The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1913, Page 5

‘abe: Canes HEAT MERCHANTS OFTHE FUTURE Mears in Orient, Retums {ee9 fo Sell Tea Here. Chiltiése Look to United States if | as Best Friend, Says For- Le mer Bariker. ‘Warner M. Van Norden, former prest- Gent of the Van Norden Trust Com- pany and the Nineteenth Ward Bank, editor and gefieral manager of the now fe @hundt Van Norden’s Magazine and ] An@resting figure in the affaira of sev- | @ral trust companies, is back in New long absence in the China, and has be- come @ tea merchant at No. Lex- ington avenue. While Mr. Van Norden was among the” Lolos many New Yorkers, not knowing that he had gone to China to preach an antl-opium campaign among the unenlightened, wondered at his sudden disappearance immediately fol- lowing a stneational robber: $8,000 of the funds of the ‘Trust Company disappeared. Ose'January night in 1910 young Mr. ‘Van Norden lcft a business conference 4 the Waldorf with that sum, in bills of big denomination, securely reposing fg @ wailet in his coat pocket. He was by two women, so the trust ly President afterward declared, @@ Thi y-third street between Fourth @b4 Fifth avenues. One knocked him @own, while the other snatched the wallet and ran. Subsequently detectives afrested two women on suspicion, but Van Norden failed to appear a, * them, and when it was ene to Europe they wi Van Norden was very fetching sult of summer- Weight cloghes when found by the Evening World man sitting at a heavily carved mahogany desk in the rather luxuriant shop where the odor of teas Bhd Oriental spices was distinctly prev- alent. And while the place was not @fowded with customers Mr, Van Nor- den was in the happiest frame of mind. We enid be loved China and lovel to tat about tt “and.” he added, “I! ope te Feturn to that country in the fa) for anether six months’ stay.” Mr. Van Norden believes that the CBimaman {se the merchant of the fur turethat the almond eyed and much abused Celestial will one day become the great international money maker and Glepenser of utilities, During his two years’ absence he visited all the eastern half of Asia and saw many things that the tourist never gets a ehafce at. GAYS CHINESE LOOK TO US AS BEST FRIEND. “China loves America,” said Mr. Van Norden. “We are very solid with the Rewest, clever man of the East. He @qe0 not like the Englishman and the Jap he abominates. He has thrown all Japanese teachers from his echools the idea that Japa officers will # man his armies is absurd. He @ Englishman because the fe still dealing in opium in oppo- the authorities, and the real the Jap is one of jeal- ouny. he old days the Chinese taught the Jap all he . Then the Jap picked up the ways und manners of the West and @ modern. He then tréatea the Chinaman as an inferior ang the feeling ed was born. ‘That fecling will take centuries to wipe out, The Chinaman likes the French people, but his real love for the American, and he shows it every way he can “Fula country made its big hit with China when it refused to take the 810+ (000,900 indemuity imposed after the boxer rebellion, While the other countries held China down to the last penny we OF HIS TRAVELS, , | “% was much China, which is under French domina- tien, The French are remarkable colon- faers. They are not so mercenary and the English and Germans. it pleasant, for thei strange land, Why, pital of Tongking, ti ment erected # 2,000,000 framc opera house and each season an epére company from Paris ‘s paid 260,00) france to perforn. and gece all the door veceipts. “There are 1,200 Frenchmen in Hanoi asd they have 200 miles of automobile j{ TRAVELLED THREE MONTHS IN INTERIOR OF CHINA. “Por three months I travelled in the of China with Edward Thwing, fa an American very popular in ’ Decause of his anti-cplum cru- sade. We had several very exciting ox- “Once, while in the city of Kwellin, cwhieb 1g about 1,500 miles from the coast, we found ourselves in the middle of bit of fighting that wae most exciting. "The revolution was on, but there had the city for some asleep one night If musketry, Soldiers, Bunanesé, were in tho streets outside ghooting wybody who showed his ‘They had made an attack on the f pg eel and been beaten off and taking revenge on the city, For poy Gaya wa Beat indoora, and om the G_FIGURE: VARIOUS. STAGES THE COMING WEEK. wap third day upon the payment of 6,000 taels by the “‘Tartat” or Mayor, nity Cantonese wrdiers chased the intridérs away. They got their rooney, before they would make the attack, however. “We left there at once and went by boat to Hongkong, “The Chinese are honest, and the hum- | 5,, blest citizen has a pride in his honesty, which was weil illustrated during this trip down river. A fisherman had caught @ deautiful fish some eighteen inches long which I bargained for. Just as he was passing it to me the fish got loose from the hook and fell into the river, The poor fellow was disconsolat: He cried and beut his head in his despair. Do you know that for more than five minutes I argued with the fellow to take the money for the fish, Dut he would not. WILL BE THE MERCHANT OF THE WORLD. “This showed to me the real character of the Chinaman. He ip proud of his honesty and he will one day be the mer- chant of the world, “There are distributed over the world in thirty-one countries outside the Em- pire of China, more than 2,000,000 Chinese, while there are only 5,000,000 Englishmen outside of the British pos- sessions, That means that the China- man is getting control of the world's rade by @ gradual process, Ho is ning to the ides of international nd he will soon get bis share of it. are only two American com- in China that are doing any busi- ness and these are the Standard Ol Company and the American Tobacco Company. There is a great Geld there for all Am n products. There should be tho ds of American marine motors on the re of China where to- day human muscle furnishes the motive power. “It Is @ strange sight to see 150 men pulling @ boat along the streams. “The Chinamen are not natura) gol- Giers. It ia only the lowest class that goes into the army, There never had been any patriotism there until the re- public became established, and even now the love for money w stronger than any other passion with them.” CONVICTED OF HOLDUPS THAT ANOTHER CONFESSES. Thomas Gilmore May Be Saved From Prison by Story of Deserter From Army. BUFFALO, N. Y., June 21.—Whie Thomas Gilmore, twenty-four years old, convicted of robbery in the first degree, and who was to have been #un- tenced Monday for committing eight daring burglaries and hold-ups, sits in ® cell at the jail rejoicing, ry J. Audette, twenty-three years ) 4% de- serter from the United 8 vy, ie confined 1 a cell at Police Heade quarters in tears, following a complete confession of the crimes for which Gil- more was falsely accused. Audette was picked up as a deserter by Detective Kennedy last night, and in a few min was admitting that he robbed several stores during last March and April “Do you know that there is a man in Jail awaiting to be sentenced for these crim he was asked, "I have been in Canada ever since the last robbery," Audette eald, “and I don't now anything about the map in jail.” Throughout his tral Gilmore hes strenuously denied his guilt, On Mon- ay be will be taken before Judge Km- STAGE FAVORITES TO OPEN BRIGHTON Lillian Russell, at Another ‘House, Will Tell How to Live 100 Years. ITH the opening of another rea: side theatre the summer may now be swing. Broadway Ke Music “Alias Jimmy Valentine” will be the bill. The Manhattan Opera House will uffer “The Girl in the Taxi,” with Ethel Grey Terry in the title rol The Harlem Opera House stock com- pany will present “The Only Son.” AT VAUDEVILLE HOUSE! Lady Constance Stewart Richardson will continue to be seen in oladstc Gances at Hammerstein's Victoria The- tre and roof garden. Other features will be Doyle and Dixon, eccentric dancers; Prince Floro, a monkey that the Jungman family of Harry Breen in 8 new je Stanley Trio. ‘The Wishing Tree and Chinese Res- taurant continue to be popular features at the Madison Square Root Garden, where cabaret singers and dancing round out the programme. At Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre wil be Fanny Brice, singing Comedi- Macey Harlan in “The Outpost,” and Lewis in "The Misery of & Hansom Cab,” the Daivis family of acrobats, and others, For its leading feature Proctor's One Hundred and Twenty-ifth Street Theatre will have Walter Wale and company in “At the Threshold.” Major Doyle in his mono- logue will be the headliner at the Twenty-third Street Theatre. At tho Fifty-eighth Street Theatre Bake: and the Turner Twins will be the chief at- traction. Sanderson Moffatt, the Scotch com- edian, who played Weelum !n “Bunty Pulls the Strings," will appear at Keith's Union Square Theatre In “A Wee Bit o' Married Life.” Others will ‘be Billy Arlington, character comedian, Inglis and Redding in parodies, Can- field and Ashley, Sutton, McIntyre end Button in “The Pumpkin Girl,” and the Gliding O’Mearas. ‘The bill at the American Theatre will include the Syiphonos, Spero and Lovens, the Two Mascagnis, Billy Inman and company, Tom Lanton and bis Jungle Girls, and Heese and Ward. BEACH AND PARK, This afternooon the Brighton Beach Music Hall opens its season with a bill that includes Andrew Mack, John Bunny, Grace Van Studdiford and Josle her, an English comedienne, Begin- nday the bill will embrace Ina . Harry Fox and Jennie Dolly, Fred V. Bowers and company, the Charlies Ahearn cycling comedians, and others, Lillian Russell will give her lecture, “How to Live One Hundred Years,” at the New Brighton Theatre, Brighton Beach. Among others will be James |»! Thornton in a monologue, Mrs. Gene Hughes in “Youth,” Byron and Lang- don in “The Dude Detective,” the Bradshaws, contortionists, and Blanche Colvin, comedienne, Henderson's Music Hall, Coney Island, and Le Maire, black- face comedians, in “The New Phy- sician," a mui comedy called "The Little Parisienne,” Mullen and Goo comedians; Kuting’s performing pi ons, cats and dogs, “Broadway Love, the DeVoy Trio, athletes, and Bel! Onra, trapege artist, At the Rustic Theatre, Palisades will offer Con Amusement Park, will be David Fisher in “Hunting @ Wife,” the Musical Vera Edwards and Grace the Four Lads from Har- 2, Randow Brothers, comedy ‘and the Juggling Morant. tion to “Fire and Sword” and other spectacles, Luna Park, Coney Island, offers many high class musical features, a JUSTICE RUSSELL’S WILL FILED FOR PROBATE. Brother of Ex-President Taft Is One of the Executors Named in the Document. Henry W. Taft, brother of former President Taft, is named as one of the executors of the will of Horace Russell, who waq a Jumtice of the Superior Court, which was filed for probate to- day. Most of the estate, conalating of §10- 000 real property and $10,000 personal property and several hundred shares of Western Union stock is divided among tne widow and three daughters. There are several minor bequests to friends and servants, The will was made in 19M on the eve of the departure o! ce Russell and his family for a European jaunt, It contained a provision that In the event of the family perishing during the trip raity of Georgia was to re- the Presbyterian Howpital the out by the fact that Justice Russell sur- vived the trip abroad badway'’s eady Reliet yTravgliam should sina carry @ boitle of ILAL. Boe ftir wi veer ; | Dreier a Hamels, 0% Se Vane raaliv--A half to @ tanipoontal in a ‘elt Inte tumbler of rehwen, waters will fo a few auinuter Insenier faut, Cholera Horta mach, Nausea, Volt! me Nerv een “Bick HE EVENING BEACH MUSE HALL DIVING 135 FEET” OFF BRIDGE, CRIES “TM ALL RIGHT?" Bruns Says His Plunge From Washington Structure Was a Nerve Test. “3 John Bruns, the only man who ever lived to tell it, was before Magistrate Levy to-day in the Morrtsanta Pollto Court, charged with attempting sitclde, The young architect was perfectly self- Possessed and showed no effects from his high dive of yesterday afternoon wave a cut on his head, which ald he thought he had received when truck the water. Steve Brodie sald that he jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge and made & lot of fame and money from his alleged feat. Nobody saw Steve jump But there was @ witness to Bruns’s 1%-€oot from the time he dived from the parapet of the great ‘until he disappeared under the of the Harlem River. Policeman Stapat of the High Bridge Police station said he had elmply stood and red, all action for the time paralysed. “I was under the bridge,” he sald in court to-day, “looking after the toys tn wimming. I happened to look up just as Brung dived from the epan. It made me feel queer, for it aeemed certain that man had deliberately gone to his I saw tis body twist and turn feather in the air, He turned several somersaults and @nally danded in the water on his side, “NOTHING THE MATTER WITH |ME,” HE ASSURES RESCUER. “I put out to him in @ rowboat and found him swimming, and to all appear ces in as good condition as 3 waa 'm all right, officer,’ he sald; ‘there's nothing the matter with me.’ I helped him into the boat, and took him to the mn, where he was given @ little lant.” Magistrate Levy regarded the prisoner curiously, and the architect met his gase calmly, “Are you the man I read about in the Papers who jumped from the Washing- know that it was in the pa- rs," returned Bruns, with @ iittle smile, “but I'm the man who dived from yeaterda; afternoon.” “What did you do it gor?” ' “Why, Your Honor, it was @ serve test. Some friends had been teunting me on my lack of nerve because I had never mearcied,, and as we talked over the matter I made @ bet that I would dive from the bridge. I first mentioned the Brooklyn Bridge, out finding that it was too closely guarded by the police changed my base of action.” “It was ‘ainly some nerve teat,” Fe- jponded the Magistrate. MOTHER FEAR! 6 MIND MAY AFFECT Mrs. Em! Kenny, mother, lving at No. 777 Elam Place, where Bruns also lives, told the Court ehe feared her son's mind had become af- fected by too much work. She had tried to make him take @ rest, but he declared that he was all right and didn’t need it. At times, she said, his actions had been queor. Only a few months ago she had discovered him in his room with the gas turned on, She had resuscitated him without the as- sistance of @ physician. “I think you need @ rest,” ealé the Magistrate to Bruns. “I am going to send you to Bellevue Hospital for ob servation for ten days.” observation at Bellevue for the next ten days. The bridge from which he dived je higher than the great span of the Brooklyn structure, rs are now offering all $2.75, & 3.50. Foulard and Cotton Also a Reduction | in progress, | — LD, 8A gale 151 WE + Market Closing.—In the last hour the Pressure to sell relaxed and stocks showed resistence at the lows level feached around 11 o'clock; from then on to 11.90 trading activity fell to email Proportions, while a number of stocks tecovered % point. last fifteen minutes renewed lepreesed the lesders to the lowest prices of the session, the market closing at the low level, with Union Pacific showing @ lose overnight of % Points, Steel 1%, St. Paul 8%, Amalga- Jumped off the Washington Bridge and | fare Beecher, Dr. Dwight Newell Hfitis, auccessor of Dr, Beecher in the pulpit of the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, wee the Gay's orator. Closing hours: 5 p.m.; 12 noon on Saturdays B. Altnan & Co discontinued styles of Women’s Pumps and Colonial Ties (sizes incomplete), the former prices of which were $5.00 to 7.00 per pair, at The following special sales will be held on Monday, June 23rd: Women's Mourning Dresses and Tailor- made Suits; Women’s Blouses, Silk Gloves, Muslin Underwear and Bras- sieres; Little Children’s Coats and White Cotton Summer Dresses; Black Silk Dress Fabrics. Sale of Women's French Hand-embroidered Lingerie. A sale of American Wilton Rugs is now (MiOh Avennt, 340 wud 35th Ptrects, Mem York) RDAY, JUNE 21, 1913 : f P Three New Macy Convenioness-- HELPFUL, ORIGINAL) EXCLUSIVE WITH MACY'S Shopping at Macy’s Easy for All Commuters and Occasional Visitors to New York in Direct Touch with the Great Store Ever alive to the importance of consulting the convenience of its patrons, Macy's has opened Order Booths in the Hudson Ter- minal and the Grand Central Station. These Booths will enable travelers on the railroad lines lig eb into these two ter. minals to reap all of the economic benefits of shopping at the M store without leaving the station. Leave your order at the in the morning. ‘ Call for your goods at the Booth in thevevening. For the benefit of travelers on the Long Island Railsoad and’ the other roads ue Pennsylvania Station on Seventh Avenue, Macy’s extends the conveniences of its original Blue Transfer Card System—the operation of which is below. ’s Grand Central Booth ms seh that ; #" The Macy Booth ws tc ol Set nt at Lene reeves SRepeieren, oo ane Pe sein meee your convenience. Pee eg ei onan Undll 6 AL p J t { [te i | f is gr j f & f time, shop witha Blué Transfer ¥ an) chase. When you have made your final, purchase, pay f at the Transfer desk on the Main Floor, Centre, and there will be delivered bp hr all of your purchases done up in a neat, compact parcel. Wemake an effort tocomplete the entire transaction so that your parcels are ready almost as soon as you have made your last a H Erie Railroad H Del, Lack. & W. RR . Y.,S iWetrn Re . High Service iB Kj A to Newark ieee ee: Local Jersey All of these lines pour their thousands of passengers every day into the Hudson Terminal. The commuters come 100,000 strong in the mprning 80x depart for their homes in the evening. The Macy Booth, in the centre of the great aisle on the floor above the train level, is most conveniently located for shoppers. All orders left here before 10 o'clock in the morning will Be filled so that your parcels will be ready for you at the Booth at 3:30 P. M. and any time thereafter up to6 P. M. , N.Y