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( - PHELPS SUES FOR OT OF BY WE, $300 A YEAR Discord ink Te Mars Marital, Life of Lawyer and Rich | | Spouse, Former Miss Pell. PARTED ONCE BEFORE. | “Reconciliation” Pact, With) Kidnapping Clause, Now Repudiated by Wife. A @ult brought by Charles Harris Phelps to establish his lawful owner- ship in one-half of the net income from the immense estate left by John Au- gustus Pell and the latter's wife, Su- san A. Pell, filed in the ye office to-day, discloved another « ration of the former well-known law- yer from his wife, the for peauty, Eleanor Livingsion is now in Paris | Mr. Phelps's suit is lodged against his wife as the sole beneficiary of the Pells’ | estates and against the United mer ‘Trust Company as trustee of these es- | tates. It is founded on a reconclilation agreement made by the Phelpses in Lon- don in 1883, by whlch Phelps became the lawful guardian of their only son, Har- rie Livingston Phelps, in which is con- tained a paragra »y which Pheips was to derive ‘one-half of the net ia- | come from the Pel perties in New | York, which the papers state agnounted to a sum In excess of $38,009 a year. The sult also proposes to enjoin the} trust any from paying to Mrs. Phelps t total income from the es- tates and asks the Court to name a rectiver for stich incomes. Kidnapping Clause in Compact. The agre tains a remarkable “kidnapping” clause by which the father and mother bound themselves to f feit $100 a day in the event that should be found respec je for the “re. moval or disa * of their only ohild. the pros fessional 4: d with his wife acc her father, after his marria first parted in Iss7, nine years after their marriage. They met in London to a effect a reunion and the indenture was| then signed by each to guarantee thetr future happiness. ‘The couple remained apparently con- | genial unt!! July of last n, Phelps claims, the wife, €0n, repudiated the cov and shut off the '$38,000" come which she had given the estate. Mrs. Phelps a time revoked the power of over her estate, valued ht several fons, which she had given to hee band in 1896, The couple nant entirel: a year him ine from use Phelps Wins a Point. Justice New. | The suii was brought to burger's attention te made . represent extensior Iy re the indenture of —_———_—_. STRUCK BY 20TH CENTURY LIMITED, MAN IS UNHURT. UTICA, March 16—Matt Rowers of Amsterdam was struck by the Twentieth Century Limited at Tribes Hill last night The wagon In which he was riding was | demolished and his horse was unhurt. | =e | Discouraged? If all things | seem topsy| turvy and you! find yourself) cast upon the rocks of De-| spondency by} the mere'less | tide of Advers- | ity, | and escaped without a scratch, Stop! Think! Act! Remember that 1,546,897 op- portunities to work, hire, sell, rent, exchange, etc., buy, were individually advertised in THE} WORLD last year—over half a million more than in ANY OTHER newspaper on earth, From This Fact Take New Hope The Morning and Sunday World keep on going out to more New Yorkers than can be reached through advertisements in ANY OTHER morning and Sunday newspaper, and keep on printing thousands more « dyertisements every week than ANY OTHER newspaper on the face of the earth, Look through World Ad day and you wil! see many ways to prospe! | | to- Then Success and Happi- ness Will Loom Up Within Your Easy Reach. |Fead i, You will want more, THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, If Ever a Woman’s Club in New York Had Purpose or Usetuiness, It Was Outlived Long Ago, Says Mrs. Sarah M. Cory, Who Makes the Novel and Interesting Diagnosis. | Mania for Clothes Is Strikingly Illustrated in Selection ot Presidents Solely Because They Can “Gown the Part,” Not for Intellect—Monomania Animates Suffrage and Anti-Vivisection Associations. Y NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. Club-itis is the great American disease, Club-itis is the monomania of the American woman The symptoms of club-itis are jealousy, backbiting and a sill) passion for clothes. Such is the Interesting diagnos!s of Mrs. Sarah M. Cory, who addressed the Society for Political Study this week on the subject of Dutch necks, race suicide and the feline qualities of clubwomen. “I used to be a member of several women's clubs,’ Mrs. Cory confessed when I asked her to particularize her indictment, “but I resigned from al! but one, and I'm going to resign from that. “If any woman's club in New York ever had any purpose or usefulness, that purpose and usefulness were outlived tong ago. “Take case of the Rainy Day Clu, instance. That association was organized to encourage the wear- | ing of balla ae by ides shone’ the FORCEINTERBORO for MM. Clubitis Great American Disease of Women; Symptoms Jealousy, Backbiting and Dress MARCH 16, 1911. sional wom in direct Sentech eitiny he, ioubineds Ce , world. ‘The idea was to make the rainy ORM day s permissible for afternoon re- member of dare to} lub aftai ceptions. But would any the Rainy Day Club to-day wear @ rainy day skirt to a I should think not! one time the members of Women's West A Republican © ub ee coca OF SUBWAY GRAB i iterature a viterat hat | Offer of B. R. T. to Enter Man- They have thelr regular! , ; * | hattan Brings Traction Trust | to New Terms. | gs, no mor no less, the ugh the constitut jon fall, other women's clubs have | | important reforms?" 1| Can't See Any Results. 1 “But surely omplished Holding the offer of the B. R. T. to! invade the Manhattan subway field "t know of an Mrs. Cory an- swered, “You see, these clubs are com- can a club to force ti erborough into Posed largely of women who spend] io aa co he paints eroush th mS other people's money. They throw | 7° &n® agr © modifications of its = \ themselves heart and soul {nto piea-|Plan for monopoly, these final proposi- Ws) tlons have been submitted by the Board of Estimate Subway Committee: That the $53,000,000 of city funds reforms, without children's playgrounds, yune P thinking or caring what mean to the taxpayers, “Once T urged the cause of the tax-| AVailable for subways be segregated SKIPPING ROPE eee woman reformer, to pay for either the proposed west me yey iseid, “Town sev. | Of east side subway extensions, Henry Thomas Had eral houses. Don't you know that That the city recetve one-half of | E . |what you advocate will put a great} the profits of the present subway i] Three Days in the deal of money on my taxes” Now,| System or half the profits of the L Proposed extenstons, That there ts to be no charge on franchise capitalization on the ex. at] tensions. “L" to Enter Subway. what "You oyght to own houses to pay taxes on,’ do you suppose she answered? Without Food. be thankful that you she And she is Intelligent onsidered wom one of the in New ¥ ANOTHER DYING =: tut why are clubwomen backbiters— That the west stde or Jerome ave- | leserted | es tua pv awornen gossips?" I inqutred, “Do you consider | nue extension in the Bronx shall not Street and First avenue, Ba T ckbiting a sex character be an elevated exten to the | taieh tes tae tad ies ee T consider it a clubwoman character-| present Ninth avenue "L" road, but | Calta Kr, ’, = 7 i uey ee: HAR ORNS istic,” answered the bold and candid| a subway, in which subwer eng | Celia ne eae 1,000 Jumps at| vy Pa tied tn what Mre. Cory ry luncheon at the]* elevated trains sha! : i G rked to them like a scare Sev Lotel Astor yesterday with two club. | ly, asiolitich School Brings Probably s scurried away from the who did nothing but That the city shall retain the eran AoA i alte EL nw members the right to intervene in all labor Mortal Results. Ths “policeman trooped fternoon I went to] troubles during the progress of con- iy: BALE thad took ‘biting and espite-] struction of the proposed extensions —s " ep thahtet Another mot and the operation of the same. the result of breaking the recor? Ui ‘ibies 4 eget there on every side That the city shall have represen- | e school she sttended by skipping these were ‘ with lime-dust. Clothes and Club Honors. | tation on the Boand of the Interbor- | pone 7,000 times without stopping was at first unable to answer “Why, do you know what governs Lee er glavents rea r@NAIET Cat ie Gat CMRI! | the selection of the presidents of Thote cnditions have been tentatively are Brook! asian + He wo oved to the Fourth ave. the women's clubs of New York?" | accepted by the Interboroush, altho pk pane Seah a anhpt mance cama RTE en end hen takancia: Mrs. Cory paused dramatically, | thelr final acceptance or rejection John's Hospital shortly before 1} 0, sicklecHAThian Ae Giace “Clothes!” she exclaimed. “Clothes! | not be known until Monday, when a de- | O'clock this morning #o badly injured in- |), ie eal) Geo Ma Ho Not intellect, not womanliness, not (cision must be reached, at anothor|ternally the physic do not expect | treated hin revived sufficiently but clothes! meeting of the conferrees her to recover | to say thet ho was Henry Thomas, & woman ts proposed tor the| Decision or no decision coming from| An zabeth Maltin, fell! thirty-six 1, and that he had of a members ‘have | the Interborough, the Special Subway | dead in her in Public School| no home yy, Bell's examination dis- been known to object to her on the plea | Committee of the Board of Estimate, | xo, City, yesterday, | Clowed that the man's condition was that she wor yw part.’ ‘She | ¢ Borough Presidents Me- skipping @ rope dur-| doesn’t gown enough,’ say. And t rand Cromwell, will re " so badly frozan that know of a cas woman who to th ard of ' < putated and his was slightly immoral one club be ting body a week | fen allowed to go out Dy cause of the opposition of a member and In ty the ulti. /@n@ play after school hours, and 1 bef joined another, where she was received | matum of the special committee tw jonly opportunity of playing with giris ed Itt with open 4 though the members| tleally {dentical with of her axe was during lunch hour that he had Knew all abc H gowns are, laid down tn the ort; f When she reached ® after scnoo! a T nas t a credit to the club,’ was the ex-| Borough President Miller on fube | OMB. GAY Bh9 HRS DAG to Mtavi dD And) os oitg | way mn. study. ; In @ lucid Intterval Thoma “It's not the source of the gown, | —B. R. T. Forces Show-Down, td laa fant ahe hastily | to gay that 1d crawled but the cut, that counts with elub- The attitude of President W ein) Her uneh _ Started (9 | snack about t rt Cory added. “Social | head of BR. T., ap; to AUD: TORS 4 a Ue and * * suobbishnoss i nothing to club | forced snobbishness, The requirements of society are much more rigid than those of clubs, Society has certain at the samme ¢ outdo each other pair tried to Celia won out and ve Publi Showdown. He hi med the special resence of this tnsistently om President borough, that the a T. 18 genuine; that; just as she gressed, no matier how fashionable — the road will come Into the Manhattan | ing fis the transgressor, but a Paris gown, | fleld, 1f possible, and will afford a com. | ter what the wearer may be, | plete service between Frooalyn, Queena made a now re 1N Jumped the th exhausted and |pantons got her some wa jshe recovered and ran musandth | NASHVTLAL Maps esterday j and Manhattan, taking the territory | : the ol on atr in the the bere ite her desk 0} Clubwomen ection ts regard. | by her th 1 ® Mrs. Cory of the subway side but tol woman who short hayl i man injured, ‘T nie itee Of ¥ pr ov sion. ° 1 Fer de ved, historteal facts. BUS iover She entite By Ry Taya ) serious a rupture | Ferry se renter monomanie, he hospital. was | Brook i t wtee than that of the suffrage olnbs tt ttee of the Boi atta med to-da suroly is that which animates the ng that the neta E } oM ni SANTATCKUOREN: | ARE Hane * vat iy | BURNED IN BED, BABY DYING &, J wo ve together to oppose the vivisection in 4 , of animale aud and vivisect then sit around ar-old Girl Sete Ok ach other, Ife " iapavarieinte M ‘ ay on would revert | THIS WEEK 4 | an? ex the segregation of the| . pa ) for r the east or) bways this was deemed x ‘i that the elty, In time, would | to take over control of either | under | , | ss Mies fi he wes for 1,000, | - — | FOUND IY SHACK, CLOTHED IN RAGS AND NEAR DEATH Been Cold SARAH | policeman and several etta- door of a| this time the entire *, Bosom iroue anf D-| WALLS COLLAPSE: 13 DEAD. was th » tor led and Edwin Har Including @ handsome case and a SCLEN- — March 18—About! ? TWIG EYE EXAMINATION by a A Great Big Mit j B Lec p ee i egistered” Suectulist of ye The detective storivs relating the ad “4 he Inter | bons 0 ! nl Al for B81, If you. need ged eee : thy thet Hh PSK an dheeabita-& opportunity. 2 ave sot Now ¥ 0 in Wages wray fins, | waa Inn, Neve : tno increase to’ dat eee | ALEXANDER Co. © With a newspaper, You can Jan. 1 last. The new schedule ¢ It te be ¢ girl got some | a. WW Balonien, husced Get a complete detective wtory free with an advance of % per cont, for freight | matches from a dr 1 the bedroom Oculist-Opticians, established 4 180 East 23d Bt, (Lesington next Sunday's World, Get one and) trainmen when employed in the yards amused herself ‘until she vet her | and 1 per cont, when out om the road. well afire years, Aves ARE IN PERIL WHEN =: DORMITORY BURNS lonalres’ Club,” was elght stories hign. | About two-thirds of the buliding was gutted, the lose being estimated at | ry ”, | Twelve of the burned out etudante! ive in New York, and one in Utica Randolph Hall, known as “The Mill. two in Rochester Killed by Rowar at One Firemen Carry Scores Down! <* in Harlem Hospital wry eepaite, | Ladders From ‘Millionaires’ |"), when he was held up ’ 4 ro n front of Jou Ht woonRuR Club” on “Gold Coast” |S» Clue to, the | Booniet teu linw t Pe ae en |AeOur 100 WERE ASL 'New Yorker Wakes to Find | Bed Flaming—Japanese Stu-.| | dent Overcome by Smoke, CAMBRIDE J About 40 Mase, March Harvard students of the | cided sort were driven by fire from | luixurtons suites In Randolph Hall) early! to-day and there were many nar ow om one stu x over Jcome and carried burning | hullding unconscion Randolph Hall Mount Auburn | H among the palatial abiding | No other iustrument can equal the perfect expression of rgiaduatos referred to In Gold Coast." ‘This par ticular dormitory has been known as the | Millionatres’ Club,” | The fire started tn a suite on the | ground floor, In the west wing of the building and apread to the upper | floors, endangering the lives of a| sore ons of miilionaires. emen, | policemen and Janttors rushed through | the smoke-fliled corridors yelling an} ep! The imperiled youths got it tnto the cold in silk pajamas and | they considered themaclves mighty icky to escape even in that plight. One Found Unconsciou On the top floor ¥, Aral, a student, wa overed alarm to the ity of th which adds real life to the silent piano, giving it the power to play any kind of music with artistic feeling, The American- apnnieae | an uncon lectrelle is sclous condition by a policeman, wno equipped with the rely got out of the flamo filed hall- way with his mp burden. The other FLEXIBLE EXPRESSION CONTROL eccupania of the top floor made thoir Way to the strect unaided if ie eae a ores of students were taken by the All physical exertion is entirely climinated— der route from t burning Iding, , 4 4 many casca just ae the amos were there is no bodily fatigue. It is so small and }reaching th Clad in all sorts of are com i ray they were assisted down the lad- pact that tt dors to the cheera of students who were CAN B® INSTALLED assisting the flremer Ralph B. Romaine, New York, discovered the fire, He was awakened by smoke which filed his to find the bed on which he wi lying one mass of flames. Rousing his pommate, “Tommy” Buell, also of New they rushed to the street and gave tho alarm, Roth youths were se- | Verely burned about the body and were | sent to Stiiman Infirmary. Many Were slightly hurt | and several were overcome by smoke |About four hundred students were asleep when the alarm was given, At ding was ablaze, Firemen Hampered by Boys. | ‘Tho firemen were hampered in their Work by the scores of terriited students running hither and thither to escape, filling the corridors in thelr frantt Attempts to Ket out, Occupants of the upper floor rooms were unable to leave the building by the staircase and r mained at the open windows until lad- ders wore raised and they were carried down the students Jost all @ sophomore of IN ANY UPRIGHT PIANO regardless of {ts size or construction, without impairing its avnearance or interfermg with tone quality. Plays any standard paper music toll, Will you not call and allow us to demonstrate thts U-test trlamp’ in the musical world? You are cordially invtt-d. Price $275. instattea TERMS TO SUIT YOUR CONVENIENCE. Liberal Allowances on Pianoa Taken in Exchange Wm KNABE & Co. Sth Ave. and 39th St. Ba'ablished 1897. others thelr pos PURE Chocolates, Bon-Bons and Candies THE POWERFUL DISINFECTANT iT¢ HEN SINKS, cans, ts, uvery nook and crevice isa breed= ing spot for disease if not protected by CN. Is there a bottle of CNin your home to. He, 250, ihe & $I At your Druggiat The only reason why ours are the ar, is because we best, and so popu make them ourselv , and use only the best and purest materials in their manufacture. Large, fresh assortment in bottles, at all our stores, as well as season- or Grocer able novelties, PARK & TILFORD A Bird’s-eye View am. That’s what you get of the House and Apartment offerings in New York City when you read the great variety of “To Let’? Advertisements printed in the Morning and Sunday ew FRE NCie ctumes 1 Willows, or New WIL. LOW jake make from ‘ vt at Halk their r Ori ginal, Cost. World from day to day, 1 value ¢ , nd 1 oi WORLD “ More tha The Herald, Times, “41273,37 * 76,514 Sie sre " a You'll Find a Host of Spring Vacancies mara Advertised in Next Sunday’s World, ia, » 260 W, 125th &. «Neen