The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1914, Page 3

}.\ TALSTODEATHOMT = STOR WOON +<Stumbles Over Low Sill, Evi- dently, Thinking It Door to Dining-Room. * JANITOR HEARS SCREAM. | Victim's Eyesight Destroyed ~ Ten Years Ago by Flame ie; From Bakery Oven. _ Mrs, Margaret Ballard, blind for the fast ten of her eighty years, fell , tarough @ window of her fourth- \\anory apartment at No. 306 West “One Hundred and Forty-seventh street to-day and was killed. Her , Geughter Bertha and a boarder , hed not risen when the old lady Plundered through the window, and they only learned of her death when the janitor, William R. Baggott, | after finding Mrs. Ballard’s body on the eidewalk, ran up to break the news of her death to them. i Always © light sleeper, Mrs. Bal- , lard was in the habit of rising before her daughter and starting the pre- Parations for breakfast. She made her way about the house, guiding herself by touching the walls and the furniture occasionally. In the , ball, next the dining room door is a window “With a sill only two feet { bove the floor. This window was r the old woman for whom it was night, the frame of the win- just have seemed like the frame oor. Always quick and seif- fident, her daughter believes she started forward with the belief that open door und the dining room before her. Hurrying forward, her knee struck the window sill and * whe pitched forward and fell through. * Baggott, who was at work in the * cellar, heardascream which stopped short when it had risen to its highest pitch. He ran up to the street and found the body of Mrs. Ballard lying on the sidewalk. Her head had 7 struck the tron railing which guarded ' the basement entrance and her skull had been crushed. The janitor hunted up Policeman and Dr. Kassabohn was Seed th an ambulance from Har- ae Hi tal. He could find no signa @ life in Mrs. Ballard'’s body. j Baggett, 18 soon as the am! ulance ‘Was su.;moned, ran up to the Hel- rise apartment. Miss Bertha Wal- i ame to the door, She is a auree and had intended to sleep late. . “Ig your mother out?” asked the itor. “Why, no,” Miss Ballard answered, ) “She is not up yet.” : @he went to her mother’s room, | found it empty and ran to the kitchen | and dining room. Then, almost over- vome by fright, she grasped the meaning of the open window and learned the truth from tho janitor. tH i t 1@ body was allow#@ to remain on ; ‘ng sidewalk covered with a cloth } until Coroner Feinberg ordered !t | taken to the Harlem Morgue, where ) Miss Ballard had to go to claim it. Mrs. Ballard was blinded ten years by a biast of flame from an oven im the bakery which she managed af- ter the death of her husband, sh took great pride in her ability to gel . gdbout her home and the neighborhood ‘without help. . 0 s FRIGHT IN WOMEN’S HOTEL. 4 im Fall to * Sieylight Adjoining Roef. A crash, which many women declared shook the hotel, startled everyone in ‘the Martha Washington Hotel to-day, and the secretary, Miss Reet rushed from the office in fright. skylight over her head had Goon Shattered revealing the body of '« Remar re tae Ne fn the hotel ‘There was almost a en from the Keys Bullding ad- tbe hotel in Fi avenue, ran to say that a window cleaner had rum bled Prom the ninetenth story. “De. ‘Williams was called Fi) New York Howital. and window had bee! eh ki Adolph u ltentha ‘avenue, an emp! ere ‘Window ‘Cleaning mpany. ——— ~ Taras the Tables om Husband. “Mra, Madeline M. Hottenstein, whose } husband, Henry K. Hottenstein, tried last March to divorce her, naming me t Wis Most intimate, friend, James , the corespondent, won a vies See se acinar ae, heals ne Med ‘ad band’s action and PRS her's week paration with $30 a alim irs. Hottenstein, a Seautieul Engtiah girl, accused her hus: band of cruelty and said that he was frequently intoxtcated. Dw Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer Criticizes Dress of New York Women Wage Earners as Lacking Taste and Suitability, Characterized by Sex Appeal. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Does the working girl know how to dress? are neat, inconspicuous, sensible?—three adjectives which are admittedly the acid test for a worker's wardrobe. Or does she still endeavor to fit an to conform to the attire: lower than ‘Dutch neck.’ Does she wear clothes that uptown costume to a downtown job? Out in Cleveland the other day the Library Board found {t necessary to set forth definite sartorial specif- cations for its women employees, and in a significant postacript every business woman in the city was advised same standard, Evidently the city of Cleveland is not entirely satisfied with the self-chosen costume of its feminine workers, Here is the prescribed “Simple watste, with lining or understips of sheer MHSAM MiMARsOLL materials. Sleeves below the elbows always; neck, never If without collar, ‘V’ necks or other low cute should not be worn without a guimpe or dickey. Skirts not too tight; if slit, the underskirt should be sufficiently long and appropriate. Hair should be arranged becomingly and si: dows. Cosmetics and perfumes barred. Very litle jewelry should be worn.” How many stenographers and tele- phone girls in New York dress in this fashion? On the other hand, how many girls does one see pouring out of downtown business hites who, with terrifying accuracy, reproduce the picture of the switchboard dam- sel in that clever play of Mra. Annie Nathan Meyer's, “The Dominant Sex?” Essence of tawdriness is Mrs. Meyer's Rose Malone: “Overdressed and vulgar; dyed hair arranged in tremendous pompadour, artificial, atiff curls behind; big, unsteady pic- ture hat, pretentious but of cheapest coarse, purple motoring veil arranged over hat; everything about her @ poor imitation of fashionable women; everything as unsuited as possible to the needs of a wage- ERAL IMPROVEMENT 18 NOTED. And when I asked the founder of Bernard College, who is one of the keenest analyata of her sex I know, {f, in the two years since the publica. tion of “The Dominant Sex," she had noted any general improvement in the Rose Malone type—she told me frankly that she hadn't. “The dress of the working girl of to-day ie absolu' ‘wreng on two counts,’ je insisted. “It ie characterized by inefficiency, it ie characterized by sex appeal. “Of course this ata true of all working wo have not found the neat, severely tailored, punctual, impersonal busi- neas woman, of whom we hear ao much, among the great mass of workers, What I have found has been the most glaring bad taste com- bined with an emphasis on sex which may sometimes be unconscious, but ts certainly not always eo,” Mrs. Meyer stopped and then began again with a little impatient thrust forward of her chin, “E have been described as the enemy of the working girl,” she said. “They have sald that I don't want her to have any pleasures, that I am opposed to her enjoyment of life. asa mild, its torres, Eales The Famous Chocolate Laxative - Relieves Constipation Helps Digestion “Keeps the Blood Pure Ex-Lax is a delicious chocolate laxative recommended by Luntid, ot paottive remed made thousands ha; velue——at 10c box will peeve ite y for constipation in tli Grugsiete It's not #0 at all. I love the women who have to work, individually and collectively, but I can't sentimental- ise about them. When they appear with painted faces and tawdry finery T can't sigh and say, ‘Ah, well, it's their suppressed yearning for the beautiful!’ What I would say to every girl who gave me the oppor- tunity is this: ‘Let me spend your Money for you. Let me show you how much nicer you can look for an outlay even smaller than that to which you are accustomed.’ WHEREIN THE DRESS EFFICIENT. “But please give me more det of your two counts of criti I led Mrs, Meyer back to our starting point. “You say that the dress of! the working girl is Inefficient. In what way?” “The clothes worn by many women in business offices are as incengruous as the velvets and eatine of the days of Queen Eliza- h would lor men,” al plied. “We know that Raleigh hi suit for which he paid $10,000. Do you eee the mod- ern business man in euch a cos- business uni- Why should not women evolve one? “At present the situation ts exactly as I described it in ‘The Dominant Sex.’ And she read to me the scuth- ing indictment of Rose Malone by her employer: “*You clog, you hamper yourself in every conceivable ind yet you want to be considered’ an effective bit of mechanism in the serious world of business. You put in more time wriggling into @ watst that buttons hindside foremost than in eating your breakfast, you spend more money on an utterly preposterous hat than on a month's luncheons. “You Hterally fight your way along the windy canyons of our streets, tripping, stumbling, with be- draggled skirts and eoaked ahoes and unsteady hat, while the cold eats into your marrow, because you change the cut of your coat so often you can’t afford a warm one, In one sense you are as underdreased as in another sense you are overdressed, There- fore, I tell you the average working- swirl, for all the wonders one hears of her, i# about the silliest proposition the world has struck yet,’ he matter of hats,” broke off. “What ie the firet thing the girl who goes IN; or en the crowds in the narrow etreets of the business section. Vet she se- which etick cy Inches beyend it. Can you tell me ef a greater triumph of ineffi- eloney?” “An@ you find sex appeal an equally prevalent fault of the work- ing-girl'e costume?” I asked. “I've aiwags belfeved that many girls con- FOLKS DOCTOR HERE 10 EXAMINE WM. ROCKEFELLER Interstate Commission Wants to Know if He’s Well Enough to Testify. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Whether William Rockefeller is physically able to testify before the Interstate Com- merce Commission in the Now Haven |inqutry will be definitely decided this afternoon, when a special @xaminer appointed by Counsel Folk and the |Interstate Commerce Commission meets Mr, Rockefeller in New York to ascertain his physical condition. | If the examiner reports Rockefeller | able to teatity the commission will at {once issue a subpoena for him. Charles W. Morse has asked to tes- tity regarding his connection with the New Haven, but the commission is undecided about giving him the chance, = a GEN. C. T. M’DOUGALL DIES. ot Un Civil War. AUBURN, N. ¥., May %.—Gen. Clin- ton Dugald McDougall, who had been seriously tll in Paris, died yesterday. Information to this effect was received here to-day, and it was added that ti funeral will be held in Auburn late June, and tl the burial will be in the Arlington tional Cemetery, near ‘Washington. Gen. McDougall was one of the young- ent generals of the civil war, and was praised for his services at the battle of Gettysburg. He was wounded five times and had six horses shot under born in Scotland in 1839, hi ra Cy sidered the ther rather than the appreciative eye of an employer when they donned collarless blousea with elbow sleeves,” “The exposure of the skin is tra- ditionally connected with the ball- room, the social marriage market,” Mrs, Meyer asserted firmly. “When the girl uptown wears conspicuously pretty clothes she ig at leaet frank. She practically says to the "'m ing my- self attractive; come and look at me and marry me if you like” A man ie free to accept or decline thie tacit invitation. But the ecoquettishly dressed girl in the business office has skulked into the men's world flying a flag of truce and yet planning to fight the old eternal sex battle, “To me ive just a part of the so- called new woman's general attitud concluded Mra. Meyer. “She wants to keep all her old privileges while acquiring a lot of new ones, She elamora for equality with men, and yet alte hasn't an idea of what that state would really mean. She ian't straight and she doesn't play the DRESSED Live That ? ae —t MORTON F. PLANT, MAN OF MILLIONS, TO MARRY AGAIN _>— Engagement of Widower of 62 to Mrs, Manwaring, 34, Is Announced, ‘The engagement of Morton F. Plant of Groton, Conn., whose great railroad and shipping enterprises have made for him a fortune estimated at $50,000,000, to marry the former wife of Selden H. Manwaring of Water- ford, Conn., was announced to friends of Mr. Plant in this city to-day, Mr. Plant ts sixty-two years old and Mrs. Manwaring ts thirty-one. The first wife of Mr. Plant died of typhoid fever early in August a year ago. For that reason Mr. Plant, in announcing his engagement, has made {t known that the wedding will be deferred until next August or later, Brantford House, the palace at Eastern Point, Groton, which Mr. Plant built at a cost of $2,000,000 twenty years ago, has recently been taken in hand by builders and dec- orators and preparations have been made for a series of elabori enter- tainments. Mrs. Manwaring, who obtained a divorce in April of this year, is now living at the home of her mother, Mrs, Rowena Caldwell, in Hartfoi Both mother and daughter were here last week at the Vanderbilt Hotel, where Mr. Plant was also a guest, and they were much seen together, schesl at Waterford, Conn., he w town school commissioner. He is @ member of the Democratic State Central Committee and has hotel at Oswegatchie. Mra. Manwa: ing with the decree obtained the efstody of her son, Philip Morgan Manwaring, who is twelve years old. . Manwaring has participated in eas deals with Plant and their relations before 1 since the divorce have been friendly. Mr, Plant has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in Eastern Con- necticut in the public interest, He has built hotels, extended trolley Ines and laid out many miles of roads and has puilt churches and given basebal grounds and athletic flelds ty various village. He is the owner of the Griswold Hotel at Eastern point, which cost a million dollars; he tried to obtain the alte of the| burned Pequot House in New Lon- don, but gave up the project when the mention of his name as a prob- able purchaser sent the price up $50,000. Mr. Plant recently bought the New London Telegraph, and is erecting a five-story building from which it ip to be published. He js an enthusiastic yachtaman. His yacht, the Elena, was in the lead in the racing for’ the Rear Commodore Cup on the cruise of the New York Yacht Club last year at the time of Mrs. Plant's death. The boat wan at once withdrawn and or- dered out of commission, > Dr. Bverete Hi ‘Widow Dies, BOSTON, May 2%.—Mrs, Emily Bald, win Perkins Hale, widow of the late Rey. Everett Hale, ia dead at her Brook- Une oe a ta of cighiy four earl ir. re ere I Wintard San, is tae” 1 WHO SERVE AS MAYOR OF ROME Leading Masons and Delega- tions of Anti-Catholic Socie- ties Met Ernesto Nathan. ENVOY FROM THE KING. Will Represent Italy at the Panama Exposition in San Francisco. ‘The arrival in New York to-day pt | Brnesto Nathan, former Mayor of Rome, was the occasion of a big dem- onatration on the pier of the Italian line at the foot of West Thirty-fourth street. Mr. Nathan, a Jew born in Fneland, wae elected Mayor of Rome on an anti-Catholic platform in 1907 and served in office until about four months agg, when he resigned, King Victor Emmanuel appointed him a special commissioner to repre- sent the tntereste of Italy in this country at the Panama-Pacific Expoal- tion, He came from Naplea on the ner Stampalia and left this afternoon for Washington to pay his respecta| — to President Wilson. Returning to New York, he will ca on the Mayor and then go to San Francisco to eu- perintend the construction of the Italian cilla, A special tug bearing delegates from leading Masonic lodges met the Stampalia at Quarantine. Among those in the delegation were Town- send Soudder, Judson Kenworthy, Thomas Kenney, William F, Farmer, Arthur Tompkins, William H. Miller, William Scherer, Henry Lippman and ‘William Hartfield. Mr, Nathan ts the leading Mason of Italy and one of the leading members of the order in Europe, At the pler there was an im- mense crowd of ex-Romans and dele- gations from anti-Catholic soctette: The Junior Order of American chanics, the Italian National Bible As- sociation, and the Italian Methodists were a fow of the organizations represented. As the Stampalia docked a crowd made a rush for the gangplank and almost oreated a panic in an effort to get aboard. For a time the creak- ing gangplank gave the graveat con- cern to the officers of the Italian Line, who feared a repetition of the gang- plank disaster on the Scandinavian- American Line pier in Hoboken last Friday. Dock Commissioner R. A. C, Smith, resenting Mayor Mitchel, met Mr. han and bade him welcome, Mr. han, a shrewd and very capable gentleman, said he had warned against New York reporte! “Until I know you better,” he sat ‘T must refuse to talk. I will sa that Italy will be well represented the San Francisco fair. Her exh will be one of the finest.” Mr. Nathan carries papers giving him the rank of minister plenipoten- tlary. He has a roving commission and is to follow his best judgment in looking after Italian interests in con- nection with the exposition, ao ANTIS CITE FREE LOVE IDEAS OF SUFFRAGISTS Give Quotations From Votes for Women Advocates in Proof of Charge. WASHINGTON, May 26.—Suffra- gettes really favor free love, accord- Ing to a bulletin iagued to-day by the National Association Opposed to ‘Woman Suffrage. Brief quotations, gaid to have been compiled from the remarks of leading suffrage advo- cates, are cited in support of the dec- laration, as follows EDNA KENTON—Nothing Invented of man has ever had a more atultifying effect on the character and morals of women and men than the Christian ideal which St, Paul laid down for women, JANE OLCOTT—A man or woman should be free to give love whenever it fs natural, Love t# volatile, and when it goes I belleve It is unmoral for man and wife even to appear to live together except for the sake of their children. Each should be free to bestow love elsewhere by mutual agreement, MARIE JENNEY HOWE—We are sick of being spectalized to sex We do not put any fence around man, We merely want to take down ‘he fence that has been put around us, INEZ MILHOLLANL BOISEVANT —Wedding rings are relics of barbar- fam, They are the relica of the day when w chattels, [ should feel like a ali instead of a free woman if I were to wear a wed- ding ring. it 3 CEYLON TEA White Rese Coffee, Only 35c.0 Pound the Italian Presbyterians . HERE AS ENVOY or THE KING OF ITALY. OOOPO8G-059-006-009-6-60406006 | TO CHEAT Pietro Rebacci, \ Westd Black Hander, Seven’ Without Food.» In a frantic effort to at death In the electric chat! | Rebacci, known aa the mt of Weatchester County, star hin eighth day of a hu which he bopes will kill the time comes for the journey, ttle green door from the in Bing Sing. The date of bia 6 ficiala say that if he persiate. refusal to eat forcible feeding 7 eed in order that the law. carried out. os Rebacci was convicted of the der of Tony Marro in White It was proved that he was Hand operator of vicious ty head of a gang which is sald killed at least six of their ones trymen In Westchester execution was set for last Jammy but from hie cell in the death4 he managed a campaign whieh him an additional span of life 4 went word to District-Attorney erick EB. Weeks and Sheriff that he had e confession to that it would uncover a orimes, wove an int of the murder of an Italian had been used by the Black Hi to lure victims to a saloon om) Tarrytown road. He deseribed place where the bones of the @ would be found. The whole confession Gown and found to be ut SPDDHHOAHDEM She’s on ‘Force,’ But Afraid to Go Home in the Dark CHICAGO, May Mra. Mary O'Connell, @ policewoman, ts afraid to go home In the dark, and to-day asked to have a policeman detailed to escort her home after finishing her detail. Mrs, O'Connell is stationed at a railroad depot. She sald to-day she had been ask- ing patrolmen to walk home with her lately. —_—_ Loses His Job, Ends Hie Lite, Harvey Owen, fifty-five years old, of No. 2 Grove street, Kast Ruther- ford, N. J., was found dead to-day in @ shed in the rear of his home. we out his throat pF a 5 3 lon hia job as tel operator STERN BROTHERS 42d and 43d Streets, West of Fifth Avenue Are preparing to hold on Thursday and Friday an Extraordinary Sale of Men’s and Young Men’s Clothing, Men’s Furnishings, Men’s Underwear and Hosiery Men’s Hats and Shoes, At Very Exceptional Prices Details will be published in Wednesday's evening papers. 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