The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1915, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD, q ‘ON HART'S ISLAND, | Cecil Chesterton Raises It, Declaring That When Women Vote They ae ! a Be Reduced to Chattel Slavery. \§ mL |» NMATES SER ' The “Stand Up” Compelled , Them to Remain Rigid for Hours, Allege Lads. OVERSEER IS ACCUSED. Moore Beat Him Tifl Stick ‘Ye Broke, Youthful Witness Tesifies at Hearing. The trial of Martin J. Moore, over- the Boys’ Reformatory at Har‘ Island, before Correction Commissioner Davis, on @ charge of falling to report the beating of Louis Levine, an inmate, by Keeper James McConnell, took an unexpected turn, ‘to-day, when grave charges of bra- tality inflicted by Moore himself were made by witnesses. James Meeney and Arthur Muschneich, both in- mates, accused the superintendent of cruelty, including the clubbing of the boys. A form of torture called “the stand- up," wherein unruly boys are forced to stand rigidly at attention for long ‘hor during the night—sometimes it ‘until they dropped from exhaustion— ‘Was a comparatively miid form of ing to the testimony of Muschneich. It was not uncommon, the witnesses wore, for Moore to borrow a club from one of the keepers and club the inmates himself. On one occasion, Muschneich testified, he was beaten by the overseor over the hands until the club was broken, Meeney re- Jated in great detail the beating of a oy named Morgan by five keepers, at the girection of Méore, he sald. The clubbing was so brutal, Meeney swore, that he was compelled to turn away. “How long have you to serve in the {nstitution?” O, F. Lewis, one of the durors, asked of Meeney. “Four months,” was the reply. “Aren't you afraid that when you go back you will find it uncomfortable a: @ result of your charges?” asked Lewis. “I expect s0,” answered Meency. But things have got to a point at the fighting quality. Witnees.” eee ne eased the story told|ton doesn't assume that attitude for ‘by Muschneich of having been beaten | siving interviews. But talking with “by Moore personally. him is rather like trying to read & Muschneich told how he and six book in the looking-rlaas, or decipher- Giher boys were caught by Moore ling a Futurist landscape. Al! the Te rare takann into e wathroom | sentences are upside down, and the and questioned,” the witness swore. |sky is green instead of blue and the “I was forced to kneel down and hold| grass is pink instead of green. { out ny hands while Mr. Moore! it was in a suffrage debate with Glubbed me. He stopped after the! stra, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale It took Muschneich nineteen months|that Mr. Chesterton advanced an to wld efivg rie (ie ae tog anti argument which certainly has orderly conduct, !t waa brought out.|the charm of complete novelty. He Fee eee ae ree eye” Toliowing |#aid. in effect, that votes for women charges of licentiousness made| Would mean women for slaves, Asa against him. suffragist I suppose I should Overseer Moore denied all of the! secthed with rage. But I didn’t. I gharges, Dut admitted he gave Musch| iaughed. And as goon as I could make rl was given the ‘stand-up’ for atx| the opportunity I asked Mr. Chester- weeks straigh testified Abraham | ton what in the world he meant. “! Goldberg ‘After a hard day in the| MOVING WOMEN FROM HOME A shops I was forced to stand attention STEP TOWARD BLAVERY. ry Frome 4 my ot frome ue n eG “| mean,” he declared, each night. usted, I woul ‘al hi fato my cot only to be pulled out at 2| giving wemen the vets, by \nrey in the morning. From that hour until] 'ng wide open the indu: 3.80 In tho morning, I was forced to| and encouraging them te enter, erie ih 80 ees Boom, Wikt HO taking their children away and chance 4 or at.’ Goldberg told of being put in the giving them over of be care Fad seooler" by Overseer ‘Moore for a| _the St we_shal ply_re- stretch of eight days at a time. —— @lices of bread were given to him/dally with ao little water, he swore, and the slop-buc ording to the custom of the “cooler” punish- ment—were not emptiel until the eighth day, when he was releaned. illiam ‘Canton, the next witness, told of being confined in the “coole for sixty-four hours, in which, for the first forty-eight hours, he was given nothing to eat. Will Punishment in the institution, accord- |G. K.’s Little Brother Proves That Paradoxes Run in His Famity by Novel and Striking Views on Modern Social Conditions. Reformatory where some one had to} entertaining if aot always convincing proofs—is that paradoxes run in 4lbe sacrificed or the conditions up| family. His dramatist-eomyist-novelist brother has been accused of stand- there would never get on the record.| ing on his head when he writes. 1 can personally testify that Cecil Chester- ;just as in the old days of chattel ———$—$——————_________. taut] ye By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “If the movement for woman's freedom continucs we shall have woman in a state of chattel stavery.” “A woman's economic independence waually means her dependence on an employer instead of on a husband. “It tan't votes for women that we need; it's votes, for babies.” Probably you thought, as I did, that there was only ‘dhe man in the world who said that sort of thing—G, K. Chesterton of London. We were both mistaken; there's another. His name is Cecil Chesterton and he is, tem- porarily, of New York. Permanently, he's G. K.’s little brother and a London editor of wide influence and For instance, he made the initial ex- posure of the Marconi scandals in his paper, “The New One of the first things Mr. Chesterton proves to you—and he is full of establish the institution of chattel slavery. All the movements for taking woman out of the home are Pushing her—not in the direction of greater freedom and indep dence—but toward the slave mi ket. “It’s really very interesting!” ex- claimed Mr, Chesterton, with all the gusto of the boy who has found a new bird's egg. He looks like a boy, @ stout, lively, rather mussy boy, He bas blue eyes, curly brown hair, round red cheeks and an enthuslastic voice, Evidently plumpness, as well as paradoxes, runs in the family; it was Shaw who cruelly spo! K. Chesterton's “Magic” an “Fatty's First “Kuropean civilization was founded on slavery,” G. K.'a brother went blithely on. “The Church was the force that put a stop to it, not by directly forbidding it, but by insisting on the importance of the family. The Church said that every marriage was sacred and that the family of the poor man was just as important as| 4 the family of the rich man. When that doctrine was accepted slavery was immediately found not to be profitable any longer. You couldn't sell husband, wife and children sep- erately, as the demand arose; you had to put the whole family on the ‘ket, and it didn’t pay. nv “The next stage was serfdom. The poor man lived on the land of the rich man and paid him tribute, but the poor man had his wife, his ohil- dren, his little home, and he soon tendency of the times, out triumphantly, “in the agitation for cheap divorce now going on in a curious way the: +. BOYS TORTURED |‘‘Votes for Babies!” Is the New Slo seen yawning for the modern woman. “There is an illustration of the he pointed Engiand. In one way it looks rea- sonable enough. If you believe in divorce at all, which I don't, since I'm a Catholic, you must say that the poor have as much right to it as the rich. Yet the present movement is to throw open for divorce actions cer- tain courts specially for the poor, to May obtain easy access, SEES SPECIAL DIVORCE LAW FOR THE POOR. “What will that mean in the fu- ture? It will mean a special marriage Jaw for the poor. Bernard Shaw, who is one of the ablest men in England and who often says in jest what proves to be a bitter truth, has said that many @ poor man ought to be divorced from his wife whether he wants to be or not, because he isn't fit to be in charge of a is what is actually when i be needed in one section of the country, the |her husband in anothe: ee} ployer divorces them and sends them where his industry requires them— slavery. ip ily, the une “4 * roup, rather han the ind! Widual® * “But a woman may love a man enough to marry him and yet feei that her self-respect demands her economic indepe! Mr. Chesterton’ y bave. The right one stays much wider open than the left hat does such a woman mean by econo:ric independence?” he qui tioned, with perceptible sarcasm. “If she works for wages she is merely dependent on an employer instead of on her husband. But | don’t see why her self-respect should suffer, if there in the proper division of labor in ¢! family and she distributes and co: her husband earns, Ce: brings up a family works as hard as he “The feminists say that often a mother cannot bring Wt? her children as well as a scientifically trained nurse,” I offered, with malice afore- thought. It is THE red-rag argu- ment to every one who doesn't beileve in it. “Well, i'm jolly well glad I wasn't brought up that way!" exploded Mr, Chesterton. “Bo we're being advised to ive our children to scientifically rained nurses? The next thing “[ was compelled to kneel with came to feel that he owned the hut in which he lived and the plot of land we shall be told to kiss and make love te scientifically trained head and body erect for four hours Canton testified. "“Whon became so exhausted my body would droop, I was beaten Into an erect po- sition by the keeper.” Moore summi up for himself. Commissioner Davis reserved decia- ton. JUST OUT OF HOSPITAL, FIREMAN IS HURT AGAIN Alone Many women have come. to Lives of Many Endangered When know that sex isn't the reason for all back- =) i 4 . dizzy headaches and urinary dis- Floor of Building Cot " have these troubles, too, lapses at Fire. eand often they come from kidney \*» weakness, To live simply, eat spar-| ‘Tho collapse of a section of floor- ingly, take better care of one's self/ing endangered several flromen of and to use Doan's Kidney Pills is bound | yingine No. 72 at 1 A. M. to-day, dur- 4 help bad kidneys get better. There ling a blaze on the third floor of the fer fo, many See smi six-story loft building No, 29 West gap toll you! this froin, exparience, Twenty-first Street, but only one, SS “What's the Matter, Mama?” Not Due to Sex A Greater New York =| John Middiestadt, was hurt, Ho fell) Woman’s Experience with the debris to the second floor rs. Anna M, Goeller, 277 E. 1¢ist and was taken to New York Hospi- se Bron says: "I have no reason to| ¢#! sitehtly injured. withdraw the statement | gave several] Policemen and firemen had been rs ago recommending Doan's Kidney | searching for the fire for an hoor Pins ‘i will add further that since this] when it burst from the front of the remedy cured me, I have never had | building, It had been smouldering in Santon ‘of kidney trouble. You are] the factory of a cloak and suit firm. liberty to publish what I have stated." 1, went up the elevator shaft to the fourth floor, Chief Martin sent a necond alarm, but it did not get above the fourth. The fire and water dam- wes estimated at $25,000, around it. At least he had the sense of property. All this made for tho safety and solidarity of the family. WORK FOR WOMEN ALL RIGHT, IF IN THE FAMILY. sweethearts. “Do you know, though, what I think 1s the silliest argument of the whole woman movement? It Is that one about a woman's not receiving justice from a jury of men. As @ “But in the sixteenth century were | matter of fa he would suffer much laid the foundations of the great properties and the great fortunes, That was the beginning of the pro- letariat; then there were to be found numbers of men without any prop. erty at all, From that time we secin to have been working for the disinte. gration of the family, The number of propertyleas men, who do not even own their home: has ateadily in- creased, which _ until pt those in which their families are interested. “They have such a splendid way of managing that in France,” Mr, Ches.erton swept on, “There the young girl begins to work very early, hut she works for her father, She is the clerk in his shop or the book- keeper in his office. When she mar- she continues to work, but it is or her husband, She has a position establishment, Al- ys she has the feeling that what she does is increasing the prosperity of the family.” Personally, | think that being em- ployed by a'member of one's family 1s, to gay the least of it, a bitterly severe test on employer and em- ployee, But 1 didn’t get a chi say ao, for Mi eaterton was once more froin @ jury of women, traction makés & court of men natur- ally lenient to a woman. Take the case of a pretty girl in a breach of promise sult, A male jury ix sorry for her, a fe! jury wouldn't jet her off easily. “What ia this theory of yours about votes for bables™ T asked, “1 think every, baby should have a vote 0 exercised have a vote,” he replied prompt- ly, “to be exercised by ite father, man should ha: with a ought much t ly as a little repub- le, bearing a relation to the govern. ment similar to that borne by one of your States to the National Govern- ment. The husband and father ts the senator that the family sends out to represent it politically,” “But suppose husband and wife disagree about politics?” “They are in partnership, and what does that mean if not that they must tale present an undivided front to the |ch world? If partners disagree, what | volver. do they do?” “Often they dissolve partnership,” T suggested. “Not in practical experience,” Mr, Chesterton denied, a little impa-: tiently and not quite accurately, “They talk it over and come to an ement—somehow. That's what @ husband and wife must do.” ‘Which be] without benor, SATURDAY, PEBRUARY 27, 1915. gan WOOD BASES LEFT ‘IN THE SUBWAY, WITNESS CHARGES Carrie Davis, Who Shot C. A. Covered and Not Replaced by| Massey, Wealthy Man 0. To- Concrete, in Brooklyn Tube, | ronto, Faints When Set Free. O'Sullivan Swears, PROTEST BY SHONTS. “Too Many Cooks,” He Says of Order to End Jam Michael O'Sullivan, of No, 349 Fif- ty-fifth Street, Brooklyn, testified this afternoon before the Legislation Com- investigating the Public Service Commission that on the ex tension of the Fourth Avenue sub- way in Brooklyn, the wood bases tem- porarely placed under the steel stand- ards supporting the subway roof had been covered and left instead of being withdrawn and replaced with oon- WHITMAN OPPOSES: ELECTION LAW CHA State Has Had Only One Real Trial of Direct Nominations, He Says, and System Has Worked Well. ALBANY, Feb. 27.—In an informal talk with newspaper men to-day Gov, Whitman went on record as op- posed to any substantial changes in the present system of nominating elective oMcials, The Governor sa! he was unalterably opposed to the provision of the Argetsinger-Mackey | ii Bill, designed to effect a return to nominating by State Convention. He expreaned the belief that the measure | bi would not pass the Legislature with The statement made such an im- pression upon Chairman Thompeon that he immediately ewore O'Sullivan and had him repeat his testimony. Senator Thompson—Could I find out if I hunted for it? Mr. O'Sullivan—There were hun- you'd find one if THE SENATOR (RaWER) ADORENGING Tue house ! dreds of cases; you dig down for it President Shonta of the Interbor- ough took the stand to suggest a change in the Public Service Law. “Our company was served last night,” he said, “with a notice from the Board of Health that one of our should be so operated that the number of passengers in any car should not exceed one and one- half times the seating capacity. we'd like to obey, but this looks as if we wore getting too many cooks. “While you are considering a change in the law, we suggest that authority be concentrated, so that notices and orders of this sort be simplified. We have nine separate investigations on against us now.” Chairman Thompson referred with great soberness to the state.nent by another witness that people had to stand on other people's feet in riding Dome at night. “Bhouldn’t complaints about that me from the Bureau of Weights and Measures?” he asked Mr. Shonts, “Say, that's funny,” ie and the spectators PLOT TORASE PRES SCARED AAAST STEAM LALA Hand Laundrymen Allege They | .., Are Trying to Force Small Ones Out of Business, radical electing system should be at- tempted until the convention con- cludes its work.” FAKE MOVIES DISPLAY KAISER ENTERING PARI False German Films Shown to Arouse Populace in Con- ‘This was kickers” day, The Legislative Committee gave group of |the “kickers” a chance In order that men, owners of the steam laundries | @!! possible ight might be shed upon of this city, have endeavored to raise | the eMiciency or inefficiency of the prices. A concerted offort, about three |Commission after the {ilumination years ago, resulted in the greater|Produced by the number of the controlled laundries | themselves, by city oMcials and by the heads of the big metropolitan ‘TO the Editor of The Evening World: For the last five year Commissioners white horas, is portrayed leading his troops under the Arch of Triumph. GIRLS iN COURT FOR THEFT. Ageé Thirteen and Twelve, They raising prices, but’ it was a failure because of the inability to force the | viliiti hand laundries to raise at the same “Kickers” Gi not bave thelr innings until after Joseph Johnson, head of the Commission's it read a statement to the ‘This was in anewer to the characterization of Mr, Johnson asa “brass band” by President Wil- Hamas, of the B. R. T,, one of the wit- neswes of yesterday. Mr. Johnson‘s statement said: said that the motive for my survey was a desire to secure publicity. No man can known the mo- Since that time it has been the con- stant effort of these men to bring the | Bureau. had hand laundries into line on an agree- ment to boont the price. No headway being made, they are Bow adopting different tactica, the net Tesult to be the total abolishment of the hand laundries, Next week, the firat gun in this campaign will be fired. ‘The Board of Health will hold a moet- Ing, at the request of the steam laun- dries, to consider an ordinance for- CL ovig besgeeat Was if Rees To and the inadequacy of his service and the failure of his management bas received a wide and wholesome pub- bidding the use of nets in laundries. If this ordinance ia passed, it means the practical extinction of the band laundries and a raise all along the line in prices for the public to pay. “While carrying les than one-third If the washing of white goods in nets bres ts dangerous to the health of the pub-| of the ‘faite of the city, more than lec, then the whole system of steam laundries 1s dangerous, It has always been claimed the boiling of goods stroyed all germs, therefore the mizing of different persons’ linen could not complaints were made “The tact he has received an over- hauling may explain his flooding Brooklyn with literature printed with straphangers’ money, which seeks to a whole | Prove to bis patrons that between tg | Tush hours everybody has a seat, ‘The only trouble with this propaganda im that half the people read this litera- ture with their fellow passengers standing on their corns.” In @ supplement verbal statement Mr. Johnson said it was his view that there could be no real hope of an amelioration of traffic conditions until the new subway system had been com- If nets are dangerous, thi system is dangerous, if boiling in ne doesn't destroy germs, boiling in a pocket wheel won't destroy them. To show you the solicitation of the steam is wholly self-centred, J from their rules: price of wet work shall be 11-3 cents )per pound in neta, po net tor more than 10 pounds, no neta to be received for less than 10 cents.” “All fat work, underwear and outside sheets of every description shall be excluded from nets.” ‘The first gun in the campaign for a 21-2-cent collar is ready to be fired, A HAND LAUNDRYMAN, Artion Wi Edward Hoffman, seventy years old, an artist, was found dead by his son Edward jr, when he returned to the Hoffman home, Fairhaven Villa, on Bay | Vorty-fourth Street, Bensonhurst, early | this merning. Tne artist sat in an easy chair, had‘ book in his lap and held « Cornelive M. Sheehan, secretary of the Allied Boards of Trade of Brook- lyn, continued the lengthy statement he began yesterday by attacking the dual subway contracts, Col, William N. Amory, formerly secretary of the old Third Avenue Besun was' th was due to heart failure. teeta eneee Man Burecd to Heath in Big Glass BALEM, N. J. Fob. 27.—Samuel Crest was burned to death to-day when fire destroyed the Craven Glass Works and ing @ loos Chauncey Marshall Dead. Chauncey Marshall, President of the Beach and Manhattan Beach Develonment’. Confpanion died nly last nigh! Park Avenue, at the age of nus. Gf the R50 Ot Pu STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. a, Naples ‘ OAM. —————-——___. im the Eye During Fight, Michael Bisilacqua, No, 240 East On twenty-five, of Hundred and Forty- eighth Street, and Giovanni Spinnelli, eightoen, of No. 161 Barton Avenue, the ‘one red, outside a saloon in Forty -eigh| to- da, id Spinelli ttack upon the Commission, mission has been grossly rol lo a firetrap. It ts as dangerous as & powder factory and| # this Commission is aware of it. ged with assault , pen if somethi Murdeck Nat Vietor Murdock, gressive Hepresentat! ual Moese Leader, irreconcilable Pro- from Kansas, s been elected Chairman of the Pro- ssive National Committee to succeed Montana, whose ted at a ing ttee of in= teat ery tre York is insolvent. Their condition is nearly as bad to-day as it was in 1907 when & number of them went into the hands of receivers.” “During Mr. Taout Ge Bcboeneck entered was iden to @ seat beside Chaiz- maa Thompeca. aignation was pr CHEERS IN COURT DYING, HE ACSER FOR CARL ACQUITTED | OF LNG ENPLMER TORONTO, Feb. 27.—Carrie Davies,| Dan McMahon, Rineteen, tall, the young English domestic, charged | with the murder of C. A. Masecy, a that she was afraid of she shot him because she feared was about to renew his advances there was no one else in the house to protect her. . ' When the jury returned ite verdict the spectators cheered. The court room was immediately cleared. Dur- vision in it. “We have only had one real trial of the present system of direct nomina- tions,” he said, “aad it apparently worked well. It should be more thorough trial be changed materially. The tional convention is to meet soon at! possibility that the be mixes. serious con- possibly adopted. No stantinople. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 11, by mail to New York (Associated Press). —Motion pictures, showing the vic- tortes of the Germans in the west, are being shown here to enthuse the Turkish people. The film drawing the biggest crowds is entitled “The Capture of The Kaiser, astride a big Mllver, Judge le Told, Catherine Farrell, thirteen years old, of No 188 Union Avenue, and Dora Hoppel, twelve, of No, 108 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, were before Justice Wilkin the Brooklyn Children's Court to-day, charged with criminal delinquency in that they had stolen silverware andé clothing from the apartment of Mra, Bella Lippie, at No, 301 Manhattan Ave- ‘They had envied Mra. Li ‘a fine nd when ¢! resnes, they saw her a key, as she was lonving the house, de- ined on the robbery. They a roid in custody of their parents until cine GARY HAS A HEAVY COLD. But Doctors Report the Steel Mag- |<! mate in Ne Dan: PITTSBURGH, Feb. 37.—Kibert H. Gary, executive head of the United Btates Steel Corporation, who was taken sick during @ banquet at the Fort Pitt Hotel last night, was reported im- proved to-day. Physicians declared there was no cause for were alarin. te have « heavy cold with alight a Dead tn band when he was found. Werks Fire, ind Nr ty - iced Titec igs eee his ye i 405 javre . eiercatet SAILING 10-D He, Lusitania, Liverpee YOUTHFUL OF SHOOTING neice, “Don’t Hurt Him, He’s a Pleads “Sunny Jim” fo Fugitive, Aged 15. merry, waa in Washington Market, several ago, with his friend, “Squint” ifteen years old, a gun-toter for | “Hudson Dusters,” according te Lucey was showing a0" dance steps to several girls and J “squint” few him with his fists. McMahon i up to his nickname, “Sunny “Squint’s” ears drove him back with @ panch im simply cuffed “Go home and learn how to ‘Squint” ran home. In a few Utes he returned with a rasor tm ii He suddenly jumped “Gt “Sunny Jim" and tried to cut Bis throat. Thoroughly angered by E McMahon gave “Squint” a t The little fellow went off nursing Bis swollen face and making threats, Young Lucey was lounging im hallway of his home, No. sii ington Street, Inst evening. Te’ eral of his friends be boasted, Golng to croak a guy before I No one took him until McMahon appeared. “Bquint” leaped out of the and fired at McMahon. Two ‘# abdomen and ‘Squint” vanished in the 4 way. The police are sti lo im. ough doctors at Bt, told “Sunny Jim” dying he would not: tet Cc Arthi pee happen to him. ut.” JOHN J. DOWD FALLS DEAD IN DRUG STO Broadway Restaurant Owner for Medicine and Suddenly Collapses. John J. Dowd, proprietor: of thees | restaurants on lower Broadway, die@) suddenly of heart disease to-day Perry's drug store, in the Building. He was seventy-four ola and lived with two unn daughters at No. 238 Hancock Mr. Dowd approached one of clerks in Porry’s and smilingly quested something to relieve indi tion, A moment later he appearesd to be faint, and when assisted toa 7 in the rear collapsed and died. Dr Willis A, Wilder of No, 116 Nassau restaurants operated and his son are at Nos. nd TOO MANY INSPECTORS. Real Ketate Men Back Up : Bill Aiming to Cut Thom Bows, A bill to wipe out the Fire ROCHESTER, N. ¥., Fob. 37, broke out in the Castle Building, tm r ~ Btreet, np cnartly eter 3 e) ay Ngher, pest 4 a wT |