The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1913, Page 3

. “ST PAT.” MOTTO TH telointaintaiatatatale TF WOWAN Mods “BLOCK TRENCH Mrs. Neill, Wrapped in Rugs, Defies Workmen to Shovel: Her Out of Position, CROWD Dipfomatic “Comrade” in Politics Fails to Coax Orange Woman to Climb Out. i | [St wever Jouy over THE | ] ‘PHONE = ALWAYS CUT THEM swort WRITES “A LONELY GIRLY CHE 2RS PLUCK. No. Ors, Machel Neill of No. 100 High Street, Oronge, Treasurer of the Bull} Messe party of x unty, N. J..| Bat im the cold dank loam of a! dug in the alte alongside | home to-day and exchanged bitter | hufps with William A, Lord, who ts! the Président of the Progressives of Phat eommunity. A large audinece of Persons who had nothing wetter to do abd were apparently glad of it—col- fectod-in tho st nd applauded each Point-made by the demters. | . Mr, Lord was acting as counsel for, Yeaad H. Blanchard, a new York print- | ®F, who lives next door to Mrs, Neill, | Mr, Blanchard had gone to New York| ewien Mrs. Neill occupied the trench whioh Mr, Blanchant’s men dug yester- | Bay, He tired Mr. Lord over tho tele- Phone to reason wita her. Hence the ‘ensuing Bull Moose persitlage. ‘HIRED GUNMEN TC CUT OFF EGG SUPPLY, SHE CHARGED. Mrs. Neill has a sash and trim face tory on Essex street, O The authorized histori in this series, of Orange Five other prizes of $10 each, report that th pud between Mrs, Neill Ch pr senshard besa tive ete The seven letters which, in Nixola Greeley-Smith’: eng which disturded Mr, Blanchanis |} Dest and most helpful will receive these awards, early morning ‘beds, | led of fod Msease comes | 4 BL ANG tous fe whien BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. shoots a tiny | and 1s almost | noiseless. Mra, Neill Mr. Blanchard had |On the other hand, my hired gunmen to away with her egg supply. Ward sald he was} slandered. Th were legal proceed- ings in the inferior courts which failed to place the actual guilt for the death of Mrs, ta ‘© Was not Increased when Mrs. Neill came home one day and found that her privet hedge, which orders the alley, had heen trimmed to make it harmonize with Mr, Blanchard's younger hedge surrounding his property, Mrs, Neill had planted her hedge. She | had bossed the men who trimmed tt for | ~ many years, Mrs, Neill went so far as to declare in her hom front of M on the street in 's house and tn | $ that the injury | { been deliberately or- | und, ntly arranged for between his house sewer. Knowing Mrs. ything he might do in the which is thelr common! property}-Mr, Tanchard got a permit for a street opening. His workmen dug Blanehs dered by M Mr, Blanchard @ uew connection and the Neill mig i eee g OLA GREELEY SM TE iv yesterday, away, but they didn't, She threatened to send a letter to the Colonel about :t They kept right on. SHE ENTRENCHED HERSELF ON THE JOB TO STICK, When the men quit last night Mr. Blanchard was sura the worst was, Over, But the workinen who reached) the place soon after Mr. Blanchard hea dashed down the street to catch the 4 found Mrs. Neill sitting in the trench, comfortably wrapped in rugs, Mrs, Netll positively refused to rise, espite the ornate courtesy of the Nea- politan foreman, who told her she was # lady and that {t would he a shame to force him to order his men to dig her up and throw her on the dump heap. Mrs. Netil smiled like a Mona Lisa at bay, calmly looked over the morning papers and sipped coffee brought by her maid, they who are the assistants. y who does not know Far from envying such foolish moths, the lonely girl should feel only pity for them. Yor surely the girl who has to piece out her earning capacity by her charm for men is no more to be commiserated than she whose charm is so uncer- tain or tenuous that it has to be supplemented by an earning ca- pacity. Tr: oth words, when constdering the ilies of the field one should feel sorry iat so many of thom have to make a Diuff at toiling and spinning, thus con- ‘Tho report of tho intense renewal of} fusing the issue i sre itee was y td at wa tales “LONELY GIRL” I8 TO BE CON-| phone when Mr. Blancha ache office, Being a diplomat, 1 tained GRATULATED, the services of Mrs, Nelli's colleague in| Tt 1# unfortunate that “A Lonely Girl" polities, Mr, Lord, should find herself so debarred from “Good morning, Comrade,” sald Mr. scttline society, but she should be Word when he arrived, ratulated upon the fact that she] “Morning, Comrade,” sald Mra, Neili[ has no chance to accept the kind of} from behind her paper. invitations which are lavished upon| “Won't you please let us build our | girls who are less pa Bewer and cover?” asked the leader of | ‘There Is no 1 oN Bull Moose, “Mr, Blanchard has | Lo Girl’ thet eventua will ‘went me to ask you to withdraw your| marry her employer and tho sistants will be taken from the ‘opposition. “Blection day,” aid Mrs, Netl, eving|te the potter's tleld, because she pher newspaper, November, | Would know as well as T do that it i stand on the plat ‘or whic | was so, Mut certainty it ts t worked then, Hither 1 bulld this sew that Woman who places her main y a@rspobody builds it. As a patriot, Ms “n ® her purely physleat i you have my respact, As an! ehere ery » lease of power Woy Your stalents ure wasted. Ty, | 0 eniosmen very weak hold on the telephone girls in Boston have | #0 position may fill Ten years from now the earning capacity of the envions young woman will have increased throngh pore on strilie, isn't it? Now, if Mussa “Shusetts had votes for women ears wore o9ll8e OFF Court ict Ona) ateemtion to her work ee that she ba Seana tii wiil be able to buy her own tickets | ihe tranche bu to the theatre or pay her own way | poreh, realy to $2 restadvants, whilo her aesistante tha DOE A will have descended from the office siveus to the office jokes, ? Mor the most carefully embalmed | He Apart. | mer cannot exp ¢ t under ordinary stances Supreme Co Kien of) € uw to charm for more than Long Island © ision last! tea years, Crude at a8 is! night {n a su brougit by | rea much mor than | Mra. Octay UnekiNed la The world needs « lo | of it, but the demand never exceeds u the supply J so the worn ou “ rtress of the is thrown away as carelessly am whom she ny ry » girl defended, The vauple es ona : years ago and up tot ay too prow ¢ lonesome for of ney liv 4 acre eats 1s Ww could come to her only who ie wealthy aud has 4 fine Wome ‘ough a lack of respect | Whitestone, 1. 1. The letters to which J have referred id Don’t Jolly Men Over the Phone, but My Assist- | ants Make Engagements,” Writes “Lonely Girl” — “My Boss Kissed Me Once, but I Didn’t Quit My Job,” Says “J. W.” $100—IN PRIZES FOR LETTERS BY REAL WORKING GIRLS—$100 nnnnnnnnnnnen Cash prizes amounting to $100 will be ful letters from REAL WORKING GIRLS on the subject dealt with The money will be divided as follows: “No man ever attempts to flirt with me, |the theatre. The telephone doesn’t ring halt assistants always have some en, call me slow, Virtuous life, have to pay my way! myself if I want to go to a reg: taurant or seo a show. ants dress just as well as 1 do, though they get halt the salary I receive, ought to get a reasonable salary so she can be independent and not have to flirt to get a little enjoy- ment from life, and isn’t ‘be and you will always be lonely’) true This letter from an vening World reader is 0 well answered by another communication signed “M, E, R.” need not pause to consider the in-| quiry about “a reasonable salary"| beyond saying that so far as I can| see the wages a girl is pald will be a dnke te (he desde. ch tapea saet based always upon the value of her work and will not take y. Mrs, Neill told them to go| tion her desire to go to the theatre or to dine in restaurants, that the young woman in charge of two lively assis: deal of satisfaction from the thought th: There is no woman no matter how large her some other who with half her earning capacity | sses better than she, In fact, the miracle of the loaves and fishes is a commonplace occurrence compared with the way many Birls of mediocre talent manage to multiply their hats and gowns, follow; “BE GOOD AND You WILL AL. | | THE EVENING WORLD,. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1913, WINS *“ teatenntetet EGIRL WHO WORKS AND Inietntelaielaielnlelninini- lelaietolofetatntata! os Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Dor Thy tO ae ' = given for the most help- Two prizes of $25 each. 's judgment, are T never get any invitation to a dozen times a day for me. gagement and they) I, who try to lead al My assist- Don't you think a girl good | which appears to-day that I | | into considera-, I should think | tants might. get a great) at it is she who is in charge and| WAYS BE LONELY.” Madam: I am a woman, twen- years of age, 1 have full » of a large office, and have assistants, From the time 1 come in to business in the morning until T leave at night 1 am strictly business, No matter who calls up on | the phone, no matter how they try | several to get in a conversation ¢ always cut them short—that fs, after T have finished speaking about the dy T never Jolly over the wire w body who has not been ntroduced to me. 1 hay sistante, who, behind my back, cal me an old maid, simply because 1 don't flirt. Now, I have often properly two as- Helettofoloi=te! eshemtatatt Worid). “@EFORE | ME MAD FISSED ME * wees JW, ment from life, and isn't {t true that “Be good and you will always be lonely?" A LONELY GIRL. THAN THEY EARN? Dear Madam: Is it not anarehistle to expect an employer to pay $9 a week to a girl who, in intelligen and service, ts not worth more than $87 Is it not Irrationai to suppose that an employer of hundreds of rirls (such as are employed in de- partment stores) showtli have the {n- terest of each and every one of these women #0 closely at heart that he Will charitably give to these women what they do not earn? And after all, 18 this charity d woman? And will it pre an from wanting the thin her lack of proper moral training ts her to believe are the ne saries of lite? If the employer who Is now pays ing $8 be compelled by law to pay $9 to his women # he will cover this ance by charging more for his n ndise, or he will discharge every 1 tn his employ who does not actually give him $9 4 week service, If he does the fo » that dvance the price of the proportion is, to the advance in wages, how then is the $9 woman any better protected from hunger, cold and prostitution than Was when she received $6 a & was in proportion? She ts In tly the same position! It ts ob our present condition rpaid women clerks cannot ed by & minimum wage law fault and remedy lie deeper than a mere matter of wages. but where? Is it not reasonable to su pose that since our Government does hot own the sources that supply the people Uncluding the woman clerk) With the necessaries of life, it should at leant fix the percentage of a dealer in these thin lowed upon his invest of such regulation Would find women hadequately paid, even thouxh the vious that und tened to them as they talk and ly a man over the wire, and it n ends by an Invitation to the theatre and sup which they ace | cept and then ¢ Into the office | next morning and assert that | really were very nice you men, that they showed them one | me, and the: Mirting. oehureh and e what T would call the Ite 4 girl not beaut!t Matty No man ever attempts flrt with me on the street, 1 5 ket any invitations to the theatre, the telephone doesn’t ring half a dozen times a day for me, On the other hand, a sistant alwaye have an engay t,he have a happy smile, and seen | having a “heaven on earth,” while | t call me wT who try wo | live a good, virtuous life, thinking | that some day 1 will be properly introduced to some niece young man; but in the meantime tf I want to see @ show I have to pay the way self, if f want to go to a restau » to pay the way myself, 8 met just half the sal- they dress just as where if I were to get rant T he 1 would er seo R theatre or a restaurant. For this reason don't you th that a girl ought to get a reasonable galary so she can be independent, and not have to Mirt to get a little enjoy- ninimum wage be set at fifty dollars! Here then, our Go ernment, we strike at the small roots of our n least one of prerenteday Ou the other the hand, if, ir sel price of he employer discia his employ snot the amount of $4, there of work t iutitted ‘. fnereasin Ware woman arn f woull women than s every cast ou! sands Who ure to « and ive kenee one that long punishable Kenerate women to bring into this w Gren Who have neitne, Bence to be worth fee fol again, in our Gove tup-rout of the vil of low w In order to a mh much dis nent, we v from pocketing more than a per cent, on hia investe nd laws that will preve n from bringing w ou; ertain capital, men and we this world (whe! to. breed properly human belngs below par M. to take such pains dogs and cat RR. mee No enn James Rui best mown team on the variety stage, fa critically 1M at hin home street, Elmhurst, Queens, t | BO WORKING GIRLS WANT MORE 1, who with him Drother, John formed for many yeara one of the on Fourth | | Forty-second ‘Thirty-ninth | curves northes | | | One Winner Lonely Because She Is Good, _ While Other Girls Are Having Gay Times REALIZED WHAT HAPPENFO . ~ SLAUGHTER OF BIRDS — FOR HATS OF WOMEN B FD N Staten Island and the fair Elsie were his. This was at 11 o'clock today, At —— noon the South Ferry was brightened by a vision in blue, ‘The blue was Only Ostrich Feathers Can Be | Imported or Even Shipped From State to State. | Die - MISS HOWARD WAITS FOR WASHINGTON, April 2—To Importa- GEORGE IN VAIN. tlon or sale of any kind of aigrette, waited, did Miss Howard, Att egret plume, or the skin or feathers of | © her dimples had been laced any kind of wild bird, de by frowns, At 1.15 she bought bananas and sat down upon the slope of an pillar, At 2 o'clock she was in pate * was mad She had a the} right to be At 2.18 Mr, Keyes aph in the new bill meant ared, ¥ here wi ne! The slaughter of beautiful game birds] WAS In A perturbed state of all over the ht go on | annihilated th Llobet ee When y Mr. Keyes pulled the mported or ship youn str. i nea the only for sclentide purposes, door of t Oy afer Joins eeu Ostrich feathers alone are exemoted.|it to stay, He wished to a This is th ostrich farms are| from the sounds of the world le to-day mi arket demands by He Jammed the door so that he golentifi Instead planned iating the ' a ence diag: }and Lexington provides for th ? ISWAINAPRISONER vesesessoe TN PHONE BOOTH AS HS FIANGEE WAITS George Pounds Three Hours in Vain in Staten Island i a t y-second Article f a Series. Ferry House. PEOPLE THINK HIM MAD. Atl ; of Stuck Door and He Is t Glazier Removes Part H George P. Keyes of Stapleton, $. 1 had long wooed Miss Elsie Howard of Dongan Hills, 1. George had a holiday to-day, and blithely he trotted to @ telephone to invite his flancee t luncheon and the matinee, Tie wanted a telephone where he would be Alone with his fale one; where | sweet converse would be untnter ral | b ythe sound of trate or the volve of man. He found it in the see ond y of the Staten Island station at South Ferry, It t# the rry pi cure seats on the up: boats, But few pas- sengers do thie on cold days, and for the better part of the week the loft !9 as quiet and uninhabited as the Great White Desert The blue bell on the telephi reminded him somewhat of his ale Blue bella and heather, wind flowers, | green flelds and a pretty girl He} whistled merrily until the heavy sound proof door closed behind him. He dropped his dime in the recetver and | tailor-made and enveloped the aweetent | morsel of inaidens, Wisps of gold eeped out from beneath a dainty blue turban, ‘Tho pretty face wax diingled Anticipation of luncheon and theatre and George were visible hat sat at an angle on his + perspire 1M collar wan will n disorder, But let um worl hale was mus down his fa nd hin tle wa production, firat time tn the history taxed a duty of 10 After he had delivered ac Jovouxly torthe door ceptance hy OC Pa Butcher WAKEHD rae out New Subway. Hard and fast stuck the door, Me W rapid transit route to connect | Pounded and ew himself inst it ay with the new Lex-| He wore all the shine off his shoes ktek iusway Waa lala cout 46 the portal, But it wouldn't budge ‘ on. | In about an hour « man walked by of having the connection at| making for the ferryboat, He cau str a4 orteinally | the ing at tl man's att the new 4 ubway in Par e leaves the ex enue between and rtieth streets, rly under the corner into Fort Wo street) and y into ofirst street avenue, The new plan of much leas of Ile shouted, but th as trying to have fun The man shoow his fist at him and hurried on GEORGE |S AT LAST PULLED OUT OF HIS HOLE. Aa hour | r a woman caine along and heard him pound on the glass, liv this time his collar had wilted and_his face Was Iined and strained, The wom block to fmme- » plan. rm CATE A specialty shop exclusively for women's shoes, but not at specialty-shop prices. No ordinary specialty shop has such resources. Back of the Queen Quality Boot Shop is the largest and best-equipped womens shoe factory in the world. v And although this shop is cheerfully cozy and convenient, the variety of its stock is almost unlimited. The newest Spring styles in all leath- ers and fabrics are here, $3.50 to $5.00 A few at $6.00 QUEEN QUALITY BOOT SHOP 32 West 34th Street Midway between the Waldorf and tie McAlpin LOCAL PHONE GIRLS Four Phone giris from New York, se as noon. fre Copley Plaza Hotel, wh bled in the ball room and were recetved Dragged Out. by officals of the telephone company | Their coming, whieh had teen he | attracted little at police and a few t at operator, who we N the two parties ui Vy wi when the boat and the deck about it tor to make him understand and the man tugged at the door, it he peraptred Mke box, but to no effect the case to the higher ups. fe out of the door a Mr, W th | corrot her p al wi disappeared do INVADE BOSTON AS STRIKEBREAKERS, omnistifinanms Hundred From Here | Ready to Go to Work in Strikers’ Places, BOSTON, April § Four hun strikebreakers, arrived this after They came on two trains, Thowe om the first marched in twos to the » they: assem. Ided, jon, A handful o lephone offclals wore the station and a score of telephone were out for lune ‘atched the arrivals from a distance, a word was exchanged between A second train followed the first ttle tater, bringne 12 more gir! lene were taken to the same hotel, here 20 sleping rooms and « private; thought he was a lunatic and ran, he told one of the deckhands and returned from the ist told some one ashore An employee of the company pnt itp into the left and looked qur- sly through the glass. George tried He couldn't move He went away and came back with chixel and crowbar, He worked till the man inside the | Then he reported | ‘They sent ‘The glater cut the glass| i they pulled young . SL, out ot a @lagicr, Keyes of Stu hrough the hole, He hurried downstairs and rushed to in fair one who had waited so long he girl was tn tears. But he totd he he sad story and ithe men with hi rated. Then she smiled through: y tears and tt wan neon that 1 was forgiven, Hand tn hand they alked to the South Ferry subway and n the dark stairs, LOW PRICE exceptional gaality; draped; several smart 10.00 Value $20.00 FOR TOMORROW Our policy never to carry season to another neceswitat 499 and Evening Orlgine'ly sold from $18.50 Reduced to to $39.75 Over a dozen bewitching models appear in the lot, ex- quisitely trimmed in pastel shades; sizes for women from 86 to 44, and misses 14 to 20, and include WO ATAERATIONS, APPROVAL O8 ( |to assure the pubile World Wants Work W Special Suit Sale Out of the Ordinary : A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF FINE SUITS, AT AN UNUSUALLY Hand-tailored, fancy trimmed novelty saits; both fabrics and workmanship of Stylish Motre Coats Adaptations from French designs; bach or side Stewart & Qo, Exclusive Apparel for Women and Misses at Popular Prices Special Clean-Up Sale Afternoon, Street — dining room had been reserved. fe : A committee of union operators ealled: the hotel, but was not permitted t© 4 from Thayer, Vi President of Qe an ‘Telephone and ‘Telegraph | Company, a# saying the parent company — was satisfied the desnands of the égea? ators were unjustified, evoked eres son Among the girls at thelr arters to-day ferment that between ot d om and possible strikebreskers would Boston caused appar- enily po surprise. We said“one oF the young women, who holds an offlee fn the union organization, “out the end fa not yet. There will be no hair pulling. of the 2,200 gi empl Metropolitan District is auch as that whatever we to invite expested that,” will be done in a way favorable public opinio lared until ¢o- morrow and there is a hope that the company and its operators may & permanent agreement ———— AVOID IMPUREMNR ter Infants aos Invalids Get : HORLICK’S — Ut moene tho Origian’ end Geauinn MALTED MILK prosperou We Sell Theme on the CLUB PLA EASY PAYMENTS, To-Morrow, 15.00 Values to $35.00.; peau de cygne lined, models at each price, 15.00 Value $25.00 (WEDNESDAY) over garments from ene tt es the CLOSING OUT of DRESSES — 10.00 250 Crepe de Chines, x 50 Chiffons, s 96 Charmeuse, 59 Eponges, “4 Manuish Serges. OD, PRIVILEGES PRRMTPIBG, Pa