The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1914, Page 3

‘WOMEN AND CHILDREN PE K {IN JAIL YARD AND THREATENED WITH DEATH BY MEXICANS | Gen. Maas Promises cen Cand Cea to Order Release of 85 Americans and Others Now Held at Cordoba—Refugee Tells of Their Distress. " ERA CRUZ, April 28—Sleeping on the stone flagging of the jail! Patio, with insuffictent food, no sanitation and threatened every night with @esessination by drunken jailers, ts the experience of the Americans and other foreigners, including women and children, confined at Cordoba. Their _ Felease to-day has been promised by Gen. Maas in reply to a request from ‘American Consul Canada, through messenger who returned to Vera Crus day. ‘W. H. Mechling of the geological eurvby of Canada, who has been | fer some time in Mexico in behalf of the universities of Harvard, Penn- eyivania and Columbia, spent two days at Cordoba. He was detained but not put in jail and finally was permitted to proceed here as an English- man, though he is in reality an American. Mechling went to the jail in Cordoba Sunday afternoon and talked to ihe prisoners, among whom are several he is acquainted with. They begged Bim to communicate their plight to Consul Canada and Rear-Admiral Pietoher in an endeavor to secure their release, The prisoners aro herded like cattle and are jeered almost constantly @ither by the keepers or the Mexican inmates of the jail. They are per- initted to have food and drink only when the whim suits the jailers and ere kept in a state of terror by frequent threats of death. Among the prisoners is a young American woman with e four-months- old infant. There are several othor women and children, and the total number of all nationalities, according to Mechling, is eighty-five. One of the imprisoned men is Supt. Emery of the Vista Hermosa Sugar plantation of Vera Cruz State, who entertained John Lind, President Wil- “@ons’ representative, a few months ago. . Mechling says there are eighty-sevep persons, chiefly Americans, held ft Tuxtepec, State of Vera Cruz, from surrounding plantations, and that Consular Agent Wite is in jail at El Hule near Tuxtepec, Mechling left Tuxtepec 'ast Wednesday with a pass, giving an assumed name and his nationality as British. An excited crowd of Mexicans sur- rounded the train and it was with difficulty that he persuaded them to allow him to board. At El Burro another mob searched the train and robbed him of all but two bills which he had hidden in his shoe, At Tierra Blanca fourteen whites and thirty-two negroes were brought aboard the train. A howling mob met the train at Cordoba and shouted insults at the Americans. The crowd surrounded the jail long after the doors had closed on the prisoners. E. B, Weems, a sugar plantation owner who was previously held at Cordoba, escaped by descending the river in a launch to Alvarado. arrived safely in Vera Cruz and sailed for the United States yesterday on the steamer Mexico. | strength is 800. Particular attention NAVAL MILITIA” sites EXPECTS A CALL |e iikely: to come trom Washington TO MAN GUNBOATS ..s0s.nescemres 2 vistoned and prepared for service in Mexico depends largely on the number of available seamen at the Navy Yard. At the yard this morning no official would admit there were sailors enough on the receiving ship to make up three ing {ts full war strength. There are enlisted now 425 men. days and he is confident he can en- Isla de Luzon, Machias and ‘ full crews, Marietta to Go Into The full complement for the ships ts ins bout 150 men. ‘Their largest guns are Commission. our inches, a callbre the naval re- serves are thoroughly familiar with. Both battalions of the reserves have been assigned time and again to the! three gunboats in short practice) cruises and know every inch of the; small fighting craft At division headquarters of the National Guard in the Munici- pal Building the members of Gen. O'Ryan's staff were receiving reports from various regimental commanders throughout the State. Progress in re- cruiting has been rapid, it was papel the number of men enlisting vice in the upper part of the State being far ahead of New York Naval militiamen in the city were fubilant to-day over the possibility of being called ahead of the National Guard for active service in the event of the failure of mediation negotia- tions. A rumor that the naval re- serves in the two battalions in this clty were likely to be assigned to “eomplete the crews of three gunboats about to go in commission at the| ~ Navy Yard was persistent both in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Commander Russel Raynor, head of the First Battalion in this bor- ough, and Commander Charles 0. Brinkerhoff of the Second Naval Bat- * talion, Brooklyn, denied they had re- ceived any orders from the Navy Department. Both made it clear, however, that their commands are fit to report for active service at cit Cn. ‘Walter B. Hotchkin, command- ing the Twenty-second Regiment of Engineers, reported to-day that steady recruiting in the last week has brought the strength of the regi- ment up to 825 trained engineer The heads of the State Guard are) watching this regiment closely since | {t would be the first to be ordered out should there be a call for volunteers. Col. Willlam G. Bates of the Sev- cuty-first Regiment reported this morning that twenty-five recruits had been sworn in in the last three days, The fighting strength of the regiment 1s now 925. He expects to raise it to 1,000 before Saturday night. ——>— SAILORS AND MARINES AT SIGHT PRACTICE AHEAD OF DRILLING Instead of taking the btuejackets rete First Battalion,” satd Com- mander Raynor this morning, “is ready to go on duty on any ship in the Navy from a gunboat to a super- dreadnaught within twelve hours.” ‘The three gunboats being prepared for possible service in the shallow rivers along the Mexican waterfront are the Isla‘de Luzon, « relic of the He} The war! mander Brinkerhoff in the last few | My OLE WE? 1s mTRe i} “With Trained Service in Her Kitchen and in Her Nursery, the Idle Wife Has No Creative Work to Occupy Her Brain and the Result Is Folly andUnhappiness,’’ Says the Author. “Often She Comes to Be lieve That Her Marriage Is at Fault and She Smashes It Up, or She Goes In for Silly Fads and Dissipation or Per- suades Herself She Ie ml.” alcohol. iy Hiss re eT mAR SHALL | not yet openly broken away. “at that moment of the otherwise pleasant afternoon, nine women hid the excellent furniture of the ait- ting room. They were harmless and dull. One would never have dreamt, from looking at five of them, that they had gone through the divine jand elemental terrors of bringing | children into the world; that they had faced and surrendered wholly to the mystery of life the process that has fretted the heavens with stars and earth with creative creatures; | that they had once had a youth over- running with possibilities. Massage had rubbed off the kisses of love, and layers of fat buried the dreams. | LIKE THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA. “There they sat, plain and hand- some, tall and short, fat and thin, intensifying the atmosphere of the sitting room with such stupidity that Anne felt that she was in the Black Hole of Calcutta. She felt like rising and shrieking: ‘Give me air! I'm fling!" “Still crammed, many of them with heavy lunch, they now were ready to partake of chocolate and French pastry. Devitalized by food and inertia, they yet were ready to talk away a solid hour. And no rellef was in sight.” “The Idle Wife,” Mr. Oppenheim told me, “ie a characteristic Amer- ican phenomenon. She is by no means confined to New York soci- Spanish-American war, and the gun- boats Machias and Marietta. The latter two have been in service with the naval reserve—the Marietta at Hoboken and the Machias in Con- necticut. The Machias was brought down from Hartford on Sunday, manned by a crew of Connecticut paval reserves. “ne First Naval Battalion has been recruiting to full war strength for the in, last week. Their headquarters on the :@ranite State at the foot of West Ninety-seventh street has been open every evening this week for the ex- amination of recruits. There are eight companies with a total of 650 men. As the war strength of the bat- talion is only 700, the physical tests have been more than ordinarily strict, Commander Raynor said this morn- ing he would recruit the other fifty men before the end of the week, how- ever. ‘The Second Naval Battalion, which { makes its home at the foot of Fifty- i Sret street, Brooklyn, still bas several A ae ety. | doubt if she is to be found on the farm, but certainly she ie represented in every small town, In every group of well-to-do American fami . With trained tervice in her kitchen and in her nureery she no creative work to occupy her hands and brain. And the result is folly and un- and marines of the battleship Texas to the Prospect Park Parade Ground to-day for foot drill and the manual of arms, as had been intended, the men were put through several hours of “dot sighting practice” at the yard. Lieut.-Commander J. W. Timmins, who was in command of the detail, decided that the men of the ship needed target work more than drill-| happiness. iy cy th African The big battleship Wyoming went| “It just as thet Sou _Afrioan into Dry-Dock No. 3 to-day for scrap-| woman, Olive Schreiner, say: ing and painting, while work went on above and below decks. ‘The gunboats Marietta and Machias have received their stores, will have all their powder aboard by nightfall and will sail for Vera Cruz at the end of the week. The Isla de Luzon, a memento of the Spanish war, will be ready to steam for Mexican waters in about three weeks. The fleet cruiser Washington has finished her coaling and will gail at 10 o'clock to-morrow. morning for Norfolk. Thence she will to Port) Royal, 8. C., » oe the remainder of an’s old field of industry in the home has been closed to her, Once she found herself not merely in sex-ex- preasion, love for her mate and her children, but in secondary sex-expres- sion, ‘.e many important duties of the housewife and the mother, Now, as quickly as he can, the American hus- band takes these duties away from her. He wants to give her comfort and ease, to remove every possible item of the burden of a woman's crew, or ing the men| “And does he make her happy?” will to Vera Cruz. of the Quickly Mr. Oppenheim picked up his ‘Texas had prorinen of tue book and turned to the chapter of the marian Pre Ra nedporinn bermesn, —ene-petenied kas husband. If to addition abe By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. The idle wife: a lifeless specimen of womanhood preserved in social There you have James Oppenheim’s epigramatio definition of the Amert- can woman whom none of us has quite succeeded in forgetting aince we first met her in the pitiless pases of the late David Graham Phillips. Story” etched her in acid, a it has shown through every flowery compliment since. Now comes Mr. Oppenheim, author of several novels, with his latest tale, “Idle Wives,” a thoughtful, sympa- thetic study of the woman who “has gverything” with- out either tolling or spinning for it, the overfed, under- worked wife of the prosperous American, There is a vivid presentation of the type tn the novellst’s description of # tea given by Anne Wall, his heroine, to the wives and daughters of her husband's business associates, Anne herself 1s al- ready in revolt against the weary staleness of her world, although she has “The Husband's ain so permanent that Anne and her husband. He read aloud Anne's impassioned protest: “You began to succeed—and you took everything worth while out of my hands. You took away my work; you took away the flerce need that had called me; you took away my chiid, even, and put him in trained hands; you took yourself away; you took away danger and risk and terror and worry. You stripped me and left me naked, What is there left to me? I'm dead, I have been dead a long time—for I have neither work nor love,” Mr. Oppenheim's voice was quiet, but his brown eyes held a subdued glow. They are the eyes of a dreamer, wet deep and wide apart, but there is & suggestion of something rugged in the moulding of his lower jaw and in his rather thick-set frame, If one didn't know his occupation one might pick him for efther a poet or a worker In metal, MAY NOT BE CONSCIOUSLY DISSATISFIED, “But do you really feel that the {dle wife is so dissatisfied with her state?” I asked as he paused, for I've never happened to discover a drone with any passionate de- sire to become a working bee. “The idle wife is perhaps not » Oppenheim acknowl- “But she is conscious that something is wrong. She is un- happy, dissatisfied, bored. Often the comes to believe that her marriage ie at fault, and so she mashes it up. -Or she go @ lot of silly fads and dissipa- tions. Or she persuades herself that she is ill, | am convinced that much of the bad health of the modern woman is due to the fact that she hasn't enough to do, “I myself know a woman with plenty of money and no special occu- pation whose frequent illnesses I have always felt to be the result of idleness, She has no way of occupy- ing her time, she wants the sym- pathy of her friends—so she goes to bed and announces that she is {il."" Then I outlined for Mr. Oppenheim @ point of view which was presented | to me several weeks ago by a con-| He ar- | servative American husband, gued that the wife “in easy circum- stances" had enough to do If she su-| perintended the operations of her several servants, attended to her ob- Hgations of hospitality and made her- welf the comforter and confidante of | abe ta ' hae Idle Wives, ‘‘Preserved in Social Alcohol, ”’ Are “Lifeless Specimens,’’ Says Oppenheina| HEADS VOLUNTEER IDLE wire “A LIFELESS SPECIMEN PRESERVED IN JAMES OPPENHEIM er @ child or two her hours must be| filled to the brim. “But not any of that work will Liss full expression to her creat ener- By,” objected the novelist. “She will be doing something every minute, but she won't feel that she’ expression to a nor- She le in- seven. And if she turns all her unexpended energy into loving her husband will atitfe him. No one t. I think we are coming to see that the wife must have her Job, eo without work love If is in danger. here is the argument that the earn her own living,” I submitted, a right to do it,” h verred, are s0 many incompete: “As for the America hushand's educated out of tt ist, with emphasii begun, despite the blustering of the chivalrous gentlemen that scrubbing floors is wifely work, but not running a typewriter, ALLEGED HOTEL ROBBER DOES POETRY IN COURT Talented Prisoner Also Draws Pic- | tures of Jurors and Prose- cuting Attorneys, On trial before Judge Wadhams and a jury in General @easions charged with the theft of $400 woxth of Jewelry and money from the apart ment of Prof, Frank White in the Park Avenue Hotel on Feb. 10, “Fred Landor” spends his time draw jing sketches of the court-room and portraits of the Judge and members of the jury. Besides making the | drawings “Lander” has written a or more poems which he |has dedicated to his counsel members of the District-Attorney's staff who are prosecuting him. “Landor" ts a mysterious prisoner, He is tall, with military bearing, He admitted to Judge Wadhams lost evening that his real name ts ( ay von Danwitz, and he is of a wealthy German family I » and his wife positively Identify Von Danwitz as the they saw ransacking bureau dra in their apartment in the tel o'clock on the morning of Fel | When she saw her pocketbook in the burglar's hands she serear i) WraaY, left by a window and al ving ti he score and wle HN win several ry from the Whit Investigation showed that the ro: jwith he open window was occup: Von Danwitz, whe roxist + the hotel two days previousl Fred Landor” of Albany. some of {the Jewelry stolen from the Whites was found in “Landor’s" room, His | arrest followed, He denies his guil and asserts that a “horrible mistake’ bean made, The | really ' Baby Who Runs From Mother in | | married woman whose husband can| Waa necessary to summon a fire en- support her ehould not take the joh| gine to get the of the unmarried woman who must| ¢orward trucks of the car, But Mr. Oppenheim had what seema/®'Ticken parents aummoned physt: | nor Wilson's wedding, Mrs. Wilson to me a quite logical answer. |elans, but all agreed that the child's| would have had time to take a more “Any person who in do @ job has life had been crushed out when she ve part in Red Cross affairs, of “There | was struck. disgust at the notion of his wife as a| witnesses waxe-earner—well, he must simply be them to finiahed the novel- | cage hefore And the educational process has|!f warrants should be tasued. bolleve | Watkins avent | ane eg iae od Ng % i 4 nuke : PRESIDENTS WIFE pe HUSBAND WHO TAKES The. URAL BUSIVESS AWAY FROM WIFE IS SmoTHERED Ww KOR tasiee Fo TENTION ano net CANT WEEP Pace witH “ee RED CROSS CORPS Women of the Cabinet Enlist to Give Aid to Suffering if War Comes, NEGLECT SOCIAL DUTY. Teas and Receptions Aban- doned in Favor of Work of Preparing Supplies. “ON CURD Can KEEP ANY WOMAN Busy" WASHINGTON, April 98.—Headed by the first Indy of the land, Mre. ‘Woodrow Wilson, wives of cabinet members and army officers to-day are busy in the work of preparing to Drovide add for the wounded as well as sick and destitute non-combatants in case hostilities get under way with Mexico, Among the fret volunteers for Red Cross service wan Mrs. Wilson. Others were Mrs, Bryan, wife of the cabinet premier; Mre, Gerrieon, wife of the War Secretary, and Mrs. Daniela, wife of the Secretary of the Navy. Miss McAdoo and Miss Burleson are other volunteers. All are “playing private.” ‘They hold no offices, adorn no titles, wear no gold ince, but are in the ranks. Collection of hospital supplier, food, Yelothing, and money for the Red Cross wit in the special detail of the fem- itine army of merty. Mra, Breckenridge, wife of the As- sistant Secretary of War, and Mrs. William Crosier, wife of Gen. Crozier, chlet of ordnance, are the non-com- misstoned officers, Mise Mabel Beard- man, head of the Red Cross, is their general. The Cabinet women are mem. |bera of the aupply committee of the local Red Cross chapter. ' After col- lecting supplies they will have charge {CHILD, 2, KILLED BY CAR AS SHE CROSSES STREET detention camps. Many contributions have already been received by the Cabinet women. They attend semt-weekly committee meetings, If war is declared they doubtlens will see real war service, al- though far removed from the battle. wrounds. As counsellors the Cabinet women are also active and powerful. Mra. Wilson ta known to be the close con- fidante of her husband, even in many important political affairs, Mrs, Bryan {s also reported to have given much assistance to the Secre- began to call, and Eveline, hearing and fearing ale would be carried back|“Smpalan. She was constantly in his \office during the national convention Play Meets Death in Front of Father's Store. While Herbert Science and his wife were busy in their stationery store at No, 8712 Thirteenth avenue, Borough Park, Brooklyn, to-day their two- year-old daughter, Eveline, eluded them and toddled out onto the alde- Into tho store, atarted acros# the/ayne, Another small but not untm- besa |portant part Mrs. Bryan has played Sho ran directly In front of an east-|has been to put up lunches for her hound Chureh avenue car, which husband to carry to his office since the Maxican situation became acute. Her has also answered many tele- ne calls in the dead of night at the un home, indicating she has been ‘on the job” at all hou Except for the plans | knocked her down and killed her, It little body from the | F The griet- r Miss Elea- organization her husband ts the But all members of the re aweeping aside teas, and dinners for serious Patrolman Meyer gathered several f the accident and took yush Court to lay the Magistrate Nash and ask ‘The motorman, Henry Helsberg of No, 596, . says he made every receptions work. any for Fire Commissioner Adamson to-day Issued an order atving all firemen who are members of Abraham Lincoln Camp, \spantah war veterans, a holiday May |20 xo that they may parade with the organization, ‘The Fire Department brass band af seventy-two pleces will be indered to tend the camp in the parade. effort to stop the car as soon as he child leave the curb, saw the April 28. eotion of the Roosevelt ex Gi Gets Bad Fall, arrived here to-day, Gol, | Rosa German, axe seventeen, fell trom Ie capected, to bein. the {the xecond-story of her home, No, 2862 ! cemorrow, \Kighth avenue to-day while ha or to-morrow. | Dit clothes She waa taken to Hi of Amazonas | fogpital where It waa said her skull meet him ably fractured, RIO The second pedition Rooxevelt os Acker, Merrall & Condit Company ~ EST. 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Gillette, her second husband, Stanley have come to @ parting of the though they have been marired bul year, was revealed to-day in the Ou Preme Court when Justice awarded Mrs. Philps $13 week mony in her separation suit, Philps blames « certain Prof. Whit, ter, formerly of the faculty of fret College, Conn., for most of trouble tn bis family, and Mrs, says that ber husband ie because he found when he her that she did not inherit as money from Dr. Gillette's estate thought she did. Aa for Prof. Whittier, Mra, saya: “This charge is bepente in view of ‘he mera am old enough to be Prof, mother. It ts to be regretted, that my husband should pict Prof. Whittier, whose lips are since he died in August of last In explaining ao visit of Pret. tier to the Philpé home, Mrs. @aye that on that occasion her band and her sons and their chums were in the house, ‘4 Whittier bad come all the way Seam Mexico and was on his way to Bape ton when he dropped in for @ vist Mra. 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