The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1913, Page 3

> INCITY-WIDE BABY CONTEST; enty- The frat of The Evening World's wity-wide baby contests was decided 4 r@ay in the district of which > lic School No. 91 of Brooklyn the centre, Money prizes were award: @f\to four of the babies and ribbons) and honorable mention, were given to| twenty-two others. Not one of the four first prize wine ners fell below 9% per cent. Little Mise Margaret Coulter, four years old, ci ried away the honors with a percenti of 9, Even the mothers of babies whore ‘percentage did not reach quite as high @B that of the must nearly perfect Children examined during the contest enjoyed the afternoon to the fullest. After hearing illuminating talks on the vare of infants all went forth with the Yeeling that the contest had been of inestimable value in teaching mothers ‘how to rear healthier, happler offspring. MIGH STANDARD OF NEW YVORK’'S WONCERFUL BABI The examination card of little Mi Wovlter, a laughing, flaxen-haired young: ater who evidenced the keenest pride fn her triumph, being the only one of the quartet old enough to realize what 4t was all about, showed that just one elight defect w: pparent, This was @ or defect in the position of the ‘eyes; and in introducing little Mike Coul- “ter and awarding the prize—a bank book ‘with’ a nest egg deposit of $15 donated by The Evening World—Dr. Roger H. Dennett observed that if he had exam- dned the little girl he doubted whether he would have that small de- fect against her. With the exception of tha position of the eyes the child wes perfect in every way—in health, | Gieposition, formation and the various | ‘other attributes that make up the per- fect baby. Two prize- “wentaxe of 98.5, Ny ners attained @ per- One of these in one Way proved the nios! interesting baby} entered In the contest, for she was a ‘foundling. Her name is Mary Gladys Mellly, and she is now eighteen months two OtHer Youngsters in| - One of the Brooklyn Districts Ob- | tain Honorable Mention in the Evening World Competition. ~ FOUR GET MONEY PRES honorable mention and @ red ribbon. Their names, ages and percentages fol- low: Goetana Don Brusen, No. 4% Lefferts avenue, seven months, 9 per cent. Charles Williams, No. 6% Lincoin road, five months, 98 per cent. Henry Burnside, No, 107% Nostrand enue, three months, 97.5 per cent. Edward Kelly, Oakland and East New York, 97.6 per cent. James Fennimore, No. 6% road, four monthe, §7 per cent. Salvatore De Marco, No. 612 Lincoin road, six months, 97 per cent. Joseph Carney, No. 98 Nostrand ave hue, seven months, 9% per cent. Roce! Reccio, No. 496 Lefferts street, nine months, 9.5 per cent. John Prinzo, No. 620 Rutland road, ten 5 per cent. Joueph Clark, No, 39% Maibone street, nine months, 96.5 per cent. Loulse De Itazzo, No. 83 Brovklyn nine months, 9 per cent. Dorothy Hartman, No. 643 Midwood street, fourteen months, 9 per cent. Vincent Wanderiic, Oakland and Bast New York, ten months, 96 per cent. Rose Famanella, No, 43 Lincoln road, fourteen months, 96 per cent. Antonio Sinett!, No. 2 Lincoln road, ten months, 9% per cent. Stephen Peterson, No. 701 Rutland | road, thirty months, 97.6 per cent. Stephen Tedesco, No. 410 Lincoln road, y-one months, 97 per cent. F. Moran, No. 9% Nostrand avenue, twenty-one months, 97 per cent. Matthew Miller, No. $67 Lincoin road, | eighteen monthe, 9 per cent. Nicholas Trouse, No, 498 Lincoln road, twenty months, 9 per cent. Rose Cerullo, No, 621 Lincoln road, three years, 97.5 per cent. Frank Cordiella, No, 488 Midwood street, four years, 97 per cent. OR. DENNETT’S ADVICE TO CON. TESTANTS’ MOTHERS. The proceedings were opened by Mixs Georgiana Brown, principal of the to whose untiring efforts the of the contest w: jely du After briefly tracing the history of the contest and what it is designed to ac- Lincoin geld. .She was adopted six months ago ¥ Miss Catherine Reilly of No. 672 Lin- coin road, Brooklyn. after apending the -firpt year of her iife in the New York Foundiing Aslylum, She received the dle ribbon Juss 3 for babies be- tween the ages of cighteen months and three years, and a bank account of $13. TINIEST PRIZE WINNER GETS HIGH SCORE. The other baby reaching the high peg- centage of 98.5 was also the tiniest prize- winner of the contest, and she displayed on, This child was Sarah Allen Gart- Me. and Mrs, Edward Gartlands of } G2 Maple street, Brooklyn, She de- i clined to have anything to do with the ‘Dank book when it was presented to her, unmistakably giving the impression that \ Que had no desire or use for money. Bven when the blue ribbon emblematic ¢ Yirst honors was ted about her sieeve ghe looked at it with supreme ancon- Cora. ‘The only things that prevented little ‘Miss Relliy and the Gartiands baby from Feteiving a perfect score were, in the ease of the former, a little unf® stand- ard circumference of the abdomen, and, tn the case of the latter, a head slightly under standard alze. ‘A head not quite symmetrical and chest not quite large enough prevented he winner of the class fo® babies be tween the age of nine and elghtes months from a perfect score. This win- ner was Charles Milton, eleven months “gid, son of Carmine Milton, of No, 537 | Brookiyn avenue, Brooklyn. His p contage was %. 22 GET HONORABLE MENTION AND Ri Faroushout the of Dabdien' entered in the contest a high percentage of perfection was found, no less than twenty-two babies between the ages of three months and five years scoring more than % per cent. and receiving but passing Interest In what was going} lands, the three-months-old daughter of} | show."* How, When and Where to Enter Your Bab For the Big Prize Contests Now Under complish, Miss Brown introdaced Dr. Dennett, one of the examining who gave an interesting lecture on the care of ables. Ie said in ? ‘he prime factor in rearing a healthy aby Is its food. The winners in a con- teat of this sort are not winners be- cause they ‘are pretty, but because they are healthy, well formed and of good disposition, Proper food t's what brings this about, “For the first year, if it ts possitle, bables should always be fed at the breast, There is nothing” that is an olftely satisfactory substitute fur mother's milk; but sometimes this method of feeding is not possible, and because of this pure milk stations a: established. Here the mother wixhing to rear her bavy under the "most ap- proved methods can obtain not only ab- solutely pure milk, but advice as to the feeding of her offspNng, Tha: mothers in this nelghborhood ha‘ fited by this mili station ts attested by the high average of excellence the cards for the babies in this contest At the conclusion of his address Dr. Dennett presented the bankbooks, rib- bons and certificates amid enthuslastic applauge. The scores of all Labies were returned to the mothers, that they may study and correct the defects they show, MOTHERS URGED TO WORK FOR IMPROVEMENT PRIZES. After the presentation of prizes the assembled mothers heard an address by Dr, Edward M. Thompson, who also helped in the examination of the babies in the contest. After declaring that all of the bables he examined ars 4n good condition to strive for the “im- | provement” prizes that will be awarded \after another examination six months hence, Dr. Thompson earnestly urged al mothers present, whether their baubles had won prizes or honorable ay CONTEST AT LITTLE MOTHERS’ ALD ASSOCIATION, No. 28 Becend venue, for children between three months and fye years, living im disirict @zom ‘Geventh to Twenty-elgnth eireet and Fifth avenue to Kast River. from Monday, July 14 to Wednesday, Aug. U, every after- moon except Haturdaye and Sundays, from 3 to 4 Judging of the babies wil) begin Monday, Aug. 6 Vor this contest The Bveoing World offers Oost AT THE PLAYGROUND OF PUBLIC SCHOOL, NO, 1% Fourth aveaue and Fourteenth atreet, Brooklyn. A; Place and Prospect Park Weat, #ifteent! th atreet and Geventh avenue, Thirty-wevents street and Kighth\ avenue, Toirty-ninca Gowanus Gowanus Canal, Fitth wrest and Gowanus bay, evenue. Registrations, | to 6, each Basin and except sundays, from Monday, duly 14 to Monday, July #% inclusive Vor this contest The Evening World LJ prises, CONTEST OF THE CHELSEA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.—Age it, eame ag above, Contest boundaries—l'rom Fourteenth to Forty-second avenue and the Hudson Hiver, from Fourteenth to Twenty-tuird street, #ifth avenue to Huuson stiver; Registration centres~Listries headquarters at Milk Station, No. 78 Ninth avenue, from July ui to July 2 tuolusive, trom 2 to 4 P, M. avense to Hudson River, Heada ‘No. 49 West Twenty-seventh atrect, J ‘District north of Twenty-third and south of Thirty-fourth street, Fitch juarters tion, for registra: the Hudson Guild, uly 21 to July 4, inclusive, 2 to 4 P, M, ween Thirty-fourth and Forty-second streets, Fifth avenue and 2 River, Registration headquarters, the Diet Kitchen, No, 47 Forty-first street, from July 21 to July 2, inclusive, 2 to 4 P.M. wontests The Evening World offers 80 for money es) | Hoh falronzensiy’ peters remain to | with @ clean bath-room and a looker V _THE EVENING “ge - RED-RIBBON BA Four Brooklyn Prize Winners In First Better Babies’ Race Piret winners in Better Babies’ Contest. Conducted by The Rv ning World and the Babies’ Welfare Association in conjunction with the Piay- Association of Public School Wo, 91, Brooklya: CLASS 1—For bables between the ages of three and nine months, SARAH ALLEN GARTLANDS of No. 542 Maple street, Brooklyn, aged three months. Percentage, 96.5. CLASS 2—For babies between the age of mine and eighteen ths, CHARLES MILTON of No. 587 Brooklyn avenue, Brook- lym, aged eleven months. Percen' 96, CLASS 8—For bables between the ages of eighteen months and three years, MARY GLADYS REILLY of No. 672 Lincoln road, Brooklyn, aged eighteen months. Percentage, 96.5, CLASS 4—For bables between the ages of three and five years, MARGARET COULTER of No. 541 Maple street, Brooklyn, aged four years. Percentage, 99. Prises: Fifteen dollars, donated by The Evening World, bine ribbons and certificates by the Babies’ Welfare Association. mention 6r fiot, to try and bring about various parts of the Greater City under improvements that would win them|the same auspices were flourishing. On success in the second section of the con-| the lower west side the total registra- test. As he did so several mothers in| tion reached 58. At the No, 7% Ninth the throng cried, ‘We are going to,| avenue station forty-feur more babies Doctor.” The physician also urged | were registered; at the Hudson Guild, mothers to be sure of obtaining abso-| No. 436 West Twenty-seventh street, lutely pure milk when feeding at the, twenty-one, and at the Diet Kitchen, breast is not possible. It may seem) No. 437 West Forty-firat street, forty- hard at times and useless to bother five. Five more bables were entered in about preparing the milk obtained at| the contdst at the Little Mothers’ Aid milk stations as those in charge direct, | he nafd, but it always pays. total to 45. At Public School No. 124, Meantime, while the first Brooklyn} firooklyn, fifteen more babies were rex- contest was drawing to such a happy|tetered. The total for that close, the five other contests started In! is now 382. How to Care for the Baby; Teach It to Sleep Alone Importance of Regular Hours for Putting Child to Bed and Getting It Up. and one In the afternoon. ‘The child Will gain more benefit if these naps can be taken out of doors in a cool, shady spot. After the baby is a year old the morning naps will generally suffice, Train your child to go to sleep at alx o'clock winter and summer until he is five years of age. The limit can be sradually raised until the child is ten or eleven when the bed time should be eight or nine at the latest, Never break the rule of a regular hour for bed. Children should not be Permitted to remain up for company or to be present at, the evening enter- talnment for the grown folk, Such irregularities make the child nervous and irritable and form the habit of tate retiring which, when formed, quickly sounds the death knell to perfect health. Wake your baby at a regular in the morning. Do not allow the child to le abed after it has awakened. Dress and wash him immediately and wive him his morning meal. By this means the formation of many obnoxious habits will be avoided. eventh of a series of articles on taking care of the baby, teritten by Wesley C. Cox, Principal of the Play Grounds Association of Public School No, 124, Brooklyn. A fow weeks after birth all infants should be taught to sleep atone, At firat {t will be necessary for the mother to put the baby to sleep and then tra it to its crib, but later the child will sleep as long as some one is near, ‘The room in which the ehild sleeps should be well ventilated, but without | draughts. Open the windows top and ‘Dottom evenly and place the baby's crib wo that the wind does not blow on It @irectly. ¢ Bee that your child le always warm, but use light rather than weighty bed clothing, as the weight Is oppressive and often makes the child peevish. Tuck the clothing in so that the cnild cannot kick it off at night. Until your baby is a year or eighteen monthr old you should see that it has two naps a day, ope in the morning lockers, A® plan by which @ reasonable PAY EXCESS CHARGE dimit, On this Une the following is one of the many suggestions received by The Plan Being Developed for Mu- nicipal Bath House to Secure Wider Accommodation, the water and on the beach for hours while thousands are kept waiting for Evening World: To the Exlitor of The Rrening World It given me great pleasur: you have taker up the subject of that wonderful Municipal Bath Hout Coney Island. I expected that the city Was going to build an addition to it }1t ought to be started 8 posal urday, done svon. I hope The Evening World will help to push the good cause along for more baths, 1 think it very reasonable to charge 10 cents, as it helps to pay the running expense to the city, But 1 wish to make a remark about the time limit, which will beneflt many, many thousands and do avay with some disorder, I think two hours should be the limit given to each bather, I should propose that on entering every person must deposit 2 Since the popularity of the Municipal Baths, established at Coney Island) through the efforts of The Evening World, has become so marked the de mand for the enlargement of the pr ent facilities increases. Hundreds of thousands of men, wo- men and children have been provided | while In ¢ for ten e cents a ‘person, {cents as a check counter to be re- vicinity as high as $l @ head la fre-| ora. with his number, to be returned quently charged. The need for expan! oy joaying, If tho person stays over sion ia seen in the crowas of people 414 time jimit he or she should lose @he waiting In line for hours until locker | 9: conta room oan he provided. ! The great majority wiil want their City authorities, ao far interviewed. | 4 /ay back, and if thoy stay over base thelr indorsement on the fact that time the city will wet the money, and the Ananctal returns havo juatified the) ¢j,4: will easily help pay the extra original outlay as an investment, Clerical force to be employed. . DALLY READER, Association, Second avenue, bringing the contest) ble, ay the crush of the women on Sat- | Sundays and holidays ts cer- | tainly awful, and something ought to ve | Wontd, OKTURDAY, FULT 86; BIES I N THE EVENING 1918, | PDDDDE-AD DOOR HPO 03.44. BES OOD BL OO4 CO HHOHEEHHS SURRENDERS SELF |BEERLESS HOBOKEN MS... BAKERS [MANO 74 WALKS FOR MURDER AFTER} OM SUNDAY, SAY | FANILY BEATEN FROM THE COAST 71 YEARS UBERTY) THE AUTHORS! RAGEWITHDEATH| WN STEEL FRAME Warden of Kentucky Prison} And the Movies, Too, Are Not Hears Amazing Tale, Which New York Police Will Verify. ‘The Police Department will to-day try to verify the amasing story told by Clement A. Koors when he asked to be readmitted to the penitentiary at Frank- fort, Ky., to take up bis life sentence for murder after twenty-one years of Mberty. There are few more éramatic narra- tives tp the pages of flotion. It depicts the stfuggles of @ man to live an up- right and happy life after eleven years in prison as a life termer, and how when finally he made it a tous up be- tween suicide and a living death behind bleak walls, he chose the latter, The more recent events in Koors's life have to do with New York. Tan rs ago, he says, he came here after ‘ing about in California and Mex- |W. After his escape from the Ken- | tucky prison he lived an industrious j and law-abiding Ife, but couldn't get | away from his conscience. He had | convicted of killing his brother-in-law, Henry Bruns, in Covington, Ky., in 18k1, he said. Bruns mistreated his wife —Keoors's siste -and, fearing he would sooner or later kil her, Koors killed him, and received a Ife sentence for It, 48 BURGESS MARRIED FROM TENDERLOIN DISTRICT. According to the man He met a young woman to Move in North Hud- son County. What, dry Sunday ia North Hudson and the far-flung boundaries of Union Hill, Guttenburg, Hoboken and Weehawken? Too true, mates! To-morrow will be dey ae @ bone and moving pictureless besides. Not a stein will be wet; not & cowboy will be punctured by a Mexican bad man in three reela, Last night the notice went out trom the various police stations north of the Jersey City line to the beer gardens and the cafes and all the other cool places where the Gambrinus vine flow- ers in profusion of @ Sunday that every- thing was to be closed up tight to- morrow. Even Achuetzen Park, the acene of many Sunday fioods, wili ve toe ow a desvlated pli the police orders have ft, It Is the oldMlue law that closes the moving pictures—the blue law put into effect against the movies for the firs time since villains slew heroes for 10 cents, A loud wall is ascending from the proprietors of the movies to-day; they say that they are included in the general dry Sunday reformation with no cause and that it is the jealousy of the Jersey City cafe proprietors that have brought about this disaster. ‘The Jersey City saloons had to close on the very first Sunday after the new commission government caine into pow: just entering a Tonderloin career, and | married her, largely with the thought of doing a kind act. They lived happily and respectably, but his health Anally | broke dow... He ts past midie age and | could no longer work. Poverty stared them in the face and his wife tried to keep a lodging house, put failed. Then she was tempted to go back to the old Ute, He told tho Frankfort Warden that two weeks ako she was arrested at No. 15 Weat T#onty-seventh atreet for con- ducting @ disorderly resort. Thia was the last straw. His health was gone, hls wife in the Tom’ He hobbled down to ue of the Hud- eon River plera, ho said, intending to drown himself. A vision of bis mother, whose memory had always been the i heur | greatest inspiration ef his life, auddenly came to him and he decided not to dic. He went instead to the Tombs to com- fort hie wife, and there the bars and tiers of cells reminded him of his un- explated crime down in Kentucky, He decided to return there and serve out his sentence, SURRENDERS TO WARDEN AND TELLS SAD STORY. According to Frankfort despatc Koors walked into the office of Warden Wells in the State Roformawry on Touraday and said simply: “I've come to give myself up." “Who are you?” the official asked, “Clement A, Koors." 'm pretty sure you weren't here when I mot away--escaped. That was twenty-one years ago. The charge was | murder, I killed my brothr-in-law, Henry Bruns, in Covington, in 1831, He treated my sister like a brute, I coulin't | get the police to interfere. 1 was afrald he'd Kill her, So I killed him, They me away for Life." “L was here eleven yeur: he added. The man wan physically so shat- tered, his eyes so bright, that Warden | Wells at first regarded him as a luna. tie, In the prison records—old books jlong dust-covered—the verification of Koors's story was forthcoming. He was not immediately put into stripes. In- J, he was taken to dinner at the Warden's home, and told a dramatic story of his twenty-one years of Hberty and the cause of his return to the prison. By good behavior during his eleven years of prison life he had won the place of a “trusty,” who became so thoroughly in favor that he was al- lowed to do gardening work outside! the prison walls, A friend dropped him bundle of clothing by the road- side, which enabled him to rid himself | of his convict garb, ‘By the carefully laid plans, while ne ‘ ér und have been closed pretty tightly since, Now, say the hitherto m fcrtunate brethern outside the boundarles of Je they ure being martyred th. Jealousy of the Jersey City sal ers who, if they can't sell on sunday do not want anybody else to do go, was being hunted, he managed to meet his mother at Millhausen, Ind, She sup- plied him with funds and, aid, begged him to live in a maj atone for the murder -he had committed. He told Warden Wells that he had tried faithfully since to live in @ manner of which his mother, long dead, would approve. He did, but ead he had ouffered mentally. Frequently he re- membered the killing of Bruns with re- morse. ‘The story of Koors, as told to the Warden of the Frankfort Prinon, has been contirmed in so far an it relates his Hfe here, His wife was arrested on July 14 on @& charge of maintaining @ dinorderly ‘house. She was fined $50 in the Court of Special Sessions yes- terday. The fine was paid and she hur- ted to No, 315 West Twenty-seventh street to find that the landlord had tacked @ dispossess notice on her door She also leurnod for the frat time that her husband had been missing since Tuesday, This alurmed her, for when ane saw him in the Tombs for the last time on Monday he told her he was going to Kill himself, She visited the Morgue lust allt, fearing that she might find the corpas of husband, To-day she was out hunting for new quarters, Hugh Gaffney, who has occupied a room in Koors's house for nine years, suid that Koora never told his wife about his past Ufe The escaped con- viet worked hard at his trade of har- nessmaker until @ year ago, when he suffered @ paralytic stroke and spent a long time in Bellevue Hospital, He Was unable to work after nis discharge ut of town for the au have The World par week or sunday ance Lo the Cashier NEW YORK WORLD'S CONTEST | Christopher WORLD Banker Makes Vain Race to|Device Saves Jar to Nerves Bedside of Stricken Wife From Which Strange at Tuxedo Park. Traveller Suffers. —— ee The quéden death of Mre. Florence! gurety the etrangest pedeststan thet Thompson Baker, wie of George F. lever planned to enter New York ts Albert Baker, Chateman of the Board of the! sror¢man of Gan Francisce, new in Jer- Firet National Bank, has cast a gloom | sey City trying to find e way to cross over the Tuxedo Park colony. MF&|Nerth River without travelling om Baker waa etricken at Imiagh, the craft propel by eadhinery. Baker country home at Tuxedo Park.| te says he has walked from Gan while entertaining et luncheon yeeter-| Francisco in a strange contrivance day, and died two and @ half hours| which relieves the nerve centres of his later, before any member of her fam-| body from shock—practically « frame- ily could reach her bedstde, work of light steel and aluminum Social entertainments have been can- of walking. celled at Tuxedo out of respect for! 411) ao days to make the he her, end to-day dozens of/friends IN &/ woix4 on the average of nine miles © Jong procession of aumobiles have’ day, and he has covered called at Imlagh to express their eor-| the strange pilgrimage. row and their affection far Mre. Baker.| Hi ) who is seventy-four wi she old and who was in a gan Francisco The luncheon party at which hospital for two years following the was hostess when the euiden and fatal | great earthquake and fire in 1908, did not ines attacked her was composed of | Sot Ser uaulte Continent trom chulce: only @ fow Intimate frienis, Bhe war] hs aia it of necessity and he put thought to be distressingly but not! yongontul exhibition of grit ia dangerously il, when the guesta de- |The man is suffering from a parted, affiction which makes It impossible him to travel by train or boat an@ whieh ey legend riy enetigld % brings great torture to him whenever Re It waa 1.0 o'clock when stricken. ‘The family physician in Tux-| His atory, backed by documents trem edo Park was summoned and remained | the hospital authorities in San Francisog with her until she died. An hour after|4nd othars whom hq has mut se she was compelled to excuse herself to | the course of his strahige pilgrimage, one of the most remarkable asd tragio her guests it was realised that her ever brought to New York, In @he condition was critical and Mr. Baker, | ore an iceman enya, he lest who was at his office, No. 3 Wall! wite, nis three daughters and his street, was notified by telephone. sons; he alone of the whole family George F. Baker jr. was also sum-| vived the holocaust. moned from the Larchmont Yacht} The ehock of his bereavement, races, and a telegram was sent ¢o| destruction of bis home by are aaa, Mrs. William Goadby Loew, a daugh-| the consequent hardships of the ter, who, with her husband. ® Wall] line and the destruction of his street broker, wan at Newport. threw Hoffman in the hospital wader Mr. Baker hurried to Tuxedo Park,|/ a complete nervous breakdown. Tere arriving chere at 6 o'clock, @ little over|he remained two years, auffering tée an hour after the death of Mrs, Baker.|ribiy, Finally the doctors George F. Baker jr. also was too late|the frame he now wears @o that to see hia mother alive, Mrs. Loew] might take » little daily -~ dead. A apecial train consisting of an en-|ieft in the world wine and parlor car, left Newport at|Schults, whose 3 M., bringing Mr and Mrs. Loew.) ond atreet and * They arrived at Grand Central shortly | years ago the brave invalid started before 1 o'clock this morning and were! from San Francisco taken in an, automobile to the Eric] ter's home, and, like ferry, Across tho ferry they doarded! been tolling, over mountaim and desert another apecial for Tuxedo Park, | over since, x reaching their destination — fifty-five @ trate: minutes later, ALL SOCIAL AFFAIRS IN TUXEDO CANCELLE noon as the fact’ became known Mra, Baker was An in Tuexedo Park t Jead those who had@expected to en- tertain last night sent wort to pros- pective uents that, on account of the sad event the entertainments would be septanaed: (agonal Boulevard. ‘The men of the company aren ints to-day to have The Baker town house in at No, 2s| are making arrangeme: Madison avenue, Inmlagh, the Tuxedo} '"? brave cripple cross the East River Park villa, in one of the moat beautiful | 2 4 barée- e there, Mra, Baker waa formerly promi? Tobacco Dealer Drops Dead. | nent as a hostess and was a figure at] Ley! Spear, @ well-known tobacéo the opera, but of recent years she bad | dealer, died suddenly to-day in the offiey eased to entertain on a large scale] o¢ B. L. Allen, tobacco merchant, at No, and -devoted herself entirely to her! it Water atrect. Death was due to family, 4 small ctrcle of intimate | heart fullure. Mr, Spody was sixty years friends and quietly conaucted charities. | j\1, He lived at No. 06 West One Hun- | Mr. Baker was formerly President of/ dred and Eleventh street and had @ the First National Bank, He was an intimate friend and business ally of the late J. Pierpont Morgan and, next to Mr, Morgan, was the leading. wit- ness before the Pujo Congressional Committee which investigated the “money trust." Hesides George F, Baker jr. and | Mrs. Loew the Bakers have one other Purely vegetable, the Laver and Neat medicine child, Mra, Howard N, B, St. George, | {% who is now in Europe, She was notle fled by cable of her mother's death, > s Norwegian man Dead. CHRISTIANIA, ‘way, July 3. — Christophersen, formerly Foreign Mintater In the Norwegian Cab- inet under the Premiership of M. Kaud- # > died here to-day,. Me le to be given © Olle CURCTO) | cnmmeteneenes