The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1913, Page 3

“te i Board Will Be Asked This Week to Discharge Them ‘Without Thanks. —— (WORKED?) 14 MONTHS. | But Certain “Influences” Have | Not Been Idle All This Time. 4 motion to discharge without thanks | the members of the Aldermanic Tazi- cab Investigating Committee will be! made at the next meeting of the Board | of Aliermen unless the report of the! committee ts forthcoming in the mean time. The committee has now been In existence for fourteen months and hae done nothing. Members of the Board are disgusted with the work—or lack of work—of the committee and @emand that the committee be removed from further investigation of the tazi- ead situation. ‘The men who comprise this committee are Henry F. Grimm, chairman; John A. Bolles, Samuel Marks, William D. Erush, Republicans; and Daniel R. Cole- ™man and John McCann, Democrats. Alderman Marks has been foremost in demanding action in line with the views ot The ing World that reform in taxicab operation and radical reduction in rates prevail and that ordinances to- ard those ends be placed on the city's ‘taw books. But a few weeks ago the Mayor, acting ‘on the suggestion of The Eve- Bing World, took up the taxicab ques- tom. and in appointing a commission urged that prompt action be had. He also daqualifiedly wrote that the hot Drivate stands are veritable monopol! and that they should be abolished, giv- way to numerous public hack Where any well regulated and taxicab would be privileged to ¢0 business. The Mayor's commission, to which he later appointed as @ member Miss Sophie Iretie Loeb, went directly to the task, with the result that yesterday the report of the commission was com- nd sent to the Board of Alde: men by the Mayor. That report is now in. the. hands of the Aldermanic Com- mittee on Laws and Legislation, of whieh Courtiandt Nicoll is chairman. ‘Mr, Nicoll waa a member of the Mayor's ommission and has throughout fought for the adoption of ordinances con- trolling the taxicabs of this city. Mr. Nteoll promised to-day to do all in his * power to have the report of the Com- Mission reported out Sof committee at ‘ence eo that the full board may ect on the measure. ALDERMAN MARKS DISGUSTED WITH HIS COMMITTEE. tiple i He | which the special committees of which 1 em « member is delaying action,” sald Aierman Marks to-day, “and I am help- less. I am in @ sad minority and my oahery Protest can avail nothing in tee. We have hed numerous inéarings, gone to considerable expense ad atill no report ts forthcoming, I @urely will not oppose any motion made te discharge the committes, ‘The public understands my attitude. Feom the very start I have demanded end worked for a reduction of rates, the BBolition of the favored hotel ds and ‘© general, well organised, official super- vision of taxicab operation in this city. ‘When Aiderman Meagher, who has since retired, was a member of the committee, T had his full support and he stood with me in the demand for reform, I regret that he is not with us now to make the final fight. There is no reason why ‘&@ report should not be now prepared. “The. work of the Mayor's commis- stom reflects intelligence and action, and | sad commentary on the work of the members of our committes that a commission of citizens should be able in @ few weeks to submit controlling ordinances while the men elected by the peaple refuse to act. The Evening ‘World is demanding reform tn taxicab operation and regulation in the interests @f the public, and it is high time that the Board of Aldermen adopted the nces. There should be * There is positively Mo exeuse for delay. I propose having something further to say on this sub- ” On Thureday last Chairman Grimm promised to have prepared by the suc- ceeding Saturday the report of his com- mittee, but thet report has not yet ma- terialized. Alderman Grimm was not et the City Hall to-day, and could not be found in any of the usual haunts in the city departments. He resides in Cypress Hills. Sasalaee DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT HAS SLIGHT RELAPSE. | LONDON, April 2%3—The Duchess of Connaught, wit of the Governor-Gen- emi of Canada, has not been a well during the past twenty-four hours, ac- cording to a bulletin issued by the sur- goon in attendance, Tab Duchess had been reported as progressing favorably toward recovery after an operation for the removal of the ‘wermiform appendix performed bial |--1 EVEN WHY IS YOUR MARRIAGE A SUCCESS? WHY IS IT A FAILURE? Copyright, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co. (The New York World). Love Matches in America Compared With the Arranged Affairs in Europe UNTIL ABTER The CeREMONY ING WORLD, * ff. S ( WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1913. Second Article of a Series. SCHOOL STRIKE and Police Busy Scattering Crowds of Pupils. PITTSBURGH, April %3.—Hardly 10 per cent. of Pittsburgh's 10,000 school chil- dren were in attendance at the sessions to-day. While the disorderty processions of children through the streets that characterised yesterday's situation hed been suppressed by police, aided by par ents, la Class Rooms sa Priclty Emp%y | Second Reactionary Persons Will Contend That Those of This Country Are No Happier Than the Cut and Dried Kind in the Far East. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. They Point Always to the Number of Divorces in the United States, Urging the Obvious Moral That Where Woman Is Freest She Is Also Most Unhappy. Why is your marriage a success? Or, why fs it a failure? Or, if it is neither one of these things, why has it lingered in the halfway house be- tween joy and unhappiness? Dr. Oldfield, an English lecturer, declared the other day that the only way to remain young is to keep on falling in love. He said that old bachelors and confirmed spinsters should be drowned, and urged upon the tepidly married the necessity of falling in love with each other egain. © I think that most of us have known more marriages of the third, order—those which just manage to, pull through, which survive in a perpetual limbo of feeling which never permits one to look upon the paradise of perfect happiness, but which is removed equally far from the outer darkness of divorce. And whatever the form of mar- we find it, there have always bee! those who would dissent from thi London lecturer's view of its Ufe- | pisdacving quality. No one can say definitely that the average of happiness in matrimony is any higher in the United States, where young people choose their own mates, than it is in Persia, where women are held to have no souls, or in China, where till recently a man was not permitted to see the face of his bride until after the ceremony. In the East, where love as we undor- stand it does not exist, it Is perhaps just as well that the Identity of the bride remains as much of a mystery as the contents of a trunk bought at an express company’s auction, But among modern men and women, where love's romantic imagination hides so much more than the Turkish yashmak or the Persian veil, seclusion is from any point of vie uperfluous, Yet are our love marriages any happler than the ar- ranged matches of the East and of Europe? Reactionary persons will an- swer “No.” THEY FALL BACK ON THE MANY AMERICAN DIVORCES. ‘They point always to the number of American divorces, urging the obvious moral that where woman Is [reest she fs also most unhappy. Xow, there le t deal to be argu: in par oe felicity of the subject vorme We housed and fed, to be of sex respect. ‘And I am willing to concede that these are a very trifling price indeed uot if you begin by thinking so. But I am one of those persons who see in the number of American divorces— of which two-thirds are obtained by women—the most striking - demonstra- tion of the success of the American home, for I see in them evidence that ‘American women have an ideal of what the lifelong association of a man and woman should be, and when they or their husbands do not realise it they prefer an open acknowledgment of fall- lire to continued existence of soul tarnishing compromises and Mes. Un- doubtedly a great many persons are divorced who should never have becn married, The trend of society to-day geems to be toward making marriage more aiMficult—a very good thing, in the opinion of those who want it to last. PROPOSED CHECK ON HASTY DIVORCES, But perhaps it might be possible ultimately to refuse divorce fur any cause to couples who had be»n married Jees than five’years, and to make sepa- ® fair trial, that they ha ishly. If the Mohamm saying “I divorce you!" three times, which is now restricted to the husband and which gives him @ valid divorce, were extended to the wife, and made universal, it is doubtful if many couples wouid get through the first year of mar- ried life—and small wonder—when John Jones, brought up a Methodist and a meat-eater, chooses to wed Mary Smith, ® vegetarian and @ Christian Scientist, and i@htaway undertakes to tell ner what to bel and what to eat—or, of course, often it ts Mary that undertakes the proud work of reform. In one way or another nearly every man realizes after marriages that his wife has married him to reform him. And lucky and rare is the wife who is not made to feel that the only thing absolutely right in her composition is her astuteness in choosing a peerless husband. But we all know these things. ‘We all know that most divorces to wait for the second wind that may carry them forward to the en1 im the Marathon of Not that I think all marriages should be Marathons nor that, like the original Marathon runner, we should all ntick till we drop dead shouting the news of victory, The point about which everybody is In doubt is the number and degree of happy marriages. Is your own among them, and why? Or if it is not, to what do Lag) attribute failure? To the selfish- ? The folly of woman? In ny ROME, April %.--Pope Pius con- tinues to make satisfactory progress ja his convalescence, He rose from bed at half past 10 this morning and was allowed by the physicians to walk a few steps in his bedroom. His tem- perature was 97, He suffered less from Prostration and his strength had im- proved, although his bronchial conges- tion still exists with cough and abun- dant expectoration. A bronze group of statuary brought as a gitt yesterday by a party of French pilgrims was shown to the Pope in his bedroom to-day. He expressed his great admiration for the work and the re- Mgtous feeling it showed and uttered some flattering words in regard to the | riage, in whatever country or time | plety and loyalty of the Fench in spite of the efforts of a small section of the people of that country to entice the 4 \ i! \ ! UNM NIE Her to A WHEAT HE Lave one 6 NOTED NEW YORKERS ' WHO CELEBRATE THEIR BIRTHDAYS. Chauncey M. Depew, formers United States Senator, Is seventy-nine years old to-day. Edwin Markham, the poet, te sixty- one to-day. Frederic C. Penfield is fifty-eight to-day. Judge Joseph M. Deuel !: sixty- ven to-day, Mies Ada Rehan, the actress, was fitty-three yesterday, Wiliam M, Ivins, lawyer, former member of the Board cf Education and former City Chamberl.in, was sixty-two yesterday. Stephen H. Olin, lawyer, “MURDEROUS MILLINERY” BLAMED ON TYRANT MAN; PLUMELESS HATS LATEST. Exhibitions in London “Brings Out Creations With Straw and Ribbon “Feathers.” LONDON, April 23.—1 Provided one of the features of the exhibition and conference opened in London for the purpose of bringing to- gether societies and individual sted In the suppression of animals, ‘The military exhibits are intended to Prove that women's hats may be both beautiful and fashionable without the ald of feathers and plumes, the pluck- Ing of which,—it is said, causes un- necessary pain to the virds. A& hat with a large plume made of grasses, stiffened and colored, won general ap- Proval from fashion expe Ribbons played @ great part in the trimmings. Other exhibits fashioned in the shapes and hers proved most Sarah Grand, acting as first Chairman of the series of conferences, dealt with the question of “murderous millinery.” Man, she said, was at the bottom of the whole mischief, Behind the evil traMc in birds’ plumage was the commercial organisation, She ap- pealed to women to emanctpate them- selves from the tyranny of being dic- tated to by men as to what they should wear, Peansylva: out of the State after July 1, 1914, was approved by Gov. Tener to-day. The bill was advocated by organisations in- terested in the preservation of wild birds, No person may shoot at, kill, take or have in possession any wild birds other than @ game bird, or ha in possession any part of its pl or skin under control for purpo Fifteen Billions The spring meeting of the Executive Council of the American Bankers’ Agao- | clation will be held at the Briarcitr Lodge during tne week commencing May 4 ‘There are ninety-one members in the Executive Council, representing between fourteen and fifteen billions of dahiete uu vives (N UWSAGINATIONS WOMAN HOOKS SHARK, WITH PIPE, A BOOT AND CAN IN ITS STOMACH Big . Man-Eater Is Hauled . Aboard the Trent Off Cuban Coast. rau Tf the stomach of a huge man-eating shark contains one seaman's pipe, a |half-digested seaman's leather boot and one unopened can of tomatoes, what is the answer? Passengers on the Trent, of the Royal Mail line, who rrived in port to-day, are busy trying a solve the problem, and speculation fa rife. Some of the deductive sleuths on board say the pipe and half boot oust @ missing mariner, while oth ask pertinently, ‘Where does the can of tomatoes come in?” Unless the mariner carried it in his hand when |he met the shark off the coast of Cubs, the problem must remain one of the unsolved mysteries of the deep. It was in the harbor of Antilla, Cuba, Saturday, that Mrs. A. W. Rowland threw over a shark hook attached to a stout rope and baited with a fi pound hunk of salt pork. Uniike most fishing, the bite of @ shark is a very definite thing. Mra, Rowland screamed as the line began to burn through her hands. Third officer Bulleid came running up, accompanied by Dr. Marsh. The third officer caught part of th stanchion, did not come to a slackened up enough to permit a sec: ond turn, With & windlass ané many a “yo- heave-y on the part of the excited passengers, the man-eater was hauled over the rail, Then Dr. Marah got [busy with his knife, and, carefully javolding the threshing brute on the deck, ripped him opon akilifully, And from hia stomach came the strange articles onumerated. The teeth of Mr. Shark, long, sharp weapon: moved and distributed favored paasen was tossed overboard, — ARRESTED AS “L” ROWDIES. Passengers on the Third avenue els- vated, who have been tormented f some days by three young men who made @ practice of riding on the rear on the station pl pulled out, rejoiced thi detectives; who arre at the Forty-seventh street station, said the prisoners were the authors of the recent slylarking, The captives said they were Josep Tremora, fourteen yearn old, of > Ninety-seventh street; Nich Jaffroni, seventeen years old, of N. East Ninety-seventh, and William mins, yearu old, of No, ue. WASHING AND IRONING ENABLED OLD NEGRESS TO BEQUEATH $50,000 Oyster Bay Hasn't Been So Aroused Since Col. Roosevelt Brought Battleship Fleet. et ccrubting, netted Mes. Ma- A Néetime of hard work washing and ironing netted tide Wynne of Oyster Bay L. 1., @ ne- Gress, 990,00, Ghe left that eum by will to her husband, seven nephews and three leces accorfing to @ transfer tax appraisal filed to-day in Mineola, the seat of Nassau County. Everybody in Oyster Bay knew the ne- «ress. Her maiden name was Matfida Hopkine, and the townspeople continued to call her Matilda Hopkins after she married John Wynne « few years ago. Tt was generally known that Mattda was comfortably fixed, but nobody dreamed that she had accumulated more than @ few hundred dollars. Rumors that Matilde had a large sum in savings banks end personal prop- erty began to circulate in Oyster Bay after tbe funeral a few weeks ago. The Most extravagant reports aid not figure the estate to amount to more than $10,- wealth of the much has aroused Oyster Bay such as that eomnolent community has not been aroused since Col. Roosevelt, then President of the United States, had a lot of warships anchored off his trent yard, Now all Oyster Bay ie wondering how the 414 it. Those who had employed her r figure that her income much s day. She lived in « comfortable house and wee well nourished. It is supposed that she began putting her money out terest to accumulate. at interest thirty or forty years ago, never drew any out and allowed the in- She had 697,000 on deposit in Manhat- tan and Brookiyn savings banks. Other money was on deposit in banks on Lo Island outside Brooklyn. she did not investments, converted into cash without delay. To John Wynne, her husband, she lett nephews and nieces, who are scattered all over the country. ee BURNED BY THIRD RAIL, John Gabla, twent) keeper of No, 242 Irvi Row terminal of the Brookly: rly last night when h ‘om the last platform of a Ridgewood train to the tracks at the shuttle platform, One of Gabla's hands came into contact with the third rail and he was severely burned. Several station men, with Patrolman Murphy of the Bridge Squad, lifted ¢ injured man from the pit. He was tak to Volunteer Hospital. For Constipation platforms of trains and hitting people | |The Delicious Laxative Chocelate ty imulates the liver and promotes digestion. Good for young and old. 20s, She and SOc, of al) érugzion, tate is in cash or neourities that can be 41,000, The balance ts distributed to her FORSYTHE GULTY ‘Send Promptly Pleads Guilty When First Is Convicted. Philip Forsythe, automobile bandit, this afternoon was found guilty by a Jury in Part 3 of the Court of General Gensions, Judke Foster presiding. For- sythe was remanded to the Tombs until Friday for sentence. Forsythe was convicted on the sensa- ( if is i i iH ig Hi i $ i if | | az j i je H & i H i i Hh i i i : : z z g z CHTOAGO, April 33.—Jack Johneon, negro pugilist, was fined 61,000 by Judge Carpenter in the United States 7 HUF ei i z fi hile i H HIS LAUGH (THE GULTY HS LAUGH RTS. 4 INPITTSBURGHIS | OF AUTO HOLD-UP, | 3 ARMED ROBBERS STLL UNE UNBROKEN, DECLARES BY WHO DEMAND CASH “Couldn’t “That @ of It,” His Reply to Their Demands— They Run and Lose $400, Three rovbers, each with @ revotver, who tried to hold up William Glemer- ing, bartender in Henry Paulson's sa. loon, at Park av end Cumberiané atreet, Brooklyn, didn't even cause Sle mering to lone his temper. He didn’t so much es scold the robbers. He just laughed at them, and they felt so sheep- fom they put their reviovers im their pockets and fied. | Wel Semmdvaneiee ae ( i hi at ua | i 7 I i it i i f E ii fr. i ly f att | ; i , : St -S..- 2k Smart Toutes and Novelties, 416 THAT'S ALL na “Storm Hero Umbrella Absolutely Windproof. Bay an umbrella that you can ase on a stormy day. A Now Owe If the Wind Breaks It. Cost $1 00 Upward ON SALE EVERYWHER: Miller Bros. & 362 Broadway, lew York ao. ES $10, $12 and $15 Values Alterations FREE SALE AT ALL FOUR STORES. 460 - 462 Fulton Street — Brooklyn 48-651 Broad Street—Newark, N. J. Market and 12th Sts.—Philadelphia i i g i ik a Pid ll 5 ts i f if ffi i i bai 3 i i j : : it . | f No Extra Charge for It. leomente for The World may be left