The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1907, Page 3

E'S A HEROIN At RUNAWAY, BUT FEARS A MOUSE Wife of Dr. Meier We estly Insists That ; Is Not Brave. SHE STOPPED — HORSE. Reached Past Coachman and Firmly Grabbed Reins. + Meier, the heroine y in Fifth aye- tod an’ Evening World was afraid of a thduise, Mra, Meier ts a bandsoine bru- nelte | nearly’ six feet tall, ‘figure ts what the 1d describe as superb, MT am notieo brave as they are try- WR to make out. Iam afrald of a mouse, aiwuys have been.* fi {he physician's wife ts stil at the Faaldence of her friend, Foporter that {) Paragreter w with whom she' was out riding In the. ‘Matters victoria whon the Suisig WAY, Oc Aided by Heroine. Mrs. Oelsner lives at Beyenty-second street. ftom shock and a broke: But for Mrs, Melr’s rare presence of mlidd during the wild race of the horse down Fifth avenue her Injuries would much greater. Meter escaped: With a> Tew: Uratees @ alight shock, lorses. are my. delight.” continued “L have never driven a ré . but I have been. out with Dr. Meler, my husband, and his horses Wére-vaually spirited. “You see J am of Hah birth, and #@ great deal of out- dosr exercise has made me strong in of my, years.” Mis, Meler looks under thirty, although -shé\is the mother of two sons and one Asked to describe the Inci- Gstits of the runaway she continued: Oelsner and myself had been @ri¥ing for an hour or 20, and we were ing out of Central Park into Fitty- ninth ostrest, intending to call Gi friends further downtown, when sth changed our minds-and-my-hostess eotd her conchman, Kruse, to turn back the park... The day was too pleasant ve the park so early, would have been well but for the an automobile com: rive behind us. horik-honk-honk ing, up the East vwooner did our horse hear that dreadful ndige than he bolted across the plaza thon Fiteh avenue; "t qhickly saw that the coachman was % He seemed. to collapse on his sedt, and in his flurry he dropped the e _I_had visions of the horse travelling in circles, so I quickly arose leaning forward, bed the rein which Kruse had let {1 Mave a Jong reach," Here Mra: Meler displayed a forearm ~ MAY Was ayninietFToaT aa Well aa Tong. in’ the. victoria, Sacer a ‘gulted edi pull a Se narrowest: Oty a margin we missed x it the reins the Eats And slowly bring the horse down amy tycband, 1 ought of my darl- img, boys, 1 thought of my daughter-in ~of_everyhody 1d. syorias nav every it wrong in my Seton ey. mind in those fal numanes so seermed: to iv ther we held the horse to his proper ree, guiding him around and nipping axles vehicles going in our di) 1, Mihose drivers saw Us ¢ some - screanting done —outalde— of yell bothered me loone, as well and few in the wind. OTD wan at Fitty-ffth streot that we Ghugtit’ it—right slam into a hanso: Our horse, a bie out own vehicl ee ireat deal bad by: this tin Halfway between Mifty-fourth street camo finish, one of the big electric cabs pto-os serous fare gottini The coushiman wan a Seat and i the electro exo Tear of the victoria, and Mra was only thrown out. I held on relng until a bravi I was tah n Btoppase slightly bruised “00 Mra. Oolmer had not encouraved eI never could have hung so por- ently at the Ines, ao, If I am a hero “then whe’ is one also, for sho was “Jit as brave as I.' ‘Mra. Meler lives with her family at “98 West One Hundred and Forty- Patty Hy — > — i ‘PRIZE FOR BROOKLYN BOY, “NEW HAVEN, Joseph Willlam Murphy, of Brooklyn, Ni] won the annual Junlor exhibition éss.\the ‘Ten’ Eyck: prize at “Ho spoke an. “"Slayic Imm Amone, rine United Mine Wor! Aimer! Chance! Many a-richiman - sands of dollars cars last year that are being , for. a mere frac. tion’ of ‘their cost ete World "Want" Ads, Eveninz World Suggests Them) to President Shonts,'Who Says SEX-1i cellent,”’ But:Fears He Could Not: Enforce Regulations ,to Keep “Men From Using Them. By Alice Rohe. At the Folrteenth street station in the subway & woman«was swept off her feet and tramplaipin- the rush last night. When dragged from be- neath the heels of the surging crows |i rhe was badly bruised; utterly ex- hausted-and-tarely-able:to talk. ahatl she escaped alive was a miracle. As}! it was, one of her armé, was sprained, her back severely wrenched, her hat torn off and ruined and her dress al- most in tatters, The trouble, as usual, was caused by the mad dash made by. the men changing from a locai.to “an express train, The woman who was injured was endeavoring to leave the express train when she was catight, in (thd ufitil sho fell, i Widespread Interest tn The Evening World's efforts to imprdvp conditions for women on the Interhproush's tran: sit lines In Indicated by # eat ber of let a sens to this newspaper, Some of thee letters con- tained suggestiotia for Prgsident Shonta, who, Ike Oliver Twi: ks for more. Here 1s one suggestion which, if acted ‘on, would vaatly benedtithé women who are compelled to use the, subway, ‘The tt prealdent of Gie Interborousn wxve careful consideration, “ but expressed THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, Serene oye icinmeeny mente argc MARCH 21, 1907. MID-CAR DOORS: FOR WOMEN WOULD END PRESENT SUBWAY HORRORS WOMAN MAKES. MANY HURT AT | FIFTH ATTEMPT TO DIE BY GAS Mrs. Steinma Has “Money Brain Storms,” Declares Husband. Oil Works Destroyed: and] p HOSRITALS Srapemnecesttnarett co wa uienrnaee property in” the Atlantic) Refining Works, , BHards: to keep tha men from entering | ihe middle doors, 5) 2-551 GENTLE STAKING GIRLS SPRING, COMES ON SCHEDUL This Is the Day for the! Vernal Equinoxand Spring Fever. tates pies Get Little Sympathy, indignation agatnat the: condl- Ath. Hons existing on mll_the intnelt lines) to go home before Hunt the business: woman s with right on hier: ade. rand before: ihe receive the sae 30 on many night falfiiont Into shreds at the Pourteenth sstraot station. The woman “Ahopper olleat to haye @ Voice In this E eve In waiting shop Rida and busl Such or women of lelaure, d be able to. otter a car without the feeling that y are taking a, chance on their lives, Yomen kre privileged to attend tte Padnvess and how are tbey to hey do not take the cars, es will not afford 2 eat |” ‘For two weeks paat about half of the schedule time—the vetnal equinox oc-! two hundred girl packers employed at cufs, and old winter vacates the prem- 1$ek, giving place to sunshine and flow- ers and the latest creations In straw hats for the women folk. Already rising in birds are looking up nest apartment: Spring 1s here. At 1 o'clock to-aay— eine cowed on both aft ‘ matinees, little chance of thelr Clothes home Jn as good Condition ax when they started, “LT take the Subway at Timan Square after the niatinees, and when Lam shop- I get on at Twenty-thitd street. A al t count the times I have had nd that Is not the only trouble, A-woinan who can come through the vel on the New York thouty being almost ‘ong character."’ aliaont rulned by | Rorenth: ” the| pany hired | and Capt. ty-fevent! throats and preparing to take upit ub fistance in keeping the finger nails and Concert where Caruso and Bonct le: | hat-pins of the rival | ing. injury. Bickerings and little hair. --The winter, which started off as mild| pullings havo been tho regular order fs milk, a Ittle later got under-seay | in spite of the precautions, and to-day the trouble was brought Into the York- ville Police Court: Ho lwha had feared thera wagn't going ta | Dirdia-Kunan,-ptowvo46-Bae be any winter forgot thelr lamentations| nue, one of tha girls who 3 Which the warm days had called forth | work, summoned to court. Mary Violent Rnpeking Schwartz, of-No. 423 | on experience of tranalt lines duced to tears haga Sufferers Sending Suggestions. Mra, Sa’ velanid whom ne tia frenzisd—crowd—and—kiorked—about ir and became as ugly as-aqua fortis. Snows ‘followed , ai prop ine jwomen 0 and culture who. are forced to depend upon the Subw iy; transportation. Mr. Shontx admitted the right of th promis oa fale o new and more Against the cold. Itiwaa a renaonably deceht winter, all | 3 but it will not find | ttlo came to, court to-diy each sfde ew Yorkers to-day who wili re.| Was backed by twenty-five of her éel- Hows. It wos a congress of all nations, Tho alr ts charged with apring fever. j but Sdutheistern Europe predominated. e{-Thete will soon bo green ‘on the trees | i ‘on the ground, and t/ Witt bite sand tqoal vogetablén will come, Way homo from work when si “along. at prices which othar than mji--/-attacked by Monaires can conalder without first pre. | Schwartz, paring for bankruptcy, nd trolleys for e, but to'ainee nome | things considered. A question of the Subway tush and crowd which ia shown with. particular significance Js the ease of young ore are forced to travel bavk.and fort! fidren—on~the--Subway rush: honra woald better bé at home" may be the answer; but many children cannot choose thelr time for travellin ot giri-ot-twelve-at-tie eet ng bundle for delivery, was caught In thi badly Jomtled™ that hei Bret, vidding It'a last 1907 ‘good-b: {girl sho knew by name. She doubt as to the advisability of making any regulations which’ frould Beast women alone, Anse ~Sr—Bronte bed told ma 5 possible to run more traltis until the present number could boiled and emp- tled more rapidly, andthe suggestion waa to afford better facilities In thie Ting ae of } Midgar Doors for, Wamen. “As most. of the dipiness ‘caused withstand the rough treatment received from male passengers, Yehy pot have | Cara WiDr doors-opentng—trom: the—mid—; dir-of-the carat 1 If the middle doors were reserved exclusively , for taining seats. but It would lsd spare them the torture of struteling in the fh sm place-th a-car.* = “It would be imporaibie’ we make any regulations giving special pf)Wl¢xes to women," sald Mf, Shanta.” ‘You’ see, the men would not atay/away/fvom the middle doors, and how could we: force tham to? 5 “In Just the same way, Aide Tho men are ablo to apne: it out among Itis-the wdmen who are “It would not be practleable to make any regulationa for womdy,"' sald Mr. Bhonts, “much as I appteciate the trials to which they aré subjectéd, You, would sooh soo that there would be crowding of men a: well ‘as'women'to the centre of the oars.” ‘If it wns understood that women alone Were allowed to “thter by the middie doors, and thatthe end doors were exclusively for hes, you Would not at least find the Women trying to use the end platforms," I suggested. ‘Pho advantages of tHa” middle-door || aystem would be showr in’ many First of all, the women} Would have an equal chance of gettiny @ seat. As It is, the very sight offe vacant seat toward the centre of the! car throws a man, into. @ maniacal frepty,. He stops at nothing, from gouglhg. women with his elhows to tearing hér| bundles from ‘her arms, in his ende&yor to get the prite. Yoren would be réllaved of arcat discomfort, They would’ he freed to a @reat extent from the terfible mawling they recelve every night/at the handa, and feet. of the men,¥and then, too, the centre of the car Would be Miied land the congestion, a uch end would bo removed." ‘ The middle-dodr ‘iden. Mr.) Shonts eereed was excellent,’ Apart from the ‘attempting _ ta}. ¢ A real March wind blow young spring It waa a blow: that kept Ubeda HY halr, holding hats and Were many that did not wut Today, dawned with ‘The sun Cano out bright an ‘was Just clear’ éhgugh. to. b air wan warm and ‘3 * #0 eat tO Work: Butevery night we-are nWHilesny during. man owed himpelt in| sta ae llghte mult Parcel was torn open, If there was any damage to the conteats the. enna is | pay for tt out of her. scant had__bai Fat Oa women and children. the not shave happened, There are women all over wie suffer from the transportation ey! Shonts sao 40 a travelling Is only too glad tb its readers: who wane out In sympath and stepped Neathoriuess a the sllg tent” gal jo aasiat.in bettering tha lot of trave women who are forzed to,travel In the jing. feminity in New Yo aubtzuy comes _from thelr ippbility to iS would give them a better chance at ob- | CARRY BATTL FORE A UDG Magistrate Cornell Clears the Court. elgar factory, known as “The Bhg Hear Manufacturing Com- any,’ of- No. p33. East Seventy-third reet, have been on strike, The com- veral private detectives, fat Shire, of the East Six- street station, has given as- ndreds from do« East Seventy-sec: street, and E:nma Schway, of No, East Stventy-third street. When the Birdlg told Magistrate Cornell that on fisn | Saat Thursday: evening she wan on-her was ary #ix_girls. led by. Emmu was the ald they scratched her, pummelled her and tore ‘To prove It she showed up vith a _black “eye and her er tre corroborate her she. put. on the 4a her satr witness, Selma Nola: HA West Seventy-fourth str satisfied with our pay and ked by these others for not going She would have sald more, probably, did. but it was drowned jn an outbreak of fifty girls’ voloes, talking tn-various [Tanguiges, remMnbcent OF Baudet. Mane] trate Cornell, after rapping in vain, had all the girls driven from the court) wrens -on—the—atand: rhe: he He then warhed Mary and Emma thot | ie’ if ther: were brought before him again dezwould posted seen toa Shent-to-the War! BONFIRE FATAL Found Unconscious by Hus- band Returning from Opera —Insane Over Riches. Vloding ol} and the ‘danger to aur- rouhiding pro} to be sounded. concern were burned befor the fire- ined otto work. The explomions hurted burning oll on the fremen,) ai a many of them were so. ba they had bo be taken to hospitals, Mrs, Clara Steinman, of Ono Hundred and Twelfth atreet. ing In the Harlem Hoapital to-day. following a midnight attempt (o Inhale deadly draught of {lluminating gas On four previous oc- her husband Mra, Steintian had made similar attempts, failing to kill herself ohly because of the tlmély dint each Inslance of her desperate reso Normally healthy DIDN'T KNOW 'TWAS L LOADED, through « tube. casions within the old, was cleaning a_revolver_in-n-rese taurant at Crencont atrest and Ja ales, avenue, Brooklyn, to-day, and Wasn't, tho algn ofa load It ee thought invmind and body, her uabara |. aha la -money-mad, and has an jnsane Idea that by econ- ¥. speculation and’saving ahe xan at- the wealth of Rockefeller, |; Who Ix a wealthy real estate a recent} instance of his’ wife's fondness for money. “I gave her $1,300 to put In the bank only the other day an Outcry That} comune inact was ast enough, ane suggested that It could have been dou- bled by Judiclous handling, and showed some feeling over the matter, I thought otherwise, inasmuch aa Mrs. Steinman a few days before that re- me another considerable She banked every, dollar religi- y, but_wanted™more and more. Her Fifth Attempt. “This ts the fifth Ume she’ has at- to take her’ Ufe following a and there Is no the’ bullet entered pet t fleat= badly and ple thecbonee me was taken to the Dradford Stent Hee pital Ills home ts at No. 61 Crescent} signted, a derelict, on March 12, by the mn atree Bosnia. celyed from jeu. y “brain storm,’ other reason that I can assign for her {a buxom and good- looking. She 1s forty-one years old. Her family consists of Her husband Oslas, and alx years of age, home on the pointed apartment house | family jrenide Is handsom rd floor of the well-ap- In which the to tal ol jer children, ae Steinman, who had sha the day In- 0 aocom! husband ‘and ‘glasan sayinguehs. wee spam wife and lett herrendie inman and the c m4 surnead about shilaren detected the odor entered the private hall the apartments. Mi Instantly divined th of Kas as they way leading to his w fe had made Rteinman unconscious from_t facts. oniymothen | fs tut glenched be: ube hecting with the chandelier overmead: Taken to Hospita Mr. Steinman abut off moved the tube while bh tor rulsed & cry of alarm, leading to the ‘sleept cupled by little Mary andea maid. were elo the id = his. Aare ath ened a4 x apartments o¢- Pollceman Ahearn, of the East One Hundred and SUMMIOnAD AN AmbUlaNes Trom the Har, lem Hopital, and Dr. Schiff after ate tempting art nso full respiration, removed the woman to On i. former occaston ache la f oor t-heraett-hi Mary made t thn dine ihe, ala et hel HEALTHY CHILDREN Made So by the ight Kind of Food, | mother, heard her | and ran Into the [on the child, and | to smother the flames It Way not until ~TOLITTLE GIRL: Mother and arts Aided —Florence-Schaefler,—But in. Vain. The: heroic efforts of her mother playmates proyed unavailing after they Nad beat out the flames which caught ‘the clothing of nine-year-old Florence Schaeffer, of No. 3% Greenwich street, for she died to-day after hours of agony. Last night Florence sat on the curb hear her home watching a bonfire some Boys had built, Florence did not notice the fire spread among some rubbish un- tl her dress flamed up, and she fell screaming in a fit of hysterics. Mrs, EWzabeth Schaeffer, the child's) aughte h her dress tried several’ mon Jone? the mother that ed. Eariter, orenca kad out the flimes, burning ‘thelr hands and endangering | themselves in the effort. Florence was taken to the Hudson Street! Hospital, where it wan sald her recovery was doubtful, She had but a fow hours to lve. Her father, an invalld, also heard Florence's cry of dis- treas and had tried ta leave the room to oto her ald. As a result a physician ad to be called to attend him, Ho WOMAN DIES ON STREET. Vile “on her ‘way homo. after a renuous day's shopping, Mra. Emma | Jkeobs, fifty-one, of No. 66 East Ono | HNindred and Twenty-second street, was taken Ml at Park avenuc’and One Hun- (red and Seventucnth atreet yesterday, and died before the arrival of a physi: was accompanied by Mrs. i x ders, twenty-four, of No, 162 5 Tacobe via not complain of fa. until they: had started for home, ah ered and fell to th fat sidewall Dr. Behift, seers from geal waa en pale t he thougnt ran due ve apoplesyy A tamily doctor_was shocked when he found a mother had fed-a three weeks’ old biby on Gra; Jet her tell it her own way:. “When iny second baby was three weeks old “it became necessary—' feed it by méans of a bottle. At first we used cow's milk, apree—with the baby at-at-annoaehy we tried -a number of different for- but ft did not “We afterwards food to nnother without finding any ihat would agree. The child was not only weak and thin, but would ery pitifully almost the whole day, “One day when giving my eldest child a dish of Grape-Nuts I thought 1 would see if the baby whuld take “I prepared it by pouring hot milk! $1,000,000 FIRE IN PRILADELPHIA ployees and Firemen. PHILADELPHIA, March 31.—Fire do- nt Bre Ay. the engines arrived the ex- Wien A number of the employeea of tho that FATHEW DOG : : Barked Until Followed to. Explosions Injure Em- Shanty. Where Watch- man Lay Unconscious; A Williamsbridge surface car stopped ii. carly this morning at its terminal sey= eral ayenue’and Bearswamp road) where t attention of’ Gonductor’ Jokeph Bteln. ois, aap and Motorman Michael Merry was, ate ty caused: four alarma| eo cted by the barking and Pennine, ot, a collie dog. ‘The animal seemed to be trying to get the men ‘to follow It, 90 the two walled. along tea watchman’s shanty, on eri ris. Park road, witere a row of ne: are being erected, 1 sorte ee ae SAVES THE LIFE OF ITS MASTER ae hundred feet from Mbrris Park Tho caure of the fire ina myatery. | they found an Itallan overcome by mt Revolver He Was’ Cleaning Went Of—Oh, What's the Unet Henry Hoftner, twenty-nine years But it was Glecharned, any way, and nh od Dr. Plazet. After had worked over.the mar Mte the'antmal. Phi fyom a amall cook stove, made out 0 led'a policeman, who sum. men cal po bs ders rought to ida told the dog had ‘the ‘Ttaltan dgred” and ———_—_—_ CASTAWAYS RESCUED, Word was received last nigut! pat the British Ateumship Shenaaacah, on the ft t Nows for Liverpool, Bite Posgued Capt. fianaen and ia” grew <0 BG: C n steamship Skuld, Noiphin, for Rotterdam, which was “THR (Our Trade Mark.’ I: THe BELL Will Positively WHITENTHE TEETH. Prepared by the Authority on Teeth. 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B od over it and allowing {t to cool. child ate all I had prépared and went to sleep looking more satisfied than |1t had ever dane before. } "TE told one physician about dt and he was horrifled—said young could digest only milk; ‘1 must not do tt again. we went to the | Some weeks the child would-gain an | ounce, other weeks there would be twice she lost weight. “Finally, without letting any one know it, I began giving her a little a screams reet, throw herself) she would sleep longer, then T added a breakfast of Grape-Nuts “It was not Jong, before every one} remarked how much better the baby; I knew the Grape-Nuts was agreeing with her for she was ing In weight and her was getting. steadily Incren color became , Now the is 15 months old: Wandiatlllinwatwayimeninra day My oldest child. weighs 48 Ibs, y she would not take any of but took to Grape- I encourage the 159 of it with the children because tt does them good, and because tt fs 80 con- venlent—alwaya ready,” yy Postum Co,, Battle’ Creek, Mich, Read the little book, ."The Road to Beer in ee “There's B rea- of Grape-Nuts, five year: old, the soft cereals, Nutt at once. 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