The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1914, Page 3

{ sly uy EM ah CMOTRACE OF CR. | Dame Fashion Has Sewn Up the Slit in Women’s Skirts; BOY'S GRATITUDE |“DIAMOMD 0 RIDER WHO WENT __ FROMHOME TOD Sister deal tool: Brother Give Up Hope That She Is’ With Mother in Canada. WROTE A FAREWELL. “ve Always Been in the Way,” She Said in Letter to Her Mother. Vera St. Leon, the seventeen-year- @ld bareback rider, who disappeared on Saturday from the Hotel St. Mar- garet in West Forty-seventh street, has not been found, and her brother George and her sister Elsie, who thought at first that she had run off tm @ fit of temper, now fear that harm has come to her. She malied letters Saturday night to hgr mother and sis- ter, in which she fhreatengd suicide, from Station O in West Eighteenth atreet and the letters were delivered yesterday. The St. Leon sisters and their brother left the “Polly of the Circus” company a month ago and have since been practising a circus act in a rid- ing academy in Brooklyn. Vera had been complaining that she was not allowed to give a sufficient display of Ber ability and quarreiied with her slater on that account last Friday. ‘The mother of the three ts in Canada with a theatrical company. ORESSED IN HER T WHEN SHE LEFT HOME. Vera dressed in her best clothing Seturday morning and left the hotel early saying she was going to buy | something in a Sixth avenue store. ‘The letter to her mother was sent im.the care of Elsie, who opened and read it. The receipt of thin letter dashed the hopes of the brother and that, perhaps, Vera bad gone to join her mother. Vera's letter to her. mother ran: | Dearest Mother: I realize that I have always been in the wa: 4 that I can never do what ts right. T am going to do away with my- eelf. I never could make any money, so I will not be missed. oo T am writing this I am cry- mg my eyes out. I do not ask for- giveness for my crime, and I do Bot expect you to forgive me. It eeoms that everything I have done fuag been wrong. I expect I shall om @o to bell, ) _, Your wicked daughter, Vera. rinep OF VAIN STRIVING FOR PERFECT WORK. | ‘Zhe long letter of farewell to the ) G@lster contains many extremely dra- mstic and some pathetic passages. After writing that she was discour- eged because she knew she could mever perfect herself in ber work and that ate ipsa going to commit suicide, ebe wen! “cron * wil not find me, because I am by morbid conditions.” “I do not know what could have eaid Elsie to-day younger than George and I great care of her. We ni Sy" wast Ao ty Retat" Nviehout one of us goin wat ber. And see what beppene’. ‘When last seen Vera was dressed fms dark-blue waist and skirt, long blue coat, black shoes and stockings. @he wore # gold bracelet containing five sapphires, a string of amber. beads and a garnet ring. She is 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighs 120 pounds, has blue eyes, light complexion and wavy brown batr. “SWARTHY”’ MAID FOUND AND ROBBERIES CLEARED welry Was Found Missitig With Her Within the Hour After Her Employment. Ralf a dozen women who ha been robbed of jewelry recently by swarthy little woman who engaged te act as their maid and skipped out with their jewelry as soon as she cquid locate it were in Yorkville Po- lige Court to-day to see Anna Zest, alias Zeska, Sweaty ix hig? oie 8 prisoner. Anna all, awarthy, well dressed and en: She was employed on March 9th from an employment agency in East ‘Cwenty-sixth street by Mra. George C. Lawrence,of Garden City, The young woman had what appeared to be excellent recommendations, She went to Garden City with Mrs, Law- rence, was instructed in her duties and departed forty minutes later with } a Worth of jewelry. Lawrence notified Commis- | gloner McKay and the Commissioner, meet in mind several similar thefts eaperies, ordered bis detec- make ® special search for the maid. It fell to Detec- tives Seen Carmeey and Gallagher to learn jay that a woman answering we Geacrtption of the dishonest maid bed registered in an employment cy in peer Third avenue under name Anna Zaska No, 148 Weet Twenty-elghth atree! ‘The detectives went to that address Paris, Not America, Was to Blame for It After All| MAY RESULTINA | ELUDES ARRESE! PERIURY C CHARGE WORLD-WIDE U. S. Commissioner Is Told | Detective Pa od to er: Antoinette Bonner, Chat Report From the French Capital That This Country Demanded Naughty Dresses Is Declared Nonsensi- cal by M. Aron, Who Ought to Nnow. By Marguerite Mooere Marshall. Who ie to blame for the naughty dresece? We have it on the best of clerical and civic authority that the dresses worn by American women during the last few years hi achieved a crescendo of naughtiness. Slits, transparences and other sartorial elisions or revelations have received censure on every hand, nor have the fair wearers altogether escaped a sprink- ling from the wave of public protest which over- whelmed their frocks. Yet the more thoughtful critics have usually placed the blame for extravagances of costumes on the de- signer rather than on the ultimate consumer, The American woman, they said, has been in the position of the proverblally meek child—she has had to wear what was set before her and be thankful for it Not Fi her original sin, but the depraved taste of the French costumer, has been responsible for the modes, And now Paris has indignantly denied forcing naughty dresses upon American women, has as vehemently asserted that American women are corrupters of pure and undeffied French fashions. Says a celebrated cos- tumer with an establishment in the Rue de la Paix: “It te American, not French, ply the attempt to win cheap and women whe have created the free advertising by the French demand for indecent dresees. house whi jesigne it. With French women initiated the | that sole purpose in view is it (oun) WE ARE but Americans degraded outrageously slit skirt transparent corsages are made in nine cases out of ten for exportation. The Parisienne knows just how far to go, but for our A in customers nething seems too daring.” Reading this cabled statement I remembered that Mme. Leone Georges-Reboux, wife of the editor of the Paris Journal, had hinted the same thing when I talked with her @ few days ago. “The fashions of to-day in New York,” she told me, “are the fashions of to-morrow in And Yet I still felt skeptical. For despite all the thunderings I must admit that I have never noted any appreciable number of immod- estly dressed American women. However, I consulted a man whose special business is the American woman's clothes. He is M. Aron, the editor of a widely circulated fashion magazine and the proprietor of an exclusive Fifth avenue shop. His defense of his coantrywomen ‘was prompt and emphatic. “I saw that foolish report from Paris,” he admitted. “And I tell you it is not true! It is not true for a moment! I know the Ameri- can woman and I know what she wants to wear, There may be ex- ceptions, but I underatand the gen- eral standard of taste. “The women of this country, taking them as a whole, have no use for extravagant and immod- American women are and they have excellent taste in matters of They instinctively choose rvative rather than ious mode. In more than one instance, the French igner has failed to populart ize a costume because it offend- of his customers and later exhibited joe's hired mannikin at "aces or on some other suit- le occasion. After the costume been shown, perhi an ac- tress or a woman of the demi- to share in the acivertising. But if it ie really improper it is ignored by the woman of taste and breeding.” “What about the spring styles?” I suggested. “Do they tone with the proprieties “Perfect, asserted Mr. Aron. “Dresses and skirts show an increas- ing fullness of drapery, at the bottom as well as at the top. The gathered tunic and the modified bustle will be worn, but the newest skirt of all has & deep flaring flounce on the bottom, like the old circular flounce worn a dozen years ago. An accordion- Pleated flounce of chiffon is used at the bottom of some evening gowns, or accordion-pleated inserts of chiffon at Trt ‘Tho slit skirt is absolutely a dead insue. ect that the craze tor the tango has helped to bring about the new full skirt, but a voluminous effect everywhere is sought, There will be a revival of the old-fashioned redingote, a flaring long coat. One other novelty is the sash around the hips, ending in a big bow at the back of the skirt. “There has been talk about a par- tleularly decollete effect in evening gowns, but those put out by the best houses will be no lower than conven- tion has long sanctioned. street women's blouses will have a will be finished with the Japanese collar or the Elizabethan ruff. I fancy there may be a return of the graceful princess dre So let the moralists cease from trdbubling and the Comstocks be at d States.” reat—till next yway, “When M. Poiret was over here _—_—_——— last fall he told me that he had been! CLARA MORRIS 69 TO-DAY. unable to make the harem skirt | ‘go’ I said, “And in public he spoke regretfully of the conservat- {um of the American woman.” “Exactly,” nodded Mr. Aron. “Al- lowing for a few exceptions she ‘s conservative. “Last week 600 dressmakers came’ sixty-ninth birthday to-day. She also to my establishment, repreventing iy celebrating the fact that she is be- every section of the country. Each | coming an artist on the guiter, which dressmaker had from 100 to 300 cum- she began to study three months ago tomers on her list. Did even one | for diversion. a to inspect radical or bizarre! Misa Morris tn full of hope and the styles? No! And I have known im- delicate humor Known so well to thone porters to pay hundreds of, dollars very and abroad. Bhe 1s suffering fron for & Paris sensation, only to have | sciatica, but ts better. Her vinion is the costume left on thejr hands be- | limited, but she says she is thankful sho cause no American woman cared to, Bt all. Bho lend tocday she was be seen in it.” ful and happy because her “But then why are the shocking Actri ly ling, to Play the Gi Lying {na quaint old house on the Sound at Whitestone, L. 1, with her |huaband sick in the same room, Clara | Morris, is by mother, apd arrested Anna last night. In the meantime Mrs. Lawrence had been notified she identified the pris- To-day Anna juarters. i A A aE e inety, from an who & stroke of hei who or freakish fashions invented?” I attack of pneumonia. asked. “Whom are they designed to _——— please? What ts the real g Three He of the styles which stir up so much| BRECHIN, Ont. W—Mreea, bitter comment?” Thomas McCauley, alx-year-old son, ppestes, John, and, Josephine’ Callagha ‘ te he: pleats Faee! quite vant Sere es to-day hen tng “The checking esetume to cim- _ On the | modest V in the front, but the back | the actreas, 1% celebrating her | IMMAODEST STYLES ARI . FLATBUSH MAN FOUND. DEAD, THOUGHT SUICIBE Jeremiah Follansbee, Member of’ a Woollen Firm, Dies Under Strange Circumstances. Jeremiah Follansbee of the wool- len firm of Charles P. Follansbee & Sons of No, 254 Fourth avenue, was found dead to-day in the kitchen of his apartment at No, 708 Ocean ave- nue, Flatbush. The Parkville police reported his death as due to gus asphyxiation and said that Mr. Mol lansbee had committed su’ His wife, however, denied that her hus- band had killed himself. She said that early this morning she heard the sound of a heavy fall in the kitchen and ran in to tind her hus- siclans agreed that Mr, Follansbee had been dead for several hours, but cause of death, Mra, Follansbee aaid that bi jband returned he 1 |morning after business associa under a heavy strain lat his father's desire to reti active work of the firm, _—o \SHOT BY POLICEMAN, | HE DIES IN HOSPITA Man Who Threw Beer Into Captor’s Face in Attempt to Escape Was Fatally Hurt Harry Lynch, who was shot Mon day by Patrolman John Hanley of the Jersey City police, this morning in the City Hospital, to |which he was taken after the shoot- ing. ‘Three bul hit him, One caused a sealp wound, another lodged jin the left leg, and the third pen trated the body at the left side of t abdomen and cau Hanley had been for the arrest of harked with breaking into an. Eire freight car, Hanley met Lyneh com jing out of a saloon at Jersey avenue and Thirteenth street He placed Lyneh under arrest, and Lynch, aft taking @ few steps with the polir man, dashed the contents of a pail of beer he waa carrying into Hanley's face und ran, Hanley fired at the fleeing man and wounded him, Hane will be formally rged | morning b fore. Sud fe O'Brien id will prob- ably be paroled for the Grand Jury, He has pot been suspended trom) G, au, - band dead on the floor, lying against | the range, The stop-cocks had been | opened by his fall, she suid. Charles — Fo! ee, t young | man's father, was summoned by Mrs, Follansbee from his home at "No, 801 Ocean avenue, He called Dr. Vincent Gallagher, the family | physician, and Dr, Johnson of the Kings County Hospital. Both phy- declined to give an opinion as to the| MOTORIETY SEEKING FRENCHWOMEN wl THE RACES OR OW THE BOULEVARD SUT FOR $10,00 I BOETZEL'S REPLY | W ALEMTON cA Mitchel Charges Defamation of Char- es Manager acter in Norden Tangle. Eric LL. Boetzel, one of Mayor Mitchel’s campaign managers, whom Mortimer Norden a: allonated $50,000 worth of the affections of Mra, Maude EF. Norden, retaliated to-day by bringing sult aguinst Norden for $100,000 for alleged defamation of character. Mr. Boetzel asserts that Norden, a wealthy electrical con- tractor, had not the slightest basis for his suit No far the Norden trilogy has these actions on file or contemplated: Mrs. Norden's sult for a divorce, naming a Mrs. Inch, an “auto widow.” Norden's counter-claim that Boet- zel's fondness for his wife's com- pany wrecked his h Norden's sult for $50,000 damages | against zel for ultenation of af- | fections Roetzel's sult against Norden for | $100,000 damages for defamation of | | character. At least two more muits will follow | these into the courts, It is sald. ‘The! wife of one of the men named aa sspondent is said to have engaged counsel to sue for another $100,000 damages for alienating the affections of th yson mentioned, Then another woman whose name was mentioned in the affair by Nor- the daughter of a candidate for the Governorship of Ohio—has con- sulted an attorn y with a view of seeking punitive damages for what was said of rin the alimony * on file in the Sup “Norden's whole blackmailing attempt wl to-day, "Tor me Court, scheme is nasty declared Hoet- et that my code not permit me to ure the weap- he resorts to, | wll file a defa jon action Mr orden will cause him to sit up @ bit" It hos comm ty Hoo ed's ears » names of the and the present: May- Mayor's aunt, , Will be brought inte the affair as being pre on the even- ing in Bustanoby's cafe when Boet- zel js alleged to have introduced Mra, Norden as his flancee and ahe re-| ferred to him as “Commissioner,” Mrs, Mitehel and Mrs. Purroy are said to have heard the introduetion and to have met Mrs, Norden under her maiden nm It was ala eal that the name of Vincent Astor would be utilized: by the Norden side before the suit in finished Mr. Astor and Mr. Boetzet were Intinately asmociated during ihe campaign of the Mitchel League for Votes, Mr. Hoetzel has been told Jihat Norden proposes to show: that Mr. Astor met Mra, Norden under |ber maiden name and that the intro- |duction was mads by Roetael Carnex ENHAGEN, Denmark. March 17. an hax conferred the of Danne | | Caruso will HE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAROEH 17,1914. THs SUIT. SHR (OF PRENCH ORIGW) 1 wow sue o> 1S! DEAD 1ssue 'MOMEN OF FASHION UNITING FOR A WAR ON THE SOGAL EVIL With Mane They Will Meet at Mrs. Whitelaw Reid’s to Open Campaign. Efficiency methods tn the prevention of vice and in dealing with fallen girls are expected to follow a meeting of two hundred church and charity workers and women of fashion at the residence of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, No. 451 Madison avenue, at 3 o'clock to- morrow afternoon under the auspices of the Church Mission of Help. This church i# devoted to the rescue of young girls and the prevention of commercialized vice. ‘The work has been discussed with Mien Katherine B. Davis and more active co-operation with the Depart- ment of Correction is expected to re- sult. The Rev. William T. Manning, rec- jtor of Trinity Church, President of the Church Mission Help, will preside at the ineeting at Mrs. Keid's. Commissioner of Correction Davis will outline a plan whereby tho churches may aid the reac workers: in the mi eMclent manner, Other speakers will be Bishop David H. Greer, The Kev. Charles F. Tinker f the City Mission; Miss Emma lL, Adams, Secretary of the Church Min- sion of Help and Ernest M. Stires, rector of St. Thomas’ Church, The gathering at Mra. Reid's home will be one of the most unusual, as it will include the women who have heretofore been ardent antagonists on the questions of woman suffrage and other feminist matters. ‘These opponents will on this work be united and working toward @ single end. Wives of millionaires will with et to the views of under paid ity workers, while city Judges will discuss with workers in the women's night rt the best methods of handling the $3,000 A NIGHT FOR GARUSO, IS REPORT New Contract With Metropolitan Opera Company |y Said to Give Raise of $50u. It was reported to-day that Enrico receive $8,000 a bight from the Metropolitan Opera Com- | pany the season after next. Hin new contract, which it wax said was signed yesterday, te reported to guar- antee him a raise of $000 over his present rate of $2,500 fur eyery time he sings. {t will be the highest salary any , r received, and with the jon of Adelina Pattt singer has got as much for 6 night nging, with Caru eis likely to gather in about $200,000 for the s Ww If ull goes weil When M. ¢ try fret he ing for $1,000 er yay ais ruso © to this coun- Hiaten | Youth Is Hiding Peculations of Foster Father. leading bim to call himself an em- from a charge of fraud in concealing | to- Meyers before United States Com- missioner Gilchrist to-day, Creditors of Albert Klenk, a woole- sale grocer and wine merchant of No, 362 Fourth avenue, charge him with concealing a large part of his assets, They assert he removed ea from the ledger which showed large sales, the proceeds of which have not been accounted for. Albert Schneckenburger, twenty, years old, was adopted by Klenk ten years ago. For the last two years he has been in charge of Klenk’s branch store at No. 805 Lexington avenue, and {t Is he who asserts that his foster- father is guilty of no fraud, He takes upon himaelf the blame for removal of the ledger leaves, anying he did It to conceal his petty theft: NEEDED MORE THAN WAGES OF $12 A WEEK. “T was getting $12 a week at the store,” Schneckenburger said on the stand, “and was paid one per cent. commission on the sales, I wanted more money, #o I turned In reports showing large sales when none was made. I collected my commiasion for this and my father suspected nothing. “When he forced into bank- ruptcy I removed the sales reports from the loone leat ledger.” Attorney Meyers attempted to prove that the books that Miaak @ire- self made the sales which the boy says are fictit' Mra, Elizabeth Ha: Weat One Hundred street, who wan employed as K! bookkeeper, tentified that Kien! self ordered her to remove the misa- in pages from the ledges and that ashe obeyed. Klenk's alleged concealment of ai- eets and Schneckenburger's allaged perjury have been reported to the U. 8. District Attorney. INSPECTOR REBUKED FOR POSTING MAN IN HOTEL Formoso Told Action in Preventing the Registry of Guests Was Illegal. Magistrate Reynolds, in the Gates avenue Court, Brooklyn, to-day se- verely rebuked Police Inspector For- moo for posting a man in the office of a hotel and Instructing bim to prevent would-be guests from regis- tering. Other inspectors, acting pre- sumably under higher authority, have taken the same course with regard to hotels all over the city which were reputed to be the resort of improper persons. Inspector Formos: caused the reat of Manuel Mott at No, 449 Broadway, Williamaburg, early in Fobruary, for an alleged violation of the © law. The caso was dismissed by the Court of Special Sessions, In the meantime Formoso stationed @ man in the hotel to pre. vent the registry of guests, On Feb. 1) Motta was re-arrested, charged with violating the hotel law by fur- nishing @ room to a man and a! woman without having them regis- ter, contrary to Section 30 of the re trate Reynolds, should than to declare he ordered a man stationed In this hotel to prevent any one from regin- nd then should in the neat breath charge the defendant with iling to the very thing which dd been p y police inter- ference. pated in * discharged man ) hotel. was illegally | The defendant ‘WOULD JAIL VIOLATORS *woctul evil.” | | Board or on of Tig. | MeBe OF & Aue OF FACTORY FIRE LAWS ! Bint Introduced Provides Ten Days’ Imprisonment for F Ollense: ALBANY, Moreh 17.—To make it @ crime punishable by Imprisonment to | | violate any provision of the Labor law | lor regulation of the State Industrial Labor Department for the protection of factory employees in case jof fre In the purpose of @ bill framed Pac 'y Investigating * introduced in the i» by Senator Patten in the mbly by Al Smith, Democratic of the House Under the proposed amendment, if » door in a factory iv locked during work= ing hours the owner can be seat to © than ton days or he $2. vr DOU; tnahenla by days’ imprisons , or both. DIFFERENT, From tie Boston ‘Trapacript.) * how os can You be #0 salfi with your apple? 8 pleasure Pa aa Hobhy—Yee, Wat ys ‘The gratitude of an adopted boy to! After a search extending , Europe Detective Edmund bezsler to shield his foster-father | the District-Attorney’s ofes ay from Cherbourg. to bankruptcy assets, according to a| Attorney Whitman that he ha@'! charge made by Attorney Morris | unable to locate Antoinette No, 38 West One Hundred ana teenth street, who, It is camped worth of diamonds she memorandum from Francia a dealer of No. 7 Maiden will return to New York’ jog with him a music teacher arrested in Parie for the three violins from = musical: ment dealer in this city. nanced by the Diamené | jective Aasociation, Leigh world- Reports reached this city been seen in Paris with J. linger, her former associate ip Registers as W. Jacobe at A well dressed man who had’ tered as W. Jacobs of Boston was’ dead to-day in the Union Square i having committed suleide peed night shoot! c * r paper vy indicate ahs real real tro} ty- bya ounces of Jad Salts from any i With Big’ Thefts... “3 Inst October with ide search for Mise ‘rom Paris the traced to Bucharest, Husgary, § Kisslinger has relatives, but all was lost there, For years the young women’ & good living selling diamonés clety people. She was known, “Queen of Diamonds” and was, quently trusted with gems more than Louls H attorney for the jewellers, more than 8 milifon dollars’ wort®, Jewels in the two years prior’ te, Aight. ere are known to bave unlimited credit. silat She was gone a month before” beence was noticed. porate that she had Joos, of No. 19 Cedar More than ten diamend ugh the arrest thro on the complet § of a D. anothe! charge of withholding gears og $2,000. Cocks declared erg diamonds to Miss sold. diamonds were subsequently pawn sbope. he bad More than $20,000 worth ENDS LIFE IN HOTEL. a Square and Sheote Golf. by 3 een pany ‘and "hirty years. ° Flush the Kidneys a when Back hurts on: bothers. * macy and take a tal generations to flush cl stimulate them tralise the acids i te vity, also urine ao it ation, thus ending makes a delig! vesceat thie weler dein which ular meat ie n to keep the the ve clogn sail d pure, thereby avoiding serious!