The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1913, Page 3

~ champagne and E DUTCH STEAMER Sounds S OS Call “‘to Save Modern Society THREATENED BY RAGING FRE 800 Tons of Cargo on Jan Van Nassau Licked Up by Flames in Midocean. CARRIED 4 PASSENGERS. Chief Mate de Boer Hero Who Led Crew in 4-Days’ Con- stant Battle With Blaze. Running @ race with @ fire, running! amuck in her cargo and coal bunkers for four days, was the experience of the Royal Dutch West India Mall steamer Jan Van Naseau, Capt. Van der Est, which arrived to-day from Amsterdam, The Jan Van Nassau is @ brand new ship, this being her second voyage. She! was out two days from Amsterdam | when the fire was discovered in her forward hold. | ‘The flames spread to the cargo in hold No. 2, separated by a ateel partition from the burning coal. Only the good work of the captain and his officers saved the vessel from demolition, for | they prevented the fire from break.ag | out above or below decks, It was che | heat, the steam, smoke and water that} destroyed 90 tons of cargo, Chief :tate N. A. de Boer was the hero of the fire. He went down time and again, wits a smokey mask on,/ rumaging about the burning and me! ing cargo, endeavoring to locate the source of the flames, Once he fell! through a hole in the cargo, and it was | several minutes before he eded in finding the rope ladder by whictf he had descended into the hold. The cargo was of a gener.! character. It con- tained glass, empty bottles, cement, Hol- land gin, beer, rice, curaway seed, m cheese QUICK WORK BY CREW KEEPS | FIRE IN CHECK. | “We noticed smoke coming out of the ventlators above hold No. 3," said Chief OMcer de Boer. “We turned the hose inte the ventilators, then closed the ven- Ulators to prevent alr getting to the fire and spreading it. Then we turned @team into the hold through the steam- pipes connecting with it. We had eigh- teen long masts on deck over the hatch coverings, and these had to be removed & good fighting Then we took off of the hatch covering and r Meyer was lowered with me to ‘tween decks. We went down rope ladders and had ropes about our bodies, We couldn't remain below for more than five minutes, owing to the heat and smoke. But I found that there was no fire in the ‘tween decks, We shut up the holes for the night and kept Pumping in water and steam. “Capt. Van der Est resolved to run for Ponta Delgada, at St. Michael's, in Next day I went down wot the crew to remove the 0 between decks, so that we coitld open the hatch leading into the section of the hold below. That time I fell and lost my hold on the rope ladder. Believe me, I was mighty glad to find that ladder again, for I was nearly suf- focated with the smoke and the power- ful odors in the hold. ONLY FOUR PASSENGERS ON BOARD iP. “I located the ff in the lower hold, and ¢urne ind water into the corner where it coming through the partition, cutting off the coal bunkers, Burning stearine doesn't smell nice. We kept up this work, day after day, until we reached Ponta Delgado, which was on the afternoon of the fourth day. Experts of the underwriters then made @ brief examination of the ship and and ordered the hold flooded. 1,200 tons of water were turned loose into the hpid and permitted to remain 1 night. We had four wengers on board, bound for maribo, two of them being women, and they behaved very well, indeed, in our trouble. “The underwriters ordered us to pro- ceed vn ur voyake to Paramariba and Jettinon the cargo as we proceeded. We were throwing out stuff, Leginning at » for the next ten The rice, which was thrown overbo: frothed in the water and we had a nice of foam following us, e heat of the partition at the coal bunkers had got red hot, and the heat fired the cargo. Everything dowr. there was red hot when I first went into the hold. The barrels holding the cement were burned to pieces and the water, smoke and steam made concrete 14 store at cost. Apply ars tere ot very Wojg We Sesired shade 6 ob; This will 8 gray haired THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1918, Drifting to Wickedness of Nero’s Rome’? SISTERS IN COURT. indecency in Woman’s Dress,’ Declares the Rev. Dr. R. H. McKim of Washington, and Chris- tians of All Creeds Must Combat Them. Among “National Sins” Threatening United States With Fate of Rome He Graft, Socialism, Divorce, Drama of Infa- my, Social Injustice and Child Slavery. go8. Tae call does not come from a ship at sea, but from a nation on the ‘rocks of paganism—yes, this nation, or as they say when oratory flows to may heed the call. I trust a lut of people will hear it heathens lowered into the lifeboats. THE NATION'S SINS AS VIEWED BY DR. M’KIM. But to our sins—the nation’s sine— as they are viewed by Dr, McKim. + Sunday I began my sermon by reading an extract from the ry of Rome in the t.me of Nero, ja the Washington clergyman, “calling atten- tion to the parallel between the social conditions of that day and of our own time, When I read might have been a description of life to-day in any of our large cities. “There was the same i tf i Fi Hi i i é i | | j ili Hy tt Hl GEE: 5 i Hi : i 3 it z States. They were the sins of Rome. It is well enough to hold muss meetings to consider and protest against such evils and to memorialize Congress about them, but In my opinion the greatest force of all, the le: which shall lift the entire nation, is personal example. FORCE OF EXAMPLE OF R@&AL CHRISTIANS, “It every one of the 18,000,000 Protest- ants and the 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 Roman Catholics should be as genuine Christians as they profess to be the force of their example would be the best answer to the signal of distress—the 8 O 8 call which has come from the ship of so-, clety. Some persons bel that the gospels should be amended to ft the times, But I belleve that the dogmas which St. Paul preached to c t the corrupt society of Rome are equally applicable to present day conditions.” “Do you really think these conditions are as bad as they were in the de- cadence of Rome?” I asked. “Not so bad," Dr, McKim answered, “but simijar. of their contents, Lot's wife was turned to salt, but that cement was turned to solld ston BEER, WINE AND EDAM CHEESE TO RUIN, “We had a lot of Meat choppers, round things, you know. The glass melted and formed a gi around the choppe: Beer bottles popped and the Edam cheese melted and ran about the hold, It mixed with the beer, and all we needed was toast to make Welsh rabbits, The bottoms of the champagne bottles blew out, leav- ing the corks intact, but all that good wine was wasted, and it was Queen Wilhelmina's birthday at th: “The corks in the square-faced gin bottles were forced out, but the gin was spared. When we pumped the hold out everything sticky from stearine and the ch t was a ead plight ace all the good stuff gone to waste, By Nizola Greeley-Smith. ‘ are Dr. McKim’s—not mine. | Yesterday Dr. McKim told me just how anybody who feels inclined And as he is a very learned and delightful prelate, but we had our hands full cleaning up the hold, On the way to Paramaribo we threw overboard 2,000 bags of rice and 1,200 barrels of cement, to say noth- ing of the cheese, beer, empty bottles, @lass, caraway seed and other stuff.” Chief OMcer de Boer has been with the Royal Dutch West India Mail line for thirteen years. The captain has been with the company still longer, and for five years lived in Brooklyn. Owing to their efforts the damage to the ship was slight. In all, 600 tons of cargo were jettisoned. _——_—__ Killed by Farmer's Wagon, Abraham Braunstein, seven fe old, was returning from echool to his no! at No. #3 Broadway, Williamsbu: Near noon today when at the corner of Johnson avenue and Broadway he Tan from around the comer of 4 pasai: Broadway car directly under the wheels of @ farmers wagon, driven by Harry W, Shaw of Mineola, The tongue of the wagon knocked him down and two wheels passed over his chest, The boy the, Daatern "District ‘Moeptal wha ah jet tad with an arn nulsese, Copyright, 1918, by the Press Pubuighing Company. (The New York World.) “There Are the Same Indecent Dances and the Same Puts Idle Rich, Greed, fast, these United States, 1 The Rey. Dr. Randolph H. McKim, | Pastor of the Church of the Epip! any of Washington, D. C, and a high prelate of the Episcopal Church, | has heard the whisper of the wire-| leas message. He {is a delegate to the Episcopal Convention, now in session in New York. In a sermon last Sunday in the Bronx Church House he gave a list of the nation's sins as long and appalling as an itemized bill, and likened the United! States to the ship at sea which has sent out a hurry call for help— Save our souls! The call must be heard by FY | individua: of the 18,000,000 Protes-| tants and the 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 | and that I will be one of the first “The indecency of women's dress is the subject of untverrai observatiun and comment. Indecent dancing is spreading from city to city. Tie drama of infamy flourishes unre: ined. Divorce is uncheck st. “Don't you betle dlvoree “No—with one eption—the one Christ mad, the ono embodied in tie canon of the Eptecopal Church," Dr. McKim replied, therety repudiating the recent proposal to the Convention to forbid the remarriage even of the inno- cent hupband or wife. F i fl “Do you think the sine you have enumerated are peculiar to the United States? Are they not the sins of the whole world now and during all ages?” PERSONAL PURITY AND PER- SONAL HONESTY. “They are," Dr, MoKim replied. “But I spoke especially of the United States. I believe that personal example, per- sonal purity, pereonal honesty are the only forces which can deal adequately with the situation. All that is necessary ts for professed Christians to become real Christians and the leaven of their lives will lift the world.” “What can women do?’ I inquired, not because I want to be a missionary to the heathens, but just on the chance that somebody else might. “Women, in their sphere,” Dr, MoKim replied, ‘‘can do a great deal. The matters of divorce, of indecent dressing and dancing are vital to them. On them too I urge the necessity for personal example and personal re- sponsibility. Every one of us is responsl- ‘le for the condition of heathenism about us. Every one of us must hear the #@ O 6 of the sinking ship.” FLYING SPARKS SET FIRE JN OLD FORGE ‘| River Front Shop Scene of Exciting Blaze During Noon Hour. A shower of sparks leaped from ao forge in the plant of Crane & Co., manu- facturers of valves, fittings and coup- lings, @ series of one and two-story brick and wooden buildings, all of them connecting and covering the irregular lot bounded by Corlears, Cherry and Water streets and the East River. The sparks fell in @ small pool of off leaking from a tank at noon to-day. Instantly the oll flared into flame and Peter Finlay, en- gineer of the plant, sounded the istle in his engine room. Battalion Chief Carlock found the bending room, where the fire started, & mass of flames when he arrived. The blaze had spread to the engine room adjoining and some one shouted: “Fin- lay is etill there.” ‘Half @ dozen firemen leaped for the oor, but defore they reached it the engineer etaggered owt, He had stops ped to bank hie fires leat there be an explosion and he had waited #o long that blasing oll was running over the floor when he atarted for mafety. His clothing was afire when he reached the yard, but this was put out quickly, The firemen devoted their efforts to preventing the fire from spreading and successful after half “n hour of hard work, a Washington Girl Weds tn London LON . M6. was married to-day at Brompton Ora- tory to J. F. de Barros Pimentel, secre- tary ef the Brositian Legation at Toke, 7e WRITES WES STOR OF ATTA THEN WATS FORMAN AND KL HM Sleepless Night of Chicago Couple Followed by Trag- edy of Unwritten Law. CHICAGO, Oct. 16.—Willlam Keith, ac cording to the police, wan told by his) wife than Walter Paul, a grocery clerk, had attacked hi Keith lay in wait for Paul here to-day and ot and killed him, Kelth telephoned the police! of his act and was arrested, Keith te superintendent of construc- tion for the Aurora, Elgin and Chi- cago Ratlroad, with offices at Batavia, Ml. In bis pocket was found a writ- ten ment by his wife, Mre. Rose- a eith, whom he married at Brookwood, Ala. eighteen years ago. In the statement Mrs. Keith, the mother of three children, said that Paul first attacked her @ year ago, wi delive: Sroceries at her home. She said that she feared to tell her husband, but that when Paul made another atack recently her cecret became too burdensome to bear. “My husband wrote down what I told him," said Mra. ith. ‘He said he would stand by me and would not kill Paul. Nekher of us could sieep last night after I told him the story and tay | awake until 4.30 o'clock this morning. Then he dressed and went out, saying he would return at 10 o'clock and we would talk it over. That was the last 1 saw of him till 1 found him in jail.” EPISCOPALIANS OPEN DOORS TO ALL FAITHS Convention Invites Foreign Born to Worship in P, E. | Churches. The House of Deputies of the Gen- eral Convention of the Protestant Epts- copal Church adopted to-<day @ report on the duty of the church to foreign born peoples in the United States. The Teport provides that communicants of | @ny Apostolic church shall be encour- | @ged, when lacking facilities ¢o worship acoording to their own rites, to make use of Protestant Episcopal churches under the guidance of priests of their own sect, The missionary board of the church ‘Was empowered to bring to this country Syrian, Greek and Russian priests to minister to congregations in need of them in American churches. It was em- Dhasised that no effort should be made to proselytise among such ocongrega- tions. Communicante of the Roman faith, Jaoking a church, are to be asked to take part in this hospitality. In case & priest of the foreign church fe not available,priests of the Protestant Episcopal Churoh are authorised to hold services as nearly as possible ac- cording to the foreign rites, St, Louts selected by the deputies place for the convention in 1916, Theeconvention will be held in Christ Church Cathedral and wi be combined with « Fitty Year's celsvra- ton @f Bishop Tutue'e services, THREE WIVES IN 3 YEARS one to ACCUMULATED BY ONE LONE MAN, POLICE SAY Escaped Once When Arrest Was Ordered, but Failed This Time to Get Away. James Runeell Clark, who in only | twenty-three yeurs old, but seemingly in possessed of overdeveloped matri- monial tendencies, wan arrested at No, Marcy avenue, Brooklyn, to-day decause he happens to be the hueband of threo wives, all accumulated in the lant three years. When Detective Cav- anaugh, of the Ralph avenue station, followed Clark to hia room and told him he was under ar. the much married man tried to get out of a window, taking no account of the fact that there was much apace below it, am! was subdued only after @ sharp tussle. Clark had been arreated for bigamy on July 2 at a house where he was living with his second wife, but he escaped from the station house by « ruse and detectiven had been on their mettle to find him again, When h was confronted by the three Mrs, Clarks in the Gates Avenue Court the dapper young husband evidently decided the ig was up and waived examination, held in $2,000 ball by Magia. nolda, matrimgnial adventires be- gan on June 4, 1911, when he led Miss Charlotte Keys to the altar and after- wi ‘4 entablished @ home for her at No, Ralph avenue. In July of the aame year the new Mra. Clark discovered that another woman had @ priority claim to her title, Thin first wife was then living at No. 41 Washington ave- nue. After Clark’a escape from th tion house and before his arre Gay it was discovered tha ch was Miss Mary Kost of No. 1776 third Mra, if wiv Bhe k had swelle MM street, and she March 13. leey married Clark on) | Rave lived easily ever since.” 3 WATE SHEATR CONFESS STEALING Little Country Lassies Each} Under $1,000 Bail for Rob- bing Employers. WERE IDEAL MAIDS.) Love of Fine Dress Led Eldest to Teach Others Art of Thieving. “The White Sweater Girla,” three sisters from Sullivan County, who, ae servants, have preyed upon numerous families in the Washington Heights section to the extent of hundreds of dollars, feached the end of their rope to-day when they pleaded guilty in the Harlem Police Court to three cifle larcenton, latrate Appleton fixed ball at $1,000 in each came, which none of tho sisters was adle to furninh, During the proceedings the girls, but one of whom wore the white sweater by which th ned their names—the others being clad in modish blue serge sulte—remained apparently Indifferent | | to the course of the proceedings. “The White Sweater Girls” were ar-| and Galvin of West One Hundred and Fitty-second etreet station, following a complaint by Mra. William Pollitser of | No. @1 West One Hundred and Fittieth atreet, that “a poetectly lovely little maid” she had hired’ was gone with WH worth of jewelry. | MANY SUCH ROBBERIES RE- PORTED TO POLICE. During the last six months many Washington Heights homes have been robbed by unusually attractive maids, who worked with such cunning that not @ trace of them could be found. Mre. Pollitzer said she employed the pretty maid last Sunday and that yee- terday morning the maid disappeared with the jewelry. For two or three months three auburn haired girls, apparently sisters, have at- tracted the attention of the police of the Weet One Hundred and Fifty-second street station because they always wore white sweaters. From Mrs. Thomas H. Markville of No, $10 Broadway, who employed a maid Sept. 2 and was rovbed of gowns and Jowelry valued at $300 three days later, ‘and from the Misses Florence and Ma- bel Brinner of No, 43 West One Hua- dred and Forty-fifth street, who em- ployed @ girl Oot. 2, and two days later Jost the maid and $200 in jewelry, the detectives learned that these maids also wore white sweaters, Mrs. Marcus of No. 71 St. Nicholas | avenue late in September employed a white sweater maid, and next day was, out $900 worth of Jewelry and gowns. Late yesterday afternoon the detec- tives came upon two of the white aweater girls at One Hundred and Forty-fifth street and Amsterdam ave- nue They were Margaret Moser, eighteen, and her elster, Harriett, six- teen. While they were watching them! Harriett, the detectives reported, dropped a baby's gold locket and chain, Thia was one of the pieces of jewelry stolen from Mra, Markville. The arrest of the sisters followed. They sald they lived at No. 315 Weat One Hundred and Forty-Sfth street, in ®& furnished room house, and that their ter, Annie, twenty-six, lived with entering the house the detectives ar- rested her. When taken to the police station Annie made a full confession. LOVE FOR FINE CLOTHES LED WER TO STEAL, fhe eaid she and her sisters are the York ten years ago. . ‘or the frst six years I was honest,” whe said, so the detectives reported. “Then I began to love dress and ease and began to take things It was 90 easy. I never had any trouble going lato hiding before, Two years age i sent for Margaret and taught hi to take things from places where she got employment. There never was the \east trouble getting work. “Lagt Bester Margaret and I sent for Harriett and she came down from the country, Then we taught her and we People who don't a use H-O don’t know H-O. H-O Oatmeal is peculiarly appetiz- ing. It has a taste and a flavor not to be had in ordinary oatmeal, or rolled Oats, Our method of steam-cooking keeps in the flavor, and our process keeps out the hulls and foreign particles that you don’t like to find in your favorite breakfast dish. hortly after ¢ o'clock, as Annie was! > dent of the Bronx, nolly Charlea J.) McCormack, fa a bee hive, WORLD IS CELEBRATING = “BIFTLESS BIRTHDAY” That's Christopher Ubht's Because He Absolutely Bars Presents. SISTERS WHO ADMITTED ROBBING EMPLOYERS TO BUY FINE CLOTHES, View, » He tnventet the Giftiess Birthday in honor of his fifty-fourth year. “If I took Dirth@ay prenents from my frienda here and in New York," he said, “what would it amount tof A few bin+ red people putting themeeives to trouble to prove to me what I alreaty know—that they are real friends. “How much better it would be to make the movement national, interna- tional, world-wide, Mine is the one virthday of all time in which there are no birthday presents. 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