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’ it i ~NOTASCENTIST, WNPNOTIZED GIL LADS AER persist in Claim Although Miss Draper Wore Uniform hay is. of a “Healer.” f1I§ SENT TO BELLEVUE.| Resident of San Remo Hotel| Said Men in Street Tried io Put Her Under Influence, Leaders of the Christian Science faith 4n New York are strenuously denying to-day that Miss Flora Draper, now in Bellevue Hospital for an Inquiry into | her sanity, ever held any official posi- tion in thelr organization, ‘They persist in theso statements In the face of the fact that Miss Draper more the white uniform of one of their “practical healers’ when she was picked up last night on @ street corner, after her actions had attracted a crowd, and also in contradiction of the story of (Miss Draper's nearest friend, himself a working Sclentist, who says they at- tended service together and practiced the teachings of the ault in company, Policeman Hogan saw an eager, jeer- ing cluster of men and women at Fifty- first street and Eighth avenue. Breaking his way through the ring he found in the centre of it a slender Spectaciled woman dressed in a modl- fied deaconess’s garb and excitedly ac- @using first one bystander and then an- other of tryiig to cast a spell over her, Hogan took the woman to the Wes> Forty-seventh street station, where she @ave her name as Flora Draper and gaid ehe lived at the San Remo, an ex- pensive apartment hotel at Seventy- fourth street and Central Park West. Later she was sent to the pyschopathic ward at Bellevue. Dr, Gregory, in charge of the Insane division, said to- day Miss Draper was not a prisoner. Mrs. H. M, Sutphen, dressed in the | white sult of @ “Practical Healer," | came to Bellevue to-day to Inquire re- | garding Miss Draper's condition, To | van Evening World reporter she said: "Unt two years ago Miss Draper phared with me the apartments which | J still retain at Marbury Hall, No. 104| West Seventy-fourth street. She has been an active Christian Scientist for) ix years my knowledge. Sho ways | formerly a reader in the First Church, | at Ninety-sixth street and Central Park | Since then she had wor In | Second Church, at Si! ath Street and Central Park West. iy) @ practical healer,” | ——— — | STRIKE OF TAILORS She MARTIN N K 58 RAR Her Hushand, Son’ of Police Inspector Miles I’Reilly, Makes Seriius Charges, As a result af a motion made to- day in the Spe Term of Brook- =| hn supreme Court Interesting dts closures came out concerning a sult _ jfor absolute divorce, which has juet been filed by Join F, O'Refliy, son of Henny, White; Secretary of the) Eellge | Iampesion Miles). O'Rolt, Uni By. | nicce of Martin Engel, the old Tam- ted Brotherhood, Ex [many leader of the Eighth Assembly ai Situati {Distrlet of Manhattan, Plains the Situation, | The couyde were married in 1592, |O'Reilly had met Miss Wallace and Henry White, Secretary of the United ccurted her while she was a girl pupil {na convent sohool. They have two Brotherhood of Tallors, which voted sons, one fourteen and the other last night for a strike of tallora In New qyelve, ‘hey separated a few days York, said to-day that Samuel Landers, executive Officer of the United Garment Workers of America, the clothing divi- sion of the American Federation of Labor, had issued a circular against the strike, | ‘The United Garment Workers of America,” he said, “ls the body from | which the Brotherhood of Tailors’ unton seceded jJast year, when Mr. Landers éent out @ similar statement. Tho tal- Jors’ unton did strike and withdrew | from the United Garment Workers’ or- | ganization, called a convention and or- | Ganized the United Brotherhood, “A series of mass meetings has been | held on the east side of Manhattan, in| Brooklyn and in Brownsville, to ascer- | tain the feeling of the rank and file, | The last of this series will take place | to-morrow afternoon at No, 26 East | Broadway, in the Terrace Lyceum. | Bhould this meeting, the same as the other meetings, declare for a strike, the | General Executive Board will meet and the officers will decide according to the | @ituation, ‘The Jewish talloring element has withdrawn for good from the United Ganment Workers of America, of which | i was general secretary and founder, “There will be conferences with the contractors and the manufacturers as neither is opposed to a general strike, An account af the demoralized wage atandard, contractors’ prices, have been ut to such © Pola as not to afford tHe a living. Hundreds of contractors ve gone out of business. “The Beer a yypen| are likewise suf- fering from the breaking down of the wage standard, and the development of & cutthroat competition.” peered oa FOUND WIFE DEAD' AFTER READING OF SUICIDES, |terrorzea ) | Despondent over fancied {llness, Mra. Mary Hl. Schiller, the handsome wite of Walter 0. Sohiller, a Jeweler, com-| Mitted sufolde at her home, No. 8 | Bouth Sixteenth street, East Orange, |-ronvb, by inhaling diluminating gas. Her body was found last night by her husband when he returned home. Mrs. Sohiller had been married two years and her | life had always been happy, according | to her husband and her father, They | Geclare that she had absolutely nothing to worry about, except that she be Neved she was suffering from tuber- losis, which physicans who exe nincd nied. While returning home yesterday Mr, Behiller said to-day he read about the} double suicide of Mr. and Mrs. Haoker, | He could not understand, he'sald, why i ld #0 much attention to the detail: of the double tragedy until he reached and found that his wife had attacked by the dog. ishamey fellow, well kept and intelligent ago after tie husband had soundly thrashed Harry A. Swinton, a private detective of New York, whom he caught in his home at N. 872 Madison street, Brookly, Swinton was arrested and ‘arraigned in the Gates Avenue Pollee Cour According to the husband's petition his wife has been a hopeless victim of the drink habit for years, She has been contined in Various sanitariuins, hos- pitals and insane asylums, and was each time discharged as cured, He cites one alleged Instance of her conduct which occurred in 1908, when, dressed In a single garment, she tried, he says, to climb the fence of thelr house while Swinton is named as co- intoxicated. respondent. facta were disclosed after a re- quest had been. ri by Mrs. O'Reilly's lawyer, Louls Bacha, for counsel fees and alimony pending the final decision Jn the case, Justice Blackmur reserved decision, AVERSIDE DRIVE I PN OER MA OD Four Policemen Open Fire on Animal and kill It After Chase. It took four patrolmen to kill a big Nowfoundtund dog, supposedly suffer- Ing from rables, which this afternoon pedestrians on Riverside Drive. David Wimmer, @ park employee, was He saw it, a great looking, lying under some shrubbery. Wimmer was cutting grass near Grant's and as he got nearer the dog with the machine he noticed it snarling. Wimmer worked nearer to lt, when the dog suddenly sprang at his shoulder. Wimmer dodged and the dog's teeth closed on the bib of his overall, tearing t oft, Patrolman James ieeetatiees hurried up and fired at the animal before it couid Pky on Wimmer again. A second shot from the patrolman's gun sent the dog scurrying south on the drive, . Wim- mer and Patrolman Herbert chased the animal but could not get a good shut at ft, At One Hundred and Twelfth street Bicycle Patrolmen Martin and Dunham took up.the chase, They fode hard, but found it diMfenit to cateh with the animal. They fired eix: sty four of Which took effect, and at One Hundred and Ninth street the dog Gropped dead. - to your sweetheart In Parly over the to the top of the Eiffel Tower,” says) talking about, the directors of the Metropolitan Life| plying names, would have thought of | “When Insurance Company, which gives him|the application in this particular, Cer- { ‘he tallest strucfure In the world. WIFE CAPTUR ~ THIEF WITHOUT | } | Sound Waves {to Jump | Through Space, Mile and | a Half at a Bound, and 28% sch | Give New York Caruso's LEB DE FOREST. | Song Rendered’ in London. | to encounter scores of difficulties, but | ~ |T,am confident that we will establish | “You'll pretty soon be able to murmur | the connection,” Dr. DeForest 1s a young man, who looks as if he means what he says, | and, furthermore, knows what he 1s Dr. De Forest Has Already | Contracted for Conversa: | tion from Metropolitan’s High Steeple to the Eiffel | Tower’s Tall Spire, He thought there would be protuber- Ances and wires that would destroy the symmetry of his tower, but not ao. telephone, provided she makés the trip per wires extending from the tdwer fo the station, which will be built on the top of the eleven-story part of the Metropolitan Building, on the Fourth Dr, Lee DeForest, who Invented the) wireless telephone, ‘and, furthermore, t won't ba very long hefore you'll be "The teason T am so confident,” he continued, ‘is because, when I was in | Paris jast spring I Weard wireless mes- sages trom the atation at Glace Bay, “venue side, and these will be abso- uble to hear Caruso singing @ newW|Nova Scotia, to the Eiffel Tower, and_|lutely Invisible from the street, ao there ypera role at least #x months before|the machine used was of only two | Will be ho smack in the eye to art, he production {s made in New York." | horse-power, while we have apparatus! “My experiments will be compara Such & prediction, savoring of Bel-|of ten times that power, which will tively Inexpehsive,” sald Dr, DeForest, lamy and Verne—nobody even had a|make It comparatively easy to connect| “I have no towers to bulld, which ato thought of Mun@hausen—tell from the! with the Metropolitan, in New York,|UP 60 many hundreds of thousands when ‘lps of the doctor as he sat, clad in The antenna buzzed with the meseage, | the wiraless {dea was nev, for the Eiffel and I got my idea then. {and the Metropolitan are already erect- “The antenna? That {s the wire or|¢d: In Octobar, or, at tho latest, No- network of wire, The word meane lit-|Vember, I expect to have wireless tele- ower, in Madison avenue, yesterday erally the ‘feeler,’ and is generally ap-| Phone communication with the nearby .fternoon, plied to insects, and I think only the) Jarge cities, and before long with § He had just signed « contract with|French, with thelr peculiar tact in ap- | Havana. veralls, in his buzzing, zipping wire- 68 telephone laboratory, near the top ot the Metropolitan Life Insurance I say," he continued, “that |you can hear a new Caruso song an jhour or two after he sings it, [ he sole right to use thelr 100-foot| tainly It 1s most> appropriate.” mean that It he sings at Covent Garder, ower in Madison Square—the tallest Dr, DeForest not long ago climbed to! London, for instance, the gramophone jrecord is sont to Paris, there adjusted ftice building in the world—with the) the top of the Metropolitan tower and loud-grazing tip of the Eiffel Tower— | adjusted a wire, The connection Is to |be had just under a circle of arc Nght) DeForest, | at the very top, under the base of the his completed, | flagpole. \t course, there are numerous experl-) The aesthetic soul of the architect of nents to de conducted, and we expect|the tower, Mr, LeBrun, was shocked, FLECTION FRAUD STORY TOLD IN pparatus and waved over to ‘na New York, es not far distant when in the saloon of an ocea: @ able to hear the strains which {s being given at ty Metropolitan, Manhattan or Coven Garden opera-houses,” boasts Dr. be “In a yeal connection will day Laffan told a disjointed story of having been assaulted last October, a day or two after the first primary day, because he was suspected of t given Information to Supt. 0° about discrepancies in the registry book of No, 212 Bowery. Laffan denied that he was a i ‘sqiial= er and told of refusing to give inforn- i | ation bout paddliig Lot registry. books WAKING HIBRY ASSAULT CANE satan tat ae | 1 i] ‘ eee role eae Race ieee re mand was, recuse sone, Didn't Want to Break His Rest’ Bowery Lodging House Attack |. at there was any So Just Sat Down or, == |-—- Hinged on Padded Rolls iz Laffan, saying he the Burglar. and Repeaters, eee pe ng in pn9 A little thing ike a burglar dropping morning call was not In the examination of James Walsh) sald to be the manager of several Bowery lodging houses, before Magts- trate Crana {n the Jefferson Market Court to-day on a charge of assaulting tn for an early considered by Mrs, Mary Schaffer of eumMicient importance to disturb hor husband at 3 o'clock to-day, and being hefty and having raised © family of lone of his former clerks, there was five husky boys, sho simply captured tai of “oaters” and “padding” regis: the Intruder with as litle fuss @8 DOS jtrrg of primaries and Superintendnt Gt of Elections Leary, At that there was a good deal of svilllainl JeLattent was icommcinant fuss and Mrs, Schaffer made the Most /yr5 15 eideriy, lived at No. 6s W of It. Her husband ts John Schafer, @lvnrty.ninth street, he sald, and baker, whose shop 1s No. 48 MetrO- | scen MGISVELAL politan avenue, Williamsburg, and thelr sieeping apartment 1s in the rear. There have been two burglaries In the neighborhood within ten days and, hes she says, Mrs. Schaffer has been sleep- with one eye open. neo sho heard a nolse Cay 3 o'clock she tiptoed out into the shop and was not much surprised to see 8 man drop gently from the fanlight over or. satan want to wake Jon.” she sald in court, "He had @ hard day's work and was sleeping soundly, “So while Mr. Burglar was still on his all-fours she jumped right on him, and as she weighs 170 pounds, he was more or less taken by surprise, He tried to get up, but found ras impos- JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES SUFFERS A RELI Vice - Presidential Not Yet Able to Enter the Scampaign, had a lodging house managed by Walsh at No. 212 Bowery. He said, under oath, that he was as- saulted by Walsh on the Bowery and Col, John ‘Temple Graves, Spring street Iagt Wednesday and| party, 1s unable as vet to participate Kicked and beaten while prostrate.|in {he political campaign ts Walsh was arrested and taken to the) weeks ago he was obliged to undergo Night Court, but Laffan thought the! slight surgical operation which was! Neutenant at the Mulberry street sta-| expected 10 cénfine him but a fow days tlon told him to go to court at 9 in the| Progress toward complete that Walsh had been discharged the] tice, but the exertion proved too great, night before for want of @ complainant.| He suffered a set back, and yesterday | So he swore to an_affidavit charging Walsh with assault, and Magistrate Several recovery’ for complete rest Col, Graves expects to return with i sible, and they rolled and struggled all ver the place. Orr didn't have time to get the club we keep behind the counter in the shop,’ said Mrs. Schaffer, “If I had there wouldn't have been nearly #0 much ouble with him.” Nol until she had quieted her captive and was sitting in @ comfortable pos- ture on his panting form did Mrs. Schaffer call her husband. ; “Get a policeman, she sald. “I'll hold this fellow till you come back.” John got Policeman Fass, who took the prisoner, Joseph Badriuch, twenty years old, to the Bedford Avenue Court, where he was held for examination, ——— Two Weeks Wed, Is Drowned. The body of Samuel ‘T. Weldon was found in @ pond at Milburn, L. 1, yes terday. He had been missing since Saturday, when he started to go fishing in the bay, It was evident that he was drowned by falling through an open| trestle, He was married two weeks $2.50 tlantic City and return, PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Wednesday, August 26, SPECIAL TRAIN Leaves New York 7.25 A. Tl. Leaves Brooklyn 7.15 A, M. Stopping at Ne , Elizabeth, New Brunswick. Returning, leaves City 700 P. My There will simply bo eight little oop: ; ving ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1908, “Hello, Paris!” “Hello, New York!” Without Wire ‘Next Year fiw | The Strand Magazine Do Not Miss Conan Doyle in the September number Just Out In fiction this number is exceptionally strong ‘Seven Complete Siories| Reminiscences and Reflections of Sir John Hare, the Actor, My African Journey VI.—Kampala, by the Candidate RT-HON. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, M.P. **Salthaven”’ by WwW. W. JACOBS | The Color Section contains eight famous for Vice-President of the Independence PROBLEM’ PICTURES ‘The term ‘ a8 applied to a pleture expre: a work of art in which the artist's meaning ts capabie of several different Interpretations, Price 15 cents $1.50 a year Of all Newsdealers and | The International News Company New York, the doctors ordered him to the country | Se Crane issued a warrant, In court to-! active political nap eresks)tO tke | World Wants Work Wonders, Store Closes at 5 P, M. Saturdays at Noon These are lively days in our Men’s Clothing Store, Summer stocks can not stay when the end of August comes, so hundreds of men realize that this is the time to get a splendid suit at very small cost, All of our stock of Men’s Fancy Suits that have been $15, $16,50, $18 and $20, are now priced at $12.50 a suit, ‘This includes all regular sizea, as well as sizes for young men of 15 to 20 years, Of course, there is excellent assortment of materials and colorings, ‘The man who buys one of these suits will be well dressed for the rest of the season, and have practically a new suif to start off with next Summer, We have also included at the same price all of our Two- piece Summer Outing Suits for Men, Our Fancy Sack Suits of the finer grades, formerly $22,50 to $48, are now priced at $17.60 a suit, All sizes from 33 to 46-inch chest measure. Main floor, New Building, A final clean-up of Women’s Wash Dresses makes these interesting prices—$5 and $15 Princess Dresses are $2.75 and $7.60; Overwaist Dresses of union linen are fr $3,60, instead of 85,50 and $6,50; Linen Princess Dreases. are $7.50, were $16,50 ‘Third floor, Old Building, Two new groups of handsomely trimmed Nightgowns and Petticoats—ten styles of the first, five of the second— offer notably attractive values at $1,650 & garment, Fourth floor, Old Bulding, | a es Excellent assortment Summer Underwear for Men i@y be picked up now at very much lower prices, All are | oi the splendidly made, nicely finished gradeg peculiar to the | Wanamaker stocks, All sizes, but not in each style, Balbriggan Shirts or Drawers that were 38c and 60c, now 25ca gare) ment, Plain White Lisle Thread and Colored Mercerized Shirts and Draws: ors that were 7ée and $1,now 60c a garment. Men's Half Hose ave also included in this stock-rightingmovement. ull hioned Black Cotton Socks, high spliced heels and double: soles; regularly, 25c, at 124sc a palr. Imported Lisle Thread Socks, In black or colored grounds, in a va- ety of st: lec and colorings; regularly 50c, now 38c a pair, three pairs for $1, Main floor, New Building, Men who do not like to be limited to broken stocks when selecting a new pair of shoes will be glad to know that the || Wanamaker-Special Shoes for Men at $3.90 a pair, are never allowed to becomea ‘broken stock,” The demand is all-year-round, and sizes are filled up as quickly as they get low, The assortment includes Oxfords and high shoes, In all the popular lasts and leailiers You will find exactly the style of shoe you wish, in exactly the size that fits wheneyer you step into our Men's Shoe Store, You will also find that they are the best shoes sold regularly at or neac their price, $3.90 a pair, Main floor, New Bullding, JOHN WANAMAKER Formerly A, T. 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