The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1914, Page 3

FLED WI cD BBRESS, SHE SAYS P WDHERS] 000000 Mrs,. Janney of Philadelphia ‘~ @ndiGrandchild Taken From Train in Chicago. Dog Took One Run Out of East Sixty-seventh Street House with Horeele Engine, Stopped at Corner and Walked Back with Tail Between Her Legs. FATHER ~ IN PURSUIT. Once Rode on Third Avenue Cars to Her Meals on Special Pass— Her Mate Quit Mascot Job to Take Up Pinochle Caree>. _ Woman in Court Gets Writ, ‘Claiming She and Little One # Are Illegally Detained, CHICAGO, March 16.—The courts ‘were asked to-day to determine whether a grandmother or a father should have the custody, for the Present at least, of a three-year-old girl who, the woman declares, will inherit $1,000,000 from her. On the petition of Mrs. Harriet L. Janney, who with her granddaughter, Virginia Ford, the infant heiress, w: detained last night by the police on telegraphic advices from Philadel- phia, Judge Walker, in the Criminal Court to-day, issued a writ of habeas corpus applicable to both the woman and the child. Mrs. Janney told the police she was taking the little girl to her mother in Los Angeles, The police! || acted on a complaint from Virginia's! father, William H. Ford, a Philadel-/ phia civil engineer. Mrs. Janney asserted that daughter was divorced from Ford several months ago and that the Court awarded custody of the child to’ the mother. The petition for release set forth that the two were detained without legal warrant. . “\ PHILADELPHIA, March 16.—wii- iam H. Ford, a consulting engineer of thie city and New York, started for _ Chicago last night in an effort to over- * take bis mother-in-law, Mra, Harriet , Janney, and his three-year-old daugh- } ter Virginia. He carried a warrant charging his mother-in-law with en- ticlng the child from home. ‘When Ford reached his home in Germantown Saturday night he found {t closed. For two years he had been rd there with Mrs. Janney and the el who had been reared by the Grandmother. Ford began an inventi- gation and learned Mrs. Janney and the child had left on the Baltimore and Ohio for Chicago. , Ford's office in New York is at 320 Broadway. yesterday he would not relute the ca of his estrangement from his wi Bessie of No. 39 Engine Company, queen of the mascots of the Fire De- partment, has been taken from the streets of New York and, heart- broken, sent to Flushing. Her fate points the end of a picturesque scene of city life in which plunging horses of the department and the boundin; barking Dalmatian dogs who ran ahead to clear the traffic for the fire fighting apparatus were the features. | her | SHE WANS CLEA! THE CROSSING OR. YS AT SRD 4VENULR AND 67TH STREET STER. q LIEOT ALONEe Wise. fein —>—__—. STREET KISSER FELLED BY ANGRY GIRL'S BLOW Williamsburg “Masher” Goes Down and Out When Mesl:bag Hits Him in Head. A well dressed young man stood at North Eleventh street and Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, to-day and tched crowds of factory girls who | Horses and dogs are doomed, In an- / were on their way to work. other five years the whole department When one of them passed close to| will be motorized, ® him he leaned forward and kissed her,| For five and a half years Bessie She screamed, blushed and fled. A girl| Cleared the crossing at Third avenue who was in a hurry unintentionally | 4nd Sixty-seventh street for her com- brushed her arm against tho young| Pany, barking a warning to surface man's coat. Promptly he seized her} car motormen, truck drivers and in his arms, gave her an impuisive| Pedestrians and all during that time squeeze that lifted her from her feet} She led the way in every one of the and then forgot all about her as she| 4Verage of forty runs a month No. 39 ran away shrieking. made. By this time the actions of the| Then, Ilke a bolt from the sky, the \ young man had attracted general at-¢ three white horses she loved were tention and a crowd of angry factory | taken away; thalr harness, their girls soon surrounded him. just like to have him try that on me!" exclaimed one young woman, with flashing ey “Would you?" said the “hugger,” ‘well, here goes!” And he grabbed ber around the waist and tried to kiss her. ‘The girl wos carrying a heavy mesb bag in her right hand, and with her left she struck the youth in the mouth, causing him to release his hold on her, Then she stepped back, whirled the mesh bag as David hurled hie slung-shot, and the love- lorn Goliath got the full force of the | blow just below the temple. Down went Goliath. Policeman Thornton called an am- bulance, and when the young man came out of his trance he paid he was John Winchinsky of No. 242 Driggs avenue, Williamsburg, He was taken io the Manhattan Avenue Pelice urt, oharged with disorderly con- duct. bignkets, the whip, the feed bags, even the stalls were removed and the next alarm found her bounding | in front of a man-made thing that | had no intelligence—a gasoline driven engine. Bessie ran as far as Third avenue, tucked her tall between her legs and returned to the engine house, Her heart was broken. She never ran to | another fire. HOR MAY GO EVEN IN THE SUBUR mean beast is Bessie and there {s not a snap in her, She loves all |humanity and adores her old bo: Lieut. Wine, at whose heels she ho’ ers constantly, Boss and dog have both been shunted te Murray Hill, Flushing. 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Get it at your drug store to-day. 1c, 25¢ and 50c, » | SHE NEVER RAN TO ANOTHER FIRE. | no! | | boss and dog are comfortable and & bit grateful for that, “But there is no telling when it will happen to us again,” said Wise to-day. “The engine companies at Corona and Elmhurst have been mo- torized, Our horses are from a com- pany in Manhattan that now uses gasoline, They love thetr job of fire fighting just as much as the men do, but they are out here tn the suburbs and get a run a month where they used to averave forty. They are not lazy, but discouraged, and that's why they look droopy.’ Bessie looked up at the leutenant as if sensing his owp worry over the change in things. “Now, there's a dog worth loving and worth being loved by,” said Wise, turning his attention to her. “She is a ribbon dog, Got her honors at Madison Square Garden in 1910, She was @ natural born mascot and by instinct she would run ahead of the horses, whooping it up and get- ting people out of the way for us. Bessie seemed to know what her boss was talking about, for she got wu and put her head in reach of his "She knows I'm talking about her,” said Wise. “If I died suddenly si would be in an awful fix. She'd keep look for me. When we were at Headquarters, with three fine horses and plenty of work, she always fol- lowed me home on my day off, I was living up th the Bronx then and of course had to ride. Bessie would ‘ay in the engine house, but would run after the car I took | HAD A PASS ON STREET CARS AND USED IT. “Finally I got 4 street car pass for her and I guess she Is about the only dog in ths city that could hop on and of a car without causing trouble with the conductor, Her Fire Department badge, a little brass hel- met swinging from her collar, and her pass from the Street Raliways Company made her safe. She knew the right gorner as well as I did and travelled Up and down the line alone if by any chance she missed me, “I'm afraid she ts the last of the mascots, The companies that have been motorized find their dogs wil not run ahead of the gasoline engines and trucks. They miss the horses and I guess they are afraid of the machines, “Beasie would always follow me into a burning building in the old days and stay one floor below the fighting line, as te rules required. We had to establish that rule for aor a Anew might eumse a man te s Fighters, Pines in the Suburbs for Good Old Days Before Motors Replaced Fiery Steed stumble if retreat was ordered. Bea- sie, I think, knew as muoh about the isks we ran as we did. But she stuck to the rules and always waited a floor below the men handling the nozzi Bessl Alfred in also out of the running. MOAKIE” HAS RETIRED TO A INOCHLE CAREER. When Capt. Edward Levy of No, 39 wi retired recently given by No, 9, heels since. lene engine could never be printed. Almost uny time of day you may find him in the back of the little cafe at Fifty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, watching the retired captain play pino- chle with old pals when he is not sp! ning a yarn about a great fire that wi bravely fought. "Reasie and her mate Oakie,” sald 1 Wise, stole the pups one by one. One, Mike, how runs ahead of Engine Company No. 8 at Fifty-firat street and Third avenue. When they take the horses out of that engine house Mike will jauit. I hope his driver will see he gets a comfortable home. Any son of Hessle and Oakie is worth that at {east.” “Tell them goodby, Rossle, Wise as The Evening World writer and photographer struck out for a townward train, ‘ow! Yow! Yow!” barked Bessie, and the two waved their hands to her and her boss, >— SPRING INJERSEY? SURE; DIDN'T A FROG SING? Cresskill Delegation Bubbles Over With Joy Until Ancient Natur- alist Wakes Up. The brilliant sunshine and high temperature of yesterday and to-day have started up the firat crop of spring-has-come stories over in New Jersey. Pretty nearly every com- muter who planted bulbs last fall had an in - the -sprintime - gentle-Annie story to unfold on train or ferryboat this moraing. The Cresskill delegation boarded the 7.50 A. M. for the city with yarns about the return of the robina and the bluebirds, “And us for blackbirds,” said Old Man Raymond Duffield, “they're as thick as mosquitoes in Ridgefield during July.” “It was good to hear their gentle voices culling when I rose at 4 o'clock this morning,” said Ernest Mecabe, the poet laureate of tne butter and ex« business, “I heard a frog singing after sun- down Inst night,” eaid Francis Arthir Beresford, known all through the Northern Valley as “Admiral” Beras- ford. For a half-hour Louts W. Robinson, the ancient naturalist and woodsman, a genuine expert on the changes of the seasons, smoked hia pipe in bitter silence. As the train was rushing along past Homestead at itn greatest speed of nine miles an hour he re- moved the pipe from his lean and homely visage and auld: “Those birds may have arrived at Cresskill, but if they have and they atart any new familtes they wil] hatch snowbirds, believe me. And another thing I'd like to remark.” He snort- ed angrily, for he has no use for ama- teur naturalists and nature fakers. “That frog mentioned by the Ad- miral. It may have woke up last night, but I'd like to say that it will havea terribly cold time trying to get back to asleep. If it did any springtime announcing it is the dad- dingdest fool frog [ ever hear tell on,” Bowles ¢ WASHINGTON, March 16, Rear-Admiral F. T. Bowles, ¢ the Fore River Shipbuilding Com- Ma: been sum- before the | Committee about a con- . W. de Knight, « Washington yer, claima to have had with the company to work for the Panama tolls exemption. af E aS in 7 er ETL ad ‘had five families. The firemen | rala| "Wilkes MILITANT AT LAST. PUNSHED BY HAN CHOSEN FOR ATTACK | Prison Commissioner Lashed With a Dog Whip Knocks Woman Down. | “ARSON SQUAD” ACTIVE. }Burn a Train of Nine Cars at | Station Near Birmingham— Miss Pankhurst in March. | GLASGOW, Scotland, March 16— ; Dr. James Devon, rrison Commt:- jSloner for Scotland, when attacked | to-day by an irate militant aut- fragette armed with a dog whip, took \¢ law, in his own hands and knocked his assailant down with a ‘well aimed left hand blow. | ‘The woman, whose identity was not | dlacovered, met the Commissionor at the entrance to the Duke Strest Prison and belabored him over the a whip. Dr. Devon, who is an advocate of forcible feeding and te bitterly op- | Domed to what he considers the far- se of suffragettes because | they are suffering from,the effects of “hunger strikes,” promptly knocked her down. The woman was picked up by a policeman and placed under ar- rest, but Dr. Devon refused to prose- cute her and she was released, BIRMINGHAM, England, March 16. —Nine coaches belonging to the Mid- land Railway were burned by a mili- tant euffragette “arson squad” last ‘night at King’s Norton, six miles ; from here, Suffrage literature was | found littered about the vicinity. | With the new wave of militancy | assuming greater proportions daily, some action was expected to be taken an a result of a letter received by the Dean of Weatminater from Sylvia Pankhurat declaring that East Lon- don suffragettes will march to the Abbey next Sunday and attend eve- ning service, Miss Pankhurat said he would be present, and asked that pecial services be held. MRS, MASAUER WON'T LET HUSBAND GET AN OFFHAND DIVORCE Combats Testimony Given When She Was a Co- Respondent. | . Lorraine Masauer, the beautiful nineteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Edwin Hano of the Hotel Ansonia, who was a bride, a co-re- spondent in a divorce suit and a divorce suit defendant all within six plied to Justice Weeka to- day for $300 a month alimony and a counsel fee of $1,000, Mra. Masauer in contesting her hus- band's divorce suit, although the evidence to be used against her in the same upon which a jury in Jus- tice Platsek’s Court gave Lillian B. Shuman a dpcree againat George H. Shuman five months ago. The marriage at the Ansonia of the popular young girl and Harry Masauer, a downtown Broadway merchant, was an event of note in the winter of 1913. Among the gu were Mr. and Mrs. Shuman, Shurian belng the son of A. Shifman, the imil- lionaire merchant of Hoston. In Masauer’s affidavits he repre- sents that the Hanos are wealthy und well able to provide for their daugh- ter, who has lived with her parents since July 9, 1913, when she was found in Shuman’s company in the Van Cortlandt Hotel, The Shuman case disclosed a raid of four detectives on @ suite in the hotel _where it was testified Shuman and Mrs. Masauer, then a bride of jews than six months, were resid ng temporarily as “Mr, and Mrs, Pbil Sheridan,” | After the scandal Mrs. Masauer wey 16,1014. She Lost as Co-Respondent, but |GEW Resists Husband’s Divorce Suit) LATE TRAIN TO REW YOR timetable wipes this train out and buts nothing in its place. Visitors trom New York to pointe below Stam- ford will be compelied tc leave be- fore 10 o'clock or take the trolley te u t FIFE ESSEEESSSOD ¢ oars EVIODOODD-OOGE- 104-48 4OO09 OH O0-0- NEW YORK'S 400 CUT TO 200 FOR ASTOR NUPTIALS Only the Elect of the Elect Will} Be Invited to Wedding in Staatsburg Church, | Invited to the Astor-Huntington wed- (ing, The invitations will not be sued for ten days. Except for the selection of guests the arrangementa for the wedding are complete. A special train will take the g from the Grand Cen- tral Station to Staateburg. Mr, As- tor’s best man will be Hermann Ocl- richa, and Mias Huntington will be- tended by her sister Alice. Wallace Goodrich will preside at the organ, an he did at the wedding of Miss Huntington’a = mot! twenty-two years ago, The little church will be banked in flowers from the green- houses of Mra. William Dinsmore, Miss Huntington's grandmother. Miss Huntington will have for her wedding probably the simp! trous- nenu ever prepared for a bride of Owing to the fact that the neating| her wealth and soctal position, capacity of St. Margaret's Episcopal! Immediately after the ceremeny Church in Staatsburg is limited to 250,! Mr. Astor and his bride will go to only that number of guests will be, Europe, They will make an automo- present when Vincent Astor and Miss| bile tour of the Continent and take Helen Dinsmore Huntington are mar-| part in few social functions, Then ried on April 80, Since the Astor and| they ure to take a long cruise on the Huntington families are to be invited| Astor yacht, where elaborate cos- Mt ts Ikely that not more than 200! tumes will not be required. 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