The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1915, Page 3

~ BRL GVEUP FL” WOWES TO WOMEN )WARVIINS HERE Campaign to Provide Palatial 'Shelter for the Destitute. MANSIONS ARE OPENED. Homes Now Unoccupied Will Shelter Scores Hit by War Retrenchments. Five paiatial homes on upper Fifth avenue=at present unoccupied by thetr millionaire ownere—may be Surneé over to refined and destitute ‘who have lost everything due Fetrenchments in this coun- Hf j 5 se ‘The firet of these homes, which, until two years ago, was the abode of Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones, at Ne, 18 West Fifty-first Street, is al- ready cooupied by cight girls, who have the free run of the house, which Vanderbilt mansion, at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-firat Street. He bas al- ready opened negotiations with Mr. Vanderbilt in Havana, Cuba, and ex- peots an answer in a few days. The Vanderbilt home has been unoccupied for several months. “We have learned the Vanderbilt home will be vacant for eome tim waid Mr. Lawrence. “We are con- use of the mansion until summer.” According to the Chairman, Treas- urer Charles D. Stickney, well known in Wall Street, is negotiating to open up the deserted B. Altman mansion, at the northwest corner of Fifth ave m@e and Fiftieth Street. Since the b of the merchant, the house bas stripped of its art collections and furniture. Efforts are also being made, Mr. Latrence said to-day, to open the mansion of the late Charles ‘T. Yerkes, which has been unoccupied ainos the death of his widow. Robert E. Dowling, Chairman of the Work- man’s Compensation Commission, now owns this property, which is at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-eighth Street. the ‘White Crose started out to ax- the war refugees in Europe,’ ex- ined Mr. Lawrence, “but when we We could not place our funds distribution with the State De- ax it or some equally responsible institution, we decided to turn our at- tention tp the relief of the thousands int here in New York City who @ loat everything as a result of war retrenchments in business. We are not after money—what we want ig’ ‘furniture, beds, blankets, linen, food, and clothing. True, we have use of this beautiful mansion tically free—we are paying a dol- lar rent for the year—but we have! anly-accommodations for eight dextt- te women. But we expect to houss least fifty before the end of the L“You iunderstand,” the Chairman added, “we are not attempting to care for the great army of poor and un- @mployed—we are accepting only of education and refinement, uid be unable to, bear the en- mment of the average relief home. therelght girls here now two are taries, three are actresses of the ter class, and one is the wife of a 1 Street broker who blew out his r ‘shortly after the closing of the q e. He did so that his wife , it obtain a $10,000 life insurance le; y, but failed to notice a suicide which deprived his widow of the insurance. “Another woman with us fs an actress with a Liebler production, ‘until its failure in the first was to have brought her $150 She never drew a penny ‘to'the failure of the company, and hotel people, who had ad- her credit during the eleven rehearsal, stripped her of her vy aud everything of value she to meet her obligations. Varick House, a boarding house girls at No. 11 Dominick Street, home surroundings, will open doors Feb. 1. The price of rooms board will be # to $4.75 a frage would improve the cendition of women in Industry. have in regard to women and children have been made in States where there ie frage. @n get mixed up in politics be- caues, of course, our publio life le merely doing less self-interested things (ey th worth very much. She has had no training. | bel ought not to be allow until they know th keeping woman suff from the women; it ie the women. ———— Society Woman, ; From From her sickbed—she recently underwent an operation for appew| tion, but take, ’ dicitte—Mra, Norman de R. White| duelen of equal pay for ea has written especially for The Eve-| lese than men whe di ning World the following reply to Cer-! vote there will tain testimony by Mise Ida Tarbdell,| Such discrimin the writer, before the Industrial Re-| THE GOOD THINGS WOMAN 8UF- lations Committee. Called by Mra.) William Astor, “the most beautiful | norance of the facts when asked, “Has woman of the Four Hundred,” Mrs, Woman suffrage as far as you know working women, although in tho lat-| @gual, In case of the separation ter State thousands of women labor] of a couple the father may in the cotton mil Even in Mai protecting workingwomen are inade-| ten days’ notice, with full oppor- quately administerea, There are| tunity to defend-the claim to the | twenty-four inspector for 60,000| children. | s.r Miss Tarbell Saye: 1, It lo very hard to cay If suf- & Probably the best iqwe we jo wemen euf- 3. I do net like te see our wom- rtisan politics. 4.1 would rather eee women vetin, &. The working woman is not f@ people to werk J 6. It ie not the men that are away Her Sick Bed, Dictates Reply to Author’s ‘f 3 he grime ot | Anti- Suffrage Testi-| Masutacturing plants; and tour | ceedea in removing t } ich Miss Tdérbell complains—they women Inspectors only, although there Wack (dune Runmewicn ine. violets partisan vote, stance, the non- mony Glven at Ine-| are 40,000 women and child dustrial Commission) °* work- Hearing. vow rot the thirty-seven non-suffrage States have adopted it. | can't, ef course, into thi I ite in- nes of euch protect ctlve episia- example, the in of lovernment posit 8. house, society leader and auffragist,| Women stenographers, echeoi teachers, &c., are commonly paid jee! the same work. on be an end te jon FRAGE HAS DONE, Miss Tarbell again showed her ig- helped to secure and enforce laws Whitehouse has marched im a suf-; minimizing vice?” She said, “No, 1 don’t know. 1 don’t think that enf- frage parade, spoken from @ soap-|frage on that ground has had @ fair dor at the City Hall, opened a suf-|enoush test, Probably the best iawa we have in regard to women and rage shop on Fifth Avenue and in| children have been made in States many other ways proved her devo-| where there is no woman suffr: tion to “The Cause.” In the follow-| 1), M4!88, Tarbell does not seem to know that where women have the vote the ing article she analyzes and answers|age of consent bas been as a rule each one of the siz “anti” pointe|Dtomptly raised. In many of the made by Mise Tarben, By Vira Boarman Whitehouse, |\\3,,°8% (of, consent to seven y. ara, woman suffrage States it ts now elghteen, Delaware in 1871 lowered '* |where I believe it now remains, Sure- Have J anything to say in answer Jy, auch & thing could never happen to Miss Ida Tarbell’s comments about |!" @ State where women vote, Kan- woman suffrage before the Industrial | sai Utah hington, Oregon and Relations Committee deed! All that Miss Tarbell said|other hand seven no: shows that she knows nothing of the|#ave no State law ‘nia have most excellent injunc- T have, in-|tion and abatement la while on the disorderly houses. hen Commissioner |in the Southern States the coditions s have compulsory education laws. The States with the highest percentaye of ffrage States, education laws, or very defective ones, in four Btatea| Om Ail of the woman. sullrece States have equ: laws. Thie is tr father his chil | w York al guardianship of law itsel prove: not really to be cretly apply to the court to have | himself made guardian. The mother must give her husband chusetts the lawa Seven of the Woman B6uffrage di ° | es of Indigestion seen e Women in industry. ™~ Sollowad . __ Evils of Impure Blood) :ticsmict fies teres. } Quickly and Safely Removed by > The Chocolate Laxative We aheia’ th te to. aaeome that Ea-Lax Saves Pain and Suffering; makes people thing ‘To. & believer: in: democracy and is safe for infants and grown-ups. . If there is mire, It Ex-Lax is guaranteed to be efficient, gentle, harmless. OF *Polltice “deserted "by. ‘all sits States bave adopted imothers’ pen- | -|sions, while a comparatively small | ‘oportion of the other States have Miss Tarbell evidently ignores improve the condition of mixed up in politics, because, of | course, our public life is merely par- tisan politics as it goes now. And I i would rather see them doing less| "0 have formed om selt-toten ted Sing ane niet r poems Bee Ao ocho ce the ABt-BUE: | women voting dose not come f } = Frage speeches resently made tn Con: |thons ladies, sincere and able as ther i Rronted” that ‘women ‘should. arag |™Ay_ be men at women sho! “drag , thelr skirts through the mire of pare|Which We must contend Is that of rd nt ti in itself, a grimy such assertions are very irritating. ould be cleaned Teqpecting ind O28 Wasnen, Rear 41t where “Mes. Norman de R. Whitehouse Says in Repl It Politics Is Too Dirty for Women, Let Women In and They’ll Clean House ly to Ida Tarbell: | Mar NORMAN DER. WHITEHOUSE Mrs. Whitehouse Says: 1, Woman suffrage hae in four States shortened the working day of women to eight hours. have voted a minimum wage law for women. 2, All of the woman suffrage States have excellent child jompulsory education Guardianship laws. have done away with the us partisan not 4, What may seem solfishn: to Miss Tarbell is, in the case of many working women, no more than the instinct of self-preserva- 5. There is no understanding, no sympathy here; no view of the sity that drives thou- sands of women and children into the dismal drudg 's history been so large a Proportion of any class asking be enfranchised. NURSE GIRL FLEES AFTER BABY DIES; | ISUNDER ARREST Will Be Held to Await Inquest to Determine Cause of Infant’s Death. There are, for isan movements ineered by women, that destroyed the gange there; an also the Seattle and San Francisco revolts and recalls, But Miss Tarbell would see women leas self-interested things” tecting thelr own conditions welfare of. their homes and It is hard to be with euch a view when one thinks of the tenement wor in_ office buildings, steam laundries, in cranberry bogs, and the factory workers upon whom doors are locked. jeom selfishness to Miss Tarbell is, in their case, no more than the instinct of self-preservation, intelligent women like rbell can eee no partiou- won why women should planation can gener- ly be found in the cha: re inte such women, the scrubbers 6 women in Laura Francois, old, is a prisoner in Brooklyn Police Headquarters pending an autopsy to- day to determine what caused the death of Morris Reichman’ months-old daughter, Este! 1982 Bath Avenue, Bath Beach. Reichman is a grocer at that ad- dress and lives over the store with his family, At 4 o'clock yesterday af- Seventeen years HUSKY DOORMEN GUARD FIPPODROME |. TOREEPOUT'Bla CUT $7,000,000 MELON OF WEWARK TRUST CO. Also Get 10 Per Cent. of Salaries From the Fidelity. A $7,000,000 melon was cut to-day Trust Company of Ni rk, Tt te in Shuberis Bar Voegtlin, Wilson | ‘orm of « special dividend of a0 and Klein From Show House After Their Discharge. , O SUCCESSORS NAMED. “Simply Dismissed Three Em- | ployees—Do It Every Day,” | | Lee's Only Comment. Three big, husky doormen we F ceft,, to the stockholders and a bonus of 10 per cent. upon their yearly salaries th the employees trom the office boy up, ‘The extra dividend was announced to-day by President Usal H. McCar- ter following a mecting of the di- rectors. Of the dividend 800 por cent. ‘will be in cash and the remainder tn stock of the Public Service Corpo: tion now held by the Fidelity, big extra dividend is due to the sale of the stock of the Prudential Insur- ance Company which had been held by the Fidelity and which was sold for =e of mutualiaing the company. ‘The capital is 000,000, the frei nd 000, and, & ‘undivided t@ $1,000,000, making the total 96,- Vt ip also tague placed on duty by the Shuberts at anertiye another $1,000, of, enatial the portals of the Hippodrome to-jstock, Increasing the capitalisation M tition. doltara. from two to three mi day, with orders to keep out of the This te to be distributed to the oh hold it . ‘The stook to-day is Voegtlin, ecentc and artietic director; worth ree i William J. Wilson, producer of the|share. apectacies, and Emaruel Klein, com. | 60 pér cent. divi building the “Big Three’—Arthur poser and musical director, who were summarily fired from the -Mippo-| 6 drome staff Saturday night. ‘The closing chapter in the discharge of the three has to do with four drums and four bugles and they pinyed a dead march for the “Rig Three’ with a vengeance, The taat| Man Ought to Keep Quiet and Let acene of all had for principals Arthur Voegtiie and Jacob J. Shubert, and it showed Shubert leading Voegttin out! of the Hippodrome by the eu and telling him to stay out. Although the Shuberts will say there has been a great deal of fric- tion Intely over “Ware of the World,” the big Hoppodrome spectacle, and all that was needed was a match to touch off the thing of Saturday. But the story of the @rums and the Jacob Shubert, who ts general 4!- rector of the Winter Garden, wanted four drums and four bugies for uge in the new Winter Garden show “Made in America,” and he knew he cenit wet it he wanted at the Fiippo- drome. He sent to Wilson with a request for the things, but Wilson de- | murred, saying the instruments were going to be used in the Hippodrome show, This didn’t daunt Shubert and on Friday he esked again to borrow the drums and bugles. This time the rebuff, The new show at the Mippodrome opened Saturday afternoon and both the Shuberts, Jake and Lee, were there. Jake looked im vain for the drums and the bugles, They had not been used in the production. That night Wilson was taken to task for ‘hia curt refusal to lend the instru- menta and was promptly @red. Voegt- lin backed him up and his turn came next. Then Klein was permitted an opportunity to remain with the man- agement but he decided to go and the Shuberts relensed him on the spot. When Jacob Shubert wae asked to- day why the “Big Teree’ had fired, he replied, “For the good of the service.” Leo Shubert eaid: “We have simply diacharged three employees. We are doing that always from time to time. know nothing of thel noon he and his wife and two of their children went to visit relatives, | their places, but there are hundreds of leaving the baby in charge of Laura! people waiting to get the Jobe.” Francois, the maid, When they re- 11 o'clock. last night the | is now temporarily holding down baby was dead in tte crib and the|#0n's job. It ls predicted there may aking prob-}maid could not be found. The child's g covered with peoull the doctor called in elther Miss Tarbeil's interest nor has ever been among wom- hole nation respecte her levements, but her as alwaya been in connection men and their money rage lems, On this hatover against | She knows and ah; Woman suffrage movement either in|” ali the equal suffrage States have principle or in its practical workings. | also excellent child labor laws, while For instance, | i “ of child labor are notorious, Mury- |to get it, Harriman asked “Do you feel that/iang recently lowered trom tweine co | 8 ‘ould have the help of the best of suffrage would improve, or the re-|ten the agé at which children muy | verse, the condition of women in in-| work in the canner etry?” Misa Tarbell answered that| All the equal suffrage S| “It is very hard to say. I think some- times it might improve It * © © it/illiteracy are non: would depend on the condition,” Some of them have no compulsory Woman suffrage hi improved the condition of women in industry to the extent of shortening thelr working day to eight hou Isn't that a very definite improve- ment? No non-suffrage State has/any such law. In fact, some of them—as! will th Alabama and South Carolina—have no} if he w lawe whatever for the protection of] the ea ound she is right, e is interested, blotches, but could not say what killed it. While Capt. O'Connor of the Bath Beach station was at the house mak- ion, @ man who sald be was Gesa Janck of No. 82 Avenue | A, Manhatan, called to ask how the id the girl Laura had come to the Manhattan address , badly frightened, | some one accompany her back to the Men are golng to get ve a right to struggie and in that struggle they it, and they ha: ing an investt, @ working woman she says “She Is not worth very much, Px thing, how can she be? I believe people ought wed to go to work not to be allo they know the job,” ‘There is no unde and asked that anding, no sym- no view of the bitter thousands of uardianship | necessity nm into the dis.nal lace and was waiting outside for/ |women and chiidre Lf y : i Capt. O'Connor went out to get but she had disapgeared, day she was found at the Avenue 4 house and taken to Brooklyn Head- She 1s a Hungarian girl, When Commissioner id to her: “Do you remember the time when in the coke fields of Pennsylvania women were to | Last summer sho was employed by interested in women or their he knows nothin, lation upon w another position. | returned and wag xiven he because shoe seemed week ago ane ys: “Most of the men I know believe in suffrage. It 1s not the men |that are keeping suffrage away trou the women; it is the women,” Of course it is the men to whom we and such things the passage of our! Does Mixs Tarbell mean women are keeping it away by gh the infant + Wax not weaned, It often was fed & rep cy for terday it was given some potato t fore the parents loft tw| She was busy ironing and each time the she went to the crib the child was! ply the Binet-Himon test to them. quiet and thinking it asleep, did not pull aside the cover that nid Its face. ‘In the early evening she thought a! had better Jook at It, and was sur prised to find it lying face downward, She turned it over aad saw red spots E z . on its face, and becaine frightened, (eres reir encieliag, then again She Sho did not know it was dead, put opposition tO | was in such terror she Went am rapidly | 48 sho could to the only address ol new in Manhattan She had lived there when she firat! She did not know any of the tenants, but they spoke her and she appealed to Junck, é ‘The girt said “ ? 'e ° ° e much of this, But she is not rook- | their iseries 0) onstipation bound. She did admit that suffrage wrong. There has Fe e MIGHT history been so large a \ Portion of any class asking to be en- si frapohised with such pationce, per- sistency and courage, If Miss Tarbell refers to the active opposition of the little bands of ladies work came to America, every evil interest—the liquor inte , the vice interests, « politicians and th and exploiters of woman a: labor, Let us pay all honor to Mi: e thine ned itn frightened and returned to Avenue | “med tts i Her father js employed in New We have not appointed any one to William G. Stewart, stage bea tl be several lawsuits over matter. It 1s sald Voegtlin received a alary of $18,000 a year, Wilson about $12,000 and Klein $10,000, HUEFFNERS ADMIT GUILT IN DESERTING CHILDREN Both to Be Tested for Mental De- fects Before Being Sen- “tenced Monday. George Frederic Hueffrer and his wife, Jeanette, who deserted their four children, one of whom died of exposure, were arraigned before Judge Rosalaky in General Sessions to-day on indictments charging them with deserting two of the children, Richard, four and one-half years old, ; Mrs. Gronenberg Found Dying on and James, three, in the vestibule of Gimbel's store, Judge Rosalsky as- | signed Honry SM. Hirsch to defend | them. Hirach told the court they | Wanted to plead guilty. ‘They then were remanded to the ‘Tombs unti gan| Monday for sentence. Meantiing a conference to deter. mine whether the Haeffners are men- tal defoctives will be iid, Max G. Schlapp will be asked to ap- ‘The mentality of Mrs, Haeffner | seems to measure up to that of a girl of fourt is twenty-alx to motion picture shows. feeding lce cream cones to her chil- Iren, and did not give them suffi- | died two hours later in the hospital, i" cient nourishing fo ——_—> Grand Jury Resumes B. K. The Kings County Grand Jury re plaints of poor service afford bell when she talks or write: her own ground of men of by but or resent it when she . tempts to apeak am & representative and phelr injereata, upon | York, but she does not know his ad. dre If the autopsy shows the ehild di! 104 | Whitney, Beers! m natural causes she will be spestors of the, molasion, public by the Brooklys Rapid: Sompany this ernoon., oases ue ubposna were Tray ‘bens. Outside, the husband, father or brother, a6 the case happens to be, | ; little or nothing, it fe well understood may ewell n@ and run thi: but ‘when his foot crosses threshold of his home he ceases to $e the ruler.” band, our four children and myself! ever aince he lost his job last March,” a years, although sho! said Attorney Hirach. | “It seems she was in the habit of | locking up their children and going | Neighbors | also say she spent 50 cents a day | seolng hor on the platform, but Probe. | | the traci stigation into the com- | bs 4085 one hundred dollar That will amount to another ee WOMAN IS THE BOSS IN HOME,” COURT RULES Wife Run Things, Magistrate Gelsmar Tells Angry Husband. “In the home the woman ws the Thue declared Magistrate Geismar In the Flatbush Avenue Police Court to-day, after hearing the troubles of ‘Mrs, Iemena Harwood, who owns a boarding house at No. 408 East Nine- teenth Street, Brooklyn, and her hus- band, Melbourne. “I have been supporting my hus- eaid Mrs. Harwood. lo has repaid me by abusing me.” “The trouble {e, your Honor,” re- torted Harwood, “that the women oe to Liaw! the house, wite start to ite T have to shut up.” “You ought to remain quiet,” ruled the Magistrate. “Every Mrs. Elion D. Kelly, & probation oM- cer, to ii 4 to effect @ reconciliation between the Harwoods. 24 FAMILIES FLEE APARTMENT HOUSE FIRE Superintendent Loses Mustache Trying to Extinguish Blaze on West Side. Mrs. Jutiue Marco, wife of a coal ealer living in an apartment on the | f° fourth floor of the six-story apart- ment house at No, 615 West One Hundred ‘and Fifteenth Street, dis- covered a fire in a clonet at 9 o'clock to-day. She ran to the hall, locking the door bebind ber screamed an alarm. ‘ The biase made lote of smoke and the twenty-four families in the house | rushed to’ the street. Haron Clark, levator man, made six trips through e smoke-filled shaft and took down all who had sot fled down the staire. Adolph Schwickardi, superinten- Gent of the building and Policeman Chai Zeller entered the Marco apartment by a window. In trying to extinguish the blaze Schwickardi Jost his mustache and some of his hair and had his face and hands bilstered. The firemen confined the blaze to the Marco apartment. Water dam- age was done to David Frank's apartment below. MYSTERY IN KILLING OF WOMAN IN SUBWAY Tracks Fifty Feet From Station, Though None Saw Her Struck, A woman inyateriounly killed in the subway near the One Hundred ana Thirty-seventh Street station of the Broadway line was identified early to- |day as Mrs. Charlotte Gronenberg, | Afty-four yours old, of No, 298 Thir- and DF | teenth Street, Brooklyn, A daughter | made the identification in the Knick- erbocker HAspital morgue, The police and Coroner have been {unable to find any one who can ex- plain Mrs. Gronenberg's death, About € o'clock last night the motorman on a southbound expr near the third rail about fifty feet! south of the station, looks and arm had been cut off, and sne t it it feels ertters Sam py Baa) Some of the station men @jrembe one knows whother sae walked d and was struck by @ tral for the stockholders of the Fidelity | By a ey woman ts the request was met with a distimet|boss in her own home.” ‘d He continued the case and detatled. THOUGHT HIM Capt. Oswald Arrives on] lough With Wife Still Weal Widow's Weeds, } Aboard the Anchor liner C nia, In to-day from Glasgow, bride who wore widow's $ the husbaad ehe had mourned a6 @ who had given up his'iife unger flag of England In the trenchesy, gether they were coming to for @ second honeymoon, all Precious to them for the Dinated thetr first. ss Here is their romance—the’ of Capt. James DeKay Oswald of Seventh Royal Fusileers, who’ back from the dead after bts had been posted in the British 5 Office's list of the lost. 5 Capt. Ovwald’s, parents live. in Paul, Minn. Last summer be to this country on furlough, and mie Mise Davina McRoberts, sie, whose home was next to of hie parents. He wooed wen with a soldier's impetuoumness, eatled for a honeymoon in u ‘While they were at Dundes came p ee the head of his company and & given his place in the trenches at Le Basses. One November night the Germans rose out of the mist hurled shells over the heads of advancing Kateer’s men, making hell of the pits where Capt. 0 and his men were crouching. ' It came to a matter of bayonets butta—and the light wént out for Capt. Oswald. His top Meving was dead, took at ‘ him on retreat bis metal identifies> tion tag. “a Two days later the British lines, res formea, charged and retook the trenches they had given up. In a field hospital Capt. Oswald was ind still uoconasious, None knew his name, for his bad ale ready been turned in and his ae floer was sent to he slowly mended, heard he had bees fami it s Wle"Sh bin > ‘on a three: monte? | to the Scoteh ugh, hurried i town, to learn that his wife, herself a widow, had gone to A; & do charity work among the soeueten, Larsed aw Bey A 2 went; but his w! tho refuges camp and knew -ber where- abouts, In deapera’ be sont @ cable to bis parents in St. Paul. ‘Davoina sailing for America om Cameronia Jan. 16,” cama the answer, Capt. Oswald barely managed to oe f ‘ to @ ww and the Cameron! wharf vetore (nelgangpiaok wes pulled in, He met his wife, all di deck t were Capt. is head bound in a broad dage, and his bride, still her gate ments of mournii : —_—_—_—_— Julia Dean ay i in “Law of the Lan * wearing an advance Spring style. London Feather Hat $5 to 810 Mtter Me Whoopin or Scarlet saw the body | Her right Leg | | “Comfort’s Companion.” Besides the Looks— The Comfort. oth, soft skin net fort sre rough; red and Chappons VELOGEN hae been welt uty's Guard, te te Apply tt freely to your 1 ry Feulring-—an soain or jumped in tient of ene from te | w ene. Oe ene ee i platform and was carried by the trucks to where she wi icin well " You r