The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1905, Page 5

ae Pe A BILL TO LEGITIMATIZE A CHILD STRIKES AT THE HOME (OP IN TROUBLE VCR AN ARREST Mounted Policeman James V.| McCarthy on Trial Charged with Taking Ex-Mayor Grant’s | M a Coachman to Wrong Station. ' (sabia Leading Women Thinkers of New York Declare that Such ,a Measure) Would Encourage Im- moral Relations and Un- dermine the Sanctity of the Marriage Tie — Of Course There Is Sy mpa-| thy for the Child Who) Inherits the Sin of the Parents, but the Law Should Not Be Invoked to Wipe Out the Stain. Gov. Higgtna's veto of the bill intro- duced by. Assemblynan Stanley for Uegitimatizing Adelaide Queenic, the legitimate child of Charles Bet! | Barker and Adelaide Gertrude Stringer, has aroused the yreatest interest @mong the prominent women of New York, who feel that the bill itself and the Governor's action in regard to tt dnvolve problems of vital import to atandards of morality and the sanctity of private life, Women cho think and tcomen acho do things, leaders in women's clubs, in soctal settlements, charitane sworkers and dnvestiqators, hava discussed the bill and the principles tivolved therein and their views are presented herewith, In general the worien of New Yorle agree that Gov, Higgins dia his duty by refuring to givo hia assent to an uct that legally wou'd remove the bat einister from the young daughter 01 Persone whom the bill describes, odd'y enovgh, as ‘spinster’ and “bachelor.” ‘The unpleasant history of which the bill ts the moet recent event startea with the association of the chills perents sone nine years ago, Charles B, Berker, millionaire and prominen @ubman, whose wife was sepamtoa from him and was recelying alimony ot $5,000 a yaar, took to live with him a\ his oountry home in Central Vatiey, Conn,, Adeliide Stringer, a young English girl. For five years they lvew vompatibly together and nila Queenie, now five years old, was bly femuk of this relationship. + She Expected to Marry. Mies Stringer maintains that she went @ live with the clubman on his mine to marry her us soon as An ta. absolute divorce between hémusel could be secured. tired of the liaison and left Barker, 4ak- ing their ohuid, Barker maintained s im, paying frst them apart from him, W000 year for the support of both, and later $2,600. \ ‘Tha story came to public notice early fm March of thie year, when Barker brought eult in the Supreme Court to recover his ohild. He clatined that the mother was an improper person to have eontrol, The action failed, and by mu- tual consem Queente was Diaced in the Convent of the Sacred Heart, at the expense of her father, Tn the bill which passed both housss et the Btate Legislature without op- position Barker and Mies Stringer joined in a petition that their child be Jegitimatized, BLOW AT THE HOME. BY MRS. AUGUSTINE J, WILSON. 1 ihe Sim who hae at teart the tistest iterests of the home. Gov. Higgins te ent Soret 40 rule a Legislature gone jegrace to every man in Spin ths "he, Howe that & ‘bodlng ill to the community | #t PP genting, Vion, ot wen He highest integrity, with @ense of the respeot due the marriage jes, @ serious injury would have been Wee the mandards of public virtue. ‘No ohild born out of wedlock of par- gals tut could never be lagaily soled can be made legitimate, Such illegal eondust can in no sense bo legalized, On the other hand, there is the child, innocent victim ‘of others’ disgrace, ‘who enlleta our tenderest sympath: SHE INHERITS SIN, BY MI88 EVELYN J. HILDRETH, Practising Woman Lawyer, I strongly approve of the Governor's ection in vetoing the Barker-Stringer Petition for the legitimatizing of the | ghild Queenie. | It would be Improper the sanotion of the law upon a id born of unmarried parents, whosell riage was made ile bye | marriage mipogs! Fetence, ot the wife of the father, y encourage euch relations by coun- ing them beicla Aeunie Taw" that Ghildvor shall be Ww that o ren. t) ited with the sins of the fath: 2, ana HEAD STRUCK “L” PILLAR, Samuel Smith, of No 454 Second ave- mu, a bookkeeper in Bellevue Hos. pital syhile stepping trom a. Second avenue oar at Twenty-9ixth street to fay was onught between an clovatea Toad pillar and the oar, Bofore the gar could be stopped Smitivs right qor and the aide of his head won Ancorated. Fis injuries were dressed in a Ai ators, Naa eltanten: an min butants wae called he refused ‘to, go. to the horpitn, and wae taken to ‘Happiness 1 Entered the Homes of the 6,211 Ambitious Workers who found positions last week through Morning World ‘.’ "Help: Wants. THE CHILD WHO INHERITS SIN OF THE PARENTS, {t nti nepms to hold good. The only legal dsadva: Ritimate opiidren ts honit. Tt the father wishes, he can o mentioning her in ‘i e f advantages en Me. gitimate child haa to with are not oe Act of GREAT SOCIAL EVII,. BY JEANNETTE WALFORD, Practising Physician, from euch Immoral relations as @esoribed in the episode of CG. B. se mination was called forth by Gov, Hig- ins and e@ manly arraignment of the conduct of the eg Aaa, for the u ican qu! incomprehensible to me that what Gov, Higgins calls “an as ion,” ‘an insult to and to womanhood Mtoolf *hould be passed without @ dls.| tion in vetoing the hill for legitimatizing ., poly. | were passed {t would tend to spread im. a |ipporaliey and tt would be a constant 1D opposition except by the State. Aro our highest. worthy subject $n the unfortunate ch low amsoctation she rt for the curse of an flleaitl ia evil. already acoom= PITY FOR CHILD. BY MRS. MAY RILEY SMITH, Foetess anf President of the Mor My first impulse ts that 2. With Gov. Migeing:. ‘Tien comon LAST BEECHER {ROR BURIED Whelan Was the Only Catholio Who Served in Famous Case -—Death Due to Apoplexy— Onoe a Leading Architect. ‘who was the last | €TUup of counts gathered in for various surviving juror of the famous Beecher- ‘Tilton’ tial, waa burted iestarcmy, fore OTT is stter-in-| oO mm. ee pecs La Fort Greene | Sesvions to-day for stealing a diamond Edward ¥. Whe! James Whelan, place, Brooklyn. Hoe was seventy-seven years old, and died of apoplexy on @un- the only Cathollo on was not as of the Navid faith was @. leading It. was said. he voted againnt “Mye'Heesher, the memiers voted peers leaving the Srohitect of | Raggl's title, He said that Ragel'a no ane ros Lind om the jury~ iow they votod, Whol, the conse or gave any, WANT TO WIN $1757 (NTS An onan prixen wilt be awarded for Hatet. ald)! bosday that he \met: ® and that: never | went to Monte Carlo, Where he blew in opinion. ,} gx8,000 of tho roll. ‘Thon he came here 1 the realization thet there ts something higher than reason, ‘There is a warmer and higher feel-| ing that makes me sympathize with the rtunate ones, espectally this ohild, who has never done any wrong, It nat-| to legitimatize 1 ‘Tho Inw to logitimatize the child would introduce @ dangerous element into s0- Sry and its very principle, notably. the home. ‘The Governor's veto ts a step ioward protecting ithe home and keep- | if @ high standard of morality. | Gov. Higging is @ good man, and whl | 1 feel sorry for a little child who suf-| | fore through its parente’ ins, the Gov- |ernor has done the only right and natu-| Ifa thing in the light of law and moral-| By the REV, PHOEBE A, HANA. FORD, President Press Club and Member Sorosla—Gov. Higgins's ac- thts child wae right. If such a law | Menace to the sanctity of the home | the marriod state. baal Furthermore, such an act of legisia- ture would not make a child legitimate from @ moral viewpoint and all the laws In the world couldn't make tt so, I pity the child, but Jt is not a quee- tion of personality, The Governor's ac- tion was correct, ‘Tho legislators were patie i rei In allowing such vital points to es them, there were women legislators the blll would never have reached the Governon CAN'T RIGHT WRONG, By DR, ELLEN MILES, Member of Sorosis—No woman with pure motives ‘RAGGI IS A REAL COUNT AFTER ALL Man Acoused. of Stealing a Brooch Had Blown in His Fortune Gambling at Monte Carlo. , ‘When Raggl, Count Carlo, one of the offenses two weeks ago, came up for sentence before Juxge Foster in Generat brooch from the store of Lebolt & Oo., at No, 64 West Twenty-third street, it turned out that he ts the real thing in the count line and not an imposter, ‘No less an authority than the Itavan Consul here vouched for the purity ot father was a Triestan Count and that Raggi was born In 1867 at Palermo, Sicily. ‘he young man inherited $40,000 from hig father a short tlme ago and and put upy at the Waktort-Astoria, awhile he looked around for something if the work! knows the father desires) 0%! LAWMAKERS REMISS, |« could do anything but thoroughly agree with Gov, Higgins. You cannot legittmatize every one knows the conduct of this ohild moral wrong. Wo pity the child, of course, but we ny take the interests of the in- dividual against the whole of society, Furthermore, this child would not be laced on a higher plane through a mere it of legal form, ‘The little girl has as 00d & chance now a8 thour the Goy- ernor had not vetoed the bill providing we are looking at the question from the wrong and at iesue. The Parents Was @ .| moral point of view, 8 for property rights, there are higher thmgs to be considered In the child's future welfare than the tnherit- ance of riches. ‘As for the father wishing to give the ehila his name, it 1s rather late In the day for him to be thinking of that. The n auch a law would In Itealt encourage a rnicious thing, but I do not believe it would affect moral per- fons, and immoral persons are immoral already, They would not take advantage of such @ possible loophole if they were not already immoral, STIGMA MUST STAY, BY MISS ABBIE PIKE, member of the Dixie Society,—Gov, Higgins could not have done any thing else, from a moral standpoint, and I think ovary wife and sre good woman in the Jand will warmly amprove of his action. I agree with everything he sala and I fbelleve thet the passing of such a law ‘would have given a ree rein to im- morality, As far as this ohild te oon- corned it nvould have ‘only a legal anyway, this legitimatising her. he moral ‘stigma iwhtoh iher or on. mother voluntarily pl: her omild not have been wiped out by any mere legal action, Tt ts too late for that. game over him, He was caught with the brooch in his glove, His counsel told Judge Foster to-day that he would like an adjournmant un- til June 6, It was granted. The Italian Consul wil arrange to send Rugg! back home, If the Judge will suspend sentence on him, FOUR AUTOMOBILISTS PAY FOR SCORCHING: 1, ©. BRurle, Joneph Cowan, Eman- wel Felix and Ten Kenerieber van the Untent Offenders, ur AutoMOhiliats were fined in Spe- clal Bessions to-day for ovenspeedini: of automobites, I. C, Karle, the son of Gen, Burle, of No. 145 West, Seventy- fourth streat,, wae fined $0 for exoned Ing the timit while passing Wonty- cighth street on Broadway May 1%, Joseph Cowan, of No, 439 West Forty: seventh stroet, violated ithe law on Jerome aventte on May 2l and war fined 87, Wmanuel Felix, ohaufteur for & broker, was going faster than the Yaw permits on May 19 on Lafayette boulevard and was fincd Charles ¥. Kenerlober, of No, 974 Highth ave: The Mig fined H0 for overspecding on * IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY Or Secure an Ideal Place to Live SEND POSTAL FOR CIRCULAR AND VIEWS youns woman at ithe hotel * BAST ELMBURST ideas ima PTT TY ARE TITIRRTRTES MASP OR TON, Ant, “1 his horses, Me- 1 ordered him to rant ive ball, ith a child, was riding In the victoria, was detained during tho arrest. @aid that when ex tested against the a st of his coach- . Go ahead and try to break | ‘The case against Dugan was dismissed Migistrate Steinert tho following Ci McCarthy res taken from hie bon nent to the East One Hundred and 'Mominted Pottoeman James V. McCar-| Fourth street stution that day, thy, formerly of the Central Park | tion, {# in trouble as the remit of a1 | resting ex-Mayor Efugh Grant's coach- | |man and doteining the comohman with | the oocupants of nis victoria at the | ‘“‘Every Size Low Shoes’ at $2.75 From now on low shoes will be the vogue. And. we're splendidly | ared with thirty new models in “Every Size Low Shoes” at $2.75. Embodied in these various models is every little knack of fashion: to recommend them to the fastidious young man. Replicas of $10 and $12 custom boots with every feat- ure faithfully carri¢d out—the narrow pointed toes, the closely stitched extension soles, the arched instep and high heels, An exclusive feature of “ hs Size Low Shoes’’ is the snug fit at the ankles, they will not chafe the heel. | Judge LAndstey reserved bh CONVICT IS BROUGHT BACK. wrong station on May 18, MoCarthy |Arthar ¥. Mointyre Flea from st. appeared before Third Deputy Potico | | Commilestoner Lind#ley to-day, Inwpec: | tor George Titus appearing ae complain- | grain brokerage firm in St, Loute, who | fled to Murope after he had been sen- Acconfing to the testimony of Coach- | tenced to eighteen months’ imprison- man John Dugan, of No, 121 Hast Sev-| ment for fraud, was brought back to- enty-woventh street he wae driving the Geant victoria on the east drive near Geventy-ninth street, M1, when he putied into the midgie of Lonts to Hurope, Arthur F. McIntyre, former head of a day om the Teutonic. 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