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THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915. REALMS. ROGERS |WWage-Earning Mother, Latest New Woman, |QNN £. PARSONS, Excites Hostility, but Is Ably Defended BlG SUGAR TRUST'S GONE BUT HAS NOT FE, MARTIVSAYS Prosecutor Knows Her Address, | but May Not Have to Call | “ Her at Inquest. | IS STILL IN THE Divorced Wife Says Relative \ Has Put Lawyer in False Position. STATE. Though Mrs. Caroline Giddings | Rogers, legal wife of Lorlys Biton | Rogers, has left the city, she is still | M this State, according to District | ‘Attorney Martin of Bronx County, who says he knows where she is, | ‘The testimony of Mrs. Rogers may | not be necessary, Mr. Martin said, in the Grand Jury inquest into the poi- soulng of the two children of Mrs. Ida | Sniffen Morris Walters and Rogers. “I will know Monday whether it, Will be neceswary to take Mrs. Kogers before the Grand Jury,” he sald. “Hesides the poisoning of tho children another crime has been committed | aud her testimony is necessary in es- | | tablishing it. i “But I am not certain whether it ts wise to go into the misconduct of the! parents of the children until after the, Grand Jury has deciaed whether Mrs, alters must be tried for homicide.’! imory M. Muekner, counsel for Mr: Rogers, has been in conference w: Mr. Martin, ch of them has in- | formation of value to the other and| 4n exchange of witnesses is believed | to have been arranged, | Mrs. Anne Roquemore Rogers, first wife of the lawyer, has given out @ 1 she says @ man hers has poisoned the mind | Attorney Martin of Bronx | against Rogers. . Rogers bas beea placed In a false light by one of my relatives statement in whic! Telative of who once 11 with us,” the first wife said. ‘This man deliberately went to the District Attorney with stories whicu insinuated that Rogers deighted in winning the hearts of women, He had much for which to thank Mr. Rogers, yet be continued giving information about him, Since these attacks were made op Mr. Rogers 1 have not had an op- portunity to talk to my relative,” Mrs. Rogers, at her apartment, No. 201 West Ninety Mr. d Roars, of Rogers's relaticns with Mrs. Walters. | She suid she hoped he would be al. | vorced, so he could marry the woman) who killed ber children. When a message was sent to Rogers | Lebanon Hospital, asking him) | letters which are printed below. Husbands, Neglected Children, Jobless Girls and “I. W. W. Schools’ Are Offset by “TWe SEF SUPPORTING: Pitiful Case of “A Miserable Wife.’ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Lazy husbands, neglected children, jobless girls, I. W. W. schools— h| these are samples of the social ruin that will be wrought by the eelf-sup- porting mother, according to her critics. attacked. happiness,” Both these assertions are challenged by the writers of three of the Two general counter-assertions are made: First, that the family of the selfwupporting mother is bound to sufter| Pt Since the recent publication in The Evening World| of an interview with Miss Henrietta Rodman, ieader of the fight for the teacher-mother in the New York public schools, prophesying and justifying the woman who wants both a baby and a job, I have recelved a number of letters in which this newest of new women {is hotly “There are at least fifty thousand women in New York who are assuming or who desire to assume the full responsibility of both wage-earning and mother- hood,” Miss Rodman declared. “In steadily increasing numbers women are proving that the best mothers are those whose mentality is daily exercised by some skilled occupation, and decade that the best workers are those whose natures are stimulated by domestic because of her activities outside the home; second, that these activities suffer from domestic interference, | challenged by the writers of three of the letters which are printed below. Two general counterassertions are made: First, that the family of the about the relative mentioned by his self-supporting mother is bound to suffer because of her activities outside formor wifo, he replied that he would not talk about his affairs until ho re- | celved permission from Mrs. Walters's attorney, Abraham Levy. Rogers was at the hospital yesterday and brought two sult cases filled with clothes for | Mra. which she expects to shield her face from cameras -vhilo leaving for jail. Prosecutor Martin has consented to a delay in Mrs. Rogers's removal from the hospital to the county 4: The transfer had been planned for ‘to-morro' Coroner Healy will hold an inquest Wednesday, and if his Jury holds her on the homicide charge @he will immediately be taken to the fail. oo SHOT AFTER QUARREL. Kast New York Hotel fase to Name & Julius Bernses, bartender at Hurma'a Hotel, No. 1380 Rockaway Avenue, Enst | New York, was cating breakfast at 6) o'clock to-day when « man entered the | kitchen and tried to collect a bet from him, “Here's tho money, but you can't have It till to-morrow.’ Ary. C. Keed heard . Mot argument followed, pistol Khot and the sound of running fi Dr, O'Reilly of xt. found that the bull seal "8 lett | Mary's Hospital | d" pleresd the sed Ir nate the | it either could | ur, by elt his namie, Don’t Give Up 7 Fae, Nowadays, deaths dueto weal kidneys 20 years ago, according to the census, Over-work and worry are the caus. es. The neys can't keep up, and ight kness i i » is usually nee alscte If “Oh, how my back hurts’ ou have backache, dizzy spel! adaches, or urinary disorders, de mistake the ight the danger. More gare as to dict, habits, etc,, and the use of Doan’s Kidney Pills ought to bring quick relief, There ere hundreds of thousands over the world who re-om- Proof from the Bronx Mrs. N. Thurston, 381 E, 166th St., Bronx, says: “I think there are times in the life of every one, when a little kidney medicine is necessury. M Riaseys toened Signs of weakness and 1 had backache. Doan's Kidney Pills scemed to tone my ty sad removed the backache, the remedy that acts so quickly 1 good results should be 50¢ at all Drug Stores Foste:-Milburn Co. Preps. Buffalo, NY. {THINKS | from the self-supporting | the home; second, that these activities suffer from domestic interference. The point 1s also made that every married woman wage-earner takes some poor girl's job away from her, “The answer to that id a witty woman of my acquaintance, “is that every woman who marries takes some What seems to me the most in- teresting of the four lette: pub- lished to-day is an argument in the form of an autobiography. It is the one argument advanced in favor of the self-supporting mother. The writer telle of her husband in the insane asylum, her children threatened with an ing for the duty of self-support now thrust upon her. “A busi- ness or profession might have saved my home and husband; in any event, would have enabled me to provide properly for my children,” writes “A Miserable Wife.’ If I were Miss Rodman I should be | content to match this living vindlea- tion of my theories against any of the following criticiems: SELF-SUPPORTING MOTHER MEANS LAZY HUSBAND ‘The first communication is headed ust a fe statements from a mothe “Dear Madam: This state of affairs regarding teacher-mothers is demor- alizing. Are we taxpayers, rentpayers and parents supporting schools to have our young children's eyes opened to circumstances that only concern an elder? Will our Government permit such an outrage? We pay excellent salaries to our teachers and we should have undivided attention, No woman can serve two masters as they should be served, Motherhood is the most important even. in a woman's life, It iy the mother who must produce good citizens, Why should not the teacher- mother’s husband provide for her the aume as every other good man? “One of the greatest evils resulting mother is laziness for the husband and the com- Ing offspring. Here io a sample: A young man from a Brooklyn high school remarked, ‘Gee! no more bother for us—he'll hitch to a gal- teacher and ta easy tor life,” Let the readera draw their own conclu- sions. “How about the young jadies who just gradu Hlow are they ever golng to repay their parents, many of whom made great sacritices for their education? Give the young girl a chance, And she in time should marry, then quit her position, thus passing the chance along. “Oh, parents, why will you sit by heodiessly? Any woman who can place her baby In the care of an- ether (no matter how good the nurse may be) from 8.80 to 3,20 daily Is cold blooded. Wepity the poor woman who must do it from actual necessity, Walters, also a parasol with | poor girl's job away from her—the-girl-before-the-last __ | readin, \them when we becamo t j stead, we are now working in offices, | factor ajauinst employing me. | Stores and factories owing to the glut- but the one who loves money better than her own flesh and blood is serpent. MRS. M. T. MOTHER WAGE EARNER SPOILS THE GIRL'’S CHANCES. The next letter undoubtedly ex- pros#es the feeling of many unmar- ried women in the matter of the self- supporting mother, "Dear Madam: I have just finished f your article about wage-earn- ng mothers, It is all very well for Miss Rodman and others to win their battle, but how about us poor girls who have got our education at a great sacrifice on the part ents in tho hope t ‘ony of married Womon Who have hus- bands not only willing but quite able to support them, Why does not your Paper consider this side of the quas- tion? Alxo, why not asi the ‘mothers’ of pupils thelr opinion on mother- teachers? Also, ask any school teach- er who Keeps house and has no chil- dren, if the worry of housekeeping does’ not interfere with her school teaching. c. B." SCHOOLS WOULD DESCEND To |. W. W. LEVEL, t I An I. W. W. school and a neglectod | w home result from the combination of baby and job, in the opinion of the following writor: In an interview with you present certain pher that invite the following presentation of facta, It is quite true that in the state of Infancy @ nurse may play the part of mother in satisfying the physical require- menis of the child's progress, But ite moral nature depends to a large de- greo on the one who is engaged In rearing it. The child of tender years is apt to imitate the good or evil char- acteristics of the one portraying the f mother, The nurse's skill may be well directed in the nursery but I question the assumption that any woman would care to permit another to mould the character of her child if she possesses the true affection of a mother, What influence can a woman exert when her duties require the greater part of her time? The case thus presented is similar to the one ju which the good parson and hin w are so wrapped up in movements af reformation that they neglect their own children, When approaching motherhood re- quires the teacher's relinquishing of her daily duties for a period, a young, inexperienced girl in substituted for the competent instructor, which in a wreat many instances proves u bitter experionce for both teacher and pu- pils, The children take advantage f the inefficiency of the substitute and create havoc, Instead of quelling the disturbance by employing drastic measures, she permits it to develop by her own lentency, There is a gen- eral relaxation. Not only are the studies neglected, but the deportment alvo, The harmontous atmosphere that hitherto had been maintained is transformed into an 1. W. W. You may be shocked by this statement, but the gir and boys located in ptable and pretentious commu- seem to possess thie spirit, 'in—the madhouse. issues forth at such opportune occasions. This spirit existed when 1 graduated from an_ elementary school, which, I may add, is not @ le ago, “You know, as a business woman, madam, how many employers would recognize or tolerate the absence of women employees for the purpose pf maternity, ‘hy, then, should such a rivilege be accorded to the teacher? she auch a superior mortal that an exception must be taken in her case? “No argument can efface the fact that tho mother’s place is in the hom: F, K." POIGNANTLY FEELS THE LACK OF A “TRAINING.” And this is the story of the mother who was not self-supporting and came to regret the fact bitterly, “Dear Madam: it Saturday was the twelfth anniversary of my wed- ding day. I spent it alone with my two children, My husband spent it He had always worked hard, brought every penny home and loved that litde home and its inmates. I always stayed at home. He was eo proud of the fact that he was our sole support, de- spite his being a laboring man with intermittent work. The war of Eu- rope made work slack. He worried horribly. Day by day I his dear face grow thinner and paler. My heart told me he could not keep up very long. Nothing could lift the heavy despondency from his soul, Every morning he rose earlier, hop- ing the day would prove fruitful. “ram bright and clever, and 1 searched for employment. In moat canes 1 would have been accepted at a fuirly good salary, but [ had a tiv. ing husband, and this was a strong “Small pay with hard work could be hud, can be had at any time, by married or single women, But goud paying jobs are supposed to belong to the woman who cares for no one but herself. “One day my husband started ont. in the morning as usual for wock and came back at noon with his poor troubled mind gone, Not even. the comfort of caring for him is mine, Now I must turn to and support my two children, or I can put them in an 1 erroneously termed a of that? Singlo ried ones too will to do—go und be ‘oman'a — bousenold me just whi other 01 tell some ha ved my sw eh ve kept to me the man L loved and married, whose children I love, wao is dearer than my heurt's blood, In any case I would have been enabied to provide properly for my children. The true woman's duty Hes in doing: that which is best for her family, re- gardiens of whether that duty is in- aide or outalde the home. “I believe In husband, home and children and business for the true, loving woman. Why can't people un- derstand that nature intended women to use their brains and hands? Kven among the aniinals the female of the pecies will help her mate to tent, ar well as suckle her 1 have no home, no companion by my aide, no training—nothing but my sorrow. A training, I suid abova, might have saved my home, After tweive years of being Jurt ‘at home’ I must start all over again, At what? Where? Who will care for my chi}. dren now? MISERABLE WIFE.” ime “Apth Name. William Waldorf Astor filed yester- day in the Supreme Court an action to prevent Harry and Martin Schiff from Using the name “Apthorp” ip connec. with thelr bullding at Broudwa| ue ourth, Strest. Mr. Astor ea building called the Ape wt End Avenue and Sevent; rect, right to wae’ the Passenger Dien im Car at En@ ef Hrookiym Bridge. A man of seventy, with gray eyes, hair, mustache, hat, sweater coat overcout, died early to-day ina Flu ing A » car at the east end Brooklyn ridge. Papers in hia pocket indleated that he was J, 8 J. de Jongh of No. 180 Junction Avenue, Cor name, "1AM WORKWG Owme TO Tre GLUTTONY MARRIED WOMEN WiTH HI “A BUSINESS OR PROFESSION WOULO HAVE SAVED my Home” “MISeRABLE wie" ORGANIZER, DEAD | Unassailable Charter He Drew Is Lawyer’s Chiet Monument. NATIVE Guided Great Corporation for Quarter Century but Retired Only Few Years Ago, IN A Factory Car | | ' Jobn FE. Parsons died to-day at his home, No. 30 Kast Thirty-sixth Street, To see the name of John Edward | Parsons is to recall instantly the Sugar Trust, gigantic pioneer among corporations, which h® organized, de- volopéd and guided with conspicuous success during nearly half of the fifty years and more in which he practised at the New York bar. Experts agreed that he had few equals and no super- jor in knowledge of corporation law. Mr. Parsons was born in Now York City Oot, %4, 1829, the son of Edward Lamb and Matilda Clark Parsons. He was # ad from New York University in 1848, admitted to the bar in 1852 and afterward received honorary degrees from New York, Yale and other universities, He mar- ried in 1856 Mary Dumesnil Melivaine | and after her death married Florence von Cortlandt Bishop, daughter of Benjamin N. Field. He was the father of Herbert Parsons and of four daughters, From the beginning Mr. Parsons specialized on that branch of law which gave him péouliar insight into the organization of corporations and a wide knowledge of their rights and privileges. He was associated for | years with Albion P, Man, himself a pioneer in American corporation law. After his death Mr, Parsons prac- tised alone for a time, but later took various partners, the latest style of his firm name being Parsons, Shepard & Ogden. In the old office at No, 111 Broad- way in Trinity Bullding, overlooking the weather-beaten tombstones of Trinity churchyard, the plans of the Bugar Trust were drawn by Mr. Par- sons in 1887, This corporation con- trolled virtually all the sugar bust- ness of the United States and even- tually of a great deal more of the world, It was bitterly attacked, and on the first effort the Court of Appeals of this State decided that its charter Was illegal. But this was a mere temporary check to Mr. Pardons, He BOY HUSBAND'S AGE $0 WE GETS BS AND WINS DVORE FR SEL Little Fellow Who Looked Like R. P. Cooke Leads Wife to Rival’s Home. After relating a remarkable story of how the resemblance of a little boy's features to those of her husband re- vealed her husband's dual life, Mra. Alvina Cooke to-day won a decree of divorce from Robert P. Cooke, a former policeman. The trial of the case was completed to-day before Justice Ford. Two months ago, while walking in Astoria, L. 1, Mra, Cooke sald she | met a little boy, Strangely he was the | image of her husband, “What is your namo?” she inquired, “Bobby,” the younguter replied, | “and that's iapa’s name, too.” | “What docs your Papa do?” asked | Mrs. Cooke, H “Ho's a policeman,” the boy said. | Mrs, Cooke asked the lad to tuke her to his papa's home, ‘There he led her and when she walked into the little house she was met by a er who called herself “Mrs. Robert » husband and father of tutte! was not home, but “Mrs, " explained that he would r turn from his duty soon, The reel Mra, Cooke did not stay. | Mins Julia Mareck proved to be| Mrs, Cooke,” Sho was in court to-, day und Mra, Cooke, the real, picxed | her out tn the crowd. | Later Miay Mareck took the atand and confessed her relations with the policeman and admitted that the child who had led to the disclosure of Cooke's double life was Her brother, Fred Mareck, corrob- orated her story, ENFORCE FIVE-CAR CRDER OW CONEY ISLAND LINE Mandamus Asked by Public Service Commission Against B. R, T. System. The Public Service Commiasion to- day began mandamue proceedings against the Broklyn Rapid Transat Company through the holding com- bany, the New York Consolidated | Railroad Company, to stop violations | of an order issued by the Commiasion | Dec. 26, 1913, and which sought to| regulate service on the West End line to Coney Island, The specific complaint concerns that part of the order which provides | that the minimum service past St. | Mark's Avenue station between 9, . M. and 11 A. M., westbound, shall consist of not leas than five-car) trains on a ten-minute headway, ‘The order also directed the company | to report to the commission within three days any delay due to ita inabil- | ity to despatch and put in operation such traina | On Noy, 26 last Joseph Johnaon, |#t De! Chief of the Transit Bureau of the | Pf Public Service Commission, reported | that a provision of the order had |S! been violated by the operation of @| tia Beatrice Frank w the hours | the entertainment three-car train between mentioned. The commission then re ferred the matter to counsel. | wan ante made another charter, so shrewd, so atrong, it has ever since defied the efforts of Legislatures, the Senate of the United States and many other authorities to shake ite control of one of the most important foods of mankind, This will be its author's monument, of medium height, acholarly y of the wisest conservative lawyer of the old » He never relied on wit o but on a knowledge of th in its depth and com- vane and refulness in preparing unex that left nothing to chance—or to the other side. He retired from active practice four yearn ago. Benides his New York home he maintained for many years a res- idence in Lenox, Mass. where he and his wife were prominent in’ many good works. MAN EXPLAINS MYSTERY OF LEWIS GIRL'S DEATH Nelson, Her Escort, Says Maid Was Taken Il and He Carried Her to Room, ‘The mystery surrounding the death of Florence Lewis, @ maid in the household of Mrs. A. P, Cornell at No. 441 East Twenty-sixth Street, Flatbush, has been cleared by the statement made to the detectives of the Seventh Branch Bureau by John P. Nelson, of No. 1811 Sixtieth Street, Brookiyn. ‘The girl was found unconscious tn her room at 4 o'clock Thursday morn- ing. She died without regaining con- sciousness. Nelson said he had escorted her on Wednesday evening to a party at tho homo of his brother-in-law, On the front porch of the Cornell house Miss Lewis was suddenly taken i. “Bhe came near fainting,” said, “and 1 carried her up to hor room, ‘There she revived partially and [ told her I would notify Mra. Cornell of her illness. But she did aot want the members of the family to know of her alckness, “She asked me to stay, feared another attack. 1 with her until 4 o'clock, “I did not know she was dead until I read the papers yesterday,” An autopsy showed a hemorrhage of the brain had caused Miss Lewis's death. Nelson for ahe remained Dance to Aid € 5 The Lena Invalid Ald Soclety will hold ite annual entertainment and dan onico's to-morrow evening. The has been arranged by Mrs M Leray, ib an New York t For twenty y the soclety has provided food and med ical attention for the poor and the ale! MAN WHO ORGANIZED | SUGAR TRUST AND WHO DIED TO-DAY AT 85. | | NEPHEW'S COUNSEL SCOFFS AT CHARGE OF NORDICA FRAU Says Letters Offered in Will Contest Are in Prima Donna’s Own Hand. Emile Dreyfus of the law firm of Weed, Honry & Meyers, attorneyn for Robert 8. Baldwin, nophew of the late Mme, Lillian Nordica and executor of the will it im alleged she executed on Thursday Ivland shortly before her death, to-day made light of the charge of Bainbridge Colby, attorney for the Prima donna’s husband, George W. Young, that the supposed Nordica letters in Baldwin's possession aro “concocted and fraudulent.” ‘When Mr, Young’s attorney at- tempts to attack the genuineness of the letters we have, id Dreyfus, “he forgets that when we served hin with the complaint to which the let- tera were once attached we offered to show him the original letters.” The original letters, Dreyfus are all in Mme, Nordica’s hand and of unquestioned authorship. In this respect they aro unlike some of the typewritten letters Young claims to have received from his wife about the same time and which he made public in part in an offort to prove she expresned love for him up to the time of her death. “Mr. Young, of course, knows his own wife's handwriting,” Dreyfus continued. In view of that fact, we were surprised that his attorney did ‘FAILS TO MAKE LIVING, ; HELEAPS FROM WAGON Fish Peddler Makes Second At- tempt to End Life—Dragged From East River. Jacob Kittagrod, a fish peddler, liv+ ing ot No. 379 Alabama Avenue, Brooklyn, drove his wagon clogs to the rail of the north roadway of Will- lamsburg Bridge near the Brooklyn tower at 8 o'clock to-day, stood up on tho seat, stepped dver to the top of the rail and jumped. The horse, with &® snort of terror, turned and raced madly back toward the Williamsburg Piase. ittagrod struck the wat buck und was carried upstre a ave blocks by the flood tide before he was dragged aboard the lighter Clara, which landed him at the foot of South Fifth Street. From there he was taken to Williamsburg Hospital, Kit- tagrod, in addition to immersion amd shock, had sustained internal which will probably cause his This is his wecond attempt oul. fmsett by” inhaling ane iter he, had ny lost $80,000 In the whole ness, On his recovery fects of that attempt oo and wagon he rs his leap the h at the Williamabr to “January “Dear Wife Anna, excuse me. I am going to leave you. I am but, without means, I believe yor be happier without me, “Tam making an end of my life be. cause I can't bear it any more. It in shame that a big, stron thy man like me should be unable to make a@ living. I made wu) mind to do this several days courage failed until t the courage now and a @ let found under the seat. hav ‘ am going to 0 It. “Bince the last time I tried it T havo heen unable to make any progress ii my business, I would write more but I bave only five minutee to tive. Ki sage while seated In his wagon just rove out on the INDIGESTION OR A SICK STOMACH “Pape’s Diapepsin” ends all stomach distress in five minutes. ‘Time it! Pape’s gest anything you eat prod? thle five minutes, surely meals don't fit comf ', ruler ree eat ‘lee like o berg! not avail himnelf of our offer to ox- hibit the original characterized them as fraudulent, “We agree that the letters Mme, Nordica wrote to her sisters were at variance with those she wrote to her husband at the same time, It is on that very variance that we rely to prove that #he had a disagreoment with him. “She felt he hud used her money and that it was to her best interest, until she got it back, to appear to be friendly with him, Hut, as is shown plalnjy by our letters, she was doing her best to get away from him.” Dreyfus says this was the prima donna’s attitude when she became ill after the shipwreck, and that it was only natural when she made her new will for her to express her real fee ings. Before her illness, Dreyfus says, Nordica had aaid she was going © another will and cut off her nd with only the amount he had borrowed from her. Briefa in support of the motions made yesterday before Supreme Court Justice Lehman will not be | ready until Monday. In the mean- time Dreyfus will continue his fight in the New Jersey Courts to keep Young from proceeding with probate ‘8 before he | her | disorders and that tion. Get Mage our f it 'o © done jest as soon as you can, There ndigested food wih ead . Bo stonech paling | stomach, or Bau- debilitating dissiness or intestinal gri all go end, ides, tl ll be no sour foed beft over in the yor Panes is o certain eure J e for *put-of stomachs, i hold of your food and ry | {ast the same o6 Hf your stemnaaty Relief in five minutes from all misery is waiting for you at any lore. at re Meee a the entire family of his wife's earlier will there, Justice Lehman took under advise- | ment motions to restrain Young from going on with the probate pro- ceeding» in New Jersey until it can be shown whether Mme, Nordica was a resident of New York and to bar from the record as scandalous the letters in Baldwin's possession, | Family Away, 5! ome, No. 2072 Bronx. Her sons liad gone to school and her husband, | George, had gone to hix work as a clerk, | Dr. 20, Webster of No. 371 Bast Hundredth Street said ahe recently had nin sunitarium, Curtain Particulars of which wi ropean Artists, Ainment Deging at tuneh- eon and laste till close, 42nd and 43rd Streets, West of HAth Avenue. Are arranging a very unusual sale of | Imported Cretonnes and Scrims ill be aunounced later. i | j |