The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1911, Page 4

J FIGHTS 10 BREAK AGREEMENT AND AEP CHIDREN Mrs. J. A. Middleton in Separa- tion Contract Gave Them to Father 10 Months a Year. WON’T GIVE THEM UP. Her Appeal to Courts Reveals Domestic Troubles of Le- high Valley's Vice-President. Me. John A. Middleton, wite of the! fret vice-president of the Lehigh Vailey THE EVENING W Picturesque Events in Life of John W. Gates, Who Is Making a Gallant Fight tor His Life siness 2580 Mie gob vy checks Hee round 18 Bie Be Ratiroed Company, has engaged counsel te tring suit to test the validity of « separation agreement between herselt| and her husband signed two months age. Mrs. Middleton came to New York yesterday {rom her summer home at Watoh Hill, R. 1, and is staying at her apartment, No. 1¢ Hast Sixtieth strect. Announcement of the projected sult | fe practically the first intimation of un-| happiness in the Middleton household, | though Mra, Middleton says she and! her husband have been itving apart for almost a year and have not been In harmony for ten years. Mr. Middleton, who director of ten railroads, four danke and half a do: other corpora- tions, makes his home at the Waldort- Astoria. | Mra. Mid@teton te preparing the suit | because ahe says the separation agree-| ment she signe’ gives to her husoand the custody of their three children for | ten months each year, and she is nét| eatisfied to have this provision carried | ut. Ghe says at the time she signed | the agreement she {Ml and did not realize she was virtually surrendering | her chiddren to Mr. Middleton.’ REFUSED TO GIVE CHILDREN TO HIS MESSENGER, Ghe was stirred to action by the ar-| rival on Wednesday at her Watoh Hill home an employee brought @ letter from Mr. Middleton requesting thet the ohikiren be given to him, The letter, which was signed with Mr, Middieton’s initials, read: “LillyeThe bearer of this letter is Mr, George W. Fields, whom I am sending to escort the children to Now York, im accordance with our talk over the phone thts afternoon. 4s the in- closed letter will ghow you, Mr. Fields 1s a gentieman to whom the ohtldren can be safety intrusted. I will meet them on arrival at New York.” The, letter to which Mr. Middleton re- ferred was from Frank H. Platt, reo- ommending Weide as « trustworthy “for the mission witch you re- quire him to perform.” . Middleton declined to let Fielde take the ohildren, and notified her husband by telephone that she would reach New York yes- ‘lerday and thet unless he called at her apartment by 7 o'clock last night she would appeal to the courts to an- nul the separation agreement. Mr. Mid- dieton did not cal on her. | Helen Middletown, fourteen years ol4, eldest of the three ohildren, her mother says, sent a telegram to her father several days ago, saying her mother was ill and that she (Helen) could not come to New York. She asked her father to come to Watch Hill, but tn- Syead got & message urging her to leave there with her brothers, Jean, aged thirteen, and Jobn A. jr, aged ten. Then Helon wired: ‘Mother is #1 and I will not leave “TO TALK OVER her.” WANTS CHANC! MATTERS.” ‘Tits message was sent on Tuesday and on Wednesday Fields appeared with Mr, Middleton's demand for his chil- dren. <. Mra, Middleton declares her husband ‘does not seem disposed to meet her and tak over their difficulties, She says she cannot live without her children, und feels thet ehe has a right to know| ‘who 1s to care for them and direct their education, She says that while she was tn Flor- {da last winter she recetved two letters advising her t When she arrived on March band told her that he had leased their country place at Larchmont and apartment for her at No. M4 i eth street. She says Mr. Middl makes an allowance of $15 a week for the child) tn addition to wh herself receives and that the amount ts insufficient, He caltea ,'who wouldn' Mrs, Middleton before her marriag rs ago, was the widow eux Seel of the Britt: Mr. Middleton also was married before and has one daugh ter, Mre, George W. Holmes, of th city, by his first wife. Mr. Middleton admits the separation from his wife, but declines to discuss it further than to say that she con- sulted @ lawyer before signing the a cement, Middleton has been a prom- t figure in railroad circles for many 8, lmving been sident and secretary of th the Lehigh Val re going to Belore Selecting Your Apartment CONSULT THE “Apartments to Let” Advertisements in the Daily and Sunday World, IT WILL SAVE YOU Time, Energy and Money The World's Apartinents to Let” Advertisements Oifer You the Greatest Variefy of Selection, All prices. sizes and locations | Puppies Saved From Fire | Named Shadro Meshach and Abed-nego. Mra, Hugo Hoch was badly Are | tober to bo exlitbited | expecta to be there Oct. 12, \drop tn to see Pauline, | burned was almost destroyed by fire, saved three puppies of which she ts j very fond. One of the sumimer resi- |dente of Bay Crest heard of Mrs. but a! of 8420,627,59, President Tat and will _ | | When her home at Fairground, I. | WIDOW GETS GILLIS ESTATE! ORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1911. NAVAL OFFICER KLED HIMSELF | | | —-— Sudden Action of Lieut Brillhart. The body of Lieut. Charles deat | Brilihart, of Washington, who killed himself in a room on the second floor of the Hotel Astor while his friends and the Navy Departinent were seek- jing him, wes taken to York, Pa, his | home, to- for burial. His wife was | prostrated by news of his death and |ecould not come to New York to ac- commany the remains, but her father arrived this, morning. Lieut. Brillhart was found dead late yesterday with @ bullet wound in his right temple. He had removed his coat, rested his feet on one ohair as he sat) In another, and fired the shot from a cheap revolver. It is believed he ended hia Ife about 4 o'clock yesterday morn- ‘ing, but no one heard the shot. | unless the one found addressed to bis wife and stamped, told the reason, It | was madied to her without being opened. | |Coroner’s Physician O'Hanlon, how-| jever, performed an autopsy last night! and learned that the officer had suf- ‘tered from purulent meningitis, a dis- ease approximating incipient insanity. | It was hiy opinion that the young | | killed himself when out of his mind, duty, he had drunk heavily when away | from it, until it fs sald his wife and |for his excesses. | —_—_————— | |HAYTI’S PRESIDENT EXILED, | | Gen. Simon Ruled Black Republic! Less Than Three Years Overthrowing Nord Alexis. ' | PORT AU PRINCE, Hayt!, Aug. 4—| Kingston, Jamatca, the refuge of Hayti's | fallen heroes’as the warship 17 Decem-| that he Was unanimousiy elected Pres-| ident of the black republic, boomed # doleful farewell. He follows in the wake of Nord Alexis, whom he overthrew in the last month of 1908, and he leaves the| capital in the possession of Gen. natus Leconte, whom he had driven Into exile with his deposed chief; and Gen. | Antenor Firmin, a rival for the Pres- idency, wh he placated by sending |him as Mintster to Cubi | So the wheel has gone round. Nord Alexis ruled for six years, On Dec, 1908, Simon, then at tho helght of his popularity, led an overwhelming revolu tlonary party into Port au Prince and was everywhere proclaimed as a savior of the country from tyranny. He ap- peared to have the country united be- hind him, Nord Alexis, who had found safety on the French cruiser Duguay Trouln, later boarded the German steamer Sarnia and proceeded to King- ston, where, embittered against his countrymen, he died in the spring of 1910. To the last he refused to admit that ho could understand the hostility of the people. | _S | TAFT’S “RECIPROCITY” | I$ ANEW SADDLE HORSE. So Named by President Because Gift Arrived as Treaty Bill Fight Ended. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.--President | rat: got a new riding horse from West | Virginta the other day, ‘The horse came | just after the Canadian eciprocity | fiht had ended and the President took one look at him and ¢ J him “Reet- jen The new Presidential steed fs 16 hands high, dappled tron-gray tn color and able to carry @ man of the President's weight, BABIES BENEFIT BY POSLAM Poslam teful when t Soothing and antiseptic. (Beene immeasurably Hooh's herolsm and christened the isl) mecniy tate Gompiraliee Julius sare aed on A tender skins of nigeg Sho gave them all Bible namos,|PUTEer to-day fed the appraisers ema or any disorder of the skin. As} “Shadrach,” "Meshach" and "Abed: | Of the estate of Proderic 8. Gillis.) with adults, Poslam stops all itching | |n 0," in memory of the fiery furnace | WhO died March 20. 1911, The estate, poals rapidly and accomplishes com: | episode. | which 4s valued at $429,627.89, consists | iiata and nent H | |of atocks and bonds of railroads, and Panta Rika e SALISH Bi Roes to the widow, with the exception | ' a seh 8 1 ; Sting of Jellytish May Cost Swime | of $5,000 that im left to an aunt, Mrs.| Sista sell Poslam in two sizes at mer Les. Mary G. Marble, and @ cousin, Mrs. + cd $2. For iree sample write ‘The sting of a Jellyfish may cost S!- | 1) mon Fabor of Atlantic City if mot his life Vaughan. his tex, | the o¢ A fi days ago while | widow was appointe: swimming he suddenly felt great pain, and an examination showed that blood | poisoning had set in | It May Be a Chestnut. bu’ It ts a Good One, Park Squirre Winter Sup- | ply of Peane en Order, | It 1s going to be @ hard, peanutless winter for the squirrels of Central Park, | and many of them are expected to starve. ! Commissioner Stover has iesued an! order that after Aug. 10 no more pea- nuts In shells be sold tn the park, For years the squirrels have gathered up peanuts and stored them in thelr nests | in the trees for winter, Houne Cow to Make a Tour the Country, Wayne the famous White is golng to do a little tour. of the oo herself this fall ar @ Dre she will go to International Dairy- At Heulessen wad Grogory men's Exposition in Milweukee in Oc-| 29 CANT White Pauline Hou Makes Cold Me y by addin he widow, who lives at No. 1 West Seventieth street, was married to Mr.| Ot} Emergency Laboratories, #2 | West “wenty-fifth street, New York | It was infiloted two years ago when | Gillis on Sept. % 1909, The will was | he was in bathing, and ever since it|/ made out in favor of M G | has bothered him when he went Into) maiden name, Helen 8, Gowlng © He left no letter explaining his act | doesn't understand how the policeman came to be struck. | was equ dent happened Jean No. 5 He had been jn til health for @ ¥6".) ouarters thix morning to file an indig- and while he was duly sober while on|..,.., ltert the car at thi SAILS FOR JAMAICA, | rirty-- displayed After | iragh bre, which took its name from the day! py Vandewnt FINED POST MAR CHEMICAL BLAZE ~ TS ROLLED OFF IT | SENDS OWN ALARM AT HOTEL ASTOR — BY TROLLEY CAR’ TO ENGINE HOUSE {Letter to Bride May Explain, Bruises Cover Fairclough as|Fumes Awaken Firemen, Also Uniform Goes, but Injuries Are Not Serious. Polleeman Henry tached to the Bast One Hundred and Twenty-sixth sireet station, was on & fixed port at One Hundred and Seven- teenth street and Lexington avenue; early to-day when he was run down by @ north-bound car, He was knocked | over by @ fender and rotied several feet before the car could be stopped; i Dr, Martin, from the Harlem 1ospt- tal, found he was not badly hurt, though his entire body was bruised and out ind his uniform torn to shreds. The pollceman, after reporting his accident, went home. The trolley car was in charge of Mo- torman John Sullivan of No. 14 East One Hundred and Second street. He ys he thought Fairclough had stepped one side to let the car pass and Fatrelough, at Fairclough himself lly hazy about how the acct iin NOT THE HOLDUP TAXI. Own of Car Found tn Garage En- tern Protest. Eugene S. Vandewater, owner of taxl- 8, came to Police Head- ost aeainet the coupling of hie ‘ar with the shooting of Adolph Stern, him|%, clerk in Jacoby’s jewelry store, at friends recently remonstrated with bim |r iteonth street and Sixth avenue, which was robbed on the night of July He told Inspector Hughes that he had Plaza garage, on hth street and Madison ave- some time ago, and commissioned Greene's agency, at Forty-eighth street and Broadway, to sell {t for him. He his’ receipts to Inspector announced that he was go- ing away for a short vacation, He left Mis address, so that Inspector Hughes | might communicate with him in case} |Gen, Antoine Simon matied last nigat for} be needed him At the Plaza garage it was stated| that the the place sinc taxicab had not been out of {t had been left there ire, Fire was discov- ered this mornin: 2 o'clock in the Ing of the P: clal Parliament | Fifteen minutes r the The EE Toronto Pariinment Butlding TORONTO, Auj grasshopper. And the only reason for weeks from now we shall be underprice, ana fan most at Included are staple weave blue suit cut on new lored up to the rigic absolute integrity. Men's $40 and $45 Summer Suits Men's $35 and $38 Summer Suits Men’ 8 925 and $28 Summer Suits Men's $22.50 and $25 Men's $18, $20 and 0 Suits Street Store. aide fill Gentlemen, Put Your Heads This is the month of August when brook trout rise to the lure of the real or imitation Are you going to rise to the lure of the average clothing sale when you can buy Hackett. Carhart clothes far underprice? But you will wear Summer clothing fon at least two months. This, then, is your opportunity to save money. Hackett, Carhart Men’s Suits Reduced Every Sack Suit in our store: s, as well as this season's Hackett, Carhart stan above suits are not on sale in our new 42d chemicals, bengines and such things, while on the other two floors was the printing business of i. D. Hawkins. On one @lde was a cafe and adjoining the cafe the #ix-story building used as mbly room by many sociai or- | ganizations, but closed at present, On the other side of the burning) pullding is the place of Weir, the with a glass greenhouse flusty w top of the three-story house. ‘Tho fire was burning se fiercely an| when you alarm was sent In and brought several] 1) «5; other engine companies, the locaity| 2 opt being in the high pressure belt. Bar | salespers realize talion Chief Dooley was afraid the| We have alway flames would spread and sent in a} jmportance of having 5 CX * ~ second alarm, but the blaze was con- ‘ ne valid le Most of Residenis of Colum- |ffrate the one structure, compievery | amined by “lk Oculist of ex gutting tt, and doing # damage of $i5,-| Perience, and when you come bia Heights, Brooklyn. wo. to our stores for glasses you ‘The heavy smoke from the burning| are absolutely safe. Ear chemicals and inks drifted ail over Whether your see cost Many ot the aristocratic families of |the section and filled scores of houses! gy yy $3.00, oF 0, we the old Columbia Heights section of | but caused no pajame parade amony Brookiyn were awakened at 6 o'clock the staid elas wh Soateated this morning by smoke pouring into | themselves with remaining at their win- their windows. Its eource, & burning | 2o¥* until the rooms were clear again. building a. No, 161 Plerrepont street, | den Crunen however, waa not near enough to cause | much alarm. | WASHINGTON, Aug. scarce It was @ blaze that sent In ite own | have first-class stenographers become alarm to the headquar' of Engine |in Washington that it has been found Company No, 105, ecross the street. | Necessary to send to Duluth, Minn. for One of the firemen near the window another shorthand expert to assist in awoke choking and the street out- | the hearing of the Senate Lorimer Comy with smoke, He grabbed @| mittee, On account of the many hear- palr of trousers, alld down the brass! ings being conducted by committees in pole and sounded the gong. |Congress every available stenographer The three-story brick butiding was/of reputation in the city ts said to be roaring inside. On the ground floor was| working day and night on “copy.” In- the Green Dry Cleaning and Dyeing cidentally, the stenographers are reap- establishment, filled with combustible.ing @ harvest stand back of every pair and Guarantee you complete eye glass satisfaction. Oeulists and Opticians Fast, 2ird Street, near Fourth Avenge Ht ert odtn street Bets beh and 6th Avenues G4 Went 125th, Street, Lenox. Avenue | 42 Columbus Avenui 2nd 8 76 Nassau Street, near 1009 roadway, near Willoughby, Brooklva @9 Fulton Street, opposite A, &8., Brooklya Open Evenings Until 9 0'Clog allowed en all cash sales. 10% We pay freight and RR. fares iscdtwoms thing 'itesin cf ee ‘oB” exhibition’ we ser} WRITE_FOR_CATALOGUE— LED FREE QRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE Everything for Housekeeping om CREDIT TERMS You can always get the best beer rewed, if you order Pabst BlueRibbon The Beer of Quality It appeals to men and women who demand a drink they know is clean, wholesome and appetising. 20 68 J 300 $30 * $275 & Larger Amounts in Proportion, , ‘Apply Also te New Yor UMhat "New Serasy nnd Connecticut AVE 0 ARELIABLE RULE By Which to Measure the Greatest Source of Advertising Results: #0589 WORLG*HELP WANTED” ADS LAST PIONTA Together these actual bona fide reductions is the fact that less than six 34328 showing Fall goods. | More tia THE HERALD College Clothes Shop alf Price Sale There is still a very large assortment of desirable suits made by L. Adler, Bros. & Co., of Rochester, M. W. Naumberg and other leading wholesale tailors, which we must sell at half pris So as go secure this location for a new store we hought lense, fixtures and stock. But as we sell only our own clothing, we do not want the stock. #20 College Clothes sis marked "way black suits, plain t style models AOD | semana ARGS Php, a hare llisapreaierncistsey cu $12. ts Last tonto arth eR ie iia itt si op Suits... ey i tiger sill $14.50 | “icraticee $20.00 og te $12.00 | “snop Sultse nn. ees. $22.50 suits are on sale in our new store, formerly the College Clothes Shop. Shop Suits The abo 119 W, 42d ; ESBS e| Movid real ES ONARCH FURNITURE CO “ a URE lugs, Carpets, Beddin; AUGUST Sar: All Summer shirts for All atyles—all sizes $1 and $1.15 Shirts #1,50 and $2 Shirts. . $2 and 92.50 Shirts $3 Silk Stripe Shirts Shirt Sale men at reduced prices. CHEATS, La5 OWA ASO Nore tiki THE HERALD AADZ Any Straw Hat Choose any straw hat in our 95c¢ stores—82, $3 and $4 hats—in- cluding the famous Imperial 83 -$2,90 $4.90 | . 68¢ Hats, reduced to All 95 and #6 Panamas.. All $8 to 012 Panamas... E. 125th St. 265 Broadway Near 3c Ave. Noar Chambors St. Har} lem and 42d St. Sores Open Evenings K| More thane THE HERALD INC, RETAIL E, TURLINGTON, Vice-President 841 Broadway 119 West 42d St. Cor. 13th St. Bet. B'way & 6th Ave. All Four Stores Open All Day Saturday Where you see the biggest “Crush” week after week, month after month and year after year, there must be |4gomething. Doing.” mer Cie