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Chicken and a Dog in One Ye THE WAL TOR SAMs. Parsons,” New Year's «Mioming Bride, Has Been ~ Mrs, Freeman Five Years. —— * @he married her husband! That's Whole story, tut until It wae sotved yy by an Evering World reporter the authorities of the peaceful hamlet @f Manhaseett, 1. 1., the minister who Married her, a acore of newspaper re- Berters and the pubtic at large have R04 a most irritating mystery on their minds. New Year's morn at 1 o'clock, when QM Manhassett was wrapped in peace- slumber, a red automobile contain- Mrs, Edith M. Parsons, a wealthy 4 dashing widow of New Rritain, m., Augustine J. Freeman, a ctvit @ngineer in the employ of the United States Government, ond Benjamin xk, chauffeur, stopped in front he Nittle hone of Thomas O'Con- nell, the town clerk, and found he was away in Port Jefferson attending @ dance. Not daunted, despite the fact that the had started early that morning New Joreey to get married, they to Port Jefferson, dragged the { : te ine PARCELS Fost ' ; GeeeAMEO ES SON i MINISTER'S. Freeman, born in: France, and Me moth: | round we had to have @ license twenty- - in pereme s se vera | THe. WANE 10 HANDLE 60,000 . The - ty ai ied by O'Connell, THEY WANTED TO AVOID PUS- f) \ ‘hen went to the home of the’ Kev. LICITY. Sad garded in his pejames and beth-| got there and after 2 when we were end with the town clerk and the/ married. mysterious} ‘The reason we have denied the wed- robe , Chauffeur as witnemen, Vite, Laughing and apparently very |the marriage has brought, but it seems they metcgnact toward ew | har torent ih otben mar" 37] So Quickly That 75 More happy “York in the automotdie. lety of this investigation by the news- Next morning news of the romantic | papers, We had a har time (ryipg to Clerks Are Added. midnight marriage reached the New | expiain to reporters how the other sup- York newspaper offices, and immediately | posed impersonator secured our names * , reporters went to the home of A. J./ and the names of our parents. H Freeman. 2 Bighty-cighth street, | “We were married five years ago in S80 quickly have New Yorkers jumped “Ray Hidge, Brooklyn, the address the Sepeisewe hag by a M wietrate, 1]at the new parcel post that seventy-five . been @ widow then five year: bridegroom gave on the marriage) (.- marriage at more men had to be added to the service t time wae an . pyeeman and myeeit|in'the city to-day. ‘Postmaster Morgan ways did everything on the impulse of }is expecting to handle at least 0,000 Moment. ‘That was how we de-|oackages a day. ona remarriage by @ minis- our religious differences. Mr. Freeman morn, andl furthermore, that |Wuys Cathulle and 1 was an Episco- [of Parcels matied here the firat business married five years. pallan, Dr. Newbold, who married us|dey of the service. Postmaster Morgan INDIGNANT WIFE CORROBO. |New Years, ie an Episcopalian. I do}had put the total at 10,000, Others thought it nearer 20,000, The actual fig- hope there won't be any more pubUcity. RATES THE STORY. ‘Ut haw worrled us to deat He was corroborated by his wife, who] Mra. Edith 8, Parsons was the daugh- they had lived 8 Bay Ridge for |ter of one of the oldest and best fam- than a yoar and that any one in |!les in New Britain. Her husband has ‘neighborhood could prove it. Fur- |been In the service of the Government ure proved to be more than 30,000. Hreemen both wanted the mystery |grie Basin. = golved, They told the reporters they would like to know Who was imper- @pnating them. ; ‘The reporters anf the town authori- Ges of Manhamet wero mystified, Mr. emt Mrs. Freeman hod looked them @teaight in the eye and told them they Could prove an allt. at mailing division, Grand Central Chicago Northwestern Flier Hurls Victims to Field in Midnight ‘To-da: Evening World reporter if ae Mioeesa 2 geet. Goqoription of the man Crash in lowa Town, the woman who were married by | DENISON, Ja., Jan. 4.--8ix persone a ‘Dr, Nev ‘oid. dead here to-day and one is dyin tqae 0 st “irty-four, Ho was about | & Northwestern passenger train running o't .wohes, rather d: smooth | Mitty miles an hour hit a buggy at mid- Te eee ere auict In te de, |Aight. The dead are John Neimers Mra. Reimers, five months; Cart Evers, . thirty-one ¥ Minnie Evers, Your- hed ken notice of the woman. ten; son of Carl Evers, ix, The in-] From midnight to 3 P.M. y woman," eaid Mus. Newbold, “Although | 7ear# oid. fi points, we -ghe wea gettiog married she didn't ap- |, Those Killed were thrown tnlo & Oot) rurwarded to thelr destinations. pear flustered. She was perfectly at | taneou: gaze. She wore Lehaeo g gown, a white! A sharp curve at a point sunt east polo coat, with a large white hat, and ft the crossing made it impossible for I noticed that she wore eyegiaases.” e engineer to see the carriage until it was t lato to stop, and it ta “DESCRIPTIONS § TALLY WITH |e ought the noise of the vehicle made FREEMAN AND WIFE. 1; impossibte for the driver to hear the When the repomer went to the en-| rain approaching ysinecring Offices in the Army and Navy nn being held for postage, hen he is in town, he learned that th tld m_ of the enter ver = New | Watchman's Vieiim ‘Taken to Hoe- Freem TC re- mera one o eeauen pital in Serious Condit . Mrs. Freeman John Jankowitz, twenty-nine years] was taken back to ¢ the doorbe!! and the reporter | old, living at No, 29 East Third str wae tall and wore glasses. jand working on @ building in the cour Mr. and Mrs. Freemen ever | of construction at No. 36 West Thirty- the marriage had denied absotute- | second street, had a discussion with nue and Amity street, Flushing. A lobster found tn it, She said her reason for | moved. it was to prevent the news-| Shortly after 8 o'clock Jankowits wae ing anything about |etanding near the oMce of the bull out another word being spoken the heed. He was removed to the New : York Hospital, The surgeon ways that} oul Now mysterious widow,” | he is suffering from ¢ ussion of the Girt s Afire by Matches, Freeman with a laugh. She brain and may ha’ a fractured skull, While looking for hange of clothing ng, 163 | if The police are looking for the wa man, who has a number but not a Delivery by Parcel Post “Finally we learned that we could . + Charles L. Newbold, rector of the Man- probably eat a poe gy fl inagred PARCELS ADAY HERE Episcopal . on Long Ist |, #0 we motored to jan- At 29 inthe morning, with the min-|nasset, It was after 1 o'clock when we er ooo the 4 ~ : couple were made man and|ding was to avold thia pubitctty that) New. Yorkers Jump at Service Conalderable surprise was expressed “The reason We were married by a] when it became known how far wrong marriage license, e romantic pooreaboseny of |asistrate before was on account of | were all the ‘estimates of the number Official statistics supplied Mr. Mor- gan last night with cause for gratifica- fas an engineering Inspector since 18%, | tlon, They showed that the packages thermore, she had a duughier, wald the |i) io): present looking after the dred¢- | mailed from midnight Jan. 1 to midnight An@ignant Mrs, Freeman. Mr. and Mr®. ling of the Bay Ridge Inlet, just ado 2 wore: At General Post-OMice,4 ;39 oe eerdlibiacitnne tion, 7%6; at Pennsylvania Station, 3 SIX KILLED IN COLLISION at branch stations, 22,067, Total, 30,614. OF TRAIN AND CARRIAGE. | or this number 4,083 were for local de livery ond 17,986 for out of town da- livery. ‘The number of packages in- sured nt the stations was 1,08 and at the General, Post-Office 19, 0 total of! | 1,212. The total number of packages | | delivered was 3,096, of which 2% were delivered by wagon and 3,5 by carrler, eaphe weliegroom,” said Dr. Newbold, | result of @ grade crossing accident when |" Of the seventy-five additional em- ployees put on to-day ten went to the General Post-OMice, thirty to the Grand thirty-seven yeava old; Mrs, Jolin Relm-) Central Depot branch, Afteen to the ors, twenty-three yer on of Mr. and| Pennsylvania Depot pranch and the re- “ghe wes o tall, smurtly dremod|Jured i* a son of John Relmers, alx| 24,668 parcels, coming from: outside sotted in New York and Mr, Morgan cautions the pubite againat using any but the special par- imps. Over 800 packages with ordinary stamps were removed yesterday from package boxes and are The first package delivered in Flush- ing contained a ‘possum sent from Cos: where Freemen has en office / HIT WORKMAN WITH HAMMER |©o>. Conn., by Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist, to Dantel Carter Beard, ar- tist and author, who lives at Bowe ave- TC Jan. &—The parcel that y et ft two curious ‘they knew anything of the mys-|a matchmun this morning relative to] post brought President Ta! ‘To-day Mrs. Freeman | the removal of a plank. Words were| gifts last night. One .was from Melville he vestibule of her home and| exchanged, dut the plank was not re-|H. Breas,.of Germantown, Pa. and waa fe the * Breas wore in the battle | hattan discharged their passengers at of Gettysburg, from which he was one| Borough Hall station and were shunted of the ninety of the 700 members of the ing when the watchman approached | 10th Volunteer Infantry to come out him with a hammer in his hand, With-|alive. ‘The other was a cane made of wood from the battleship Maine, and hammer came down on wit was sent by KE, Peroy Stodard, of Ports. in @ wardrobe in home, No. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918. STRIKING CARMEN |Building of the Home SEEK ARBITRATION, | ASYONNERS WALK Say They’re Willing to Man Trolleys at Once If Claims Will Be Considered. Hike, hike, hike to Getty Square! Oh, the care may run apain, When we have a war with Bpain, [J all dependa on Whitridge and the Mayor. above. on the way to ‘New York. three mil care continued to lay in the barns. perience. their course. less some conciliatory move is made. Such @ move wi doean't want to do,” it would appe: there is doubt about the manner which it will be received. Seven members of the Yonkers Cham- der of Commerce conferred, to-day with ice-Preaid Sutherland, but could tno satisfactory reply to their ques- tions, as Mr, Sutherland said he had no nuthority to negotiate with any one, or James T. Lennon ts busy fram- Ing @ reply to President Whitridge’e let- ter, whioh inttimated that th would be put in operation, if the Mayor would be good enough to tell him how it can be done. The Mayor will ask Presi tidge to inquire into the men's griet # take @ more liberal view of matter,” said the Mayor, “W ibmit this diMoulty to arbi- tration. DEAN OF STATE EDITORS ing From Infirmities of Age at Seventy-eight. are all with him, Mr. Balley entered the employ of the Observer®here in 1858, and has been con- atantly identified with the paper ever at Present. He was a steat persona! friend of the late President Cleveland, who in 1886 appointed him to inspect a portion of the Northern Pacific Rail- road in Washington territory. He was postmaster of Utica from i887 to 1805. In 1892 he was State Civil Service Com- missioner and president of the board. —— TRAIN STALLED UNDER RIVER. wince, veing editor and publisher A ten-car express was ai it to a stop, back to a reserve track. a jeal. Nelsen, Dingust of Pood, Frat iy enaations, — Disaine e at the building. Division avenue, Willlamsburs, yester- ———— @ay, Marlon Hampel, seven, lighted Cleb Bowling Alley Bi some mal and her clothes caught fe fret tried] GREENWICH, Conn, Jan, 4. fire. When tlie child's mother went to Giscovered that at/ Riverside Yaoht Club's bowling alley tance she was badly burned @ resident of | was burned to the ground at 8 o'clock | about Hoth were it to New York, | last night, causing a loss of $12,000. The Netrict Hos- office was | fire was trio light wire | pital, where little helé for the mecticut, but | being blow: iy Pt ohild's recovery, “& CO, Now Yor, as a Matter of Econ St eee + i la FA Long Island’s Largest De-| | £ of Acreage Tracts Into Home Sites Tells of the Vast Op- portunities Waiting for Home Buyers and Gen- eral Investors. each, , By WILLIAM H. MOFFITT. ‘opportunities always have ex- | Isted for home buyers and small inves- | torn in New York real estate. exist now and they always will exist. Tho real estate history of New York} past half century has been! without @ paraliel in any city of the/ It has offered the most bril- Nant opportunities for both the ac- Quisition of wealth and for apectacu- Investments in Innd have made riches for many families. In 1880 New York had thirty miilion- aires and to-day the 2,500—-the majority of whom admit that real estate was the basis of their Tramp, travp, tramp the hills of Yonkers, / &@ man was asked tf he iked and he replied, “What are This has nothing to do with the story, but it 1s always well to begin with a sneppy tidbit like the lar development. ‘The story ts mbout the car strike up in Yonkers, and the present atate of the commirters’ soles, They're walking, milés every day, and Yonkers has some lovely hills, Yesterday, it vas rafn they faced to reach the termimar mM Get- ty Square, which leads to the City of Joy. To-day, the high wind and sharp tang of the cold hit them admidships are more than Shrewd investors who have piled up fortunes have watched the progr: of metropolitan growth, especially of suburban development. L at work now. The tim for accumulating riches in realty ha! not passed by ahy means. Just beginning. And while thousands walked two or proffered moving vans at ten cent ride, the @ porition to profit from the longest Period of advancing prices. GREAT CHANCE NOW TO REAP BIG PROFITS. We are just at the point of contracts for the construction transit subway system, to cost most than $250,000,000, This is the start of a tremendous develop- Ment movement which both large and small investors are free to study and to take advantage of to the utmost. There @ sreater chance for realty operations in New York or in any other big city in all history. The Pennsylvania Railroad has shown the courage of its faith in New York and Long Island growth by spending 000 to enter this territory. e still in prow ‘The municipality ttself is spending Greater fortunes will be made in the years to.come, The records of the next twenty-five years of the last fifty. 100,000 GO UP TO THE BRONX EACH YEAR. Northward from Manhattan Island 100,000 people @ year are moving into the Bronx. Eastward 150,000 aré mov- ing into Long ‘The peculiar part of the situation is that neither side can do anything to the other. hThere can be no strikebreakers brought in, because there is an ordinance in Yonkers which forbids any one oper- ating @ car without fifteen days’ ex- will exceed th President Whitridge sent @ letter, in teply to the one Mayor Lennon eent him, demanding that he put the cars in oper- ation again, asking how it can be done. He seems satisfied to let matters run Brooklyn has 8 population by 500,000 dur- t ten years and will show r growth in the immediate The heads of the strikers say tho deadlock will continue for weeks un- These people have not been enticed or ‘The rapid increase of Population and business in the old cen- tres has actually pushed them outward— forced them to move into and to develop | Close to $00,000,000 every vast areas of the suburban | ‘This growth is greater each year, and there is no other conclusion than that the guburban outflow must be propor- tionately of larger volume. Metropolitan growth during the last|t quarter century has amazed the world. fast as ever and it promises to be accelerated throughout the coming score or more years, We @ growing ten times faster then is! London. We are rushing close to the volume of London in population, and the coming decade will see us outstr: the great world metropolis in popul tion, wealth, industry, commerce and} all other lines of human progress. HOW NEW TRANSIT WILL AF-|* FECT THE SUBURBS. How can the homeseeker take ad-/ age of this immense future? New York has been cramped into nar- row city confines because transit ifac!!- itles did not grow in proportion to pgp- ulation. But this has all been changed. | ie transformation is now under way. Within a few years our transit will be| & few decades ahead of population. ‘There can be no, other result than that population will advantage of the housing facilities thus suddenly provided. In Manhattan dre jammed 400,000 fam- lites, There are only 16,000 owners of esldential property. Ninety-five persons out of every one hundred pay rent induced to move. made to-day in a letter to the Mayor, signed by every @triker, in which the strikers agree to man the cars at once if the railroad will appoint an arbitrator to confer with the strikers arbitrator and let the two appoint @ third. This proposition has not been advanced to President Waitrid, yet, but from the statement of Vice-President Sutherland, of the railroad, “Whitridge 1s a good fighter nd no one can make him do what he running expenses as contained in the an- Connecting Manhattan nd are five bridges which cost more 100,000,000 and have sen 000 an hour, besides the tunnels which take care of The Hudson River Jersey curry 65,000 persons an hour. The subways and ele- vated lines carry more than 4,500,000 We have 500 hotels which em- 000 people and feed more than 600,000 persons a day. York's national banks handle 75 per cent. of the total money of the | United States, and every business da passing over their counters through the Clearing House }--a volume which makes week more than that of the banks of Its rate now is wees $350,000,000 more than $1,000,000,000—the savings of the working masses. One savin, the Bowery—holids $10 000,000, with 200,000 depositoi | New York is already | great money centre, and its real estate is moving steadily represents the world's highest form of to a level which —_—.— TO CELEBRATE PASSING OF LONDON BY NEW YORK IN POPULATION. City planners point to the round city as the idedi place where people can get comfortable homes wi IS AT DOOR OF DEATH. E, Prentiss Bailey, of Utica, Pass- in their means. and Washington, centage of the population New York is beginning to cor- rect the evs that rollow the long, homes. | narrow city by buliding transit lines Other cities show from 40 to 70 per cent. | that will give it a round city develop- Conditions in’ New | ment. York are sure to readjust themselves | more nearly to those that prevall in the other large cities shdw the average which has been estab Mshed in conformity with the great nat. where @ large per- clties Where transportation has kept abreast of growth ani popula- In Philadelphia we UTICA, Jai Prentins Ba‘ Li. D., of age, ai fraternity » ie unconscious at his home in Genesee et: nd death is belleved to be only a matter of a few Moure Mr. Bailey succumbed to infirmities incident to old age Within the week. The members of his family of home owners. re than one hundred dwellings of ter class have been built in the , 1, 1, section during the past Imhurst, Corona and Flushing | have shared in the same kind of ac- because such cit New York may never possess 70 per | of home owners, centage !s bound to increase enormously, | t! and this movement will give to the out. | lying sections a vast sweep of rising |ti dations of the Queens 3 in response to the new home Now that Queen® has completed more Nassau ts placing In first class ord alghway ays: sites in the suburban sections will be tn Baldwin Harvor Realty Company has in Courtland Park subway Med for twelve minutes under the East River at a few minutes after 7 o'clock this morning when the rly rush was at Its height. The train had left Borough Hall and was half way Gown the hill in the river tube when @ failure of the controlling gear brought The Mu:.-ipal Explosives Commission of the City of New York has approved all brands of matches which THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY is manufacturing and offering for sale in the city of New York. These goods are labeled NON-POISONOUS and are sold under THE DIAMOND MATCH COM. All Mghts went out in the first car and the passengers, some of them very nervous, hurried to the lighted cars be- hind, When repairs had been made by the motorman the train procecded, but traMc was disordered for an hour there- after, and several trains tound for Man- Jn dozen dwellings and bungalows under construction at Baldwin, 1. 1, where operations on ite 100-aor stumulated by work on the eee Nassau homebutiders put more than 1,600 houses during 131%. The popu- tion increase averages aixt a day, or four families of Harvey B. Newine of Windsor Company oli @ large acreage tract Riverhead, L. 4. Suburban operators are preparing a campaign of celebration. According to careful estimates, completed this week, metropolitan New York will pass met- ropolitan London in population before the end of this year. Developers of ex- tensive tracts in the outlying rapid transit sections intend to make the en- tire world realise that New York is at last the greatest metropolis. eee Cenvus figures of 1910 gaye metropoll- tan New York, which embract Jorsey and Westcheste: ulation of 6,782,000, A B. Altman & Co. announcefor Monday, January 6th, « Special Sales of {iii 5 Women's Coats; Beaded Robes(Unmade); Cotton Dress Goods and Embroideries; Women’s Silk Petticoats; Linens, Bedspreads, Blankets, etc., and Boys’ Washable Suits. Household ALSO FORMONDAY A SPECIAL SALEOF 12,000 Yds. of Desirable Dress Silks in the newest shades, at a very interesting price. 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