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HEIRESS IS FREED LUNATIC WHO "MRED TO END LF ‘Marriage of Ernest F. Slocum to Miss Baker, Daughter of Railroad Head, Annulled. REFUSED TO KISS HER. She Waited Four Years Before Bringing Suit, Hoping for Recovery. Hew Maud Hamilton Baker, the dob faite daughter of and heiress to th milons of Walter R. Baker, Secretary of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, real- ige@ @ month after her magnificent s0- elety wedding In a Montreal cathedral that she had been courted and caressed and her heart won by a lunatic is re- vealed in @ referee's report of a secret @unviment suit concluded to-day, Tae husband, Ernest Foster Siocur, oom of Gen. “Jerry” Slooum of civil wae fame and vice-president of the Gafety Car Heating and Lighting Com- pany of No. 2 Rector street, jumped from the upper deck of a Staten Island ferry boat before the eyes of his bride ud marrowly escaped drowning. Two @ock hands saved him. The ddentity Of the would-be suicide and the circum- mances of his ect had remained a mys tery until Mrs. Slocum, who is de- weribed as beautiful, blond-haired and young, unvetled the mystery before Major-Gen. John F. O'liyan, the ret- eree who took testimony, Slocum since has been committed to ‘an asylum, a victim of acute melan- choly. His bride, who treasures the Gaye of their courtship before Slocum's reason was dethroned, waited four for his mind to mend and then Mpealed to the courts to annul the ‘amarriage. She has returned to her veather’s chateau on Sherbrooke street, Montreal. Slooum, who is still in his eoties, is a membor of the old Slo- family which resides at Grymes Bill, &aten Yalan, WON IN BUSINESS AND COURT- 8H Marly in 191 Slocum, a compantonadle sand eapadle business man, despite his ‘owth, went to Montreal to sell the Canadisn Pacific Mallroad a new hea! jing an@ lighting system for its passen- {ger care. He wae thrown in touch with j and so impressed the railroad “ (magnate that he not only got a huge ‘comtract Cor his firm, but wan rewarded with an introduction to Miss Baker, then @ her first year in society and the See of the city. , &® © ewain Blocum conducted himself (wth the eame despatch that marked his dealing with Baker. After a whirlwind ceartehip the date for the wedding w: erramged for October 2, 197 and tho Vavenbianop of Aupertbiand was usked to ‘efMctate. From the moment he drew an ecquiescent “yes” from the young woman, Slocum's demeanor seemed to change, witnesses testified before Magor-Gen. O’Ryan in support ef the annulment of the marriage. ‘Phe aight before the elaborate society Wedding, which was held in the cathod ‘amd which drew fashionable guests New York and Philadeiphia, the Noticed the first indication Blocum's derangement, but she at ited it to his nervousness and e' *joshea” him about his Wh Glocum had manifested affection her “most pronouncedly,” ashe says, he then became indifferent, REPUSED TO KISS BRIDE WHEN ASKED. Ghe met Slocum at the altar, she said, Qut he did not extend his hand to greet her, During the ceremony Slocum failed ¢ make the responses and had to be | age by tis beet man. At the which followed the Archbishop rose and proposed the health of the bridegroom. Slocum sat silent and Hie Reverence had to make reply to the toast he had himself proposed, She had to ask him to kiss her, ehe says, which he refused to do. From Montreal the young couple went to Quebec in Baker's private car. Thence they took steamer to Liverpoo! and returned on Nov. % just a month Inter. On the voyage from England he ed her “traitor,” walked incessantly an@ seldom slept, He thought a pas- + semper had charged him with the theft of @ watch and this became a hallucina- tion, A Dhysiciun who examined him tn Montreal urged Mrs, Slocum to hyrry with her husband to New York, _Mrs, Slocum told how on Nov. 17, 190T, two tugs put out and how Slo- cum was dragged back aboard @ Staten Island ferryboat after jumping over- board, When his wife approached jf him he said, “I dtd that to get rid of yor He was «ent to Bellevue Hospital and then to a sanitarium at Yonkers. Mra, ed on him there, but he ree Next he went to Dr. Thomas Summit, N. J., and of Dr, ¢ Me: at Central Valley, Donald's asylum where he was committted in June, 1910, on the petition of his mother, Mra, Cleone D. Slocum, and his brother, Her- bert S. Slocum. Attached to the papers are aMidavits of alienists that Slocum's yulady is incurable, a SISTER OF POPE PIUS SICK. Dectorn Doubt the Recovery of Rosa Sarto, ROME, Feb. 8.-—-The sudden and seri- ous illness of Rosa Sarto, ster of Pope ‘Pius X., was reported to the Vatican to-day. Miss Sarto is seventy-seven years old, and bec of her advancad age physicians were doubtful of her re- covery. She lives only one square from re omnes Gay Butterflies Attract Too Many Men, TRE EVENING WO RLD, 8 And Girl With the Landing Net Is Needed Age to Marry? On What Salary Is Marriage Possible? Beauty Draws Man Witha Single Hair Only When Beauty Takes Trouble to Throw a Line Out. That Is the Answer for Many Girls Who Com- plain That They Are Ignored by the Men. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. — Py B' PAIWTED BUTTERFLY “How is it possible for young women to have an opinion on the ideal age to marry when there are hundreds of fine girls who are completely overlooked? Men are blind to what is good and worthy in women. Why EELEY SMITE other with souwe guarantee of mutual do they flutter after the gay painted Butterfly who turne up her pretty nose and gives them a mad chase all for nothing?” 80 a lonely young girl summarizes her impressions of the matrimonial situation and she asks me to tell her and other young women similarly situated how to overcome “the cruel, everlasting loneliness that is eating their hearts out.” I wish I could. The problem pre- @ented to-day by this reader of The Evening World is very serious and ver} real. Many learned social re- formers believe that the only way It can be met is by the establishment of “social centres’—in reality court- e@hip bureaus under State or mu- nivipal supervision, where young men and women could meet each interest and faith, If such an arrangement becomes possible in a future etate of society it should be a great improvement upon the present haphazard contacts wherein @ girl is indebted to blind chance or her own unusual perspicacity if she escapes marrying a Ligamist—or indeed if she achieves marriage at all. ‘There ts no use in denying the charge about the painted butterfly, and the wor of it 1s to the near-sighted masculine eye everything looks like a butterfy that takes the trouble to be painted, Mo youn; woman who contents herself with her matural attrac- \ fall to be amased first she views the kindling eyes, and marks the & touch of fellowship in it, when By painted butterfly, from sixteen to sixty, runs the gantict of mas- culine observation. But there is one polnt vpon which the yeung woman who propounds the but+ terfly problem js entirely misinformed, ‘The butterfly pretty nose as she flutte: of more or ft a little ahead of 4 troupe * tralned admirere you 1 will perceive a thousand little lines that cross and recross c1ch other, and at the end of euci will be an infinitesimal paok and each hook. will be caught some- where in each one of her train, Beauty dvaies man with @ sin- gle hair only when beauty hae taken the trouble to throw a line out. . There are n openly with a primitt from the shore, There are others, and these catch tie deep-sea fish, the forty- pound bi who learn to cast with @ dexiroun 1 of the wrist, and there are many others who don't walt for the fish to into shallow waters, ut meet them half way by going out In a boat to trol for “blues.” One thing the simple, sweet and perhaps lonely home girl should wnderstand is that no fish rise ont of the sen of their own accord and that no butterflies are pursued who haven't lines out. Ry the time th won young’ man of to- day has reached the age when it is financtally possible fer him to marry, b feels too often that there Is no partiou- lar reafon way he shoul, And it is only the girl with the landing net who is going to make him change his mind, This is not a defense of the landing net, but merely an explaration, The women that get husbands are the women that work the hardest to get them and some of thelr work is none too subtle 1 admit that J share mosteof the pres- udices of the lonely young woman ogainst the type of girl that :s never But she may have the right a after all, Why should the laws of supply and demand and of competition by Kuspended in the special business of matrimony. The charining young siris who are lonely just Itke the apples and peaches that le ungathered In one part of the country while in another market there is @ fruit famine, It is simply a problem of distri- bution, of freight rates und may- be the butterfly girls have @ secret with the railroads. ow to overcome the evils of in- dividual competition and rebates “able to solve, Maybe the municipal matrimonial cy is the only Mght ahead, TELLS OF THE GIRLS WHO ARE OVERLOOKED. Dear Madam: I do not see how it fs possible for the siris to say when is the {deal age to marry, a¥ there are hundreds of nice, good girls that would make fine wives who are completely overlooked Men are bilnd to what {* good and the Vatican, ———_——. Cest 5c. Per Box; You Save $1.95 in Doster bilig Med Cre’ + Cough Drosn—sére Sd worthy in women, All they do le to flutter after the gay, painted butter- who turns up her pretty nose nnd ‘es them @ mad chase, all for aothing. f ai ‘They prefer to waste their time money on such worthless crea- tures, while some nice girl is eat- ing her heart ont in loneliness, yes, hard, cruel, everlasting lone- lness, There nothing in this World so cheerless as a bleak, lonely life. I know of girls w: vainly on all sides for an opportunity for @ social opening of some kind Where she can meet congenial, pleas- ant people of both sexes. Yes, you might say there are the churches, the pclations, &e., but these gatherings asa rule, flat and uninteresting to & degree of boreddm, Those that desire that sort of thing are content; but what about the lively, vivacious girls that must havo life and gayety, but in the proper way? 2£ust she curb all these impulses and settle down with the rest of those who havo Given up the fight for a husband and wait until some worn- lated man asks for her lan last resort, after all life has lost “its spice? Tam sure many girls feel as I do but dare not give thelr thoughts ut- | tenance. There are all kinds of amusements for children, but what about the grown-up children that need recreation in @ social way? Wo have the theatres, yes, but what pleasure ts there in woing to aec @ play or moving pictures alone’ What about dances? No girl wants to go to a dunce alone or even in company with another girl. The humiliation of {t, seoing all the other s with fellow I cannot cee any way out. 1 wish some of these rich pedple that erect buildings, &c., would do some- thing for the girls and boys that would cheer them up. LONELINESS. FOR A WOMAN, 21 TO 25; FOR A MAN, 25 TO 30. Dear Madam: In my optnton no young couple have reached tie ideal age to marry unt¥ they have passed the !m- aginative age, for they are certain to pass it at some time. If this occurs after marriage they are apt to regard their mates fn @ cold, critical light, and won- @er how they ever happened to marry them. In reality the girl who looks so dowdy to the critical husband Ro less so when he Used his best efforts to wim her from her other young sdmirers. my father Oo have sougit i had not observed or really realized how far the imagination of young peo- T was living in a has «@ . When, one Suns coats 8 he “AEN FLUTTER AFTER THE YOUNG He a LESS 30 GEFoRe HE WON mH ‘SMILING JOHN'S” KIDS RIDE TO STATENISLAND ON TOP OF FURNITURE City Hall News Vendor Has Bought Hotel and Tests Offsprings’ Toughness. % | “Smiling John Manning, who has supplied newspapers for sixteen years to the Mayors of New York, has be- come a boniface. He has acquired a road house at Oakwood, Staten Island but he will continue to preside over his stand on the Park Itow side of the City Hall, where he has been stationed more than fixtees years, “smiling John” Is pervonally known to thousands of New Yorkers and Brooklynites, who daily pags his stand, and among his patront are many d tinguished men, He has personally known all the city Executives since he established his stand. Yesterday, when the keen biaste sent the mercury far below the freez point, “Smiling John" rushed to his home down on Cherry Hill, and, Iessing his wife, almost shouted: “Ikitty, get the kids and yourself read move down to Staten Island to: I bought the hotel, and we move tn right away!” “Glory be!’ exclaimed Mrs. Manning. “Move the children tn this weather! Why, they would get their death of cold sitting on top of the furniture van going down to Staten Island in such ther as this. Are you daffy, John?’ “Kitty, I have stood out on Park Row all day and night in worse weather than thts, and our kids never had a cold, either, They're tough, Hie you and me, The fresh air ‘ll do them ood, Bo be good now and beg! n to ck up-We move to~day, ‘The van ‘il ye here in an hour," furniture packed and thrown Into th van, and the “kids,” all tucked tn wa: clothing, snuggled alongalde the driver, Thus the family emigrated to Staten Island, the future home of ‘Smiling John" and hie little family ae PARCEL POST T Jobn Burke Admits Ste HIEF HELD. ple could deceive them until one day about two years ago. college town, whe chair inthe univ, day afternoon, a 1 factory sir! to call for our ina She was wer a virt which she ¢ made black outing flannel. Wanted to know if an; that the dark blue sack- lbelonged to her brother—short were fashionable then. Over t jhad a cheap marabout. I would not « package last nig! ter bon @ odway wireet, The package worth % Tn Burke's pe | And Hleecker contained ribbon | 8 were found stamps, IFEWO.LOOKS Dowdy TO So the good wife wam persuaded, the! ing Pack- ym the top of a det CRITICAL HUSBAND WAS NO SAVE "TRS FIND UNKEMPT INTRUDER IN WALDORF HALL NEAR SUITE OF GOV. SULZER. Broker, He Says, Looking for Client When Caught After Chase by Hotel Detectives. ‘The actions of a wild-eyed, unkempt man, who paced the hall on the fourth of the Waldorf-Astoria outside the auite occupied by Gov. Sulser to- day, caused a bellboy to summon the house detectives, When a half dozen hotel employees, headed by tho detectives, came through the corridor toward him the man fle: He ran netairs, with the pursuers a few feet behind, and then di appeared, A porter had been st: at the foot of the stairs and w: the man had not passed him The man was found fn a bathroom on the second floor, He sald he was John Sherman of No, 1483 Southern Houlevard, Bronx, @ broker, “I just came here to see one of my lelenta,” was the only explanation he would give for his presence in the hotel, and he refused to give the clt- ent’s na In Sherman's pocket wasn found a check book of @ Wall street bank and the key to a room in the Hotel Bel- mont, He was locked up in the Went Phirtleth street station for arraign- ment in Jefferson Market Court, —>-- -— TWO FINGERS WORTH $10,000 Digits After GY John Welch, after six years of lowal skirmishing through a half-dozen courts, was to-day awanted $5,000 aplece for the first and second fingers of nis} leftahand, Up to 190 the fingers had | Leon useful in aiding him te make fair | wages In the rope manufacturing plant of the Waterbury Company, Flushing ATURDAY, PEBRUARY 8 "FIREMEN WHO GET | avenue and Taaffe place, Brooklyn They were clipped off by a machine | when he slipped on a greasy floor ant flung out the hand to protect himoslf, | Welch sued for $15,00 and was awar 4 $7,000 of It by the jury which ». at his first trial The cause wae a !pealed by an accident insurance com- pany, upon which the loss devolve and was sont back to the lower cou At the end of the next trial, bet missed. There was another resort the Appellate Divieton, and beyond that to the Court of Appeals ut Alba And then the case went buck to Jus- tice Scudder, The new Jury decided that Welch ought to have $10,00, ages From Mall on sh Dei cs 1a ee ee oy to “near | WILSON WON'T COMMENT Ree aie cecal neat tilet ON SPRECKELS STATEMENT. Policeman Denner saw him take & » Reads on Train Banker's Warning as to Deposit of Customs Re- ceipts in National Banks, any price have walked down the street | tty parcel] PRINCETON, N. J. Feb. §—Prest ho Raa tabi ela » mall mere |donteelect Woodrow Wilton to-a, confident of making a “hit” with the n SM ball for} learned direct!» t time Mandenia details of Rudolph S's tate a : 4 4 ment concerning ‘Treasury Ctreul ae Etat gine t wont ft re drive Number 6," which authorized the do- i with a very attentive young man, wo! posit of ‘ uatoms receipt tn national jeeveral of the other students w beep PATER TSH r eae atts crowding around to ve introduced sition of isl ine elatement on tha train retuentce jner. vaproim.se | f w York to-day | Of courae it is doubtful if sny of tose . | d what Mr, Sprect jyoung men would ever have marie t on pro with the greatest tn bed her, because she was cut of their social nion 1 between twenty. | President-elect, “but I do not class; but if they did not have vivid |f¥9 an Uicly and a woman between jcomment on tte) | ’ wenty-one an ve are at che ckels ta highly o ny Imaginations they would not have |ideg) age to : ‘they are Wilson, personally and asa banker, The walked up and down the strest with apt (0 use more n > ent * owe him intimately her, gome before thelr mothers and sis and etill haven't c Mrs, Wilson returned to. Prin ev toe aa ~~ morning wita tue Governor, 4 iA r Justice Scudder, the complaint was din. | Nes So ae THE 1912 MEDALS FOR BRAVE DEEDS Board of Merit Reports Names of Men Whose Heroism Was Conspicuous. The Hoard of Merit of the Fire De- partment to-day reported to Commis. aoner Joseph Johneon the names of the men whose acts of bravery and dovo- tion to duty entitle them to the medals Annually awarded to members of the department. The medals will be given to the men at @ future day to be set by Mayor Gaynor, The awards are as follows: James Gordon Bennett Medal ‘To Bencoa Larke of Bugite No, 80. Larke, who is a half-breed Indian, | rescued Willinm Giblin, President of the| Mercantile Safe Deposit Company from the Faquitable fire Jan. 9, 1912, Larke, with tons of debris falling about him and walle tottering far above his head, sawed through @ steel bar two) inohes thick in a window of the safe de- | posit company and helped Mr, Gtbiin out. The Bonner Medal—To James @.) Brows of Truck No. 1. Capt. G. A. Base, crippled dy falling pways, lay ni the spot where Bat- talion Chief Waleh was killed tn the Equitable fire. Brown, himself injured, crawled into the crashing ruins aud dragged Base to safety. Hass died of his injuries in October. Malloy, scaling @ wall which was about to fall, risked hin life in the ef- fort to save three men clinging to @ cor- nice of the Equitable Bullding near the just as Malloy roof. They jumped reached the roof, the rescue of several men in Dasement of the building. The Wertheim ¥. Mooney of Truck Mo. 4 Mooney #aved three women from & burning building at No, 262 West For- ty-seventh etreet, going to the third floor with a scaling ladder three times to get them. The Strong Medal—Fo James Hilbride of Fruck Mo. 1. During the fire in Dennett's restau- rant building at No. 26 Park Row, Oct. 6 last, Kilbride brought a waitress from the third floor, after convincing her by jhoute from the street that she had a better chance by not jumpin, Medal— ‘Bugine Ho. 80, Rankin tried to follow Malloy to ¢h roof of the burning Equitable Butlding and later stood by Larke In sawing out the vault bar, Rankin entered after Giblin was out, pried off the debris which was pinning down Watchman Sheehan, and took him to the sidewalk. ‘The Stephenson Modal ana the Pire College Medal—To Capt. Johan J. Melly of Truck We, 9. Kelly 1s adjudged to have had the bost disciplined company and the high- est average for company work in the Fire College. The Agnew Medal—To Arthur Boylan of Engine Wo. 14. Boylan rescued two woinen from & fire at No. 121 West Sixteenth street by means of @ scaling ladder on March 6, After Boylan had started down with one of tie women the third leaped down upon him and ching to his neck, All| three were badly burned paseins | through a sheet of flame from a lower | window, The Brooklyn Citisen Medal—To Capt. J. J. Walsh of Bngine Mo, 6s. ‘The rescue of two of his own men vo had been knocked into Gowanus na} during ® fire was the occasion vy this award ‘The Murley Medal — To Capt. imholts of Engine Wo. 838. yt, Holmbolts ued a woman from the third floor of a burning tene- ment at No, 479 Metropolitan avenue on April 24 Turns a qui tasty hot cooked brea The March to the Breakfast Table FIREMEN WHO GET BRAVERY MEDALS FOR HEROIC DEEDS. EVICTED FAMILY OF 8 MIVES INTO A SENER UNDER PAR STREET Just Settled and Getting Break- fast When They Have to Again Break Up House. PARIS, Fob. 6—Paul Hatin, hie wife, mater and Gve little children were evicted from their home for non-payment of rent, and early to-day they moved Meir Ddelongings into one of the main sewers fn the heart of Paris. City workmen had teft the trap open while away at Sreakfast, and Hatin, with ropes, low. ered a ded, bedding, cook stove and other household belongings into the ower. When the workmen returned the? found Mre. Hatin preparing breakfast in the eewer. They would not allow the family to camp in the sewer, but the workmen were not wholly heartiess. ‘They bought milk for the little Hatins end gave Hatin money enough to allew jatin that he had tried in vain to in esd the authorities and ‘was at hie wits’ end when he espled open sewer. Gaelle League's Euchre. The Irish Gaelic Sootety, organized aesiat the Gaelic League of Ireland mor ally and financially in the revival of Iria Nationhood, te planning a bis euchre for Feb. 21 at ite club reome in the Mmmet Arcade, No, 4 Madison avenue. The league's officers are Hgnr, McGee, President; M. J. O'Donohue. Vice-President; Sara Martin, Corres- ponding Gecretary; Hleanor Kelly, Re- cording Gecretary; Martin Landers, Fin- ancial Secretary, and Katherine Kelly Treasurer. The league holds languag+ and music classes every Wednesday eve ning at 9.15. History and dancing clas* Sundays at £90 P. M. and monthly lec- ft F hd <i i i if i ty i | } i 3 je Some Mae Producer. Judge Robert F, White of Dixon street, Tarrytown, owns @ buff pull which he says has laid 387 egge in the year ending lust night. 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