The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1909, Page 3

—n WOMAN ALONE GIRDLES GLOBE: Mrs. Ledwith Took | NEVER AN INSU | Ex-President’s Wife When | Not a Single Discourtesy, Says Mrs. Sercombe, After Three Years’ Tour, SAFE AS WHEN AT HOME Jnattended, She Finds Wom- anhood Respected in All Strange Lands. We Is as safe for a woman to traver| BY Ethel Lloyd Patterson. hround the world alone as it is for her | to take her pet Pomeranian out for an| Just the same as he ts now. ‘At least | l@hty-three years old, and I have seen | that was the view expressed to-day by | him dally for many years, and I want | of Minnea-| ring along Fifth avenue, Winifred Sercombe, who arrived here yesterday on the Atldntic Transport ner Minnea- bolis from an escortless globe girdling Journey. M lantic Transport line pier, Was arranging to have tent to her home at No. 3l4 hvenue, Minneapolis. Mrs. §s not of the petite and demure Whe is large and imposing, with lip, a sharp, but kindly eye, tionsense about her “Theft Years ago,” said travel round the belleved When I started out that there is no rountry where a woman who conc duc herself with decorum Fense will not be acco: ercombe was seen on the At where she Sereombe, “to Mrs world. 1 ts 1 common d the itmost vourtesy, Now I know it. The neces- sity of a male escort Is in reality buperflutty in this age of civilizath Only Courtesy In Far East. “I went to Asia by way of San Fran- tisco and I found the Chinamen cour- teous and even Kind. No indignity was ever offered me in the Flowery King- dom. In fact, I was treated with the Breatest deferen “Nor were the Hind their courtesy by the Ch tutta, Bombay, Singapore was treated by the nativ Vighest respect and ec “There was nowwig really in this, and had I invaded t country of Indla T undoubt e met with the ion itdone in In wild hill would “Ifa wom courte: An will be dignified, ” resents "Men are pay a womanly Neither } Was L subjected tr yassment Fary to carry ef weapon Curiosity Invites Indignity. “Another thing that helped me get along nicely Was that 1 ow not over-reserved or indifferent to tentions of my fellow passengers travelling companions “The lorable dis certain women to-day is pay, frequently dua to thelr morbid eu desire to a pistol o rlosity, “Women of that ty frequent places w hey should not BO, to experience ms and do thin eeks of any § niliarly and lo: 10 follow wrong-headednie imagine a} Yinder=world, pl vyen New York. Do you habitues will rise and bow Not much. If, on the er hand, Woman will confine her explorations to Places where It Is der the will always be d “Accommodations for women Jing alone have improved so that to-day a lone on Ye free from embarra nity LUE ence Tar woman In the world may globe and not meet with the eftrontery.” ——————————— arelessness, or rather woman entering an in Paris, Berlin and ently treatec travel greatly n will not only pt and indig- y comfort and years’ expert: | From my encircle the slightest ste and Laugh But you mig as well try to reach China t as to reach buyers thr adver tising in papers that do not circulate widely aniong buyers, The circulation of — the Morning World last year was vugh an average of 352,361 cores per day The World ef separate week, month ANY OTHER earth. Don't be misled into “ way-to-China” diums STICK 10 FACTS! ae ee Use World Ads. and Prosper. MORE advertisements every and year than newspaper or advertis “she will | } | Roosevelt's picture | he was Governor of thi blush to the | ting woman. | Mfr of respect Is bound | Su nt for her {7 80 | velt would not ike it, so n able to state that any decent | THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1909. Pc eee tee Shik Roosevelt as Brave as Any Lion _In Africa, Says Family Nurse uF Took Care ot | a Baby and Also of All of | Her Children, | “EVEN MR. ROOSEVELT | JUST A BIG BOY TO ME.” | | Better Father and | Mother in the World’ Is| Her Description of Couple | Long Her Employers, t a “Mr. Theodore Roosevelt was always | IT am to say that the White House never | made any differenco in him." So says Mrs, Mary Ledwith, who bas known our one-time President as tons | as has his wife, Mrs, Ledwith, or “Aunt Mame,"' as | she has been affectionately dnbbed by | the younger Roogovelt generation, has! mg figured as one of the most impor tant members of the Roosevelt house- | old, | he was the maid of Mrs, ‘Theodore| Roosevelt's mother, and since then she| has in turn occupied the position of | nurse tothe ex-President’s wife and to! h of thelr children Now, tt would be more true to say | that “the Roosevelt family belongs to Mrs, Ledwith" than that “Mrs. Ledwith | belongs to the Roosevelt family."’ “I haven't any children of my own, —— explained “Aunt Mame," 0 I just feel as though the Roosevelt children were |mine, All mine, including Mr. Roose-, velt, for he ts just a big boy to me, “Love them?" she queried, “Well, you for him, but everybody has been prophe-| ~ sying such dreadful things about the| [ip that Ie makes people who love him Saniro, nanan Time Convict iting re s Pistol, Clerk could not live with people for so many | years unless you did love them, “Well, but there's one thing, though: ass he is just as brave as any lion he will FA errs ed lass) 0 FIRS: PART LED WIFE “Mr, Roosevelt was always crazy over outdoor sports,” continued the old Git “Archie is just like him—wild to be in the alr all the time. I think xr | Roosevelt could not stand it i¢ he was shut up very much, Now he is going over to Africa to hunt, It's a fine thing | From New York, Slashes meet, so no harm can come to hit pare n mate A , through fone c Lynch With Knife. Attract Help, “That is Mr. Roosevelt's picture up | ~—~-— there,” sald Mrs. Ledwith, tu r F her chair to Pata a tananare Armed with a long knife, J. Sapiro, a! A bank hold-up of the most approved autographed photograph of Citizen Icng-term convict from New York, made | Western tyle, planned by a man with Roosevelt that stood upon the shelf 4 desperate effort to kill one of the! two little boys wearing knickerbockers of her nie a, Oe UG (3 ta keepers at Sing Sing to-day. He suc-/9# his confederates, was folled to-day by favorite picture of Mrs,| ceeded in inflicting only one wound upon | the auick wit elt, taken during the time that! his foe befpre other prison attendants|!" the offlce when the three would-be State. highwaymen entered He is a very strict man, strong for, Samuel discipline, but always kind just. the! jsame. He was always so good to me, and I belleve that he could have been President ten times over, and it would never have made any difference in his thoughtfulness "When Twas sick, you know, in 1901, I caught a cold at the inauguration of clerk who was alone | overpowered him During most of the two years Sapiro} has served he has been on the punish- ment rolls. Warden Frost regards him as an incorrigible. Because of his dan- Katz, twenty-six years old, is the bookkeeper for the banking and | money exchange house of Max Kobre, gerous disposition and confirmed inaub-|%t No. $1 Grand street, Witlinmaburg, ordination, the man has been kept in|@ branch of the bank at No. 40 Canal solitary confinement for the past SIX) street, Manhattan, months, While the other prisoners are} ing tie money in packages and had McKinley—1 was with my sister here in! the Work shops he stays tn hie cell! shout 3,00 spread out before hin In hie New York, Both Mr. and Mrs, Roose-\ except at meal times. He is also gtven| casters cage when a man and two! TELE used fo come and ser me, and alltone hour out of each twenty-four fOr | ittte boys ontered, the time I was ill they had a traine 7 nurse for me. fi Wad orridor of the ter where | ane stranger asked if he could pure Katz was arrang- exercise in the tines aye, Been abroad, too, reverat| he ts confined, being let out only when! chase three steamship tickets, and imes with Mrs, Ro: announces ara. 0 0 co earby, ¢ f Ledwith proudly, sand when twas, (ere are aay Se f ane He] Paseo irene eterno a areata roomy (n recovering fram my illness they sent) To-day when np J Re Hoe rit |search of them the man entered the 5 or ac ", opened the oor to let | eats Haly ron a hang H with Miss keeper, opened the cell doo fi et Teage, the door to which had been left | Wee eh Ne Roosevelt's sister. That) sapiro out for his exercise the man} 34.7 “Really, I a word to say Mushed at him with a knife he ts sup-) “ints, returning, was confronted. by about Mr. oR admitted Mrs, posed to have stolen fr a messroom | the thief, with a big revolver, and told +} Ledwith, "I suppose there are lots of table, At the prison tt was sald there ‘ ‘al iittle things that T know that ore a on why Sapiro |tat IC he made the slighest outery he nterest’ people, but may if was no particular reason Sapiro | would have his head blown off, guess 1 had should Pave singled out Lynch for at- Hae erdevad ate hasld Gewhla y tack nN in his grudge against the | ooree B to Ii Pp hands and the two boys went to the {ro whole institution he tried to do for the front Ga |door and closed it. the first maa he could reach. | Lynch had a moment's warning. He and hit Sapiro a blow in the face with his clenched fist that drove the allen back ruses the convict DEFECTIVE BALLOTS FIGURE recovered and charged again. Lynch had no weapon exc fai his own hands. IN THE TRIAL OF SCRUGHAM, (ating tor tip, he grappled with Sapiro and fought for the knife, He managed | h fend off any disabling thrusts, but tance, sles Testes About aD ald came his sleeves were! As the crowd came in the boys allpped at New York Life giasied in several places and the palm | out and escaped. The man in the cage his right hand was ripped to the | dropped his pistol and, striking out right | better not talk. re is just one thing I cal about both Mr. and Mrs, Roose ded ‘their old nurse, “but that i y finest thing you can say Anybody, It q 1 Katz seized a paper weight and wutled it through the window desk, The crash of glass attracted the attention of dozens passersby, who made a dash for the front of the bank, As the boys had failed wo lock the door, they had no difficulty In gaining en- Robert S Alleged U ire Judge Foster tn Par when Capt, Dooley and his reserves ar- Sesaions, Hughes was an { arnied and dragged into his cell, where 1s Were manacled to a bolt in V., Genera spector at his bank that ‘Atter Dooley told trac was held up. hearing Katz's story, Capt n of directors of the New) the wall. fun with him, ‘The bank where the hold-up was at- tempted Is but a block awa Ernest Zimmer was held up, robbed and slashed about the face with a razor Sat- York Lit rance pan ——-_>—— The spiracy ¢ es ae an out jhim he had been the victim of a joke, | ’ of the insurance : and that the man was only some! a, W nternatio! ib “drunken bum’ who wanted to have IS ON 10 A FINISH i rts were schanged and used w Na urday night. In the same vicinity George | the egal ballots, i + Deltz was murdered a week ago, and aes f mony yesterday Kosina de Maria was held up, beaten sclared that these de ors hat : lean oe rn n included with Lsuripen cura j That the Public Service Commission | ang robbed a few days ago. There have lacking distinguishing aMdavit or tden- | !ntends to order side-door cars In all! een no urrests In any of these cases. tifleation, Hughes was called to-day to! subway trains, and that the Interbor- ——— MERRYMAKERS FAINT AS CAR KILLS A MAN. Lange Stepped From Behind Pillar Directly in Path of Trolley in Bronx. orroborate him. Hughes on the stand upheld the posi- tive assertions of Lawshe, and declared that he saw nothing In any of the boxes or packages of ballots delivered by tne | International Policyholders’ Committee n Dec, 18, 1906—the date of the election hich would show that any segregation of defective or invalld ballots had been attempted. Louls Marshall, of the defending staff, stated that more than 10,000 agents had ough thinks, on the other hand, that the! side-door train has been a failure and seeks for delay, became patent at a aring before Commitatoner Dustis, of the Service Board, to-day. Commissioner Eustis went sharply after the Interborough, and showed plainly that the Commission does not in- tend to brook any delay, and {s bound wen sent out by the New York Life| to atop overcrowding, Company to Influence polleyholders in | °°, vou,"| A score of merrymakers returnine favor of the administration t Poipu muses a ye Dest APBSrene (O17 OU | aera ener atls Aci Miniocday Ona further prove bias he declared that the| said Commissioner Eustis to Alfred A Inspectors had chatienged 05,600 of the| Gardner, gereral counsel to the Inter- votes of the International Committee. | GATanats BU(erel Helen, vice nter~ | thrown into a panic when the car hit a Lo you een ber about these 10,000 dant and general mi T of the Inter. | man and came to such a sudden stop Oe eae eet ae Staconina et | horaueh, thet thie. Com that many of them were thrown to their mnt re ee it |been committed to the p feet. Several of the women fainted TL aon't recall,” declared Tughes for th David M. Carvalho, handwriting ex. | ide-door car for the cirwed p | Lenhard Lange, forty-nine years old,| vert, was culled by the State to examine | O° iyiiet of the disgraceful condition of | @ bricklayer living at No. 115 Washing- the handwriting of the attesting wit ess on the Tobriner batlot and to com: pare {t with the admitted signatures of | ly Introduced r yth wanted to asta Y were written by the sam overcrowding which marks the your line every night of the yaar, Commissioner Eustis took more testi. | mony and adjourned the hearing until Thursday afternoon, lantly killed. He had started to cross ront of No. 425 Third avenue, and from behind an "L” pilar direct- he path of the car, which Motor- nm ia) Leddy was unable to stop in om. a jee A Te teed Sine him. y ¢ \ Realizing he was in a tight place, | back of his! jrived the crowd was so dense xbout the | from where} Union Traction car in the Bronx were| rs of} ton avenue, was found to have heen in-| 1 IRE IN FOREST - SWEPT BY GALE ~—TOAMAGANSET jLong Island Village in Such Danger that Church Bells Call Out the People. | es The little town of Amagansett, Lob, | and several hamlets ail) ent ave threat Jened by a forest fire, which ts betng llavent toward them by a high northerly jwind, A #mall army of volunteers: ts | battling with the flames in an effort to | save their homes, In burning brush at Stony Hill, on the outskirts of a forest about two miles north of the railroad station at Gard ners Bay, to-day Horace King allowet the fire to get beyond his control. Sweeping across a stubble fleld, the flames communicated with the forest As the fire increased, of smoke vettled over Amagansett, ay (hls was the first werning the residents of this old wheling town had that their | homes imperiled, Grizzied old Its and sturdy young farmers formed | a fire fighting brigade. Word was sent back to Amagansett | of the progress the fire was making fad at 1 o'clock all the church bells i the town were rung, calitt yunt to xo to the aid of these who had lef in the day 1, women and children, armed with vels, picks and axos, set forth iu less than half an hour after the alarm | Jad been sounded the litte town was depopulated. There iy no fre-Aghiting ayparatis at Amagansett, and the fire-fighters are re lying upon the tr }to check the progress | with the wind blowing at ga {all their efforts so far have heen | “rut utile. LANYERS ARRESTED, AND A NOTARY, 100 eens dense volumes were | | | | Spitting on “L” Station Platform. Health OMcer McInerney latd in wait Three with Others Fined for! H AT NIGHT GIES CLUE 10 OST BALLOON MRS. HOWLETT GEMS RETURNED, MAID FORGIVEN Signal Seen by Ranger Indi-|Boy Delivering Post-Card to{Actress Wife of Noted Whip cates America Dropped Frank Donadon Learns | Asks Court to Let Her on Mount Wilson. of His Suicide, | Withdraw Charge. OFFER OF A JOB COMES AS LIFE IS ENDED BY GAS ae L Cal, Mareh 23.—Ac- Howlett, report received here to- LOS AN Frank Donadon, a decorativer painter, | Mrs. Morris wife of the cording to a thirty-five years old, who had been out |Meted whip, and herself an actress late day Chief Ranger George Crowe, of the of work for eight months, was found |!¥ @ngaged in the melodrama 'Ma- Angeles Vorest: Reserve, is reported to | dead from gae today in his room at {Pooned," made a spectacular appear- have seen a flashlight, supposedly | No, 41L ast One Hundred Jance when she floated into the Flush- jing Police Court to-day to ask Magis- Aeronaut Mueller’s signal from the i sixth street just after a postal card was Connolly, ¥ i lost bailoon America, drop fi the moun- IN trate Connolly for leave to withdraw a delivered at the house stating that a | charge which she had made against her and Morty. tains last Saturday night. A force of d Government rangers have started from !9ng Job had been found for him, |mald, Rachel Roanel, Serre Hadre for the scene, The place) ‘The painter lived with a Mes, Hags-| Mrs, Howlett, who lives at Elmhurst, an almost inaccessible canyon, on Weker and had been dospondent of tate |rode to the police court in a big tour- esouthWest slope of Mount Wilson, over his failure to get work A week ling oar, Her costume was the hand- Hy tree divs Nave passed since ago he cheered up and sald a friend |somest and most elaborate that had dea went up trom ‘lourna- gi . Fee aS iea th Capen aA, Dad promised to get hin something | heen seen in Plushing’s dingy old town Muviler’ as pilot and’ five prominent Within a day or two, But as the days | pall since the murder trial of Thornton business men of Pasadena as passens kers, and up to this forenoon no word arding the landing of the passed and he did not hear from the} ffaing, the novelist, friend a heavy melancholy settled on} qT seems that Mrs, Howlett lost i r i hantuleoeiehoxarti the bas. him. | diamonds, worth a good deal of money, ; When the postman arrived to-day he! several days ago, When she applied pnpanching partes that left Pasadena handed In a postal card addressed to | for the warrant she alleged that she had Hous places in the mountains and at Vonadon, Tt read discovered one of the missing ping fase daylight to-day began a search of the “Dear Frank: Come over as soon tened to an underskirt. The maid was | accessible parts of the rat ind cans ag you get this. [have a long Job [Scrsaten tyes tere afternoon and locked yons in the: MD peron an a the inembers | toe you CHARLE up ‘Mrs. Howlett. explained to-day that learning ng thely locg tte the hunt was k her jewels had all been returned to her land that she did not desire to prosecute {the girl, ‘The Magistrate decided to hold Under thi was written “Charles Van Blaren, No, 00 Amsterdam avenue.” Waid from every | young gon of Mrs. Hasslocker ana Moanel for forty-elght hours, | I ) made, but no Up to the painter's room and called out; | at the end of Anata ig her bits eal nmi ‘ I : ad to push the chi he sa any kind was "Get up, Frank, Here's your Job come | fetused to bush the W at last ather |“! . * response, Ho tried the Then he noticed ie boy Bo ASSEMBLYMAN MOON DYING, door Ves ching the pale a strong odor of gas. Frightened, he| Assemblyman Harry Barber Moon lies fore Pitan ee ran out and valled a policeman, wholat the point of death at the home of thirty followin » the broke open the door, Donadon was|his father, former State Senator James ons and crossing Hats between the dead in bed, He had turned on all the | soon, in Vnillipsburg, N. J. He is suf. xas Jets In the room and stopped up the windows and door, Easter Empire Gowns Real $18 Values ain ranges MINUTE OF LF IN BABY GIVES MOTHER $20,000 fering with yaralysis and tuberculosis. at the Eighth street station of the Sixth avenue “1 anti-spitting ordinance. Jin six prisoners and took them to Jef- ferson Market Court The first to face Magistrate gave the name of John Brown, and denounced his arrest as an outrage. He said he was in a hurry to get to a district court and didn't have any time to waste. He was also very bitter because he hadn't been to telephone to friends during the two ho jin the prison pen. His feelings were in no wise improved by a fine of $2. the reporters he confided that his real name was Rovert L. Levinson and that |The was a lawyer with offices at No, 3 Broad street. There was another Kline, of No. 15 Greenwi said the officer must be right. He got joft with $1. A notary public, Marcelle Mullock, of No. 9% Christopher street, aid he knew all © law Barlow s he spent lawy e, who wanted to argue it out with the Mag trate, ‘That cost him &% He diln't have the money about him, so th Biel ones |HAROLD VANDERBILT ACQUITTED IN AUTO CASE. jJury Out Tw promis nty-four Hours De- | clares Him Not Guilty of | Reckless Speeding. | BOSTON, March %.—After detibera- tions lasting since yesterday afternoon arged Harold Van- a Harvard student, jpectised, of reck driving an auto- | mobjle, Young V Hit was arrested lon Jan, 2%. At the trial he starte he was hurrying to the North as it was Imperative that he catch a Election, ot certain train, Following his arrest his ‘ bone where he had grabbed the naked |and left, bowled over those who at-[automoblle license was) suspented by Rodert 'S. Hughes was the frst wit- ade, | tempted to stop him, gained the door | tie, » on eh LOY ess to-day when the trial of George R ‘Three other hallkeepers arrived in the | and dashed down Grand street and gu: | Mfr, Vanderbilt, sald to-day that he x and Charles Stirrup on a nick of time, Still struggling desper- Way. seul dmniealiasely Qpply ifor 2 renews! i conspiracy Was resumed be- | ately, Saplro was knocked down, di A call was sent for the police, and | i Milled | to-day for violators of the | He garnered | lawyer, | Peter | the cream ! faxes GaSe, iid Twitched Leg, Nurse Swears, and Widow Is Sole Child Twitched Leg, $ 1p Heir to Estate. ase jal Wednesday The queenly empire gown in all its glory is holding avg. high court at Bedell’s this % pli week, and among the favor- ites, we are offering a mar- / velously beautiful model at | A married was twenty-yeear-old widow to-day who re: awarded the es- tate of her first 00 husband, amounting to by Surrogate Kete amin Brooklyn. in a suit brought against her by his rehitives Five months after the husband's (0 ishi |: 1 . 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