ - ' 1 THE EVENING WOULD, SATURDAY, in Fred Stillman divorce, action, snow-shoe- on other day. Stillman for defense. Piesident Hnrdlng Instructed Postmaster General Hays to take up with New York City authorities the matter of removing tho old Post Office Building and city Federal officials liellove this means tho of the of tho long agitation to clear City Hull Park of tho structure. matter was discussed nt the Cabinet meeting the President Mr. Hays to negotiatu for tho exchange of tho site for a larger ono on which to eiect Federal Postmaster General Hays has been Instructed with New York officials in tho to establish a it iuii- - in iiiuiiK.ipai, mate ana reu-er- al activities. Ho has authority to a settlement with New York City from the of post office K.ffort to demolish the old Post Office as many have called It. hug been under way se -- eral Local Post Office auth- orities torn time ago suggested \The average oltilcl lies as normally as lio se lie. Is nfrajil of an exchango might be arranged uhoteby tho Federal would get a portion of tho new Court House site on which the city Is now planning build. In exchnngo for the City I frill site, and the Board of Lsttmute members havo favored tills pi oposal. Cr in: said this morn- ing the city Inn turned over to Hie Federal a map of tlio whole court bieise site. What part of this the will use can- not bo decided until tho size - and shape of the building to bo erected has beou determined. oTosrvfi mtivi: von k. r. hit. Supreme Iloird of Dlrectora of the Kiilphls of ('olimihiiH w ill attend Uiii lln.U event to be held by Oio New York rimpter of the l \I ' fr the K. C. mipcrhilt Tin- evni will he n monster vniidevllln nrnnged by J. p. AJhec for the IliiiM.lrmmi evening nt S P. M , hen Mr. Ireno CHelle will bend \ I\-- f tnr who hnve volunteered to perform for the fund. The New K nigh la .will elo.e llie rampilgn fii'louing the benefit eire-ptln- 'or lh work f fol- lowing up pledjj'j. whu 'i amount to jvem! hundnd tl'ou,uu do.lurx Major HyJnn, oilier oMIrlul-- . rn Knight Jumes A V liberty and III will utiend. PRC O BaSUVA& AND.WWi Indian guide In the. adjusting Mrs. at Gran Jo Aiise, the Stillman camp the St. Maurice River, Canada, tho Mrs. Is resting there and gathering witnesses her to to Hall lias pnd l?ginnlng end Tho yesterday, and authorized to plan Government full mnko standpoint efllelcncy. years. thut breathes, to that Government Government Tim hmli' Ynrlt Hippodrome Sujit. STlLLf-At-- J StlUniau's buildings. n man Hps he- - cause lie Is afraid of Ills wife. It doesn't Ret him Man Can Tell Lie Better Than but She Can Act One Best Who Lie as as a Foot Most Lies Add to the Joys of Mooers Of liars and tho theory and prac-tlc- o of lying. Ellis Parker Butler, who livtjs in Flushing, I I., and in \Pigs is Pigs\ (that humorous classic, he admits, is now a part ot of tho equipment of all lunatic asy- lums), talked last night at of all places the strictly honest and Incor ruptible City Club I had applied to the famous humor- - jist for data on a subject of genulno personal Interest to almost all ot us. because In his new and amusing novel, \In Pawn,\ he has made a, heroine of the most liar I have ever met in Action. he admits, In this book, that ho is an authority on lying, a sort of walking \Who's Who In Liars.\ \I have given a great deal of thought to lies,\ ho says, \having been a well-know- n liar myself and being an admirer of the late Mark Twain, who was a connoisseur In this Held. I have classified human beings in four rough groups: \1. Thoso who sin not and tell no lies. \2. Those who sin and tell the truth about it, becauso they cannot He. \3. Those who lie anil without evil intent, but who are a- - weakened by it that, although they would not He to do Intentional harm, do come, in time, to lie In selt-pi- tcctlon or to protect another. \4. Thoso who will Hi to do other harm or to win tho ha1- - persona! or for any other ieas'.,ii whatever.\ \Tho only difficulty with this clus-s- - ifloutlon,\ I told air. lliitler, \Is that It Is Thero aro ever so many more kinds of liurs.\ \Won't you naino some of them!\ lio begged, deftly Impaling an oyster on his fork. At his suggestion dining wltli tho discussion of \There Is tho Prohibition bar,\ I lirgan; \tho man who tells you he l.asn't a thing lelt when his cellar i.i lull of It, or who brags about hut homo brow when it tastes UI;o soaps-id- s. There Is tho income tax liar; ho has to be clever, but he frequently manages to get away with It.\ \And thero Is tlio golf liar,\ ofle-e- u Mr. Butler, not to bo outdone, \win makes assertions alxn t his score. And tlio salary liar, whoso figures you must always dlvidi) L- item\ \Don't forget tho domusttn liar,\ 1 rut in, \who regales tils wifo win HtorleM of tho home-trut- ho handed he boss.\ \Thero aro tho political llnrs,\ mentioned tho author of \In Pawn. ' \Thero uro tho prens agenta.\ 1 contributed. \And tho noinan who tell3 lies shout her lovo affairs,\ said lio. \And tho man who guea and dno UPewtso,\ natd I. \Tho lnct Is, we're all P\r \hi though somo of uh aro pom r others,\ Bummed up Mr. Hutlei. \Conwininic or mutton bmih.\ ' .ud tho waiter, gathering up tin- oisu plates. While wo weie wait m; \ our I'OIlHomino 1 asked lor .m exp n ntlon of the iintvers.il luir n u ' eney lo peiei it the tnui, \Lying ieMvted the en blut-cio- d buruQii.it, \u U. 'c iuiiii \Even when It Is n question of Texas oil slocks, the lies About jliern are not what hnrt-l- t Is tlio truth.\ times to fear, somo times to egotism, somo times to tho natural deslro for artistic expression. \Tho aveiago child lies as normal- ly as lio breathes until wo teach him that It is nobler to be spanked for stealing tho plo than for lying about It. llo lies because ho is afraid, of trouble or I know I did! The Ilea of women often have been duo to fear; for so many ccn- - fries they have had to rule men by nunc, nypoensy, untrutll. \Somo times a man lies becauso ho Is afraid of his wlfo. (I might add that it usually doesn't get him any- thing. She knows that he Isn't tell- ing tfio truth, even if sho doesn't what the truth Is. Moro often, however, a, man lies In the spirit of egotistic He romances about himself and his This sort of Iing, in the case of men, women and even children, shades into tho deslro for artistic ex- pression, tho impulse to create Often the result Is a littio of llction. \And It is hard to shaltc tlio nar- rator's faith In a fablo o'f this soit. A llttlo friend ot mino In Brooklyn onco came homo and told her mother Hhu had seen a lion in the corner of Mr. Smith's yard. Sho was rebuked for telling nn lmposslblo lib. 'Oh, well, said tho child, 'If It wasn't a lion it was a codfish!' \ Mr. Butler paused, in tlio consump- tion of an excellent lllet of soln, to rrm ,(s pocket the notebook ho carries that no stray seed of u joko shall fall by the way- side. \It occurred to me llie other day,\ ho observed, \to start two separate columns of In this book, one to lie called 'meticulous veracity' and tho other 'truth.' ileally, they're not at all tho same thing. If foi ex- ample, you described mu as a ilno-looki- man, you would bu veracious that goes without saying but would anybody know that you spoke tho truth?\ Tho somewhat chubby humorist sighed, a little pensively. \Tho truth,\ ho observed, \Is ly a terrible thing! I havo al- ways thought of myself as tall and svelte. Not long ngo, nt a certali I unction whtcli I attended as ono of tho speakers, my wlfo was on ono side of tho room and I on the oilier. She heuid a feminine guest s,iy to unothcr: 'Which is Mr. Hutler?' \ 'Oh,' said tho lady 'he's that llttlo, fat man just oppo- site!' \I was unhuppy, when my wife told mo about that. Think how hap-- I y I might havo been, had tho lady told a Uo!\ I remarked that I knew of no greater peat' than tlio truth-telle- r. \That Is true,\ Mr. Butler agreed. \Even when It Is a question of Texas Uio lies nlmut tin m ato not what hurt It Is Urn tru'h. Tho tinuble .Is that people stop lying eliout tlietn loo soon' \Tho only sort uf llo to l utterly rondniimrd is tho mean 1m tnld lo In. Hue some Individual and lo ewilt tho i ii Other lies add to I he.- - iyi ty of ' We neiei eou'd .i n.' if\ e. etum ' \.Ill III- Ill 'flu In - llo- I il S III \i.' ..i lli i ; p v i ii il . Ic s ii toll! to llie loei , m to iini.. II l Ini'n .u ii million ycalv, pcihuiiB, Uitua Is) 14, People Action Butler, Fictionist, Talks on Lies and Liars That Smooth Life's Wrinkles, and Mrs. Stillman and Indian Guide, Fred Beauvais, Canadian Wilds MBk&3!10 IHrVBBflulwFauHH jSKmrm OLD DOWNTOWN SOON TO JANUARY punish- ment.\ POST OFFICE BE DEMOLISHED Government Comptroller Beauvais, President Instructs Portmaster General Hays Confer With New York Authorities Remove Eyesore From City Park. Immediately \eyesore \Sometimes anytlilnpr.\ We Are All Born btars And Improved by Practice, Says Ellis Parker Butler Woman, Person Doesn't Obviously Abnormal Four-Toe- d Living. Marguerite Marshall. shamefacedly chccrfulest, unmitigated Further- more, romantically advuntage, incomplete. mendacity. untrustworthy punishment. glorification. achievements. masterpiece presumably observations, meticu- lously questioned, professional 1922. Big in \The only Ho to be utterly rndemned Is tlip nyan jlo told to Injure sumo ono and h exnlt tho liar.\ ARMED BANDITS IN $4,000 HOLD-U- P COW BIO CROWD Grab Payroll and Make Way Through Throng, Escaping: in Stolen Auto. The ease with which n. New Yoik ciowd may bo cowed was attested to-c- by dotcctlves of tlio East 3Bth Street Station, who worked all night n tho $t,000 payroll robbery In front i f tho main olllco ot the dyeing firm or Bees & Bees, No. 232 East 4tli f treot, almost at busy Third Avenue Yesterday afternoon W. Bolierts, nanagcr, and Michael Hennessey and Charles Doran, employees of Bee.s & Bees, went to a bank at 43d Street end Fifth Avenuo and got tho OOO. wan put In u small leuthor bag and tossed Into tho company's wagon they had driven to tho bank. Just aa tnoy had done every Friday afternoon for months Doran drove the wagon back to the main store and Huberts and Hcnne.i-se- y got out, Huberts with tho bag. Tbreo men, who had been lounging: about an automobile across tho strcec, walked over and Intercepted them. All tbreo had rovolvcrs in their hands und opo said: \Hand over tho bag or we'll kl!l ycu both.\ Tho bag was dropped and Boberts and Hennessey put up their hands. Tho robbers grubbed tho bug nnrt backing their two victims into a door- way ordered them lo remain nt least l'vo minutes If they valued their lives A lurgo crowd quickly gathered, but it did not Include a policeman, und no cnu was urmed, appaienlly, exco i I bo bandits. They buckrd through tho crowd to their uutomobllo and drove away, wcro given tho number of tbi automobile, but it proved to In th.i cf a car stolen Wednesday night in id Street. It was found Inst nlg.'t ly u policeman in front ot No. 63 West D2d Stieet. A blackjack, a.i l:rn bar und the ieatlie.\ b:ig thut htirl contained tlio Jl.ono worn left. Only seme checks and bills that we.ro of n o to the robbers weie left In the bug. Awoaniiju tiirii riMii.Mt. Tho Iocil Weuthor lluieail y received tho following advisor) nii's-sag- from Uio Wunhlngton offne: Southwest stonu warning, Delavvjie Brenkwater to Iiistpurt, Me. Storm of marked Intensity, cintiid over Northern Minnesota and moving rapidly east- ward, \Wind will becomo southorly. In- creasing and rearh gale force by Sunday morning, with unsettled weather and pnmbly snow or rain. a person too good to tell a He; some- what oftcner, nn Individual may lo born without Urn power of lyliu,, an abnormality as obvious an a inur-loe- d foot. But practically all of ua arc born liars, and our average Improves tho longer we live.\ \Which Is the liest liar, a man or a woman7\ 1 asked, us wo sipped our coffoo. \A man can tell a I1 loiter than a woman probably l'e.aue ho haj find moro pracllen. Hut a woman can act a lio bette.r than a man.' lie re- plied. \Will you Iw at homo to receive The livening Wot Id pho- tographer?\ 1 liiqiilied. flnal'y. \I think so,\ he answered. 'AI though I may have to mil down to Washington to have luneh with Hard- ing \ \Aftet all v.. in i 'in i Mi' Hutler.\ I nlisi i \viei n 'mill lave learned no' ' l.in' ' n \i \I'racllcally all of as are horn liars, mid our nTrrago ImproTes Uio longer Tre llTe.\ GUESTS AT PLAZA WATCH RESCUES AT SMALL BLAZE Firemen Carry Several Down Ladders at Fire Near Vanderbilt Mansion. Residents of tho exclusive district near the Hotel Plaza and Vanderbilt mansion were thrilled by the spec- tacle ot soverul persons being carried down ladders during a small Are In tho ground floor hallway of the stx-sto- ry Btudlo apartment at No. 34 West 58th Street, almost opposite tho hotel, early y. U Plorlo Valllgny, who has per- fumery showrooms on tho Second floor and lives on the third, was as sisted down an extension ladder by Firemen Darrow and Cousins of Engine Company No. 3 after they had helped down Ills wifo and three year-ol- d daughtor. The child was so affected by tho smoke sho was at- tended nt tho Hotel Plaza. T. V. Mlnot, a mombor of the Knickerbocker Club, was assisted down a ladder from his apartment on tho second floor, W. K Peppcrman, assistant to the President of tho Interborough, found his upnrtmont on tlio sixth floor filled with omoko and went to the roof with his valet, T. Shlah. Firemen ran an aerial ladder to tho roof and. assisted them to the street. Tho clanging of the gongs had brought out ninny residents of tho neighborhood. Tho firo did not got Into any of tho stores or apartments In tho building. MOTHER WITH BABE JAILED ?OR THEFT Gets Twenty Days for Stealing as Infant Waited Outside Store Ajjed Woman Freed. Mrs. Boho Bayncy, fifty-si- x years otj. of No, 903 Sixth Avenue, was in General Sessions to-d- charged with stealing J2C worth of toys Dec. 19 from U. 11. Maoy & Co. Dctec-IIvc- h of tho, Stores Mutual Protec- tive Association instilled they found tho toys In her possession, but Mrs. Mary 'Mangan, a probation otllcer, pleaded for leniency, and Justices Kernoohan, iMoInoniey and Salmon suspended sentence. 3llss Mary Zombo, twenty-tw- o, of No. CIS liont ICtli Street, also by detectives ot tho Stores Mutual Frotcctlvo Association, who testified she stole J19.C0 worth of goods from Hcnrn & Son whllo her ld son was outsldo in a buby carriage, received twenty days In tlio workhouse. Mrs. Zembo had her baby In her arms when sho was sentenced. She said she would have to take tho baby to the workhouso wltli her. YOUTHS SENT TO PRISON FOR CARRYING GUNS Srvrrp l'rna1tlrn Impmril In Own-liull- tn to Clir.ck Crlinn. Justices Kernoclmn, Salmon and ile-Iner- In tho Court of Special Sessions y Imposed severe penalties, as part of the campaign tn stamp out crlmra of violence, on three youths. Al- fred nlttnttr, nineteen. No. 23 Pitt Street was sntetieed to an Indnflnlto term In tho New York City Heforum-tnr- y for '.mvlnir an automatic pistol ami tin of cartridges in a bu for whleh he liad (ho key. He was by n narcotic qtid acnt had een him f.ll \ilopw.\ A '.arc quantity of dnuff, needles ,iud other vnraphnnslln wits found with the The oth\M sentenred were Ellis llo-unt- i. twenty-one- . No. JSS West Uth S rem. ami Andrew Pnresa. n'nrtteen. .n s:: West 105th Street Moth were muted wit'i revolvers n their posses-mi- l and nentenced to from six months tn tola i ux In the Qeoltsntlanc to 1 t Other Kinds \A man can tell a lio hflttcr than a Tfoman, but a iToman cat net j lio hcttgr Uian n maa.\ HYLAN FLAYS STATE FOR MEDDLING'AT 1 E RULE PARLEY Conference of 42 Mayors at' Buffalo Moves to Urge More Local Autonomy. nun-'AliO- , Jan. Il, nepresenbtM lives of forty-tw-o cities of the State ;riet here to-d- to discuss legislation and amendments to the State consti- tution that would brTng a greater measure of home rule to tho cities. Chief among the ends sought arw of tho Legislator In public utility matters affectlos; lo- calities. Empowering1 the effles to run mihffo utilities, particularly with reference 1 bus lines, If they see fit to do so for tho benefit of taxpayers. . Prevention of tho enactment et laws undor tho gul.se of goneral stat- utes, which are in reality special statutes' affecting one locality with- out giving the Chief Executive au- thority to approve or veto the measure.. In tho event that the Court of Ap- peals holds that the Legislature under Its police powers may Inter- fere with the conditions imposed by localities on traction companies, en- actment ot a constitutional amend- ment and of Immediately legislating-tha- t franchises aro inviolable and that the consent of a locality to the uso of its streets by traction com- panies may never be interfered with. Mayor Hylun ot Now York City opened tho confcrcnco with a denun- ciation of \Stato Interference with home rule.\ He said, in part: \What our cities need is less Al bany rule and interference and more local autonomy. Give tho people the light to say yes or nuy to those things which aro of vltnl Interest to themselves. Jx-- t us havo home rule permitting cities to exercise local the right to own, con- trol und operate public utilities. \Let us present a united front n gul list uxplolters of tho people, the special privileges seeking Interests and tho lickspittles on tho subsidized press and the double-fnc- o political leaders and manipulators In both parties who have betrayed tho people Into the hands ot tlio railroad, trac- tion, public utility and self-scekl- rings.\ \In Now York City thero arc two conspicuous elements that mako con- stant assaults upon .tho citadel of gov-- , eminent. Ono comprises tho ovor-graspl- ng traction, gas, electricity, telephone and food monopolies; the other represents tho vicious tntuibllnc und underworld crew. \Tho gambling and underworld in- terests, whoso sun bus set In tho City; ot New York, wont to amass tainted fortunes through the creation of plague-spot- s at tho expense of the virility of our youth und tho scold- ing tears of our womanhood.\ \In the City of Now York wo havo, given especial attention to the require- ments of our tchools and tho adminis- tration of our Police Dopartmont. We feel that the record made In both of tui branches of our city government lias named for us tho hearty approval of i bo citizenship of tho City of Nek Hore Mr. Hylnn launched Into a bitter denunciation of tho Rocke- feller Foundation, declaring tho Foundation caused to havo rivetted on tho statute books the \pay-as-you-- law\ \a law that stood as a Chinese wall, preventing tho ad- vance of school construction.\ KUMMEL NOW HEADS JERSEY CONSERVATION TnUe llirr Job of GanklU TVTi Itemnlna IToretrr. THKNTON. Jon. H. Tho Stata Hoanl of Conservation and Develop- ment has accepted tho resignation of Alfred liasklll as director. Hewl8 continue as State Forester. The Board appointed Dr. B. B. Kummel as the new director. He t now the State Geologist and trill re- ceive An additional $609. V
