The evening world. Newspaper, August 25, 1911, Page 3

| ” BIGWHALE WINKED {GIRL “L” AGENT AT PRETTY RON SEAS BROADWAY He Was Most Flirtatious, Says Miss Wood of Virginia, Here on Minnewaska. DANCED ON HIS TAIL. Answered Whistles With Spouts, but He Died When Steward Gave Him Pork. © itst to the tale Of a musical whale, Who spouted in spermy gl: But who died of a choke When they fed him po'k, And who Hes ‘neath a sea-weed tree. Sage of Capt. Gates of the Minnewaske. Have you one tear for a bright, am- Ditlous young whale, and educated to lot, who was cut off in the flower of is whalehood through the well-meant mistake of a ship's steward? Then pre- Pare to shed it now over the sorrowful THREE SEPARATE AUD Bistiner SPOUTS Atlantic Transport liner Which arrived to-day dock strike in London, Thirty out from Ambrose Channel lightship," related the Captain fn the presence of several pasengers, Purser Boden-Smith and Chief Steward Minnewaska, in spite of th> miles cated wha EDUCATED IN SCHOOL TO SWIM ON TAILS, ‘Certainly—weren't they In a school?" n Miss Mary Wood of Virginia. a nger Who also saw the whales. they his way ed and pranced and nd that, and at times ned to swim upright on their said the Captain tails," “You see—regular high schoo! whaleg," insisted Miss Wood, “The leader was a big fellow, 100 feet lon: continued Capt. Gates, “and he Was most compantonable, He came closeup on the port bow and appeared tw be having the time of his Ife. Just L 2 ~ drawn whistling spout. Then, and would you twice! And when I blew three blasts he and distinct spouts.” HE WINKED, HE DID, PRETTY GIRL. “But I'm sure he really had been bad- ly brought up,” said Miss Wood, roguish person about old. whale fluence. had had the proper home in- whale, not the captain—In quite an im- personal way, and would you belleve it? 1 wink as ever I saw “He dl euw it quite plainly, pertient of him it was too, the blighter cided the whales Were following t linnewaska because they were hungry, he got'a large chunk of pork and ew it out to the leader, story brought In by Capt. Geran of the| | ‘ } { Evans, We suddenly cumulated a convoy of five whales, re was noth: fhg aspectally remarkable about this— we have often been picked up by schools | of whales—but it was the way these Whales acted that attracted my Inter- est. They came close and glanced up at the passen In a most friendly manner; they swam around and below and in line, and they see at to bow end curtsey learly the were edu- to see how much he knew I tooted the whistle sharply and what do you think? He immediately answered it with a long | to try him further, I tooted twice in succession believe it—he spouted merrily responded with three separate aT Al a elghteen years jothing will convince me that For just about the time the captain blew his three whistles I leaned the rafi and glanced at him—the I was standing nea Miss Wood and And jolly tm- It was after that Chief Steward Evans The flirta- {ous ampnibian caught it and awal- | LOCKS TURNSTILE _TOTRAP THIEVES — Holds Up Fugitives and Coolly Parleys With Them for Delay. | THREE VAULT THE GATE, | Brave Death From Third Rail by Running Along Tracks and Disappear. The burglar who had cut a circle of | Blase trom the window of Dr. Howard Miller's eub post-office station and drug store at No. 624 Bast Sixteenth street, Flatbush, early to-day was not dexter- ous enough to prevent the lass from falling inside. Tt crashed loudly enough to arouse the men m the adjourning | confectionery store and the glags-cutter and two compantons fled. | The drug store is just across the | promenade trom the Newkirk avenue | elevated station and after midnight is more or less isolated. Next door {s Harry Piis's confectionery store, where he and his olerk, Henry Meyers, were closing up when they heard the sound |of breaking glass. Both men grabbed up the billies which they keep handy | and started out into the street, The burglars had run for the rafiroad ‘ation. No one wae there except the | Young woman ticket agent. | GIRL TICKET AGENT TRIES TO | PREVENT ESCAPE, | “Give me three tickets," demanded |the first man in, slamming down the price. The man was breathless and feared, and the girl ticket agent par- leyed for delay. “Why, where are the other two men she inquired, | “We don't sell tickets here, pass through the turnstile,” but she made no move to release the locking- | device. | “Oh, they're coming, hurry up, I don’t | want to miss the train,” the man snarled. “No hurry at all, sir.” the young woman spoke up blandly, “there won't y train along now for fifteen min- then the other two burglars rushed into the station and vaulted over the turn-stile and down to the platform The man at the ticket window looked | over his shoulder, and seeing Pils and! Meyer tn pursuit, also vaulted over the turn-stile and ran after his companions. Pils and Meyers were close at their heels, and seeing thelr man disappea: ing over the turnstile vaulted after him. | But when they got to the platform they found that the three men were in too much of @ hurry to walt for a train, and had jumped down from the plat- form were running along th tracks, risking death from the heavily charged third rail. FUGITIVES DISAPPEAR IN THE DARK RAILROAD CUT. Pils and Meyers saw the three men isappear in the cut through which the B, R. T, runs its traine at this point. In the darkness neither Pils or Meyer or the ticket ayeng were able to obtain any better description of the three bur- glars except that they were young me This is tha second attempt that has been made to rob this pa * ular sub- station. Early on August 11, while Mrs, | You |the source of enlightenmen t Se emeaninal spring well but curse off flat life ‘s NIXOLA. GREELEY* SMITH tion of Commerce this week. gers its health and robs it of a reai others, but all are bad.’ Refore suggesting to the fiat dwellers of New York that they fold their tents or their folding-beds and betake them- selver to the suburbs, consideration for that much maligned creature, the New York landiord, led me to investigate the matter farther. And the finger of fate pointed directly to Dr. §. Josephine Baker, chief of the Bureau of Child Hyglene of the city of New York, as life. I found Dr. Baker convalescing from a recent interview. But she was inter- ested in the subject of the perils that lurk in flats. “All doctors will agree that the coun. try 1s the best place to bring up a Meyers was sitting at the window of child,” Dr. Baker said, “but so long as her apartment above her husband’s| economic conditions make it necessary drug store, she saw @ policeman slam/|for so many persons to live in city the open grating of the cellar, knew tha nelther her husband or hi clerks had raised the grating that night, and she an¢ her husband started Investigation. As they reached She | pats, the question seems rather utopian, and It is more practical to consider Rt | how to safeguard the child's heanh to the | the city. store, they saw a man craw! out of/ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF the cellar opening and flee. The cellar jdoor had: been jimmied. The burglar.| | must have been at that Job when the |policeman shut down the ‘grating with- [out making an investigation. |The attempt last night makes the! fifth of its kind during the last month on post-office substations in Brooklyn, and Post Office Inspectors are co-oper- ating with the police to-day in an effort to run the thieves dow ———_— GATTI-CASAZZA ANNOUNCES TWO NEW WORKS NEXT YEAR, PARIS, Aug. 2.—Glulio Gatti-Casazza Metropolitan Opera House in New York in “Lobetana” jounoft”” an arrangement with Max Rabinoff, impresario. who !s now and Moussorgsky’s the York, ey NEW YORK BIGGER THAN LONDON, HBALTHIER TOO London {se no longer the most Populous eud healthiest city tn the world, ‘The census returns of that city Just issued show that London takes second place to New York City in the matter of population, and thet th itish metropolis has a higher a ‘The populati: trative county city of London ie 4,529,628, and the annual desth vate per thousand 19.1. ‘The population of the adminis- trative boroughs of Mew York City is 4,983,385. while the death rate is only 13.2, lowed it and | fate with Jonah. whale has | the sea. captain, would have followed us right up to Quarantine—they were that friendly. and left us in @ burs.” announces that he will produce at the| December and January Thullle's “Boris with @ Russian ballet un- in New the next moment there was a thrashing of the vasty deep suoh He lifted his head out of the Water and |@s hadn't been seen since that little af- winked at me—as distinct and flirtatious Capt. Gates says the #0 small a throat that it put in Purser Boden-Smith, | cannot even swallow @# herring, and he iy sure this one chocked on the pork and sank to his death at the bottom of | But for Evans's mistake,” said the | 7-30," “I am sure the five whales seven to ten at 8.30, from ten to four- re- quires in proportion to its weight and | heipht three times as much food as “ she adult, He cannot withstand the Qiu 0 But when their leader sank they turned CITY LIFE. “The child needs play. The instinct of play 1s common to all normal children, ‘and one of the main difficulties of city life !s how to provide a proper outlet for the play instinct. Parks don't sol the problem. A park has its own fun) tion and usefulness, but it 1s not playground, Unfortunately, many chil- dren in New York have to play in the streets. “Zt has always seemed to me the unused roofs of tenement, flat and apartment buildings offer the solution of this problem. Tenants might compel these landlords to Place @ railing around the roof, They would have then an idea) city playground. “If we should tura our cities nto strictly commercial centres," Dr. Raker added, “and everybody moved to the suburbs, congestion, followed by flat life, would spring up there. S80 we've simply got to make the best of things as they are, Children to be healthy need fresh air, sunlight, good, plain food and nine hours’ sleep. The first thing the flat dweller who cares for his child's health should overcome is his aversion to fresh alr, his share to the popular superstition that night air ts unhealthy, The window tn the child's room should always be open, particu- larly at night. For night alr ts bet than day air in cities. It ts not bur- dened with the dust and germs of street trafic. SUNLIGHT BEST GERMICIDE THAT IS KNOWN, ‘Bunlight is the best germicide known. The curve of contagious disenses rises in the fall, becuse people begin to close their win- Gows, and falls in the spring he- owuse they open them again. “Too many children breakfast on coffee and bread they should have a cereal or glass of milk, and, {f the parents can possi? HE BVENING WORLD, CSN bE (A Sn sae ec ak ake lw Let Children Pla yon Roof TYPHOID SPREADS (ACTRESS PLANS TO SHIPWRECKED IN SCATTER FINNEY'S | CONEY SURF, AUTO ASHES AT HOME, POUNDED BY SEAS And Open Windows to Curse Off City Flat Life in New York) i when | ¥ Take we You May Not Like It It You Live on the Top Floor, But It Is the Solution of an Important New York Problem. Sunlight Is the Best Germicide, Says Dr. S. Josephine Baker, Chief of the Bureau of Child Hygiene Here. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. Go to the roof, thou flat dweller! the children there, first taking the precaution to ask fever in these districts has caused fos- the landlord to put a railing around it. and {f you are wise enough to see that your home is properly ventilated, particularly at night, and your off- four Or, rather, send If you do this, plainly nourished, you will take the in cities for children. And the curse, according to Howard R. Pritchard, “I am convinced that an all-wise God never in- its spread. He dec! tended human beings to live in fi prophet of evil in an address to the Chicago Associa- “A parent who places a child in a flat endan- " said this latest ‘home. Some flats may be better than evils of bad ventilation as well as an edult. “If you give the New York child plénty of fresh air, good plain food, sweets {n moderation, but only after meals, and {f you supply him with @ place to play, you have done the best you can for him, And he may thrive }ae well as the country girl or boy.” ————-—_—_—. KIND ACT GETS BOY’S EMPLOYER INTO TROUBLE. Violates Child Labor Law in Put- ting Child to Work to Help Family. on a charge of having violated the Chil Labor law | Tr Kirschbaum,” said the | hat your act was prompted by kidliness, and I want to thank you for it, but the law gives me no option «1 to hold you in $100 ball aint of Labor charged with the thirtees Reynolds, | tre Inspector Cunningham, mpioying Lou Reynolds, r-old son erick 439 Kast Hlghty-firat the fingers of Ma of who " right hand in an ac {dent recently, and e half Lou's sixteen ner Joseph had been one Kirsehbaum's delivery boys, About weeks ago he got another job and |pleaded with Mr. Kirschbaum to take Lou on in his place, er’s accident, and the family was for the ties I just couldn't bear |the family starving, | fellow to work. I }1et me keep him,’ the Court, | DIES | telling of his fath sorely pressed barest necesst- how the thought of I put the Mttle the law would Kirschbaum told wish Mr. —— N AUTO EXPLOSION. burgher Loren Life and Com. panion Healy Hurt, PITTSBURGH, Aug. %.—Willlam L. Barron, a sion merchant, was Killed and Harry Clark serlously in- jured when the automobile in which they were riding went over an embank- ment near Glenfleld early to-day, Both were pinned under the car, but Clark succeeded in freeing himsif. could suramon help the gasoline tank exploded et’ Barron was burned death comm: To imitate afford it, an ess. A growing ohtld is to should have meat once a day, He A should get nine bows’ sleep, He compliment should go to bed eerily.’ “How early?! Children from five to seven at Dr. Baker answered, “Froin teen at 9.30, The growing child Se | CEYLON TEA Magistrate McQ s distressed | to-day when he held Herman Kir aum, a butcher, of No, 424 Third ave. | nue, for the Court of clal Sessions, r. Kirschbaum was arrested on com- | Before he | to | RIDAY, AUGUST 326, 1911. WHILE CITY TRIES - TO PURIFY WATER Disease Practically Epidemic ‘Ada Dwyer Will Mingle Actor's | Now, With 113 Casesin the | Remains With Those of | His Mother. | — i Bronx in Four Weeks. 134 | REQUEST MADE BY HIM.| IN ORPHAN ASYLUM. Up-State Town Is Blamed for! Victim of Hotel Carlton Fire | Filling the Water With — | Disease Germs. | — | Because of the M8 «1 of typhoid Had a Presentiment of Disaster. | ; Dwyer, the actress, who fover reported im the Bronx during the|, Mise Ada aoe ering the | taentified the bedy of Jameson Lee Fin- last four weeks, thirty-four of them Pdi from the Roman Gatholtc Orphan Any |"e¥: the actor who was burned to death | lum alone, eMctala of the Health De- |!" the Hotel Cariton in London on Aug. Dartment have adopted heroic methoda|® returned from England to-day on the to insure pure water and to end the|Minnewaska of the American Tranaport threatened epldem| line, She told an Evening World report- Five tons of chloride of lime are being |er that as soon ae he qualifies aa ex- dumped daily into the Croton Aqueduct | ecutrix to Mr. Finney’s will she will ar- a ittle of Briarcitff Manor to/range for the tranaportation of hia ashen purity the water as the first step in|to this country, and will see that they stamping out the fever which has spread mingled with those of his mother over the entire city and stricken about |ond roattered 700 persons in the last ten weeks. Dale procedure will be tn accordance That the discase is practically ept-|with the request Mr. Finney made of demic ts not dented by the city Health | \tiag Dwyer one day Inet April. It wae Department, as during the last ten|shortly after the death of his mother, since the fever has been at its land he told Mise Dwyer, who was hia in- Worst, the number of cases reported has | imate friend, that hia main purpose in nearly doubled, appointing her his executrix was so that Acting on the advice of the Board of |ho mght fee! sure, in case of his death, Health, Commissioner Thomson of the | thai his wishes would be carried out. | Department of Water, Gas and FI ec: | “IT never knew of such devotion and tricity has employed a large force of |intimate friendship between a mother men to clear the water of bactllt. It {®/and son as there was between Jamle reported that the germs are being car-/and hiv mother,” Miss Dwyer mal to- | rled into the city from a small up-the- State town which recently suffered a uv it her rooma in the Warrington, similar epidemic. Aw part of the city's investigation, water from this village \(eath his heart was broken and he had has been analyzed by the city chem-,* Dresentiment that some disaster fets and found to contain. many germs, |Would overtake him, 1 promised to do Harlem and the Bronx have been the |What he wanted, but it was not in the chief districts afflicted. A tremendous |4ck part of my head that I would be increase in the death rate from the Ha on to play so sad @ part in real south pital officials to order the botling of all saw him only once after he spoke water used in such Institutions. » me in April. That was when he In Manhattan alone, during thy last |came over from France and had tea weeks, 36 cases have been re-|With me at the Savoy Mansions, where ported to the Health Department. In|! Was ying, on the afternoon of the the Bronx 113 have been reported . fire. I had his body cremated in Lon- | Dr. Joneph A. Dilton, of No, %7 Lex: |don. and when the ashen arrive T wilt ington avenue, physictan in charge at|Mingle them in the urn with the asylum in the Bronx where 1,1000|his mother, evidences of the epidemic were noticed | scattered.” every precaution was taken to prevent s the clty water |4 report from London that she and Mr. hed an unusual color and urges that|!inney had been secretly married. the city put In a filter at the Jeroi “I have had a husband for nearly Park reservoir. twenty years,” she said, “and we have SCARES WOMAN TO | ATH AT WD Home’ Company at the Century The- Doctor Says Mrs. Ferguson of atre.” JULIUS SCHWAB DEAD. Atlantic Highlands Died From the Shock. non Banker Fail lo Recover From an Operation. Jullus Schwab, one of Paterson's fore- most citizens, and Vice-President and founder of the German-American Trust Company, died at his home, No, §1 Car- and he failed to rally. Mr. Schwab was a leader and prime mover in many of the local German so- cleties and well known in the financtal world, Mr, Schwab was a thirty-second de. gree Mason, and waa prominent in other fraternal organizations aad clubs in Paterson. | Mfrs, Dante! Ferguson of Atlantic Highlands, N. J., tell unconsctous at & window in her room early to-day when a vivid flash of lightning and a loud crash of thunder frightened her. Dr. |. KE. Failing responded to a hurried | summons and found that she was dead. Mrs, Ferguson had always dreaded lightning. The first peal of thunder |during any storm brought terror to her. arly to-day she was aroused by the Refuse to nt. The Grand Jury yesterday refused to return an indictment against Wentworth Byron Winslow, the Christian Scientist, who was arrested last May on a charge of illegal practice of mudicine. noise of an approaching storm, She left her bed and went to a window that had been left open, Hardly had she reached for the sash to pull It down when there came a deafening crash A long flash of lightning accompanied | The woman fell, screaming, to the floor, Her husband ran to her side, She waa unconscious. He tele 4 for the doctor who made a carefu: mination, had been under the impression that struck by lghtning. The doctor found that the woman's death was due to ‘heart fatiure, superinduced by the fear of the lightning flash. Mra. Ferguson was thirty-four years of age, Five children, all under twelve | years of age, survive her. [Wallach Bros. i} ‘Third Ave., cor. 122d St. 1195 Broadway, 246-248 W. 185th St. (Open Sat. till 11 P. M.) Just below 29th St. (Open Sat. till 11 P.M.) (Open Sat. till 6 P. M.) Hart Have you tried it? Makes Cold and Hot Meats Tasty. 4 Fine Salad Dreasing by adding vinegar. At Delicatessen and Grocery Stores. CENT! ‘Spoon with each Bottle, Schaffner (@ Marx Summer Suits HALF PRICE ON’T miss this sale—never have we offc red values so unordinary, See the suits now selling for $15—not otherwhere can 815 buy so much real, true value as it can in oe of them, Came and se $50 Suits now $45 Suits now $40 Suits now $20.00 $35 Suits now $17.50 Suits'30 and less now $15 $25.00 $22.50 aya ago for appendioltis | those which are in a crematorium] The condition of John F. Carroll, the Secretary to Chicago's Health Department, {s the health children live, says that when the frat |on Long Isiand. The ashes will then be| Tammany politician, who is ill et the hoodoo of cities, the most immediate peril of American Miss Dwyer wae a little disturbed over! be much improved. The improvemeat miner Driver Failed to See the Water at Foot of Ocean Parkway. HELD AS “JOY RIDER” Two Women Passengers Get a Ducking and Hurry Away in Cab. During the heavy rain early to-day Wilbur J. Morrow, twenty-one years old, of No, 386 Boulevard, Jersey City, chauffeur for Jamee Kadten of No, 117 Washington street, Hoboken, drove a big touring oar containing four pas- sengera over the embankment a¢ the foot of the Ocean Parkway, Coney Isl- and, into the ocean, ‘The car ran into the surf up to the topa of the wheels before i stopped and ail tts occupants were drenched. A | man, two Women and A boy were Mor Tow’s passengers, and he declared after they had been cartied to dry iand and driven away in @ cab that he dd not know their names. The car, he eat, had been rented to them by hie em- ployer at a Jersey City hotel, familiarity with Coney Island aad his inability to see through the driving rain was the causo of his driving into the ocean. He had mistaken the board- ment and shooting out into the eurt. Several men worked for hours to drag the oar out of the into which the wheels sank to It was still stuck there at noon with a big crowd standing watching the futile efforts unteer wreckera to salve it and. As the tide eo the rolled almost completely over Morrow, the chauffeur, wae detained at Sheepshead Bay station as he had New York license and the police pected that he had been Joy ride when he dashed into the out, ———> —_ F. Carroll te Better. Nassau Hotel, Long Beaeh, is said to has greatly encouraged Carroll's tam- fly_and physicians. RHEUMATISM roll street, to-day. Mr. Sohwab, who | was fifty-seven yoars old, was operated | upon a few Furniture Stores SPECIAL THIS WEEK Extension Table Golden Oak 6-foot Extension Table; the 4 Chairs are iden oak, genu- seats. . Some Extra Special Values in Sideboards, Buffets, China and Crystal Closets All goods marked in plain hgures We Furnish Homes Complete Cash or Credit GEO. 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MISSNER WAREROOMS, 96 bth Ave., cor, 15th St., N, ¥. | 66-67 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, -——— CITY HALL “SPOT” BARKS ‘Little Doge &% canine attache, to-day claimed the remarks of a speaker aut the charter hearing who protested wpa provision of the charter to keep 0m, eq) impounded six months. “Spot” entered sug the crowded Aldermanic chamber, w ’ the hearings are conducted, just ak former Deputy ice Commtssfiner Bert Hanson was talku.t, and took yt |Prominent seat on his haunches BEM aay Chairman Cullen ayn “This proposed section ie unwie,. 454 ” said Mr. Hansor. “It requires that a, 9 dogs seized by the pelice or P shall be imprisoned six months betes “% disposal, and that the police property clerk shall be responsible for tha careltr of ail such imprisoned dogs. ai {het moment Spot Degas he smally, Senator Cullen wavel, but Spot continued to how! ant *! | bark ‘until Janitor Ryan ttm: oA) SSS ont POSLAM ENDS ALL ot vate oot y sere 4 net <a Relieves Immediately and Quistcler Cures All Skin Dissescs, | ' voctferousiy att wud ae vores ication ail oohig st confor comes, rete Sp oceeds r 1 maling pr rapidly, ter Feces. 5 active and exerts ite eam-. ..:; ure net continuously until the enases ..,...; ie suffer from embarrassment for one of the samples of free by the Bi mahi. 98 Wort tit Streak Bere, *o mh ods ad ‘TO-DAY AN! suis eo Re ‘has 6 @uaranterd value e were cut witl i aeee reat pe a one nteed stand the Hy ay “a tt thing TO-MORRO' than cre tedvce.” ae ome te jody agresmen: value now ‘Observe, tamer ame i Open until 6 P. 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