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THE WORLD RICH DRESS MANIA OF NEW YORK WOMEN Grace George Says Lux- uries of Life Are Necessities. POOR MAN MUS BARON HAS LONG LIST OF WIVES, SAY THE POLICE Waldeck - Sofeld Latest Rival of Witzhof Marrying Line. T HUSTLE i That Explains Increasing Tr umph of Business Over the Home. THREE WIVES FOUND. At Least Half Dozen Others Will Appear, According to Detectives on Case. Baron August Frans Bogen von Wal eck-Soveld was arrested to-day in « Brooklyn jewelry , the Manhattan police saying they have found three of bia wives and expect to find a halt @oren or #0 others, Beaides the charge ef bigamy made by a Newark woman who ranks he as the first Baroness von Waldeck he police say va- rious other charges are expected to be made by business houses, As & ma * the Baron the misting | naval chemist Witshof. But unllk | Witahiot there ts ho charge that he elected» nonlal victims. with | | < iew Tong hem. Aart, — ey } only deserted them when tired of their company and rs, while Witshof, like “Hiuebeard’’ Johann Hoch, of Chicago, it 4s ohaf@ed, ketlied soem ‘The arreat of the Baron was the re- it of @ despatch. published in The orld on Aug. 3%, from Lowell, Mess, stating that goctety had just learned i ef the marriages on July 19 In The Little Chureh Around the Corner, in New York, of the Baron August Frans Eugen von Waldeck-Sofeld and Miss Bianche Weston Jewett, a young #o- ciety woman of Lowell who, since her @ivorce from Dr. William P, Mallaber, in San Francisco, had been a member of the theatrical company producing |“ “Nancy Lrown.” That publication reached the eye of « +E, MURPHY TAKES TO WATER AND ‘LOSES 20 POUNDS Takes a Swim ba Sete Day In the Water Down at Good Ground. 2 LIKES ROWING ALSO, Plays Golf, Takes.Long Walks and Auto Rides and We in His Garden. hin shoulde: of the water fs swim in as easily as the dripping when he emerges from he rf. He Does Not Worry. “But don't many worry y the upset affairs tn Tam U7" the leader was a. ked to-day by an Evening World ranorter ‘I don't are why a man who is acting | honestly by his fellow man allows any thing to worry ‘him, answered the Tammany ieader. “Every one of my frien, are complimenting me upon my Baroness von Waldeck-Sofeld, who lives with ber parents at No, 7lé Springfield avenvd, Newark, abd who, before her becoming @ baroness was Mise Cather- me de Vous. She recalled tat the Ha- ron marcted her five years ago and dis appeared a ew weeks later. baroness No, 1 weat on the trail & warrant and obtained police aes ance, The potlce any chat, peaides the Gatiwes. who ie probably the most r- geet matrimonial acaulaition: they have — | A FEW “CLOTHES” PINS. You hear « preat deal in your world of the survival of the Mttest. With tus ita the survival of the best fitted ‘We must have some means of distinguishing the sheep from the goats. Chota label us—firat-clnas, second<lasn and steerage Td hesitate to give a dinner for « ‘wings or an old-fashioned harp. angel if be or she or tt had shopworn ivay have found « manicure who yas lured into wedlock by the Baron's fenposing name, Her name has not yet been made public, but the detectives oay that [t Will be ti @ corrected lst tebe giveth out late, ‘The ae soated in Brookien Ghrough the fact that he ts an expert Sewoller, The revenues from his an- ‘onatral eetates having long since ber good living in Jewelry stores, He Worked, but only @ few days tn each place. "A Jeweler In Harlem bas told the police ‘that a few days after Baron bad been employed be waa left tn oh fo of the @ for three hours. When the proprietor returned he found sign on the door Mat the Baron had m taken iit suddeniy and would re- turn In ten minute After whiiing four hours the jeweller, #tock was missing. Charges of Theh, Too. Detectives Copan Dowling and cteenelipetictin rs bitton: " Lyon who rracked the Haron, aay Leer per Peels 4 not be we lever | oy have & of meveral stores where yaa: RE OF OS “Honest Be} the Baron worked. ana from tasn or] BY GRACE GEORGE, |» but she runt be as well dressed. | which he wuddenly dieappeared. They y»| It is all very well te aay with the hero | way that later these jewellers reporie’| WhoIs Appearing in‘‘Clothes’’| 62 “Clothes that this world te a bol — sections of thelr stocks es mina- low ae ence in it no woman ba at the Manhattan Theatre. aahies aii oe deuithe got/in touch with Sn Warits to alip ow awain Any more than Fairy under which pane she te # t neen emmememeed | a man wants to be biackballet at clube tailed In the theatrical company and by -|.oF joked at by his'felow bu ne trailing letters from her to the Baron ie one of the two vital prob- | .of . ete ~ slags m, found him in @ jewelty store at No. #87 lems of iife in America, The new condittor Fulton greet, Brookjyn, So-day. He bad} other problem je the constantly | ls a su sion of liitie-—connntten oe | been there only three vs and the 7 w | tragedies of every-day life, It ts for hn 1 Increasing triumph of business ove | Ser erect ad been In the store al the} ie Nome Inasmuch aa woman's mania | thia reason that 1 balleve my new play \1 tor—elothes—iolangalycesponsihle for} jill last os long a4 “The Old Homee+ WRECKING TUG HIT C..6, GATES'S YACHT The sidewheel yacht owned by Charles G. Gates, modore of the Columbla Yacht Club, was aeriously damaged to-day off the Battery in collision with the big Mer ritt-Chapman wrecking tug W. Charmary, Chapman, Mr. Gates was not aboard, The damage yacht drifted acroas the fiver and anchored off Communipaw John ‘Kenny, a chauffeur, employed In the Dock Department, jumped from the and of Pier A with « line in his hand @nd struck out for ‘the yacht. confident tha, abe would turn over. Capt. Hal- pin, of the launch Bamosst of the Lm. migration Bureag fleet, who was wult- ing In the basin at the landing to take Commissioner Watchorn to Ellis Island, in hook, the Baron was able to make « the | who had lft his keys with the Haron had thn door broken open, ‘He told “1 think T've outyrown elother—oh, you know what 1 mian—ostercen the | the ‘pollee that at least $000 of his || tyrmmny of them—the slavery of them—the folly of Judxing and betng judged vice-com- The road to the “hot place” ts paved with antin tnatend of wood intention and {t's mighty wippery matertal. “and to Chink Chat I used to tulk agalnet clothes in prayer-menting!" “Bo 214 Eve in the Garden of Eden, but ahe came to them all the mame.” Frocks are our topic of conversation—our reason for sho “You're the most beautiful thing t've ever see “That's what a gown oan do!" by them. god phy appearance, and T teil them that I feel as happy as I look.” “Happy becaiise of political signs? was asked : “Potton signs are AIT Aiett, and they with other things make me feel happy But you said there cal talk in our to know what routine of life. ahead.” Le you Ike the water?’ “I practically live In the water—at least I get my best exerclae Jn the |water out at Good Ground. The water is fine; I love tt. 1 wwim and dive and fetch and wt-and-tumble it and get t of fun while in my bathing mult ery day?" “Kvery day that the weather te fine and Tam privtieged to be at the coun an to be no noliti- convermtion, You want I do every day—my daily Well, thet ts easy. Go fea—out obtéce |] try place. Now that the primary elec- in Moe tlons are approaching [ feel that I am required to be at Tammany Hall five “You're engaged again, of courset* daya in the wee therwite I would “Yea, and I owe it all to you. ut out iday and be NéVing fun and “You owe it adi to the dresemakers!"* getting exercien. Rowe Around the Bay “How do you like my éreaw “Tewides svimming whet sort of ex ercive do you indulge tn man's mania for buatness, the two | sinad Way Down Kas! The problema might atmoat be called one.' theme of the piece Is so commonplacs, Money nits enthroned in our country, | #0 general and no farreaching. New and dress ta the power behind the | York ts full of stortes quite as romantic throne, jas sh which bas been used in ‘What one of tha authors of this play, | “Clothes.” My dresamaker told me the My. Pollvok, in a recent magazine arti: |other day that she had received a lat- ter from a mar his wife bh. cle called “money mania” spems to me beeing her not to let to he largely the fault of my own fox. | ve any tore frocks, ax he I think honestly that the average man | 5Ad reached the limit of his means. whose wife accuses him of spending bo | A friend of mine Liat year mentioned much time tn bis office would cheer- j the case of a woman, perfectly honaat fully resign half of the grind that takes | In Intent whos dressmaking bills from hie health and happiness If it) ran up to such a figure that sooner were possible to-do vo and still pay |than present chem to her husband abe bill. I believe that the average man | borrowed the money to pay for them has a very norme! longing for the sim bike a ner man. Unquestionably abe ple life; that it's euman who finds the bsg: t save the amount of the lumartes of existence its necessities, and |loan out of her allowance, butvatill ocher high mong thewe luxuries must be| creations trom Paris, obtruded them: | placed clothes, selves upon her vision and in the end The oowt of wearing apparel in whia| the whole actual trath was made known hauls, Then I get back into the water ‘I aino do iderable driving and occasion: take a spin through the natn th th tomabile. phy weldom sa roada on Lang | motriling, and t ae ape liwa” “Because was) man: "Oh, no; nol Tam as amene> an tho next, to be held reepo: cant bat I do n break ¢ law regarding spending.” Waike Much; Drinka Little, “What other form, if any, of emer- f dally exeroken! to the husband, ‘The rewult waa a sen- mitional divorce ¢a: J venture to say that there are ten country lone agp taped the point at | which the mast enthusistic dresser could allude to It aa Heasonable. Waren a Wotman cin pay 0.60 for 6 single gown and feel impoverished if her watdrobe contains fewer than thirty of forty; when boots sont $18 a pair; when & modest equipment of lingerie may mn anda police launch also put off for the ncene of the collision. When the engines of the Chapman wot reversed and whe worked clear of the Charmary the yacht righ) ei herself. Offers of aatatance were Geclined by the captain of the Char- the man who works for living must do some tal! busting or go into bank- ruptay. I do not blame the unlucky members of my sex for this extravagance. jen't their twutt that they muat put tvto a single dross enous money to hayé equipped an entire middie-ciane How Long? will a Furnished Room, House, Flat or Apartment remain vacant after advertised “To Let” in Sunday World's Want Directory? —~ ANSWER! Just as long as ft wil take 4 competent tenant to move in, family in affuencs « whol month CJ conditions by. which Women are sur: rounded ‘In these duya make Jukt that | kind of foolishness necessary. “It ten't | you men we dreas for,” Olivia Bher wood ays. in the firat act of “Clothes, “it's women.” This ts quite true, Th average man rarely notices what 6 Women wears #0 100K as Bhs louke net and pretty. It is other women who oritiolas, "Go to thi fastilonable re: ception,” says Olivia, “in @ frock that thas esan i best days, and how your dearest friends will amile demurely and sneer politely, and burn little acid spots right through your poor Ares tote the atrinking feah.” woman who wants to keap up mt her set, and in with ber eal Into the thousands, and hate are pur-| mary, whe Allowed hie veanel to drift |chased at from fifty to one hundred | with the ‘tide until he reached a like] inchorage ground on the Commaninay Aollars each, !{ may be seen readily that | mui thousand women in New York who. lik Mra. Watling in my play, spend more money than thetr husbands make, and Vil wager there are ten thoueand hua bands in the same prodicament aa poor | old Watling ere in nothing forced | « or unbellevable In the pleture drawn fn Clothes.” Without her stunning new gown Olivia Sherwood must have given up the circus dance. have been ridi uled vy her women associates and, completely lowing her grip, have tum: bled into the position of a governess or & professional companion. It in a pitiful hing to think that what {a worn outside of one can be im portant @ tector of tite. but it's true be. yond the shadow of « doubt Not on ja Mt true with wealthy people. but pre portionately with poor people fe it true in New York. but propor Uonately tn every city in the United Btutes. There are two fastion magasines pudlied tn this country ty one Gevoted to literature, Nowhere ts it possible for women to converse an hour without dress becoming tie dominant aubjoot. “Clothes” ie far trom being « play Gealing with little things On the con- trary, Ht deals with the very bigmont thing connected with the hame—the most universes! Comparatively few of we have disputed the meveuth command: abd. Not only ny again een Never in Better Physical Condition, trim,’ he oontimundl 1 have ‘reduce nome twe more pounds until | oes Ie ave to met a new chath ne she to keep it goa hye rit 8 Rood for a man's br ms well as his body Mave you ovtained a practical know! ede of farming since yout exploit us a country kentionman? ” wie aaked “| have Worked in the Kaurden until f have learned low to Hike the jot wondert Ww ee ‘and prompt ns ure ren wi't one makes effort,” and the lender actually becoming pb wake) It you ceamnl to be leader of Tam many would curry out you programme ¢ role “very exerctae at he can, not his position {ite ta," wae the diplomatic answer, ar the leader of Tammany turned from hia Gesk to welcome a delegation arrived to meet the organtzation Chief te RATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, ‘*Boss’”’ | t | Pree = | | mmany Leader Charles F y eves tn the eMeacy yaicnl ev o ahibtiber ae eek { politics keeps | Bince his initial summer bath tn tie shy has taken ¢ eteht | ne stint Mu: ESP SHAM ls tl for an ambulance and then ran @ ts compar syiph | Upstairs, He found Spler in his pa Hig eyes are bright, and the sun spots | Jasiun, seated on, A goach in the urary s of wha: may be seen when the | | Nirong enough to talk and move about Tammany leader t# ried in abbrevi- | fad got. three sites out. of thatr ted bath the leases to clean them,” he explained, “in pg nag shag . waren | readiness for packing Up and starting ¥ hae been undergoing & @: for Maine to-night All A madden rous train bro! on the| “EVERY ONE OF AY {he jenpurise © Kill myself seized me athing in the watern of ane es 1 put the musele of one af the rifles seperti bucly ENDS ARE C MENTING againat my breaat ned aver and Md 7a | UPON MY Coop ied the trigger h the big te ind estate, riding, driv: | |. 1. APPRARANCE" my orient foot ine obiling ng. playing bal How PRoMPTLY NATURE ICAL AF RAN Dr. Parker, ot Rooseyen. ‘Hosp al, [Sane ae Cu ans wert ++ eee ee men werrved i ays prowthy Wea While poltiics In Tammany have been | a ~ to talk. He sald he was fizziing And the polltiqal future of the - A fifired 8 fatal shor at hiet ined taxthe mene ieieeell De Parker sound —— or repeat ps — bullet went clear throug his body and # to some. he has been allowing the Peet tn the wall up near the cciting cares of the ormantzation to trom | ‘Well, I like to gfab a palr of oars and row around th y. togmed In the pathing sult. I get the benemt of the] air and the exerciae, and then J take the plunge. T find « great deal of sport, oO y¥ mport. in playing bail 1 ike to a ball Into the other fet Jow'a lot, atid to throw it and to catob Deaides, I }ike handball. too, and foot bail sa well, 1 enjoy kicking ® ba until the breath beging to come in al | | j | 1908. Murphy Takes Off 20 0 Pounds Weight by ee Daily Training. tit failed to touch m vital epot Denies Woman wae With Him ELOPERS IN AUTO PUSHED THlGG Pouceman Quinn, of the West Sixty yi elgh| t station, who assisted. in al | une of the injured man, ma a core mination of the apartinent with the Jd that perhaps Spier had Deon phot the mysterious woman Bpler sald that the w a been in Mis partment and that he had #hot himacif The angle taken by the bulle ul passing through hia body and lodging Peng walk sappeara. to confirm — hin staternent: that he held the muzzio his breast nd pusty the! with his tos. The bosom of TWO BABES CAD, “MOTHER NG IN FIRE HO Babe's Cry Heard Late by Firemen in Burning Tenement, 4 4 { DEAD IN AMBULANCE / yther Child Succumbed Late) to Injuries—No Hope | for Mother. Mary Peterson, of No. @ Jer City, is dying, and jren are dead, following & + home early to-day, when joping to anve the Ives of took them in her arma under a ded in her bu Mre little ones, rawled Mra, Peterson, who te thirty: id, sived wth her hastand, rank, five, and her baby, Ed! onteen ‘months, fire started when the ti 1 father was away from home, Wi nother dincovered the Mames voreaming. The first she i house was on fire was Due . lamp whoh had been lett burnia t allway exploded. The bit Se anton rene! ee thy rooms the rooms and i mother or ohlldrem the groanings of mother and her two children, and were found under the bed. ‘The boy was so badiy burned thut he 4 the firemen a down the On the w e hospital as Jo his unconscious mother the 9 hospital it wan sald that was scorched where the Up-to-Date Runaway Wedding, Sanuttectueer. hipene Suicide In His Home, AMUSEMENTS. Thuasne, muedway wad wa, Em Bees sat. Bat JOHN DREW}: CRITERION 8 vinero’s Hotish 1s ONDE CTE, We way a 4th a tan We b AAS) Mat mat. ¥15 (Special to The Evening World) © departure of a mystert MATTIN, WILLIAMS WHITH PLAINS. N. Y., Sept. 16 visitor, OnWwald Spier, « in ASS Little Cherub Mine Inia M. Waite, @ pretty blonde turer, whose wife mnd § James lake ita. « wrige 0 ginere eighteen-year-old. and the daughter of are in-Eutope, shot hin | HUDSON THR: A Si. Sat M43 Contractor and Mra, F w « tt bremet with a Win THE HYPocriTES. Barker avenue, and Ker r to-day. tn his apartment SAVOY * son of Samuel Groser, of Chu: t Eigieyssecond street mt acts of Nee fs ae were the principals an up Roosevelt Howpital in a sect World ¢lopement here. but the surgeons have iia Ce Mik They sped away tm a forty w lit fon AAD power Mercedes auto from an appointed [Ar Xpected to andor hime fern! The Clon ane nd die JVEA ; ARth a place of meeting Inet wd of y bi GARRICK | rig te lator had been married by t ; thier: ie WM.H.CRANERR CE Or Hartholew want Ve wield Atal w " wen A. Rev 3 E r ae zo - earver rae rt in Apartinen KAICKERMOCKER THE. thy 4 Yair pint main at his parsonage. |: { t ead ytlues Bye M15 Mal. Ta'y, BAS hey sent thie telegtam to My 2 ‘ 4 pt work " FRITZI SCHEFF, Beet ‘ Waite i ha Ontributing 7c Lola and 1 were marriod to-night, | > # KEITH & PROCTOR’S | Have gone to Saratoga on wedding | Fed Fi wuuie Wiel | BEB Hi hehe? ecpainls Kine of Btandeaite our, (Signed) KENNETH . “a is. Row CONTINUC x soe . - i, ot | Phone tae G: ” A similar message was sent to Morn, ¥ , " $ Watte, who te at the Jackson Hi | penai e a resort, Danaville, N. ¥ | a The elopetent was carefully planned | 1 is Well Bhown Mies Walte left her home ostensibly to as a bbere Mreurabyy WY se: | i release Wa, ts Girls visit a friend, baving p lta wan ieveaue Cle wake ea | Rix Ghinwrrctties ‘Nuw th. 26. tly ar ~ 125% iii ay The FH met! * ui ee Morwan nOuse, Khe | re her 1G) Mate Daly inf Notre Auto feady Aga rent | t ‘ A in tie Prone 1280 Mar | neck avenur, where, 4 < Mi enoetive at oa fir Lyons, wh A mont 4 $A Me Horton and Cha pe, but tailed to Reig who Witnessed t attire ¥ eet tact vac aitta Tema ee oF VARIETIES fomeinelowaligs und dustes,they Bho be <. * Daily Matinees, 25c. 50 e-Huptial tea. ve an tire han ja sea the ahachine MS ROBT. HILLIARD & CO, Pty sh Chauffeur Ib LACE PLAYLET, "AB A MAN HOY along at M r snore Biators, Woodward's Sen's, Win. Vernon, wh t 4 r of Valeoka mi 4 Bh, ig , “ 1 Yesterday morning Yana The 4 MAHOMET COMES TO HEARST A cablegram recelved from London to. | day snnounoed thar Wiliam Randolph Hearst, the Independence League candi: | date for Governor, haa x bouent Soblater SIRE gem cen Orne priteemment he wasp Town w TOE ’ ie lode id ‘ # attired 4 hun and wold NEW AMSTERDAM Theatre. 20s awn oF pn with a black t| ak MAS No similar event has # | Woman in’ Black Appears. ARRY BULGER vitosi Nowy Plaine more, mainly onrour Tenaute io iis ouliding ow a woman ||LIBERTY THEATICE a sot Da larity of the young couple bad | Oot the ‘a | ||ELLIS JEFFREYS THE DEAM LULALHO) UNE ALI SEK. ‘oat “MARIE CAHILL been sweethearts since t Eve A M The elopement is DALY'S Titke ta wa Kk relther with oF] agreed an because 4 way Wt AMAKRAING MAY.” “aout shoes AG with & Bort |e consent tw me, ve THATS Bye.8 15. Beat ote. 84 ety ta ge gh al oalgret wits ROGERS BROTHERS IRELAND ing—usually retiring at rat 10 o'clock at | ¥ aps " tae eelainen ciieeas the launeh when I fo B¥biog ted boon pom LW ee ral to know the Valves and the | wealthy roaldent t. Tay | n safely run. the to Reeiment tints a ti es 4 or two. an al ne | ROOSEVELT OF FERS . joven Reiectty wats ee am fond 0: rand ke Tay & Od ch Tonle, Weta als inns aa at he ey" siy'Tam's| REWARD FOR WATCH.| Qyegge me Sea Murphy, the name | Valerie Bereere war nie nal when Timepiece Lost by Mi and Mats Dally & Bailey and o christen the | Pre ident Advertise peg yd Rig ae Xi Recov Telephones} theres” OYSTER RAY Ethel the dauge in Now York and VF. eas ane Maroy ees " clally« \y romol: ‘i ee ve Tat Travel | issih Sati YN santo won aS | Telephone Grand Sasi OK MEW YORK TELEPHORE #0, 16 Day Steet Den Comp, Ma wr rises adic Girls Das. VAN’S NORUB “Grateful to GUAKANAEED AUSOLI TIE a PAARLEM a: 5 HONOR THK MAY ON e P, a" Igy. HEATH Met. Union Sa the Palate stant ieloben + (i med wins wen tars ee hays. Raney Grocer AMUSEMENTS. WEBER'S fiisith arowe he LAU Mi i TOBACCO SHOW, west fc 1 Stat MADISON Son Variety Ouetarte ee thsdioy Me |] Lasr sion tea ania) Lees MirmweTig New Moving THE PAMOUS FOOD 1} ection ttre | Wallack's Mat, ti a i aay THEA "es he whiae of sin Wash” ass Mam ' mother had no chance to recover, tet DAILY WATS SOCIETY Eli ras |" Moraring | The Pi “Te.| ie Midvale, | Hatinct the beat from every cham | qutertainnwent ‘on knew | ero Roeeo t stecttine Elephant Di Rves. 515 Mat ? THE TOURIST Yor, The Social ¥ sino fei 3.7 IMatines 1 PANHAND ae Nat Wk-When Kayne HURTIC. & StAMON'S GREATER SEW YORK STARS URAL HU da Ler ay Mae sent fonlly toe Cranmtlantic Burlesqaers, Girt tn HUBER’S 14th St. Mi Fatro- Houdini Oufdomell the Rowton M MILEY feah Leotint, Sh 20 Why Aete HAR * 1 Real) Ma THPATEE. te Miciiay-Aid\ ee Be Comenate —¥ B 23th st. Ladies" Mat. To. JOLLY GRASS WID: AOA Sendsy Aft &E rs Ce BELASCO tiv netvecs besasute an 8 t ihe Gilet wf BLANCHE BATES! BON its WARFIELD RIGO car EM CASIN Piya N J didie easy MANHATTAN met o-8 Grace George, “Clothes.” + corneg an oy e Mot SV EIY BVENIN avocine pe CLOSES, SEPT. DREAMLAND roach @ ' eel Ce * M. Prever i by thn eatin ; “Sunday World Wants Work Monday