The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1911, Page 3

GAYNOR A NEW LIGHT ON SUBMAY ATT Says He Has Been Misunder- stood, as Public Does Not Know Situation Fully. Study of Infant Hygiene, to Be Inaugurated by Woman Superintend- ent, Ie Novelty in West- ern City— Has Long Been Part of Regular Course in New York. DIDN'T CALL MEETING. Everything Included, From Giving Baby a Bath to Making Its Clothes and Preparing Its Food—Always Plen- ty of Models for Class Demonstrations. But Was Invited to One—De- Plores Lack of Subways to Pennsylvania Siation. Mayor Gaynor spoke at length to-day attitude affecting them. His position, the Mayor stated, has been misunder- By Nixola Greeley-Smith. stood, chiefly, he added by the meulders They are going of public opinien—the editors of news- to teach little girls ‘They themselves do not fully how to care for understand the situation, he added, but wome day he is going to toll them all vables in Chicago's about it, of, st least, tell what he public schools. Ae- knows and intends doing in future sub- cording to the an- nouncement of Mrs. Ella Flagg straight as a matter of record regarding Young, Chicago's THE EVENING ditions?’ more surely by You gain YY @ You directed your observations to her own social or moral improvement. “You can't say, ‘Katy,’ or Jo: or whatever her name might be, ‘would you tell a Hie under such and such con- your point much ing what she would her little brother or to do. TaN Sy WORLD, WEDNESDAY, ——— 2 Sd & vlen: i ee —Y TOO MANY BABIES _NOVEMBER 15, 1911. A fecent subway conference in which he was « participant. This conference led to the publication to-day of statements that the Interbor- ough was trying to reopen the subway | controversy in order to get another chance to bid and it wi added that Mayor Gaynor called conference for | that purpose. “I called no conference,” | sald the Mayor. “I was invited to a School RNIXO! Superin- tendent, classes in infant hygiene are | GREELEY® SMITH to be established immediately, wherein everything re- lating to the care and feeding of baby |brothers and sisters will be taught to all little girl citizens of the Windy ntl recently the diMcuity with the education of girls has been that the care of a home and children was some- thing they should learn comparatively late in life,” Mr. MoAndrew conolud ‘Here we teach them how to care Properly for the little children in their mothers’ families—as nearly all of them have to do anyhow, whether they know anything about it or not—and that fits them to care for their own children City. The idea of euch instruction, while it may be new in the West, has been in practical operation in New York! for several years. Washington Irving High Just such classes as Mra, for Chicago, where twelve and fourteen-year-old girls are now taught everything from how to give the baby ®@ bath, how to carry him through the critical period of the first tooth to tl number of hand-m: tucks to be Placed gbove the hem of his Sunday reas. THEY HAVE PLENTY OF “MOD. EL8” TO WORK WITH. Some time ago I visited Washington conferen: a did meet ex-Mayor Low, Samuel Rea, Vice-President of the Penn- sylvania Railroad and the other gentlo- men mentioned, (Comptroller Prender- | wast, Borough President McAneny and | Shairinan Willcox of the Public Service | Commission), and we did discuss subway matters quite fully. That is all.” “1 find this morning that Mr. Bullock, the, publicity agent and assistant of President Williams of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, has furnished the news- papers with a wholly distorted account of the conference. I have had @ good many conferences on the subject of sub- ways and shall no doubt have more.” MADE IT PLAIN HE I8 NOT COM- MITTED TO INTERBOROUGH. | This 1s as far as the Mayor permitted | tev v hamseif to be quoted for publication, | TVin® and Mr. Willlam McAndrew, Principal of the school, told me of the He made It clear tn his talk subsequent | practical working of the classes on the ly that he ts in no way committed en-| care of babies. School has! Flagg sug-| tirely to the Interborough. On the con-| “Nearly every girl in ou ooo Bee 1 trary, he says that tho Eifty-ninth strest | Uttle brothers 7 dntece tees 7 es auserces ar ceataae ve create route to connect the Brooklyn Rapld/ ages,” Mr, McAndrew sald, when I sit sent o-day by the f ‘Tranait elevated Ines in Brooklyn | asked him what they di@ for models In Milk Dealers’ Association. The circu- would, if certain modifications were |the “baby” classes, lar, which bears the signature of B. made, afford excellent transit facilities} “When one of our teachers needs Jurist, @ chemist, attacks Health Com- for Brooklyn. As the plans now stand, @ two-year-old boy or girl to dem- the Broadway and Fifty-ninth street | onstrate ‘giving the baby @ bath’ branch of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit | or ‘the first tooth,’ or something of would, in the opinion of the Mayor, be! that kind, she has to state which girl merely a feeder to the Brooklyn elevated | !8 to bring along Exhibit A, otherwise roads, which he does not conetder fair,| #2 many little brothers and sisters If he has his way the Brooklyn Rapid would make thelr appearance there Transit will get the Broadway and Fit. | Would not be room for the class. teeninth street route on condition ‘that | “UF course in dressmaking teaches will transfer for a alngle fare its sur-| te girls how to make the baby’s! ce car passengers as well as elevated |4resses and our cooking and House- peasengers. The Mayor {8 in a minority | keeping classes show them how to pre- cn this point. the other city ofMcials not | pare nourishing food, how to pasteurize Appearing to insist on free transfers for| milk, how to treat the indigestive dis- both Ines. turbances of early infancy. Primarily What the Mayor complains of and) our object 1s to teach them how to cure says he cannot understand, eee ae for the little brothers and ‘® they pions. and eine plan for il have, but secondarily it fits them now subways impression for the career of motnerhood, which n probably elghty per cent. of them will ‘The for subWays the Same as contractors take down. But the infinitely le for other construction work greater number of girls who tend Washington Irving migh | School are going to marry and have jowest bidder or the one that makes the | The city con: | All vest bid gets the work, 01 he 1 fair valuation DEPLORES LACK OF SUBWAYS NEEDED FOR BOYS. ! opera f them will most d to know.” “Hecause it is only necessary for one noes Of the family to know things, | station the wife can teach the husband} owing to th everything that ts ne y for him to necting with the P i n mat it ha nffected tie Long Isiand F ew. “I'm glad you ask raffe to such an extent as to normal men and women a ithdrawal recently of twent WHY SIMILAR TRAINING 18 NOT: properly. dren that W teach Its girls. part of the coure the girls’ latest Fashion. N Interest to his bh who, by Mrs, Seltzer « tm, cheer troubles will e A tailored suit frst dress requisite. may have in her wardrobe, a tailored Next week the Bun- day World issues its Winter Fashions Guide, edited by May Manton, contatn- ing a practical article dealing with this feature of woman's wear and giving many important hints as to the very ideas of Dame suit heads the list. and newest af thi pride was o e of the cards reads “ nd be ty “I don't think there is anything per- taining to the care of a home and chil- ington Irving does not is, we will be glad to hear about it and to make it a So Chicago, if it wants to learn the latest methods of teaching infant hy- giene, should send an inspector to visit schools of $$ NEW FASHION IDEAS. is every woman's Whatever else she York. VERY FARASTAY INAFLATHOUS Got Into “Ruddy’s” Room, and It Belonged to Mrs. Seltzer, Says Husband. gained ground and it Ja a wrong tm- SiGe isiaanora fie chalthac iiuroate tae rong mindred t ion dotlars, the In=| gg Fearing La are fh eee Jeon, in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, taeborouRn will own the subways aor) wattle case fall of useless infor. [t0-d4y for counsel feo and alimo th nS the Mayor. “The ely will own | mation which they might put on a pending the trial 4 op es an aivaepe hem. The offer of operating compantes | Shelf and never, during the rest of brought by her husband, aries G, ee nerety competitive bide, They bid! thelr lives, Bave any occasion to |Stitzer, who is a member of the firm of Rude & Brand, Nthographers, of No. | 200 William street, Manhattan. Justice Garretson denied the motion. | ‘The Seltzers were married in 1887 and) easiioa get Is a lea children, Why shouldn't we teack {ve thre e, hildren; Faward, twenty hd when that lease them how to care for bables—how | years old; George, nineteen, and Will- reappraisal the sa to meet their future duties? We |iam, sixteen. Seltzer at the time of his otier bidder assumes a new lease upon do. * marriage bought an apartment house at Manhattan avenue, giving a half Mrs, Seltzer stil! In the complaint Mrs. Cellinger makes | ims that they were written by Held, it is alleged, ed “Rudd "are ve, our THREE CENTS MORE FOR BOTTLED MILK RETAL MEN CLAM They Send 20,000 Circulars to Householders Protesting Led- erle’s Order as Aid to Trust. Twenty thousand circulars addressed ater | dred as died fifty years ago. BAD FOR NATION, Doesn’t Agree With T. R. on| ies—Too Many Born Only to Die. Size of Fan ought not to be so many aid Dr. Abraham Jacobi, speaking at the annual meeting of St. John’s Guild in the Republic Theatre yesterday. “L think the familles are too large,” he continued. “I do not believe you are much impressed with the valiant efforts of the man who wants tho families to be blessed (or perhaps not blessed) with six or seven or elght babies.” Dr. Jacobi estimated the infant mor- tality in the United States represented an annual economic loss of $200,000,000, to say nothing of the distress, But he said that only about half as many in- “SAS DR, COB; THROWS ! |Chicago to Teach Schoolgirls Care of Babies; \QTHEROF WIFE, | Idea Is Already in Practical Operation Here \SQHISMOTHER, } IN MARITAL MIX-UP Cooney, Accused of Assault, | Discharged After Court Unravels Tangle. | Justices Metnerny, Olmated and Host. | presiding tn Spectal Sessions, had a) problem to-day that baffled them for a | tim ‘he problem was the relationship that existed between Mrs, Alice Cooney | of No, 2 West One Hundred and Tweet tleth st and William 1, Cooney of No, 24 Elgith avenue, Mrs, Cooney charged Willlam 1. Cooney with as | wait, | “Are you a relation of the defendant?” | sald Justice Hoyt to Mrs, Cooney | “Yes, sir, I'm his mother-in-law,” re- | r#, Cooney, “I'm alae his | “How do you make that out?" ¢. or | used the three justices as everybody in| the court room sat up and took notice. | “Well, it's a funny situation,” replied | Mrs, Cooney, smiling. “I am married | to his father and he's married to my | jaughter.”” “That's a mix-up, Indeed," remarked | Justice MeInerny. jothing strange about It," replied Mrs, Cooney. “I was married before 1| married the defendant's father, and had a daughter by my first husband. My | resent husband had been married also, | and the prisoner was his son by his first marriage, When I married the daughter married the son, hie e father my so I'm his mother-in-law as well mother—that is, his stepmother “It was only a family fight." Cooney's lawyer suggested to the Court, “and 1 represent the family. They have patched FREE! FREE! FREE! Everybody has a chance to win this handsome Upright Piano. It will go to the person who sends the best answer |} to our “New Year” problem. RIZE PIANO, fants die nowadays out of every hun- He thinks the high mortality rate which still ob tains can be further reduced by such agencies as St. John's Guild, He says ® per cent. of babies die before they are five years old, chiefly from intes misstoner Lederle for his recent order that all milk must be sold in bottles! and claims !t amounts to an endeavor | to turn the sale of milk in this ctty| over to the Milk Trust. ‘The claim 1s made by the milk dealers | that 75 per cent of the householders are | now paying five or six centa a quart! for milk from the open can, for which | they will be obliged after Jan. 1, 1 to pay nine cents a quart in sealed receptacles. Here are some of the contentions by’! the dealers: | “We hold that compulsory pasteuriza-! tion will inflict hardships and sufferings upon the very class of people tts advo cates claim to have so much solicitude | for—the defenseless, il-nourished child- ren of the poor. “We hold that compulsory pas-| teurization will prove an ecanomte evil that {ts operation will greatly add to the cost of the milk by increasing the cost of production and incldentally | create a real Milk Trust by driving the small, independent dealers out of busi- ness and placing the commodity tn the hands of a few dealers.” Many independent dealers said to-day that if the proposed order goes into ef- fect they will have to go out of busi- ness, It*costs trom $5,000 to $10,000 to start a bottle plant. “The new order of Commissioner lives there, but her hushand 1s Hving| being raised three cents a quart for CONNECTING PENN STATION. | "Of course we have among us mem-/at No. 169 Jackson avenue with Mes, (paventy<five gar scent of tha. com-| Aw to the physical layout o UA bers of the sorrowing sisterhood—suf-|Anna Cellinger, sister of Rudolph Held, | munt sald Willlam Grant Brown, | waya, the Muyo Mel fe ttes—who don’t belleve in teachtng| whom Seltzer names as the wrecker of | referee in the action of New York St | fou tha interporay the thi which elghty per cent.| his home, against the Milk Trust, ‘The only one | solution {# some kind of a sanitary car ie aircy=aifth street | “But,” 1 objected, “the objection of! the most Important aMdavit, Mrs.’ Selt-| closed so as to meet with the require wubway Ines that may be useless for | the Suftr; because you don't con- is charged with misconduct with| ments of the order and sealed In auch a! eam to com Ry this the Mayor | sider a siintlar preparation for father-| Held at the Manhattan avenue address, | way ag to be sure that the consumer means that } ralerh treet | hood A essary Why not teach thelin rebruary of this year, and also at! purchasing milk at five Interborougiy |e Sor are vo ttatee ised how | the Blue Point Inn, Long Island, last | quart gets it exact! ‘i i dat J summer, “An Increase of three j the baoy Ja a rhythmic manner guare veral {nteresting postal cards fig-| makes milk absolutely 1 nteed to im to: sleep?" ured in the action and the husband, poor people who have Infa Levy on Bo dew of Cane. It was Levy vs, Levy in the United | States Cireuit Court to-day, Assistant United States District-Att Iau | H. Levy was there as prosecutor of | Solomon L, Lipman, who was defendes | Lederle will result in th® price of milk | * tinal diseases induced by faulty breed: ing. He sald that philanthropic work, like politics, suffers now too much from de- centralization. “Too many people,” he explained, “want .o do the same thing at once. We do too much by halves because we can't do them by wholes.” rte 20 YEARS HITTING Cure Several Times, bat it Never Took, Declaring that her husband, Alonzo R Smith, has an habitual drunkard for twenty years, despite the fact that he has taken a cure several times, Mrs Anna (, Smith filed sult to-day in the Supreme Court for a separation, The couph who were married in 1883 In St. Louis, hi five children, the} youngest of whom {x fourteen, | Mrs. Smith alleges her husband doned ber, 1900, and has eted: to pntribute toward e then, living with Sm i for weeks at a_ time. would leave the State, go! Kansas, She added that he would send her numerous telegrams for money dur- ing his periodical sprints around the country Kafer & Wilds of No, 2 Rector street are M nith’s lawyers An Appetizing Nibble of Lindt Chocolate is always enjoyed by young and old. Lindt \¥yta provides nutrition as \Y well as sweetness, \ findt Choco | Sol Aintifih., You'll instantly recognize Lindt superiority. Imported in Cakes and Wafers at $1. per pound at the best stores everywher All Sizes, Se.-$1, Chas, Spitz, Wholesale Depot 18-20 W, 21st St., New York Once You Try It, | IT UP.| | Factory at 202 West 23rd St. long time and, lke the Centre street loop, will be useless. At the Public Service Commiasion to- lay 1t was said that the reason plans were being changed for the sections helow Fourteenth street was because of tgonomy-that @& saving of $6,4)0.(00 vould be effected by the redrawing of many years ago. THEM DEPORTMENT. that {# sald gy weaacn AEE W Biol aed ta he the leas, ho i w! ubject. bride, another the best man, & Pc bed be mother stumped Michigan with Eliza- beth Cady Stanton for women's rights SOCIAL SERVICE CLUB TEACHES “Another thing which a school like stane-and reducing the size of the bore. |this has to teach,” sald Mr, McAn- While not admitting that the changes | drew, “1s manners, We have what ire belng made for the purpose of pro- | call a Soc ce Club, and the girls ack route for the B. R. T. | ha: tons, afternoon Yo! can teach @ girl much more by telling her things which are supposed to bene- Mt her small brother or sister than if three son, rloom belonging to the wife, in| 3 bed in M Ceilinger’s | then at No, 396 genet apartment, avenue, Last summer Mra. Seltzer went to Blue Point to spend the summ he Cellingers followed, Business often kept Mr, Seltzer in town, but “Ruddy” spent some of his leisure there, according to Mrs. Cellinger, | Mrs, Seltzer often left her bed—she| slept with Mrs, Cellinger-at midnight, | and did not return until dawn, Mrs, Seltzer denies the allegations in the complaint and ays she needs money for her, support and that of her u $20 Broadway—22d St. 6th Ave., near Sist St. sted ‘n children, The ot 1 Another addressed to Mrs, Seltzer) py Abe Levy. Lipman is charged with Gaynor is prepared to hold |itor to the school brought h Your true ‘and also! y juey in concealing his assets In a es with a view of giving | litle th 1 girl with he > letters “1 which, the sy eer real and comprehensive | went Into the chemistry class and im-{ t signature be-| bankruptcy case, s ha mA f which the proposed | mediately the exclamation went up, jt “other man.” |buslness et No. 317 Mercer street, s rrovide, as he has repeat-|.oh, what a pretty y! ENverybody:| 2 Cellinger says tn her affidavit was connected with the National Mail The Mayor's attention was] oy 0a gy and gathered about the | that the conduct of Mre, Seltzer at the Order Company, which fait iiled to the proposed changes below | S000" Mei ea etvoute a girl's love | Manhattan avenue address was scin- ourteenth street, which, tt was sald, | Child. to) ne erat ea dalous and improper. According to her vould mit the clty irrevocably to |of children with all your suffrage,” Mr. | story, one of the Ineldents which caused ULSTER ee. Re iP. syatem, He thinks that| McAndrew added, “but we're ail Suf-|her suspicions of Mrs, Seltzer to de| howe sections will not ‘be needed for a|fragists In my family, T am, and my | verified was the finding of a stickpin, | O’COATSEddys VINCENT You'll Always Buy It— B19 English | |Pomts — WANDSO INSTRUMENT | GOES FOK THE BEST ANSWER » ree BUD the faurey Lead produce’ a total aa close as ¢ closer tham that, ot later than Mon . when the contest Coat Sale! $15 & $18 Models Reduced to 310: Tomorrow, Thursday, Coats alive to every demand of style; as smartly tailoredas though made to your order. There neverhas been such a sale before. Itis the greatest coat event ever witnessed in New York, Twincotes— ‘Karcotes’—Dress Coats Twenty-five different styles; charming Empire effects; their wide cape collars trimmed with silk fringe as illustrated. 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