The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1912, Page 3

* @AY GO BACK TO WALL STREET, ~AND AMUSEMENT: Banker ih Re Home Almost | (Well, May Soon Be Back in Wall Street. | GOING AWAY WITH WIFE Has Booked Passage for Ger- many and Will Sail Next Week. }BXACT CONDITION OF MORSE AS TOLD BY HIS PHYSICIAN. The Evening World wired to-day to Mrs. Charies W. Mor at Al Janta, Ga., Inquiring as to the ex- act condition of her Husband, Dr, A. L. Fowler, head physician to Mr. Morse, sent the following teler gram: Replying to yours to Mrs. Morse, Mr. Morse is able to sit Up four or five hours « day, but mot strong enough to go for a walk. A. L. FOWLER, M. D. w. | § ATLANTA, Moree, the banker whom President Taft! pardoned from the Federal Prison here om representation that he was In imml- ent danger of death, continues to im- Feb. 6.—Charles Prove in health with euch marvel wapidtty that he probably will leave Atlanta to-morrow or Thursday for New York, {Moree is going to Bad Nauheim, Ger- many. According to announcement by Bis personal counsel, he will sail fro: New York on Feb. 14, uccompanied by ‘Mes. Morse, his sister, two trained Busses and Dr. A. L. Fowler. He plans to remain at Bad Nauheiz:, taking the cure, for tiie st of the year. ‘The convicted banker's sudden recov- 4 aet all the town wondering and ft laughing. Io was firs tom the Federal Prison to the post hospital at Fort McPr «son, six miles out of the city. The change sevmed to DeneGt him, but few were prepared for the swift improvement that followed the @mnounoement of his pardon and his ge transfer to a handsome suite at Piedmont .iotel, e city’s most Seucoaoe hoste:ry, where male | used to gaze at Hoke Sint “Saotaen @irl* between juleps. Mrs. ‘Moree 1s with him constantly. SAYS FRIEND. ‘Those who have managed to catch a @impee of Morse are astonished. The @haritable, who include the warden at the penitentiary, attribute his improve- ment to his removal from the atmos- Phere of the prion, where he had no @neouragement to try to get well. The eynice! declare that hé never was halt ea sick as he pretended. “It wouldn't surprise me,” sald an ac- qoaintance who saw Morse recently, “if ‘Merae were operating agalo in Wall @trest e00n."” ‘Wagers were frecly made that Morse ‘weuld recover in short order as soon ‘ea he was pardoned by President Taft. ‘Phe banker, however, 1s not without his sympathizers, A Government off- cial who was at the prison last week peraists in the statement that to his per- sonal knowledge Morse’s friends were @ranging to take him to New York on @ etretcher, and the warden says that fa ai) Morse’s illness no intimation came to Bim from any source that the banker Woe eimulatin, ‘Morae's counsel suggested Hot Springs, Ve., as a place where the pardoned prisoner might be benefited, but Morse fis @ald not to have taken well to that fdea, He wants to so for the present to @ place where he will be less lect of public not! Dead Beat Sto! Shoes So He Couldn't Give Chase, ‘When John Peters and his wife arose im Atlantic City wicy found their shoes missing. They finally telephoned for the police. ft was then discovered that a boarder had disappeared during the night with out paying his bill and had taken the shoes to prevent their pursuing him if he aroused them, The Diary of a ‘Arnold Bennett’s Attack an ob- | (eer Lived in an Age len and Women Wicked to Be Told of Wrongs in Order to Fight Them. Explained by the Fact That Self-Sacrifice Is Not So Fashionable as It Used to Be. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Perhaps the| most interesting feature of the) Dickens Centen- ary meeting, to be held in Car- negie Hall to- morrow, will be the reading of an original poem by William Watson, RNIXO! England's greatest GREELEY= SMITH living master of verse. Mr. Watson, who arrived in New York yesterday, made the trip for the Special purpose of doing honor to the memory of the most popular of English | novelists, He came at the invitation of the Dickens Centenary Committee. “Dickens was a great human force, and we thought that Mr, Watson, the champion of the Boers in the face of all Engiand, the friend of the down: trodden Armenians, was the man of all others to appreciate and to express the sreat humanitarian influence of Dickens, So we bombarded him with cablegrams until he consented to come,” explained Robert Erskine Ely of the Committee cf Arrangements yesterday, SENTIMENT IN THE TIME OF DICKENS AND NOW, Mr. Watson's arrival followed #0 close- ly upon the heels of Arnold Bennett's depreciation of the author of “Pickwick” as an unscrupulous artist and a writer of factle sentiment that it seemed the logical thing to ask him, as I did yes- terday, whether or not Dickens ts too ntimentai, and whether sentiment does not play a much smaller part than When Dickens lived tn the life and the fiction of to-day. “There is less sentiment tm life to-day,” Mr. Watson anewered. “Dickens struck the mid-Victorian Rote. Me lived in an age of great philanthropies, great humanitarian purposos—e time when men and women wished to be told of bata in ordor to right them, clety, the reading public, is mere cynical, “In England—I don't know how it is with you—fction tends toward the pru- rlent—the erotic, the discussion of problems which so far as I know are only met with in fiction—at least 1 have never mot them anywhere Many persons In England disitko this free- dom, or, possibly, icense of contempo- rary fiction muca. But those who criticize Dickens for his sentimentality should remember that the novelist ftty ears or more ago was expected to pr- serve @ reticence in dealing with the sentimental relations of men and women which was as Inartistic as the pru- riency of certain books to-day, Dickens was hampered by the mid-Victorian ideal, and had he lived in the present time there is no doubt he would have written more freely and truthfully and have been to that extent @ grei artist, SURPASSED ALL CONTEMPORA- * RIES IN POWER AND FORCE. “Dickens's writing was Journalistic. He cannot be called a master of noble English. Thackeray was greater artist- |{eally, But in power, in influence upon his own and future time, Dick Passed all his contemporaries, Breater forcema faulty genius, “Z read Dio! 's §6‘Christmas Carol’ when I was eight years old and Z have not re-read it since; but such was the extraordinary vividness of the impression it left Upon my mind that Z can vorel) Whole sentences from it to- Forthwith Mr. Watson repe ea the passages from the “Christmas Carol” | descriving Scrooge's vision of the fu- | ture—"a shadow moving like a mist above the ground.” ven before that I had not suspected tdm of idle boast- ing. Le is not that sort of man, In fact, he ie th» most dimident of poets that ever jAlloried a “woman with a serpent's tongue,” pr told a | maticn that it was pro ting @ cruel and unriy/ateous war. He has the quick English color and the slow Eng/ish manner, and his 5 Conjurer-Poet A stands for Answers That World “Lost” ads. bring; They oft come as swiftly As a bird on the wing. To conjure up quickly An article lost Advertise in The World At a nominal! cost. The World always prints “Lost & Found” ads. conspicuously on t age opposite editorial page morn- ce and on first page of Want Section Sundays. AND THE WORLD GIVES & FOUND” ADS. A TION IN NEW YORK y ! AND SUNDA ry ER THAN THE HERALD, TIMES, SUN AND TRIBUNE COMBINED. To Telephone Your “Lost & Found” Ad. to The World, Call 4000 Beekman. profile 1s so finely Roman that one feels his poets’ laurely should be worn | visibly to complete the imperial ef- feet. | “Life itself 1s less sentimental than jin Dickens's times, Yet no one, per- | haps, wishes it otherwise, I don't know wha you think of it over here, but when, I read ‘The Tale of Two | Citle femal to be a very fine thing. character of Sidney Care |ton—wrat a splendid fellow he was, | yet ruded by one weakness." |THE GLORIFICATION OF SELF. SACRIFICE. “And in the end he laid down his | life for his friend," 1 said, “But there j aketn we aye the mid-Victorian note ation of welf-sacrifice, It t and some others uve out of Joint with Dicks thoy wouldn't put it vt it beca Hove in sel 80 sacri. ve in e answered, here Was Grant Allen, He was vio teal, antl-Christian tn hi it Andrew Lang said of him think | but you tHE EVENING WORLD, "S RECOVERY Less Sentiment Now Than When AWLEY'SESTATE \ABOX OF CANDY TUSK WONDER += Dickens Lived, Says Poet Watson with perfect truth that a more real Christian never lived. Why, Allen had carved in the wood overmante! in his home. ‘Seif-development is greater Lal self-sacrifice.’ “Yet he was always doing the moblest, most inselfish things for others. After all, ye know the Greatest § elf{-development is in self-sacrifice.” At this moment @ horde of waiting newspaper men fell upon Mr, Watson and he proceeded to live up to his! aphorism. One young man inquired if} the poet were going to write “his. im-! Pressions of America” on his return, NO SONNETS TO “OUR TALL} BUILDINGS” CONTEMPLATED. Mr. Watson does not contemplate a cycle of sonnets to “our tall bulldings,”” utiful American our Is” and our “pulatial hotels What has to say about America 1s already embodied in a Poem which is sung all over the United States in the Unitarian churches: “Great and fair Is she—our iand, High of heart and strong of hand, Dawn Is on her forehead still; In her veins youth's arrowy thrill.” Po “SPARERIBS AND GRAVY.” A new Comic Series, by George Mc- Manus, author of the Newlyweds, now appearing in the Sunday World's Funny Side. If you want some one to make you lawzh, * Jaush, “let George Do It.” WOMAN RUNS DOWN KNOCKCUT ROBBER Drugged wre Victim, Miss Scully Trails Smith After Being Held in Tombs, Dan Smith, who was arrested years ago in connection with the notorious rob- bery of Banker Durand, but who went free after two trials, was held without ball In Yorkville Court to-day charged with robbing the antique shop of Chris Lorenzen, at No, 123 West fortieth street, last May Lorenzen had Invited | Smith and Elizabeth Scully to drink | with him In his apartments above his shop. Suddenly he ceased to nottoe things, and when he came to he was bound and gagged and his shop was obbed of several hundred dollars’ worth of silverware. The arrest of Smiith, who was {dentl- fled to-day as the Smith of the Durand robbery and of other criminal enter- prises, was due alone to the efforts o1 Miss Scully, who had been arrested for participating in the Lorenzen robbery and confined in th Upon her disoharse M Patiently to work to tind & wald that ah had teen to the with Smith and on Broodway with had met the antique de Lor! Invited them to his apartments, wh she had joined in the drinking, She as tombs four months 3 Hy wen well as Lorenzen had & a and she had awakened In a nearby hotel without knowing dow ot there. Continvou on th look, she heard last night that Ith was in a enderloin saloon. & went there him take persuade At the res- ped out warmly ay her to dinner, | | = for rtd for @ good long sta Bofore Magistrate Applete wae charged with grand larceny, bery and assault. Smith GAS KILLS FIVE ‘house was broken in, rob- ye Puy ? ea. TUESDAY, LY $20,000,000, WILL NOT FOUND | First Fatimate of He of His Holdings | at $40,000,000 Was Exces- sive, Friends Say. a |HE DESTROYED A WILL. | Whether Railroad Magnate | Made Another Has Not Yet | Been Determined. Tn spite of statements that the will of; Edwin Hawley had deen found, there ame to-day no trace of the document for which many leading financial tnter- este are eagerly watching. Search made in tho safe deposit vaults wherein Mr. Hawley kept his papers, under the per- anission of the attorney for the State | Comptroller, Thomas E. ltush, failed to reveal any euch testamen | | At the same time there came a rel!-| able bit of information that Mr. Hawley hed destroyed a wii! made in 1903 and that he had then determined to incor. porate his various intereats—a plan that had not materialized up to the timo of his death, Frank H. Davis, former partner of Mr. Hawley, and Walter 4. Crandall and William P, Hawley, | nephews of the late financier, held a closed-door session at No. % Broad street to-day, They refused to talk | about the Hawley estate in any aspect. | If @ will ts found in one of the dopostt | boxes, which ts not expected, it will} have to be sent to the Surrogate by the deposit company, The searching parties place. Rumors of a coming contest over the will were to-day declared to have no present foundation, for the very obvious FEBRUARY 6, cannot take the paper from its hiding | & 1912. ° .me CAN'T BRIBE LENA! COWEN, HE'S CHEAP He Asks Her She Should Stay Away From Court, but She Tells It the Judge. Lena Pincus of No, %2 Powell street, who yesterday got a summons in New Jersey Avenue Court, Brooklyn, for Harris Cohen No, #% Osborne street, because she said, he had slapped her face in @ quarrel, ran into court, to-day in @ high state of indignation. “Judge, Your Honor!" ene oried “If you please, I wish you should send that man, when he comes here, to prison for ie, He is @ briber; he tries to make me a perjury. He bribes me that © ‘should not be a witness.” Magistrate Dodd was interested. Just then Harris Cohen waiked in with his summons. Ho stopped short when he saw Lena Pincus at the bar of jus- tice, “Didn't I give you candy last night?" ie Go ete “And yet you i ‘Tell me of this bribery,” demanded th Magistrate, sternly. ht, this man he comes by and asks me and a lady friend we should go out with him, ean see no harm, and I Ko along wita him. He buys soda water at an ice cream parlor. He takes us by moving pictures and buys half-pound by no bag. And all this \dering why he m such a millionaire, Hut when ives ux goodby at the door, know what a bal man he Is. says * Now, n 0 nice to you, you will please not go by the court in morning to Ket me fined.’ It makes mo mad from my soul out jand I come tell you about it, and 1 hope you put him in Sing Sing prison for a hundred years, “This assault, which he mode omyou |reason that there ts now nothing to | contest. The figures of the estate were to-day lowered by conservative author- [ities It was pointed out that, for stance, ina of holding any lark block of k in the Chesapeake & | Onto, Mr. “Hawley merely sented, jas trustee, a large numb foreta ‘ockholders and AS MAIN BREAKS; OTHERS OVERCOME, Man, Woman and Three Chil- dren Dead From Fumes That Passed Into House. It Is expeoted the charge of this stock will be given to some other rall- Fond man on Feb, 16, and it is unde stood it has been offered to one of the! Present directiftg officials of the Ch ape & Ohio. ple's money ran all throuch the Hawley enterprises, and he was, in many cases, simply the agent of the real owners, He owned $1,400,000 worth of stock in the) Interborough Company, or stock for, which he paid that much, which ts now | worth $815,000, “You will find that his estate will not exceed $20,000,000," sald one of his as- soctates in many Unes, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.—Gayp escap- | ing from a broken street math killed five persons and overcame three others ving at Twenty-second and Carlton Street, thie city, early to-day, The dead, who were found in one house, were: Mrs. Sophie Drazal, twenty-eight years old, and her children, Roste, two years; Stephen, three; Joseph, five, and eee Cent Risses Put tn During the last va over 300,000,000 one-cent pleres, Inte. 1 as payment for postal oards and money orders, were collected by the rural carr! rs from mati boxes in which thoy had been deposited Postmaster-Genera! [it:heock sent out a warning to-day to all those who re- Bay Wisniak, a boarder. celve thelr maj] through riral carriers The occupants of an adjoining house that they should deposit no more eee overcome, but wore revived, in thelr boxes, of the three, a woman, !¥ still in a serious condition, | Mra, Drazal's husband, who ts e’ ‘ployed In a steam bakery, left hom 3 a, m, without noticing the gas. The presence of the fumes was one WOUSE | discovered by neighbors and the police all ‘were notified. In the mean time \the families in the street were arou | When an attempt was made to get Drazal family up there was no re- sponse, and the front door of the litte FIRE ‘The boarder was found tn the hall- fully dressed, He had returned "an early night shift where Mrs, Drazal's husvand pi T Drazal had left the Meved he was for the leak. found dead | The ga tion, found that a n had and that the gas found {ts way sewer and then {nto the houses, wo NO TRACE OF S SHERMAN. New York Auditor D'd Not cing y were Minn! Go to Wok L. She: ment of the Company, whe elsht days a George W. Si tendent of publ been seen in Worcs in Bast N Sherman’ “We have been fror ports 1a t Wore Waists, 29c to $2.00 Former Prices, $1.50 to $12.50 Cloth Coats, $2 Upwards Former Prices, $10.00 Upwards Tailoved Suits, $4.75 Up Former Prices, $15.00 Upwards Are You 100% Proficient? | ie NOT. TRY Evans ‘| pyle and see the big improvement it wil quickly mak. i you an an no a workers and people who exercis: athletes and laborers, Greatest food value of any eine invalids and children. is very finect quality All B. FISCHER & CO, This same relationship to other peo- | It had been at! first thought the estate would amount to | Premises Partially Destroyed by Fire $50,000 Stock of SALE} women’s Anparel Must Be Closed Oui ai Gnce Prior to Adjustment Prices Furth 2r Easiest cereal to digest—-good for brain- More nutritious than meat— good for 6 HOTEL ASTOR RICE leaned — uncoated absolutely pure, white head Fockebonty ia orunge-colur bug with our s.gnature. 106 per Ih. at good grocers Was not so serious that you refused to go out with him Jast night?’ asked the | Maxtstrate, “When a poor girl gets a ¢ for nothing, why shouldn't Le’ ory “The complaint of as Aine missed.” said trate Pedd “The reprehensible at bribery ts hereby made the subject of a reprimand of this Court.” Lena and Harris went out together, arguing with # earnestness that It was predicted one or the oth of then , would be back after another summons within an hour, ts | Cor. 12thSt. OF FASHION , $1.00 Upwards 4.00 Upwards FurPieces, 50cto$1 2.50 Former Prices, 5.00 to 440.0) Dress Former (r.ces, " Fur Coat;, $15 to $93 Former . e little. 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