The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1911, Page 3

HAS FREE RUN OF WARDEN'S HOUSE Tombs Keeper Says Cummins Couldn’t Sleep in an Ordinary Cell. GETS SPECIAL MEALS. Ex-Carnegie Official Takes Advantage of All the Prison Privileges, ‘William J. Cummins, the canvicted banker who is confined in the Tomus pending further legal obstructions by his lawyers to prevent him being went to Sing Sing, is occupying the hullt in the Inner ‘ard of the pris- ‘or the exclusive use hor of the Warden an All the other prisoners cells, most of then ha State. ments made to- ‘den John J. Fallon and Commissioner of Corrections Patrick A. Whitney indicate that Cum- mins will remain in his present quar- ters, The house that {s sheltering Cummins fe a two-story structure erected in the inner court in the southeast corner, adjacent to the female prison. It was originally intended for the exclusive use of the Warden and his family. There are two bedrooms on the second floor and three living rooms on the ground ch open directly out Into the learned to-day that banker had practically of the entire house, th Warden Fallon and Commis: sioner Whitney, when seen to-day and asked why Mr, Cummins was accorded such unusual comfort, defended their right to do what they pleased in the matter and sald that he was being trpated simply ae any man would who was in poor physical condition. BOARD OF HEALTH SAID THE HOUSE WAS UNFIT. The honse in which Cummins ds spend- ing his time has never been used for the purpose of housing the Warden Vation refused to lve in ft, claiming that {t was unfit for any man to reside} in Ipermanently, end the Board of Heath, after an tnspection of the prem- | isé3 In March fast, upheld him, Bince| then Fallon has made a claim agaipst the city of $800 for expenses for outside residence, the city being under the obli- gation to provide for the home of the| Warden of the, Tombs, The Poard of Health at that time de- clared that the watden's house, being against two dead walle which towered high above {t on the east and south sides, and confronted on the north by the fem rison, recelved too ttle light and air to be a proper dwelling for any man. The officials of the Health | Department also alleged that the nolses | 1 the boller room just next to tt, in | butlding were not condusive to! good health. pite this fact warden Fallon to-day A that he placed Mr, mmins in this house use of his ill health and that the banker claimed he could not sleep in the ordinary cells on ount of the constant noise tifat the other prisoners made during the night, “phe day after Mr. Cummins was plaeed hove,” sald Warden day, “I talked with ticed that he looked pre Fallon tos | s lawyer, Ton y near a state of collapse, and I asked him how he felt. He complained that he had not| Wen able to sleep the night before on} recount of the no!s That house jas been es as a sort of a hosptt s that he might be placed re. It is within my right. Several | » have 1 Ti have & | » defo: T sent Mr. Cum-| a cell oncy and he tand it, so I had him return to the r Whitney said have placed the matt hhengs of Wari 10 political pull of any kind matter, And there Isn't any money in ft either, If there was you may be sure that there'd be sometils way of an tmm The day after was ping mn ihe tion. 41 talked the matter over w and he told me that he dgment in the in this the keeper of the is prison is responsible for the prisoners’ care while they are in the ‘Tombs. told me that Mr, Cum- mins's health was bad and that for that | reason he had ordered the banker placed in better quarters “There {8 nothing luxurious about them, . T are or with the implest kind of furniture. As far as aving his meals sent fnto him, prisoner in the Tombs |# allowed that privilege, Mr. Fallon is doing what he thinks best and [ shall not interfere with hts judgment in any way. E ——>— GIRL WHO VANISHED | NOW HELD AS INSANE. Bertha Wender, eighteen years old, of No: 490 East One Hundred and Seventy- third street, Was sent to Bellevue Hospl- tal early to-day as Inwar She disappeared from her home yes- terday, and her parents had the police send out a general alarm for her, She d home this morning, and few later the police were calied ‘again itndan ambulance removed her to Bellevue. , mother of United States Marshal William Henkel, died to-day at her home, No. 22/Avenue A, she was Mm her weventy-third year, In addition to the marshal she {s survived by her son, Henry. The funeral will be| held from Marshal Henkel's home, Ni ( East Eighteenth street, Sunday a! ‘Wernoon. het ae ee So-Says Baroness Rose Posse, but She Recom- mends No Substitute, and Women Cannot Lose Another Garment Without Freezing. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. Will you have @ large waist or| ~ @ small brain? You must have one or the other, according to a declaration made by Baroness Rose Posse, who con- fronted an audi- ence of women of Cambridge, Mass., with this embar- rassing choice the other da: Conastriction of the waist by the corset, of which the Baron proclaimed her- self a deadly foe, results in poor circula- tion, Poor cireulation means poor thoughts. “It won't be many years,” sald the newest reformer, “before women will discard the corset for good, Look at the difference in dress nvw and in our grandmothers’ days, when small waists and Ill health went hand tn hand! Now the whole tendency Is toward the Greek type of beauty, and the waists have expanded marvellously, Naturally, with the circulation better, the digestion is better, the dispositions are better, and consequently we have a more handsome lot of wome! Now, If the tendency towami the Greek type were confined to the wast line we might ind e the signs of our} ia bape jh ee Mi eal 1s not. [seers began to peel and ee a With all their foolish folderols, their | Cided that one might be savel sian hoop skirts, polonaises, etc., our grand- | fhe 4 o enough villes,” “Evelyn Innes" and other wore enough clothes to KeeP| coveig, which the Pilgrim Fathers would have found useful only as kin- ling for witches, or, perhaps, for au- thors of realistic books. SILK PETTICOAT FOLLOWS | FLANNEL TO DISCARD. NO led} S@ DOGS The GRAW Fitth avenue shop told me that the feminine “back-to-nature” craze has become so alarming in New York that, forewomen in large stores have been compelled to rule upon the question of the minimum number of garmenta a wom: 1 customer may wear during fit-| tings—this, of course, as the result of repeated protests from women fitters. In the good old reign of Queen Vic- torla, practically all women wore winter underwear — long-sleeved and high necked, homely but sensible garments that undoubtedly achieved their main purpose of keeping the wearer warm, Now, would any New York woman with pretensions to beauty and fashion be found dead in such attire? Not any | that I know or have scen, What has become of that bulwark of Victorian respectability, the flannel pet- tleoat? Hena' teeth are not so scarce as flannel petticoats in New York to- a Some women, even within our memory, wore two such garments, perhaps as a mute declaration of con- servatism and th standing in the community. | ‘Then followed the era of the single petticoat of silk, and about that time some of the wrappings of our Puritan | after reading "Tess of the modern woman of fash- reduced her allowance of clothes to such a mizimym that a reformer is bold indeed who reo- ommends the abolition of any fem- Now the #llk petticoat has followed {ts humble sister of flannel into the) attic of t outworn, i It {s almost superfluous to say that the feminine passion for hiplessness 1s responsible for the decline and fall of both those useful articles of apparel. | And now comes the Baroness Posse inine garment without suggesting @ substitute, If the corset go what will be left? RATHER FREEZE THAN BE OUT OF FASHION. Walk Fifth avenue any morning and waten them come mincing or tripping along, Scores of the women, young and with nor suggestion that women old, attired In eel tight tatlored sults,| Sara the corset. Maybe she ts rig cobweb silk stockings, Pumps, hats | phere is uj good deal to be sald for and gloves~that ds a practically | aimost any reform, except simplified inventory of what they wear. | spotting, but It would seem to be the ' Smith's famous wish on a warm day that he might take off bis skin and sit In his bones finds an echo In the mething ww the sare torial mintmum any further. At the present time there is just slend one thing that would persuad The oth women in genera) to discard the r day a woman fitter In a Here is an Appreciated Christmas Gift Victor-Victrolas for $15 and up (COs You ought to make your selection of a Victrola now before the heavy rush of buying begins, Make your selection to-day at any of our three salesrooms, | A small deposit reserves * an instrument. We will send it at any time you eed Sc Psy request, Remember, the Landay service means per fection, it means absolute satisfaction, it means that the Victorgoods you buy of us are right in every, particular. We carry the widest variety of models and the largest assort- ment of Victor records in the United States, n d ay, 27 W. 3th St., Bet. 5th & 6th Aves. Authorised Distrwutere or the Vicor Foctery, 563 Fifth Ave., cor 46th St, - 400 Fifth Ave., at 37th St. MOH Dh EARN AIRE INR i BA ARRAN RENE A aac vou « 'Grandmothers, With Their Hoopskirts and Other Foolsh Folderols, Wore Enough to Keep Warm at Any Rate. corset, and that would be to con- vince them they would appear it, @ hopeless task. slender wit Mo arguments about health, cir. culation, &c., have the slightest weight. If they had, the doctors would have prevailed over the cor- set long ago. The average woman doesn't feel tl she's ‘ooking her best unless she more or uncomfortable, And corset, of cour: in that direction. Besides, whatever may be eald of “{deal figure,” &c., the average woman deal better in corsets Ith or reform waist that has ever been devised, and looks & great than !n any sort of h #o long as she remains convinced that fact, reformers are wasting their energies in her direction, According to all t . supplies valuable help fashion prophet wad CMe dientcnrtandionntinnd DIX FREES CONVICT POLICE CALL THIEF, BIGAMIST, SLAYER Sarlton’s Sentence Commuted for Aid He Gave in Oust- ing Collins. JUDGE HOPED HE'D DIE. s ava, called to the cage and he sent requests to the police of the whole country ask- ing for complaints against the man. | ‘They came by the busty. COMPLAINTS FROM ALL OVER) COUNTRY. ‘The most serious charke was that alx months after he married Jonnie Smyth | in Brooklyn jn 190 and insured her life, she died of lockjaw in Washing- ton. | Within a few weeks he married | Mamte Gorman, another Brooklyn girl, | Who died within three months, also ot tetanus, When the police took him from Eleanor Vanderventer they found sho had a sore on her arm which had been Infected by tetanus, but very iw hitly. ‘They were sure he had uset a hyper: dermie syringe or perhaps + fected metal point on all th: absolutely callous to the horrible death which was certain if the germs took effect. Before the net was closit on) him Carlton jeered at interviewers who tried to drag admissions from him, “Why, Re aad, “a fellow could get tosother enough germs to kil! all, Brook. lyn, Just by digging them up. Then not “I'd Send You to the Electric very. Under the ordinary allowances of time for good behavipr he has been re- Yased about five years earlier than he jwould have been if the Governor not intervened. ‘The reason given to the public for al- lowing him to go free is that he helped | ° get evidence which made it possible for the present agministration to drive Cor- nellus V. Collins, Warden Frost and other prison officials out of thelr of- fices on account of abuses In the pris- ons of the State. + Priest did not seem right and #he had altar against the core had he learned afterward that the priest was an impostor and an accomplice of Among Carlton's other en+ trimontal bureau by Which he obtained the naines of women with savings who wanted to be married again, WOMEN TEARFULLY BEGGED HIS LOVE. He eneeringly refused to recognize the Those who were familiar with the! women who came to Brooklyn to prove y | facts brought out in the triat whic’! the pigamy charge against him, though ended with Carlton's conviction could! once they met his eyes they stretched hardly belleve their eyes to-day when! out their arms and weepingly begged they read that Gov, Dix had reduced his him to s#y he still loved them, term no matter what his services to! “I have not sufficient Information to the State had been in the prison inves. Comment on the action of the Governor tigation. in releasin, said Assistant District- r, who was in “If X could,” said Judge Aspinall chair. I have no doubt that you at- tempted to murder Schaub. You have murdered two Brooklyn wom- em and have reaped the reward of their death soon after marriage by gaining $5,000 in life insurance within ten months, At heart you are a murderer, a villai scoun- @rel and a thief. I hope you will die im prison and rid this world of your preseuce, ‘Carlton was tried by District-Attor- ney Clarke in person because Mr. Clarke believed the man to be an atrocious murderer, as wel! as a bigamiat, wanted to get him out of the way; al- most Invariably when a commutation is ontemplated the Governor sends a re- quest for information and advice to the District-ate who prosecuted him my best Information, and | have been in charge here for nearly two mons, ts that no @ich request has been made in ne nat] “OF MEANEST TYPE,” SAID IN-| tne one nr Cariton is SPECTOR. “We certainly should have advised the | inspector Adam A, Cross, by whose| “#Atnat the release of such a dangarous enterprise and diligence the facta about | an with teas than one-third his 'sen- tence served.” Gov, Dix declined to discuss the re- of Carlton's sentence wh asked qhopt ft _by Tha Hvening World Albany Gorrespondent, Tt was pointed out at the Executive offices that Carl- Carlton's career were dtecovered, at the samo time: “He is a dangerous man to be loose, | How many women have fallen @ vicuim to his greed and viciousness tt would the sald of| be hard to say, He is a man of | , , petty practices—a man of the mi ton was Ueally on parole and type. He fascinated innc could be sent back to prison to serve they. were as toys in his hands.” out his kentence if he committed any hips, perhapa accompanted by hoop: Carlton was arr in 146 on com. | crime tn — Leben yeenicee serving an threatsa to return, ‘The wholesale | plant of the Henry Schaub mentioned by additiona sents for the new erime, manufacturers that rule the world of |Judge Aspinali He had given Cariton,| The commutation was made on tho women's clothes have so decreed. With| With whom he roomed in Sands sireet, |Tecommendation of Col, Joseph Scott, hips tho old-fashtoned {deal of the |$7-to “invest” When he could get no | of Prison small waist must certainly return, And {accounting he had Carlton arrested. | there we be again as far away | Schaub sure Carlton had tried to = from (the Greek {deal as our grand-|polson him, The police found Carlton mothers w Who knows but that|living in Fulton astrect with a Mrs, f T s the threatened reaction may carry with | Eleanor Vanderventer, At rst sne sald If You Take Chance: {t the renaissance of the flannel pett!-|s#he Was married to him, but when sho! the cyance may go against coat and all that tt implies? What an|learned such a statement would make) awful thought him guilty of bigahy she prompcy sac- | YOu. For certainty use only reliable lo riflced her good namo by denying tho | Reason for His Inheritance, — | '&rriase. item the Obisage Riceed-teraia.) 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