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JURT TAKES HS CIAL BRIDE. Gonte’s Runaway Marriage at with Virginia Martin Is Sever- sh, ‘ed by Deoree and the Youthful al Law Clerk Is Disconsolate. ° 4 As —— ms When young Jose Conte took Vir- nia C. Martin to Dr. Stinson, of the Church, and solemnly he meant it, and when her mamma, Eliza Martin, kept her away from im and in a week sued him for an julment of thelr marriage, he re- ved to fight for his bride to the last ich, despite the discouraging fact she also wanted to undo the par- “fgon's work. | Virginia is the daughter of Samuel | Martin, proprietor of the Martin jouse, in Broadway jusf above For- Street, and she was the admired at every guest. But when she ran off @nd got married to that young span- law clerk, Jose Conte, she lacked yonths of being elgh' fendant in a sult for annulment be- re he had had a chance to realize it be had @ wife. ) Phe case was tried before Justice “Beatt. The big family Bible was put in eeorees Then the bride of a week She testified that she the ry te were spendin; f, auestion, 8 asked t! fe answered: be «/d not make love ly, “It wae and years afterw: went to Dr. Stinson on apt 10, ter school, and he married us. fan right home and told my jer. I did not see Joe ae: that, my mother sued on Apri ng, Gente, who ls a clerk in’ thelaw Hcott, Mestre & Gongales, at Branhway was the picture of when Justice Scott refused to fiawyer, A. H. Katrenburgh, put In lence That’ Conte had been Mian Vite years, and with the consent declaring that PLEA FOR WOMEN INSPECTORS. Mrs. Ellis, Who Conceived Idea of Sending Them to Meet In- coming Ships, Says Great Good Has Been Accomplished. *|MANY YOUNG GIRLS SAVED. —_ ‘Mrs. Margaret D. Bilis, Superintendent of Legisiation of the Woman's Christian Temperence Union, whose efforts in es- tablishing the women Inspector {dea at the port of New York is greatly disap: pointed over the turn affairs have taken. Mrs. Ellis has just returned from Wash- ington to her home in Orange after a five months’ absence. “The reported fallure of the women tn- Sspectors came like a blow to me," sald Mrs. Elits, “for T believe auch officers in- dispensable to the welfare of foreign girls who come to thiggcountry. “I became deeply interested in the matter after the raid made tn Phila- delphia last November, when 120 girls were taken before a magistrate. The girls were mostly of foreign birth and {the magistrate could not hold them. I Investigated conditions at Ellis Island and found that the girls who were led Into evil were not the ones who came in the steerage, for they are wall cared for by missionaries and officials. It is the second cabin and first class passen- gers who are most exposed to temptation and from such were the Philadelphia girls recrulted. As a general thing their Passage is paid for on the other side and they are met by members of the syndl- eate in New York, , Didn't Want Detectives, “I laid the case before the Commia- #loner-Genera} of Immigration at Wash- ington and asked that women inspectors bs appointed. He approved the plan. It was not our {dea to make the inspectors detectives to hunt out evil, but to pro- tect the good \ “President Roosevelt also approved the plan and dictated a letter to the Becretary of the Treasury urging the appointment of women inspectors, The way the women have gertormed their duties has met with the strongest ap Proval of the men Inspectors and doo- ‘THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 30,’ 190». MRS. ELLIS FIGHTS TO SAVE WOMEN SHIP INSPE CTORS. from his Western trip. Enough cases have developed to mow that the women inspectors are of great value, One of our Inspectors has brought about four marrlages between couples who travslled together. Amother has saved sever: young girls who did not know Into what @ trap they were being led. One in Stance is that of a young English girl being brougnt over Here by & man wlio intimidated her. The xirl told her trou- dies ea to @ woman inspector and she was ", 6 @ Christlan nation something should be done to stop this white slave traffic, and to abolish the women in- spectors will be to deny innocent girls who may be aold into slavery of a great protection. I have visited the embassies of England, France, Denmark and Ger- many to see what can be done tn the matter, and they all agree that the woman inspector pian is I cannot believe that the system will be abol- {ehed if the public will take up the matter and appeil to the President." CLUBFOOT CASE STUMPED JURY. It Was All About a Pair of Boots, and Experts on Each Side Were Equally Positive. Muntctpal Justice Roesch's Fourth Dis- of their gnarled pedals and how well he had fitted them with boots, Other ex- perts were there to testify as to the value of olubfoot boots, and the de- fen@ant ewore that he sometimes got as high as $5,000 for treating and fitting clubfeet when jent-customer was rich, but that when the customer was OOF he let him off easy—say $10—as hi ad done with thie dissatisfied pla ntif Knotty, problem for the al Tenth ¥ the jebox, and itor many hours of deliberation they reported that they could not agree on a verdict, whereupon the clubfoot case stumped out of court, WORLD'S FAIR PROGRAMME. April 30 Will Be the Day when Noosevelt and Cleveland Speak. ST. LOUIS, March 8.—At a meeting TO SAVE NAME OF CEN. MACDONALD Scotsmen Unite in Movement to Prove False the Charges Against Late British General Who Shot Himself. . WAS IT ARMY CONSPIRACY? | LONDON, March 90.—A ntmber of the ‘more prominent Scotsmen of Great Brit- ain, including S!r Charles Allan, M. P.; James Galloway Weir, M. P.; with Lady Jeune and other reprenentatives of Boot- tish societies, have launched a move- ment for the purpose of investigating the charges against Gen. Sir Hector Macdonald, who committed sulcide in a Paris hotel. It fs suspected that the persecution to which Gen. Macdonald had been sub- Jected by the army clique progressed so far that the charges in Ceylon, far from home, and that through them bis jealous en- emies hoped to encompass his complete disgrace. In the investigation which ‘will be made it Is believed that should the sus- picion of the investigators be verified the Army Office. which haa been in dis- favor with the people a long time, will be given such an overhauling that the Social military cirales, the autocrats of British sootety, will be revolutionized ‘and many idols will be shattered, Many are angry with the widow of the soldier for the orders insisted upon |Detng carried out concerning his funeral. When the body arrived tn London it was found to be incased only in a rough board casket. No one from the family was there to mest it. The undertaker |had orders and in executing them he jplaged the body in a common delivery wagon covered with pictorial advertise- ments, and it was carted through the city as common fretght to the Northern Railway terminus for shipment to Scot- land. |GEN. MACDONALD * 1150 employees, were trumped up against him./that FIRE PANIC IN BIC SUILDING. Working Men and Women in Four-Story Brooklyn Factory, but All Get Out Safely. ONLY SLIGHT DAMAGE DONE. ‘A fire in the top’ floor of the four- story factory building Nos. 8 to 9 Third street, Brooklyn, to-day sent tho many of them young women, to the street in a hurry and amid mych excitement. ‘The fire started in the acid-room of the plant of the Brass Goods Manufac- turing Company and the alarm was spread by boys running to the works of the Pilgrim Steam Laundry, on the Shird floor, for water, alaey, were at work In hey heard that the building was on fire they ‘screamed and rushed for the stairs. In the halls they met the seventy-five men and women coming down from the top floon, and for @ tme It appeared as thoush the stairs would become congested and ‘some be trampled under. Cool heads, however, prevailed and the tangle waa ‘straightened out, and it ts believed ,every one escaped’ from the building in safety, ‘three alarms of fire were sent In, and the great amount of apparatus sent to the ‘Rre,. with the quick work of tke firemen,’soon had It under control, The damage was estimated at $10,000, While fighting the blaze Fireman Louis Blair was overcone and had to be car- ried down from the third story on a ladder. After he was revived he was taken to his home. MARION F. SMITH DIVORCED. She In Also Granted the Custody of Her Three Children. (Spectal to The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS, March 30.—Supreme Court Justice Keogh has granted an absolute divorce to Marion F. Smith from her husband, Joseph B. Smith, who was @t one’ time a prominent yachtsman and member of several Clubs along the northern shore of Long. Isjand Sound, Mrs, Smith is ou ‘en the oustody of her three’ children, Bthel, Marion and Jo. seph Smith. 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The d fendant set up a counter claim for $0, balance due for the boots, and declared that he was a Lorenz in a amall way and that the $30 only paid for the treat- ment he had given the plaintiff's club- feet as preliminary to fitting him with doots and that the boots did fit. Experts were sworn on both A half dozen clubfooted men were called as witnesses to say how they had been ipenefited by the defendant's treatment Furniture, Carpets, Rugs and Almost Everything for Housekeeping. To Enable the Public to Observe its Purity and Learn its Possibilities, and Whatit has Done for Others, a T al bottle of Cranitonic Hair Food, and book entitled “Hair Education,” con- taining Illustrations, in colors, mailed frog and postpaid to all who Call at Institute, or send name and come plete address to Cranitonic Hair Food Co. Incorporated under laws State of New York, 526 WEST way, New York, ‘Near corner Bleecker street, oo af prt te c ota i ate Fw nia: Frat Teed Oe London, or B Rue de tors, and the criticisms which have arisen in ‘d to their lack of tact in questioning girls must, If such.a con- dition exists, be attributed to lack of experience, ‘All now Gopartures con- nected with the sppointm ‘wom: to positions previously hel by, men are mel h the same spirit of levity, but I do not see why It should be. ‘Two weeks ai 0 it was thelr office, ani in, the Domestic Relations Act and ton 1.743 of the Code fixing the age tat @lghteen years, the consent Parents would not make the mar- valid, Justice Scott granted a de- of annulment on the spot, but Mr. fenburgh appealed to the Appellate ‘led the eyes ot coe te. to-day on be, te wed cr me ue unas experience. He sa’ Vii vis my Utthe ou, nt to leave ane would come ho per Her fatter ‘com: sixth street pala oer ekirine 8, 1 am of Spanish doscent. but T born in Havana twenty-one years a'Cuban. 1 fought for Cuba jeutenant In the Rural Guard. my wife again. hela last evening the programme for the three days’ dedicatory exercises of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which will open here in 190, was finally adopted: ‘The dedication of the bulldings under the direction of the National Commis- sion will begin April 30 and continue | through May 1 and 2 The principal ceremonies will be on April %, when President Roosevelt and former Presi- dent Cleveland will be among the speak- ers. At 10 o'clock on that date the free- i 28 the city will be tendered to the reels BURIED AT DAWN. Edinburgh People Show Respect as Body Ie Borne from Railway GAME FISH AND DEER RANGE. Rockefellers Will Maintain Both on Their Pocantico Estates. (Gpecial to The Evening World.) 8tation to Cemetery. POCANTICO HILLS, March 90,— Both John D. Rockefeller and William BDINBURGH, Scotland, March 9.—| Rockefeler have arranged to have pri- The body of Major-Gen. Sir Heotor Mac-| vate brooks and lakes on thelr big Donald, who illled himeelf at the) oflates near Pocantico Hills stocked Regina Hotel in Parte on Wednesday] “As soon as John D, Rockefeller com- last, wae buried in Dean Cometery here | pister ‘the ‘mark of transforming Bute Shortly after the arrival of the London | termilk Hill Into «private pati, he ent of “inst [roited States by Mayor tran st 6 e'obock this morning. a pate, oe Fue trom Wells. amen ire yon vaca a About three hundred of the public} Kafrondacke and placed in ths. park, parade, gwatonal Guard tro G2 were present. ‘The people uncovered a4] ay it his intention to have a fine deer States. the cortege passed through the streets. "range on his Pocantico domain, were to be deprived o: Tcalled upon the Inspector-Generai, ‘He stated that no fault was to be found with the women Inspectors, but that thelr work was super! Roosevelt Grauts Delay. “I cannot agree with this vitw, for women alone can successfully deal with | metanc T nalred ts ral | |J-S. Baumann, Cor. Gth Ave & 18th St women under such cirew oes. puna upon President ‘Roosevelt asking ‘his help, sone he opened that the tm epectors be retained until he returned CEILON TEA. Butler’s 4 Golden Tips, Same quality sold elsewhere at 70¢, Ib. Packed in cartons, full net weight, Pound, 50c Half Pound, 25¢ INDIAN TEA. Our Direct Im- portation from India. Pronounced su- perior to all others, Packed in cartons, full net weight. 50c Pound, Half Pound, 25¢ TEAS AND COFFEES. With the average person the determining factor in the selection of Teas and Coffees is merely a matter of price. 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