The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1913, Page 14

THUGS ROB ACTOR WN AUTO: VII SES ANON Chance Acquaintances Take} } : Him on Joy Ride—Get $480 Worth of Jewelry. TOOK ALL HIS CASH, TOO. Police Hear Case, but Warn Moore, He Says, Not to Tell Reporters. ‘Weet may happen to an unsophisti- Seated young man from Philadelphia \fwmo eports $2,600 worth of jewelry and (Woes riding In @ Bmousine through Cen- Park with two men he doesn't » Waa told an Bvening World re- this moming by Jack Moore, an % Warren Goddard House Registration Starts Auspiciously With Thir- Moore thought he had ind @wo real pald as they were gild- ugh Central Park in @ magni- £32 H “@eent blue eutomodile. Hie friends te-| ftyenine Advance En- ‘gan to tell him about the stunts Jack VRose used to pull off in New York.| ftries—Maximum Age degan to be suspicious, and he looked around at one of the Was grabbed by the throat and give up every nickel he had. ther man went through his pockets and got his money, an Elgin watoh and @ gold cigarette case, both Dearing the monogram “I. L, M," and then wrenched the two gypsy rings from his fingers. JUMPS FROM RAPIDLY MOVING AUTO INTO ROAD. “] said if they would not be rough I it Limit in This . District Only Is Two Years. | asf ‘With an advance registration of babies the doors of the Warren Goddard Hous, No 6 East Thirty-four:b street, opened wide yesterday afternoon to enroll the fittle candidates in the newest Better Babies’ Contest in town. This contest is in charge of The Even- tng World, the Kips Bay Neighborhood Association and the Warren Goddard House Every afternoon for the next two weeks, between two and four, babies may be registered. “We have an unusually intetligent and wite-awake ent of mothers in this neighborhood,” said Mies lL. M. Hall who, with Miss Sarah Clapp, ts in charge of the registration. “There are four different mothers’ ctubs connected with the settlement house, and thirty- nine of the members coulin't even wait for our first announced registration day. ‘We have sent out announcement cards to 160 othere whom we know, and wh we feel sure, will want to enter th babies.” Meanwhile ten little youngsters whom Miss Hall had never eeen before were brought Into the registration office, on the first floor of the settlement house, yesterday «fternoon. These Ddabdieg’ mothers had read about the contest in Tne Evening World, and they all lived in the preacribed district, between East Twenty-eighth and East BSixty-third Lora and Wifth avenue and East ver. AGE LIMIT OF 24 MONTHS IN THIS CONTEST. In thie contest no babies over twenty- four months are to be admitted, #0 many of thd contestants are bits of things, Little Hanold Bickman, for in- atance, {s only six months. However, Kis mother is very proud of him, “He only weighed seven pounds when he was born,” ahe sald. “And now he weighs twenty-three pounds. Just feel how solld he ie! That is because I am able to nurse him, something I couldn't @o for my two older children. And then he !s outdoors #9 much, My husband works on the plier. And I atay at home in the morning and do my housework. But in the afternoon, whether it's all done or not, I leave it and take my three children Gown to the pier and stay there with them tll supper time, The most important thing is to keep them well.” And Mrs. Charlotte Giimbecker agrees with Mra. Bickman, Mre, Glimbecker door of the car while it was making about forty cules per hour, I thought that was the only way I could eave my $1,600 diamonds. I was picked up by & man who was coming along in an- automobile. The gangsters stopped, but when they saw me get | {nto another car they dashed away at | papld epeed and were goon out of sight. + “The mon eaid 1 I reported the af- fair to the poltoe or newapapere they would ley for ené kill me They eaid they paid $1,000 per month for police protection and it would only bi worse for me if I reported it. T! man who did the talking had drawn @ Diackjack from @ pocket in the limou- eine” Moore said he reported tia misfor dune at the Thirtieth street and Forty- @eventh street police stations, but wes told he would have to report et the Bixty-seventh etreet atation, in which ' precinct the crime was committed, ‘Moore eaid he told the police that the * gen eaid they paid $1,000 per month officers, but @ay oothing ;'@@ the newspaper men.” » VICTIM TELLS HOW THE THUGS @CRAPED ACQUAINTANCE. “E was standing in front of the Hotel Rector leet night waiting for @ friend,” Moore said when asked how he came to be taken in by the strangers. out my cigarette case for a cigarette, found the case empty. A well " dressed man caw me and gave me a cigarettes of assorted bran came up and we beg soon one of the men ; ircle, had @ drink, and then ward central Central Park. entered at Bixty-sixth street and as oon ae we wore in the park the men ‘Degan bout the Rosenthal case end t ck Rose had performed ‘Moore eaid one of the men was Uttle @hort fellow with black mustache, | months. ‘The other was tall and had a ooth | ov face. They were both well dressed. ‘There were « fow tiny blotches Miriam's smooth cheeks. he has prickly heat,’ wala her How, When and Where to Enter Your Baby For the Big Prize Contest Now Under Way CONTEST AT LITTLE MUTHEKS' ALD ASSUCIATION, No, 8% Sacond Qvenue, for children between three months and five years, living in district from Seventh to Twenty-eighih etreet and Fifth avenue to Kast River, Registrations closed Aug. 13. Judging of the babies will begin Monday, Aug. 18. For this contest The Evening World offers $100 in prizes, CONTEST AT GREENWICH HOUSE, No, 26 Jones strect, opened for registration of entrants Monday, Aug. 11, and will continue to Monday, Sept. 1 faciusive. Contest boundaries from North Hiver and Fourteenth street east to Fifth avenue, to Washington Square, to Broadway, to Canal street, te North Hiver, Age limit, same as above. For this contest The Evening World offers $60 in money prises and Greenwich House $20, Registration centres 78 Ninth avenue from # to 12 A. M, and 26 Jones street, 2 to 4 P. M. CONTEST AT WARREN GODDARD HOUSE, No, 48 East Thirty-fourth @treet, opens for registration of entrants Monday, Aug. 18, and will continue to Monday, Sept. 1, inclusive, Age limit children between three months and two years. Contest boundaries from street, between Fifth avenue and East r. Registration hours dally except Eundays from 2 to 4 P.M. The Evening World offers $60 in money prizes CONTEST AT THE PLAYGROUND OF PUBLIC SCHOOL NO, 1% Pourth avenue and Fourteenth street, Brooklyn. Registration closed July 98, Prizes will be awarded Aug. 23, For this contest The Evening World efere $60 in money prises, CONTESTS OF THE CHELSEA NEIGNBORHOOD ARSOCIATION— Registration for entrants closed July 3% Entrants will be judged im Oo- tober, dates to be anuounced later. Vor each of these three contests The Evening World offers 0 in money it Twenty-elghth to Bast Sixty-thira see ites entered @ blue-eyed Miriam of nine THE BVENING WORLD, The Evening World’s and Welfare Association’s City-Wide Series of Better Babies’ Contests Two Babies Win Perfect Scores on First Day’s Test in Little Mothers’ Aid Race ean you tell me what to do for her?” “Ta she going to win a prise?” asked ‘The Evening World reporter “T don't know about that,” eald the Modest Httle mother, “But, anyway, I'll find out if there is anything wrong with her and what to do for it.” Miriam was followed by John Allen, who gets into the contest by the skin of his teeth. He'll be two years old early next month. John wore a little blue frock and no stockings at all and sucked his forefinger placidly while he was being registered. He is the youngest of seven, “NHe's not ae ptump eae he could be,” sighed his mother, Mrs. Margaret Allen, “He had pneumonia in the epring. But he's real healthy now, and don’t you think he’s pretty?” ‘There are Italian, Irish, Hungarian, Greek and Swedish babies in the neigh- dorhood of Warren Goddard House, but probably the majority of the contest- ante for The Evening World prises will ‘de Italians, This is due to the fact that one of the most enthusiastic, boomers of the contest ts Mise Clara Palumbo. ‘Mise Palumbo fs @ charming and cul- tured young woman, the daughter of the Marchesa Della Valle, She was bora in Italy, but came to America last epring to visit a married sister. Ghe became very much interested tn the work at the Warren Goddard House, and ts Siving there for the present. Bhe fe almost worshtpped by the Ttal- fans in the neighborhood, partly because ehe can epeak their own language and partly because they ere flattered that « great lady, the daughter of a countess, should be interested in them. They [come to her for everything, and she sometimes makes as many es eighteen visite a day. And everywhere, during the last few weeks, she has talked “better babies." WORKING TO ELIMINATE BAMBINO IDEA. “There are atill @ few bambdinos ‘among our neighbors,” she sald. “And I am trying to show all the mothers that It is eo bad for the baby to wrap ‘him tn one tight piece of cloth and give hia little body no freedom, “The Italian mother usually nurses her baby if she ts able to do #0. That is good. But trouble comes when the phere: can no longer lve on just milk. Bo many mothers give thelr little ones everything to eat. Of course the chil- dren get sick. I tatk to them @o much about their diet, and I try to explain to them that a bady In America ought to de brought up differently from a baby in Italy. The climates and tving conditions tm the two countries are #0 Gifferent, THE A series of leotur babies, some to be given in Ey hy some in Italian, has been arranged for the mothers who enter babies at Warren Goddard House, Bvery mother who brings her Raby to Mo, 236 Becond avenue to be judged in the Little Mothers’ Aid Baby Contest must bring with her the baby’s registration card! Only in this way can the baby be |!dentified. Some of the mothers forgot | their cards yesterday, which means they j will have to make But nearly fitty and two or three pi firet teat, One yo drought along by his proud Practically very mother admitted, without pi ng, that her baby would certainly carry joff at least one prize, | Dr. Arthur G. Bretz was in cha: the examinat! and he was | by Dr, Eugenia Hancock, Dr, Arth) | Wilson, Dr, Bondstow, Dr. McIntyr | Dr, Roger Den: Headed by their ‘President, Mrs. Clarence Burns, the fol- lowing members of the Little Ald Assoctation served as nur re, Mra. . Cameron, Miss A, BE. Cameron, Mra, John otjer, Mrs, Edwin Stone and Mre. F. J, Butler, Registration in the contest arranged by The Evening World and Greenwich House ts still breaking records. Sixteen babies came in yesterday at the City ‘Milk Station, No, 78 Ninth avenue, and twenty-seven youngsters at Greeawich a; Mr Nelson Worden, Mrs. | mother dnziously to Miss Hall. “Pleas, | Greenwich House Con- tinues to Smash All Records, Youngsters Enrolled|tme ana and More Than Half|t enai, in the neat tuture, issue 0 state- TUESDAY, AUGUST ines COMES OUT AS CANDIDATE. . FOR JERSEY GOVERNORSH oomaneasines Former Executive Will File a Petition and Make Race in Republican Primaries. TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 1.—Former Gov. Edward C. @tokes to-day an- nounced that he would ¢ile a petition and make the race for the Republican nomination for Governor, The announce Ment foflows @ long and careful study ituation in all parte of the State minute fer filing a party peti- tion will be Aug. %. The former Gov- @rnor in his announcement says: “My attitude toward this honor must by this time be well understood. I have not sought {t. I have deen Governor of thie @tate and for me a second term awakens no personal ambitions, The only incentive I could have would de one of civic duty. If the people think I can be of service in this emergency 1 am bound to consider their wish ‘These must first be expressed at primary. If the voters think some one elae can serve them better, or as weil, I shail be entirely content. If they feel that I should be their candidate, and so express themsetves, at the primary, I shal) make the dest fight I can for the princtples of election. I ani subject to, if the call is made by the “I @hall enter into no disputes or dis- cussions with anyone as to the merits of my candidacy, That question I leave entirely to the people to decide, Politics is not @ game, but @ serious duty involv- Ing reaponsibility and trust. “I am not an enthusiast over the mod- ern custom that prevaiis of ‘prociaim- ing my platform to the world.’ The peo- ple should make the platform them- The Goran law provides the place when they shall do it through their accredited representatives. With 477 ment outlining the work of the Party os! 4 declart! the Time for Entering |i orsra wnat t think should be tne Still Left. attitude of the Party on progressive pol- a BOARD SUSPENDS BROKERS. Charged with frregularities of busi- members No, 3% Jones street. This brings otal for the contest to 477 babies fetes and party organization. “This statement is meant in no wise to interfere with the ambitions of any other candidate or candidates, nor te it to be regarded as a criticism of them if they prefer to take active means to press their claime and any of them should win he will find in me @ loyal supporter.” ——_—_———_ Supercilions Alice, (From the Wi Gtar.) “You enjoy reading Dickens, do you Yea,” replied Mrs. Cumrox, really @ comfort to eit down and realize jon’t have to meet people he was writing Newcombe and John Sohns, of the Consolidated Stock were to-day suspended from nse. “Tt is ip hep prod pfeerlaypoat of, Picture Their Pleasures —By Telephone! ‘time.’* ‘AMILIAR, family in far-away vacation there,” even while you are busy with touch with those fron. whom make your work lighter and more some of the dread of separation. work by helping to keep you cheerful. Some business men make a practice of calling their families every day while they are away on vacation. Isn't this a worth-while practice for you to adopt? Lift the receiver—hear the voice—get the NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY a Man HOR the suid ing voice giving you the news up to the very minute of talking, a mental picture of your land, and a pereonal, newsy chat over your Telephone, bring you “almost affairs in the city. The Telephone, by keeping you in close, personal you are separated, joyable. It-takes away t shortens your day’s ce sheen Rent SRE re 19, 19 | me exptosion not « Geuse was tele te tact and not a vestige of many ef the . Most of were of atlobe peE Qearest to where the car Converted into heaps. of and dust, under which tt is estl- \ News Oddities ORDINANCE introduced in Lexington, Ky., declares motorcycles @ nuisance and forbids thetr operation in city streets, —_——— HOT WAVE NOVELTY in Fort Piain, N. ¥., was a cyclone with @ furious hailstorm, but the weather was ne cooler afterward. MAB. PANKHURST ts taking the “cure’ at Trouville, France, for her appe- tite, fifteen years. } ir here yesterday FLUGHING GIRL te going te be married in the cemetery there Her father fe the euperintendent. SEVENTDEN MILLION PERSONS of marriagadie age in this country: persist tm remaining unmarried. —— THAW'S VERY FIRST HOUR of liberty wae spent in @ joy ride, OF THE BARBERS’ STRIKE—Burglar entered house in North Pelham @ rasor, leaving untouched money that jay nearby. Jost their itv passerby. BCHO and atol PASBATIC MAN'S (dea of a joy rife was to’steal an Erie Raliroad handcar and propel himself at top speed until he wes arrested. . BAYONNE FIREMAN threw a cat in the bay; the cat was in a bag and the bag was weighted with @ brick. When he got home the cat was there ahead of ham with @ two-pound bass in her mouth. Lieut. James Sheehan is the fireman, and he says that hd will now keep pussie as long as she lives. KILLED IN ATLANTIC GITY /EXPLOSION KILLS Sco BY PLUNGE FROM WINDOW NEAR MEXICO CITY We are exclusively Oculists and Opticians—devote our en- ire time and energy to the fitting and making of glasses, We make Beller glasses than you can buy elsewhere—at no te cost than the ordinary ind, Harris Eye Glasses are fitted Wealthy Kentuckian Elther Fell) Women and Children Among Vic- to your eyes by a skilled Oculést or Jumped to His Death, tims of Dynamite Crash and to your nose by a practicaf Optician for $2.00 or more, Tons 54 East 28d St., near Fourth Ave. 54 West 125th St., near Lenox Ave. 27 W, S4th St., bet. Sth and 6th Aves. 442 Columbus Ave., 8: ind 82d Sts. 70 Nassau Street, near John Street. 1009 Broadway, nr. Willo'by, Bklys. 489 Fulton St., opp. A. & S., Bkiyn. 597 Broad St., nr. Hahne’s, Newark. Causing Murder Rumor. (@pectal Brentng World.) ATLANTIC “CIETY, N. J, Aus, 29.— Plunging from a fourth story window of the Hotel Grand Atlantic, a big side avenue caravansary in Virginia avenue, near the beach, C. M. Bateman, & Ithy visitor from Lexington, Ky. was killed this mornin Practicaily every bone in his body was broken. The police ecout a murdor theory, but are not eure whether che plunge was made by eccident or dusign, G. F. Bateman, a brothes, was registered there with the unfortunate man. The man's death scream as his body hurtled through the air startled the neighbor- hood and wild excitement prevatied in the hotel colony adjacent, the rumor starting that the man had been hurled from @ window during « fight. —————— Bids for Queens “1” Reads. The Public Service Commission to- day opened bids for the construction of section No. 1 of routes Nos, 9 and #1, known as the Astoria, Woodside and Corona Rapid Transit Railroad. 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