The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1907, Page 3

1 ti ¢ al THE EVENIN M G WORLD. $3,000, Not $25,000, Average Cost to Rear a Child in This Country; Lincoln Probably a $250 Baby i(AVERAGE COS? OF REARING A CHILD SS eee Nixola Greeley-Smith Says It Is the $1,000 and $2,000 Households That Affect the Birth Rate. DISAGREES WITH DR. BROOKS Average Cost of Bringing Up an Ameri- can Child, She Says, Close to German | Estimate of $3,000. By Nicola Greeley-=Smith. f “It costa $25,000 to raise a child.! This is the main cause of race sul: cide. HIS remarkable declaration! — was made by. Dr.John; Graham Brooks, formerly professor at’ Harvaid and at the Uni-, versity of Chicago, who spoke aty Chautauqua~Assembly on “Money and Marriage. “in the average family with an} income of from $40,000 to peel 000,” said Dr. Brooks, “the cl is} twenty-nine years old before iho can| be called economically independent. There are thousands of families in the United States with this income and they ~-are—alt-spending targe Wixolg Greciay-SmCh amounts in bringing up children. People who work out the amount wi iJ] be astonished at the figures.” While the Boston professor has not worked his figures proportionally in dollars and ceats, he gives these as the main rources of expenses in bying- | {ng up his $26,000 child: Food, the doctor, the dentist, the clothier, educa-| tion, pleasure: “I can say unhesitatingly,” he continued, “that the cost of raising chil- dren {s far and away the greatest factor inthe problem of race suicide. IN AMERICA NOT MUCH OVER $3,000 It is the $1,000 and $2,000 that affect the birth rate. A child of the class w $15 costs less -than-$50 a porting before it has cost £500. Many children of five or six y “Fhese-ate-$250-chikiten, and Ast EDISON ‘IS FAR MOR J RANKS THAN FROM THE In all history could. be fond $25,000 to produce. ° The men who can afford to large majority: of instance h 2 tt} $2,500 The average American child does cost, of ‘productic Five Men Die to Eve: Two Women tn Chicago; End of of City Is Coming. Rapid Life of the City Where Freak Things. Continuaily Happen Responsible Fors This CHICAGO, Aug. 5.- the remendous rate, ie strenuous Ife Chicago at a ski! © women of Ir longevity while th the city are Increasing thi by the stmpie tite. fictal health bulletin just insued Health Ev Inthe weekiy—of- Commissioner ns declar that a {5 not any doubt about It lize the & » of a family and have decided they would: rather spend | y some other way. Automobiles, a little fun, more money spent! selves, more show In society trips to Europe—oftener these are con-| siderations which are leading many people to forego raising a family, T! f'atement strictly justifies itself that the imitation of the population 1s due, moro than to other cause, to a realization-that {t costs a good deal in nioney and trouble to raise a child and to the greater desire of many people}! for other thir h this money will bring. THREE THOUSAND THE GERMAN AVERAGE. And yet the $25,000 child, according to statistics, gets scarcer and cer, and the $2,500 child keeps up the birth rate and incidentally fur- s the brain and the sinews of America. German sociologists have figured that the average cost of tringing a| child to maturity is $3,000. These figures would probably have to be some-/ what increased in New York because of the high cost of living, and, course, would not permit the child to remain a dependent until he had reached the age of twenty-nine, as Prof. Brooks's $25,000 infant does. I don't see how any conclusion concerning race suicide or anything else! can be deduced from so small and therefore negligible a class as those per- sons possessing incomes of from $40,000 to $50,000. If race suicide were confined to so small a number of mankind soclety need not consider {t as a menace. The class that can exercise a choice as between a child and an/| automobile {s still so limited as to produce no appreciable effect on the birth rate were race suicide confined to its ranks, even If they all chose automobiles. DIDN’T COST $25,000 TO RAISE LINCOLN. It is the $1,000 and the $2,000 households, not the $40,000 ones, that affect the birth rate. We read of and see members who bring up children of eight or ten children on weekly incomes of $10 and $15. 4 child of this class costs Jess than $50 a year, It would be compelled to become self-+ supporting before It had cost $500. There are children five and six years! old working in mines ahd mills. Their employment is the greatest crime ‘of society in my opinion, but these are the $250 children, and a Lincoln or a Grant or an Edison {s far more likely to spring from their ranks than from the $25,000 class. The total cost of raising Abraham Lincoln until he became self-supporting was probably much ‘nearer $260 than $2,500, to say nothing of Prof. Brooks's $25,000. very few great men whomi it cost $. The men who can afford to have _ majority of Instances, $2,500 products the result of all-tiféir outlay sugg automobiles. The average Amer| pen | if | | t And in all history one could find| 00 to produce, 25,000 children are, In the: large themselves. And quite frequently | ats that they would better have chosen can child who wears simple clothes, eats schools and who is one the average American family—to be families averaging 4.7 persons to a erman estimate of $3,000 in cost ot| _gtniple food and gets his education at the publ up of three children that make accurate, there were in 1900 16 family—does not greatly exceed the production. If mothers of families with small incomes frould give the actual figures of'the care and maintenance of thelr children, cost of food, clothing” and amusements, I am sure the result would set Prof. Brooks to finding Toa eas Pee reason for race suicide than the comparative cheapness-of-aute- moliles. fID.N HOSPITAL eral of Dead Sculptor, CORNISH, N. H., Aug. 6.--The funeral fof Augustus St Gaudens, the sculptor, who died inst eyening, has been: set for! wednesday afternoon at B o'clock, at ‘Aspet, the sculptor's hoi The sery- REE Wil pe udtenuca ony by the relas fives and closost friends. The Rev. 0, 4 Emerson, a retired Unitarian min- [ster, of Cambridge, Mass, brother-ine Eighteen- Year-Old = Widow Takes Poison After Death of Her Babe. jaw of Mrs, St. Gaudeng, will oificiate. ‘Jn nceordance with the wishes of the ectlptor, the body will be cremated, Mr. Jennie Miller, an eighteon-year- old widow, attemtped to end her lift to- day In the Lying-in Hospital at Second avenue and Seventeeenth street by drinking carbolic neld. Bho was hur ried to Bellevue, where Prompt action saved her life, Three weeks ago the young woman ; Was taken to tho institution from her home, No. 7 Third avenue, A baby Waa born to her, a little girl, who lived only a few hours. ‘This preyed on the mother's mind, and to-day when she | maw a bottle of poison on a table near her cot sho nolzed It and drank some of the contents, e She fell back in bed, screaming. | Mins +Badle Little, a purse, heard hor cries land ran to her side. ‘She could barely gasp “Ihave awatlowed carbollc.’" The ns had nas taken to Bellevue hall POBIN DRB RL ctr: ble hast THEY GET THE WORKERS: “WORLD WANTS.” 10,509” employets adver. din The World for help Jast_month—4,396 more than through ‘any other two New York newspapers ’tog-ther, There are a lot of people who have come} t HUNT GANG WHO sjust outside of Al will few centuries nee Chicago an len. 5 draws his conclusions from Chi ago for twenty | in the last aeven:) members of the every. two) (ot | five sex died fairer. stronger the Dr. for 9 makes the startling state- during the seven months Trin Chicsro about 12,000 men suc- mbed, ax compared to $0) women. that year. | ear | their | physician, househc lds, not the $40,000 ones, a. KI ie weekly eis between $10 and is com nd mills, at work in-mines ERAN ROM THEIR are INCOE TO SPRING 5,000 GLASS, ve we great n whom it cost 3 men have $25,000 children products not greatly are, In the themselves. ” exceeed $3,000 in y Resuit. Ho nays that ta the ratio of difference In between 1 wi Against less than 10 Years axo, The cause for this is attributed by} the physiclan to the strenuous ite. Contributory causes mre the quick lunch, constant exposure. and careless- ness, The eo says, “are living at a [rate that Is 29 per vent. faster than tat of the women, They work harder. They take lesa of themselves than es nnd da 8. They cour anger, They dissipate more, They ex bit A carelessness begotten of tamil farity with danger.” The remedy, eae of acconling to an eminent in the return to the sim- ple life of our fathers. SPIKED TRACK 10 WRECK A FLYER Passengers on New York Lim-} ited on Pennsylvania Road | Got Hard Jolt. PITTSBURG, © It was | learned to-day attempt was made yeaterday y wreck the New York and Limited press on the Pennsylvania ata point} eghieny. Splice bars had been nailed to a tle and rested on each of the rails on jtrack four, but the enormous welght of | ahe mogul engine drawing the trgin. pre- vented derailment and the only effect | was to badly jolt the passengers. Ratiroad d ctives have been ing on the case sinc but} have so far been unable to obtain a clus to Me Identity of those responsible | for the ou! | It Ix the opinion’ of the railroad of-| Acials t the attempt wan im } elther former employees or by those famillar with the working of the road, asthe. spot reelected was the safest. from its being under the s Al bridge, and the manner In which the bars were placed_indicated that those who drove the bolts were familiar with this kind of work. OUT HER THROAT TER QUARREL Young Wife Also Slashed Her Wrists in Effort to Kill work-| eat Herself, Mrs. Evelyn Negren, twenty-two years old, Of No. 555 Grove street, Ridgewood, is dying !n, the German Hpaspttal to-day, after an, attempt to end her life by cutting her throat, She quarrelled Inst night with her husband, He Jeft the house and she went to her where sh room, Rot one of his razors and drew it across her throat. He returned to the house. three hours Inter and found her biceding to death on the bed. She had also cut the arteries in her wrists, An ambulance called from the German Hospital, where the young woman was taken,, The surgeons there said she coutd not survive — UNPATRIOTIC THIEVES, wan Simply the effect of rents | Court» {be begun at EW TROLLEY LINE T0 HELP BRUOKLYNIT Permit Granted for Tracks in Livingston From Court to Flatbush Avenue. Street Acting as ro" trolley ha rtigst to in Livingston st t to Flatbush avenue and tn efe avenue from Fathush avenue on street. The now lino ts de- to relleve the crush in Fulton Late to I signed treet Ty the terms of the permit work must and completed within Tan col ne one forty-five days in repair the street and for two feet in to_py and keep the tra be side and the trolley poles a Paced en ahe tracks Mr. Dunne, as Commissioner of Public Works, had. previously aiven permission for the cnnstrucon of the line. ‘ne contract between the city and the rail- road conpiny relating thie tra me improvement is sald to be the most advantageous ever entered into by this munictpality. In compliance witr the Public UtMttes tnw tho Nassaa Flectric Railway Com- pany after securing permission to lay the tracks from the olty authorities madv application to-day t the Pubitc Service Commission for the final au- thorization. Inasmuch aa the i agreeadle tho Public’ Service nin xion's. permit «will probably coming without de WANTS REVENGE AND 1S READY TO DIE FOR IT. Patient Refuses Operation ‘Because He Wants to Kill Man Who Hurt Him. Paward Correrly who was kicked Jn the xroin durng a Draw! at One Hun dred and SevenUeth street and Cr ~ Sqeoll avenue, Bronx, on tho night of July 31, refused to allow the surgeons at the Fordham Homstal to operate on th to-dmy. ‘They told him that only a operation would save his life, as he was threatened with peritonitds, In denying the operation the young man mado thls remarkable xlatement: |. “If I get out of ne allye L exp iii the man who kick! me r fore 1 would dle In the elooirie « going to dle anyhow, bam no: submit to any’ unnec i PEARY TO SAIL SOON, Commander BR: B_ Peary, w loft Hagie Island, Portland, Mo, 0: ‘The Newark pollce haye been aakea Ino recover nearly $200 worth of nage nuffors diecawpe autor he fiat or } bunting that were stolen from the ee a, ee Pa er | sae a acai Dutlding. "The, rie pullding foc'tha te Aaturday, is expected to-day to Jol th Auxillary schooner Hoonevelt at Shoote Taland. The exploring ship has ‘dee: ‘overhanied» >w Comminder Feary, natant (na fam dawe. ONDAY, ‘CAME TO WED, NOS HERSEL WHITE SLAY Russian Girl Says Man Who } Lured Her Away Sold Her to His Son 2-RISONER-FOR MONTE Brother a. After ‘Long Search Finds Her ed in Closet. from) Ru {oc An amazing tale of how she was] kid- t n her arrival tn New fork tus five months ago and) sold » slavery in Brooklyn waa tol by en-year-old Sarah Bayardk tn Brownsville Police Court to-day.] The ‘id in conneotion wifh the yf Darman Marder, # gray-| man, and his twent}/-year- son John, on a charge of abjiucting girl, story Was arraignment bearded old | Plinse me ording to |} must have had information at sho wax t arrive, for va the dock and by fall tons-entleed hisr to thelr hom Briatol street, |there the old man kervant, col H Yer wages very w Finally, say, she was sold to (he son by the fath¢r, and thet |son placed her In a house/@s No, 133 | Weudas street, here she was forced to » tho bidding of a woman who in- ced lier to numerous men she was found last night by her broth Jncob, who had come all the way from foscow tn search of her. ‘Came to Wed Sweetheart. | aaa y|itette town eleven. miles: from Moscow: | Her pod “piaymate and swoet- Jheart w h named Israel Bavek, I Wwien for New York some jthree years ago thoy “were betrothed, ajthough Sarah was only a child Savek was to send for her when he |had accumulated enough money te sup- |port a bride, Six months ago a magsnago to Sarah trom Savek reached the Russian vil- jage. He vald he had 9 postion |ad money saved ard wotild marry. her f rhe would Join him. Accordingly she }wos sent to, New York alone, but pre- | vious to her departure word was sent to her unclo, Israel Btler, a merchant, of No. $3 Mulbery street, to meet her, The letter went wrong and did not reach Htler until after the arrival of the sh{p on which Sarah was @ paasen- ger. In Ike manner a lotter addressed to Izrael Savek, telling him of the Impending arrival of his sweetheart, wax delayed. Lured Away. So when Sarah, who travelled sec- ond clas#, left the ship at Hoboken, there wis no one to meet her. As she stood irresolute in the confusing bus- great pier, an elderly, benev~ olen man approached her. He ed her her own | { jsuage. By ‘oit questioning he learned | | tn Jan- that whe was to meet her Uncle Etler sweetheart, but that neither ared to aim her e Sarah? sible and her had a And you are it Ty it p< * anked the you do not [old rogue. k years. since Sarah Etler. She be- stranger with the long white to go with him * won a her usky most affection: Tho two 1 girl through a streets for miles, after line of str landed at Marder's he nan, oly he line id girl ing took array rode on st cars and finally they Toy no in the heart of the Brownaville to. cIt iw oa and there Wax another e-eiiike Sarah, re trom) Ru Collected Her Money. ed that he was poor | sweetheart had proved | MMmsolf unworthy. \He made her go to | work 4% a Kervant. She worked for a @ money #he made old Then she war dis- se A Tash broke ouk her face -and-knowing no whore elea orhera she might obtain shelter she went back to Man’ “pie pint pete that tie oh sad tod ner he owned her and mnnounced that he would sell her to hia son. She swears that the sale wns iande und that the son pald the father a sum of money which, from her description, {9 Helleved to have been about $100. ‘The son, accomplished the girts ruin and th d her Wats kina street places She had only ona i thin. WEappér,.cand allowed to govoutside th Manier r and tha! of regener CUBAN WAR HERO LOSES LIFE IN PRACTICE SWIM, ARKIOW fireland Aug 5. “rhomia ler, who claimed that he holated the tary and Stripes over Santiago do iba during the Spapivh-Amectcan war, a drowned off Oourtown yesterday wille practising for \an attempt to} vlan BO Aanntare (thawial AUGU9S1 WOMAN FIGHTS | her home, 5, 1907 |Miss Mary Harriman Reported To Be Engaged to Wed Consul. Fries Tae HARRI Mise Mary TTarriman, the dashing | maid thatthe young people fell In Tove young daughter of EB. H. Harriman, | at firat sight. has consented to wed Willlam/straight,| Mr. Straight ts thirty years old It t man are wondering how she| of diplomacy. ever resolved not to marry a title, {from The courtship of Sfiss Mary by the} Yankee Consul at Mukden ts a car old! ‘They met during Mr. Harziman's tour of the Orient and were Ir in Peking by Miss Alice Room He wax graduated mediately went to China tn the consular service. During the Rumso-Japaneso war he acted a# “war correspondent until he Mukden, INTO CELL FOR BUTTING ION COP’S FAMILY JAR Policeman Leonard Locked Up Peacemaker When Wife Eluded Arrest. ASSAILANT WITH SHARP HATPIN Miss ‘Hazenflug Resists When She and Her Escort Are 5 Attacked. the escort who was walking acmss a yacant Undeterred by presence of An Policeman Matthew Leonard, who has been in troubly before because of quar- rely with bia wife, had another failing lot-tn: Wiiisenaburg with,.gadto Hasen- | two young Italians at- Ter The escort, Michael |out with her inst night at thoir home, Ganm, grabbed one of the fellows and|No. 197 Fulton’ street, Brooklyn. She fought him, while Miss Hasenflug en- | ran out of doors and he followed herand ai the other with w hatpin to such [tried to force her to return. She re- Seen iffect that he Int fo of her. Hoth | tured. ‘then —hu~ threatened to—-errest fie men wore eventually captured and | her. i : tecday were hold In Bwen Street Police| Ieonard asked Policeman William Court en two assault charges Plank, of the Ralph avenue station, a who had heard ie row, to hold tne Haseafiog 18 ninetcon ynara old, | ve ot Joseph Hanenflog, chtef| woman while he went to the nearest Mins rt ag) clerk of the Le ehue Polfes Cort, | box to ring fora patrol waxon.=wnue and a niece of Senator Conrad Hanen. | he was gone Plank, to his surprise, fu. spent the evening at the] learned that the prisoner was Leonard a realonce of friends In the Bushwick | wife and he let ber go. When Leonard etion. of Brooklyn and was on her| got back after ringing for a wagon ie i at No. 83 Bogart street} found the woman gonw, and he had It y.ta/her_ home at Wackedl up and down with Plank. with Mr. Cann when attacked hy decided to lock up Andrew The Italians wero encountered in a | } Of No, X05 Pacific atreat, wno ‘pt fot at White and Baret streets, | liad interfered when the family quarre: : iret got under Way in the street ch Cann and Miss Hasenflug | | avmhort-cut1t 1a_a_well} Kende spent the night in @ cell ‘toxtay— in the New:Jorsey Verena take aventic setlled nélghborhood, but there was no 5 iponerd Ode fet nt he Wanted sie he | to ecuse Kehow of Interference with an one in sight and all the houses In the | Cnicer in the discharge of duty, and {nity owere dark | then decided ho would make the charge ri ‘ disonlerly conduct. After the Magis- The Jtatlans were walting in the | ae hee : i e nee Racivan Teatip lat roeenen [at a nad inquired for more facts Leon- them they Jumped out, One ersbbea On, I guess he didn't do anything MMias Hasenflug, wile the other jumped much Po was fresh, and I just ar- upon. Cami. and dragged. him to the} “Ob. you Just_arrested him.'! aad the kround, trate. ‘Well, I will Just disoharge 1 young woman instinctively { as 7 he; hatpin and put up such | “her ne her He also declared ea against An éscaped prisoner. that he meant to file char with it that her assailant a good fis released his hold. As soon as.ahe was Plank. Leonant belongs to the Browns- free whe set off as faust as she couml | ville precinct DOOD ay rus, ‘The iman who had attacked her | —— the started dn pursuit, while Cann keg a a a © started to run, ! Silas te tay | tdentited thé kirk, ‘Thre all Way to] wcratchea on showed Bogart street Her | hutpin had done good execute the money ale made, assailant k ‘alglity but didnot} J ther meantime Policeman t tao ie meantime Tera Venture to attack Nera she sped stories forshalnand <intertere funclo, had w to Mose eatrests: When she reached © -erlea for help 4 ‘ At ihe girl had falled tc she found her fa and {tas the allowed correspondence sone friends ‘on the, front staon, the pe Y the departure of Jac Mr. Hasenilu y in a few Ae r= Mod York to look for his sister soconds, and with hiw- friends. started | § : Medea Ag aRey, for the scene of the asuault. NTO OFE OR BRENT Aen a Eb reaisulntontieues | fetus we Baa onto ee john Montaan isthe ‘name of the He arrived a week ago and was mot] slug wan hiding in a nearby doorway, | St Hee by his uncle, They are reticent con- ¥: | Morgah avenue, orning how they happeng Ret to eee ewnaville Ghetto and set n watch | on old may Marder and his son. They Were traced to the Watkins street houre. | i A Jaeab Havarek, with pis uncle and | e rend named. Samuel Nussbaum : af nto the house last night. In aclowet hehe : HOME yn the third floor they found Samo j “ Sh fayarek, a shadow of tho plump, hand- se x Hye witl who left the ttle village mar Moncow. five m ago, ‘They took tae itl to a police station, and | ex he told her story | f Two policemen went with them to | fee Marier's house in Triatol street. “The a Joor ‘was forced and father and. son : were found at ho They put ub CORE e ea tees iorodeiieeate carat Everything OWInk, Mligns of the .treatmont they z elved when arralgned tn court ty for Housekeeping $1-°° Weekly Write for Booklet 57 382 AVE. BET. 774 18% S15: AY X SATURDAY EVEMI the American Consul at Mukden. ‘Che {s propheeled of him that he will have engagement is announced In cable} a great diplomatic future and that spatches that arrived in this city] though his name ts Straight he found | and the friends of the young] no difficulty tn exploring the devious | Cornell elght years ago and {m1 secured the post of Consul at} 1 IRL A SUICIDE AFTER QUARREL WITH SWEETHEART Sobs Alone in Her Room, Then Turns on Gas and. Is Found Lifeless. {Ppectal lo The Eventne World.) - WHITESTONE, L. 1, Aug. -5.—Juma | Wicks a young goverment —emptoyed—— by a family living at No. 128 North Eighth avenue. here, was fount dead In. bed: to-day from faa poisoning. he bad turned on ull the jets in her room and fasyened the windows and doors. The young woman quarrelled with her sweetheart last night, a > yng man! who-came to ace her from Manhattan, Whon she went up to bed servants in} j adjatung ‘rooms vheard her weeping. ‘ be hear sobbing late | | Into the y vl INDIANA BANK CLOSED. BROWNSTOWN, Ind, Aug. 5.—The Yoopie's Smuts Bank has been closed by the State Auditor as Insolvent. The Iabiiities are $235,0(0. and ‘the assets sre the same, but $70,000 Is sald to be prob abty worthless paper. ‘The stockholders will make good a1 ¥ ves \| The new WATERS Colo- | niatand Sweti-End Upri Pianos in light and dark natural wood cases are! marvels of sweetness and beauty intone and appear- ance, and will fully satisfy all those who want a su-: perlatively fine piano, but do not want to pay a, fancy price for it. i | Let us send you an illus trated catalogue of the WATERS PIANOS with reduced prices and terms, on the new Waters. 3-Year. System: giving ‘you three years” time on a piano without; interest. 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