The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1913, Page 3

SPOLED, YOUTH TES —_—— Grandmother Wakes From Terrifying Dream at About the Time of Tragedy. Bnatead of being happily married at- ter an elopement planned to take place , William H. Shay; twenty-one 014, of No. @2 Warren street, Newark, 10 « auicide, Belated home-goers early to-day caw @ young man take a bottle from his Peeket in front of the Newark Theatre On Market street and heard him exclaim Sefore he put it to Me lips: “T don't give @ 4— what becomes of me now! An instant later he sank to the etreet moaning and in @ few minutes he was ead, The bottle had contained carbolio acid. Investigation by the police revealed the fact that the youthful suicide was fille@. with grief over the loss of his Gweetheart and the apolling of their wedding plans. He had made. prepara- tions for an elopement with Miss Anna B. Yaeger, a pretty girl of No, 2 Quimby Place, West Orange, and had taken out the ficense which was found in hie Pocket efter his death. The news that he had secured @ license to marry her daughter reached Mra Yaeger yester- day, and she at once set about breaking off the engagement According to the story told the police, Mrs. Yaeger informed her daughter she had nothing against Shauger except that he was audject to attacks of hysteria ma should not marry until he becaine stronger. Her tearful entreaties to her inter to break off her pians for with Shauger prevailed to- Gay, and the gin, with eyes reddened from much weeping, agreed to send her @wtheart away. She youthful lover left his mother of his On Mise Yaeger tel4 Bim she could not marry bim and expiaines why. Without a word of Femenstrance or forgiveness Shauger and walked down the street. that hour and 2 A. M., when ik the carbolic acid, is not known, 49 supposed he walked the streets, other and srandmother were to Grandmother, Mrs. Mary Dunlap, with a ehriek at about the time Fest of the family, asserting she had had a terrible dream about the boy and was fearful something had happened. ‘The rest of the family went to bed, but @&e grandmother sat up until morning, when @ policeman brought news of the twagedy. An the breast pocket of young Shauger was a note addressed to his mother reading: “Don't grieve for me, mother. 1 could do nothing else under the cir- cumstances.” oe HOTEL RECTOR FIXTURES TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION Wilt Go in One or More Lots at Not Less Than 75 Per Cent. of Appraised Value, etitions in bankruptcy im the United States ‘were: Judge Learned Hand has authorized Edwin G. Ward, as receiver in bank- ruptey, to sell at public auction the property and effects of “Rector's,” a corporation running a hotel at Broad- way and Forty-fourth street, in one or more lots at his discretio e from | all Hens, for a sum of not less than 75 per cent. of their appraised value. The order further states that the liens which Btern Eros. may have on certain parts ef the property by reason of conditional bills of sale shall attach to the proceeds of the sale and the validity of these Mens hereafter to be determined by the Court Stern Gros, have consented to this arrangemen According to the petition of Receiver Werd, who has already disposed of the ‘wines, liquors and supplies for $18,942.10, the hotel and restaurant were furnished apd equipped for the most part by Gtern Bros., under a contract of $25,000, and the two conditional bills of sale held by the @rm total $275,006, The ap- praived value of the property, including claimed by Stern Bros, and $60,000 a ishings put in by the company, Receiver Ward says, is only $95,000. —— METROPOLE BRINGS TRIFLE. filed to-day District Court ‘The lease of the Metropole Hotel property at Nos, 147, 149 and 161 West Forty-third treet, im front of which Herman Rosenthal was shot to death, has been sold in a foreclosure proceeding, according to papers placed on file in the Supreme Court to-day. The purchaser t# the Berghoff Brewing Company, the price $6,000 plus the taxes and water assess- ments, which amount to $17,067.71, Also, there are di on the lease of the property, amounting to $30,000, which th brewing company held against Georg F. Considine, who had the lease, —_——__— SUNDAY WORLD “WANTS” =| HIS LIFE} with good ring manne: HOW BABY’S MIND 18 TESTED BY DOCTORS. Of, course, baby's feelings are consid- ered in every possible way by the doo- tors, nurses, teachers and volunteers, who are making the baby contest a tre- mendous success. He da allowed to have his mental test first. As soon as he makes his proud entrance in his moth- er’e arms, or eomettmes in the arma of @ Uttle sister or brother, a nurse in a Diue dress and a white cap undresses him and pute all his clothes in paper bag. Then the bag ts placed on one of the little school chairs, which some day @ few years from now baby himself may occupy, and mamnia ts given baby’s number, which she pins on her chest. Then they proceed together to another little room, wi tests baby's intel whether or not he axe, A queer thing about the baby tests Is that the more zeroes baby gets in his markings the better it is for him, If he gets all zeroes that means he ¢ a 1,000-point baby; in other words, a mukl- millionaire of health, For sero marked after questions concerning baby's respi- ration, or the straightness of his legs, or the quantity of his hair, means nor- mal; @o an all-zero baby la @ perfect baby, Yesterday one of the bables en- tered scored 980 pointe—the highest so far. After baby had gurrendered all his worldly goods to the paper bag the doctor in charge of the mental test held out a shiny gold watch to him, If baby grabbed for it, that was a eign of intelligent interest and he got &@ zero, Then another person in the room would clap hands, or in some other way produce a sudden sharp sound, the noise, that was evidence that be fe already beginning to ponder the law of cause and effect. And so he got an- other sero. One poor infant howled all the way through his mental test, re- Jected the watch, hid his face on his mother's breast and absolutely refused to be intelligent for publication. So they gave him a percentage of 70. Later on, though, he may grow up into a Daute or @ Petrarch, @ Garibaldi or a Cavour, and fool those doctors, GURGLE AT WEIGHING, BALK AT MEASURING, After the baby had had his mind hed and measured. Nearly all the babies coged and gurgled in the weighing machine, but they viewed the measuring machine and all ite works with alarmed distaste, This seemed to be because they were placed on their backs to be measured, in a boxlike wooffen contrivance, of which one end was adjustable and was pushed normal for his BUT WORK MONDAY WONDERS, ‘ wp tll it was level with bate‘e feo @nd defects were tabulated. Here and there, perhaps, you saw a baby, @ little fellow who would grasp the finger of the examining doctor or ooo in the face of the nurse who weighed him. But, generally speaking, the babies appeared to be ring shy. And I don’t wonder, for even an adult human being would be nervous and worn out after sub- mitting himeelf for the first time to the many physical and mental tests necessary to determine which of these 406 is the healthiest of all. If baby’s eyes turned toward| The Evening World’s and Babies’ Copyright, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co. (The New York World), Mothers, Fathers, Sisters and Even the Little Brothers Watch Kiddies Tested for Health Prizes. y Nixola Greeley-Smth. All roads in Brooklyn yesterday led to Public School No, 91, The big brick structure at the corner of Lin- coln road and Albany avenue was the Mecca for fond mothers; hopeful lit- tle sisters; bashful, often sulky lit- tle brothers; and, here and there, a self-conscious papa, for the first day of judging the 406 entrants in the prize baby contest conducted by The Evening World and the Babies’ Wel fare Association had begun. All day inside the school building there was a babble of many tongues —Italian, German, Russian, Bnglish —all talking and thinking—Baby. And the babies talked Baby loudest of all, I am sure every one of them must have been marked perfect for lung power on the soore cards whereon their physical perfections With both feet and head knocking wood and with half @ dozen persons eurvey- ing him critically, it was no wonder he howled his disapproval. ‘When ho had been weighed and meas- ured the baby was ready for the final Phystoal test. Another doctor ined "8 and nose and throat, the con- of his skin, the straightness of his lega, the depth of his chest and the amount of his hair, and passed upon each item of the examination a Pretty young woman in lavender would set them down, Meantime baby's mother would beam or frown, accord- ing to the doctor's utterances on these momentous points, and sometimes she would interpose an objection to his ver- dict. One baby was rather bald for his age. He was being examined by Dr. Edward M, Thompson, who is President of the Parents’ League of Public School No, 1m, “Bald? queried the young woman in lavender, looking up from her examina- tion paper. ered Dr. Thomp- “He fell down, His hair will grow again.” , Dr. Thompson passed his hand ap praisingly over baby’s polished crown, “He must have fallen down pretty Little Mothers’ Aid Ready For First Ba First fn the Manhattan field to hold @ Better Babies’ Contest in the Breat city-wide series organised by the Babies’ Welfare Asnociation and ‘The Evening World, the Little Mothers’ Ald Association announced its plans this morning, The contest boundaries extend from Seventh to Twenty-eighth street and from Fifth avenue to the East River. Any child living within these boun- daries, from the age of three months to five years, is eligible as a contestant, Registration of children as entrants for the contest will begin Monday, July M4, at the Little Mothers’ Ald Associa- tlon, No, 288 @econd avenue, at 2 P. M., and continue until 4 P. M. Registration will fo on between the same hours each day thereafter except on Saturdays and Sundays up to and including Wednes- day, Aug. 13, On Monday, Aug, 18, the testing, meas- uring and examining—in other words, fhe sadging of the vadiee~vwill begin by “ é often,” he Imughed. “He's bald all “Oh, yes," replied the mother earn- estly, “he fell down ¢h times,” Poor baby! Notwithstanding this valiant plea he fell down @ fourth time—in the marking he received for hair, EARRINGS ON INFANTS OF ALL SIZE! Moat of the babies aw yesterday nfed in age fro: flve months to two Fven the tiniest Italian bables earrings, boys and girl: ike. The sight of so many little ears adorned with brass or gold ornaments made me ponder whether in Itallan families the baby has his ears plerced before or after he is baptized, Dr. J. K. Herwitz, who has charge of the milk station in Public Sohool No, 9 was an interested epectator yester- Some of the babies entered in owe thelr healthy appear- in the fo be give their time to anything milk station, Bo be was there to “root” for them, All of the dozen or more physlcian: Babies’ Welfare Contest are greatly Interested in its outcome. . rl will be focussed exclusively on tter babies, and they are willing to tends to race improve) Dra, Thompson and ft » thet were in attendance yesterday Drs, Fisher, Dennett, Hynes, Merrill, Bruyn, Slaughter, Ludlum, Hale, Crawford, Ellis and Lysaghi. ' Miss Georgianna Brown, ‘pal Public School No, 91, waa tl e@pirit of the prine! he 4 young ‘ooklyn interested in the of better Dablea by Prize Race! & corps of physicians acting under the direction of Dr. Roger H. Dennett, of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. EVENING WORLD OFFERS $100 MORE IN PRIZES, For this contest The Evening World Offers $100 in prise money, the prizes to be awarded the healthiest baby in each of four classes. Thene classes include babies from three months, from nine to eighteen from eighteen months to three and from three to five years. To the winners in each class @ prize of $15 will be given, Those not winning may immediately enter the Improvement Con- test, and six months later # first prise of $5 and @ second of $6 will be warded to the chikiren showing the greatest Improvement within that period, It is this Improvement feature which makes the educational value of the Better Babi Contest The TAttle Mothers’ Ald Aneociation | Was founded in 189 by Mra, Alma Calder Johnston, For eome time the work wae carried om in the basement of beg home, TER. BVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, 3ULY Welfare Association’s Great City-Wide Series of Better Babies’ Contests 98 Per Cent. Perfect Baby Sets Record _On First Day of Judges’ Hunt for Winners Later quarters were rented in lower Third avenue, then mm East Twenty- third street, and twelve years ago its Present home was erected. corporated in 1899 and at present main- tains branches at street, No, 365 East One Hundred and Forty-iret street and No, %& Morton atreet, Brooklyn. WHAT LITTLE ASSOCIA ‘The association whi lessons in sewing, In sienic care of the The aid gi enabled mothers to keep their children the ohildren ai homemaking. the tion and Easter festival and refreshment: year. support. The officer @ilged to care for younger children thelr mothers are away at work cooking, laundering and the hy- also gives summer day and week out- ings in the country between May 1 and Oct. L Day nurseries hi Mshed at ite three branches to allow little mothers to attend school. ‘by this association has 10, 1928.. CTZENS ARES GUUROS IN ROM OVER A TRANSFER Four Trainmen Were Brutally | Assaulting Passenger When Others Interfered. Off, and when I refused he called tn the other three and they ejected me. FIiQ@HT ARE WANTED. and it wae not until T demanded their numberm that the auards began to bear me. My demand enraged them so that I thought they | Would kill me. 1 never ha unttl @ iF and the others istane Glaser an d several others were in court this morning and announced that they would not fait to appear. on urday, Christian Wesche of No. Ninety-seventh atreet, Fort Hamtiton, and Michael Heffernan of No, 6% Bal- tle street, Brooklyn, two of the ree- cuera who accompanied Gordon to the station, said to-day that on leaving thi station last night they had boarded a Fifth avenue car. It wan shortly before W o'clock then, and the transfers they received were punched at 4 o'clock. With Gordon's expertence fresh In their inda they called the conductor's at- ontion to thia, ‘Oh, you guyw paid, though h Properly. When they presented Slevated, the conductor did not want to take them because they had been Dunched twice. “I wish we had kept the transfers aa we received them first,” eald Mr. Wosche, “It would, have deen perfect evidence in support of Gordon's conten- tlon that he received hie transfer fust ® few minutes before boarding train, no matter how tt wan stamped. Halt @ dosen men who had taken Part in Gorton'e rescue swore out aMf- davite to-day to be used when the canes of the railroad men are heard Saturday. en LOWEST BID MAY NOT WIN. “He Is the Best Boy That E Bcd Was and Tales About Him “h2i,. Are Untrue”™ “Why, Charley's the dest boy that lived," said Mra. Charles G. Gated Gay at the Pisa Hotel, where Get Permanently maintains @ Bulte. . “Charley” ta the son of the late you-a-million Gates,” and te now 6 "Give-you-a-million Getes,”” MANY SAW THE FIGHT. | | Witnesses Make Affidavits for} Use in Court When Case Is Called. '@ too particular,” he ched the tran them on the told at the time that he and Sie fatnipre! in-law, Frank Hopwood, had @ fracne im a Minneapotia hota over Gates's determination to give away million @ year in tipe John J. Gordon, @ reporter on the New York Times, who lives at M15 Seventeenth avenue, Bath Beacoh, was roughly treated by train guards last night. He rushed owt of a B. R, T. train on the Weat Bnd line at the Thir- ty-sixth street station shortly before 8 o'clock, attacked by four guards, thrown to the floor of the platform and kicked almost into unconsciousness, All this Because he refused to leave the train or pay @ second fare after having tendered a transfer which he had re- ceived a fow moments before from the conductor of an Mighty-sixth atreet oi and whioh the train conductor eald wi Punched an hour earlier and ¢o was In- valld. Gordon wan rescued by a crowd of Passengers headed by Harry Glaser of No, 1M State strest, Brooklyn. Glaser was attacked himself when he called on the guards to desist, and his eyes were blackened. ‘The fight caused great excitement on u Board to Investigate Expert- of Bi For the first time in the Matory of the Public Service Commission it te quite possible that a subway contract will be awarded to a company other than the lowent bidde: The part of the subway contracted for in section 4 Brooklyn Rapid Tri t's Broad- line, from Houston etreet to Union Square. On the request of property owners, who say that the bulldings along this ction are important and will need careful and extensive underpinning, the commission'’n chief engineer, Alfred Craven, Is making @ thorough inveati- gation of the Dock Contractor Com- pany that made the low bid of §2,678,- 000, with the purpose of determining whether the comp: which te un- known to the commission, has had suf- fictent experience in underground con- struction to qualify it inthis most dif. floult piece of tunnebiini If the report of the engineer, which will probably be made next Tuesaday, be unfavorable, the contract will he awarded to the Oscar Dani with the next lowest bid o: Track Welker Wit by Traits aadi~ Injured at 1494 Street. © George Fendrick, twenty-six yeare oes of No, 1 Fast Seventyirst strest, @) track walker for the Interborough, white? crossing from weet to east in the avenue Subway at One Hundred Forty-second street early to-day, struck by @ north-bound train in of Motorman William Lyons. Fendrick'e right leg wae oo be crushed ft had to be amputated in aw lem Hospital, and he ts in a sorteds) fright: GUARDS KICK HEL WHEN PRONE ON THE GROUND. According to Glaser and others it looked an though that was the object of the guards, They kicked Gordon who lay in @ heap on the platform in the face, head and body. When Glacer finally helped him ¢o his feet, he stag. gered. Hie one thought, however, was to arrest the men who had attacked him and he called to the crowd: “I have a right to arrest these men. I do not need an officer. I call on you all aa citizens to help me, Apparently no more weleome cal! could have been uttered. A dosen men sprang at the guards who now were trying to eacape and although one got away, three were captured and held unti Policeman George B. Burton of the Fourth Avenue ation came up, Then Gorton ser both made charges ‘of assault again, the men and they were tak: to the atation, a half dozen men who had witnessed the attack following. There, the men said they were In- epector James A. Bell, Conductor Martin Joyce and Guard Nicholas Doherty. All ‘Were held on the complaint of Gorden and Glaser, Before they were ted to cells Bell ox- claimed; “I want to charge this man with Gisorderly conduct,” indicating Gordon. It wae ine No. 16 Greenwich A HUMAN MAOHING. (Prom the Buffalo Rupreas,) “Do you give any credence to the claima of some radicala that man Decoming litt!e more than a human ma- chine?” asked the friend. “Yoo; at times I feel that I am be- onming simply a lawn mower,” an- awered the auburbanite, MOTHERS’ ION DOE ee to little girls Alp mending, dressmak- baby and home. It Serger art been estab- a ot tee 404 Fifth Avenue, Corner 37th St. FRIDAY, AND UP TO SATURDAY NOON, with them In the home instead of plac-| “How was he dlsordenty?" asked Lieut ea fi men oy PRE-INVENTORY CLOSE-OUT.* } Bell couldn't explain, but finally he seal " Homemaking circles are maintained at | | Bell ov r Popa ; all branches the year around. Im them | ¢al@: "Well, in the Aght jit Re : FOR STREET WEAR. 1200 a taught every branch of | 28 charge him with ys "4 FOR AFTERNOON WEaR. i Instruction in cooking 1s | De#pite the fact that Gordon had been FOR PARTY wean evant f also given in tenement homes. Mothers’ | @ttacked and tad been the one to sum- YOR DANCING WEAR, any 4 clubs and working girls’ clubs meet at | mon . Peitoeraan:_ Cuitne Ri tet cage ‘es - rious branches for class inatruc- | thia charge ani n was locked up va as zi recreation. Christmas and| until he got baile few hmure later, In| DFessesofFrench Voile, Plain ae ‘ are given with gifts|the Fifth avenue court to-day, Magie- and Flowered Crepes, a8 . ite Dodd, et Gorton’ juest, ad- 9, About 5,000 children are cared for each ata nee hearing ualil Gavurtay, wen Striped Volles; women 6 ° a here are no salaried officers, A ‘The amoclation ts non-sectarian and en- bgp Gerow Sool and misses’ sizes. © NOW Heretelere upto 1200. , 2 tirely dependent on contributions for its - os oh” declared Gordes Vt dave the o Dresses of Imported Ratines, are: Honorary President, | ductor « transfer whic received Mra, Alma Calder Johnston t, | only @ minute or two before. He took Linens, Voiles, Crepes, y, 5 oun {t, but returned presently and told me some tunic effects, others ° oc Ay it was dated too early, Why, I had no aA i Edward Sprague Peck; Consulta eame transfer I gave him. 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