The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1915, Page 3

.\ * Young Bride of Joseph V. Jor- * dan Tells of Their Secret Marrlage in Philadelphia. LOVE DIED IN TWO DAYS ~ Two or Three Quarts of Brandy and 120 Grains of Veronal Killed It, She Says Through the filing in the Supreme Court to-day of a separation eult it {became known that Joseph V. Jor- ‘@an, millionaire head of the Colwell Lawn Mower Company and New- burgh banker, secretly married Eloise Evans, twenty-seven-year-old daugh- of Amos H. Evans, a New York yer, in Philadelphia last Septem- ber, Jordan is more than thirty years older than his father-in-law. The suit ‘was brought by Mrs. Evans and Jus- Stice Lehman awarded her $30 a week alimony, Mra. Evans is now living at the Biltmore, while her husband is stay- ing on his big estate, “Glen Toft,” in Newburgh, The records disclose that that on Jan. 2%, 1913, Jordan was divorced from his first wife, Anna, in New- , dur@h, on testimony showing he en- _(tertained other women in his palatial home, while some of his own children, of whom there are four, were living F/ \ im the house. Jordan says that while he was visit- ing in Atlantic City, In May of last year two women flirted with him. ‘The elder, a Miss Quinn of Brooklyn, he says, introduced him to Miss Evans. She told him, he says, she owned a hotel bill in New York. He told her he would help her out, ho alleges. After this, he called on the young woman almost every day and persuaded her to marry him. He for her on his Newburgh mansion Ing to $5,000, offered to buy her any- thing she wanted. Jordan paid frequent visits to Mrs. Jordan's parents and asked them to consent to her marriage. Later, he) qatertained them at his Newburgh! home, where he told them, according Here’s a Plan for a Legalized State Matrimonial Agency, Where the Highest Ideals, Romantic, « Business or Plain Love, May Be Scientifically Introduced and Brought Together and the Human Family Improved. ven promised to build a roof garden | and, displaying a roll of bills amout- | a y ~ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. A State matrimonial employment bureau run on the latest effi- ciency principles, with qualification blanks, card catalogues, investigated references and scientific introductions, is the newest suggestion for bring- ing about safety-first matrimony, This particular desideratum {s just now arousing much interest—perhaps becauso of the unusually large number of marital collisions. In a recent interview for ‘The Evening World Dr. Mary Halton deplored the fact that modern love so often appears as a disease. “Among its symptoms,” she sald, “are jealousy, ficklenes: treme susceptibility, melancholy, insanity, suicide and Thanks to the way in which we wreck the ner- vous eystems of our children, the disease {s on the ‘Yo bring about healthier romances and marriages Dr. Halton advo- to the wife's allegations, he had won cated better protection for the nerves of the young and public school $250,000 in the stock market and was| courses in the true understanding of love. Two days earlier another New | York physician, Dr. J. Gardner Smith, had told me: ‘made in heaven but on earth and by the citizens of earth, It ought to bo! way, After thelr marriage, they lived | much more difficult for two persons to make a marriage than it ts. very wealthy. Mrs. Jordan says she was intro- @uced to her hfsband in a most formal at the Waldorf-Astoria, and then went | Should show at least as much care in choosing your partner in matrimony om @ honeymoon trip to Jamaica and Célon, “L believed my hust would get along all rig’ the wife gays, “until I met him one afternoon, beastly state of intoxication. I lost aN affection for him then and I told; Bim 1 was sorry I had married him. , 1 discovered he was accustomed to! @rinking from two to three quarts of| * hours, | took as much as 60! of veronal. Finally he became , strong brandy in twenty-fo and frequen ill and had to go to @ sanitarium We discovered he had taken 120 grains | ff yeronal in one dose, which, the! dctors said, was enough to kill aj font dozen strong . After the tr! Peturned ig Newburgh a @ few weeks there. Mrs. leave bec feared her husband would kill her. Bhe says one morning, between 2 and # o'clock, shdfwas uwakened to see him standing at the foot of her bed Mourishing a revolver. In January of this yea Jordan was at the Biltimo her husband promised + Agreement not to drink or use drugs. “Bhe went back to him for two days: Jordan alleges that on his wedding night he discovered his wife had a| great liking for cigarettes and cham- pagne. On the trip to Jamaica, he alleges, ‘she insisted upon drinking large quantities of “Planters’ punch,” A very potent comoction of Cuban Hquor. She also Went out on long ( automobile rides with strange men, he ways, and ran up large bills at Fitth Avenue modistes. Battleship Oregon “SAN FRANCISCO, ‘The battleship Oregon, rejuvenated and lon to lead the Atlan- | ma Canal next warship entere ing voyage. _ The Famous Chocol Relieves Constipation Helps Digestion readers may thing of it. the plan is to establish which will be love and marriage conducted on employment agency prin- . All applicants will give a bands or wives, things they require in their pro- spective partne charge of the bureau will investi- 1 to Jamaica the couple match up the various lists. next step will be introductions by The falling-in- ing-happily-ever-after is expected to occur in du But let “Mr, M. W." speak for him- splf, as he does most earn jlétter which I have sign an received from “L think we will all admit, after the! most casual Observation and consid- eration, that there are many physical, mental and moral runts in the human family than reason and common sense tells us should be the Were we to apply to the prob- lem our reasoning and knowledge in a scientific and practical way, I be- lieve many of the evils of present society, such as divorce, crime, 'n- poverty and idleness would be largely eliminated. day, She will | py e remain in port two days. The famous ight, eat ug ce tae night, completin: of her second Spochemsak: POTENTIAL FORCE FOR GOOD. “I consider eugenics the greatest te Laxative in selecting your business partner. You should study yourself and your |environment and reason out, sensibly and seriously, just what sort of girl nd and T\or man is most likely to help you succeed in the business of loving and x Now, a New York business man, a college graduate, who does not wish two days after our marriage, in & nis name published but whom 1 may call “Mr. M. W Potential force for good to society the plan that has been brought forward since dividual, “The bureau could be divided into |departments, as love and marriage, friendship, and business, and, it seems but I believe we can| to me could be of much benefit in oll ments and factora| three relations. The working of the bu- reau could be supervised by a council or commission of say 100 representa- tive men and women of the Sti |The bureaus of the diffe could co-operate upon req would extend the scope to the whole the world began. Many will say we cannot control love. I don't think we should try; control the e which Influence and promote love. __“My explanation of why we fall in love is that through associa- of our attraction, when we meet a per- son of the opposite sex who has most of the attributes of our ideal, whether physical, mental or moral, our sense of sat tion overwhelms our reason. pardon unfavo: when ti foree them upon our this is true, why should means or method by which we may become acquainted with per- sons who have to the greatest de- gree those qualities which we ¢om- monly consider desirable—or thone which we wisely know should be perpetuated be considered worthy of doption and given o as given our gencral ap- “If it is desirable for our ow: \ piness to wait for Mr. Right or 4 Right to come along, why Is it not proper and our duty to take though and action to find Mr. Right or ‘Miss Right? Such a search wonid undoubt- edly give us @ much better mate than mere chance and a@ restricted ac- quaintance produces, “L see no serious objections except those our hide-bound conventions would offer, And is there not enough kicking ager the traces of these con- | ventions In all classes of society to |tell us that they do not fully ineet | the situation? “As for private matrimontal agen- ciea, I think most of us have a hor- ror of these and the ‘motives actu- ating them and the methods they employ. Both they and our conven tional methods are based too mucl on considerations of wealth and ao- cial position; very desirable, we will all admit, when add he real and without these of absolutely no value what- ever to the State and of little to the interested individuals themselves. SCIENTIFIC MATCH MAKING BY THE OTATE, ‘My plan would be to have the|,, Btate establish a bureau of human | ‘r, with branches in all. ita: | gol sebav, JANUARY 86, 1 Want to Find True Affinity by Card Index? |ADMITS$300,000 | MRS. GRIFFIN GETS Try Scientific Match-Making by Bureau IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE. | that he could not meet the demands of the hanks he left the city, Stein |wald. This was a few days before the|the Government, Begigning shortly of the ideal qualities and accomplish- ments sought in the future These applications would carefully compared and scientifically matched, after which « suitable or requested list would be sent to each Should the list not prove rable a new one CAT CHASING RAT NEARL CAUSES DEATHS OF FOUR Knocks Off Gas Tube and Sleepers Are Overcome by the | for himself it $25,000 and made me sufficient. or whatever. In matghing cations persons be brought tocether A cat camo near causing the deaths Annie Kronik, her two chil- dren, Cecilia, eight, and Esther, etx, and a boarder, Fannie Bernbaum, at No. 192 Eldridge St They occupy one ropm on the top floor of the house and heat it by a gaa “Marriages are not. ted. | would have all ap- plications presented to the bureau reon or forms pi Fon t early to-day. sanctioned by parents or “Wealth and social position under our present system are #pecially em- phasized and given an undue import- e in making Bee Pika thease qualities would nly be subordinated as m: scheme of safety-first matrimony, and wasts to know what Evening World possible. The plan | have Outlined, T think, would tend to do this very thing. There would be an element of which I think would make alluring to the ordinary in- hag outlined a third certal Her cries down the airshaft brought ellis, from Gou- neighbors and Dr. verneur Hospital, soon had them out Not a@ single one of the ‘s nino lives seemed to have been affected by the tumes. LITTLE WAR REFUGEE FROM GHENT ARRIVES Farley, Fifteen Years Ol Acted as Interpreter in Flight From the Germans, | LOVE SHOULD UTILIZE TRANS. PORTATION LINES OF BUSINESS. “I would not legally enforce tis Any individual could avail himself of the service or not, as he might choose. legal requirements would be a law establishing, the bureau end provid- ing a severe knowingly or designedly giving it false for any one Anchor Line steamer Ay- from Glasgow, was Emily Farley, fit- Varley of No Jast Seventy-sixth Miss Farley was in the Visitation Convent at Ghen when the war broke wi struments to brin; sons who should be of the most warned the inhabitants of the coming Emily acted as an interpreter for the Knglish speaking people, and with many left for Os- tend an hour before the Germans en- of the Germans. at avails it for happiness If one’ n a distant State 1,000 miles away, even a dozen blocks off in a | if in the full course of on ‘x normal \iite there Is no probability of even a chance meeting? ‘phe formal and casual tntroduc tions are all right as far go, but I maintain they do not 4 Miss Farley made her way to Liv- erpool, where she remained in a Bel- gian relief home, acting a9 interpreter until she sailed for hor she had been imaking inquiries for her brother James, but not a trace of him could she find boy's parents have not from bim since late in October, when he was at school at Monagh. thirteen years old, through busl- ¥ gure, become acquainted sons from numerous tocall- men and wom the other’ hand ft tn ue that a large number, pe- f circumstances beyond their ‘are compelled to select their partners from a too restricted “Instead of a casual friend or nce being sponsor for ind, why wouldn't the ith ite power of collective isdom, be a much better epon- sor? “My idea, expre: s to introduce @ acientifio metho | which will tend to bring about an t in the human family, «ed * ny NOTE FORGERES, | YEAR SENTENG SUIGDEONTRAN FOR BG SWIOLE Chicago Distiller in Confession | Husband Also Gets Seven-Year Tells How He Unloaded Spurious Paper on Banks. Term for Defrauding His Friends, Francis H. Griffin and his wife, Clara H. Griffin, who pleaded guilty 3 Monday in United States District Court to fraud and conspiracy in al- Before Shooting Himself leged stenographic contracts in which Charles Ledowsky Wired [yeti hourand dirs, wore bn: to an Undertaker. sey to-day by Judge William W. Mrs, Gr who attempted to her husband Monday, was sentenced to aix years in Auburn Prieon. Griffin was given eeven years in the Federal Prison at Atlanta, Ga, Each was sentenced to five yeare on each of five counts in the Indlot- ment charging fraud, the sentences to rum concurrently. On the two counts of the conspiracy indictment, Griffin was sentenced to two years on each and Mrs, Griffinto one year, these alao to run concurrently, mak- tended | t# @ total of etx years for the wife fesp lle ele laa And seven years for the busbead. ‘An involuntary petition tn bank-| Assistant Penge ood As ruptey was filed against Ledoweky’s| Hactridge made @ bitter arraignment company last Monday, echeduling of the middle-aged couple in tis ad- assets of $90,000 against liebliities of | dress to the Court, while George Gor- $280,000 or $200,000, don Battle, thetr counsel, pleaded for ‘Attorney Sidney KR. Stein, repre. | leniency. Judge Pope declared they nting Ledowaky's creditors, stated | were the kind of people who ought to that Ledowsky had confessed to him| be adequately punished and that he that he had forged warehouse re- | considered only the indictments in in- cotpts for whiskey valued at $280,000! fiicting the sentences, or $800,000 and disposed of them| The Court declared the scheme of through banks which he victimised. | fraud had been shown to be unusually Stein sald he discovered the for- |large, involving a profit to the Griffens gerles while acting for hie oliente.|/of about 000 @ year for seven Two Chicago banks were the prin- | years. 7 ctpal lovers. When Ledowsky found CHICAQ@O, Jan, 20.—Chaties Le- dowaky, President of the Fox River Distilling Company of Chicago, whose name hed been mentioned in oen- nection with alleged forged ware- house receipta of B. F. Wathen & Co. of Loutaville, committed sutolde by shooting on a ratiread train entering Ledowsky was on @ Michigan Cen tral train from Syracuse, N. ¥. He telegraphed ahead to aa undertaker, requesting him to meet the train and to do with @ contract they claimed to have had to do stenographia work for bankruptcy proceedings, after their marriage in 1906, they ob- In the confession, which Stein made | tained, on this basis, large sums frora public, Ledowaky speaks of forgeries |their friends and others, Wathen & Co,, distillers, of 6, and names a business man Pushiag of Chicago as being the only person| WASHINGTON, besides himself who knew the ae. |its bay soso by lr ostutl yroggptenre a ululent. at a mee eo Benat cae ere tied thera by keeping (Banking and Curreney’Commaitted: with Ja view to reporting a Dill as soon as ‘The meeting was called sign accommodation notes for about [Domible Due, Tue. OTe the ection $30,000," reade the confession. of the Democratic caucus Monday night LOUISVILLE, Ky,, Jan. 20.—Ware- pting @ resolution declaring it house receipts for $55,000 purporting |the sense of Corale Democrats that a to have been lssued by tho Govern-|rural credits be pressed at the ment to R. DB. Wathen & Co,, Louls- Nearliest practicable date itillet e tovday By Foprowantative of a Chie | dent of the Fox River Dialling Com. | 0 cago bank and branded by Mr,|P®5Y'.une on warehouse liquor re. Wathen as forgeries, 1 may total more than $100,000, banks arrived in 4nformation, were postod| which loans had been made. loans negotiated largely brokers | tillers, in whose names they had been whose principal is sald to have been! issued, und a number of them pro- Charles Ledowsky of Chicago, Prest- nounced forgeries. Hitting urally follows. now use and discomforts. site 98 on oe te Sra wy, OA SR cee Sy The swindling of the Griffene had/ \\ If Housework RoughenS q Your Hands—Read This © ou think yeu cannet r 2, perubing and Ceipta moved the Chicago bankers to wiles enema te atement to-day Mr. Wathen| verify the genuineness of the cci- after washing—and a n intimated that the alleged forgeries|iateral. 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