The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1914, Page 3

F POOHOSHHOHAOHTH POLICE REPORTS |Protests Against ‘‘Mind-the-Paint”’ Girls SHOW FOOD PRICES BOOSTED hGH Retailers in Poor District Ex- hibit Bills to Prove Jobbers to Blame. ALL GROCERIES ARE UP. Butter Advanced Five Cents a Pound—Lower Qualities of Meat Forced Down. ‘The first report of the police inves- tigation of the increased cost of food- @tuffe, ordered last week by Police Commissioner Woods, was made to- day by the Thirteenth Precinct—the Delancey street station. Reports from ether precincts will be received be- ‘tween now and Monday, and on Mon- @ay morning the task of tabulating the thousands of individual reports ‘will be begun by Mayor Mitchel’s Committee of One Hundred and Thir- ‘ty-tour. Delancey street station takes in territory enclosed by East Broad- way, Grand street, the East River, Rivington street and the Bowery, one ef the most densely populated dis- @tets in the city. Reports were fa by each policeman, detall- prices his own family pays, paid by friends and the prices shops on his post. An these prices shows that . flour, butter, eggs, milk bt fish and some vegetables im price. Here is the tabu- lation, the first figures being those of July 1, the second those of the pres- e@mt time and the third those of a i i i Me Nee. pen 5. sieeeeerter Soup meat, the only meat which Bas not risen in price, has changed fm quality. The dealers explained that soup meat forms one of the chief articles of diet on the lower east side and they feared more meat riots if the price was increased. As they | were forced to pay higher prices, however, they protected themselves, they said, by supplying less choice outa of beef. ‘The various reports show that the retailers were unanimous in blaming the jobbers and wholesalers for the {wcreased prices, and many of them showed receipts from their supply houses to bear out their contention that their stocks were costing them more, A report more condemnatory of @ast side merchants was made by Commissioner of Weights and Meas- ures Joseph Hartigan to-day. He found that Mrs. Loulse Worthing- ton of the Hamilton House, a social @ettlement establishment at Mar- ket street, sent a number of workers through the tenement districts to in- terview families and to obtain from etorekeepers actual prices for food gold in the pant two weeks. ‘The retail dealers admitted that they bad jacked up the cost of all foods, without exception, but plead- ed that they were compelled to do so by the salesmen who v'r'ted them and told them to make money while ths war scare | Just to set an example along this line of endenvor, the saleamen for the wholesale houses advanced the price of every commod- ity they offered for sale. While the prices of groceries have eteailily advanced, meat has in some cases shown a decline, But this ts not found to be due to any benevo- Jence on the part of either the retail- ers or the wholesaler., but rather to a falling off in the demand. Commissioner Hartigan has been notified by a number of his inspec- tors that vegetables have slightly in- a o' creased in price all along the line. The reason has not been learned. “I hope the public will be patient,” “It is ter to catch certain kinds of crooks, but we hope even- tually to get a few of the real big fellows, When we do we'll clap them ¢said the Commissioner to-day. a difficult 1... fin jail.” jet WILSON TAKES EARLY RIDE. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2%,—Prenident ‘Wilson took « long ride to-day, long be- He urase - before 5 o'clock and was speeding In an| PARIS, Aug, 22—( fore the capital was awake. auto through the :ountry soon after. ret to the White . took day, aids to beauty. whose sole cuucession to artificialty was the wearing of a small pad under Company at Amsterdam quot Berlin as follow fo free of all hostile ships fs con- NEXT WEER’S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD * Tuey Pur CARMINES ON THER LIPS TO PLEASE US Wwey We Wiss THEM ® wees “HERE mane “Mere Man” Writes to Ask “Why Do Girls Wish to Beautify What Is Already Beautiful?” and «“G. A. T.” Says “‘The Women Now- adays Are Idiots.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall, Is it the painted, overdressed girl who is most popular with the men of to-day, or do they prefer the modest, natural beauty? In the somewhat ironigally gallant communication from “Meré Man,” and in @ sharper try to embellish do they wish to titul?” In short, “to throw a perfume It would be a very foolish per- eon who tried te keep the neigh- bore from knowing that he had @ stagnant poe! on hie front lawn by giving it a daily sprinkling from a perfumed atomizer. And W's ju ity fi girl to think that she ean make bad health beautiful by reuging pasty cheeks or powdering a red nose. “C. 8. 8." agrees with a suggestion ade several days ago by “Mrs. A. T." that mothers of girls who paint permit the practice because of a be- Hef that it will help their daughters to make good matches, comments “C. 8, 5.” has any sense such a creation, as one of these girls on his hands.” NOT ADMIRED BY SENSITIVE “Stuff!” “No man who or foresight wants HUSBANDS. For a lifeti.:0, he certainly doesn't. If there is 014 circumstance which, makes a sensitive husband wince with uncontrollable distaste it is the iscovery that ‘is wife uses . ‘ificial T know a woman er easily Gattened pompadour. She threw it awa, before she'd been mar- ried a month. couldn't 80 long as he knew she had it on. Her husband said 1> 4elp feeling uncomfortab!s Another natron told me that sh> nd her husband had had only one real quarrel! in their ten years «f mar- ried life, It took place tho first year when she confessed that she wanted to to attending a ra‘ ier elaborate ¢: party. ‘touch up” her fi preparatory ‘er “He satd he'd never go out voiced a dual protest against the mind-the-paint girl. “Why do girls attempt to improve where no improve- ment is possible?” “Mere Man” queries. lous excess." That is one of the perfectly logical and unanswerable arguments against makeup for young girls, whom nature endows with clear, fresh complez- fons. Or if the endowment fs lacking, in individual instances, the doctor and not the beauty-doctor is the proper authority to consult. In a young person an unattractive skin is an evidence of anaemia, indigestion or some other physical disorder. It is a danger signal of nature, a warning to be heeded, not a disfigurement to be covered up. epistle from “C. 8. S.," there is today “Why do they what needs no embellishment? Why beautify what is already most beau- gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to on the violet—is wasteful and ridicu- swith me if I did such » thing!” she confessed. Yet that man ts po Purt- tan. His taste and not his morals rebelled. Would such a man propose te a girl whem he never saw minue her make-up? It could not eseape even love-blinded eyes, for there's nothing ¢t! > least btle about mplexion of the mod irl, She weare her war- paint ae frankly as ny Indian. And I think that men, real men, who are neither tn their first child- hood nor their second, must be hope- lessly bored by the procession of bones, collar and ankle, to which the present styles are t ing them. I doubt if they're indign at the ailly, would-be seductive little girls in elit skirts and split waists, I fancy they're Just tired. It's not the mood that in- duces or produces romance. Here are four letters which I have {received. I shall be glad to hear from | other readers of the Evening World. GIRL8 WHO PAINTED USED ‘TO BE CONSIDE! Loup. Dear Madam: It is a pity that some of these painted and pow- dered girls of New York cannot see themselves as others see them. It te positively tage eon | the way they put on chalk, co! id une colored. I suppose it is done to at- tract attention. It does, Rut if could oply hear the com- ments that are made upon their looka their ears might burn. A few years ago any girl plaster- ing herself up with paint would be set down as a very loud person, and old-fashioned mothers would not let their daughters associate with ber, ‘There are thousands of naturally pretty girls, but’ you do not see them in New York or other big cities running around the streets BALTIC SEA IS CLEAR OF ALL HOSTILE SHIPS, GERMANY CLAIMS LONDON, Aug. 22.—The apondent of the Reuter T corre: Mcial despatch received there from “That the Baltic irmed by repeated reconnoitring of the Germat uoavy up to the Finnish Gull.” A despatch to the Exchange Tele- louse shortly up some routine! 1 pienned 906. iis artadt OF alas graph Company from Cettinje says that an English tleet, supported by . in conjunction with Montenegrin batteries on Mount » on Wednesday bombarded the Austrian fortifications at Cat- taro, greatly damaging them. po ae i aa SON OF MAJOR DREYFUSS PROMOTED FOR BRAVERY ON FIELD OF ACTION. sociated Press).— The son of Major Dreyfuss, who was @ of treason in to the rank of uct on the field AMueihauses, exonerated on @ chari |. has ben promot AUTO TRUCKS RUN OVER TWO BOYS AND A GIRL Lad Riding a Bicycle and Child Playing in Front of Home Killed. Two little boys were run down by automobile trucks in Brooklyn One was instantly killed, while the other escaped with a broken log and a crushed foot, The first boy was Joseph Haggerty, seven years old, who lived at No, 459 Thirteenth street, to- day, He was riding a Woycie through Ninth atreet and col- Hded with a motor truck of the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company at the tn- tersection of Thirteenth avenue. The wheels of the truck crushed his skull, Those who saw the accident sald tt was unavoidable. The other little boy was John Fon- tono, six years old, who wan playing| in front of his home, No. 47 St. Ed- wapl's place, when uw Muck of the Washington & Bulkley Company of| No, 94 Emerson place knocked him down and gan over his leg and foot SATURDAY, avoust 22, GOING SOME: A Farce-Romance of the Big Outdoors YOO. "Sma SHOULD RSs ore THe RTH AND GIVE TO THE SAFE AND SAME GIRLS? | “mornges Tha HE MAKE WP Lval ary? MEN AND MELAS MaKe GOOD MATCHES” all hours of the day or night all kalsomined up. The mothers of these painted girls are either to> ignorant to see the harm or do not care, Possibly they think it av tracts the men iv their girls and helps them to make good matchos. Stuff! No man who has any senso or a e wants such a creature as we the” New York girl of to- da certainly a t with her face, tango rpin back ear, tango skirt and tango everything else. She should tango off the earth and give place to a safe and sane girl that will be appreciated by every one that wants to eee our girls look like human beings, not stage chorus girls. 8. SHOULD NOT TRY TO IMPROVE ON NATURE. Dear Madam: Our friends of the opposite sex have shown delight- ful consideration for us by the use of cosmetics and oils and dainty perfumes. They try to add to the art of nature by arts of their own, and surely if any one could im- Prove upon nature it Is the ladies —bless their dear hearts. As- suredly they desire to make our stay as pleasant as possible upon those occasions when we visit them, and they put beautiful car- mines on their cheeks and ips to Please us as we kiss them. They darken their eyebrows:that the eyes may fiash the more radiantly and more starlike—if that be sible at all—upon us. T! tr hair tl ay be more pleasing as we draw thelr pretty heads gently to our breasts. Their thoughts are all for us, and surely we ought to be thankful therefor, And why is it necessary for them to go to all these lengths? Why do they attempt to improve where no improvement is sible? Why do they try to em! Meh what needs no embellish- ment? Why do they wish to beau- tify what !s already most beautl- ful, or to adorn what is now highly attractive and overladen with charm? We certainly realize our debt to the ladies. It is al- ready ever so much more than we can hope to repay. Why do they make our burden greater by con- tinuing in such fashion make us shrink in our ourselvs nd thus ma! even less worthy of them than we already are? MERE MAN, FREAK GIRLS CRITICISED BY A WOMAN. Dear Madam: In regard to the fashions of New York to-day, I surely do think the women positively freakish in the they paint and powder. T am a young girl of nineteen, I dress in the very latest of atyles and I proudly say I use powder, but there ts a limit in using it. I do not whitewash my face with it. Why, I don’t blame the men for laughing at the women nowa- days; they are, in plain English, idiots. When I was at the beach last Sunday I saw two freaks of girls gowned in velvet suite— imagine it, in August—and juat back of them was a young girl tn a very sporty outfit of white serge, who was considered very swell and stylish »y the young man accompanying me. Does a woman have to paint and “doll up," as they aay, to draw the attention of a man? No! Some day, I hope that the giris will become more civilized, and that we may know a mother when we see one, In place of guessing which {8 the mother and which the daughter. QA. T. SWEET SIMPLICITY HAS CHARM UNEQUALLED. Dear Madam: If the modestly and sensibly dressed young lady of to-day fully i with what fine regird most men value her, She Would wever hesitate to con. wider herse!f more her artificially a Atte, all, “ewoet si @ charm uneq! A GUNS OF SUFFOLK STOP A TANK Stl OFF SANDY HOOK British Cruiser Mistook Vessel From Bayonne for Skulk- ing German. , The officers of the ofl tank steam- er Narragansett of the Anglo-Amerl- can Oil Company learned to their ‘Painful surprise yesterday that the British eruieer Suffolk, which has been lurking about the entrance of New York harbor off and on for the past two weeks, is not overlooking any bets at capturing a German prise. This lesson was emphasized by the firing of four solid shots across the Narragansett'e bow. According to 8, P, White, manager of the Washington Engine Company of No. 601 Washington street, who has been supérintending the installe- tion of burning engines in the tank ship, the Narragansett put out from Bayonne at 2 o'clock yesterday after- noon for @ trial test of her engines. The ship had proceeded about tea miles beyond the Hook and was turn- ing to come back to harbor when a cruiser was seen rushing up at top speed from the sou'east. The Nar- ragansett pald no heed to the’ on- coming crulser and continued on her way back toward the lightebip. Then came the firing of the first shot, and when no necd was paid to that hint, three others came zipping dangerously cloge to the oil tanker. Whereupon the ship was brought to a stop. A launch put out from the cruiser, which proved to be the Suffolk, and @ boarding officer ex- lained that the Narrangansett had een chased because: her actions prompted the belief that she was a German, trying to dodge out of port and putting back at the first sign of danger The steamer Panama of the Pan- ama ilroad Company arrived in port to-day with no thrills of w: Telate except a chase by an En, cruiser off the coast of Hayti it Wednesday. The cruiser was not sat- isfied until tho Star and Stripes were thrown out from the staff. Then the war boat sheered off. A. B, Friedheim, President of the Red Cross Society’ of Gormany, waal one of the 194 passengers aboard thé Panama. Capt, Corning, the ship's skipper, said that before he left Colon he went through the canal with the Panama, aboard of which was a party of Gov- ernment officials and canal pilots, “That # the moat wonderful scenic route in the world,” Capt. Corning said to-day. “The Palisades @ not nearly #0 beautiful as the canal at Culebra." pon FINLAND WITH FOOD AND SILVER SAILS OUT UNDER AMERCAN FLAG. ‘The Red Star liner Finland, safe under the American flag, sailed Liverpool with 1,200 bags of mall and 1,080 bare ofgallver in her hold, the |latter consigned to London also had coal and food enough t her the round trip, taking no chan searcity in those two commoditk the other aide raong the seventy-five passeng the Fintand’s frat -abin were Roland Lawrence of u vara and Capt, A. [lh v A. who hopes to 4 ngiiah ex, ttonary forces o1 the Continent as @ military observer, ri } today for! 1914. BELGIANS CRUEL Are Made by Members of Both Sexes} 10 GERMANS, SAY | AMERICAN GIRLS Declare Peasants Maltreated the Wounded and Tried to Kill Sleeping Men. FIRE AT MONOPLANE. | | | | Kaiser’s Troops Were Confi- dent They Could Easily Whip Belgium. By Karl H. von Wiegand. BERLIN, Aug. 9 (United Prese— Delayed).—Three American girle—the Misses Marion Park and Katherine Lord of Boston and Mise Ida Lang- don of Elmira, N. Y.—went through the thick of the German war sone Just as the fatherland was striking its first blow through Belgium. Their Stories, as told me on a@ train en route to Rotterdam, were full of Praise for the courtesy of Ger firet trying days of the war. when we learned war was {mminent,” sald Miss Park. “We started for London via Cologne at once. When © reached Cotogne it wae apparent ; that war was onl ya matter of hours, | Everywhere the greatest activity was apparent and the population was fe- verish with excitement. logne we reached the little village of Dolhain, on the Belgian frontier be- tween Verviers and Aix-la-Chapelle. ‘The mobilization orders came at that hour and all trains were turned over to the military, We had to disem- bark. There was no hotel at Dolhain, gO we got a peasant who had a little jome in the town to take us In. “The next morning we walked down the road to the railroad junction and met what seemed to us to be the en- tre German army advancing on Bel- sium. Throughout the entire day thousands of men swung through the little village. That night we be- fan to hear the roar of cannon as the Germans opened their attack on Liege. The roar continued all through the night—and almost without interrup- tion during the next three days. When there was a cessation, the very etill- eas after such a din was aa adi impresaive. “We felt we were in the vary path of the war. Liege was only a few miles distant. We were in touch with soldiers constantly. On the very first day we were in Dolhain they assured us we would not be delayed. They all seemed confident there would be no resistance from Belgium. ‘We're only marching through Belgium,’ one strapping big German told me. “On the second day we saw the full horrors of war with the bringing through Dolhain of the first wounded. ‘They were carried from the fromt in automobiles, Meanwhile, the village was left with only @ scant hundred soldiers, all the remainder being or- dered to the fighting line. That same day far up in the sky we saw a French aeroplane. The guard in Dol- hain signalled the machine, and not receiving @ return, opened fire on it. The monoplane was far above range and so far as we could see, was unin- jured by the hundreds of bullets fired at it. This was the only aerial craft we saw, but German soldiers told me later that several had ben manoeuv- ring overhead and that their shooting had brought one down. “Witp the arrival of the wounded we began to hear terrible stories of the cruelty of the Belgian peasants to wounded and helpless Germans. We saw a captain, two other officers and fifteen men brought in who said they were sleeping in a house when they were suddenly attacked by the vil- lagers. The peasants forced their way into the house, and without rousing the soldiers attempted to slaughter all as they slept. These same wounded and others told us horrible stories of cruelties to Ger- man wounded at the hands of Bel- gians to whom they were left for treatment. “From what we saw ourselves and our talk with the German wounded, we are convinced there is much more truth in the German charges of Bel- gian inhumanity and violation of the rules of clvillzed warfare than the Belgian charges againat the Kaiser's troops, Possibly this Belgian cr sity brought terrible retribution from the enraged German soldiers. That ts conceivabl | The peasants in Dolhain were sive and sullen, But those in nearby villages were sald to be ferocious against the Invaders. We were near the town of Vise, which has since been burned by the Germans because of the constant harassing of Germans by villagers, “As the roar of vaunon continued and a constant stream of German troope poured through Dolbain, we By REX BEACH From Co-| diery. MOVING PICTURE MAN WHO WAS KILLED BY AUTO FALL OVER CLIFF began to get uneasy, Food was be- coming scarce. We went to the German frontier, but were bermiasion to cross back on German jl ie | then came back to the vil- ied. ‘Ine German cap- tain commanding the guard there Kindness itself. He tried to do for our comfort and final- ofMficialdom, civil and military, in the| fro “We were in the Bavarian Alpe! aga applied for passports, sald our German army officer's pass wan more neng than anything he could’ supply We had the eit atamp this sheet of note paper, a: took us to Berlin without trouble. jaa Park was enthusiastic in her e of the courtesy of German sol- “Th Dothain,” she sald, “there was an Englishwoman and her little child, tay) ies id enough bedelothing to horeelt ind her child wat and of- fered food from their army mess if it was needed. Owing to the war with England, she was. not permitted to croaa the frontier Into Germany “During our trip ‘Cologne. Berlin we paased seventy-eight mill- tary trains in haptig d four hours. Everything passed off “Although we were in the centre of things, we can only testify to the greatest courtesy and consideration A every German with whom we cai contact. Despite congestion at the railroad stations, the officials were never too busy to un and the is the kindilent treat- t. want again and yet wouldn't have miased for worlds.” PAPAL ENVOY’S $40,000 DROPS OUT OF TRUNK Gold and Bills, Hidden in False Bottom by Mexican Refugees, Revealed in Cuba. vening World.) ‘Borsnasie'ieien by The tress Publishing Co HAVANA, A 22.—Forty thousand dollars tn gold and bills tumbled out onto the floor when inspectors pre- pared the baggage of Mgr. Francisco gate to Mexico, for to-day. The hoard waa in the false bottom of @ large trunk an‘ was re- vealed accidentally when the bottom became loosened and fell out. Mgr. Rojas, accompanied by Arch- bishop Chiapis, arrived here yesterday accompanied by three nuns who are said to be extremely wealthy. It was learned that the money, which was part of an inheritance of the nuns, had been hidden in the trunk to pre- vent Its selsure by Mexican rebels, who planaed to} Inap the nuns and bold them for ransom. The Papal Delegate and the Aroh- bishop were jn disguise, and the women of tho party had put off thelr nuns’ garb for ordinary clothing. predic ond Tenet REFUGEES ON ST. LOUIS Health Officer O'Connell Promises to Stay Up for Their Arrival. To relieve the discomfort and factil- tate the Janding of the hundreds of refugees aboard the American Line steamship St. Louis, Dr. O'Connell, Health Officer of the Port, has wire lessed the St. Louis that he will pass the ship even though it is not due to arrive at Quarantine until 9 o'clock to-night or later. Dr. O'Connell took this step in an- swer to a wireless received by him early to-day from & passengers’ com- mittee of the St, Louis's first cabin, The wireless, relayed from Siascon- read: Louis passengers will deeply appreciate if through your court they can land Saturday night. travelling uncomfortably owing te losses abroad and all exceedingly anxious to reach homes a relleve families uf anxiety,” The appeal was signed by former Attorney-Gene: | Jullus M, Mayer, Dr. . Lambert, Howard Carroll John J. Gibroy, Louls Ralston and William Bleu | @pparently deranged, amin, rail nine inches . | concrete walk. WILL LAND TO-NIGHT) > MOVE HAN i re he sustained jast night mobile runabout, in driving alone to bis Rochelle, dived from the dred and Fitty-ntth near Macomb/s Dam read, and bottom up Atty feet below. The macaine, its $s the railing along aie I as Central Casino. The eccideat was Walters of No. 306 Weet @red and Forty-seventh the crash through heard to the further dyct. Policeman Hite's assistance. He was a0 tangled in the it was difficult to get @. T. Renke of Kin who saw the socident, made a quick turn of bie running over a child Bronx car, and the ded and plunged over the ‘The inexplicable feature of Gent ts how the motor tremendous speed, away the via fron, four aff a ittice an the in iron posts supporting square and’ bedded and 8é cf ! F H g s * i ik E z At the top of FL and eight feet of the lattics Only the engine, steering post ‘ top hamper of the car were & ‘The wheels were not injured car was towed on its own runaiag gaa” firat to the Lenox avenpe polls eat> tion and afterward to e gaszage ot Ma * 147 West One Hundred ond THERE 5 seventh street. On the way to the hospital Me. was restored to consciousness. then gave his name and adéress. asked that the Ten Eyok Cis® New Rochelle be notified and member of the club asked to municete with Mra. Hite, Thig done, Only @ short time om s00 ay Brows Cy es nowa moving ince otaged cir be ‘Miliien Mystery.” Ia oe ia play an over & fae may ae the tite the bri Hite, who came to New Yor years age from o. taking an interest soon afterward. was made houser Compan; of the late Mabel Hite, the actress, eget ‘ GERMAN CRUISER DRESDEN SINKS ENGLISH VESSEL OFF COAST OF BRAZIL, WASHINGTON, Avs. 38 (Unites Press).—Despatches to the Si \to partment to-dey frem Rio Jageire, ail, reported the capture ef the steamer Santa on New York ay My lo ig Dresden Han coust, just i Bi torial waters. Hyades steel, The Hya 1 a en ¥ ae ta" or. aus i Britis! 380 its The ship, se 360 feet long, with @ nage of ite mae chise carried sway ene of tees. agit ay oe ‘4 crul: GUIDE BOOK PUBLISHER BAEDEKER IS REPORTED °° KILLED IN BATTLE I) in the Magazine of tomerran’p day World. PS The situations are mystifying the solutions are logical Im ‘Cleek of Scotland Yard’ Sertap fs ongeged im solving ome ef strangest riddles that Scotland has had to face.” This Famous tion Picture Detective Sertes