The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1912, Page 16

DOZEN FIRES SE AS PGE GUARD Tenants of Big Harlem House _ in Panic and Twelve Fam- |. ilies Move in a Hurry. ° ‘ALL AFRAID TO SLEEP. Every Entranced Watched, but Man With Oil Can Works Undisturbed. ‘The most persistent and daring fire- Wag that has operated in some years Ras the police of the West One Hun- Ged and Twenty-fiftth street station Gompletely baffied to-day, and has left the few remaining families in the tene- ment at No, 120 West One Hundred and Weirty-fourth street in a panic. Be tween dark last night and daylight to- Gay twelve families vacated. tenants are colored. In thirty-six hours ave been a dozen incendiary ree in the house, some kindled right ‘wader the noses of the police. ' ‘The only theory of the Fire Marshal fa that some insane negro has been @arting blazes through vindictiveness, All the) THE BVENING WORLD, ty i yf z ‘ TUES a cece ent Electricity to Bring a Four- Hour Work Day | After All, There Is No Value to Time or Life Says,| Scientist-Inventor Sleinmetz, Though We Waste Our Intellectual and Physical Resources, Reckless of the Future, and Move So Rapidly Our Needs Are Increasing. Specialist Is Worst Enemy of Progress, Man Who! Generalizes Is His Master—Not How Much Done in Given Time Counts, but in a Lifetime— | Ideal Servantless City Coming When Wasted Water Power Furnishes Available Electric Current. When we cut out all avoidable waste, much of which will be | accomplished by electricity, men will have to work but four or five hours a day. Electric brooma, refrigerators, stoves and all kindred kitchen | appliances will constantly eliminate the servant. In thie mad rush persone are numbers rather than human Deings. I never saw an average man. The individual never thinks he fa the average. We have organised the financial and industrial resources, but we have done nothing toward organizing the intellectual supply of the country. There ia the reason that there is @ dearth of high- salaried men. The aeroplane ia the coming locomotion of the country, and | electricity will play a prominent part in ita development. BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB. 1 took a night train for Schenectady in order to see Dr. Charles INBIG TENEMENT | When We Learn Not to Value Time Too Highly DAY, MAROE 5, 1912, ~ oonieeeetnenacinsrecinanstipe BROOKLYN BOYS | CAUGHT IN RAID.) ONCAR SMOKER Judge First Sentenced Them to Jail for a Day, and | Then Relented. | | | The Brookiyn Rapid Posted notices in Its the establishment of a “kick depart- | ment," and asking patrons to write | whenever they had any complaints to make. Brooklynites, nursing long+ standing &rievances, did not hesitate to avail themsely this delightful op- ansit recently announcing portunity, The “kick department". was overwhelmed, | | One of the chief con | J sald to-day at th | pany, was that bo y were surrepittiousiy sinoking in closed | cars on the Lexing avenite 1 greatly to the annoy other passengers. | Asa result, Patrolman Leonard of the| Adams wireet station boarded a Lex- | ington avenue elevated train at Adams | street to-day and rounded up five boys who were vovertly smoking, exhaling ‘the smoke through thelr nostrils from thelr claretty little lungs. BOYS WHO WERE ARRESTED: | FOR SMOKING. The boys gave their names as Law- | rence Stout, aged fifteen, No. 181 Foun+ tain avenue; David Schneider, nineteen, » of many of the ———- ae "James McCreery & Co. ‘23rd Street 34th Street On Wednesday, March the 6th. : MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. In Both Stores. Large and attractive stock of American Underclothing, made of Cambric and Nain- sook. Various models, trimmed with dainty laces and embroideries. Gowns.... ++ 1.50, 2.00, 2.75 and 3.75 Drawers...........+. 95C, 1.25, 1.50 ‘ i885, 1.98, 2108 “ 95C, 1.25, 1.75 2.25 2.75 2,00 Chemises.......... Corset Covers. . SHIRTWAIST PATTERNS. tn Both Stores, Exceptional Values. hand- I. value a with Irish 2.75 value 4.75 French Batiste with eyelet embroidery Hand-embroidered Batiste with made tucks. Hand-embroidered Batiste lace. . | No. 590 Crescent et; James Bi A, fet none of the negroes in the house | Proteus Steinmetz, the man who is largely responsible for the great de- SSE Pu ae caret ames “Brund, and thal lass: rie Maow of any quarrel that might have velopment of electricity that has taken place in the last quarter of a cen- on Cte eres | Milter, sew 86 Buclld avenue, value 6.78 (wrought re 5 7 he ry eve le No. | The fret fre was discovered sunday |tury, and who gets paid more “for looking out of the window quietly © BY BROWN BROS: GHEMRE HINGE AITO MERONIVA: ere ree ek wet Wy "the Janitor, thinking than any other living man”—one of the few scientists who Venting another cigar, ‘that te why 1|,,TR¢ Dov8 Were arraigned before Magis. Willem ; been Y her cigar, w \ ; Titan Hunter, | Rubvlan hed veer |avold the limelight, seeking to hide his light under a bushel—the self- | tavor college saes inthe working out | ‘rate, Kempner in the Adame Street werk aprinkled wath heronene. same light which constantly radiates about us, his patents in Washington | fralniee Bier chavo Li ee carly | wphis thing of smoking on closed ele-} MERINO UNDERWEAR DEP’TS. mm Bovh Stores, a en amasing enqueacy. oak ‘ot | numbering many hundreds. Knowledge of things ax they are vated cars has sot to stops? deotared | gory Dunaing “pinaily the Sollee ware I arrived at his ellen tories, which are together, at 8 sustain that energy. The ‘cial : “" have 's sympathy with the | ra bay a vats believe that will be Women's Ribbed Combination Suits, notified. x4 o’ciock. When he came into the room and I began to apologize for my| to-day moves so rapidiy that of | {ute 'she schoo of sapetioncee | [omective, Instead, 1 shall commit each| umbrella shape, trimmed with dainty lace. POLICE ON GUARD, BUT EIRES | early arrival he politely assured me that it was not early at all—that he| ecessity his are continu- | the so-called practical college. Fhe | Five thoroughly crestfallen youths 75¢ ously increasing. In fact he act- ractical tell you what | wer ; spel, ators ttiey | j ARE KINDLE 6 o'clock. P man can yo were led back into the pen. Before they | value 4.25 | At 6 o'clock last night the sixth lane | Ot UP rather late himself—6 o'clock. Rally moods GO per cent. more than |{ takes place, but not why, and 80, | were removed to the Jail Magistrate | | was put out by the tenants. Aasistent | Before me stood a itte man ina biue| surprised to know that already the | WW" “waticed on through the labora-| B@ 088 a0 only that which he | Kempner relented and agreed to aus- Women's Ribbed Combination Suits Prial and Detective Giery with a cigar in hiehand. They poiger io @ river of the past for | tories, where several men Were busy at rene yee i we| Pend ue matte Providing Bind ve , ‘d with j " iste ts f rf ge jest One Hundred and Twenty- | ony a cigar te his inevitable companion, | She, Generation of electrio power. | work. One room is given over to text-|ang men out of college who are par-|lulgy inno more smoking ii the. ele: | trimmed with insertion and lace. 1.00 % street station were sem around to/and that he has them specially manu-/ 4. going the ‘same way. rivers Reet ne dGctata oneion te deenad toe tleularly Attea tor developing the reat vated trains, They promised, value 1.50 a ' q . ‘0 ouret t orld. We do fin ry | i ‘ a Fi ‘i > : Mei eeticomn iutser and ‘Teccaans raged ee ee acsadig! ot ari goal la being exhausted and ther three of theae and they seemed to Be) them often, but they, ‘have adapted! qo ,,em Ziad thls, crusade has, been Women's Ribbed Vests, trimmed with imum anthracite will not 7 th vi a Ized of thelr own ‘ > rm 0 - ., eae eee, ic was ont tang | Blcotine with a maximum capacity of| last very long. Wood, as a fuel, ie| pf asked him what he read, suggesting| instinct, and Wwe aro always glad t0| O° Me are Grocunt before me for. this valenciennes lace. 35¢ smoke. Practically @ thing of the past and Darwin, Haeckel and the philosophers. | yelp these men to develop further.” Offense t shall deal harshly with them.” value Soc Gatil Kutser smelled amoke. He traced Cll) He waved those aside as a matter of a ‘to @ vacant flat on the second floor,| My firet impression of him was that Ge heey ree in ite avail: | course and, when questioned as to other We ’s Boudoir Sli in Violet floor had \ eration. much constd- | reading, admitted he has three favorite| PARSONS TRIAL DELAYED. it omen’s Boudoir Slippers in lolet, the woodwork of one of the rooms was “Rapid creeks and rivers will become |suthors—Kipling, Mark Twain and Jack ; King Blue and Gray. Made of brocaded | Muming. It was the second fire in un- | {ne through rather thick glasses 8nd.} siow moving pools on account of the | Loven. He reads the samo books over| De Lancey Nicoll Unable to Appear satin. j 5 @uveral buckets of water. y le . No more, for the water will be | thought. ‘ i Im about an hour Prial ead Giery,| thought and authority, I forget his} droppea from one level to another sy! other part of the laboratory ts| Owing to the Illness of Miss Jose- TP Mateer put out e fre in the rooms of] WHAT WILL BE FUTURE INVEN-| cour wtich’ unt snd, of, Ita resources tn | Dr. Sicinmets fe Profesor of Fectriity | the trial of John H.Parsons, former E , Biodie Anderson on the thing floor. The an m | of Union College and often the students! counsel of the Sugai at, and others DRESSMAKERS’ SUPPLIES. 1 Both St j TION IN ELECTRICITY? coalng, will be electricity and! como to his home to hear him. He says| indic : bs OSTRICH wo “ Wi. In Bo ores, oe femily way. YS} indicted with him on a ‘ce of con. % MUNA Wis ahethasWsddd, dock after. | When 3 ache tim os to the tutere| te stesieny BT eee ate keeps young by mingling with the MEGHevinibabiralne O6 traley Was post. OLESALE | MUG talnisws. seo potiectan wes bent-| cat to feany tine, wis inv WE WASTE ON, RECKLESS OF|HUMAN INTELLIGENCE ALONE| Criminal tiranc of the Lied ‘Staten Dress Shields, nainsook covered. Sizes > J THE FUTURE. District 2, 3 and 8c pair, 90c dozen tag ever with Gre extinguishers, several} tion iden that is ‘a J : NOT CONSERVED. yee ‘ »3 4. parr, P whieh bed been brought around a| layman. Svery Pibicciyh a SE aaah Decent ie We sat down again in the rar of tho | ¢A‘torney oe eo oe Shi ae ‘ ‘ an nee before, when a woman began| hear of « ‘startling’ invention. fa concerniod, alse tne re thelt Power |iahoratories where there Is a wonderful | Hiained th CaN was atiit unanie Dress Shields, silk covered. Sizes 2, 3 © gareaming Gownstairs. There was an-| reality there is have done in the past, the problem of | Where ne doubt the doctor Hoga primey | t leave his ter in Philadelphia, | and 4. 16¢ pair, 1.85 dozen ether fire there near the stairway, and every so-called the future generation will be what they were no ans t tl he dos tor does much | where whe has been critically i of | F 0OME TENA! EST SIT| © development of eomething that | will do for light, heat and power, Chen Ate Bova: pd dauinld yee Pneumonia for two weeks, He asked a | Dressmakers’ Pi Si a6 has gone before. “But yet at present how quic Baca gy yada shay postponement until Monday. | ressmakers’ Pins. izes 4, 5 an > 4 up quickly. | developed and organized; the United States District-Atiorney Wi: later Polin x aothing without © thing oan be done seems to be Likewise, init we have done compura-| united States District-\ttorney Wise | half pound box, r4c¢ ‘Pwe hours oman Kutser i ect ° P| | feud another biase on the ftth floor, | “8° that I miht say that electricity; te Work of the day and the great [ively nothing towand organizing thy | hiveted, “One of the Covernments's| Ny | wet uch o email quantity of of! hud |! ! the process of development and | has Bo value, ‘Ths promt pene: | [ntellectuat supply of the country. That | Rying man,” he aiid. “lp to his last | Hooks and Eyes with spring.....10c box ¥ {been used that this was put out with |M° man can say he @teoovered thisthat) tem of the age is the continaens in to nay, we have Mlone comparatively | nour he is expected to be tn condition Viumes im: Sewi Silk ard I i @r the other Ghing. He hes jum added nothing toward cultivation of Intelli- | ROU hla ko pba tie mt, Cleantag wing Silk, 100 yard spools........... Bittle trouble, In this instance, as in or Ls | specding ee an the time, we | pence to Ko on the stand, and it fy extremely alae hal vecteeing te Of the others, a bundle of rags |*nother Cormula for the working out) should not be living to work, but Smut what we seem to be doing | '™Portant to us that we should have THAVENUE 7¢ spool, 75¢ dozen 4 rubbish had been piled up to give of things. ‘work to live. fe creating sts. A special- the opportuntiy of calllug bla." x “Wo atill hear the everlasting ques-| | “The everlasting talk ts of eliminating) {et is just a tool—s judge with | _JudKe Hand postpon. the trial unt! Fi ER 4 Sewing Silk, large spools.............. Games o start. tion, ‘What {@ electricity?” You can! Dut the greatest elimination of| oertain limitations whose worth | Thursday, with toe proviso that If Mis My police made another tour of the ’ H is preserving the human being. Nicoll's condition has not greatly im- 20 St, oc spool ‘0 do: answer this as much as you can itell K.| may be easily figured. Me knows 4oc spool, 4.5 zen ete gdleape ead negro named what 1s gravitation, And long ago'tt en and amusement are saving comparatively ‘the proved he will grant another adjourn- IK to 5. 5 me, not wai This saving of time ment, =e ee, We ceased to ask that, is improvem thing he specialises on, And so i . ement—the other ts Killing. the man who is his - anu in front of the house while the |Beither can thelr uRimate possibilities, imo lifetime counts, an who knew how to take ad-/ Page Weekly Joke wiven free od made tours of the halls. The ten- about or remained wide q night @ guard was kept constantiy “ the acuttle to see if the pyromuniac the root, is owned by the Buiowa ‘with offices at No, % Liberty Yet man has learned to transmit that! ‘The so-called average man continues {ata high pace, burns out rapidly, and Snerey $0 that he can With SIMON! OF the ond of fis fe what has. he? imal nein movronys ie what may Thus it ts ridiculous, unless in cages rt e to of great emergencies, for a m: “L would then, that, aside from i nanene elghteen-hour train and thereby hours, when the saving of hours means comfort and iv- the industrial side, electricity will next enter most extensively into the domes- He drew ther ted a comple! at may be Ke of his specialiste—men who ave years of effort to one thing and knew only that, various sources, He paid them for thir te whole termed ik, with the Sunday Worl, is the best prepared. This paragraph ix writ after a glance over an m from] just up from the Color P: —_——>— (Sp TARRYTOWN, N. vance copy yet ten Earliest Food From earliest times the wonderful food value of ice was known to the 23rd ‘treet 34th Street bag Wiley esey “And thore you have the reason for}man Sandkuhl, a Jewolry salesman in| Orientals, 4 During the night two incendiary | 4¢ Tealm. The reason of this ls on ac the lack of leader the dearth of|New York, dropped dead from heart ‘were discovered in the five-story {Count of Ite great economical value. | ayig mesiann basnees ts too intense. In| high-salaried men, Not encase geaeeal| tore te trams 54.4he Live Gab Site Modern scieace confirms ancient let No. 140 West One Hundred | That 1@ to say, electricity 19 made in| father than Maman vee: Knowledge te scoumulated by ¢ Company ef Bimsford as he was run-| wledom. Evory-dey uso of Rise ames mc reery 0 ‘Thirty-fourth street. They were |one place and transmitted into ancher, better to bulid age man, By the way, there ts n ning to catch the 7.29 train to-day. His eannot be too highly commended ada da much the same way as the|Now, we, by eliminating waste, making it and {t brings happiness, |‘"!ne ae average man I never brother was directly ahead of him, but to Americen famili Vege- 4 No, 18 had been. ‘ne great central plant for lange trane- than push a button and get an electric | £0 individual who thought he was the/did not see him fall, A woman called) table, oereal or dessert. 4 _—_—_—_————— ission, will make it possible for | Stove. If persons enj int erage. to him an: eo ran a found his 7 ROBIN 1S GETTING PEEVISH Cone $e. casey it at C caininwuss coe, [arden ané raising Rat tet Vener] “But to continue” said the doctor, | brother dead. > red to ah let ; & ING +] bringing the greatest good to the great: | tables, It were much more beautitul and HOTEL ASTOR are now prepared to show a complete GE Rather Be Free Than Stay in| ext number. (eves ines SBME pfeotrie ploughs and R assortment of Women’s high class Suits, ie the Tombs. ELECTRICITY TO BRING SER-| “Man must work, and electrical de- ICE Reception, Theatre and Dinner Gowns in Piiheeeph G. Robin indloted. bank VANTLESS ELYSIUM. La mesrinauat ition lnvenionee ne be very, finest qnelty all the newest Fabrics. + wrecker who js held guest of honor “The servant question will be od or bad 1s largely a matter of Uncoated, Absolutely : : fm the Tombs an dine District-Attorn, | %S*80ly solved though various de- | sonality. If people want food by p Pure White Head Also plain or fancy trimmed Tailored €y'o office, awaiting the time when ho| Yio such as electric brooms, elee- [sing a button, well and good. They will Puael ab ; ; gmail testity against 1 Clty Ch tric refrigerators, electric stoves, («et {t. But time ts not lost by the y Models of Bengaline, Plain and Changeable Chait tentity gainer former City Cham-| Giganing, ventilating and otier ta- | WOMAN who would cook that food. orange-color ‘Taffeta, Silk Serge and Imported Whipcord, to have cultivated a peevish dis. | YeRtions too mumerors to mention. | , Whe great, experiences, of the sae nth sary a ~ 2.50 t lee ; Although he is allowed to| Wore will be done in push-the-but- | Gong the most have not gone so signainre. 32.50 to 138.00 ton way. Much of the household drudgery, that of dishwashing, will be solved by a perfected machine his days in @ comfortable chair & comfortable couch in a com- bie office in the Distriot-Attorney’s fast at it. In reality they go fast Demonstrated slowly and get just as far, if not er. Afternoon Dresses of Taffeta and Satin he longs for treedom. and his sister, Dr. Louise Ro- beid a long conference with ’ ttormey today. The - fe said to have demanded that made to him when he wants ve fombs and the Criminal Courts Building and get out Circulate around. Distriot-At * Fe de- & “he oo, rown ———— wal Oficers Will See Play. ® theatre box party composed of line officers of the United States ne ted of the Hawaiian te of Oliver Mott's Theatre ‘Walton Tuhy's Hawelien ‘© Hawailen “Tee Bird of Paradise.” wixteen- | ing free | at the “A very good example of this ts that of my gila monster. Would you like to hi asked the doctor, rising and ing another cigar. ETS A LESSON FROM THE GILA MONSTER. He led the way through the conserva. tories, which are filled mostly with cactus, his favorite plant, because he figures that the cactus is the bot {llus- tration of evolution in plant life, and Dr, Steinmetz usually goes to the begin- ‘ning of things in all his deductions, ‘He works out most of of all in mathema' her than carry material in delightful swt for the purpose.” “How about wireless telephones and seeing persons through @ telephone?” I asked. “Mostly talk and mostly trash,” an- swered the doctor, ‘Wires will always, by far, be the most economical means of transacting rical energy. For, in the process of wireless, much energy ts lost in ite passage and is only economic | through space where wires are impossl- le. “But there will be so many other more important developments for the saving of monotonous labor that the day is not far distant when with continued elimization of waste man will work but four to five hours a Gay. sent by a@ friend years 7 “There 1s no question that much of ‘There lay this gray and black speckled the locomotion of the country will be by tu % perdy wader a Bons oF the other aide of the stone were three Sree ste can Coming “aeroplane andl vege and tho shells of three otherm y play no emall part 1D, These half dozen es re put In the | (te machinery, As to automobiles, gaa- in the fall and sufficed for food | oline te, by far, the best form of creat-|for several months. Dower, since it creates the power once and is more economical than making of electricity at various 400 STORES iH THE 8. 8, 2=25 We Guarantee These to be New Laid Eggs creat ATLANTIC & PACIFIC company THIS PRICE FOR METROPOLITAN BISTAICT ORLY 42W. 22nd. St. 10c per Ib. at t number of “FUN,” the sixteen. che Sunasy’ World, Is the best y eu orld, is the ‘This paregreph ls written jance Paty ns Ceage Presy* — # Piet Charmeuse. Various models. 32.50 to 42.0¢ Fancy trimmed Tailored Suits, — hair line stripes and checks, 42.50 Theatre and Dinner Gowns,—decollete or high neck. 69.50 to 245.06 23rd Street 34th Street seven-time World Want works all week. Order one to-day and prosper.