The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1915, Page 3

AND RASES6 00 FOR OUROHN Pan | Society Tums Out in Force for Unique Charity Ball at the Biltmore. __ s MANAGED BY WOMEN. Mayor the Hero of Occasion— * President Allowed Use of His » Name to Aid the Fund. momentarily to knit socks the Beigians, New York society night turned Its lorgnettes sym- cally on tragedies nearer home danced to help relieve New York's everty. Ut was the “Ball for Our Ywn Poor” in the Cascade ballroom @f the Biltmore Hotel. ‘The poor down in the tenements, @hivering under the cold wind and @asing fearfully out into the night that brought a sweep of snow, may Rot have known it. They could not eee out of their drab homes into the Rrightness and the splendor of the Ballroom. But for every woman in sbimmering gown and every man in evening dress that entered it five dol- lara went into the treasury of the As- soeiation for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Tt was a fund to be used for the immediate assistance of those in real distress. More than 1,000 tickets were @old before the ball began and many More were sold at the door. There yas practically no expense, except for a’ small share in the cost of the Suppers that were served. The ball- oom suite and the music were do- mated by tho hotel management. The ball was organized primarily through the efforts of Cornelius N. Bilis, chairman of the association. AMrafLinsley Tappin of the committee eati@ated that at lenst $6,000 would be Available for charity. feature was that the ball practically ‘Was managed by women. President Wilson consented to the use of his name to lead the list of patrons, and there were also Gov. ‘Whitman, Senator Root and Secretary of the Navy Daniels. They were un-| able to attend, so the President's box Was veserved for the honor guest— Mayor Mitchel—who appeared of- Aclally to represent the city. “HAIL TO CHIEF” AS MAYOR APPEARS. ‘The Mayor came with Mrs. Mitchel and Dudley Field Malone, Collector of the Port. The women had planned pomp for him an¢, at the whisper of his approach, the orchestra quit sud- enly In the middle of a rollicking @ance number and dashed into “Hall te the Chief". Escorted by the com- Wiittee, the Mayor and his wife ap- peared in their box in the baicony. He took his ovation with grace, and then hurried downstairs alone. For tho Mayor lad come to dance. Miss Lorna Napier was his first chosen partner, and in a moment Mr, Mitohel ceased being the Mayor of New York and became one of the dancers for our own poor. He didn't quit, elther, dancing four straight ibera, and winding up with the foB trot. Then they played “Tip- perary,” and, either from a strict ®ehee.of neutrality or just plain fa- tigue, he slipped away and joined his Dox party. midnight the crowd drew back f rich color versions of the bal Migs Ruth Weinstein, twelve year old, of the Metropolitan Opera Com- aid appeared and gave beautiful interpretations of Greek dances, She ‘was showered with applause and made to repeat her unique performance, Another interesting speciaity was a modern dance by Miss Lorraine Mish- Jer, a society debutante from Chat- Tenn,, and George Rule of RESENTATION OF SOCIETY. Boctety had a good representation fm the boxes and on the floor. Mrs. party, included Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A xel of Philadelphia. Another box ty was given by Edwin Gould. Among other box holders were Mre.Phil ra. ‘osky Butt, eran tee Mee Aitred Wenniae Albert Gallatin, Mra, Albert ia, Mrs. Ira Burrows and Mra, and Mra. W. Albert Mr. and Mrs. George W. Tay- ir. and Mrs. George Van Iden- , Mra. M. D. Patterson and Miss terson, Mrs. Henry 8. Redmond Mre, John A. Black. “Indefatigable workers wore the en who composed the committee charge of the ball, including Mra. desley Tappin, Mrs. Ira Burrows, 3. Allen Townsend, Mrs, A, M, ra jr and Mrs. Thomas W.! H, Sullivan was honorary n of the Floor Committee and ‘Tappin was chairman. An unique! te FORMER ; SAYS: PRESIDEN T TAF S0m6,As NEVER BeFoRG, HAVE DANCING, DRESS AN GwTER' | | ' | | | & wy Then She Won’t Have to Preaches. erful that he can the shrewd obser the Girl Without Girls. “How do better as I am.’ “I am not opposed to marriage. am a believer in ft. But when any marriage is forced by circumstances conjugal life is not so desirable as singlo blessedness for the woman.” I went to New Haven to find out In greater detail Just what Mr. Taft thinks about jobs for girls. First of all I learned something about jobs for ex-Presidents. Returning to New Haven that morning from Massachusetts speech- making Mr. Taft tarried exactly four hours and thirty-two minutes with!n the town limits. Two hours were taken up by lectures in his Yalo e'assroom, two hours by the dictation of future speeches in his office at the Hotel Taft, while thirty-two minutes ‘cre lavished on Inch and two jour. neys hatween hotel and ra! ad sta- tion, When TI finally captured his bersvolent attention om the train ‘o New York (en route for Indianapolis) the first thing I noticed was the pounds he'd lost since his Presiqen- tial pictures wore taken, But I Wasn't surprised. “What can I do for yout he beamed pleasantly, after adjusting for me the chair in front of his own s0 that we were face to face, “Tell me more of your theory that girls should be made independent,” I replied, pendent of marria, of support,” he ry mot marry except in obedience to the dictates of her heart. To-day many woman accepts a hu because she loves him, but be- cause she reasons somewhat fe never an: other chance; at least he will support me, and if | find life with him too unbearable | can divorce him! “That sort of union carries in itself the seed of separation, I belleve one of the most frequent causes of our frequent divorces is just this entrance into the marriage state for some other reason than love. Yet the sanctity of domestic Ife is en- dangered when divorce is easy and common. The perpetuity of the home, on which our Nation Is founded, is | reanerna most precarious. For the protection of the home, therefore, | girls ought to be so equipped that mere clroumstances cannot push them into loveless marriage.” For the moment the Taft smile was in abeyance, although ite tracks were evident in the myriac small creases the outer corners of diating fro: Tit|Sery, blue ‘eves Mr. Taft's face is MUD. and Sech-enlered ag @ Marry Man She Doesn’t Love in Order to Have Some One Support Her, and Her Marital Experience Will Be Less Likely to End in Divorce Court. Economic Independence of Women Will Be Solution of Most Marriage and Divorce Problems That Now Beset American Nation, Thinks Former Ex- ecutive, Whose Daughter Practises What She By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. No American girl ought to be obliged to marry f In a dozen words that ts the substance of the sane, former President William Howard Taft has for the modern young woman, He believes no American father is so rich or so pow: @ Uving. orth-while messag afford to let his daughter grow up an idler, The wise student of social and economic lawa, ‘ver of many strata of American so- elety, 1s convinced that our home life {s in danger from a Job. “It 1s to be regretted that many women think they have to marry because marriage will relieve them of the burden of supporting themselves, not because they love the men whose wives they decide to become,” sald - Mr. Taft recently at the Hebrew Technical School for are you going to avoid this condition? By making the woman economically independent. Then, if a man comes along and asks her to marry him and if he's nothing but a scrub, she can just say, ‘I'll a , boy's or an Englishman's. His fine, thin, silky-brown hair ruffles up on his temples in true professorial fashion, and as he turned his head toward the window, I noted the cleanly drawn curve of the nose, as perfect as any you will find on a Roman coin. In his serious moments, especially, there is a certain really) splendid dignity about the man, a faint but unmistakable reminiscence of principalities and powers. And al- ways he is so obviously, so satisty- ingly, the gentleman of culture and sophistication, “Don't you think that more and more girle—-and parents—are recog- nising the wisdom of equipment for self-support?” I suggested. “Oh, indeed I do,” said Mr, Taft. “And as a consequence some remark- able work is being done by modern women, It is curious, but there seem to be two divergent streams in .woman’s activity to-day. On the one hand, we see women going to greater lengths than ever in frivolity and folly; on the other hand women are interesting themselves in the really serlous work of the world,” As you doubtless remember, Mr, Taft himself hi daughter. And whi ie put in practice in hi ily. At th years in Bryn Mawr, coincidert with her father's first year in the ‘Presidential cha Miss Helen Taft had to Hege on ao int of her mother’s health. She three years of the most de lightful- “social life” any girl could want, for her home wae the centre of Washington society. Yet, two years ago, Miss Hel quietly re- turned to Bryn Mawr to finish her interrupted course. She has won many scholastic hor.ors, and when she is graduated next June she will be equipped for self-sup- port, “1 wai proud of her when she told me that she wanted to go back to college,” her father said, simply. Nevertheless, her ‘decision may doubtless be traced to his own long- held conviction, “Iam going to give my daughter as good an education as I can," he said #ix years ago, “so that she shall marry only when she chooses to mar- ry and not because of circumstances.” And when I talked with him the other day he told me he wanted Miss Helen to enter graduate courses at Yale after she receives her Bryn Mawr A. B. “I have several men in graduate work, and I should like some women, | he remarked smilingiy. ‘om Fl [a val ie GINS OVGHT To 8E Rice AND Poor S$ ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE WONT (INTERFERG with MARRIAGE LD, SATU | Every American Girl Should Be Prepared To Earn Her Own Living, if Necessary SeE RY ny 43 ‘DEPENDENT - eDducaTeo LF Po AN OCCUPATION REMOVES “THE STIGMA ON women?” I asked. strength. way in which the native women of t! After comparatively brief training, nurses and teachers, rather hard on @ wo more even of that quality than former- and outdoor Hfe.” Here's Mr. Taft’s suggestion of @ new profession for women, with lots of room in it. “t have often wondered,” he said, musingly, “why the women of this country do not take up the work of hotel-keeping. In E land many women nave mai great success at It. Surely it is @ natural extension of the func- tion of hospitality, eo delightfully discharged by the feminine sex. “Every girl, rich or poor, should be trained for something. Suppose the wealthy man loses his money and his daughtor is left to take care of her- self with no preparation for the task? Even if |t were true that the intro- duction of women into industry low- women should be given a chance. But with the advance of civilisation we are demanding so many more things, and therefore ao much more work must be done that I believe there will be enough for both men and women,” “You don’t think work makes girls unfeminine?” “Oh, that's absurd!” exclaimed Mr. chuckle. “It makes tnem self-reliant, but personally I don't care much for the clinging vine, Even in marriage { think tt Is better if each partner can contribute aome positive strength to the partnorship, “Economic independence will not make girls averse to mar- riage—the right sort of marriage. Nothing can interfire with ¢i e natural loving instinct of a wom- an's hi Her s'.i' y ta take care of herself will merely tend to preserve her from the wrong, unhappy union. It seems to me that a man should prefer to marry @ self-supporting girl, because in that event he may be reasonably sure he is chosen for himself and not for what he could give.” And I thought of the admirable plea in & speech made by President “Then you believe all the trades and| Taft Mx years ago: “I wish that Professions should be thrown open to| every woman in the world were 80 “They should de allowed to do any| necessary for her to marry if she did work for which they have physical) not want to. Aside from the physical| that Fam prepared to defend against handicap, I would not rate them be-| al! comers. low men in their ability to ‘take hold.'/ so arranged that tho women, when 1 was astonished and delighted at the] they came to decide he | choice, should have a full and free Phillppikes grasped the chances for| choice, and that can only be reached advancement which were offered them./@hen they are put in a altuation they proved themselves admirable] q jife,which they selcet because it is Nursing '8/ better than some that they expect, ‘s physical) but a iife that they look forward to strength; still the girls of to-day have} with unmixed happiness.” ly, owing to their devotion to athletics | woman fnancial ered the wages of men, I believe the j ‘will be leas likely to overindulge he: Taft, with his pecuttarly rich, throaty [self in tl NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE THE PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK By George Barr McCutcheon The Odd Exploits of in New York and Elsewhere. | WILL BEGIN MONDAY In The Evening World situated that she did not think it was That is a proposition I would have the matter id make the! where that which they choose is not “Don't you think that giving @ Independence re- moves the stigma from the estate of ‘old maid?” I asked. “I hope it will do so," sald Mr. Taft, with a quick, protesting lift of his eyebrows, “That should be an effect. There are many single women to-day who are accomplishing noble work. Understand me—I approve of marriage, and realize that it assures the continulty of the state. But I think we can always leave it to na- ture to see that there are marriages enough,” he added, with another com- fortable little chuckle, the laughter- tracks around his eyes deepening. “A life of single blessedness, is certainly preferable to an un- y marriage, both from the of view of the individual and from that of society. “Naturally, I can't tell how a girl feels,” concluded Mr. Taft, once more smiling broadly. “But I can speak as a father, and it seems to me that the father of to-day should not fall to encourage self-reliance and re- sponsibility in his daughter, It fa all wrong to subject her to the hu- millation of waiting around at home for a husband. If she Is given train- ing toward some definite end she/ many a day? late forenoon, America’s cup c "ard we at her walking scrapers, She writers long hawner, follies of the momen Finally, work and financtal tnd pendence are the best possible tra! ing for the civic and political re- sponsibilities she may be called upon to assume one day.” All of which should flutter the leaves of the lilies of the fold, even if they refuse to turn over a naw one, ——_—_-- DYNAMITE SMASHES COURT. Balla! all about her, able draught of was British ow ditions made it im Kentucky Town Prac- teally Destroyed hy PL . fat Bost: Brooklyn, t IRVINE, Ky., Jan, 23.—A charge of ton tor [re dynamite exploded Iast night under the) will sail und Estill County Court House here, prac- tleally destroyed the structure, Tho ping Company FAST RVER GRAF GREET SP SAIN UNDER, S.A FLAG Whistles Toot and Colors Dip as Brynhilda Goes Majes- tically Down River, moved on the waters made more fuss over her than if she had won a doron the Fast River and tho upper bay were sections of marine bedlam, Some of the real old salta of Cor- lears Hook and Cherry Street who remembered the days when the river had Its full complement of lean, swift clippers and sturdy cargo ships were more or leas choked up as they looked under the American flag. Just left an Argentine general cargo | and she is now at Pier 27, © take oa a cargo of cot- ae vi 18, €X- PRESIDENT Wid 4. TART, Did you see her—the first American sailing ship flying the American flag that has appeared in those waters in Bhe came down the Sound and through Hell Gate in the and everything that races. Flags wore len tooted so that along, a bone in her teeth and every rag flying from the courses to the moon-rakers and sky- allpped through the gray water as smoothly an a sword- fish and as proud as a prima donna. She came abeam of The Evening World's windows about noon, and all hands piped themselves to the to seo the atrange apparition, stopped were dropped on half finished frat page heads as the company hastened to the show, There may have been a tug fast to her somewhere, must have been out on the end of a and mained Invisible, ag she proceeded ov her majestic way to the south’ard ‘Then the ship news man found out She ts the Brynbilda, 1,409 tons register; 240 feet over all, | 88 feet beam, and with the remark- ite Typo- dead and pencils put It it polltiely re- 21 feet 7 inches, She was bullt at Glasgow In 1885, and she d until recent con- advisable +o put her She has n, Germany, whither she +) T apt. LT, Schmetsser | Her owner was the River Plate Ship- (Ltd.), but her new explosion shook the town and broke a|oWner under American registry in A, number of windows. H. Bull of New Jured. A previous attempt to destroy bull & two-story brick, was Dece 191%, when dynamite exploded Ip the corridor, causing alight dumage, The authoritics have no chin to the dynamiter, Nobody was in- the | in was Leaves Vexas A | WASHINGT( Tasker He FE American troops ALMA MAAL LALLA N of Stafr, of the traop: rn April Wilson Wing a Foreign Princeling ting studente ans he was at Dougins, Aria., n the border for the ir Murray of the Divt WASHINGTON, Jan. Wilson spent more than two hours to- day viewing an exhibition of oll paint- York, energies: GEN. BLISS TO WASHINGTON, Horder to Serve as tant Chief of Stam, Jan, 23.—Hrig.-Gen. commanding the mn the Texas border, was ordered to-day to report to the War Department for duty as Assistant Chief Brig.-Gen T. F. Davis, now ii] as#ume command will proceed to will relieve Maj.- and of Murray Art Gallery ong. 23.—-Preaident rary American artists Gallery of Art. The freely with groupes of vohoo! girly, and al- high wally Sbous a vounised eee LIGHTS OF STAGE SUED - FOR DEAD CLUB'S DEBTS Al Jolson, E. F, Albee and Other Vaudeville Comedy Club Directors Are Made Defendants. edy Club again to-day by fling sult in the City Court for $1,800, alleged to be due on an unpaid bill for eatabiew and liquors. They won a verdict the receiver who was handling the affairs of the club couldn't scare up the ,mone: The sult wan renewed to-day, wits twelve suppored directors Instend the club ‘*, aw the target, No le persons than these lights of the stage are defendants: Al Jolson, Felix Ad- ler, Edward F. Albee, James M. Breu- nan, Ralph Edwaids, T! an Gray, Lee Harrison, Gene Hughes, George LeMaire, Norman BK, Man- waring, Francis Money and Henry Vogel. Albeo and Jolson have answered the sult In a duet that goes something like this: of the club and were elected without our knowledge.” (La-de-da with cor- net obligato. Now the second votee: “Since we never accepted the job as directors, how can we be made to pay?" 8. Pinkn grocers, likes the for the words. MAN IS SHOT IN BED; ROOMMATE IS HELD Prisoner Says He Offered Dead Man Shelter and Knows Nothing of Death, John Reid, a bartender out of work, was found unconscious in bed at noon to-day at No, 314 West Forty-sixth street, There were bullet wounds in John ner, attorney for the but doesn't care Nis head and back roommate, His Haynes, nd “out for a wht, and that when e returned, after « br f absence, he He ways $10 of his sted Haynes for pos- pistol with which the done Reid died later and Hayes was ques- tioned by Ansiatant District Attorney Deacon Murphy and the charge against him was changed to homicide. He maintained was Innocent. mts of Kug- Mr. Davison. wengera on the Lusitant arriving to-day wege Henry P, Dav id Willard D. Stralgh Morgan & Co. or England with Sir George Patash, wished to correct an published here a short had it that Morgan nted offic In thts countr: suid he heous report comin fea, he autd would be on! ing for sup} 1 responaibilitte thone incidental to pay- few bought here, Capt. William J, Brennan of the Tug- boat Bully reported to the Jamaica po- lice Inst night the drowning of Core elghteen years old, he boat, Wh ng van, who reey’ Clty, 7 . 1 Island Sound. in Undertaking Shop, Going into an undertaker’a shop at No, 161 Amity Street, Fluahin: at night, four years Sire before @ Sante Lawyers for a grocery firm prodded | the ghost of the old Vaudeville Com- | refund the overcharge of 10 cents, once, but failed to collect, becau.s | 4a! “We never consented to bo directors | * ai ‘That @ square deal from the awaite every over-charged baseenger under the provisions ‘The Evening World's ordinances { ustrated by a case just termi by the License Department, George Bell, Commissioner. a A Westerner, overcharged for ride from the Hotel Astor to the foot of West Forty-second Street, last { ptember, began a fight by mall ag) | foor as he reached his home tow — and has come out victortour. Walter McClellan Allen, M Chancery ‘of the United States trict Court in Springfield, aged a taxi at the Astor | When he reached Springfield he jJated the case in a letter to License Commissioner Bell, inotosing the — \chauffeur’s number, 8,753. The holder of that license is George Thompsom, who drives for Michael Dunella of No, ~ 841 East One Hundred and Forty- sixth atreet. Thompson denied he was the man who took Allen to eS esaile ferry. Commissioner Bell got Thi picture and forwarded it to Allen, who positively Identified it That settled, the License sioner bad his men measure the tance from the Forty-fifth Street side {of the Astor and along the route de seribed by Allen. It was little over = mile, The Commissioner decided a liberal o! for the ride fror, Astor to the, teens Waar Ferry a have been 60 conta, ‘ Chief John Drennan of the Depart- | iment < Mogg on Lisemeneen nea sy son on evidence rece! mail and further demanded that | u first Thompson refused to pay the fine or refund the dime. He was sus. nded and finally capitulated, A Post-Ottice order for 10 cents from the chauffeur was sent to Allen a few cary of your favor of sa, of you! ing Post-Office order for 10 cents. Tia" of hy" stan tate of m: f M4 as with your pei ling with it, ied uy r Iniatered Se toe main! 5 Sministered it ‘mostimable ae one ne reneacee to the public geme erally. e oigipttabiacsctinies 4 RYAN SENDS NURSE TO WAR. - Mise Amy Laubech Sails Te-Day te Werk in France. ve ay Bs, this city, who sails to-day on the Tou- raine for Havre, Miss Lauboch vesy graduated from the training hoa} the Presbyterian Hoapital « New otk and was in attendance oi Ryan : after he met with an acct it while 2 ing in Central Park several weeks suo | te occurred to Ryan that it of great assistance to he: 1e over to William J. Quinn, who has been im me : the employ of the Western Union Teles | graph Company for forty years, and for thirty years had charge of the to-day wae retired on & peneres erent, a fae coe the Trosaway Central "Hotel ning. Among the kere F. fiowell, Teasurer of Batt Intendent of tele ‘of the Erle 'y road, and former Senator Walter rton erm Is It “Just a Cold” Don't say: “It's just a ° may turn into rheumatiom, or lor gout, or other serious sickness comes from Because, Fret ay MR» ng finer the blood. Colds often leave . First, break the Ihr killers dengore: "Pet beckuehe adh he or tre copenially ell, eeowmenmnaedl A New Yorker’s Statement: Charles EB. Hudson, 486 W, Sind, New York : I rep ¥ had a dull, ni |neys and the me a lot of anno; 1 tried Heregt remedies, but