The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1914, Page 3

aT THE FIRST THING |: EXAMINATION, AT ARE OF 117 Hannah Kosokopp Lived in «Three Centuries—Born in 18th Century. a4 “WATE TEN MEALS A DAY. - Saw Napoleon and Kept Her ® Shroud Ready Under Bed for 75 Years. Hannah Kosokopp, probably the old- | *4°@at Woman in New York or in any Spar of the country, died last night in} the Harlem Home of the Daughters » @f Israel, No. 32 East One Hundred and Nineteenth Street. She had lived one hundred and seventeen years. Mrs. Kosokopp was born in Kovno, Russia, Dec. 7, 1797, according to the p. #Rost authentic records In possession of » pherdesvendants, They are certain she soe was at | one hundred and seven- # old and possibly older. | o (teen ye rotrBhe lived during three centuries. * Three and one-half years ago, when] * ‘the Hariem Home of the seni ‘Sef Israel was founded, a committes investigated reports of elderly people *"4n need of assistance. The investl- Watore beard a very old woman was living in a tenement house at No. 128 oe \Henry Strect. They went there and vefound Mrs. Kosokopp living on an up-| mdper fcor in a single room. She was| years old. | She was taken to the home and last ao Year ber one hundred and sixteenth socblrthday was celebrated there, and a bhotograpn was taken of her, we Dr. H. W. Honor of No. 54 East @ Hundred and Twenty-second Street, ad been attending Mrs. Koso- sgkopp for some time. He said that up Tate @ fow months ago she was in per- “fect health, that she could see with- id of glasses and that her hearing was perfec! | He said her chief trouble was that ghe had tou large an appetite and it up to the past few days she) constantly ate too much. Kecently she had grown weak and spent most | of her time sleeping in a rocking chair. Dr. Honor said that aside| from information as to her age in| hands of relatives, he is certain that she was more than one hundred and ten years old. Her death was idue to old age. 1, Acvording to Supt, Schissel of the \Hariem Home, Mrs. Kosokopp insisted ‘upon having a cup of coffee late last night. She drank it a few minutes before she died. Mrs. Kosokopp had told much of history at the home. She said she membered that when she was a girl in Kovno she was permitted to shake | the hand of Alexander I, great-great- | 'mrandfather of the present Czar. She saw Napoleon when he a in the early part of the nineteenth century. j Her husband was a tailor and died ‘he college graduates, as mental, * ¢ | rolled in a course which has for its definite purpose the eradication of physica! imperfections. Under the Supervision of experts, the students correct physical deformities or abnor- malities, and to promote symmetrical physical development. For instance,” explains the bulletin issued by the university, “if a girl carries one shoulder higher than another she will be given exsre shoulder and lower the high one. If one hip lower than another { tp Russia sivty-Ave years ag special treatment will be given to | | ae fe this DOUnEE ; r that imperfection.” Indeed, in a 5 sixty years ago. For seventy-five ‘, Gears she has had her shroud ready| ‘uly Greek sp i Me snaebamed ’ case of death, keeping it in a box| candor, the university bulletin j under her bed. prom that “if the calf of one leg is larger around than that of the other, exerci will be given to make them equ NEW YORK’'S TWO COLLEGES The hosp{tai authorities assert she {mas eaten as many as ten moale a | (day during the past few years, She | [always got up at 6 A. M. and never | iwent to bed until 11 P. M., although @he dozed in her chair frequently dur- cs AL ae tour| WORKING TOWARD SAME END. e irs. osokopp twenty-four fureat- great - grandchildren, sixteen | A# I read this interesting announce- jafeat-grandchildren and eight grand-|ment 1 wondered just how far the ! oe eee children died many campaign for physical perfection had ' ‘co. ler survivors are scat- 7 ve y "i - WD | Reread af over tne countty otcat= advanced in New York's two Insti Mr. Rosenbaum, lives here at No, 1337| tutions for the higher education of fth avenue, INCOME women, Barnard and Teachers Col- lege. Since both are closed for the holidays, I sought information from Miss Marguerite L. Smith, President of the Athletic Association of ‘Teach- ers College and herself one of the potable examples of perfect health and development, in the gymnasium shared by Barnard and Teachers Col- lege student She was catcher for the 1914 base- ball team which defeated the Barnard girls for the college champlonship, and she is known as an expert eques- trienne, swimmer, basketball, base- ball, tennis and hockey player, Her measurements, given below ar taken in her last physical examination at college, are far above those of the e d+ Conn.; Home Insurance |average girl of her ge. She te the raeeny, Of New Yorks and Phoenix | daughter of Dr. J. Gardner Smith and pete bit alleen” dd thn npanies [lives at No, 21 West One Hundred he stamp required by th 19 be fixed to the police: perfection and the development of cost from the tasur an TAX PAYMENT TEST, 1 MADISON, Wis., Dec. 23.—Six of the | largest stock fire insurance companies {yto-day started a suit before United ‘@tates Judge Arthur L. Sanborn to re. | fetrain Herman 1. Ekern, Commissioner {of Insurance, from revoking the licenses bt these companies for a violation of Tie ruling, that the stock fire corpora- + Uons must pay the Federal Government one-half per cent. premium stamp tax. ‘The six companies in the action are: rican Insurance Company of Continental Instirance York, Getman-Ameri- ‘ompany of New York, re Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn.; Home Insurance Applied to he entire United States, the whole tux| Symmetry and grace are regular je over $2,000,000, ‘This suit is intended | parts of the work at T secure a definite decision on the ques- | Colleg: “and have been practised there for y the United States Su ‘The hearing ts set for Jai ‘ourt. The ‘Famous Chocolate Laxative EX-LAX | A COMPETE PwysiCal from the campus. will pragtise medi¥al gymnastics to|, ths BvENING WORLD, WEUN BOVAL, UEUSMBER 23 SOLDESTHOMAN "Perfect Figure for Every College Girl; y INULS.DIESHERE. New System Seeks Beauty as Well as Brains time. re ty has not improved has to practi in @ apegially equipp Ten Ge TO the BaCToR, , By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. When the great American artist of the twentieth century begins looking | then nearly one hundred and fourteen| el the perfect American woman, the chances are that he'll find her among For one by one the American colleges for women are coming to the conclusion that an A+brain hampered by an E—body is more of a tragedy than anything else. If the thin, sallow, spectacled college girl, with her nose permanently buried {m.a book, ever existed—and I'm afraid she once did—she has already disappeared The girl who now ocoupies her place is the product of culture that is physical as well But I think many persons will be sur- prised to know that certain colleges are already work- ing seriously and scientifically to produce women Whose bodies shall conform to the laws of Propor- tion, of symmetry, of grace, of health—inevitably, therefore, of perfect beauty, TTT It has just been announced that beginning with the new year women students at the University of Pittsburgh will be en- » One t time ti work, Ww we Even Bookworms Who Don’t Want to Get Rid of, Ugliness or Deformities Forced to Take Exercises That Make Them Symmetrical and Well— How the Work Is Done at Teachers and Barnard Colleges Here. In short, cven if a girl wants to have a bed figure she won't be lowed the privilege! At the beginning of the college year every girl has tv submit to a thorough physical examination, Then if any- thing is the matter with her heart and lungs or otner {nternal organs she is xent promptly to a doctor, It a he has broken arches—flat foot—as so many girls do, she must consult the proper kind of specialist and wear tl boots he recommends. | plainly wrong, she {s Instructed about that.”” If her diet HOW GIRL'S WEAK BACK HELPED BY EXERCISE. “What are the bodily defects that are cured by exercise and what sort of exer 86 cures them?” I asked, “Well, I know a@ girl who has a weak back,” instanced Miss Smith, “One thing she must do Is this.” The spoaker raised her arms shoulder high and, holding them at right angles to the body, presved the palms xgainst the wall so that the finger tips met. Then she bent her body forward and back, her chest almost touching her hands with the forward movement. In still another exercise to do away with this weakness the arm: stretched, at which is kept erect rotary move! right angi uring a sort ment of the arms, ire held out- 0 the body, of “Then { think they correct round shoulders and. those very things spoken of In the’Pittsburgh University bi announcement, uneven shoulders and ‘And uneven—limb development?” I suggested “Oh, I'm sure they pay no atten-| delicately. tion to that sort of thing at Teachers College,” negatived Miss Smith, “It would: be practical, you know. the exer.ises :o cor- ment through the cla: y Then little 5 4 inc} which form culture work.” girl age an Telk’ dancin Miss Smith—she iy « and the games and ingthen weak muscles, im. If lish clase and most of Ils of them, I part of the “ly . which proves that size is not necessary for stren; eth a symmetry—retired in father, at wi charge of a and the first leties in the y questions, enthusiast on the subject nd favor of her hose request she had an- Dr, Smith training, He was ¢ graduate to be put Y. M. C. A. gymnasiu special Inspector of at public schools to be a is he in m, h- p- wum and rowed and or fences and walls ed outdoor games all 8. The old notion of “The result is two evenly developed bodies. development ta the ideal of training to-day. .We don't A sinooth, strong, all-around cal physi want acrobats, but healthy, perfectly pro- portioned men and women, member when the college I can re- student, male or female, Was supposed to be & bookworm and nothing « ise. But last year a man couldn't get his de- gree at Columbia because he was un- able to pass his swimming examina- tion, Aftor all, what good wi edge do anybody to make use’ of it?” These are Migs Il knowl- without the heaita Smith's measure- ments, the tabulated result of a home and college campaign for perfection, physical She is now twenty yeurs old and in every item except height scores high above the average. Miss Smith’ Weight Height . Girth of chest 83.1 in. 35,0 in, ent + 88.2 Ibs, Strength left fo Strength upper hack ... 4 in. 6 3L1 in, 33.7 in. 6 cu. in, 164cu, in, 68 Ibs, 64lbs, © 44 ibs. 40 iba. MRS. M’CAY VINDICATED. Lamkin Divorce Suit Is Dismissed by Court. Mrs, Maude I. McCay, wife of Win- sor McCay, cortoonist, was vindicated to-day in the trial of the divo sult of Irene Watkins Lamkin against her husband, Harry Tobin Lamkin, when Supreme Court Justice Erlanger dis- miaxed the action. When the trial was resumed to-day counsel court to declare a mistrial. was deniea. co-respondent had for the plaintiff asked the ‘The motion The Justice held that th the rights of dant did not d dismissed ¢) cane on the ground that collusion and connivance was shown on the part of idant. the plaintiff and the def EVERCISE FoR, WEAK BACIC FAVOR TUNNEL UNDER EAST RIVER RATHER THAN BRIDGE SUBWAY Board of Estimate Commits Itself to Abandon Queens- boro Span Extension. The Board of Eatimate to-day com- mitted itself to the plan of abandon- ing the extension of the Broadway- Beventh Avenue line Queensboro Bridge and inst ing a tunnel to Long Island City. across the id build- The changes in the structure of the Bridge necessary for 000. exceed $4,500,000, the carrying subway trains would have cost of the 2,600, The cost of the tunnel will not the head of the Degnon Contracting Company having promised the city he will do the work for that amount, Thy does not bind the city to accept the bid, however, The action of the board was unani- mous, It followed a verbal repor made by Aldermanic President George McAneny, who apoke for the Transit Committee, The original plan was to run the Broadway-Seventh Avenue subways through Fifty-ninth Streets to the lower Queensboro Bridge, and level The Second Ave. Sixtteth the nue Manhattan “L" Road was to use the upper level of the bridge, There will be no change in the plans for the Second Avenue line over the bridge. It was explained that if the city wai ed until bridge congestion compelle the cost the build\is of a tunnel would be greater, Mr. Degnon said the city would save $600,000 by using one street for both west and east subway trac instead of using @ separate street for each. The present plan contemplates two streets, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth street, The ‘Transit Committee will confer with the Public Sorvice Commiasion and report back to the b rd of Batt. mate the first meeting of the new yea ADVERTISING THAT PAYS @ $ ® 3 5 3 % 3 : Pelitser Bég., } How Tore City, 4 Gent) amenie QOD IHG 4- 9490999509199 0444469-09440OHO0064 HOO sereecionse seer Maw nance ovens: AVENUS ane svagey COWPERTHWAIT & SONS cownrenn ot PARK ROW ane CHATHAM 80 EVERYTHING Pom Housenecoine Bee AVE © 12% STREET New Yorx,. Dea, 88, Publishers ef the Sew York Gerla, ® Pe OE SPER HERE Ree TS, ‘GOETHALS IS HERE TO ASK CONGRESS | - FORSTO,000,000 Colonel Arrives From Panama Canal Zone With Wife for Christmas Holidays, ¢ FAVORS CANTEEN PLAN, an Says He Is Forced to Discharge , Drinkers Because Congress | Vetoed His Idea. —— Col. George W. Gosthals, Hovernor |of the Panama Canal Zone, arrived j!n New York to-day with his wife on the Panama Steamship Line boat Panama. He will spend the holiday season in New York for the first time | since 1906, | Col. Goethals and bis wife will @o to Weat Point to-morrow to visit thelr son, who is an inatructor there. Later the Colonel will appear before appro- Priation committees of Congress to | Urge various appropriations amount- | ing to $10,000,000 for dry docks, bar- racks, fortifications, machine shope and coal wharves. The defense arma- ment of the Canal is almost all placed and this $10,000,000 appropria- | tlon will be sufficient to complete the entire project. | Asked about his cabled request to jthe Navy Department to send war- iships to the Canal Zona to enforce \neutrality, Col, Goethals sald he | wasn't taking any particular interest in the matter, The naval authori- ties of the zone reported to him that there had been two violations of neutrality, one by @ ship whch cleared without papers, the other by a venael which used its wireless within the zone. “LT believed from the reports aub- mitted,” said Col, Goethals, “that these violations had been committed So I guggested to the Navy Dopart- ment that a warboat be sent to the Canal Zone to enforce neutrality. My duty ended there and I don't know whether my recommendation was acted on or not.” ‘There are 25,000 workmen on the canal payroll at the present time, but the foroa is ateadily decroasing, When the jal ia completed and in full working order the staff will comprise 7,000 men working in two ehifts a day. The canal is open from 6 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock at night. “In the original estimates of the cost of operating the canal," sald Col. Goethals, “a single shift of men was considered sufficient. But we must have two shifts and the cost ia proportionately heavier, “It will cont $5,000,000 a year to operate the canal, The receipts so far show that the Income will equal or exceed that amount. The canal will be self supporting insofar as ac- tual operating expenses are con- cerned, “We are putting ships through in elaht hours. At first it took us half an hour to put a ship through each of the three locks at Gatun, Now we put them through all three locke tn fifty-five minutes, “Tam going to try to gat some reat up here, On the Zone work, my office houra run from 6 o'clock A. M. to 10.30 o'clock P. M., seven days in the week. The Culebra Cut is one thing that keeps me busy. We are bothered by the filling up of the Cut, and while we are taking reasonably Rood care of the aituation with the dredges on hand, we need another big dredge. I am going to ask Congress to give us one, With the additional dredge we can keep the Cut open all the time. There are no more slides in the senwe that the sides of the cut drop Into the canal prism. Two high hilly, one on each alde of the Cut, are settling and pushing up the bot- tom of the canal or crowding the sides. “In reducing the foroe, | am drop- ping the allens and holding, as far as possible, American citizens, Recently I have been compelled to let some fine American mechanica and valua- ble workmen go on account of liquor. “I wanted tablish canteens on the Zone, where good cold beer could be to the mon at reasc..u'’y prices, Congress disafreed with me and we have no canteens. The con- sequence is that when the men feel Uke drinking, they go into Panama or Colon, outside the Zone, where £ have no control, and drink too much, Men who drink to excess and are brought to my notice dr. ped from the payroll. If we ha’ canteens, the trouble over the Hquor question would be greatly diminished, if not completely wiped out.” PANAMA CANAL BUILDER WHO ARRIVED TO ASK « CONGRESS FOR MILLIONS. WRITE TO SANTA Work, Yet They Have Stb- lime Christmas Faith. There are four kiddies in Brookipm Whose mother is sick, whose father is out of work and who are threat." ened with eviction, Yet they have sublime faith in the belief that they will be remembered at Christmas. Margaret wants a doll. She's four, you know, Paul—some ° soldier would like to have a drum. He's five. There’ another boy, eight, t the thiresem- year-old writer of a letter to Sante Claus, Confidentially, it is belleved the ea eat lad is “wise” about thie Sante Claus business, but, you see, he's ée- ing it for the “kids.” He solemnly. addresned the letter te Santa, and his mother got hold of it and sent it to Mayor Mitchel. Tie Mayor promised he would send the letter right on to Santa Claus with « special delivery etamp and the big red seal of the city of New York. :Now, if you want to give Samta Mayer's USTOM OFFICIALS TRAP JAP THEY SAY READS OPIUM BAND Kasuji Toda Is Arrested as Smuggler Following Raid on Liner Adriatic. Margaret and the others live. The boy who wrote the letter is new Picking cinders somewhere. He hopes to have enough to make a nice Christ- mas fire, But what will the fire be without the toys and a dinner? Here's have any toys left for a poor fam- ily who has four children an@ whose father is out of work and the mother has been sick. This is the only time in the year thet ttle children like to be as happy as they can be, no matter how poor they are, so I will hope that you will read this letter and look in your bag for a few toys, one for each of us. My Uttle sister Margaret, four years old, would like to have @ doll, and my little brother, Paul, five years old, would like to have a dram. My other brother, eight yoars old, would like to have . a game of dominoes, and If there is anything left I would like to have a game of checkers. As I am thirteen years old and my little brother can’t write to you, I thought I would write for them. I hope, dear Santa Claus, you will not forget us, as our Christmas + will be very dreary if we have nothing at all to play wit! I would like to ask you for one more thing to make us very and that would be a surprise my dear mother who I know would be very thankful if she could give r Cl scree eer Crea hardly anything to eat. I will give you my name and address 6 you will not forget us. Coachman Kade His Life, Hector Christy of No. 716 Leuing~ ton Avenue, formerly coachmas fer Samuel Untermyer, killed himeslf with in the bathroom of the age at Sesxacee, Mr. Uni home at Yi it spent the his companiot seven hin pockets. An arrest was made to-day aftermath of a raid on the st Adriatic by customs a which, In the opinion of the Federal authorities, bares widespread con- spiracy for the smuggling of opium from England for sale in New Y ‘The man arrested is Kasuji Toda, a Japanese, and the arresting officers re him to be the head of a well organized gang of opium smugglers. Toda is chief salesman for a Lon- don concern which is engaged in the exporting of Chinese and Japanese merchandise and art works. Toda, with Kalida BMitto, a twenty-eight. year-old butler, who directed Inspec: tors Murphy and Hokinson where they could find Toro Sato, the finding re- sulting In the additional finding of much “dope” at No. 206 West Kighty- first Street, was arraigned befare Commissioner Houghton, The two were held in bonds of $15,000 for the Federal Grand Jury, ‘Toda was found in a boarding-house at No, 417 Lexington Avenue, and Mitto was bagged at No. 203 West One Hundred and Second Street, whence he sent the officers on what Proved to be the discovery of $8,600 worth of prepared opium, to be added to the $5,000 seized on the ship. According to the evidence in the possession of Edwin M. Stanton, As- sistant Federal District Attorney, Toda was the organiser of the con- piracy to smuggle smoking opium Into thia country. Sata and Mitto are sald to have been used by him an salesmen and distributors. Toda, representing the London porting concern, made frequent trans- atlantic trips, While a passenger on the Adriatic he induced Store- keeper James Murphy, it is charged, to join the conspiracy and share the heavy profit growing out of stnuggling prepared opium in large quantities, As storekeeper, Murphy had unusual facilities for the concealment of con- traband goods. This, it is alleged, made him an important part of the gang. It is charged that on @ pre- vious trip he succeeded in getting a large consignment by the custome 11 spectors, The smu«glers tried to sell their “dope” to Chinatown habitues at out rates. This brought on the wrath of the opium ring. Means were taken by subway methods to apprise Port Surveyor Thomas C. Rush of the new arrival in this trade. The exposure and arrest of the four men followed. pe SE MAN HELD FOR WIFE’S DEATH. at Inquest Saye meky Bt Husband for ¥ Jamin Stransky, whose wife wi Monday, was held Sabettve aaah French mes, Be burned to death to-day for the Grand Jury by Coroner Flynn in the Bronx. The inquest lasted most of the morning and ten witnesses wore examined principal one was Mra. Landri luhbor, who tentitied that when she entered the Stranskys’ flat, at No. 63 West One Hundied and Twenty-eighth Street, In response to Mri Stransky's cr! t woman begwed her not to let her husband throw her back on tho burning bed on which he had held Hele pointed by » Ne oe | D teh fro Washingt to- pointed by the New York Board ct It mag interest you to know thet yesterday, iy ie pod cruiner Tacoma i ry Soft, Senosth Hands and Arms istobal to enforce neutralit: i | elieve Con ti ti | TELLS HOW HE BROUGHT UP! ? Desouber £160, we 0014 more goede thar on my other one atcha) fo saforee neutrality for th » Te + ied Eneiie. 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