The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1914, Page 3

Rodent iii roe ‘EN DSAPEARS New Found Friend’s Diamond (Value 75 Cents) Is Lost in Taxi and Trouble Follows. $30 IS ALSO MISSING. *Nobleman From India’s Coral “Strand Protests His Inno- cence and Is Freed. Benjamin Spratser, a jewelry sales- MAN, was standing at Sixth Avenue and Twenty-cighth Street, late last Right, when a pleasant Hindoo gentk man, prettily dressed in Broadway _glothes, asked him for a match. Given. Then a few words on tho war. Thon mutual drinks. Lifelong friendship immediately. Taxicab. They rambled; they paused; they imbibed. Again, Ad lib. _ Policeman Corcoran was yawning at Lenox Avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-fitth Street at 6 o'clock ‘this morning when a taxicab baited before him. “Hey, make him gimme my $30!" Thus the voice of Spratzer from with. ‘But, my good man, I have not bis 1 replied the plea: Hindoo. ‘To the station house!" commanded Corcoran. At tho Lenox Avenue Police Station Bpratzer complained the Hindoo first admired, then tried on, then hid his bee-yootiful purest diamond ring. Refused to give it back. The value? “Ob, well—er—say seventy-flve cents— one of them models, y’understand, + that sells the real goods. Also, accord- (ing to Spratzer, the Hindoo asked him, about 5 A. M., if he bad any money. He showed $32. The Hindoo, he said, took his three $10 bills and refused to give them back. ‘The Hindoo beamed on the desk lieu- tenant, told him he was Prince Ranji Smile, late of India’s coral strand, 4nd called heaven to witness his in- nocence. ‘They searched him and found $50 in his pocket. Spratzer said qhe identified two of the $10 bills as his { ibroperty. Thereupon the police sent both men to Headquarters, dn the Harlem Police Court the told Magistrate Cornell he was ' ved at the Hotel Imperial, where the cashed a check for $50 vefore sting out to see the town, “1 had had a good many drinks,” he fuded, “before 1 met this man Sprat- zer, 1 treated him to a taxt ride and 1 paid the cabinan $10, I'm sorry I fever met the inan, It ts ridiculous to j#ay L robbed hin. He tried to sell ‘ine @ bogus diamond"— “No, no!" cried Spratzer, tdone such a” “Dismissed,” said the Magistrate. A swarthy and picturesque person {calling himself Prince Ranji Smile, Prince Ranjit Smile, &c., arrived in New York from London in November, 401, and filled columns in the news- pers. He bad a sulte of dark cour- rs, who prayed five times a day and yetused to eat pork. He lent his nautch girl to dance at the ship's con- vert on the way here. When theso things had been cabled to London a Joud laugh came back over sea. Thi Anglish newspapers said the “Prince’ jap @ deuced good cook, who made juced good curry in various London Festaurants. The new arrival laughed, too, and said he bad cooked in London and ip Sherry’s in New York. Als nwered to the name of Jo th the Ameer of Bel: ochistan afterwa he ran off to Montreal, mystified ‘em awhile and came back to New York and made curry at the Beaux Arts. Prince Ranji accused a party of roysterers of having robbed him in March, 1910, but “forgave them in court. He married a miss Rochlitz, qaughter of a Fifth Avenue photo pher, in August, 1912. Aldermi ‘MoCann performed the ceremony at ity Hall, Since then the Prince bas yg obacure. The police have no prot that the hero of the 75-cent jamond ring and the vanishing $10 Ditls has not borrowed the name and “L never offices six nights in the was found dead to-day in the room she occupied in the house ‘ 196 Kast ‘renth Street | militarism among bo; EASY TO HAVE FIRM STRONG, HEALTHY TEETH ‘Try New Home Treatment F ree. People who have spon: Bleeding oF receding sums, aymptoms of that Gread discase know! Riggs disease will be ex- figecsty sratified to know i te now have @ presori; ee ena physlolene are astonished a! your gums are sore or you hi roses, sensitive teeth, get two ounces | to-day. It ie not expensive ani devoatt the price of two ounces ° te aa evidence of good faith; use one- ‘Dette as directo dif ‘this treat. improvement yot unused port! el scout wor! si ae rte emg Ne pets to Help Put 8,000.000 Boys on Their Honor, SCOLDEDBY JUDGE EC TING FI ‘ PENG FSO ae € ; hs Veg +: Leading Men Successfully “STALKING WITHOUT A GUN. Begin Campaign to Col- lect $65,000 in Three Days—- Youngsters Plan to Exterminate Gangs by Raising the Standard of Manliness. By Marguerite Movers Marshall. On my honor, | will dd my best: 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law; 2. To help other pcopte at all times; 3. To keene myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight, ihat oath tion th WreaSHAT «6noon that $42,000 at the other Three hundred thousand American boys have taken | They are the Boy Scouts of America, To} help make Scouts of the other 8,000,000 youngsters of Scout age in this country, Mortimer L, Schiff, John Sherman Hoyt, George D. Pratt and a few other promi- nent New Yorkers are now in the midst of a personal campaign to raise $65,000 in three days. Yesterday the first day of their work. At the Boy Scout National Headquarters, No. 200 Fifth Avenue, Mr. Pratt, ‘rei urer of the organization, announced late in the after- had already been pledged, on condi- $23,000 shall be procured by Friday noon. Which certainly looks as if there are some persons in New York who believe in the Boy Scout movement. Hoyt, Chairman of the Finance Committee, declare: peal which we estimate will have to as, beginning with 1916, we will be o: Boy Scouts in every State in the Un Already it {3 so flourishing that Mr. “This is the only ap- be made for this national movement, n a self-supporting basis.” There are fon and in nearly every town with a population of over 4,000, although the initial organization is only four years old, “What principles are back of the wildfire spread of the Boy Scout plan? Mr. Pratt. 8 to develop in Boy “By its laws, requirements and tests the Boy Scout organization ts con- stantly offering to its members new forms of self-development and of serv- ice. Here in New York the Boy Scouts were on hand to help receive the first shiploads of refugees from the warring uropean countries, At the Gettys- burg reunion In 1913 Boy Scouts did splendid work caring for the aged and enfeebled veterans of the North and South. “On such widely diverse occasions as the big fire at Salem, Mass. the Ohio floods and the last inaugural week in Washington, Boy Scouts were ready to hand and did great service, Last year in Michigan they reported or put out 400 forest fires. In New Jersey they have acted as game and fish war- dens. In the South they are fighting the hookworm disease. They are working to save Cleveland shade trees from a destructive moth, and they greatly assisted the Massachusetts Forestry Commission in a tree census. In many cities they have aided in clean-up campaigns and in the care of parks and playgrounds. saved ninety lives, “| have heard the movement criti- cised as tending to rouse @ spirit of 1 remarked Mr, Pratt smiled scornfully. “Ask any Boy Scout what ' thinks of war. He'll tell you hell. He may not use that word, but he will ompre' that sent ment. he ideal of the Boy BSoout is not slaughter but serv: toe, and instead of a preparation for war the movement might ter be described as a substitute for it. With th vocacy of uni- vereal peace is joined the teach- ing of the so-called war virtues— , patriotism and chivalry. we be indorsed by the American Federation of Labor and the Socialist Party if we cultivated warlike ideals? Of course not!" added Mr. Pratt, with a touch of in- dignation, Incidentally, the Boy Scouts meet with the approval of the most diverse individuals and organizations, Be- ides the two bodies instanced by Mr. Pratt, both the Catholic and Mormon churches have publicly approved of the scout programme. The Chambers of Commerce and Board of Trade in a dozen sition have co-operated with rs. it Wilson has accepted the The Boy Scout motto is ‘Be Prepared. ‘whey have! What docs it really stand for?" I asked the busy young Treasurer, “The Boy Scout movement means four big things,” he explained Scouts health, ch: eter, efficiency honorary presidency of the national organization and Taft and Roosevelt are honorary Vice Presidents, Dr, Charles W. Eliot, Miss Jane Addams and Judge Ken Lindey are all ine terested in the work. “I have just returned from Kansas City,” Mr. Pratt told me, “and Judge Edward Porterfield of the Kansas City Juvenile Court says that his court would come to an end if every boy ‘The gangs would dis- declares, ‘and we would generation of men that would not require much police protection, I have never had a boy scout in my court and there ure 1,200 of them in Kenn @ Boy Scout movement is essen- tially democratic,” conclude Mr. Pratt. ‘It brings together boys of every class, nationality and religton, it makes the same demands of all. and its awards and advancement are bestowed solely on the basis of achievement.” Any boy over twelve years old may become a scout by joining a troop that has already been started. [f there is none in his neighborheod, any group of eight or more boys may organize by application to the local or national scout headquarters, Eight boys make a scout patrol and three or four patrols make a scout troop, which has as leader a man known Scout Master. He is present at the meetings and supervises the gen: eral work of the troop. It costa 2 cents a year to be a scout. That is the membership and registration fee, Even a uniform is not @ necessity, But the scout usi ly wants one and is promptly vised to earn jt, together with other equipment he may desire, for Boy Scouts. LONDON, Dec. 3.—American Amy bassador Walter Hines P: yer day presented in behalf of the Ameri- can Boy Scouts gold badges to twen- ty-five English Koy Scouts who \- sisted the American Relief Commit- tee during the rush following the declaration of war. Mr. Page sent let- ters with the badges to five Boy Scouts Dow serving ip the wa. sone. BEING WOR: j path '$42,000 of Boy Scout Fund Raised in One Day ‘SILK GLAD ANKLES ‘LOCKED UP WHEN oan LD, THURS ¥ Rink " $% DAY,” SoeeBrenninet RR GETTING Reavy’ OR DINNER, Oddities in the War News A Berlin banker whose income is $7,000 a duy is among the prisoners interned in a Corsican concentration camp, where he performs manual laboy that brings him tho regular allowance of seven cents dually. More than $40,000,000 worth of jewelry and household goods have been pawned in Paris since the war began. To give children of soldiers who are at the frout a chance to help earn a living hundreds have been employed by the city to aid in killing rats, which did $400,000 damage {un Manchester, England, last yea. A Moslem cemetery will be established at Woking, England, for burtal of Indian soldiers killed on tho Continent. A terribly wounded Turco refused so take an anaesthetic before a deli- cate operation in a Parix hospital, but he insisted on having a plece of leather to bite on while the surgeon plied the knife. Six soldiers were enjoying a chicken feast in the field at Ramacapille when a German shel! burst on the table and killed five, ‘The German Press Bureau in New York announces that Emperor Fran- cls Joseph has bestowed the Order of Francis Joseph on Frau Stella yon ‘Tarnau von Dobryez, wife of a Colonel, for gallant fighting in the trencuhs, She ts the firat woman au honored, So many soldiers charged in castern German provinces with desertion said they were influenced by drink, the sule of all alcoholic liquors has been forbidden tn the provinues. ‘Twenty cooks formerly in a prominent London hotel, but now cooking for the soldiers, have prepared a menu for the dinner tho allied armies aro expected to give tf they march Into Berlin, Practically all alien walters have been ousted from London hotels since the war began, and many of tho hotels have signs: “No Alicn Enemies Are Empioyed or Served.” Two hymna are in the repertoire of British marching son; Christian Soldiers!" and “Oh Come, All Ye Faithfull” “Onward, Thirty officers of the Guards who had been tn the habit of dining at a certain London hotel have been killed since they lust met around the board there. WIDOWS OF RUSSIANS IN WANT IN LEMBERG; | 10,000 MEN INTERNED. | LONDON, A pitiful appeal has been Petrogead from Le | elie be extended to Russian widows, or? fo phi and other destitute: persv ¢ stranded in Galicia About 10,000 Kussians have been ar- rested by the Austrians. The Russian army rescued 2,000 of these men, The remainder were taken Into the interior of Hungary and nothing has been heard | of them since. The appeal ix indorsed by the Russian Governor-General of the portion of Gall- cia now under Russian control pla ale BRITISH PLEDGE NOT TO UNDULY DELAY AMERICAN SHIPS HELD FOR SEARCH. WASHINGTON, Dec, 3.-—Sir Ceell Spring-Rice, the British Ambassador. delivered to the State Department to- day a note giving assurances that Great Britain doen not intend to delay American sips unduly in searching them for contraband. Sir Cecil told Secretary Bryan and Counsellor Lansing that meats, cotton and other non-contraband products. light in weight, were often shipped in vessels which require heavier and Contraband articles, euch as copper v or other metals, for ballast and the Jattor usually being stored in the holds of # vessel necessarily pro longed the search While conceding the right of a natural privilege of a belli, time of war, the Unit States had stat- that examinations of should be conducted tritish Ambassador frort would lay earch an urging that > best customer. mixed drinks, nt Inj ohare | | | | | | | | el Truly said. And we are proud that the moderate man is our It is especially for him that we make a wonderfully mild and mellow Whiskey — Wilson — Real Wilson—That’s All! The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle, |for him-—money-—and he did not have 44 : 1914. ARE BACK IN COURT Mrs. Skirt Shorter Now Than When Dueas's Is Even) She Was Reprimanded. Pretty) Mra. fachelle N. Ducas tripped airily into Justion Blanchard’s part of the Supreme Court to-day, Wearing a neat little tatlor made sult, the skirt of which is aiorter cordance with the «eas mode than the skirt Mrs. Ducas wore when she appeared a vear anu | Now, ordinarily, length of a) woman's akirt would not cut much figure in a court of justice, but with Mrs, Ducas's skirt It's different. When sho came tnto court a year ago to defend herseif in a suit brought by her wealthy husband, Benjamin N. Ducas, a manufacturing chemiat, she wore a dainty, short skirt with a slash in the bottom of tt. As she sat beside her counsel her ankles, covercd with gray allk hose, could be easily seen. Suddenly Justice Gavagan lev- elled his fingor at her and said: “IT want to say to that voung lady In black that she ts disrespectful to this Court and that she ix making an In nes] the Indecent exposure of herself in a public place, If she wishes me to be more explicit, 1 will aay for her benefMt that hor lower Hinbs are in- sufficiently clad, She ts making too free an exhibition of them and to @ public place, too." The same two ankles were with Mrs, Ducas to-day, but there was no slash in the skirt. Mrs. Ducas's present trip inte court fs to try a sult she has started against her husband to increase her alimony. She claims the allowance of $6,000 for herself and ten-year-old son ta not adequate. Mra, Ducas, who saya hor hwaband, Benjamin N. Ducas, wealthy man facturing chemiat, called her an “ed cated foul,” took the witness stand and reveaied bits of his home-made Philosophy, epitomized by her as fol- lows ‘There wan only ono love tn this Iite room in his heart for two loves. People were good to make money on, but not to spend money on, Wives who had time to taks music lessons were lazy. Mrs. Ducas told Justice Blanchard her husband paid $12 a day for their suite in the Savoy Hotel, but gave her only $5 a week for her expenses, —— GIRL DIVER ARRESTED, BRIDGE LEAP STOPPED Miss Kenny Was About to Jump Off Brooklyn Bridge When Otticer “Butted In.” eget | tafant i AND MOTHER OYIRG” BABY NOT SUBSTITUTED |F#¥9S FOR HEIR T0 $500,000, MRS. SLINGSBY SWEARS Wite Denies Gas From Two Unlighted Fills Room When Daughter Arrives. Mra. Alice Page of No, 208 wt Street, Willlamsburg, worrted ty | failure of her mother, Mra. Josepa vinsky of No. 170 Woodbin« keep an appointment at noon went to her mother's home. She her mother's neighbors in the ment house discussing smell of gas with the janitress, of Rich Doings in’ Cali- fornia Alleged in Suit. Englishman LONDON, Dec. & Mrs Dorothy It was traced to the Levinsky’s y Slingsby, wife of Lieut) Charles 1.] which was broken down, Joseph Eee Slingsby of San Francisco, dented in| vinsky was found dead in bed, while: the Probate Court to-day the allega- | hia wife was dying beside ane ton that her son, heir to the Slingsby J eas burners were turned on, i state in Yorkshire, bad dled and that she had substituted for him another Three letters addressed to relatives i Levinsky's writing lay ona table, Mrs, Siagsby was wubjected to a severe cross examination, during which was brought out statements made by the witneas at the hearings held in San Franciseo by the Call fornia State Board of Health which led to the board to decide that her son had died and that she had sub- stituted a child belonging to Mrs Lilian Anderson of California Mra, Slingsby met there statements with aw sion of denials, She admitted that she had arranged for the Insertion of an advertisement tn a San Francisco newapaper concern: Ing the adoption of a child, but satd that she had done so merely to Krat- ity a whim She dented that Dr WoW. Freser! of San Franciaco had telephoned to her that he might be able to procure a child for her, or that she had ap- plied to the Associated Charities of San Francisco for an infant. She said she had not accepted from any person any child for adoption and swore that TRIMMED HATS To-day and Friday Only | Regular $8.75, $10, $15, $20 and $25 the present claimant was her own Grades ehild, { Upon the decision of the Court de- fondon pends th paition of an estate valued at $500,000 which by a special weer ernert provision of the will of the Rev, 59% Fulton St Brooklyn. 867 Broad Newark, N. J. Charles Slingsby wan to go to the heir of Lieut, Slingsby, in addition to the property Inherited by the Heutenant Franklin Simon 8 Co. Fifth Avenue * AN_IMPORTANT SALE For Friday Only Fur Trimmed Broadcloth Coats WOMEN'S SIZES 32 TO 44 BUST On Sale Fourth Floor Mi Nell Kenn an Australian professional swimmer, waa to have Jumped from Brooklyn for the movies at 2.80 this afternoon. Miss Kenny showed up on the ‘bridge at the ap- pointed hour in an automobile, with a big fur coat covering a one- plece bathing suit, the only apparel she wore, Ax she was leaving the car Patrolman Arthur J. Brown ar- rested her on the charge of uttempted suicide and took her to Police Head. quarters in Brooklyn. The police also arrested Alderson Leach, a moving picture photox- rapher of No, 109 Sherman Avenue, the Bronx; Abraham Lindau, a news- paper photographer, of No, 1001 Home Street, the Bronx, and Victor Kramer, a chauffeur, of No, 153 Weat Ninety eighth Street. They were charged with aiding Miss Kenny. When the prisoners were arraigned before Magistrate Geismar in Adama Street Court he discharged them and waid: “The next time you plan such a feat get your own bridge. Don't come back here again.” | oo BELIEVED HUSBAND DEAD. Cabaret Owne Wite FI ewer iu Annulment Sult, 2 Ane Believing her first husband, who had been missing for nine years, was legally dead, Mrs, Mamie Salvin wedded Ben: Jamin Salvin, proprietor of Faust's and two well known Broad: part owner of Perr ry that the husband still alive was made a few months When news of it reached Salvi MISSES’ SIZES 14 TO 20 YEARS On Sale Second Floor Fur trimmed coats for afternoon or evening wear, of ime ported broadcloth, in Russian green, seal brown, navy blue, black or mole, straight front button to neck flare model, with belted front, high standing collar and cuffs of skunk opossum fur, lined throughout with soft silk and varmly interlined 19.50 Regular price $29.50 Civet Cat Fur Cloth Coats FOR WIMEN AND MISSES Highest Grade Imported Civet Cat Fur Cloth, impossible to distinguish from the real fur Two exclusive models—one seven-eighth length, convers tible cross-over collar; flare skirt and wide detachable belt; the other a copy of “Bernard” Empire flare model with convertible collar; both models lined with extra quality satin. 29.50 brought suit in the Supreme Court to annul the marriage. In court to-day Mra. Salvin filed papers saying her husband knew that she had been mar- | ried before and that she believed her first husband Since last sum: t not been living togethe: Salvina have “In moderation lies prosperity.” FREE CLUB RECIPES—Pr:e -ook'et of famovs club recipes for Address Wilson, 31§ Puch ve, N.Y, That's Alli Regular price $59.50 Will Close Out Friday Misses’ Fur Trimmed Suits Late season’s models of broadcloth, velour de laine, gabardine or velveteen; trimmed with various furs; also plain tailored suits. 14 to 20 years. 18.50 Heretofore $29.50 to $59.50 No Alterations No Approvals ene i Sig? 4