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WOMAN ACROBAT YY FLIPS TO NOWHERE FROMMER'S PER lamonds, Hunted tn Vain “for “Detention.” ELUDES CUNARD MEN. Whisked Away in Auto She Vanished, and Line May Be Fined $5,000, Although Mre. Bite Boganny te « Professional acrobat, she appears to de equally good at conjuring herself from the ken of Immigration officials ‘and representatives of the Cunard Hine. “Although ehe was reported to have enseonsed Norself at the Hotel Breslin, following her escape trem the Car- manta, on board which, althougn a fret cabin Passenger, ehe was being held for transportation to Bilis Island, it wae learned positively to-day that she is not there. Bearet Service men ana jeotives of the Ounard line @uarded the hotel all night. to escape unless ehe had boarded an airship. At the Hotel Navarre, it was sald that, although the Bogannys usually Stopped there, nothing was known of them now. It was the eame at other hotels. The Cunard officials declared eatly to-day that they knew where the wornan was and would turn her over to the Immigration authorities in two hours. Up to noon they had not done #0, The United Booking Offiges, which dooks the Boganny act, declared every- \ dy was in the dark there also. The Government was informed re- cently that the wom: Mra, Etta Boganny Ned as Mrs. a furt! rmore that she was the wife of Joseph Be- r of acrobats, WORE MANY VALUABLE DIAMONDS, The boarding immigration inspectors found the one they sought, a fine-look- anny, ma: SHE ing woman, e with the biggest array of daz: diamonds ever worn Dy @ traveller in all their experience, She je thirty-three years old, according to official records, but on manifest he & put down as twenty-nine. She eaid she had been married to Mr. Bo- ganny for ten years, but had not seen dim in four months, Before the Carmania docked last night. the woman was refused a red Vending card end ordered to Bilis Island. On the pier waiting for the acrobat were sixteen-year-old Saunders, an acrobat, wearing specta- cles, who hag been here twelve weeks: Joseph Boganny, a finely dressed and imposing man, and a man with « bald head and s big nose. The Boganny ‘Troupe is advertised to appear at Proc- tor's Fifth Avenue Theatre this wee! Whi immigration officers rush her two to the deck. Boganny easily got aboard over the gangplank, explaining to the Cunard officials that he wished to meet his sick wife. He met the f le acro- on deck, and the two whispered to: ‘I will get you ashore,” gald the man- eager, The steward at the gangway/ asked her for her red ticket, but the man, 9 waa behind her, sald: “Oh, that’s all right. I'll bring back her card in a minute.” The steward let her pass. ly they were on the plier the the woman threaded their wa: swiftly throuzh the maze of trunks and people, descende) the staircase and were Met on the lower level by a good look- | ing, well Greased, tall woman. All three; climbed into @ limousine and aped away. le There is a penalty of 8.000 fine or @ year's (mpri mitting @ pai jE TWO BOYS DIE BY GAS, MOTHERS ARE ARRESTED. Find “Hope Everything Will Be, Well Done” Note and Life Insurance Policles. 8, LOUIS, Fob, 3—George Stebbins, | thirteen, and Ralph Carpenter, six, were | found dead in bed from gas asphyziation | at thelr home, No. 62 Collinsville ave- | nue, East Bt. Louis, yesterday. Mrs.) Peart Bell Btephens and Mrs, Nallte/ Carpenter, mothers of the two boys, were arrested and held for investigation. | A fourth inoh pipe, which had been! connected to a gas re found im a room edjoining the cau. pied by the boys, There was no cap on 4 none was found on the ‘were no other gas fixtures two life ineur- th, for per- wee written: “T'hepe everything will be well done” Mrs, Carpenter Kestiied aes her eon tow SHE “VANISHED” TO WED. ‘The ‘mysterious’ part of the disap- pearance of Dorothy Isabelle Morrill, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Morrill of Port Richmond, was exploded yesterday father annoynced she had been married to John Kana, twenty two, of Mariners’ Harbor. Tatt Writing Mensa, WASHINGTON, Feb, 8,—President ‘Taft cancelled all his engagements to- day and remained tn judy in the White Flouse preparing drafts of two special messages to be ment to Congress thie month, The firat will deal with the proposed budget ayatem, and with the mecond the President will transmit the report of the Alaskan railways cemmiselon. to only 2 cents a jump, you begin ta , the Subway when I want to travel: e in| him beok, stops the trafic and let's me THE EVENING WORLD, |'How New York Men, Women and Customs NDAY, | Strike an Observing Woman From Paris| OF WIFENO.1 WAS | WILL THAT BARRED Breezy Comments on Styles, Policemen, Hot Air and Taxis Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). Meg Villars Finds Coal Holes in the Pavements Are Stumbling Blocks. Looking for a Gondola in Sixth Avenue When It Causes a Shock to a Lady in an Arm Chair. BY MEG VILLARS. Dear New York: I do like you so! You take a lot | Of getting used to, and I haven't When you are over fresh from Paris, where the taximetre starts off) at 15 cents and goes up slowly at! feel panic-stricken and think about cabling home for funds as you roll} down Fifth avenue and realize what | very little ground you can cover here for one dollar! Tai certainly stick to the nice dime ‘bus, with its funny fare-col- lector, or to the elevated railway or especially: The other day when it was raining I quite thought I was in Venice and looke@ around for ® gondola to take me across the pools. NEW YORK COPS BETTER THAN THE PARIS BRAND. ‘The policemom are very nice. They stop the traMo quick and don't keep you waiting like you have to wait on tne Place de \'Opera in Paris. I've stood there sometimes five minutes before I could catch the policeman's eye, Once I get his notice, though, I'm all right. 1 put on the gort of expression that means “ghall-I-ever-eee-my-happy - home - and- mother-again?’ and it makes people either want to emile or throw things at me, T've got one of those funny faces, you know, that would look well mod- elled in soft Indian rubber!) The re- sult is that the French policeman, who/ Goesn’t wamt to smile because it would ignified and who can't throw any- thing at me because if hi a I'd hit across quick, As I've said before, it's @ simple matter of catching his eye! 1 like the way the cops in New York manage things, @ nod there, a wave of the hand here and everything works as smoothly as the roulette wheels at Monte Carlo, I would like to atop and watoh the officers working at ings, sometimes, only I've discovered {t's as much as your life {a worth to loiter on the streets in this busy part of the town, ‘When you ge into an clevater lovely yn ite my geed time on4 knocking the | elevator. aoe! ftor-amusement-only? I must say that tt looks good to tho|™ men's credit even if it's a bit lone- some for the ladies! ate as many male tea are members of the fa! were not the tea shops would have «> Put the shutters up, mostly dress to fascinate look nice for them, and not for tho oritical eyes of their alleys. Here the as jolly as any of the mixed ones at Rains Smartly. : se Te lof him Mn Parte 09 Soom adter A Visit to Peacock Alley the matic and ose they don't run away this fe!) OUR BUILDINGS LIKE TURKISH BATHS. 2 wonder why you keep the buildings heated up eo, dear old New York. I still feel as thought I'm living in a Turkish bath, atthough I've ewitohed off the heat thing in my room and opened all the windows, Quite managed it yet; but you are a) lu thts Kresagred I wes downstaire very lov: ing out al @ peacock alley, but 4p ry lovable city most wa: bled FY an't a i tor halt t does break @ hole in one’ 8) an hour. After that I had to come up to take a ride im one of your taxi-| here and just put my head out of tne cabs! window for breather before sitting I was sorry to have to leave! My! but the ladies do come out with thetr glad rage at tea-time, don't they? I had eome idea of that being the case, so I “Deautified” a bit, put on my best-Sun- day-go-to-meeting and swathed myself ‘a my one and only ermine stole and muff that took me two years to save up for! Then I aeroplaned down in the @ sandwiches looked fine—I sald ‘How ‘ye do? to my nice little fountain pen lady, I made a detour to get away from the candy store (I'm s@ared of it be- cause #weet things make you so fat), holes om the sidewalk, 3 100% 8° | and then I settled down Into one of the ialotio when Z trip up over them, | gorgems armchairs, that look as if the es I have done once oF twice, to Waldorf authorities have been plifering the great amusement ef several | tne museums and old ces of Europe. Small mewspaper boys! You cof [1 nave never come across such comfert- tainly have te wateh your feet | gbie abate anywhere as in the peacock Rere; the pavements and reads aFe | aiiey here! The big hug-me-tight o rather hard te mogotiate, they Rave | are just thecight size for a before-a unexpected holes and pitfalls, SINR | during -the- honeymoon couple, ain they? There are a lot of women tn New York. It seems to me that I've seen enough this afternoon to fill Paris a times over. Perhaps their number 80 overwhelming because there were no men! Haven't you any n that don’t work and are sort of just- 1 guess not and TEA CAN'T CROWD OUT THE HIGHBALL HERE. In all the smart Parisian places there inkers nx thre sex; if thove In Burope ladles men and sake of running the gantlet of the in peaco-le ‘tabby ~partios are home though and the tadies seem w enjoy themselves together immense'y, Z must confess that 2 was a bit to save up till T can get really nice thing, no matter what {t 1s, from jewelry to a carpet for the epare bed room, I hate shoddy finery obtained by degrees, don't you? @ome of the girls I saw during my half hour etay down in the Turkish Dath atmosphere (I can't get over the heat question, can I? You certainly are leading us strangers up, by degrens, to what we may expect hereafte we are bad tn this life!) were swe and charmingly dressed, They gay, Uvely, bright eyed, good to look at and so uneelfconoious. ‘The neat taller-mdle ones x like best re I peeped into the men’s bar | ( Out of the corner of my eye as I passed I'd love to go in there and sample ‘those messy things in the big bowls, and fy @f all. You can't go far wrong with @ tailor-made suit unless you are ailly enough te go in for fancy collars, had ambitions to pose as being Paris imodele were a bit terrible and oace or twice I had to kick myself fer singing, under my breath, “Oh, the sights you eee when you're out without & gun!” NEW YORK WOMEN NEVER @ROW OLD. ‘What @ lot of ol ladies there are out to have a gay timel At home we'd be having them wheeled about in invalid chairs. The American dowager certainly doesn't give up early, do jots more to hay about the if I'@ stay dow. there too many times, it was too warm I did try to bear it, but it got my gon. for me, eh? This is the latest ed.) I started by taking off then I shook myself free of my furs, next I got out of my jacket and enjoyed the coolness of my thin shirtwalst. After that I retired, however, for the lady im the chair next to mine looked #o anxious and worried lest I should suddenly throw oft further garments that I thought pe rhaps I was wrong tn removing any of my wraps at all. Good evening, dear New York. As Shakespeare says, ‘I shall desire more love and knowled: of you." aera 33 BOYS IN SCHOOL APPENDICITIS VICTIMS. Philadelphia ‘Physiclans Belleve Pe- culiar “Epidemic” Is Due to Microbe. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3.—An epidemic of appendicitia has prevailed at the st. Francis Industrial Schoo! at Kdd!ngton, r here, during the past week. Twenty-nine of the boy students have been operated upon by Dr, Ellwood Kirby in @ hospital in this city and four others will undergo operations to-mor- Or. Kirby otated last night that he believes the number of cases wae due to some microbe disorder and will make an investigation at the school, The boys’ ages range from twelve to fourteen years. scdilieenieuaie SLEPT AS GAS ESCAPED. on Tube and He Ie Found Dead T Bernard Courtney, ® younw cl who recently came here from Boston, was found dead in hia room at No, 170 Hicks atreet, Brooklyn, to-day, The neck of @ violin on which he had been playing lay across @ tube connecting @ gan fixture on the od the tube and gas wall. was pourlng from it, Other people in the place, a rooming house, heard Courtney pl ie inet night, About ® o'clock his violin ceased to sound, From the position of his if Courtney had fatlen still holding his violin, whic | dropped upon the gas tube, disconnect. i t | door was unlocked, and when ae smelled tn tho house early to-day tt ng man'e from the dotecied 4 spark of life in Courtney when he ar rived, but after working over him for two hours he gave tt >. Courtney was ty-three yeara ¢ 1 « 4 me where in Manh }eale drug house, Tassell and Brunette Mrs, Van Tassell Learned Secret. THEN THEY SWOONED. Wives Worked Side by Side in Shop Till Chance Revealed Their Strange Relation. ‘Twe young women, one of them very dark, ene very diond and beth very emall, peimted aceusing fingers at Wal- ter Van Tessell in Harlem Court to-day and cherused: “That's our tudtend- end we can Drove ttt? In evidence before Magwtrate Camp were two | i ft He i i i i if H i} i Ha il fi. Ll ill ¥e Babies Not Scarce in the St. Louis 400, Investigators Find. gids Twenty-three Rich Families Have 62 Children and Majority Have Some. started from the courtroom, LOCKET REVEAL6 TO WOMEN THEY HAVE GAME HUBBY. “Waiti" cried Phillips, “Stop him, . In twenty-three families investigated in the district sz- ty-two children were found. pa NE, PARISIANS THRONG COURT FOR AUTO BANDITS’ TRIAL. Hundreds Eager to See “Phantom Outlaws” and Women Accom- plices Are Turned Away. PARIS, Fob. 3.~The trial of the fa- mous “automobile bandits” began at noon to-day with the Palace of Justice jammed to its utmost capacity. Curl- ous crowds surrounded the bullding, anxious to get a glimpse of the notori- ous prisoners, and scores of hand. somely gowned women thronged the court-room. Hundredg of others were turned away, The men on trial are the remaining members of the famous Bonnot gang of outlaws, Carouy, Dieudonne, Meuge, Soudy and seventeen lesser lights of the underworld who last year held all serted, the girle sald. THEY LOOK AT PICTURE® ANO THEN THEY FAINT. “and I've had to work ever eines te the daby,” continued the ‘who oti]! called herself Margaret Elli rt, less got money from him.” Then Rose Donion—for Mre. Van Tas- sell No, 1 aleo was using her maiden name—opened her locket showed e ploture of the man a had deserted her. The blonde looked at it and fainted. When she recovered she opened her own locket and exhibited a similar picture, immediately after which she had ¢o minister to the fainting bru- nette. ‘The alleged Mrs. Van Tassel! No, 3 after she and the brunette had oon- sulted Detective Barron of the Hast iret street tion, ad Paris in a reign of terror, The Bonant | Pity-Arat attest petit ol to Phose band was the Jos James crew uf ‘@ clue, for last France, They known to the tea ested him, jade in the ¢wo locketa for now pictures. SE ee AMERICAN YACHT AGROUND. ele Ran on Mud Bank #1 English Watere—ine Heavy Lat. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Feb, %.— The American yacht Invincible, belong- ing to ©, T. 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