The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1912, Page 15

TREE 60 FEET TALL WILL MAKE 4 REAL CHRISTMAS FOR ALL lhl Great Gaily Lighted Balsam Will Be Raised in Madison Square. : 'PWO- BAND CONCERTS. Idea Is Mrs. J. B. Francis Her- teshofi’s and She Has Met 4 Generous Aid. ,db people's Chrietmas tree, four stories gn and steaming. with hundreds of colored electrie: lights, ja.t0 bo in Madwon: Rqware next ook, & gift to the city of New York by Ste. J, B. Francis Herreshoff and those who Have labored With her to make it a possibility. Beneath the «reat balsam, which was ‘one of the lords of an Adirondack for- est, @ band will play Christmas Eve apd Chrietmas night, and on both occe- mons the lights wil) be lit’ The tree ‘Wes brought to New York so no one among the millions of the big city will De without @ personal property in a Christmas tree, for the big one given by Mes. Herreshoff 1s for all the people, Phe {dea occurred to her when, more en & year ago, & young man from emt of town told her of a Christmas he: spent in a New York hotel. Through wally lighted windowa he caught of many trees, but none of the ishts sparkled for him, so it was a deaolete holiday. ‘Mire. Horreshoff 1s a member of the yaoht-building family and lives in the Georgean Court, No, 58 Central Park West. Sfie spoke to the Mayor about having @ people's tree last year, but Was unable to put her plan into execu- tion. The preiiminary work tnis year ‘wis undertaken long ago, and te now Teprvlote. oe TREE SIXTY FEET TALL IS FOUND. Friends of Mrs. Herroshoff became efithusiastio over her idea and aided HORSEBACK ROMANCE LEADS PAIR CANTERING RIGHT INTO MATRIMONY. A romance of the bridle path resulted to-day In the wedding of Mine Helen Frances Maupai of Weehawken, N. Ju to A 0. Rovh of New York City. The mony was performed by the| Mayor of Weehawken at the home of ents of the bride, Mr. Roth {s a son of Prof. Adolph Roth of No. 162 West Sev- enty-fifth street. He is an ardent sportsman and {9 familar to Central Par skaters because of his adeptness on his Scandinavian skis, Miss Maupal, who was educated abroad, met young Roth while horse- back riding. She 1s @ member of the Hoboken Riding Club. Young Roth be- came a member of the club and the long rides over the Jersey hills brought the young lovers in daily contact. The her in many ways. First a tree had to found. ‘The one selected was & uty, the finest specimen that could be located, perfect in its symmetry and towering sixty feet high. The next problem was to get the forest gtant to New York. A railroad @@iai with a warm and sympathetic Reart agreed to do that, and he kept his word eo well that the big tree was Brought here without the loss of a branch. ‘Phen the New York Edison Company @omsented to furnish the electric lighting for the monster tree and bas promised to.etring dozens upon dozens of Mghts insite boughs. Mrs. Herreshoft and her associates fm. the Christmas tree undertaking wanted to give presents at the cree, but the police, who were hearitly in sym- pathy with the tree idea, declared they would not undertake to cope with the Deople if gifis were to be distributed. “We can have music anyway,” sald Mrs, Herreshoff, so she arranged for @ We band to play the two evenings the tree will be illuminated, “The tree 1s for the thousands af ck and lonely,” said Mra, Herre- “and the place where they m @angregate is Madison Square. We Oded not to give away the usual fing presents of candy and silly sto fe of useless things. Coa) and f are the people's needs, but the po! would not let us distribut uch articles to @ crowd, The one tdea of the tree fe to typify the Chr 8 spirit, to @y, ‘Good luck, brother,” to thousands will listen to the two evenings of mas music.” —— ’ BODY OF WOMAN PETRIFIES. CHESTER, W. Va., Dec, 18—Merle Gwearingen, a tinworker here, caused the body of his wife, who died nine years ago, to be exhumed and rein-| terred in the Mill Creek Pre: Cemetery, in Beaver County, Pa. 1 body first was buried in a little ce: tery near Mill Creek, and when ex- humed was found to be petrified. It weighed nearly 800 pounds. Pla Fully Guaranteed by the JF. & C. Factory Sa'esroom, 417 West Piano Sale Franklin Pianos The Family Eatertainer $378; regttlarly $450 on 5th Avenue Special Terms $15 Down; Balance in Monthly Sums Oldest Piano Makers in New York newlyweds will reside in Weehawken after a short honeymoon in the South. a PAID $4 FOR MURDER ~ AND GETS 20 YEARS. Spence, Who o Hired ‘Gannon to Kilt| “°" Larsen, Goes to Sing Sing To-Day. Frederick Spence, 4a bartender who w convicted of murder in the second ee for having hired Thomas Gannon, teen years old, to kill Christopher Larsen, of No. 34 East Fortieth street, March & last, was to-day sentenced to Sing Sing Prison for a term of not less than twenty years nor more than his natural life by Judge Mglone in Gen- eral Sessions. Spence was immediately Sing Sing by Gheriff Julius ix to the testimony given by 0 pleaded guilty to mane 4 is now awalting sentence, him % for the killing of sen, who had opposed Spence's love making to his niece. Spence at first tried to kill Larsen himself, but when he was beaten he hired Gannon to com. mit the act, Gannon will be sentenced by Judxe Rosalsky some time in Janu- ) PERRI-WALLA TEA ROASTED COFFEE STRAWBERRY JAM CANNED CORN FRANCIS H. LEGGETT & COMPANY Mr. and Mra, Ferdinand P. Maupal, pars | STERN PAPA RELENTS | yer Reliable House of Fischer Fischer 28th Street, Near 9th Avenue has just married the same girl for the @econd time in six months. chant of Newburgh, met Miss Mary An- | Gerson, @ neighbor, somewhat older, last, June, when the girl went te his father's Highland Falls on a little excursion. | When they reached there Mary learned | that Peter had arranged @ secret wed- ding and, yielding to hie persuasions, she married him. fan discover that the youth whom he etill regarded as a child was a married man. Father took it hard, eo hard that the youth would be better off away | from her, declined to protest the pro- | ceedings and the annulment was granted. store, working as cheerfully as might be. Always he declared he would re- marry Misa Anderson as soon as he be- came of age. stantly ploaded with his father. Mr. Van ‘Tienan at Jast became convinced that it |Eaglish Slip-Ons ody ear Sample Shop, 783 B’way | HEAR Dey ST. THE EVENING WORLD, etation for « brief period Counting up hie essh when four mea en’ train prevented the pose! for hetp being heard. manded money. When be refused one struck him on the head with a eandbag and he dropped, unconscious. Then the robbers rifled his pocketa and made off with his watoh and ecarfpin ae well 19 ba LJ fepreventing his cash sales of 1e day. AND BROKEN WEDDIN KNOT IS TIED AGAIN) sr eisrsceaa & Newburgh Couple, Twice Wed ain the camp of the vagrants, two miles Within Six Months, Are | Qne,°s neuro, war allowed to-go fren Perfectly Happy Now. Nineteen-year-old Peter Van Tienan Van Tienan, who ie the son of a mer store to make purchases, A month after they first met, Peter induced Mary to accompany him to Not until last November did Papa Tie- he immediately began annulment pro- ceedings. Mrs. Peter, persuaded that $18 and Upward Se RE Chicago House—State Cor, Monroe St. Diamond Importers and Jewelers, Gliversmiths, Fifth Avenue and 23d St. et Peter kept right on in his father’s As months went by Peter became more and more love sick and he con- would not do to keep the couple apart and yesterday they hurried to Middle Hope, accompanied by their families, where the Rev, J. P. Lincoln of the Methodist-Episcopal Church retied the ‘knot—so securely this ¢ime that tt is Rot apt to be untied goon again. |SANDBAGGED AND ROBBED IN LONELY JERSEY STATION. Salesman Identifies Four Tramps as His Assailants at Jamesburg. (Gpectal to The Evening World,) JAMESBURG, N. J., Dec, 18.—F. A. Davis, a travelling salesman for the Ogden Bailey Company of Trenton, was sandbagged and robbed of $100 and Jew- | elry in the Pennsylvania Ratlroad eta- tion here last night while waiting for a train. 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