The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1914, Page 3

sary j PT ELGAR ca Pe oer, Baie Ns Next Week’s Complete Novel in THE EVENING WORLD 1 *BRILLIANT BALLET |Dimple- Chee | BY SOCIETY GIRLS JN PANDORA'S BO "Pascinating Spectacle at Sev- Factory Blaze Communicated croft Surprise Their Friends J énth Regiment Armory Seen | to Tenements and Police and Relatives. ‘ by a Big Crowd. Save Many. ‘DANCING AND MOVIES. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Al- Tm « setting which for artistic etnplicity and beauty was equal to any much-praised ones on New ‘York stages, an enchanting Pandora enacted last night at the Seventh Regiment Armory the eternal atory of lovely woman tampering with the for- Widden, It to benefit the war re- Met work of the Vacation Committee that the ballet of “Pandora's Box” ‘was produced with a cast of one Miss ESTHER PACKARD | Fanged as # Greek theatre, the boxes! Humor to Coax Intimate Secrets From Her ee en aaa kastant Sisters Who Struggle Along on a Pitiful * dation from the floor, where, against pillared and trellised background, . Wage of $5 to $7 a Week. the ballet took place. ‘\ & majestic figure tn Greek dre- ? followed by t' ttendents, rraesa Uncurs tis cies of ths By Marguerite Mooers Marshall A tall, slender, pinkcheeked young woman “talked for hours the other aitorit ‘th in rire sere sounded by the orchese | 48¥ to the members of the State Factory Investigating Commission and an | $5, $6 or $7 a week. Without hysteria, with an effect of | calm detachedness, Mies Esther Packard read one after another of the pitiful budgets and the equally pitiful notes of explanation from the girl workers, who went without breakfast to buy shoes and stopped eating meat when they needed new suits, “How did she find it all out?” I wondered. “How did she collect those tragic histories of skimping and) stinting and never having quite enough of food or cloth-! ing or happiness?” { talked with her at the rooms of the Consumers’ promise of human love brought her League, No, 106 East Nineteenth Street, where she is ! by the Rosy Hours. Dow assistant secretary. Then I didn't wonder any more at her marvellously ‘The love idyl of Pandora and Epl-| intimate and detailed report of the llfe of low-paid working girls in New * @oroh was lighted and held aloft, and te sudden radiance revealed Edith ‘Wynne Matthison, who pronounced the prologue of the first episode. + MRO, FREDERICK DALZIEL WINS APPLAUSE AS PANDORA. Pandora, sent to earth to avenge 3 @he theft of the sacred fire from} Olympus, is charged with the mission! | %© bring mis*ry upon men with her $ grace and beauty, Wrought as a| > etatue, she is awakened ‘to life by the Bee ERA? wont ngs ANO be wou! tra. Midway the group paused, a! ®udience of sociologists, suffragists and college students on how girls live for | ] B, pl year, at Christ ventured to Orange. If abe ride in the evening she had to plan for It weeks ahead in order to spare THE LB RATHER ROOM 1 replied. in earning $6 a week and positively without other resource fasted on exe and milk, and twice mas and) New Year's, : TAS SVSNING WORLD, SATURDAY, DEUEMBER 5, MRS. HOWARD GOULD’S ked Factory Investigator Wins The Confidences of Underpaid Work Girls, OME GIRL AWGAD Swe PLANNED MONTHS Yo EAT AN ORANGE — LAG OF oop MigKT UNDERMINE THE MaeaLS attended by Miss Anna A. Col a mer ir a ae a} Yunéred society girts. cunce Ki Repthacze Loner and Policemen William Siana~ bore tiAigl ure hie page and To present the picture with the va cle’ han, Tynan, Gautier, Schaffer, Skelly les M. Coleman,’ of jew Ro- \ proper illusion the armory was ar- Esther Packard Has Enough of the Saving Sense of || 8e"%r cLomes aad ‘Thomas Gheely OF the Besehs chetfe “Annie was an OF-|a5 a social investigator. obviously free from th teed tendencies of mu lanthrop: She break- herself to wanted to take a on. Stirring Adventure Romance She ta so their window: trapped and | ume from the! ‘ h modern phi- “The gitl with a small salary often buys flimsy clothes, but it's because! carried down Fildie, soven; Joanette, she can't wet together enough money for better things,” her defender went “She knows It in wiser to buy ‘SCORES RESCUED ["sitcrefts6%eCoe WHEN BOM SETS IERSEY CTY FRE | Miss Barton and Albert A. Bee=¥ Tho friends and relatives ot Miss” Veronica Barton of Wildelif, New jo) Rochelle, known to her intimates @8/” “Vive,” and of Albert Arthur Bess |” croft, of Pelham Manor, were surpris- . | ed, to-day, by the announcement thet | 7 they were married in Now Rochalle, } THE DAMAGE IS $50,000. Rabbi Fights Way Into Blazing most Crowded Out—Miss Synagogue to Bring Out mio rege A ted ‘on a 1. Morgan Entertains. Parchments. young people had been engaged f0F fy) several years, and though no day had been set for thoir wedding, the pare” ents of both had approved the mateb, Mrs. Barton said, to-day, that tha! surprise marriage must have planned some (inte In advance, ag Was necessary to obtain a dispenses ton pormitting the marriage, while Je took place at the Church of the Bless: 4s! ed Sacrament, the ceremony balag. performed by the Rev. Father Cortes lus F. Crowley. The bridal pair’ were A fire believed to have been cauned by a bomb explosion in a factory building back of No, 311 Third street, Joraey City, at 3.90 A. M. to-da dangered many. lives, necessitated scores of rescues by police and fire- men, and furnished a variety of thrills for a large crowd. The loss is estimated at $50,000. A abort time after the explonion Lieut. Curry, Sergt. Lewis, Detective Hoth the bride and bridegroom have been prominent In yachting and owt. oor sports along the Westchester y shore, Mr. Beecroft is a son ri John Robert Beecroft, at one time a director of the Century Comy publishers, and hiv brothers are edits. tore of Foreat and Strean and Dramatia Mirror, Miss Harton amd) Mr. Beecroft won many yacht! on the Sound, jointly walling Soda 4 Precinct arrived to find the factory in flames, and a third alarm brought Fire Chief Conway. About the fac- tory are many two-story frame tene- ments, housing scores of persons, and the police began the work of getting them out. Within a short time the fre bad spread to No, 311 Third Street, in front of the factory. On tho second floor lived Walter Smith, his wife and six children. They were still asleep, although flames were darting nome of thelr windows, Policeman| “*BER Sladdan took Harry, three, and Har-| BIRCROFT, old, five, under his arms and carried | — get back the stairway caugne are. Mr. |PEW IN ALL WIGHT LINE BEFORE EAST SIDE BANKS: and Mrs, Smith were threatening to Diminish Before Public and four of their children wero still imprisomed and State Banks, Where Runs Are On. Beecroft’s yor’, Vanitie, Mrs. Barton sald to-day ¢ thought her toughter feared wedding would be disappointi her becauso of a difference the family which might make suck, ceremony embarrassing. b CONVICT NAMES TRIO. AS VIGE GANG GHIEF Massilotti, Bronx “White ery; Makes Full Confession to District: with them, Lieut. Curry ised @ ladder and} Throngs nine; Edna, fourteen, and Lillie, fit- teen, The parents were (hen assisted ly, the extra nickel. She considered it}one pair of 35 cent stockings than|to the street. y i metheus follows with the gift of the| York. For Miss Packard 1s herself first of all a véry nice human girl extravagant to own more than one| five 10-cent pairs, but when she neods| “ov ineasma floor Morris Moskowite| Lines of depository, but smaller Attorney Martin. j box, the woman's curiosity, his stern | She is a graduate of Smith College, has obtained her mastcr's degree | dress at a time, but was paying her] the stockings she haa 10 centa in her | f he | * — command to leave the cover unlifted, at Columbia and has attended the School of Philanthropy. For four years landlady $2.50 in 35-cont-a-weok as pocket instead of 85 cents. jand ne write nd eae than for the last two days, stood[ District Attorney Martin of the 4 her disobedience, the tragic sequence | she has bden engaged in soclal work. But ehe has big blue eyes, flufty|durable second “hand ‘frock, "She| wophieel about. their eeraition Piney | and moka. ob, Wek al ed area the | Arty capeeuad, Beeee er aes conssentere Haar of the escaping wishes and the com- | ; planned bh : Less ; jand smoke, The woman was carried | wating for the Public Bank at Lud. {cured a full confession from Frame golden-brown hair and « dimple in the middle of her pink cheek. Despite| Planned her expenses to the last| ace no chance of anything better and! nuns tadder and Moskowlts fol co Masailottl, now seryii ten a ing of sweet Hope to bless the for- bo, rather portentous programme during the last few years, she basa sense |P40nY:, she wan superiatively ‘aen-|they resign themacives, ‘The other) 100" 4 : i low and Delancey Streets, and the |°°*°o Manallottl, now sery! siveness of Epimetheus. of humor and THE sense not to take herself too seriously Judging from Buin aid Gone Meg Aya bic ola Perse phy DNL ral reagan gh Haney Seah ee sueat is tne fstate BaTk: &§ Ne. 90 tes folk Mined, to ah er weer peppers . ick Dalziel as Pandora g ne and nerves. work’ doesn't soothe them, ‘I'd rather| and jumped. He was caught in the},, , ‘i : for trading in women. dinplnyed tn tivtncen and grace im ber| Most of the social investigators I have met, I should think the uninvesti-|GIVES THE GIRL@ CREDIT FOR|h° $10 a week than ® reat room) arms of several policemen and er AU the State Dank, where the tine |@#lt Ne wanted to “clear his soul” by S em said to me. ry ie rire ‘ " dancing that brought great applause, | ated would much prefer remaining in that lowly atate. Miss Packard, how- COMMON SENSE. Pree uel money Tcoutd reat mys|caped with « few bruises and cuts. | nog numbered 400 by daylight, there | telling the truth, lest he die in prigom ‘The process of her awakening, «s| ever, is an exception. “The working girl has to be s0| self! | In No, 313, 2 brick house to Which | wore only slxty or seventy in line . a effected first by the Rosy Hours—led| “I went to xen the girs at their | managers were ready to do anything | *ensible before she can get any sym-| “Girla who Work on leas than a liv. | the fire next spread, were forty beF- | this morning. The first was @ woman, | fti% "tory corroborated the skmue. * by Audrey Osborn, Camilla Morgdén|homes," she explained simply, when|I asked. oat in eenaties Miss Packard, }ing waxe are constantly siighting one | sons. Firemen and policemen carried | wing had heen there aince 3 o'clock, CD Ge ptecrdla 4 por kis the .¢’ and Vouletti Proctor—and next by the/I asked her in just what way she] “At my request { met some of the | amused. “Did To ever ae ee eee ne ne Murtiing theme | most of them down ladders. |She sald she was Satah Nelstock and |the Hronx vice syndicate and @e- Playmates—with Dorothy Battie, Eu-|had approached theni. “I apent a year | most intelligent workers, who would | how to spend their $6 wisely? 1 did| selves physically and likewine tho| 18 the meantine No. 40% a Jewish | a: who lived in Brooklyn, Dectally the story told by Deli Maia nice Clapp, Mrs, Langdon Geer, Caryi|on the work, t-...ing with thousands |underatand what I was driving a@|not. I knew they all spent tt more|next generation. Our investigation | S¥nagogue, bad caught fre, Rabbi ‘Tho first person in line at the Pub- Pe ly age. reat o Seas ng a detaile’ atudy itions of some three Sometimes I talked to them at the shops, but I didn't like to do that be- Hackstaff, Beulah Hepburn, Rhoda|of girls and m of the living oc wisely than I possibly could. Oh, 1 should get so tired of being told con- has proved that wages are not even regulated by efficiency; the bold girl Moyer Kass had been awakened by Ho Bank, where the number the oxplosion in his home at No. 303, beterd base to Mr. Martie, ‘Tanner and Margery Shannon—was | tinually to eat soup instead of choco. | freauently gets a raixe over her shyer only long enough to |!arer, was Hyman Gilahik of No. 176) | The story, according: @ tripping fantasy. hundred. These last were scattered all {cause the manager would Kee» com- jiate eclaira and buy ugly, senaible| but, more competent mister, Person |draw on, his (rousere,, ran. to, the | Orchard Street, who wore a cap with |indicated Antonio Duranso, now & ‘There was nothinv more poetic injover the State of New York and/ing in and out of the room and the | things instead of flimay, pretty ones!" |ally, 1 think that the only olution is|scone, The synagogue was burning eartabs, which he had turned down, Lay ‘onthe Apnelli Carfaro, girl wouldn't fancy there may be a clone con- ei ‘righ . ik frankly. such | a T always made a point o: goin; to her house afterward, Then si the minimum wage, and for those who cannot earn ft a aystem of trade training achools.” drawn from four groups of women who receive especially low y-ages—the Inside and huad: re clamoring to be allowed to go in and save the two Torahy, or parchment the ensemble than the onset of the Fireflies when, with Marietta Hip- kins and Beulah Hepburn to captain and a heavy ulster to protect him from the cold wind of “The Don” Carfaro, now ai talal and John Wilson, who bas to Italy, as the managers of the s nection between auch impulses on Mise Packard's part and her success ae that swept department store workers, the shirt makers, the paper box makers and/ the confectionery girls. EMPLOYERS READY FOR HER, BUT SHE REACHED GIRLS. “No, I myself did not work 1. any of the places. That |! an excellent way to meet the girls in case you are them, tbey slipped in and out among the Hours and swayed to their measure. Miss Hipkins and Mis: Hepburn wero the lightsome jndivi- dual dancers of this group. Marie Dorsey, ax Hermes, played ‘one of the most exacting roles, The ddesses Hera (Miss Burton Smith), thene (Miss Marjorie Curtis), Ar- might say, ‘I wanted to tell you how, long wo were laid off last spring but; I was afraid the manag.: would hear and wouldn't like it.’ HER INTERMEDIARY DID HER; WORK WRONG WAY. | “Then I vial : ee deuce adidecd eiiimant barred out by tue head. «! the shops| charitable homes for working girls. | Meer equtifully robed beauties. Sybi|and factories. But the . amission| ‘They would be out wden I called in and the daytime, and the matron would make an appointment for me to see any shop or factory girls among her boarders that evening, Then, when | sho broke the news to the girls, she usually did it in the wrong way and they got the notion that I y... some sort of spy. As I went into the front door they'd slip out at the tick, “When I've asked the girls directly how they spent thelr wages I've not infrequently had the answer, ‘None of your business.’ And it .wasao't,” Maitland was the coy Epimethe; Angelica Brown a fair Hope. ‘ MOVING PICTURES AND DANC- + & ING FOLLOW BALLET. % ‘The ballet over, moving pictures of |“ the war wore shown before the floor was given over to general dancin) In the pillared nooka little tables for upper were set and the affair be came a mingling of mortals and im. mortals, for the company retained its costumes. ‘At the last moment Mra, Cornelius ’ Vanderbilt brought over her dinner eats for the spectacle, and could , ind no adequate accommodation, 80 3 Maud» Wetmore, head of ‘the Women's Department of the Civic Federation, promptly offered her box. Other persons in'view were Mrs. John ‘ays Hammond Janet Fis! rs, Daniel App MY. and Mri Beth Low, rancs MeNelli Bacon, Mr: William Bliss, Miss Georgiana Owen, Miss Jultana 8 Cutting, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robs | qi pe wold in the bazuar hag been : Gate ‘McClellan, Mra. “Frederick j donated and all the services of those Whitridge and Miss Gertrude Robin-| who are working for its success are won Smith, head of the Vacation Come | given xo that none of the money taken malee. Anne Morgun, who directea |! will have to go toward expenses. the benefit, entertained several guest: The bazaar will be Mr, and Mrs, August Belmont also} o'clock in the evening. ery 6 a Smbassy at Washington, ind evening. ‘The proceeds (German Em aT noonly women with work in the| Ambasador Dumba of Austria-Hun- shops of the War Relief Committer vy. Glynn, Mayor Mitehi where clothing is made for the Ame was backed by State authority, you see, and I never received anything but pollte co-operation from employ- “They were propared for me,” added Miss Packard, with a twinkle of reminiscence in he. biue eyes. "I think they expected some sort of ogress. You see,I was the last of sev- eral investigators for the commission. Tho others examined the books to find out how much money was pald out in wages, and before he left each one said darkly, ‘Another person from the commission Is coming, a youne woman, who will talk.to your wom- en workers, So when I appeared the candor, “any business of mine, as an| individual. But when 1 explained to| those same girls what the commission was trying to do and that they per- sonally would be in no way impli- cated, thelr names not being used, 1 found them ready to help. A numbe of them said frankly that they didn't expect to benefit by what we might do, but that they were glad to per- form their part in the hope that con- ditions would be bettered for some other girls. After they once started I think they honestly enjoyed talking ov their troubles—letting themselves go, Mias Packard added. T am convinced girls would like to talk to her, GIRLS DISS*F7 1SFIED WITH! THEIR LOT. | living in furnished rooms ‘Thirty-fourth tinue until De “Those Hn, froin their famil CATE the 7 a 01 ‘amilies seemed fean boepitals at front a. Austria-Hungary Nuber | especially to feel the hardship of not meveres, von Pereked, Dr. Bernhard Dernberg, | being able to, discuss their worries | with any one,” she continued, “The. invariably said that the ii could get y lived at home. On the other hand, those who were with their people were usually weighed down by the responaibility of maintaining or nearly intainin, Alphonse Koeble and Henry Weis nan MEvery night will be a special night and singers, German and Austrian societies and other organizations will AND AUSTRIAN VICTIMS OF WAR OPENS TO-NIGHT, pooh have un evening in thelr honor, we. 6 is the German singers’ nigh | A. German-Austrian-Hungarian ba- | D& 901" he’others will be knows vaar for the benefit of the widows and jartists’ night, Brooklyn and Queens orphans in those countries who have | night, Arion night, when the Arion iM play; ladies’ night and fuffered as the result of the war will | Orchestta wht pity: thee h ray 1H} the Gnai Pai —_-—— BAZAAR TO AID GERMAN Oe ere the! was most tie case found?’ f asked, nel be opened to-day in the Seventy -first Ragiment Armory, Park Avenue and | Dea , tov oo dene aa Moslem Kirghese have despatched 500 of their finest horses to Petro- grad as a special war offering to the Czar. A wounded British soldier, asked to describe his sensations In Hattle of the Aisne, said: “There was a terrific bang. Then the nurse said, ‘Sit up and drink this.’" Martin Gaffey and his brother John, whonf he hadn't seen in sixtcen years, were wounded in the Flanders fighting and met for the first time Christmas of next year they will Miss Packard admitted, with smiling| in that period in Cardiff military hospital. The war has uncovered many American income tax dodgera living in| Street, according to a transfer deed ey all have to register with the American Consulates, and in| filed Europe. this way Washington ts getting thelr names, Although Arras is practically in ruling, it ts bombarded four houre a] owner of a Third Avenue restaurant. day by Germans, and an average of 200 shells fall on it during that time. terday for the A protective aeroplane squad of four machines cruises constantly ov Paris during the day, and promenaders are developing the “aeroplane nec! from watching Out of a total of 497 members of the French Parliament, 200 are serving with the army, | front temporarily to attend a m home tn Parts: Reports from Ghent say there is an “epidemic of suicide: Flanders, News of the loss of the British dreadnought Auduclous was printed yes-| to-day. Tt was copied from American news- papers and the censors had eliminated the name of the vessel and the locality where it w firat time in London. nk. the: and the Cabinet Is trying to arrange for them to lei ting of Parliament aoon, Mary Garden ts In London on her way to America “to eat Christmas dinner with mother and father and rush back to my hospital She says she will not have the heart to sing again for a A spectator on tho fighting line in Flanders writes that although 100,000 men are within range of vision, only a few French soldiers are bl tue household, They always said that | except where fighting is going on, the most impressive thing is the absence they'd be all right if they had no of movement and noise, northwestern France and Oddiliesin the War News A boy of seven left his fleeing family to return to an Aisne villag which was under bombardment to rescue his school books. He explained Sie didn't want to give the Germans a chance to learn French. nd refugee in the Ger-| ure Sage ae Oe fdied th ae emitted | 8 tO On , and was scrolla of the law. through Ludlow Street. Mr. Martin sald that ‘The police tried to prevent the! it was not known whether the cold|¢"\vsgon wae of value in rabbi trom risking his life, but bel weather, a calmer feeling among the ictions, he would aak thet fought past the rushed into the silotti’s sentence be reduced. burning building and emerged in tri- umph with the Torahs, which were carried to a negrby store and put in a safo place, The synagogue was not entirely destroyed, WILL RECEIVE $50,000 IF THEY MARRY IN YEAR Father of Sarah Somer, Prospective Bride, Files Provisional Real Estate Transfer. If Miss Sarah Somer becomes the bride of Dr. Istdore Apfelberg, of No, 102 Sixth Street, Manhattan, by have a half Interest, valued at $60,000, In a six-story tenement at No, 157 Monroe eople or the fact that to-day is the Jewish Sabbath was responsible for the smaller numbers In line. raw IMPERILLED BY MINE, DUTCH LINER REPORTS Officer on Nieuw Amsterdam Pep- pers Sea Menace With Rifle Bullets. | The Nieuw Amsterdam of the Hol- land-America Line, which arrived to- day with 530 passengers, reported a narrow escape from a floating mine in the North Sea, five hours out from Rotterdam, It was seen by the watch, 200 feet off the starboard bow. Ships of the line have been equipped with heavy callbred rifles for the destruce tion of mines. From the bridge Seconda Officer Van Erp fired forty shots into the mine, Because of the choppy sea he was unable to strike the exploding trigaer but he made ugh holes tn the of the machine to insure its sinking. ——___- JERSEY GIRL HURLED YARDS BY LOCOMOTIVE. Anxiety to Get Trolley Car om Track Beyond May Cost Victim Her Life. Her anxiety to catch a trolley ear may cost Miss Pauline Morrison ie No. 699 Schuyler Avenue, Artingtem,) N. J, her life. At the Erie u Station in Arlington, early } he tried to cross the tracks in 4 of » New York commuters’ train ims order to catch the trolley to ; waiting on the other side ef tracks. ‘The engine etruck the young . an, throwing her several yards te eget)” side in the presence of horrified sped [| U f ae in the County Clerk's oMfce. Miss Somer, who is seventeen years old, ts the daughter of Wolf Somer, tators. She was rushed to the Memorial Hospital at Kearny both arma brokes end a fractured, skull. At her home, No, 1165 Fulton Avenue, the Bronx, ehe told of her romance oe ‘The Dutch Government has forbid- | #ul! ‘ “We met at @ friend's home and|qen sailings from Holland ports ex-| The docters: he ag te watt bave known each other several |cept 2 Se, ONY, OrHIng, 60 thee trong hope Bi Nh . "Ol | venselas ma: . —_—_—>—— it re ee ik twenty rive ven, [infested aren in daylight. ASK HALF-HOLIDAY TO SHOP... asked me to be his wife, Fitty Thousand Government © Apfe old, 1 con- ented and at once told my parents, |Dr. Apfelberg has been at the house jeeveral times and has met my pur- ORPHAN HOME NEEDS FUNDS, Nad Formerly Been Matertally Ase stated by J D, Arehbold, An appeal has been fasued by st. Christopher's Home, a Methodist ore phan asylum at Dobbs Ferry, for $3,000 to prevent the institution from finish- ing the year tn debt. John D. Arch- bold, the Standard Ol! magnate, is ao member of ihe Board of Managers, erctofore, for many years, Mr. ry Tien Archbold have contributed th it rt WASHINGTON, Dec. the eight-hour-day law for clerks prevents stores from evenings, 60,000 Gover: ‘eu, that ts all true, “and [ike the young A xhter is now too young to be marrivd, do not belleve ta lung | engageme! To mako certain this would not be a long engagement | have deeded a half interest in thi .| tenement to them if they are marrie before Christmas of next year.” Mr. Somer the | anid, man. An | while my Fell Sixty Feet to Dew William Racker, forty-two years old, assistunt foreman of & gang that je laying a third track on the Bighth Ave- nue cleyated road, went out to meas- a wv at One Hui nd