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i ony as GVROLNESTRUNG | HERSELF UP THE ON BAS OF CL First She Used Her Stockings, Then Strips of Dress, but She’s Still Alive. Employer, Employee and the Government Con- tribute to Immense Fund That Provides Against Illness, Poverty and the Dependency of Old Age. ‘The police of the Coney Island station ere recovering to-day from a nignt of alarm and watchfuiness caused by the efforts of Caroline Hallin to hang her- STORK’S VISIT WORTH $7.20 TO A FAMILY. gelt in her cell. It was only when Caro- , line was bundled into the Black Harla Every Working Man, 4 for the Raymond street Jail, (that fj the tention ceased, Womanand Child Bene-| Last night Policeman William Mulll- fited by Weekly Pay-| gan found Caroline in a state bordering ments of Six to Eight om coma. “Drung,” sutd Mulligan. “Ine id the lady, w! te thirty Years old and lives at No. 128 Eighteenth Cents Irrespective of) etreet, Brooklyn. “Come on to the al Age That Guarantee tion house,” sald Mulligan. “Indl | posed." repeated Carotine—and tt took! Income During Disabil- five sturdy minions of the law to bring her along. As soon as Caroline was locked up she began taking off her shoos and waving her feet through the cell bars at tho motely assemblage of jags occupying the other coops. she hurled her shoes through tho elght ity, Lloyd-George Ex- plains. BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB. a, (Special Oorreepondoucee of The Evening feet over her head. About 4 in the morn- ing Mrs. Mary Duffy, the matron, dis- bt pg ey covered her hanging to the bars of her England uae cell by & stocking wound round her a by the re- throat. She was cut down and rovived. iy "cence The rest of the night a guard ilstened a we lf to her screains, Magistrate Voorhees looked at her in court to-day and thought thirty days In Jall would sult her case. Caroline went back to the cell pending the arrival of the Black Maria, and soon ahe was dis- covered hanging to the ba jain, thi time with strips of her dress, She ent down and Dr, Gates of the Coney Island Hospital revived her, When the wagon for Raymond street cama Caro- line had to be tied before she went as @ paasenk: Her departure was fol- lowed by a long #igh of relief from the Policemen who saw her off. force: One hun- red and thirty- five million Aol- lars best mefitcine doctors’ ly to keep her people well. Bvery domes- tio servant, Kingdom te inaured under the new wr. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 4 1912, nas anaes te ; fa. <7 the Pes 30% ot the bart of every child afer 13 Jon 1913 1 wre for men for 26 weeks shuren Mines | Every year about a Mill ‘ will get the 304m stereh for women or 20 wees sharin nen GP a week afer for eth wha Wally Arabi | Free doctoring and frre medicine for We Free. ape fatment for vonaumplnes “bor all these Bem Men only pay 4° a week Women pay 3° Thee Comrrment ara pour emphiyers py all the ret, { Oc.vanovik. stamps. She explained to me it was ter of the population wethout compul- my duty to pay at the rate of 12 cents sen. per week {n, the form of a stamp on her! “The third principle ts that in admin- curd, of which sum I was to deduct istering these sums of money you should half from her “wages.” Therefore, we utilize the agencles of the voluntary each had to pay a cent a day for her|socteties—friendly societies, insurance socteties, benefit societies and all kinds Pes BEER DRINKERS FIRE STABLE; NEAR DEATH. Kerosene Lamp Explodes While Seven Jolly Revellers Are Fast Asleep. Geven dishevelled, uncertain, swollens faced youn; men were in Aduins Street Police Court, Brooklyn, to-day, charged with intoxication. Nono of them knew Where he had been arrested or when. “These fellows,” said Policemen Steler and Farle of the Butler strect station to Magistrate Reynolds, “are lucky to be here, But for the watchfulness of a eitisen ir ie likely that they would all have been dead this morning. “They sneaked hivo : stable at No. 3% Pacific street last nigit and drank beer watill they were all stupefied and went te sleep in wagons. A citizen who hap- pened to be passing the stable after midnight smelicd smoke. He was a curi- ous citizen and investigated and p.ob- ably saved the lives of these fellows, “The investigation the citizen dis. Closed that there was a@ fire in stable. Ho summone! us and we se im an alarm. Before the fremen came We entered the stable and dragged out Tm the new combination employ- er, employes and the state in the United Kingdom are joined to- Gether to avoid pauperism. Bvery working individual in Great Britain earning less than $768 @ year ts incured, willy-willy, the act being compulsory. jerybody is insured om same terms as if he were sixteon years old. Only the business of being « wife is exempt from insurance. Any working person between the ages of sixteon and cixty-five be- comes au active member in the scheme. ‘Those making more than the pre- scribed amount are insured by being “voluntary” contributors. How would you itke to be Insured by your government?) Whether would ike it or not, if you were Iiving in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales, you could not get a Job unless you earning less than $1448 a week, week your employer would take ur wages six or elght cents, ace cording to your wage scale If you are a man, and six cents if you are a were insured by the state, If you were) insurance. | But Imagine what this insignificant) of trade unions, sum aggregates. ‘The law went Into ef-| “The people are beginning to under: fect July 15, stand the benefits of the act—the enor Do they {ike It? Not much! At least,|mous advantages which it confers upon not yet, for the general public does not] the population.”* understand {t and “simplified” versions| PECUNIARY BENEFITS -TO BE of the new Insurance act are flooding the news stands and are sold In the streets. Jan, 16 they will understand $135,000,000 FIRST YEAR. “The benefits will begin to come in on Fat, atter Jan. 15 and the: 5 and they will grow from year to It, and then they ean get sick and find) year In the first year the sum to be out; for the firat benefit will begin tol distributed among the industrial popu- come. However, you have to be sick lation of this country for the sick, in- cluding consumptives, and {> maternity benefits, will amount to $125,900,000; out ; of that sum $76,000,000 comes from the state and the employers. “But they say, ‘You are going to squander this in paying exponsive offl- cluls.’ ‘Take this to those critics for me: Not a penny of that sun goes to four days to show that you are really a sick man or woman and get beneiits. ‘This Is what they get: $7.9 at the birth of every child after Jan, 13, 1913. $24 a week for men for twenty-six j weeks during {lier $1.90 a week for women for twenty-six weeks during illness, state officials, Contributors will have fa week after (for both) whilst}t pay for maintaining thelr own so. totally disaw cleties, They do sv now, But Free doctoring and free medicine for life, ree special treatment for consump- ament annually, “I know they say that this tives. | | To explain there benefits, Mr. Liloyd| George & i ! There and eight cents per week !s pay In order a year tu There are that ‘you may gtve $2,000 Members of Parliament.* many who believe that, and are three main principles in| these nien, none of whom was woman, ax payment for your naurance, the machinery of the bill. One ts that It! not pelieve It unless somebody had told help If, A few minutes’ de! The employer adie his share of six Should be insurance on a contributory| them, and this Is only a sample of the; the fire, which staried from th ht centa, the sta ‘ «| basie—the workman, the employer and srepre: o1 ‘ cents or eight cents, te adda it inuny misrepresentations. coon a econecie eit w a share of four cents or six © ‘The the taxpayer, through the state, ell help- got a letter this morning, evidently et Gan oe now, je building and killed | toita; amount will be used to pay the!ing—and that ts the right thing in algen: by @ domestic servant, and she! Doon tir solemn promise never to | @ctors and medicine and for exnatori- | Chitstian unity, The one advan-| said, ‘Tam not going to give six cents! rink beer in & sadle neaine Magiotrate | UMS for individuals when unable to, take of contributory Insurance ts that] week so that you should pay $2,000 a Reynolds discharged tho seven pris. | Work. Tho lower the wages of the in- everybody helps, and the workman feel] year to lazy Memebers of Parliament.” oners. Aividual, the more the employer and the |t Is not something which ts done for] “Gradually they will begin to dis- hike ce sfate must pay. Nobody sems to under-|im, but something which he is doing| cover that this is not true. They will Fivet Chinese Girl Stade stand it except Lloyd-George, but every-|for himself—the state and the Industry) And that all this money. Is to be aise BEATTL®, Aug. 21.—The Aisi women 4 I Maiviniesths. cutamerve: tila caalt T¥/ persed in benefits for them, At first Y |{a Insured Just the same, ping preserve self-respect.) Pennie were suspicious. Tam not sur= Students ev nt by the Chinese Gov-| if you ave an American or any other! Another principle 4s compulsion, ‘Phey| Peiea, pecause they have been talcen in efnment to 1 United States to receive | gi, d employ anybod; rt opted it in the House of C% i fl | lrereity cducations are ‘Mise Yor, [sien and employ ly to do any= © of Commons, | many ‘a time. Baw, who will enter Mount Holyoke, {thing for you, you have to pay for hie | They ail admitied it was Impossible tol, PEOPLE ABUSE PHILAN- ae, ho will enter Mount Holyoke. | iisirance, like any other employer. have @ national scheme non-compisory. THROPY OF THE LAW. Aan Arbor. ‘They arrived yesterday on | CARRIES INSURANCE 8 You could not have hat a acheme of; the steamer Minnesota, with twent TAMPS TO | aiucation in this country without It had pais Manlenal tnsarenee Renee Seven Chinete young men, who will b HER EMPLOVER. @istributed among the Universities Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Corne! Minol r ted to preve a ring som An 8-page Fall Fashion Supplement, edited by May Manton, free with to-morrow's Sunday World—also Fall Bride Fashions—a page of costume designs by Lodewick—and Re The most-talked-of gown on the English stage. n when T asked a young woman stenographer to vo @ little work for me, tonch every household, every Insura to ravage and tion is mobilized for the purpose for securing of securing health, plenty and for drivi: fon a invaded millio1 is the invader we are organ- ping, this army of fourteen millions. priv “That They ha represent tions, nqualitied, which they have refused to withdraw when their attention has been alled to them. They have abused its author in @ way, I belleve, that no Min- ister of the Crown has been assailed in my time, “Rut Lchn see now the humble homes of the people with the disea: nging heavily over th Age urance act and many another act In tr trail, of my native land, the mist laden valleys and clearing the anxiety, old gloom aw have plerced the narrowest window. THE MATERNITY been mobilized. What for? war upon their fellow to march into the ter- eh of our flesh and blood of our bicod troy, but the na- f people who are assailed it bitterly with with falsenoa dark cloud lstress, Pension act, ‘he Nat descending, like bre awe 208 ing ot God y until the ray IDEA BI FEATURE OF THE ACT. No portion of the Insurance Act, is ill For every year three however, has so struck the imag- arrears due to unemployment ination as the idea of making a |Will be disregarded, but arrears that commencement in the endowment {amount to or exceed four weeks for) of motherhood, since of every every year's insurance will Involve a| be ward, Of every ten men and women in Eng- land hitherto one has died of consump-. The sav to save these. consumption dispensary for every .50,00 inhabitants and one bed in the sanatorium for every tion, stants, Meade Insuran A been ed you could not have! qnaustry, every trade and all our had a he ation without com-| gn¢erests. If there sips vulsion, and you cannot have an insur-| yittle stumblings, remember it is ne which re: er; “Mir. Hubby,” a new se- ries by Steinigans, begins to-morrow. It’s funnier than Steinigans’s ‘‘t ups.” Don't miss it. The |6-page book “FUN,” dis- tributed free with to-morrow’s Sunday World, is chock full of funny pictures, jokes and puzzles. ay 6 Committee, anteed to the 1 contributoi born im Bngiaad hitherto one has died in in ternity benefit will help to pay for these. Every insured woman and the wife (whether she be insure or ery insured man will maternity bene- fit of $7.20 on the birth of a child. A married woman who has herself in sured, whether her husband be insured will be entitled four weeks after confinement. : cases the maternity benef will, the | in effect, amount to $14.40, money that goes to state officials Is out- | Mother will not be expected to pay con. | side that sum and will be voted by Par. | tributions during the two weeks before | confinement and the four weeks after- ey. torlum benefit will will be ni 5,000 11 Arrangements are made to treat | consumptive patients Indefnitely under the Insurance Act. benefit i# In the hands of the| Every qualified ™ doctor in a locality will have the right: to place his name on the list of medi tient, and general not ‘\s direct, privation, n, I can see ‘The ma- so to sick pay Besides, the It {8 estimated that one Compulsory Insurance of Whole English People ——w Provides $130,000,000 a Year to Fight Pauperism ~~ ery. DISABLEMENT—DOCTOR AND MEDICINE FREE. Technically, ty-six weeks, to a fully qui mainder of his life. women this provision for breakdown or chronic disease at $1.20 per week. mis- have patd up 1M contributions, fulfilled these conditior still Incapable of work, owing to illnes: he may pass on to the disablement bet efit of $1.20 a week. is of tonal until he dies or reache: pension age of seventy years. from into un \day to be stamped. affix the stamp to the value of his ow and the employee's contribution. contribution will be arrears count during EST reduction in sick pa as long he hi his insurance card, duced. do the medical, nity benefits c 2. completely loses his sick pa medical and maternity cease! help for the purpose, But power, {f it wishes, to ex: tion of the contribution have fallen on the employer, SERVANTS ARE COMPULSION. eeded nhabe | er case medical benefit, given. "I! ance card on the day on w enter insurance {f she becomes a widow, in receipt of sickness|or at the premium then appropriate to or disablement benefit ts bound to obey |her age, but as if she was only aixteen the doctor's instructions, to be found | years old, at home at certain specified hours, un- | loss expressly excused, not to leave the! that a domestic servant must be taken town without the consent of the society }care of when But in every case lek. to do! Contribution: q The Sunday World has .discovered a new writer of short stories. Read the “City of Enchantment,” by Berton Braley, to- morrow and you'll want 7 to read “Tales Town every one of the of the Wicked ’ that follow. | nary notice, | board, lodging and «uch reduced wi | mistress's house. les, at the option of the em- JUST COULDN'T HELP WINNING EVERY POOL ON LINER, HANG IT ALL Counsellor Mitchell Has $1,600 may be agreed on , ' , in this case the servant ts entittea to] He Doesn’t Want, and “k pay even if she remains in her ! New Ocean Record. ‘ IN| CASE OF THE MARRIED Hl WOMAN, EMPLOYED OR NOT. In main outline, the scheme for deal- ing with the difficult problem of sick- ness insurance for the married woman ver: 1, Tho mistress pays the full 12 cents per Week, 6 cents of which she deducts from the servant's wages ‘The mistress may agree to pay full wages for a maximum of six weeks’ sickness each year, in which case her contribution will be five cents per week and the servant's four cents. If the full 12 cents ts paid, the mis- tress may in case of sickness either: 1. Dismiss the servant with the ordl- knowing that some pro- vision Is made for her; or 2 Keep her in the ‘house, providing es Victor ‘T. Mitchell, King's Coun sellor, of Montreal, arrived to-day on anything which may retard his recove sickness benefit consists of $240 a week for men and $1.9 for women, for a maximum period of twen- but, in practice, sick pay, called disablement benefit, may be given ifed member for the re- for both men and permanent is fixed Before a memher may be qualified to recetve it he or she must have been insured for two years and ing @ man may draw sickness benefit (which, however, only requires @ six months’ qualificas tion) for twenty-six weeks, and if he !s He may draw this as long as he remains incapacitated or the old age On the insured person les the respon- sibility of producing his card on pay ‘The employer must No required nor will the weeks when a But the insured | does not lose the advantage of sick pay some money paid on It ts merely re- Not until the arrears amount to twen- ty-six weeks per annum on an average anatorium and matet- Arrears are calcu- lated on the whole period of insurance, and not on the current year. Thus, If a man contributes for twenty years he may fall five years in arrears before he and ten years in arrears before his right to attendance, sanatorium benefit When a man returns to employment he indirectly reduces the burden of the arrears against him; if he wishes to hasten the process he may pay off the arrears, and can obtain an arrears card his soclety has e that por- which would INSURED BY Every domestic servant is insured. In sanatorium and maternity benefiis must a!ways be/ Her mistress stamps her insur- ch wages the law requires for the servant are on 1s as follows the White Star liner ‘Cedric, very ink, The married woman who was not|_much upset. He had won a pot of pefore marriage and is not em- y . 0 vhet tt ployed during her married tife wilt not| Money om the auction pool, when he be Insured, Thin excludes ait present didn't care for it at all, Inctdently, | married women not actually in employ-; he bro! the an record, winnty ment. day the six, and cleaning up he married woman employed in a A, factory of shop or tn domestic. service |” “sang it all.” Mr. Mitchell told thel* be insured on the same terma and tions ae If unmarried SP whip ews reporters, winking ald monocle into position, “I didn't ‘wang to win the blooming thing. I'm agains’ gaming, y'know. The first day after won I put it all back, so it woul be lost. But when 1 won every day, what could 1 do? “Thinking of giving {t away?" sug A woman previously insured will be suspended on marriage from ordinary Insurance If she ceases to be employed. ‘Tf before marriage she has been ®@ member of an approved society she will be entitled to some share, Gependent on the length of time she has been insured, in the ac- fnnde of ‘her society, | Sested a bystander. “Because if yo! are"—— “Oh, no. Now that I've won it I'l keep it, y'know,” sald the K, C, he walked off. . Another record in the hat pool went to Fred H. Holt of this city, who wo: six days straight. His pot, however, amounted to “only $500," which he ch acterized as “chicken feed. The foreign rush home {s on In earn. est, agcording to the full passenger Its of the Cedric, Many of the passengers, were theatrical persons, One of th $ Miss Mary Garstong, who is en- gaged to play the leading role in th Rose Maid.” Miss Garstong is very Snglish, but she was sure she woul be pleased with America. She had tw An band ale, to re-enter insurance at the same rate of contribution as defore her marriage. Thus she ‘will at once enter into full benefit ae if the period of her married 1i! and one month after her husband's death had not intervened. SICK TENANTS EXEMPT FROM LEVY OR EVICTION. No distress for rent nor execution for a judgment debt may be levied upon the goods of an insured person, nor may proceedings be taken to eject him from | his house, if the doctor attending him |has given a certificate to the effect that such action would be likely to endanger his life. days to spare and will run out to Sa | However, the reasonable rights of! Francisco and chase around Yellowston: liandlords ‘are carefuly safeguarded. Park a little, taking in New Orleans tu |Such a certificate must be renewed by |the doctor each week, and after one| er spare time. She would see Nev month the person whose interests are| YOrk In the time remaining, That ts, adversely affected by it may have it set| She intended to until she was told a jaside, unless security is given for pay-| little of the geography of this fair {ment of future rent, or for the amount | land. of the Judgment debt. In any case it] “Dear me! Why, the {dea!” @he ‘annot be extended for more than three| said, perfectly set back. “That's too months from the date on witch It Was) bag. I was so Interested. You know, originally granted. The certificate does not destroy the landlord's right to rent nor does {t in any way authorize the tenant to live rent free. It merely postpones the land- lord's usual remedies for the recovery in England one can go anywhere tn & day.” On the third day out, a concert was held on the ner, at which a particu- larly girlish maiden scampered up and of a few weeks’ rent until the sick | down the decks, Some patted the flaxen tenant has to some extent, but not! o he she necessarily completely, regained his! ree ne ook 00 ee ae aoe | grown miss proached. “Don't you dare touch my Mamma,” she cried and the men were informed that the “girlish maiden” was “Miss Alice Loyd,” wife of A. D, McNaughton, During the remainder of the voyas® Miss Lioyd, who sings in vaudeville, | seemed put out by the discovery, Om the ship's list Mr. A, D, McNaughton and daughter were registered apart from ‘Miss Alice Lloyd.” Eleven steam engineers arrived on the Heidt. Cedric for the convention of the Inters . national Association for Texting Mates When a process server put a dis-| rial, which will be held from Sept. 2 10 possess notice in the hands of Michael | sopt. 7. Heidt in his squalid flat at No. 268) The Cedric carried a total passenger West One Hundred and Seventeenth | list of 1,269. health. When the certificate expires, the of dignified mien ape landlord may claim or levy a distre! for all rent owing. Therefore, the en- tire scheme js to provide money, doctor and medicine for everybody with lim- Sted means in the United Kingdom. ——_>—_—_ DESERTED BY HIS WIFE AND CHILD, HANGS SELF. Idleness and Drunkenness Lead to tne Suicide of Michael street yesterday the cup of Heidt's cena ble overflowed, His wife anc Hevencyeat-old. daughter, lizabecn, | BURGLARS KILL POLICEMEN had left him two weeks ago because of his idleness and constant drunken- ness; his money was gone; nothing re- mained in the flat to be pawned. Early to-day Elizabeth came down to the flat from her temporary home on upper Eighth avenue to see her father. She could not get in and she could get no answer to her knocking. child went out on the street IN LONG RUNNING FIGHT. |Shoot Down Two and, Cornered, | Exchange Fusilade of Bullets, Wounding Three—Thug Shot. HASPE, Westphalia, Aug. 31.—Bur- ners willing to attend insure When a servant marries| 80 the glars and policemen last night had subject to the power of the | 78 Next due. When h wvory penny or|and told a policeman she feared her| fight that lusted several hours and Tnaurance Commissioners to remove, af. | And leaves enniemal tris called, ts| father was in trouble. The policeman| tea with the killing of two men and ter inquiry, the name of any practi-|PCrated to her, though she ceases to/ returned and climbed into tho apart |i rn aie ot four others. A gang tlener p to be Ineffictent. But a/c" Isorily insured. One-third of] Ment through @ rear window. “ pai: | doctor Is not bound to accept @ patient, |e, noy ee remains with the| He found the body of Heldt hanging | of five housebreakers was surprised by Free choice of doctor must also be guar-| ein order to enable her to re-|from six inches of rope that was tied |a village constable, whom they fired at to @ stout hook in the kitchen wall. | His feet were only a few inches from the floor, It was evident that he had slowly stranged to death. The policeman cut the body down and little Elizabeth ran in terror to where her mother was to tell her the dreadful thing she had seen, and killed. They then fled and, meet- ing another constuble, shot him dead, They were brought to bay in the neighboring hamlet of Milspe by a force of military police and, after a flerce fusillade in which they wounded three gendarmes, were arrested. One of the burglars was disabled in the shootin: “Collecting for Charity”’ —a real experience story by Frances McDonald. Helen Frick’s Adamless Eden, where no men are admitted. Taking His Bride on a Leper Honeymoon. Queerest Shop in the World. Experimenting on the ef- fect of sleeping with your head to the north. | * |

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