The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1914, Page 3

yee (Gtaff Correspondent of The Wo A , GEN. MAAS AGREES, NOT TO FIRE WHEN TRUGE FLAG FLIES Lieut. Fletcher Confers With Mexican Representative Outside of Vera Cruz. WILL SAVE REFUGEES. Marines Capture “Snipers” in Cemetery—Citizens Give Up Arms. By Walter S. Meriwether. with Admiral iger’e Fleet.) Copyright, 1014, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), (Specia! Cable Despatch to The World.) VERA CRUZ, April 27.—The Mexi- cans have promised to be good and show due consideration for flaga of truce, following a call Lieut. Fletcher of the flagship Florida made on a ) Fepresentative of Gen. Maas. The officers of the two Governments met in conference yesterday afternoon t nine miles outside the city under a } | « flag of truc Lieut. Fletcher went to the rendes- ‘vous accompanied by a guard of blue Jackets with a rapid fire gun. He de manded of the Mexicans that flags of truce be honored when refugees are being taken from trains coming from Mexico City at points where they are transferred to trains for Vera Crus. The Mexicans promptly promised to observe such flags in the future. The drastic order of Admiral Fietcher, issued on Saturday, that all aetives bearing arms without right to @o oo immediately be killed put ef- feotively a stop to the sniping that aad been going on since the occupa- tion of Vera Crus by tae American men-of-wars men. Last night there were no shots heard. Our sentries are placed on the reofs after curfew each evening, and ‘Bis step has put a further obstacle in the way of the natives who have been taking shots at the marines and blue- jackets from the housetops. A battalion of the Michigan's blue- Jackets and marines on outpost duty had been bothered the last two nights by shooting from the cemetery on the outskirts of the town. A search of the » burial grounds failed to show any Mexicans or any arms and ammuni- ‘thon. The natives who passed through the grounds were always unarmed and seemingly inoffensive, yet the eniping kept up. urred to the » He had noticed the unusually large number of fun- bed nnd one be vid ith thie as a suggestion, the Michigan's men made a search of the open graves and found in them armed men waiting nightfall to begin firing on the guard. The Mexicans were arrested and the arms confiscated. has turned up an im- menee quantity and it is ed to hourly b: surrendering thei: of Ad } ity. the joreroome filled Americans found big with weapons. U.S, SONSUL REPORTS ARRIVALS AT VERA CRUZ Attempt Being Made to Get List of Those Detained at Mexico City. WASHINGTON, April The fol- lowing Americans were reported safe at Vera Cruz in a despatch from Con- oul Canada received early to-day: James Monroe, H, W. Williains, G P. Van Mourick, George CUlp, Fabian Bell, F. W. Davis. The last named reported conditions better and “every- and well in Mexico City. Consul Agent Nontague, who fled from Cananea for Naco, reported to- day that between 400 and 500 Amerl- cans have quit Cananeu, but that} twenty-five American men persist ip remaining. Consul General Canada to-day made strenuous efforts to obtain a Nat of detained Aine! ns in Mexico City and elsewhere, Through the Britten Embassy he sought the re- lease of J, Starr Hunt, Burton Wil- gon, Col. Yeager and Gen, Agramonte | @ Mexico City, together with the re- lease of Americans held at Cordoba, Orizaba and other cities. The following were reported de- tained at Cordoba: A, Perez, Carpen- ter Perez, Harvest Perez, Howard Barker Young, and Mr. Harvey of San @averia Hacienda. ‘Wireless from San Diego, Cal, aaid Cheyenne !s due there to- night dghty-ose refugees, RODIN FROM Wives Can Rest in 1 Homes of the ‘Future For There’ll Be No Work for Them to Do Th MILTIAOF EAST | REPORTS READY | FORFIELD SERVICE Twenty-one States Say Volun-| teers Can Move in Forty- eight Hours. WAR FEVER RUNS HIGH. Officers of Seventh Postpone Weddings, Confident State Troops Will Be Called. The militia of twenty-one States ¢. = east of the Mississipp! and Ohio Riv- \) ers is prepared to go into active field service within forty-eight hours af- ter a call for volunteers, The Adju-|“* The tant-Generals of all the States and the District of Columbia have re- ported to Col. William G. Haan, Chief of Staff of the Department of the East, U. 8. A. Camp sites have been selected for the mobilization of troops in each Btate, Reports from the last of the States within the jurisdiction of the De- partment of the East were received this morning at Governor's .Island. ‘They were made in reply to a request went out by Col. Haan last week to Time Will Come When Housework Will Be Done by Domestic Specialiste Summoned by Pressing a Button,” Says Mrs. Frances Gor- don Burton-Smith, an Authority on Home Economics, Who Goes Abroad to Study the Subject. gi the Adjutant-Generals ordering them to select a suitable camp site at once and make all arrangements for the laying of water pipes, obtaining of fuel and provisioning the respective camps. In epite of the talk of media- tion, the Division headquarters of the Nefional Guard was as active in preparations for war as ever to-day. All of the commanders of avery branch of the Division were in Knoe touch with head by telep! OFFICERS OF THE GUARD MEK: PECT ORDERS. Several of the regimental com- manders and officials attached to Major-Gen. O’ Ryan's division staff re- ported in person, one of the first to appear being Col. Cornelius Vander- bilt, who was in executive conference | with Col. R. Foster Walton, in charge of headquarters in the absence of Gen. O’Ryan for more than an hour. All of the department heads have reported everything ready for the expected call for volunteers. Definite word regarding the Gov- ernment’s programme so far as it Burton-Smith has ‘will study French, results of her inv others to jones §6= Tall, erect and her crown of white hair belied by her ment in Washington. A wire was kept open also between headquarters and the office of Adjt.-Gen. Henry De Witt Hamilton in Albany, since it was conaldered possible Gen. O’Ryan might communicate with the Governor, All of the high officials in the citizen soldiery are confident their services will be needed within a few days in spite of the talk ‘ot mediation. The Seventh Regiment has been bit hardest by the war fever. It w: learned to-: that three members of the regiment who were to be mar- ried In June have made arrangements to have the wedding ceremony per- formed at once so that they will be prepared to leave witb their regi- ment without delay. STATE TROOPS NEED MORE MONEY. ‘The need of money in the National Guard is the chief topic of conversa- tion whenever the division heads get together, Col. A. T, Townsend, Chiet Quartermaster, sald to-day the or- ganization would need 6,000 mules it the entire Guard is mustered in for |service, Mules, the Colonel said, epi cost $200 apiece, which would eat wu) most of the appropriation of $1,500,000 the State Legislature is expected to make when the extra session is con- vened on May 4. “We of course could not afford to buy 6,000 mules on an apropriation of that size,” Col, Townsend sald this morning. “I think in an emergency we could get along with half that | number, but of course we would not | bea as well equipped for a vigorous ‘campaign as we would like, Motor | trucks could be hired in a pinch to tako the place of animals. While Staten Island has been prac- tleally selected an @ site for mobiliz- | —— ing the State troops, the heads of the | Guard have not abandoned the search | militia “Do you agres,” T asked her, “with | the ultra-modern students of social conditions who predict the disappear- | ance of the individual home?" .| THE HOME WILL GO, THE FAMILV REMAIN. “The home as we now know it will disappear,” she replied, unhesitatingly. | ‘The family will remain, for it is the! fixed unit of civilization, and there- | fore father, mother and children must continue to be grouped together. “But the home of the future will be indard- ized. It will no longer be a pl for the performance of menial It will re-eminently of rest, of ‘sisure, piness,not merely fe. the children, for the husband ang father, but The workless home is the id to- ward which | believe we should our faces. ‘he troubl with our homes to- day," Mrs. Burton-Smith continued earnestly, “is that they are about three centuries behind the times. Men have made a splendid progress in their various trades and professions. They have invented and adopted new machinery, they have devised new| ways of directing labor, they have in- | troduced system and science every- | where, And all this time women have been poking along, doing their house hold tasks in the same old way. They have never stopped to ask, ‘Is this the right way to work” They have dismissed the subject with the sen- The treatment requires | for a more available site, Col. Will- | three injections of serum ten days! fam HT. Sage, detailed to the militia | apart.” from Vihe regular army,\sald this) ‘The Chief Surgeon denied emphat- | morning that as soon as the ground at| Fishkill Plaina, now. wet from recent raing, dried out there would be an in- | spection by regular army officers and the militia officers, Col, Sage inspected this afternoon jeally reports that some of the men treated so far have suffered from Its! effects, The records showed, he said, | that bf the 10,000 soldiers treated to| date, only one-tenth of one per cent. had lost a day from business. the State arsenal, Seventh avenue and| Another visitor to Division Head- Thirty-Afth street, where more than ‘quarters this afternoon was Capt. | 4 million rounds ‘of ammunition for| Edward McAleer of Troop ( of the | the Guard are stored, \Second Cavalry. The elght “hundred | GUAROSMEN ARE VACCINATED, men in the troop he said have been! drilling nightly in the armory, Red- ea OOSINST. TYEHOIR: ford avenue and President street, and | ‘ol, William n ‘ are prepared to take the field to «| Surgeon on Gen, O'Ryan man, So enthusiastic are the men ported to Col. Walton, in charge of over the prospect of seeing actual division headquarters, this afternoon service at the front, they have spent \that approximately 10,000 of the 17,000 their own money to obtain an option | guardsmen in the State already have on 500 horses, been invculated against typhoid. The Three hundred members of the Bec- medical staff has been working day ond Battalion, Firat Field Artillery and night {n the armories to treat with headquart at One Hundred |the men for a vigprous campaign in and Sixt xth atreet and Mel ane ‘ol. Terriberry said, avenue, the Br said to- aro prepared rin” for vol. | “we will have be the treatment on he remaining i} men in the @tate call, \ c to unteer service with a 100 per cent. roll) Mevat na we BLD, mo bar APbaL 27, oi THIS WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE Be ib i tae nha BROADWAY |Z ous By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. The workless home will be the home of the future.| woman of the present to almplify her That is the conviction of Mrs. Frances Gordon Bur- ton-Smith, @ brilliant writer and lecturer on home eco- nomics and the daughter of Gen. John B. Gordon, one of the best known figures in the Confederacy. Mrs, just sailed for Europe, where she German and English home life during the summer, returning in the autumn to present the estigations in this field and several ww York women. graceful as her debutante daughter, unwrinkled, camellia-like skin, Mrs, Burton-Smith seems to unite much of what is best in the old and new tence, way.’ “The greatest need of the home at the present time is definite standards. There should be artistic, economic and social standards to which the home should conform. beautiful, ite income and outgo ought to be scientifically adjusted, and it ‘I always have worked this | ought to have a real meaning fh the community.” “And you believe that these stand- ards can be upheld without work?" I axked, “I believe that the tollsome, mental labor, which ts what home work now means to most of us, can be abol- ished,” she replied. “The time will come when housework wilf be performed by domestic specialists, summoned by pressing a button. Then the servant problem will be solved. Instead of having on the itance of an un- educated, indolent, impudent drudge, the mistress of the home will be served by a woman of in- dependence and self-respect, who sciences of cooking and persons who were allowed to do their work without meddling interference |from their employers, If you sum- mon a trained nurse to your home you never think of telling her how to perform her job, And now the pro feasion in filled with splendidly able and intelligent young women. HOUSEKEEPING WILL BE DONE 'Y PROFESSIONALS. “ome day a cook will prepare food | for a dosen families instead of one |according to certain definite rules for food preparation instead of the whima of an individual mintreas. Some day maida will be professional cleaners, making and keeping ap- |pointments at 4 number of different houses, sweeping and dusting In an subsidiary of the United States Steel orderly, scientific fashion, They waxed the line a day or two ago at Corporation, this afternoon in this city, won't have to listen to the everlast- rio Springs and ran off a bunch! ®, theca oft per oank. wee destared vo jof cattle, American cowmen took up| 02 pg hg Sar wl ing injunction, ‘Now, I alwa have payable on May | This is the my sweeping done in this way. “That day is still far off, though,” It ought to be) COURT WS OEDE IFA CHILD CAN BE | LEH ASA AOALECACT Father Seized Little One} Whom Grandmother Says Mother Bequeathed to Her. HE IS A_ PHYSICIAN. Makes $10,000 a Year, He Says, and His Daughter Had Been Put in an Orphanage. Whether Rosemary Josephine ThompThempeon’e mother had a legal right to “Dequeath” @ child when she was dying is to be decided by the Supreme Court of New York inatead of the Children’s Court, where the question waa discussed to-day, Judge Franklin C. Hoyt decided that he had no juriadiction, and the father and grandmother will carry the case to the higher court. In the mean time Rosemary remaina in the cus- tody of the Children’s Society. Her father, Dr. Joseph A. Thomp- son of Philadelphia, seized her in Eighth avenue, near One Hundred and Forty-second atreet, last night, when her grandmother, with whom the child lived, had sent her out for rolla. The grandmother contenda that the child ts rightfully in her custody be- cause the mother #o ordered before she died, Rosemary's father carried her into a drug store, followed by a man and woman, evidently his friends. Sergt. Dougherty of the Lenox avenue ata- tion pu: through the crowd into the pharmacy. “This ta my child,” said the man who had picked up the little girl. I remarked. “How do you advise a home-making?" “bet the mo rn woman put her home.on a mi basis,” urged M Burton-Smith. “Let her try eut the new labor-saving inventions in household machin- Let with due regard to her expenses, make use of the new prepared fo even of the delicatessen Let her treat phia, and T am telephoning for motor car to take her home with m« as I have a perfect right to do. is seven years old, My detectives, who have search for my daughter.” ing their privileges, While ins All three produced credentials an s ing upon competent service. Let |sergt. Dougherty was puzzled t concerns the militia of this State|traditions. She has the graciousness, the quiet dignity which are insep-| her lap an expats anceunt and! |uaow, what to av, “ta thie Aad was expected hourly from Gen.| arable from the well-connected women of the old South, but her point of] a» budget. father?” he asked the girl. . O'Ryan, who this morning was in| view on certain modern questions !s enough to make those dear ladies turn| “No busiiess can last unless the! “yen, sir, but I want to go to m conference with the War Depart-|in their graves.- vutgo is carefully proportioned to the grandma,” she sald. out for rolls—and here they are, an the change.” Just as the Sergeant was askin: |for the identity of the grandmothe! that person appeared. Bridget Galway, about old, whose home ts at No, 306 Wi One Hundred and Forty-secon street. Income. I have no doabt that It is true that many marriages go to pleces on the rock of household ex- penditure. This matter should be discussed by the husband and wite | together, and a fair division of t income agreed upon. | WOMAN SHOULDN'T MAKE | PICKLES AND THINGS. “There must be no attempt to re- turn to the days of home production, however. The woman who spends days and weeks putting up preserves and pickles and jellies has done noth- ing of which she should be proud. There are many other ways in which her time could have been spent more her to me!" she exclaimed. |let that man or that woman hay The old lady, not knowing th: identity of Miss Johns, who is youn: and good-looking, struck at her an: clinched with her. terhalter separated the women Jobns refused to make a complaint. About this time the motor which Dr. Thompson had called a u don’t feel that John's affection for Mary will be weakened she stops making biscuits for Dr. Thompson said that four years mind, John Rare a ago his wife, who wax Mrs. Galway's joy hie dinner. wit daughter, and the little girl came to gent companion instead of with a |New York, ill of the grip. Mrs, Fea ahowe that only when Thompson died in her mother's home. That broke up his home in Philadel phin, so ho decided to hi dustries ure ta when they are out of the erformed for and by leave Washington Asked to Send Troops|+non't ever let her father have her." —Mexican Cattle Rustlers snty-flve miles southwest of Tam-| 7 pico, The request says that the men} little girl sent down to the Chitdre |tre well armed, but are unable to get | Soclety for the n jto the American ships because of! | fighting between the Constitutional. | ists and Federal troops about Tam- Fire | At a meeting of the directors of th ‘Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, the pursuit and followed the rustlers 200 miles into Mexico, recovered the| the stock and returned without a fight. United’ 8 ny wan taken over by th tes Steel Corporation, G RANDMOTHER. Cc LAIMS THIS CHILD AS A OSEMARY THOMPSON, 61 AMERICANS SHOT Most of the Injured Will Recover, LEGACY FROM MOTHER. AND BARONET'S Si TOSTOP MARRIAg Broker’s Wife Says Girl Gave Age as 19 at Lic Bureau Is Only 16, BRIDEGROOM & DANG Bride-to-Be Is Stepdaughter Charles A. Henderson of te ; Calumet Club. U A tall, beautiful grt, mustard-colored gown and j an ermine coat, emerged from City Hall Plasa subway exit with @ young man wearing the English cut clothes, They made way to the Marriage License where the young man recorded he was James Douglas More Gtay, fon of a Scotch baronet, and that young woman was Anabel Ded ‘When filling out the license the young woman remarked that stepfather’s name was H The prospective bridegroom wah twenty-three years old, @ a native of Glenmore, Scotland, that his father was Sir James @ born in Argyleshire. ‘The bride-to-be said ste No. 24 West Fifty-ninth street, she was nineteen years old, that father, Walter H. Dade, was ® of Frankfort, Ky. Shortly after the couple hag the City Hall the address given ! Minn Dade was called up on the phone pkey t mothe surprised to an ishter was to be married that if she could do #0 she IN VERA CRUZ FIGHT Rear-Admiral Badger Reports. am Dr, Joseph A. Thompson of Or- thodox and Worth streets, Philadel- Her name Is Rosemary Josephine, and she compantons are Robert and Maud Johns, private helped mo v | “She sent me She was Mrs, sixty years | “That's my child—her mother gave! ™ “Don' Patrolman Win-| seam Mins | Ga drove up, and the whole party went In ft to the Lenox avenue station, theaters) MAY ENTER THIS COUNTRY WASHINGTON, OMictal despate Dp 44 April 2%. y-day from Rear Admiral Badger at Vera Cruz gave the total of American sailors and marines wounded In the fighting on Moxican soil as His report sat “The following wounded men were to-day discharged from the hospital and have resumed their duties En- aman B.C. Oi Seaman Willlam Pinkewsk! slight impro the condition BK. A. Giaborn, OF x rT.) boatswain, and G. Kinsman, se: reported as critical, and Vullian, fireman, | ger reports the fe o y orrections in list of names a dl v 6 Is no suc . and the p ‘) garding him e|Ponksky read ¢|soaman, New Hampshire; Genche, seaman, d K\Goeke, seaman, 3 1) Char error, For Pinkewskt, ‘MS, FLEEING MEXICO, 7 fact is my daughter ts not pixtoe 1 think My re oung to get mar’ her age and looks older than. really is, he was ed what her bi name wi She said it was Henderson and that he was & with offices at No. 71 Broadway. Ag ed to this was the nformatise a Mr. Hend vt igre aig in Canada that he we ikely hurry s ho had learned what ui r had done. It was even that an attempt might be have the marriage annulled. A. Henderson is a member Calumet Ct Mise 's mother said she stood the young man waa en ard appeared to be very mi prised that he bad written pation as that of a dancer, ‘When he came to this understood he was to make ® the North Pole,” she ¢: Mariage Live so Bureau, was larriage License up tye woman a little later asked if he had issued a He Mins Dade. He replied in the ative. He was ae kod the girl gave and the eb couple announced hey would be ried in. Mr. Hart told the that he understood they would ge 4 the Little Church Around the © some time this afternoon. Called up the second time jt mother e#aild she and a D uncle, whore name she would give, were then making @ searell find the couplh MOVE 5,000 MEXICANS OUT OF FORT Bryan Permits Orientals to Find On Protest of Texas Those Prisoners Are to Be Taken | Temporary Refuge in the Back From the Border, United States, Heatdes, the grandmother asserted to| aividena since the panic of 1907, wnen et SAN ANTONIO, Tex. April " Lieut. Farrell, Dr. ‘Thompson wasn't | Cross Border. |a proper person to have charge of | WASHINGTON, April 21.—The| little Rosemary, He lived int | | Navy Department received — to. | Uma she ; “Why, Lieutenant, I have a prac- ay & request from oll interests In {Sees q i" tice of well over $10,000 a year and a New York, with property in the Tam- lh ful home!” th yates pieo oll district, that an American | ria, ss ie RAUACIAR: O&* e e e force be sent to rescue one hundred | ° so R Lieut. Farrell decided it was all too e ves ons ation mployees now on oll lands about #V-| ompiicated for him, #0 he had the| 1e 1 physicians jall'its forms, Ex-Lax has made \ A 10c box will prove its | Helps Digestion Keeps the Blood Pu Ex-Lax is a delicious chocolate laxative reco a mild yet pedtive remedy for c thousands has defined domestic] the many instead of for and by the| daughter with her grandmother for a|, WASHINGTON, April 27. — The Orders were received by servants as ‘our further selven|{e™; 40 they advance. And this will time, He paid her expensen, he nald, |J2banes® Ambusnador to-day sec! ured! Bliss to-day to move the 6,008 be just as true feeding people «x | |from Secretary Bryan pormission for|icans now held at Fort Bites, through which we work our wil it was of ‘making their shoes and, But when he wanted the child back | the Japanese who are in who| El Paso, to Fort Wingate, continued Mra, Burton-Smith, " coats.” this winter Mrs. ,Galway wouldn’t| wish to leave that c find Mexico, under guard of two can you blame any woman with re: —————— | surrender her until she received $800,|\temporary refuge in United panies of the Twelfth Cavalry, versonaily for retusing tot accen:! OIL MEN NEAR TAMPICO | Then ane rerretea tne cnita in an or- sapary 10: muapend | (anit agin tatias Cee such a role? Twent$-five years ago |phanage at Rockaway Heach, bring- the immigration | near the border, contending how often did a girl of good family WEED HELP 10 GET OUT) ing her home only a few weeks ago. the try of these) offered constant temptation te and education take up nursing as Mra. Galway, on the other hand, de- Pa- jher life work? Hardly ever, Then — clared that her daughter, dying, be- nursing became a science, and nurses | queathed the child to her, and said value—at all