The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1912, Page 3

epee tua ieee nea Watuable Garment Disappears While She Sits in Box at Theatre, | MAY OFFER REWARD. Pire' Same Night Makes Quick | Loss of $35,000 to Am- ateur Whip. ‘Who stole Mra. Paul Arthur Sor, 990,000 Russian sable coat? The disappearance of this valuable, werment, worn by the wife of a drec: | tor of the American Tobacco Company | axa amateur whip at a theatre party Phureday night, is a mystery that ‘would strain the deductive powers of @ Vidoea or @ Holmes to solve, The! valuable coat is gone, and up to the| Dresent there is not the wlightest hint | where. | Mr. and Mrs, Sorg were guests of Mr. | and Mra, Elisha Clifton Tower of the Hotel Plaza at a dinner and theatre | the party, which | party. After diuner J. Pierre Droutliard, | as? es: leo included Mrs. Mrs, Crystoval Martinez and Earl Tower | $t., went to the Globe Theatre to eee/ Badie Foy in “Over the River.” The! @our women and Mr. Sorg occupted a! box, while Mr. Tower and Earl Tower Jr. had orchestra seats near by. At the conclusion of the performance Mire. Sorg’s sable cont was not to be fownd. Search of the neighboring boxes | ‘was made, but there was no trace of the | Missing garment. Borely distressed coat Mrs. Sorg ret No. 12 East Eighty: at the lose of her irned to her home, seventh street, with her husband. They retired shortly after midnight. Mr. Surg awoke to find the foom filled with smoke. He arose and found the dining-room ablaze, The fire | had etarted from an electric Nght wire eonnecting with a bronze electrolier. Mr. Sorg attempted to fight the flames, but they gained such headway that an @larm was sent in. The damage to the @partment was considered by Mr. Sorg te amount to $15,000, Mrs, Sorg investigated many chai nels in search of her coat. Hinding tt hopeless, Mr. Sors's lawyer, KR. W. Brixey, wax notified and he communi. cated with the police. They have been @iven a detailed description of the coat and a search of all the pawn- Bhops ie being made for it. | A reward of $500 was offered to-day | by Br, Sorg in an effort to induce the thief to return the sable garh. phbenlillinbier tated MRS. CROCKER WAS REGAL IN MAUVE PANTALOONS AT DAZZLING ORIENTAL BALL. | Prisco Society Leader's King Solo- mon Affair Rivaled Dance of Her Cousin, Mrs. Jack Gouraud, GAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 27.—San Fran- eigoo nociety was entertained by Mrs. Templeton Crocker last night with an Oxtental bal!. In point of magnificence ef setting and costume It te said to have @wtehone any simtlar entertainment Given in the West, and there were many fwho contended that ft surpassed the celebrated affair given by Mra. Crock- Qe evumin, Mrs, Jack Gouraud, in New York not long ago. The baltroom of a fashionable hotel free bad been converted into the eem- ‘ance of the throne room of King Sol- qmen'’e temple, Swarthy attendants, tnd mm the fantastic drees of Asiatic principalities showed in the pictur The costumes of the participants were veried and wondrous. Mra. Crocker’s mother, Mra. Win G. Irwin, wore Ori- ental trousers of coral pink, vetled with @ brocaded cloth of gold, worn as a ‘tumto with breast plece, bodice and bread girdie of turquoise, pearls and meppobres, ‘The hostess was cogel as Schcheres- ve panteloons wer em- He aT @earie woven into @ har- Gress, and trom her i Hl if i) had been whiepered about ly @ year and many had the opportunity to send to or visit the Far to quest of bisarre adornments. and Turkey contributed perhaps most ploturesque costumery, but Italy, Greece and even France the gayety and color. No worn, | appeared to wood ad- the women, With the men | 10 be the most favored | tation, and the Hindu | in such numbers as might | herents of the Asiatic exclu- | league. From Mahouts to Mahara- the followers of Buddhe attracted interest, ure of the ball was a salome aix young girl tired in| They had practiced | | ——.-— | by Gas. | servant in the! East Seventy- @ghth street, sinelied gas shortly after! goon to-day. She traced the fumes to @ Foom occtpied by Gustay Rohrr, twen- tyfour years old. ‘Tie door was locked | © Annle culled Policoman Timball, who worwed it open. Rohrr was pronounced dead by Dr. MeNamara of the Recep: thom Hospital. The sui was e1 ployed asa chef in a saloon at Seventy. @ath etreet and Third avenue, —————_—_ ? é H if it * by s ti AH i > z FILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS, GQrugsist will refund wnoney If Paro Ointment | ele care 553 cate of Iteh Blint, Bleeding | . as Flee tn 8 10 16 dare, toe, 868° | $20,000 FUR COAT” Ir IS STOLEN FROM “MRS. PAULA nt ~~ Some Copyright, 1912, by the Press Publishing Co. (Sic Because of Conditions in This City, One Man Can Have a Dinner at $600 a Plate While Another Man Has to Be Satisfied With a Meal That Costs Only Six Cents. At One Repast There Are the Rarest Wines, Jewelled Favors for the Ladies, Songs and Mayhap a Dance on the Table, but a Poor Toiler Breaks Rock to Earn His Food. Modern Babylon has its hours of ease, its hours of toil, its hours of love and laughter. But the supreme moment of the day is the same in modern Babylon and in the ancient jungle—the hour when the roving lion springs upon his living dinner and the Babylonian at-| tacks his evening meal. In the jungle no matter what the greed of a par tioular Mon may be, he has to hunt for his dinner—be has to work for it. And one lion's dinner differs not in flavor or price from another Ion’ In modern Babylon, because we are civilized and luxurious and altogether superior to the jungle’s law GREELEY SMITH of work or starve—work AND starve is the way it GEN. GORDON, 80, EXPECTTOSOLVE NARRES TO-DAY) MUR Ceremony in This Clty and Bride the Widow of Col. R. I. Fleming. Brig.-Gen. David 8. Gordon, U. & A., comes out here sometimes—one man can have a dinner at $600 a plate | “*t!Te4. 1s to be married in New York to- while another man eats a dinner at six cents a plate. Any one of a dozen restaurants in Fifth avenue or Broadway will serve day to Mrs, Belle Fleming of Washing- ton, D. C., widow of Col. Robert L. Fiem- ing, for many years one of the lead- you a dinner at $600 a plate if you have the priee of it. But if you want] ing architects of the national capital. the six-cent dinner and haven't the six cents about you, you will have to go' Before her marriage, aw Belle Vedder up to the Municipal Lodging House et No. 432 East Twenty-fifth street, | she was one of the reigain, city, and become the guest of modern Babylon. ; of Washington. In England, and I belteve at ceremo-] guests when they give dinners at $600; “ePtion at the Waldorf-Asto; nious house parties, your invitation | @ plate | Gea: Gordon is etgnty. states just when you are to arrive an4|SEEK SHELTER BECAUSE THEY | sir, is equally explicit as to when you are CAN'T GET WORK. expected to leave. ut the mont. je | hom tmilarly portant, the most Mofern Babylon is unexpected, the coremonions with its guests. FBO | ine one learns at. the Municipal ; Gordon and his bride are to law save that a man or womes | iodging House Is that $0 per cent. of |tenslvely and intend may be Babylon's guest for three fine nin and women who svek its / time on this coast, aye in thirty, but sometimes 18 | sneiter wre there because they cannot | Francisco Gen, Gordon spen eases the oMicial host | Ore eck, oe denne Wine They are not drunken, they are forke, Superint eee Rot worthless, as we prefer to be- Municipal Lodging ee Meve. Mow many times you and I mits his gueste to stay longer have said: “Anybody can get work No. 229° Weet | of El Paso. ie utle ‘There is to be @ re ra, ‘The bride-t: is a grandmother and under sixt s. L. 8. Corea of New York ta he daughter, and it is at Mrs, Corea’ Ninety most disconcerting ;5t ‘ts that she ts to be married, Ge: vent travel ex spending som: While living in Sar it much 0! ‘hia time with his son, P. K. Gordo: | went for the Southern Pacific lines eas | Gen. Gordon was colonel of the Sixt) |Cavairy when he retired alxteen years to earn their siz-cent dinners in New York that wants it. Wo- (ago, He was retired with the 1 Moe eo breve breaking stone for modern Babylon body need -*nrve here if he is com- =| rank of brigadier-general. A daurnte @t Blackwell's Island. petent and willing.” jot Gen, Gordon ts married to Dr. Shook DINNERS PAID FOR AND DIN- NERS INHERITED. Now this ts what the man who 4 naval surgeon. The venera ampalgns against & plate have | subject the Indians when ne oer ey a oo dinner! “From 76 to 80 per cent. of the men; 'h® West was really wild and woolly ie different. It's inherited. who seek shelter ir the Municipal e# been 4 widower a year and a half, ‘A six-cent dinner means a tin cupful| Lodging House,” Mr. Yorke told me, | Mre, Fleming has been a widow 4 of coffee, a plateful of bean soup and “are men who are unemployed because | little snore than four years. The couple tro ailces of bread, ‘That is what the! they cannot get work. They are sober liad been friends for many years ‘The city’s guesta get after they have worked | men, Wo investigate the stories they |General came on from Washlugion two all morning in the stoneyard. It is| tell us—after they are here of course— months ago and asked Mra. FPieming tu fair coffee, good bean soup, excellent | for any man can get shelter at night marry him. Only the children of the bread. I dined with the city yesterday | who asks for it, I am prepared to aay Couple and ® few relatives wit atten and can testify to ite oulsine, that the great majority of men who the wedd! The fare at the Last Supper was|come liere and way they have looked | ———-- probably no better than that which mod-| In vain for work are telling the abso-| BLEW UP OFFICE SAFE. ern Babylon serves to its guests at the lute truth, Municipal Lodging House. Buta dinner} LODGING HOUSE FILLED BY (Brooklyn Buralars Miret Moved tw At ORY Plate Ie ‘anole Toahiah ae SHIVERING HUMANITY. an Adjoining Room, course, the $00 includes the rare ¢ in oy u and jewelled favors for the ladles, Tho UNE, Sie O08 apa Preied n ke men of the oMice f 7 last dinner of the sort wniod I can 1, CS ee N Watt wholewsle move denler at recall was given to console the defeated (1) sags at eat ako lushing avenue, Brooklyn, went to Fortieth street cafe, began at 9 o'olo ig | Cue P | Dor loc ihe dlekt teres he evening and lasted until tt wae) Ov" Ae . a4 | had moved Mt from the office to a room ian next morning for the departing| “1 #° Jown to the men’s dining room sing year, which | and say: ‘Anybody want to make som pee hy visitors to go aboard the ship which) | avelling enow?’ It’s pititul ¢ The condition af the ante showed the | took them back to England. pags ap gall PINCUL TO) Ccacksmen had first Kided the hand ee er eertet tae Geeterienl | "One poor llow answered tne cail|Sc7¥ OF Wan cheno” In forcing, he of these, « well known figure in jCumes fr snow shovellers his hands | yng with nitro miysering, mnsical comedy, rendered a tropi- | nay never go Up again, He is in the| ame robbers gat avout £0 in cash cal Spanish dance om the cleared Metropolitan Hospital now with handa Tiey left «a lot of checks behind. No so badly frost-bitten that It ts feared the fingers must be amputated, His name's Mundy, table, Others sang. So for $600 & plate you get, besides a great variety of foods, that good old | of the explosion and he's @ big | ———— ble veteran the man who knows, has to say on the Of the clvil war and eurvivor of many one in the netghhorhood heard the noise with @ lot combination which has brok the superintendent said, “but Newark, and was lald off many ® bank—wine and woman [when he voluntecred Bo out and of others. He was Just a sober, hard and song—aud for siz cents which | sliovel snow IT saw that he was not| working man who couldn't get work in the city pays you get beans and | properly dressed, and toid him he'd bet- |New York. I have hundreds of them cof and soup. ter not «0. | Work on the Aqueduct shuts down in Six hundred dolla the price of one ‘Oh, I cam sta: any kind of mills New England shu plate at the consolation dinner to the | Britis polo team, would buy over- coats for 120 #ilvering, homeless men, It would provide shoes for 600 men, weather,’ he answer nd I want to make the money.’ So he went, and two days later came back with the worst frozen hands I ¢ don't loves company, blan and then reaw. | body cares whether your Mr, Yorke, superintendent of the im the hospital now, and they {or not; novody cura whet Municipal Lodging House, gave me! think they will have to amputate | down and out or not.” these figures, though without any par-| the fingers. | And periaps, after all, cular hope that wealthy Babylonians’ “Lefore he camo to the Lodging House whole story of modern Baby). will cut dowm the number ef thelr he worked in # celluivid feciosy in stares. n all Mock to New m. Misery New York no. collar tw clean | her you're that telle the on body a | DER MYSTERY Crime Has Baffled Sleuths Ten Moiths, but Arrest Is Now Anticipated. Persistent effort ts expected to remutt oon In the solution of the mystery ourrounding the murder of Mra Charles N. Turner, who was brutally slain, nearly @ year ago, in the woods near Lakewood, N. J. Ever since the murder detectives from the William J. \geney have been on the wate! ‘The suspicions of the detectives have ested for a long time on a man wh ves about two miles from the # Burns »pot where Mrs, Turner's body was found. Once the sleuths made a wild chase for a negro, delleved to be a sus: | pect in the case, They now admit the} nt for the negro waa « Mined, or! nuch the same nature have n other noves by the detective © caxe seemed to © come to imax, Tuesday, when a man long a esldent of the district disappeared lere Were rumors the detectly lowed bim and that an arrem had mate. The suppomed arrest, howe as denied at the offices of the Burns y in this city, although It was suid nportant developments would come ithin a few days, R. Brown, the Prosecus Lakewood district, who nakes Mix home at ‘Tom's River, went} » Lakewood, yesterday any arrest was made lotectives all the ald he uined at Lakewood to-da 1 to xlve He re- could, ee of her pura: and the bundle = > GIRL’S HAIR ON FIRE AS SHE USED CURLING IRON. NEW YORK, THE MODERN BABYLON i A r Dine Luxuriously, Others Must Eat Soup and Bread or Starve—Third of el STILL A TERROR Series of Articles by Nixola Greeley-Smith. (The New York World). to be on hand! | Mra, Caroline Turner was the wife of |‘ he of George J. Gould's gardeners While walking through ithe wooda on outskirts of Lie town, on April 2s | st to deliver a bundle of sewlog, she as struck down by an assaliant, who eat ner to death with a club and robbed Miss Kdna Curtis was curling her ir in front of @ jet in r home jun the top tioor of N LW West Fort | SUD street last night Waen @ curl biew | asainst the tan lustantly her hair atlame. The girl tried to beat out about the room screaming. | The ire spread to her clothes and she was i} danger of being burned to death |Orher tenants came and put out the| | The doctors at Hellevue found her | face and hands horribly burned and no| jh vad left on ghs and There ts nothing better than Toothache Drops ! At oll Gruggtots | ANNOYER IN JL TOMS, Pretty Young Woman Fears Love-Making Will Be Re- | sumed When He Gets Out. HAS OFTEN SPURNED HIM ROMLEIN | Before She Married Mr. Romlein. William Rows of Mo, 413 Went Soven- teenth street has been sentenced to ten days imprisonment on account of hie attentions to Mra. Margaret Romtain of No, 108 West Mighty-nintn street, but the fears the punishment will not cure him of his habit of annoying her. Mra, Romlein is @ pretty matron. Sho fa twenty-five years old, Her husband, Walter Romietn, caused the arrest of Ross yesterday after Romiein had hur red home in a taxicab in response to @ summons from his wife, who telephoned him that Roms was then endeavoring to enter thelr apartment. On the way home the husband wae arrested for exceeding the speed Hmit, go furiously wae he racing to rescue hile wife from Ross's geraistent attempts to make love to her. Rowe was tried i the Night Court Both Mr. and Mrs. Romiein testified against him. “My tmeband has warned him «0 many times to leave me alone,” said Mra. Romlein to-day, “and I have tried 1m @0 many ways to put a atop to hin annoying conduct that I doubt whether T am through with Rose.” Rose admitted at the trial thet hie motive in seeking Mrs. Romiein's com- pany was an overpowering love he could not conquer. “I have known htm for four years,” said Mrs. Romlein. “A very few times before I was marriat, three years age he wae my encort on Aifferent occasions, He proposed to me, but I rejected him, Ho repeated his offer of marriage sev- eral times, but I did not care for him “All during my: married life he har at Intervals called at my home and begged me to let him come In, to go t dinner with him or to accompany him to @ theatre, I have always epurned him. When I happened to meet him on the street he would insist on walking with me. I have permitted that severa! times rather than oreate @ scene in public, “For the tast elgit weeks he has beer ‘hanging around thie neighborhood, ap- parently letting his business drop Friends of mine have seen him almosi daily, Sometimes he started ringing ms bell as soon as he knew my huaba: was gone, and the bell kept ringing every little while until time for my husband to return, I was #0 afratd 1 wan Ross that I did not dare answor the bell half the time. “The only person who have benefited by hie unpleasant behavior are th: schoolboys of the neighborhood. He paid them nickels to bring notes to me— often several in a day—but I 4d not reortve the notes.” Mra. Romlein sala she had long con- templated caring Home's cause she Greaded pulslicity and bec Mra. Ptert C. Waring, Mra. M. 1B the kept hoping that hie Harby, Mra CH, Hilliard, Mra,” Ar- attentions would cease, thur EMott Fish, Mra, F. 1 Goodrteh, spe, SPEED Mre, Edina N. Hodges, Mra, Paul A. or M Mactyn Art kle, Dr, Hol- ; and Charles Shortly after the one hundred and fifty employes in the xarment factory of | pal) M. & W. Naumburg, No, 41 Plaza, wa nth street, began work _— Latta Sixteen years ol KAISER IS 53 TO-DAY. Mained of fn She sata 6 of eandy whe 1 thought It was had found on the street a polwoned The superintendent sent out for milk eaten it and 4 see ound the girl was out of danger when Dr Nicholson took Vineent's Hospital ‘Then £ phy learned fr ' know to the nos Max Hsappenred ay employes had been rt t account, Rosle, under close invited #he had not know- y pol#ey and her came was put fun acetdent. She will be dine from the hospital tn a faw fello 1) Orsi ric} ryeh undividtal At tho first quisite Tur That's why Fatimas are a greaf, ‘Wrapped h | Says She Rejected His Offers | WOMAN WHO FEARS ADMIRER ALTHOUGH HE WAS SENT TO JAIL. 28 FIREMEN HOMELESS. Mteeed the Olympic and Appeal in Vata te Comsat. ‘Twenty-eight British fremen who had ‘dertha on the White tar liner Otympte, but who were unable to get to the big @teamship before she satled at noon on! Wetnesday, appealed to the Brittwh | Vico-Conmil at No. 2 State street to-day for aid, ‘The firemen said that they had Played a game of football at Van Cort- Jandt Park on Tuesday with some fire- men of the Cunard line, Later they wore entertained, perhaps too well, by | some Fnglishinen they met at Yonkers | The result was that they did not get to the Olymptc in time, The men say that they appealed to the British Consut'a oMce, at No. 17 State atreet, but got no satisfaction | there. Last night most of them slept in the Muntetpal Lodging House, The Vice-Conaul told the firemen that the ¢ juriadiction, men was blue, aw all they had waa a collection taken up by ship news reporters. If the Consul Goes not look after them they will be amenable to the immigra- tion wwe and may be sent back ut the expense of the White Star line, —— MRS. BURNLEY’S READINGS. Soctety Attends Delightfal Futer- tainment at Ri to Theatre. No more @elightful ight entertain- ment has been offered New Yorkers than that given yesterday afternoon by Mrs, He Burriey to an audience which crowded the Republic Theatre. A Scuthern woman of charming per- sonality, Burnley showed a sympathy monolo 4 and readings that thrilled her hearers, Among those in the boxes werd: Frederick Townsend Martin, Mra. James Bpeyer, Mra, Stewart L. Woodford, Mra. Russell Harding, Mre. Simon Baruch, Mra. Edward Lauterbach, Mre, Arthur FE, Atillwell, Méne Tdilian’ Hester, Mra, Ira Barrows, Mre. Marie Allen Rattle, and Many Others & Birth. @ay Congratul: BERLIN, Jan. Famperor William to-day celebrated his Mfty-thind birth day. Mewsages of congratilation poured In upen him fron wiles of prac tiewlly all the na rary “ President Rerlin a message ex- tulations in mt and people tering bis of md to rty he ne of the of the United States, and tending own best wishes for the Emperor's welfare and for the contin ordlal re « existing between Ger- and the United States, toh ou get that exe tkish fragrance. big success, apletaty to give you DB for 15c, more—i || 24718 MORE THAN THE SUGAR SEAN SPOUTSFLANEAS HATHIS OPENED Fire Must Have Smouldered for Days on Voyage From Cuba—Loss Is $20,000. Longshoremen opening a hatchway en the steamship Cubana, at the foot of Pearl street, Brooklyn, to-day in the em- pectation of getting to work on the re moval of @ cargo of raw sugar, met with the surprise of their lives. As the hatob cover was removed a volcanic buret of fire and smoke shot out, and with ome accord the longshoremen adjourned to the pter, A fire alarm was turned in from @e Arbuckle sugar house and brought ast only the land engines in that vielnity but the fireboat New Yorker ae wall. When the apparatus reactied the esame, the open hatch was spouting eparke ame stifling smoke The firemen flooded one of the eum» Partments of the hold and extinguihes the blaze in two hours, The Areudiiip management estimates the kes a $3, 000. It ta Probable that bag ete daye. in the airtight hold for Cubana reached Brooklyn Line me | |from Cardenas, Cuba, Hatehway was — — s part of cargo in the extreme forward compart ment of the hoid waa removed. 10 indicatien of the fre until tt Duret through the hatehwag. Men working all of yesterday in te compartment adjoining that in whieh the fire was smouldering felt ne ine venience. —< Man Shet Himself tor Her. Misa Mary Lewis, an Engiteh gover ness, whose approuching departure fer home moved a Rochester book seller named Kenerson to try to kill himestt with a revolver last Wednesday, sailed on the Cunard liner Carmania to-day. Bhe sald she know Lewis only slightly and did not see why he should have held a note from her in his hand: when he shot himself, She said she hoped he would be more sensible when he Fe- Mothers, Invalids and the well The wonderful blood giver and tonic Whit- -bread Ale and Stout Matured in bettles by the BREWERS in England and con- tain all the natural In the tirst place, a Real Estate owner doesn’t advertise his property | for sale unless he is ANXIOUS to sell. When he is ANXIOUS to sell: } 1st; He usually advertises In The | World; 2nd: The buyer is more than likely to “inake his own terms” as to price and terms of payment. As to investment opportunities: The World pr | 166,510 “Real Estate” and “Bus: s Opportunity” Ads. last year— HERALD About 7,000 Sunday World Ads To-Morrow