The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1913, Page 3

ER ITN TR RTE ET “BOOB” WALKER HASNT “GOT HS.” ATLEAST, NOT YET y . » Red Hook and Gopher Gang- sters Had Warned Him of His Fate. my saiaa's SAYS WE SED MAGN UGE [FIVE PEOPLE AUR BAREFOOTOFHS | 8 RA MBG Harold Johnston Defending Her Divorce Action Makes Charges, Too. orid’s and Babies’ Welfare Association’s The Bvening W Great City-Wide Series of Better Babies’ Contests Expert Says Baby Contests Will Result Girls In Stronger and Healthier Boys an Dr. Kerr, Child Specialist, Who Conducted Brook- lyn Examination, Gives Plain Directions and Advice to Mothers for Children Between the Ages of One and Five. Ti..= SET, LAST NIGHT. INVOLVES A MARCHESE. | era: seestons to-day signed a commit- But All Was Well at the Ly- ceum Cafe To-Day and No Blood Spilled. Her Counsel Declares She'll rawan acyt Give Real Name of “Anna J. R—" Now. Mothere of Thirty Tots Passing the Preliminary Teste Are Notified To- Day—Fully 350 Regis- trations Have Been Made for Coming Con- test in Greenwich Vil- x In @ counter action tn reply to her Giverce sult againat him, Johneton accuses his wife of a \iason If Mr. “Roob" Walker is in the audt- @mece will he kindly rise and let an Qnxious ,uvilc know if he is alive? The Up reached the police jast night that was to “wet hi @awn to-day, but if he has “got his’ ‘the fact has not become known. _ ‘The scene of Walker ‘Btcording to the report, was to Deen the Lycoum Caf ‘West corner of Fifty-« she once kissed in public. Mrs. Johns- ton was Miss Harriet Richardson, @ daughter of the head of the M. T. Rich- ardson Co, Publishers, of No, Tl Mur That the great seties of Better Baby Shows, organised by the Babi fare Association and The Evenin, will effect a far-reaching improvement in our crops of children te the opinion of Dr. LeGrand Kerr of Brooklyn, one of the best known child speciatéts in Johnston says he was caused great mental anguish and was held up to the contempt, ridaldry and ridicule of others by his wife's alleged osculatory exer clees upon the foreiga nobleman’s un- socked foot. He also says Mre. Johne- ton used to becoine grossl; and treated him | Mre, Johnston denounces these charges Qe scandalous and says, according to her counsel, Mirabeau L. Towns, ene Premises this morning fail anything that looked like a gangster's truised and bleeding hody and habitues of the resort laughed long and raucous- ly when the subject of Walker's an- lution was broached. wasn't around, but wher ‘ever he was it wae telleved he was very much alive. ‘The tip was that it wae the guns of the Red Hook and the Gopher gangs e primed to pop in Walker's di- What the grievance of one or ithe other or both of these fraternities against their east side rival, or whether they entertained one that hi gun stage, was not to Gunmen sleep late, you know, and exactly what the situation Is ‘was hard to learn. At any ral ing to police information, Walk ‘Bupposed to have an interest in the Ly- coum cafe and there he was scheduled to meet his doom. A swarm of detectives populated the eorner all last evening, accordingly. One @ecount had it that they had all se- Cured jobs as waiters in the back room ef the Lyceum, but this seems to have Deen qverdrawn. Some of the detectives the bar to get a cigat ing progressed, that any donned Dr. Kerr is the author of “The Bab; and ‘The Care and Training of the connected with @ num- ber of prominent nospitals, and for years he has devoted all his time and attention to the care of children below the age of twelve, They are bropght to him from all parts of the United States. He heads the corps of physicians who haye been judging th wd yoBthfut candidates at th at tye playground of jo School Nv. 1, Fourth avenue He will conduct the final eXamination of the thirty best bables next Monday afternoon, and on Aug. 2 he will award the money prises offered by The Evening World. “These competitions,” he said to-day, “are eapectaily helpful to the children ‘Detween the ages of one and five. The local station of the City Milk Commit- tee usually has its eye on the baby under one year. After his fifth birth- day; the Freqh Air Fund keeps in touch with ‘the growing child. But between one and five many things may happen to him, and therefore the contests for whic!: The Evening World offers money Prizes are particularly vatuadle in his Will no longer keep secret the identity of “Anna J. R.” She ie ask! for the custody of her twelve-year-old daughtet In her complaint Mrs, Johnston al- Jeges that about September, 1911,’ her his residence in the R—, at Ridgewood, and during that month, October, November and December, associated timately with “Anna J. R—; 4i6 make love to her, call her and embrace and kiss if @he charges that during the early part of the following year the two moved to No, 96 West One Hundred and Sixth etrest and lived in the came apartment. ‘The complaint continues, moved back to Ridgewood, N. J., in April, 1912, and ocoupled different rooms M133 KENNEY MEASUR- SHAY NNESS9 J. R” rented a cottage at Oak Bluff, Mass, and represented Mr. Johnston, to be her husband. In asking for the custody of thelr child Mrs. Johnston states that “Anna J. RY” bas ao daughter about fourteen yeare ol4 and that it would be die astrous to permit the defendant te have do with the custody of attorneys, Bilandy, Mooney & Shipman, Mr. Jobaston, in answering the complaint, admits living but it doesn't appea: Qprons and rushed “draw ones" behind ‘the swinging doors of the PREGENT OWN! _ THINKS “IT “One of those to be found in the uyeeum Cafe this morning was Billy Purtell, former West Side gambler, whe fe the present owner of the establish- ment. Billy was highly amused over the report of the assassination that was Feported to have been scheduled as the it night's cabaret. He knew ‘the Boob,” he sald, aa he knew Walker has no interest ought to know for he fe the owner, he added. “Been here three months," said Pur- ‘ana I haven't had a 197 HiLoa NOT “BOOB,” TO LAUGH.” Saison ScHOOL 124 IN THE "TWIXT AND "TWEEN PERIOD. “Hie predicament ts exactly parallel to that of the person in moderate cir- cumstances who desires hospital treat- ment. The very rich can get the best because they pay for it’ The very poor have the best given to them. But the man who ie only fairly well to do often has teave the hospital and go to work when he should be the guest of a convalescent home. He cannot buy this Fest, and he is not poor enough to havo it offered him free. Likewise, many a child two or three years old is los: between the agencies looking out for 14.74 ST AND 4IHAVE BRO OKL' GERALD PHELPS evder, and so mony serious ills may follow in the train of indi- gestion. “I belleve that most parents who do Rot take proper care of their children's health offend through ignorance, i is auch enterprises as the Better Baby BROOKLYN admite taking “Anna J, R." Shows that will make them wiser.” NOTIFY THIRTY FORTUNATE MOTHERS TO-DAY. At Public School No, Cox, principal of the recreation centre, Dut in @ busy time yesterday figuring out the percentages of the several hun- Gred babies examined in the contest of whitch he was in charge. Early this morning he will notify the mothers of the thirty babies, six in each of the five classes, who have scored highest. These mothers must present their youngsters at the recreation centre next Monday afternoon for a final judgment of the assembled physicians. Only after a: other tense ten da: World's cash prizes be awarded. One mother at this contest ie abso- lutely certain she will get a prize. She ‘8 ¢o confident that she asked Mr. Cox to take her name out of a compe- ution arranged by several iocal politi- Three % wold pieces have been Offered to the three bables who report the greatest number of days at the cen- tre in a clean and healthy condition. The confident mother had been work- ing for one of the gold pieces. But after her baby's examination in the con- vening World prizes she went to Mr. Cox and said earnestly: “I on’t want to be a pig and let my baby | win everything. He will get an Eve- ning World prize, #0 don't count him as trying for the gold piece any longer.” ‘he registration for the contest to be held by the Little Mothers’ Aid Associa- tion and TI! a Evening Worki goes mer- and further admits their being at Oak But he says thet the cottage wa owned by his father, who had some How, When a tell cheerfully, Jam in the place since : came, have I 1m, Weasley C. nd Where to Enter Your Baby For the Big Prize Contest Now Under Way arrangem which she should pay part of the ex- Denses, and that there were also in the cottage members of his family, includ- ing his father. He denies any improper conduct with her. no fights around here, @ure, I know ‘The Boob,’ but he doesn't come up here. Haven't seen him in CONTEST AT LITTLE MOTHERS’ AID ASSOCIATION, No, 38 Second avenue, for children between three from Seventh to Twenty-elgpth a! cent. of our children died before reach- ing the age of five. If you want to g some sort of an idea of whet such a rate of infant mortality really means, Glance at a crowd of 0,000 people at the Polo Grounds and remember that for every one of these adults a baby has died. Just now the rate has been somewhat reduced, but even yet at least 30 per cent. of our chikiren die before their fifth birthda: “I have made @ good many physical inations of young children this! jk at Public School No. 1M, and if T had te sum up in one word the cause) to which most of their defects are at- tributable I should eay, MALNUTRI- TION. Now the children who suffer from malnutrition are not only those whose parents cannot afford to buy them proper feod and enough of it. They are also, in many instances, the children of parents who are ignorant of baby hygiene, These parente do not give their children enough to eat, more likely, they give ‘them food which not contain the right f @ growing child. Purtell then essayed to explain how Mr. and Mrs, Johnston were married at Ridgewood, N. J., on Oct, 98, 1998. Se Registrations from Monday, July 14, to Wednesday, Aug. 12 Boon except Saturdays and Sunddgys, from 3 to 4. Judging of the babies will For this contest The Evening World offers $100 tn (he rumor that the Lyceum was to wi! mess the end of the gangster Walker begin Monday, Aug. 18. “Tae whole story started right around @his neighborhood,” he said. here last May and took ahold of thie §eint. It had never made a dollar. It ‘was only selling ten kegs of beer when 1 took hold, but now I am selling thirty, forty and fity kegs. That's the trouble. ‘There was a lot of cheap, Ittle runts that tried to come in and tell me how to DR. JONES DIES OF WOUND INFLICTED BY HIMSELF Wealthy Physician's Family Declare the Fata? Shot Was an CONTEST AT GREENWICH HOUSE, No. 26 Jortes street, will open for registration of entrants Monday, Aug. 11, and continue to Monday, Sept. 1 inclusive, Contest boundaries from North River and Fourteenth street east will The Evening to Fifth avenue, to Washington Squacs, to Broadway, to Canal street, to For this contest The Evening and Greenwich House $30. Age limit, same as atiove. World offers $50 in money pri centres 78 Ninth avenue from 9 to 12 A. M., and 26 Jones atreet, 3 to 4 P. M. CONTEST AT THE PLAYGROUND OF PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 1%, Fourth avenue and Fourteenth street, Brooklyn. Examinations will close Aug. 11. this contest The Evening World offers 0 in money prises. CONTESTS OF THE CHELSBA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION— Registration for entrants at avenue, No, 43 West Pwenty-seventh street street, closed July 2. For each of these three con! DARTS BEFORE AUTO AND MEETS DEATH AT BOWERY CROSSING Well Dressed Man Stops as if to Let Car Pass and Then Runs in Front of It. Registration closed July Prizes will be nted ‘jobs,’ but I hired whoever I wanted to and they got sore. a Dutchmign in the neighbor- fhood, too, that's sore. He sees a lot of Gusiness coming here and he don't like it. That's the answer! what kind of s skate this feller le, he pours ten pails of water on the sidewalk lace yesterday so the it there and eat. Can Dr. Oliver Livingston Jones, sixty- nine-year-old millionaire physician, whe ehot himeelf at his home, No. 116 Weet Beventy-second street, yeaterd: ded in the Polyclinic Hospital about 8 o'clock this morning. family were at his bedside when the end came Dr. Jones was the father of Miss Rosalie Jones, ‘who won the hu- moroue soubriquet of “General” on the march of the suffragiets to Albany. The family and the three contest centres, No. 7% Ninth wad No, 437 Weat Forty-firet tests The Evening Woyd offers %0 in money ‘ Members of hie ) ‘laborers wou you beat that?” Walker didn't get hii after all, and anyhow it couldn't fm the Lyceum Cafe, ENGINE CLEANER SHOT * IN BACK OF THE HEAD Harry Reaskinike, Whose Body Was Found in the Bronx, Was Evidently Murdered. Marry Reoskinike Mr. Levine and his friends sprang out] and ran to the maa, whil ween the accident, tele 3 = be 7} Es i thelr friende natet the fatal shooting was an accident, but the police say it wae intentional, and Dr. Jones, accordingly, was booked at the hospital as a prisoner on a charge of attempted sulcid: Hi the ambulance surgeon, hurried the victim to the hospital, Mr. Levine and his party following in the Three minutes after the ambulance reached Bellevue the man died without regaining consciousness, He was about thirty years old, five feet six inches tall, had dark ha: dark eyes and wore a t, white shirt and collar Besides the ring he had gold watch, gold cuff buttons and a fountain pen. The sum of $1.13 was found In his pockets. On a white cloth |label in the inner pocket of his coat was written in ink, a § i i EE Er & z : Lean of the Babies’ Hospital wil! give his third address to mothers on the care % Es was no reason for his wishing to die, He was in good health, save for nervousness, and his financial affaire were in a most satisfac- CRACK A CONEY ISLAND SAFE. Yeagmen Get 9800 A friend of the family cai no mem- ber of it knew Dr. Jones had 6 revolver, ‘The story te that he was cleaning @ re- volver when it went off. an engine cleaner for he New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Rajlroad, found dead in the round- Jhouse at One Hundred and Thirty-third wtreet and the East River last night, according to a atate- ment made to the police of the Alex- ‘There was Thieves broke open the premises of the Coney Island depot of the Metro- politan Tobacco Company early this morning, cracked the safe in the highest style of the yeggman's art and «ot away with $800 in amounting to several hunareds more, Acting Capt. William Deavy ts not be given much fruit, as is given t them should be cooked. fe hardly any nourishment in Children of this tim ———— Arrested as She Vietts Husband. Hattle McKay, thirty-five y Mr, Levine and his friends Fitth street police station and w; joned by Lieut. MoCarrick. man Phair, who had seen the acc A well-dressed man, wesriig s dia showing other evidences of prosperity, was struck and fatally hurt in front of No, 9 Bowery early to-day by an automobile belonging te Jacob Levine of No, 18% West One Hundred and Fifteenth street. was driven by Benjamin’ Levine's chauffeur, carried the owner, a shirt manufacturer, and two friends, ————_——_ 16 Weat Bixty-Afth atreet, went to the Tombs to-|CARDINAL PRAISES PRELATE. isit her husband Patrick, who alting trial for larceny. When she was searched by Matron Smit! envelope containing Atty grains of mor- was murdered, cash and checks have a certain proportion of sweet in thelr diet, but it 4 mit them to overload their stomachs with candy and rich deserts. There should be @ special effort to keep their food absolutely pure and fresh, and to cook and serve it properly, should be remembered that small chil- dren cannot safely go without food for Qs many hours as adults. the period of which I speak should eat at least four meals a day; one in: the one at noon, one in the mid- most unwise to p had fallen againat the firebox. Dr. Thomas Curtain, Coroner's physi- eian, in making a post mortem examin- ation this afternoon found that Reoskin- fixe had been killed by & revolver bullet fired into the back cf his head. an Pepe for Archbishep Quigiey. madding crowd in Surf avenue, front windows aro oainted red to @ height of five geet, shutting out the view Behind one of the obscure lights, in @ corner stood the safe. visitors picked it up and carried it into an inner room where the; with drill and ‘can opener” until the treasure law under their hands, many traces of the facility with whroh had handied heavy et the eye of the police that the latter reached the sage conclusion at least three or cour men did th An attempt was made to rob the same place about @ month age, %—Hocial festivities tention of most of |4FUs Inte ® prisoner, and will remain in Jali pending the opening of the Tombs Police Court on Monde; to-day claimed the | the delegates to the International Medi- cal Congress. The principal function was a garden party at Windsor Castle to which 2,000 doctors with thelr wives through which they learned that Jam: itarted to cross from west to east ahead of the ma- chine, but stopped for an instant as if to let the car pass him, Suddenly darted forward and Chauffeur Scha: 4n opportunity to rettroaé had heard Rear the roundhouse y: Dut had thought they were at a di fance and none of his business, The lice also learne@ that Reoskinike had quarrel with another worker yester- morning but were not able to find the name of the other man, oMce ae First Agsistant Corporation Counsel a few weeks ago, died suddenly | cago, performed in @ most unostenta- last midnight at the home of hs wil mother, Mrs, Katherine Doyle, No. Forty-ninth street. Mr. Steril was in perfect health when he at the University Club at bis usual hour lest evening. had been invited as the guests of King George and Queen Mary, both of whom, at Cowes for the regatta. the yeas men jsitors, Great contingents of doctors also mad@ excursions to Cam- The man was dragged three or four yard, before the car could be stopped, bridge, Brighton and other places, COMMITTED 0 Em Thomas Kelly Repeatedly Stole Badges and Arrested |Tfolley Stopping to Let OW Persons. Upon the recommendation of & com- mission in lunacy Judge Foster in Gen- West Forty-second street 3 z HH z* s | it i | | i Et : te 3 i | j i I i if i di ! ei HH E & z z HE i ju tt Tevolver, @ pair in money. i i | iil pie aye ih FF i i g Pi i} if 8 4 F Fa i F ‘I aa 5 fi | | ft H i gE 5 ! eal i i H ef i} il ? sisi i é ij i j i iE ai ~ = Sa ge ape 5 25g Wellington Strolls Broadway] Investigation of the Candidates © After Four Years and Again | for the Assembly Is Now... Faces Trial for Bigamy. Under Way. ‘ Bamuel B. Wellington, an aged min-| Th¢ Citlsens’ Union announces that Ing promoter reputed to be wealthy, 1o| 't !# Solng to “make an in the Tombs, charged with bigamy, | CO™Palsn for the election of the Beard and to-day hie alleged second wite sued | °F AMermen and the State Assombiy for an annulment of their marriage. On| ° men pledged to a definite construe: tive platform and measuring up to 6 Thursday Wellington, whistling, WS!) ner standard of Ai than these walking down Broadway when he was/ now in office re! New grabbed roughly bya white-gioved hand | city district” salanaenesis: on his shoulder. A stern command| for several months halted him, and when he turned 4¢| the Union have been searching stared Mrs, Wellington No. 3 tn the! records of the Assembiymes tase. Germen. This has incluged a “Oho! she exclaimed, “you've come! into the home, business and out of your hole efter all these years have you? Well, you'll get yours now." And the irate woman called a police-| y; man to arrest him. Mra, Wellington No.| ready assured of renomination. 2 identified him as the man who hed The report of the Board of Jumped his dail four years ago, during js finished and promises to &@ noon recess in his trial for bigamy. | esting reading. To-day Mre, Wellington No. 3, who was Florence M. Cushman, filed suit to have her marripge annulled by the! “written up” were invited to ®upreme Court. Her attorney, Benno the Union headquarters ond Loewy, No, 1% Broadway, told the fol-| ment upon their record ar set lowing story: cold type by the unsympathetis: re In 1897 Wellington married Mise Maud Winsiow Gardner, a socety gril. in Jersey City. Apparently they weren't happy. for After a few years Welling- ton left hie wife. “He married my client April 37, 1909, at the Church of the Transfiguration, 4 the Rev. Dr. George Houghton per-| formed the ceremony. opportunity will be ‘fomehow Mrs. Wellington No. 1) men to get a peek at the “Assembly learned of the second marriage and| coiumn” in advance of pul came from Jersey City, found her hub-|°"pnig ali te in accordance by in his newly established home and| sstabiished polley ef the caused his arrest and indictment on 8! Union,” it was stated et charge of bigamy. juntcipal 7 “Mrs, Wellington No, 8 has been walt- into P. ing four years to serve @ summons in|in connection with the ce \ annulment upon him and on Tuesday | Assemblymen and Aldermen on she saw him on lower Broadway and|sion ticket the records of these that wae hie undoing, Now he'll be re- Jocal legislators as analysed tried on the old charge, but we expect | Union. to rid him of his wife-to-spare before his trial is completed.” i i Fen i Fs i Gimbens Predicts Nenere Vrom CHICAGO, Aug. %—Cardinal Gibbons, who ts en route to Milwaukee to attend the convention of the Federated Cath- olic Bocieties, was the guest of honor at @ dinner given last night at the reei- dence of Archbishop James B Quig- ley of Chicago, Responding to @ toast offered in his honor by Arehbishop Quigley, Cardinal Gibbons said: “The work of the Archbishop of Chi- tious manner in the most complex and polygiot community in this country, if not in the world, ne doubt will receive sign of the recognition and the eciation in which it te held by the Holy Feather in the near future.” ‘