The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1913, Page 3

Gent {master ptumber could obtain \ iW 4 ; = i \ ’ ‘000 GRAFT KOM PLUMBERS ‘WLREGE SME Confesses His Share Was $60,000 in 18 Months. TRAIL LEADS HIGHER UP. Bribes Said to Have Ranged From Price of an Over- coat to $2,000. A confession by August C. Schwager, & former member of the old Examining Board of Piumbers, which board was put out of office Dec, 17 last by Mayor Gaynor, recites that the bureau has fong been a source of great graft. The comfession is in the hands of District- Attorney Whitman and Albert De Roode of No, 62 Wail street, who was appoint- ef a special Corporation Counsel by Mayor Gaynor to investigate the board. Jt.was on Mr. De Roode'a recommenda- tion that the Mayor removed the old boord. Schwager has pleaded guilty to an in- @ictment for bribery and is on bail, Dending sentence. He is aiding Mr. De Roode in the examination of the books of the old board and in tracing more than $280,000 graft that he says was paid by master plumbera for licenses, A score of arrests, it is asserted, wilt be made after Schwager is corroborated by the records. Schwager has confessed that during the year and a half he was @ member of the doard he obtained about $40,000, PRICES RANGED FROM $2,000 TO AN OVERCOAT. According to Mr. De Roode, Schwager dmits the graft went mary ways. No leense without first “seeing” some individual close ‘to a commissioner. In some in- ‘stances bribes of $3,000 were given, while in others the price of an overcoat would obtain the certificate. As no master plumber could transact business in this city without @ Hcense all were willing Ucense would be it was known that a district leader, Tammany or Re- publican, wee interested in the applicant. Schwager told Mr. De Roode that when appointed he found the system ready there and soon became part an Schwager’ was appointed by Mayor Gaynor, Mr. DeRoode said, at the re- ‘quest of Ernest Harvier, Schwager con- ducted ‘most of the examinations. As the result of Mr. DeRoode’s investiga- tions the Grand Jury last February filed two indictments againat Schwager for bribery, To one of these Schwager entered a plea of guilty before Judge O’Bullivan late last night. In hie confession Schwager admite that the charges are true. Those who obtained licenses for a consideration were used to drum up other plumbers. Schwager edmite that because of hi activities alone at k fifty master plumb: yees in this city who fo licenses, Each paid a eum ranging *rom $350 to $1,000. ‘Mr. DeRoode pur- ‘poses to seek the revocation of these Ucoases. . TRAIL OF GRAFT LEADS MUCH HIGHER UP. “The further I go into this nasty mess jee ater the disclosures," Mr. De /Roode' said to-day., “The ramifications extend in all directions, I am not pre- pared to give the names of those whom Schwager has involved, but J .will say that when the full story becomes public some very prominent persons will have to do a lot of explaining. “fchwager is aiding me, and it was At the request of Corporation Counsel Watson that Judge O'Sullivan paroled him on a dail bond of 9,000 to await sentence. I find that eince consolida- tion, corruption has been in vogue in that department. ‘There ie no telling how much money hag been paid for unlawéul (icenses, It must have stupendous eum.” Schwager confessed that he wrote out the answers ¢0 the Civil Service ques- tione in the examination of applicants and@ gold them to thove about to be ex- am! In @ome instances, when the al t. could not write, dummies “would take the examinations for them. —__—_ CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARE HAVING A BOOM. Visitors to Sale and Exhibit in 12th ! Regiment Armory Enrolling to Keep Up the Work. ‘The exhibit and sale now in progress et the Twelfth Regiment Armory, Six- \ty-second street and Columbus avenue, for the purpose of financing United Catholic Works, an organization de signed to forward the charitable and Dhilanthropic enterprises of the Arch- @locese of New York, has already ‘placed the project on @ permanent foot. ing. The bigger the success, however, the more comprehensive will be the work of the society 4 The Enrollment Booth, in charge of ‘the Rev. Vincent de Paul MoGean, chaplain of the Fire Department, hes proved to be one of the big features of the exhibition. Here enroll ghose who ere willing ‘to contribute oné dollar a ‘year OF more to eatablish a membership which will make the work permanent. Cardinal Farley on each of his two visita to the armory has enrolled. Yather McGean's work has been ma- not entitled terlally helped by the ald of Magra Mooney, Lavélle, Hayes, Flood, Mo-| Mahon, Wall, Murphy and Brenn, enige Af Collina, Dr. James Ly j@ Gillespie’ and Mra, Lett ad nena aieneniay cant | WOMAN LAWYER To Be Seen in Metropolitan Opera House HERE FROM FRANCE } TOSTUDY GS Government Sends Mme. de la Ruelle to Inspect Workers of Her Sex. WAGES LOW IN PARIS, Two Beauties of the Suffrage Pageant — Girls Earn 80 Cents a Day There, but Make Their Own Clothes. Government to study conditions among the working girte of this country. She expects to be in New York for several months and will tive among the girle she ts to study. “T want to study the industrial and trade schools,” she said, “and I shall live in the Henry Street ‘Settlement House, where I will be among the girls, get acquainted with them, be one of them. I shall etudy character, habits and methods of living. In Paris a girl who can make four francs, 8 cents, a Gay, all the year around can live well. “The French girl, I think, fe more thrifty than the American girl. She !s handy with her needle. She knows how to cook and how to keep house, I am tolé that the American girl buys her frocks in shops and that those who have no homes live mostly in the restaurants, ‘The Parisian girl makes her own frocks and many of them their own hate, “A girl's morality depends on the girl. In Paris they have so many strikes that hardly any girl works the year round. Well, !f a girl can't get work she must come girl problem, but France: will have to face it before many years. At present we have plenty of girls for service. The girls prefer housework to going into the shops. But here and there Society Women Will Play in| the Orchestra and the Audi- ence Will Be Dazzling. MAY 2 IS THE DATE. Two Hundred’ Venuses and Forty-Eight Adonises Are BOOS Being Selected. POLICE GET THE GOATS OF BRONX WOMEN AND TAKE THEM TO COURT Magistrate Fines Them and George Peabody, Supreme Court Justice Charles Guy, Mra. Merrill E. y Mrs. Henry Villard, Mri Demarest, Mrs. C. C. Cuyl Sprague-8mith, Mre. Ormond G. Smith, Capt. Delamar, Miss Mary W. P. Haver- ford, Mre. Edward Dreler, Miss Katha- fine Dreter, Mrs, Walker Harvey, Mrs. Richard Bent, Miss Anne Rhodes, Miss Rose Ripley, Mra. Lewis A. Delafied!, Mrs, Carl Van Anda, Mrs. Raymond Brown, Mre, Howard Mansfeld, Mrs. Frederick Nathan, Mrs. Ruth Litt, Mrs. ‘W. G, Wilcox, Mrs. George Pratt, Mrs. Alfred Eno, Mrs, Sanderson, Dr. Mary Halton. ‘When the marvellous and as yet mys- tertous suffrage pageant, “A Dream of Freedom,” 1s displayed on the evening of May 3 in the Metropolitan Opera ‘House, the Metropolitan orchestra, for the first time in its musical existence, will be assisted by women. The sutf- fragtete have actually broken into the musical union, and distinguished s0- Clety women, members of the Women's Orchestra, will play their violins and flutes along with the regular Metropoli- ¢an musicians. Mrs. Theodore Roose- —~q~— Says The: innot Uttle clouds have appeared and trouble veX jr., Mra. A. C. Burnham, Mrs. How- ys y Ca 1s expected later on. any pe ae dias, ard Brockway, Miss Gertrude Field, : Loose. lem in this country I shall also study. Mise Helen eeeldan, Mies Margarct PALTRY $5 HL A YEAR Run i Madame de la Ruelle was asked if Undertill and Mes. James Otis Post are ’ she didn't think, thet, women going into offices and big stores were not crowd- ing out the men and making conditions bad for the head of the fi iy. “I think that ie up to the man,” she answered. “The women are taking men's places mostly in ungkilled labor. Man has all the advantage, both ph; and in general, mentally. If the men find the competition becoming too strong, why, let them marry the girls.” finishing her work in New York, wi go to Washington to get statistics on her sublect. Then she will visit Chicago, San Francisco and several other big cities, alt Meri hE EDUCATION IN PARIS RUINS AMERICAN GIRLS, HE SAYS. Frenchman Asserts Vicious Women at Race Tracks Corrupt Many Country Girls. CHICAGO, April 1%.—"T often wo! dered how many young American wom- en who come to Paris to be ‘finished’ and ‘educated’ have been broken down morally by the life here. I have heard of and have seen several instances.” ‘This statement wae contained in @ letter received by Lieut.-Gov. O'Hare, Chairman of the Mitnots Vice Commit- tee, to-day trom B. F. Gillette of Paris. ‘The writer said he has followed with in- terest the progress of the committee, and sald he blamed low wages for % per cent. of the cases where women lead immoral lfves, “I have no hope that fallen women can be redeemed. I reached this con- clusion efter the expenditure of a great deal of time and money,” he wrote, Public appearance of em at the races and gambling resorts of Europe result in the corruption of hun- dreds of country girls, according to Mr, ‘Qilette. He advocates « law prohibit- tag fallen women from appearing in publie within certain hours, NUDE PICTURE DISPLAY TO STOP IN CHICAGO. Alderman Says “Them ‘Psyches at the Well’ and ‘Potiphar’s Wife’ Ought Be in the Basement.” CHICAGO, April 18, — Exhibitions of the nude in art in stores, windows and ealesrooms must cease, The Judiciary Committee of the City Counct! has among !ts membership four saloonkeep- ers, and these gentlemen expressed themselves as viol @ few of the noted women who have volunteered to play for “votes for As the pageant committee put it to the Mutual Musical Protective Union: “These women are not really non-union- iets, because they are not eligible to Membership in your union. 80 won't you please let them play?” And, like Perfect gentlemen, the members of the M. M. P. U. eatd they would, Masou- Une chivalry is not yet dead! While Magistrate Murphy was hear- ing evidence in Morrisania Court to- day against three women from the neighborhood of Arthur avenue and One Hundred and Eighty-seven street, for Uttering eldewalks, the following junication, signed by P, Masel, an undertaker, of No. 454 Arthur avenue, was handed to him: “To the Hon. Judge itting: “Hon. Judge: It is impossible for us to look after the goats whe we have to go out and work and sup- port a family and aleo do the house- work. “If the Board of Health would take care of the goata and net have them going around dumping ash cans with their contents it would be different. “Hon. Judge, the Department ef Street Cleaning doesn't come around for days at a time: they are always full. The goats go as far as eating and tearing crepe off the doors of houses. I think they ought to be done away with.” When the judge could control himeel¢ he acknowledged the justice of Under- taker Masell's plea for his neighbors and hie business properties. “I em in sympathy with all this cru- eade to keep the streets clean,” he eaid, “but Iam not in a position to become ®@ gost crusader. Each citizen must look efter his own goat.” Mary Goaden of No, %00 Arthur ave- nue, and Florence Rosa of No. 63 East. One Hundred and Eighty-seventh street, were fined $1 eadh, and Bertha Arpecot oft No, 433 Arthur avenue went free be- cause of evidence that the goat alitd really wee applicable in her case, — = JUMPS THROUGH WINDOW IN SLEEP TO BE ON TIME. Norton Seriously Injured by Eigh- teen-Foot Fall in Eagerness for New Job, John Norton, a printer, thirty-three years old, had been without @ job for a long time when he found @ concern that was willing to give him a place if he reported promptly at 7 A. M. to-day. He has been living at O'Brien's Hote! at the corner of Waverley place and Christopher street for the past two years, and when he went to bed last night left word for the porter, John Gleason, to be sure and call him early. He sleeps on the second floor, Gleason went in the room shortly after 6 o'clock this morning and gently shook Norton. “Get up right away or you'll be late to work,” he said. Norton had been having # nightmare. At the porter’s words he jumped from bed, ran to the window, which was up from the bottom, and with a yell dived to the pavement. He carried the shades and part of the sash with him and landed on his head eighteen feet below. Ed Johnson, the bartend heard the crash and found Norton up and ready to continue his trip after that job. He forced him into the saloon and gave him stimulants until Dr. Leary ar- rived from 6t. Vincent's Hospital. It was learned there that he has conous- sion of the brain, a possible fracture of the skull, a broken arm and possible and his condition ts FAILS TO QUIET ANGER OF THIS YOUNG WIFE Mrs. B. Zahn Drops Suit; Says Husband Won Her Away MAUD POWELL WILL PROBABLY ppabgertiafl tals From Former Mate. “These men have done « most kindly oo anes ad the women’ poor sar ‘The last aweet strains of the lark's rs, James Lees Latiew, banker, and hard-working member of |CzW@-welcoming anthem had qcarcely the pageant committee, to-day. ‘But,| “ied away thie cheerful April morn really, there's nothing Mke suffrage to | when the telephone in a few New York bring together members of both sexes | newspaper offices tinkled and Mrs, Ade and of every class. In the orchestra, | gann announced: citing side by side with the society | “io a aa women players, will be the most prom- © Feorter will call at Apartment {sing girl puptls trom the Music Sehool | % No. %0 West One’ Hundred Settlement, whose services have been | Fourth street he can get s good stor offered by David Mannes, manager of | When reporters called they found Mre, the eettiement. The Olive Mead Quartet | Zahn herself, full of indignation that any court should consider %,000 enough for any New York woman to live upon. wit) play, and Miss Maud Powell, the ‘The Cast that courts do eo hold has up- violinist, will probably be with us. “Of course most of the women players Get all plans of Mrs. Zahn for ridding herself of her husband. are suffragists, and they will alternate stirring and meiting melodies, hoping to sire ne enecrte ot ‘the sveptical| “Of course T can’t go on with the Every note of the music will be suffrage |@eparation euit against Mr. Zahn be- without words.” cmume I find that just as fast es one preeegent aren teers already |J0¥7EF falls to help me T must get an- mong she women other at an expense of from $260 to $600 for retainers in every case,” sald Mra. Zahn, a good-looking woman of enrolled (n the orchestra are: Mise perhaps thirty years, Then ehe told her tory of Zahn ve. Zehn. “Formerly,” she said, I was the wife of H. 8. Stevens, advance agent for a cireus, He often was away from home. I was young—scarcely twenty—and then Zabn entered my life. He was end affable and he sho Presents. The result was that Stevens divorced me. I married Zahn and for a fong ume he lavished luxury upon me. ‘We uccessively lived in St. Nicholas avenue and Riverside Drive and I had my own motor and victoria and patr. “About two years ago he displayed @ffection for other women, but at the behest of his family I refused to take any legal steps to nid myself of him. He finally left, but ever eince has givei me an allowance of 9,000 @ year—I re- cotve M1668 the first of every month. But he makes $15,000 « year, and I think Tam entitled to more.” The other day Justice Platsek ruled that 96,000 a year was enough to support the suing wife and he denied her ap- plication for alimony and counsel feees. ‘The husband is Barnard Zahn of the Sayles-Zahn Company, wholesale meat dealers, of Sixth avenue and Tenth at Woods, Miss Ida W. Devise, Mrs, A. R. Teal, Miss Atice Ives Jones, Mrs. W. L. Bowman, Miss Laure Tappen, Mrs. Emil Sche! Mrs, C. C. Conway, Mise Dorothy Jenks and Mrs, Alexander Morgan ‘The scenario of the pageant te being written by Miss Helen Tuttle, daughter of Mrs. Howerd Mansfield, and Mrs. Mansfield, Mre. Raymond Brown ead Edward Sledie will assist in directing the production. Mrs. Otis Skinner was to have been a director, but absence from town will prevent her from taking this active part. The two hundred Venuses and the forty-eight Adonises demanded by th Pageant are still in process of selection. ‘Three of the beauties who are sure to grace the epectacie appear in The Even- ing World to-day. WHAT THE PULCHRITUDE OF THE PAGEANT STANDS FOR. ‘The suffrage type of b plained Mrs, Latdlaw, “ls not m: liness of feature and coloring. I} stands for grace, for distinction of carriage, for a face full of character. All these attributes have been considered in se- leoting the pulchritude of the pageant. “The audience will be as brilliant as any that ever filled the Metropolitan. ‘The famous Golden Horseshoe will das- ale all eyes, as on an opera first night. The Douglas Robinsons have taken two ‘voxes, and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and the young people are expected to be present. Mra, Stanley McCormick wilt entertain a box party from Boston, Miss Alice Paul aad Miss Lucy Burns wilt be hostesses for a Congressional party from Washington, Mra, Donald Hooker, | what the police believe one of the most prominent women in| United States Court warrant. He was Maryland, has taken @ box, as has Mrs. ' hurried to the raiiroad station by @ Boston, daughter | stranger, who said he was a Federal marshal. As the train was about to legve for Kehsas City Casmadell's attor- ney caused his client's arrest by the police on a technica! complaint, whereay Ug alleged marshal fod. called “Beptember Morning” gained a victory over the city. Alderman John Powers whose “Place” tecently featured recumbent Venus, favored closing the Art Institute. Ac- companied by his Aldermanic friend 8, @& Walkowiak he strolled through the home of art. “Why, that’s no place for a man’s posterity,” sald Powers, never #0 taken back in my lif ‘Payches at the Well’ and ‘Wite’ ought to be in Yet there they are, with hun- of school children looking at them ———— ARREST ON BOGUS WARRANT. Bey 1 Marshal” R: Away When Real P. PUBBLA, Col., April 1%.—Frank Cas- madell, a wealthy Boston young man as @ counterfeit out a new or- is the exhibition of a nude figure in any window, store or | public place open to children. The or- Ginance also prohibits the display of vulgar postcards, and the question of vulgarity ia left to the police censor, whe kas moving plotures under bls aye Susan Fitagerald, of Admiral Walker. Other box-holders include: Mre, Al-' bert H. Gerry, Mra, Herbert Carpenter, Mrs. O. H. P, Belmont, Mra. William Langthorne, Mrs, Arthur Goribner, steer amen eB a ee erence ee ne one mg RTPA eet WOMAN LAWYER WHO COMES FROM FRANCE TO STUDY WORKING GIRLS. $1200 0 LSS “W SI OAS BY BEGAN STRNE Manhood Vote Tie-Up Grows All Over Country and 400,000 Men Are Now Out. BRUSSPLA, Belgium, April 19.—Tweive million dollars in the Agure complied ta trustworthy circles of Belgium's lose in the first s!x days of the strike for equal Political rights, which hae been joined by about 40,000 men, of half the male working population of the country. Two-thirds of this lose of $2,000,000 0 lay falls, according to the Socialist t union leaders, upoh the employers and supporters of the existing system, {and the organisers of the strike affirm that the men by exercising self-denial ean hold out as long as the capitaitets are willing to endure their deprivation of dividends for @ political reason only. PLYMOUTH, Engtand, April militant suffragette “bomb" tr LUG DODGE LED TO VOD SUITOR NOW ON WAY HERE Is on the Oceanic—Refused to Be Driven Into Society Marriage. 23 tye MARTI NOT FOUN BY SWISS POLICE WO SEAR VEY But Telegram Signed With His Name Is on File in Town —May Be at Lake Geneva. i LONDON, April Mise lucy 3B. Dodge, who recently dieappeared in Lon- don, which caused her stepfather, the Hon. Lionel Guest, to offer a reward for information concerning her whereabouts, {# now on the way to New York, a pas- @enger on the steamer Oceanic, Mise Bigelow, an aunt, ts acaompanying her. She will reside in the old Bigelow pome, No. 31 Gramercy Park. Feiends of Miss Dodge say she re- turned to her home after her flight be- cause of the publicity given her affairs by her mother and stepfather, but that im returning she made the condition VEVEY, Switseriané, Apri 19.—The police of this city have visited every hotel, boarding house and clinic, taking authority for the statement that she had querreiied with her mother over the latter's Gesire that ehe wed an English society man. “% am an American,” Miss Dodge te @aid to have told her mother, “and I will not be driven into @ marriage with ‘an Englishman.” The friend who tells this has just re- ceived a,letter from Miss Dodge, immediately before she sailed. letter the writer complained H é ZF se s E Hi her mother’s house was a continuous “gocial whirl.” She did not mind society for a couple of months in the year, ehe said, provided ehe could spend the rest of the time im gome such piace as an island in the St. Lawrence River she knows well. But she did nos want so- clety ‘All the gme.' Although Miss Dodge was found cover ths identity of the sender. in ee DA. FRIEDMANN RESUMES TREATING PATIENTS HERE. ii in Shaftesbury avenu the theatrical district, and was reported at the time th: ambitious for a stage career, ber friends now deny that. Bhe 19 interested im settlement work, they say, and wants to do something “usel| She ls the granddaughter of John Bigelow, one time Minister to France. oo POLICE HUNT BROWN AUTO. it Ras Down 53 ie z 4 Severely Injured y-third Street. Detectives of the Bast Sixty-seventh mation started to-day on » @earch for @ dark brown touring car which ran down fifteen-year-old Pendergast of No. 164 Gecond ai in Seventy-third street, between Firat and Second avenues, at 8 o'clock last night, At the time the boy had ap- peared to be uninjured and the automo- bile had Kone on without stopping. No one got its number. ‘This morning, however, the youngster complained of pains in his head and at last his parents called Dr, Smith from the Reception Hospital. The surgeon found the led probably had a fractured skull and hurried him to the hospital, whence he was tranaferred to the City Hospital on Blackwell's Island. is 3f ont rous to life amd health. It was beyond province, anid C. Vidal Hundt, the physician's secretary, to go into the Anal merits of the cultures as @ oure. % with extract, in powder fo In mater more ben tan tn rein eed in | and the Aged. It agrees with the weakess, SPRINGFIELD, April 19.—Prane for the legislative celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Stephen A. Douglas took on a new in- , when it became known that the two Senators from Illinois, Sherman and Lewis, and Senator Reed f Missouri! would be among the speak- re wext Wednesday. “His Sate