The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1912, Page 12

— MGR. LAVELLE'S BROTHER IN COURT TELLS OF POVERTY Once Worth. 920 $200,000, Appears, Penniless and Rag- ged, Before Magistrate. ACCEPTS NO CHARITY. Pawned Clothes for Cement, Which Went Astray, and He Needs It for Work. A bent old man, with clothes in rags, went before Magistrate Herbert In t ‘West Side Court to-day for assistance tm recovering the only possession of valve he had left in the world—two Berrels of coment worth 6, He was Peter J. Lavelle, a brother, by hin state- ment, of Mgr. Michael J. Law fo, Vice ar-General of Cariinal Farley's dlo- ‘cnn. The old man wanted a search ware rant so that he it recover the ces ment, t rehase which he had yawned his only other sult of clothes, he sald. He had ordered tho cement sent to No. 160 West One Hundred and Sixth street, where he was doing some stone ma- sonry, but by mistake it had been de- | lvered to West One Hundred and Tenth street. People there would not give It up, Lavelle said, unless he showed a ‘warrant. ‘The Magistrate ordered the probation to question him. The old man answered until he thought he saw a Possible dispensation of charity in the rift of the questioning. Then he be- came mute, He had never accepted a cent of charity, he declared, and he never would. The tattered oki mason said he was eighty-four years old, that he was born in Kingston and attended a school which was maintained by the father of Judge Alton Parker. He had enlisted with the Twentieth New York Volun- teers at the outbreak of the civil war end had served until 186, passing through the batties of the Wilderness, Dobbs Ferry and the Chickehominy. He was wounded several times, but he did not apply for u pension until years af- ter the war, when he lost most of a fore tune which he had accumulated. ‘Though Alton Parker acted as his at- torney he had never been put on the] Verdict rolls of the Government's wards. He had once possessed about $200,000, a Hel R. R. BROKER'S CLOTHES STOLEN; BORROWS FROM GARDENER + Atterbury First He Would Have to At- tire Self in Barrel. MAIDS LEND HIM STUDS. He Also Enough Secures Loan Cash to Buy a \ Ticket to New York. (Special to The Evening World.) PATERSON, N, J., July 3.—Robbded of every sult of clothes he owned, Robert Rene Atterbury, © wealthy New York broker who resides in Wyckoff, was forced to requisition a discarded suit which he gave to his gardener two years ago in order to go to businoss to-day. “te thieves got into the Atter- | bury house at 1.90 this morning. They entered the dressing room through a window which open« on the roof of the veranda and took precautions against disturbing Atterbury by locking com- muntcating doors. ‘Dho broker awoke this morning to find the sun streaming in through the win- dows. Meaping out of bed, he made a rush for the shower bath. The locked door barred his way. He managed to get iL open. Entering the dressing-room, he found it in confusion. One thing he did not find, however, was the suit of clothes he wore Inst evening. Nor were any other suits to be found. For « while Mr. Atterbury belleved that if he would keep an Important engagement he had in New York he would have to make the trip in a barrel. ener two years ago. An envoy was gent to the hired man and returned with habiliments. After borrowing studs from the maids, all his jewelry having been stolen, he managed to at- tire himself in a conventional, though antiquated, style, Then he had to bor- Tow money enough to buy a ticket to New York, the looters having taken his commutation ticket and the $18 in money he had in the house. pet at tee a 1S “CRAZY MIKE” CRAZY. for “nooo Reversed on mm of Hie Sanity. the old fellow said, but misfortune be-| if william Blaisdell, a former opera an to pile on him in 1875, when he went un the $80,000 bal) bond of a man named Smith, charged with murder, @mith jumped his basi. Lavelle wouk! not say what had brought a break between himself and IMs brother, the present Vicar-General, or with his children, He said he pad two sons living on Riveraide Drive, He had lived in one room No, 12 East One Hundred | a and Fifteenth street for nineteen yeare| Mike." singer, of Port Washington, L. 1., would recover damages from the Long Isl: Railroad Company, he must prove that ® town character in P: Washington known as "“Crasy Mi! is really a lunatic. Blaisdell sued the ratiroad on the in affluence and «| ground that while he was in the a daughter who was married and Eved | Washington depot awalting ¢) Bi of @ tram on which Mi a He charged he was eked by “Crazy the railroad with and had supported himself by doing odd | responsibility on the ground that ite Jobs at masonry. ——— ARRESTED IN DRUG CASE. Youth Who Mun Message Ace By Police. A dapper young man who signed a telegram as “Lefty Pete," and who ti accused by the police of working con- MNdence games on wholesale druggists, ated to-day at the Mallinek- Chemical Works, No. ‘Dottles of icthyol, valued at 28, When he was arrested ™an firat sald he was “John smi and then that he w He gave his residence th street, Brooklyn. ie atreet. asked him to get vy as he, the stranger, was in hurry to do another errand ‘am the prisoner rent to a fri ir Brooklyn was signed “Lofty Pete.” <9 — PATRICK M’GUIRE BURIED. Panera! of Brony by Many Pol jane of Note, = Platt t, when he presented an order from Canal street drug store for seven the young ‘Peter Cornell.” 8 No, M8 South He protested he was innocent and sald he had m the order in for a man he met in This stranger, the prisoner the drugs as a a A; i der Attended agents should not have permitted “Crazy Mike" to lounge about the depot, A verdict for $4,600 was returned in his favor, but the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn to-day re- " to/ versed that judgment and ordered a new trial on the ground that no evi. dence had been offered to show that yy Mike," despite his nickname, was not as sensible and # body. Husba: Mreet jee Body of W Women Fai When his wife, Rebecca, who had Promised to come to his store, at No 100 Mulberry street, did not arrive to- No. 416 Twelfth street, Brooklyn, and found her in bed with the gas turned on, Selving her in his he dashed 6 street and laid n the front , where the sight caused severai women in a factory across the street to faint and create a small pante, A Physiclan sald Scheingold had be dead two hours. A letter found by the police showed that the woman, who Was only twenty-three years old, had hecome Ured of Ife because she cou'd not save enough to become rich. beam ete The fuhoral of Patrick McGuire, form: er Tammany ljeade the Bronx and Prominent in political life for sixty years, brought ou Jay neaily five hundred po! note, ®!0 Whe ° eesed the burial in St. Raymond's | a = Easy? Under ¢ leadership ot] _ The Clostug Qnoiations, rad of the "Ts many forces in the Bronx, the ve ne and Were marshalled into the enty carriages which followed the body. Solemn mass of requiem, was fang in St. Jerome's Chureh by the Rev Father Kean. Patrick MoGuire ded at the #inety. He came to this county managh, Ireland, sixty-five and engaged in the |v hen he died h catia YOUTH KILLED BY WAGON. | Driver Said Man Seemed 11 and lemly Fell Under Wheels. Samuel A Lavigne, « young man em. ans Lighest, lowes wick the’ wet changes Josimg quot Naat ployed by the firm of Warner & Havi er ate i land, of No, 7 Walker street, wan run| Lil & \ dyer and instantly killed in front of No, ¢ 8 fF Park Row this afternoon by « heavy + 8 Wagon owned and dnven by John Ca- es. dazza of No. Roosevelt streoi % Casazga t0ld the police that he noticea $ favigne leaning against a pillar of the i Phird avenue elevated as he was driv- mg past. The man seemed to be III Gust ae the nearest horse of the team assed Lavigne he fell forward in fron 9f the front wheels of the jeaded with iw bottles, Dearest him passed over L, it. The body w ek street station. t|4 vesleal, tb, | brani @ectina, Thought at, ot Finally, however, he bethought him-| self of a sult he bestowed on his gar-| SAEs See CRAVING WEALTH, ENDS LIFE.) day, Louls Bcheingok! went to his home, | THE EVENING WORLD, / || Woke HER axe! vow | SO youEUEP EXPECT To 6ET IN SHAPE TC 2 FIGHT UE You DONT TRAIN 16% YAA SPARRING PARTNER. YESTERDAY AN’ You WOULDN'T Box HIM Osa YW aM AAT AA RSS | up To HE GYM HEE Her! ‘gr Aw-HE BANE “Too Hun -Gee - (4 eon’ WATCH AXEL GET HS AXEL THE WHITE DOPE yA UP Good! an’ LISTEN TO AXEL GETTIN HIS BEAN SMEARED - HELL LET ME, AFTER THIS \eeT - Haw! Téo Tousit wey 2 WELL You Q16 Sime - TAKE THIS F WE BUCKS AY Go MIRE ‘Youn OWN SPARRING PARTNER If (HOPE HE SMEARS FRIDAY, JULY 2 ( He Certain'y Shows Rare Judg- ment in Hiring Sparring Partners. 6, 1912. Would Save the Children i si t t t L 1 N'I*OL4& GREELEY-SMITH j\ime save money to the taxpayer. for debate, cago publisher, who is known to-day as the father of the Moth Pension Jaw, which has been in operation in (ie State of Tilinois for about a year, Un- der {ts provisions every one of the 101 countias of Miinols has a special tund for the payment of pensions to worthy mothers. The average payment ts $5.75 @ month for the care of each child, A wife who has been deserted by her husband or who ts marrivd to a good- for-notiing no longer finds her only resource in charitable organizations, She can apply through the Juvenile Court for a State pension and if the Predation officers report that she is a good mother she gets It he te not an object of charity. he is simply on the pay roll of the county im which she resides, getting $5.75 per child per month for the service she renders the | state of Zilinots, ADVOCATING A SIMILAR LAW IN OTHER STATES. Having made the pension for mothers an actuality In Ilinols, Mr, Neil sig bed | for new worlds to congu has started on a tour of paganda thro! He | now in New York, and yesterday in tulking to me dwelt with paternal fond- ness on the virtues and achievements ot the favorite child of his brain—the Mother's Pension, | “Under the Mothers’ Pension law," said Mr. Sell, "the Cook County pay-| roll for July 1, 1912, registered the | names of 227 mothers, benefiting about 1,200 children, The sum expended was! 16,963.96, averaging about mother. The increase during ebout $1,800 and 67 mothers. “My Interest in mothers’ pensions be- gan a few years ago after a vi made to the Juvenile Court in Chi: where I eaw children brought in whose Pensions for Mothers Millions for New York Taxpayers Henry Neil, the Father of the Illinois Mothers’ P sion Law, Who Is in New York Advocating a Similar Law Here, Says It Is a Fight for the Welfare of the People of the Future, of To-Day. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. Wor years social reformers have spouted theories as to whether or not | - t is the duty of the State to pay pen- iuns io mothers, Many urge tho necessity of State provision for -vhat hey term society's greatest assot— he child, while others declare that o relieve the father of individaul responsibility for the child's support is to promote and encourage pau- perism. While the discussion has raged a quiet man in Illinois made up mel mind that it is right and just that} the State should help poor mothers to care for their children, He did very Ittle talking until he jhad devised a plan by which he could help the mother and at the same For he was a practical man and he wanted mothers’ pensions to become a fact--not merely to furnish @ topic This quiet man is Henry Netl, a Chl-| parents were unable to care for ‘them properly, “Under the ex: law at that time the only thing to be done was to commit such children to institu. tions, In other words, take them Away from the mother and break up the home, Apart from the mis- ery inflictea on mothers and ohil- dren by such separation, life in an institution unfits a child for the Guties of life outside. Mome life is in itself educational. What father does to pay how mother saves on th the rea pay the insurance, is grocer and the butcher. “The Institution child knows nothing of these things, the responsibilities they entail, the spirit of sacrifice and inter dependence they develop. 1 believe it is the {nastitution child who grows up int the wife-deserter, He has not beer TOOTH BRUSH Even the small 2° size the i 55% quality. grocery bill tof object lesson which {* useful and educational to the come and the problem of living be- comes oppressive he deserts. OPPOSITION TO THE PLAN GENERAL. “All over the country institutions and organized charities are opposing the ‘dea of the mothers’ pension, If they give it even conditional approval they add that the taxpayers’ money must be dispensed through their hands, Now, the taxpayer should be selfishiy interested in the mothers’ pension be- cause under its working only partial The mother has capacity and ex- ercises it. So it is really cheaper for Jeave the child in its its mother’s love and care, than to commit it to one of those human_brooder: moth but I am putting matter on the practi business jbasia of saving to the taxpayer. ‘Prior to the passage of the Mothers’ Pension law in Illinois the public pa! $15 a month each for the care of gti portions. of $5.75 a month. “During the BY VIC OX FINE - AY wOuLd wist! Vo WIRE ALL MY SPARRING PARTNERS in institutions and $10 a month each for boys. In Indiana the cost to the State is 35 cents a day per child. Under the Mothers’ Pension law children are now cared for in their own homes at a cost WITH THREE SERVANTS, | | BANKER TELLS COURT © | Trail of Date of on His Bank | Account Only Word He Has From Her—Asks Arrests. N FRANCISCO, July 9i.—An amaz- if series of events in the household of Nicholas J. McNamara, a retired banker, | was revealed here yesterday | when | MoNamara swore out warrants fr one |woman and two men in his home in San Mateo, a suburb |The three are charged with stealing M automobile. | ig feature back of the charges $@ the assertion of McNamara |that his wife is accompanying her | former servants on a wild ride through | Oregon and that the only word he hat | received from Mrs. McNamara sin | June 22 has been her numerous and Ia\ {eh drafts on his bank account. Mrs. McNamai in her own right. MoNamara charges that one of the former servants, Mrs, Charles L. Per- . 18 responsible for his wife's deser- . having obtained almost complete ntrol over his wife's actions through systematic domination. Mrs, McNamara took thelr two small sons with her. The banker's daughter, Gladys, eighteen yeurs old, returned from schoo! jn Bu- 0 to find her father fateo residence, t of the fleeing party en route, Me- rope a few days alone in the Saees ‘Ga ted ttle — st ten or twelve years the United States has gone institution mad. The human brooder ad planted the natural mother. paign for the mothers’ pension (a. stan ply a fight for the welfare of the men of the future—the children and wom of to-da; jhoots Self cutter, at Eighty: If in the right ear. ler called Dr. —_—s - —. Cenetral Park Jacob Astrian, twenty-four, a clothing of No. South Third Brooklyn, attempted suicide early to- day in Central Park on the East Drive E cond street by shooting hii i.) f Policeman Charles \ r. t BcGuire from Precbyterian Hospital, and A: His condition is serious. tired of living. 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