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, gThe Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesdsyi July 29;:1915* many & ee ‘*S’Matter, Pop?’’ »% gy x By « ue 4 w EA we By C. M. Payn c has: WOULD SACRAFICE HER WELFARE U GOO & L DROPPING 'H18 TOYS AND, OR anes ie Lowey, ste wWOuLd Aistimat ta 1N A116 LITTLE. BRAIN, SILENTLY TROY 18 TAITING PLATING Teiatt BC SeeaaER ae race int Conrenmarns vue SNL WOUED NOT. 4 .. Ten Nation-Famous New York Murders By Alfred Henry Lewis (Copyright, 1918, by ©. 8, McClure.) NO. 8—THE BLOODSHED IN ASTOR PLACE. Oe oes OF PRECEDING INSTALMENT. © © © They would not let me speak. They mean, and, Maseendy, English, were hung out placards—“You have been Men of Initiative Modern Americans Who Have Led the March of Bvegress By Julius Chambers WHATS THIS MEAN— AFELLOW CARRYING ALADDER AT THIS TIMe OF THE NIGHT? Copyright, 1013, by ‘The Press Publisuing Co, (The New York Grening World), ‘ 11—JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., Modern Abolitionist. | Avie R, grayish-eyed man, about to leave his office for an important a meeting several blocks distant, Ia met at his door end sug Interview tak place on the way to his éee Uination. The incident recalle to me a similar walk and taik with the father thle rivalty Proved a liar,” and fung a of thie man on the streets of Cpveland one raw March day in 187l—mefore the Peet fi nine againat id close to me. I pointed It to t 2 P son with whom [ am now conversing was born! ‘ie Be eels ee heb abt te : HY 5s At that time John D, Rockefeller sr, was younger than is his om to-day, Se ete oe e-thiowing ot de tat'ot decay asic "Go on” and the play, Macbeth, ye ¢ : and did not possess his equipment of training or wealth. 4 proceeded in dumb show, I hurrying Nitin a John D, Kockefoller jr. hae the face of an idealist rather than of @ practical (Gontiauet) the players on, Copper cents were " | ni Ohilanthropist, but in this {natance physiognomy te no key to character. 5 EXT day a denial appeared in thrown; some struck me; four or five z hia father, he would hi been rich at Afty had he started with nothing. the papers. and Macready egs Sreat many apples, nearly—it R- omer z*.: is frank, and, knowing the subject on which I want bim te talk, goes atraight werpulladelphlamiA “eard. oF pissed be Moca, wattle af aeatoetia , . : tO Oe re bs a le! ans card o1 a of we , @ bottle of asat La, r ticae pha: “Bawin Fore bentacd Seiaahed ey son deaek, ammeliing, 4 The Wireau of Social Hygiene, recently organized, ie @ permanency. It **T looked is not the outcome of a fow speeches, temporary enthusiasm of resultant from john directly at the cin sa ey committed k political disclosures. It has been incubating for more than two years. It ined folk om thelr outrages, no way moved by hl took sont as core asierlavedtlen os by @ Special Grand Jury, ef which ! ready, in epeech last night to A committee of New Yorkers bei appaned to be chosen chairman, a entiece at eve pee be ie ag seareeey te api bret bevy heed Levi “You will recall we were created eapecially to investigate the white slave made jusion, understand, to lous: ‘ ey wo' pre ramfic, \merican actor” who dod: te ete? any accepted Wer ie ae ot May pet Pienaar vice Gisoloeka "hag exraemed Mi Phage san} occasion “openly to hiss him.” obeyed thelr call. An = . This ts true, and, by the way, the only aay, is what Hone had to say of the ’ work. Separate Personal conferences were held %y the original organizers ‘bu 7 * r 3 of the bureau, with more than two hundred physicians, iawyers, presidents of 10.—The riot at the Opera House = . ooss a . see 5 |banks and commercial organisations, clergymen, merchants, settlement work- But why say “ai on Monday night was children's play = : ers, labor leade: Rot openly charge me with theaet? For compared ‘the disgraceful acenes = : ! as = gh ‘i a large and popt 1 did it, and publicly avowed it in the which were ted in our part of thii f =, - must be composed of busy people whose enthusingm, eVen tn the best causes, Times newapaper of London, and at the devoted city this evening, and the mel- > oon wears out. mame ume asserted my right to doo.’ ancholy tora of life to mane ae ats HES CLIMBING ;E3 z = = = ‘orcea of evil are never sertously alarmed jacreat jayed throughout the coun- rageous proceedings 0 6 mol = " ry, ‘finding zero weather everywhere, naturally Yd, uP TO THE EDN Oe cael iumene nae Gia te ' i & ‘ Institution of learning, We are not ‘May (189) dent’ his eteps toward ‘When Mr. Macready appeared he was ” — at an In anticipation of his com- assailed in the same manner as on the WINDOW . ILE - 5 z are enlisted for the war, which may last fng, Rynders and Buni.ine had been former gocasion; but continued on : . 5 ‘There was an earnestness, a Most heroically busy. When the Mac- the stag : £ : é “ ‘ Rockefeller jr, that carried conwetion. TYeady three-shects went up announcing firmness, y i = GN known in the history of mankind had “Macbeth” for the opening night, our the mob. The atrength of the police { Lede, nied ite immenaity, the disheartening ‘precedente worthies of the Empire Club caused to and their good canduct succeedad in - H failure, and frankly admitted doubt of complete | be struck off this stirring fulmination: preventing any senious injury to the ON clear at the oul however, was that the present an made but gue war raged. wi, - ‘ i clamsed as AN EXPERIMENT. Mr. Rockefeller and WORKINGMENI were mado; but the war raged w! ‘ @ball AMPRICANS or ENGLISIU frightful Peril a tae naiecset 2 — ok ——, Ge Prat task they have undertaken, and thelr rule m this city? streets. he mob—a dre: ‘one in te ‘The crews of the British eteamers$ numbers and ferocity—assailed the ex: i r ‘The Abolitionists of 1860 jaged in what appeared to most people to be a have threatened all Americans who} tension of the bullding, broke in the c) "| [nopetess contest against Aéricam eiavery, They endured criticlem eultered ehall dare to express their opinions} windows and demolished some of the f ' personal violonce and jose of friends. But they never to-night at the English Aristocratic$ doors. I walked up to the corner of ‘ tts John D. Rockefeller, the younger, has undertaken ao tly as Opera Hou We advocate no vio-§ Astor Place, but was glad to make my " 4 hopeless as that of Garrison, Phillips and Greeley, Slavery always existed fence, but a free expression off escape. On my way down, opposite and would continue to the end of time, asserted the doubters, By he eyricn, to all public men. the New York Hotel, I met a detach. x y critica of Mr. Rockefeller cite the eame fecte regarding the eoctal par forkingmen! Freemen! Stend by$ ment of troops, consisting of about : t Soe anual bedhive e ‘scenah be eherned, amt tawtul rights, Biy Derails And Sines tuntees SS f g ; But the eon of the wealthiest man in America, undaunted by the record OTE Ae irate montaly ae tee fala oe e of history, now Inada o crusade against the waite clave trede—an intemy be ;. action. Another detachment went by equal in every degree to negro slavery' Bone, dinner giver, dlarist and gentle; Te vay or Latayetio Place, On ahelt , Mr, Rockefeller sincerely Selleves his mission has been indicated to him ‘all a worshipper of things Eng- &'Tival they were aseailed by the mob, from on hi He says in the simplest manner that light came te him ene furnished for the opening night Pelte) with etones and brickbat day while ccoreading St. Paul's appeal to the Almightys report of what took place, Says S¢veral, were carried off severely ‘what wilt THOU have me to do?” Hone: roves, Uneer = mrorene ley, Nib e His confidence in the efficacy of prayer te abeolute $ 849 —Mr. . the sanction of the civ authorities, re ta 4 vice?™ an engpacment fast evening at orders were given t fre Three ‘or ‘A Summer Romance}e, By Louis Joseph Vance § |,,,7 £2.12 "myers and phyutciane for advice” ne “when Gosia four volleys were discharged; about 7 . crpare, Bouse, Astor piace, and was cventy persone were killed and @ large Ed ‘Author of “The Brase Bowl,” do, ‘You feel that he te @ man of sbeolutely) clean morals, and, therefore, the teal champion of a forlorn hope. With euch « leader and i wesources 06 number wounded. command, the despair of philanthropists in the past Becomes @ guemates of Says Macread Fez, Theatre, A violent animoatty has ae ae ’ : 2, Mussay Comvasr) devoid of circuinlocution, seeming te | Unhurt, he picked himreif up in time on the Great Weat Bay, uccessful warfare agatnat vice in the future on the part of the latter t:eatri- » and ¢ . ‘e p: Py 7 RS, ‘e Li ‘atch a giimpae o} jax, on the stage, Irarn to know one anothe! \ cue cmiemetiimen Gab tore eguinat Nie rival growing cue Astor Place, saw one of the Harlem | SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. g7) 0 momentarily helpiess in the embrace of “I plead guilty to that little plot— The Hedgeville Editor. Qf come differences in England; but with °2m™ on the railroad stop and diacharge ratifies Wo have het Feyutauion when she eee But with the appearance of other a desperate and frantic woman, Who yes," Ember laughed, “But, best of all, no cause, that I can discov @ full lonid of pollcenen; there seemed | seried by « foes 15 oui Bean characters, there came a change. The had caught hia arma from behind, and, thiy comes at just the right time—the By John L. Hobble. one ds @ gentleman, and to be others at the door of the theatre. | rejrt tide dig returns to, {ld Fare atmosphere of the opening began presumably, deflected his alm. rightest time, when there can no longer Copyright, ‘The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wasld), vulgar, arrogant loafer, with a pack y reception was very enthusla o inder the name of Sara ta. Mary to dissipate perceptibly, The action in the sane breath Kimber, who had be any doubts or qu une Gancairee ‘coe tat LD FORK seve Bindred rowdies at his heels, Of but I soon discovered that there was iM ton en eh ated, her hats (le clouded and grew vague. fadansabie leaped to the railing round the box, understandings, no groun hi rs crea | today ar to top Tetainera a regularly organized opposition, though less soar cea an and Sara Law herself lost an indefinadle threw himself across the footlighte with ti 4 is new stenographer hae agre ay are afraid to think @ riot at manned than on Monday. I went right hg Ni ' wel Proportion of her rare and provo ne the lithe certainty of @ beast of prey not to tell the ofMice secrets to themselves; they wam predigest> ‘and drive Mr. Mac- gg RS By charm—the strangeness of failing 1 and, seomingly In as many deft mo- more than three friends, 4 thought, in which, to the dis. ‘ ‘hat aherie Folng beck wor the nage hold her audience in an inslucienle tlons, knocked the pistol. from the polis, R succeeded. petites ne. ores pe ee’ love for Bim 16 dead, pies eeeruta at once to nettle an manager's hand, wreated him from the 3 —~- Whitaker atruck in oxplo- H1F) meanest thing that Mr. Derks R. HENDERSON ea: saye thet whew ri arance of the Thane of who shook their fists violently at me, re: arms af the actress, laid him flat an y aid about hie wif Sree, Re was saluted With shower and called out to mo in ravage fury. 1 CHAPTER XVI. Max himeelf seemed suddenly to WKS ‘neit upon him. tion, well guarded,” Rmber affirmed with i ean oetter ss masitill ee r pe ‘ave ah @f. missiles, rotten eggs, and other un- laughed at them, pointing them out Black Out. to the amasing fact that there wr With a eingle bound Whitaker fol- ® nod and ® grim emile. “L have his con: Pi oi P a> & Vary coblects, with shouts and yelle with my truneheon to the police, who, OWARD $8 o'clock ta th ae a ae anit the action, to 10Wed him to the tage; In another he fcselon, roughly jotted down, but signed : AG: ARRON ; j@ Most abusive epithe! T feared, were about to repeat the ine > $ o'clock in the eve> wrong, He hegan to halt the action. to naa‘ hig wire in hia arma and and attested by several witnernes. I'm ferent writen: of the previous evening, ning Ember met Whitaker in Interrupt the scenes wi ing her first transports of semi glad you Were out of the w demands for repetition with exasperat- Vani, eaeond! . the dining room of the it rs from the wall, ground egar- cal terror, father a painful scene, and disorder! bere h teed them, ette unde) ind lounged past quenc 4 it Impossible Spurr ji mordial and together thay Ink freaiones Tein his arnt. or con- Tt WAS possibly the quarter of an hour It wouldn't have been pleasaat for Mra, with @ slight nod to the woman, te tne nf of the fourth, one of the Proceeded to the theatre to [9 be silll to revaln fi at liter that Hmher paused before a door Whitaker Pith & silgh Prarie md AT Ne lerdal Se thunate charactera on. the stage On the ground floor dressing roam gank- ¢ had trouble in. the beginning Thero were but few of the house Mary Whitaker turned her face, shad- uu Ay wig crowd ou 5 of the parquette,| ‘They succeeded in taking thelr seats ae their heads, and either forgot to W@y of the Theatre Max—a door diatin- Clearing the theatre. Human curiosity staff visible, and those few were owy and mystical, touched with her gall cam ; in upon the scoundrels occupy | without attracting attention, either from act, or overacted, And then—intolerable guished by the Initiale “8. L." in the 4 @ tremendously paraistent and resist- methodically thusy making ready to leave faint and inecrutable smile, up to her Rae ‘end throe vive ntre seats, furtously vociter-| the uwi c . the centre of a golden atar, With «ome hest- ant force. And then I had some trouble {t. Beyond the dismal gutter of the husban’ Pepata hate. T amited ar Re nitutoe Oe ener at te PPCnte AOBSIABN gt climaxi—of a sudden sem eeey at tation, with even a Iittle diMdence, he dealing with the misplaced loyalty of footlichts the ‘auditortum yawned cave "Wait," she Demged In @ whisper. “> get, They mistake inf ‘As swell as T can remember, the dom-| cal fraternity and those {ntimutes bid- peng the middie of a passage !!fted a hand and knocked, the staff of the house. @rnous and shadowy, peopled only by Want to see—-her accents broke— “tha Went on; tere cnnia (oo greatest ap- hardmont outside now began, Stones! den by the manager to the firet cere to be tenderly emotional, At once the door was opened by the “However, eventually 1 got Max to low rows of chaire ghostly in their duat bay tt all piause, as it geornied fom tho why were hurlal against the windows in| of his new ion in stag The voice of Sara Law broke and fell. mald Ell Recognising Ember, she myself—alone, that ta, mith several men cloths. er hee ya ata and oe Dope. T bowed reapecttaliv, repeatedly. Biahth street, smashing many; the Work | from” thos x reed trembling and aghast. Max, ra stood aside, making way for {could depend on. And then I heart The street switehboasd f fof the paraiette, At length T booa : some minutes, the action of the pleco #Wune out of slant into the WAS Geom significance, “told me to y dint of jectric bulbs made visible the vast, malble there # had not yet been permitted to begin to other rd and drew toxether *20W you In at once, M. Ember.” personal discoveries wh gloomy dome of the flies and the white. Be pated. forward unfold, ewilderment, And then _ From beyond the curtains Whitaker'e ected, I broke down his di washed walls against which sections of Whitaker gathered that Max had been . Volce lifted up impatiently. “That you, ‘fe owned doggedly enough, and acenery were stacked like cards, An tt Vi t tc igaatiofed “with something about the SDTUPtly, WUD he Mir TINe auditorium od Man? Come right ini OU yor with that singular sort of pride electrician in his wtrest clothes lounged waitaker wllpped an arm around is euy incen Ss vice. fe) Lovers. lighting of the acene, The manager was {he Illusion of slo! Nodding to the maid, Ember thrust Which IT have learned to aasociate with beside the docrkeeper’s cubicle, at the Wife, She trembled within his embrace “BOB wees: “Laat Sunday I hap. | id not, without turnt ctor after another centum Ww. ; “Black out," ahe said ti 12 and standing tn mid-wiage, starin, the |nd moonlight In the proscen aside the portieres and at: some phases of homicidal mania. 1 entrance, emoking a cigarette and ty e gaid in a genils an Leurnin to Forget. mination of the individual to f =| bee ae FOP AE Me ont away by the glare of the full come riety” ghted ar gered Into the serie Metrese you with de ‘The sonterring with the doorman white aub- resrettul voice. “The final cait They madly unworthy telendiion lever: 3t: wi Aside from him, the only other ‘occu Diement of electric lights po! 7 “TD am intruding" he suggested truth ts that Max was quite mad on the jeoting Whitaker to a curious and an- '#4t curtain. End of tho play. , =i oN Sigh ey a ‘pant of the stage was Sera Law, She ‘he house, hile wtill all were Ktavely with a aileht turn hack toward s¥biect of his luck. Ho consifered It, a8 tagonistic star: He sald sonadentiy it tombe sa! Mt raph tin: /a Paton a.stone bench, with Ner profile | A thought later, while still ail were tne door ws if offering to withdra T suspected, indissolubly associated of thelr voices Prologue.” Now gnly, the curtain toa ment Gt the proscenium arch, 10. that ene emote §nt of Mary Whitaker waa lost in an em. “When poor Custer committed autctde of boot-hesla in “Th the darkness their lips met in the hace noe lights, T.elitng, he aweot the arcay of Date iteration iy Whiteiea he saved Max from ruin and innocently the angwey nak ’te aeenenvar tens ? Htlced the ‘onance of Ender and her suditora with an ominous and truculon’ sit down!” he inniated, “Ae If we'd showed hin the way to save himeelf ieft his ing-room and hastened to 47st Kise of thelr, marcied IL ven o meet # young Many eband atare. let you eseapo now, after you've kept thereafter, when he felt in Ml, by the etreet, keen set for the clash of gos- . cost vhom 1 have eoen oecasionsily, He) do ahead,” snapped the manag So quickly was this startling chang is here in suspense’ — axrinating Harmiton and later Thura- siping tongues in theatrical clubs Ye poke to me, and I did net tenor An actor advanced from the wings, consummated that Whitaker had no ny wife anwwered for both: “It te Drummond only cheated a similar yestaurants. on | sould be very vers! Dd 1 do wron, addressed the seated wom- more than time to realize the reap: geitied, dear friend, I can struggle no and you''-turning to Whitaker Gradually the bullding grew more and j] iain that an attacn-| neral principles it ls not wise! Hin lines were brief, 4 pearance of the mana before he jonger, I thought myself a strong wome wped by the narrowest shave, Max empty and «ile, unttl at length STOP THIEF! unworthy | to speak to a man to Whom you haven't | her leat a startled alr, Hatening, caught his wrathful and venomous an: ¢ have tried to be hadn't meant to run the risk of putt with the shad. 7 uneine 12 bean intreduecd, to yneak, and her voice of glance fixed to his own bDewéldered face. genius bound upon the whi you out of the way unless he thought clan and doorman. Bur 1? Velvet filled the house with the Simultaneously he saw Slax mpring to- rred destiny, but I find I {t abeolutely nece:mary, but the failure ‘These betrayed algne of Impatience, He f its unforgettably sweet ward the box with a atetorted and snarl- giorious voice trembled slight): ti aympethy for thoir Manat ie ‘only a “IK, 8." writes: mai is paying me countenan He was tugging at woman love, and no stronger than temper. Women ainly did take an “ale atte son and To like pb very much,| That opening scene was one, perhapi mething In hia pocket, It appeared her love him tempo- unconscionable time to dress! dual! But he pins cards u 4 o'clock inj unique in the } stage, Com- in the shape of a heavy pistol. “Tam very glad," Ember repeated, thy chagrin and jeal- At length he heard the sound.of two (ie morning, ana my triends advise me | pored. by Ma pootieal Whitaker had not graspad the reat ‘for both your sakes. {t's a happy con: paire of teet hurrying along the lower Sreages of soene, the ¢ #etloa of, mi marry him, What ts your ad-!mement of | {t not import of this when he was caught by summation of my dearret wishan.” Concluding, Ember rose, “I must fol- yy: He turned to join his wife at new fslendships and oth ine wide Knvver and tripped and sent sprawling = "We owe you everything,” Whitaker low him now to the Plies, station, T entrance, meee, Meriead them, aspaipevacia! in’ thal a wambler is not apt to make D&@2t” of imagers, but It moved with on the floor of the box, As this hap- said with feeling, dro an awkward Hal ere ye both spon agai —_ burdened with two heavy handbags, and Cindl ype int an almost Grecian certitude, with a pened he heard the voice of the firearm, hand on the other's shoulder. ‘It was wed him yy into rain alley- wig thet really counts is the eaters . i usbaod s 7 Gignificance extraordinarily direct an@ sharp and vicious—a single report. you who threw us together, dows these 6 ya, was ne dosti can 8 aaoule 4 . — A .? rs =