The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1911, Page 3

LAO A eR RR on RRR Prim eeR RE THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, WEALTHY ENGINEER Finland Women Won _ PAPASANCTIONED The Ballot by Saving —HEIRESS’S UNION Nation From Tyrant ELEVATOR BOY | | SUED BY HIS “GIRL OF GOLDEN WEST" | Forced Czar to Restore Constitution, and Grateful Men Who Gave Them the Ballot Have Never Regretted It, Says Dr. Jackola. ise is Dr. Jac South bekon Yo Young Woman | Says He Broke Promise to Marry Her. Imprisonment for Mashers Is One of Their Laws, and Another Proposes Pensions for Mothers—All | Vote, but Few Seek Offices. BURNING L ETTERS READ. | “Descendant of King Edward” , PGB Hatiad tie Caial Wet BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. i] Wedded His Cousin While e a Now that the Judiciary Y-SMITH. of the State Fiancee Wai cee Waited. Woman Suffrage bill, it may be worth the members’ — while to learn just what women will be likely to do if A shattered romance of the West, they ever succeed in representing their constituents at! Milton 8. Guiterman, the wealthy law- With all the heart throbs of a Laura Albany. yer whore seventeen-year-old daughter, Jean Libby novel, had a setting in the Dr. John Jackola, a native of Finland, where four. Edith Louse, married ‘Thomas C. Rig- Bopreme Court to-day when Miss Henr “| teen women sit as members of parliament, arrived in,Meys an elevator boy y declared ‘ F en h, south Dab va New York last week, and he might have been able to that the wedding was in no Te te EB det ahha oe Plainuift agajpat tell our local eolons what to expect from women) ‘!Pement and that he bad filed ihis wid WH. Deck a wealthy clvil it enaage + written consent at the City Hall at vineer, {na each of promise | legislators an engagement to lecture In Boston to: 1. time the license was procu mars | day had not called him away from us, not however,! canctioning the match. In addition en fs en seeks to recover % before he had told me t in the new Finnish parlia-; papa Guiterman said that he had Ry preg a gg pro ‘tla men! convened last month a woman member had introduced a bill pro-| attended the wedding and that the iets New York ant waides | ¥iding maternity insurance by the state—in other words, the bounty for | young people were now enjoying their nf his cousins | mothers which we have heard so much about in the Inst year and which in, honeymoon, ecker, whose miil father died | this self-coverning dependency of Russia seems likely to become a law. “It was just a case of two young 1, leaving him a », was in! But the demand for pensions for , people in love with each other,” said " ; | mothers is not the only result of th Mr. Guiterman, “It is true that Tom presence of women in the Finnish Pars | is a poor boy, but a whole lot of Nament. men have started out as poor boy “Since 198," Dr, Jackola sald yester- , Mr. Guiterman was quite sure that day, “women bers have introduced | there had been but one marriage. He and passed bills providing imprisonment | j said tt had been performed by a Judge and a fine for any maf who annoys a | whose name he declined to give, The woman in the stre is for the pun- | news of the wedding resulted from a) |tshment of what you call here the report made to the police by Mrs. Elsie | | masher. Rignty of No. 224 West One Hundred “Another measure which was moth- j and Sixteenth street, in which she told ered by a woman member and passed | the police that her brother miss: by our Parllament provides certain ing after an elopement with Miss Gult- | rights for children born out of wed- erman, and that the visits of mysteri- | took e things are now part of o ous men to her home led her to believe laws, but the question of maternity 4 that young Rigney was being quietly | surance has yet to be voted on | put out of the way. Dill provides a pension from the Sta Adds Suicide Story. for the moth for several months bi | | | fore the birth of each child and for period of years afterward. Child Is State's Concern. “The objection to such # law,” I suggested, “is that to pension the mother is apt to make a loafer of the fathe: “That is true,” Dr. Jdckola an- swered, “but in many cases where a mother’s pension is necessary the father is a loafer already. The State’s main concern should be the child, and a measure which insures the child's welfare need not take in- to account the possible effect o: ‘the father's character.” Perhaps you have been wondering all MISS MENRIETTA FRENCH, Y court with Ms wife. J. ACKOLA When Lawyer this time just where Finland ts. I|nineteen avomen; in the second and Francis X. Carmody, for Miss French, | jooked it up on the map and it Iles be- | third twenty-six, but in the last one, began ding the m; burning love! tween the Scandinavian penineula and|which met last month, only fourteen. letters Decker wrote to Miss French! Russia. Dr. Jackola saya ft 1s about the “Woman suffrage has not changed prior to his marriage the defendant| giz of the State of California, hi the home life of the Finnish people ehifted about in his seat nervously, 3,000,000 inhabitants and should bear! tn the slightest. X have an old “Girl of Golden West.” about the same relation to the Ru mother and four sisters who take The letters were all of a most en-|tiovernment that Canada does to Great! part in all the elections, and they Gearing character, referring to Miss | Britain. But it doesn't. For one of tie) are the most gentle and feminine French as “The Girl of the Golden | Czar Nicholas 11's favorite pastimes !s/ women you can imagin wi Dearest Etta.” “My Dear- | dissolvi hh Parliament Just) «you sec, it was really the women of est, Darling, Little Sweetheart, &c. One| When it t# getting ready to do some+|mjiand that got back the Constitution of them, written to Miss French while | ting worth while. | fc jfor the country. For a time after the whe was visiting some friends on a Sometimes the Czar varies the pro- Cerar abrogated the F i Constitw ranch near Plerre, said imme by issuing decrees which @brOe| ton the country was thronged wi Your dear letter received yeater- | S#te Parte of the Constitution, | Russian spies, P ural was opened. day. Oh, darling, I was so glad to How They Won the Vote. {If you had your house red the hear from you! I thought possibly ‘The last time he did this was in 189, | Russian police were ap to enter the and it was the part the Finnish women | Meccan! Have Tun kwie With © house and tear the paper from the wails cowboy. I can't go to the ranch to |t0ok in the campaign for the restora- !t9 see if thers were not revolutionary get you, as Iam very busy; but you | ton of the constitution that led the | manitestoes under it. Or if you had must come back within a week, 1 | Men of Finland to grant them the full/an oid chair upholstered, men would | aanttibua? to be without vou, franchise and the right to sit in Parila- | gush in and tear it apart YOUR OWN BOY. Another letter, written to Misa French Bt Pierre when Decker as away, read: Oh, Etta, how I miss you! I think ef you all day long. I don't think I ould ever leave you again. Decker was employed as a civil en- @ineer by the Northwestern Railroad and stationed in South Dakota for two Ls ‘The only way to conduct the campaign of education among the people was to circulate secret liter- ature. Pamphlets were printed in Sweder and smuggled into Finland, and in all forty-two tons of litera- ture were distributed by the women of Finland, who were not under suspicion as the men wore. “When the constitution re- stored im 1905 the mon gave the ‘There are more women than men in my country,” Dr. Jackols said, jo there would be a danger of pet- ticoat government if the women cared to establish it. But we have only fourteen women members in a Parliament of 200, because very few women care to leave their homes for politics. ‘Their idea ie that they wish to have a voice in “When he proposed marriage to you, 414 the defendant talk of bringing you| Sheosing the men who make the women of Finland full political to his home in New York to live laws, rights as a recognition of their ef- gsked Mr. Carmody, “m our first Parliament after the| fective political service. They Bawcandaa inom: edward Constitution was restored there were} have never regretted it. “Oh,” Frenc! ‘eplied, “ c Gatbome aan me a Mak ae he didn't love her, as she had a bad| when she tho stand. | The trial, - temper. vever, Was not interrupted, a de Just a Little Western girl and 1 wouldn't | eT ged to cat! me Mrs, Ftta French tion ‘by her brother, Frank be comfortable in New York, a# his| pecker,” sald the young woman. “He | Was read mother and sisters were very haughty | told if we went to New York and! French told of Decker promising to and moved in the best society.” he called me that, we would be married | Marry his sister, and cf the girl's dis “Did he tell anything about his family | in the eyes of the law." appointment when Decker falle history?" Trou u Was Ready. | his promise. He said Miss a be- “Yes; he said he was a‘descendant of| Miss French went on to describe her| “4 un King Edward of England.” Msappdintment when Decker f to on. the withers stand, Miss F ‘h, Who has golden hair and| appear for the w dding. She said le e Promised to large brown cast many sharp|trousseau had been ready for a w hy i Ditis a: Doe a phe was on the| and even the wedding supper war ready. ner" he admitted, “that 1 stand, but Decker sat most of the time ow hat did you do when he didn't wet in would with his eyes fixed on the jury. come? Renae nie Fa to he According to Miss French, Decker| ‘J cried.”’ she replied | at by sought an Introd. m to her They | The last letter p got from Deckar, | & case of met at church, Later he visited her at|¢ight months after the date fixer for her home. She was light-hearted, care-| Ad | free and happy. She roamed at w Your letter of Aug WM | Ta about little Sguth Dakota town, she) Was for d to me. T have also ald, painting landscapes me had| received erous letters from talent, and Was ambitious pecome a| Which T suppose should have been great artist. Decker praise r work, | : baie A tholgnt by ing. 8: bs my feeeling has changed toward | years © Went Cver Ceremo cae who was ‘Hie said his father had him 1 do not love you as you should be | Was 000 more than his brovie and sister®| Joved by some good man who would ste arged Ww , He He on condition that he should not marry appreciate yu more than I can, for 1 he 4 without ball for er exam n within two years aft his (the elder you are certaiyy worthy of a zood tion to-morrow, Decker's) death,” said Misa French. husband, and Will make some man “But he told me he Wanted to marry| happy I am sure mo before the two years were up. He e coming to New York T have aid he had a fortune and didn't need in spe tion ali the money T the $50,000, We were both so happy th de in the West, but Le xP to Why, we even went over the marr get a positio in New ceremony of the Episcopal Church to-| and start all over again, You kiow gether, en Mr. Decker said he had, what [ told you about my cousin to go to New Ye but would return by| We were partly engaged Feb. That was January, 1908," left N « and we ex| “Did he write to you’ ' married soon, T hope you will for every day or two, until the! give me ff I have caused you any um veg for our wedding.” p “We re you at the train to meet him reason I had fcr Fe! 3 not re. I hated to w but he ak show up. 1 ell yo jeard nothing more for several months, meet some one ‘vhen T got a letter saying he was going w » you very happy and » marry his to existence, T am Mise French said Decker told her his, ¥ sin, Carnelia Decker, in New York, DAVID H, DECKER. wanted (9 marry han but added that Miss French broke down and wort | | |Guiterman Says Says IV Was a Love Legislature is having its annual spring frolic with the) Match and Poor Son-in- Law Is O. K. , THEY HAVE,GONE AWAY. | | ‘His Sister Reported to Police | She Feared Lad’s Safety. That Detectives who went to see Mrs. Elsie Rigney to-day asked if she had not made the story public for the purpose of getting money. She indignantly de- nied the charge and added an alleged suicide attempt chapter to the story she had previously told. ing to Mrs, Rigney, was made by tho young bride on the evening of Washing- ton's Birthday. At that time, she say Mrs. Rigney came to her house in search of her husband. Thomas was in the) house, and his eister-inlaw, for a rea- son which she does not explain, hid him in a closet, The girl asked for him. “He is not here,” replied the sister- Jw. “1 must have him. If I do not find him I will Jump out of this window ‘Then, runs the story, the young bride |did try to leap from the third-story window, and the sister-in-law, @ power: | ful woman, restrained her. Met In Elevator. * | Mrs. Rigney told the story of the court: hip of her youthful brother-in-law. | “Tommy” Rigney was running the ele- vator in the Prasada apartment house, No. 60 Central Park West, last Septem- ber, ear g 910 a week, Miss Gulter- man had just returned from Euro) where she studied for two years. o \ts an heiress, and St 1s reported will in- herit $3,000,000) when she becomes of age, She went to the Prasada to seo her cousin and the handsome elevator m in his natty uniform attracted her. According to Mrs. Kisle Rigney love affair progressea rapidly. Miss |Guiterman sent Thomas @ letter aud | gifts every day. If tt was his aay off |ehe sent them to his home, On Feb, 7 Thomas caine home and announced that he and Miss Guiterman had been mar- ried that day in Hoboken, His bride had gone to her own home, ‘A week azo yesterday afternoon Mrs. | Rigney ned her husband at his brother's home. Last Thursday morning the she went with her husband to City Hull jwhere she met her father, A second | license Was taken out and a second marriage ceremony was performed at |the Hotel Netherland by Justice Din- neen, | On Honeymoon, Police H: | The assurance of Mr. Guiterman did ‘not serve to calm Mrs. Elsie Rigney or | Miss Bessie Rigney, who insisted that | thelr brother had been spirited But the police at Headquarters the upper stations were {netru pay no attention to further complaints, asa detective agency had notified tiem that the boy and girl were happ!ly on | th »ymoon. Guiterman {9 a daugt t the }late Henry Rosenwald, who made a fortune in the tobacco business (ia be. Shipwrecked Satio: 1 them home ') N nm the wre no hope ocks t sh her decks White rose CEYLON TEA 4 \ for { ‘The alleged attempt at suicide, accord- | ELEVATOR BOY WHO MARRIED YOUNG HEIRESS. PREACHERS DUPED. BY STUDENT WITH HARD LUCK STOR sod Three Victims So Far Re-; ported to Brooklyn Police; More Are Expected. st A young man with dark hair, colleme ment and a religion that changed hameleon-Itke at the doorstep of each w victim, has been impressing Brook- lyn ministers into the ranks of those who keep the wolf from the atudent ‘Three ministers already have ad- mitted that they came to the re the student, and others are expected to add their experience to the already in- | teresting story. In the meantime the police of Brook- fi door rue of lyn are looking for the smooth student | who gave his name as “Malcom W. Bissell,” and whose card bears further information that he i# a jent in the Engineering Department of the University of Michigan.” The first report of the young man's operations came from the Rev. Alex- |ander Wouters of No. 19% Rutland road, pastor of the Reformed Church of Will- \iamsburg. Saturday night the young man came to his parsonage and said that he had been forced to leave col- leges because he dia not have enough money to permit hin to continue hie courne, He added that the president of the callege had given him enough money to come to New York, where he ex- pected to find a friend who owed him | several hundred dollars. When the student arrived here, he said, he found his friend had gone to Yale, and he wanted to get enough money te My. Wouters gave him a mileage book good for 600 miles of travel, and wished him a good trip. Then the minister} took an after-dinner walk and met the Rey. Lincoln H, Caswell, pastor of the Fenimore Street Methodist Church, | who told him of having aided a stu- cent a short time before, A compart- | |son of notes proved that the two] preachers. were victims of the same man Whereupon it possessed Mr. Wouters to call up his friend, the Rev, George |. Carter of No, 185 Lincoln road and post him as to the presence of the young’ man !n thelr mid: “He's young and dark-hatred, and says he comes from Michigan," said Mr. Wouters. "You're too late; he's already here,” replied Mr. Carter. FEBRUARY 27, |MAY | Mra, Margaret F make his way to New Haven. | heen | 1911. MRS. MTKIM HERE, | BUT KEEPS SILENT ON WEDDING P Lawyer Says He Doesn’t Know) | of Engagement Between | Hed and Vanderbilt. REMAIN IN CITY. Mother, in Says} Daughter Is Going to Europe Baltimore, —Mrs. Emerson to Fight. McKim, whose en- gagement to Alfred G. been persistently ru her alster, Mrs, latter's home, No. 146 street. Her attorney, No. 2 Rector MeVickar at the! Kast Thirty-ftth | Littleton Fox, of visited Jame: reet, her last night and was in consultation with her for a long time. ‘So far as I know, Mrs, McKim is not engaged to Mr. Vanderbilt, but she! would not have to obtain my con: to marry him If she #0 desired,” Mr. Fox to-da plans nt said “Mrs. McKim haa no remain here indef- and may End of Litigation. Mrs. McKim arrived in this city yea. terday from Georgetown, 8. C., and Was supposed to have engaged passage lfor Europe. She was ac | tar as Baltimore by | Emerson. Mr. Fox said that so far as he knew! all the litigation in which Mrs, Mekim |had been involved was at an end. Despatches from Baltimore quote Mrs. Isaac Emerson, Mra, McKim's mother, ae saying that Mrs, McKim was going |to wail for Europe on the first steamer, On the subject of her daughter's ru- |mored engagement to Alfred Gwynne | Vanderbilt she was evasi saying that | any statement would have to come from | Mra, McKim herself. It was anno din Baltimore to-d that Mrs, Emerson, wife of Col. Isaac | Wmerson, will fight her husband's appli- | cation for adivorce, ‘The case comes up there to-day, and Col, Emerson was in conference yesterday with his lawyors | in regard to a settlement, it 1s said, Mra, Emerson's lawyera suid they would file thetr answer March 13, naealteninciasinnsss THIS WIDOW’S MISTAKE GETS HER NEW HUSBAND. She Wins Alderman Finley's Heart While Seeking Bargain in Real Estate. rine Ehlers, a widow, Westchester avenue, the Bronx, decided to invest some money in land in the neighborhood several months | ago she started out to look for a real estate office, By mistake she entered | the Bronx Marri License Bureau, | Alder: » Willam H. Finley of the! \Fortleth District, known as the “official | | marrying Aldrman,” was there, Mrs. | hlers told him she wished to make a| good investment. The Alerman said she had come to the right place if she | wanted to invest marriage securities, | {Mrs. ihlers blushed and said she was | ooking for real esiate, | ‘The Widow's blush went to the Alter: {man's heart like a da ment he capitulat a warm friendship sprang up then and| there. | Announcement was made yesterday that the Alderman and Mrs. Ehlers had ‘been married on Friday last In Hoboken | by Justice of the Peace Seymour, One of the witnesses waa Alderman Waldo | | St. Clair Godwin of the |trict. The news of the wedd much surprised and the couple w uged last, evening with congratu: ompanied a her father, Col. 10 15 on a reef off Port Antonic ight to this port tord the » Clothilde Cuneo, Tey will H the Norwerian satiors! 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