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

Y \ y AMS DSKET S edeo she be Be hosed P 234) ni rents ONTOF CLUB. SHESHOT A MAN ‘Has Hard Time Reaching rt 1 wan « the Mayor’s Luncheon. 19 seit esEMPLOYEES BAR HER. wwe: She Finally Gets Into the i. Railroad Club By Using a @ Little Strategy. Correction Commissioner Katherine 3B. Davis was invited to attend the bi- ‘weekly luncheon of the Mayor's cab- ‘fnet yesterday at the Railroad Club, No, 30 Church Street. The operator ef the special car to the club floor re- fused to take her up. ‘But 1 am the Commissioner of Correction,” explained Miss Davis, “That may be true,” said the ele- “vator man, “but you are a woman. ve Orders is orders, I have orders not ‘t6 allow a woman in this elevator.” “That's right, be a good soldier and bey orders,” said the commissioner. “But I'll get into that club.” Going to a regular elevator in the ver@ame. building, the Commissioner fvent up a flight@bove the club floor = @nd then walked down to the club vew@oor, There stood a sentinel. “Ladies not allowed,” was all he _ paid. “But I am the Commissioner of Correction and there is an official efty luncheon inside," said Miss SPavis. we “Lady, if you were the President of the United States, but a woman, you ©ouldn’t get a pass into the Railroad Club,” said the hallman. “This club te-tor men only.” “How we women have to suffer,” Bighed the Commissioner, as she re- , traced her steps to the floor above. ‘There she called up Miss Ida Finger- - Rut, secretary to City Chamberlain *\ Bruere, and asked her to communicate a With the Chamberlain, who, with the Mayor and others, was already in the Railroad Club dining robm, waiting Rtor the belated Commissioner. The |“ gules of the club against women were nknown to all of them. Rh Commissioner Davis finally got the (Chamberiain on the wire and he hur- ied out to the corridor, where waited he tired but determined Commission- “@r. He led her to a eeat beside the “Mayor in the dining room. “DAVIS GOES TO WILSON ' FOR A “FARM DE GINK” Pounder of Hotel Here Asks Presi- dhe dent for Land in Arizona—Says <°\-. Columbus Was a Sea Hobo. ’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Jeff Da- pretvin, founder of the Hotel de Gink for s'yanemployed in New York, asked “09 restdent Wilson to-day to set aside {@'aome public land in Arizona for a ‘ty “Warm de Gink” for the use of un- »\ @mployed, and later discussed his “project with Interior Department of- "* ctals. “The unemployed are divided into three classes,” Davis told the Presi- Gent, “hoboes, who are willing to ‘work; tramps, who won't work, and ums, who oan't work. We are do- ng our best to care for the hoboes, ‘who are entitled to assistance from the Government. Any man is apt to become a hobo some time. Chris- ‘exis topher Columbus was a sea hobo be- fore he was the discoverer of America.” GLASS OF SALTS IF ~~ YOUR KIDNEYS HURT Eat less meat if you feel Backachy or have Blad- der trouble. Meat forms uric acid which excites and overworks the kidneys in their ef- forts to filter it from the system. Regu- lar caters of meat must flush the kidneys occasionally, You must relieve them like you relieve your bowels; removing | all the acids, waste and poison, else you fee! a dull misery in the kidney region, pains in the back or sick headache, } dimsiness, your stomach sours, tongue | eeated and when the weather is bad yo | have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment; the channels F often get irritated, obliging you to get up two or three times during the night. | "Po neutralize these irritating acids + and Mush off the body's urinous waste } about four ounces of Jad Salts fen ‘apy pharmacy; take a tablespoon- ful in a glass of water before breakfast for » few days and your kidneys will then act fine and bladder disorders dis- This famous salts is =e from ‘acid of grapes and lemon com: with Mia ana ha been used for generations to n and stimulate slug- di stop bladder irritation: spensive, harmless and 67 STRONG, REACH HERE ON WAY TO GERMANY Party Includes Wives and Chil- dren of German Officers Held Prisoners in Japan. Eighty-seven women and childret refugees from Kiaochow after the taking of the German-Japanese fort- ress by Japan, arrived here to-day on the Comun of the Southern Pacific Line. They are the families of Ger- man officéra, who are prisoners of war in Japan. ‘The party is in charge of Dr. Von Niessen, a German army surgeon, who was released by the Japanese for this mission, and Miss Rosa Girth of the German Red Cross. They left Pekin Dec. 3 for Tien Tsin and sailed for San Francisco on the Manchuria. At Yokohama they were very near to their tmprisoned husbands and fath- ers, but were allowed no communica- tion, i “The Japanese were very courteous tous," Miss Gerth said. “They ma us as comfortable was ponslble. There was some little hoodlumism im- mediately after the surrender, but Japanese officers shot seventy-seven of their soldiers who were caught loot- ing and discipline immediately be- came normal again. There are 3,500 Germans in prison camps who were captured in Kiaochow. Dr. W. F. Schlaar of the Immigra- tion Bureau took charge of the party. He Is of German descent and soon had the children in the band, of whom there are thirty-seven between five and twelve years old—to say nothing of five babies, some of whom were born during the siege—climbing over him, He accompanied the band from the Southern Pacific pier to a Hamburg- American pier, where they are to be guests of the Hamburg-American Line on the interned steamship Presi- dent -Lincoln. They have permission to visit the city sight-seeing until they sail for home by way of Italy Saturday. es MRS. GERTENBACH LOSES IN HUSBAND'S SUIT Flirtation With Boy Chauffeur Re- sults in Sealed Verdict Against Her. Mrs. Mabel Montgomery Gerten- bach, the actress, to-day learned that juries in real courts are not at all lke juries on the stage, when the twelve men who tried the divorce sult aginst her returned a verdict in Jo tice Hendrick’s part of the Supreme Court finding her guilty of miscon- duct with her boy chauffeur and busl- ness partner, James Mooney. aiieT NEW YORK PHYSICIAN ON RED CROSS MISSION DIES IN NISH HOSPITAL, PARIS, Feb, 25.—Dr. James Ff, Don- nelly of the American Red Cross mis- sion sent to Servia, died yesterday at Nish, says a despatch to the Havas) Agency from Saloniki, The body will be sont to the United States by way of Saloniki, Dr. Donnelly, who was a resident of Now York and a graduate of the University of Louisville, went to Servia late In November with five other doctors and twelve nurses sent out by the American Red Cross. He had seen hospital service in Louia- ville and New York. He held a royal medical degree in Holland, The annual matinee dance of the Hartt Social Club in Hennington Hall PRB: RVENIN Place for Her. hes @ WORLD, Woman Who Wrote “The Girl and Her Chance” Thinks, Also, There Should Be Better Under- standing Between Mothers and Daughters, and There Should Be Means of Bringing Boys and Girls Together in a Wholesome, Social Way— Girl Is Not Getting What She Should From Schools and Her Education Should Go Qn, by Law, Till She is Sixteen—Factory the Safest By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. eighteen who interes' girlhood. Daniels hi should see that she self-support, that present conditions and the other big ments— cases—is wonderful. NEW YORK GIRL H. CHANCE AT “she has not," Daniels, the 1 among them them crowded to the family, She has now! many cases she mus' housework, If she wi perhaps more bed-fel noise: " eryone needs th othery and this under tions 1s impossible. danger of infectious diseases, the strain caused by this overer mous, The nervous breakdowns this. even more serious. adds greatly to the da “The parents in far | regard their children sets, and as such expect them to go to work at tue earliest age possible, often exploits his sons and takes little or no The fath and daugnter interest in them as | the conditions surrov ing their working ho: No, 214 Second Street, will be held next Sunday afternoon. A silver cup will be given to the club or delegation turning out the greatest number, Harvel Cohane master of ceremonies, has been assured by several clubs they will go ows toa oom . resent attitude of re, fundamen' “Th. girl in New York hasn't the chance that she ought to have,” is one conclusion Mies reached. that thousands of girls are mak- ing 80 much of themselves under bully tribute to the girls T way in which they're taking hold of woman suffrage and un quiet, the lack of privacy, and the most frightful overcrowding. “The working girl returns at night to a few small rooms, some of them without Nght or ventilation, all of 4s breaking her res increasing: enis have yet to learn th recreation for growing gi Miss Daniels. twelve years che taught this girl in city high schools, in country academies, in expensive finishing schools and in settlement classes. of her fourteen years in New York she lived at Union Settlement, and for | five years she devoted herself entirely to settlement work. Just now she is lying at College SettlementgNo. 95 Rivington Street, and it was there that! I talked with this slim, brown-eyed, smiling defender and interpreter of | “The city is trained for her working fair and is simply @ rward mo’ 1 on $5 « week, in many |ASN’T A FAIR HOME. “You find, to begin with, that the| New York girl has not a fair chance | at home?” | questioned, i corroborated Miss “There is general recogni- tion of the evils of the physical home, rapossibility of he lodger ir limit by the here to rest, no moment of quiet to recover her equi- librium after the day's hard work, In t help with the ishes recreation she must find it elsewhere; and at night she must sleep with one and lows, the street me away from existing condi- Aside from the and contagious on the nerves ‘owding is enor- number of lone proves The moral and social effects are The lodger evil nger. tuo many cases 48 econoinic as- ndividuals or in aiding them dur- urs, Many par- need of What chance has a New York girl? Does the wheel of destiny which she spins stop for her at success or failure, protection or danger, happiness or misery? has begun to watch her anxiously, but does he give her a fair show at the game she must play? chance—and what use does she make of it? Those are some of the questions considered by Miss Harriet McDoual Daniels in her most interesting and comprehensive little book “The Girl and Her Chance.” A study made primarily for the Association of Neigh- borhood Workers of New York, it has been published recently and has won wide acceptance as a sympathetic, constructive treatment of the problem of the young girl. | It 1s the girl between the ages of fourteen and; Father Knickerbocker What is her A graduate of Barnard College, for | During eight out vice, yet the social workers of the city are unanimously agreed on the utter look of un wretandin between thi his is du lict between the the old elr best to brid this gulf between mother and daugh- ter, to explain each to the other. "A hopeful feature Is the girl's fine spirit of helpfulness in the home. In my experience with girls who work IT have found that the vast majority willingly turn over their intact pay envelopes to their mothers. Th and brot! ‘ “What bout the chances offered to the gir! “L don't feel that the girls are get- ting all they ought to have from the courses in the public schools or from the public school te: a Daniels, frankly, “I suppose ‘teachers are doing the best they can, but the present system of education does not hold the child nor the parent. “We need more trade schools, in- stead of more high schools. Think of 400 girls being turned away from the Manhattan Trade School recently be- cause there was no room to teach them the trade they earnestly desired to learn! They can't even go back to the schogis they formerly attended because those are too crowded; they can't get skilled work because they are untrained, and they are practi ly forced to become ‘drifters’ from one futureless occupation to another. “| wish we could have a law giels i teen, we could make the schools so in- teresting that want to things are now, | believe the lescent girl gets a better educ tion by going to work than by | going to school—provided the itions of work are what they ought to be.” “But are they?" 1 interpolated. Do you think that the New York girl has a fair chance in the indus- | trial feild?” Miss Daniels made it very clear that she did not think so. | “Work doesn’t hurt a girl, but over- work, seasonal work, unsanitary sur- roundings, harmful trades, work un- | favorable to development, make it} impossible for thousands of girls to have a fair chance,” she said." “Then there are the moral dangers. These are greatest in domestic service, and, | I have been told, next greatest in! department stores. But 1 un glad to sce that the Committee of Fourteen is of a decidedly opposite opinion, and | I feel that conditions must have im- proved within the last few years. one or two g' Their rding fun as @ social workers say that a factory is the Safest place f “No THURSDAY To Give the New York Girl.a Fair Chance Improve Her Home Life and Let Her Dance ed.) are growl | the Lebanon Hospital, Offices are often dangerous tf only | d¥ are employed, and | Fars Ce it in the future. Is it sti her first enthusiaem di: she forms the habit of little as paseo for the the receives?” range that nd that Axice q ttle that Besides home, school and work thero is another important factor in any normal girl's life. That is play. Just here Miss Daniels seems to me particularly sane and courageous, for she advocates two recreational fea- tures of which social workers have fought a bit shy—dancing and the lety of young men, should, Her desire that form of under the right auspices. turns naturally to amusement where every muscle is brought Into action, where rhythm and harmony and light and color and motion unite to call forth the very acme of all that stands for enjoyment in her mind, ir 670,000 young people find amusement in New York dance halls every week. “The young dance as naturall ion pl impulee is universal, ae primitive; and te our shame be it spoken that we revide no eafe place fer this . ut hand ever of seme it te whe for commer- ploit the natural f youth. The settle- the recreation centres trying te the right it so much 1@ in thie di- lorm of pleasure, the means those agen cial LET THE BOYS AND GIRLS MINGLE SOCIALLY. “Also we should do all we can to encourage the mingling of girls in a wholesome way. the West and I bolleve in co-educa- the way alor=, but as that doesn't seem possible in New York, boys and girls should at least, be brought together in a social way on every occaston. Under existing eir- cumstances the street is practically r only meeting place, ‘he motion picture show is on the best possible forma of amusem: provided for girls in New York, al though we should try to eliminate th doubtful vaudeville and bad venti! tion in some houses, mand clean and itisa But the girl's chances in New York brighter,” Miss Daniel: concluded, hopefully. “From the al- most complete neglect of her and of her point of view, we are coming to the time where we will consi her— MAN WITH BROKEN BACK NOW SITS UP IN BED Long Island Motor Victim Aston- ishes His Doctors and Has Chance to Get Well, Henry Tolopke, with a broken back, sat up in bed to-day In the Lebanon Hospital in Portchester.. He ts sheathed in a plaster cast, but the doctors attending bim hawe hopes for his ultimate recovery from the paralysis which followed bis injury. Tolopke was a gardener for Louls B. Rolston at Purchase and was hit by # motor car in White Plains July 25, Drs, Vier and Parker P, #yms of hie city, per- formed that night one of the most delicate operations known to surgery. That he has lived is considered al most a marvel. Tolopke's wife, who left for Austria a few weeks before the acci- dent, belli that her husband is dead. She been unable to return to him on account of the war. Crossed in Love, He Takes Potson. Giuseppe Sciortino was found in a room in the Hotel Cumberland, Twenty- Third A to-day, chloride of mercury, poison- ing. Dr, Bullivan of Bellevue Hospital he had taken seven five-grain tablets the drug. There was ne chance saving his life, it was sald Pinned to the button , HARD LUCK STOR OFATANIROE AN AMISSG VATE Lost His “Clock” and Is Sued for $25,000. BLONDE WAS ARRESTED. She Didn’t Like Being Haled to Jail as Thief, So She Sues Architect. William A. Starrett, millionaire architect, described to a jury before Supreme Court Justice Hendrick to- day the unluckiest taxicab ride he r took, when he started from the Hotel Astor with three friends on a hot night in July, 1913, and rode down Broadway “just to cool off, The taxicab broke down near For- tleth Street and Broadway, and while Starrett and his friends and the taxi driver were looking at the disabled Machino Starrett missed his watch. He remembered he had felt five siim, soft fingers in his pocket and thought they belonged to a blond girl. He looked at the faces in the crowd around him, saw a Lond “young woman and ordered Patrolman Ahearn to arrest her. More bad luck —the young woman proved to be Mi Edna Adams, a stage beauty, At the Twenty-sixth Street Precinct police station Starrett refused to make a complaint against her. She brought sult biog him for $26,000 damages bea ise arrest and the trial began ‘o-day. “I was walking down Broadway to- ward Fortieth Street," Miss Adams testified, “when I felt some one jostle me. I looked around and saw thia man, Mr. Starrett. He began to talk to me like-a masher and asked me if { wanted to go to tea with him at the Waldorf. Of course, I declined, the invitation and told him to be on his way. I met a friend further down the etreet, and while I was talking with him Mr, Starrett and two other men atealing’ his watch and $20. My friend, who is an actor, became very angry and told Mr. Starrett to ‘beat re or he would punch him in the jaw.” Policeman Ahearn then came up to the group, Btarrett'’s request the Twenty-sixth Precinct Station. the station house the matron was in- the alleged stolen articles, 1 don’t want any Mr. Starrett told the lieuten- Ahearn tentified, “ ‘I just want to get her name and addres tion was no playhouse and for hi to ‘beat it,' which Mr, SI Starrett said Mian A accompany him to the station house and that she was never arrested at his requ EXTRA SENATE SESSION CONSIDERED BY WILSON Ratified and Trade Board Members Confirmed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Posstbili- tles of an extra session of the Senate alone after March 4 for consideration of treaties and nominations were be- ing discussed to-day among Adminis- tration leaders, and while House officials refused to discuss the subject it was known President Wil- on ta giving it consideration. Treaties with Colombia to pay $25,000,000 for the partition of Panama and with Nicaragua to pay $3,000,000 for inter-oceanic canal rights and naval bases undoubtedly will fail of ratification at the present session. ‘The need of action upon them In con- aldered by the Administration of great importance. Officials also fear con- firmation of the Federal Trade Com- mission will be delayed. The President, it sald, had no thought of an extra sedsion of Con- Gress as a whole. Special sessions of the Senate hitherto have been to confirm nominations of Cabinet of- ficers. As the House of the Bixty- fourth Congress would be unorgan- \zed, probably no general legislation would he undertaken at a special session of the Senate, $5,000 and Hi WHITE PLAINS, Fe! | F. Pierce of Peekskill was | tiled , disposing of an estate of 160, To Amanada D. Ack *w faithful servant, in cash and a comfortable home in Peeks. KL, His wid Of Sclorting’s bed was of Jennie coh of No. 1: Starrett's Cab Broke Down, He | Stuart Browne Urges Consoli- came up to me and he accused me of the witness related, and at arrested’ Miss Adams and took her with Starrett to Policeman Ahearn testified that at structed to search Mixes Adams for trouble over President Anxious to Have Treaties White ON 000SAMNG BY BANKER PLA TOUT OT 8 Joseph Ingria, a laborer, of Ma Hamilton Street, was found guilty of 1 charge of cruelty to his p. daughter Frances in the Court of cial Sersions to-day and - atx months Inv the penitentiary. Dr. for ey pe o} dation of Five New York Counties Into One, Stuart Browne, a banker, President of the United Heal Estate Owners’ Association, wants ripper jation to wipe out numerous political de- partments and Jobs and also to con- solidate the five counties In Greater: New York into one, | ‘The saving, it is estimated, would be $1,000,000 a year, Browne would substitute one job where there are five now of Sheriffs, County Clerks, Registrars and other duplicated of- ficers and employees, He would also consolidate the De- partments of Docks and Ferries and Bridges and would wipe out the Commissioners of Records in New York and Kings, saving about half & million dollars a year. The Committee on Social Welfare of the Board of Estimate is also busy with the axe. It has recommended a bill to do away with the Piay- grounds and Recreation Commission and turn the work over to other kindred bodt Later in the day Mr. Brown also filed a request with thé Board of Eati- mate to abolish the Bronx Parkway Commission and transfer its duties to a new pa department, to have one head instead of four commissioners. Application wa: to-day to the Board of Estimate by Itself the New York ma girl’ on her body. The ter life she mother and brutal mathe Dratal tathers ACKER, MERRALL & 661 & COMPANY Hecker’s | Buckwheat 13¢ 2 Ib, 6 o. package | Sperry & Bames 2a 19¢ r= Made from little pigs which buses are now operated. The application will come before the jorrow. Although the nam the applicant company says it has no connect with the New York Central Railroad. CUBAN ENVOY WED HERE BY MAYOR MITCHEL Minister de Cespedes y Quesada Takes Beautiful Roman as His Bride. Dr. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y Quesada, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Re- public of Cuba, and Madame Laura Bertini Alesandri of Rome were mai ried to-day in the City Hall by Mayor ‘AT ALL OUR STORES Ets Mitchel, The witnesses were, for the Cespedes, Commandant Pablo Ygle: fa. ind for the Bertini family, Count Dr. G, Melloney and 19 Cuba: Consul. The bridegroom is the son of the first War President of Cuba of the same name. Ho received his educa- tion in this country, France and Ger- many. During the last Cuban revolution | he was Governor of the Province of Hantlago de Caba and a Colonel of the Army of Liberation. Later he became Vice President of the House