The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1914, Page 3

WORKING GIRLS =F - TO MARCH AROUND THECTY HALL Will Make Demonstration to Mayor Mitchel as Appeal for Employment. ASK WORK FROM CITY. From 1,000 to 5,000 Unem- ployed Women May Take Part in Parade. Within the next week Mayor Mitchel will look out of his window \d wee from a thousand to five thou- sand women, most of them young girls, marching around the City Hall as a demonstration of their de- mand for employment by the city and Mtate. ‘The tentative plans were formed at 4 meeting held in the assembly rooms “Prospect of Marriage Should Deter No Man From Mak- ing His Daughter Absolutely | Able to Face the World From the Bread Winning Stand- point,” Says Miss Claire W. of the Women's Trade Union League at No. 43 East Twenty-second street, yesterday. Recruiting committees are out to-4di There will be a meeting in the same place to-morrow morning &t 11 o'clock, to which every woman) and girl who cannot get work te in-| vited. The Women’s Trade Union| League {s not in charge of the move- | ,, ment and has not as yet given it) recognition, although Miss Axelrod, who is the organizer of the demon- stration, allowed the use of the as- sembly rooms. WILL DEMAND FROM THE MA-; YOR CITY OR STATE WORK. | Of the five hundred who have already pledged themselves to march from Union Square to the City Halil to demand from the Mayor the right no private work ts to be had a ma- jority are shopgiris who were thrown out of work tn the genera! cutting down of forces after the holfdxy boom season. Others are needle workers, | some of them middle aged and elderly women, who do work at home for dvessmakers and ladies’ tailors and fer wealthy women, who have lately been obliged to economize because of | reduced living allowances. ‘Though the leaders in the movement are reluctant to admit it, the inspira- ‘4on for a march for “Work for Wom- ea” came out of the Mayor's announce- ment after hia inspection of the Mu- nictpal Lodging House the night after | the zero weather spell a weak ago. S Mitchel said then that the city could find work on the streets and in cleat ing up-the elty, which wonld be am: repayment for the food and shelter the vity gave to homeless unemployed men. MISS NEWMAN EXPLAINS WHAT WORKING GIRLS WANT. “These girls fecl," snid Miss New- man of the Lea| fully explain- waking in any that they Rave as much right to earn food and shel- | ter from the city and the State as have the men. Indeed, tt is more for the interest of the city and State that they should have work and be independent than it ts for the m It 13 easter for an unemployed girl to come to harm permanently than for a man, “What will they accomplish by a parade? ‘They will at least fasten the attention of the people of this city, of the officials and of the p fact that there haps thousands ployment who are eager for work for enough to get along on decently until they can obtain regular employment again. “Perhaps the Mayor under his pres-! ent powers can do nothing, At least we hope to interest him and others enough so that somebody gets the power to help unemployed women as well a8 unemployed men. The girls | p do not begrudge the men # thing that they get—they want the same It for the meeting to-morrow | followa: | LL TO UNEMPLOVED | GIRLS. How long have you been hunt-., ing for work? For days or weeks or even months, | You are wondering why you e@ennet get work. It im getting harder and harder | every day. You feel discouraged, | You feel that something ought to | be done, but you don't know what. You can do nething alene, Let wa got together and talk the mat- ter. over, Come to a meeting at No. 43 ast Twanty-second street, at 11 e’elock, Friday morning, . 23, Men and women who are ac- quainted with the situation will be there to discuss it with yo Should the rement he apppr: the Woman's Trade Union League @ organization may take it up and call a Cooper Union mass meeting of the most , says Miss Flynn. conceive of any parent who has not had thrust before his eyes the duty of ‘training the gil! But there ts still a cruel laci, of understanding effort on the part of many parenty to face the problem of setting their git) upon the road where she may THE EV A.GIRL SHOULD SPECIALIZE IN i Flynn, Author. It Is a Kind of Paralysis| That Makes a Parent Re- fuse to Place a Worthy Means in His Girl’s Hand to Gain a Living.” By Marguerite What is your daughter worth to the For any day the world may become her employer, Can she qualify as) to work for the city or State when | g well-paid specialist or must sho join the ranks of unskilled labor? Has! she been trained to do any one thing so well that she can with justice demand a financial return for doing it? Or does she remain a pretty, sweet-tempered, utterly -incompetent dabbie! economic unit? Miss Claire magazine, and Give Her a Square Deal opinion that the American daughter whose parents are “in moderate circumstances” receives almost every- thing but a square deal. And I, for one, agree with Mise Flynn, | Mooers Marshall. ° orld in dollars and cents? an economic cipher instead of an W. Flynn ratsex these questions in a paper with a punch which she has written for a current which she calls “The Girl—Why Not It {s obviously Miss Flynn's When I was a little girl my pet idea of eternal punishment was altting hich the well: large, large, GIRL. able to earn not a wage but lary. “They send their girl through al school, finishing off with @ course at some ‘nice’ school or academy whose certificate at graduation would be worthless if the necessity arose for her to They give her some ac- complishments, enough fer her to jay or sing prettily; or they When che The for them always as small Such an ac- slender weapon to put mental ant then the girl of the family,” “It is difficult to still in @ chair and doing nothing. Suspension of all energy met my view ching form of torture. eaning father and mother are continually inflicting upon) their grown daughters? The immedia family exchequer does not compel these girls to go to work. On the other hand, they are far trom being possessed of the funds which would allow them to make a business of Pleasure, after the examplo of the daughters of the rich, What le left? A little tennis, a little tea, a little gossip—and a and physical vacuum. Result, women as stupid and useless as china shep- herdeases on the parlor mantelpiece. THE DUTY OF TRAINING THE Yet is not that precisely the fate condition of the /and intelligent effort to put into her| ands the concrete gift of living, which will ultimately make her worth #0 much to the world in dollars and cents, f FEMININE QUALITI BE SACRIFICED. “Thi need not be done at the ex- pense of any of those feminine quall- ties which I should be the last one in the world to depreciate, She will be the richer and the better trained either for her continued daughter- hood or for wifehood and motherhood than if she had not been so prepared. “There are no words strong enough with which to reproach the apathy that appeases iteelf with: will marry. What's the use of her wasting all this time studying for a profes- sion? | hate these independent ‘women, anyway. | want to keep my girl sweet and w inly. Some fine chap will love her all the better for not knowing too much!" For that matter, though Miss Flynn does not dwell upon the point, a | @trl's opportunities of marrying at all are considerably fewer than they used to be. Marriage was formerly @ matter of course, ‘To-day it's a matter of sentiment, or business, or sport, or several other things, but, #o far as the girl of only average a traction {s concerned, I belleve it's |a matter of chance, The parental | assumption that she “will murry” ts purely gratuitous, | And e if whe does become a wife, she may some day have to stop and ask herself, “Mow much am I |worth to the world?” GIRLS SHOULD BE RAISED TO BE WAGE EARNERS. NEED NOT! Parents Should Give Girls a Squa THE AVERAGE GIRL APPLYING FOR A JOB large social affaira and her lux- urious home where people of im- portance feel her influence and are perhaps inspired by it. Any- thing—anything but thie middie this haphazard, indefinite tien given te eo many girls.” The girl who gzta the square deal | up her daughters on the parlor-orna. ment plan, “Her acquired self-pos- session and efficiency, her education and culture will be handed down to her children without a doubt. A girl brought up in such @ way could not, | in the cage of her own offspring, tol- erate any haphagard method of edu- cation for them, “It is a sort of paralysis,” concludes Miss Flynn, “that makes a parent put off placing or refuse to place a worthy means fn his girl's hand during the years when her mind is forming her talents and bents are developing, to earn a ling. Oh, yes, give all the } accomplishments and frills that can be afforded. They make the world a of charm and loveliness; but under it all there should be, there must be, the one thing that will lift the mi out of the necessity of ever in a cri: filnging up her hands and cryin, “‘In heaven's name, what shall I |do to support myself?’ ‘GOT WITNESS FOR WIFE N HER DIVORCE SUIT i Searles Now Resists Payment Alimony on Ground That De- cree Is Fraudulent. J. Edward Searles of Rochester, N. , in the Supreme Court to-day re- sisted an application for the payment of $1,200 w ye: mony on the kround that the diverce Minnie Hall Searles obtained in Chicago in March, 1910, was based on fraud. Strauss, Rech & Boyer, Broadway attorneys, filed the application for all- will pass it on, will refuse to bring pleasant place and the home a refuge! of! / , YANUARY re Deal; | “WHOOPING WHEEZE” IS PREVALENT, SO KEEP A LOOKOUT. Look eut that yeu den’t eateh the wheoping wheeze. . {t le a combination ef whoep- and bronchitis, and the hh ‘lee the meneteny by wheer- ing. At times wheope and wheezes simultaneously, or tries to. The edd combination appeared in the city follewing the recent vagaries of winter, and ene of ite Peoularities ie that It attacks old and youn; Often a person thinks he Is re- covering from brenchial catarrh only to find himeelf whooping. He gets mad because he thinks he ie catching anether cold, but finally learns he hae the twin troubles. The dectors call it whooping bronchitis, and blame it en the sudden changes cold to warm. THREE ARE OVERCOME Another Is Cut by Broken Glass; Brooklyn Battalion Chief Aids in Rescue. ‘Two firemen and a policeman were overcome by smoke and another fire- {man was painfully \ajured by broken glass in a fire to-day that damaged the four-story apartment house at/ No. 483 Third street, corner of Sixth | javenue, Bréoklyn, Fireman Burns of | Hook and Ladder No. 122 Is ig Beney | Hospital recovering ftfom prostration and Fireman John Fitspatrick was | treated at the hospital for cuts on |the hands and arms. mounted an air shaft, The tenants \eacaped by the stairways. Patrolman James Marron of the Bergen street station, who arrived ufter anoth policeman had turned in ao alarm, ran into the buliding to investigate the flate and rescue any who might have been left bebind. The amoke wi thie’ was found at the and Firem be WIFE GETS DECREE. IN FIGHTING A FIRE| ‘The fire started tm the cellar andj “DRINKS,” HESAD, Train Them to Become Wage Earners ANDHUBBY OPENED DOOR 10 DIVORCE slp Lady in Green Silk Petticoat and Anderson Were on the Inside. Sleuth Followed Couple From Maxim's to the Hotel Normandie. ‘The unquenchadie thirst with which James McCullough Anderson, A wealthy cotton broker of No. 17 Will- fam; street, was suffering on the night of Oct. 24, 1918, led to-day to his matrimonial undoing. In Justice New- burger’s part of the Bupreme Court to-day Mra. Alma Newton Anderson, a New Orleans society belle and cousin of Supreme Court Juatice Francis Key Pendleton obtained a decree of absolute divorce from the cotton broker after Edward J, Lynch, & private detective, and Holden Herr, & portrait painter, testified as to what they saw in a room at the Normandie Hotel on the night when Anderaon had his thirst. Lynch enid that he was employed by Mrs. Anderson to shadow her hus- band. He saw Anderson at the Wal- Gorf-Aatoria on the night of Oct. 24, and followed him from there to the Marlborough - Bionheim Hotel on Broadway and Thirty-aixth street. From there Anderson went to Max- im'a, where ho joined a party of two women and a man whose names Lynch 41d not learn, GAW COUPLE REGISTER AT THE M'ALPIN. The detective stayed outalde of Max- im's for several hours before Ander- on came out. When the broker did appear, the sleuth testified, a wo- man—a blonde—was with him. The p.tr, followed by Lynch, went to the Normandie, where they registered as man and wife. "I called up Mr. Herr, at the Mc- Alpin, in accordance with Mra. An- deraon’s instructions,” the detective testified. “Did you go to the room?” asked Howard Humiston, attorney for Mrs. Anderson. “Yes,” replied the detective. “Did you get into the room?” he was asked. jure,” the detective replied. “I just knocked at the door, and when a woman's voice asked ‘Who's there?’ I |aaid ‘Drinks,’ und the door was im- mediately opened. There was a blond women in the room with Mr, Ander- son, dnd she wasn't Mrs, Anderson.” hat did Mr. Anderson way to you?" asked Mr, Humiston, LADY WAS ATTIRED IN GREEN PETTICOAT. so surprised t! he said here?’ the de- 5 he lady, who was attired in a green silk petticoat, tried to hide, but I called Mr. Herr and he looked into the room with me." The Andersons were married in this elty on Fi They have a th nd. daughter, it Ni y Anderson's folks a: SMOKED IN FACTORIES; MUST STAND TRIAL FOR IT Fourteen Workers Under Arrest and One Specially Reprimand- ed by Court, Oscar Mendal, an inapector of the Fire Preyention Bureau, arraigned fourteen factory workers before Magis- trate Murphy tn Centre Htreet Court to-day charging them with violating the law by smoking while at work, All were held for Special Sessions, and Mix Goblin, an employee of Shapiro & Sons, clothing manufacturers at No, 9 Elm street, received a special repri- | mand. ‘The inspector said that when he lentered the factory, in which 200 men and women were at work, Goblin plucked a@ lighted cigarette from his mouth and threw it into a tray of un- finished clothing, Mendal ordered the workman to pick it up, Goblin said | he could not find tt, Boon there was # fire, which the tnapector himself ex- “ if y Lie fongart Miss Flynn argues: “The prospect MOny: by Lies Li, of marriage, which every aiane “The decree and judgment are Burne at olitas, but Bile one @ 4! - > an On ma ic cI looks forward to in regard to hig! Void" waid Bearles in an attidavit.’ Vero iving to drag Marron out of daughter, should deter no man from) "The evidence In the case was pro- danger. Collins, almost gone birself, making hin glil absolutely able to gured by me with the consent of Mrs. ran down to the third @oor, opened a 'e world from the vtarn, Searles. ‘The judgment was based | window and called for help. craphatite the object Toon Of the ee rn Mee adequate |*4C% {1 Murld from the wasr-earne ee TM ise upott the courte | Batiaion Chet Cun and Fir Son—eieeinemmere keep her from a cold-blooded | iie, What then? ‘The girl is thrown The only evidence sustaining the de- the SEERESS FINED $100. marriage for food and shelter?” — yack upon the family with perhaps ford, whe was procured by ine with | thre Unconaciou reet. -- T do not believe that It ts, if the ja child or two, Inadequate to face the knowledye and at the request of | Burne did not recover at one! and it ‘onalve sere the Princess marriage of convenience offers. Why | the situation, Mita Bonriees eg eeaaguan bent to send Bim to the win @e Rd 9 i ts the New York parent 0 blind to| 'xomehow abe wets along, able to _,"“The attorney who appeared for the | her pall “Lida the Princess,” 9 la coal black pe:son who says she got her tit! from the East Indies, was before Rec ee Carroll in Paterson, N. J. Bhe was arrested unde ol Lida Conover, at ixteen women « white, were a. ©. nded all prea- ‘wave piles rat were turned | ives whe had got the idiocies of the finishing school? | demand only the wages of the fe | To the detached observer, there is | gk:!ie much to-day the woman's college. But, despite her | tunities and ultimately (hey, charged with taking fees to foretell tho | Intellectual snobbery and other faults, | are room for improvement as a achool teacher. ‘From the time @ girl ts born unt q | for oue reason or another, she leaves her father’s house,” Miss Flynn con- tnves, “her education aud training anid Ba cae direst, eensslana, A college | plate, sa Nving | plaintiff was hired by The damage to t mi Brown, an office partner of Mr, Fran. | tents is estima: 18,060. She is continually strug-| cis J. Noonvn, was hired to appear for | “CLERI in} gling. Ler children get few oppor- | me." in turn, thrown out to make their own a state ntem~ “Far better the laboring wom- an whegis a skilled washerwom- or the nursemaid who knows she is werth $25 a month. Better the segiety weman who, trained te her finger tips fer her job in We, Ia a ohiitul manager of il, |to Auguat, ere's not been able to keep up the pay- ments, -_— dubo MW. Degelman John H, Degelman, « real dealer of No. 0% Fort Washington ay extate ed a voluntary petition in bank rup' this afternoon in the States District Court, giving hin ass at $32,078 and hin liabilities at $345,759 The asaste are further incres " provect, wert Searite claims that from April, 1910, 1912, he patd hia former | wife $100 a month, but says his income | her the young woman who has received | way in a semi-skilled fashion, and #0/has been so diminisbed that he has| collegiate training is almost certainly /on down to their families. worth more to the world, from the | the founding of a tradition, pay-envelope point of view, than the | of affairs that is a horror to finishing school product. diploma at least guarant United notorious resorted there d Dean Piggu tells hi wing down the High jon «ay Bt. Day, pocket was picked, ticeman at onve seized the rector, oked and indignant, gamped is eful, 1 am the id scoundrel,” was “you plokpovkets are al vicars when you come and the unfortunate clerie vile until Dea: to -———- tinguished, ‘LIEUT.-60V. WAGNER {Former Tammany Leader in Senat- | Says He Is Tired of Holding | Public Office. ALBANY Jan. 22.~Lieut.-Gov. | Robert F. Wagner, who for years was the Tammany leader on the |foor of the Senate, announced to- day that he will retire permanently | trom politics at the close of his pres- lent term this year. “EL an tired of office holding,” he | declared ‘othing can taduce me to ru. again ‘The last year has kept almost continuously and I canno ford to that esi SAYS HE WILL RETIRE!,. to neglect my business iz REPORT WAS ERRONEOUS be ltt Was Her Uncle, Edward B. | MRS, LEVEY NOT ARRESTED Dodge, Who Was, Placed Under Sondsi An action for annulment of mar- tiage was brought in the Supreme Court several monthe ago by Mrs. Warrena Dodge Levey, daughter of the Inte Lesiie Dodge, againet Clar- ence Levey, a former Superintendent of Parks. The Evening World pub- Many Arrests .of Workmen who Observe niversary and Make De im that article that Mrs. Levey bad beon arrested on the complaint of her uncle, Edward B. Dodge, under bonds to keep matter of fact it wi made the complaint ward B. who wi bonds to keep the peace. ‘The error was only recently nrought to the attention of The Evening World or the correction would have been published eooner. DOUBLE FORCES TO GET MUNICIPAL BUILDING FIT Number of Floors Completed, but Departments Seem Slow in Moving In. Tt was anuounced at the Bridge De- Dartment to-day that Commissioner Kracke had ordered the contractors to put double forces of men at work no that the Municipal Bullding, concern- ing which there has been #0 much criticism might be ready for occupancy on every floor by May 1, The latest time extension on intertor work is to March 14, In the original contract the interior. wan to have been ready by Dec. 28, 1913. One of the principal reasons ad- vanced for the delay is that some of the departments of the city asked that walls and partitions be torn down so that the space allotment might be changed, This work was und n before Commissioner | Kracke took office. In view of the this morning by Mayor Mitchel the city must not be put to further expense by the tearing down of tions, Commis- e will not permit any more bette: gee, ansigned to city heen completed and ready pancy for some time, but that no move has been made to occupy them. ‘The attention of Mayor Mitchel is to be called to this. as MAYOR BELIEVES IN SMALL SCHOOL BOARD He Also Thinks That the Members Might Be Paid Salaries ‘in Future. Mayor Mitchel believes, with Dr. Charlies W. Eliot, ident Emeri- tus of Harvard, that emailer boards of education preferable. “I approve of a small Board of Edu- cation,” said the Mayor, “But I don't want it understood that my opinions are to be construed as to mean that I am thinking of imme- diate radical changes. “How many mombers do I believe would constitute an ideal board? ‘That I would not venture to say. Some think seven members, others nine and ao forth.” “By attaching no salary to the of- fice of member of a school board there are times when such a course might exclude @ body of citizens who Poe the best qualified and most capa- “The queation of the Board of Edu- cation, its membership, perhaps the salary and other matters of interest will come up during charter revision.” SALTS IF KIDNEYS OR BLADDER BOTHER Harmless to flush Kidneys and neutralize irri- tating acids. “Well, tt leoke as Uf succéseful In NEW YORK CITY 8 [couldn't reat, author m a this acid from the de! causin; setting uy the bludde scalding sensation, or tion at the neck of iging you to seek relief two or three times during the night The sufferer is i nt dread, water passes sometimes with « scalding sensation and is very profuse; agai difficulty in voiding it. 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