The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1905, Page 3

FINAL EDITION! | All the News. _ i fama \ ho tN \ EDIT TO) SSL [ “Circulation Books Open to Al.” | __||_* ~ PRICE ON CENT, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1905, BARKER BILL AN : INSULT TO WOME SAYS GOVERNOR ——_—__-+ 40 --— Legislative Measure Legitimatizing Child Born Out of Wedlock Declared by Gov- ernor a Proposition that Would Make Concubinage Honorable. BRAZEN IMPUDENCE HE SAYS IN SCATHING VETO. Charles Bell Barker and Adelia Gertrude Stringer, He Holds, with Utter Disregard for Morality Rules, Petitioned Legislature to Legitima- tize Issue of Lawless Love. ALBANY, N. Y., May 23.—This bill is an insult to every wife and to womanhood itself,” said Gov, Higgins to-day, in vetoing the | measure known as “An act for the relief of Adelia Queenie Barker,” ‘It presents an astonishing proposition,” he continued, “but the most astonishing thing about it is that it passed both houses unnoticed and without opposition or discussion ‘The bill recites that Adelia Queenfe {ts the illegitimate infant child of Charles Bell Barker and Adela Gertrude Stringer, and enacts that said child is thereby made the legitimate child of its said parents in all re- spects the same as if sald child had been born in lawful wedlock, The Iuther ot the time of the birth of the baby had and now has a wel wife living, tte and his paramour, with brazen impudence and utter | dion aard of the rights of the lawful wife and the rules of morality, unite | on to the Legislature to legltimatize the issue of their Jawless | Iya petit ly this Ml should he approved, a legal status would be given to a semis | Chier irous relation and esmeublnage would hecome an honorable estate." Vill was introduced by Assemblyman Stanley, ef New York City Stanley explained the purpose of the measure in the conimittee of the Lower House. He did not off fleor of the Chamber, Mr No bill, it is remerked, has ever been more sharply criticised than | this once THE ROMANCE OF Bhicee Grid sant one monatieRee Hewat THE TWO STRINGERS | Ne araingesouse in wien 1 wa se) | i Just Notifed me that un- as paid TF must leave, 8 HoT met Mr. Barker, and { t to say that no ‘one could have ad vill \ Adelaide Gertrude Siringer, the mother | of Adelaide Queenie Stringer, Is a come. | ty young woman of thirty. She has | O pea mage He, eautaro an he abt large biue sand Muffy golden hate. | say spe AWE LNW iy ne i According to a stacement she made in hy Towns t free man. LW suld marry ye Supreme Court last Maren when | Ou ave a wifi 1 hope. to Ret the Supreme Cour t Murch when | YOU. T have i wit hone to wel Charles Bell Bark the wealihy clubs | Un the spot, but Le. NAAM, maa, who is father of the ehlld, sued | “After alk wooks tr. Bark to obtain custody of the infant, she | Wade A EPAREEC US aa HENS propos! the met him in 1806, cant marry you Until Pin ¢ o get a | was only 4 girl of seventeen then.” | divorce rom my wife. But until Tam ea hd wad Tali net know | able to make yor my legal wite will sald Miss Stringer, “and Tdld not KNOW | vou tive with, me? Don't do It blindly Mr, Barker was @ married man. | little girl You must have. your ey T earned this he told me he | pen Faalining, all th put tt means.’ : 4 Wanye so straightforward with 1 would aeek (Kel a divorce from Dis} and had treated me so squarely tart wife.’ yeouldn’t help loving: him Mr. Barkei was separated from hiv | | LAM the first mag] had met sines wife In 1894, she wetting a decree and | Lett England who had treated me with an order from the Court tho her hus “Well, T accepted his ofte band pay her alimony of $3,007 a year, back to New York’ form day ar ao ytst hee an Income of STOW -¢ o get my things. Then Ioreturned to Ho hes an Income of Bro ay him, and we lived. a pertuctiy happy ute | from an estate left to him when he wae for ‘five years. [adored him. There a boy. He was a stud in-eoblege could never have been a happler pair. when he martial Hva Murgatroyd, A CHe insisted that T was in-overy way @v sears aton their mateaage Mr. his wife. Twas oalled Mrs. Barker, and Barker, it a sald, pakl such marked| most people in the ne'ghbarnood though attentions to Floténee Potter, an vets we were properly marred. Thad mine ress, that his wife threatened to throw] close friends there. But after a whi! viriol in her rival's: face, lthe truth became Keown iittls ie ale fand T ld the horror a” realsine wha | my poalifon in the world really was, HER REASON FOR NOT Then the Bitter Awakening, WEDDING ; BARKER. | “My mother and sister accompanied us ub a tour of the Continent, 1 dared ‘not breathe that Mr, Barker was no! “The reason I have refused the offera| my husband. My people grew tremen- jdously fond of ‘him and were jappy of marriage from other men than Mrs! over my excellent cholee. Had they Barker, Is my unwillingness to Impose] Pit known! They learned not long upon any man 1 love the necessity of “When we returned to England my mother came with me. It was in Cen- supporting my child,’ says Miss Strings tral Valle, that vente came about . Jwhioh tried me. terribly and eventually ae kied my love for My Bar Bo long as Lo am not married re {iqedntor vest her untld Barker iv obliged to maintain her, bdo return from abroad not want him to contribute in any way! i towarl my support, 1 expect to carn | MERCHANT CONVICTED my oWn lying on the sage, but as a! beginner | fear L shall not be able to| OF ( GRAND LARCENY. kecp ny child in the right way,” Mies Stringer wis sued by Charles |teute L Bell Barker, wealihy elubman, for vie! possession of their four-year-old dauga- ter Adelaide, He admits the ehild is his and says ho has paid iis mother for Its) Support, at livet 2,000 a year and mary sme evently Ho «ays he tried to right the wrong | Foster In General Sersions for the past L_ went Neer fter theh vin Oharaed with Having Made False Statement of Fin elal Condition Louts Levin, a former embroldory hant, at No, U0 Blecoker sitet, he had done, and tarvugh Jove for tho few days on a charge of grand larceny, A had urged the mother bo marry) Ws to-day convicted of grand larceny Dim, but says she refused, She retoris |! the second degree, The jury was out that he already had a wife and could only @ short time, not marry her, ‘Teiling her story, Miva Stringer sald: was grateful (o Mr. Barker for ail S&Pdition on which he cbta ny he has done for me, When I teat met (8 # large amount him 1 was In great distress and he of+ 1 credl nan could-treely, with no ‘atringe at }usitions and ile books dieappesret tached,’ “Twas a silly girl of seventeen when Tran away from my home in Bhgland and Pare) RAGS to see the world) MQ You WANT. $1007. ua landed her ye VO) foun u credit to him, ueenie™ ae Miss. Adelaide Stringer Ane Arnel “ TROOPS TO PUT ISELINS HAVE A DOWN CHIGAGO NARROWESCAPE faithful TRUST CO. IS PUT IN HANDS OF RECEIVERS Merchants’ Concern Forced to the Wall by System of Frenzied Finance. HAD MANY DEPOSITORS. Throng of Women to Whom Toy Banks Had Been Given ' Clamors for Savings. GAVE QUESTIONABLE LOANS. | Troubles of Institution Antedate Regime of Present Managers, Who Are Not Responsible. State Rank Superintendent FD, Kil- burn ordered the closing of the Mor jehants' Trust Compan at No, 48 | Broadw: with a branch -at 20) | West Fifty-ninth street, to-day, Attor= ney-General Mayer obtained an. orde [soon after from Supreme Court Justice i shran, at Albany, appointing as every Douglass Robinson, brother-in Jaw of President Roosevelt, and th: STRIKE RIOTS IN CAR CRASH * Mayor Hurriediy Zalls Con- ference After Settle- ment Failure. Banker and His Wife Had | su ysitcd through the sr Just Left Carriage When It Was Wrecked, (Special to The Evening World.) —Following a con- | the managers carriage to-day $6 Madison | lselin got out various express compietely demolished by a south-bound Had the Iseling been undoubtedly immediately i tite tlon gave rise to a report that Iwas dnving « ays to the any detailed explanation of it on tho |r! : Mrs. Iselin had steppid sufely down to As he did #0 4 centre of the southbound track. shed full into the F Streets in the shortest pusaile time, the strike breach both sides in the labor struggle excep- the authorities day looked ahead to trouble, widening ar ne ANd | rowing the coachman and footman oft swarmed accident and hurried out Into the str about the trouble centres, Mayor Dunne unconscious sh with events, mined to call out troops If ni ry, Six thousand militiamen, members of kept In tou bleeding from he be carried into the ) abeiroom and Mrs ed dress his wounds unul a doctor ar- {ved orders to prepare for duty, and il are ready for the call, rapidly during the day, at least a dozen Jured and went home. Dolan} va (been revived and his wound dre taken to his time before noon the gravity of the situation and seemed to make certain a complete tle-up of all | the building trades, ‘There was some feeble talk of peace, press companies are wag) dimen Is not] iven to bl home. 1 lage had been smasiied | y, DU were atop) blocks from motorman of the by flying splinters, ambulance su rsons, old oF | warning to-day young, starding school stre kes ested and fully prosecuted doren | beng it though a numb at windows were broken HAY CURED, hls DUCTOR DECLARES BAD NATIHEIM, OF HESSE, dilation of Secretary Hay's heart, ' which he came were arraigned in court, LITTLETON SORE OVER ROOSEVELT Because he was not invited to be one of the Committee of Ten which, with | McClellan and GRAND-DUCHY when he comes to Brooklyn on Dooorae tion Day to take part in the unvelling of the statue of Major-Gen, on the Hastern Parkway, Bor- sugh President Martin W, declined to take any pronounces Mr, ir Wy ecwe LAT wit HA Jd fs has no (nt | Railroad, a conadlidation of trolls {hitiion ‘Ok reutina: Littleton has teens’ ok publicag part In the ce wext Moray son the subject, of two days, Arrangements nave y is as follows: » your Invitation to seats in reviewing stand asion uf the unveiling of » of Maj.-Gen, | considerable apoouiation, but Mr on hearing: ‘Une, who as been on trial before Judge the | American 5: The reception of Mr. a rap where ssstimed a potable chars am Invited at put T muat protest against an: gramme which puts the P: of offielal and “aocial to his wish | from the reat cure ken at Bad Nau t Levin was charged with having natde a falde statement of his financial] than the custom and tradition of his oifice entitles him to occupy. I am Informed that a committee of ton was selected, which, together with the Mayor and yourself, is to act as a reception committee to the Surely the office which represents all that is left of the ox- ecutive history and power of the old elty of Brooklyn is entitled to a place on this reception committe and since tt has ‘constrained Tie gu thus fecureds 1 is alleged, hw tipped wast, snore he Was about to sarc ano fered me help in the squarest. way a wtore, | Shortly after cis ie tailed tn “FIREMAN ARRESTED. Lieutenant of Engine | Wats discovered to be In trouble over Mire and for three years treas- urer of the Fireman's Teellet Fund, was aypatend with to was Indictcd and arrested on the [complaint 9 of those who had extended Department, i ale Mota Charles AY ‘funds made the om, Who wil i “pee efaily Pay Ped New York ‘Trust Company, of witel Otto ‘T, Barnard js President The Merchants’ ‘Trust Company has | deposits of about $2,200,000, Over $100,000 |of this amount is in the branch offic 1 savings bunk system, by which steel chests of | which the bank holds the Keys are tributed’ to customers to be heid until they are full, when the contenjs are deposited. As the news of the fallure spread hundreds of women with the Danks besieged the Fifty-ninth street branch, Got Many Small Account: ‘The deposits in this bank were built up by subscription methods. Energetic agents were sent all o | to Ml with mone | branch of the Merehunt ‘rust Com- customers that the New York Life In- surance Company was back of the Mer- chants’ Trust Company, pointing out was In the New York Life Building The branch was founded In 191, At that time John C, MeCall, a son of John A. McCall, President of the New York Life, was a director in the Mer- was made manager of the branch, Mr. and | McCall was succeeded by Egbert Cur- Us, the present manager, who has been busy all day telling throngs of deposi- tors that they cannot lose anything, Tried to Borrow a Half Million, |bank examiners show: chants’ ‘Trust Comp: assets of $4,034,439 ny had allowe prompt! eaterda | $600,000" In Wall’ street, From the fact-that the company had been trying to borrow $500,000 and that A special meeting of the Board of Di- | rectors had been called for June 1 to d\scu8s the advisablity of Increasing the capital stook from $500,000 to $1,009,000, It is inferred that were the affairs of the depositors would be out $600,000, But everybody associated with the com- pany and the State officials appear to be confident that the depositors can be paid in full if time is taken to work off some unprofitable loans, Humble Equitable Follower, Company reveals a story of financial directors of the Equitable Lite Assu: ance Soclety, but on a smaller scale. compan Which they were associated as dii tors, Wor instance, the Hudson Vall lines up State, has been finance pany, Dr, John P, Munn, a direetor cf pany, ure heaylly inter family physician, the Merchants year ago, when Brank Gouid, who besehied Che Gould interests ont npany Managed to accumulate ov $2,000,000" of “securities of Gould ontt These have since been dlspos Hom a stitement: made by Supt ciat te Merchants two yours ago. At that time, the man iReniont had loaned upon hand p ofinsod securities to the amount ot bout $4,000,000, which had no ready Fould progertios In, Virinia; —$850,00¢ Upon the Murdeon Val ‘oy Railway Gon: miny, And nearly (9,000 | had fo. tho Rutiany Nein Btroet 0, 1 © the middie | west side with savings! banks, which || they persuaded persons of small means and take to. the pany. These solicitors assured those whom they, were seeking to enroll as that the Merchants’ Trust main offles chants’ Trust Company, Mr, McCall On Dec, 2%, 1004, the statement of the d that the Mer- ihe 37 and Mabilities of $2,959,880, Upward of $2,000,000 of the assets, however, Include securities upon which realigation cannot be made The company has been in ies for a long tme, and only strenuous efforts were made by officials ‘of the institution to borrow concern closed out as they stand the The trovble of the Merchants’ Trust methods akin to those practised by the It appeara that directors in the trust} fold to the trust company the | securities of other companies with HORSE WRECKS —_ SHOP; ANOTHER BOLTS AT PUN Runaway Animal eins te Spring Creations in Division Street Emporium—Hero of Second Adventure Thinks He Has a Grievance Against Bicycle Cop ‘* Ajax’? Whitman, — There was considerable discussion store before Tergatein extrloated him | along Millinery Row this afternoon, as [474 led him away to tthe reason why Samuo! Morowite'a Heres, Aneten @tory, ere is the story of another runaway horse entered the millinery store of Vix worthy. of notice largely b M, Rosenberg, at No, 45 Divialon streot, We AAC ELL Ue seb lax by way of the window, Besste Good- tman, the, Dk cop. Walter n,.of No, 20¥) Seventh avenue, who man, of No. 7 Pike street, whose pleas ing duty {t Is to entice customers into the lop, gaye Mat “Asax | iried claim the emdit, at that, tho Rosenberg emporium, maintains that tho he nted a Nat, Oth . Holton has grocery store at One Hundred ant niy-fourth street and Velleve that the wagon ran away with | frout the horse. and rema Lenox avenie, ali & horaa and wagon, s/‘The horse and wagon were standing In oY the grovery this afternion, ed Chrystal happened eds Horowita Ina furniture denier at No.1 wonder [f Bolton's horse Iw a {0d Dalanceg etrant sent. Hyman) boltin” animal,” Her} niga out with nae ae vetil Id aged, but doesn't know 2 ut with a wagon load better, ‘The horse heard the cruel furniture and the horse, Hyman was| words and with @ moan of angutsh driving down Chrystie street, Intending 1 away at top speed, At One to turn Into Division atroet, init at itd) anal went yeronnin strat and Division street the horse did not turn.) cansized oa runabout. containing two Porhapg the wagon was pressing him! ladies. Neither wan badly Insured, wae | SE alone lV RGRNADE Teo Bi RAG 1 refused to give thelr names. They too closely: perhaps he was entleed bY! rode away In the runabout when It had the dieplay in Rosenberg's window been righted Anyhow he went into Rosenberg's| "The Bolton horwe continued | town no t nlate glass ensie Clood- pnt avenue until It met Regan, through the plate glass, Bessie Good Hh te aie aPanered man was knocked down, Fifteen girle| Saeed air ebat sry tremining hats in the rear room arose! back t Bolton's store and Mr, Bolton é At tie crash and anade for| sive, him: #0 Ms one girl ut the crash and inade for! eri “no sooner got the money," sald two fear wintoive hres of hem) Regan lates, “than up comes ‘Ajax’ fainted and all lost part of their cloth: | Whitman, the policeman, and claims BLAU ChAIR AU ORIeRe Ol auo-| Me stopped the horse. | ite Wawn't any: coeleu In plackig his front feet on e : Wavy Sere hat in the front ja it t Rosenborg’ horse think he siops every run- away in Harlem KILLED ON DEAD MAYOR WEAVER MAN'S CURVE OF FORCES BIG MEN ELEVATED ROAD OUT OF OFFICE Within a stone's throw of the scene PHILADELPHIA, May 23.—Director kk on the elevated Of Public Works Costello and Director of Public Safety Smith to-day, | request of Mayor Weaver, tendered | thelr resignations, Following this, Mayor Weaver dered Director of Supplies Frederick 8. Shoyer to of yesterday's wre road curve approadhing the Willis ave nue bridge In the Bronx one man Was Killed and another seriously Injured within one half hour to-day, As a re sult of the ceries of aceider 8 the curve Is now called “Dend Man's Curve" ti ! asked Coroner Dur Fy d his phyelelan, Thomas Morton, who ls a member of Councils, nd is chief deputy, John 8, Ham- nd. Dugan rerused Lo do so, Jand Thirty-fourth street, | This is the latest and most startling ped before a South |Mevelopment in the fight against the Jease for seventy-llve years of the city tthe Mayor hi 1 tO BUBB the elevated employees, George Meak track walker, who lived at N One Hun was killed as n, forty years old, a 400 ast | rry ‘Third avenue train to avold a Hibound train, Meakin was knocked own by the South Ferry train, which uch vice in tendering his r bi Haton, Good the rase, “Po take severed his head and right leg. ee Cae nna lt rederick Lawall, of No, 323 West | 1 Uisen In palltioal cit: antes a aie f cl ‘ate a determination to hold Forty-cighth street, was the motorman, | Onna oitices as long as possible, as The train was not stopped after the the successors of the two directors track walker was Killed The Inter-| mist be contirmed by a twosthirds vote re ome! owed Lawall to of Bele nell. borough officials allowed Lawall to take | TMi! Coie dently took the his train to the ferry and make two] gammview, aavit was stated this after: more trips before he was surrendered | noon that he had notified Messrs, Cos- Into the custody of the pollee, Policeman} tello and Smyth that the form of the Dumphy called Dr, Laurence nan am: | eslgnitions Was not satisfactory, and Dulanee from the Lincoln Hospital bat! out ton on pain. of removal Meakin had been Killed Instantly and | tren, ¢ Nhey failed to do so and his body was taken to the Alexander | Welt avenue station A half hour betore the Killing of Meakin a rey he was working near the Willis avenue bridge the scene of yesterday's wreck when John Flynn, vwenty-six years old, Hing at No. 487 Dekalb avenue, Brooklyn, rested his crowbar on the third rail here was an explosion and a geries of blue flames an Flynn was thrown six tect aways! Most Important Where he was picked up unconscious and burned all over the body. Police. Sale this Season man Sweeney called an ambulance from Company, Lincoln Hospital and De BEAU EOnSS, French importation Ex- who responded, suid that It was strange fet that Fiynn had not been instantly Kil ed, quisite, Dressy, hand em- as he received the full voltage of tho : rail, Flynn was taken to the Lincoln broidered Hospital. Ho ‘4 in a serious condition, ———— Lingerie Waists DAME NATURE HINTS a | 6*° When the Pood Is Not Suited. When Nature gives her signal that something {8 wrong it is generally i is Wi with the food; the old Dame is al- None of which is worth ways faithful, and one shotld act at less than $29.00. The once. Heap To put off the change Is to risk that greater portion are worth which m: be irreparable, An Ari- $35.00, Zona MAN says; i ‘Por years I could not safely eat} Elbow and full length ‘| breakfast foods, but thoy were all wiil| largely by the Merchants’ Trust Com- the Merchants’ ‘trust Company, and kdwin Langdon, former President and Hay's| founder of the Merchants’ of ‘Trust Company was a | Gouldeoncern until a ticde more tian a! Board of Directors, sold his sto sk and | owing |Tetuited. But, white Gould interes were in control, the Merchants” ‘Trust Prises in and around Richmond, Va. Kimbuin, In Alban, , 1 appears market valu About $2,300,000 of these loans and investments were upon the jeasily digested and never Jany breakfast. I tried all kinds of|/sleaves, Parisian styles, Me- soft, starchy inésses which gave me|dallion and lace insertion | distressing headaches, T drank strong} Novelties. jeoffec too, which appeared to benefit me at the time, but added tothe head-| The rush of business will render it) Trust Com- |nehes afterward, ‘Toast and coffee) impossible to make alterations during | ted in Hudson | were no better, for L found the toast | th's sale. Valley, Dt. Muon was Jay Gowda |vor oy . FOREN very constipating, [A Griend persuaded me to quit the) JOhn Forsythe, | Jold coffee and the starchy breakfast THE WAIST HOUSE, foods and use Postum Coffee and ‘arape-Nuts Instead. 1 shall neve yvegvet taking his advice I began| using them three months ago, “The change they have worked in me Is wonderful, | now have no more of the distressing sensations in my “ f (CIAL FOR TU ; stomach after eating, and I never | nouciete Tht TOT URI AY: ae have any headaches, I have gained | Cigeatnte Coffee Pecans, +. bb. ihe 12 pounds in welght and feel better caw Y in every way. Grape-Nuts make a CIAL F HDNESDAY,, | delicious as well as a nutritions dish, | plate MATE Mallon. ery and 1 find that Postum Coffee ts! 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