The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1914, Page 16

PIECE-WORKERS IN CRIME. HE eeries of amazing confessions wherein professional gangsters are disclosing the methods of blackmail and bomb-throwing which have terrorized various eections of the city reveals the breadth’ and depth of co-operstive crime activity hereabouts. Even New York was startled by the cold-blooded nonchalance With which a twenty-three-year-old gangster admitted that he had taken part in two murders, placed eighteen deadly bombs, had a hand, im exploding fifteen others, twice committed arson and been @ coun- terfeiter and abductor besides. Taking human life, he coolly declared, jg just the came to me as killing an insect.” And he boasted that be bad been crook since he was seven yeare old. ~~ A deaperate case—bdut its significance lay in the fact that this Black Hander was only one of a-gang, and his gang only one of many gangs. A fellow gangster confessed to a record only lees lurid. Yesterday yet another Black Hand “mechanic” told how he helped to plant twenty-three bombs in the course of “work” allotted te him by Bleck Hand contractors. Some of these mon take “piece- jobs” of murder, arson or bomb-planting as a garment worker takes home coats or trousers. Others contract to do crime by the day as their employers require. One gang borrows workers from another to suft ite needs. > ‘There is nothing heroic or romantic about the gangeter. He arely ctends alone. He crouches in dark corners. He prowls in herds. He lives in sullen suspicion even of his pals. He is ander- tised, pallid, dirty, shaking with the effects of alcohol or drugs. Even his crimes are only “jobs” done for somebody else, to whom he looks for his miserable “pay.” A As Judge Swann described the gangster to The World yesterday: “He & « coward at heart. Give him cocaine, heroin, any of that Group, and physical fear leaves him. There is no crime as a matter ‘of reoord that he has not committed. Worst and most dengerous, he will maim or kill for money more readily even than he will through Bile own hate.” : ‘Three appalling careers of crime are suddenly made vivid by pub- a Others as bed or worse could be found by the dozen in the ) anloon hangouts and gang-haunts which are just now the epecial object ‘€f police activity. ~ Ye any effort too great to secure a thorough overturning of the Potten soil that favors such growth? ‘ ee ‘The Fifth avenue merchants want the Aldermen to forbid parades on their street, but we notice they are willing to except “ound mousy parades.” Money will continue to sound good at any time, even om that proud thoroughfare. 4 LOCK THEM UP OVER NIGHT. |Straight From HHILE the New York Traffic Commission is formulating an The Sh oulde elaborate programme for improving traffic conditions, Chief P Magistrate McAdoo steps up with a neat, practical sugges- emasar sane meee ‘Hom that goes straight to the heart of at least one traffic problem: [ins Sow Fook reise Ware.) + > He would make the minimum jail sentence for auto speeders No. 6—Knowledge. wo days instead of one. BRE is no one who knows ev- ce: As the law now atends, the jail penalty is a pk pe net Serine, 86 ay. Aa Soot: ~) sy Gnds at 4 P.M. When a violator of the speed law is nced | much as we think we do. Yet knowl- noon he merely cools his heels in the corridor of the jail for a | (¢S*,'9,gn° Of ‘he levers that move of hours and then goes home. Real punishment for speeding automobilists is the surest rem- ety for the worst traffic abuse from which the city suffers. A day $ ie a few hours of the day in jail is only a bore. A night in jail is i ‘pobering and gives time for quiet, wholesome reflection. he o_o - r be no such thing as use- but there is no doubt in for ‘We wonder if rate wars among steamship luce will ever make it cheaper to travel than te stay at home ’ ~ ——-42——_—____ ho , , know your WHY NOT Your ‘ind upon thie ‘tripod. before Sa Jou, focus it on some intellectual You can’t know too much about youreel! A COURSE IN AMBITION? ITHOUT sense of responsibility” is the indictment brought by the Consumers’ League against boys and f; your strength and girla turned out by the. public schools. pnere,. your finer ae thtese young people go to work “their attitude toward their |about your work; what it leads from ‘is of not caring in thgleast whether they give « dollars grupos ti. And you can't for a dollar.” And the girls are the worst: re gt AE oe] dose realise thet he must support his look om the work as a sort of tiding over ‘until they marry. So we have thou- sirls drifting from one job to another, are splendid opportunities for ambitious good or evil. wiitecrre.” But never be satis- it will serve, But never = fa that there's nothing left to learn. Hit From Sharp Wits. A. Boston man says mustaches ought to be prohibited by law. It wouldn't be necessary to go to that bother if wives would proclaim against them.—Toledo Hiate, If next season trousers are as tight as the tailors predict, may tin eco the slit pantaloon.—Mem; ‘ls to our sense of the ie the statement that Bunyan ts a chiropo- Orleans Btates. ° Pitteburgh man of seventy-five 4 married his y tie wife, At ‘The public echools are, of course, to blame for pretty much everything that goes wrong. Presently somebody will ask why they @an’t devote an hour or 0 @ day to teaching Responsibility and Am- bition, Surely there must be text-books in these subjects, Parents have no time to spend on the “efficiency” of their i even if the modern child needed attention of that sort. “Boys and girls nowadays are sent to school to have their characiers Fs ” They go home to be admired or tolerated. ——————_-42—_____. Murphy's Nephew Figures in Graft Inquiry.—Headline. ‘What appes Atnees of thi @ man dist in Chicago.—New to US|ana bulwarks on the head of a queenly wife, soon to be a widow. he | cabriolet. that | Heediess of all, Loui Thured?. Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers The Newlyweds =. F it is humanly possible, a newly married couple should in- sist on living by themselves. ‘The adjustments and complications of the frst year of married life are a@imcult enough He is when a young seen us? A Queen weeps bitterly; a King’s sister | man and woman four does death also hover. All shall perish|who truly love each other are Duchesse d'Angouleme, will live—not happily. |left alone to solve them. With the ome faint cries, perhaps from voices of |interference of outsiders every rson ia an outsider who attempts to come between husband and wife—the Some Historic Word Pictures _ Examples of Descriptive Power by Great Asthors | No. 1.—THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI. By Thomas Carlyle. ING LOUIB slept sound till five in the morning, had 4een ordered, awoke him, Clery dressed itch and’ kept try-! ing & on his finger. It was his wedding ring, which he was now to return to the Queen as a mute farewell. At Salf-past siz he took the sacrament, continutd in devotion and conference with the Abbe Bdgeworth. He will not see his family; it was too bard to bear. How the rolling of those drums comes in through the temple bastions ben Clery, as he Through the ee the streets there is 2 not armed wed to be there. impcs- Gare not express it, each mah overawed by jdigenee frequently ‘becomes “tms down, none seen looking through them. If the man has s mother or other carriage rolls this morning in these |relatives to support let him do so, but iy. Eighty thousand men stand ranked like armod/let him take care of them at some cannons bristle, cannoneers with matoh burning, but no pres, outside his Bg cago ae A ‘word or movement. It is as a city enchanted into silence and stone. One a Re It ie cs tee, wit ty vembing, i0:the only sound, young husband ‘and wite to live hap Louis reads in his Book of Devotion the prayers for the dying; clatter | pily A two furnished rooms than to of the death march falls sharp on the ear in the great silence, but the miserable in a mansion. thought would fain struggle heavenward and forget The earth. : aoe As the strike ten, behold the Place de la Revolution—once Place| “W. C.” writes: ‘cna iseroper guillotine, mounted near the old pedestal where once for a young lady ¢ young that Louls. Far round all bristles with cannons and ‘°faspende on how well the two are armed men, spectators crowding in the rear; D’Orleans Egalite there im @ | acquainted. The man usually takes Gwift messengers, hoquetons, speed to the town hall every | the initiative in matters of that kind. three minutes. N ig the convention arr vengeful for Lepelietier, —— bis prayers dying. for a ‘ ‘The drums are beating. “Taises-vous!” (“Silence!”) he cries, in a gut wun} Fee eee Tee fy terrible voice (d'une voix terrible). He mounts the scaffold, not without public school. What would be: « delay. He ie in puce coat, breeches of gray and white waistcoat of white | suitable graduating present?” flannel. The executioners approach to bind him; he spurns, resists. Abbe| Why not give her flowers? Edgeworth was to remind him how the Saviour, in whom men trust, sub- > mitted to be bound. His hands are tied, his head bare, The fate? moment . he “L"* fs come He advances to the edge of the ecaffold, his face very red,| AL Rid: on the ee EE ES By Eugene Gea “ en, I die innocent, It ts from the ‘and near appear- y Bog! ied ing before God that I tell you wo. I pardon my enemies, I desire that | 7 "#4, 20s, by Ths Biss funutins O. France"—— —_, A general on horseback, Santerre or another, prances out with uplifted HE subway is gloomy and not hand. “Tambours!". The executioners, desperate lest themselves be mur- ome” i ae ay ke eae dered (for Santerre and his armed ranks will strike if they do not), seize wi than one; the hapless Louls—six of them desperate, him singly desperate, strug-| tne surface cars dusty make paseen- gling there—and bind bim to thelr plank. ‘gers crusty And prone to sad thoughts when the day’s work is done. But trains that invite me, absorb and delight me And never afright me with microbes emell, O'er trestles ere gliding; ‘tis bliss and olrele ww York on the care of the Abbe Edgeworth, stooping, bespeaks “@on of Baint Louis, ascend to heaven.’ ‘The axe clanks down; « king’s life is shorn » It fe Monday, the Bist of January, 1798. He was aged thirty-eight years, four months and twenty-eight days. Bxecutioner Samson shows the head. A fierce shout of “Vive la rises and swells, caps raised on bayonets, hats waving. it up on the far Quais and ‘The town hall Dike peints in the bleed. Heada- ells locks of the hair. Frac- Some bie them to Coney, while others more “tony,” Affect calm repose on the Long i They to be witty and sneer at the city Afar from ite musical rattle and Your fancy to tickle, It costs but « You start from the ball grounds “rooters”’ Thea with elation at South VANIGHING TURTLES. “PINE PREVENTION DAY.” Tow turtles are being caught these] The Governor of lows has eet aside a dare in the Bahamas, the annual cateh-/ fire prevention day, urging that the ati- ing having diminished for some time | sone dlequss conditions and create « con- Rxpertation of turtie shell may epen| timent egetnst ferest fires and other |: \ eouRagreticas i * EF oem man THOM ops AA CHELOR Coorridht, 1016, Uy ‘The Prone Pubilshing Co, (The Now York Bening Wor, MAN flirts to flirt; a woman flirts to conquer. A In the medley of love @ man’s soul sings @ sonste, wot heart plays @ waits and his pulse beats to ragtime. a . ene ue ’ The average man {s so unoriginal that all his flirtations would | utterly alike if {t were not for the fact that all women are utterly If you want to rouse « man to @ violent pitch of interest in « womag don't sing her praises; just warn him against her, A platonic friend is © great deal harder to find and a thousand ¢ easter to keep than a sweetheart. A man who couldn't be trusted the corner by the woman he merely “loves” can be trusted to the the world by a woman he honestly LIKES. + No man ever lives single; at twenty every man is wedded to bie plese ures, at thirty to his work or his art, and at forty to a woman—of to 8 co lection of habits. Before two women can actually love each other they must have the same tastes in elothes and totally opposite tastes in men, . Marriage to & woman is merely a chotce of whether she prefers to BO bossed, bamboosled or bored. ‘: ve makes aft tdealist of a brute, a sentimentalist of a cynic, a thi of a miser, a fireside compenion of a flirt and a fool of the man. Flirtation, clothes and manners—these are all that di ctvilised man from the savage—and they were invented by woman, The Story of Cl ; Odd of Modern Fashions By Andre Dupont Copyright, 1914, by The Pram Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World), 3.—THE ANCIENT BIOGRAPHY OF THE CORSET. E are apt to look upon the corset as an essentially: modern invention for W improving the appearance of the figure. But the ladies of ancient Greece and Rome wore corsets under their flowing robes, and the fashionabies of doth sexes had to be laced into stays by their slaves before their draperies could be induced to hang properly. ‘These ancient corsets took the form of bands and were in three pieces, which could be worn elther together or separately as required. Cleopatra ie shows im & bas-reNef with a wide band tightly fastened about her waist, which eempresses the hips and throws out the figure. So general was the use of these supports that in ancient Rome there were mer- chants called “Stropilarii," who sold nothing but girdles, Terence, perhaps the earliest of the writers who felt it thelr duty to pen diatribes against the Poor corset, makes one of his charac- ters eay: ‘This girl is not like ours, whose mothers try to dimipish thelr waists and force them to! compress themselves witr dands so 98 to appear alighter.” : ‘he word “corget,” lice “petticoat,” {s taken from @ man's garment. In an inventory of the possessions of the Eart of Hereford, who died in 13%, one of the items is “un corset de fer,” which of course means @ corselet, or breast- plate of fron, which was either worn separately or formed part of a sult of armor, Violet le Duc says that a gar- ment, called a ‘corset was worn in France from the eleventh to the fif- teenth century by both sexes and all classes. This was a sort of tight-fitting tunte or bodice worn under the robe. The romances of the twelfth century are filled with praises of the waspiike waists of their heroines. The stays of the time were veritable instruments of ‘torture, Imagine an unytelding jacket of wood or steel into which the figure of the wearer was compressed in spite of the splinters of wood that sometimes penetrated the flesh, took the skin off the waist and dislocated the ribs. Catherine de Medicl, that rn French Queen who ruled her sons with a re@ of iron and poisoned off her enemies, made tight lacing compulsory’ She ordere@ that all women of good birth and breedir- should reduce their waiste to the abnormal sise of thirteen inches. At this period the very long pointed waist was the fastiion; #0 the busk was introduced to give the corset the correct out broad piece of wood, often elaborately carved, which was peer down inside the front of the stay. ‘ Ppearance of the corset it has been ridiculed, ite dangers have been pointed out by many: writers; and all without much effect. one can only conclude that a garment which can Withstand such reams @@ still remain popular must have many good points, “Take away errr ita eae ‘THE COM PRESSED WAIST When a Man’s Lonely By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1914, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Rresing World), ing influence of years, disproves cold-blooded and cynical conclu- sions and awak- ens dormant sen- sibilities,” said Robert Louis ah ae simple accident of fall- pred and fo not beat iacod Others? Is cause of preconce! notions ag ive ttonaning ie ar-| Syrint® cota oe gue bat rests the petrify-| world than the litth ‘f hite man who told me the other day, weer in the universe who, be her, could have truthfully sald he jow di i, by” never begets love. in incentive for inte! i 4 in the direction of future folk, there s something to be said about the good old fashioned people “right then and there,” without medi- tation or mediation. They just couldn't help it. That is the kind that counts. Those who shut exclude the very root of life Gry dead leaves of . Dr. Van de Water stated | that were 750,000 men| yours. jew York City under| After all years who ought to be| initiati: He believes soc! srowing pains of fa you sa: y will hava" but at forty yee, ore na Wy, By taking the Chance,” Geek the men, There Cultivate those ii ‘ing te Somew! Whi: i + won't feattate to. hail the ‘eng. L + love, But watoh your steph .° || oF ¥ ora }4 ~Gae' \ ‘ \f )