The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1913, Page 3

| | \ | | | \' TINA LAN & SUTSCOMPANIES, FRAMER WER OMT Won’t “Put Them Out of| Business by Drastic Meas- ures,” Says Grimm. STANDS NOT TAKEN UP. Report Ready To-Morrow, Al- derman Denies It Is Worded by Monopoly Lawyers. Alderman Henry F. Grimm, who wae / made Chairman of the Aldermanic Taxi- death of Alderman Bryant Willard, de- Drompted the committee in its delibera- tone on taxicab reform demanded by The Evening World in behalf of the| pudlic and by the Mayor in the same interests. Stories have been afloat con- cerning the work of the committee in “executive session, and Miss Sophie Irene Loeb charged, in a signed state- ment, that the Grimm committee pro- Poses to introduce an ordinance which is almost identical with the ordinance Grawn by the clever lawyers of the taxicab companies. ‘This phase of the story, as well as others, was put up to Chairman Grimm to-day by « reporter for The Evening World in the Alderman'’s home in Cypress Hills. Mr. Grimm's chief de- fense—if the word may be used— “Why, Miss Loeb seems to know mo! about this whole taxicab matter than any of us on the committee. ADMITS HE 18 ACTING IN COM- PANIES’ INTEREST, TOO. ‘When it was explained that Miss Loeb, Because of her qualifications and expert- ence ae an investigator of taxicab con- @itions in the principal cities of Europe fied, Alderman Grimm repeated: “Well, e appears to know more about taxi- cabs than the committee. “1 want to say that we are acting in the interests of both the city and the taxicab companies,” continued Mr. Grimm. “We are not going to put the taxicad companies out of business in ef- fecting @ reform, The companies have unk @ lot of money in thelr business ‘and they naturally want a return, and they want ordinances that will insure perthanencé in their business.” “But Miss Loeb charges that the ordl- nance your committee proposes to intro- @uce could not serve the intereria of the taxicab companies more thoroughly if the lawyers for the companies had wn the measures, and ft is charged, ‘Wo, that the language of the ordinance fa {dentical with that drawn by their lawyers and submitted to your commit- tee,” was explained by the reporter. “No lawyer for thd taxicab com- panies drew the ordinances we are g0- {ng to submit,” buret forth the chair- man of the committee, “Tt isn't fair to @ay eo, ither.” WHY 8sHOULD MAYOR THEM OUT OF BUSINESS?” “We are informed that your commit- cab Investigating Committee after the Mied to-day that any ultertor motive ae emm RVENING WORLD, THE GIRL WHO WORKS AND WIN renEpEreUeTneereveeer et vert ” Cccaaes Wik 7 Gis Sum SUING Ux io HOF Tun Word). “WHILE YOU ARB SIFTING WN YOUR DINGY ROOM \ “The Greatest Tempter Is $150 a -|Out of the Thousands of Letters Received From Young Women in This Contest Not More Than Ten Maintain the View There Is a Direct Relation Between Wages and Morality. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. By several years of hard work a young woman in New York increased and in this city, was more than quall-|her earning capacity from $6 to $25 a week. Then her health broke down and she went West, landing in Colorado with fifty cents and the promise sands of dollars.” “PUT/$15 a week looking for an engagement in what spare time she had and obtaining finally a part in one of the most successful productions now on Broadway. MENDING YOUR SEW RAGS ~ Who Conquers Loneliness Solves the Problem of Clean Living,” Writes “Character,” Who Has Worked for From $6 to Loneliness, and the Girl Week. of employment for which she had written before leaving the East. Eventually she attained her former maximum salary of $25 a woek and began to take lessons in acting, paying a man to work for her two hours every day. When she had saved money enough she returned to New York and began to look for @ theatrical engagement. “After much tramping and severe humilia- tion,” she relates in a letter to The Evening World, she obtained an en- gagement as an extra girl at $7 a week in town and $10 on the road. In ten years she was earning a sal- ary of $150 a week. “Then,” she says, “my ambition ran riot, luck deserted me, my family died—all but one sister, who was almost an invalid—and I was in debt thou- For two years, she adds, she worked in an office at ‘The name signed to this young woman’s story of success tee intends to increase the rate rather is well known in theatrical circles and she concludes her story of hard- + than lo’ of maintaining the private hote! ands, it, and that you are in favor /ani ang struggle and final success with some excellent remarks on the as against the expressed and written benefits of co-operative housekeeping by working women. ywish of the Mayor that such stands ,Bhould be abolished. The Mayor has ‘pala over his signature that none but é stands ehould prevail,” said the “That ts not all true. We going @e report a recommendation a rate ve@eotion, but we haven't yet decided fully what to do about those hotel tends, I understand that the Mayor's “ema epecial committee favors permit- ‘img private hotel stands, providing Phey are fifteen feet on either side of a mein hotel entrance. “Now, what's the use of trying to put fthe taxicab com out of business ‘by drastic ordinances? We've got to @erve both the public and the companies fn thie whole matter. I suppose there , 18 @ lot of suspicion in geome minds, but ‘that doesn’t count, for we are trying to do the very best we can by all con- werned—the public and the companies.” 2 was explained to Chairman Grimm that the public was becoming dissatts- fied with the long delay of the com- mittee in framing adequate ordinances, Inasmuch as positive and definite action had long been promised, PROMISES TO REPORT ORDI- NANCES TO-MORROW. “Well, I guess we will get right down to tacks to-morrow, when the commit- tee will hold probably a final meeting,” naid Alderman Grimm. “We have been Promised the necessary signatures to cur report, and it may be decided to- morrow. I shall then have a copy of the proposed ordinances ready for The Dve- ning World to publish, “L am not justified at this time in eiving any information in advance of the contents of the report, except that It ‘will recommend a reduction of the pres- ent rate, and will then eave to the whole board, probably, the disposition of the subject of hotel stands, That's all I care to say about the matter at present.” Alderman Grimm is a Republican. He resides with his family at No, 170 Ma- genta street, Cypress Hille, and ie a) edntractor, Alderman John A. Bolles ws, by right ef seniority, entitled to the chairman- * ghip of the committee, ——_—— Foxy. (From the Washington Star.) What is the first thing to consider in sing the tariff?’ ell,” replied Senator “when @ constituent wants to tal about regulating duties the first thing you want to do is to find out what line ve, Pt buainons be ta in’ Sorghum, Announcement of the prise-win- Ring letters will be made in Sat- urday’s Evening World. Out of thousands of communications which Z have received from young women ‘not more than ten have maintained the view that there is « direct re- lation between the morality of ‘women and the wages they reseive. FRere have been few advocates of @ minimum And, indeed, why should there be any reason for legislating special wages to keep women from vice when thousands of young men are employed everywhere as bank clerks and messengers and are exposed every working day to the more immediate temptations which come from handling large sump of money? Such. men are very poorly paid, as a rule, and yet no one js clamoring for special laws to keep them in the paths of rectitude. MEN DON’T DEMAND PAY TO B& HONEST. No young man complains that he must be paid at least $19 a week if society wishes to save him from becoming an embezsier. In my opinion there should be no special legislation for women ex- cept to remove from them special disa- bility, auch as that which disqualifies them from voting, and there the radical Injustice lies in saying to us: “Since Nature has handicapped you so much for the struggle for existence, we will handicap ‘you sti! more, Since merely by being @ woman you will find life more difficult than men find it, we will deprive you of your rights as human ‘veings.” Since every woman who earns her living successfully overcomes the double bandicap placed upon her by nature and by law, it might be argued that she is entitled to | special vastornen im the matter of ‘But if she asks for oF ao- | cepts special privileges she takes | the surest way of perpetuating her special Hmitations, Any one who believes in # minimum wage law @hould advocate its enaction for men and women allke—to prevent young men from becoming burglars or forgere as well as to keep young women from the easiest way. Personally I don't believe in minimum or maximum morals regulated by stat- i nd I have been confirmed in this fx bundsade of yous Monee who repudiate the suggestion that wages have anyth! to do with morals. The letters of Evening World readers follow: CONQUER LONELINESS AND LIFE WILL BE CLEAN. ‘The communivation from the sucoems- ‘tal actress conctudes: 1 am now living on “Easy” street, but have nothing but the greatest @ympathy for the working girl, be her means large or small, who has no home end has that monster lone- Mness as well as hardships to oon- tend with. I do not need the prize money now, but write in an effort to cheer and advise those who may be placed in @ similar position to mine. Girls should get more together, working the home problem on @ 00- Operative pian, say six girls together in @ large but cheap flat, which can be had all over New York and Brook- lyn, etx rooms and bath, steam heat and hot water, in respectable neigh- hoods, for $25 to $80 per month; do thelr own cooking, washing and iron- ing, taking @ cold lunch to work and living as near their work as possible to save carfare. If the girls are level-headed and clean-minded, they ean have all the company they want and enjoy life much more thoroughly than by struggling alone in @ cheap boarding-house or living with some poor and narrow-minded family which places upon them undue re- strictions, I have always found my temptations, as I believe every sen- all Person does, to be from “‘with- in,” not “without,” as conditions are the same all over the country, no matter what the work, how well or poorly paid, and our greatest tempter ta “loneliness.” When we have con- quered loneliness we have solved the problem of clean livin: CHARACTER. * HOW HELEN D. WON AFTER A LONG STRUGGLE, Dear Madam: I quite agree with the girls who cay it is a hard strug- gle to work and win, as there are @o many temptations, Every way you turn you meet some one who bas more than you. In the office, etore and factory you meet girls every day irat tell you when you arrive in the morning what a lovely timo they had the night bofore or what a beautiful gown they are having made, the hotels they have been to, the dinners they Baye. Oi at- tended and the shows they ha: toate, bile 20h ate aiding ib come ' Wages Have Nothing to Do With Morality, The Opinion of a Majority of Work Girls oS “x trying to keep your little rage to- wether. I work with girls abl get- ting 1 on average of % or % more @ week than I do. They all dress Detter than I do and wear silks to the office, while I have only a black ekirt and a tailored shirtwaist; but I always try to be neat. I am twen- ty-three years of age, have been working for ten years and have never had any desire or ever enter- tained @ thought of doing rash things, My first position. in New York was in a shoe factory, tipping mhoe laces for $3 a week. I didn't have any spending money and had a hard time getting a few little cesgaries, My next position was 6 and 10 cent store, selling goods at $4 a week. I stayed there for about a year and a» half, and then went to a department store in Fourteenth street as saleswoman. In this position I got % a week. I stayed in the % position for about a year and thought I would strike out for mfere money, #0 I put an appli- cation In a larger and better store. I got the position, and there I got $8 a week, I never could go around like other girls to the theatre and parties. Any spare moments I had I spent in making or mending my clothes. I never had a suit until I ‘was eighteen years old, and then it was @ hard struggle to get one, I live with @ woman friend whom I bad made in my travels, and she is certainly a mother to me I stayed at her store about two years and then I got an office position and started with $9. That is nearly five years ago, and now I am getting $13 @ week. About three years ago I became disgusted with boarding and decided I would like « little apartment for myself, I saved what money I could and bought furniture for a home and took # four-room apartment & year ago, and now I have a lovely Uttle home, and enjoy every minute I em in it and am very happy and contented, Several people have eaid: “How can she do it on that salary and dress ell as she docs? It 4s impossib!: Nothing 1s impossi- dle to my way of thinking. I do not live in luxury, neither can I go to the theatre very often or dress as well as I would like to, and I am certainly a lover of nice clothes, I know I cannot have everything and I prefer my home, Girls, always have respect for yourselves and you will find others will respect you. Do not give in to every little trouble. Always try to iter yourself in making friends. Try to associate with people better or at least on level with yourself—never go be- neath, Above all things, do not de- pend on your friends. Help your- self a little and try to be independ- ote along, HELEN D, « Here. LONDON, April 18—Vilhjalmar Stet- ansson, the Arctic explorer, sails to- morrow from Southampton for New York, where he will spend three weeks before starting under the auspices of the Canadian Government on his four- year expedition to the Arctic in search of @ new continent. eee Collese Ht to Be Cit April 1&8—President Ri ard C, MacLaurin of the Massach atitute of Technology has taken out | his first papers as a candidate for citl- nenship in the United States, He was ‘born in Scotland, forty-six years ago, ‘nts last foreign residence was at Well- ay N. 4, and be entered this coun- ett In- FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1918. MILITANTS SEIZE" Last Article “of a Series. snteteatetett. aye a 8 @ ww i MRS. BRYAN OUT OF RACE FOR THE D. A.R. PRESIDENCY | THREATENED | sition on the monument for upward of jthe top of the monumer mi ‘ATE APPROPRIATION BILL re GIVES RIGHTS 10 CALLS FOR | $29,649,280. | sel Signing Todor Bit Assembly Committee ee Reports Bud- | adich bs ohprerac ALBANY, April 18.—In a get With Increase of $2,048,079 accompanying thie epprovel today Over Sulzer Board Estimate. ‘Tudor bili, which provides that : ALBANY, April 18.—The Assembly | an employer shall require a phi Ways and Means Committee to-day re-| amination of « prospective female ported the annual appropriation bill| ployee, as @ condition of ee calling for $29,549,280, an increase of] the applicant shall be entitled to 420,767 over last year's bill, The| such examination before a phy s in the Waye amd her own sex, Gov. Sulser sayst ee. EXGITE LONDON Lock atte: POA in Fire Memorial or + 079 over the amount in the! condition and fs just and and Defy Police and Mob ry ton bill recommended by the! nition ey the Legislature of the OMe committee of inqui: 4! women employess to obtain From Balcony High in Air. BIG MONUMENT; ” cominittes’s bill called for $21,601,201 v and it recommended a nupply bill of | “Hnout being eublected to $2,419,623, w total of $29,920,726. Wenei, tas inae vue and bo wi The Ways and Means Committee! Tyner ste ment an to a step made 276 amendments to the inquiry committee's appropriation bill, Under | 42ualty of opportunity without oex. the head of general appropriations there made increase by the Ways and Means Committes of $1,143,-| Governor by Taloott Williams, head. 361. .@ the Pulltser School of Journation, TROP SHOWER OF PAPER! Waving Banner “Victory or Death” They Are Arrested— Saved From Big Crowd. 34 ‘Coat Sales mn 10” sa f & o > LONDON, April 18.—A number of en- terpricing militant suffragettes thie af- terneon took possession of the monu- ment which stands near the northern epproach to London Briige ad com: memoratts the great fire which de- etroyed the city of London in 1666. As- cending to the topmost balcony, they G@iaplayed two flags and an immense banner in the suffragette colors on each of which was written in white letters “Victory or Smart New iy Sis Vale, = @ long time traffic was suspended in the immediate vicinity, which ts one of the bustest districta of London. BY CROWDS ON THE STREET. ‘The suffragettes maintained their po- an hour, While they are “hoking the fort” a heavy missile thrown from narrowly ed striking a number of spectators, The police eventually had to requisi- tion the services of @ locksmith, who forced the door at the dottom of the shaft with great diMculty, peared in the street escorti: women who had defied them so long the spectators became so threatening in their attitude that the constables were compelled to take thelr prisoners back into the chamber at the base of the monument until reinforcements arrived and cleared a way for their passage to the police station, where they were hela. The women were taken to court, but GOOD NEWS: ait ee cel ee =D You Can Now Buy - fay WHITE an i Fe Van Dyk Quality V i Two miltant suffragettes now under- ‘ AT ar PRICES going terms of imprisonment Mrs. Story and Mrs. Horton Will Now Fight Out Con- test on Party Lines. WASHINGTON, Apri! 18,—Interest was intense when the delegates to the Con- tinental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution met for the third day of balloting for # President- General of the organization, with Mra. leading Mrs. John Miller Horton of Buf- falo by a dosen votes but short of the majority necessary to win, Mrs. Charies didate, dropped out of the race, This left Mre. Story and Mrs. Horton ae the ‘only candidates for the place and voting on the third dallot began. ‘The attitude of the adherents of Mrs. Bryan, who lost strength in the vote of yesterday, is a question of the high- est importance to the managers of the other two oficial candidates for leader Bryan's followers met lant were in session until early cision, Another meeting was forenoon, and when the convention met the withdrawal of Mrs. Bryan was an- nounced, Looking ahead to @ possible deadlock on Mrs, Story and Mrs, Horton, com- promise candidates were mentioned. They were Mes. Charlies Bond of Massa- chusetts and Mrs. George E. Minor of Connecticut. A third wae sali to be kept in reserve, in the event the new en- trants failed to break the deadlock. The election was further compMcated by the failure of the convention to elect the seven remaining vice-presidente-gen- eral. There are ten candidates and thue far none had received sufficient votes to give her official position. Not Guilty of Gti PITTSBURGH, April 1&4—Supt. @. L. Hetter of the Pittsbursh public schools was to~lay declared not gullty of two eerious charges preferred against him by Ethel I. Fisher, « domestic em- ployed in his home, when @ jury re- turned a verdict in Common Pleas Court. On one of the charges the jury decreed Uiet e the Som y ay the Co For Constipation Tegulates th lates the liver and promo! digestion. Good for young and old. adm Oboe One S0e, a6 Ol) Erugeiste, William Cummings Story of New York | which it was believed they were about B. 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Mrs. Flo: former Socialist member of Parliament, appeared at Bow Street Police Court to-day to anewer sum- monses under the statute of Edward TIL, charging them with inciting to crime and misdemeanor. They were remanded until April 36 on giving an undertaking not to participate in any Meetings in the interval ———>_—_. Sullivan Starts Hie Fi isht of Patrick ry brother of “Big Tim," for the lead ship of the Third Assembly District jainet Senator John C. Fitsgerald wit) start to-night. The new SuMivan head- quarters, No, 29 Bowery, 1s to be formally opened with a flourish, and the campaign will then be underway. Provision for an overflow attendance has been made, HEADQUARTERS: 807 Water St, near Roosevelt. Van Dyk goods can only be bought at a Van Dyk Store os. ing ees Took tor the name Van Dyk. Branches Shoes for Small Boys Stoutly made high shoes and oxfords for boys from six to ten, on lasts that resemble “big brother's” but are cor- rectly proportioned for the growing foot. 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