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CARS FROM ROMSUBWAY If - fs Out Washing, or Takes in Boarders, or Sews, He Can Collect the Pro- ey Soe stil It Is Admitted That His Company aha and Will Chivalry Takes Some of the Sting. Substitute Steel Cars = Without Fight. By Marguerite Movers Marshall. Under the law of the State of New York a wife has no right to her own earnings, except by specific agreement with her husband—ond not always then. 400 TO GO BY DEC. 1. ‘That ie the last and loveliest example of man-made law as applied to women. Not long ago a Supreme Court Justice decided that the joint savings of husband and wife are not their joint property, but belong solely to the husband. The decision plainly invited every sensible woman to cease turning last year’s suit, re trimming last year’s hat, and instead to spend every cent she might get her fingers on. The other day, at White Plains, Judge Morschauser laid down the principle, “Uniese there is a specific agreement or contract between them, allowing the wife to engage in a separate business and keep her earnings for herself, the husband is always entitled to all of the earnings of his wife as well as her services during marriage.” Andre Hopke urged that his wife,| tween them le net eufficient te Mary, had worked for several years|. protect the wife's earnings if she to earn the money with which a cer-| works for her husband. tain plece of property had been| “I knew of a case where a woman £vening World’s Long Fight Won When Directors Vote to Obey Order. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company to-day agreed to take ‘wooden cars out of the subway. By ‘the terme of tho order the wooden ars, over 400 in number, must be above ground by Dec. 1 of this year. It f# understood that the Inter- borough, beaten in the long campaign ‘waged by The Evening World for the removal of the wooden cars, decided yesterday at a directors’ meeting that ft would be cheaper to capitu- late-than to fight in the courts. ‘The Interborough’s surrender was read at to-day’s meeting of the Public @ervice Commission. It is as follows: Supplementing the letters which ‘we have heretofore sent you as to our compliance with Final Order A of the Commission in the above entitled case, we have worked out the necessary legal procedure ‘which will enable us to comply with the terms of the order, and you are hereby notified that it ts the intention of this company to remove the composite cars from eperation in the subway, subject to our rights and the city’s obil- gations under contracts Nos, 1 and 3. mad, JEAN Very truly yours, NORRIS P. SHONTS, President. of the Public Ser- were asked to ex- plain the conditions mentioned con- cerning contracts Nos. 1 and 3 they professed utter ignorance of its sig- Soatvect No. 1 ts the original one Between ‘he Interborough and the eity, and contract No. 3 the final bought. For convenience the title was taken in his name, he alleges, but when he got into financial dim- culties he transferred it to his wife, contending that it was actually her Property since it had been bought with money earned by her. The court decision eet aside the transfer, and what appareatly were Mary's : :}earnings went to satisfy Andre's “The city is safe under either the old | creditors. er new contracts, so reference to MORAL FOR WIVES: If you per- them need not scare us. Both the/ sist in giving up porasitiem for a poy eompany and the city are protected] envelope, never forget that there are under Nos. 1 and 8.” adout a million ways of separating you If the Interborough had decided to] from the latter! take the matter into court, it was ex- plained to-day, and the wooden cars JUDGE Phang gel oleate rR were not removed from the subwa OMAN LAWYER. ‘What @ome of these are I heard by Jan. 1, 1917, the city, under the from two women lawyers whom I terms of the contract would be held wespmsible for the loss sustained by] Consulted in reference to Judge Mor- schauser’s decision. In the beginning fe Interdorough brought about by I visited the office of Mrs. Harriette ‘the removal of the wooden cars. Just what the next move of the In-| M. Johnston-Wood, at No. 2 Rector orous! is could not, be learned. Street. Mrs. Wood is the first woman unde a tries ever to be admitted to the off its discarded subway wood-| state Bar Ausociation, ty ise published a book on “Laws Discrim- inating Against Women in the State of New York." Thousands of copies of It were distributed by the State Suffrage Association, and the presi- dent declared that it made more con- verts than any other argument in their quiver. ‘According to law, Judge Mor- schauser is absolutely right,” declared Mrs. Wood with finely tmpersonal fairness, “He could not have decided otherwise. And since the law is what it is, I am extremely glad that this case came up at just this time, when the vote on suffrage is ao near. I am also glad, because it proves me right. I brought out this very point In my book several years ago, and a number of men judges and lawyers said I was mistaken. But I could per. | point out plenty of precedents, and this case simply adds to the list. “I aay that the law in the State of New York makes wemen slaves! If a man, any man, ie legally entitled to my services without making me any return for them in money, what am | but a eerf? A wife is allowed food, clothes and shelter, but her ind need give hor nothing id a master hi and her busband wrote out an agree- ment in which she promised to go into the fields and work for the sea- won, taking the place of a hired man, provided that he would give her a hired man’s wages. “MEANEST MAN” REFUSED WIFE PAY AS HIRED HAND. “he kept her part of the agree- ment and worked all summer, but in the fall her husband refused to pay her. She took the case to court and the Judge decided against her. He said that the agreement was worth nothing, inasmuch as her services already belonged to her husband, and, there being no other consideration mentioned, he could not be bound to pay for what was legally his.” “I think he was the meanest man,” I commented. “If our men, most of them, were as bad as our laws, we'd all be in a Pretty pick! Mrs. Wood asserted juffragists are always enlarging upon the justice beauty of the ma property act, which does allow ‘women to hold property after they get it. But how, except by mere luck or special privilege, are they jing te get it, unless their earn- re their own to invest if they choose?” “Have you known afy cases sim- Nar to that just decided by Judge Morschauser?” I asked. “I knew of one that was of exactly the same order,” she replied. “A married woman decided to take boarders, and her husband freely de- clared that she was welcome to all the money she made from them. Presently one of the boarders was taken ill. His illness lasted for nine in cars will cost $1,- G0 TO WILSON WITH PROTEST Canal Werkers Oppose Or- Ger Which Means Less to Them. oom ee order requiring the Ly a. thelr I yg light them free of acted wife nursed him, again with the full consent and approval of her husband. ‘With the money the sick man paid her she bought a horse and carriage for herself. financial difficulties and his creditors ye Secretary the rescinding of carriage. “They are my wife's,’ be pro- ¢ bought them with money she earned herself.’ “But the creditors insisted thet since she earned the money by work- ing in her husban home, the earn- ings were really his, the horse and really his, and there- |d be attached to satiety at Staten Isla: 'The body of a man was found this morning in the water near the B. & ©. 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Morris of No, 81 Will- fam Street, President of ee ‘Women Lawyers’ Association, ous that a woman need not auow, pereet Paci in discussing a case that See it hel ont is ntair to criticise Judge Mor- @chauser,” she declared. ae oo ot, bt @ecided othe: aia. law stands that way. and it to hie business to interpret the law. He didn’t make it and can’t be held revoqneie for it.” husband te entitled to hie sotnaily to take for Hoel ah. Punks | clers from the Presidio military reser hurst said with a smile, but it is the wites earnings, wnions, there is ial arosiner “The much tall ly means that the wife has the ong to the use of one-third of her hi band’s real estate, if he dies ‘vithout making a will. If she dies under similar circumstances, the right of ‘courtesy’ gives him se ae of a her realty. Also, a I made by woman before eerie automati- heya revoked by that Lig This ig not true in the case of a “A farmer's wife I know *prought her husband $500 of her own savings when she married him. He waa pen- niless, With the money he te farm, and it was the foundation of all his fortunes. She worked faith- fully for him all her life, so that her labor as well as her money went into his estate. When he ‘died she was left with nothing but her dower, one- third of the sum obtained by Eel in | the farm, and that poor, hard woi old woman has to face the world homeless, with only $100 a year. GOT HER DOWER BACK WITH- OUT INTEREST, “When another woman I know wi married her uncle gave her the he joint earnings of the husband and wife belong to him. WIFE SLAVED FOR HUSBAND'S RELATIVES, “if iveu ond ' t otart a jomt bank jee, the cosunt Socom the of the survivor, But a dit it rule ja between husband and wife. “T know of @ case which Ops apes waited hind bal Pye yg helped with the and was to all and wee her husband's partner. money they made was kept in the fo rm of personal property. ey had no 9 children. When he died only half of the joint earnings went to her. The other if was given by the law to certain collateral relatives of his whom oe wife had never even seen. * ¥ Roo! ople have misunderstand- ings of what ‘dower’ really is. They think inate’ une of ird of the i's real estate during lifetime Teane that if he has three houses his widow can live rent free in one of them. That's not the case. means rent, interest or profits, In such a case the wife would merely be entitled to PTL a the combined | He turned her—wi' if he had put it ie oh the Bank 8 pound interest, think what it become in that time! “I know of two young opened and ran a delicatessen jusband and —a very “They are trying top bill in *qibany, now which the widow the use of all her hosband real estate during her lifetime, but I don't belfeve it will ever pass,” Mra. Norris remarked law as earnin, hersel notable women. “What we ought to have is a law making the joint earnings of hus- | band and wife their joint property, and joi separate earnings her own propert: they are obtained in a way which does not conflict with her husband's interests. But I do not belie’ will ever get such an ar- rangement until women are able to vote for it.” —_—_——s— JILTED, HE TRIES TO DIE. ‘Thomas Cafarelta heard groans as he entered his room at No, 99 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, at 3 A. M. to-day and Locaptey brother, John, Nake 49 ane rs old, writh’ in pain. john Seciayed bo had’ taken seven sinall bi: chloride Ey mercury tablets. omas the patient first aid at aad” Raa ater are to the counter. burden of the business on her shoul- ders. “As goon ag they got together a ttle ‘money ‘the husband invested it in stocks or bonds, a many sons living in the cl they faldn’t own a particle of Beth estate. ey were becoming really Bi pe when suddenly he died. m it was found that before hie marriage had made a will leaving all his Sa sonal property—at that time, 401 old clothes—to his brothers ands ais. le had neglected to change and his marriage did not revoke tt So that little woman saw the fruit of all her industry and self-denial swept away, and was forced out into the world absolutely penniless, discrimination against wi I Re husband” end w wie shares in all earnings of man takes care of treatment sland Coll ind saves, for s much te do was tment ved rete ait hed filved hime ne Li im. onthe the —>——_——_ : Actrede Dies From Shot tn Taxicab. Mrs. Gladys Montague, Yigg tata an lore 19, 1915 GERMAN VICTORY WOULD HURT FEMINISM. Charges Germans (Coorniaht, 3998, by the United Pree, Cong quest by imperial Germany and a “Germanization” deal a Mrs. Emmeline militant suffragette leader, said in an interview with the United Press me the appeal of President Runelman of the Board of Trade, for organiza- war. comod the chance to show that women may be made an important asset. German women in the war?" I asked. the Germans conquered the world,” was her decisive response. ‘The Gor- mans, I must admit, take good care of thelr women, them as—I don’t like to use word—breeders. solely as a means of maintaining the| Algerian dancer, known as the “Prin- race. Germany by the allies will mean not}@t the Panama-Pacific Exposition, only the Hberation of civilization, but} Was shot and instant! women from German ideas." hee ru) women by the Germans?” she askel. were bad men in every arm; most alcohol,’ believe the British #0! intents | just and her husband, shows a | bitt DANCER WHO WAS SHOT BY HER BROTHER IN A CROWDED 1 ware / aN DOROTHY Ri OW CHARGE: OF Dorothy pnesell, ee onee Broadway as weit beautiful mother, Lillie held for trial, in $2,000 istrate Simms Police court, on The young woman, a , former self, was on the DO DOOTEES reseovsbhsesdl SPELLS DISASTER, |: SAYS PANKHURST uffragette Declares It Would Be Blow at Civili- zation. at No. 245 West Fift: Monday night she gave ® ool signed by Dr. D, D, ton . j Taylor to have filled for a hyperdermic syringe morphine needies and writtes, ‘an order for morphine. arrested after Dr, Steteom had {he had prescribed the reg, - beret was Gowen of and char reery. | "Dorothy went to court Pa mother's a and sat in until her case was called. Dr. Stetson sald that he F-. ' “y be yer, cay that hie client an, hospital. Y ¢ ‘aylor was \acharged, under $100 bonds Regard Their Women Chiefly as Breeders, By William G. Shepherd. LONDON, March 19.—A world con- of women would heavy blow at civilization, Pankhurst, English DF 2499999594609 899 F990098 IN CROWDED THEATRE, DANCER KILLS SISTER; SHOOTS INTO AUDIENCE Spectators See “Princess Tur- kia” Killed and Flee From Bullets, 0-day, Mrs. Pankhurst was discussing with fon of English women to aid in the The militants, she \d, wel. “But what in the position of the “It would be a terrible disaster if But they regard the SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.—An They consider them cess Turkia,” a member of a ballet “On the other hand, a conquest of|!m ® Russian amusement concession killed last the liberation of German men andj Might by her brother, Isaac Lisraki. also a dancer, Lizraki then began firing indiscriminately at the enter- tainers on the stage and into the audience, causing « panic, The “Zone” theatre ih which the that probably there | Shooting occurred was crowded when Lisraki entered, brandishing a platol. He began firing at once, and his sis- 7, who was on the Mage, fell with a uld| bullet through the heart. behave = the decyl — One of the male entertainers on the roumstance: wi Sie taltes are turned and the iltes ethan was puck 1p the afm bet to advance into Germany the ly of alcohol should be cut off.” ore is no necessity, nor will/ fired a half dosen shots before sol- bout to put another qui Iw Mrs. Pankhurst inte. er what about the violation of 1 suggested “But there are the most duty of Enagii women to perform| to the police station. the normal work of the nation while] No reason for the shooting was the men are at the front if they ®r81 jearned. Lisrakl, in a cell to-day, re- “The suffragettes always wanted the Government to regard English women as a reserve force,” she sald. ‘For cei telligence and capability of ‘women has been a waste product, but this war has demonstrated that women may be made an asset. “Two-thirds of the men in the new Kitchener army are married. British women who have control over men are insisting that they join the British forces. It's the bachelors who a holding back. They lack the wom: to some FE ish colony, but we main in England because of our love for our country. twe feel that.a German victory would set back the feminine move- ment indefinitely. EE remem DR. BAUMAN TO WED AGAIN. PHILADELPHIA, March r, Rush C. Bauman’ of No. 221 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York, and Miss Alico Marie Jaquet, daughter of Francis A. 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