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TW TOILERS GET o>" -“WOIKIN’ PR PAPERS.” Children dati the Tenements Crowd to the Health Depart- ment for Permission to Work in the Summer Vacation. fins MANY ARE TURNED AWAY.| P | “Wrhouvands Fight and Scramble for _ & Chance to Earn a Few Pennies + to Help Out While School » ermant me wolkin’ papers.’* 1 "The bla policeman who stands In the entrance of the Health Department at street and Sixth avenue has Qs hands full sending the crowds of @aiidren to their proper destination, CHUDeY MOTHER takeo OATH where the law must be complied with} Mamie Ryan. "I wouldn't work in 4) Before these small wage-earners may | factory ven the children of toll have their social distinctions. fol] through the hot simmer months. ‘The boys who crowd tae Health Dé “Here, you boy, go down in the base- partment with their fathers an Ment. Everybody down in the base- : faced, though sor eutnt sf hy olledi; dnd tort Pome Tout Woe! pares: garments te roma ins for ‘ ‘oa Out in front of the Health Depart-| bring color oe a respiend ment headquarters a crowd of anxtous| phere |i he sweiter Bans Sir of the big examining foo! © Wences toreigners, mothers of the Uttle] “Reds: “Huubenateln's. Slack. braids toilers, stand waiting in anxious won-/|tled with the brightest of red rib’ @erment for their children who have| and the red roses on the Jace straw nod proudly aa she shows her ‘in to be vaccinated. Certificate togetner wit! in the basement an imitation stnation and writes 4 reigns. Augustina Izett!,| W! a bold McGuire, Jakie Goldstein and} {Allan girls Persons. past the attendants at|the occasion and flaunt‘ best POWER Meavuring Herght ‘RUSSIA LOOKS AHEAD 10 CONFLICT Czar, Noting Joint Action of Eng- land and Japan, Orders War Minister to Inspect Fortifica- tions at Amur Naval Base. dda CHANGE OF PLANS. Complaint Made to Corean Govern- ment that English, Japanese, Americans and Others Are Enjoy- Ing Privileges Denied to Russians. t BERLIN ly 4—The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette at St. Peters- burg telegraphs tat according to re- ports from Vindivostock the Russian War Minister, Gen. Kuropatkin, acting on instructions from the Czar, has alter- ed him {tinerary and has left Viadiv- ostock suddenly, golng to Nikolaevek, a naval station of Asiatic Russia, on the north bank of the Amur, supposedly for the purpose of inspecting the fortin- cations, which would be spectally impor- tant in the event of a confiict with Japan and Great Britain ‘The Russian Minister at Seoul t« re- ported to have cdmplained to the Cor- ean Government of lang purchases made by Americans, Germans, British and Japanese and of their construction of houses outside thelr respective con- cessions, which the Russians are not permitted to do RUSSIA AND CHINA GET ULTIMATUM. ODESSA. July 4.—Acocording to ad- thes proud «beetle to get to the man at!" Bince § o'clock In the morning these table who gives out the applica-| children, wiih their snot many ot Yrhom aye had to bring whole familion dca blanks. order to get away from liome, hae Boste ued and IONS! swarmed around the Ilealth Depa:t er biack hair done up in a Bent. Eight policemen sirive to keep on the top of her little Nea-| order, {t requires their untiving er- oes crowds her way with the| ‘F'# ‘to keep confusion trom relgning mother in the Italien Confusion In Appalli peament's garb up to tie young woman| After the height, welgat, color of hair Retin sepmoation table. @nd eves have been registered for iden- Gfloation, and the first steps in ue ‘ Writes with Difficulty. zing of the little wage-earnere ve been Milled, they are sent upstairs, y i FOUGHT DUEL WITH “Yes, she is my mother. Ob, but I they are’ giv test ati ean wite my name, wurely, Oh, 00]and writing. Here tao confusion is ap. nice.” lung. Every one wats ave been Rosle takes fully Give minutes tol moiding scratched arms and complaine ‘ramp her small body over the table to} ina @ trouble they have to go - —_->— address in her pte Ole sare silent and uncom- verywhore mothers are ainx- ‘ ously ‘trying to «et at thelr chiidren,| Henry Dean, a Broker, and Miss and the policemen have t ad mea te oli e to separate a. black-eved® Taltan whee tn jan orto with mothers and| tongue had xiven way mont rapldiy to jcanized slang." ee oon | ahaae at otuft in minute. eoetiawed “Well, I went to ‘school a lot. last fe mingling with] year and I oan read fine.’ replied ant New York's dis-| Other. Ray Williams Celebrate the Glorious Fourth in a Spectac- ular ‘Manner. said Magistrate Pool, in the Yorkville time, and I'm frig throug! sc r threats aré buried at the! Gungry, but T promised to muito aia | Court, to-day fined a very beautiful youny woman who called hersoit Ray @ bench to look for the misaing Jennie, n.| Who was waiting her turn to prove her boy | Sptness in ‘The number of children who apply for working rs is so large that when tae doors indignant, who, dlsre- @ thin,’ anxious-faced girl, standing on the department, ar thelr way out of tur big-eyed, | pale-looking Jong Williams, of No. 203 East Fourteenth stract, and Henry Dean, twenty-one years old, a broker, $1 each for holding ied of an impromptu pistol duel at Fourteenth my papers?" thet haired, young, woman whom| tumed way and told %9 cote back GFo|atreet, between Third and Fourth ave- rien had desig next daw. nue. 4 frei-lookin' geil wid de" sunny sahroveands of certificates have been| Ag Detectives Plorce and O'Nell turned Ys your futver or your mother?! Manhattan alone. the TRUM ee of) into Fourteenth sweet from ‘Third ave- nue early to-day they saw a crowd of several hundred persons scattering In all directions, At the same time they hean! a fusilade of reports. Pressing through the crowd they saw a beautiful young girl, whose bright golden hair was orowned with a broad 5,000, most of them during the few days following the cloring of scaool, These vacation certificates are filed with the employer: and outside of vacation time no ohtld under fourteen is allowed to work in factories and stores, to go, your father or ay s to ewear that it either K , Some one ‘yo are of the a proper, Age, ~ “But I liv lown on on a ‘walked ai all the way, Opposd to Vacation Papers, ‘Can't be helped.” Dr. Lederle is opposed to the issuin f ¢ issuing| by operatiny The small boy went away discontolate. | of "these vacation vertifisaiuy, as he RIDER Ren etal oa eboy SCoTeLinn Ene eain eaten f . boy, Where is your mother ee the ied ‘object sot vacnti n—tol tion of a handsomely give a calld a rest_and recreation—Is| sean, urn Was blazing. aw Liga dead, and 1 ain't got n0} defeated. poe objections saainat vaca-| the girl w @ miniature Ale gun. M tion worl were oresented before the ‘hey the pair under arrest Well, haven't you anybody to swear) Legislature by the Child Labor Com:| tater” aeralgned ‘them in Yorkville tory: mittee last winter, and an Court. ai Uncle“ Conia Fix it: abolluhing the eysstem Dut it] "The date plended that they were ‘ 4 0 Into ; celebrating the day, but the A smile, iuminated the stolid face of | “TS dor the law: ov Mhitae eeaicliig: Magist AeriAned ether kisaathorana d i employment in a mercantile establish- advised them to hold their spec- Well, if dat’s all you want, I guess) ment or factory must show a lcenso celebrations Ina vacant lot. me uncle or any of me friends can ae the Board of ean, and all ae cants must ‘be over twelve years old Brea rare) see norze COE te) neces, for stores and fourteen for factories, The nondescript gatherings of children goin’ to wolk in a store: what} who crowd the Health Department and are you goin’ to sked Mamie] the branch, at Elm street, present lange Ryan of Theresa Atentint. numbers who do not look’ to be in their ro Pensioner Stabbed and Killed. LIGTLETON, » July 4—artnur Loughlin, a naval pensioner, sixty- even years old, was stabbed to deatn "[ work. in the factory. Yes, I'm] teens, but they can always present a/in the Wayne House, Westford, early twelve, mother or guardian who t@ ready to| to-day by Everett Wayne, who ls said “It'a ‘nicer in the store,” bragged| swear as to their legal age for work > be insane, What Is an Ion Define Radio-Activity If you can answer these questions intelligently you are posted on recent scientific discoveries that have dumbfounded the most learned men in the world. Astounding marvels of nature, strange, wierd, un- dreamed of, have just come within the ken of man. Here you have a simple, lucid explanation of these things that every one should know. ; Plays Written While You Wait. Little bits of New York life familiar to every one have inspired many ®%a two or three day drama that has made an easy fortune for its rapid-fire writer. Sunday World are the jokes. ‘do you think © | cials are published in THE WORLD. to-morrow. vices received by the St. Petersburg newspaper Sviet, from Japan, the Brit- +ish, and Japanese Ministers at Peking have presented a note to the Chinese Government In the following terms: First—Russ! occupation of Man- churla threatens the maintenance of MRS, MEYER HAD A HARD WHIPPING Husband adn Companion Found Her in the Arms of a Man While Stranger Lashed Her with a Buggy Whip. interests of England and Japan. Second—If the departure of the Rus- @ians from Manchuria 1s indefinttely postponed Erigland and Japan must pro- ceed to protect their interests. ‘Third—China must demand from Rus- sla the immediate evacuation of Man- churia. Fourth—Great Britain and Japan ac- knowledge no treaty between Russia and China which does not bind Russia to evacuate Manchurts. Fifth—If after the evacuation of Manchuria a treaty between China and Rusela with to the civil ad- ministration schuria js deemed necessary such treaty can only be con- cluded with the approval of Great Brit- ain and Japan. Sixth—A repiy to this note ls demanded within five days Prince Ching, President. of the (or- Prin Board, ack ‘he Gviet coun- Naor ‘the 2, Proprese bowasir in pra er id hes ¢ demands, srentomat ved Ginited States Minister onger to give them tls support. The arraignment of Charles Bierman, twenty-eight yeara old, of No. 1% Four- teenth avenue, Mount Vernon, in Mor- risanie Court to-day on a charge of as- sault brought to light a horse-whipping case which occurred in the Bronx un Thursday evening. The compleinant is Frederick Meyer, of No. 1008 East One Hundred and Eightleth street. According to the latter's se, he with his wife, was accomp: homa| le tn Thursday evening Mra mnie Miller, who lives near One Hundred end Wight tleth street and Mohican avenue. With head | WASHINGTON GETS NO NEWS OF ULTIMATUM. Spelss and Mayer were walking of the women through One Hundred and Eightleth street when the men were startled by a cry of “Heip" from Mrs. Moyer, (They rushed back, the women considerably to the rear of the men, and came upon Mrs, Meyer held In the arms of a man while a strange woman lashed her across the body ha buggy whip. Mrs. Miller sind ‘to one side wringing her hands and shriekng for help. Ser rushed in to rencue his wite and ‘was met with a stinging blow in the face from the strange man, who re- e1 Mrs. Meyer to protect’ himself, Ay short. sharp fight followed, “durin; which, the strange woman disappeared and the strange man escaps knocking Meyer dow: The Meyers reported the matter to the police. Blerman was arrested Iam in Fordham be Deteciitt| Admitted at Tokio that Negotia- the Tremont avenue peter tions Are in Progress. The woman has not yet been Bierman was held by Magistrate Sra TOKIO, July 4.—The Peking correspen- fn $1 000 ball for ‘examination dent of the Nicht Nich! says the Chi- WASHINGTON, July 4—Nothing has yet been heard in official quarters of the ultimatum delivered to China by Japan and England according to the Odessa despatches printed to-day. It certain that the United States has not recently been approached in this di- rection by either of the Governments named as parties to the agreement so that it has had no opportunity to indl- cate whether or not !t would lend its ure support to an effort on the England and gepan to protect their ft After | Meeresta In Manchu TEE Pe TY ih iy lant ween ‘THE WORLD: ‘SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1908, BEFORE THE BOARD OF HEALTH AS APPLICANTS FOR PERMISSION TO WORK Cath ha. Ai SEY OA SICK BABIES’ FUND i BEGINS SUMMER’S WORK. Novel Feature Added to the Campaign Which Has Continued Fourteen Years and for Which Contributions Have Al. ° ready Been Received ‘The Cvening World Bick Babies’ Fund vegin che Afzeenth year of {tw sum- mer work In behalt of the suffering little ones of New York by the Inetitu- tion of a nove! and needed feature, One of the needa noted by The Ewen- ing Worla corps of physicians and el! other doctore whose practice has led them to study the causes of infant mor- tality has been a sclentifically-construet- ed, hygienic feeding baile Many of the bottles which are {n com- mon use only can be cleansed with great diMoulty ani others cann&t be Kept in sanitary condition by any amount of care. Boards of health of various cities have condemned some of these types of feeding bottles and foré bidden thelr sale. The Evening World corps of physicians bas found a feeding bottle which Is easily cleansed and can only become unsanitary through the grossest neglect. A preliminary purchase of 10,00 of the approved bottles has been made, and these will be given free to moth- peace In the far Hast and injures the} Li anderiaken a branch of the work. tn whioh ‘The Evening World was and has employed fifty phvalcians to carry. the mossge. of good health and do educational wo: nong the mothers of the city's babies. They will gontinue the taak of teaching the great lensons of cleanliness. proper food and oper Soong. which ling The ‘ening Worl physialane have achieved remarkable succets, Othor. agencies are also at work, but the field {s so great tpat Thé Evening World cannot in jus: abandon It, even when there alds, in the work are provided. i ‘There, js ample room for the expan- sion of effort: there are thoveands of | innocent Uttle ones who must suffer Unless this effort for their well-veing, restoration or maintenance of ti heath, ie continued, oft ihuimber of contributions to the cost the work have already been re- Sey , ahd the campaign will begin vely during this we Erbe'n © Benefit. ‘The first big benefit for the Bick Bables, Fund has deen ‘arranged, by a Se yg the kind-hearted proprietor oa the Casino at North Beach. L. 1. Erbe, who has already given seven benefits for the babies, in as many consecutive . netting In all over ers presenting requests from a practia- | $1, a oo Ing phystctan at the office of The Bven-|% 2 t ; t Ing World Sick Bables’ Fund in the |Gatine | All the , receipe an pulitver Building, or at any of the Bie “ex Bayes con tiie fund) ane ae ranch offices of The World: No, 188 (repay PAC Ea has SA LAg ; us ren Perey Broadway, between Thirty-seventh and| fie ee en ay evi asicting Thirty-elghth streets; No, Ml West|of the Casino's regular %ill and nu- One Hundred and Twenty-Atth street; No. 22 Washington street, Brooklyn, and No. S17 Fulton street, Brooklyn. With each bottle will be given, also free, two pure gum reversible nipples and printed instructions emphasizing Glrections of all expertenced physi- clans in regard to the proper method of cleansing and keeping pure the bot- tles and nipples. Eve! v The Evening Works hyaicianh wan visit of all babies heed ‘for thelr. nervices they are ln Pepe rin Pah one eard sent floe ning World ‘atok Babiev find tn the Pullteer Bullding request- Ing ‘one of the physicians to call upon a glok baby meet with a prompt his work ts a free charity and te maintained by voluntary contributions. twas inaugurated fourteen years ago, when there waa no other means of com- patting the frightful mortality among infanta in the tenements of the metrop- ols, and has been continued from year to year, growing In favor and Chae ing, its, influence, ‘he Mfunicipal Board of Health has Merous volunteers, will be prepared by J. Klein, Mr. Erbe’ ‘our | American oie, cotter tint Family Lottle Ryerson, Lottie gill, the moulins Sisters and Elliott and Neef. + Subscriptions, ‘The foltowing #ubecriptions to the Bick “Babies Fund have becn received: fo the Péltor of The Bventng World Inclosed please Mind $2 for the sick babies. I hope it will help them a little. We had a emall stand, at which we worked two days to make the above amount. Sorry we could not help any more. Slamfe Wolff, 20 Bast 109th street. Susie Block, 64 Bast 109th street. , Frank, 54 Bast 108th street Fanme Karnowliz, 2 Past neh street, wee Btenosras hers gent In'30 cence, J. ede ‘rom wt 11.75. All money for the Sick Rabies! Runa should be sent to “Cashier York World, Pulitzer Bulding, York City.” ot nese Ministe-at St. Petersburg has tn- formed the Chinese Govergment that Japan is negotiating direct with 6t. Learns Inquiries here have feiled to elicit ahy official confirmation of the English-Japanese action. though it is not denied that @ communication has boo between Toro and 6t. Petera- DYING, HE SENT MESSAGE TO PARENTS Son of Rich Paterson Man Succumbs to Appendicitis While Relatives Are in Europe. PATDRSON, N. J., July 4.—Peroy B. ‘Simpson, son of James Simpson, a wealthy silk manufacurer of this cit: died last night in the General Hospital, trom appendicitis. (fr. ‘Simpson's par- ents are now travelling in Burope, and efforts are being made to reach them by cable to inform them of their gon's death, Rev. Dr. Hamilton, pastor of Bt. Paul's (Church, of which the young man was a nvomber, was.at the bedside when he died. When tol; Py hen veiceecs: that ‘his end was near, impson sent an ‘affectionate forewell message by Mfr. Dee ton to his parents, Kaiser Guest of Vanderbilt, BERLIN, July 4.—Emperor wrttam and Prince Henry took lunch et A ee Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht North Bt et Travemunde, at the mouth of ‘Trave, ine SOLD STOLEN HORSE _ ~~ TO POLICE CAPTAIN. Taliman Knocked the Price Down from $150 to $90, and Then Got Arrested. TANITRESS BRAVES FRE TO SAE 3 Mrs, Edwards Fought Her Way Through Flames to Reach the. Little Caspers, Who neg Started Blaze. © CARRIED THEM TO ESCAPE. Boy Had Caused the Blaze by Ex ploding Fire Crackers Under a Lace Curtain While His Mother Was Away at Market. Great are the honors paid to Mrs. Charles Edwards in her neighborhood, but they cannot equal her deserts, for all alone she fought her way through fire and flames and saved ae lives of three little children. “Mrs. Edwards is the janitress of No. 25 East Ninety-ninth street, where om the fourth floor lived Thomas Casper and his family. The three children were bubbling over with anticipation of @ Fourth of July plenia, and when Mre. sasper went to market {n the morn ing to get supplies for it the youngsters promised to be very god until she’ re turned. It was really impossible for George, the eldest, who is six, to resist looking for the firecrackers and torpedoes and other things he knew his father had bought for him, and he was sure his mother didn't really mean it when she told thém to stay in the hallway amd play. George searched so well thatthe found & bunch of firecrackers and for as long as five minutes he fonght against the temptation to explode them, Part of this time was taken up in getting a match, He selected a place under a lace cur- tain in the front room to set them off} and, of course, the curtain caught on fire. The children were so paralyzed with fear that they couldn't even ory out. ‘Mrs. Pdwards was on the sidewalk in front of the house when she noticed smoke and flames coming from the top floor windows. If Mrs, Bdwards had fainted or if she had run to her own apartments to gather her treasures, no one would have blamed her. But she isn't that kind of a woman. She knew that three helpless children vere in the, rooms whence came the fire ahd smoke, She called to a man across the street! to turn in an alarm and etarted tol mount the stairs faster than ever she did vetore in her life, When she reethes the ‘third floor she found the stairway. cn Are ea thal make wes eyibesee aoe 00) reathe, wi er skirts closely about her, hal site hand over her mouth and went on. She could Capt) Gailagher,/of sive Mast Pwenty.| Roar the crves Se tye Caildeen ene were second etreet station, arraigned Alfred | for g moment did she hesitate. Tt wes « Tallman, of No. 18 Gay street. in the ught more once would fail, the wali 1 Yorkville Court to-day on @ charge of bake Geass never ‘ceased altougt t ey, having stolen a horse belonging to Dr. ‘Wilfred Allen, of No. 110 West ‘Twelfth street. Tallman is a blacksmith and has sev- eral times ehod Dr. Allen's horse. The horse wees kept tm a ‘Mable at No. 264 West Bleventh street, by Henry A, Mar- tin, Yesterday afternoon, it {s alleged, ‘Tallman wént to the stable and told Martin that Dr. Allen had instructed hhim to take the horse for exercise. About an hour later Capt. Gallagher and Detective McKenna were standing at Twenty-fourth street and Third ave~ nue, when they saw Tallman go by with the horse. The Captain then went to the stable of James Mooney, at No. 433 East ‘Twenty-fourth street, and Waited for Tallman to come ‘along. When, the blacksmith entered the stable he, asked for the “bos: boss,” Capt. Gallagher re- Well, do ‘ou want to buy this horse for’ $180?" Faliman asked. Gallagher says Tallman finally agreed to sell the horse for $90, which the Captain paid the then arrested ‘thi had stolen the horse, and was held in 300 bail for trial by Magimrate Pool |} whole holiday e This Wil Catch Your Eye at Once. You notice that as long as you can see the picture the revolver is pointing right at you. A simple law of perspective explains this startling phenom- enon, but the picture points a moral and. adorns a tale. Fhat is why it is published here. Do you know that more revolvers are car- ried in New York City than in the West.” that shootings thereby are of almost daily occurrence, and that there is talk of restricting by law the sale of firearms, so gréat has the menace become? It is a fact worth studying, The opinions of prominent lawyers, judges and police offi- Wildest nastics by Cat Thinks He Is a Boy. Think of a mere cat crying for its .morning bath and fits sult of clothes | There’s a New York puss that Is so nearly human in its actions one can hardly realize it Is Not a backward lad. It’s an odd and pretty animal story, and the best of it is, it's true. ¢ growing fainter. in a corner, Edwards swiftly placed four-years Er "Elsie on the floor, her face down- warner and told her not to mov She ered the other children in her armad Hey carried them to the fire-escape, there until she returned. She went bac! after Elsie. Carrying Bilstein her atms, and uid ing and helping the other bhiidren, Edwards carefuly made her way to the reaching the sidewalk just the fire department arrived. Then Mri Edwards sat down and began fannin herself, gasping that she was out of breath'and that It was hot up there. ‘Along came Mrs. Casper with her basket loaded with plenic provisions. When she saw the flames coming from her windows she fainted. When she revived she had hysterics. When she saw her children in a doorway she fainted again. ‘ << AN Day Holiday. In conformity with the custom of sev- eral summer seasons, James A, Hearn & Son will, beginning to-day, and until further notice, close their stores all day Saturday. This gives Ene employees @ every week, Easy Climb to Beauty. It's by means of a stepladder and It's pleasurable and ef- fective. A. valuable lesson In the latest system of Home Gym- HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. Confessions of a Stage-s Struck Girl. Miss Katherine Eggles- ton. a society belle of Cincinnati, with appar- ently every qualification, failed to get an engage- ment with the New York managers. “The question is, Why?