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

three ad wry ‘ FACE LONG PER OFTEN WANT Relief Given So Far Is Entirely Inadequate, Red Cross Director Oeclares, | FARMERS ARE HIT HARD. Have’ No Means of Raising Crops, While Families Starve | ¢ Local Fund Is Meagre. | ‘The Mayor's Southern Flood Relief Committees opened an office to-day at Ne Gl Chambers street, where dona- tions to the needy in the south wil be revelved, Announcements that several committees had teen appointed was mad, "Among them a theatrical com- comprising Dantel Frohman, ‘Hi. Brady, Augustus Thomas, George H. Cohan, Mare Klaw and Les t. sub- Merchants’ Association will hold &@ meeting Tuesday afternoon or Wet | memday evening to consider ways of | Giding thowe in want. | The committee to-day gave out a tele- Grem from Dr. Ernest P. Bicknell, D!- tector of the Red Cross, who tas made @ tour through the devastated section, The telegram, in part, follows: , “After the army distribution of ra- ends and before the flood victims had time to produce any kind of @rewing crop, there will come an in- jerval which all are anticipating with loge In that interval the substan- Planter with good credit will go in 4e6t for food for his family, his labor and his unimals, but what will the émall farmer do whose assets are so feduced by his flood losses that his ¢redit 1 gone? | “Some small farmors own their land, fore are tenants in the great refuge ¢amps at Baton Rouge and Port Hud- @en and Harrison burg. About one- @fth of the population are small farm- If this proportion holds good jout the flooded district it means imately 60,000 persons, whose Romes have been submerged, belong to fhe class which bas slight credit even Bormal times. farmers have no cotton seed or or peas for planting. They are, in Gkmoet as helpless as when in q@amps and are cut off trom recetved thera. Families ae @o the scourge of malaria which usually follow in the You of @ flood, “The army hae performed its ¢emen- doue emergency work with a ble Qromptness and on « ecale of astonish- fe magnitude, but the army's work Ghust ond with the passing of the emer- @ency which required the saving of lives $24 provision for the temporary malnte- Bamce and shelter of the people. Upon Aboal authorities and commit and the Rod Cross the rehabilitation part of ‘the great task must fall.” Gecretary Adamson stated to-day that @ possible explanation of the apathy @hown by New York citizens toward the @eedy in the South is an ‘mpression that the Government has provided fo full roltef. The army has distributed rations, Mr. Adamson said, and @ven that work {s to stop on June 1, when the really serious work of re! Dilwitation begins. What money Con- ress appropriated will go Iargely to- ward repairing the broken levees, plied edaeatons SNAKES HOLD NO TERRORS FOR GIRLS AFTER 200 JOB. | Surplusage of Fair Females Mobs Curator Ditmars, but They're Too Late—The Job Is Gone, “AB announcement the morning newspapers that Curator Ditmars of the Bronx Zoo was in need of a female etary who was not afraid of enakes, used a flood of women, young and Old, slim and fat, protty’and otherwise, to. descend upon the big 00 to-day. This rush of femininity overwhelmed Mr, Ditmurs, who does not need a secretary, having acquired one last veel, in the person of Miss Mardetla Burke, the ehum of Miss Florence Graham, who left Mr. Ditmars'’s employ to get mar- ried ‘When Mr. Ditmars reached his office today she found the entrance blocked in ‘ey Gemales. His declarations that he ia Hot want a secretary were tn vain. Mmaliyy he made ascrect getaway through # rear door and started out on aw tour of inspection of the monagerle ng nee. of the women saw him through the Window of the office and betrayed his ruse ‘The whole flock trooped out and ohased Mr. Ditmars all the wa to the monkey house, nearly half a mile | distant. There he made hin escape | again and munaged to shake off the women, ceca SAVED GIRL, HIT HYDRANT. Aute-Truck Dodges Wilhelmina, Then Nearly Drowns Her, Im making « sharp turn to avold running over five-year-old Wilhelmina { Sorbflo of No, 51 De Graw street, Brooklyn, in front of tho child's home towtay, Edward Manp, driving a big auto-truck, rammed a high pressure hydrant and broke it off atthecund, ‘The child was barely grazed by the teuek dnd escaped with slight injuries, Ag she fell into the gutter, though, she aarrowly missed Welug drowned In the flood of water th red from the hydrant, An ambulan: called from the Long Island © » Hospital, but by the time tt the little girl hg been car home, The trick was pretiy badly wrecked \ ere! cellars along the block were \ from the brokep bydrant | ie PTE SD ve 8 OGY Poa | Rt es are THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 27 FLOOD SUFFERERS |Autos, Elevators, Phones Shorten Life And Make Us Aged Before We’re Old 4 TELEPHONES Him ELEVATORS HASTEN mis END Dr. I. L. Nascher Says Early Death of Prom nent Americans Is Largely Caused by Too Little Sleep, Too Much Food and Irrational Recreation. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “The life of the normal human being ie ninety years. Phis falls naturally into three periods of thirty years each—thirty years of development, thirty years’ ma- turity and thirty years’ decline, That few of ue live to complete the cycle is due entirely to avoid- able causes—diseases or a ha. ening of the normal progress of - those periods through improper Uving.” ‘That is what Dr. I. L. Nascher told the Medico-Legal Society the other ev ning. Dr. Nascher is special lecturer on geriatrics, or old age, at Fordham University, the Boston College of Physt- clans and Surgeons and Bennett Medi- cal College in Chicago, Just think—If we were all sure of live ing till ninety, as the doctor says we ought to be! How much more work we could do! How many more interesting persons we could know! How beautl- fully we could Interfere with the lives of our children and even our grandchil- dren! How much more money we could earn—if we are Americans! Tt wan with all these advantages in mind that I asked Dr. Nascher to give the specific reasons for the scarcity of nonagenarians. His answer came promptl; “The individual deteriorating mentally. Mis mode of life is tend. ing to shorten bis years. Mis men- tal atd physioal labors are exces- Sive, These are unrecognized fac- tors which shorten life. “In the first place,” continued Dr. Naecher, “the tendency to hasten di velopment is seen in our schools, whe the menfal and physical labors imposed upon the child have about reached the lmit of the capacity of the young or- ganism, The chiki must learn parents did in their school days, AUTO VIBRATIONS Ake DEADLY imsURIOVS: excrrement the country coming to the city and tak- Ing up the rapid lite of the city soon | breaks down. He is not accustomed to} hours, insufficient sleep, overheated rooms and bad air, and the constant | strain of exciting busine: PROMINENT MEN D! 1e BECAUSE THEY DON’T LIVE RIGHT. advances in science made since then, and many subjects which were thought unnecessary in former days. Yet the school age has not been lengthened, nor the number of school hours increased. WEAK MINDS MUST KEEP UP WITH BRIGHTEST, “Class tasks are gauged by the ca- pacity of the brightes: minds of the class age, and the weaker minds must make excessive efforts to keep up with the leaders at their age, who are al- ready forced to extraordinary mental and physical exertion, From one-half to two-thirds of the child's waking hours are taken up with school work. This leaves insuMclent time for recrea- tion, and the violent athletics of school days are injurious to the body ag excessive studies are to the mind. “The country-bred youth ts neither mentally nor physically the equal of the city-bred youth, who has been trained to the mit of his mental and physical capacity. He is not at his best untt! several years later than fhe elty man, but from that time on he overhauls his city brother because he has developed slowly, lives slowly “The city-bred man becomes aged be- [fore he becomes old. The man from ‘'book—a fantastic, se der-romance, “A Journe on ge “Worlds.” __ er nena It is ane } mi-scientifig won- |: y in Other {. — hy es * artlingly original Wof earthly ex- plorers among strange planets, eee OA journey in Other Worlds will be: printed ith the authority] SNR a Trem Rm HO “The German banker, broker or mer- to the coffee house for an hour or two in the afternoon, takes a Mttle map and {s sufficiently refreshed to take up again his strenuous mental labore. “The American, after five or #x hours of intense mental concentration on the exchange or in the office, with but a few minutes’ Intermission for lunch, goes to the ball game. He elm- ply substitutes one form of mental ex- citement for another. “He cannot spare an hour in the afternoon to give his brain rest, until Reurasthenta sets in and he must spare Weeks for his recovery. After the day's work an hour or two 1s spent at din- ner, and then comes the ball, the ban- quet, the theatre, or another meeting, with a midnight lunch, followed by @ few hours’ sleep. If we could follow the routine life of our prominent per- sons. we would find that most of them have insufficlent sleep and depend upon forced stimulation to keep them up. WORK TILL THEY RUN INTO A BREAKDOWN, “In the race for wealth and leader- ship, men having less mentality or phy sical capacity than their conrpetitors, but equalling or surpassing them in ambition and energy, work to the limit ot phystoal endurance, and if stil! short o | mental and physical breakdown, Where the individual js already working under jin the thelr mark further effort causes |C LITTLE GIRL KILLED WA BY FALL BONFIRE MOTHERIS BURKED Baby Dies of Injuries, Wom- an’s Condition Critical in West New York. Mary Tipton, four-vear-old daughter of Michact Tipton, a tontractor, 58 Madison street, West New York, . J., dled early to-day in North Hud: ton Hospital of burns received when she fell into @ bonfire. Her mother, who beat out the child's flaming clothing, ts hospital in a xerious condition, | Little Mary put on her pretttest trock | yesterday to go to Sunday-ychool, In the afternoon she went out, but her mother told her not to leave the stoop. ‘al small boys built a bonfire the street and Mary watcher them until her curtosity got the better of her, ‘Then she trudged over to where they were still pilin she reached the rim she stumbled and fell over into the fire, ‘The boys ran as soon as they saw what had happened and heard tho girl scream, Mrs. Tipton looked out the door and saw what had happened. Run- ning to the child sho pulled her out of the fire and began trying to smother the burning clothes. Although her own | hands were being terribly turned and) her own clothing had caught fire, the | mother did not hesitate, and when! nelghbors, attracted by her screams and the crfes of the girl, reached them, Mrs. Tipton: had rolled Mary over the ground until the flames were extine guished, Men and women quickly beat out the fire in the woman's clothing. Both were taken to the hospital. The child was! burned all over, Mrs, Tipton is burned on the hands, face and breast, GIRL DIES AFTER FATAL SHOOTING IS RE-ENACTED. Accidentally Shot by Brother-in-Law Who Was Illustrating Pre- vious Case. CAMDEN, N. J., May —Mise Maud Daisey, seventeen years who was accidentally shot. by her brother-in- while be was demonstrating how Eze- kiel Chandler of Merchuntvilie had been shot a few hours before by John Darlington, died as the result of the wound she received at the Cooper Hos- Pital here to-day. Darlington, who shot Chandler ag the result of a quarre!, and who fied immediately after the shoot- Ing, Was arrested in Merchantville early to-day. Chandler, in tho same hospital where the innocent victim of the second died, ts in a precarious con- dition and cannot survive, the doctors ay. A few hours ufter the shooting of Chandler, William Goukl, Miss Dals brotherer-in-law, and James Turner Merchantville, were having a hot arg ment in the former's home at No. 17! Tenth street, Camden, aa to the way Darlington must have directed his re- volver to produce the wound in Chand- ler's abdomen, which he _nillctel, Gould pointed the revolver at Miss Da sey and by accident pulled the trig: The young girl fell, wounded in almost the same way as Chandler had been. After Miss Daisey had been rushed to the hospital Gould gave himself up to the police and to-day he was held without all for further examination. Darlington, the assailant of (handler, was also theld wothout hail. ee pete DEVOY QUITS TO HELP T. R. a County Resigns, elt. breamure a sight increase in the work cause exhaustion, will suffice to “Tho American's amtitton to so to the lMmit ‘of physical ability, to reach the goal he has set for himself, has carried him to the mit of human en- durance. He has already begun to deterforate and degenerate; he is aged before he is old, he dies while appar- ently in the full vigor of his man- hood." ate Ee HOTEL MAN IS DEAD, Dan Belden Worthington, who for years Was associated with the Imperial, etherland, Majestic and Sherman Square hotels in thie city, and ran the Hotel Newport at Amityville, L. 1, last summer, {s dead at his home, No. 206 West One Hundred and First stre Ho was thirty-nine years old and was the youngest member of the Old Guard, Born and educated in Buffalo, Mr. Worthington was with the Michigan Cogtral Railroad when his grandmother, Mrs, Stafford, bought the Hotel Imperial here and made him its manager. At one time he was prominent in the Dem- ocratic Party in Erle County and served In the Assembly, Under Gov. Hill he was captain in the New York National Guard and attached to the Governor's staff, _—_——2. TIPSTER TRIED FOR MURDER, Charles B. Plitt jr, of No. West One Hundred and Elghteenth mtreet, a “tipster,” who was arrested March 2 for the alleged murder of Waverly Car- ter, &@ negro, n @ police raid on @ saloon at No, 21% Fifth avenue, was Placed on trial for hie life ‘to-day bef: Judge Malone tn General Sessions, Plitt obtained the evidence on which five warrants had been aworn and ac- companied Lieut, Beck: "Strong Arms” to tdentify the men, Carter was shot tn the back. Plitt denies that he killed the and his counsel, meats Abrams Michael N. Delag!, claim tha: they prove that the negro one of the ‘habitues of thy piace who Ged at the policenen, rv) Dy | — ee County Clerk Charies Devoy of Kings to-day resigned the Chairman- ‘ship of the Republican County Executive Committee of Kings, His reasons for doing #0, he explained {n a formal statement, are that in the Committes an ant!-Roosevelt sentiment exists, and he {9 an out-and-out Roosevelt mar added he has ali along held the fidence of Co}. Roosevelt, having pro- claimed himself to the Colonel as early as last January as one of his supporters. Devoy says that, in his opinion, Roose- velt 1s the only Republican who can win the Presidential tight and that in time the sentiment of the voters, well as tho delegates of Kings County, will be fouhd to be pro-Roosevelt. Heretofore, there has been much speculation among the Republican politicians in Kings re- garding the attitude of Devoy. He was supposed to be heart and hand with the Woodruft-<controlied organization, but his resignation and ement leave no doubt 0 his attitur and arr 1912. LDO COMMENDS COPS FOR CATCHING ‘GENTLEMAN BURGLAR’ Twelve Bluecoats Are Praised After Good Work in Round- ing Up Offenders. Following his principle of commend: ing policemen for good work, Poiloe Commistoner Wello to-day parsed the offictal commendation of the Depnrt-/ elation for thelr werk in running down ing Burt Curtis, the “gente. man burglar. ut $20,000 worth of loot has already recovered from and his activities in burglary ve been halted, The capture of Willan Brassfivld nad Molly Clark, negroes, who as) saulted and robbed @ Mrs, Davis in hey | home in West One Hundred and Hii tysweventh str ined commendation for Detective Pra whine, Willan 1. Brosnan, '. Murray and ra worked he be three om up their A highly eredita Krank Vo Hue and ngley, who Killed Patrlele Butn x Halonnkeeper in a hold-up, Sta pire wax that Wiliam v of ing on the #tightest of clues the de- tectives ran «men down and fase tened the crime ui them, Acting Capt, Sam Price and Detectives Rich- ard McKenna and Frank Cassassa were died for this Job. POOR OLD ‘NIGGERY’ THEY JUST HAD TO SHOOT HIM. Hole, Where He Broke Both Legs. Nigger was a good old black horse and had hauled the wagon of the Fiel- sig Baking Company for many year He was well bifre? and gentle of man- ner, He would stand without being hitched and was never In an unseemly hurry. To-day he was driven down Allen street, which in much torn up on the east side for the laying of gas mains, Morttz Levinaky, his driver, stopped him in the middlo of the block while he went to deliver bread to a grocery store. Another wagon came along and bumped Nigger's wagon in the rear, starting up the old hors who tumbled Into an excavation five feet square and ten feet deep. ‘The horse lit on his haunches, and for an hour, while the crowd grew until It axsumed the proportions of a small zed army, all attempts to get him out ¢ unavailaing., The Slapo brothers Ike and Rave, were remodelling a hou In that block, and they brought a de: rick and a big fron chain to the #:ene of the accident. A hold was secured on “Nigger” and many volunteers bent to the windlass, The horse was landed on the surface, amt then It was found that both hind legs were broken. An officer of the Society for the Prevention of Couelty to Animals wan present, and with his gun he put “Nigger” out of misery and out of the world ree KILLED BY ELEVATOR. avenue to-day Robert Doherty, the en- gineer of the building, was struck on top of the head by a descending counterweight and {nstantly killed. Coroner Feinberg after an investi tlon decided that Charles Hegemoye: operator of the car which caused Doherty's death, could not be held diameadle. Doherty and an = agsistant, Jobn O'Brien, were working on a platform at the se floor level. The platform is alongside a shaft tn whioh the counterwelghts of a battery of three elevators sitde up and down. All the elevators were running. It i supposed that Doherty made a mintake in figuring on the position of one of the c At any rate he put his hedd and shoulders into the run- way of the counterweight of this par- ticular car just in time to catch the jexcending weight on his head. He was knocked from the platform and fell to the bottom of the shaft. Doherty was forty-elght years old and lived at No, 116 East Ono Hundred and Eleventh atreet. NONE 190 Broadway. 05 roadway M40 Broadway Happy heads head off heat with Young Straws—cool, comfortable and too sty be mistaken for any other than—Young’s. Young Straws are perfect ovals—they fit! All correct braids, $2, $3 & $4. Panamas and Bangkoks at popular prices. BETTER MADE lishto 1350 Broadway. iy Seltroadeay Only Ouly, Bro 71 Fy yn Store: tom Ak, My Ha, Oppamite © Another Horse Shoved Him Into a SCALES OF JUSTICE GIVE MISS GONZALES $250 BALM FOR FALL Opposing Lawyer Said She Weighed 130, but Dial Gives 112 Poundage. Miss Monica Gonzales, petite and dark- eyed as the senoritas who sit at the ring: side when the toreador displays his skill, Was judicially welghed at the order of ment to twelve members of the unl- Supreme Ourt Justice Gavegan to-day formed force. ‘They wore concerned in| Mi## Gonaales was «uing her landlord, threw recent good pleces poutce|Henvy Decker, personal tnjurien work which she sald hat been sustained in a Acting Captain Thoman Tuney and |fall on the stale: of partment Detectives A. Morrell, Joseph !houte, A phyatcian had testified ¢ F. ner, Jobn ‘T. Gaynor and Ernest {she bad not lost in weight since her fall, Moore earned the honor of appre-| “But [have lost a great deal of weight,” protested the pretty plaintiff, “The best way to settle this question is to have the plaintift go on the scales," sakl Justin Gavegan Clerk George 1 r Welgh Miss Gonkales, Ac the attorneys, he esvor court house basement, wie there In a Dalr of scales, Miss Gonzales, with a smile, mounted the platform and Clerk Lyon carefully adjusted the welghts. Tho doctor had testified (iat Misa Gi zales would tip the beam at ti pounds, Inatructed to ompanted by her to the ne but the scales disputed his professional Judgment. She welghed just 12 pounds, The young woman alleged (hat she caught her heel in a loose strip of brass which tirew her down severely thit she was “l six weeks, demanded the attorney for Decker, “that had on high heel shoes and Int, and were not these apparel re- si oN “1 dil not have on high heel shoes or a hobble skirt. My heels were exactly the same height as the ones on the shoes 1 am now wearing, You can measure them If you want to.” Jawyer Jury not accept: her wns out but a Iittle cd with a verdict Wash, May 2%, Brinkerhoff, .elghty-reven said to be the oldest railrond mani dn the United States in point of service, and Who purchased the firat ticket on the Northern Pacifle out of St. Paul westward, is dead of old age at his home he He had been sixty-six years in railroad service. 7" WOMEN PLAN WAR = TO ANNIHILATE. FLIES "IN NEW ROCHELLE Sir > amg ea Day Set Aside for Extermihas tion and Rich Prizes, Qe’ fered for Kilis. ou « ore * be The days of the house fly in NeW ite. chelle are numbered. His death waite rant has been algned and seated g#@ | placed for execution in the hands of ta@ most formidable enemy he could harex the Woman's Club, which ts fortite@ ration of the Mayor? the the Healta Departs iment The war mination wit Bi June 5 and w ten day ie expected to he the flervost « wag in New Rochetie, whieh lige rome repu. tation as a warlike town When It COfpes to civic fights and the e! stmuters. Mrs, Hermann von Wetternee@ Mra, Alpheus W, Hoyt are jointecgme manders-In-chief of the anti-fy fogeem and they have organized thelr campaign along such practical lines as to convines one at once that 4) poor fy hasmgom Jehance In the wor wi Tn the first place they omer paimee agkregating ®0 to the three persdties ! | | | by City the of ext | all New Rochelllans up to the agé of twenty are eligible-who bring “the largest nomber of stain files to the ORY Hall on June 5. The corpren wilt be counted by the gill and 1,000 flee will’ be allowed to the xill, The prize money taken from a f of 60 donatedy | Columbus O'Donnel! Iselin to ithe Woman's Club for a general cleattiup movement in the town. ble. Mayor Waldorf of New Rocheite @mé Platned to-day that the announcement Oe the war at this time might seem ture In that It would give the enemy @ hint of what was coming to hime bat he said the idea was to prevent alb tam, bloodshed possible and ths pub!'s! man! to might Influence a large ‘i ber of Moen to leave New Rochellé once for Mount Vernon, thus avotdtt uble and at the me time providing New Rochelle a chance of gettin; to a smal extent with their rival “We may have @ little troubje naid the Mabon ler the killing of tvaps and swatters y to animals, but we are prepared t thie contention if ft arises, may say We are reasonably com- to Y fident there will not be a fly lett im New Rochelle after June 15. Startling B é G $15, $20, $25 YOUR LAST CHANCE to s to provide for you a bargain feast. Not “‘left-overs” from other Nunterweigita of the elevators tn the| ( feduction sales, but costumes of a much higher grade, that have Constabte Muliding at No. i Fitt| 9) been selling until now from $15 to $25. magnitude takes suit for the this ridiculously low price? from dressy serges to stylish } baa Eg Sixth Avenue at Nineteenth Street more ‘Offers than any mediums in MARS TEnSE Suits Sacrificed! Largest Values Ever Offered Now Reduced $ ° 7 to Ideal for That Decoration Day price. Regardless of value, we are Sizes Broken— Come Early to Get Your Choice Relentless price cuttingyholds full ny. Gees to-morrow. unning y, Summer travelli and carly: Pall’ Alterations FREE LARGE STORES. Vor 2s se SALE AT ALL é 14-16West 14th Street ®: ; NEW YORK. 4604462 Fulton Stet . BROOKL' 64510651 d Stet Andrew Alexander: Children’s White Shoes Canvas or Buckskin Boots, Oxfords and Ankle Ties, Welted Soles. Shoes for the extremely narrow foot or the broad chubby foot; fitted by com- petent clerks, Prices range from $1.00 for infants to 86.00forthe younglady wearing low heels, HE Sunday World’s Want Directory makes ig Bargains ‘ Stunning Suits ('« Don’t Fail to Get One Outing \ secure one of these suits at’ any’ ined to close them out ‘ a A sacrifice sale of great’ jing and early Fall wear at. y include every wanted fabric, diagonals, whipcords and light TAREE STORES Fifth Avenue above Forty-fifth St, of Positions’’ other two the universe,