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K eth wae, ON BUSINESS LES, SWANN TE TESTIFES Jutige ets the Cu the Curran Com- mittee About Organizations Discussion of the future course of the Cartan Committers of the Board AL Germen investiqating Poller De ment conditions, avd various phases 9: | new of “Inquiry wanted by ous @emmitteemen, delayed Bearing to-dey until 3 o'clock, more @ap an hour afier the time eet, The in executive session, In 4 Judge Edward Swann of the Court of General Sessions, was the first witness at the open hearing. He went to the etand afier Chief Counsel Emory R. | Buekner had called in vain for Jolin RB. Walker, atiorney for the Society for the Enforcement of the Criminal Laws Mr, Walker is the custodian of Books and papers of the organization, eccording to J, A. Britton, General Bouperi: tendent, who while on the stand ‘Tuesday, said the @ociety, while sup: Ported by public subscriptions, was do- fag nothing more than referring com- Piaints sent ‘: to the Poltce Depart- ment. Or. Buckner sald subpoena servers of the Committee tad failed to find Mr ‘Watker at the societie's offices, No. % Bohn street, but had hoped he Wold come of his own volition. @QWANN TELLS OF ASSOCIA. TIONS OF CRIMINALS. Judge @wann toid the Committee that @ & judge who tries criminal cases @nty he naturally had made a study criminals and criminal matters “Mo you think there Is any organt#a- @on among the criminal classes in Wielation, of the Sherman anti-irust asked Mr. Buckner. “WU don't know whether it Is as strong @ that.” replied Judge Swann, “but 1 @ know there are some very strong @emociations in exiatence. “Take for instance the so-called Pick- Peoket Trust. This is undoubtedly a Business organization, doing thing in ® Dusinesslike way. They have the city fala out, men are assigned to territory, @eey have their counsel—who is an hon- est man--people who make bond for them, private detectives who follow up neces, ard certain fences for the di Pesition of property. “More than this, there is the most @aretul specialization and pickpockets @FO assigned posts where their work May be the most effective. “For inatance, I know of a pickpocket ‘who specializes in stealing the hand- bags of women who attend matin That's where he shows to the bes were Hie post is at the subway sta- Qt Broadway and Forty-second pa He hae doen arrested there four in the lest five years. ~*A few days ago one of our beat de- fectives waiched this fellow some time, Lint a bag and then got him. the trust's attorney was melified ee tejephone, bondemen showed up and got him out and a couple of ‘wemen in the employ of the trust were @round after the woman robbed seek- fag to prevail on her not to prosecute. “That's only one inatance of the or- q@—nization existing among criminals. ‘Other branches of offenders are simil- efly well organized.” _ «And Row can these organizations be froken up?” asked Mr, Buckner. By effective detective squads, bpecia! Ming in crime detection just as the Seirainals apecialise,” replied the Judge. AARESTED WITH GIRL HE tS ACCUSED OF ABDUCTING. poste Whitey Gemes Frishner and Lillian Gold- berg Had Two Cents Left When Police Swooped Down on Them. , James Frishner, twenty-five years old, who waid he lived at No, 119 Chetry aatreet, FOtladelphia, and who was ar- footed last night in the room he shared MM Lillian Goldberg, according to the potice, at No, 406 Wem Nineteenth @trest, wan arraigned on three charges Meo-éay pvofore Magistrate KKrotel in Gefferwon Market Court. The charges compriaed grand larceny »and desertion, on information from the | FOlladelphia police, and a charge of e@dduction made by the Children’s So- ciety in this city, He was held in $3,000 bail unt Saturday, pending the arrival @8the birth certificate of the girl, Her “@ather, Morris, who arrived here (Ms » Prorning, says she will not be sixteen Pears old until next month and whe says ae will be seventeen years old then. Géiiian was remanded to the care of wociety until Saturday, In Philadelphia, the police said, the an was wanted in connection with the getting of a printing establishment and abandoning his wife and two chil- : Beats When arrested the pair had only NEW HAVEN DENI DENIES CONTROL Net Master of Tra@ic in New Kng- Jand, Congresamen Are T. WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.—Fiat denial the New York, New Haven and rtiturd Railroad or its mubsidiary, Coastwine steamship companies con- @olied the ral! or water traMc in New England was made in ti ‘Trust tnvestivat!ix commit Bawerd G. Buckland, Vice: 4a) tor bee's 2 sors MEDICINE the | HE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRKUAK 5+ ii SR AE SS PICKPOCKET TRUST Marriage Is the Only Road to Happiness, S ctteatahaiinaans seieneaeeeeaeeenn Lite Will Prove to ‘“‘Doubting Thomases”’ What Is the Ideal Age to Marry? On What Marty Is '} Marriage Possible? —»— But a Reader “The Whole Against the Possibility | of Happin long Associa and Women cussion, There is a tendency among peak cynically of love and marriage stood it. Now, there is little doubt th: fome extraordinary adjustments in al ag Sg fetiah, it te still a formula, vest working formula of tippiness we have fout In {ta perfection it em- bodies the highest ideal of the race, In ite fatlures it represents the paradox that comforta while it mocke— ‘What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me. A brute I might have been, but would net sink in the acale. YOUTH I6@ EVER SATIS! WITH ITSELF, Every very young person who thinks at all finds himself or hernelf dirsatis- fied with the working out of nearly all formulas of human conduct. Youth ts Raturally radical and the hardest blow @ young radical ever receives {s in the realization that he is not the fret of his kind, If you go in heart and soul for anti-religion or anti-matrimony and then some day, in something written In 3 B. C., you come across the ideas you had fondly velleved first came to N€q in your own consclousness and you realise that the majority of human be- in@e are still getting married and going to church, your valant young spirit of reform is apt to grow as discouraged #0 @ picked dandelion blossom, Every now and then I get a letter from a mother or older elster who urges me to “write-@omething for the girl who says she doesn't believe in marriage.” ‘These relatives ave generally in a state Of real distress, and it would he di to convince them that a girl who d her own thinking, even if she Is follow: ing a blind lead, is to be preferred t one who takes life as inconsoquenti, and @s much for granted an if sh Were & prise kitten, Rules of fife, just Mke rules of arithmetic, are merely | ' short cuts to the inevitable answer Tt te the stupid child who learns the rule without understanding its Why and how, and having learned 4%, goes through his problems with the mechanical acouracy of a trick horse. The original mind has to requires proof, thought that doubting Thomas was by far the most original of the disciples. All the most radical young men und women demand proof that marriage {@ really the working rule of ‘happiness, Lite will always give ft to them, while blind acceptance thinking, the Intelligent ys prefer to reach his that marriage is still the only real formula for lasting love and that love i still the best apolosy for marriage. The views of Kvening World readers follow; THEY LIVE HAPPILY ON $13.50 A WEEK AND SAVE MONEY. Dear Madam: I am a young woman twenty years of age and have been married one year, My husband earns a salary of $13.00 @ week and I am glad to say that we live well and save inoney bewldes, When I married my husband had about $200 fn a bank, I myself had nothing, as I was working in a de- partment store for % a weck. The most of the $200 went to furnish my: home. We left @ ittle in cave of ines, We have a three-room ment for which we pay ®% a | My husband wants egms for | vreakfast, meat and vegetables for | supper and he has saudwichos and | Writes: | Trend of | Modern Thought Is, in the Life-| BY NIXOLA GREELBY-SMITH. ‘6 HY encourage young persons to take the most fatal step tn lite by showing them how cheaply it can be done? well preach the economy of hanging or debate the age at which! the noose may be adjusted most com- My colored mammy had a favorite maxim which seems to mo Whenever I went in swimming against orders she would shake her old head and re- YOUNG PERSONS TO TAKE MOST FATAL STEP LIFE? fortably, to apply to matrimony. mark solemnly; ‘Well, well, them that’s born to be hanged will never be drowned.’ You can't do anything to prevent the predestined from mar- rying and you can’t do anything to make them any happier than they are. You must know that the whole trend of modern thought is against the possibility of happiness in the Ife-long association of men and women.” It seems to me that the views ex- pressed in this letter have sufficient currency among the very young men and women of to-day to deserve dis- boys and girls just out of college to as their fathers and mothers under- at the next 200 or 300 years will see 1 human relationships. and on Wednesday we go to a itekel show. We have plenty to eat and pay for rent and clothing and amusements, and yet there Is ® to % waved. Of course there iy no willow Tam money for evening dresses, Plumes and large fox sets, dust as happy without them, EXPENSES. Table ... Amusements and my hus- Vand's cigarettes 4 tb 94.00 ’ Total Leaving $5.00, ADVISES GIRLS TO WED a2 MEN IF 80 DISPOSED. Dear Madam: I have been married almort twenty yoars, have two chil- dren, one seven years old, tho other eighteen, who now goes to college, taking a teacher's course, 1 do my own baking all the time, and also my own sewing. My husband does not smoke or drink, To the girl who thinks of marrying a twelve dollar man I say go ahead; get your- self a small fat, get enough furni- ture from a good house, pay s0 snuch a week and see if you will nog come out better in the end. Living in @ furnished room is very expensive. Tell your husband to cut out smoking, and, if need be, get out yourself and work for a while and see if thing» will not be better, sewed and holped out many J many a time, I was elgh married and had only twelve na WOK. MRS. N,N, THERE 18 ALWAYS A CHANCE OF GETTING ALONG. Dear Madam: Nature does not take notice of the idiosyncrasies of men and women; working people will continue to fall in love with each other, Girla wilt find themselves ready and willing to marry even on lows than $14 a week, and good girls will make geod wives in a happy lite, Fam thirty-three, single, and 1 have seen nearly every State in the great Southwest and in the far Wert. The most inapiring sight world are people who are de to her in true love, Hf ness is contagious, A man ca come In contact with @ perfect life without feeling deep within hin tts uplifting power, ‘This is why we owe each other a good example, within families as well as in the larger world, There {# always a possibility of getting along where there is a will to do the stances, ned in the est under trying elreums Not every married woman is to Stay at home all day; they are not restrained from working for wages to help thelr husbands carry the load of supporting a wife. ALBER®P HH, peealeinteet LORD HADDO VINDICATED. Crown Jewels Robhery, Say i LON Feb, l-Lond Had the and heir of the Karl of Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant of Tveland, was pub- tel pived toxlay from any ciation with the disappearance of the one * from Dublin Castle in the son asso- the duction ¢ name of Lord WHaddo, a bottle of coffee for his lunch, Care fare Ien't necessary, as we live only fifteen minutes’ walk from his work, ‘We go to a ehow every Sunday even- end cougis, Bullde you up,—Adrt, | ing, Which costs us twenty-five cents ‘ls name is a particularly cruel outrage, for he was not in Ireland for montha vefore or after the raabery He had no connection with the OMice of Arms and was in that office only once in iia life,” You might as oumm In, Augustine Byrrell, Chef Secretary for Ireland in retter- ating in the House of Commons to- day the statement that nothing had discovered to explain the mys: of the theft or to justify the ay vest and prosecution of any one went on to say ‘The story that any one being ahlelded te a ie and | ams it has heen lately revived in connection with | The intro: | “RADICAL SAYS: * WHY SUCOURAGE CHAUFFEURS FLEE FROM GARAGE FIRE; MANY AUTOS BURN Blaze in West Wik So Avenue Threatens Tenements and Does $50,000 Damage. Ap explosion shook the big six-story building at No, 906-818 Weet End avenue, ne Independent Owners’ Garage, this chauffeurs and mechanica on a rush for the street. Wit the explosion fire started on the fourth floor and, fed by &rease and gasoline, spread rapidly up- ward through the fifth and sixth, where scores ct automobiles were stored. Four and five-story tenement houses adjoin the garage on the south and in the rear, and fear that the flames would be cartied to the dwellings by the heavy wind caused Chief Kenlon, who re- sponded to the first alarm, to send in two additional alarms. William F. Nicolal, manager of the garage, rushed upstrairs, as his em- ployees came tumbling down, He kept the big elevator running and succeeded in getting most of the cars on the upper floors to the street, although he was severely bumed. Frightened tenants fmm the flat- 1 houses forme’ the nucleus of a crowd that gave Ingpector Dwyer reserves from the West Sixt: street station hard work to maintain fire lines. Hundreds of automobiles were taken from the burning ‘building, Parked, they made the surrounding streets look Uke a motor show annex. Late in the afternoon the firemen got the blaze under control, but not before had been @ damage of more than 0,000, a SPINNING HIS GLASS IDENTIFIES FUGITIVE. Calman Witness in Dr, Kennedy’s Trial Betrays Himself by Odd Habit Before Drinking. Seguine, the Tenderloin nlaht hawk cabman whose testimony was the ef Unk of Dr, Samuel J, Kennedy's we In the Dolly Reynolds mi rl thirteen yeara ago, has a habit of sliding his glass on the bar with a d elreular motion before he drinks, cause of that habit he was under rest to-day, charged with forgery. Until a few weeks ago Seguine, who lives at Mills Hotel > |, Was a patron of Henry C, Martinson's saloon at No. #2 Kast One undred and Sixty-second street. MarUnson cashed a check for him and jost $% and a customer, Thomas Kelly, a deputy sheriff and a friend of Martinson, and who Ustened tw a colorful description of the cabinan, stopped in a downtown lunchroom thts afternoo The man next to him was ar. afternoon and started a half hundred |; BANK SAFEISBLOWN WITH POLICEMEN ON POST AT TH ATTHE CORNER Viecslbootne Os Wrecked Strong | Box, but Officers Nearby Didn’t Hear a Thing. ‘The two policemen who had been on stationary posts within a _ stone's throw of Gaetano De Luca & Com. pany's hank and jawelty store, at N i) 7 ‘Thompson atreet, lifted thelr eye- brows in surprise, to-day, when a representative of the concern called at the MeDougal street station, and re- ported that sateblowers had splintered the safe with three heavy charges of nitroglycerine In the morning hours and had carried away #000 In money | jand diamonds, | Tenants in the upper part of the bank Dduilding were jarred from thetr beds by the concussion, but with the caution of the ibombdbelt dwetlers, where explosions are concerned, stayed indoors and left the discovery of the burglary for the De Luca clerks, ne Policemen @aid they heard nothing, ‘The visitors sawed away a bar on one of the rear windows, climbed tn, riled the front doors of the safe and covered it with matting from the floor, after placing the explosive. The first charge tore away the big door and when the other two had been set off there was left no secret or secure place in the safe, When the robbery had been duly re- ported detectives came around to the bank and collected some clews—a pair cf gloves, which accounted for the ab- sence of finger prints on the tron, and a set of burglar tools, without mono- gram or other mark of identification. | | “No admittance,” says this tightly-wrapped H-O package to dust, air and germs. H-O is always | whirling a glass of milk on the counter, | Kelly remembered. He followed the | man to a saloon in Fourteenth street, near Third avenue, where he placed hiin | under arrest | fromen were injured fighting a bvlaze sweet, clean and fresh, that dunaged the First Highland Bap- tist Church to the extent of $26,000 early to-day. The church was built in 1907 at | a coat of $3,000 following @ fire that de- |stroyed the Highland Church tn 190, when two firemen lost their lives, | natural ¥ 1 Lad, STERRY’S WIFE NEVER | WAS REAL MRS. STERRY, | NEWBURGER DECIDES. | Druggist’s Contention That Her! Divorce Was Not Valid Is | Upheld by Court. signed his de- separation action, contention of James W. ver of the drug firm of that at the thme Eliz- went through the Justice Newour nin the Sterry upholding t Sterry, a m Weaver & Ste abetii Stivers mar th him she was sill t Rennie, a wealthy Ch ) merchant. Mrs. Sterry | Yased her action for separation on the grounds of cruelty and desertion, | Mrs. Sterry, who wi e daughter of Gen. J. A. Stivers, a civil war vet- eran, Was married to Rennie in New York in 1894, In 1901 Rennie brought a suit for absolute divorce against her | in Hlinois and the decree wax granted. however, that Mrs, Ren- ver been notified of the suit, sorvice having been permitted by pub- lication, She admitted when asked on the witness stand that she did not know of this divorcee until several | years after the decree had been signed. | A peculiar part of the situation is that | Rennie has also remarried and hae sever children by his second wife, | ——s Fell Nineteen Stortes. CHICAGO, Feb, 12—N, E. Rubel, member of a firn of accountants, fell to his death to-day down an elevator shaft from the nineteenth floor of the MoCor- mick Building, It was only recently that © young woman committed sutclde by umping from a window on the same Noor of this building, GETTING GRAY? How to Restore Youthful Color of Your Hair. 0 lonwer any need of belt ray or faded halr and feel look older than you r @ has found @ simple and easy w: to quickly restore the natural color of the hair. Anyone can use the Queen Gray Hatr Restorer, a liquid preparation that de from the one soft and flutty olor and is mot sticky and does not rub off. The Queen Gray Hatt Restorer does work so quickly and easly that {t 18 us and sold by the best hair dressers. one application ls neded to resto color of your hair. {wo sizes, B0c and’$1.00, Bold by Hegeman's and the leading drug and de ‘tment_st throughout NEW YORK 942 West 34th St. Bet. Broadway & Sth Ave. OPEN EVENINGS Established in 1879 as the clearing for tailors’ uncalled-for garments and creator of Custom Built ‘amous Medel Clothes, distinctive from ordinary ready-mades. A Rousing Offering of Warm Winter Overcoats at $45" Formerly $30 and $32.50 ANY man who is in the market for a winter overcoat, and does not participate in this o tunity, is string the bargain of the poled slip away The backward season has forced me to take extraordinary meas- ures to clear my racks, of which these sterling over- coats, formerly $30 and $32.50 and now $15.50, form an excellent ex- ample. Included are chinchillas, blanket- backe cassimeres, velours, English soft fin- ished fabrics, Scotch cheviots,etc.—ingenerous boxy styles and clever belted and pleated back models for the younger Both notch and collars. Also lenty of conservative Blues blacks and grays. other overcoat in ae et asfollows:— oF $16.50 & $18.00, Now #95? $20.00 & $22.50, Now °1 1 $25.00 & $28.00, Now °1. 3 $35.00 & $37.50, Now 91.7 $40.00 & $42.50, Now 91 9? $45.00 & $50.00, Now $21. We make alt dames McCreery & to 34th Street y: Mth Street 23rd Street On Friday and Saturday MEN’S WEAR é SPECIAL VALUES 300 dozen Knitted Four-in-hand Scarfs, made of Pure Thread Silk; accordion weaves in plain colors and cross stripes. 1.10 values 1.50 and 2.00 100 dozen Silk Shirts, made of heavy English Peau de Crepe; plain or plaited bosoms. 00 values 6.50 and 7.50 | 700 Raincoats,—English models. Made of Mixed Tweeds and Gabardine Cloth in various colors. values 22.00 and 25.00, 15.50 Men's Half Hose Black Silk with double heels, soles and toes. 95c pair, 6 pairs for 5.00 value 1.50 pair Pure Thread Silk Half Hose with lisle soles, Black and Colors. value 1.00 pair 65c pair 100 dozen Pure Silk Half Hose,—two-toned effects. Blue, Tan, Lavender, Gray and Black. Sc pair, 3 pairs for 1.00 value 50c pait Black Half Hose,— medium weight silk lisle, or cotton with spliced heels, soles and toes. 25c pair value 35c pair, MUFFS, SCARFS & COATS Pointed Fox Muffs.......formerly 37.50,, 28.50 Pointed Fox Scarfs... wu 34.50, 24.50 Black Fox Muffs..... - 22.50, 17.50 Black Fox Scarfs......... 22.50, 17.50 Cross Fox Muffs......... 45.00, 35.00 Cross Fox Scarfs......... 35.00, 25.00 Beaver Muffs.......000.. 37.50, 27.50 Beaver Shaw! Collars... # 37.80, 27.50 Mole Muffs. No se 37.50, 27.50 Mole Scarfs........+ e 22.50, 16.50 Natural Raccoon Muffs... ** 16.50, 12.50 Natural Raccoon Scarfs..." 14.50, 10.50 French Seal Coats, full Nength.....cccccecceee “t 93.00, 67.50 Caracul Coats.......+ ss 72.50, 55.00 MoleConey Coats........ ‘ 110,00, 85,00 Ponyskin Coats with Raccoon collar and cuffs.... formerly 70.00, 52.50 Unusual Sale Imported Black Dress Silks Having made an exceptional purchase of one of the largest consignments of Black Silks in best quali- ties, we are enabled to offer them to our patrons at lower prices than have ever been quoted for this character of merchandise. 1.75 yd. 48 inch Black Dress Satin.........' value 3.50 4@ inch Black Dress Satin.......... +++ 1.35 yd. value 2.75 5 inch Black Dress Satin. 1.50 yd. value 3.00 27 inch Black Dress Satin..............1.15 yd. value 2.00 21 inch Black Dress Satin...............950e yd. value 1.75 20 inch Black Chiffon Dress Taffeta......65c¢ yd, value 1.50 DOMESTIC RUGS & CARPETS Greatly Reduced On Friday Only. Discontinued patterns of the Famous French Hardwick, Bundhar and Anglo-Persian Rugs. \ Oxl2 ft........ formerly 60.00, 36.50 9x12 ft * 50.00, 35.00 Oxl? ft........ * 44.00, 32.50 All sizes from 22.2x86 inches to 11.8x15 ft. at proportionate prices. Wilton Carpets .. Wilton Velvet Carpets. Velvet Carpet....... Inlaid Linoleum,—tile patterns. formerly 2.25, 1.65 yd, * 1,60, 1,00 ya. 1, %, 85c yd. 1,00 sq. yd. formerly tas 23rd Street ry W