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

0S ATNOON, mie —+— Mighty Chorus Sings “Sweet Land of Libesty’” as It Un- folds to Breeze. ‘NEW MAYOR'S FLAG. r | Also.a New Tablet Unveiled on Father. Knickerbocker’s 250th Birthday. ‘While bareheaded thousands looked om and eoft strains of the nation’s, aathem reverberated in the orags or} s@rrounding skyscrapers, a lone wemen stood on the steps of City ‘Well at noon to-day and raised to the the first official flag of the Gly of New York. As the blue, white and orange emblem—the same « (that floated here when Peter Stuy- | vesént ran things—fMung ite folds aginst the background of a cloudiess ‘Shy @ grem cheer went up. Some) he caught the strains of the band) @m@ the cheers soon turned into the| watghty chorus: “Sweet land of 1i erty, of thee I sing.” 1t was joined in | vy Gov. Whitman, Mayor Mitchel an@ Supreme Court Judges on the| Famous Men and Women, Leaders of Thought and Work in the United States, Are Superlatively Active and Show No Signs of Deterioration— None of Them Displayed Maximum Strength or Ability Before-They Had Passed Their Thirtieth Oity Hall steps. The fag raiser was Mra. Maria | i Deane Bieeckor Cox, great-great- Grenddaughter of James Duane, who was Mayor of the city in 1784, ‘The presentation of the official flag was made by the Hon. A. Van de "Sande “Baxbuysen, Consul General of the * Nétheriands, who represented the ~ Cty of Amsterdam, Holland, the "| @paor, Mayor Mitchel accepted the tel-colora for the city. This is not only flag day. It's Pa Kalokerbock two buadred and fit. | theth birthday. He's two and « halt centuries young and getting bigger | and huskier every day, Two dun- dirga ahd Atty years ago the first Mayor and Board of Aldermen were iAgralied in office. The first Mayor was Thomas Willett. In the City Hall \o-day thousands of visitors passed * along and were smiled at—or frowned _ai—from paint and canvas by the (Mumerows Chief kxecutives who have ‘Since reigned and died. The day's coremonies began this morning when Guy Van Amringe, rep- Mésenting the St. Nicholas Society, r on the Dutch Consul at his « ffce, No. 11 Broadway, in company » with a detachment of the Old Guard ig command of Col. Ardolph L. Klein. ~ &8 the’ procession moved up Broadway torethe bigh beavel shvkos, whito coats, ») blue trousers and lace and gold of tye ard made @ striking picture in ‘ight sunlight. The Dutch Con- a carrying the ag rode in an auto- mobile. Immediately after the new city flag had been raised, Vernon M. Davis, President of the St. Nicholas Socicty, presented the new Mayor's flag, which was accepted by Mr. Mitchel, The five blue, five-pointed stars, each rep- veaénting @ borough, was suggested by Mayor's Seoretary “heodore Rousseau. Otherwise tae Mayor's flag is the same as the city fag. Immediately after the flag raising Mayor Mitchel announced to Gov. Whitman and tho other members of | the party that he must excuse him- self as was suffering from one of his headaches, the result of jungle fever contracted years ago while hunting for gold in South America. “J will be back here in the City Hall for the afternoon ceremonies,” he aaid, “if I have to be carried down on @ stretcher.” Immediately after noon Gov, Whit- me Mayor Blankenberg of Philadel- Consul General Bakhuysen, Guy ) Van'Amringe, Geo. W. Burleigh, Jona B. Pine and Richard Meade of the ar- ’ rangements committee were the guests of Mayor Mitchel and Alder- manio President McAneny at lun- eheon in the Whitehall Club. ‘The interior of the City Hall waa elaborately decorated for t aft noon’s ceremony, which cons addresses on the 250th anniv and the unveiling of a bronze tablet in the chamber of the Board of Al- dermen. President McAneny deliv- ered the address of welcome. Then came the unveiling, The tablet is set in the east wall, on the right of President's rostrum. Francis de Newfville Schroeder, ninth in descent from the first Mayor, Thomas Willett, raised the city flag and brought the tablet into view. Mayor Mitchel a cepted the tablet. William Robert Shepherd, professor of history, Co- jumbia University, spoke on “Then and Now.” John Huston Finley, President of the University of the broad of New York, spoke on “The by and Ite Flag.” Then came an ress by the Governor, “The Woman's Reception Committee consisted of members of the oldest families in the city. Among them were: Mrs. Moses Taylor Campbell, | Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, Mrs. E ward C, Delafield, Mr.. Richard Derby Mrs. George McAneny, Mrs. John Pu roy Mitohel, Mrs, Howland Pell, Mra, R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont, Mrs, Phill Rhinelander, Mrs. Karrick Riggs, Mrs. Tiugsell Sage, Mrs. J. Langdon Schroeder, Mrs. Louisa Leo Schuyler, Mra A. de Sande Bakhuyzen, mie Anne Van Cortlandt, M D. Van Buren and Mrs. Schuy D. | 25 REASONS FOR FIXING MENTAL MAXIMUM AT OVER 29 oungest le 57, the Oldest 87, Average la 71 8-10, and All Are at the Highest vt Point] of Their Intellectual Power. _ “THOUSANDS CHEER NES MAS. Ruste SAGe! MES, Ameria E, BARR] Roches om | Birthdays. | University. Gary, veteran banker. |lieves that, one must agree with Dr. William Osler that the chloroform cannot be prepared too quickly. He suggested the logical end to the road opened by President Lowell's recent remarkable utterances. VENERABLE LEADERS IN AMERI- CAN LIFE PASSED IN REVIEW. But as to the third method of an proaching the problem, it consists simply of passing in review really eminont and active Americans and the number of their birthdays. If \these average twenty-nine per man, there is pretty good empirical proot of President Lowell's theory, But if | the truly big men in this country in the year of 1915 age found ® be of mature years, or even elderly, we may consider ourselves justified fixing the point of highest mental de- velopment well past the twenty-ninth year, To-day The Evening World prints twenty-five reasons for putting the mental maximum in middle life if not later. Twenty- one American men and four American women who are now politics, in bu thropy,én education, in literature, in law, in medicine, in invention, The young oldest eighty age of the mental maximum in this group is seventy-one and sight-tenths, Americans necd hardly be re- minded of the events that have proved the superior mentality of President Wilson during the last few years, But it is interesting to record that when he was twenty-nine he held the respectable but not precisely of history and political economy at Bryn Mawr College. If he had reached his mental maximum at that period nobody knew it, It {s the general opinion that the Taft during the last two years have! shown conclusively that his mind {s/ at ils high-water mark, During this] period he has served as President of the Americon Bar Association and of the American Academy of Juris- prudence, and his lectures on law at Yale have confirmed his reputa- tion as perhaps the greatest legal au~- thority in the United States. At the age of seventy-six Jolin D, Rockefeller directs the activities of the Rockefeller Foundation, which he founded but two years ago, and |s big business ples, Andrew Carnogic, four years older, is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, capitalized at $126,000,000, and works bie brains hard at the difficult bus- ineas of giving away fortunes, Elihu Root, now presiding at New York's Constitutional Convention, continues to deserve his title of “the brains of the Republican Party.” Gen, notable position of associate professor | public addresses of former President | By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Does a man reach his mental mazimum at the age of twenty-nine? YES, if we may believe Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard NO, if we are to accept the opinions of two of New York's most distinguished citizens—Judge Blbert H. a Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation, and Henry Clews, the There is a third way to decide the important question of the age at which a man may be supposed to reach bis supreme mental efficiency. It is a ques- tion which touches nearly every man. sign himself to the conviction that he is intellectually | “ on the down-grade at the end of the first score and a half of the threescore and ten promised him by the psalmiet? It seams to me, if one Honently be- Qs in| birthday, Mr. | suspected of keeping a finger in many | ) 1) Must he rej Miles is consi ntly writing on mill- tary affairs, Ce thority in his bri while at three-score Fletcher is the navy “big gun.” EVEN THE HARVARD PRESIDENT | 18 NO “HAS- BEEN.” | Even if President Lowell dose think he reached his mental max- imum thirty yeare ago, he mana- || Chauncey Depew.. jes to be President of Harvard at | fty-nine, President Hi of Sasose2SasssEs' Vale is the aame age, and Prosi- | put han dent Schurman of Cornell ie two ate year younger than, ir. Years older. If there is one man of | S0niff, he is one of New Vork’s | por successful merchants, all ethers who ranks as the last or cucenmeral) Inaremarctr one word, the final authority in edu- | cational matters, it is Charles W. Eliot, President-Emeritus of Ha vard and eighty-one Within two yearn of bie « soventieth “Wizard” Editon con- tinues to invent new wizardries, and fully the most difficult engineering not even the total destruction of his, problem of our generation, Col. George hi of Panama lant by fire weakens his youthful (me Stir colebraterif ho’ has time ‘The dean of Atherican literature te for it—his @fty-seventh birthday next William Dean Howells, who at sev- enty-eight in still writing novels and essays, occupying an editorial chair and discovering new literary master: jeces. im irroug! who was, oes the same year, is still our lead. {18 her badd gt eee Another ing naturalist, that combination of Ronen ae ‘wea! Lan bain eal Mra. scientist and man of letters, a eat pereconily carte for be In the Mayor's chair of Philadel. |/nvestments and works at the bual phia sits Rudolph Blankenburg, with ese of philanthropy, although she is burden of seventy-two ® Q thon his shoulders and mind. ‘The | areca ea ee vera Rare latter, at least, would not seem to tie nt the age of el pave deteriorated, aiince,. MAYO" | Preatdent of the National nburg 1s aaaeveition of R. Biankenbure.@ Co, |Sverage Asspelation, the Rev. Ana | Howard Shaw, at sixty-eight, holds ractical philanthropist, member of | tf Ht elt ‘clubs a sotietion, xer | the most. important position within the and writer on political, booial and | Sif of monnn saa ae OARS the Cane religious subjects. ““Pherefore 1 suthmon age AT 85 HE'S STILL SAVING THE Se erenh 1008 9: MORSE” AMERICAN YOUNG. MAY BE TOO » Y To C BRATE 67TH’ BIRTHDAY. The man who has solved succeas- richest woman in the world, interested in nearly every large corporation and business enterprise here and abroad, snahenaes Robert Browning, and he ene certainty dispute; I phall know, being | —»=—_—_—_— KEEPER IS SENTENCED. tiary Guard Goes oa Prison y, appointment diseases of the gublect ‘his life work Former Pe Back Charles Marth, he ha fifth birt! has rating | rmerly a keeper In i neither his jate | the Penitentiary sent back there ital prarsien and hi | to-day to serve three months ax x pris | would not permit, him when he pleaded guilty In the| ' oner | Court of Special Sessions of taking nar- lecotics to prisoners, He was arrested Pe ny ee a aaah: | with other keepers who were trapped the eighty-first birthday vt ‘Chauncey ¥ Deputy Commiertoner of Corrections Depew, politician, Chairman of the | Burdette G. Lewis Board of Directors of the Vanderbilt! The Court was informed by « pro- railway lMnes, orator and consum- | bation officer that Marth was # veteran mately clever lawyer. Nor has Joseph | o¢ the Spanish-American War, having Choate closed up his law oMce At | served with the Seventy-frat Regiment signed as trustee of the Equitable | @t San Juan. and ti wife 1s now Life Asmurance Society, nor ts he re- |!» @ Brooklyn hospital 4 fusing to digplay bi pitt of LOY, | Surns Teeeees an in Geapite the tact that he was eighty: |: laine that. these ‘things were con three last January. A Sunes Our Ambassador to Italy, Thoma: dered in pausing xentence quish the title of “the Grand’ Old Man of American Medicine.” —»—— Nelson Pi sixty-two, and the | last of Mr. Page's numerous minh: | DR. RICHMOND'S TRIAL ON. Hons to Iiterature waa published after ker, phil SN oaiats dlneaike lpaneasien ia Clersyman Faces apuet Con ony. Is Charges Brought by Bi PHILADELPHIA, June 24.—After six months of delay and preparation the ec- ‘clesiastical trial of the Rev. George ‘Chalmers Richmond, officially but not rector of St. John's an here to-day. ite faced inobedlence of shop Rhine- ki at Nathan Str: in similar yore about ‘hie ones. Menand Women Who Didn’t Reach Mental Maximum at Age of 29 y. At fourscore, Mre. Hetty Green, the; jonly items CHARLES w. ARTHUR ‘ | wapey ‘ears. SRLSLSSLKSSS! Rev. Anna rc Shaw. tee AYS KINGSBURY DIDN'T PAY $174,763 FOR FOOD Comptroller Denies Excessive Ex- penditures Were Made to Sup- ply City’s Starving Poor, Comptroller Prendergast declared to-day the impression must not be permitted to prevail that Charities Commissioner Kingsbury's spending of $174,768 over the legal limit of his appropriation was for food aupplices. “Of the entire amount, I find the which cover emergency provision for man or beast amount to $16,368," he said. “Aboiit $71,000 is) for wearing apparel for inmates. The! remaining $88,400 is for botanical and | agricultural supplies, motor vehicle| supplies, household equipment, general | plant material and the like, I men- tion this to show that Commissioner | Kingsbury did not spend the money without authority only because he) wanted to feed and clothe starving people. "In addition to the Items already | given there is an obligation due the, State of approximately $50,000." yan ABOLISHES TWO OFFICES. dd Assistant Eu ve Maanlelpal Ballding. Supt. John C. Wolf of the Municipal | Building will resign Aug. 1, it was announced by Borough President Marks to-day. His salary is $3,500 9 year, The Rorou President wilt abolish’ the office, which he thinks ts wistant engineer un- nes, the Superintendent of Buildings, will also rewign Aug. 1. His iI also be abolished ax un- necessary. received $1,800 a year It ls understood Louis Kugelman will |have charge of the building. PRS AT ai CELEBRATE “WILSON DAY.” Portland, Pr Ore, Shows Regard for a Attitude tm Inter- PORTLAND, Ore, June 44.—Band concerts, patriotic addresses and e sa~ lute of twenty-one guns by the cruiser Boxton were features of the programme of “Wilson Day," celebrated here to- . violation of his ordination vows} Ceaduct unbecoming s clergyman. ent day by proclamation of the Mayor. The nearly city was gay with flags and levery one wore the national ¢ “Wilkon Di CN able the for the Pi interne! ee ADMITS —| HE SPANKED WIFE; ~—SANSSHE SHE DRANK = | She Sues for te Sonia but Fails to Get Temporary Alimony. - Spanked by her husband because, he ‘claimed, she smuggled whiskey into her apartment at No, 790 River- side Drive, Mrs, Mariella Berry Olin of Birmingham, Ala., refuses longer to live with her husband, Frank Olin, To-day she br Supreme Court for Mundy deed, i on ated Olin admitted to Justice Greenbaum that he had spanked his wife, assert- ing it was a husbandly privilege and corrective measure which could not be construed as cruelty. Mrs, Olin, however, considers it a high degree of cruelty, because her colored maid Witnessed the spanking. Since the war started Olin, who ts an importer relying upon Germany for his supplies, declares hia wife hae developed an ‘unquenchable thirat. When she ordered twenty-four quarts of whiskey and two bottles of ver- mouth, Olin thought that extravagant and objected. His ire was further aroused, he said, when his wife later smuggled two pints of whiskey into the house in her silk stockings, ‘Then came the spanking. Mrs, Olin declares drink was not the first cause of their trouble. Mra. Olin wanted children, she told the Court. Her husband didn’t. Innum- erable quarrels ensued, followed by separations and reconciliations. The husband told Justice Grean- baum he begged Mrs, Olin not to air her troubles in court ahd tried to get her to promise not to drink any more. When she refused he took steps to have her committed to a sanatorium but she refused to go. Justice Greenbaum refused to award temporary alimony, comment- ing that the affidavits filed by both parties did not warrant him in grant- ing the wife's petition, The separa- tion trial will come later. SLUEBEARD'SFST VITIN LEFT HN BY WL 10000 Doctor Who Once Testified She Died of Epileptic Fit Sure Now She Was Drowned. LONDON, June 24.—To prove that George Joseph Smith, England's “modern Bluebeard,” in, cold blood planned the murder of the first of the three wives he in alleged to have drowned in their bathtubs, the Crown this afternoon offered the testimony of Dr. A. J. French, a Herned physician, Dr. French said ‘that on July 12, 1912, Smith summoned him to attend to Beatrice Mundy, al- leging that she was suffering from a mt. “[ examined her,” said Dr. French, “but found her pulse and heart nor- mal and absolutely no symptoms of & fit, Her only complaint was a slight fleadache, “The following morning L was sum- moned again to the houre, I found |the young woman dead in a bathtub. The tub was three-fourths full of water, Her head was under the water and her legs extended out over the sides of the tub.” On cross-examination Dr, French admitted he had testified at the in- Guest that Beatrice Mundy died of an epileptic fit. “But that is not my opinion now, he added hastily, that the woman was drowned Before Dr, French testified So! Philip Annesley testified that on June 1912, he drafted the will of Beat- | rice Mundy, the first of Smith's wives, Special Sale 685 Boas 450 were $4.95, $3.45 Now.......-- 235 were $6.95 and $7.95, $4.9 Now.......++ Rich, fleecy, genuine London Feather Quality Boas, of the kind so stylish right now. All styles, all lengths, all colors, Two Days Only, Friday & Saturday Grin foirtherG ® ' “1 am convineed) clter | | She was found dead in her bathtub| Chicage in throw 150,000 men out of employment in this clty, Company, the largest in Chicago, an- peel et series ne ve Abnesiey sald he Fee hati tat ok fe cic | example, sald. 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