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FOR CHLOREN 1 CLOSE TO.AY Thousands of Letters, Repre- senting Every School in the Greater City, Received. IS APPALLING, Revelations of Census Bureau “Simply” Shocking Is Opin- ion of Gibbons. KEEN INTEREST ROUSED. | navrivor Nov. %—The remark- the Census div ly one divoree In every etully oree—practic Competition Proves Writing Is Well Taught in the Pub- lic Schools of City. dis. He twelve on were fore lawes euseed by Cardinal Gibbons to-day The statistics given out by the Cen. rlage state without regard to the sacred 6 the hove A {$100 in prizes nature of the bond they are undertak- 10: third p six pri Thes { i Pete prises of 82 each, and thirty-t! ing. They look too much upon life witt $1 each regard only to what pleasure they can 14, To the boys and eiris fr 4 $100 tn Drives. "Mire priz 10; third prize, $2 Prizes of $2 each, und & ‘get out of it and with too little regard t solemn. y.” each. To the bors and © gospel —#100 fn” prizes ‘opposed Deine, $10: th checked [each six ‘prin @ tor {prizes of Seach Seo} i s100 $10 increase is found in the attitude of soci- ety toward persons are divorced. In former thr divorced war recelved or recognized in good societ and was frowned upon. Now this {s the case. If divorce Is to be checked, let the divorced person be shunned.” ey BRASCH, WIFE The contest was purely educational It was devised to encourage children in | thelr seriting lessons, to help the teach- }ox) in charge of this !mportant branch of study by offering new stimulus to {their pupils, and to interest parents | }and gua ans in the progress of their young folks’ penmanship In all these respects tt has been un- expe successful. The competi- | tion, ywever, i¢ more. It has once and for all disproved the charge | 1] that handwriting has deteriorated of | late years > specimens are almost | - unanimously crec ble alike to pupils | ig pnd teachers. Elegance, character and } legibility are strong components of the : majority of the specimens of writing —>—_. in. No ch carefully and well Instructed along that | , ent ent. Thorougliness, too {8 appar- ren who had not been | () nly One Shock to Kill Man CARDINAL SAYS Burean on | sus Bureau are simply shocking, The revelations ave nothing less than appal- ling. The extent of the divorce evil is) The most popular contest ever wared se at ng lide RUB ARES FOOE SE through a newspaper—The Evening social system, [ myself am writing World's handwriting competition—closes evking cons on this & today, All coupons of to-day’s date|.ect. and 1 am in sympathy with an will be accepted effort to check the growth of divorce in Every mail for weeks has brought to/ this sountry this office great sacks of letters from| ‘The ¢ ent figures show that {boy and girl contestants. Each school multiplying about three iin the five boroughs is repr times as fast as the population, They It would seem that lose that one marriage in twelve athe million schoo! fldren of the/ends in divorce e figures are the Greater City ave availed themselves nore striking when considered by the of The Evening World's offer side of the figures of Canada, for in The offer, in brief, was this where the number of divorces fs The Evening World asks it young read-| relatively small ers toc Pi I. t pente i ° Divorce ts becoming so prevalent that marria getting to be little better : th: tom of free love ( under—$100 @ too much bent on pleas j Thirty -Zive neizes of $1 « She was not) HEA IS LIMIT SET AT REPRESENTATION Tn ST. REGIS IN BIG CONGRESS Sanines Over That Length Ta Can’t Find Shelter Under | ‘payers in Outlying Home Sections Are Uniting to THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1908, WRITING CONTEST DIVORCE EVIL 12 INGHES OF DOG SUBURBS WANT ON LONG ISLAND. bhaciis Glu tu pale were AS JURY GES P| peed ie ig Miso t Mult NS LR sid A reward of Two Hundred TNEINHOn Irwin home and by Jt and Fifty Dollars will be paid haa nib hed |] for the arrest and conviction of ied Tague to the jury Inte ves: I any junk dealer or other person tee onan tudge crane I guilty, under the provisions of Section 550 of the Penal Code of the State of New York, of criminally receiving any prop- erty belonging to either of the Woman Caught in Raid on jury Hotel Loses Custody of \ ; aba the in the undersigned Compani the Hotel Roof. Join Movement. Children. of Brooklyn, 1 3 Lael! | Twelve incher of dog {* the limit at ow that big GascPayere Gon: Faward Wilbur Irwin, a wealthy, ndsome the St. Regis, The edict has gone forth, |prese is being organized, suburban manufacturer of Brooklyn 8 siree ye and that settles tt Ally. 1eAdera Aras Walkin: to doll the kranted a decree of absolute ‘ eae Reranan e 4 Too much dog in the past has ell novement from Jeannette P. Hardy Trwin, t trouble at the big Fifth avenue hos-| Outlying districts need the protection morning by a jury in the | Supreme —— teity; whlch) expleinw) thecprasshes) ALN wHdreocomeration ot ener ¢ it, ‘Brobieiyn,, Ketek wie \ SAVED TENANTS AND A CAT. ewar \ dog hospital in Fifty-third street of jev nm more tt does Matha: before Judge Crane—a trial which ha i fine collie of ©. A. Tilles, of St. Louis, |the suburbs re than Manh: dee dll yee eeralitat i i while ite owner la & guest at the Sti [tan, shen milion of ety Tones ers andl-attencted unusta atten ia nader pit creat 1 Fifty Dollars Reward will | Reg | wasted or misspent, because there is 1 was not | nt Binee, be paid for the arrest and i Not that the hotel management | just so much Jess to pay for Improve- es, Martin W. Littet Mt i conviction of any person doubted Mr. ‘Tilles's word when he told | ments necdal by the outside home sec- rot POSE EAE AE) an of ai her who maliciously injures them that his dog was not an ordinary | tions. v Uff, Mr. Irwin, w la r or interferes with the dog. Far be it, It was simply in com-| Only in Manhattan has the temporary fu See a eaenULe lw Mrs, Ca ii f eith f pliance with new rile that theJorganizntion of the ‘Vax-Papers’ Con: Hand was aecompanted by ‘ ered ines of either of the | Tiles canine was subj gress been formed Nou Kneeland. | Mr rie 6 LBHARE undersigned Companies. nity of HAVINE A Goth ie) WoFK (of) ‘forming 1ockl’ divisions 18 Is boing Gin ol Aha WOOL Ree i “Hey! Where into which Manhattan has been divided section for the bel Sa AN! te ABow stn hin oe "* called Reception Cle progressing rapidly. Chairmen of : nounced Med his eyes und he E Dey St, New York illes, just arrived f the variot nS are enlisting the made 1 . oa eping them back JOHN H. CAHILL, upstairs to a © had en-/ most in tax-payers in 1 > miles from the City MLL box he grasped May 1, 190@ Vice-Pres't & Gen'l Counsel e Mr. ‘Tiiles didn't distri the nucleus of unsWiek a the hand and thanked them | rae Mr. ‘les didn’t, pa ee lames There no lows oF wan land on the! Ie auld 10 comments to mia tenants fey PoE SEE} | he per hav an ind street ferry 145 o'clock and : re ETAT ee: (Do Maat Un ron lc a tirm basis, the # ners will Cortandt street at The was granted on evidence ‘adder to clin World Wants Work Wonders, enrolled near All Eager to Enroll. Ny REAL ESTATE’ FOR SALE— REAL ESTATE FOR SALE— REAL ESTATE FOR SALE— REAL ESTATE FOR SALE— | The tax-payers of ull classes a BROOKLYN. BROOKLYN, GRUOKLYN BROOKLYN. p eager to ent ongress, accord =a Sse aang! ~ ~~. — RA A rrr NARA 3 ord, | ing to rep m every division of / - © elsewhere.” No. 155 Broadway, which ts supporting ji } Nonsense,” returned Mr. Tilles. “This | \0 155 Broadway, da) HL ne) dog has stopped at the leading hotele the movement. Suburban ‘owners and in Burope.”” realty leaders are insisting that the or “No matter if it stopped at the White ganization s 1 be extended onee House,” said Mascord, “it wouldn't have s tl any more ehow of getting Into this ho to the outly boroughs, instead of i an a live Teddy benr—if it was over waiting for the work to be completed oe velve inches long. in Manhattan, Some of the largest in | Mr. Tilles took the hint and led his dog < ae away reluctamly to the. Pifty-thira | terests in each borough have vol. SECURES ANY LOT | street institution. teered to take charge of the enrolment | Mhen Mr. Tiiles returned to the hotel jn their own districts oo a eé Tt AL Balance on monthly pay- : a Toy Spaniel wearing a rich coat o! Governors of the Board of Brokers purple material, skipped past him. by fe é ers U eee to $10, accordin, jPerRn sald Mr. Pilles) running up have general pians for extending the AND P ments of $5 to$ ig to Mascord. “You get out your tape divisional organizations into the sub- ‘ ; to price of lot. meneUrerend \e0) yar contr ACCC ne urbs, and the work may be started ———— | Mas- within two or three months. The ¢ cord, “and Ms measure is just half an | joroughs SOIIIMLEMTE pT emer ealauumt ID CHRUT SEALE OAT tae eee eae Rater in the congress on the same basis < i. | z! ‘ Ons, as is Manhattan—that is, one delegate jdogs In the hotel within the regulation for each 90 individual owners and one | size. ae delegate for each $40,000,000 of assessed Seat value. \ ’ May Have 700 Delegates. As ther re 106,000 available ivid- | owners of real estate In the greater, | | they would be represented in. the | pleted congress t delegates. | full congress to con ENDS HER CHASE ~ OF WEALTHY MAN Weeks with its 20,000 om) delegates, “and owners, | its $4,- 584, i assessed valuation would give | st 110 more, making @ total of 2 Brook ly ith 45,000. owners, have gates, and its $1,:184,564,835 | assess the ‘The for its would give "34 ‘more, | id have 10 delegates owners, and 11 for tts $441,- | Addison Says Mrs. line for years could have written so ij q S 1 { 8,9 1 valuation, making 83, line for 3 ; | for Whom Governor Re- | Trost Has Annoyed Him for | $4268) ascessed valuati Milman or Not only the school children of aw yers, an two for its $%,- | Greater New York, but. their teachers fused to Interfere. Twenty Years. ssed vaiuation, or 32 dn all as well, are to be complimented on this | e figures are regarded as tenta- excellence of penmanship. The contest, | tive. They could be readjusted. by {t is believed, has added still further | | delegates to the Pp petus to scholars’ interest in this| AUBURN, Nov. 28—Willlam Sobert| The arrest of Mrs. Evelyn Trost, of themselves if the repress j stud: | Sth not be considered impartial and com- j ‘ | Bra the Rochester wife murderer, | New York, on a warrant secured in St. | plete. Althou stual number of Meachers/aisesnh Lntenrest, 5 TaleaheneNadl Week vealthy | Separate indivi¢ xpayers is taken nat aac aretantenal caatonnl in whose case Gov. Hughes refused to Iouls by Addison Weeks, a wealthy | ft tosq00, the Tax Department. figures taken n concern in The interfere, was electrocuted in Auburn | Paper manufacturer, also of New York, it higher & use one individual ts World petition is proved by numer- i counted several times n he owns ous in following Prison to-day. It was one of the most| charging her with petit larceny, brings | property in as ma dis eptors of Successful executions in the prison, only |to light the story of the woman's! ,,?) ; i the fam ip NOrglil one shock being necessary to lll. | strange, relentless pursuit of the man, |‘ ! ast Fift ight in person si onounced . i ‘ containin, ens of handwriting | ° Clock | a enty years and tak fy from almo: pupil in the entire The current used was of greater hash lasted Itpentysyeara/iand: taken isn ntation after e Bchool, ower than usual, the high vol : The Eyening World heartily ie MER YOLAgeHbe, congrat- eres, ing 1,88), ranging from nine to nine and ulates the school children of Greater y New York, and still more their able, one-half amperes. Brasch entered the 1 teachers, on the nearly universal clear- | execution chamber at 6.10 and two min- ness, character and general excellence | of penmanship. | Prizes will be-awarded soon as the experts chosen as judges can. complete their tremendous task of going care- fully through the ava’ e of letters. ee CHURCH WILL BURY utes later the contact was given. The was held on for a full minute, and after six minutes spent in examinations |of the man by the physicians who were present Brasch was officially declared | dead, Among those who witnessed the elec- trocution and attended | which was made {mmediately after- | ward, was Dr. Albert Warren Ferris, of New rk, president of the State | special commission named by Gov. | Hughes to examine Brasch to his —_—— Dr. | sanity. William L. Russell, In- night of June 15, 1906. He killed her that he might marry May Gilmore, of Public School No. 26 visited the home of | i r their Mate comrade. The boy's mother| Defance, O. He was arrested in Cleve- ©., five days later, and taken to land, ince the death of her husband, William | k i Miner, a clerk in the office of the B mk ees ane wae soos a 9 Burs Borough President, a ar ago, had be bl bd Gegres, i Si je to the , nu re 6 " bs en prison on Dec. 26 of the same year un. Fight-vear-old Arthur Miner, of No. | *Pector of State Hospitals for the In- 266 East One Hundred and Seventy-ninth | S@he, Who was also a member of the v treet, who, while playing samuffin'!| Special commission, attended the au- With some companions Thursday, was|‘°US¥. ktlled by a car at Webster avenue and| The erime for which Brasch was ex- ) ‘One Hundred and Eightieth street, is to) CCUted was the murder of his wife, i be buried beside hia mother, wno died | Roxanna Miller Brasch, whom he pushed } @ week ago of pneumonia. | into the Erie Canal at Rochester on the | Yesterday hundreds of pupils from supporting her five children. Since her ih the ohilan » have lived with’ their| Ge" Senter of death in the electric aon % 2 ic) chair during the week of Feb, 10, 190 grandmother, Mrs. Annie Moran, who is! hie’ case wae eek ab, 10, 1902, five years old and destitute and is| argument before the Court’ of Appeals trying to find some sort of work for! being made on June 2 last. ‘The side: uppert ment of convietion was affirmed on Oct N' Dor® | have been contributing | and the week of Nov, 23 fixed for the towarl the sup) the unfortunate death sentence, family, and the arrangements for the, Warden Benham issued inyitations Dural of the be i made by the | for Monday, but. tne execution was Kev. John Smiley, rector of st Postponed to Near from a spec \eom- und’s Episcopal Church, Morris mission named by the Governor to in | Hee ccaaemie net Le sran quire into Brasch's mental condition, enth street, who w Kk his ed Bragch’s attorney having applied for a tion to-morrow for an ofvering to defray | stay. On Tuesday the Governor denied the expense the application for a stay. caseeseeemtiipnssmssnens CUPID BREAKS UP CHOIR. Because of the number of marriages recently between singers in the choir of > ENGLAND PLEASED A OUR JAPANESE TREATY. | LONDON, Noy. %%.—The reported | the Forty-sixth street Methodiat Episco- Agreement between the United States | yal Church at Bayonne, N. J. the musi and Japan for the maintenance of the committee has found It necessary to status quo in the Pacific and guar- issue a call for volunteers anteeing the Jniegrity of China is given ‘The latest marriage was that of Miss 8 of Londen and is clearly consid: to-day, in the chureh, by Rey. William id to be of great importance J. Hampton. It wha received too late for senorat = ~ comment, but he Pall all t aya it we be hes tily wel- CHILD BITTEN BY CAT, ned ay 4 contribution to the security | 4 stray cat in the hallway of the world’s peace, It Is not “an h y of an apart fangling aillante, but an” agreement | Ment-house at No, 300 West One Hun- “that is all to the good from every |dred and Wifty-fourth street attacked viewpoint,” as well as 4 most desirable | s!x-year-old Grace Donovan. yesterday, complement to the Anglo-Jupanese al- | fastening tts teeth in her under Ip. Her Hance. father knocked the animal out with «& Tt should a: this paper s blow with his foot and then sent i: to in friendly adjustment uf other | the Board of Health. rhe child wil be uestions between the United States | gent to th» Pasteur, ute vat pong rd {found to be mad 4 the autopsy, | half a continent esular sessions, The | the start Is to whieh shall con- Weeks now lives in De Soto, Mo., and | m jhe says he met Mrs. Trost in 1886 In this | °) ody. n thoroughly jel She first gained notoriety in 18%, | Sentatly soclations in every district, } When she was living in Brooklyn, by s As inany owners Individually wou curing indictments for blackmail against | ROt ental! in the divisional Charles J, Hinman and Cornelius source would. be below. the Sleight, both widely known and | #lWays while those who joined th wealthy, The woman says she is forty- | the a | five but ars old, her ppearance in- | t | dicates that she Is a great deal older. The Case Was Dropped, lue delegates, — | Excursion to Jersey Lots. > W. C. Reeves & Co. will take an ex- At that time the woman said her hus- | _,WVC. Reeves & Co. will take an ex. band, Herman H. Trost, an exporter of Sa Bian Neer euharenthartare Peruvian guano, died in 1884, leaving | off 1,000. lots, t twenty-nine | her $10,000. In a boarding-house in ™l ton the Pennsylvania Railroad ———————— CLEVER WIFE Knew How to Keep Peace in Family, Brooklyn she met Sleight, who made | | love to her, borrowed money from her, |and to whom she gave het picture | Later she met Hinman, who told her | |that Sleight, claiming she had jilted [t is quite significant the number ot | | him and swearing to be revenged, had | persons who get well of alarming) Placed the photograph on the wall of a heart trouble when they let up on room In a disorderly house. Hinman, coffee and use Postum as the bever- she said, told her that Sleight would re- lage at meals. | turn the picture for $200, and at a meet-| “Phere is nothing surprising about | ing with the two men she handed over |jt, however, because the harmful al- the money. After the indictment the |Kaloid in coffee—caffeine—is not money was returned to Mrs. Trost and | present in Postum, which is made of the case was dropped jelean, hard wheat. Weeks says he was managger of a wo years ago I was having so | big business house in this city much trouble with my heart,” writes he met Mrs, Trost in 186, His wife and @ jady in Washington, “that at tim daughter were in Europe at the tim felt quite alarmed. My hus! and when he told Mrs. Trost that the: relations must cease when his wife re when nd took me to a specialist to have my heart examined. I turned the woman threatened a colos he doctor said he could find no sal scandal, To escape this, he says,|organic trouble, but said my heart, 2° ~™ he sold his business in New York and) was irritable from some food I had fled to Chicago. Previously, however, | heen accustomed to eat, and asked while living at No. 6 jaark's ave- me to try and remember what disa- had nue, Brooklyn, he een arrested | greed with me. ET yD for abandonment, but the case was “I remembered that coffee always OVER ON THE JERSEY SIDE p x . ; amicably adjusted, soured on my stomach and caused fue we, est /me for For some years the Weekses lived in|me trouble from palpitation of the f oo Ambers st N Chicago, but one day Mrs, Trost ap- he 0 I stopped coffee and be- Better than bonds, Some one will get a bargain, Ts It YOU? 14 ‘ vit t peared and demanded money. She made life there so exciting for him that once again he pulled up stakes, this time se- gan to use Postum, I have had no further trouble since. “A neighbor of ours, an old man, lecting St. Louis a ble . ritable rink 4 c af : And the BEST time to g . “aringe Sult Against ‘ih trey pe ra ae SEMI DK opt: Only one mile from depot. Only two miles from New Brunswick, rou “ mu ws f Mir u oe fy i ne the e wa " ‘ eae nef ‘ ,» Worker, If nyestment, But Mrs, ‘frost had not given up her drink Postum. This made him very | with 40,000 population. No low or swamp land; all high, dry land, gos s oe Be i Ata pursuit, and to escape her he moved to angry, but his wWue secured some st ; the small town of Desoto, There she Postum and made it carefully ac- Mr A arrived in due time and registered at a to directions cording hotel as his wife, This created a scan-| “He drank the Postum and did not _ oi " A ay everything and everythin dal, which grew when she entered sult know the difference, and is still using Come with Us on Our FREE FXCURSION To-morrow a y hap ang against him for $20,00—a suit, .e says, |it to his lasting benefit. He tells his — ne should be kept in its place. is better To which was compromised for $20. His | wife that the poffee than it =| a PIANOS AND ORGANS. 2 bd daughter died soon after this in Desoto. used to be, so she smiles with him arr ‘ Tee E 1 ce for a want In St. Lous the woman sued him for/and seeps peace tn the family oy Marschelder Pianos... Lith Me i t The World divorce, and it was this m e that de- er o ead ” s grade planus ¥ pri cided him to have her arrested for petit [Serving Postum ingtead of coffee.” | Tet us show you buliding lots at $2 each, located in one of the highest and f 4 ind, \ rtained larceny. He claims that she snatched | “Thhere's a Reason retilest countries in New Jersey. @ miles out 6.980 s le Ad A M13 from his hand in a department sore | Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Prejient portunity, FREE TICKETS from our Representatives at , ate ’ and refused to give it back to ‘him. !oreek, Mich, Read “The Road to ya St. Hers i2¥, Comlandt st 1201" M 1 any re to Be rep After her arraignment on this charge walville,” in pkgs LOOK FOR BADGE c t bail sh 7 & Q € ane aad charmed’ with petiiry in her | Mver read the above letter! 4 “W. C. REEVES & CO.” SUNDAY WORLD WANTS i= divorce sult. 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