The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1907, Page 3

iG GIRLS NTHUSE OVER THE EVENING WORLD, Mother Dies by Gas, Watching Death Agony of Pretty Daagl She Asphyxiates, and Weiting Notes of Girl’s Suff er DOWRY FUND Message to Hesband Ended Abruptly “Gertrude Barnum Thinks the Chicago Plan Is Worth re a Trial. "PREMIUM ON MARRIAGE. Would Give Union Girls Pick of Trade-Unionists . for Husbands. “Why not a’ dowry for trade union brides?” asks Miss Ger trude Barnum. “in unton there te strength. “We have sick benefits and death benefits; why not benefits for that other mity, mar: riage? “Seriously, | believe the tdea ts an excellent one. “Trade Union girls are Mkely to get the pick of the trade union When the women trade uniontsts of Chicago, Boston and New simultaneous conventions fast Sy n-date contingent from the Windy City went one step further in-themarch of -progress—than, thetr fair sinters trom the East and Advocated a dowry fund for trades brides, from which a member who mar~ Fiea is to receive a dowry proportionate ‘te the number of yenra she has been @hree cities, York, held * @ member of the association To learn just how the young women are independence, . Man'x pay for man's work, and other terribly serious thingy look upon so shockingly feminine ® proposition aa a bait for Cupid an Evening World reporter to-day called upon Miss Gertrude Barnum, of the National Executive Board ef the Wom- en's Trades Union League. It was she ‘who organized the State leagues tn Illl- nols, Massachusetts und New York, and whe is qualified to speak as to the at- titude of the union girls upon this tm- portant question. In m nutshell it is tis: Thay lke it “Is the encouragement of matrimony by dowrtes @ part of the national pro- “gtamme of the Women’s Trades Union Ha i g t Be ry RARE | i Yention in October, 1908, in which those plans can be further developed. For More Active Work, vfDhe immediate aim of the more ex- Dertenced trades union women {s to en- ograwe and train newer members to @ @ more active part in organization ‘work, and to aewume full responaibi- ten, do their best work and secure thelr Kheir trades union meetings, State con- Yentions and national ‘federations. “Equal pay. for equal work,” (a to. be ene of thelr mott ‘No DUE representation, nd no mottoes about marriy particular er"? Ind of RUN - A - BOUT trying to find.a RUN - A - BOUT when a World ‘Want’ will RUN - A - BOUT and locate a bargain RUN - A - BOUT | away from home, Mrs. Henrietta Ri | her sleeping ten-year-old daughter cumbed to the fumes herself, watched the child die, and, in the ja pathetic farewell message to her the house of Mr. and Mrs. Hocker, until late. all night and he did so. Th waited until midnight, to assure her welt that he would not appear at his home. with her daughter. Other persons tn the house heard her moving about until ost dawn. Then, H te believed, her Gaumhter being asleep, she tumed on the gas, sat down at the side of the bed and wrote her Inst message. Took Child to Death With Her. nw found, clutched in her hand, by Coroner Aoritelll, scribbled on the leaves of & note book, and read as fol- lows: “Ernest, forgtve me 1 cam never ret hatter again and I know that Marion will always be alone in the worki without a mother. Am very ner- yous as I write. Ferewell, and many thousand thanks for all the good you have done fer me Once more, fare- well, her dear face ts awful. Keep the fow- ers for yourself and held them fn re- mombrence of Marfon end me. You La i i full rights, both in thalr work and in| ven: Naval Leader pane _for his habit to go out with his wife and daughter, People in the adjoining houses saw Mra, Reuter and the child sitting on fas stoop unt! 21.20 o'clock Jaat night, upporedly waiting for the husband and futher, It was evident that Mrs. Reu- ter ‘was agitated. Occosionally she walked to First ayenue or Avenue (A, as {f impatiently looking for some one. Shortly before midnight, Mr. and Mrs. Ffocker closed the house and Mrs, Reu- ter and her daughter retired to their room, Reuter renched home at 8.2 o'clock to-day. He told Mra, Hocker that he had spent the night at Nowark. The door of the room Was locked and re- knooking failed to elicit a re- peated nse. outer knelt down and essayed to jook Into the room through the keyhole of the door. He found 4t blooked with paper, which he pushed out with a pen- cil. ‘Through the opening camo a strong | odor of gus, Closed Crevices in Room, Immediately Reuterfykicked in_ the door, The room waa full of gas from & jot that was turned on full The cracks. of the Windows had been siufted with strips of cloth. Marion, the child, was dead on the bed, in re Migiitxown, ahowtn passed aay while: aste Hfelest. and partially. the ool. bart in a nattural attitude, had Reuter, War found: oF > Mire. eintined, Hy wider adquarters We. When the os a Fin Polleaman’ he sent an ar Hosptial. Dr, responded, the oane was hot for him, ant he but Ty RUN - so you ABOUT Tae 2 ideals iuitilbiuiteh pee ncn ported {t to the Coroner ——»— : A ticket af sdmistion fy Famous trey-y Coney Isjand, free with Next Nbn- Warla ln Greater New) Yok calys Vinit thts creat accunside vark aa, he of the Bunday World, She advised him to remain tn Newark | With Expiring Breath, Telis of Horror on Little One's Face. MRS, REUTER’S DOUBLETRAGEDY PLANNED \ WITH DEEP C CISING Woman, Re Reese Fon Santa tarium, Leabes Message Saying Belobed Child Is Better Dead Than Motherless. After-cunningly—contriving to_have ner husband, Emest, remain euter, a comely young woman, killed with illuminating gas, and then suc- Seated in the gas-filled room, the mother ‘light of the early dawn to-day, wrote husband. He found the bodies of his wife and daughier when he returned to-day to the room he occupied, i at No, 459 East Fifty-seventh street: Mrs. Reuter was a sufferer from_melancholia and was released from a sanitarium only a few months ago. a wholesale house at No. 195 Franklin street, was in Newark yesterday, ‘and telephoned his wife last evening, telling her he could not be home Her husband, who is employed in SOONAS HE LOSES Hild RABBITS FOOT Bumped Out of Wagon by Trolley Car, Surgeons Find Man Humming a Tune. Georgo Harris, Griver for Bickete & Co., of No. ©5 Weet Forty-ninth street, lost his rabbit's foot yesterday, and woe goon came to him While driving up ‘Thted avenue to<iay he attempted te owt across the bow of a long soow- “Barton bea gone. "Ths enpreastoa ta mhaped trolleq~car, Mo. 80, which Mp- torman Michael Finn was sending slong under full power. Harris didn't remember whet ‘burt slow In-arriving and before * got thero & solicttous saloon-keeper filled “Harris || with brandy, bel looked him over, fett for fractures, sniffed, and drove back to the hospi- tal. Later friehds collected Harris and took him and his bruleed horee home. —— ‘ADMIRAL REEDE SAYS. WAR TALK IS WITHOUT BASE Europe Blames Sensational Press for the Discussion. Rear-Admiral Reeder, U. 8 N., and Mrs. Reeder are passengers .on the North German Lioyd steamshtp Kron- prinr Wilhelm, which enlled for Bremen to-day. The admiral expressed his hor ror at the news of the accident on board the battle-shlp Georgia yemterday, ‘Tt has almost. unnerve! me,” he said. "I haye prepared a message of condolence to be sent to my old fetend Admiral Goodrich, Commandant at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard, whose son, Léeut. Caspar Goodrich, was obe of the slain, Just how such an accident occurred 1am at a loss {0 conceive, but of caursy know no little of the facta that Admiral Ya-} mamoto's remark (@ the reporters ar! j new papers would stop printing L about {t, there would | tat nt jot" | Tpader, Hated that he was reaitigr ‘leave’ of asters and, a we a roundout be" abroad about about a yottr, to release Mr. ee free ham a promise that he would -marrF Lizzie Dempsey for the ‘|eake” He had broken” my ‘heart,-and elder girl, comes to atop with me weeks at a time. She calla me Aunt Bolle. her action extorting a promise from hor husband that he will_marry the womin who for | eicht years has been her rival. Was lending a double life and that s} enfoved only a atall part of his affec- T UESDAY, JUL MW 16, 1:90 7. hler : {Er ngs ST. PETERSBURG, July 16.—There ts} no truth in the report which has| reached Great Britain and the United States that Count Leo Tolsto! ts dead ‘The Count ts in excellent health. COUNT TOLSTO! NOT DEAD; | | | 1S IN EXCELLENT HEALTH. |: Wife Who Would Give Up Husband, Her Rival, the Man and Their Children 2s SSS SES Offers Husband to Rival to Give Child a Father no-| Mrs, Cartel Asks Divorce to Save Little Innocent Adores and Pities. Torn by strange emotione—hatred for the woman who has won her Harris was being nursed by eympa-| husband from her and love for one of two nameless. children—Mrs. Isabella thetic women when a policeman called | Ounningham, of No. 66 Clifton place, Brooklyn, has asked for a di an ambulance, The ambulance was| from Josoph T. Cunningham in order that seven-year-old Dorothy ma Jegitimatized.. She: will give up a husbar With tears flooding her eyes Mrs. ‘He was humming a sprightly tune,| Unfortunate that I love little Dorothy under such circumstances, but she though unable to move, when the sur-/has such a place {n my affections that I am determined to seo her face the geon drove up. The genius of the soal-|/ world with all advantages of her sex, even at the cost of all that has been deur-to-me, “I bave come to regard tt my duty Cunningham and leave marry this woman, who, of ree, Ifcannot holp hating. But {t ts bat for ae best. I have offered to make | Dorothy my heir if she {3 taught to love me “Il Aret Cunning- exacted from Mr. children’s I could not think of ‘the ondition ‘of affairs without But I have come to love the who ts sweet and pretty, and es that Saas Go Mra. Isabella Cunningham expaint in neeking a divorce after} Doro- thy ts the daughter of this stil! unwed rival, and Ounninghiim 1s her father. Justice Scudder, tn |the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, will way in a few flays if the magnanimous and heart-absording. ap- plication for a divorce Is to be grivitel. For‘seven long years Mrs. Cunning- ham, wife of an engineer in a Broad- way concern, who lives at No. 66 Cilf- ton lace, Brooklyn, hax endured the agony cf knowing that her husband in the bis tion, She has endured patiently, belief that he would In time soe error and return to her, : First Tried a Horsewhip. Dally she has sten herseje josing her grip on his affeo tons. From friépds she frat heard of his, association. with an- other woman, She} auffered try allehce 1 am jhardly qualified to express a| for a year. Then in desperation one opinion. Of course there will be a) afternoon she entered a harness shop! rcourt of-inqutry and the blame fixed,| and purchased a whip, Concealing It If posalble. beneath her skirda, she went to the ren-| A.&ed to say xomething about our) dervoun of her errant spouse and fn- | | fetuuons with aa he said: }amorata’and moet the palp fac w | {VOW Ms a ereat furs—this foolish war} She applied the lash co’ her rival tatk—beltie Welt ous bythe sensational! such force that only strong arms saved | pres ad in omy opinion amounts to! her from serious Injury, As it was, the Lndthinguli don't Coriac motion believe vlotlin found: pblnei tn: the’ foldal ot, he} that Japaz-ta alt oll concerned about} bed for nearly six weeks Plour action’ in sending a fleet to tho| The lesson had litte effect on the} | Pacite Qeean. The beat thing I ha woman, and seemed y in heard on ihe subject was timtdate the ‘husband. In the publicity of the scandal he lost -his position, and, fear lil» irate Wits disappeared. for- xome months. | Mrs. Cunningham brought ault tor n¢ support. “A reconciliation was effected, | HY It was only temporary) The hup- “ band! returned to, his | wite aoa hare “| we Whom She rorce and that the child may have a father. Cunningham said: “Tt {s perhaps graduany hia time with his wife be- came less. Two years’ ago /Mrs, Cunningham again applied to the courts, and brought ult against Mia Elizabeth Dempsey for the estrangement of her husband's affection. She asked for an tnfuno- tion to restrain her from meeting Cun- Bingham. 7 ‘The marital troubles of the couple by this time had galned considerable note, and Mrs, Cunningham's “Injunction Scheme for Erring Husbands’' caused |: wide comment. unsatiafactory, Loved Her Rival’s Child. About this tha ttle Dorothy came into her life. A transformation took place, Instead of the Impiavatte hatred which the wronged wife harbored for her rival, a spirit of toleration ap- Deared. She doved her rival'a obtid and forced her husband to ackuowledge | the child ag his. Inatead of hating the chitd Mrs, Oun-| ningham learned to cherish and love it She invited the ohild to her beautiful home In Cilfton place, taught it to play on the plano, and Impressed ft with the richness of a strange woman's home. The child returned her kffeotlon, She | told her own mother of the woman she called “Aunt Bolle," and sald she saw her father the: and that he klaved “Aunt Belle.’ The child's mother did not iscourage the visits. Mother and tatier of ittle Dorothy saw the atfec-| tlon between the real wife and the Ile-| ral child and maryelled, but said noth- ing, But tho process was For Little One's Sake, A younger sister of Dorothy, erine, aged five years, grew Kath- to almont j for divorce that her husband was living in a pretty Queen Anne cottage at No. Yi FMfteenth avenue, Borough Park, with Miss Dempsey, whom he repre- sented to be his wife, and said the nelhbors all understood they wero mar- rled. “Mr. Cunningham @4 net defend the suit for divorce. She, Tpo, WII! Remarry. “Since I have made up my mind to the step I have been looking at life dif- ferently and have considered the prope- mition of remarriage. In fact, as soon as Iam free I expect to marry Boynton VanDerveer, #on of the Confederate General, Ferdinand VanDerveer, who was Bupreme Court Judge in Oh’e. Mr. VanDerveer {s living in Now. York. So, you soe, we may all be happy yet on foomunt-—of—thie—mutue}—arrangement: | Miss Dempsey gets a husband, the two children are set right before the world, and I may look forward to a réally congental life of matrimony.” Mr: Qunningham,who- ts. forty-two, ts: manager of the pany, with offices in and Philadelphia. His New York off: Are at No. 111 Broadway. In her. suit Mrs. Cunningham declared that he ha. a salnry of $15,000 a year, Mra. Cun- Ingham is forty. vivacious and attract- and 3Nsa Detipsey Le six and very pretty. Tt was auld yesterday that Justice Scudder might take Inquiry into the cusation of collusion to secure a divorce Tt Js considered Itkely that he may pro- hibit efther or both parties from marry- ing-ngain. et least for a porlod-of years, ACM SA i ‘Le STATION (emma) Negro. P< } I Ticket-Seller- Alone in Case, eaving —Mystery ng at the plat- presented ay car way walt] money he) find the police were moned. It ts ro; sum- by the detectives as rather @ pe fence that Alex- ander “Bowe nogry porter and Ucket shor station, vanished oney was missed sean since, Accord- maly they are seeking him te ascer- tainsif ha Raw an ner, stiapicious- looking men lurking about the station previoun te his unannounced departuro, Alexander came to. work Just night, the police were told, flashily dressed He wore glad rags of unumal volubll- Ity and wax bedecked coplously with near-jewelry that showed up pretty well In the bright Mehta of the station “Why all this noise, Alex?" asked as he spled the clithes Jes’ bin to de races, dat’s all,” re- turned Alex, ‘an’ n’ hab time to hed de finery, Et wom yallor zal comes long an’ steals me, don’ git * sho’ am de candy kid dis night, right, all right.” Alex disappeared mysterfously ly before 10 o'clock, according . but there was little do'nk he station and his absence was not ed until McQinn looked for the sack of money. The door of the agent's office in often open and the safe door unlocked, hence it would not ba difficult for a person working about the station to smuggle out the daily receipts. When the theft of the money was dis- M ¥np, short to the covered, Inquiry elicited the fact that Sewell, with cap and Jumper, had ap- peaird on the uptown plitforin_of the ambers street station a short time he left his own, and after a few exchanged with the em- ployeas there, passed on and is sup- posed to have boarded a train, ee, JUST NICE SUMMER HEAT IS FORECASTED. att pleasantries Norma! Temperature Indicated by Charts of Weather Bureau, With Cloudy Sky To-Night. The following report of weather con- ditions for the twenty-four hours end- ing at 8 A. M, to-dey was given out by the local Weather Bur: During the past twenty-four hours temperatures have been about normal over the eastern hatf of the country, ‘The present distribution of pressure in- dloates partly cloudy weather with moderate temperature In this viotnity | to-night and Wednesday. Tenyperatures received tordny at @ A, M.; Boston, 63; Huffalo, Albany. 08; 4 3 Philadelphia, 70; Was 5 Charleston, : New Orleans, 80; Gi elnnati, 7 outs, Kansas City, 13; Omaha, 68; 8 Paul, 08, a BABY SEAL QUITS MILK DIET. "Yukon" the amaliest of the twelve baby seals at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, forsook its milk diet yes- terday and pounced upon and devoured a small fish which had been thrown to the larger seals. Th addition to the baby reals there are fifty sea-Hons nowt n the hold of the oM wreck off BOWERY LAPS UP SOME BUM SDS Awful Accident When. Wagon Dumps Temperance Booze Into the Street. Woxtry! 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