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THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, $15,000 R REWARD) + Average American Not Physically Fit And Preliminary Campaiga in Individual Hygiene Is Essential FOR BREAKING WILL OF FORMER CHUM Talbot J for Helping Grandson Get Wallace Laylor Gets Amount bortune HE LOsT MANY FRIENDS Almost Ostr in Clubs When He Enter Men ed the Contest, j acied = by Por his succeastul efforts ine the w ) n Walle cen of Commodore Corne Dit ond « me or of Wall Mtreet, Tal bot J. Taylor broker now ne to-day warded $16.000 out of the tate Allen Wallace by Back of the form int order lies | are kable story of how Taylor acting in the interests of Mr Allen Wallace and her six-year-old daugh ter, Annic Marie Wallace, was ontra eixed from the most exclusive clubs | and inde powerful enemies of life long friends in Wall Btreet because he dared attuck hn Wall es owill on the ground that he was of un sound mind and prejudiced axainet | hie only son led Allen, sgatnat bis parent's wishes. becaune he had committee ino son and esta clared incompetent. year ago in Italy. Wallace The elder Wallace left an estate Valued at more than $2,500,000. In his will he left $760,000 to his son, but ed that no part of his prop- ko to Mew, Wal survived her husband HOW TAYLOR INCURRED EN- MITY OF FRIENDS. It was the story of this will fight that led Justice Shearn to grant the | unusually large allowance. It was first unfolded before Referee John Quinn and Justice She.rn read it yesterday in a voluminous record ‘The Court confirmed Mr. Quinn’ finding that Taylor incurred the en- mity .of business associates and friends because of the litigation. “For twenty-three years,” Tayler testified, “John Wallace and I were the closest friends. We @aw each other every day. We lunched to- gether, I knew him as a strong- willed many, one of the strongest on Wall Street. I knew him to be a man of strong prejudices, and when the terms of his will were disclosed I felt that he had made an unjust | will, “I talked with Mrs. Wallace many times about the fill and finally had @ conference with George Gordon Battle and decided to take steps to | break the will, Before the papers were filed I went to see Michael Bou- vier, a big man on Wall Street and | our mutual friend, also an executor of John Wallace's will. He was sur- Prised and angry when he learned ot the contemplated action. He advised me against it, but I told him that no man knew better than I did the vio- Jent dislikes and prejudices of John Wallace. That not only ended our business relations but our friendship. verywhere I went on the Ex- change friends asked me what on earth | was trying to prove John Wallace a lunatic for I had to de- ace If she fend myself even in the clubs, One day I went into the Racquet Club and Dan Worden wanted to know what 1 was to get out of the thing. It was that way in the Union Club and for a long time I could not go into the clubs, But all the time I was away from the clubs I was busy in the lawyer's office going on with the fight, We won after many protracted hearings.” Whether the enmities still exiat Taylor did not say, He explained, however, that for many y: been living in Parks. MRS. WALLACE PAID EXPENSES OF CONTEST. ars he has Mrs, Wallace testified that but for the literve n of Taylor the contest would not have sieceeded, Out of her own poc' she declared, she maintained herself and daughter for Ml years and advanced the funds n the fight until her own uot had almost vantshed. bank When itiation was finally ended the major portion of the estate was| placed in trust for the benefit of the six-year-old daughter, Referee Quinn recommended an al- | lowan. f $22,500 to Taylor, but the} Court held that since $60,000 in coun- sel feos had been allowed from the} estate it did not fecl justified tn awarding the full amount recom. mended re referee Ithough Tay- od the situ on “with great) nl skill and achieved a nfant." ees BURIED BY SUBWAY SLIDE. Workman Dead When Rerene wh exe oavator constrac- ton w Avenue and Bergen M viek! of No. 218 North Seventh that borough, was caught under several Miding earth men worked frantically to rescue hen Lies found) him. after 1 was dead, Dr, of No. Wleventh St been badiy Injured by. th vaicu fell on him and died al- uy, are "physically deteriorating. sionate pacifist should object to such &@ programme I thought I'd ask Mr, Rittenhouse to tell more about it, L went to the offices of the Lite Ex- tension Institute, Ofth Street, where @ large and lively public health cam- paign has been conducted, all," fully, “that 1 view this question of physical preparedness optimistically rather than pessimistically, come from a meeting of the American Public know are waking up to the fact that they| Mr, can live longer and be stronger. still check our present ten detorioration through the marked tn- crease of diseases of Lhe heart, arter- jes and kidneys. this increase tion, and attribute in the number of deaths from com munity must die some control of community practically twenty yeurs, eons should not yet bh where they must di from organic diseases, backed up by the most ca tics, that at least thirty per cent, of the adults in this country are in some stage of one of these diseases.” STRONG PEOPLE OF THE SOIL NOW WEAK PEOPLE OF CITIES. we done? —— te fy uy og OF PEPENCE Seon Bt Te ROAGW TATE THe NATION PHYSAULY | Love of Ease and Luxury Made Possible by the Labor-Saving Devices of Modern Invention Has Resulted in Deterioration of the Race, Says the President of th> Life Extension Institute. By Marguerite Mooare Marshall. Is the average American physically fit to defend his country? If not, why nor How can he make himself fit? Those are the questions added to catechism of preparedness by Elmer BE. President of the Lite defense,” Mr. new Extension Institute. Rittenhouse wrote recontly, few months. nation. in the hands of low efficiency men? “If the American people are to Mr. Rittenhouse shifted prepare properly for national di chair and grinned a bit sheepishly. fense they must give conside “I suppose it's perfectly natural tion to the great national prob4 |for man to be lazy,” he said. lem of individual hygiene, which | pose laziness bégan with Adam, But means the rational care of the modern improvements in material body and its organs. Why should nfort are a constant temptation not the campaign for national de- | to lidolence, and a temptation, I'm fense include a procramme for teaching people how to live healthful lives—how to build up and maintain # high standard of physical fitness?” Not seeing why even the most pas- thing but fron resistance. “You iknow that chair in sight, lamppost car to carry him two blocks? So|bim around as I do to-day. “Aa a people we are devoted to athletice—vooally and vicarious- ly. We'll flock to a baseball or a football gamp and shout our heads off. But athletics for the many mostly consists of noi No. 26 West Forty- for many month ALL HOPE NOT GONE: AMERI-| J inought of what Maximilien CANS ARE WAKING UP, Harden has admitted—that the indi- “1 want to make it clear, firat of| vidual Englishman is the physical Mr. Rittenhouse began cheer-| superior of the individual German, because of the participation in outdoor sports. TOO MUCH RICH FOOD; ENOUGH APPETITE. I've Just Health Association, and 1 that all over America peoplé!ty in the last fifty years,” Rittenhouse, “The per That| consumption of butter, su; there done to sing, even though much to be eney encours remains mously, Yet my father friends had healthier app digestions than the bank business men at the club where Oo to lunch, "You take doing and toward those who deny that is a sign Of deteriora- it to the decrease “There a horse regular work are that rich grass where he few months winded and out of condition, round a man with the same tions, speaking figuratively se his physical fitness, ‘There are thousands of Ameri- cans who could not pass army's physical tests. Of ti young men who volunteer, | b lieve the number accept. ages only two out of fi since everybody | do. In a However, our dieseases has 1 obtained in the last and most of the pe es we have ve reached an age | diseases, time, saved whose 1 in large numbets It is a fet, reful statis- And fights won't be decided by the young t Civil War, The come to the men of forty, to the men of almost every a year Uncle Sam spends ndeof dollars inspecting his “But why? 1 asked, “What have| forts and his ships. But the first pi Hine of defense is inen. Why nat have an annual inspection of their physical preparedness?” “We have failed to adapt our- Ives to changed conditions. “And you think in that fone people of Ahelecil wehave. [228 physical efficiency of Americuns would be improved asked. become a people of cities. For a would be improved,” “Of course it 1 earnestly. “In cler wener the is, kidney tro! life of physical activity we have substituted a life of physical in- and other ¢ activity. Even on the farm the | Quins ly can bo checked, if not ¢ man who once walked in the fur- | tirely vided they are taken row behind the plough now sits | in time But when they are merely on a spring seat. In shops and factories machinery has decreased qreatly the muscular activity of the workers. In offices there is mental labor and mental exha tion, but mhyaical inartia,” it stly, well quitable Life Assurance pany we found 40 per cent ganic disease. And at Oeph of shawn the Rittenhouse, ational has been publicly discussed from many angles during the last There is, however, one important factor which appears to have been overlooked. That is the physical fitness of the men who are to defend the Of what value ts a high efficiency war machine “Vital statistics Indicate that as a body Americans If the present indicated trend of physical decline in the power of the American people to resist the wear and t modern life continues, the time will come when we will have to depend upon a weak, soft-muscled, flimsy-fibred people for the defense of the Republic and the perpetuity of the race. | r of | in his “I sup- bound to say, which meets with any- man who will never stand if there's a comfortable who leans against a while he's wating for a seems to me I never saw so many of . | former's personal NOT “Our eating has changed material- continued capita ar and other rich foods has increased enor- his ites and and has been every day and turn him out in @ pasture filled with has nothing to he will be Sur- condi - and he, way first tive diseases fre- ¢ sufferer often thinks he When I was with com- of the persons who wished to take out poll- cles affilcted with some form of or- least 80 per berecus hud oo ides To Answer Call for National Defense eLmen & RITTENHOUSE ow th Smee’ Werth OWT Al Supeon T that anything was the matter with them, “FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE.” “Annual medical inspection, combined with a campaign for personal hygiene, is what we need to strengthen our ‘first line of de- the importance of it. “Almost every man can walk way or part of the way to his work. Almost every community can form @ hiking club for Saturday afternoons necessary to and Sundays. It isn’t play golf or to own an automobile in order to get outdoor life. It isn't necessary to be a food faddist in order to eat more frugally and sanely. “Only by such efforts can wo de- velop a nation of Am enough to fight the countr in peace and war. This mortality from d ratt is not to be found in of Europe, but is a i condition, ‘It must be over future {8 not to find us phys ns strong American | ‘ally un- prepared to hold our place in the | business sey world.” ‘INE UP HERE,’ WRITES SING SING PRISONER, to Elmira Prisoner, Who Violates His Parole. Walter Gardner of No. 129 West hth Street, who was only three ks out of El. ira Reforma- tory, was arrested tryl., to pawn a woman's gold ch enth Ave- nue pawnshop en ¢ Detec- tive Kilgannon has f find an owner for the cha but Magistrate Appleton in the V Court to- day remanded the prisoner to the custody of the Elmira Parole Board A letter found on Gardner was from Joe Kopp, who 1s serving a three-year term for highway robbery in Sing Sing He first warns bis friend not to violate his parole and to be sure and walk th “straight and “arrow'! and keep out of trouble, “But, hey Walt, why worry, This isn’t half bad up here,” the letter goes on, “It's pretty fine up here and I've just heard from the Attorney General that T won'l have lu seve more han half of my time if I'm good. You can't be anything else but good up hers You don’t feel ke being bad. It's a regular club have baseball every day. We have two hours swimming every day between 4 and 6 o'clock, We can talk and yell all we want, We can talk in the shop. We have movies every night during the winter and on Saturday and Sunday during the hot weather. We can write all the letters we want can send me, We cap bay things cheaper here than you or deople tha! 450.not Wore ip Jad,” Casi STAND Oven EATS Richy FREDIGESTED FooD STRENGTHENING THE NATION'S one first held in the United States opened here Congressional Suffrage. More than 8,000 delegates are ‘s battles | in attendance. increasing disease | tt nations |@8 General Chairman of the conven me if the | juncheon politically. TP'SAREGULAR CLUB” Tells of Good Times in Letter | Congress, ‘ (aon I don't know anything yon | fiund Inst night cowering on top of ot poe kitchen. He “e TAKES elevaron ve ONE Fuga FIRST CONVENTION OF WOMEN VOTERS HAS 3,000 DELEGATES Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Warns Members Not to Affiliate With Men in Politics. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14—The women voters’ convention ever under to-day the auspices of the Union for Woman Mrs, O. H. P. Belmont of New York, tion, welcomed the delegates at a which preceded the first Mrs, Belmont said: “The woman voters of the twelve enfranchised States of our United States are here to form a body politte. It is the first time in the history of the world that women have moved What does It signify? “The union_of this sisterhood of woman voters terthe power politically of the near future. Let us plead with you to form no alliance with any ex isting man's political party, For twenty centuries, remember, you have been led to belleve your work was to patch up the evils germinated by man's so-called civilization, It ts time for us women to have a ctviliza- tion of our own. Lot us creato a new code of honor, a different standard of ' morals." Discussing Miss Alice National the convention to-day, Paul, Chairman of the Congressional Union, of Washington, D. C., aaid ‘his convention, representing 4, 000,000 enfranchixed women, marks, we bell the beginning of the end in the long suffrage struggle. One- fourth of our National Senate, one- sixth of the National House of Repre- , one-fifth of the vote for comes from States where voters. With this leverage sry reason for us to believe tional suffra amendment ed by th Sixty-fourth Tho convention has been called to devine ways by which the women yoters may use their voting ongth to Win suffrage for all other women,” coin BANDITS RELEASE AMERICAN Ledwidge Was Hela By ns for $10,000 Ransom, Ndward Mext ML PASO, Tex., Sept. 14.—Rdward Ledwidge, an American and an official of the Mexican Northwestern Railroad, who has been held for $10,000 ransom by Mexteon bandits operatiay n Cumbre tunnel in b w leaned early to-day, acc n reaching here. sing the ts Prison AUBURN, N, ¥,, waki, the convie riously from kitchen pt. 14,—Michael who disappeared hix place in the Saturday night, w of the great refrigerators in the rear nad been there forty- ght hours without food. Warden Rat- Daye ble Bea Wnubeed Bs | HALF OF OR BUTTER WENN MAY BE ONLY WATER Steals $300 and Flees Captured Later by the profits has long been a night at ber boording house, N lay browebt + said ber houre ave him @ mattre The process, according to Assistant the room of John Tulskt and stole $900 out of « trunk Tueki bad told by ings a few days wee leaving Mre The sound awoke ee-weoks-old baby at ber side and he began to cry As the woman tried to get out of wviteh clapped his hand over Pure butter ts #ub- im about bis sav . heated to the same degree ar As Tinoviten the butter is mixed with it mintare is then colored, fromen and s pure butter An @ matter « juriously adulterated putter, been increased | by the addition , it te not tm. | from #9 to 60 per cent / & rasor and fn the houne were The woman's ad is away working on a ff pores he is buying ali wae lowt io th is pore and | onl cotrio® galarette ts ned enough coura, m they found the w dead and the baby lying unde half suffocated. |e few minutes later and, posing blood Koren spoke to him. Tine- for violation of the law Twelve men, manufacturing, watered butter, were arraigned before per Meclolérick to- to aay pad 0 by on brought a motor patrol wagon to the They found Tinovitoh hiding He did not struggle. ‘The | $300 was found in his pocket. to make any , and Judge Thomas I. Coa. Mra. Tulski was , held the prisoner without bail reo of murder. BELL-ANS | Fale pein Removes ndigestion. Onepackage " Soot all druggiate tion on Rept ‘The arrests were made in Brooklyn, Covey Island and Rockaway and marked the beginning rusade which is drive all excess water out of all but- ter sold on Long Island tello, learhing that £2 CIGARETTES Extra Fine Have Stood the Test of Time and Flavor —They are the same in Quality today as they were over twenty years ago. —They are more popular today than they have ever been —and yet NATURALS HAVE NEVER HAD THEIR SALES OR THEIR POPULARITY BOOSTED BY ARTIFICIAL SALESMANSHIP Perfect in —Naturals are Superior in Flavor, Manufacture, Unequalled as a Means of Providing REAL SATISFACTION! MADE FROM ABSOLUTELY PURE IMPORTED TURKISH TOBACCO. ‘A posse In pur- ° ws =—Jener—=—=0r0