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“gp ell SAILOR HUSBAND J MISSING 26 YEARS — True to Him Quarter of Cen- tury, Mrs. Whitely, 66, Now Wants Her Freedom, ' MAY BE SOME ONE ELSE. Aint of New Romance in Twilight of Her Lonely Life Follows Suit. At the beginning of this story Wack in the last century Whitely was a bold sail came courting the minister's daughios! Sunbury, a preity little village a} men miles from London. Whitely was only an A.M, but he was sure t and om Now, 12, 186 aries. TV ty years at Sunbury, she tending t But Whitely x Vhan AD. Lue " " Hise, so he hey were r ey lived twen- ‘much at sea! Mary Pickford in ‘Cinderella’ and a Great Cottee- | ¢ 1WO Sons ashore: ex got any higaer| tion of Comic Pictures Shown—Boy Scouts to eemed against him, | | hey went to London and stayed two Attend Thursday Morning—Returns From | years, and st came to America! the 200 Movie Benefits Not Yet In. and nade a Y Jersey ¢ on July 1, 1888. s inter Alfred | ) Mary Aun, his wife, and sald: Every morning this week at 10.30 o'clock any child may i ship, 1 o re ar eeu be admitted to the penny lunch benefits at the Strand Thea- | me Si, tak Seti Ne OU 1) tre for 10 cents and adults will be charged 25 cents. ) never see you again.” A wonderful programme of funny pictures az well as| J i _ He kissed her om separa, not ny | Mary Pickford in “Cinderella” will be produced every morn- ves! he bad shipped i : ay to this twenty-six | D> . years and hot one word has! The entire proceeds of these morning performances go! come from sailor, And now My-| to create penny lunches in the public schools. ron C. Erne n attorney, has tiled 1a riof Chancery the suit of Mary Ann Whitely for divorce trom Alfred A. Whitely. Mrs, Whitely lives at No. 7 Waver- ley Street, Jersey City. She is sixty- ) six years old, her hair is white snow. Sho is beautiPul with the beau- ty Of a well spent life. Her voice is|_ } inw and awesli yesterday morning for the benefit of the Penny Lunch Fund. Special cars| feel Alfred is dead or 1 would | brought 1,000 children from School No. 147, under the chaperonage of their | programme New Year’s morning. Other added features will be announced during the week. | { By Sophie Irene Loeb. / have heard from him long since,” she! = principal, Dr, Kottman. These children were the| Alexander said to-day. “He could not leave the guests of Judge Aaron J. Levy. | sea. He simply had to go, it seemed. Never h | ‘That last day when he said goodby than the fi } I've often thought since, he must have with Mary felt some warning that he was going Pe to his death, for he never had been so ieoon Gale Hag Mente dae . : | depressed before. dren. The ciecearnene h ig! among the chil and notify a policeman. “My boys have been a great com- S fort to.me. As the y passed ani! the Mark Strand Theatre Company h ‘| | nad go word from Alfred 1 travelled ruin making ¢ J out to the West and found a sister of children’s performances ever given in this city. ' his, thinking she might have heard PHIE IRENE LOEB : from him, but she had not. If he were|Gamble Concert Party will appear on New Year's morning, and Fritz Kreis- living I should know it.” ler will tell of his experiences in the war on one morning, to be announced She stopped and looked a while at} ja:o,, the old-fashioned cabinet on the wall, ‘A large delegation of Boy "scouts { | in which were a few shells and other] Wi) atiena ina body Thursday mor! ° AN curios Alfred had brought home from /ing Various classes in the schools PENNY LUNCH FUND > She shook her head sadly. of Harlem will attend Friday morn- | CONTINUES TO GROW. ‘He wasn't one to desert us," sheling fyery child is welcome any |] Previously scknowledaed $3,378.40 - went on in her soft, gentle tones.| morning, although the following tional jenevolent Society. “| be were living he would send] goyools will attend on moraings des- | kman Hin u word. Perhaps the sbip foundered | ignated by them: with all on board, or he may have) T0.DAY—HIGH SCHOOL DAY. been killed by savages; sailors run] pe Witt Clinton, Fifty-ninth Street | many risks. and Tenth Avenue. “The boys grew up, married, made| Wadleigh, One Hundred and Four- | hemes of their own. I was lonely; 1|teenth Street, near Seventh Avenue. | ; have mever been one to form friend-| Washington Irving, No. 40 ving abips lightly. Several times happine: piace. | tag been offered to me, but I ha High School of Commerce, No. 155 declined, I believe a woman must be| West Sixty fifth Street. s oar true to her husband, in spirit as well ee Fifteenth Street, ni isn't at least several times large ets ake rai mt As it is I found it very difficult to yng ee ace now since I gave| Vocational School for Boys, One| accommodate the crowd. | hope of his return. Now, | am|Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street/ “Inclosed please find check, Trust- 30 ne ae because—well, Bland Fifth Avenue. ing the others will do as well.” q “le 38 i ee poooeane: 888333388 am not going to be alone.” 4 t de § " Girls, The following theatres agreed ¢ And not one word more would she| Manhattan Trade School for nbs re o | turn over their receipts of yeste: No. 209 East Twenty-third Street. but were received too late to classity my Morris, One Hundred and Sixty-|in the previous list: —_——— 7 sixth Street and Boston Road. Favorite Theatre, No, 533 Bight DIPHTHERIA SPREADING Evander Childs, Randolph Street, | Avenue. Park Photoplay, No. 819 Hast One ea by | Lawrence and Beach Avenues. Hundred and Pearteen Now Cases Rep: MnOteunie. Gee te EDNES! » DEC, 30. Apollo Theat Watehee Benes of Resith: Public School 1, Henry and Oliver! Hundred ana Fourteen new cares of diphtheria were | streets, a Casine Playhouse, No, 144 “weco reported by the health authorittes of] public School 2, No. 116 Henry | Avenue. Hoboken to-day, making 141 cases for] g)one. bd North Star Theatre, One Hundyed month of December. The Board of and Sixth t and Fifth Avenue, Health is trying to locate the cause. Public Schovl 7, Chrystie and Hes-|~ Nicoland ‘Theatre, No, ‘A conference between the Hoard of |ter Streets. | Avenue. Raucation and She pulnle Cet let Public School 65, Eldridge and For-! Orpheum Theatre, No. 126 Second «held last night. The principals Rte to abtain the nates of i ile orth treats, 4 ee whose homes t weane Public School 177, No. 66 Market ¢ ; Pots De ice evil ture atta; and Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, rre rimation is obtained over to” the | Street. Palace Theatre, No. 9804 Sixth sieatth Hoard and efforts will be made to| THURSDAY, ALL BROOKLYN DAY, | Avenue, Brooklyn North § 1808 Third Avenue, Palace Theo re, Fourteenth Street | ze the disease, The school author|- A; | Graham Palace Theatre, No. 216 East One| Gram Avenue, Brooklyr / Hundred and Tenth sirest Hanover Theatre, Ny, $71 Fulton Public School 101, One Hundred and voklyn, st hin, Eleventh Street und Lexington Ave-| , HH n Theatre, No 676 Third rir’ Avenue, Brooklyn, ; | ublic School 172, One Hundred and | m Theatre, 2314 Third Ave- | Elghth Street and si id Avenue, SATURDAY, JAN. 2 Public Schou! 10%, One Hundredth | Street and ‘Third Avenue. Public School 150, No, 308 Ninety-sixth Street. Wes hope to have the schoaia reopen on PRIT AY Jan. 4, but should the disease continue | Public School 43, © apread the achools will remain closed. | Fulton and Rich mond $ . jyn, vT is of the Second Artillery and the} Will mect in an in- r ne next Sunda Public Schoo! Lexington Avenue ore noon the first untinned and One Hunc d Fifth Street, | team's arm Yesterday was Children’s Day Mhe-sitire oroone | nearly 200 motion picture theatres, to ‘The ‘Evening: World monocot Linen | | ag arranged by the Executive Be Fund. Al, Willa uit’ who oF the Motion Picture Ors" Thaw Deen signed by nts for | ‘The proceeds are donated to syn ie Ay, Math emitl for the tional Leasue, the Cayugas, Y Rudolph of the Boston E |B Hast hve fora Plume f : will ee 4 int the bay phe an Say it ne Ber’ hat . : and other ten ecasona from mow. are A the ref $3.95 and $4.95 pte y care of The E ing World it 2.30, $19,75, $24.75 and up The first ch | the auspices of yesterday aft Reon from + . Bi It will be @ ton Court Theatre, . iption affair, and Harry Fink, | Street. This is a sm: N abetra! and a|sporting editor of the above. paper, capacity audience witnessed the per- | will be master of ceremonies, Major a’ formance. The receipts were $1. Joseph I, Ber rill out the firat ies west ¥s. and the following letter was received |ball, and Bisek.yn, 5 from William Brandt, proprietor: Cemnty officials have promised to a! “T exceedingly regret that my house ‘i THE EVENING WORLD, i) TO DIVORCE High School Pupils Aid Penny Lunch Fund; FAMILY HOMELESS MANY PERSONS INIURED Will Crowd Benefit at the Strand To-Day \NWAR ZONE, GRL FALLING ON ICE GLAZE: The Ernest Gamble Concert Party will appear on the; HIS DREAM OF BURGLARS MAKES POLICE SORE | They Receive Some Hard Falls’ Over 2,000 childven attended the performance at the Strand Theatre| Responding to Alarm Which Proved False. Morgenstein, who lives on the top floor of a fashionable apartment house at No. 465 Central |Park West, thought he saw « bur- glare flashlight in his apartment at Pickford in the title role, every morning there are |% A. M. to-day, and telephoned the added numbers, and the funny pictures that are elevator boy in a whisper to step out Policeman Wright of the West One Hundredth Street Station rupped and 1 * brought six other pulicemen, who had the best inany hard falla on the slippery side- walks.before they reached the house, told them the bur- must still be in the apartment as he Pops stood guard, earch Was mai it the fire esc: Besides the programme mentioned, the Erneat| M?. Morgens e of every room, accepted in part pa purchased for tl holidays. KNAME, mang & 460) (3. NO FIRST PAYMENT REQUIRED TERMS aslow as $5 Monthly. Old Pianos Taken in Exchange KNAB DELIVERIES FOR NEW YEAR’S DAY SCHOOL CHILDREN LEAVING PENNY FUND BENEFIT AT STRAND THEATRE were carefully gone over, Other ten- ants in the house took a@ lively in- terest in the search, but finally the policemen had to give it up. Mr. Morgenstein then admitted his wife might be right in thinking he dreamed he saw a fashitght, but the policemen assured him they didn’t dream about getting all the falls they had on the tee. ey | POLICE ELECT CLERGYMEN, ‘The Rev. Dr, Ernent M. Stires, rector of St. Thomas's Church, und the Rev, Father James Sullivan were elected honorary members of the Honor Legion wt_ night in te Woe and receptts Meyer, who klves medal Adidventes were made by and Wood) now Dr, i many are now in better condition than originally—having been thoroughly overhauled by our experts. have been marked AT SHARPLY REDUCED PRICES ‘ All as good as new. UPRIGHT PIANOS © Only a few of th Formerly, New “1 Am) Goitig, to Sk; | Rzeszow Russia a | that Rees tle, In Oc brief letter from the father stating {ihat he and his little brood had been j driven from their home and he didn't know where he was going or what) would become of him, she loc sh farewell, “Lam sorry,’ hope you will forgive, I am the sky. We will meet in another policemen reet, Sh were getting start Yee when a backfire nent a spark tank. The men of Engine Company No. 246 rowed out fn small boats to where the Rhoadesee ha@ an: Stiren| chored the launch, but she burned into their qa WEBER In order to secure valuable floor space they » bargains are mentioned below. GRANDS 88-Note PLAYER-PIANOS @ BACH $290 baby 325 Babys row demunatration 345 wae 360 parior, verfect..... 960 435 Us BROS. ma. hogany; @malioet 440 MR cssunccerisiecs OBO KNABB Naby, rose 570 ony cone aware Ant 590 |KNABE Baty, com cert wae: perfect wo 685 KNABE = Mignonette: 690 mahogany: Uke mew... 700 KNABE Mignon, ma 630 , 725 Neanans, Ware a8 | MNAME-ANG RL US; KNABE, © ma |Girraattun Walnut... 1100 790 hoxany: ke new roo 685 | raise AvTOGHArH, 890 NTEINWAY Baby, ae ebony; perfect. A50 KNABE Ciro, walnut, 250 1000 XV.jartlat isso 1475 TUESDAY, hb ddhcias) Pi 29, 1914. HERE KILS SELF Note Left by Grief-Stricken Galician, Grief over the fate of her father and several young brothers and sisters who j were driven from their ome in vlicla, by the war between 1 Austria, drove fifteen-yeor=| jold Gusde Leder to commit suicide | to-day She turned on the gas in the | bathroom of the flat she occupied with her elder brothers, Herman and Morris, and her sister, Eather, wt No, 207 Fifth Street lon a@ tleket sent to Reeszow by Her-' (man, Morris and Esther. {her arrival she was put in a special | clast In P hic School No. 63 in East uurth Street and proved an apt and eager pupil. She had progressed so far in her studies that she could read and write English, After war was declared the girl followed the reports in the Englinh | and Yiddish papers. She read of the Russian ady learned through teachers at the sehool | w was in the zone of bat- | » inte Galicia and ober the family received a The news made the little exile de- spondent, She loved the little sisters 4 left behind, and as her big and sister worked every day to school to-day, bathroom «1 turned on two gas Jets, As the diy fluid was erwhelming her wrote a pathetic little letter of the letter ri world. IT don't like anybody but you dd my teacher. Goodby, The letter ended in a scrawl, A) neighbor smelles noon and notified a policeman, who found the little girl on the floor of the bathroom. gas in the house at Metor Henry Rhoades and his son, of No, 1290 Hast Ninety-fourth Street, Canarate, went aboard their launch Hot Alr at & o'clock this morning at Morron's foot of East Twenty- head Bay, They ‘ona trip to Barren dea was badly bur 4 arms. Mr. Rhoa hands Invest Your Christmas Money in a PIANO®PLAYER-PIANO KNABE CHICKERING STEINWAY HAINES BROS. SPECIAL TOMORROW ONLY We offer a number of high-grade Pianos and Player-Pianos which we ment for new Knabe Upright, Grand and Player-Pianos These instruments are but little used—in fact, ly. Now. WAREROOMS Bthdv.at 39th St ee em " Says wagons and © general disturbance o surface traffic In. eased the Inter. ruption of the city’a business. THAT PLATES THE CTY ? One Man Wiciast a Legon Steps! t of His House; Another Slides ie Into River. A drizziing rain which began to | tall « littio before midnight taat night! ‘and which froze as it touched the sidewalke plated sidewalks and jetreets and doorsteps with a hard, amooth glazing which was made alip- perter and thicker by misty spelle of drizzle through the night. Many a New Yorker, stepping from his door tn the dim light of 7 o'clock found ancing to keep his foothold, Often he alld to the street with painful and| Guanie came to New York last May |#ometimes gerlous bruises, Ambu- | lances were busy until the tramping | \ Soon after | of thousands of feet, sand sprinkling/ ‘householders and the Blightly in creased warmth of the morning made the going safer. himself sprawling and bai-! Late delivery by milk and bakery| Included in the ils\ of storm accl- |denta reported to the police were one Lahey, Joseph, No. ¢9 Bridge Street, Brooklyn, slipped on the steps of his home and broke one Brooklyn Hospita) by Dr. Casagrand, Taken to Dawaon, Thomas, of No. 251 Forty- eighth Street, Brooklyn, dock worker, lipped and fell overboard from the|¢ Red D line pier at the foot of Mon-) tague Street. Taken to Brooklya | 5 Hospital by Dr. Casagrand, suffering from shock and submersion. Kampe, Emma, fifty-two, fell on the] /, stops of her home at No. 272 Forty-| Fy fitth Street, Brooklyn, and was seri- oualy bruised, with Indications of in- ternal injury. Kahn, Edward H., thirty-fiv have prepared for to-morrow (Wednesday), An Extraordinary Sale of 20,000 Yards of White Dress Silks comprising 42-inch White Satin Crepon at $2.90 40-inch White Dress Taffeta at $1.78 40-inch White Satin Mousseline : at $1.48 40-inch White Crepe de Chine formerly $6.50 per yard formerly $3.00 per yard formerly $2.50 per yard formerly $1.50 per yard . 27-inch White Washable Habutai formerly $1.25 per yard . A Limited Number of Women’s and Misses’ Sweaters of brushed wool, in white, rose, green or old blue, made with belt and large roll collar, have been specially priced (Department on Second Floor) Little Children’s Winter Coats (Sizes 2 to 5 years) are being offered in the Depattment for Infants’ and Little Children’s Wear (Second Floor) at the greatly reduced prices of & $8.75 Little Children’s Hats the original prices of which were $1.78 te $4.75, have been reduced to 5c, $1.10 & $1.50 The remaining styles in Little Children’s Imported Hats have also been marked at decided reductions from fo: $4.50, $5.90 Frith Aru - Maden Aveine 36) ah 25 Sei entree nrc nue cnerieeveen: | broker, of No. 148 St iftieth Street, ‘ont brutes Of t ‘hitd avenue, L the back of her aid and went home, Pommeford, Jenale, of No. ae n the trolley track bruises of the left orm Schiner, Adele, a designer, of Ne. Whitlock Aventie, fell on ti her home and broke a leg. aken to Lincoln Hospital, ( Minor, James, motoreyele polid No. #4 Canal Street and Ante B cut over the right #56. le ide ; forty-two, a 72 left foot ma 5 He en to Gouverneur forty-five, @ 244 Went Thirty: ind broke herleft arm, Frances, sixty, of No, Avenue, fell in front of t Siventy-firnt er right wrint. to Reception Hospit. Wants Void Ba a The contested # Congressional including @ufe | saau and part of Queene Coums Justices Jayeen ie Brooklyn to-day on © mandamus who did not separate vol the rest and seal them In a re open tie! eae ae boxes Hicks, who, on cor is elected by a ma: nn at $4.90 Sage SS tes - ees See: er prices,