The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1911, Page 3

$10,000 BILL BOY ISN'T WORRIED BY PROSPECT OF JA 17-Year-Old Messenger In Tombs Awaiting Sentence for Big Theft. _~ NO MORE “DIZZINESS.” ‘Detectives Will Be on My Side | When Appeal Is Taken,’ He Declares. Lady Coristance Duggan Puts Militant Methods of Prevailing Agitation in Same Category With Smoking and Drinking Cocktails in Public. She Deplbres the Growth of Bad Habits Among Women, and Says Cus- toms That Have Made Smart Set in England Notorious Cannot En- dure. Benson Lang, the six-dotlar-a-wook | brokers’ messenger boy, who in @ $10,000 dizzy spell,” lost a treasury gold cer-| tifloate of that denomination given him | by his employers, Hornblower & Weeks, brokers, at No. 42 Broadway, to deposit in February, 1110, showed no trace of dieziness or other aberration when seen oy tn the eeshe boys" prison, wh : ence next Friday. ang was convicted yesterday of grand larceny, the Jury finding that he had @tolen the bill. The seventeen-year-old Wall atreet | Mercury app@ired not a Ut disconcerted | ‘dy his conviction, which probably means) hie incarceration in the Elmira Reform. atory until he is twenty-one, In faot, he was quite as nonchalant about it @s have been other and older wizanta of high finance whose, operations have been temporarily interrupted by s0-| journe in the City's House of Reflect- jon. Lang has about the same poor opinton of a Jury's Judgment as that entertained by Financier Charles W. Morso after ho | had been sentenced to fifteen years in @ Federal prison for bank wrecking. “I can't see how any jury could have found such a verdict,” said the boy. | “They might have known the evidence | @gainst me was false. But I'm not wor- Tying. The case will be appealed and the de’ Will be on our side th They admit | now their evidence was false and the| other efde didn't treat ‘em right—see?" Exception That Proves Rule. | Lang's case of the lost $10,000 pill! Was the exception, Wall street brokers | way, that proves the rule that boy mov- fengers are usually trustworthy and Tarely lose any of the ‘mmense sums | entrusted to them. Lang was one of | nineteen boys whose ages range from fifteen to twenty years employed by Hornblower & Weeks. It was 11 in the morning of. Feb. 1 1910, nea one of the firm handed the boy the $10.- 000 bill In a passbook for deposit in the Nationa! City Bank. Lang did not return that day, but the next morning appeared at his em- plover's offices with his parents. He @aid that when he started for the bank with the bill he showed it to several acquaintances whom he met on the, street, and in Joke offered {t to @ candy @tand man in payment of a 2% cent ac- eount. Then suddenly he had a dizzy spell euch as he was subject to. He remem dered getting in the bank, with pass book intact, but the money was gone. He roamed up to Central Park fn a daze, he said, and fell asleep on a park bench until mfdnight, when he went home and told his parents of his floss. At the trial, @ det he had made A chum of young 1s and had hean the latter make damag- | ing admissions. The Jury brovght in #/ verdict of guilty after six ra. Some Cases of Honesty. Some odd instances are told of Wall street messengers who turned out to be | honest after having been suspected of | making away w! a to them. One boy was sent by @ prom!- nent broker to cash coupons for $10,000. | He was found three hours later in a| hallway playing craps. He had won $1 cents and the $10,00) in cash was re- posing safely in the inside pocket of Pe coat, which lay on the ground while {te owner was absorbed in the dice | On another occasion the police raided | a crap game in New street and in the possession of a messenger captured was found a roll containing $8,900, He had the way to a bank to deposit | ere tive testified that | been on fevwhen lured aside by the spirit of | gambling. ‘other boy who had just turned over 5000 he had colleceta in dash to the firm's cashier was given a $2 bill by one of the firm to get change. While $50,000 had not tempted him, the $2 bill too much, and he lost it at the tn- evitable craps. Next day his parents returned the amount to the firm, The boy was not discharged. . a FALL KILLS TRUANT GIRL. | Dropped From Fourth Floor Fire- i Errand. ape While Rant Right-vear-old Dolly Cazza of No. 00 Paxter street, who fell from the fourth fire-escape at No. 9% City Hall place on Monday last, died to-day at the Volunteer Hospital, where she had been taken with a fractured skull and broken "iphe git! had played truant from school Monday and was running errands for floor Mrs. Napoll, who has @ candy store near the girl's home. She crawled across the fire-escape to get some kindl! wood for Mrs, Napoll's froning, and on the return Journey slipped through tho fire-escape opening and dropped to the street. oe MOTHER DID NOT RETURN ves Babe Left And Mrs, Hurley With Her to Police, Mrs. Mary Hurley of No. 145 West Bixtieth street took to the West Sixty- eighth street poilce station to-day a seventeen-day-old baby girl, which was later sent to the Catholic Home, Mrs. Hurley told’ the police a fashionably dressed young woman had left the tn- fant with her Sunday afternoon, saying | ehe would return in the morning for It, Mrs. Hurley says she thinks the moth. er must have forgotten the address, as she did not return, Mrs, Hurley had the baby christened at St. Paul’ Church. |drinking, #he 1s more partial to the di- ives who testified against mae The suffragettes, poor things, represent the same unrest and thirst for novelty that makes the society woman take up cigarette smoking and cocktatl drinking. PP Stowe an early death for the ctistoms that have made the “fast set Lady © Manor, day tha in English society notorious, nstance Duggan of Duggan shire, Scotland, declared to- 6 was glad she is “an old- fashioned peeress," and deplored the Public smoking of olgarettes: and the drinking of Nquor by women. 1 may be od-fashioned,” she said at the Hotel Plaza, where she ts stopping Bhe paused for this to sink in. Lady Duggan 1s already enthusiastic about America—at least, Ite far West. She was a guest of friends in California last winter, and this epring has been at Lady Moon's ranch in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, near Fort Collins. | Lkes the Divided Skirt. She aid much riding on the ranch, and whatever her {deas about smoking and | vided skirt for riding, and used one all! the time on the ranch, aa well as the Mexican saddle, She alo became a| | profictent trout fisherwoman, Her broth- | Loré Duggan, with whom she trav-| ning to look after exten-| terests in British Columb! @ grea: many women who move best gociety here and abroad! suggested the reporter, in ng her back to tho subject. “Quite true,” admitted Lady Con: | stance, “but to my mind they age not, | worthy of being called ladice. Ladies | perhaps, but gentlewomen, no. There is! @ fine distinction for you if you like. Spreading Like Bridge. “Cigarette smoking, like bridge, te fast becoming @ vice in Londun, and one sees young women of good social position at the Ritz, the Carl- @ and other hotels. Maay be seen smoking at home smoke in Eu- ropean hoteia and restaurants, But there are atill In England @ very large) Percentage of society women who frown upon this custom and who will not tol- vate It im thetr houses, junched tn @ New York hotel e day or two ago with friends and I saw halt @ dozen women sitting smoking in the palm room with their coffee. But they all looked half soared to death and none | of them smoked with the ease of habit. If one ie going to do @ thing I bel in cultivating the habit of doing it naturally and without the self-con- sciousness shown by these poor crea- tures, who really imagined they were doing something smart. I heard one woman oall ft ‘very Britis! “But do you think it wort than to drink?” Ladies do not drink,” was the retort. t least they do not sit and drink cocktails and whiskey as I have seen them do {n many hotels in New York and San Franc and Chicago, Wine with the dianer certainly, but not osten- tatlously in @ public tea room. Some of the dowager peeresses of England and Scotland will not enter @ hotel in London where smoking 1s allowed, and the Queen has set a decided ban upon said she would not recetve @ woman whom she Inew to be an habitual smoker of cigarettes, to smoke American women who would not daro| Sorry for Suffragettes. “The suffragettes, poor things, represent the same unrest and thirst for novelty that makes the society woman take up cigarette smoking. They want excitement and they certainly have it, but no one takes them very seriously. I hope your Mew York women will not carry this foolish ory for equality as far as some of our poor creatures, It seems so much wasted energy.” Lady Constance paused and smiled. “You must not think me a hopeless sort of person,” sho sald, “just because I am #0 old fashioned as to think @ woman loses her womanliness when she permtts herself to become an habitual smoker or to parade in suffragette par- ades. But if women will turn them- selves Into chimneys it is my privilege to shut my doors upon them if I choose." pet DINNER TO T. J, CUMMINS. Appreciation of Ser- vices to the I, A. A. C, A testimontal banquet will be given at Murray's, West F to-night in honor of 1 s J. Cum- mins by fifty of his friends and asso- timontal | \ | | sme Court Justices Victor J. Dowe Ung, Dante! F, Cohaalan, Mulqueen, City Court Justice Donnelly and James |B. Sullivan will be among the guests, | P. J. Conway will pr | Mr. Cummins was for twelve years treasurer of the Irish-American Ath- letic Club, which organization he helped to raise to the position it occupies tor ‘day as the greatest point winning ath- | letic club in the world, Mr, Cummins has been closely {den- | tied with every movement of the last ‘forty years that could in any way ald the cause of Ireland. He is a member of the Master Riumbers’ Association |and the Wyandotte Tammany Club, HE EVENIN Suffragettes Victims of the Same Unrest That Makes Women Smoke Cigarettes é Laoy CONSTANCE @ WORLD, DUGGAN Many American women who ing t naturally. Ladies do not sit and drink cisco. amoking. A woman los become an habitual smoker or to “‘No True Lady Smokes in Public Or Marches With Suffragette A lady never emokes cigarettes. at home smoke in European hotels and restaurants. There are still in England many society women who frown upon smoking and will not tolerate tt in their houses. I lunched in a New York hotel and saw half a dozen women emoking, but they all looked hal/ ecared to death. If one is to do a thing I believe in cultivating the habit of do- eeen them do in many hotels in'New York, Chicago and San Fran- The suffragettes, poor things, represent the same unrest and thirst for novelty that makes the society woman take up cigarette I hope your New York women will not carry this foolish cry for equality as far as some of our own poor creatures. her womanlinese when she permite herself to would not dare be seen smoking cocktatls and whiskey as I have parade in suffragette parades, PIRL OF 17 ELOPES TWICE IN ONE WEEK, ~AVOODING ARREST Police Seek Paterson, N. J., Wife Who Left 16-Year-Old Husband for Married Man. PATERSON, N. J, May %4.—As an cloper, Alice Barbarow, aged eeventeen, has made a new record for Paterson, Last Thureday she eloped with and married Tommy Fillamore, a eixteen- yeur-old school chum, whose home is at No. 923 Grand street. She w to Allentown, Pa,, with Tommy and yes- terday she forgot all about her love for her boy husband and eloped with Harry Clfton, the proprietor of an Allentown restaurant. Clifton 1s mar- ried and has @ darge family, The police of Allentown are not only looking for Alice as an eloper, but de- cause her mother charged that when she went away with the schoolboy she took $300 of her mother’s money. Young Filamore was located at his home yesterday, having returned from Allentown to replenish his wardrobe, He had eloped in such a hurry with Alice that he had only the clothing he wore, Filamore told the police that on the he and Alice eloped they went to New York and were married. Then they went to Allentown and got rooms at No. 12 North Fourth street. They got their meals at Harry Clifton's Testaurant nearby, The boy \bride- groom noticed that his bride chatted in avery friendly way with ( it was his soulful motion t she loved him better than anytiing in the world “I had no {dea that money from her moth sald the boy “She said tt was her own. I came home to get some more clothes and the last thing Alfce told me was to hurry back.” ‘The boy agreed to accompany Mr tele Fry, @ kinswoman of his bride, to Allentown. When they got there they found that Alfoe had disappeared with Clifton, Mrs, Ciffton satd that her hus- band had left the following note for her Alice took any “Good-bye Bess, I am going away, HARRY." Allce has ‘been traced in her No, 2 elapement to Philadelphia and the Pat. ‘iy-second street, |ereon police have asked the Philadelphia authorities to find her. BESSIE CLAYTON HOME, BUT WON'T SEE HUSBAND Dancer Hears He’s Better) When She Lands and Will Return to London, Bessie Clayton, a dancer, who is tho! wife of Julian Mitchell, arrived to-day from London on the Kronprinzessin Ce- WEDNESDAY, MASHER THRASHED BY GIRL WITH HER HEAVY UMBRELLA Crowd at 14th Street and Third Avenue Cheers Philadelphia Woman—Man Arrested. After administering @ gound thrash- ing with @ heavy! aflver handled um-| brefla to a man who, she charged, an- noyed and Ineulted her, Miss Nelite ®. Owens of Philadelphia had the man arrested today at Fourteenth street and Thin avenue and promised to ap- pear against him later in the Yorkville Court. A large crowd witnessed the chas- tisement of the man and encouraged the young woman until the arrival of Patrolman Leavey of (he Bast Twenty-| second street station. ‘The man gave! his name as Joseph Nacalizzo, thirty- eight years old, and said he was a por- ter at No, 440 Haat One Mundred and Fourth atreet. Miss Owens ge visiting her sister at No, 864 Fast/One Hun- dred and Forty-third street According to her story, #he had been shopping and was going up the steps the Third avenue “L" at Mourtoenth street, when the man accosted her. She says she was half-way up the firat| fight of steps at the north end of the ation when she felt some one poke her gently in the back. She turned, ehe says, and saw Naca- Mzzo, who began to speak to her tn Italian and make gestures, She says) she ran up the steps and into the sta-| tion, the man following. Then, the young woman says, she went down ti south atairway and the man again a costed her. She ifted her umbrella and strick him as hard as she could on the head The men was knocked down and tho young woman continued to beat him until Patrolman Leavy stopped the fight. ‘The prisoner refused to make | any statement. icles “RUB YOUR ANKLE,” GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE. Receipted Bill and Love Note In Alleged Affinity’s Hat Breaks Wedlock. WASHINGTON, May %.—A receipte! ‘All for an ableged afinity’s hat, and a burning love letter which concludes with the advice “be real good and don't forget to rub your ankle,"" which Mrs. Irene M. Beker to-day found in her husband's pocket, result- 04 in proceedings for a partial divorce. The letter 18 alleged to have been written to Baker, who is buyer for @ large department store there, while he waa in New York. It says in part: I am so lonesome for you, awest- heart. Gee! I wish it wan Saturday, and [ guess it will seem ages before it does come. Pleaso take good care of yourself and don’t catch any more colds, Write to me, darling, Decause I feel so lonesome. Be real good, and don’t forget to rub your ankle, With all my love to you, sweetheart, the only one I love, I am, forever yours, NAOML cille, urged by a cable report from her mother that her husband wi at the, point of death, When # od that he was convalescing she said she would not see him and become reconciled, but would go to her home at Long Branch and then return to London. She sought a divorce from Mitchell @ year ago, naming Loutse Alexander, wife of Louis Strang, an eutomobile racer, a8 co-reapondent. When heard that her husband was at death's | door she waa presenting @ spectacte, | ‘The Mad Pierrot," in Lonon, with a | company of 150 persons end under o sixteen weeks’ contract. | Sho saw Bert Cooper, her manager, | in London, and learned that he was coming at'once to America. He mad arrangements for h to sail on th Kronprinsesein Cecil~ with him. he Was much excited over Mitchell's con: dition when the mer docke “Is Mr. Mitchell dead? she asked hastily. “Yes,” said @ome one. Bhe wapt. “Oh, no, he ian't, he te getting better said a better posted man. Then she telephoned to the Lambs’ Club and got the facts, after which she aid that there would tion at present and that instead of see- ing him she would arrange tor her re- turn trip. “But,” she added, ‘tf he had bean dying I would have gone to aide.’ She eald that she expected to get her London contract prolonged in view of the facts that made her break !t ——_— ADJUST CARS TO HOBBLE. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May %— George B, Ruben, bachelor city counctl- man, {8 Working on an ordinance re- quiring the Ind.anapolis Traction Com- pany to provide steps on its summer cars which will permit any woman wearing a hobble skirt to board a car ‘aith dientty, Sold in Sealed Packages Only. White'fiose CEYLON TEA Broadway You Save Retailers’ TO-MORROW, THURSDAY, Lingerie, Linen, Marquisette, embroldered or manish eff Voile, 10 years. 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The Best Values in New York ___ As Ice Savers They Can’t Be Beaten SY » holds 35 ibs. tee 0, 101, 39 in, high, holda 40 Iba, ioe 10%, 41 in, high, holds 60 lbs, ice. 98.30 Styl uble Wi walvanized sti No, 108, 48 in. high, holds 65 lbs. ice 910,00 No. 109, 60 in high, holds 76 Ibs, tc#,@11.80 nt of White Enamel, Porcela 1911, BALLOON RUNS AWAY 50 MILES WITH MAN Military Novice Climbs Gas Bag to Open Valve and Saves Life by Leap. INGOLDSTADT, Bavaria, May %— Am oMcer of the garrison here had «| thrMiing ride to-day when @ military captive balloon broke toose from tts | anchorage. ‘The officer was @ novice ballooning and was unable to manipu- late the gaa valve. Finally, when the balloon had reached © height of 16,600 feet, the officer clam- bered to the top of the gas bag and succeeded tn wrenching open the vaive. Then the balloon began a headiong escent near Munich, fifty miles trom here, | Aa the balloon was nearing the ground its occupant Jumped into a tree and was | only slightly Injured. Relieved of the man's weight, the balloon again | ascended and was later found near Inns brueck, Ausirt icant GOES TO HOME OF WIFE, | ENDS LIFE WITH POISON. Adotph Schloss Adds to Sorrow of the Pamliy He Had Deserted. Adolph Schlos# committed autetde to- Gay in the home of Max Lowe, 2 ast One H and = Forty-fireat street, under Mrs. Schlons a unusual cireumetances a T two children have been making their home with the Lowes since Sohlons Cisappeared about two Months ago. Gchiows located hte famtly to-day and climbed the fre epcape to the Schloss home on the second floor and entered the kitchen by means of @ win- dow. Hin seven-year-old son and five-| year-old girl were playing there, Cau-| tioning them to be aflent, he kinaed doth, but the little girl was mo happy | that she ran !nto the living room and gleefully cried Papa ts here!" Mrs. Schloss hastensd into the kit- chen, but as she reached it she heard her son scream. This waa followed by the sound of @ falling body ¢f a bed room. Running Into {t, she found her husband dying from carbolic acid he j had just taken. He was dead when a physician arrived, Mesias RO | FOR “VOTES FOR WOMEN.” | of Connectiout Legtalature G@rante Town Franchise, HARTFORD, Conn., May %4—The | Btate Senate to-day passed a bill ad- | mitting women to equal suffrage with | men at all municipal and town elections ‘The House has not yet voted o menaure. GULDEN’S MUSTARD by adding etmegar, At Dolicatessen and Grocery Stores, 0 CENTS. Spoon with each Lette, 12th Street and Jobbers’ Profits WE WILL PLACE ON SALE Madras, lace trimmed, ‘1 (2.00 0 $5.00 them josign. Furniture Stores Reduced Prices | Gonble walls packed vantzed steel lined, $6.76 Bound Corns: 101d# 100 Los, lee, 13.00 and Glass Lined Refri: CASH OR CREDIT, 3d Av., Bet. 120 & 121 Sts. | PLE’ ‘ators | | Furniture, Rugs, Bedding. Bronx Store, 3d Av. & 149 St.| Alterations FREE 542247 ALL.THREE STORES COLUMBUS AV { OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS) To-morrow, Thursday Suits Sacrificed€ , $30 Sik Embroidered Serge Suits . $27 Imported Mixture Tailored Suits $25 White Serge Costumes Now Reduced to 510 YOUR LAST CHANCE to secure one of these suits at any price. Regardless of values, we are determined to close them out to-morrow at $10 to provide for you a bargain treat in time for Decoration Day. 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