The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1908, Page 10

rr FINDS ONE-THIRD OF EAST-SIDE {6 UNEMPLOYED ‘ Committee of Ten of the Uni- versity Settlement Investi- gates Cause of Distress. SUFFERING IN HOMES. : Grocers, Butchers and Doctors All Tell Stories of Poverty Among the People. By asking the grocer, the butcher, the , Moctor and the policeman on the beat, 4@en young men, under the leadership of | Dr. Frank Warne, of the University @ettiement, have started out to learn the truth about the unemployed on the east side. Rumors of a vast army of men and ‘women without work have Been reach- ‘ing the ears of the settlement residents for months past. Investigation comes| @s a result of the facts published by ‘The Evening World regarding starving ehildren in the public schools. Reports have been brought in by hundreds of those who have been crowding to the ty cliarities during the past six months nt!l need of definite facts has become ‘regent. The residents of the settle- ment at No. 18 Eldridge street have @et about securing them in the most practical manner. | “We are finding out how and what people are buying and whether they can pay for it,” said'Dr. Joseph Blaustein, ‘one of the foremost of the ten investi- ators, to-day. “If children are starv- fing at school there must be starvation ‘at home, and that's where our work ) must begin. Sales of Bare Necessities. “Grocers in the school district No. feport to us that sales of anything but Dare necessities have fallen away almost entirely, and that for staple foodstuffs longer and longer credit is asked. “From what we are learning, I think we wi! @t least one-third of the east side eut of work, ana third working on short time and be forced to report fally another ehort pay.” “Five times more is being given in charity by the poor to thelr helpless neighbors than bj all the charitable organizations in New York to-day. If this were not true the distress in the east side would be terrible, As it is, actors report hundreds of cases of sickness among men, women and chil- dren from insu‘iciept nutrition Drug- sts have almost no business, and the e dispensaries are consequently THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE i7, 1908. |MISS BEATRICE | ROSENBERG NOW MRS. TOLCHIN. | A romance of Grand street culmin- ated in a pretty wedding last night. Miss Beatrice Rosenberg, of No. 425 Grand street, was married to Mr. David Tolchin, also of this city. They met for the first time a yea ago and the engagement was soon an- nounced. Rosenberg ore Penuty, te in the younger made of allow tion from Europe. ——_ ANOTHER BIG STORE Deal Above Thirty-seventh Street Is Nearly Completed. When one of the principals, who 1s on his way from abroad, arrives, a deal will be completed for the pur- chase of a site lots, including the whole of the block front on the east side of Fifth ave- nue between ‘Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth streets, $7,000,000, It will be used as a site for a big ronged. retafl istore, and negotiations have iB h 8 ie a omen ynundred shops in our) been on for several months, during found Closed, and of the rest, th which time options were obtained on Ais peecorme ri yanem ployed) vorge 274 | individual holdings, distributed among not more than one hun one] half a dozen’ or) more owners! | The hundred and fifty. If thi al contracts of purchase await the tained their working force: ture of the principal, now on nis done so on short time, iy home. Most of the site is oc- from eight hours a day iuied by old private houses. ‘The four hours. This is the practica: larger part of the land involved in a pnstration of how re east side has the de 1 pelonge to the Lew estate : Newbold Catherine. street, the Bowery, Grand, Orchard, Canal and Rutgers streets and the Easi River. ‘This quarter {# inh cn Ate by Jewish, Irish, @nd Bohemians. In fact mationality is represented. all branches of industry from it. sentative. Seeking f3r the Facts. “Our task 1s ause of the di how far it ment. Hundreds rsonally for any have investigat talians, Syrians are. supplied so it may be considered repre- | "1 yin symp the movement to help and fe: Dur such relief is necessarily t y with ldren, | mporary Help can only be effected permanently | by removing the first cause. | We cannot be too despondent over ‘the condition that now exists, se We realize that it is one of iu and Will pass. ‘The subways an bridges are doing wonders to rv fhe east side congestion and suft Many i ng and lieve sidere ar es and better a pa hon like tions are by get down to a nor! the process ts dist will be heal D The complete tee of ten will be port of the ENDED LIFE AFTER ATTACKING A WOMAN Farm Hand Fractures Skull of Em- ployer’s Wife with Bar When He Is Discharged. (Spectal MONTGOM June farm hand known as “Aug. murderously assaulted Mrs. Joseph Mc Vey, wife of a wealthy farmer for whom he had worked yesterday, was The who found at midnight in a clump of bushes | on the premises, in a dying condition nN from self-Inflicted He died | TROOPS GET BLACKHANDERS three hours later. He this throat | and wrists In an effort nd his | Pater Roonded Up White Calling When asked if he had attacked Mrs to 4 au Mematiy Supposed mere BUNKER HILL DAY. BOSTON the one tite an tusday observance was on @ muon scale than that of past years. WORT eT BOY IN CY S NATHA’ MARCUS Him After He Raised Gave That Title Ructions in Court. tody of I — et Mine DEBARRE bad Tw early Cond death Tt ts believed t ex to Ger dermany aged $00,W0 old for fag the total for the mo FOR FIFTH AVENUE for Whole Block Site, comprising nineteen | ued at about | troopers surrounded {t and re Antonto Caccay! and “GEM-MAKER” ~ LEMOINE FLEES, “Formula” for Manufacture of Diamonds a Jumble of Nonsense . PARIS, June 17.—The Lemoine dia- mond case came to a sensational end- ing, with an unexpected citmax, this afternoon, | famous formula for the | diamonds ts a fantastic farce. Henry Lemoine is the !renchman who was taken Into custody, @ months ago, on the charge of having secured money from Jullus Wernher, the English diamond merchant, on false pretenses. Lemoine declared he could manufacture diamonds, and {s alleged that he secured a large vemoine has few of money from Mr. Wernher on pretense. Lemoine was releasd to give him an opportunity to manufacture diamonds and make good his claln and he was to vindicate himeelf by exhibiting stones of his own manu- facture When the case was called in court Lemoine did not appear, and it was Announced that he had fled Mr. Wernher the | In the presence of famous envelop | Court then opened th said to contain Lemoine's formula. T paner inside was read, but {€ contained only a jumble of fantastic and sense- Hess [orate METL GETS FFT "THREAT OF DEAT No Name Signed to Latest One, but Writer Says He’s Willing to Die. re. Comptroller Herman A. Metz has re- ceived another threatening letter on account of his stand on the Fourth Avenue Subway. Five men have now condemned the Comptroller to death. The latest would-be homicide writes that he is willing to die with the Comptroller and be a suicide, but the Comptrolier “is not wanted in this world.” The writer did not sign his name He wrote in pencil on a postcard with- |= out dete and the postmark only shows the ord “New” of “New York,” so that it cannot be learned in what part of the city the card was mailed. In very small handwriting the man have carried the Fourth | avenue subway opposition beyond endurance, all for selfish motives, You have and are injuring the in- terests of the public and individuals, my interest to Iam willing to T have con- for the benefit y lite aby, You You have such an ext injured it that ressel to “Mr. H. sw York. New er 3 not bother- lite Mowe ee | THE NEW YORK.! FARIS: RACERS, PARIS, June tin from Tc ar in says the ork-to-Paris naged by , and his} MERCHANT KILLS THREE AGENTS OF RECIPE A FARCE — THEBLACK HAND Wealthy New Orleans Italian Slays Blackmailers of Son in His Home. NBW ORLFANS. June a sertes of crimes attr called “Black Hand" Itallan quarter of New the worst tragedies yet that section took place to-day. three Italians were t) death. These men were killed as a result of an attempt to extort money from Pletr: Gloacona, a wealthy Italian wine mer chant, of No, 111 res street. Giao- cone told the police that these men had frequently bought wine from him by the barre! and had invariably refused t pay for it. According to his story the three forced him to ship a barre of wine to a point in Louisiana yes terday and returned early to-auy au ordered him to prevare a meal. The elder Gloac. hidden a re peating rr! table. of the vi ew a revolver oduce money swered with @. The man he fired the other two at mpted toe: ‘One was killed be- fore he had got ten feet from the table. Tl GEER reached a staircase, only to a bullet in his brain as he Started down the steps, his body falling into the courtyard ‘below. Only one of the Italians who Killed hag been identified. He is known to the police by the name of Barraca. Later another man badly wound found in a shed near the Glace ne. He war identified as one of those had attended Giacona’s feast, the was ww: he only one who escaped with his’ life. His wound js dangerous. The police asked Giacona. If in des- peration, after numer Black Hand Kehemes” had tfsed on him, he ns to his home for_the purpose of squaring ac- counts. This Giacona stoutly denied ee SOCIETY WOMEN WILL ACT. Play at Borough Park Cinb to Ald New onic Temple, Three society women of Bensonhurst are included in the cast of “The Girl From Porto Rico," to be presented to- night at the Borough Park Club-House, Brooklyn. a leader of the is said to pos- of a hi In amateur theat Marion Halket ha volunteered their services for the benefit Of the building fund of Brooklyn's new Masonic Temple. y is given under the auspices Lodge, of Bath Beach. Har- ung is directing the affatr Sea an Car Sickness Quickly Cured | By Mothersill’s Seasick Remedy, The | Only One For Sale and Recom- | mended On All Steamships. Lake Or: throur sgintting “fron” tearnod ea or car sickr for hersill's Seasick Remy Wut guaiwhtee yo all the pleawuren sick atts Je ruaranteed nt drug stores, ice_and you will byt Stores. ‘Biker's Ds Ie, “Stores stores). as ina g Start wit The Fine- de for o XN no other form is to- bacco so satisfying, ood chew. h Cut Chew ver 25 years from the very finest, select- clean, 5 cent wrapped. Establishe: ed Green River tobacco, All packages, foil ay D. H. McALPIN & CO Now the “Merry Widow” In Progress—The 1908 Series of Old- fashicned Macy Sales LoS Boys’ Wash Suits Special at 84c Second Fiver. By chance you might buy the material and ‘trimmings for the sum you pay for the Suit made up, but quite unlikely. Sewing Siik, full 100-yard spools, In black and various colors; regu- larly 6c 8c These are Russian blouse Dress Shields, Japanese silk cov- Suits, made of corded madras in ered, fine quality, sizes 3 and 4; fast colors; blouses double regularly 20c. and 22c.; sale... 14¢ breasted. Best American Pin Sheets, con- Full sizes—3 to 7 A Corset Prize years. is 6¢.; sale... Gold-plated Cuff Pins, sea designs, sets of two; regularly Hse sale ....8.... «. ic a reward for those who Wood Fingers, with arm, for journey to the Underprice Base- Canta long gloves; ay Ment section in quest of some- Tomato-shaped Woollen a thing good, yet very inexpensive. Our special Corset, made of fine white ba ; low bust, long hip model, with hose supporters attached. Worth a dollar, special at 59c. Children’s Cushions, extra large cea) regu- larly 34c.; sale é Ac Corset Laces, extra wide. very fine quality; regularly 19c.; sale.14> Heart-shaped Pin Cushions, cov- regularly 49¢.; ouuUUKoGuES diopocusotiuny 280 Strawberry-shaped Pin Cushions, clusters of three, filled with fine quality Pins, assorted sizes; regu- larly 49¢.; sale .... Undergarments Notahook Fasteners, on three sizes, black only; regularly 9e.; sale Kirby 24 Floor. MUSLIN DRAWERS; hemstitching on ruffle two rows of and tucks & Beards’ Diamond Pi (sy susie GHG Stor sale. . NAINSOOK DRAWERS, with ae oe oe yapend Ce ty embroidery ruffle and cluster of UAL ESHTRATE Geel 126. tucks above; 2 to 16-year sizes. 44¢ F i RASS ELTA CRS IRG nat torodora Skirt Lifters, _regulatly neck, finished with embroidery Fue Rosalind! Waist: Extenders, oxt- fle; 2 to 12-year sizes..... lc dized kel-plat. rl KNITTED NIGHT GOWNS, 6 Se te Ce sy months to 480) Satin Serge i silver gray; re Warren's C 4 year, 56c.; 6 year, | Bone, black Be S year, 68¢ Millinery Clearance In the Second Floor Parlor. Imported Hats, $14.89 to $29.89. Were $22.74 to $54.50. Also a collection of fine Hats from Our Workrooms, $7.44 to $16.49 Were $13.89 to $25.49. For special selling, an exceptional purchase of pA ctren 's Chip Hats at $5.89 and $8.44. hs the newest shapes, in white and white-and-black, trimmed sides with white and black satin ribbon bow, also with white Beate wings and coques. “Irontex” Hosiery. Full Stocks for Men,Womenand Children Again Ready Main Floor “4rontex"” is the new and wonderfully durable hosiery intro. duced by us a month cr so ago, The extraordinary demand for ‘Irontex’’? caught us napping and overwhelmed us, The stocks we provided tor the introduction were quickly swept away and unti! now we have not been able to replenish them as amply as conditions warranted. Now we are ready with abundant assortments. Men’s ‘‘Irontex’’ Half Hose, a patr, 24c. Women's ‘*Irontex’” Hosiery, 28c., 38c. and 48c. Chtidren’s “‘lrontex’’ Hosicry, pair, 24c. About “Irontex.” We have so named this Hosiery because its peculiar texture is more nearly of the wear-like-iron sort than anything heretofore known in fine Hos fabrics. Instead of deriving its extra durability from an extra thicknes coarse cotton yarns at the points most subjected to wear, * Hosiery owes its wear-resisting qualities to an interweave with excellent quality cotton yarns ; Hosiery is made on full-fashioned frames and will retain its pe as long as the fabric holds together. unen Bathing oe : Unique. _ {late is one of the best ideas in the Bathing Cap line you have ever een—a watertight Cap, the brim of which folds snugly for surt wear or, unbrimmed, provides ample protection from the sun while the wearer is promenading. When folded this Cap is but 7 inches in diameter. When open it has a 5-inch sweep of brim all around. Special, 89c. Each. Girls’ Dresses and Coats 24 Floor. Down go prices on the very sorts of Dresses and Wraps little misses of 4 to 14 years are putting in wardrobes that are going to seashore and mountain resorts. Sailor, Russian and Guimpe model Dresses, $10.00 Dresses, $4.96 made’ of fine quality serges, cashmeres, mixtures and plaids—all effectively trimmed with silk and fancy braids. skirts full and pleated A variety of pretty models from regular Coats, $2.96 and $3.96 stocks; formerly $549 to $7.94—single and double breasted styles, fashioned of fine mixtures, cheviots, serges and pa cloth, in tan, blue and red—all handsomely tailored. Breakfast or Luncheon in Macy’s 8th Floor Restaurant The skylight dining place—one of the large:t Restaurants in the works, with a seating capacity of over 2,000, Roomy, cool and airy— eight stores above the Broadway street level Open from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. Service a la carte and table dhote. T) 1 of the table d’hote service, a luncheon of this sort served from 11.30 A.M. to 2 P. M,, costing 44c:— Soup—Puree of Tomatoes with Rice or Potage Fermiere. Botied Live Codtish, Egg Sauce, or Roast Stuffed Young Chicken au Jus or Braised Tenderloin of Beef, Green Asparagus Tips, or Chicken Salad, Mayonnaise, or Cold Mixed Cuts, Potato Salad. Chocolate Cream Slice or Tea or Iced Tea or Coffee or Milk or Buttermilk Rolls, Tea Biscuit, Corn Muffins, A breakfast or luncheon outdoors—on the loggia~-overlooking the heart of the Metropolis, will be found delightfully interesting. Loggia service a la carte only. French Ice Cream talning 360 pins; regularly Sc. oe R. M1. Macy & Co.'s Attractions Are Their Low Prices ACYS B'way at 6th Av. ~ Nebons Miscellany Sewing Room Requisites and the Like in a Pre-Inventory Sale. Main Floor, 84th St. In Progress—The 1908 Series of Old- fashioned Macy Sales 4th to 35th Se Manes i Blanket Bargains For Campers Barement —Only 200 of them—— durable gray Camping Blankets, Side, Tolson’s Double Skirt Belting— silk, % In. wide, white only; regu- larly 9c. a yard, sale 5c.; same in cotton, 14 in. ‘wide, regularly rhe a yard, sale.. Neuss Bros’ count, large size Be in white or black and white. . Te with neat black borders and worsted edging. —size 62x82 inches. ——each $2.81. 24e,; Py ae 18:1) Infants’ Dresses Our Special Dress Shiebd, No- Second Floor. be Be dren 8 LOW-NECK DRESSES, Mercerized Dress S-yard pieces; regularl cial . Colorite, for coloring hats and Hose Supporters, extra wide elas- regularly tlc, slde-pin on; made of lawn. Bertha and skirt trimmed with made of Bertha trimmed with clusters lawn: el TD A ay Rods; Ditsk | | of tucks and dainty embroidery rue West India Berry Necklaces, 234 | | fle: 2.3 and 4 year sizes......8 to 3 ft. long........ 17c, and 24¢ DRESSES, made of lawn; yoke and R. H. Macy & Co's ¥-02, spools | | skirt trimmed with tace insertion, Machine “StkY uli’ measures in | | lace edaing and fancy stitching, 2, 3 black only; regularly 27c. a spool; J | 274 4 year sizes c J sale... A ale Safety Pins, imported steel, in z 5 : black only; three smaller sizes; Exceptional Bargains in regularly 7c.; sale.. Steel Lawn Swings Safety Pins, domestic make, Re gross, three sizes... Skirt Markers, to gauge” correct length of skirt; regularly 49c.; sale... 87 5 Winding Tape } pagaatle “Eagle” St. for two Dressmakers’ Brass Pins, %4-Ib passengers; co! with striped boxes; regularly 2tc; sale....17¢ canvas canopy; made to sell for $10; Ivorite Collar Buttons, per ore special . $6.94 of one dozen..... c ne, ar Emery Baskets, in “red, biue and BSTSDOV-TScAL OUT Asse ED) 89 pink tops . sooroe c 7 ‘ Black or. Other designs of s_in_ stoc at ranging fr $5.74 to Marcel Curling Irons, all steel, prices 39, 7.44 pases : Men’s Shirts to-Measure Of Finest Imported Weaves Main Floor, 34th St, Rear ROM English, Scotch and French looms the choicest Shirtings EF | Procurable—madrases zephyrs and silk-and-linen } tabrics—many in atterns. In keeping with the auuils, of the fabrics, the fashion- ing of the garments in our own custom shirt workrooms on the premises. tom-made time it leaves the cutter’s hands until the final detail of hand-needle- work completes it. Prices $2.49, $3.44, $3.94 and $4.44 OF ESPECIAL INTEREST Shirts to-measure, made of silk-and-linen fabric ings; similar quality garments command $15.00 elsewhere; here. . Shirts to-measure, special . team work” such as is characteristic of many so-called cus- if beautiful color- $9.94 regularly $5.94 a garment; $3.94 of French zephy Ro A Market Clean-up of India oo Moodji Rugs Here are 64 Rugs in four popular sizes—perhaps the last India Moodjis we will have this season, No more durable Summer Rugs procurable. cleared out ina Uy at these special prices The lot will be Ize 3x6 ft. 4x7 ft. 6x9 ft. 9x12 ft. Elsewhere .. $2.50 $4.00 $7.50 ‘$15.00 Our Price... .$1.84 $2.89 $5.48 $10.84 10c a Yard for 15c and 18c Printed Lawns and Muslins Main Floor. Good news that we have been able to procure enough of these dainty summery fabrics to resume the sale inaugurated Monday morning. The Lawns are printed stripe effects in a great variety of de- signs on light and dark grounds. The Muslins are very sheer—printed in dot, ring and net floral and figure designs. Summer F urniture p Specie den ROCKERS AND ARM CHAIR: polished wood seats 7 WOMEN'S SEWING spindle back ... ARM CHAIRS, maple frames, double woven cane seat and back, full arms, $2.49 ARM CHAIRS, heavy maple frames, double woven cane seat and back: maple | Folding Camp Stools, canvas seat, Bc e le Folding Camp Stools, carpet seat, 8 | 59c Canvas frames Same as above Reclining Chairs, . with foot’ rest, $1.8 Reed Couches, maple) frames, nat- $6.9: ural finish Folding Camp Chairs, perforated Iron Folding Gots, with woven | Maple seat, slat back. . c wire spring and cotton mattress, Folding Camp Arm Chairs. can- puaces NERA GATTSIAHO $4.74 | vas seat and back ...+++++.. $1.40 'More Bicycles Ready to Meet the Increasing Demand Fitth Floor. Not since the Bicycle “craze” was at its height have we known such stirring interest in cycling as the 1908 season brings—a deep- rooted interest that is manifested in daily sales of wheels by the score. And we are meeting the demand’ with Bicycles that stand for the highest stage of development in Bicycle building—wheels well worthy of the liberal guarantee we give with every one. A shipment just installed from one of the foremost factories in the country embraces these well known machines for men and women :— e “Elberon” wheel a the market. The “Erie’ at $20.74, a standard $30.00 machine. The “Day” at $26.49, equal to any $40.00 Bi- cycle procurable. Fhe above have 20 and 22-inch frames. enamelled black, fitted with single-tube tires and first-class equipment throuchout. For, $4.24 extra_a coaster brake will be attached to any machine, j at; $17.74, equal to any $25.00 hirts, but individual attention to every garment from the, , i