The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1915, Page 3

‘ied A bait gh ath cai iat Sa BAL AS“BUTTERFLYON | Would Aid Decency and. Justice, Says Judge WHEEL," SHESAYS Actress Payed ft 0 It on Stage— Thinks She Has Same Part in Divorce Case. Little Jimmie Mooney, twenty-year. | old co-respondent in the divorce suit brought by Augustus Gertenbach, purchasing agent of the Hotel Astor, | Against Mrs. Mabel Montgomery Ger- tenbach, an actress, took the witness stand before Supreme Court Justice! Hendrick to-day and, with boyish! energy, defended the actress, for whim he was chauffeur, against the charges in which his name was linked with hers respecting soirtes in Mra. Gertenbach’s Sheepshead Bay home. “Were you ever indiscreet with Mra, Gertenbach?" Mooney was asked. i “Why,” he replied, “I never even thought of that.” He smiled at Mrs. Gertenbach, who smiled back. “I don't think any man would do} that.” “Weren't you infatuated with Mrs. | Gertenbach 7” | “I'm too young, I think, to under-| @tand just what that means,” the wit- Bess answered. ‘The lawyer then sought an explana- tion of why Mooney, on the night de- tectives raided Mrs, Gertenbach’s home, hid himself in a closed box | couch and then jumped through the| parlor window and fled over the fields, | shirtless and shoeless. “And you never saw Mrs, Gerten- bach in negligee?” the youth was asked. he replied. “She was only kind to me like a mother would be.” “If you had been Indiscreet with Mrs, Gertenbach would you admit it?" asked Attorney John H. Mc- Intyre. The boy studied his questioner for a minute, then stared at the jurors and said loudly: “You see,” he began, “I was taking | care of Mrs. Gertenbach’s two sons that night, and I slept on the couch. When the men came in the house I heard Mr. Gertenbach say, ‘Now we've got Mooney at last.’ I though then that, guilty or Innocent, the best thing fora fellow to do under the nees was to make himself as possible. I was some scared, Mrs. atand she felt just like the Butterfly Gertenboch declared on the in the play “The Butterfly on the ‘Wheel"—a role which she had often protrayed in which she appeared as 4@ married woman unjustly accused of being unfaithful to her marriage vows, Attorney McIntyre brought the subject into the record to show, as he explained to the Court, that Mrs. Gertenbach was well rehearsed in the art of making a sympathetic stand before the jur: When asked if she loved her hus- band, the actross replied with an angry no. “When he proposed to me, I cared ust enough for him to say ‘yes’ and | that is all,” plied. “He was of too jealou POSLAM HEALS SKIN QUICKLY — AND PLEASANTLY Phe. splendid work of healing which Poslam accomplishes in Ecgema or any ekin diseawe makes it best for your use| if vou seek « remedy more than merely | mildly efficient, which will take hold | right at the start, stopping all itching | and era ief time. Because Pi Il these demands, it now enj widest success and most extensive sales here aud abroad, Your druggist sells Poslam, — For free; sample write to Emergency Laborato- ries, 32 West 25th Street, New York, Soap is @ positive treat to » tender skin or skin subject to eruptional | troubles, Non-irritating, 25 cents and | THE TORTURES QF RHEUMATISM are always aggravated dur. ing damp or changeable weather and ordinary treat- } | ments are often useless. | Such conditions need the oil- Rrutstee ate entarcene || jous acids and stre: the organs to expel them. Scott's Emalsion, with careful for one month, often relicves the lame muscles and stiff- ened joints and eubducs the unbearable pains when remedies have failed. NO ALCOHOL IN SCOTT'S i A Complexion Fresh and Clear as a May Morning | Give your skin a chance; keep your arn soft, smooth a white, ieee ret is siniple—it i only. ‘ hte Pp delightful In, chapped winds night and morning le not rubbed in, @, Improvement. \s tntiral og and cannot rie. ting the trouble wholly and |i, | few days ago. Nr ihe most ton | peseialien cag “HER COURT ROLE Woman ‘‘Mother-Confessor’’ in Every Court ‘BROCE |S INPERLLED nARTONN IVE LMT A MOTER HATES TO COMPLAIN To A MAN ABOUT meER, (NCORRIGIBLE OANGHTER. 6 IS FORCED TO Teli WER STD BEFORE MEN, SO THE ACTUAL MANDEL OFFERS PLN TO PAY HS $200.00 DEBT ants Corporation to Con- tinue Business, With Depos- | itors Controlling Board. Attorneys for Adolph Mandel, is awaiting trial on criminal charges growing out of the failure of his pri- vate bank Street, plan by at to-day No. filed 185 in the who Rivingston United States District Court outlines of a| and steamship agent hopes to pay de- positors and other creditors 100 cents on the dollar With the provision that creditors may reserve the right to set aside the plan any time during, #ix years that it proves unsatisfactory which the indicted banker! i} prejudicial | to their interests, Mandel proposes to pay 10 per cent. in c at once and another 10 per ce three months after the plan is ratified by Federa: District Judge Mayer and the cred- itors, The remaind than, 2,000,000 Mand sitors | he hopes to ri continuation | of the banki i steamship ticket , ness by prporation to be formed that purpose. » proposes to have this corporation | backed by a Board of Directors of seven members, four of which are to be sel by the depositors, two by the United States Courts one by { Mandel. With the other papers were filed schedules showing Mandel owen de- positors $2,024, bilities are $8,407,133, Secured claims, the schedules state, | amount to $1, # Kecured by mortgages. loans negotiated vn stoc! Mandel 1 11 and Sutro Bro He values his real KF late! $110 at $213,238 bank de Hernhardt'’s Cond BOKDEA Pacis). —The the condition hardt, whose good night, of her healt O17; 184,723, owes Mi that the gener continues satisfa They ave ® that his total lHa- $4,234,408 and his assets for . France, Fet bulletin iesued to-day on} of Mme. Sarah Bern-} leg was amputated a Ys that she passed a! te y. TRE aveyine Woke, ‘WEDNESDAY, "PEsaviat si L hen Women Brave Enough to Complain of Offenses Against Public Morals, Girls Just Taking Their First Wrong Steps and Victims of Brutal Wife Beaters, Would Be A ble to Find Sympathetic Ears for Their Embarrassing Testimony and Not Be Compelled to Face Gaping Crowds of Men, Including a Man Judge. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “There ought to be a woman in every court room in New York!” Smiling a little, but entirely in Appleten faced ‘me across his desk trimly erect, INNOVATION WOULD CO8T THE CITY LITTLE MONEY. “You believe that there should be more women probation office! 1 made the deduction after listening to his warm praise of the efficient wom- ant! bad Just met, “There should be # woman in every court room to whom other women may tell their stories,” de- clared Judge Appleton, “There should be a» woman court official to whom corrigible girl, the brutally en wife, the shrink- ing, sensiti of any age who is public sp id enough to Prosccute an offense against pub- lic decency, may speak frankly and unreservodly, being forced, at at pres to a man before an audience com- posed wholly of men. The new way needn't cost the city any- thing, for the woman might be one of th nt clerks or p sibly an attendant.” The Magistrate spoke with that quiet but absolutely sure conviction of the American business man who is “monstrating what he thinks any sane person must accept as an trre- futable proposition, In appearance Judge Appleton suggests the success- ful business man; he is so clean-cut, well-groomed, democratically cour- | teous, so free from judicial pompous- k col-! eC ness and hauteur, “L wouldn't change the probation system itself as it is now arranged,” he continued. “For probation pur- poses \t is undoubtedly best to have one central office, from which men or | women officers are sont out ay they (via | a ved, It has been found that wt enough work of a purely tionary nature to keep busy a n attendant in each of our thir- teen Magistrates’ courts in Manhat- tan and the Bronx.” “Is that the reason for the attacks Tortures of Indigestion Miseries of Constipation Evils of Impure Blood: Quickly and Safely Removed by EX-LAX The Chocolate Laxative Ex-Lax Saves Pain and Suffering; makes people #3¢ | |healthy and is safe for infants and grown-ups. Ex-Lax is guaranteed to be efficient, gentle, harmless. A l0c, Box Wik Proxy Thins Try x fedey—A Druggists, had just come from the bench of the Bronx Domestic Relations Court, and in the hour that I sat beside bim I saw him consult repeatedly with the gray-haired, rtly intelligent woman probation officer over the disposition of the marital tragi-comedies re hearsed before him. The consultations were no matter of perfunctory politeness, either; he took ber modestly proffered advice every time, And after court was over for the day he told me in detail of bis interesting theory that a woman should be officially attached to every court room in the elty of New York. Judge Appleton has several times publicly defended the woman probation officer, But the function he would have women discharge in our looure rooms seems to me a combination of the roles of mother confessor, big sister and first ald to even-handed justice. Moreover—attention, tax- Payers!—the experiment wouldn't cost the city any more money, earnest, City Magistrate Charles W. with that declaration yesterday. He on the woman probation officer?” I asked, “That and the fact that there were two incompetent women in one who have since been got rid of," the Magistrate dryly, WORK THAT CAN BEST BE DONE BY WOMEN ALONE, 1 wondered, not for ihe first time, at the male logic which brands as unsultable for women a profession in which one or two women have failed, entirely forgetting the large numbers ie men who fail in every profession, “We now have only six women pro- court, sald] bation officers,” further explained Judge Appleton, “One is in this lcourt, one is in the Manhattan Do- mestic Reluiions Court and two are attached) to the Women's Night! Cc Ht The other two must cover ‘ork for ten courts, One of them, to do it alone summer, wore herself to a hadow. should "be centrated in the Women’ Court. But energy on these c. often hi is, i more Lene young girl ning to do fe in th who are only begin- Be, * ie oat bs jeir | rk that ay ity e y, court official “only the other day I had proof of what a woman in the court room | might do for young gi A case! came before me in the Eighth District | Court, which is in this building but one floor below the Domestic Rela- tions Court. A woman charged an- other woman with harboring ner six- teen-year-old daughter, whom she) wanted at home, she said, "On the face of {t any one would) decide that a sixteen-year-old «irl| ought to be with her mother. I had no woman connected with my court, | ¢% but I knew the probation officer you} have met to-day was upstairs or| somewhere around the building. 1) sent for her and asked her to talk to the young girl. Then It came out that the girl's father had abused her, #0 horribly that she couldn't bear to remain in the house with him and run the risk of further ill-treatment. | It also came out that she was earnin; $9 0 week in a shop and able to board} herself, She told the whole story to) the probation officer as she could have told it to no man, and she is! now safe and contented in a properly pervised boarding house for work-| ing «girls. THE PROPER CONFIDANT 0 THE UNHAPPY WIFE, “In this instance, the girl could not ; be blamed for desiring to live away! from home. But often we have cases! { of incorrigible between sixteen land twenty, whose parents have no control over them. It's bard enough | for any woman to charge her daugh- ter publicly with misconduct, but think how @ mother must dread re- | hearsing the details of her child’ wrongdoing to an audience of men | whom she's never seen before. she could whisper the whole ai some kindly woman, it would be. fe much easier, Then the woman snding | inspire respect in off. A of view, and woud save her i bog y wg experience of sitting around for eral hours in a courtroom filled with Pea ed many oh re, But ie i the other courts that moet of the cases of wife- Horetgl Wes are brought, and women court shoul jor’ if these poor wives. pe tein” instances women to his wite,” added Jud; with a retrospective little woman you met outside marched him into her office, made him ait down on a sofa, and after an hour sent him out dued and murmurin ‘Appleton, tle, “Don't you think, too, that a won an official couid tell whethe an were lying, better tho I suggested. “Undoubtedly,” he agreed, “A man ; usually sizes up another man better than a wor can, Why shouldn't a woman rate the veracity of another woman more correctly than a man could do it with his possible 1 3 toward harshness or sentimentality? JUST WHAT NEW COURT AID SHOULD BE, “But ft Is the women complainants | { who tell the truth of whom | am thinking most,” the Judge reiterated, “Take the women who very rightly prosecute offense: inst deconcy, What an ordeal for them to have to repeat language they have heard roper acts they have seen: to give thelr testimony to a woman, “What qualifications possess?" L asked ‘A woman court official should y own ‘who would osition admirably. “In the majority of the cases in our courts women are the injured parties. Justice demands that they speak n# freely and as fully as possible. Often it is only to another woman that they will so spe: —_—__— BIG TIME FOR HELL GATES. of the Twenty-Second ve Entertainment and Da The twenty-third annual entertain- ment and bail of the Hell Gate Repub- |Mean Club of the party organization of the second Assembly District on Friday might in * Ambrose O. Neal ie race cu He will be assist ing Lewis F | Cha phy, H. % fins pe progr: ditetion of Dan’ Quinn. by & committee com- Hllaworth, Chairman: and to restere | Shere too cabo and slate wer. Just get Hair Color oim| “That 9 A RrOUp of strange men the] 4 19 AS MOTOR CARS CRASH | NEAR TON OF DYNAMITE Racing scat Meet as They Turn Out for Truck With Explosive. The destruction of the Williamsburg Bridge by the explosion of @ truck- load of dynamite for the subway wan averted only by good luck when two racing automobiles on the north road- way collided within a few feet of the dynamite wagon a few days ago. Bridge Commissioner Kracke made the fi ing he will introduce a resolution in the Board of Aldermen restricting the transportation of dynamite across the large bridges. Al that was needed'to set off the ton or more of the explosives, Bridge Department engineers said to-day, was the detonation of an exploding tire or gasolene tank, The speeding machines came to- tempted to pass each other in turning out for the truck, which waa properly licensed and painted red. No police report of the accident has been made, but the matter was called to the at- tention of the Bridge Commissioner. Commissioner Kracke haa already taken the matter up with Chief Jo- seph Hammitt of the Fire Prevention Bureau as well as with Inspector Healy of the Bureau of Combustibies An amendment to the Municipat regulations now before the Board of Aldermen, providing for the transpor- tation of dynamite across the East River in lighters, has already been made. Chief Hammitt said to-day, “I think this is a matter whic hould oved of by the Fire Comnila- —— MARINE CORPS OFFICER KILLS HIMSELF AT CLUB No Motive Known for Suicide of Capt. E. A, Harding, Who Had Served as Aide to Taft. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24.—Capt. A. E. Harding of the United Staten Marine Corps shot and killed himself to-day at the Racquet Club, of which he was a non-resident member. The police have thus far been unable to aanign a cause for the suicide. Capt. Harding was an aide to Prea- ident Ta: He was born in Illinois in 1878, and was appointed to the Marine Corps from that State in 1899. For some time Capt. Harding had been attached to the office of the Judge Advocate General of the navy at Washington, He was married a few months ago and his wife was ex- pected to arrive here to-day. Capt Harding's Nome wax near Chicago. Capt. Harding had been In thia city only a fow days, and had been mak- ing the Ratquet Club his home, He chatted with friends ax usual last evening and seemed well and in good apleite. pt. Harding was adjutant to Col, Waller In. the Philip and his ord in th AN excellent one. He serv Cruz last alled to off) ‘Harding was marine aide to ft at the time that Major . It is regarded an idence that both should have lent deaths, Major Butt per- ished when the Titanic sank. ACKER, MERRALL & CONDIT COMPANY +220 Imported Jam 19c Robertson's Pure Fruit— Strawberry or Ras, Ler). 18 Ox. Jar AT ALL OUR STORES To ignore these sure signs of eyestrain means ag injury to your correct Without Charge zamini letered Eye Physicians. Portect Fitting Glasses as Lew a $2.50 22d 101 Nassau.at Ann St. aaa 17 West 42d Street. St. rar Rand Se known to-day In announc- | wether when the tworchauffours at-| Rightquality—right price} SENTENCE OF 5 YEARS Man Who Swindled Widow Out of | $700,000 Scored by 7, Judge. Richard J. Hartman, convicted of swindling Mrs. Charles Mackensie, to whom he played the part of devoted admirer, out of her fortune of nearly $700,000, was sentenced to not less “av bu: of 100%, We are able to quantity of these with I Lord Salisbury. is most convenient, Patented Gold that) stops garter runs, More than 480 shades. Hi ‘A Week| EDD ‘absount. (Lf ‘l Parlor Panne Mohair; Suite pare rr the QUALITY Connoisseurs find in Lord Salis- the same superior leaf qualityasinTurkish brands of igher price —the same richness aroma, mellowness of flavor and delightful mildness. Jord Salisbu Pure Turkish Cigarettes The Foil Package, while inex; Twice the usual amount of silk. GOTHAM HOSIERY SHOP a7 West 4th aay TSN at [Db ites. ri Our Liberal Credit Terms apply also to Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. We Pay Freight and Rallreed Fare Write for our new booklet. Mailed Free. Open Saturdays Until 10 P. M. We Close Evenings at ¢ P. M. dependent upon the charity of @ for a Uyelihood.” in promoter, tn thee which he ‘attempted to the Tyson theatre ticket convicted two weeks ago, The sentence was the moet authorized by ta’ Turkish ge you a double ‘amous_ high-class rkish cigarettes because there are no Coupons, no Premiums, no Costly Boxes jive, and the foil wrap- pinginsures delightfully, freshcigarettes, 20 tor 15 HE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY NEW SILK,, TOCKINGS * Mahogany finished frames; Feaceneel cores Saleh wood seats, with loose eushi can be used with or without cushions; value $35.00; at Fine for Oysters—in the Stew—on the Broil or Fry. At Grocérs and Delicatessen Stores, | Oc Made by E. Pritchard, 331 Spring St., N.Y. a fe P i | Sunday World Wants Work