The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1912, Page 3

TRANPLD BY MEN IN PANG ‘ON BURNING CA troller Is Short Circuited on Brooklyn Trolley. EIGHT PERSONS HURT.| » Passengers Cut by Glass as They Leap Through Win- dows to Escape Flames. Out of the midst of blue flames, ‘writhing trolley wires, heavily charged, | @mi eplintered giass, eight passengers | @ @ Third avenue, Brooklyn, trolley | @ar were dragged by volunteer res- euers to-day, all more or lees hurt by @uts and the trampling feet of fellow Passengers. A short circuit in the con- | troller box, just as the car was opposite | the Court street corner on Livingston street, was the ciuse of the few min- utes of panic and the resultant injuries | @0 passengers. ‘The car, bound from New York and ‘ender control of Motorman James @can- Jon of No. %1 Fitty-soventh street and Conductor Charles Hild of No, 19 Nel. @on street, had just passed the Court Gtrest crossing and was opposite the Brooklyn Bye and Ear Hospital when, for some reason not yet announced by the B. R. T. officials, a short ciroult ‘was formed in the controller box. A broad sheet of electric fiame Jumped across the street, leaped to the ‘overhead wire and down to the batteries beneath the oar. A section of the over- fhead wire, about twenty feet long, Gropped to the street and twisted under the compulsion of the current fa it until the section insulator on a pole overhead burned out automatically and rendered the wire harmiess. PAGSENGERS IN PANIC A6 THE FLAMES ARISE. Aa the first fash forty-odd passengers fm the car jumped to their feet. Then the Names from the insulated bat- Qeries beneath the car began to flare Se@ut and smoke arose in a dense volume, panic seized them. Those nearest the -@oors mado @ rush for them; others tried to throw open the windows to out. Miss Divery B. Fay, a seventean-year- @84 stenographer, who lives at No. 416 (‘Van Brunt sirest, fainted in the first @paem of excitement and fell to t) ‘floor of the car, As she lay there was severely trampled by egme of the fear crazed men who wore trying to eget out of the oar. It was not and there were marks of boot heels on | ber arms and face. | berry strect stood on the seat and t kicked all the glass out of one of the | windows, then plunged head Orst into the etroet. Others followed his exam- ple, and in @ few minutes the car was @leared, but there was a motley array > of people nursing cuts and bruises along » the curd. “Q@REAT CROWD ATTRACTED BY | "9 THE ACCIDENT. ©) The sound of the crashing giass and © he fare of the flames brought a large Sorowd. Students from the Brooklyn Polytechnic School, opposite the scene of the acckient, ran down to swell the numbers. Then an automobile with sev- jeral claim agente of the B. R. T. came rushing up from the traction compan: and the agents arranged for the fer of the wounded to the Eye and Hospital. With the injured once de the B. R. T. agente stood guard ‘er the door, denying entrance and in- ormation to all’ who sought It. ‘The names of the injured, ae recorded the Adame street station blotter, are follows: ‘Miss Elvery B. Fay, No. 46 Van Brunt treet; Mise Genevieve Gaynor, No. 60 Filaabeth Schuits, WM King street; Miss Francie Hig- isadore No, 108 Mulberry street; Oscar No, 26 Moore street; Rinaldo Terrieniere, No. 106 Mulberry street, None had more serious hurts than outs | and bruises. ———>—_——_ MISSING CASHIER CAUGHT , HIDING IN NEWARK, Fred J. Merwede of Brooklyn May Also Face Charges of Bigamy. A. M. Birdsall, counsel for the National Surety Company, of No. 115 Broadway, to-day asked Gov. Dix to secure the re- turn from Newark, N. J., of Fred J. Merwede, cashler and bookkeeper of the Knickeroocker Ice Company’e plant at Fourth and Pond streets, Brooklyn. Mer- wede {e accused cf embessiing $1,500 of the funds of the company, though the shortage may be larger when a complete audit of his books has been made. Merwede wae arrested last night at @ boarding house at No. 6 Columbia strect, Newark, where he was living un- der the name of Becker. He disap- peared on March 17 and has since been followed by Detective Allen of the Na- tonal Burety Comoany, ip which he wae bond. a, n, Merwede, who is forty- old, lived with his wife, Barnett Merwede, and ¢neir 1 Twenty-third jerwede, who, the I Mrs, Alic two children, at No. . Sad g ever been divorced ‘ede, lives at No. 128 Bay » Brooklyn, with their | Faints From Fright as Con-| ge; Rinaldo Terrieniere of No. 108 Mul-/| » | London as having sounded the death “TALL WOMEN QRS wT SUPFRAGET TES, ‘They ARB DEPENDENT AND HENPECHED FALSE PACE, 60 CHANGE YOUR Far Easter for Manager to Recruit a Pony Ballet From Among Suffra- gettes Than to Find Women Enough in Ranks for a Show Girl Sextet. Manly, Insistent Women Mr. Frohman Describes Are to Be Found More Frequently Among the Anti-Suffragists — But the Real Scrappers Are Little. AR. FROHMAN MUST HAV MANE SANTIS® wisTeaD Op *SupmrageTtes* By Nixole Greeley-Smith. Bverything now | It Mr. Frohman doesn't believe me, let him study te strong, masculine features of Miss Jeannette Gilder and Miss Ida Tarbell, both violently committed to anti-suffrage. It ie natural, moreover, for the vcry/ magouline woman to oppose the ballot for her sex. For the man's soul we know she possesses clings naturally to ite nt prejudices, and the mere fact that Fate has lodged {t in @ feminine body cannot be expected to alter its point of view. AQ the fighting women are lit tle women and all littl women are fighting women, Any married ‘man could tell Mr, Frohman that. But if bachelors wil) rush in where benedicte fear to tread they must expect their purely academic knowledge to fail them occasionally. Shakespeare vas a married man—most bie i ah Mr. Charles Frohman is quoted in knell of the tall girl in musical com- edy with these fatal words, And since the atage sete the fashions in manager may be said to have paved | proves himself an expert in feminine esa ., Psychology when he makes fhe tall the way tos renaissance of the M1d- Fetena of “Midsummer Nigbt's) Dream” Victorian popularity of the Mttle'gemana protection from the little woman, and unless we can all turn|Hermia. If Hermia were alive to-day ourselves into “cute little tricks” Hg ra Rebel vig llg i ‘guer! \@ suffrage parade, while Helena woul mie mere oe ee ~ show up in the Domestic Relations Court mae le Burke.) 1. beg the presiding Judge to let he there is no hope for us, except, of| husband off for beating her, I call M course, we can prove thet Mr. Froh- Freemans 4 eee one thik man fs in the wrong in this instance, | #P!rit of Her iy Whee & Tet us consider firat of all the alse) HeGe: Due. SRURLAE cer WAN: BAe OP and might of the fighting auffragettes. 2 Take Mrs, Pankhurst, little and BBRMIAqHow or her two militant daughters, Sylvia and Christabel, the latter now a fugi- tive from British justice, both distinotly small women. Or, coming nearer home, consider the stature of Dr. Anza Shaw, Mrs, 14g Husted Harper, Mrs. Belmont, Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, Mre, Rey- nolds, Mre, Mary Dennett, the charming, gray-haired Mrs. Roxanna Burroughs am I? Thou paint- ae! How low am I? I am not yet so low my nails may reach unto thine For every ‘Napoleon of the do mestio hearth there is & Wapo- leoness, but she's always wedded to some masculine giant who laughs with delight when she gives him @ omile and trembles with fear at her frown. Despots, male and female, are notoriously little or, #t most, middle-sised. ‘The human gourd 1s, & mont gentle or ehe cal afford to waste any ‘sy except in growing. Tho | MANLY WOMEN IN THE RANKS | gourd, moreover, Is a vine which grows OF THE ANTI-GUPFRAGISTS. [10 aimost any height provided it has ‘The “manly and insistent’ woman de-! something to trail over, and its human scribed by Mr. Frohman is found much prototype ordinarily {# just as much in |more frequently among anti-suffragists, need of a support—mental, moral and Graceful models that score a “bull’s-eye”’ ~)\ with every man who ‘A tries them on; youcan | |hit the style “‘target”’ jwith any Young Hat! Aj —and you'll find a. iY convenient Young) shop in easy range. Soft Hats, $3 & $4. 0 be found any day at suffrage this city, Why, it would be pony ballet fren among the suffragettes than to find women ranks for a show girl rally speak- | char- TT Sectie Derbies & Typical Suffragette No Amazon; Fighting Women Are All Little} AFTER 30 YEARS WITHOUT SLEEP Albert E. Herpin, Trenton’s Victim of Strange Ailment, HE SUFPRAGETTS TYPE IS TMALL = mR.FRONMAN COULD Recrurr a Pow BALL THEIR RANKS physical. er FROM And there's always some two Admits He Is Wea’ Spends His Nights TI Out Inventions and been without sleep for thirty complains of feeling weary. ys he is physically weak an a nap of only five minutes’ would give him new life, his physioal health to fail. Since the power of seep desire to even dose. He hi Iassitude day or nigh. T! able chair for several hours ¢1 but he does not even then eyes. His sleeplessness has brought him considerable money, as he thought out Inventions during some of his resting periods that proved successful, excepting Sunday, in 4 he spends most of the night working out Inventions or decorating pottery for friends. works every da. a local pottery, HIS ONLY COMPLAINT morning he seems as fresh sleepless man assert that he stantly busy and exhibits not eat symptom of drowsiness, WANTS A NAP NOW CASE PUZZLES DOCTORS at Pottery Work. (Special to The Evening World.) TRENTON, N. J., April 10—Having bert B. Herpin, a Trenton man, at last he experiences no weariness, Physicians who have been following the sleepless wanderer’s case for years say he is merely suffering from overwork, and fo not agree with the theory that so many years’ of wakefulness has caused Herpin has never before expressed a he gets is when he sits in a comfort- OF LONELINESS. Herpin is always in good spirits and when he reports to his employers in the his fellow workmen who had hours of sound sleep, Those who work with the complaint that Herpin hae made be cause of his condition is that he be- comes lonely frequently at night when | he haa nothing to keep him busy. Herpin lost his ability to sleep after the death of his wife thirty years ago. He was then thirty years old. Hé con- sulted physicians who studied his strange condition, but who were unable to help him. From time to time he has been secretly watched at night. The/ medical men who undertook task Gre convinced the man has slept A moment since fret attacked by the strange malady from which he is be- Neved to muffering. THINKS PRESENT WEARINESS ' PRING FEVER.” Experts from all parte of the United Btates have visited Herpin's hom i @tudied his condition, and havi away convinced that he had been a: longer than any man in the workt. Her- pin enjoys the visite of these experts, as m remain with hin for he nover believes ho talked to-day of his ry. present “I don't think it Is the wi that makes me feel wear: because if it was I would have felt the same way yeare have the ‘spring fev: desire now, after all y five-minute nap ia that I would like to forget for at least that period the stiff. | ness in my joints. Otherwise 1 would bo satisfed to remain wid the rest of my It “1 do not beblev: and I bebleve that I will live a long Mfe without it. Until a few daya ano, when I began to feel weary, I felt as woll ae I did when I was @ young % To tell you the truth, I would ha sleep @ part of my life away. I find that 1 can think and work better at night than I can in the day time, I have never been really sick tn my Mfe. and I believe that I am as strong ady as any man of my age in this at, Herpin ‘se of robust physique, end seems to love work. Phyaiclans agree that his condition of sleeplessness was brought about by worrtment over his wife's death, but are unable to explain how Ms wakefulness has continued for eo I @ period without injuring him hinking Days years, Al- Mentally but he id believes duration left him Cleanliness means more than the use ach night, | of soap and water. Many places about the house favor foul odors and foster germ growth. Use Platt's Chlorides The Odorless Disinfectant. To employ ill-smelling disinfectants which adver- tise thelr presence is to invite suspicion and criticism. close his (8 THAT as any of keeps con- the slight. The only by four masculine despot to supply It. If you want to make a plant sturdy; If, t your dahlias to you have to pinch a lower growth. Any commuter could for instance, you wi stand without stak off the tops, which promote: and wii tell Mr, Frohman this. Of course, married men and com- muters and everybody else will agree 54 to with Mr. Frohman that little women are charming, but he really mustn't ¢ ny little women who make false Little women have been fooling men about their dis- positions and character from the be- of meckness. inning of time, and this fact tion leadiny search of @ mi supposedly ultr: creature, the lit! lack of inche! ly reduclag effect on the a height of both men and women. the young man in 0 pick ao Uttle and fentle and feminine creature has not re- vealed her fighting tendencies unt!! after and the height of the nex: ax been intluenced by het has xual KEN. 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