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PANTS CAE, SETS SELF AE, STARTS A PAN Isadore Metilski Runs Into Wil- | lett Street and Arouses the Whole Neighborhood. MOTHERS IN FRED Teachers Keep Children Quiet | by Starting “Frog” Game, While Police Quiet Crowd. ZY. Teadore Mettiskt's efforts to patnt a KA® jet in a bedroom on the ground | floor of the five-story tenement at No, | % Wilett street to-day brought about & panic which a dozen pollcemen were called to quell, Everything would have deen all right had the room not been dark, Teadore iit the gas dnd was mak- ing Rembrandtitke sweeps at the pipe with the brush. The brush took fire, then Isadore's coat sleeve began to blaze, He dropped the burning brush om a bed and dashed madly out tnto Wittett street yelling like an Indian earning his salary in a Wid West show. Whhe Isadore 414 a dance in the middle of the streot, slapping frantt- eaily at te burning coat—sever think- jng about taking it off—the spirit of the | affair took possersion of the twenty-two famiMes who occupy the tenement. Screaming and crying, they rushed down the stairs dragging household effects, nondescript dogs and bawling children. ‘They gathered about Leadore and lent | their lunge to « lusty chorus. TEACHERS FEARED A PANIC) AMONG THE CHILDREN. Bame one turned in a fire alarm and vediam was let loose im the narrow Next door to the tenement wader the Williameburg Bridge ts the \dndergarten annex to Public Schoo! Mo. 97. Tae teachers became alarmed ‘@t the noise that Isadore had set loose amé feared a panic among their young @arges. The principal. Miss Rauch, ‘with rare presence of mind, ran into the classrooms and ordered the teachers to start the “frog game” among the children, This t¢ a game Réméergartners would rather play than ent candy. Soon the pianos were ‘wusy, end the youngsters hopping about the floor, while outside Isadore hopped ly tying to extinguish himself. Clanging engines of the i it I i (t was that the mothers meighborhoo! joined in the With visions of turned they came tenements toward the or 0 policemen a ¢ He it th to the ecene found Pi i i i é £ ? f i ? é i interested, and the wore reassured, and ers i i i i —-———_ 40 TAILORS GO ON STRIKE AT BONWIT, TELLER & CO. aceon Places Filled and Union Men, Won't Be Taken Back, Says Firm. Forty wnion cloakmakers and re t atopped in front of the, ‘Witet street resumed its'’ “‘TheMoon Is More “BE wot Too PROUD MY LITTLE HAUGHTY MOON "Gay Livre MOON THat HATH NOT UNDERSTOOD" Richard Le Gallienne Defends His Treason to Womankind, and De- | clares the Lunar Sweetheart of the | Rhymster Much More Liberal Mind- | ed and Safe and Says It Can Be Admired Without Getting One Into Trouble of Any Kind. She Is Not Jealous, He Declares, Like | a Woman Who Must Be Also Sun | and Stars, or Nothing — ‘Moon ja Quality Is What Men Love in Women—Soft, Consoling, Tender, Sad, Mysterious in Her Purposes, Practical in Her Methods.” BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. “The moon is more to a poet than any woman. Richard Le Galltenne wrote {t—wrote it and main. tained. it yesterday in the most moonstruck ‘interview that ever poet uttered or ascribe set down. “Treason!” I said accusingly to the eretwhile wor- shipper of woman reason in the name of the thou- sands of women who have seen or will see ‘The Loves of the Poets’ and will read of your apostasy with their own eyes.” And Mr.-Le Gallienne, seeker of the Golden Girl,! who broke a lance with William Watson over “The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue,” and more recently | with Rudyard Kipling over “The Female of the! Bpecies,” answered firmly: “If this be treason, make the most of it!” pairers are on strtke at Bonwit, Teller & Co’s, at Thirty-eighth street and Fifth avenue. According to Paul J. Bonwit, the places of the atrikers have been filed, “Tailors in the workshop,” explained Mr. Bonwit this afternoon, “have left our employ and are circulating pam- Sphiets stating that our house has been “Aiscriminating against union labor. This 1s a min-statement and needs gorrection. Bonwit, Teller & Co. never iave dimeriminated against any kind of labor, Every man, skilful, willing tui well behaved is invited to work vol the highest of wages are palg “Among thé striking tailors were four who insulted Mra, McBride, the lady in charge, and when the firm informed them that ely services were no longer equired union prevailed upon the rest to They left thelr places Wisiont work and {n con- to disappoint a nun geras ious during 4 season these men Aid the same o y wrong week the # no longer required, The they men in thelr stead, and, of man who simpty he. to the firm Dintrtot-Attorney to Be Curetu appeared 1 Jury todas ond the Jurors about Indiwertutngte Indlot » He asked ovat ¥ iquived into tn v sal uae of the tm Grand Jory, Me d ods si Med de Oere rwed nts ing the cent. c for the action of the qrand Jury, the Distei Attorney said M per cent. were dismissed by sine Qreud Jui) for the canis reseed On eeveral previous! “The moon is the perpetual sweetheart of the poet,” Mr. Le Galltenne lcontinued. “She has marly phases, many manifestations, and he may ad- | mire them all without getting into trouble. For the moon is not a jealous moon, Woman, now, woman, the Moch of Beauty, is not apt to understand | that the poet feels the influence of her rays wherever they fall. Woman must be sun, moon and stars—or nothing. The moon ts much more liberal | minded and the moon is safe.” |" “Then perhaps you've adopted the colt | Rubalyat'’ rose and testifed against | | moon for a sweetheart a& part of the| him. |general procese of settling down?” I| "Gay little moon that hath not un- 1e derstood,” sang one. | “Perhaps, though the moon is held to ey edhe Temes assahaiie bedi | be rather unsettling,” the poet 4%) «Be not too proud, my little, haughty | swered, moon, | | Whether it be the influence of the Nor to my love deny so small a boon,” moon, or of the new and lovely Mrs, sang another, accusingly. Le Gallienne, tuere’s no doubt tha: ‘b© wMOQN QUALITY” author of “The Loves of the Poets’ has settied down near Rowayton, | Conn., where I saw him yesterday. | HIS IN| WOMAN WHAT MEN LOVE. Comparisons are one thing, prefer- ISLAND WORKSHOP AND! squire tna: some men, not posts, may “TREASON” HATCHERY. | prefer woman to the moon, he says that | | at the foot of a water tower in. an| what all men admire tn Woman is her bandoned engine house on Butier’s} “moon quality. | “Woman ts the moon of man, soft, | Island Mr. Le Gallienne has set up his | 0 , soft, eee ee’ mysterious, consoling,” the poet sald. workshop, And there spends the entire | ree es eee iiper tt pte | day writing poems and reviews and essays or hatehing es to the moon jand treason against womankind, of Sir Philip Sidney's, ‘With how | 4 steps, oh, Moon, thou eliinb'at the sky!’ Like clouds about the moon are | a woman's flowing drapert ‘The workshop ts crowded wita books and butterfites, dead putterfiles, yor-| “Sometimes very expensive clouds!” geous and futile as the poems so many|T interrupted. Of us mourn—the iittle sletera of Mr.| Oh, ves@but what la that to a popes! Le Galilenne’e nivee in the land. o¢ | Mtrte Gaillenne anewered gay: + | “The poet admires the unbora poems, There is » queer woods] it)” omeons, the windeblown ‘alike, jand shelf made of a golden brOWN| Hut pe loves the moon just as much tn fungus found on one of the loan trees inher simpler phases, her dimity gow: nd, ant on It Mra, Le 1» | of Butler's 1s lot many portraits of which adorn the wot roms) £ the Facing Long island Sound and rep! moon | > loneec r trees, | woman be of her {s that rt of [of a satel wing all her light and 7” revolving about the} 4s, Pan and old Syl- jis m of vanus, and the sister nympays.” |m ed canal Of course I had always known Me. |¢ ine love. Le Gaillenne to be the moon: | Wh seems, struck of poets. From. © rage mai has sou e oman 1 ned Mr. 1 of the muon, Me may have eauehi tue, tra but severe, you Know uriek trom Omar fk yam, Atany race | “To me row-—-the average aan | | yesterday, during the course of hi ig very snuch of « a his feel. | | peachment on the charge of high nga for woman, Woman ts » son to his old love, \Woman, ma | days," |of bis invasion—look ther | Mrs, O'Donnell ' Mrs. O'Donnell pulled his tle and pailed THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMB ER 13, toa Poet Than Any Woman” CAN YOU BEAT THAT! Piffe Pictures by Johnstone Based on the Poet’s Thoughts. | REASON Wey MAN pbes ava ADMIRES THE “MOON But then—iuat's woman, myster- fous im her purposes, practical, horribly practioal in her methods. ALL BOYS ARE POETS, AT ANY RATE. “AN boys are poets—anyhow. Why, when I was a boy whenever I walked among trees and wild flowers I fancied myself, in an enchanted woodland and expdhéd at any moment to encounter | @ beautiful woman riding on @ white Dalfrey, or to come upon a fymph bending over a pool, her long hair streaming ,among . the water lilies. That's tho way boys feel.” “Tm afraid many of them would prefer the gaudy poster of a burlesque show to your lady of the white palfrey or your nymph," I said “Even 90," Mr. Le Galllenne answered. “It's all poetry, it's part of the moon mystery of woman, Outside the work shop the least poetl- 13, 1911, TNEOF GOOD - SHPMARIORE THRLS JURY Yacht's Captain Wrote Stirring RICMARO LE GAL LIENNE Sea Romance—But 'Twasn't | ; True, Is Charge. | | A fury bets Inky, tn| | Part If, of 4 of General Ses- | siona were entertained to-day by @ tale! / of piracy and sitpwreek related to them fn a truly dramatic way by Aselstant | Distrlot-Attorney Nobert MeCorintek. | Mr, McCormick fs prosecuting Capt, | John P. Johnson, tanned with the winds | | Fer eee for the alleged maxing | | of a false aMdavit In onger to defraud | |the Colunrbia Insuranco Company of | $2,600 by representing that the Mar-/ jorle, a power boat forty-three feet | long with @ ten-foot beam amt a five: | foot draught, owned by a dentist, Dr. Pinchtes, of No, 1181 Brondway, had | | been lost at soa off Cape Hatter: | Capt. Johnson and his engineer, | Jacob Sungaten, were indicted by tha} Grand Jury Inst August. Dr. chies, aided by the detectives of the insurance company, was instrumental |in causing their indictment. Dr. Pin | chies loaned the boat to the two men in October, 1910, The two said they | were going to take the yacht down to) | Florida and hire her out, Half: the | money made by the hire of the boat was to. go to Dr. Pinchies, Before | Johnson and Sungnten left New York | Dr. Pinchies had the boat insured for $2,500, All went iwell with the Marjorte until) Jafter she left the inetde route, which! {whe followed to Hampton Roads, Karly | lin November Dr. Pinchles received a |Jetter from Johnaon, as full of Incide any of the tales written by Capt, jarryat, t he effect that the yacht while off Cape Hatteras, bad sprung A) }ieak end had sunk, Johnson and his | partner, according to the letter, made | ltheir escape In a rowboat, and after | passing through many adventures, fmal-| ly reached Wilmington, N.C, Mr. McCormick read the letter to the) jJury, It was a harrowing tale of misery A small boat at sea, Dr, Pinchies, | Mr. MeCormick sald, forwarded money | e mon, so they coyld come back to! and swear to their story. Then collected the insurance, He has! since returned $t. | In July last, the insurance compan h gents, got word that a boat THe Sever LADOER OF Tre MOON* Lite” he ‘caoTHes ON ® It WOMAN ARE UKE Cours ABour THE MOON? Morehead City, pill of repairs, It wa that end of t at nea the two at NEW POLICE HERO SAVES } being sunk wailed her up Goose Creek in Horan, on Force a Week, Clambers to Horse’s Back After Being Dragged Along Street. Policeman Peter Horan of the Gates similar tric piditeoer NS ;POLICEMAN BALKS SUICIDE. | cal of small boys waited with the jdontest of palfreye till Mr. Le Ga!venne and I should finish our discourse avout woman and the perpetual sweetheart of ther poet. A train whistled in the distance. “Then you insist that the moon is more to the poet than any woman?” I re- peated, rising. “The moon and the sea,” Mr. Le Gallienne answered as we took our way toward my hired “palfrey.” “The #ea has been behaving gloriously these he added, waving his land toward the Sound, “She {s still glee- fully celebrating the departure of the last summer boarder, She inows when he gdes and in het mad joy and relief she casts up on the bea Low on the horizon, as if getting ready for his nightly dip tn the Sound, hung the ruddy sun. “See, the husband sun is going homo from his work," said Mr, Le Gallienne, “and the lady moon is just gettins ready to welcothe him with a shining face."" I got into the carriage. “Git ap!" sald a very disgusted smal) doy to the hired ‘“paitrey p Fis A saat LITTLE WOMAN CHOKES A 200-POUND MASHER. Grabs ‘Barnett’s Necktie and Holds Him Till Policeman Arrives. | A little mite of a woman held a 2)-} pound masher by the ecktte on Be enth avenue ne Hundred and Twenty-third night until Po Mceman Davis of the Wert One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street station came and arrested } The prisone: said he was Harry Barnett, twenty- seven years old, of No, 2% Third ave- nue. caught him ts} she twenty 2 West o ttle woman who Mrs, Mary O'Donnell, three years old and lives at One Hundred and Mrs, O'Donn: gan in the Harlem Police Barnett was arraigned the is an actor. He is playins ton, D, C,, this weels, a last night to mail a le’ At Seventh avenue Twonty-ffth stree! pung men purt when ner husband | in Wasting: | U she to him among the woman, She tur nue, and a short distance f ner Barnett caught up with ittempted to converse with her it so sharply that t acted ax a noose about his neck Magist gan fined Barnett $10. Ho paid the fine and hurried trom the courtroom. Drops Dead on “L" St John Laur, ft ast Or et, dled yruing on the e} Hundred and ‘ ‘Third avenue. suddeniy One street und arystiyy to every mau-~sometimes © ory gractions myatery, of cour. * ig) the Le Galivnne version 0 Tuneton of Lincoln Mospital pronoun, pee man dead from natures causes, find her missing son, Edward, ‘The boy | Went into the cellar and vegan pound-| Is eleven years old and left home in/ine pipes. | October. Mrs, McKelwee went {nto a bedx avenue station, Brooklyn, who has bee | on the force one week, stood in front | of Public School at Lafayette and Sumner avenues, to-day, Children| Edward Bergman, sixty-five years old, | wer epouring from the doors, home-|a well-known resident of the ro: ward bound, where he has three sons who are prom!- Suddenly from up the street nent in business and politics, attempted cries of “Stop him, stop lim!’ Horan] to kill himself to-day at One Hundred sww a horse uttached to a grocery | and Fifty-seventh street and Park ave- wagon tearing toward him, Into the | nue by drinking carbolic acd. | middle of the street daghed Horan, On-| Policeman Rooney, who saw the old ward came the'iiorse and wagon, With| man fall writhing to the sidewalk, ran phe zed a dangling halter, then Lois sraery ay ie fans ee lr sty I himeelé being dragged, new wai | boured the fluid down Bergman's throat fon taand ANN nian Ate aid i The antidote was effective and the doc . al pavement, tors at Lebanon Hospital hope to save Horan managed to let go, arose and Bergman's life. clambered in the rear of the wagon| Since the death of his wife, ten years and through st, then jumped upon the Ko, Berginan, according to those who horse's neck, Selzing the animal ty new him, has been despondent, He the ears ‘he guided It into a Jamppost,|!ved 1 a furnished room at No, $9 Not a child was injured, Mlton avenue, The wagon balongs to Charles Grimm Se See of No. 251 Nostrand avenue, “GAS MAN” GAGS WOMAN. HAVE YOU SEEN EDWARD? | to Home by Pretending to Re a Gas Inspec He's Bleve! Age—And W When Mrs, Mary McKelwee, N Mrs. George Baker of No, Fifty-sixth street, South opened the door in response to @ ring One Hundred and Twenty-ftth has asked The Evening World Pours Milk Down Throat of Man Who Drinks Acid, | came nd Large for Hin| ta to Go t ths afternoon she found a young man wearing a nounced himeeit a gas peotor, He help on the second floor a few minutés late and found the “gas tnspector tnspect- ing the contents of a bureau drawer Bhe rushed screaming {nto the hall and down the stalra with the “inspector closely following, At the foot of the stairs ho caught hold of her, gagked her with a towel and bound her with & piece of rope. He helped himself to $20) worth of valuables and departed Mrs, Baker says Edward is large for his ago and has a decided aversion to going to achool, being imbued with the desire to work. 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