The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1914, Page 3

Sea an eer ae) oe Py Te ae CINE EC De? Weeder “ Say Gia + STRANATS AUTO OF BRIDAL PARTY: TREE ARE DEAD Women Succumb in Hospital After Paterson Minister Is Ground Under Wheels. : THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 FRENCH LINE OFFICIALS ~ FEAR FOR THE FLORIDE Ocean Liner Which Left Havre Seventeen Days Ago Is Now Six Days Overdue. Officials of the French Line are deeply concerned over the steamship Floride, now siz days overdue on her run over from Havre to this port. Tremendous gales’ in mid- Atlantic have been reported by recent, Incoming vessels, The boat, one of the smallest of the line, eajled from Havre, Capt. Buck commanding, on Nov. 24, seven- teen days ago. She carried twenty- four cabin passengers and fifteen in the steerage. The boat must have encountered severe northwestern storms soon after going to sea and, midway across the ocean, plunged into the north- eastern hurricane which swept over the eastern part of the United States and out to sea this week. The Floride is a single screw steamer with @ speed of only 12 knots. She ie of 4,244 tons burden, 406 feet lon, foot beam and draws 89 feet. This is the second time her failure to get in on schedule time has caused worry to her owners, In De- cember, 1907, she came to port five days overdue, —— WELL! HERE’S SUING WIFE WHO WANTS NO ALIMONY! Mother-in-Law, Fritz Nave's Nemesis, Tells How Summons Was Served on Him in Bed. 8. Frits Nave's mother-in-law was the Nemesis he couldn't shake when he deserted his pretty young wife, 14 feet to the roof of a aljoining. ONE DYING FROM se NCENORY FRE outer alll of a window near the and crawled over a narrow an open window of the building Heroes Risk Lives and Suffer Injuries in Taking Women and Children to Safety. New Discovery Rivals ‘‘Twilight Sleep’’; To End Race Suicide, Says Vance Thompson THE DAWKING OF MOTHERMODO WiThoUT PEAR, we door. 3 Willlam Healy of No. 444 West Ga Hundred and Forty-fourth street, went in with Fireman Dwyer minutes after the fre was di found Mrs, Katherine Burne ané@ q four small children on the fourth Geer and guided them to the fire 4 from which they were later takes firemen, all slightly burned. WOMAN AND CHILDREN ARE PAINFULLY BURNED, bt next went to the top where he found Mrs. Delia Ward f her three small children. They were | taken to the roof and assisted to the] roof of an adjoining tenement on the avenue, all painfully burned, ; John Gerrity was caught betwees the first and second floors and palm- — fully burned before he was, rescued) ~ by Joseph P. Ryan, Democratic leader ~ of the Nineteenth Assembly District, Mrs, Elizabeth Leahy had to be ried down a ladier by firemen, ag had been burned in her effort te cape. Frank Zambino, his wife and daughter, who live on the fifth were painfully burned before wero rescued by firemen, as were John Zampian, her son, CROSSING UNGUARDED. BLAST HAMPERS WORK. Inquiry Is Begun to Fix Blame for Fatal Accident in Hackensack. Scores of Other Persons Se- verely Burned by West Side Blaze. ‘Two more deaths, bringing the fatalities up to three, occurred in the hospital at Hackensack, N. J., to-da: asa result of a collision at the Essex Street railroad crossing at Hacken- sack last night, between an automo- bile carrying five persons and a Su! quehana train, in which Rev, Charles L. Merriam, pastor of the Auburn Street Congregational Church in Pa! erson, was instantly killed. M Merriam and Mrs. David Stewart Hamilton, wife of the rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church in Paterson, died this morning from their injuries. } Rev. Dr. Hamilton and James Kan chauffeur of the car, are in the hos pital in a precarious condition. It is " feared the shock of his wife's death will have a serious offect upon Dr. Hamilton. County Physician Armstrong to-day 5 Ft Ida Gordon, eight years old, is dead of burns she received in a fire at No. | 499 West One Hundred and Twenty- |fourth street, corner of Amsterdam Avenue, early to-day. Her three-year-old sister, Ruth, dying in Harlem Hospital. The father, Samuel Gordon, is seriously burned, but will recover. The mother escaped with slight burns. Many other tenants of the house were painfully burned. The biase is believed to h been started by an incendiary In a pile of papers under the ground floor atatrs. | At first @ bomb was thought to have been eet off, but the police dgcided later the explosion that ga¥e rise to | the belief was due to gas. John Young of No. 452 West One CIVILIZATION HAS for burns received in his work cue, as did Mr, Healy, who had @ua ted to safety five adults and children, and Mr. Young, the who discovered the fire. The fire went up through ¢! enion. explosion blew o' of the side wall on the round! and set fire to T. E. Hathorne’s cery store, but it was damaged slightly. French Chémist’s Drug Which Renders Childbirth Painless Revealed by American Writer Who Pre- dicts an End to Fear of Motherhood and Sees “Love Looking Into the Eye: of Love Unafraid.” . began an Investigation to fix respon- sibility for the accident. Dr. A. 8. Alexander, a prominent Paterson physician, was married to Mrs. Mary McLean Gibbs, widow of a Paterson clergyman, yesterday in New York, and Dr. Hamilton, Dr, Merriam and their wives were return- ing from the wedding to their homes in Paterson in Dr, Alexander’s auto- mobile, when they were run down at the dangerous an unprotected Essex Street crossing on the outskirts of Hackensack. Dr. Hamilton officiated at the Alex- ander wedding, which was in Grace Church, Manhattan. He and Mrs, Hamilton came from Paterson with Dr. Alexander and Mrs. Gibbs in the automobile, Following the ceremony at the church there was a luncheon at the Hotel Astor. After the luncheon Dr, and Mra, Alexander started on their honeym. and the Kev. Dr. Hamilton and his wife, who were going back in the physician's car, invited Mr. and Mre, Alerriam to actompany them, Beyond the sussex Koad, which is so smootp that it has been used as a speedway for motorists. Two blocks above the railroad crossing {san incline. It said the machine was going down «+ hill at fast speed. At the foot of the incline ts the Lodi branch of the Sus- quehanna Railroad. The branch line {fs @ one-track road, over which runs @ train com- posed of a locomotive and a combina- This train left Hacken- tion coach. wack at 6.05 and reached the crossing at the moment the automobile started across, The Rev. Dr. Hamilton was on the front seat with the chauffeur. pilot of the locomotive both men were hurled out. foot before it could be stopped. Rev. ‘tonneau with his wife and Mrs. Ham- ‘jlton, was tossed under the wheels of ¢ . the locomotive and ground to death, \ As the automobile was broken to “pieces.Mrs. Merriam and Mrs, Ham- Htom fell to the sides of the track, Ambulances came from Hackensack Hospital. Dr. Hamilton, his wife, airs. Merriam and the chauffeur were unconscious, They werehurried to the hospital. Drs, J. Howard McFadden, St. John and White of Hackensack and Drs. McBride and Todd of Pater- gon took charge of them. In an ef- fort to save Mrs. Hamilton's life tra- panning was performed. ebb i EUGENIC LAW FOR ILLINOIS. | ‘cr Legislative “Congr Favors Marriage Statute, ‘kensack the party took As the automobile was picked up by the They fell an either aide of the track. The train ea e Mr. Merriam, who was in the * of Women Mrs. Clara C, Nave, and leased an apartment for another woman at No. 119 West Seventy-first street, accord- ing to testimony given to-day before Supreme Court Justice Erlanger, in Mrs. Nave's suit for divorce. Three detectives were on Nave's trail for a month, trying to trap him with his wife's rival. When their efforts lagged for lack of clues, Mrs. Nave's mother, Mrs. Clara B, Car- Penter, wpurred them on. She told about it on the witness stand to-day. “The detectives got definite infor- mation about Mr. Nave on Oct. 12, last," she said. “Two of them and I went to the Seventy-firat Street apartment on the night of Oct. 13 and rang the bell of an apartment. A woman, barefooted and wearing a nightgown, came to the door. We all walked in. She led the way to the bedroom. Mr. Nave was there, in bed, but he opened his eyes iong enough to be handed a summons in my daughter's suit.” Smartly frocked and furred, Mre. Nave said sho was married to Nave in Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 19, 1910. There were no children and Mi Nave sald she desired no alimon: Nave is a aon of Samuel Nave, millionaire Wholesale grocer of "St. Joseph, Mo. “FINAL VICTORY ALLIES,” GRAND DUKE PREDICTS, CONGRATULATING BRITISH LONDON, Dec. 11 (United Press) Congratulations and prophecy of ulti- mate victory for the allies was con- tained in @ message received to-day by the British Admiralty from Grand Duke Nicholas. “Having heard the good news of the brilliant victory gained by Admirul Sturdee,” the message read, “I has- ten to offer my own warm congratu- lations and those of the Russian fleet and army. . “This splendid exploit of the British fleet serves to strengthen our un- shakable confidence in ultimate suc- cess for the allies’ cause,” ———_——_ SERVIAN VICTORY OVER THE AUSTRIANS CONFIRMED AT NISH. LONDON, Dec. 11 (Assoctated Pross). —A despatch from Nish, Servia, to Reu- ter's Telegram Company gives additional details of the recent overwhelming vic- fory over the Austrians claimed by the Servians in Northwest Servis. “The pursuit of the enemy ia pro- ceeding along the whole line,” says the statement, and centre.” “especially on our left By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “For the firet time since that harsh“curse wae laid upon Eve, love may look into the eyes of love snafraid stripped of peril and torture and fear.” Thus Vance Thompson describes the coming of the new motherhood, that is no longer overshadowed by the dark cloud of pain and dread. as the writer of enter weaver of the “Ego Boo! phy. But in a current magazine he speaks with earn- estness and authority of a new scientific discovery which lad tidings of great joy” to every woman. For it fs and children. ‘ Moreover, the treatment which Mr. Thompson describes has most con-|pain. In the ot! rvative and authoritative support. The drug used was discovered by the fi mous French chemist, Georges Pauli ducted by Dr. Ribemont-Dessaigne, the most distinguished gynecologist in Europe; the treatment hae been accepted by the French Academy of Medi- cine, and it was about to be introduced by the French Government in every town and village of France when the war broke out. Even at present it is used in all the Paris hospitals. We should have heard about it before now, ave that the cables have been burdened with news of the infliction of pain rather than of its prevention. “The discovery seems to me one of the greatest the world has ever known,” Mr. Thompson declared, with frank enthusiasm, when I talked with him in his home at No. 611 West One Hundred and Fifty-second Street. “Motherhood without fear ts as morphine desintoxiquee, which means simply morphine with the toxie or poisonous qualities nearly all re ed, Im the average case a single injection of this drug is sufficient to produce palalers The statement reviews the fighting from Dee the CHICAGO, Dee, 11,—Tho first legis- lative "Congress" of Illinois women, called by Lieut. Gov, Barratt O'Hara to formulate a tentative programme of social legislation to be offered to the State Legislature, to-day received the report of its Policy Committce, recommending approval of @ cugentc Jaw, demanding @ health certificate from Both parties to a marriage con- 3 to 7 inclusive, eatimaies prisoners at Upward of enumerates an immense and varied assortment of war ma- terial captured, including an entire artillery depot. tot (i | Artist Leaves Bulk of Estate tc Counte: The will of Loyis Gaurier Gregory, an artist who died Nov. 3 at Florence, Italy, was offered for pro! in Brooklyn x his brother, y WwW. Gregory of Bayside. 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You will be surprised to see how | quickly your energy, ambition and appetite will come back to you, Limene ect 10c, 25¢ and 50c 0 Bon, et All Drug Sterea, * or almost painless childbirth, without in any way delaylag ‘the normal functioning of the birth process, The child suffers no ill effects, and the mother is not only spared suffering, but is insured a quick return to complete health and vigor. “The medicament was obtained by)Laurent, experimented with it for treating a solution of chlorhydrate of| years, using various animals. After morphine with a living ferment, pro- | repeated successes they went to Dr. ducing a soluble crystallized sub-|Ribemont-Dessaigne, who ts in gen- stance. The French chemist, Georges |eral charge of the maternity cases In Poulin, and his assosiate, Dr. Pierre|most of the leading Paris hospitals. Oddities in the War News ‘As an evidence of the “Cheer up!” tendency in England, King George has asked that the holiday season be appropriately observed, a \d_ besides many eocial events under way, the big hotels are resuming their daily dances, A train bearing 1,500 wounded Germans was wrecked between Gemnes- veck ond Aix-la-Chapelle, and many who had escaped death from bullet and shell were killed in the craah. Rear Admiral Rouarch, commanding a brigade of French fusiliers in Belgium, held a position in the face of almost daily attacks of a stronger force of Germans for more than a month, He has been made a commander of the Legion of Honor as a reward, The censor cut out one paragraph of President Wilson's message to Congress as cabled to a Paris paper, but Paris cannot know what was elim- inated until copies of the message are received by mail. Mme. Curie, discoverer of radium, and member of the French Academy, is a Firitish Red Cross Hospital nurse in Belgium, Restaurants in Petrograd are allowed to stay open until 3 A. M. in a speciul effort to ralse money to send warm clothing to every soldier, Russia's most famous singers make the rounds, singing, and then pasing the hat, An aeroplane, launched from one of the battleships, is believed to have aided the British squadron in locating the German ships destroyed off South America. ‘twenty-three mounted Turks landed at Bouras, near Odessa, as an army of invasion, and actually penetrated four miles before they were cap- tured by Russians. Mrs. Clara Washington-Lopp of the Hotel Belleclair has undertaken to furnish every soldier in Europe with a New Year's smoke, and is asking for donations of tobacco, which she will ship at her own expense, For the firat time in King George's reign a number of American news- papers are now being received regularly at Buckingham Palace, One cigar and two cigarettes daily will hereafter be supplied by the War Office to every Bavarian soldier in the field. Ata recent “funeral” in a Belgian village the coffin, filled with Mauser rifles of the Civil Guard, was buried near the churchyard to prevent them falling into the handa of the German: ‘The most popular Christmas toys on gale in the London shops are Red Crogs wagons and Red Cross dolls, For the first time in German history the Iron Cross has been awarded to @ gypsy, Paul Dieck, who distinguished himself in the fighting at Diz- nna teatime nee entre ‘ ra We know Mr. Thompson|A woman of an aristocratic French ining short stories and the/| family offered herself for the firat wittily inspiriting philoso- | Periment, @ process of painless childbirth, simpler and some say surer, than even Personally, observed by the great the wonderful “Twilight Sleep” that has spared and saved so many mothers{Frénch physician and his associate the deciding experiments were con-|‘bother’ with a second injection. ade possible by a drug known | It was completely euc- cesaful, 5 FIGURES PROVE EFFICACY OF THE NEW MEDICAMENT. “In eighty-four out of 112 cases the mothers suffered absolutely no cases the pain was 0 alight that the mothers refused to Every child lived, and three out of the 112 mothers brought twins into the world. i “The tremendous advantage of thie treatment is that it requires | M0 speci elaborate watching by doctor or nurse. In nearly every case one injection is suf- ficient to act prope ment to every doctor in France, vaccine and anti-toxin are supplied them. im can use morphine sintoxiques the home as ly as in the hospita ven how the drug is employed in the Parisian hospitals, being formally accepted by the French Academy of Medicine the third week in July. For fifteen years they've been expectantly discussing such @ treatment in France. When at length it was evolved doctors were as ready to welcome ft as lay- men, There was nothing like the attitude of indignant protest assumed by so many American physicans at the mere suggestion of childbirth without pain. They seem to think that the laity should be barred from con- sidering such a@ question,” Mr. Thompson added, with fine acorn. “They forget that it's the laity who must have the children!” WHERE NATURE MAY BOW TO SCIENCE, “Men physicians are sufficiently keen in the investigation of tubercu- it cancer and other suffering which falls on @ man as often as on @ wom- an," I observed, “It's easy to dismian as ‘natural’ the torture you yourself need never endure.” “Ot course,” nodded Mr. Thompson. “Still, you must do men the justice to udmit that they have at length worked out the problem of painless mother- hood, “Suppose it is ‘natura’ to suffer when th into the world. ip a jet out ural’ phenomenon, of the way when isn't {t true," I suggested, “that the suffering which maternity causes to-day is not even natural, tn the sense of boing primitive? Clothes and other processes of civilization have put a long distance between our women and the savage mother,” “Certainly,” said Mr. ‘Thompaon. “The finer your brain and nerves and sensibilities, the more you feel phy- sical pain, ‘Take the French woman, a very highly developed type. She has rebelied against the agony of mother- hood, and who can blame her? Let the man who does so first give him- self an honest answer as to whether he would risk death and long-drawn- out torture to supply the State with citizens. Why, if such @ proposition ing all over the land. before me observed |nee them seatta |scape,” the 1 acathingly. SUICIDE. “The finer, more highly civilised men of t are rebelling against Bey Re El le a nas were seriously put up to men you'd |», AN END TO THE CRIME OF RACE ct love. They feel the unfatrness, the injustice of the altuation, it why the psychological side of moth: hood without fear is so interesting. It will cause women to look at men without fear, men to gaze in women's eyes without shame. “Motherhood freed from pain and fear of pain means an end to the rai OY gie. Last eum- mer in France, where the popula- tion hi ft felts years wey were amilin ly an ing ‘We, will Rave more ohitdeen now. It will be the same where- ever doctors are equipped with the pain Brevending medicament. “And I believe that the ere averred Mr. Thompson. fore birth, they are the Sisters of child who comes into the world with- out suffering, who has never been troubled by a thought of dread be- fore his birth, jould be finer, gentler, nobler than the child of to- Th real superman is simply one who conquers nature. The painlessly born child conquers nature in the very act of his being—what more inevitable he should keep on?” At America will have chance to find out what he'll do, The American mother will insist on that. er adieerinetien MRS. REEVES GETS ALIMONY. Pay Wife Barlesque Actor ™ 9850 « Month. MINEOLA, N. Y., Dec. 11.—Suprome Court Justice Frederick E. Crane this morning filed an opinion giving Mrs. Almeda Reeves alimony in the sum $350 per months and counsel fe $1,000. ‘Justice Crane said he wan partly moved to grant tho large all- mony by the counter suit for divorce with which Al Reeves, the actor, re- lied to the original suit of the wife ‘or absolute divorce. The counter ault made it needful for the plaintiff in the original sult not only to prove the gullt of the defendant but her own innocence. yame time Juatice Crane said munt not hold up any monies jointly owned by herself and her hus- and, Mrs, Reeves in her application asked for $1,000 a month alimony and $2,500 counsel fects, (Sa SE SULLIVAN CABLES DENIAL Minister to Santo Domingo Says He w Inquiry on Charges. WASHINGTON, Dec, 11.—American Minister Sullivan at Santo Domingo cabled the White House to-day offering to meet any definite charge against him. His cablegram, which was re- ferred to Secretary Bryan, follows: cheerfully invite most rigid, ex- of any or all my public or pts at this post and ind to definite charge mady agal . | emphatically and unqui y paving any Interest to serve ex- cept thy interemt ‘of iy Government. which Wervice has been made difficult by sinister Influences anxious to explolt here without restraint.” that whe HEN IS (From the Canliff Western Mail, A bashful curate went to conduct a service at & remote and primitive Village in Cornwall, ‘The old lady who Hooked after the somewhat slov- enly ed wid to him: “Will you 1 reading desk? i itting in the pulpit.” Relief for Hands Made Rough by Housework The dishes won't wash th nor will other housework get | n'a han: and LOGEN |LOGEN—well named uty's Quargiant=(ronteree the skin without weveur srveglet colle It—880 © tube 4s| Dwyer, who was off duty and return- child was tho worst burned, but the |Hundread and Twenty-fourth Street discovered the flames while passing the building, which ts a five-story tenement occupied by twenty: familiee—about one hundred persons, He smashed in a door and was knocked down by an explosion of gas in the hallway. His cries of “Fire!” were heard by Fireman J. P. ing home with his wife from a theatre, By that time fire, emoke and the Geatruction of part of the stairs by the explosion had cut off everybody ‘above the second floor. Gorion lives on the second floor, Awakened by emoke, he guided his wife and chil- dren to the stairway, but they were @riven back. Gordon managed to get his wife to the fire escape and, though badly burned, returned and got the chil- dren. Firemen took them from the escape, their nightclothes smoulder- ing. They were taken to the hospital in @ serious condition, The younger three others apparently inhaled the flames, Fireman Dwyer aroused a number of families and led them to the es- capes on the Amsterdam Avenue aide, By this time most of the balconies on the house were filled with tenants in their nightclothes, many of the women carrying children, and heads protruded from a number of win- dows, On the east side of the building scores were trapped until firemen placed a ladder from the first floor escape balcony to @ one story building across the way. They were then led to the roof of the small bullding over the ladder. 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