The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1915, Page 3

‘jnnED FLEE DOWN ~ FIRE ESCAPES IN INGENDIARY BLAZE Policemen Forced to Carry Score Out of Burning Build- ing on West Side. LADDERS ARE USED. Stairs Burned Away—Heroic Rescues Are Made by the Dozen. Flames that swept up the stairwell nd dumbwaiter shaft in the five- story building at No.622 West Fiftieth Street at 3.30 A. M. to-day forced the 60 tenants to the fire-escapes. In the epinion of Battalion Chief McKiernan had the fire been discovered five min- fates later there would have been great does of life, ‘The blaze started back of the stairs @n the first floor, and the indications of incendiarism were so strong Dep- aty Fire Marshal Emerson is investt- gating. Policeman Fallon rushed in- ‘to the lower hallway while Policeman ene was sending an alarm, and was “followed by Policeman Murray, who found Mrs, Annie Connelly trapped fm her apartment ou the ground floor rear and carriec her through the burning hallway to the street. James Powers and his wife, Mar- garet, on the ground floor front, had to make several trips to get their @hildren to the street. Mrs. Powers earried out four-year-old Katherine ‘while Powers got out the other four. Mrs, Helen Dorrington and her four @hildren, Helen, ten; Annie, eight; Albert, six, and Joseph, two, went from their apartment on the second oor front to the fire-escape, and ‘were found there with flames getting Dertlously r by Policeman Mur- ray, who sted them across the balcony to No. 620, where friends took Gare of them. 7 “On the rear escape of the same floor it was some little time before the drop-ladder was in place. Mrs, Annie Harris and her twelve-year- @14 son, John, were ready to go down. The boy got to the yard, but Mre, ‘Harris discovered that she could not get down the ladder because she is @lightly crippled. She was calling for hheip when another tenant carried her ‘Gown. ‘When firemen reached the bulld- {fing they found many of the, 150 ten- ‘Bnts still on the front and rear escape Waleonies. Policemen McVey, Fallon, Murray and Juna and Sergt. Brady of the West Forty-seventh Street Sta- tion were assisting them to the street of to the house next door, No. 520, to ‘which the balconies run, but the work ‘was slow. Two thirty-five-foot ladders were Fun up and the firemen carried down many to facilitate the rescut, Dosens qwere taken to the street. Chivf Mc- n praised the police for their ick work. No one was even slight- the rescued nad been taken {mte No. 520 the fire in No. 522 be- ame so threatening all the tenants im No. 620 were driven to the streets, hundreds from surrounding voluntarily deserted their until 2 canter was over. fire went th: the halle t roof of No, 523 and did $5,000 why? “How can I keep up?” it may be « worth-while hint better care of yourself. ren, Doan's Kid: Pills—the ee amen mended everywhere for backache, trouble, bladder and kidney Proof Right Here in New York City ‘Mrs. M. Donald, 256 W. 16th St., New York City, says: “I had kidney bladder trouble for severe! yours, y back was 40 painful that I could get ht. ‘The trouble was worse Shen gly ne to ord an when I was walking around. d a dragging sort ‘of pain right Suan my kidneys. M; was also blurred and one night it 1 was going blind. Doun's Pills brought me relief.” Votes For Women Means “More Divosels. Says ‘“‘Anti;’’ Points Moral in Jarmuth Suit\ SUK-PETTICOATED| TO STOP CAPITAL |PASSENGERS Husband Declares Political Activities Have Killed Suffrage Leader’s Domestic Nature, and Mrs. Scott Holds Her Up as Example of the Danger in Public Life—Fears Her Own Womanili- ness Is Being Undermined by Her Labors Against “‘the Evil.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Ia it true that votes for women will mean more divorces? Will equal suffrage really prove a menace to home Ufe and to the permanence of marriage? Yes, to both questions, if we accept the answer of the opponents of equal franchise. No, if we are to believe the suffragists. There is no phage of the entire movement on which the opposing ranks are further asunder than in their con- ception of the domestic consequences of equal political rights. That which one party contends is actually needed by wives and mothers to protect the home, the other party sees as a horrendous bogie ever threatening household peace. For once the bogie appears to have scored. Mra. Edith De Long Jarmuth has just been eued for a 7 divorce on the ground of abandonment by Adolph John Jarauth, a wealthy owner of Alaska gold mines who lives in Seattle. Adolph John alleges that bis wife's enthusiasm for suffrage hes destroyed the domestic side of her nature. ONE CONFIRMATION OF MRS. SCOTT'S DIRE PREDICTION. Mra. Jarmuth, a student at Co- lumbia University, w: erved with the papers here, but the auit is to be Drought in the State of Washington, She took a leading part in obtaining the suffrage amendment in that State, and is one of the best known woman suffragists of the West. She ts the daughter of a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado, which has been described as a “suf frage hotbed.” Even to Suffragists the case as re- ported must seem an exasperatingly pat confirmation of a recent argu- ment by Mrs, William Forse Scott, anti-Suffragist, author of “Practical Limitations of Democracy” and sev- eral other books on economy and sociology, before the Equal Franchise Society. Combating the contention that votes for women will insure hap- to} pier homes, Mrs. Scott said: “When it is submitted that in Denver one marriage out of every two ends in the divorce court, there ts, proof that public freedom fox . Womén unfits them for the practice of private vir- tues.” And when I talked witb her in her home at No. 680 North, Broadway, Yonkers, she went stff further. “If the Suffrage Amendment Is made a law in New York next e that the number of elared. am convinced that votes for women will not make for domestic e, that political activity women will have a ic influence upon the domes- tic side of their natures. Indeed, this influence is already per- ceptible, because many New York women have been engaged for several years in political activ- ity.” And then Mrs, Scott made a naive confeasion. I have noted the gradual change in ated gravely, “I have deteriorating domes- tically because of my political work —against political work.” NOT INCONSISTENT; SIMPLY ITO FIGHTING. “But that is where you antis all seem so funnily inconsistent,” I pro- tested. “No, indeed!” and her gray eyes flashed, “We are no more incon- sistent than the soldier who hates to kill a man, but who goes to war be- cause it is something which must be done. We don't enjoy masking our f the Jarmuth case which I had handed to her. “I am very much in- terested in that, but I am not sur- “she commented calmly. ‘hen I was in Washington recently ®@ man told me that he knew of five different families which had either broken up or were on the point of Seca’ up because of woman suf- frage. And, as I said in my speech the other one marriage out of every two in Denver ends in divorce.” meee Wy Soule, suitrage be the . “What is your logic for thinking that votes for ghee means more divorces? What is the possible connection between the two?" “it women enter the political ld they will fe eturally want to om If they want meu ing they must iggressive, in atti T believe that is perhaps the gerat- et evil which the vote will accom. plish, that change in nature of women. There Is just one other alter- native. Women may be content to count for nothing politically, even after the chance is given them. But if that turns out to be the case, why should they have the franchise?” “But the majority of men are not office holders,’ argued, “They merely vote once a year, Probably the majority of enfranchised women will do nothing more. Why should it work so disastrous a change in thelr natures?” HOW JUDC >’8 WIFE WAS FORCED 9 INTO POLITICS, “You forget all the fpenratos needed to vote intelligentiy, Scott replied. “That brings es other probable cause of ivorce—the way in which private duties will be sacrificed to public duties. Women will have to belong to all sorts of political nizations, There will be ward clubs and octations for elect- ing candidates and socleties for the study of special issues, all demanding money, time and public service from the voter. “I heard of the case of @ little wom- an in Colorado, the = “During the last ten years) jp, se different political on yanizations key 4 approaching hi telling her that si must come out and work, that her husband wouldn't be re-elected if sbe one. They hounded her into polit- life, with that MF aM ie is £3752 py itieias i woman stories air yf Is 433 ities *SuG wis Lose Hee Geune, Svat. or", Vag My od teak dl BecOMs A (T wie Cure THE OCOMWANT HUSBAND AND CAUSE HOME DISPUTES thie makes for the dissolution of ‘at are not, Sal a nl; - ships’ a iy een He yu Biren trance of women into” the Induststal world?” I suggéied. “Because the ymin fe re. alize that they are trying to t the women who must support the: ve bil Ue ho Bvhangd they wil not come competition with men,” she replied. t_seeme to me that and wife ought to be able to differ amioably on abstract subjects. Yet when women become politicians some homes will undoubtedly found the rock Hasension between a Democratic wife and a Republican husband, or vice versa. The I feel pas the ideal home must be founded on Lolita | responsibility for ite support, and if he is ultimately responsible’ he must have ultima power. This the Suffragists would La) him. ‘ “The wave of reaction has alread; begun in several States where they have found out what happens when women vote,” Mrs. Soott ended, con- fidently. But the repeal of an equal fra chiee amendment that has become law has yet to be recorded, __ IS HONORED FOR SAVING | VOLTURNO’S PASSENGERS Capt. Kreibohm of the Kroonland Is Given a Gold Watch by United States Congress. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield, at the Officers’ Club, Pier @ North River, to-day presented to Capt. Paul Kreibohm of the Red Star Miner Kroonland a gold watch and chain for his services at the Volturno fsaster in October, 1913. Two officers of the ship and nineteen men were awarded medals. In presenting the watch and medals, Secretary Redfield said it was a great Pleasure to be able to reward those responsible for the saving of life in these times when life is Leing #0 greatly destroyed. P. A. 8. Franklin, Vice-President of the International Mercantile Marine, Shipping Commis- sioner Patrick Quinn and a score of others prominent in steamship circles were present. ) KILLED ON “L” STRUCTURE. ugled Body of Unidentified Man Found tn % ‘The mangled body of an unidentified man was found on the sidewalk in front under the structure at 5 o'clock this morning, The man's right arm was missing afd his head was so badly crushed identification by that means will be impossible. ‘The body was taken to the Macdougal Street Police Station, and there a pay velope, indicating that Frank Lam- berti had drawn $6, was found in a cost pocket. The police think that the man fell FIREMAN IS KILLED ON WAY TO MOVIE FIRE AT PALISADES PARK Two-Story Building Destroyed and Two Families Bare- ly Escape. John Belleson, nineteen years old, a member of the Leonia, N. company, was jolted from a new auto hook and ladder truck at 2 A. M. La day while on the way to a fire at Palisades Park, Bergen County, and instantly killed. The blase was in a $10,000 moving icture theatre known as Terone’ ‘alisade Boulevard and Broad Av nue in the village of Palisades Park. Jand two-story building was destroyed and two families living on the top ‘floor barely escaped. The danger of a spread to other duildings FP the village caused fh companies in other places to be sum- moned. The truck oa which Belleson was riding had never been taken to a fire before. When it was within two blocks of the burning structure it skidded and Hellewon was thrown against @ curb, his skull being crushed. Theodore Van Zalen, chief of the Leonia Department, was thrown out on the frozen road; his nose was broken and he was bruised and cut. Samuel Watson's arm was broke: The others escaped with slight 1: juries, qq JUSTICES WON'T TESTIFY AT THE CROPSEY INQUIRY Decline Bar Committee's Invitation to Reply to District Attorney's Charge. The Brooklyn Committee whic Bar Aspociation has been looking into the persistency and propriety of District Attorney Cropsey's speech last fall regarding the impossibility of having a just ward M, Grout because of the presence on tho bench of Grout’s “lap friends” and “hand picked judges" has received re- plies to its invitation to five Justices to appear and air thelr views Justice Benedict sald that his opin- fons in the matter are a court record and he did not care to add to them. Justice Blackmar said he was con- scious of doing the best he knew how and felt he was the last man in the community to comment with pro- priety on his own judicial acts. Jus- tice Aspinall knew of nothing he cared to say. Neither did Justice Scudder, though he was willing to appear to answer any questions of the com- mittee. Justice Marean, retired, did not feel that he could aid the com- mitte tt of Be tent = eS gee Will Begin Mone “TOWNS THE —JORGANIZE SOCIETY GIANT WAVES STORE GIRL TYPE One of Them, Richly Clad, Is Heckled When She Attacks: Minimum Wage. HITS SOCIAL WORKERS. Mrs. Flowerton Says Only Stock Girls Get $6—She Gets $25 to $45. Only the gavel of Chairman Wagner of the State Factory Investigating Commission prevented the closing eeeston of the Commission in the Hal of Records to-day from breaking up in disorder, ‘The trouble started when Mrs. Maud Flowerton, who said ahe represented the “silk petticoated tytpe of store girl” attacked the social workers, re- formers and economists who have tes- tified before the Commission. Many of them were in the room, and led by Mrs. Frederick Nathan, President of the Consumer's League of New York, showed angry resentment by heckling the witness. Riohly clad and wearing expensive furs, Mre. Flowerton took the stand after eeveral so-called “reformers” had testified. Her eyes biased at Abram I. Elkus, counsel to the Com- mission, as she gave her name. come here as a representative af the better class saleswomen of the first-class stores,” she began, ignor- ing the first leading question of coun- wel, “I can tell you they are pretty hot over some of the talk of these social workers before this commission about the inability of the poor down- trodden department atore saleswomen whose meagre $6 a week is not enough to permit them to live decently. Disregarding the angry murmur that arose from the social workers, economists and reformers present, Mrs. Flowerton continued: “I have been a saleowoman for the last twenty-five years, and I can go out in any first class shop on Fifth Avenue to-day and get my $25 a week —in the old days I could get #45. And PUNISHMENT IN WY. New Incorporation Will Con- duct Fight in Legislature and Constitutional Convention. Efforts to substitute life imprison- ment for the death penalty for first degree murder in this State have ‘aken concrete form in the incorpora- tion of a society of prom! it men and women opposed to the death pen- alty, An attempt will be made to persuade the Legisiature to abolish the death penalty during the current wession. ‘This move carries little promise of success, for Gov. Whitman has an- nounced he believes in the death pen- alty and he would undoubtedly veto any bill to abolish the electric chair which might be sent to him by the Legislature. In the event of failure in the Legislature the opponents of the death penalty will go before the Constitutionak Convention at Sara- toga thig summer and plead for the aubstitution of life imprisonment for the death penalty in the new consti- tution, ‘The new organisation is incorpor- ated under the name of the Anti-Cap- ital Punishment Society. Its officers, just elected, are George Foster Pea- body, President; Jacob H. Schiff, Bishop David H. Greer, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Mra. H. Fairfield Osborn, Rabbi Jacob Goldstein and Thomas ON LINER --—_.— Wind So High Inst Stormy Passage. a —- The steamship Megantic of White Star line came into port two days late, after ha 4 countered the worst series of that has been the lot of the (ms atlantic liner this season. Cag R. Metcalfe and his officers was the worst they had been in years, It was gale folowing § Upon gale, mountainous waves wind that went beyond the ‘Two women in the second sprained ankles. In the height of the seen that lifeboat No. 13 wae ing loose. The firet officer, Mott Osborne, Warden of Sing Bing| Utd Prison, Vice Presidents; Mise Joanna Gleed Strange, Secretary. “It do the belief of the mem! the society that capital punish: wrong in principle, unfair to the indi- of vidual, and that it works a very great : injury upon the public,” reads an an- nouncement issued by the Secretary. “The eeclety has every confidence tout in a very short time the State tid of the-tnoopgrutty ef legal one, corpo: ough not in rated day, the Anti-Capital Punishment to- fos oT came into heing last spring. Miss the Secretary, explained the y saying it was difficult to get genuinely interested in such a peo} net with any degree of rapid- there are scores of women in my] p¢ position. “Why, $6 in the first-class shops ts paid only to the stock girls—and they don't deserve any more. Any efficient salesgirl can start at §7 In the good stores and she doesn’t have to stay (oe hy Ned wage, if she has any a 1 Nton't believe in your minimu wage for women,” she finally de- clared, “for the reason it would cost one-third of the store girls in this clty their jobs. Tt was at this point that the storm broke. Mre. Nathan arose from her the audience. the girls in the stores are paid so high, why should one-third of the saleswomen lose their jobs?" she de- maanded. Mra. Flowerton, having been checked by Mr. Elkus, was on the way the stand. Standing be- hind Chairman Wagner, she turned to Mra. Natha “Because ano-third of the depart- ment store help are stock girle— many of them younger sisters saleswomen, and minors. Th the employees who would rupted ier witnes: but before the confysion developed into an open row Chairman Wagner restored order and Mre, Nathan eat down. The proposed minimum wage law, which is likely to be placed before the present Legislature as the result of the two-year investigation of the Commission, was again attacked by witnesses who took the stand to-day. Ita bitterest foe proved to be Miss jarot, former secretary of the Trade Union League. She stoutly asserted that the trades union women were almost @ unit in oppost- tion to the measure, They believe, she asserted, that or- gwanisation of wom In the trades, atill in its infancy, Is the only salvation of the wage-earner. She aleo charged that the introduction of the minimum ey would be followed dy “tremendous unemployment.” “It would mean shorter seasons, a speeding up of work by the employ- ers, and the employment of only the most efficient,” she declared. Miss Blisabeth Dutcher, secretary of the Retail Clerks’ Association, said it was impossible for the saleswomen to organize, because they would find it Impossible to pay dues to their union out of their meagre income. She admitted, however, that a mint- mum wage would be a help to organ- ined labor. aseuiinn SECRET IN MAN’S ARREST. Prisoner Reported Held tn London om Word From New York Police, LONDON, Jan. 9 (1.26 P. M.).—Ben- Jamin Hill Smith, a man of Canadian birth, was to-day remanded in the Bow Street Pollce Court on the cl of rend tareeay, This action was taken of the yew Fos Petice hors tien. PR det oe | eet ak be haa, “He recentl: 4 yi itn fe: nt pay niet boon vie al oy nee ‘t Saas aa ent. officers the directors include the Rev. Henry Mottet, Robert H. Full Rev. Edgar Tiiton j Strange, Joseph EB. Robinson, It is a nati although we will try ity abolished in New ‘vork Elgh' lore against it. They are Kansas, Ine, Michigan, Minnesota, Rhode i ind, Washington, Wisconsin and Oregon. They just made the change Franklin Simon a Ca, Fifth Avenue Annual Sale Monday, January Ith Women’s Underwear “Parfait” Lingerie Underwear French Hand-made Lingerie Underwear Crepe de Chine Underwear atso Annual Sgles Silk and Merino Underwear & Corsets IMPORTANT SALE OF Women’s Hosiery For prices and particulars see Sunday Pi