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is \ y A’ ‘\ i 4 | 7 i \ Wc! | i i j WNCEE TO WE FORER AFTERHE }PAYSHISPENALTY “Inducing Him to Surrender, Promises to Stand by Him to End. LOYALTY MAY FREE HIM. Miss Savage Pleads for Young Hotchkin; Held for Pass- ing Pad Checks. When Willard W. Hotehkin was held in the Tombs Police Court to-day, to await arraignment before Magistrate Kernochan on the charge of passing a Worthless check for $25, he related with emotion the loyal and courageous of- forts made yesterday by his beautiful flancee, Miss Agnes Savage, the most Admired society girl in Rutherford, N. J., to save him from disgrace. Not only did Miss Savage insist upon Hotehkin admitting his error to De- tective J. J. Krons of the Burns’ De- tective Agency, but she promised that it he would confess, she would stand by | him to the end and marry him after he had explalned the cause of his wrong: doing, ( Yesterday she accompanied him to New York, after a conference the night ‘before in Rutherford with the detective. ‘Ta company with the man she loved she Went to the banking house of Day, Adams & Co. of No. 45 Wall street, and #0 Impressed them with her loyalty and Pluck that they consented to do any- thing In thelr power waich would legally Assist in mitigating the young man's punishment, The real complainant against Hotebkin 4g Joseph Geller, proprietor of a curlos- tty shop at No. 19 West et. The gheck as given to him by Hotchkin for a violin, he receiving $2 in change. ‘The check was drawn on the Manhat- tan Bank Company of New York, pay- able to “Wellington Walcott” and bore the signature of Day, Adams and Com- pany, bankers, which was endorsed by Mr. Nichols of their firm. , HE USED FICTITIOUS NAME OF “WELLINGTON WALCOTT.” When Hotchkin was arraigned before Magistrate Kernochan it was under. the mame of “Wellington Walcott.” This Mre. Dey Believes That Long Wait Before Final Decree Would Rest the “Nerves”’ and, in Many Cases, Result in Re- union of Coupl She Would Make Mar- riage, Not Divorce, More Difficult—“‘One Gretna Green Does More Harm Than a Dozen Renos.” BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH “One Gretna Green for clandestine marriages is worse than a dosen morning Attorney Sullivan, his counsel, | | admitted to the Court that the e! of the banking concern was not Genuine signature, nor the indo @f Nichols—the genuine tndorsement. This was done, the attorney explained to the Court, for the sake of brevity in the proceedings. Hotchkin, who is the son of James Hotchkin of Rutherford, is connected With some of the oldest and finest fam- ies of Staten Island. His uncle is former Municipai Judge J. J, Winants, The Winants are connected with the Vanderbilts and Crocherons, old Staten Island familles. After his tinst arraignment, Hotehkin was held to await the arrival of his rel- atives, During that time he spoke with deep feeling of the circumstances that made him pass the worthless check, and the bi y of Miss Savage, who says end. explained 1 I was desperate. I found a certified check for $000 on the \ atrest, bearing the signature of Day, , Agama & Co, T took that oheck home, ’ Hotehkin,” where it is still, but unfortunately {t fave me an idea. T obtained a few Diank checks anz had a rubber stamp made which read. ‘Payable through the ring House.’ Then, using my $5,000 eheck to copy from, I made out a check on the Manhattan Rank Company of ew York with the Day, Adams & Co, I did not realize what (t only thought then that I y and could pay it \ HE I8 HELD FOR GRAND JURY UNDER $2,500 BOND. “That same day I passed another check, which a restaurant man on Weat street cashed for me. He did not make a complaint against me, because M! flav. ge saw him yesterday and assured Him restitution would be made, I have ‘been worried frantic trying to get a po- sition. I wanted to pay all this money back. “The night before last, when I re- turned to my home in Rutherford, my father told me a detective was in town looking for m.. My heart sank. I knew what it meant. I immediately took Mies Savage downtown with me to look for the detective. At firat I denied the acusation he made against me, M: Savage insisted we all go somewhere quley and talk the matter over. “Fi. ally, at her request, I confessed. Bhe told me, in front of the dutective, that if I admitted my error and told the truth, she would stick to me and marry me after it was all over, but that if I ed about It, she would have nothing more to do with me. HotehKin's attorney told the Court the matter could be arranged out of court, if that would be acceptable. Magistrate Kernochan refused to countenance that arrangement. and dented a motion for an adjournment, saying the detective had told him, when he applied for thé war- rant, there were several checks out be- alde ‘the one for $3, Sollivan then waived examination and Hotchkin was held for the Grand Jury under $2,500 bond. A 738-POUND BRIDAL COUPLE RIDE HOME IN HAY TRUCK. DOVER, N. H., Dec. 9.—Samuel Ches- ley Drew, the pride of the » Fat Men's Association, who weighs 457 pounds, Is back at his home here after @ honeymoon trip with his bride and who herself tips the scales at pounds. Aw there was no carriage in the town capable of transporting the happy pair they were carried from tho train to their home in a hay truck. ‘The marriage of Mr, and Mr: was (he culmination of @ romance which had its beginning in the corridors of the ‘ate hospital and poor farm here. Drew 4 the head chef and Mrs, Drew chief ie the insane ward, Period of two years must Detween the interlocutory and the final divorce decree, many hus- ands and wives might be reunited.” These are just a few epigrams ; from Mrs. Haryot Holt Dey, wife of | Frank Van Rensselaer Dey, novelist, jand herself a writer of originality and charm. Mrs. Dey talked to the women of the Legislative League this week on the | divorce problem, its cause and its cure, unless, of course, one regards divorce ; as in itself a cure. Mrs. Dey {8 an optimist on the di-/ vorce question, In fact, he's a saugh-| ing philosopher on every subject, though | her blue eyes have the wisdom of tears and the patience born of experience, which, she says herself, 1s death to all) theories, optimistic or otherwise. | | The rear windows of Mrs. Dey’s apartment look across @ lot where, amid the noise of dredges and the »mell of mortar, one more apartment house is being added to the hives of Harlem. Mrs. Dey took the wall that the work- men below were building as her text when I spoke of divore THE WALL INVISIBLE GROWS BETWEEN. “You see that wall,” she began. “It je a very thick wall, made of stone, growing quite a bit every day as stone laid upon stone, so that it seems a {f 1t would require a considerable force to overthrow jt; but it could be over- thrown, for all that. Even you might scale tt with a ladder, if the ladder were tall enough. ‘The wall I want to talk about is the wall that builds between two people—a husband and wife; the unseen wall, in- visible, but 0 impenetrable that no force can batter it down; no high that no one can climb over it; so thick that no X-ray can plerce it; 90 firm that no one can undermine it, There it stands, unseen, but separating two people as effectually as if thousands of miles of land and sea lay between them, Com- pared with it the material wall opposite that window {# as @ sheet of paper, Tile wall that rises between two people ie the divorce wall, It ts the real divorce, of which the legal procedure ia merely the proclamation. Long, long before tne paper is served and signed and filed the divorce has been ratified, “The builders of the divorce wall respect no labor union; there is no noon hour of rest; no knocking of work. But all day all night this thought wall, this divorce wall Os anger, hatred, misunderstanding and resentment is building, grow- ing higher, thicker and more im- | penetrable, till the builders thereof cannot see each other any more, nor hear each other, nor escape from the consciousness of the wall. When they try to run away from it they cannot. It is always there, ard and cold and thick and high, made of rook, only guch rock as the buman heart cam quarry.” THAT MITE SHE WOULD US j marry no} roblem. “TRIAL DIVORCE” THE DYNA-! ‘ign followed the »1 One Gretna Green Worse Than a Dozen Renos; Trial Divorce Better Than Trial | Marriage; ‘Bachelor’s Thought’ a Menace| MRS, FRAN! bor § RENSS SELAERL fs the y way of getting over it, oF around, af of blowing it up?” I asked. “Won't you make yourself the benev- olent McNamara of the great union of married women and apply a little dynamite?” When you read Mrs. Dey's reply you may want to exclaim, as I did, "Oh Peace, where is thy victory; divorce, where is thy sting?” But here it ts: yhave no remedies to offer, although I have heard of one that has an at- tractive sound, There is a small prov- ince tucked away somewhere in Europe where they have no divor: Not that @ divorce for the but there are terms. A couple , deairing a divorce can have it, but they must live together for one month in one room, with one plate, one knife and fork, one spoon and one cup and ueer, and must neither seo nor speak to any one but each other. It sounds simple, There are no divorces in that province, “Z have « simple, rather home- Spun ides, that married people do Get on each other's nerves some- times, and that our national di- Vorce law should oblige ali persons before demanding divorce to live apart without the slightest com- munication for two years. “In case of affintties—well, there's another problem! Another kind of bond- age to work out of. Prof. E. A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin suggests Measures for the leasening of divorce which sound full wise and reasonable Instruction of girls in domestic actenc: housekeeping, &c. Systematic instruc- tion of the youth of both sexes in the “ethics and f° -"~-* the marriage rela- tion, Bal ps in law, the u.. ¢ pure women to men tainted Win —.sease. Marriage at the place of residence of {one of the parties, Repudiation of the common-law marriage, and: WOULD NARROW THE TRANCE, NOT THE EXIT. “A filing of declaration of intention to a8 than six weeks before the Issuance of the marriage Ucense, “ptatistios show that the success of @ marriage is in direct relation to the lougth of time the parties have heen acquainted vefore mar- wiage. One ‘Greta Green’ for clan- Gestine marriages is the source of more harm to society than « dozen Aivorce colonies ike South Dakota. There is need of a higher ideal in the marriage relation. Wille » low Standard of social ethics continues to throw recklessly wide the door which opens into marriage, there must of necessity be @ broad door EN- out.” “The whole trouble with the family relation," added Mrs, Dey, “is that for- merly modern woclety found the hus- band and wife merged in one, and—ac- cording to Blackstone—that one the hus- band. Here, then, developed the wife's when the two are Individuals, with all the perils GAY ST. LANRENGE TO SEE QUR TO Everybody Says “Howdy” and) Helps Make Their Stay a Pleasant One. THAN |BIG FEEDS PLANNED. Some of Our Grown-Ups Own Up to Coming From the Peer- less Up-State County. ‘This is St. Lawrence County Day tn Now York. Its official celebration began at 7.9 o'clock, when @ special train rolled in from the northern end of the }State loaded down with the brawn, chivalry and garden truck from that | Part of the commonwealth which does New York the credit of considering it the greatest city of the world—after Ogdensburg. The men of the train prociaimed them- selves “the Rubes,” They were met by & company of distinguished New York- ers, who were described by them in pretended contempt as “backsliders” and “exiles” and “men who didn't dare go home for fear the Sheriff would recog- nize them.” They went about town In taxicabs (It beats all the way the farmer and the miner and the lumber man aro starv- Ing to death thee days) looking at the high buildings and occasionally taking 4 dive underneath them for rest and refreshment. They had some difficulty In finding thelr way about, inasmuch as they seldom visit this city more than once or twice a month. EAT LUNCH UNDER THE DOME WITH ALL THE WORLD. luncheon time the crowd broke up into groups, “Reub" Bill Manley of the Canton, St. Lawrence, Plain Dealer, and all his Journallstic breth- ren were entertained by Don C. Seite ‘lunder the dome of the Pulitzer Butld- ing. They were then shown over The World plant. “A pretty Ittle thing, seed Bil Man- ley; “but hardly stréhuous enough. What I like is a paper where the pub- lisher {s the city editor, goes out and reports his own nows, sets the typ, pute it on the press, runs off the coples and then takes them out on the street | At THE sWVISIBLE WALL Problem this time—the problem of to- day. HOME FOLKS HERE “Later on we will have the third stage, in which two persons find their relation to each other as members of one fam- fly; and that means adjustment and the ideal marriage. There is a misappre- hension on the part of men with regard to the obligation of the family man. He thinks he can be a married man with the habits of a bachelor. It 1s impos sible to be a good husband and keep the bachelor thought—the thought of clubs, convivial parties, ete.,” Mrs, Dey con- cluded. But how about the bachelor who finds himself at the altar merely because somebody put the “marriage thought” on him? AS DEPUTY CHP, ‘FREMEN'S. GE HEALS THO HEARTS Hunting Estranged Bride Cost Reilly His Job; Olvany Restores Both. Deputy Fire Commiastoner Alvany did a ttle Cuping to-day—Cuping be- ing the more or less !diomatic method of referring to those who go about the work of Cupid, elther making new matches or repairing the rifts that have been made in love contracts. The Particular Cupid in which Mr, Alvany | figured had brought a bride to the home of Mireman John F, Reilly, Cupid had @ twisted bow, his quiver was all in his Hp and his arrows had been lost. Wherefore Reilly, formerly a mem- ber of Engine Company No. 204, had Jost his Job, The dismissal of Retlly | took place June 24, and the charge | was that he had been absent from poat | fNve days, which acts as an automatic extingulsher from the payroll | The Deputy Commissioner took un- usual interest in hia task because the | rehearing of the dismissal had been di- j rected by Commissioner Johnson, after Mayor Ga bad action iy told the deputy that he married last January and had been as- Signed to an engine compa Kinsville, 8, 1. His bric detail because tt separate family and friends, and the mosquitos at Tompkinsyille were “something they had a spat and separated y said the five fatal daye had been pasted in @ quest of his bride. When he found her and told her he had lost his place, she lafd the facts before ynor, Rellly Was in the trial room at Headquarters to-day puty com- missioner assumed the pose attribute by great painters to King Solomon and remarked "L will recommend tha stated, on one conditto! “What's that?” assed Rellly “That you and Mrs, Reilly recon towether,”* The couple seemed to ha ing for such first ald to an Injured Cupid and tere was a little pause, Then Ale vany asked Mrs, Reilly “Are you willing to 80 back to him? Mra. Reilly was m So Reilly is back In uniform and wilt be among those present at the next fire Mayor M you be rein become “Well, Once she Givorce wall la bull of jadividualion, ‘The husband bas the ig whatev: district he been watt | and deltvers ‘em—yes, and goes aroun! nights making collection: ‘These remarks were heartily approved oy “Rube” Fred Swan of Potsdam and other brethren. The editors were then taken to the Hippodrome as the guests of The World. A fair show, they called It, but why wasn't there a singing clown? John Donovan and other expatriate \awyers took charge of the bench and var with Expatriate Frank B. Kellogx, who chucked up a perfectly honorable Job as justice in Ogdensburg to cure trust-buster to the United States at large, A few financial gentlemen who have so far fallen from the atratght and rocky ya of St. Lawrence as to be lured into 11 street looked out for “Rube” Kiley Baird, the Canton banker. But he foo! n. He had not brought any money h him; he had locked al! the Canton vank'’a money in the big safe and had hidden the key under the corner of the ‘nrpet in the president's office, by heck. BANQUET AT THE ASTOR FOR ALL THE HOME FOLK. The “Rubes” and the “Exiles will xet together for a monster dinner at he Hotel Astor to-night, Expatria Herbert F. Gunnison, publisher of the Brooklyn Eagle, will preside. Expatriate Charles W. Appleton, City Magistrate, will preserve the peace as long as there 's any to be preserved. Among the speakers will be ex-Juatice Kellogg, former Mayor Newell of Og- densburg, Judge T. P, Abbott of Gou- verneur, Dr, Almon Gunnison, Presl- dent of St. Lawrence University ani several others who may be moved to talk up in meetin With invitations to the dinner wae an ntimation that those who meant to take away souvenirs better have a bag- gage Wagon in reserve with thelr taxis at going home time. From the spectal train was unloaded this morning @ variety of souvenirs amounting to several tons. There were knicknacks from the aluminum smelt. ere; an enormous cheese to be split up into wedges, apples by the barre! and even pumpkins, Marceau added to the total a framed photograph of Gen, Curtis, St. Lawrence's hero of the civil war, There will be fifteen souvenirs per diner. enanenaaieenaeies SLAIN MAN’S RELAITVE LOSES $10,000 AT FIRE. Factory Owned by Isaac Vogel's Son-in-Law Is Damaged by Bla Joseph Shapiro, son-in-law of Ianac 8. Vogel, the Jewelry salesman who was murdered Tuesday night . the cellar of the building at No. 125 Canal street. Prevents biinself aw the hard luck cham- pion, His children's wear factory on the fourth floor of the lott buliding at No, W Greene street was desiroyed. by fire last night and tie loss is $10,000, | ‘The murder of Vogel revealed that [Shapiro was eeparated from his wife and on bad terms with the wife's fam- ily. He tried to attend the funeral at the Vogel home, No. s84 Dawson atroet, the Bronx, ‘Thursday night but was driven away trom the house and warned not to return, Yesterday evening at closed lis factory and R se o'clock he went home. hours later a watchman saw smoke {ssuing from the windows of the loft and turned in an alarm. The nen confined th floor. blaze to the fourth ~—_ Club Election. A the Colonial Yaeht he following officers were Vice-€ Colonial Yi: At the annual Chub, held last eve el ore, oF. B, Pratt Hotta; Rear-Commortore, Secretary, kaward | mare, Wulike | BLAMES AFFINITY FORHIS DOWNFALL Pretty Manicurist Led Cashier Tomkins Into Evil Ways, He Says. Charles FE. Tompldina, forty-sly. yerrs old, cashier of the A. Hussey Leaf To- bacco Company, No. 127 Maiden Lane, who, after his disappearance on Oct. 1, count in the Centre Street Police Court. ‘Tompkins, who 1# married and lived with his wife and one child at No. 1 West Ninety-fourth street, attribu Tomkins {# short $14,600 tn his accounts. ‘This shortage covers @ period of about @ year prior to Tomkina’s hasty de- parture, For months he ved around fashionaible Neew York hotels, apend- ing from two to three nights in @ week Gnd registering his own name. On Oct. 1 the tobacco firm set expert placed the matter in the hands of the Burns Detective Agency and Tomkin love for the matcurist was brought to light. ‘The manicurist wae deserted by Tomkins and she did not hear a word from him after his disappearance un- til he was arrested “JI@ 18 UP.” HE SAY8, WHEN GREETED BY DETECTIVE, The detective repeived word from Rochester, N. Y., on ‘Thursday, that 4& man answering Tomkins's descrip- tion was stopping at a hotel there, A detective and an employee of the to- bacco company, who knew Tomkins, were sent to Rochester. him living in a furnished house, having quit the cheaper lodgings “Hello, Tomkins," said the detectty “Well, I guess the jig is up," Fr marked the cashier, ‘That's the fir time I've been called @ince leaving New Yor! hotel pleaded guilty and waived examipation. Magistrate Kernochan, however, $10,000 bail, for examination Monday, Tomkins had been in the employ oi the tobacco compapy almost since hii school da: id rose step by step: unt! he became cashier, F the tobacco firm, nla lam’ CLEVER AUTHOR'S TRIBUTE cellent Handling of an Inter- view Without Notes. Mighty” and other popular works, self-explanatory: To the Editor of The Evening World As one who knows the work's Journalism fairly well, T want to pay my tribute to a piece of work done by one of your etaff in the early part of the week. I would not have belleved that a conversation could have been repro- duced from memory as Miss Mar- shall reproduced my part of the talk 1 had with her on women's suffrage and the work of women generally, The ideas and the sequence of fdeas, the turn of phrase, and the Personaltty, such as it was, were faithfully transcribed without the a elstance of a note taken in my pres- ence; and I do not think such @ feat 1s common, Itideed I have had evidence of that in other interviews of the same sort «ince I came here to my regret aml confusion. ‘The task euch Journalists set them- solves is increditdy difficult, and this fe the only instance where I have found tt really successful. I congratulate you on #o effictent @ writer and 80 good an artist tn her field, Iam, very truly yours, GILBERT PARKER, Hotel Netherland, Dec. 8, 1911, RE MISSEES A Ears HONEYMOON TRIP ENDED Couple Were Los Colorado Mountains While Blizzard Raged. DENVER, Dec. 9—As the result hardships experienced by Mrs, Jonn L, Hadden, a bride she and her husband, Cambridge, Mass., mountains for eight ume a severe t Hadden to-day died on for Denver from Rifle, Ci Mr, and Mrs, Hadden on their honeymoon. to drive in an open bugay to ( making a five days’ Jour mountains. On their second they became lost, and for etght wandered about in the in an effort to find « an attorney « tin raged, Mrs, went to Uta town or ranch Harris, a farm hand, ts nursing injuries to-day suffered In being blown two hun- dred feet by dynamtte, Harris brush fire over a stump under which placed. me aneene was found to be in arrears in his ac- | pleaded gullty to-day to a charge | of forgery before Magistrate Kernochan, | his downfall to an infatuation for a| They found rooming for y that name The specific charge on which Tomkins was arraigne dto-day 1s that, on Sept. 4, he forged a check for $200, paynble to re- manded the man to the Tomba under war bonded by ational ‘Surety Company for $2,000 The company has pald that sum to the tena mre yt amg HELDASFORGER, MRS.HOUSEWIFE, |“THREE WEEKS” ‘YOUDBETTERKEEP | IN FIGHT OVER EVE ON THE GROCER City Has Stopped Watching for Fake Weights While In- spectors Measure Carts, { The housewife is at the mercy of the dishonest shopkeeper to-day and may be for days to come, for the Bureau of Weights and Measures has temporarily fone out of commission. Every man of the thirty-odd inapectora, whore regular duties consist in detecting short weight scales and short measures, has been transferred to measuring carts hired by | the olty for carrying off snow. In ad- | dition seventy-five new men have been hired temporarily to help in this work. | Commissioner John Watsh of the Mi jat downtown barber ec aie Bureau of Weights and Measures was : reluctantly compelled to cali his men Assistant Distriot-Attorney Nolan ta ms authority for the statements that} fm thelr regular work and he now broposes sending a protest to the Mayor, “It ts unfortunate that at this par- ticular time my men should be taken from the bureau and transferred to the Street Cleaning Department to measure snow carts,” sald the Commissioner. “Almost on the evo of the Christmas holidays, when housewives are making accountants to work on Tomkine’a| thelr purchases and dishoneat shop. books, That night the cashier dle-| Keepers are ‘faking’ their scales and appeared. Manager Carl L. Dingena| Measures and doing other nefarious acts—all bent on robbing the poor—my men are taken away from me. I have not one man to-day out on this neces- Fy work of detection. “I do not know when they will be re- turned to me. It {s illegal to tranefor the men to the Street Cleaning Depart- ment, for the charter provides that this department cannot call upon other de- partments for help such aa has been de- manded@ of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, I am going to make some | Provision to guard against a repetition. |1 am eure the Mayor will anstat. “In addition I am going to make a demand right away for the return of my men, so I can send them out on their regular duties. There muat be no d@ay. I realize that dishonest shopkeepers will Teadily take advantage of the knowl- edge that our regu! But it won't be for lon ——_— WOMAN DIES OF BURNS. Attempt to Quicken Fire With Alcohol Proves Fatal. LANDENHURST, L. I, Dec. 9.—Mrs, Frank Stockinger, who was terribly burned last night when she attempted to quicken the fire in a kitohen range by Pouring wood alcohol on it, died early to-day, while two physicians were in attendance upon her, The young woman was about to pre- | Pare supper for her husband when the range fire fatied to burn up. She got VAN NESS WILL Mrs. Parson’s Affidavit Brings Novel Objection in Con- test for a Million. Admitting that certain paregraphs in Alico Van Nese Parsons’s affidavit for the appointment of @ temporary re- ceiver of the estate of Cornetiua Van News, her father, bore a close resom- blance to Blinor Gtyn's book, “Three Weeks," Surrogate Cohalan to-day re- ferved decision on a motion to atrike out the alleged scandalous matte? from the affidavit. Mra, Parsons, « daughter of Van Ness by his first wife, is contesting his will, by which Mra, Alice Wood Ven Neas, the testator'a second wife, was bequeathed the bulk of his estate, eatd to be worth more than $1,000,000. Mrs. Parsons alleges that Mre, Van Ness_ No. 2, who is quite young, exereised undue influence on Van Ness, who was ninety-three years old when be Gied, last year, , Former Surrogate Ransom, represeat-"~ ing the estate, told Surrogate Cohalan that the affidavit, containing 10,000 words, was for the most part brutal and uncalled for. “So far ae the purposes of this motion are concerned,” said Mr, Ransom, “they might just have well have included in the affidavit a chapter from Ww. . ‘eoks. He referred particulerty to en allega- tion that Mrs. Van Ness No, 2 had planned a bicycle acoident that resulted in her acquaintance and subsequent marriage to the aged millionaire, ten years ago, | Surrogate Cohalan agreed the matter complained of Was similar to Mra. Glyn's work, but said he preferred to look into the case further, — TO DANCE IN THE SCHOOLS. Chicago Plans to Combat Evils of Otty Resorts, CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—The publte schools of Chicago may be thrown open to dancing if @ plan proposed at the meet- ing of the Building and Grounds Com- mittee of the Board of Education, yes- terday, Is carried Into effect. The idea is @ pact of a battle against the dance- han evil. The dances would be con- ducted without charge and without re- striction In so far as there was no oon- filet with State lawe and aity erdi- nances. Eleven schools will be opened next week as “social centres.” In these the boys and girls of the city, if the plan Js carried opt, will be allowed to held, dancea whether they are in echool or out. — Pennsylvania OMcial Dead. It was announced at the Pennsylvania Iatlroad offices in this city to-dey that TO EVENING WORLD WRITER. Gilbert Parker’s Surprise at the Ex- ‘The following letter from Gilbert Parke er, the noted author of the “Seats of tee t* WITH DEATH OF BRIDE. fight Days in of) of three weeks when | ||g the whieh | train bound | There thoy decided out | days blinding snow house. Last Monday and popularity increases with the years, partly frozen the reach : . ‘ Meeker, Col,, where they remainad unt) | You will be pleased with the comfort and con- last night when they resumed thetr|| / 4 r ry Aer Py journey eastward. The body of Mra. || venience of shopping here, Inspection isinvited, Hadden will be taken to Cambridge for | | burial, BS ; aatree Meriden Company Blown 200 ‘eet, He Lives, I: The LIBERTYVILLE, Il, Dee, %-John | if arted @ four sticks of the explosive had been | Harrie was hurled against «| eg | tre and although painfully injured, will | [gy of wood alcohol and started to pour the fluid on the coals, Suddenly the flames leaped out of the stove and the can exploded. Mrs. Stockinger was enveloped in fire, Richard N, Durvorow, one of the moat important operating officials of the road, died suddenly at the Hotel Walton in Philadelphia last night. He was gen- She was alone with her two-year-old | eral superintendent of motor power for girl. ‘The door of the cottage was locked | the Pennsylvania system, with and she couldn't find the key, Neigh- | quarters the shops of the line in bors came and beat in the door. They | Altoona, Pa. Mr. Durborow, who was rolled the blazing woman on the snow | born in 1860, entered the service of the and put out the flames, but by that | Pennsylvanta road in 1879 and had been time she had been mortally burned. | promoted through various positions, An Exquisite Perfume for a Gift is typical of refined sentiment and admiration, The new French creations from Paris are so ingenious that one marvels oft at their exquisite range of fancy—both the novelty of odor and the extremely unusual form of their presentation. We are show- ing the products of many famous Parisian Per- fumers and their refreshing Toilet Waters, Fancy Soaps, Skin, Hair and Face Preparations. Also Ivory Toilet Articles, which are now greatly the vogue; Brushes, Combs, ete., ete. Deliveries out of town by freight and express PARK & TILFORD Fifth Ave. & 26th St. And seven Branch Stores | | Meriden Silver for Unhurried Choosing |! You will find in the Meriden Store a remark- able array of silver. In fact, thousands of possible gifts are here spread out for your admiration and selection, Meriden Silver has been the delight of Amer- ica’s families for over half a century, Its Silversmiths Gaternational Siver Co., Successor) 49-51 West 34th Street, New York and 68-70 Weet 25th Street Caisse kl nm lleeaabant cm aN i was @ Be pon RS