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ia -ROCKEFELLER’S "SECRETARY NOW F DODGES DEPUTIES : Pajo Coden W Wants McIn- tosh to Tell About $100,- &. 000,000 Copper Deal. MILLIONAIRE YIELDS, “When the Men Wake to Their Ignorance We Will Have Some Happy Com- | panionships and More} Real Marriages,’’ Writes ‘A Bachelor Girl,”” Who, “ "hecepts Service Through His Attorney, but a Plea of Illness Is Made, , 7 ‘Wrilttam Rockefeller will visit Wash- | @agton cm Jan. 18 if the Pujo Commit- inetets upon hie presence there to P to & evbpoena, service of which gee) yesterday by Mr. Rockefel- *) Que‘ counsel, John Garver, The action | the conmnittes in respect of instetence \ pen the personal attendance of Mr. Pocketeler win be guiied by the report | @ physicians who will be delegated to + Guanine Mr. Rocketeller As the Brening World exclusively an- | @ounced yesterday, Mr. Rockefeller has @een right bere in New York during }Wre wiege of the process servers of the | Howe of Representatives. He was >, Mither In his own house at Fitty-fourth {, @trest amd Fifth avenue or in the house (@t hie eomtn-law, Marceltus Hartley { Wekse, next door. After Mr. Garver had arranged to adcept service of the ; ‘waepoena yesterday afternoon Mr. Rock- } ee sent his furlined overcoat out to ee repaired. Where an elderly million- (@ite's fur Mined overcoat is in severe ‘weather there will be found the elderly °V LETTER OF ROCKEPELLER LAW- YER ACCEPTING SERVICE, «Mr. Garver gave out to-day the letter fhe sent to Samuel Untermyer accepting 4 Berv! for @ir, Rockefeller. The letter @S Madison avenue. Jan. & Samuel Untermyer, Esq., Counsel to Pujo Committee. Dear-Sir: On vehal of Mr. Will- fam Rockefeller I hereby accept eer- ‘ vice of a subpoena for the 13th in- *qtant’ with the sdme force and ef- fect as if the subpoena had been served personally upon Mr. Rocke ‘ feller, Yours y truly, . “JOHN GARVER.” “Tt wil be noted that Mr. Garver cela Rothing tn hits letter about Mr. Rocke- i daller’s i!iness. It will be represented } to, the Pujo committee that Mr. Rocke ; Meller. ts very {i physicians’ certificates : @@ that effect will be submitted and an on will be reached by which | phyelcians authorised by the committee WW ckatrine Mr. Rockefeller and re- port on his condition. If Mr. Rocke cy Pr to speak he may be \ae @ witness only to identify certain books. ‘The Evening World learned to-dey that the Pujo committee does not want £Me, Rockefeller to testify to a deal in per stocks put through in 1907 In tnerehip with H. H. Rogers, ut ; 49 @ much larges deal in Amalgamated Copper put through {n 1903, which net- ted the promoters between $80,000,000 and $10,000,000 profit. Associated with Mr. Rockefeller in this deal were H. H. Rogers, now dead; Thomas ‘Lawson and Albert Burrage, a Boston multi- mil onaire of retiring habits who has managed to keep himself out of public rane to ® great extent. ‘Mr, Laweon and Mr. Burrage will be walled as witpesses in the Investiga- ty ton of this lif Mr. Burrage can be reached by, @ subpoena. Process servers apiave been unable to find him thus far. PORCRETARY TO ROCKEFELLER HAS ALSO DISAPPEARED. Nor have eubpoena servers been able to find persons who were identified with ' the premoters of the extremely profit ‘able manipulations in more or less ~humigje capacities, Mr. Rockfeller’s pri- vate seoretary, a man nained McIntosh, whose attendance as a witness has been 5 debiréd by the Pujo Committ. hos appeared, leaving not the slightest tr iis whereabouts. Mies Harrison, the capable and striking private secretary to H. H. Rogers, who enjoyed the distinetion of being probably le employee in the right hand in the deal, of 192, She dlsappeared— ‘on at leapt the process servers have been unable to find her. The same is true of Miss Watson, who was Mr. private stenographer in dended to all the correspondence of the Amulgamated Copper deal. ‘The fact that Thomas W. Lawson AGO Cs aia 2 called on w 8 Hatt Re erin a eeailee WASHINGT Jan. 4.—Membera of} wetweem the oal] of love and the sae abel in whion is Is all to have | ine House, part! members of the| feeble protest of age that fears to Se eee profita to. the extent of {Banking and Currency Committes,| ue abamdomed he is generally not see eae ere did ot Make any |Heavnt sighs of relief to-day when they | long im making @ cholce, ‘The ex- e to it, according to the In- found that it would not be necessary to plamation swiftly offered for his Vereee eine Pulo Committee, t™ | exert the full authority of the House to| defection ts that his emotions are Paina Ss SR peace ited [force the service of a money truat tn-| stronger them those of the woman re a i, be a reluctant |quiry subpoena on William Rockefeller., who pute aside personal happiness ae a a lie. service by the off for the welfare of others. pan tee |magnate obviated the necessity for ac-| But It may be only that his sense of =/FOUR WHO ENGINEERED A tie neni of the Monay, Trust {duty in Jes joped. I know of nothe $100,000,000 DEAL. Committee called for to-day ing more tiresomely and brutally stupid In 192 Mr, Rockefeller, Mr, Rogers, ‘The committee will consider his plea: than the eriticiam of the salff-support- Mr Burrage and Mr. Lawson were i (hat he is too fil to testify, and a sub-\1M® Woman, because she ‘takes the control of alkatiated Copper, the eommittee may be sent to his home to place and the work of a man.” pital stock which was $ take bis de ition. Even that course It is not aione the instinct of self-pre- hey took in two other companies and jyay he opposed by tie oll millionaire, SeFvation that \¢ back of the self-rup- increased (lie cap) tock to $15),000,000, and he will probably ask to be excused+ po Though usually By manipulation » stock they! from furnis ing any information to the nt ta SelB RES By enone ne- up fo selves between | committee. 5 ‘ eel aa $100,000,000 ‘ording to, imony already pefore the commit: | fection of some husband or father who! the information which has been handed nects My Rofkefeller with tran-|/98@ assumed obligations to sociely thit to the Pujo Com | er iv 198 and 197 and {he Was unwilling or unable to full For the purposes uf the committee Mr, may insist that his tess |NEARLY ALWAYS IT 18 A MAN Se ak tee the pina is il xlven, WELCHING. pyre witness, for he was in charge! committer will resume Its public! tn other words, back of nearly every | hearts ‘igs Monday and will examine dur- of the books. H@® priv retary, Mow] Me Monday and Will exam salievpeoriing women is eome man Tntosh, is said to lave made the actual! iow of banking firme. from Chicage,| WhO has weiched—e father who has entries. M ketelier 6 4 tO) Boston and other cites, Chairman Pajo| abandoned his children or a brother \ faentidy the yoke an securds ‘or the expects to end the Reatings by Jan. 15, | who finds the call of gene purpose of subs ting the facts of come so imperative that dhe deal as they are allege ve the Children All The mother or baby brthers and sisters to Pao purpose of the Hujo Committee in| wit oe + Cough Drops, be, Contends That Her Sex| Is the Superior One. A Young Woman Attrib- utes Unhappiness in Marriage to a Supposed _ Intellectual Divorce Be- tween the American Man and the American Girl, Incidentally Scor- ing the Sterner Sex. tas BYE K Nr TN WORSE © Peg ae are aly PP, Copyrignt, 193, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). A BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. “While self-supporting young women employ their leisure in attend ligent young woman has to say for Dear Madam: I am employed fn one of the offices of a large corpora- tlog and I cofme in daily contact with doth men and women. I also have @ large acquaintance with young ‘women. I have yet to find one of the type described by “Bachelor” as caring only for jewels and clothes, They are one and all eound, healthy, lovable girls that any man would be Proud of. In at least a half dosen cases they are the sole support or contribute jointly with some eister or brother, to the support of their mother. The girls pra: housework of the home, the iN health of the mothers, and yet they are earning salaries trom $15 to $% a week downtown. They dross neatly and well, and are saving & Uttle for a rainy day. They are all making public all the details of this manipulation {8 to ald, if possible, the passage of @ law which will enforce Publicity relative to the profits of the Promoters of all incorporations and consolidations. ‘ ‘The Pujo Committee believes that the secrecy possible under the rules of the Stock Exchange has encouraged promotion schemes in which the public has been bled and that pub- Aiclty in relation to all such transec- tions would do away with manipulations such as that which enabled Mr. Rocke- feller, Mr. Burrage, Mr. Laweon and Mr. Rogers to clean up between $20, 0 and $25,000,000 apiece in a few months. Another iMustration of the enormous Profits possible in schemes of promo tion haa already been revealed by the fornia Petroleum. ‘Three New York banking firms sold the entire capital stock of this concern three and one- half times during twenty-one days last October and realized a profit of sabout $5,000,000, ‘The company is capl- tallzed at $8,000,000, [Jacob H. Schiff has been subpoenaed to appear before the Pujo Committee. | What the committee desires from Mr. | Schiff is known only to the Chairman and hin invest! —>— SUB COMMITTEE MAY COME HERE TO SEE ROCKEFELLER. Lo RL Pujo Committee in the case of Call-| interesting lectures on polities, books and the drama, young men of the same age yrefer to be amused by some one running up and down a vaudeville stage yelling ‘I Know I'm Crasy.’" In @ very interesting letter which appears to-day a young woman read- er of The Evening World attributes unhappiness In marriage to a sup- posed intellectual divorce between the American man and the American woman. Her communication !s one- sided and perhaps prejudiced, but if there is such a wide divergence of taste between young men and women to-day the marriage of true minds can never exist between them. And unless it does exist conjointly with the more practical bond which is the “YOU FIND THE GIRLS ar LECTURES OW ART POLITICS AWO Boons’ cok “MEN WOULD RATHER AT TE! SOMEBODY, VELL “I KNOW mM same in New York and in Otahelte,|>reach, plunging into the fight from a husband and wife are not very apt to find permanent happiness with each other. Here is what this intel- Rer‘eex: | §004-looking—some handsome look- tng women (but entirely unconscious of it}—averaging in age from twenty to thirty. ‘When I cee @ ailly, frévoloun un- womanly woman ‘‘oapturini 00d man by means too contempt!- ble even to Be consiiered by a true woman, tt makes my blood boll and 1 wond.r whether there is @ man in this world with a backbone. The trouble lies in the fact that woman on an average when she uses her Drain at all is at least ten yeare ahead of the average man. There- fore n girl of this type at twenty certainly have nothing in common with the shallow brained “youths” of twenty and twenty-five who never see any deeper than the scandal headlines of a sensational newspaper and whose chief source of conversa- tion, as feequently overheard in the cars @ what the “old man" sald for wetting In “so early,” or what the boss said for getting at the office late. While self-supporting you women employ their leisure in at- tending interesting lectures on politics, drama, books, music, &c., &c., young men of the same age would rather be amused by some one running up and down a Vaudeville stage yelling “I Know 1 Am Crazy but Everybody Tries to Imitate Al Nevertheless.” When the men wal up to thelr ignorance we will have some happy companionships and more real marriages. A BACHELOR GIRL. IT 18 THE WORKING GIRL WHO MAKES THE SACRIFICE. In so far as his letter comments on the devotion and the self-sacrifice of the larger number of self-supporting Women, L think it will be echoed by every man and woman conversant with facts. The great majority of women workers main- \tain not themselves alone, but Invalid {or dependent relatives. In the typical poor family of to-day it 1s the sons who marry early, the daughters who re- main celibate, that they may care for the helpless ald or the helpless young. Here and there of course there are ex- amples of self-sacrificing bachelorhood Gue to that recognition of the prior claims of an old mother or dependent little brothers and sisters, | thousands she is there! Which some men has run away, steps woman after woman to fight an un- in which the ineradicable ex,has been augmented by legal Ray pollticel Aieabilitier. The phere! of celibate work- But I cannot agree with “A Bachelor Giri” that our young women generally are more developed mentally than our young men. The self-supporting woman ‘delongs to a privileged, a select class, ‘To Gnd the feminine proto! of the young man whose taste in matters of recreation and amusement is rudi- mentary and vulgar one must seek her at the moving picture show or the syrupy matinee. And, belleve me, tn | A great many women find it dimcult to accept the fact that there is no superiority in merely going to lectures and coming away with « mind full of the intellectual small change on art or Politics or books. It is what you think yourself—not what you are able to say that Browning or Strindberg or Shaw or Nietssche thought—that marks the kind and degree of your cultivation, So long as more men than women do thelr own thinking, so long 4s more men than women give that first great proof of mental eMclency—the ability to make @ ltving—it ts worse than foolish to assert the superior cultivation of a sex still largely parasitic. THE KIND OF WOMAN WHO MAY SNEER AT MEN. The average man to-day a living. H. to ‘he ought to rgad mor But unless the wom: Unquestionably and know more. more can put her knowledge and reading to practical account criticising her bett at men. These ret to those of us who meet the practical teste of life as successfully aa men do— consequently not to self-supporting wom- en, but only to those who akip from lecture to lecture, from author to author, from reform to reform, with « parasite ease and speed—the so-called superior Americar women who find their fellow-countrymen crude and un- worthy of their intellectual companion- ship. When all 1s said and done, the Ameri- can is the only man worth marrying |‘occause he {8 the only one who do | not believe that the accident of m | cullnity carries with it an inalienable superiority, who does not take the vow of for better or worse With @ secret faith In the divine right of husbands to do as they please. DEVOURED BY CANNIBALS. wo Brot ftetionn of Natives tm New nea. AYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 4.—Butel ered by natives in New Guinea was the fate of two planters named James and shift for themselves, And into this Hermann Weber, brothers. They were set upon by cannibals who came from tie unexplored regions. No trace of thelr bodies have been found, and & Is | belleved that they have been devoured. rhe news was brought here to-day by friendly natives, who stated that the same tribe has been carrying on @ cain- | | | Paiwn of butchery throughout the dis- iret. A punitive expedition has been planned by the Government. Papuans, the-name given the back inhabitants of New Guinea, a British ponsession, under the rule of the Aus tralian Commonwealth, ate supposed to be amendable to digcipiine, but occomton- ally an outbreak M cannibalism occurs nd A VAUDEVILLE. aNO NEAR crazy * FIREBUG POURS OIL BY QUART ON STAIRS OF SH-STORY HOUSE But fia tet Are Discovered by Late-Comer Before They Can Spread. Several quarte of kerosene ware used by a firebug who started a biase early to-day in the six-story apartment house at No, 2% Weat Bixty-frst street, creat- ing excitement for a short time among the one hundred or more persons who live in the building, James Witherspoi dertaking shop on th ry who has an un- ground floor and sleeping room in the rear, went home a lodge meeting and found the halls filled with smoke. In a washroom on the third floor he 4 found a rapidly spreading fire called In Poll Sixty-elghth they succeeded In putting It out without sending in an alarm, Everybody In the house was aroused by the @ and nolee, but no one took to t eecapes or fled to the street. When the last ly the fire had not It wan discovered. arge receptacle, atts vay with Mem Ne ons aminne four families in thi Firemen from led to guard hal makes an investigation, rT WORLD BALU D Z,. JANUABY 4, 1918, ve rare Midas Article of a Series The Self-Supporting Modern Woman Compared With the Young Man of To-Day PARCEL POST RUSH DRAINS THE SUPPLY OF MAILING STAMPS, Many Offices Have None and Government Printers Will Work Sunday to Catch Up. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4--The Govern: | ment ie ewamped by the popular r sponse to the parcel post. Four daye trial of the new system has resuited in the ending of @ tremendous mamber of packages that the Post- Office Department is already unable to wupply the demand fer the distinctive parcels post stamps, without which euch ty, heen received from post-offiess thorugh- out the country requesting that an ad-/ ditional supply of stampa be rushed to them, New York offices were advised to-day to wire nearby cities for the loan of enough etampy to tide them over. ‘That the lack of an adequate stamp supply 18 seriousty bothering officials was indicated when Direotor Joseph Ralph of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to-day arranged for the firat time tn the history of his bureau to have hie entire foree of stamp printers work all day to-morrow, @unday. ‘We atarted off with about 5,00,000 day,” he said, “within « dey to Increase it to 7,000,600. to work my aya a ‘o 4 alo to build goon will have to day. Dirblic haa taken hold Post system @o quickly t the butik of business done the firet week is eo great that ft is impoanible to-day to get at any acc: rate number of par- oat-Office officials sald an ould be imposible for several BURGLAR SLAIN, PROBABLY IN’ROW OVER A ROBBERY Body, With Many Pocketknife Wounds, Found in in a Lot. —_—_——. Tn @ lot at the corner of Bush and Columbia streets, in the Sleepy Holiow ction of Brooklyn, the body of Gul- sepp! Gerace, a burgiar, was found at 7.16 o'clock this morning by Policeman Lovie Haveriin of the Hamilton avenve @tation. The ody Iay face upward, ‘with the arms outstretched and the left knee drawn up. A deep gash, two inches long, had been made with « knife just above the left eye. An artery had been severed fear the right wrist and the juguiar vein was cut, the wound extending from the left side of the neck to the base of the skull, where a pocket clasp-knife bad ‘been stuck Into the body nearly up to the handle. The body was removed to the Hem- Miton avenue station and there Detec- tives Meally and Manning Identified tt as that of the burg tw&ty-olant seven inches in height pounds. The detect had probubly been pi ra old, ve to de fgome recent job. About @ year ago Francesco Scrivani, “orty-third atreet. ner in which he was Killed, ber, at No. @ Summit street. A di mond atickpin add other property be. MRS, DEWOLFHOPPER ACTOR'S FOURTH WIFE, | ASKS DIVORCE DECREE ene ee Co-respondent’s Name Hidden, Justice Scudder Keeping Papers in Suit. ‘The motion of Mrs. Ellen from De Wolf Hopper was heard to-day Bewen Hopper for a decree of absolute divorce longing to the barber was found on Ger. ace, Just before the trial of the alleged ‘The slain man! nd weighed 120 id Gerace h by his pale in @ quarrel over the spotis of enied the man- ‘The perpetrators of this crime have Rever been iscovered. Sleepy Hollow, in the neighborhand of the scene of He was charged with having robbed the apartment of Giochino Murro, a bar- for Italy. Manning arrested the map wn. "te was then Ba | worked a graft pt pair of silk gloves. finger prints in the burg! A letter from Gerace’s two were sick and that there was need of money at home. dress was No. 181 Columbia strect, em where he wae killed. Serivani, is also) pres at this address when be mu ee BARRED FROM COUNTRY , MYLIUS APPEALS TO NAGEL Secretary of Commerce and ia Constders Case of Writer Gam victed of Libelling King George. WASHINGTON, Jan. (—te 10a King George a crime involving Gwe turpitude? @uch !s the question OD sorbing the attention of Geupetart Nagel, who to-day received the ype for admission to the United States 4 Féward . Mylius, the English four nalist, threatened with deportation fn New York because he wes in England of criminal libel of Mim George. Counsel for Mylius, in one of @y longest briefs ever submitted te @& partment of Commerce » immig his offense w for w of morgana the ing « story thet @y Fngland had contracted’ ¢ Immigration taw ie tw exorable in ite prohibition of the ent! & friend of the murdered man, WAS) into the United States of any one slain under similar clreumatances. His| victed of or admitting @ crime invert found: in « lot at Newling moral turpitude, The Immigration Special Board of Inquiry at Bitte Ted and held that Mylius had Seen oi Victed of such a crime and ordered ab deportation, Opinion is divided in @y | Department of Comme to whether the the catesory Sate Cracked Safo crackers broke open «@ safe east) to-day in the store of Michael Finked stein, No, # Riverdale avenue, Yonkers 4 got $9 In checks afd cagh. Te mond pine Fifth Annual Sale tn the Gupreme Court, Mineola. Justice ‘Townsend B, Soudder reserved his de- etaion. time ago and the greatest secrecy was maintained with regard to the proceed- ings. Mre: Hopper, through her attor- ney, Samuel B. Harmberger, secured per- miseton to serve her husband by publi- cation en her asmurance that he could not be reached personalty. Mra, Hopper says that she was married to the actor Oct. 2 19, in Kensington. London, and that there has een no {usue, Her attorney said tn court to-day that Hopper's nvsconduct occurred leat year In New York. hTe name of the co-respondent could fot be learned, Jua- thee Sondder taking the paper into tis Peraonal keeping. Mr. Hopper was not represented in court, nor has he Med an anewer to the aut is the fourth time that the sing- actor and famous former wife, divorced htm In She brought the euit in her make it ponmible to get a divorce a statutory srownda Bdne Wallace was mar- State of thi ried to Hopper in 1893, immediately after his previous wife, Ida Hopper, divorced him, Ide named as a oo. respondent a chorus girl. ‘The present Mrs. Hopper was Mra Nelle Bergen, former wife of James , @ wealthy glass mamuitac- ir. Bergen marfed again, ae 4id his wife, His seoond wite sued him for a divorce, ae 414 hin firet, and the second named the fire as having been ain frtendly with the firet husband Twenty times goo The pleasure contain selling cigarette in t country. of absolutely pure tobacco, “ Distinetively Individual” — ind whites are slaughtered. The more civilized Papuane ‘have a wholesome dread of*the Britian law. di ed in this package of Fatimas has made it the greatest he The pleasure > ~amanyappn eae nee aie The action was brought some Women’s At Greatly Reduced Prices “Parfait” Lingerie Underwear French Handemade Lingerie Underwear Franklin Simon & Co. Monday, January 6th Avenue Underwear Crepe de Ch Night Gowns, Combinations, Chemises, Petticoata, Princess Slips, Corset Covers and Drawers; also Boudoir Gowns and Caps For prices and partic FIFTH AVE, 37th and 38th Sts. Chats With Great Men of the Civil War Mrs. Pickett is the widow of Gen. George E. Pickett, leader of the immortal Gettysburg charge. was in the very heart of the Civil Heroes who are now merely deathless names were her close War. personal Evening markable printed, of the Givil War's great men. ’ es Lee, Stonewall Jackson and a host of other notables are vividly depicted in these articlé@ and from a wholly new and intimate viewpoint. Mrs. Pickett was af '| | Bride of the Confederacy.” Presidents, and has won fame as one of the most || | brilliant and interesting writers of the scenes in which her soldier-husband bore so gallant a part. “Chats With Great will begin in the Evening World, January 9. ine Underwear Mrs, Pickett has written for the wlars see Sunday papers. She friends, World one of the most re- series of articles ever. comprising her memories. fectionately termed “The She has known nine Mei of the Civil War,” os hoe ed a year Woy |