The evening world. Newspaper, June 9, 1913, Page 3

% rf i L tee ell Wife Young as His Children Thwarted Dearest Wish, e@ Charlot Swears. | GOOD TO HER FAMILY? Well, He Gave Them Jobs, Even Fine Place on Payroll to Mother-in-Law. With tears rolling down his cheeks Atphonse C. Charlot on the witness stand before Supreme Court Justice today, told of his intense desire to hav obtiaren by his second marriage, and of the blunt refusei of his wife, Dace Melbourne Charlot, not half his age, to Socord with his dearest wish. \ @ir. Charlet, who Is president of the 'G44,000,000 Chariet Mines and Smelter Company of thie city and El Triumfo, | Menico, was brought to court by « Gaputy sheriff from the Ludlow Street Jah, where he jojourning for failing iite.pey his beautiful wife the temporary alimony ordered by Justice Lehman, ties. Mra. Chariot, ‘tm @ dark blue crea! Wer husbend in court, siniling sarcas- tloalty. t ‘WEEPS HIS sorrow FOR LACK; OF BABIES. “Tell the Court qme of the things that caused dissension between you and jarbed becomin; ) gat in front of Mre. Chartet." instructed Attorney Ed- srerd A. Isauce. ‘The elderly mine president began to weep ajlentiy. “I told Dace I wanted children; that M% bad been my foremost thought in Marrying her,” he sobbed. “I pleaded * with her. To be cure I told her I had two children dy my first marriage, a @on and a daughter, but they were both older than my little wife, and I wanted Uttle bablos to play around me in the {afternoon of my “xt ‘I won't, I wn't h 1 don't wawnt them, enough for any wom ply, Once when il my entreaties, children, because i that's reason she would re- pleas became my urgent she went to Detroit and stopped with her mother for the express pur- pore of evading me.” “Do you think you treated your wife her family well?" continue? Mr. Taaace. “{ do, indeed,” was Mr. Charlot's re- ply. ‘I wave jobs to all of them. First there was her eister, MMdred. Mrs, Charlot asked me to get Her @ jon, no T brought her down to the camp aad employed her at a good salary. Then Dace asked me to find work for her other slster Frank, Now Mrs. Stark. So I brought Frank to ©) Triunfo mines and pald her good woges, MOTHER AND UNGLE NEEDED ext Dace came. co me with the ples that I find work for her uncle— d of the slater of her mother, jon—and, being good natured pd alway: desirous of doing ev T_ could to make my little ‘k at the camp, to me with a long fi « @tie said- her mother, M was failing in eyesight, and that she ought to hav nice, It paid Job. =I, being stil worshipping husband, obtained for Mrs. Bhannon the position of secretary of our compan: it a sal- ary of $200 a month, with offices in New Yoru.” “Th you" over have any trouvle with ell,” sald Mr. Charlot slowly grunt confeas that I did, We took Mil- @reé down to the camp with us. In Kl we picked up a young man named her to help instal the telephone wires. BA tew days after we arrived iin camp tldred going out of the camp Nery evening after 6 o'clock with thin risher, Yat protestd, asking her not to act thls way, for, I told her, the man was oom below her station in life, and as T Teaponsivle to her mother for her ety. T felt impelled to ask her to re- boat Bhe paid no attention to my a ‘monitions, so finally ad to ask my ‘Vite to chaperone her nd Fisher on their Ittle jaunts, At Dace and T decided that it would be best for her sister to return to Detroit." “Did your yon, Robert, now dead, ever threaten to shoot your wife, or did he ever shoot her?” “Mo air,” exploded Mr, Charlot, “Time ané again Robert told me that he would » protect my wife with his life: that if any harm over befell her, I would find eon body in front of her. pie Sok AES =) JAPS CALL FOR REMOVAL OF PUL. OFFICIALS IN HONOLULU Hold’ Mass “Meeting and Adopt of «Resolutions Complaining + Immigration Discrimination. June §,—Hesolutions ass meeting the removal immigration officials f untair- neas and unnecessary harshness in their + dealings with Japanese returning from visite te Japan. The treatment ac- corded, the resolutions declare, i# such (nae #t te not safe for Japanese to visit heir home country if they hope to re- ie te this j0 TR fs sot forth also that Japaneso women arriving have been insulted by unwarranted and offensive remarks leged to have beat made by officials of ton statle the immigret! # 7 BONOLULU, Waltam Metca rtyeAve seul ‘gron' Killed to-day ry fell from tie second story ground from 4 new -buliding | @rested ut No 2 West His body was removed to wiv Py ‘Maat Fisty-aint eweet x men Ons gt Nowhere Are Require- ments for Admission to the Ranke So High or erate’ One Slipping by Less. But Controversy Over | “Bad Spelling and| Grammar” Emphasizes, Need of More Elastic! Teachirig, She Says. Are Hew York school teachers “tmoredibly ignorant?” Is it true, Ge Prof. Bawarad G. Billets of the University of Wisconsin asserts, that “there are to-day hundreds of teachers in the elementary echools of Hew York whose serviess would ‘BOt be approved im any progressive school system?’ f= particular, are our teachers deficient in the Grammar an4 epelling of Baglish, suraly the most important subject> taught to the cosmopolitan popa- lation of Mew York schools? ‘That much discussed batch of letters made public by the Committee on School Inquiry of the Board of Estimate seems Pending the trial of her sepuration ac-| to angwer all these questions in the aMirmative. The letters, all of which on their first publication were said to be from teachers in the public schools, contained such misspelled words as ‘‘be- Tetv “pay-role,” “‘apporuval," “‘re- clpt." There were alse many wretch- edly constructed sentences. “And ‘ns this the sort of thing that's being taught to our children?” every- body has exclaimed with a proper show of indignation. Probably the best per- son to answer that question is Mis Gri Strachan. As teacher, principal and, Snally, district superintendent, 8 Strachan has served more ti twenty years in the public schools. Fur- thermore, as President of the Interbvor- ough Association of Women Teachers, which fought and won the equal pay battle, she h become personally ac- quainted with hundreds of teachers and received thousands of letters from them. NOT MUCH CHANCE OF “ILLIT- ERATE TEACHER is It true, Miss Strachan,” I asked, hat our teachers can't spell?” “You are thinking of those letters?’ she queried in return. “But hasn't Pre lent Mitchel himself denied that hi committee is res) ble for the.r pub: Neation or that t! should be taken as representative of the public school teachers? Superintendent Maxwell would not wo aecept them. And only to-day 1 noticed that the worst une had been found to be from & ecrabwoman, while another containing striking @rrors wi written b; Italian lecturer who might be very clever if his particular subject without knowing how to spell English. It's hardly fair to hold the teachers ac- countable for those, “2 believe the average grade of among To prove her point Miss Strachan in- stanced her own case. “I came here more than twenty years a) “IT had a diploma from th College, which gave posedly, to teach in any Btate, ‘Also Thad taught for three years in the Buffalo public schoo! Yet I had to take an examination lasting four days and covering eleven subjects. It was no mere matter of form, I assure you, MUST BE “WELL GROUNDED” TO TAKE EXAMINATION. “At present no one js even allowed to take the examination for teachers who cannot present a high school diploma, or proof satisfactory to the examining committee that the candidate has suc- cessfully accomplished four years of secondary work, In addition the can- didate muat show a normal college diploma or two years of actual teaching experience. At least 75 per cent, is necessary for passing in the examina- tion, and the first test is only good for '& position in one of the first s!x grades, For admisison to the seventh or eighth grade another examination is necessary, “Of course, in a tremendous system there are bound to be persons of all degrees of merit. Also there are a cer- tain numb of foreigners to whom English spelling will be more diffic all their lives than to the native born. Then the evening schools have certali vocational teachers who, while they have to pass an examination, are tested specially as to thelr practical knowl- edge of their chosen subject. Then, once in a while, all of us are careless and one inight write ‘tody’ for ‘to-day in a letter, All these things may help to explain wiy, with severa! thousand teachers, thirty-three letters scattered over a period of five are found to contain some mistak OLD-FASHIONED LLING BEE FOR HER PUPILS. “But, Miss Strachan,” 1 persisted, “would such a fume have been about these few letters except for oral feeling that cBlldven are not be- ing taught to spel! whether or not the Heachers know how? Business men have often complained that the boy or girl who comes into thelr offices cannot write ordinary ‘business letters without imis- | spelling words, “More time should be given to Buglish im the grade knowledgeé. “Instead of teach. ing the children Italian er French or German, yen enous | be taught how to speak and seme Soates Soman, in sgn Chances for an ‘“‘Illit-| Course and Freedom in: Marguerite Mooers Marshall.' most important study. Aud I ‘satax 75 per cent, is altogether too low a passing mark in spelling. What sort of impression would a hun- Gred-word paragraph give you in which twenty-five of the words Were misspelled? Im the schools ander my direction I have always insisted that the children get at least 90 per cent. in spelling. “At my commencement exercises this year I'm going to have an old-fashioned spelling bee. It’s an excellent drill, and J should like to aee It revived in other schools, Also, why should not spelling lessons be given as home work? Even the uneducated father or mother could j hold the book and hear the child spell through a list of words. Parental help often cannot be obtained for mathe- matical problems. . TEACHERS TIED BY INELASTIC COURSE OF STUDY. “Z believe many teachers would Uke to give more drill im Zngiph, but at present they have to fol! an inelastic course of study, which is the same for every section of the city. That is why we want the mapping ont of the course to be put into the hands of the Board of Baucation. The individual teacher would have more lUberty, more hours which she might fll accora- ing to the needs of tho children in the locality where she taught. “Though the children of English speaking parents need plenty of drill in Srammar and speli.ng, few realize how doubly necessary this drilly1® to the ‘drén of foreign parents, such us completely fill up certain schools. Also the new Idea of making a child's mS an easy as possible should not le at least necessary In laying the founda tions of knowledge—a mastery of one's | language. “T always tell my pupils," ended Miss Strachan, “that though they may be able to get through the world without Knowing cube root, they will find them- selves blocked at every turn in their cla} and bual Ife if they can't speak, write and spell correctly. And I have no fears that our teachers are unable to impart this instruction, given the time and the opportunity." pe aE CONEY’S TENT DWELLERS | MUST PULL UP STAKES. . Running Water Regulation Compels Them to Leave Their Happy Canvas Homes, “Tent City," that cluster of white can- Vas shelters where fiity or more city dwellers have been wont to spend their week-ends at Coney Island, is doomed. Through the activity of Wiillam Tighe of the Health Department, a do: more of the campers were sy into Coney Island Court to-day to show cause why they should not be fined fo: violation of the health ordinance requir. ing running water in all dwelling plac places. | Tighe declared to Magistrate Dodd jthat the Health Department would ree ‘fuse permits for the tent dwellers untess ja system of running water and sewers was established in ‘Tent City," which ix located at the foot of West Thirty- fifth street, near Gravesend Bay, ‘The lient dwellers explained that the cost of linstalling such a system would be too lyreat, and Magistrate Dodd suspended tence, Instructing (he campers to tell all their neighbors in the canvas village jthat they would have to get permits from the Health Department or vacate at once inder penalty of heavy fines As the Health Department officials ave idetermined tu refuse 7 # unless run- ning water i put in the tent dwellers ‘expect to have to fold up their summer ewes and Ba beak 10 the ely, @ ure the fact that grinding effort is! | | CLUE DISCOVERED. THAT MAY CLEAR UP == PLUM ISLAND CASE Information May Give a Line on Movements of Mrs. ‘Houseman, Alonzo Housman, the husband of the inissing Mrs. Olga Housman who Jaropped out of sight in the waters off (Plum Island nine days ago and of whom no trace has since been found, | was considerably heartened to-day when |detectivés under Capt. William J, | Deevey of the Coney Island station, told him that their search on Barren Island yesterday ‘had been productive of cer+ tain information which, they hoped, would be strengthened tnto a definite clue to Mrs, Housman's whereabouts as confirmatory evidence was procured, Nelther Housman nor the detectives would reveal the new hope that they have and which may ift the pall of myatery from the most puzzling case the detectives on the astern shore “have had to deal with in many yea: Tt ts Presumed that they: have found a trace of the money which the missing woman had in her corsage at the time she rowed away from Plum Island of Sat- urday night and the presence of which would offer a motive for robbing and even for killing her, pale BOY WAS A GOOD SHOT TILL POLICEMAN CAME. Had Won 28 Boxes of Cigarettes When Owner of Shooting Gal- lery Was Arrested, Livery time you knock down a box of cigarettes the smokes are yours, Try your luck," chanted Tom Hitaka !n front of his yesterday on the Bowery at Coney Island, booth ‘The boxes of cigarettes were stood on end on ous pinnacles in the back= ground and the marksmen were armed with oir rifles that fred little cork pro- | joctiles. It looked easy, but it wasn't, land Hitaka was doing a land office business unt!l little Edward Breason, fourteen years old, of No, 2 Elbert street, Brooklyn, came along, Eddie had a ritleman’s eye and steely nerve, developed by much browsing through the 10-cent classics of Hter- ature, Almoat every shot took tts toll of cigarette boxes. A crowd collected to watch the hoy knock Hitaka’s stock to ainithereens, By the time Policeman Pat Connor edged into the crowd Eddie ha@ won twenty-e'wht boxes of Karettes and Was preparing tor additional trlumpha. Connor, on learning the tad’e age, spoiled all the fun by arresting Witaka on the charge of selling cigarettes to minors under aixteen. Hitaka was held in $200 bail by Magis- trate Dodd to-day for trial in Spectal Beasions, adie had to return all the ware but as he got s money | back had all the fun and prid of displaying bis prowers, he should worsgt \Is Built in Sections Separated | Wide Hats Coming Back and SHOWN M PARS by Pleated Outstanding Flounces, WEARER MUST STAND UP the Heelless Shoe Is a Diversion. The latest novelty in feminine attire in the three story skirt, which has just appeared in Paris. Tt is in three distinet sections, each separated by a pleated flounce projecting stifly from four to six or eight inches, the narrowest being at the hem. The things they to most resembie are inverted cones, and the narrowness of the hem makes them diMcult to walk in and almont impossibie to sit in. The dress relies mainly on its fresh, dainty appearance, and sitting in it crumples up the flounces and spoils the whole garment. Hence the Paris wearers of the new style spend their time, while bedecked in them, on ti feet. The latest fashions, as shown at the Paris races yesterday, favor the tall woman. The long folds from the waist and even from the shoulders downward, 80 popular early in the season, are now siving place to horizontal draperies, or festoons, which, untess wearer is very elim and tall, have the disadvan- umpY appearance, ‘ain that tulle will be the moat fashionable material for summer any case. The tul'e generally has a rather dark background with a small pompadour pattern of tiny bunches of flowers in natural colers. The softness 1 lends itself to charm- a mingles well with lace, of which precious specimens are seen as trimming along the edge of the low-necked budices and skirts. ytnocte the tatlor madon preference is to ruugh tweeds, while the old fi htentting costumes are discarded in favor of loose Norfolk coats belted rather high in the waist and devold of trimming, with the exception of rows of buttons or stitching along the skirt. The large sallor collars of the dainty rn with these coats ar cunts, while the corner of « briiiiant hued silk handkerchi hangii from the breast pocket, rell by a touch of color the otherwise monotonous proved by the new fashions. The vogue of tiny hats in Paris ts on the wane.. The brioa of the average hat (e. eonsiderably larger than has been seen before thie year. The smartest women express the view that the large hat may be expected to return to favor. A diversion in footgear is the heelless shoes. These are especially worn by those affecting the 1918 fashionable oop. ———— COFFIN’S WILL PROBATED, DISINHERITING FAMILY. Surrogate Declares Jury Must Pass Upon Influence of Woman Who Lured Him From Wife. Surrogate Ketcham, in Brooklyn, to- day admitted to probate the will of George C. Coffin, a lawyer, of No. 138 Broadway, who Gied suddenly last January. Mr. Coffin left an eatate es- timated at several hundreds of thou- nds of dollars to his cousin and house- keeper, Mrs. Belle Coffin Provost, wite, Mra, Mary Mills Coffin, from whom he had been separated for ten years, afd her children, George and Mary, tried to break the will on the ground of undue influence by Mrs. 2 In his decision the Surrogate referred to a letter written to Mr, Coffin by Mrs. Provost, In which she scolde@ him for breaking with her suddenly, and ex- plained that all the members of her family supposed that their relations ‘were merely @ business arrangement, Surrogate Ketcham reed with th contention of Attorney Augustus Van Wyok that this note took Mr. Coffin back to Mra. Provost for no good pur- pose, and that Mr. Coffin's wife and children were deprived of proper ben fits because of the undue influ woman who had lured him y trem them. But, he remarked, the law did Hurrogate to take such ANOTHER HIKER OFF TO CATCH UP WITH WESTON. Newspaper Deliverer, Known as the “Flying Centipede,” Starts From City Hall. Samuel A. Debs, @ newspaper delivercr, started on a hike to Minneapolis from the City Hall at 11.45 A, M, to-day, Debs ‘was sent on his way by Alderman James L. Devine, from whose district in the Bronx Debs hail, The newspaperman pedestrian carried @ letter from Mayor Gaynor to Wallace G. Nye, Mayor of Minneapolis. It 1s Debs’s intention to chase Edward Payson Weston to Minneapolis, The! seventy-five-year-old walking marvel is now 147 miles on his way, Debs, who ts) now forty-one years ok! and experienced in long walking trips, plans to overtake his aged rival in Ohio, John Ronis has already started to catoh up with Westen, faves walking, the newspapers call nim, | he told reporters before starting, the ‘#lying Centipede.” Several hundred of his fellow workers from the cireulation | departments of the different newspapers | | accompanied Debs by the World Build: | ing, thence down Broadway to the ferry New Jersey, where he str: his fire: stop to-night ‘| from the wind. ae HOW THE NEW REB- STORY SKIRT “Taam RIGHTLY WORN. SHIVERY JUNE SPELL WITH FROST SMASHES RECORDS HEREABOUTS Coldest on the Weather Man’s LONDON, June 9.—It tas been elded that Mies Emily Wilding Davi- son, the militant suffragette who died from her injuries received while inter- fering with the running of the Derby, stall be buried at her home, ‘Herstey, Northumberland, on Saturday, The body has been wrabped in a suf. fragist bann has been placed in her coffin. Women's Social and Poljtical Union te arranging an imposing funeral proces- ston across London atid a memorial eer- vice to be held at the headquarters of the militant organisation before tho body te placed on the train to be sent to_ Northumberland. “Kt the weekly meeting of the suffra- wettes he to-day moat of the women wore mourn- A telegram wan read which had ‘deen dispatched to King George in the following words: “Constitutional methods of approach- ing our King have failed, Emily her ite to call en'n passion date demand for the fran- chine, we ask the King to give nerious attention to this appeal of woran- The fines of 6 each Inflected by the Police Magistrate on Saturday on Mre. Marianne Hyd drewa and Miss Ugiivie when they were charged with obstruction in connection with their attempt to interrupt the de- Uberations of the Balkan peace 4 gates were paid by an unknown person to-day and they KING GEORGE ON MARTYRS DEATH sz Life for Cause,” They Ask Him to Heed Their Demand. wa oat an pape farae ok Barrett Mrs. Beatrice Mise Annie Renney, Miss Laure anc Edwyn Clayton, the chemist alfeged to have fo nay Cr) to'the suffragettes Gen.” Mrs,. Flora Dre Was. originally charged the other prisoners, did not the case against hor had been vi ‘owing to her gg ® ttle Interest appeared to general public in the ey band on their left arms as @ mourning fov Mins Emily Wildl son, the militant suffragette yesterday at Epsom from the Injuries received while trying te fere with the Ki Long ™ the case opened. Sir the Sollcitor-General, was arrister on behalf of the which {s acting as bermgie nt Richard Davia Mul of the known barristers, was the’ leader for defense. a ’ HIT BY TRAIN MORE TRAINS: PASS OVER THIS Can't Lower Him on Ladder, Se He Is Taken on Stretcher Six* Blocks Along Structure, Oscar Tonrose, a painter, of Ne Gs Bergen atreet, Brooktyn, left ot workmen engaged in painting BR. T. elevated structure at avenue and Cumberland street to cromm to the other side of thé ture and arran ®& canvas Protect pedea' paint. Fifteen minutes ister, tinued absence aroused the his fellow-workmen. They lying unconsciaus on the I and @ euffragist badge The in @ music hall In London and Miss Davison havin Wilding is Misa Constance An- AD Several trains papsed over whi he but he wasn't An ambulance with pal a si di were liberated from if mannelieaees from bees Cumberland Street Fespital, if a block ROYAL BOX BURNED compiay oe eteuiank De = LONDON, Juni of the militant suffragettes have once more become active. Besides the fire at Books for Middle Atlantic and* New England States. WASHINGTON, June %.—The coldest weather ever recorded during June in the middle Atlantic and New England States, the Ohio Valley and tho great takes region, was reported to-day by the Weather Bureau. The Guif States ts the only territory east of the Rockies to escape an unseasonable drop. “A high barometric preasure of great mag- nitude,” 1s the oMctal reason. Froste are reported from Vermont, Central New York, New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, Froata are preAloted for to-night in the Great Lakes region, the upper Ohlo vale ley, the North Atlantic States and phe mountain districts of the Middle Atlen- tic States, MIDDLETOWN? N. Y., June %—A heavy frost fell in this vicinity last night and thin ice formed in places shut off Considerable damage was done to vegetation throughout Orange und adjoining counties, WATERTOWN, N. Y., June %—A heavy frost visited this section last night, doing much damage to garden produce. Many of the less hardy plants, including corn, were killed. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., June 9.—Thou- sands of dollars’ worth of damage was done by a heavy fros: here Inat night. Trroughout Broome County earn, beans, potatoes and tomatoes were cut to the ground and on the hills tea from to a considerable thickn: tome farmers lost their entire sefson's crops and the freese je the heaviest known in this rec- tlon at this season, _—— FIND MAN IN HARLEM RIVER. Think He Inte Water From Sewer Tep. The body of a man, still warm with @ fresh cut on the bridge of the nose, was found in the shallow waters off One Hundred and Forty-first street and Fifth avenue at,7 o'clock to-day by Peter Schiffer and William Russell, who were crulaing down the Harlem River in their gasoline launch, Both men wa fter the body and brought it to the river bank, and while Russell notified Policeman McManus of the Lenox avenue station Schiffer worked over the body, attempting to induce respiration. When Dr. O'Brien of Harlem was kept upor twenty minut: the man was pronounced dead. He had Deen In the water half an hour when found. The police are not inclined to believe the man met with fou! play think he was walking out on thy top and fell over, The best strength allows for for iced tea, because for melting ice. FYose CEYLON TEA — ES t White Rese Coffes, Rich and Pure § a the Hurat Park race course, started last night, where the damage is estimated at $70,000, they destroyed early to-day @ boathouse on the River Lea at Waltham- ree} stow, in the northeast of London, and| tal, His condition is critical, ll l q M BY SUFFRAGSTTES A S2_ATO-MORROW, TUESDAY. climbed to the Lefer pt Tonrore had @ fractured ekull ternal injuries. Hie conditien the doctor decided he ried down the ladder, and Patrolman Lewis ON RACE COURSE. itt i bir! it —The “arson squads’ i ‘The he Tonrose was rushed to a Sale Women’sCoats ¢ Richly Tailored Novelties | Beautiful Coat Models In Radical Clearance Sale| Auto and Outiang-Wear dia $10, 315and $20 Values| $20, $25 and $30 Values tania ‘e vy ig “Sy, ned by Bal on sale Tuesday at beige | hg engmon special clearance quotation. | Tt Teanendontaa Correct New Cutaways and Coats and Smart Suh Bulgarian Efiects Sra Coal and Sone Ordinarily the same cut and These are the fashion: attention to istics mors, Whichs why the why the be faery re Ps nnaer all ag conn Remember—Alterations ss FREE—-Continued tmetltehed Heb o Comp Dresses & Waists ForSummerWear Gingham & Ratine Dresses, $7.50, 9.50, 12.50. Tub Dresses of Linen, $9.00, 10.50, 13.50. CottonCrepe&DresdenEffects,$12.50,13.50,16.90 Lingerie Dresses, $10.50, 15.00, 18.00. Linen and Pique Skirts, $5.00, 6.50, 7.50. Lingerie Waists, $2.00, 2.50, 3.50. Linen Waists, $2.50, 3.50, 4.50. Wash Silk Waists, $1.85; 6.00, 7.50. French Hand-made Waists, $5.00, 7.50, 10.00. Commencing Saturday nest, the 14th Binrie 5 and can- $ fHinwing until further notice, thie store will close at 18 o'clock Saturdays and 5 o'clock other days. James McCutcheon & Co., 5th Ave., 33d & 34th Sts. Ime) Coes cee Cees) Cams Cia |