The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1911, Page 3

T3YEAR-OLD BOY, TIRED OF SCHOOL, For When Man Is Liv- TRIES 10 END [FE iste shouted Be 1 rovided fra Bannon Drinks a Solution of Carbolic Acid, but His Mother Saves Him. HE CAN SEW AND COOK. Boys of Neighborhood Ostra- cized Him Because He Could Dress a Doll. A thirteen-year-ol boy tried to kM himeeif to-day because he was tired of Going to school. His name is Ira Ban- non and he lives with his mother in a flat on the top floor of the tenement at ‘No, %9 Hudaon street. Young Ira, thanks to prompt remedial measures applied by his mother, will b bo far recovered as tc permit of his ar- raignment in the Children’s Court to Morrow morning. At present he ta tn Bt. Vincent's Hospital. The mother of the boy, Mra. Adelaide Bannon, te @ cashier in a grocery near her home. Her hours are jong. Hor husband dropped out of sight aome time « Qg0 and she does not know where he is. The nature of her employment threw her son on his own resources during the long day. Peculiarly enough the boy taught himself to sew and cook. Mrs. Bannon said he often had hot le meals prepared for her when home at night. Other Boys Disitked Him. With instinctive aversion, the boys of the neighborhood turned upon young Bannon when they learned that he liked to eew amd cook. And when they learned that he had a doll and dressed d undressed tt and made clothes for \t was practically ostracised. The had lonesome times. but appeared long time to be happy in his own co fonsiip and pastimes. A short time ago the boy wes trans A formidable army, but not formidatie| ferred in school from a teacher who had won his regard. Under this teacher and previous teachers of the Grove street sehool he had made rapid progress in his studies. The of teachers was @ blow to Bannon boy. He began to remain y from school and wander eround e streets of the west side. Other eachers were assigned to look after He claims he was under the care geven teachers within irs, Bannon learned her son lad been running school, Neighbora tola her he spent hours every day on the roofs of the tenements. The boy was asleep when she got home and she dia not question him when ashe left this morning be- yond asking him if he was going to) school. At 9 o'clook Mrs, Bannon teft her place of employment and hurried home ‘The door of her flat was locked and heard her son crying inside. Forcing the door, she found the boy | writhing on the kitchen floor. Nearby | was a big bottle of cleaning Muld oon-| taining carbolic acid. Admitted Taking Poison. ‘The boy admitted he had taken some of the fluid. He saia he hed gut @ tablespoonful on a piece of orange and | allowed it. Mrs, Bannon fed him ‘arm milk and raw eggs and sent neighbor for @ policeman. The policeman notified St. Vincent’ Hospttel and an ambulance surgeon | carried on the treatment the mothe: | had started, finally getting the j.st trace of the poison out of the boy's system. aniaiiillaitiivein DIVORCES HUSBAND WHO FLED AS THIEF. | Wife Waited Eight Years for Hts) Return, Then Heard He Hadr't | Been True, | Right years after her husband fied| the State under a charge of embezzle-| ment, Sedte I. Wilbur of No, 939 Put- am avenue, Williamsburg, to-day asked Justice Putnam, in the undefend- 1 divorce part of the Kings County Supreme Court, for an absolute divorce. ‘The husband was George E. Wilbur, an employee of the Edison Electrio Company. He jumped his bail and dise appeared in 199 after having been ar- rested for making way with a consid- erable aum of the company's funds. Mrs, Wilbur kept hoping he would come| back and clear himself some day, until Jest October, when she met Arthur F, Orr of No. $7 Franklin avenue, an old friend of her husband, who told her that for three years before he fied Wilbur! had been in the habit of takmg other | ‘women to the races almost daily, where | he ‘et la: ums and spent money freely, | Orr was the chief witness in Mra, Wil- ‘ur's behalf to-day and Justice Putnam promised Mrs, Wilbur that @ decree would issue in her favor. yee Her ZayOr | TWICE WEDDED, BOTH SORRY.| d Seeks Divorce, Wife Sep- Fight Though they were doubly tied in the} onde of wedlock in 193, once by @ jus-| mration After Years. turn, Perhaps there has always been . “ tice of the peace in Jersey City and al hia protest in, the hear of woman | — etoum tm Central Par, little later by a clergyman in a Brook-| against giving much for little, but she| Polleeman Rowland of the Central lyn church, Maurice and Mary Augus-|has decorated this misfortune with|Park Arsenal station found a man with | tus Gilmartin are now both sorry. The poetry and tried to think of herself as/wet clothing and @ wound on his fore- husband's sult for absolute divorce and)» creature of peciiliar moral grace be-| howd unconscious on a bench on the the wife's counter-sult for separation | cause of her sacrifice, That tere is no t Drive, near Seventy-ninth street, and alimony were culled for trial to-day) jonger any possible shadow of a doubt After working over the man ated ieee some in the Supreme) qnout ner attit unrest, the reaso: } minutes, the policeman revived Gilmartin accuses hie wife of having | °F which Iles partiy in the fac and he sail he was Antonio heen too friendly with other men, nam-| doing th’ sixty years old, and that he ing one Jack Newman in particular, | 1# hero par Fifty-sixth street and Thir Mra. Gilmartin denies these charges and | in turn accuses her husband of cruelty and desertion. | EE 9 Tatt Come, June 4, WASHINGTON, May 17.—-President Taft to-day formally aecepted an in-| Vilation to attend the banquet of the ‘National Association of Cottonseed “rushere in New York on June 8 The e afternoon the President wil! re- view the parade of Brooklyn Sunday School children. ing, Just as Widow’s | Share Is Fixed at Hus- band’s Death, Says Mrs. Lillian Hasbrouck. | There Is Scarcely a Man | and Wife Living Who Do Not Jeopardize | Their Happiness by | Continually Mixing ness, She Declares. By Ethel Lioyd Patterson. What ts a | pendence and a single existence rather than wifehood and mother- hood coupled with dependence upon another's earnings? Coneretely, these are some of the |questions which linger in one's mind Jafter reading an article by Mila W. |Peattio in the current number of the | Detineator. | A recent cenmis showed there were 8,000,000 women in the United States | gamed in earntng their own Itving, With- | in @ short pertod—in other words, before | the next census will have been pub- |iished—¢hat number will have increased | to 9,000,000 self-supporting women; or, | better, 9,000,000 women who really re- ceive the money they earn. Have Solved Their Problem. enough. Nor are they the women with whom we need | Broadly speaking they have solved thetr | problem. the women who earn but do not receive money, who work in their busband’e homes merety for food asd clothing, who etfil need our e:4 and understand. “A husband and wife live together fret tn poverty, then in comfort, finally in luxury,” Miss Peat@e explains. “They have worked and economised in their Teapective departments. He has con- @Qucted the business; she has run the house. A large part of her social life Gs well as all of her domestic one has deen arranged with a view to his inter ests, She has made her campaign aux- {Mary to hia, When et last success comes and they have more than they need, he takes the surplus end continues to ‘give’ her what she asks for, or what his gen- erosity prompts him to bestow. It is what the law allows, what tradition ec- cords and what she ts forced to ac- qutesce in. She is expected to be grate- fu for the check he writes out for her. @ fests the shameful injustice of It, ut if she desires the preservation of «ffecttonate relations she saye nothing. Ghe merely grows dissatisfied and rest- lees. And he cannot tmagine why.” All Wrong From Beginning. “And the trouble with that arrange- ment is that (t {s all wrong ¢rom the beginning,” remarked Mra. Hasbrouck. “Ef a wife's labor in her own home is worth anything at all it is worth @ fixed percentage of her husband's income. A perdentag fixed by the law to operate whil @ man lives, just as the widow's share is fixed after her husband's death. “As a matter of fact, too, there ts far too much bosh talked about the dim- culties of repaying a woman for her eptritual and ethical labors as a wife and mother. Of course you cannot pay @ woman {n cold cash for her heart- ‘breaks and worry and tears; we all know that. But on the other hand ‘we might manage to help matters !f woe Would eee to it that her purely eco- nomte activities have at least their fatr recompense." “But,” declares Miss Peattte, “the {dea used to hold that if a woman wished to be successful she must marry. This idea was based partly upon the relation—the immeasurably important relation—of woman to life, and partly upon @ convention, Man's euccess was one thing; woman's success another. But the effect of ctviltzation ‘s (o lessen the difference between men and women. Their minds, acting and reacting upon each other in the intimacy of domestic and social and business association, be- come more and more altke, Woman's {dea of success, for example, Tecomes more like man’s. The woman who dis- covers in herself ability of any aort feels an ever-increasing amMtion to market thet ability. If she offers some practical form of service she desires a Sentiment and Fact Mixed, “That is just it, agreed Mrs. Has- brouck, ‘We all of us have so mixed sentiment and fact in our outlook upon matrimony that !t is rather difMfleult for us to disentangle tie two at this late date. And, as I have sald, the trouble ts they never should have bgben mixed at all under any circumstancps, “Phere is an old ss; to the effect, I believe, thet cannot mix business and . Most of us are quite te believe Sentiment and Busi-\, concern ourselves. | It ia the wives and mothers, | a. { THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, What Should Be the Wife’s Share 'GANBLER'S BIMB of the Earnings of Her Husband ? (AUSES PANIC IN” “BROADWAY HOTELS | Guests Rush to Street as Ex- | plosion Shatiers Hall of 44th Street House. | | BRING BLAST IN) TAXI.) |“Beansy’s New Place” Well) | Advertised to Police by Dis- play of Furnishings. | The latest establishment of the chance-taking gentleman known to the! sporting public aa “Beansy Rosenfeld | waa blown up by « dynamite bomb at |6 o'clock this morning. It was at No, | 162 West Forty-fourth street, in the heart of the hotel and theatrical dt- | trict. ‘The explosion shook that sone) on either aide of Forty-second street) | trom river to river. | | Out of the new Hotel Rector, the Astor, the Royal, the Gerard and a score of others in the neighborhood came terror-atricken guests who did not know that the explosion was merely an Incident of a war among gamblers and other membera of the underworld, which hes been going on with oo- cagional murderoun explosions and) shootings for several months. The hotel people thought there had been an earth- | | queke or a great disaster, | In Very Light Attire, | They piled into Forty-fourth, Forty | fifth, Forty-third streéts and Broadway in bathrobes, kimonos, pajamas and even less complete attire. They were joined by hundreds of ight people from nearby Tenderloin resorts, It was broad daylight when the bomb waa thrown by one of two men who | | drove up to the place in a taxicab. The | cab halted, but with engine stil! racing. it fe & very true old saying; yet scarcely there is ® man and wife Uving who 40 not jeopardize their continually mixing | sen ens.” One other point touched upon by Miss i she formulates in a paragraph | thus: “I can quite understand how the poss!- Dility to a wage-earning women that be cut off absolutely to decide against mar- riage. Would women of the present day offset the enjoyment of the average sal- ary of $1,200, say, againat the joys and high privileges of wifehood and mother- \hood? Thave asked @ number of women of various classes and temperaments concerning this, and the evidence bal- ances between the alternative conctu- stone.” The Common M ‘Well, that is going it @ Dit strong,” concluded Mrs. Hasbrouck. “You see we women each think before we merry | that our particular John ts going to be altogether different and better than any other husband that ever lived. If we/ id not, of course we would not subse- quently find ourselves in the sore finan- cial straits that we do, We would have the good sense to make some sort of practical agreement before it 1s too late." There is this to be said, though, not) #0 very long ago a famous opera singer undertook some such agreement before) marriage as Mra. Hasbrouck suggests, and {t cannot truthfully be said thet her obvious foresight endeered her to the Amertoan masculine public, nor even, apparently, to the man she married. ————_ FAIR SHERLOCK HOLMES HELPS WIFE GET DIVORCE. Pretty Margaret Ryan Is,Ohlef Wit- ness in Mrs. Victor’s Suit in Brooklyn. Margaret Ryan, the prettiest Sher- lock ‘Holmes in petticoats sean for many a day in the Brooklyn courts, wae the chief witness to-day before Justice Putnam in behalf of Katherine Victor of No, 27 Atbany avenue, Brook- tyn, who demanded @ divorce from her husband, Harry Viotor, proprietor of Victor'a Music Hall and restaurant at Canarsie, L. I. Following Mise Ryan‘e testimony that she had found a woman other than the| real Mra, Victor posing as Victor's wife and that she had personally served the papers on the defendant, the Justice promised to tasue the decree. The Victors were married in 1002 and etarted housekeeping in Brooklyn, Sud- denly Victor decamped, and it was not unttl the spring of 1809 that the deserted wife located him, Ernest Diem of No, % St, Mark's ave-| nue, another witness for Mra, Victor, testifled that he had worked for Victor ft the Canarsie place and had recog- nized the woman who posed as Mrs Victor there as one Rose Hofetein was a three-year-old child, the testified, who called Victor his papa The Justice thought the evidence need go no further _> AMERICA FELL OFF PIER. And Was Found, He could not explain how he jcame to unconscious on a park Jbench and sald the last thing he | remembered was falling off the pier in | the East River last night. “In America your name? asked 1 McBirney, who was called from the | Pre fan Hospital Vos, it 1s," sald the man, “and I'm a lineal descendant of Amerigo Vespucel, the real discoverer of America and who js ve his name to the country, Go ‘way | Gas et me. loop.” Wet and Uncon- FOUND WIFE DEAD OF CARBOLIC.ACIO TAKEN BY MISTARE Husband, Eighty-four Years, Shocked by Fate of Spouse of Seventy-six. George Scherer, eighty-four years of age, of No. 2% Dean street, Brooklyn, tottered into the room of his wife, Er- nestine, at 7.80 to-day and found her on & couch dead. Her itps gave evidence that earbol'c acid had caused her death. She was seventy-six years of age, and | One of the men got out and after look- | ing up and down the atreet ran to the stoop. He planted the bomb, called to | the driver to start and made the vehicle |in @ bound. The taxi drove away at| full speed and was almost half a block | away when the explosion occurred. It was quite possible, after the ex plosion, to look from the street right imte the front of “Beaney’s” “lode- ing house.” The inner and outer front doors of the vestibule of the house had been blown out; the windows were cracked, as were the hall partitions, ‘The furniture seemed to be for the most part long narrow tables surround- 4 by numerous small chairs and stools of highly polished bent wood. Some ef these tables were covered with tar Paulin covers, but one or two showed bright green covers to the observing eye. There was an imposing sideboard at the back. Lodgere Ali E nployees. According to an onlooker who had/ been with ‘Beansy” cariler in the} evening, the few lodgers in the house, | One Thousand Lingerie Waists who were all of them employees, went up to bed at ten minutes before five. | The damage done by the explosion was repaired with all possible expedi- | for fifty-three years the couple had worked together to rear a vamily and to provide @ home for tt. ‘They owned the house where they lived, A married daughter and two sone lived on the first floor. ‘The second was kept by the aged couple for thelr own use, It was @ pleasing sort of old love that made up the ctaily life of these two eweethearts. Together they made mental pilgrimages through the past as they had once made mental dashes through the possible future, | ‘There was nothing to Jar the smooth- ness of the lives except that the wife had of late years developed a case of stom- ach trouble that kept her awake at nights, Last night she suffered from the old trouble and got up, presumably to Set some medicine tn a closet. On the same shelf was kept a bottle of ca ollc acti that was used for cleansing Purposes. How Mrs. Scherer happened to get the wrong bottle nobody knows. It was no unusual thing for her to get up and take medicine and there was no inkling of her death until the day came and the hus- | tion and the few people who could be| found tn the house during the day made | light of the dynamiting. | olice Captain McNally said he did | not have Rosenfeld’e name down in his book as in any way connected with the Forty-fourth street house. Several Cen- Office men had (been ned to in- | @ the bomb explosion, but tl had abesotutely no clue to work on other than the appearance and disappearance of the taxicab. ees TESSIE HAYES TESTIFIES. art of Man K Gr Swee Goes Before ‘The Grand Jury altting at the Crim- inal Courts Hutlding to-day took up! the Killing of George O'Shaughnessy, | @ butcher's helper, by his wife, Fran-| ces O'Shaughnessy, who shot him in| thelr home after finding letters which | Indicated that he was about to discard | her for Tessie Ha young wom- | an employed in ane shop as| O'Bhaugheersy at Third avenue and| One Hundred and Thind atreet Tessie Haves was a witness before! band went to give his morning greeting | the jury. Coroner's ptuysicians told | ~ to his wife. He spoke to her and got no| about the nature of the wounds and reply. Then he tried to arouse her from | the statement of Dr. Frank A. MoGuire, what seemed to be a deep sleep. Then|Tombh's physician, that the woman 1s the truth dawned upon the old man and| insane. Tho Jury will make a spectal he called his children, who found the| report on the case to Judge Mulqueen traces of the tell-tale acid | ow. Mra, O'Shaughnessy is —— a. | WOMAN STIRS REICHSTAG. Tries to Make Speech of Protest and In Dragged Out Screaming. BERLY of the ¢ rupted t The delibs Retchst y by as confined tn WRONG ADDRESS GIVEN. | Rata Was in W -third Street. Relleyue Hospital. Counterfeit ‘Through an inadvertent piece nformation, given out by United at wed in the Hritish Marila- Secret Service offccrs, the newspapers nt when the militant suffraget S- gave a wrong number in their accounts turbed the proceedings of the House of of the capture of a gang of alleged Commons. counterfeiters. Monday night, It 1 sig wealo®'Dr, James A. Cox the ratd was made ab doo ala! nth streob + a Btatement 4 216 Kast Gixteenth etre: the counterfeiting nade at No, 216 seat Pifty-th! 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