The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1907, Page 3

: os ie ey (THE“EVENING WORLD, _ DELEGATION OF YOUNG WOMEN WHO. WORK IN CROWDED STORES TELL MR. SHONTS OF THE INDIGNITIES OF TRAVEL IN They Visit the Autocrat of the Interborough System in His Lair ani Recite ‘to Him a Long List of Their Grievances While Going To and From Their Work. ENLIST HIS SYMPATHY, BUT HE HAS LITTLE HOPE. ‘Conditions Must Exist as They Are, He Says, So Long as New Yorkers Work Downtown and Live Uptown, but Here’s Advice: When in-a Hurry. Take a Local. Ls BY ALICE ROHE. 1 Mr. Theodore P, Shonts had expressed a willingness to receive mugges- tions, That was why we were there, the eight of us, ready to tell the President of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company a few of the trials and indigni- ties, the actual sufferings, t¢ which New York's business women ‘are sub- fected through the conditions existing on that transportation system. Bhonts’s office in the Park Row Bullding were seven, but their name was Legion. They ri ene which starts them off in the morning half. worn oat and one SS sends them homie al night too weary to even protest. 7 / < % and her skirt half torn from het before, Hadi Glentyacts eas tthe reached ‘home. a After. conwdering Mr. Shon rt to receive suggestions from the Uc 1 visited the large department stores | ¢, tak y at One Thdred and Tenth ‘The—young omen who-stood—with—-me—before the sloor_of- President) yresented thousands of New York's self.fupporting women | whose hard day's work is crowded In between two laborious experlences—|, BANNA in the neighborhood of Fourteenth | street, where the crowded condition of i Mfe maucrows the different transit lines i most | imposaible to gat on. t strongly At night I ga hime on a Madtyc = z venue cer rather than go througn 7 ideas on hey certainly [the oxpericnce of the moruing.” hed. = | fies Harriet Bernetetn, a pretty i fined young girl, who lives at Tho seven girls finally setected were| fast One ldendred and. Tenth street, sentatives because they’ | told » more trial of the One Hun: Tenth street station, ehiired b jdred and finumually {ntelligent members of ae ieee eas de to-get-on-in-the big class of feminine workers—j morning at this station, and aa for yin the shop girl. They were also chosen | trains running on schedule time tha: with the idea of -hawng tho different |#0mething we no longer expect, sald transit lines and different eonditigns i+ | Justrated. : “Do you think Mr. Shonts will really { “Msten to ver* asked tho girls, almont fm un'zon, cx we filed through thi numerous nouns bofure Uve Inner #ane-| incu the die tam of the Prostdent himself ..waa | simply 0 “ e MW by r 80 pac we cannot resen edie iat t0, tty Re: ih Pleats i oriare:ao: hat they ant. I'm halt a to tell him about) on schedule Why, it takes my torn dress and bruised arm.’ express longer to get from One Hun- * dred and Tenth street than the local fhe seven girls soon found out. The! ny nee: ‘Bystem Causes Lose of; Money. h rather hard, Mr. Shont who mre docked when they ate to be kept back by bad sud agement. Ht ts.all the harder to our thet ne afars _on tine ‘ ‘ang and the sent cheer SONNE BURG WARRIET BERN STEM SADIE BURKE some big truck takes our tracks, which and de: n ic A Strap-Hanger fer Seven Montis. “And now, wh thip young lady?" as I Introduced Miss os Third berg, avenue. Tt was aiMcule toi Ret irid ‘of the: iden ,Just then thet telephone, President of ‘the Interborough Rapid | President of the Interboro Transit was standing bebind his low @eak with an afniadle expression on aera ae ea im of good | now: I ntertaining a delegation of e oung bus: huinor dn. jots_bive eyes that made OMeFY | Hike my Bubway. "Yee, Thave my, fous girl on the spot feel that he had been | bles: but sometimes! they are mice ones. heart by Actually waiting for years for the) When =Mce Bhonts hung up the re- * pleusure of her nequacntance, [erg i ‘mile Then the President them a funny story abou! “i\ The” Delegation Introduced. ers,”" and they Moughe-he waa nheer than eves {afr Shonts, 1 want to introduce to youliseren bright’ young -woman who Hert tke —yoer—interborougn—Raptty Transit uystem a bit,” I explained, as the bfY fnan-axtended his hand to me, "The girls come from the Bronx, from Harlem, from the east and west sides, and they, $e tines;—they { Bubway, th anird, Sixth and Ninth avenue L.” roads and the trolley, and they want to tell you how very. lines all’ are," 1 announced. ‘My. Shonts almost sald ‘But he Orly Tooled it. “When you look at them and realize that they have not had a-seat in one of your cars for @ year, but have hung on to straps and been stepped on and knocked about, I'm quité sure you will Tealize bow much they. needyour_help." “I would be only too glad to help you, young ladies, and I would like to hear ¥ouj-atorles but -wolld mmucl-rater ‘have suggestions, satd~ Mr, shonts, | erlang “Well, let's nou promise | these hota?” Taal Tl, what'do they want me to do? he naked in turn, gestion.” spoke up Miss gan. own, Mi t ten’ man, Who couldn't come to-day me: ¥ou_take-ous-thooe-partor crosa seats, which hold only sixteen Bee le, and give us more room to get Up Into the centre of the car? As It | n't get any one to fo pas rat of the cross seats. I'm willin nd, ed to deat! on a very similar Shonts,~ smiling. e a ‘Deltghted,"’ ‘Any more sug No Jumping Stations. “More trains and better schedule and eaid Miss no jumping stauons, Bern- atein, But eBulisan yen the pnt pits Who forks Tost bet in NewTork, for havg to be at work cannot walt ar ihay. Daveto_rush."* Frofise, these young rt Off with Miss Helen Brogan,’ { suggested, Introducing) a tretty big-eyed [ite ‘girl with fresh somplexion and wavy brown hon ¥ou-realise that tie girl has had to hang onto a strapefor_a_yoar, stay downtown aI! oe you. will ai ue there something mu- a ht, and walt. for | crowded cars. =wron a-aystem where the [Take locate instead pant en find acots and the women have tho|In that way you can sa tanding. are interested especially. In. the, n, who had entered Toga: terrors of the ‘Brgeent D fice’ very much ‘aghast at the idea | women, Mr, Shon’ sald. “Can't ine to the pres lent. of the Inter-|you do something to the women a boro, melted, the: kindly ex- the men, who tter chance -agatn in Mr. Shontn'a eyes and tolda|eem to format that they are human ‘tam! ar to us ally beings when they are in Ji Bubway Te ‘nd ‘ave makinestor a-seat?* , ‘ern Dresses In Evidence. ~-/ "8d sre ™ scar how we walting for.some ong to solve the prob- lem. Bo Wing as New York lives town, and has business downtown, the problem will -remetn—as-it- ta; 4 Te tlie onky advice Team rad can do any- “You can see my dress, Mr. Shonts,"* bing of \y_for women," cahe- onlay Mt wes neatly torn of OF me] Bhontar DAR eT RCT Mn the other day, and when wa ket home|, te goneral, sovery night oReally,-the|-YOf-course,-we—oan't.expect -you~to work Ia the] control ‘the nel ther. lack a. “but tt rds at the to. protect + givihg me nis seat. That isn't thing. x con tain of. are See are, ae ‘a tired Arpt Mr. Shonts's:Trump Card. 8 fact ‘that We womien den't| Mr. Shonts amiled and then looked ap- Reatihniet kcchaneo teeta With: | pealingly ‘at the delemates. Out being torn to plecos that ma f OU, only, knew how thls troubles hard. Raavtrentment that | mer and how 1 would 1 help you, ea riding on your Subway vo terri: | 1 ould it No. 1,056 epningy street and res more wi ‘aremne station. I wot a seat} further ur." sald SMe Bernateln, ital DUL T'nave| those further up ax least got a a ie the ride downtown inthe morning, worry | never know whither I'm golng to met Sbout your dress,” sald air ct ts, {8 | to the Fourteenth Street Store alive in a fevmbathetic. fonssthat alm the morning, or back home alive at Fy at night. hays worked downtown a yea i isline and in all that time Ihave never ha _ 1 a sence elther way.’” ee you Woman Whose 2. Shonte seemed much interested in’ rte ‘and ba vnttined Bernstein's plaint, and quoted of Harlemites until he had And seriou optimistio othe now ayenua and gon it was t get. oF 4 rs ine ae Tae Ive Foun te Re ao ae Woy te Mr. ing ood imitation. Reg experience of | | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, MELEN BROGAN. MASEL an interlocutor with smyaeit (as end he Li the SOW the raahen ogh, however, asked his hout seeming to observe ch resemblance. travel’on the Third Avenue ‘L," aid-Mirs-Sonnenberg, Rul u weAt In & year. Tt is Intolerable Coming down in the morning, but Wwe | can't be choosers when we realize that | we will be docked if we walt for‘an- | other Gar that js not so crowded."" Miss Julla Nol to-telt you, MY Bhonl ale Mr. Shonts looked as pleased as though he had just recetved good news. n all, the seven months I worked tn the Fourteenth Street Stor: said Miss Nolan, "I have never had seni_going home -nt—right.— Sometime in the morning I get one coming to work, aa I'live up at Jackson street and that | on at Prospect avenue, tft the “standing “up all ay that makes st so hard, thoug! ithe actual Mghting one Was too: ta thes on a car at Fourteenth strect, and/ en-the-being pushed: and @rawded and; torn to pieces Inside the can, ‘Why, the men won't give the women @ chance to | work up toward the centre of the car) themselves, but they pusn and crowd ea in their mad | poasible inch of | nom for themse Mlon<Badie Hurke's-story-was-atmtiar} tovMiss-Nolan’e. live in Jackson street. too, and get on and off at the Prospect avenue sta- tion," eald Mins Burke. “I never ¢. | BEAU HONE home, and When T do-reach | Prospect. avenue after werking tn’ the store all day and hanging on to # strap and belng buffeted about at night Tam pre worn out. Pthasyromen only had a fair chance ing thelr own in the matter of | Jt would be better, But we are) 14 rong. Gag to OnAnE On: to a stray and Pre bine tra and pushed and telated are almost out of shape. Tee | “It's very bad, I'll admit,” sald Mr. Shonts Invhis most friendly and sym- pathetic tot ut what do you Suet my doing?” A Side Line of Talk. egeat.cars similar to those used summer. on the Taira avenue anid Mise Sonnonburg, ‘that would Tie Conkestion at each Mr. “y inet oe end of the oar. - ‘Here inf Bhoats, “hordrs would the rush for the seats, When the doors, one of ene prould be necessary for every. rom ats, would be closed, the fact what we couldn't have a guard at each line would result in accidents in the New York hurry, A Plan for Centre Exit Doors. “If-wecan take care of. the crowds quicker we and in that Mr, Shonts Umllar Idea," sald a went on to a. @ soheme toy of the cars for exit on form a./ateady, stream, ‘and. would bring beop Into the centre of the. car, fein e entrance gate: “Thon. the delegation Mea out, and as the girls went down in the elevator, there wasn't one of them who wasn't ready to pledge herself ready to “hang on to & strap for ilfe for Me. Bhonta's sake. my ‘hat is to say, until thay reached m minds. The when the sea od, stheie PS june pres re strap. fe e,saven atria ‘ff. Shonta wie ry Tito, and resignation last night myaelf. t dose not olive the prob- ne Evening World Wants to help: the ‘and-T-rave not | WAIT-FOR-FRAINS. So long as New York Il -FHAT-ARE » NOT CROWDED, IS SHONTS'S. downtown the traffi: problem will remain as it is. The only advice I can give you ts to “stay | downtown. little’ later at night and wait for less crowded cars, Take locals Instead of expresses; and in that way you can save yourselves.—President Shonts to a delegation of young women who called to protest against the inefficiency of the present transit system. ves uptown and has Gusieees DUCHESS WILL NOT RETURN 10 AMERICA TO LIVE, H. P,. -Bel- 0: Who Got ‘Back From. Europe To-Day. en ee So Says mont, : Oliver HM. P, Belmont? arrived here to-dayon-the “North German” boyd Mner Kronpring Wilhelm with the | lateut news from the Duohess of dlarl- | borough. The Duchesa and her chil- fren have been spending the winter on the French Kiwlera with her mother, Mra, Belmont, and are now in Pari Mr. Belmont, who went abroad in vember, says that he expects Mra, Bel- mont to arrive here in: two weeks, with her sons, Wiliam K., Vanderbilt, and in cuse of; her non- arrival he will return abroatl. y “The story that the Duchess of Marl- borough has engaged apartnents at the Martha Waslington 1s ali fiction,” sald Mr, Belmont. ‘She has no Sdeq, of conying to the United States, much less of living here. Sho: will lv ‘There, 1 believe, whe has the sympathy Radilognnaence Of ell the Americans Mr. Belmont thst eagerly after the latest details of the Thaw trial and of ‘Thaw'a chances of escaping, and after making some inquirles as tO the stock Market he Jumped into ® cal and took & forcy-" for New York. Tefore y0- ing he dented he waa avout to bulld a house In Waghington; CHARLES MAY NOT men of New York to get better. con- {you want to h gestion you have Mina tena may tind\thermslutinr —_——_—_—-—_— Juatolary Committee to-day” reported GUILTY, SAYS JURY. oS May, wae \prrested in December last charged With ‘abstracting letters from (the mall, And who, {t was'eald, had been spied on through @ hole in the wall, upon which ae Was Indicted, has been acquitted by * ase ‘wan tried in the United States tions in travelling. Mr. Shonts wants pugxostions, So It ts a falr, all-around Evening World any Bu for He Probl MAYORALTY RECOUNT BILL IS REPORTED. favorably the Prentice bul which Broz vides for a recount of the batlots‘oast rtunit; earner just write to The ne. tral will be pagsed a ones ALBANY, March 2%.—The Assembly ‘the ‘Ma: ta New. Xork Cireult, Pee ae o Chatfleld presidi Was dovended by ar. Bir. Houghton. of Houghton, & Burns, and the pase’ Jr, and Harold |ea4, the postal clerk who |} SWAMTWO HOUBS, ANT HAD TOLET COMPA DE Tried to ane rita) Surprised to Find Him- selfAlive, After swimming for ‘more than two P hours seey in the “icy galo-tossed | waters of Pelam Bay, Gustave Larsen, & deckhand on the dredger Marlin, man. aged to reach the shore.” With his on} life tn great peril, he hag halted sov- eral times to go to theirescue of hin pmate, Lows Anderson, who was | tossed Into the bay with /him when thelr small boat capsized In the heavy When Larsen crept out on the shore after his loy awim of nearly a mfle he nwas.in sucha atate of exhaustion that he fell unconscious fm the roadway. There Bicycle Policeman George Coop- er, of the City Island sub-station, founa him soon afterward. ’ La&Faen. was barely alive and Cooper sent a hurry call to Fordham Hospital, elght miles distant, for an ambulance, This was the near- est point from which he could expect, help for the unconscious man, Cooper. picked up Largon and garried with him-on hig shoulders toa road- House a. quarter of a mile away, and then fell to work to revive him, ‘After | working over him half an hour Larson | began to whow slams of life. When he finally recovered his speech he looked about Nin In much anvazement, and then. waid: “Why, am 1 still altve? Larena maid he could not recall get- its a Dotore ‘he got near the auiore he had at all sense of fooling. 1 eo beck help my friend several times, for he called out to me ald awim no longer, At In: woak that T oav}d do) no mo: dhe. told me to fo on and of my own Ite, I saw bim still ly halt a yoie Ume the ambulance reached tie roadhouse Lanjen had ay far recov= red that ie emked. $0. 1907. oe THE S PIULIA NOLAN A ne BLumMentTHat. WOMAN'S WHIP DRIVES: DOCTOR FROM THECT Dr.=McKetway, With His Family, Seeks Home in the West. ‘. Dr. George McKelway, horsewhipped recently by a woman pa- tlent In his office at Flushing, { on his way’ to the West to-day with }hls family, and tt Ja said he will who was a. LL, ever return, The doctor was on the medical Mra-—-Katherine--Fy clan he wi Inte ’ to tell (why doctor was silent, too. Dr. telwny’ 7 eae ‘cnieago.? household goods were toi 1, jatar ef the Flushing Hospital, but re- signed after the whipping. Rettiy, tte te: ‘eer red before leaving that he wan goin > VISIC his Wifes relatives in Cariada, number of tis friends had advised him ty leave the town, KILLED HIMSELF AT SWEETHEART’S. HOME. Girl's sc 1 Suitor Hopslessly Ill, and, His. Marriage. Opposed, He Put Bullet in Head. March Standing-at the door of the homo of his aweftheart, Misa Sarah’ Rodgers, _avonus, ‘SCHENECTADY, N. Y.. 10 Campbell Brousceau, twenty-four in ae base kay yea ofy No, 8 Rugby Toad, blew out hie’ rains! night: ‘The girl's father and the young erty) parents opposed thi mutch beoquse he was in poor, health-and: physicians: BAYOL ia no hope for his recovery, Meved to havg been the cause muicide: LONG BLOCK BY L. LANDSLIDE. LOS ANGELES, Cals 3 March 20.—The coast lite of the Southern Pacinc been completely blocked by a landslide that has closed the Santa Margarita ‘tunnel, one of the longest on the divi- located Te the mountains porth of Tacal ral is be- his Iroad of- wa iarardeavised|thatane ibiectract ss main closed ta traffic for at least fy, day former Coffee , Thousands of «pretty, young woman of Flushing, whore family | Went to pete woKals Lp, vagely ‘She. retuned she Jashed’ him, and the lq Evils of Fourteenth Strebt Liquid GNES DROHAML TRIED TO DRAG A GIRL -. FROM MOTHER'S SIDE: Refreshments-Sends a Country- _man_{q Jai Three drinks of, Fourteenth astrest whiskey cettled Charlyx Crowe, a youtn from Herkimer County, Magistrate Cor. Heb AH LURAY Seemed Ce Gee otaeay fined ‘him $10, and as’he had no moni he will & 4 few days on the taland) Dwu approached Gertrude ateCarth sixteen-year-old daughter of Polloa. man! Cornebug Mofarthy, at Fourteenth atreet—and—Fourth—avemtie—yomt afternoon, put his arm around ber and tried to drag her from tho side of per mother, with whom she waa about to enter the Subway, M ths when feoin-the country’ arrested, 07 arraleried in the police court he three drinka he took brougnt oni Sitter forgetfulness. He could not recall anything that happened yester- fternoon, but he knew that. hed robbed, thy hast | pas TIPU SUBW: Mrs. Schrader Sent War ing to Mrs. Seville, but” it Was’ Delayed, — “A premonition that “something Wit happen te her young daughter, © Elizabeth Seville, bothered Mire. Hldats” deth Schrader, ah aged invalid, to-day ‘Mra. Schrader: lives at No. 422 Irei. avenue, {n rooms over « grocery Piss Sucted, by her son Charles, Thi ot Mes, Seville 1s at No. 218” ey ‘Pwenty-seventh street. Bo. worried was ,Mra. Schrader one he went for her aon and asked him to go to the Twenty-scventh street o house and tell Mrs. Seville not to/ ee ! On -the fre-eseape 40-day, “L think=shtis waeshingto-day, the old mother. ‘Tell her not to the fire escape, because the wind Ls bi and I feel that something wit happen to her.” 4 Schrader promised to perform fase fl rand, but was very busy. in the 2 and deferred going to ace his pial Just nu ho waa about to start | O'Connell, the janttress ef the flatiti in ‘which Mrs, Seville Uved, ran to repair the fost her bal paved yard. zon her h the place and told him that hia alster had fallen from the thiné floor fire em saps-nnd fractured her-skul ithe, jnury, proved fatal and vue Hospital, -It was tau f the nelghborly” disposition. and her desire to help ame other. woma sles og ey ry, Tyan, living eoross the Sev tiles, gave ibirth to ei te tam es Yesterday she had Behe waning, DUC” BAOMNe Ot” Tain, the clothes’ wens not. the line, Bay Ore hang them ts she nee com| Ne red es ant Tea pe ntanglem: aos and. fell 40 ite three stories oe Mr Senracd 1 Fate ae apeident, ns te Dhoned to didljovue. and in a4 ue on’ tho operating table in the bows pital. i e fT is. bel made to keep wear ine deatn of tre. Seville trom Ter mother, who ts fm no ahape,to ah * Mra "Sevilie’s husband, Eawnrd, | fe Noyed as an elevator operator ine, - J atieet office building. ing ordinance passed. tast_ night by he Council, and it wit go to ef fiheatat ‘The oniinance: makes Me iademeanor to sell @ ticket to any theatre Stan ‘piace Other than the prio other That printed 0 ‘on ‘the dace of the tieket., $7.50 Fashionable Season’s Dantiest Thursday Q “ SALE AT ALL . PRLS 5 Why Pay’ More? OCULIST’S LAMINATION FREE, We are the people irk cut the price in optical goo one: Compare Our Price. with Others. Any” btkes FYE BPECIA\ Ratistaction guar a. Ginse Byea made to onder, 81,40 up. 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