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

+ r | ' SALVATIONARMY’S | Newport Elite NAN FAL WORK ~ AOR BURGLAR Hired for Duty in the Annex, | He Tried Safe-Cracking With Ill Success. DROPPED BIG JIMMY. Scared Pal and Himself Half to Death—Then He Engi- neered a Coup. ‘With all the caution and notse-| leseness of a wooden-legged man having @ fit on a tin roof, William Albert Scopes, who came here only five weeks ago from his home tn Lon- Gon, tried to get into the safe in a Galvation Army annex in West Thir- teenth street and wound up in Jefter- | @on Market police court to-day. It) ‘was his carelessness with a jimmy that undid him. A short time ago Scopes got a job @s man-of-all-work in the Annex, which is in charge of Adj@tant Louls J. Larkin. After he had looked over the place he decided that it might yield something if properly burgiar- fged, eo he got hold of his friend, Marry Dolding, with whom he lived at No. 225 Bowery, and the plan was made. Aa it was Scope's duty to see that the house was closed for the night, Re saw to it on Thursday night that a year window was left unfastened, and @ little before midnight he and Dold- '« ing crept into the place and started the burgling. First they opened sev- @ral trunks in the house and as these were profitiess to them, they bent their efforts upon the big safe in the) Office. They took their time because the house is unoccupied at night. NOT FIRST CLA8S WITH A JIMMY. Everything went well until Scopes began the jimmy work. It was a big Simmy and Scopes let it drop. It) fell to the floor with a clang that fairly shook the house. It certainly @hook all the courage out of Dolding. | “Ba! beat it," he hissed in * Beopes's car. “You could hear that uf on Broadway. I'm going.” “Aw, me eyé!” Scopes replied with fine scorn. ‘They'll think it's a @bureh bell. Come on; give us a ‘and.” But Dolding wasn’t giving any Bands just then. All he had were feet, and he was giving them to him- eeif. In his own words, he beat 3. Bcopes went back to work on the safe. But somehow or other he couldn't get the clangorous ring of the jimmy oat of his mind. It had been a mighty noise. Finally he became frightened, Qnd with fertile brain set about de- vising escape from a predicament. He 4iGn't dare go out of the bullding, so be bit himself in the mouth with his fist, raising & big lump, and then ted himeelf with =trips torn from the office curtains. WAITED ALL NIGHT TO BE DISCOVERED. Nor was this all. He had a great eye for the dramatic effect of the nit- uation, so he put his head in a waste- basket and lay down on the with a gag in his mouth. And he waited there from midnight ‘tll halt nine on Friday morning, when jt. Larkin came in and found the faithful servitor, who had foiled attempts of a gang to open the safe, bound and exhausted on the floor. Larkin took pity on him and sent to Bt. Vincent's Hospital for an am- bulance. When Dr. Fuccic finished Dis ministrations he assured the Sal- vation Army people that Scopes would be all right in a little while. Whereupon Scopes looked at the cetling and gave another plaintive moan, The “burglars” had certainly used ‘im ‘ard. Then the police bad their innings. Detectives Campbell and Kelly of the Charles street station took ona look at the gag, the wastebasket and the torn curtain and then another at Bcopes. After that they led him away to the station. At the end of four hours Scopes had told the whole story, not forgetting the jimmy incident and Dolding, and piloted the detec tives to the Bowery, where they found Dolding this morning. ‘The Salvation Army annex flasco, the police have been told, was not Beopes’ only bad adventure in this neighborhood. ‘Two «men wero ar- rested early to-day with a heavy load of plumbing fixtures, which they sald had been stolen from an un finished factory at Corona L, They also sald that Scopes had en- gineered the robbery. SHOOTS WOMAN AND SELF, Wife's Rel WII Recover, but | Man Will Die. Annoyed by the continual reproaches of Mra, Carmella Aifide, with whom he boarded at No. #315 Fourth avenue, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, Pasquale Venditt!| shot her twice to-day and then fired | two bullets into his own head. He is dying in Norwegian Howpital but the woman will recover. Venditt! came to New York throe months ago, leaving his wife ond sey- eral children in Italy. Ho went to board with Mrs, Alfide, who is ffty- ol years old and a relative of his wife, Mra Alfide, according te her \ own story, kept nagging Venditts to gone fer bis Wife and children, . . , “THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, Aboard the Water Wa At Novel Chinese Dinner and Dance Men Wore Gay-Colored Garments, Their Padded Silk Shirts Flapping Outside of Their Baggy, Silken Trousers, the Pigtails Being the Hard- est to Manage. Oriental Dinner Given by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Was No Chop Suey Af- fair, but a Regular Meal —The Dance at Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont’s Tea- house Was a Wonderful Event. )Spectal to The Evening World.) NEWPORT, R. 1, July 25—The Belmont-Fish combination Chinese dinner and ball last night was notable in the history of Newport society functions because it was 6o different. For instance There was less wine drank than ever before in Newport at such a large function. The gu absorbed an ami ing quantity of mineral and table waters and lemonade. The ball at Mrs. Oliver B mont’s began to break up at 1 o'clock this morning, At 3°o'clock all the guests were at their homes or ,homeward bound and Marble House wae dark. Not a quest went to Bi Beach for the time-honored merning dip in the ocean. Not a 5 o'clock breakfast was served. Every automobile and carriage in Newport was housed and every chauffeur, coachman and footman was asleep before 4 o'clock in the morning. The morning attendance at the Casino to-day was the largest ever known following a big or dinner. All the young men of the so- cially elect circle were in evidence before 10 o'clockethis morning, But watt—the real season opens in August. It was rather hot last night but ley'e rly there was not much discomfort at Mrs. Fish's dinner. It was a regular din- ner, too, and no chop suey layout. And besides, Mrs. Belmont was there with ber daughter, the Duchess of Marlborough. And there was the Duke of Manchester, who arrived ves- terday with Col. Charles Hayden and C. De Flores of New York, on the former's yacht, Sovereign. BALL AFTER THE DINNER THE BIG EVENT OF THE EVENING, When the dinner wae over every one gathered up the flowered robes and, tucking the loose ends of pig- tails out of harm's way, pattered over to Mrs. Belmont’s Marble House for the ball. Thix was the big event of the evening, being In the nature of a housewarming and dance in the new Chinese teubouse which was opaned a week ago. When the dance started the men had pretty well recovered from their Krouches occasioned by being forced to wear such absurd pajama-like clothing #ad the inconvenient and humiliating pigtails. The —womer n | Were garbed wonderfully, all the vari- colored arts of the Orient having been drawn upon for gay and unique ideas in perfectly proper Pekingese dress. Nobody in the teahouse ever had danced in Chinese costume be- foro and it was lots of fun—for a while, Then the heat of the night began to assert itself, The dancers twitched and fretted and wondered anxiously where these confounded Chinese cos- tumes had come from—Pell street or Mott street? To make matters worse for the men, their pigtails began to | slip thelr moorings. This was partic- ularly true of the stout sufferers with bald heads, Whatever was used to stick on the little mops forming the roots of the pigtails began to lose heart, CARE OF PIGTAILS A MATTER OF MOMENT. Tho dancers swirled and dipped and every now and then an alert China- man in disguise pawed frantically with his free hand to keep hie pigtail fon sliding off and being crushed to the danocars’ feet, Aft 1 KING STILL BUSY PLANNING PEACE ON IRISH HOME RULE Confers With Asquith on Ul- ster, While Nationalists Prepare for Caucus. LONDON, July 25.—Since the fail- ure of the conference on the Ulster situation between the leaders of the various political parties at Bucking- ham Palace, politicians have turned their attention to the next step to he taken in the Home Rule controversy. Premier Asquith and the other mem- bers of the Cabinet remained in town for the greater part of to-day and several communications passed be- tween King George and the Premier, but no meetings were held It {a understood that much depends on the result of the meeting of the Irish National party on Monday, when the Irish members of Parlia- ment will decide what attitude they are going to adopt toward the bill to amend the Irish Home Rule bill. The amending bill comes up for discussion on Tuesday in the House of Com- mons. Many consider that as the Ul- ster Unionists rejected the offer of a settlement embodied in the amending bil originally introduced, the bill should be withdrawn and the Home Rule Dill allowed to become Inw un- der the operation of the Parliament act. The Government, however, is gen- erally expected to urge the passage of the second reading of the amend- ing bill as amended by the House of Lords, so that it may be restored to its original conditio nin commit- tee. This, is is pointed ont, would give another chance for discussion with the possibility of reaching an agreement. Few, however, expect this step to be successful The Unionists are meanwhile pro- paring for a general election in the beliet that, failing a settlement by consent, Premier Asquith will ad- vance the dissolution of Parliament — Lilian Russel Recovers ATLANTIC CITY, A physician f other from Pittsburgh have t ® rie opera star, wife of Alex- ander P. Moore, publisher of the Pitts- burgh Leader. She has been ill at her summer home with « but {a now recovering. Mrs. Moore has kept to her bed and it was not gen- rally known that for a time p fously {I1, rom Cold, heen ding for the past week Lillinn Rus- at it und they tried tne:r best, ous ways, to forget the Four hundred guests were thera and the robes worn represe 1 periods ae far back as two hundred and fifty years ago. ‘They wers embroidered wonderfully and grotesquely. ‘The Duchess of Marlborough woro a Chin- e886 costume sho brought from Eng: land especially for the night's ball while Mra, Belmont's costume was im | ported from China At Mrs, Mish's dinner there were ono hundred guests, all in costume. | | Chinese Mowers were used for table | decorations and the dining room was decorated wih a set of Chinese hang. by devi- t ings brought from the Far East. by |). Edward I, Farmer. Thera were sev. eral other dinner parties, all the ® f irae Ce th aad pall paver at Mra, tantlo WORKING ILS WL BNET BY NEW HOTEL WITH CARDEN ON ROF Mrs. Irvin Is Ruling Spirit in Home for Women With Small Salaries. Mrs. Richard Irvin, who for years has taken an active interest in the welfare of working girls in New York, is President and ruling spirit in a new corporation that fe to build the Irvin Hotel for Women. Plans have been filed for a thirteen-story atructure at Nos, 308. 312 West Thirtieth street, which is 136 feet west of Eight avenue, The building will have a frontage of 66 feet and a depth of 98.9 feet.. The facade 1s to be of brick in the tic style. One of the features of this women's hotel will be a roof garden where 400 Persons can be accommodated. The idea is to make the garden so attrac- tive that the women and girls who live in the hotel will not seek pleasure out- side. ‘The idea of the corporation is to ad- vance tho welfare of working girls and to maintain rates that will make it possible for respectable women, gon | | ISTO BE PENALIZED Privilege of Self Insurance of Many Employers May Be Revoked. More than two hundred employers In the State may lose thelr privilege of self-insurance which they have en- joyed since the new liability law went into effect on July 1 as a result of an investigation begun to-day by the State Workmen's Compensation Com- mission. Deputy Commissioner Cyrus W. Phillips has already begun a State-wide inquiry to determine whether certain employers of labor have threatened to discharge or have actually discharged married men with families, alleging the new law places a heavier burden on industty where the men of family are employed. Commissioner John Mitchell said to- day that both the Central Federated Union and the New York State Fed- eration of Labor, who represent 654,- 000 working men in the State, have Provided the Commission with a list of employers who are accused not [only of discriminating against mar- ried men, but with enforcing a phyal- cal examination on all applicants for positions. : The attention of the Commission has been called to tne fact that em- ployers may insure their Mability tu the State Insurance Fund, and that this fund raises no queation as to the physical condition of workmen #0 in- Jured. The Commission will take no ac- tion toward amending the new law by legislative action until Deputy Commissioner Phillips completes his investigation, Mr. Philips will begin his tour of the State on Monday. Plans outlined to-day by the * mission for the investigation were sent out to the nine Deputy Commis- sionera in the State, Each Deputy has been instructed to co-operate with Commissioner Phillips in his particular territory. The inquiry will require @ month--perhaps longer. ——_— drawing small salaries, to live re- spectably and in comfort, The architects are Jackson, Rosen- crans & Waterbury, The estimated cost of the building is about $185,000, There are to be 334 single rooms and only one dormitory, holding five girls, There will be two rooms on each floor holding two girls, and also a laundry and sitting room on each floor. There are to be twelve floors to accommodoate 404 girls, SAYS WOMEN ROBBED HIM, Electrical Enfineer Declares He Lont $10,000 Worth of Stoek, * Helen White and Emm: 437 West Thirty-elghth street, who were arrested, charged with the larceny of $10,000 worth of stock and hond eertifi- cates and $144 in cash from Joseph I. Evans of No. Kelly, an electrical engineer ently arrived in this city from New Orleans, wore to-day ield tn the ‘ourt in $1,000 bay al not wullty 9 ex umination tate Murphy he had the street and BLACK’S, eee POLICY AT BOOT! Shoe Shiner Satd Ne Bingent Sellers in tae Game, to A Detectives Istrate utte Murphy int y that they i who has 9 Batiey told Mag- eat Side Court and Pate Ninety ast niMbe anil | y had found |and $100 for subsequent ones, MOTHER CRIES AND SON Yonkers Neighborhood Aroused and Police Say It Was All Due to Nigintmare, ‘The screams of a woman, followed by the report of @ gun, aroused the neighborhood of Union place and Ravine avenue, Yonkers, at 3 o'clock this morning. Policeman Harry Smith banged on the door of Mrs, Benjamin F. Barnes's ho at No, 27 Union place, from where the cries and shot had sounded and was ad- mitted by young Benjamin F. Barnes, who sald his brother, Franklin, had fired a shotgun at what he thought was a burgla@®, but had only smashed a china closet. No one appeared to be in the house Mrs. Barnes, who is the widow of a New York banker, sald she was aroused by feeling some ones hand cross her face. She screamed and ) Pattie, a bulidog, aroused the house. Pranklin grabb the «un and he in- sisted that he saw the shadow of # min, Bat ry window door was found properly closed and the police believe that Mra, Barnes had a nightmare. — COSTLY TO BLOCK SIDEWALK Fratt Dea Fined : and Next Time It WIM Be #50. ¢ House in the Centre rt today fined J er of No. 88 Bur cor sident Marks's for 4 similar off und Magistrate } should he contir would be fined Was fined $10, st Wednesday, erned him that obey the law he for the next offense w Na The Mag- nounced that he will not istrate h. # lenient ‘with any merchants who blasts VACA | SULY 95, 1914. NEED OF $15,000 TO GIVE CHILDREN PLACES TO PLA | General Appeal to the Public to Meet Expense of the Work. LOTS READY Only Funds Are Required to Carry Out the Plans of Those in Charge, By Sophie Irene Loeb. The Parks and Playgrounds Anso- clation of the city of New York, woll known for its efficient service in its POLICE I ROCKVILLE CENTRE FES SATE NOW Half the Force Accused of Looting Houses and Stores of Village. WOMAN TOLD ON ’EM.) They Confess and Give Up Plunder—Got No Profit Out of Crime. breathe freely once more, for one half the police force of Rockville Centre is safe in jail at Mineola. They are not there guarding the The people of Rockville Centre be CHEATING NEW LAW ® | PROTECTING LABOR excellent summer playground work, is in need of $15,000 to develop more | Playgrounds to meet the popular de- mand this summer. This association 1s maintained by! subscription, and, gwing to the grow- ing needs of proWding proper play spaces for children, especially in crowded sections, it is desirous of opening more such places as soon as the funds are available. The organi- zation has the hearty co-operation of Park Commissioner Ward, who would |be very glad to turn over to them Jail. baatille. were, It Is alloged, merry knights of For the cops in the cooler the road whose delight it was to go forth in the night and pinch what| they were paid to protect. Oh, oh! it was a merry life and the fun was Kroat while it lasted. Rockvil's Contre ts @ beautiful vil- | say Jago with its grassy lawns and wood- ed slopes, its well kept and well shad- ed roa winding about pretty and palatial homes. j;#0me of the vacane properties that were lent to the city for the purpose. Mr. George Gordon Battle, Prest- dent of the Association, when I spoke to him relative situation, made the following state- ment: to the playground 4 veritable Sherwood Forest for Robin Hood and his merry men. And there was plenty of loot hard by. There are the homes and there are the storps of the village. It is the residing place of the rich and the army of automo- biles choo-choo culture. Poor people TAKING CARE OF NEW YORK’'S CHILDREN. “This is the seventh annual season of this work, and the taking care of children in New York City during the summer is assuming proportions, and i may ride in one-horse chaises. And Sherwood forest wasn't want- ing for its Robin Hood, Many people went away In the winter and closed up their homes. ‘There was the police to protect them. But alas! The cops an element to be reckoned with by the city govern...ont as well as by the Public at large. “Last y ir t!> association took care of 250,000 children in the fifty-four play centres under its direction. Tl hi year we hope to be able to extend the work over seemed to asleep like the good old Sheriff of Nottingham. The homes were entered, apparently under their very eyes. When the families got back to Rockville Centre for the sum- mer they found their houses had been ransacked from top to bottom and many costly articles had been carted @ larg Id of activity, the de- mand being more urgent than ever before. “Our activities are centred around Greater New York, all the money he- ing used to meet the needs of this community. All of the Park Com- missioners in the various bproughs co-operate with this association in the work of taking care of the city’s children, “As has been developed by the worthy campaign for more play- grounds carried on by The Evening World, the need for these play- grounds is certainly very great, and {8 of course especially felt during the heated term. Also until such a time as the city is in 4 position to make adequate provision for this work, It essential that this association help in supplying the demand. “This organization is at the present time directing and maintaining seven equipped playgrounds, eight recrea- tion piers, twenty-seven yards, five roofs, fourteen street centres and # baseball league, in co-operation with the Sunday World, in which 250 teams are now actively engaged fu competing for the city's champlon- sl D. “1 do not believe there is any activity in the city which is more valuable than this one of moi play spaces for the children. T right to play belongs to every child, regardless of race, color or creed, and | believe all ci should be interested that such rights “It is not sufficient to provide je i ind distant parks, but each hould have in his immedi: neighborhood some place, or small, where he may real child without fear of of children are m away from the gangster ncy by being properly ta’ of in whol ; It sentiment, me play. ut a dut: t this erving need the Parks aysrounds’ ~ Associatic bas avalled Itself of every available space it could employ with the funds at its command. WHAT I8 BEING DONE FOR THE LITTLE ONES, | “Excursions ren. Th sed and lunch ares are provided on th A snectal fund this n provided to take th the I er import. | Jant f will bo the exhibition of motion pletures in various city parks. | ‘This ig to be started in Brooklyn and is free me. “e n Whi Suggested that tener sex and buildings that hou families equipped with play-ro¢ move in the right dire tort should he directed t oping this play-root kK this would Work cut spi the Parks and Playgrounda tion would be very glad ald in the way of supervisors and! equipment, 4% Soon as finances per- mit and such roofs are properly and safely arranged for the purpuao ‘or example, If there were a block of play roofs u supervisor could. so G from one t ther and keep the children at play. We have a corps of well trained w * who give their)! services for 4 nominal sum, and sev- eral of them free of charg "We could very well t care of le el many 0 playgrounds throughout the city with more money at our com. mand. I trust that public spirited | citizens will realize the value of this civic function and help the cause to an appreciable degree, so that many well formed plans for the great bene- fit of the children may be more ade- quately carried out.” 6 \6 dt rarely, if ever, away. Things began disappearing from the homes of many who lived in the outskirts of the village right along. And six Hicksville policemen guarded the village every night. MERRY TRIO OF GUARDIANS ARE ACCU: That is, the people thought they did. The police were doing the loot- ing all unknown to anyone but them- selves, it is charged, and a few who were carelessly let into the play. Rulof Peterson, one of the oldest men on the force, the villagers are now told, turned Robin Hood, with Frank Wick, once a farmer boy, as his Will Scarlet, and Amos Beritzen his Friar Tuc It was a merry trio, and right merrily did they plunder, itis charged. When they took charge use they took every- dentally, it ts said t ‘den hose of Village Counsellor Hooley, ! how the merry rascals laughed r that and what fun they had ping the counsellor not to find it. The Methodist minister was married, and he and his bride were the re- cipients of many wedding presents. Silver services and cut glass they got, and jewels and trinkets and knick- knacks of all kinds, Then all the vere stolen, Rulof Peterson tiled to ask him how it had 1. He was the sleuth put on to run the robbers down, like Robin Hood of Sher- est W he found @ man over his he sympathized sad too, The next » presents and the keep- the minister had from # ware left on the porch kht the police watched over © that no other robber stole f a vacant hi sad with him and w. night all t sakes wh his colloge that beautiful home of John Pilking- the "showhouse” ‘of Rockville , was broken into and robbed the family was away. Rulof on and his merry Robin Hood- ers were placed on the premises to that nothing more y watched and opened ake another look around, MAN WHO “SPIED” GETS TERM IN PRISON. Warren ‘Tread\.cll wandered that way. Peterson and Heritzen were in the house, Treadwell alleges, helping themselves to some Pilkington trink- T shed” ‘Treadwell and nd him in the house ‘ro Was the open window to prove| a window to ray! the police of Rockville ® bad made an arrest, What's they got @ conviction. They ‘Treadwell away, protesting his innocence. No goods were found on him, to be sure, but he was convicted of 4 minor offense. He .did his “bit in jail and the robberies were merrily ‘Treadwell never “kicked.” What wis 'he use? And then the big thing was pulled off, It was just like the real robbers do things in New York. They backed up a dray in front of Husser’s store and carted off all kinds of goods, The right across the street from ee station merr, ‘Try One More The Natural Mineral Spring Water (Not w Laxative.) ils to Immediately Promote Good Digesi that i the eon 01 bel The mer re to learn policemen in the vi ings Dre the Mayor; ‘Trane Bawne 7 and others were going x businesslike ae) a was sent Eg wiele | He was 1g revere Ww ges morning. He did it the ined Srer to him“ Bolloemaes over a Beritsen to take to the a a lass the thir They are being guarded in the| py al Mayor, this Lepary completely, as had twa. others claim ¢ bag? into "the Musser ore Pet do the It would have made| The: BAKER KILLED BY BLOW; ALLEGED ASSAILANT HELD Denies Guilt, but Eyewttzesses- Gay’ That Alper Struck Ap» Plegreen. ‘Moe Alper of No. 210 Division was arraigned in Eesez Pollge Court to-dey on o change Gf murder and committed to the 6am tody of the Coroner to await the Si> come of the inquest inte the ¢ %E of Israel Applegreen, in Hospital at 6 o'clock Alper is twenty-three years Applegreen was forty ané lived 4 No. 188 Clinton street, ecroas eae bakery he conducted at No. two men got into an alt o'clock this morning and Frederick Roos eaw Alper Applegreen and knock him dows. Applegreen's head struck the Sa ment and he became 4 Alper denied striking Std Applegreen 4jd not regain ba before death, but the pollesmnam and other witnesses s\ore that the © prisoner was the man who engaged is i the fight with the baker. . CINCINNATI, July 25.~Tee eufe of a case of epilepsy is reported by Se. C. A. L. Reed, who operated on a: of thirty-eight years at @ hospital ‘The patient had had no illness ether than the epileptic seisures for eteves 4 ye The seizures cccurred tee oF three times a week. There was of the digestive ti and ’ a condition was wores the Stacks ah iy severe, A that the large lepay were more Dr, Reed found tBs, Ptaaking two sharp. tion, making two ai Reed operated on the in| and "poeltion! stored it to its normal woman recovered. 4 % @ TAKE the children to the Park— Give them a taste | of country— E z rl th i t i i j F i fh