The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1913, Page 3

BRIDGE SUICIDE? WELL, HARDLY, SAYS “NOTFED” WE Weilbrenner’s Suitcase Full of Clothing and Farewell Note Fail to Convince. a TOOK ALI. HIS MONEY. Sold Auto, Drew Bank Ac- count, Collected Every Debt, and Left Her Fifteen Cents. Mra. William =H. Wellbrenner Queens, L. 1, whose husband's euitcase, full of clothing and containing a note hinting that he had jumped into the Kast River, was found near the Man- hattan pier of the Brooklyn Bridge last wight, told an Evening World reporter | jyn, to-day that she was sure her husband foreman of ground+ keepers at Belmont racetrack, came to Manhattan. Her, three chikiren, ranging from nine to three years old, were playing about her om the porch when she asserted her belief that her husband was alive and trying to deceive her. It was clear she had convinced the children thi thetr father was alive. Her husband’ mother listened to her story and now and then wept. But Mrs. Weillbrenner wae determined and apparently sure of her conclusions. “When I heard that my husband had drowned himself,” she said, “I was as. tonished, but I had no reason to believe the awful news was not true, though I cotid not understand why he should do euch # thing. I went to Manhattan at once. ult case was his, The clothing in it was his, But I do not Ddelieve he is in the river. “For one thing, I noticed that, after leaving home, he had changed the shirt whieh he was wearing when he went away for a new silk shirt which I had made for him, way bis mind works fairly wel not the sort of man to kill hi If, and especially mot the sort of a man who would change clean clothes Lvfore Jumping into the Hast River from the Brooklyn Bridge” “Aw soon as I came home I called up the bank where he kept his money. I Jearmea be had drawn out yesterday rery cent he had on deposit there— 6166. I calle@ the automobile dealer where he kept his car; I learned he had @old the car yesterday for $150, saying Needed ready aeeer Decause he was He ls ineured 00 and found that he had peid his premium yesterday. I have the different persons who money for plumbers work which he hed done before he went to work on the race track and found that he had collected every cent which was rail A Seana, it seemed likely to Mt there nothing queer about tt @ morbid hankering live in Philadelphia. He was never mights, his wife said, and spent his at pare with the eres, ‘Wellbreaner’s suit case was found at on the bridge promenade by ‘Whalen of No. % Greene avenue, Tt was not locked, and on olothing it contained was this he party oF parties who find @is package or parcel be kind enough to notify my wife, ao-that he may ‘dentify the goods therein, and you will oblige One Unfortunate Bo WILLIAM H. WHILBRENNER, Clinton and Bergen avenygs, Queens, LL ‘The bridge police, to whom Whalen reported his discovery, could find no rumor that anybody had been seen to jump off the bridge, as of | 1 know William end the far as she knew, alts | * THE Peta t nwt -e SN BVENING WORLD, TURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1013 OOP PRADO LPL I APPL PPP PDD EL PPL EPP LLLP L POS '} The Evening World’s and Babies’ Welfare Aesociation’s Next Monday the Big Con-| test on Lower West Side Opens, When Babies of Greenwich Village Will Exhibit Points of Phys- ical Excellence. |Little Chap Who Passes Examination Well Spent Six of His Fourteen Months of Existence in an Incubator at Coney Island. It's “busy baby days again at the Playgrounds of School No. 14, Brook- Yeaterday all roads seemed to lead to |the pleasant vacation centre at Four- teenth street and Fourth avenue. And baby carriages had the right of way. It all meant that the real contest in the Better Babies’ Show organised by The Evehing Worl’ and the Babies’ Welfare Association was on in earnest Registration for entrants at this centre had closed on July 28, with #8 lusty entered for the race and ing World's money And yesterday the big task of m= ining and judging the tots began. In the morning thirty-five and im the after- noon forty prospective champions had all thelr good and bad points scheduled on the standard score cards, which will constitute the records In the awarding of prizes. HOPE TO HAVE JUDGING OVER BY END OF WEEK. “The weighing and measuring and Physical and mental examination of each child takes considerable time,” said Principal Wesley C. Cox, in charge of the contest, “ the entrants judged by the end of th week. A staff of nineteen physicians have kindly volunteered their eervices for the work, and ten ladies interested in our work ere valiantly assisting them.” One of the kidd: who came through his examination with flying colors in the morning was Henry Philip Weber of No, 38 Seventeenth tsreet. Henry is fourteen“ months old, but six of these he spent in a hospital incubator at Coney Island, ‘‘When he was a month old,” gaid his mother, Mrs. F. Weber, “my physician said' he wouldn't live, unless I placed him in an incubator, and now you can see for yourself what a healthy child he is,” Frank and John MoMahon, one-year- old twins of No. 171 Eighth street, also attracted much attention woing the judging process. @ question of dividing @ prize between| ™ them,” laughingly exclaimed the nurse who prepared them for the scales, The doctors on the judging committee at this centre are: W. K. Jacobs, W. Schroeder jr., H. F. Graham, F. L Drobinski, H. Aronson, J. Slavit, J. P. Pendleton, J. B, Byrne it, R, K. Barnes, C. A. Anderson, B. A. Fedde, T. P. McQuillan, T. A. Lynch, Harold Bell, Desmond Smith, L Clapp, M. Blaber, Herbert Fry and E. Higgini The ladies assisting them are: Mrs. Harry E. Cox, Secretary of Thirtieth District Local Board, Mrs. Bessie Mo- Court, Mrs. Anna Cooner, Mrs, Agnes Harvard, Mrs. Elisabeth MacFarlan Mrs. Helen McBride, Miss Edna Carlin, Mra, C, T. Carlin, Miss Blanche Moran, and Mrs. H. Randasso, Ya the meantime entrants for the title “Champion Baby of New York” are atill having thelr names registered the contest centre of the Little Moth. ers’ Aid, No. 236 Second avenue. Eight placed on the list yesterday, mak- ing @ total of 328 Registration in this district will continue until Wednesday August 13, Inclusive. Announcement was made yesterday by Mrs. Clarence Burns, President of the Little Mothe that next Wednesday at four P. M Dr Rudolph B. MoMt of No. 2% Park avenue will lecture to mothers én “In- fant Feeding, quarters, This & series of talks on kindred subjects arranged by Mrs. Burns. Next Monday the big contest on the lower west side opens when the babies of Greenwich village will be given @ chance to run away with the proudest title—-if they oan, According to Greenwich House officials at 2% Jones street, the contest centre, 500 aspirants will uphold the reputation of old Green wich, How to Care for the Baby To Make It Grow Strong Just as Important for Mothers to Know What Not to Give Child as What to Give, Says Dr. Baker. “Tt ts just as important to know what not to feed @ baby as what to feed him," says Dr. Josephine Baker in her talks to mothers to-day. “I have al- ready tala you in some of my other talke what you should feed the baby. same time you learn some of the you should not feed it. I have already tol® you not to feed the baby anything but milk from your own breast if it is possible for you to feed him that way. I told you, too, how to look out for bad milk when you had to feed your baby from a bettie. “There are @ great many rules for feeding babies, particularly for the mother who has to feed her baby from & bottle. Remember, first of all, what | I told you about not asking your neigh- | bor’s advice. Always go to @ doctor or | nurse; find out just what you should your baby, i “Don't forget how to get good, clean milk and how to take care of it so it will stay #0, Keep the bottles and nip- plee and everything that baby’s milk touches perfectly clean by frequent boiling and leaving them standing in walt water or borax water when not in use, as I explained in one of my other talks. 4 “If you must use @ bottle for your baby, don't give him plain cow's milk, Cow's milk {s much stronger than mother’s milk, and #0 too strong for a tender baby's stomach. Cow's milk tust always be modified or mixed with water and other things that the doctor will tell you about, Don't try to modity the milk yourself until a doctor or nurse has shown you how. You might do it wreng and do your baby a great deal of barm. “If baby leaves @ little milk in the bottle when he gets through feeding, Never gave {t for the next time. Never feed baby old milk or milk that ha: Stood after part of it has been us It ie very Hkely to make hith sick, be- cause the tiny bacteria I have told you about have had a ch to row tn it. It is better to waste a little than to run the risk of wasting your baby. “Don't feed the baby cold millk. Re- = ‘Member, the mfk that rature meant baby to take is as warm as your vwn blood, If bis little stomach has to warm the milk up for itself it is pretty sure to be harmed by it. “But never stick your finger in baby's mile see if it is warm enough Your Enger may look perfectly clean, but remember those little bacteria too small to see without a magnifying glass. There may be thousands of them on @ finger that looks perfectly clean, If you put them in baby’s milk they Will grow there very quickly aad turn It to ol 5 ; “And, worst of all, don't put the nip- | Ple of the bottle into your own mouth ‘to see how warm the milk is, You can't tell whgt bacteria may be hiding in your mouth. You are grown up and strong and well, There may not be nough of them to do you any harm ‘et there may de enough of them to kill your baby, especially when they ‘have a chance to grow in his milk. Be- sides, you may be coming down witn some disease that hasn't shown itself to you yet, Many a little one has taken consumption or diphtheria or some oth- er deadly disease from 8 careless moth- er or nurse who has insisted on putting the nipple of baby’s bottle into her own mouth, ‘The best way to tell if the milk te warm enough is to dip up a little with @ clean spoon that hes just been in boiling water and hasn't had your fin- ere on tts bow! since, then taste of milk from the spoon and don't put @poon back in the milk. Tt is best always to taste = baby's milk before feeding H, not only to find out If it is the right heat, but to mal sure that it {s not sour, Never give your baby sour milk. It ts very likely to make him seriously sick. “Never feed @ baby condensed milk or patent foods unless a doctor orders you Here is another place where 'lyour neighbor's advice is dangerous. Remember, no two babies are alike. One child may do well on what kills another. “Then, too, many of these foods lack the animal matter that gives baby strength, Your baby may grow fat on How, When and Where to Enter Your Baby For the Big Prize Contests Now Under Way CONTEST AT LITTLE MOTHERS’ AID ASSOCIATION, No. 2% Second Avenue, for children between three months and five year living in district from Seventh to Twenty-eighth atreet and Fifth avenue to East River. Registrations from Monday, July 14, noon except Saturdays and Sundays, from 2 to 4, begin Monday, Aug. 18. prises, CONTEST AT GREENWICH HOU to Wednesday, Aug. 13, every after. Judging of the bables will For this contest The Evening World offei SE, No, 26 Jones atreet, will open for registration of entrants Monday, Aug. 11, and continue to Monday, sept. 1 inclusive, Contest boundaries from North River and Fourteenth atreet east to Fifth avenue, to Washington Square, to Broadway, to North River. World offers $0 in money prizes CONTEST AT THE PLAYGROU: Fourth avenue and Fourteenth street, Brooklyn, R 2, Examinations began one week. CONTESTS OF THE CHELSEA Registration for entrants at the ti Age limit, same as above, For this contest The Evening 0. nd Greenwich Hou ND OF PUB: tration closed July jonday, Aug. 4, at 10 A. M. and will continue for For this contest The Evening World offere $50 in money prises, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION— hree contest centres, No, 78 Ninth avenue, No. 436 Weat Twenty-seventh street and No. 437 West Forty-frat street closed Juiy # Examination dates will be announced later, For each of these three contests T! prises. ‘he Evening World offers $50 in money \ Great City- Wide Series of Better Babies’ Contests Judging of 403 Lusty Youngsters Begins; . | Expect to Finish This List by Week End thro ison wons ass i Cena Ser rr. re ys ee | them for a time, but does net grow as strong as he should. He le very likely to have rickets or sourvy if you feed him patent foods for a very long time. “Don't give your baby a taste of everything, a8 so many mothere do. Remember, his little stomach is meant for nothing but milk or water until he is at least a year old. He should not get any solid food of any sort under that age. Don’t give him any frult, except a little orange juice, when the docter advises tt, and don't give him that until after he te six months old. eee Ni owe STRIKEBY 7,000 WORKERS ON VARIOUS KNIT GOODS Employees of 250 Shops in Greater New York and Jersey City Go Out. Seven thousand workers on sweat- ers and knit gooda went on etrike in 250 shops in the east aide, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Jersey City to-day. They went out in response to # call for a general strike of all knit goods work- ere in Greater New York and vicinity, called by the United Knitters’ Union of Greater New York, Three thousand more are expected to answer the call | before to-morrow. Headquarters for the atriking men, women and boys and girleryoung workers predominate in the industry— have been established at No, 106 For- aythe atreet, on the east aide, and at No, 184 McKibben etreet, Brooklyn. The strikers demand more sanitary workshops, better working conditions and higher pay, But more than all, they demand the abolition of the tem wher ‘ings they are forced to buy their own ;Machines to make the goode for the manufacturer in the manufacturer's shop, The machines coat $100 aptece. ceaseless “GENTLEMAN JIM” HELO, | Dowsing, Wire-Tapping st ! Pat Up $15,000 “Gentlemen Jim" Dowsing, mind of the Gondort group of wire |tappers, who was found rusticating on {a farm near Hebron, Md., by Detective Dick McKenna after the police of thia and other cities had been searching for him for more than @ year, pleaded not guilty to grand larceny to-day when |arralgned before Judge Rosalsky in Gen- jerat Bexnions, | The courtroom was filled with the younger generation of Central Office detectives anxious to see “Gentleman Jim.” His appearance did not belle ths sobriquet. Well med, deapite his four days in custody and a day and a night in the Tombs, Dowsing looked th» prosperous citizen that he so often played to lure “suckers with money from their homes to this city. He ta accused of having stolen $25,000 in May, 1912, from Kirby Cleveland Aidbury and Dr. J. H. Powell of Wilmington, Dal, in @ wire tapping awindle here. Fudge Rosaleky fixed bell tor tloman Jim" at 615,000. ir, Mew master ‘Gen- out of their scanty earn | WIDOW WILL WELCOME. | 16-YEAR-OLD CHILD, ABDUCTED, SHE SAYS Her to Come Home—Man- to Law’s Penalties. Mie. Sarah J. Smith, a whkiow, Hving In the Kingncote Apartments, No. 419 West One Hundred and Nineteenth street, ead toxiay that she belleves her sixteen-year-old daughter, Helen, who disappeared Mast Saturday afternoon, was aixtucted. This beltet ie éntertained by Mra. Smith despite the faot that she has received two telegrams bearing her signature, in each of which the gist stated that she married. “No Heenae waa tasied by the Mar Bureau in thie efty on ternoon,” sald Mrs. Smith. urday evening from an office in Man- hattan that she waa married. “She took no clothing with her and had no money when she left home. A mother's intuition tells me tha: me man with whom ahe became infatuated. She in only @ child and knows little of the work. “I want her to know that I will wel- come hep-home, no matter what has happened. I wish The Evening World would say for me that I want her to come back and tell me all. As for the man, the law will take care of him. Up to this time I have been unable to get any alue to give even an idea of the identity of this man. I telleve he owns an automobile. But persons who way they saw Helen in the car with him cannot give the number of the car and only state that the man was young and tall and had wy hair. 0, of course, I expected her back in an hour or two, “At T o'clock I recetved @ telegram whieh read: ‘Ara married, Going away for a ew weeks. Helen.’ “Naturally the news was a shock to me, because I knew of no young maa in whom my daughter was interested. hurried to the West One etreet police station and asked that a confidential alarm be sent out “Yeaterday afternoon at half-pest 3 an- ‘Having good time On our way for good trip. Hel “While I was awa) on @ two weeks’ vacation Helen was seen riding up and Gown Riverside Drive in an automobile almost every afternoon. The was @ runadout and Helen drove it, with young man always by her ade or im the other seat. “I believe the young man with Gis Gutomobile turned Helen's head. RUNAWAY SCARES NURSES; FRIGHTENS DRIVER MORE Horse’s Wild Flight Stopped Only When He Runs Into Auto Truck. ‘The next time that Nathan Aviten of No. 108 Amaterdam avenue gots out to exercise @ horse, he will have a more intimate knowledge of quadrupeds and the conditions under which they are apt to back, go ahead and skid. The proprietor of the Buena Vista stables et No, 123 West Highty-ninth street to- day sent the lad out with « peculiarly frisky horse named Patsy attached to a wagon, The horee pranced gayly out Central Park West until Ninety-sixth street was reachgg. Then an automobilu sipped out of Central Park and sen’ up @ long groan from ite siren and it ‘was all of with Patsy. From Ninety-sixth street to One Hun- red and Eleventh the horse galloped, bent on @ Garrison finwh. Children, starting across the street, atopped and went back to the curb, Nurses screamed and grabbed their household cares and the rocky road to Dublin didn't compare with the path that Patsy was making. Leviteh, the driver, careened and yelled | for help, and every ewerve threatened | to throw him from bia eeat. At One Hundred and Eleventh street Patsy hit an elevated pillar and freed | himself from his harneas and wagon ‘and the driver went flying out oa to the vement. Patay ran two more blocks nd collided with @ big auto truck and paure to his career. led him back to his stable rope and told the owner of the stable that he didn’t owe him anything nd that he couldn't give him Patsy for @ present. * ——e VAN SCHAICK'S DEATH DUE TO ALCOHOLISM Coroner W. Hf, Lavingaton of New Ro- chelle said to-day that he had no reason } tach any importance to rumors that Livingston Van Schaick, who died July 13 at hin home at Pelham Manor, had | been poisoned, The attending physicians, | Dre. A. ©. MoGulre and BE. &. jewel, | both phyaicians of the highest standing | in New Rochelle, assured him that Mr. | ‘an Schaick’s health had been éritical | for nearly a Year. ] Dr. Newell ar him ay that unless he adopted an abst mode of life hy Id live y a few | months. Hix death, the physician said, wan due to d nd all his aymptoma we © of & patient In the extreme stages of that dinease, A cording to them, the yarn that chi had been administere to Mr. Schatek just before his death w Jabaurd because he died in convulst wheroas chiora! would have made hi sluggish and sem!-consctous, Goroner Livingston said he would take up any inquiry demanded by friends of Mr. Van Schaics. | that gave Levi with RUNAWAY 16-YBAR-OLD WHO, HER MOTHER 5S. SURELY WAS ABDU 5 The commission promises no structure which will te am vet to navigation at any time @urimg tii work of construction, ; The Interborough will HELEN Smrret. NEW SUBWAY TUNNELS PUT UP TO UNCLE SAM Public Service Commission Asks Formal Permission to Begin Construction. On dehalf of the Pubite Service Commission, Chairman McCall today sent letters to the Secretary of War asking Federal sanction ty build two tunnels under the Hast River and to Dermit the sinking of caissons under construction of the new subways, This application ie @ formality and speedy sanction is expected. foot of Whitehall street, Manhattan, part of the Whitehall River, Montague street route, from O14 Slip, Mambattan, to street, Brooklyn, as part of the Place, William and Clark etreet ‘The tunnels will be forty-Gve « WE Judgment as * Sparete Clark street route; the B RB. Whitehall street route, f Ses isn’t poy peda BENEATH EAST RIVER |=: sorts feverish, i WANT YOUR an [ndi- 4 vidual of the Values in the Cammeyer » Semi-Annual Extra Dividend Sale NOTE: There are ne goods in Our Basem nt purchased for this sale. There is ne re-marking of sizes to fool the public. 4 There IS every size in one or more styles. There fs am endless variety, so the mest exacting can be suited, All Regular Lines Taken From Main Fleer. Men’s Low Shoes $3.50, $4, $5, $5.50, In Russia Calf, Black Kid, Metal Calf and Patent Leather. Women’s Low Shoes Formerly —ere $3.50, $4, $5, $5.50, -Now ~ Consisting of Colonials, Pumps and Oxfords, in Patent Leather, Gun Metal ‘Tan Russia Calf, Colored Suede and White Buckskin and Canvas,