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| j | j t ' J —_——_. '. FALL FROM WAGCN FATAL, WL WIESE FAL TO AGREE ON SNGERS SINTY Caretaker Says He Was Silent and Out of Mind, Doctor Says He Talked. D WIFE FIGHTING. : lLusekeeper Has Alleged Agree- iment Made by Sewing Ma- chine Man’sSon and Children. ; i i t {After two of the three witnesses to bothe will of John T%, Singer, son of the | sewing machine man, had tyen sworn before Surrogate Cohalan to-day in the {contest brought by Singer's second wife ‘and her two children, the case was in- tcrrupted to cermit the Surrogate and 4, counsel to take the testimony the “" third witness, Mrs. David 8. Thatcher, ho fs in Hahnemann Hospital recover: ing from an accident. The testimony of Thatcher, the feeble, white-haired caretaker of Singer's house, proved favorable to the contest- Yonts, while that of the other witness to the will, Dr. Edward L, Corbett, sup- ported the testament. Regardiess of Mra, Thatcher's testl- mony, which may agree with that of or husband, the executor and Mrs. harlotte Jane Donrgily, the house- veeper, hold a copy of an agreement al- -exed to have been made in 1884, by ich his children relinquished all in- t in any ertate their father might » have for the consideration of $100,000 cash. Singer was married three times, “but children resulted from only one union, Mra, Singer No. 3 died more than a year ago. The other wives are Mving « mtradicting Dr. Corbett, Thatcher testified that Singer did not utter one word during the drawing up of the will or the signing of it. He was most em- Phatic in his statement. WAS ASKED TO SIGN CERTIFI- CATE OF REQUEST. “Why did you sign a certificate atat- ng that Mr. Singer requested you to yn his will?" demanded the Surrogate. | Because [ thought [ ed Thatcher, startled. Why did you think that?" asked the Court. had to," ans “Recause Mr. Beach, the lawyer who drew the will, asked me,” returned the witness, haltingly. A few moments later Thatcher, whose mind seemed in a state of disturbance, awore that Mr. Singer was not in his right mind when he made the will and that he was unconscious throughout the proceeding. about in his chatr and ejaculated: . “Did you not testify here that « Singer signed the will himscif?" yes, I did," stammered the wite ners, “but, you see, he lay there in his ted with vyes closed and seemed un- conscious both before and after he was propped up in bed to sign the will.” nsclous just at the Mr. ‘sted the Court, ed Thatcher. , fost announced the Hamrogat B Asain atcher Incurred the Court's sorviiny when he testified that Stuart wed at Thatcher's home on One Hun- nd Seventeenth street, left a copy Singer will, stayed fifteen min- nd departed without talking about SbIDN'T ASK WHAT TOOK PLACE IN BEDROOM. “Do you mean to say that Mr, Glb- ey did not aek you what took place Mr. Singer's bedroom the day the was made?” . alr, he did not,” stated Thatcher. “What did he talk about—the arbitra- jiion treaty or the peace dinner?” asked ‘the Surrogate. ~ Thateher's ughter. sea tdward La Corbett of No. 844 Aly Piexander avenue remembered that Sin- fer had been stricken with apoplexy on ain coming from Port Jervis a few ‘days before his death. The doctor shed the Singer home in time to see reply was lost in the BeGinger help himself Into his bed. Club, many New York women have; 1" charge of the women workers’ head- ‘al times that night and next day Sin-! jearned to fence in gymnasiums and at “Warters at Harlem Arcade, in One {iors cor tp and. walked into the next! cesses, For instance, there Is the Hundred and Twenty-ffth street and feroom, the physician testifed. fayette Fencing Section of Greater New |@F@ Providing coffee and sandwich Attorney Beach had called him to the | voi 4 which more than a hundred |!unches there for all strikers, ee Nome the ay tne red a atrone | athletic young women belong, Among| Julius Langtelder, president of the of paralysis and was too weak to Indict “the will, He asked the doctor to finish he formal writing, which Dr, Corbett aid, During the writing of the instru- ment Mr. Singer talked freely, although stowly and with @ thickness of speech. ie seemed “absolutely of sound mind,” the doctor thought. Mr. Singer owned 1,000 sharvs of Sing- or Company stock, which he wanted to ' vequeath in 2 share lots to Mra, Char- Jotte Jane Donnelly, his housekeeper; William P. and Jasper 8. Archer, neph- ews, and Charles Spansler of Phila- deiphia, a cousin. The testator did not bequeath his house, saying to the wit- nesses that he owned only a smal! part of It, = Driver Is Killed a Into Aatom Horses Dash John Kimbale, sixty years old, of Sev- enteenth avenue and = Elghty-sixth street, Brooklyn, a driver for the So- clety for the Prevention of Crucity to Animals, was killed to-day by being Uwown from his wagon at Third ave- n@ and Whirty-fMfth street, Brooklyn. lic atruch on his head and both wheels “assed ger him. The tened team dashed into an autom owned by Max Englander of Thhé@ avenue and Thirty-fifth street and @gmaged it $20. A block farther on the horses were caught, uninjured, Kimbale’s body was taken to the Feusth avenue police station. Surrogate Cohalan whirled | ibboney, a lawyer for the executors, | inquired the Surro- | MRS. A. 8. BURDEN. NEW YORK WOMEN SOCIETY FENCERS MANY AND SKILLED Baroness de Meyer May Find Many Swordswomen Worthy of Her Steel. Baroness de Meyer, who has held sec ond place among the world's champion Women fencers, has issued a challenge to all members of the Colony Clu and to other American women skilled in the gentle art of the foils, A week ago the Baron Adelaide Bayliss and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish jr. in somewhat indecisive bouts. | The American women modestly claimed |to have held. thelr own and a trine more, whered® the Baroness asserted that she had been “just playing” with them, A match on day with Miss Sibyl Marston was ¢ ed off because Miss Marston was not an amatenr But though for their own reasons they have not advanced to meet her, the Baroness de Meyer might find many more women in New York who are | worthy of her steel. For instance, there aro no less than thirty feminine mem- For several years Miss Margaret Stim- |son has been champion of the women’ classes and secretary and treasurer o formed, of which Mrs, George Ethe was elected president. Miss Betty amore, Miss Elizabeth Claiborne, 3 prominent members. Miss Bayliss and Mrs, Fish Jr. have already been men- tioned, the latter having begun her prac- tice with the foils when she was Mis Mildred Dick, Mrs, Arthur Soott Bure den and her mother, Mrs. Roche-Ba. tony!, are still other “society fencer: Every year the women fence for the championship among themselves and also hold tournaments of various sorts, In a triple meet between Philadelphia, Annapolis and New York the women of the Fencers' Club carried off the honors. Only recognized champions are allowed to represent the club at these tourna- ments, and to make the selections all the fencers are graded into three classes. Besides the members of the Fencing them is Miss Elaine Golding, the cham- pion woman swimmer of America. M. | Senac and Signor Rossi, exponents, re- spectively, hools of fencing, classes for wome: Many of Broadw' are expert fencers. have had large for several years, 's favorite actresses some of those who are skilled in wielling the folls are Miss Henrietta Crosmwn, Miss Laura Burt, Miss Blanche Walsh and Mrs, Carter, smniigueemen DEAD MAN’S FRIEND FREED. | Coroner Exonerates George Hough- in Whoxe Rooms Show Man Died. Sullivan, @ theatrical agent, was found dead, The Coroner Was convinced Sul- livan died from gas po!toning, and that bruises found on him had nothing to do with his death. According to Houghtaling had a before, Houghtaling dl van dead with the gas turned on at met Miss, the little organtzation which they have | Violet Niles and Miss Guild are other) of the French and Italian | Leslie | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, Women Who Are Clever With the Foils FVENOSCARCANT TAVL SHOMPtONW PHOTO i + ’ |_ MRS. STUYVESANT FISH JR. FIGHTERS OVERAWE "LAUNDRY STRIKERS ' Police Help Strong-Arm Wag- bers in good and regular standing at} On Guards and Hold Back the Fen " Club, 6 West Forty- fifth street, All the names are well, Jeering Mobs known in soclety. ' SOME WOMEN WHO ARE KNOWN | one AS “SOCIETY FENCERS.” | While Willam Armour, President of undry Workers’ Local No. confident as ever in his predictions of victory for the strike of his trade to- | day, there were evidences of a new de- | termination by the nd iron the clothes of suffering New York, strike or no strike. Wagons with picket fighters crowding ats and tallboards rolled up to was » steam laundries al! day, and bushels of soiled nen were carried in, while [etrikers, held back by policemen, Jeered angrily from the opposite alkes, Lack of funds has prevented the strik- ers from making a fight as aggress! # they would like. ney 18 avalle able to pay fines of pik who get in |trouble with the jenough to provide bread and butter for | those who have no savings, ' The rich women who are |eympathy with the strikers, 1A. Dreler of the Woman's | League; Miss Anne Morgan, datgiter of J. Pierpont Morgan; Mrs. 0. H. P. | Belmont, and Miss Inez Milholland are showing steam laundrymen'’s organization, said to-day that every laundry in the asso- elation was Working, though some were embarrassed by inability to make col- |lections and deliveries, President Armour sald five big laun- ries had signed agreements to recog- , Shorten women's work- s to ten hours, pay 20 per cent Wages and improve sanitary cons A new appeal was made to 8’ amd expressmen's unlons to la refuse to handle laundry packages. Chairman Rogers, of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration, said to- day: “It looks as If an dnvestigation into the causes which led to the strike will have to be ordered, Such an Investigation Would go into sanitary cond.tions and After an investigation, the methods of operating the laundrtes, terbottom to-day aisch Many complaints: y made to the Houghtaling, in whose rooms, a pollee on both sides of Harlem that 500 West Forty-second — street, pickets were stopping wastons and per- suading drivers to a go to strike Meadq no complaint of viole for such work w after instructio her aides, Mi Miss Scott, S aieaennnnaeeenie Oar Flexible Language. (Frum the Chicago Tribune.) andon them rs. Ther e. Girl pickets sent out all day ons from Mies Dreier and Leonora O'Reilly and and was 1.20 o'clock this morning, when he res} Young Chap (with motoreycle=You sit turned to his home. on the rear seat, ou know, and hold on Both men had been employed by | around my waist. Are you on? Cohan & Harris, They had been Fair Mald~Yes, and I'm going to stay jfriends for Ofteen years. of; glad you pul me nea 2 nployers to wash; and barely © a a | HOW'S YOUR GAS? ITS ALL‘FRIZ UP’ IN ~ HARLEM HOMES Hunger and Dark Desolation Have Gripped Residents— Ranges on Strike. Harlem apartment dwellers in several blocks were 1ade breakfastiess to-day by the cold—also supperless, dinnerless and breakfastle yesterday. The gas is frozen. One of the hardest hit blocks fs that }on One Hundred and Twenty-ninth |street from Fifth to Lenox avenues, | | Here there {s a solld row of six story apartment houses, practically all equipped only with gas ranges. There Is not a coal stove from No. 31 to No. | 67. The discomfort began at getting-up time yestet Not a flicker came from the gas ranges. Telephone calls |to the Consolidated Ga Company | brought promises of quick relief. Inj restaurant to brin At dinner tim) in @ pall of coffee. | it Was Just as bad, | and supper time brought no change in the situation, With nightfall a new complication arose. The apartmente have electricity in th parlors and dining rooms, but nowh else, Beds | rooms were inky black, So were halls. More appeals to the gas company; more promises | Te-day more than a score of Har. lem children had to stay home from sch breakfastiess. ‘The Sunday | dinner is still in the tcebox, The only warm fvod protesting tenants ‘have had is what they eat in restau. rants or manage to carry in | There are reports that a Nie ¢ Neion prevails in several other blo jite a Jen moment lor s¢ | selling a cookerless cooker or a gas- |less wus light. ee of Har chester, the meantime, father was hustled to the | “F MAKEA SONGBIRD SING IF SHE'S SIGK . i} Says So at Examination in a| Law Suit Over a Tetraz- zini Engagement. DOESN’T KNOW HIS AGE, Has Only Hearsay Knowledge, | but Believes He May Be About Twenty-five. | Oscar Hammerstein was examined} before trial to-day in @ euit brought) against him by Meyer Resnick, as as- signee of a claim of Frank Veitch, nager of the Theatre Francaise, in| Montreal, Canada | Veitch alleged that Hammerstein had made a contract with him to have! Tetrazzini sing in Montreal in Febru-| 1910, but fated to live up to the Veitch claimed he was damaged to the extent of $800, “That contract was made by my eon, Arthur, and all I know about it ts what he told me,” said Hammerstein to-day. “He said Tetrazaint was too II | to sing, and if there ts anybody In the | world who can make a sick songbird sing I haven't been able to find him.” At the outset of the examination the impresario was asked about his age. “How do I know that?" he querted, smiling. “Such evidence would be hear- say, and I have sworn to tell you what 1 know, not what I've heard.” “But surely you have some knowledge on the subject, Mr. H in." sald Henry Kuntz, counsel for Keanick. ‘Absolutely none,” rep!ied Hummer- stein, | THINKS HE’S ABOUT TWENTY-| FIVE YEARS OLD. | how old do think you | “Well, are?” ‘Ah, that ts different. put twenty-five.”* Continuing, Hammerstein said his son | had had a great deal of trouble with | Tetrazzini about her concert tour tn | 1910, | "She agreed first to sing for $1,500 a night,” said Hammerstein. ‘Then she | wanted $2,000, and maybe It was the | wrangle over this that provoked hor {t- | ness. Leaving the office of his lawyers, | Ingram, Root, Massey & Clark, No. 55) Liberty street, where the examination | Was held, Hammerstein said he would | {return to be examined before trial in a} sult brought against him by a floriat/ for flowers furnished to Trentini while | she was playing in “Naughty Marietta.” “And what do you think of that?" you I think T am | asked Oscar, thumbing his silk hat. owers, eh? I never bought flowers for any one in my life, Maybe I've bought dla any’ tio want them care to ha is dying?” Hammerstein sa his business in nonds and pears, but never I hate flowers and I don't round me, Why should I e anything around me that he hoped to finish aid New York so ax to! on sail for London on the Lusitania on Wednesday “1 don't know whether TI be able t make It," he sald, “ax some new law cult seems to spring up. every tine T turn, Ihave three more xam inations to-morrow. Why, I am ket to be a professional defendant ery time somebody wanis to. sue somebody else Tam the gout BETTER THAN “THE TWO-GUN MAN.” ve been reading ‘he Two-Gun Well, the same author, Charles Alden Seltz just written an even better | story of cowboy life. | it a “The Range Riders." | ‘The sort of story that sets your blood to dancing and makes you feel as If you ein the plains with a six-shooter | of hanging onto a strap in the dead, ths. Hospital pronounced the man had been in the clty two n N | Just off Fi This iy essenticul along highly spectalized lines, 2 riost dependable HANDKERCHIEF | ! LINGERIE | LACE CURTAINS UPHOLSTERY MA TABLE ART COMFOR a specialty este anc S. A subway. 14 Range Riders” will begin in Thursday's Evening World, | Don't forget the da | If you like “The Twe Man" you) will like “The Range Ria till more. 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