The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1911, Page 3

Seleseeereees saainihainte POLICE WIND NET F EVIDENCE ROUND ) "BOY FOR SLAYING eteclives Now Think Mur- ered Jeweller Put $10,000 | in Gems in Safety Vault. MORE LI Landlady of Prisoner Supplies Another One in Chain KS FORGED.| Mrs. Blatch Would Include in Class All Except Those Who Properly Care for Home and Children or Otherwise Give to World as Much as They Receive. Modern Conditions, She Says, Give Women Leisure Which Few Fill With Worthy Activities —Some Regrettable Result BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITRH. At last I know how a tramp feels who asks con- ’ . | of Circumstances. | och the police have made no in unearthing any of the $10,000 sh of gems stolen from Isaac 8. Vogel when he was slain at No. 12 Cpdai rireet Tuesday evening, Capt. | Boye of the Detective Bureau, announced to-day that additional evidence against | ) dJpseph Roberts, the West Indian eleva- He wore on the night of the murder. ‘Ths examination, said Foye, revealed ile at work in the cellar and while riinning the elevator Tuesday afternoon re.stained in a dozen different place } ¢ of the stains had been partially dashed out. The Karments have been tor, ehemical analyst The shirt that Roberts is belleved thave worn with the other clothing ‘found in a tub tn the basement. ‘This garment had heen washed out with ajetrong chemical soap and there were stains piqsent. The jacket and Yrooat worn by Terrence Vatelle, th window cleaner, which Roberts “Jeht up from the cellar when Vate! ited to go home, were also sent to she Health Department laboratories. Captain Foye said that the police) theory that Roberts had planned to burm-the body of his victim in the fur- nace was borne out by a statement 2 th® young negro boarded, at No, % West Ninety-ninth street. Mrs, Dick- erson deciares that Roberts asked her to call him at 4 o'clock in the morning, waying that he had work to do in the Canal street building that would de- mand his presence at 5 o'clock, He was due until 6.90. Dickerson refused to call left him sitting up. He told her he would not go to bed: as he ter boy, had been obtained through al nbicroacopicai examination of the cloth- | at the vest and trousers Roberts wore | / pent to the Hoard of Health laboratories | méi@e by Mra. Dickerson, with whom | t him | fidently for his breakfast and is led to the woodpile by | a stern moralist, who tells him he must work before he eats. Now, as we have all heard, a tramp ie a parasite upon society, and this interview is about parasites— specifically about women parasites—but will get to the) tramp later on. | The other day, when Mrs. L. 0. Macdantel, wife of a millionaire manufacturer of Syracuse, pledged herself to march with the Woman's Political Union in the suf- frage parade next May, she wrote after her name these | exes SMITH words: “Occupation—Parasite.” Later she sald: “I call myself a parasite. Any woman who lives off the wealth of her | husband and does nothing for society is a parasite. This country has thou- sands of them. The most regrettable part of such an existence is that she | does nothing to improve herself. | | “Women of the parasite class are not confined to the rich. Such a lass | | Includes all idle, useless women. | “Take, for instance, the woman of moderate means, who plays away her | afternoons at bridge or at similar pastimes which benefit no one.” Then Mrs. Macdaniel took the first) fection,” Mrs. Blatch conceded. “Pri train back to Syracuse. But I wanted| tically the whole of Acton, which is a! to know what the Woman's Political] Part of London, is given over to laundry | Union thought of the parasite question.| Work done by women. The husbands I went up to ite offices and asked for/ 4° nothing. They are simply drones, | and their wives support them.” LA sina Mrs, Harriet Stanton) wit you tell me why?” I asked, latch. Then it was tNat 1 experienced the|MAPPIEST MARRIAGES MEAN Psychic shock of the tramp who meets SACRIFICES BY WIVES. the woodpile for the first time, “Oh, the maternal instinct, | Mrs "Blatch wil be In in a few mo-| Blatoh smilingly answered. “The tap | | ments,” explained a pretty and, oh, 4n which | such an executive young woman! “And the wife mothers the husband, reaty | | meantime I'm sure you want some work| treats him as one of her boys, Wh to do, sit right down here end stamp| the man's idle and worthless, the wife these folders for us. may keep after him to get work, but “It's very simple," she added encour-| she won't turn him out if he doesn't. “just bend the pad backward| Mothers never tire of making sacrifice ‘and then for-| for thelr wayward husbands and ke that!| “Commu property, which prevails | agingly;’ to get enough ink on it, ward on the folders, See, Just try one!" AND 8HE MEEKLY TACKLED THE WOODPILE. She was, as I have sald, @ very execu- » young woman. So, when Mra, Blatch came in she found me meekly and industriously stamping folders with red ink and hav- come more general,” Mrs. Blatch con- tinued. ‘That ts, you know, the law by which husbands and wives own Jointly | the property acquired after marriage.” “Yes, but the parasitic wife dest of the law, too,” I urged. “Under it the most frivolous and worth- less woman has just the same co.n- 1 THE EVENING WORLD, in some of the Western States, may be- | jets ‘io| Dougherty Really , Really Sald “Some- a RAanEA CORRE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1911 Idleness, Not Riches, Makes Women Parasites; GASOLINE AND FIRE HIS SEVEN KISSES Found in Tenements as Well as Fifth Avenue DRIE TENANTS OUT 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL SAVES HER LITTLE “STOCKING BANK” SAFEST LAGE, SAYS POLICE D DEPUTY Heroine Discovers Blaze and where Else; Women Know {| Gives Alarm When 17 Fam- CUS FROM RE | | OF 7-STORY HOUSE, Heavy Dain ty? by Flames and | Water at Lancaster, 106th Street and Broadway. SERVANT STARTS IT.| Cleaning Fluid Explodes, She Badly Burned, Sick Woman Carried Out. j Is At a cost to others of many thousands day the lesson that gasoline and al Mghted gas stove in close proximity form a dangerous combination, Her Knowledge is incidental to the partial destruction by fire of the Lancaster, a seven-story apartment house on the south side of Bloomingdale Square at | One Hundred and Sixth street apd! Broadway, | ‘The Garrity girl, a matd in the em- ploy of Lester Shipman, who lived on the sixth floor of the bullding, was! painfully burned, Mrs, Sutherland, a! tenant, was in bed fll when tne fire} occurred and was carried down to the! street wrapped in blankets, The shock | 1s likely to result seriously ‘her. | Every flat in the building was flooded or damaged by fire and all the tenants were forced to flee for safety. The Lancaster faces One Hundred and Sixth street, Broadway and Wert End avenue. Margaret Garrity was alone in the Shipman apartment just before noon, cleaning some garments with gasoline in the kitchen. The fumes of tho gasoline communt- cated with the flame of the gas stove and an explosion that was heard all over the neighborhood resulted. Burn- ing gesoline showered Margaret Garrity, who fled to the public hallway, Fortunately for the girl she faypted | Just outside of the fiat. In fallin# she extinguished the fire that had started to consume her clothing. The elevator boy, Richard LAcham, draxged her into his car, carried her to the ground floor 4nd summoned Thomas Auld, superin- tendent of the building. When Auld got up to the sixth floor the whole Shipman flat was ablaze and firo was eating into the adjoining fl occupied by Miss Catherine Kelly, In the mean time a policeman had turned in a fire alarm, and Auld, | cording of dollars, Margaret Garrity learned to- | the elevator | WORTH $20,000 70 HER, GIRL'S CLAIM But the Osculatory Farmer She Sues Says They Are Dear at $3.50. ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Dec. §—A kis ts worth $555, according to Miss Mar- @aret Bender—and only fifty cente, ac- to W. T. Maget, a wealthy farmer and Kisser. A jury here to-day will have the task of reconciling the two values in the sult Miss Bender has brought against her osculatory friend. Maget, she alleged, forcibly kissed her |meven times, 4 few weeks ago, and she values the Ki Maget 8 at $20,000. declared the _kisee wore by $2) to Vo ope coats ranging in value from SALE AT ALL THREE STORES the lady's favor, bat =e scene, he subsequently pald her osculation. According to his testimony, they would have bava dear at 00 cents, ———————— 200 HURLED INTO RIVER BY COLLAPSE OF BRIDGE. Trace Found of Only Four of the Victims in Ice Choked Stream— Watch for Survivors. ST, PETERSBURG, Deo. §.—About 200 workmen were to-day plunged into the Volga River by the collapse of a railroad bridge near Kazan. The bridge was in course of construction and was carried away by the pressure of fee. Only four corpses thus far have been recovered. It Is hoped that some of the victims will be able save themselves by clambering on ice ft All the towns along the lower part of the river have been Warned to keep a sharp outl for survivors. _——< ee Boy, 16, Six Feet Tall, te Loat, If you happen to see a fifteen-year-old boy, six feet tall, wearing a blue serge sult, black overcoat, black shoes and stockings and answering to the name of Harold Owen of Lestershire, Broome County, N. ¥., please notify the six-foot boy's distracted uncle, Robert Owen, tn- surance broker, of No. 1 Liberty street. The boy Is believed to have come to New York Nov. 10 January Sal $25 Caracul Coats $22 Kersey Coats $20 Mixture Coats Now a *10°% rtunity too good to miss. $25 now reduced to this ees A cchance in a lifetime —and winter just begun. One Mode! Like Pictore An array imposing in its infinite variety’ of weaves and styles, covering the entire field of coat uses, meeting every want, and fancy. coats beautifully trimmed. caraculs richly lined eicealiit, Alto jashing mixtures and cloths. The fascinating model illus- trated is a fair representative of what you will find at this sacrifice Elegant full th Benite downy vicuna Alterations FREE ft he night overstoep, He had|ing @ delightful time imagining whether| munity ri boy and Willlam J. ‘Ty. ‘ : ights as the most effici a it fll Wi heer ere papel hage drinkin: Iwavily, though, and fell! yy a rubber stamper 1 co:ld make %#| housewife and tender mother, In every| Where,” but He's Modest. ilies Are Menaced. ner, ovcupled themselves in getting | a Ps reg eps een ae or $7 week! Hepviy I would apportion ae compenen ta fs based, not upon| Stem Sutherland, i" ite woma i 3 ck that he reache my income, if I what the wife contributes, not what she i | emoved with difficulty. w 4th Street New York employment. The murder hud been dis-| Anyhow, 1 proved I wasn't a parasite, | actually is, but merel: in th “we hoppers who wish | Pera my bale culty. When she | , 14 and 16 West I Ww neni lized ea enter irda y upon the fact that “Women Christmas shoppers who wish} ‘Thirteen-year-old Bertha Radigan| wag carried to the ground floor the two 460 and 462 Pulten Sireet—Brookiyn as lucky, for Mrs. Bi wife, good, bad or indi t matter, which petty to avoid purse snatchers and | Wam the heroine of a fire in the six- | upper floors of the buliding were ablaae 645-051 Broad Street -- Newark, N. J. failure of the poilce to discover » plunder of the robvery Is e for the theory among some ofthe detectives working on the that Jeweller Vogel may have pi géme in a safe deposit veult before ne wis murdered. Capt, oye said to-day that the belt he wore about his wast nad been little disarranged and ¢t was some ground to believe that all the pelf the murderer got consisted of what loose bruveiets and Watches the itinerant Jeweller carried tn his pockets Roberts is known to have displayed bracelets and. watches, but nove of the witnesses who furnished evidence on this score could recs’ BOASTS 10 SISTER iB any gems. HIS ESCAPADES, Elizabeth Suarez Gives Testl- mony Against Louis H. Bell in Divorce Suit. Mrs. Catherine M, Bell, twenty-two ‘and pretty, who {s suing her husband, Louls H. Bell, @ broker's clerk, for di- vorce before Ju langer and a jury in the me Court, declared this after that in less than one year after her marriage Bell became an ate of the theory that the less a nd and wife see of ea the er they get along “This young couple married in No- ce E oon a n other be a young married man to from 4 thing for remaln poustble.” According way 3 wire to the complaint, tt her h charge that he became anotuer woman, The first witness was Miss EI Marke! Su f the plulnt! avery act woman how Bell boasted of staying away from hoe rex, iste on the part of t s. ell's attorn would be nonstration nt. Mr there will be Justice not it enough to act t auld court will OF YOUNG WIFE OF vember, 100," yatd Mrs, Bell's lawyer to the jury, “They went to housekeep- ing and Koi on very well for a few months. Then I rted going out nights, It wasn ug before he . bot tt 1 that Lt was quite the prop- ag much as was " okey that. resulted | instance, T found that the workman gts nivarse: pro ‘ngs, Mra, Bel | aking only ten shillings @ week (that became suspicious and laid a trap for |!* $2.60), if he had an eMicient wife was d, She bases her sult on the too friendly with zabeth ft, a She told ell's r asked to have Mrs. BR ot Aye ot 1 keeper, excluded | That's why I belteve in pensions for from the courtroom while” mothers,” Mrs, Blatch added, Veeston trial, He said he “The argument against state pensions no tolerate ed with every word Miss Mac- dantel had said. | “We must admit that there are very many women all over the world who are getting « great deal more than they give in return,” paid the President of the Woman's Political Union. “Such women are parasites. They exist in every class and are not confined to the rich, There is idleness in the tene- ments as well as on Fifth ave nue. “Is the housew!fe of to-day & degen- |erate wealtiing as compared with nei |great-grandmother? Apparently, But I don't think she 1s g0 in reallty. Our great-grandmothers contributed to the national wealth as the women of to-day cannot. They did all the spin- g and weaving, they cared for the | sick and the old and the weak-minded. |'Po-day the factory has taken woman's home industries away from her, and thi hospital and the trained nurse have A ned the care of the sick and the in- She 1s left with a great deal of aan and her activities, except in a small class, are not worthy of her op- portunities. “The extravagant dressing of to-day is largely attributable to the idleness of the parasitic woman. Women have never before spent so much money on their gowns, or worn such extreme fash- fons as prevail to-day. Lavish en- tertaining is another regrettable result of feminine leisure. INTELLECT ELEMENT NOW TABOO IN ENTERTAINING. “The intellectual element has departed altogether from soclal entertainments, which are given now merely with the {dea of having more elaborate decora- tion than any one else, or employing & more expensive singer to entertain the guests, Bridge playing Is another symp- tom of parasitiam. I know women who begin playing bridge In the morning. “There is, of course, a small group of women who give their time td the ser- vice of the community by acting on hot pital boards and boards of education. Of course, no woman who cares for bi home and children properly can be called a parasite, As a result of an in- vestigation I made in England some years ago I reched the conclusion that figures on the subject of workingmen's budgets are almost worthless because the welfare of the family depends prac- tically on the capacity of the wife, For 2 better fed and cared for than another man who perhaps earned weekly wages of £3 (or $15). “The right sort of wife {s not a para- site, but under present conditions the woman who does the least work of all, the millionatre's perhaps ch:ldiess wife, is better compensated than the mother who rears eight or ten splendid children, a for mothers is that tt would, in many ke drones of the father,” I he husbands, relieved of of supporting their chil- essity At present no won nows her value as a wife in the law’ eyes until she quarrels with her hus- band and sues for a separation or a divorce with alimony. And then she's paid for duties she no longer performs and t# more of a parasite than ever. If a wife were legally entitled to a certain portion of her husband's sal- ary, and if her duties were well defined by law, and her legal rights dependant upon her performance of them, she would not be @ parasite at all, “Something will have to be done,” Mrs. Blatch agreed, “for more and more women are beginning to awaken to their| parasitism. The humiliating fact of| thelr dependence rankles more ana more." At that moment the pretty and execu- tlve young woman came back, and I fled before she could put me to work again. . —=— MRS. STORY GETS CHILD WHILE DIVORCE SUIT PENDS. She and Husband Reach Agreement Out of Court and She Is Overjoyed. Allen Lawrence Story and his beautiful young wif, Helen Hilton Story, whowo marital differences have been taken to | by the Commissioner, who is in charge thieves who prey upon the public at this season should carry their’ pui in their hands. If they have large sums of money, they should carry the sur- plus somewhere else. Women know where. It 1s always safe." So spoke Second Deputy Police Com- missioner George 8. Dougherty to-day, Commissioner Dougherty {s a modest man, He did not say “stocking.” No, indeed. He started to, then he blushed and said “Somewhere else, Women| know wiere.’ | story tenement at No. 101 East Nincty- | seventh street, which she discovered early to-day. The child saw flames in the dumbwatter shaft in the first tloor apartment, where she lives with her aunt; Mrs. Catherine Walsh, She called her aunt and then rushed.to the front window, which she broke to attract the attention of Policeman O'Rourke of the Hast One Hundred and Fourth street station. The flames spread up the shaft to the roof. Suddenly there was an ex- and the firemen were just beginning to direct streams of water on the flames. The fire had such a start that It was necessary to use @ lot of water In quenching {t. Streams cascaded down the staircases and the elevator shaft, flooding the entire bullding., The stock | of @ rug store on the ground floor was badly damaged and a telegraph office adjoining was put out of commission, An immense crowd gathered to wateh the blaze. The firemen were hampered in thelr work, and {t became necessary to summon reserves from the West One Hundredth street station, ‘These rules for safety were laid down| plosion of gas and the seventeen fam- {ies who occupy the building tumbled | pellmell down the stairways, many only partly dre. sed. In the midst of the excitement Mar- garot Walsh, five-year-old cousin of Bertha, was forgotten, has pneumonia and she was in bed. Back into the house ran Bertha and, wrapping of the Detective Bureau: Each shopper should protect him- self or herself. Don't tempt thieves with care- lesenese. Don't carry monéy or jewelry in large handbags, easily opened by thieves. Keep the purse in the hand. Don't place the purse or valuable Packages on counters or chairs, ried her into the st Margaret and her baby alster, three years old, whom When a thief 1# caught assist the | Mrs. Walsh had seized in her armi authorities by prosecutl insist | were taken to the house of a neighbor on @ sentence. n ambulance was summoned and the 2) or \A Commissioner Dougherty differentiates | sok child taken to Harlem Lospital. between the “bag opener”? and the ee eee cated glmost a panic among “dip” or pickpocket. He said the “{ ; the half-clad tenants, who ran scream- former class of thieves Is made up [1° Mhout the wtreet,, Sorgt. Driscoll of largely of boys and women, “Bag Feta Sy Bi pockets largely confine their activities Hundred, and. Fourth and the divorce court. came to a private understanding to-day as to the custody of thelr three-year-old daughter, Ruth King Story. Mrs, Story sued our # writ of habeas corpus recently, directing her husband to produce the chtld in court and show cause why the little one should not be intrusted to her care. There was to have been an argument on the writ to- day, but the Storys appeared before Justice Glegerich and told him they would settle all differences concerning the child out of court. According to Agar, Bly & Futton, counsel for Mra, Story, it has been agreed Mrs, Story shall have the cus- tody of litte Ruth King Story during the pendency of the divorce sult. ‘There was much secrecy utténding the proceedings in court. Neither Story nor hie wife would discuss the case, Mrs, Story, attined In a handsome black dress, trimmed with white, and wear- ing a large diamond bar pin at her lneck, seemed greatly telleved at the me of the to-day, "she am so happy to have my chitd . She should never have been taken from me.” Story is suing his wife for divorce on the ground that she acted tmprop- erly with Stanley Forde, an actor. Mrs. Story denies the charge. Since thelr separation last summer Story has had the custody of the child, jin Gramercy Park. exclaimed in a burst of| taking {t to the home of his mother | to men. \ cd "The Commissioner said the Police De- | Pishty-el#hih. at partment has made ample provision for “rn pe py protection for shoppers, but urged, how-| read plop. ever, that shoppers aid the polfce hy Using common senge in helping to pro- | Th damage te about tect themselves. the dumbwalter shaft. $8,000, ‘A pickpocket and pag opener squad | Got More on Hi ond Verdict. actively watching the shopping crowda,| A jury in the United States Ctrouit and suspects are picked up and brougat Court awarded Mrs, Eva Lehtonta 82,600 to headquarters at the slightest move) for the death of her husband, caused by thet: seems suepisious, {a New York, Haven and Hartford train at a crossing In White Plains, The railroad appealed and a new trial was ordered. To-day a second jury re- turned a verdict against the railroad, a re ing her $7,200 this time. The rad ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY, TAL SUD mets Moo tises,.. THE TIDE ‘High Wat AM, BP. Sun rises, cau Low Water AM, PM Bandy Hook esse fi OT tat 248 ¥ Governor's Islat 8.20 10,00 6.10 immediately said they Tell Gate 110 11.50 4.00 Dennison makes the finest paper boxes in the World. In Dennison Boxes of CHRISTMAS Designs is the highest quality of workmanship. Embossed Boxes Coin Boxes White and red glazed paper, with de- pall: << Or DEATH OF ETHAN ALLEN, Col. Ethan Allen, eighty years 914, attorney, author and collateral descend- ant of his historic namesake, died last night at bis home in Bretton Hall trom a complication of dise: He was born ig Monmouth County, N. J., graduated at Brown and the University law School, this city, Was a supporter of Lincolh and in 1861 became Aseistant Unites States District-Attorney, which ‘That ts, to some extent, @ valid ov- resigned to organize and equip Blair's brigade, Red ith design embossed in green ee i pressed velvet pad. Bureau Boxes and a large line of and Cabinets 15 JOHN ST. 15 WEST 27TH ST. NEW YORK Iuttle Margaret) teet it proceeded to the fi @ blanket about the little sufferer, car-| As Truck No. 40 Wus turning into One Hundred and Sixth street from Amster- dam avenue on the way to ‘he @re, the horses fell. A sirect car rammed the truck and the firemen jumped for thelr lives, The truck was not badly dam- aged and when the horses got to their and was of ers to the great service in putting upper floors. Samuel McMillan, former Park Com- missioner, own bulldin, Paha Paarl RECORD MAIL SHIPMENT. QUEENSTOWN, Dec, 8.—stx thousand bags of mail, chlefly Christmas pres- ents, are being taken to America aboard the ner Oceanic, This is the largest consignment of math ever carried by « steamer. Waton Bennett's Jewels tw one No mall DIRECT rROM Nort AMPTON, The recent stor Was & severe tes constructed shoe, and enow water strongest savy Eng tar felt, the black moose or seal brown Uppers, y fitted bel- tongue — absolutely rproot shoes. Every = ¢ r had dry, ‘comfort- m feet, All widths, JOHN “M. 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