The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1908, Page 18

THE EVENING WORLD, as FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1908.' |Surgeon of the Liner St. Louis Who WOMEN’S ARMY Killed Himself on That Boat To-Day. TO SECURE JOBS FOR UNEMPLOYED Declare That Timid Capital Has No Excuse for Forcing the Present Idleness. SHIP'S SURGED A SUICIGE OV THE LINERST, LOI Dr. Small Boarded ihe Vessel at Daybreak and Immedi- | ately Shot Himself. ‘PROSPERITY DAY, AUG. 15 | |There Wit! Be Demonstration | Then, but Conditions Will Have Improved. | MYSTERY IN THE CASE. | He and Wife Had Dinner En- | gagement With Judge ©’Gorman’s Daughters. | | Unemployed wage-earning women in New York, driven by approaching des titution, are forming an army to better condition. “Sweeping reductions of the working | forces of department stores, factories, shops, millinery tablishments have turned thousands of women into the streets looking for work, Added to this, the wives and | deuginers of hundreds of men out of Small. surgeon on the | of the American ehot Dr. Thomas W. @teamship St. Louls, ine for two and a half years, Qilmself to death in his state-room on the vessel at 545 A. M. today, after | mysteriously disappearing for twelve hours, during which time tgs wife had | teen searching for him. Dr, Small, who was thirty-six years | old, had been connected with the Amert- can line for nine years. He came origi- Nally from Maine. He was married six months ago, and lived with his bride at No, 371 West One Hundred and Twen- 1 eth street. Dr. Small was the life of the voyagers on the St. Louis. He was a happy-go- lucky sort of chap, who never appeared to have a care, and those who have been conné&ted with the American Line had never seen him downcast or even out of sorts. He was in his usual happy frame of mind when the St. Louis landed here last Saturday. There was a report that the Govarnment authorities pad !m- | fessions with unskilled labor willing to ‘work for almost nothing. ue of New York State, after prevailing among women workers, has announced a campaign for the re-em- ployment of -vomcn through a vigorous “boosting’’ en to be prosec \ among large and cmall employers o1 | Women, Prosperity Day Aug. 15. 2 nd it has been decided to set sperity Day, and to urge manufacturers, heads of depart- ment stores and shopkeepers to co-op- erate with the league in finding places for as many women as possibly on or before that date Prosperity Dey will be marked by a Public demonstration, in which every woman seeking employment 1s urgently solfited to participate, and it !s hoped of the failure of the ship's surgeon to make a report of sickness on board during a recent voyage. If such a re- It, sw much I shall} release from ne lime A know by ¥ Welce hard work and cause you rom port was true it seamed to weigh lightly | you much will be accomplished before the on the young doctor. | wou! | autumn, Left Ship Last Night. | “Almost the only fleld of women's work which has not been touch the AS PARTY LEADER Dr. Small left the vessel shortly be-| He et Et fore 6 o'clock last night. Where he to make me quit if | yet by the recent depression ts went no one knew. | Were all, I am actuated solely by tne|te service,” sald one of the heads o Mrs. Small was asked to come to the idea that the course that 1 ain taking|the new movement. ‘Wages are as high and servants as hard to pler and was met there by Supt. Luck- hurst and Chlef Steward Harris. Nelther had the nerve to break the wet to-day as ever. Women are entire- jly unwilling to enter domestic service. | But this is not surprising Mississippian Gives Notice He Will Not Head Minority in and dressmaking e»- | ADMITS BLACK HAND work are flooding the trades and pro- | The Board of Directors of the Wom- | tigation of the conditions now | GIRL, 24, TO WED MAN, 78. and Pittefeld | ntly in Los An- la Notson, of, Chicago s.. who dled rec who have reduced their working stafts| have been more scared than hurt: for, | nearly as we can learn, sales have not fallen off materially in six months, certainly not in WOMAN GETS $250, 000 TIP. | Mantton s Morris, seventy-five years old, 4 West One Hundred and Four- 4ith Edelman, , took out The old Bequeaths a J | son came to Colorado He was und useke reet his he teenth twenty Fortune to Ho to the reductions, The 11 are} COLORADO a sesterday largely self-inflicted, as the mass of the! iss Margaret A ONSEN buying is done by workers. Without NRapRI TORUS wort! work they cannot buy.” ele in 3098. dls to suit ‘myself and Little Real Harm Done. “By urging these facts upon the at-| tention of producers we feel confident! that the united efforts of the women will go far toward restoring a prosper- People only Special Sale é Hammocks NO MAIL OR TELEPHONE ORDERS ON AOVERTISED GOODS NEW YORK'S FASTEST GROWING STORE OTHENBEAG co {ty which already exists, need to be made to re paratively little real done. Public confide * greatest sfifferer, and These are the famous “Palmer” make, strong and durable, with large pillow seems so unjust that wom! thrown out of their nce, bent wood hood without legitimate necessity for tt spreaders — usually “Stenographers, while they have suf- sold-at $2: aiGae fered in large numbers, have not done (MAIL ORDERS so to tne exterit of women In other WEST lat LAO C FILLED ON” THIS Thema Geel have SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY PROMPTLY Recunpee _iviMy at OOF Oe Extraordinary Abur Cale Gel Ge Girls’ Summer Dresses Great 4-Hour Sale of The New “Kuloff” A sample lot of really smart, attractive fe dresses—offered at an exceedingly low- Waists ered price—$1.50 value at 09¢, Made of Persian lawn, batiste, Swiss, cham Mute from linon; jumper, Ru: or surplice 1 Dutch or high neck; some handsomely tr with embroidery and lace or box pleated, waist tri med h velvet ribbon; full pleated skirt; deep hem S$. $1.50 quality at, ( Saturday’ s All Day S pecial ! ! !! Misses’ $10 Woo! Minture Sea- shore’ Suits, $3. 98. 4 workwomen. has thrown out live at nome. does not lute starvation, and has cleared the eld sligntly ‘for those in absolute need. It ts for them we are chiefly concerned, and we mean to bend all our efforts toward immediate h them." in addition to its the Women's undertake the skilled girls will be ca Guild at M hird street. While On sale to-morrow 9 to 1 P. M. only Nand Thirty: jon avenue ray styles and extra full. Sizes 6 to LETTERS, SAY POLICE Prisoner Held in Westchester Charged With Threatening Rich Men. iff Charles M. r County, was of the capture at Ar Rernigan, twent after his arres' fessed to hav W. Turner, Raymond be Wonderful Price Reducticns in Summer Shoes and Mount other “| Boys’ Sample Wash Suits, $1.25 and $2.50 Values. On Sale To-Morrow “Sa 01 < 9 to 1 P. M. Only. Chern Boston, Miss is in ago he marr 79 Raymond, one Black Hand 1 Bernigan had a re The The prisoner was , as claimde, “Rub ber Heeled Sale ch Women’s Juliettes news to her, and she had no inkling | ieee : of the tragedy until she had boarded ii{{s unsure. People run o wat ae 3,000 5 t ettes, Worth $2,850 pair; the steamship and met John Ham- House Next Sesson. or to Ch a moment's notices, leay- | the Haymond at the point heavy oak. flexi ewed; perfectly smooth mond, the head bartender. He said: ing good servants thrown out utterly, Bernigan wae 1 of money and sent ins de; rubber h: bew “Something serious has happened to without warning. Th he said, in the hope of live rubber; mide in ble the docto: Mrs. Small uttered a EUFAULA, Ala., June 19.—Congress- “The merchants and tmanufacturers 5 shapes; with or w oe cap: al shriek and fainted. man John Sharp Willams of Mississ — = ————— 5 oa $5. 00 Navy Blue Serge Suits AGS teltind tra LE wiuths, When she revived she was told of! has resigned the minority ts all’ that poor at $2. 98 a sees the suicide. She could not imagine| the House of Representatives y eannot compel Pate. f : her husband's motive. They had fect Dec, 7 next. This annc qegliaincarelyihapstandiexpress| he:hope Great 4-Hour Sale of Girls’ and a Tan Lace never quarrelled. She recalled he had|made to Congressman Henry D. Clay-| that the tide centralization and JAMES McGREERY 300 Shoes (Sizes 2 to 6); Girls’ and Boys’ Bare- felt bad over being fined for allowing | ton, Chairman of the Democratic caucus, | of Federal usurpation of governmental J a ° S grade of heavy brown trachoma cases in, but did not think|in a letter to Mr. Clayton dated Wash- | has seen {8 helght and ts now that was sufMicient motive as such|!meton June 18 There was 1 Ces 2grd Street 34th Street fines are quite common. vious intimation of ton a = Immigration Commissioner Watchorn| tire. In resig' y CHAMP CLARK MAY fined the St. Louls $100 in January, $100| tuated, he says, to give the BE CHOSEN LEADER. e fn March and $20) this month, Mrs./ minority ample time to consider whom i These stores will be open B “ytesi s Small would not admit that she had they want to succeed him The letter epresenta- > | au pte uN, hunted for her husband last night says in part: an ae: on Saturdays, June the 20th and 27th, | mor A The surgeon returned to the ship ar 5 “I. write this letter to you as my fitherdicuieisvexnscted until 6 P. M. o'clock this morning. His clothes were nation of the position of Ree eae i rumpled and he seemed the picture of floor leader fo eS ms ts tr despair. Steward Pollock was stateroom on the port @eck aft when the surgeon took off his coat, collar and then said in a trembling voice: “Seward, I wish you would me a glass of water.” One Shot Ended Life Small flung himself « finished speaking. Pollock the water, and had jus the state room door when a revolver shot. He hurried back and found the doctor, with a small tvory- handled revolver clasped in Blooa 1 m1 in the doctor's y of the main ed. He fe, and own candi- (iesires. te, nave | MEN’S UNDERWEAR ng the short oring Fibre. wound | apes Dr. § came from and athletic Shirts. Btreet Ho: al and sald that a! had been ost in: man Henry atreet station, w. 2 Now 4. 95° \ fe Latest open er ored, flare model. \ teaae pearl but- \ \\tons, vhand Wi otked ‘gy, button holes. Deep bias fold. “ | had met. severa shiv, and were CROWD CriASES MAN CARRYING A JM! Linen Suits, mn embroidery. a Sear iiearlltn! Fy | with two folds. Length 37 to 39 inches, i¢ 1 3 full around {\ | 1.50 £4, CHILDREN’>s SUIT DEP'TS, 1m Both Stores, In } 1 G : an | 8 jimmy. shook threa fA > | Suits of tan, blue or white linene, | and | ‘a t { Weve Double-breasted coat. Jumper model fe de , \ with plaited skirt. Size 14 years. 6.00 i Ree ee fess ae ee Jumper Lresses of plaid batiste, A Playing al the : } ik thelr is f trimmed with embroidery. Plaited skirt Ce New York Theatre 1 Harsy Spiwok ~~ finished with tucks, Size 14 years, Music by arrangement wth No altera- ons, I4- ie! fest 14th Street ; NEW YORK} | ine 4608462Fulton Streaty | ene wind waae Wi eee \ a : eae 2S azrd Street mad S 3S \ Z| On Saturday, June the 2oth, Sale of Hosiery and Underwear, | Complete stock of summer weight Underwear— Balbriggan, Lisle Thread, Nainsook, Silk and Schlichten Ramie too dozen, Nainsook knee Drawers 50 dozen, black pure silk Half Hose, With spliced heels, soles and toes, MISSES’ SUIT DEPTS. deep fold. Semi-fitting 36 inch coat, Sizes 14 and 16 years. Lawn Jumper Dresses, trimmed with | zes tq4and 16 years, 5.00 Wash Poplin Skirts, White Repp Skirts. Plaited model with fold, Length 28 to 35 inches, JAMES McGREERY & GO, A POPULAR SONG M FROM ___=s DEP’TS. In Poth Stores, 35¢ per garment 1.00 per pair 6 pairs 5.59 In Both Stores, Plaited skirt with 7:50 Plaited model M. WITMARK & SONS, Publi: hers Words and’ Music Complete. Next Sunday’s Worldé& 3-50 | 1.75 L Tol \p 34th Street ‘ene: (