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\ 4 WAR ADOPTED BY ™ FINLEY J. SHEPARDS TOSHE WEA John Doe No. 104," Asytum’s Pet, Now Romps in Home of Luxury. TS UNKNOWN, HIS PAR Brightness and Beauty First At- tracted Mrs, Shepard, Who Was Miss Helen Gould, ‘The story of “John Doe No, 104,” and how in & day the litte chap of four sprang trom obscurity into be- tag the presumptive heir to « great fortune was being read from one end of the country to the other to-day, le the youngster, now Finley Jay Shepard ir, romped like any, other small boy over the lawns of Lyndburst, Mr. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard's great estate at Irving- ton-on- Hudson. The boy, of uncertain origin, and until now nameless, has been adopted by the Shepards, and in coming into their affections comes into line for the heritage of the Gould estate. Mrs. Shepard was Miss Helen Miller Gould, a philanthropist loved all over ‘the world. An attack of chicken pox was in- directly responsible for the former John Doe No. 104s romantic good fortune, and the social position that undoubtedly will be his if he lives. His bistory presents a strange con- trast to that of other boys who have disappeared and been vainly sought all over the world by distracted par- eats. Although John Doo No. 104 knew hig name and his home city, apparently, no amount of money and investigation has sufficed to reveal anything of his past. At midnight, Sept. 12, 1914, Police- man Edward Schmitt of the East Fifty-first Street Station, saw a@ bundle on the steps of the southern door of St. Patrick's Cathedral. From the bundle emerged a sleepy boy with flaxen hair, big blue eyes and Jong dark lashes. He was taken to the station house, then to the rooms of the Children’s Society, where he was given the name he had until yesterday—John Doe No, 104. He could talk with a lisp. He gave @ name believed to be his own that sounded like Austin McLeary. He prattled about Gwendolyn Mary, pos- sibly bis sister, and of green lawns, cows and chickens, brick houses, teams and automobiles, This left in doubt whether he was a city or a country boy, but he mentioned the numbers 68 and 684 Broad Street, which was accepted as proof he had lived or been in Philadelphia. First, ,he said @ man had left him on the Cathedral steps and told him to . wt for him, then that “a big boy" brought him on a train, a boat and &@ railroad in the air (the tlevated). The Children’s Society did all it could, but no one claimed little John Doe No. 104. Special stories were printed about him, accompanied by pictures, and finally it was decided John's parents purposely abandoned him. On Oct. 9 of last year Justioe Hoyt, in the Childrer Court, sent him to St. Christopher's Home, at Dobbs Ferry, where there were 300 or more other little boys and girls. It was there Mrs. Shepard found Bhim while on one of her charity trips. 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All lost or found articles ade Yertised in The World will be Usted at The World's Informas tion Bureau, Pulitzer Building Arcade, Park Row; World's Uptown Office, northwest core 88th St.’ and Hroadways Hariem Office, 156 West 125th St, and World's Brooklyn Office, 202 Washin ton &., Brookly BO da: following the p1 of the @dvertisement. " i Hecaue of her imordinsie greed tor guild, the madern busines girl bb a talluwe, a may be 2 man—Mis Marshall can't tell trom the letter, In her analyse, however, she points oul that lt bal se much @ greed tor gold THE BSVENING WORL a —— ading ic natural greed for something to cai and wear which wend) mod women inte the busines world "™ eee want ont Guerre” ed | Try | ~~ The Business Girl of To-Day Is in Business Because, She Has to Make a Living for Herself and for Dependent Near Ones, Says One of Them Who Ought to Know and Who Is Positive She Is a Success. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “The modern girl's greed for gold makes her a failure.” Yesterday we heard from a feminine conservative that the girl of to-day fails because she is moral joy rider. above of the universe. ‘been so honored, seems to me that ;MaRw@e.n gument. sends most women into the business two other correspondents whose letters are printed below. Place, {tative denial or a confirmation of her (hii of the Creator's designs for women. From the viewpoint of human logic, however, it To-day a reactionary (sex unknown) makes the dismal declaration which I have quoted, This writer, who signs herself (himself?) “Peg,” ts one of those fortunate individuals who feel that they have been taken into the confidence of the motive force Not venturing to assume that I have Tam unable to issue either an author. statement there are certain flaws in “Peg’s” ar- In the first place, it is not so much a greed! for gold as a rather natural greed for something to eat and wear which | world. This point is brought out by In the second woman does not necessarily unfit herself for motherhood by becom- ing a man-competing Individual. Work in an office is no severer physical drain than work in the kitchen. It is true that in certain trades condi- tions of employment for women have not been properly standardized. That is not the fault of women, however, and many intelligent ones are work- ing—as effectually as they can without the vote—to safeguard the health of their sisters in shop or factory. Queen Elizabeth, Joan of Arc, George Eliot and several others are generally admitted to have been successes, even though they were not mothers. Undoubtedly there are thousands of women not known to the world at large who in their email worlds have suc- ceeded in doing nobly efficient work, although they have never borne children. A mother may be —not necessarily. is—a tremen- dous success. But Must the girl ef to-day be clamped down te that one role? Unquestionably “Peg” thinks s0. Here is the letyer. What do you think of the point & view expressed? “Dear Madam: I have been follow- ee eT children, Helen Margaret, fourteen, and Dorothy, twelve, and they be- came very “1d o* John Doe. It was here chicken pox changed the trend of the wait's life. He be- came ill from it, and his visit was prolonged, Mrs. Shi 1h grown very fond of him before he was well enough to return to Dobbs Ferry, and after that he was taken to visit her at Irvington very often. Several days ago he went there permanently, and was given a nurse and a gov- erness. During the months that fol- lowed his illness in the Gould house here, it is understood the Shepards spent much money trying to find his parents. They hired lawy and d tectives, but what seemed on its face so easy proved impossible. Yesterday Strrogate W. A. Saw- yer of Westchester County, sitting in Yonkers, signed the order of adoption that gave John Doe No, 104 a name that any Httle boy might feel proud of, and made very happy his foster parents, who married in 19, Mr, Shepard was forty Gould forty-five, “We took him,” said Mrs, Shepard, ‘because he’s such @ lovable, teach- able boy, and because we bave such @ big place up at Lrvington it seemed to me every time I Jooked about it ax though children should be running over it all the time, And he’s such a dear ‘The main thing recalled by officers and nurses of the Children’s Society here avout John Doe No, 104 is that he was “the darlingest child we over Mrs. Shepard has long been known for her philanthropy and has been regarded almost as @ patron saint by the army and navy for her benefac- tions, which include several hand- some Y. M, C. A. buildings, notably the one near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Her career has been one al- most altogether of “doing for others.” She was the eldest daughter of the late Jay Gould, whose children were ene ing with much interest your articles cn ‘Is the modern girl a success or failure?’ To date, the replies to your query seem all to go astray from the mark, Before attempting to answer, it would to my mind be a good idea to find out what the Creator put woman in the world for, If she is carrying herself so as to fulfil suc- cessfully that mission she is a suc- ces: here to mother the next generation after bearing it In order to bear that future child she must be phys! cally Mt. Taking for granted that her real worldly mission is to leave a heritage behind her, can she be called @ success if by becoming a man-com- peting individual she slowly but sure- *movenn raevaTip x 5 ; modern girl only being anxious to ge away from the home duties out into he business world for the sake of rning a few dollars, because I do | up wit c To my mind she was placedf not delieve that any girl in the bi ness world is there for any other rea-| - than that she is compelled to be re. Tam @ business girl, but I am one because I am obliged to be one. The girl of yesterday was a girl for home duties, but, as far as I can see, her mind was so shallow that she was not! innocent, but stupid, and I cannot un. derstand how any one could possibly think that that is the proper way for @ girl to grow up. As I said be- fore, I am a business girl. By that J do not mean that my time ts all taken h business, for such is not the} I, like the majority of the modern girls, work dutifully through the day and devote my evenings to lieve in Miss Prim, ut the real Modern Girl is the girl that comes between the two, Tt nope Gs Gteep Pus Gow Mawes Hen A Pauvee D, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1915. Veg,” who may be ao woman oF FIVE CHILDREN INJURED BY AUTOS IN NOON HOUR Two Victims Are Seriously Hurt by Vehicles in Brook- lyn Streets. Five Brooklyn children were run jdown and hurt by motor vehicles dur- None is known to be fatally injured. Three of a serious ing the noon hour to-day. cases are, nature, however, 2% Navy Street, struck by a United States Mall auto- mobile, He was taken to the Holy Family Hospital & bruised back Margaret Yungflish, seven years old, of No. 220 Oakland Street, Greenpoint, was knocked down by a motor car .owned and driven by Fred Hyland- berg of No, @09 Monitor Street. right leg was fractured. Her and | know for a positive fact that the young men of to-day are more than satisfied with this girl. She is sweet, jolly, sensible and not a numskull. am quite sure there are a number of girls of t day who will agree with me that the modern girl is a success. “THE MODERN GIRL.” “Dear Madam: The girl of to-day is a failure in each step of her life, or at least the majority of girls are. Many girls (working girls) do not ly unfits herself for her real debt to her Creator and the world? Being a success in business dges not mark her as @ successful womd&, neither does being prominent socially constitute success for her, any more than writing poetry for the pleasure he found in it while his wife and family starved would constitute a successful man, “We at so many scrawny, formed babi fail to consider the reason for them, the fact that they are the otfepring of women who “have sapped lif strength from their bodies by endeavoring to attain a success which to them is failu: failure to perform their mission. Briefly, the mode girls greed for gold makes hi failure, “PEG,’ “Dear Madam: May 1 offer a word to show that Mr, Sherrill is mis- informed or mistaken in speaking of the modern girl? He calls her ‘the up-to-date, office-going, man-com- peting, one who is willing to give up her home privileges for the sake of a few dollars she gets in business,’ “May | inform Mr. Sherrill that the majority of the girls in bus- a here for a purely eco- that the girl wh ry 5 4 are ents or Mr, Sherrill know th conditions are not of old, when the girl could stay at heme 4 the Sanne sould ue. po! jis family without the he! of his children? e “My opinion of the modern girl is that she is a success as far as busi- ness is concerned. he was forced there and Is making a success, “Others write boasting of being ‘plain, From observation you will notice that some people are always going to extremes, “That ‘the girl with the paint and owder factory on her face gets the job,’ as ‘M. F.’ says, is true in few case! Such girls may get the job where men are weaklings and are attracted by powder and paint, But most employers seek the girl who appears busine: ike and not over- Greased, "ED. Hh ear Madam: These articles about ‘The Modern Girl’ have rested me, and I wish to say a few George, Edwin, Howard, Frank, Helen and Anna. Her share of her father estate was $10,000,000, and It was fig- ured by experts that by 1912 this had | been doubled by careful investments, things from her standpoint, “I for one do not believe that the modern girl failure, If anything, I think she ts a success. I do not agree with Mr, Sherrill about the know how to cook meal or clean the house, but they all know how to put on powder, “I am a coal miner, the she Judging irl of to-day, as | see her, js painted and dance mad The old-fash bet “Monogah, W. Va.” “Dear Madam: One need go no further into the situation than to ob serve that the present day New Yorker requires an altogether up-to- the-minute girl, He is regardless of what make-up she resorts to, just so long as she matches up to the re- quirements of the twentleth-century- coined phfase, ‘She's some chicken,’ for in the days of gadding, he tells ‘The others take life too seri- “Men do stop occasionally to commend thi i] 8 Unartificia that they simp mi keeping house and They do not yoush need: Spons only, while the sl the enjoyment of life wit! the other type. 8. M. P.” “Dear Madam: I have read your article on the painted girl in The Eve- ning Werld, I believe in the home girl, and [ am, I think, capable of judging, as | am a professional girl. have travelled since | was sixteen, and am now twenty-three, “My work ealle for powder and paint. But | can assure you that is over off ny- t home girl ‘am exceedingly proud. “It 1s all due to a dear old lady whom I travelled with when I first had to fake care of myself. Dear home gril, I adore you, and I hope some day I will have a little home in the country for myself, “MYRTLE.” —a Drowned on July 6, Identified To-day. The body of a man found in the bay off Stapleton on July 6 last, was iden- titled to-day by means of a photo- graph as that of William Anderson, Palmer Miller, six years old, of No, 451 Prospect Place, was run down by William Barthmann’s car at Sterling and Vanderbilt Avenues, He is in the Jewish Hospital with fractured ribs, Edward Fitzsimmons, twelve years old, of No, 36 Troutman Street, was skating near Evergreen Avenue and was run over by Motorcyclist Reuben Ovcarrs of No. 68 McKibbon Btreet. He was sent home with scalp wounds and @ cut shoulder, John Selton, nine years old, of No. 341 Hamburg Avenue, crossing at Grove Street, was struck by the car of Julius Scheick of No, 336 Hart Street, He sustained scalp wounds and bruised bac! ‘Tre Arnowski, of No. Greenpoint, was run over by a Rup- pert brewery motor truck, driven by Abraham years old, sixty-seven 6 Oakland Street, Henry Blehl, ax he was crossing Driggs Avenue at 1 P.M. to-day. His skull and both legs were fractured. ‘© JOHN DOE NO. 104,” CHURCH-DOOR WAIF, ADOPTED BY SHEPARDS. eee rer ns ee PSS SHES e thirty-nine, formerly employed as a ardener on the estate of George jould at Lakewood, N. J. Anderson disappeared nine months ago. ‘ ne Leopold Sabatino, nine years old, of No. ‘was crossing Tillary, at Bridge Street, when he was with broken ribs — Mrs. Brice Denies She Wrote Letter About Her Neigh- bor's Baby, -_--_——— ASSAULT STORY TOLD. Condition of Delia Cronin After Experience With Mrs | Revell Called Pitiful. | More about the allewed assault on Delia Cronin, an aged nurse, by ber lemployer, Mrs. Marion Revell, wife of | Fleming @. Kevell jr, of No, 260 | West One Hundred and Fourth Street |@ame out to-day in Justion Deven- dors part of the Supreme Court, where the nurse ie suing Mra, Revell | for $6,000 damages. The nurse was taken into Mrs, | Catherine M. Hrice’s apartment, ad- Joining, after the alleged aasauit, where she swooned and became hys- | terleal and cried for help. There was a bint to-day of bard feeling between the Revelis and the Brices, Mrs. Brice, called as a witness to- day, after describing the nurse's con- dition, was asked if the crying of the | Revell baby had not caused her much discomfort “The baby cried very much and of course was annoying,” Mrs, Brice ex- plained. . “Did you complain to the superin- tendent of the apartment house about the baby?” asked Attorney J. 4, Moyer, counse! for Mre, Revell, “I did, yes, air,” replied Mrs, Brice snappily as sho adjusted her lorg- notte “Did you write an anonymous let- ter to the management of the apart- ment complaining of the baby?" was asked. “No, sir; the idea! I do not do that sort of thing,” replied Mrs. Brice, much perturbed. Mr. Meyers handed a letter to Mrs. Brice and she read it carefully, “Do you recognise the handwriting in that?” asked the lavyer. “I do not recognise it—never saw it before,” the witnes replied. “Now, then, Mrs, Brice, there bas been a good deal of unpleasantness between you and the Revells?” asked the lawyer. “Oh, no; not at all,” was her reply Did you not have some words in an elevator with Mrs. Revell “No indeed, not at all, I am very sure,” the witness said. Mrs, Ellen Brice, who was attired in one of the extreme short-skirted walking suite of the season, de- cribed Miss Cronin’s plight on the day of the alleged attack “as some- thing pitiful.” Two witnesses for Miss Cronin, who proceded the Brices were Frank Wearing, hall boy in the apartment house, and Julia Bridgeford, colored maid to Mrs. Catherine Brice, Julia ave @ graphic account of what hap- pened in the Revell household on the day of tho alleged assault. “I was making chocolate sauce in my mistress’s kitchen when I heard awful screams somewhere in the ad- joining apartment, I looked through the window and saw Miss Cronin fall to the floor and some ome standin over her began to strike her wit! some black object. Then I heard more shrieks of ‘murder, murder, help, help! She'll kill me. Get me away from her. “Mrs, Brice came running into the kitchen crying, ‘Julla, Julia, wha the matter? 1 looked out the win- dow again and I saw Miss Cronin, and she was ‘hisksterical, Wearing, the hallboy, testified that he and another hallboy carried the limp form of the aged nurse into the Brice apartment and that after had been laid on a couch screamed for half an hour. —_— WIRELESS TELEPHONE TO GIRDLE GLOBE. she WASHINGTON, Oct, 22.—To girdle the globe by wireless telephone is the next ambitious plan in experiments at Arlington, following the first wire- lesa telephone talk with Paris, an- nounced yesterday, Apparatus at the big Arlington station was to-day be- ing tuned up for a talk with Tokio, Telephone talks with the Orient without a relay at Honolulu were de- clared to-day to be practically cer- tain, The distance of about 11,000 miles, it is believed, can be bridged eventually, although it ts expected to meet considerable difficulty and re- quire machinery adjustments taking considerable time, ‘The telephone company's experts at Arlington expect, preliminary to the experiments with Japan and Chini to attempt conversation from Arling- ton to Alaska, The Cordova station will be the receiving end Telephone experts conducting the WOMAN SUBD BY NURSE | WHO WANTS thee | POR ALLBORD BEATING. DIRECTORS IN PROBE OF SUBWAY CAVE Head of Contracting Company Says Engineers Devised Sev- enth Avenue Shoring. The presence of the twelve direo- tors of the United States Realty and Construction Company, contractors for that section of the Heventh Ave- nue subway, which collapsed at Twenty-fourth Street on Sept. 22, resulting in the death of eight per- sons, was ordered to-day by Coroner Feinberg, who ts holding an inquest into the causes of the disaster, While they were not subpoenaed to appear, the Cgroner #ent them a a that they present them jon as to their knowledge of th point of collaps The president of the company, W. 8. Kinnear, responded at once to- forenoon session of the inqu The directors of the company are H. 8. Black, Chairmai Oetmmiag, Prank A. rangertie. B. M. Fellows, klin Murphy, John IF, Harris, R, G, Babbage, Frederick W. Upham, Charles E. Hermann, Harry Bronner, William C. Poillon, William A. Merriman and P. A. Valentine. President Kinnear was a witness this afternoon, Heh had been President of the into. which tw the building of th involving a matter of $40,000,000 for construction. Q. ( By the Coroner).—-Did you de- sign the type of shoring in use in the Seventh Avenue work? AI did Seventh Avenue work? A. I did not; it was designed by our corps of en- gineors. Q., (By Judge Parker).—-What part have you taken in this construction work? A. I gave the benefit of my advice and experience, I've been on the work about once a weel Q. Have you not impressed upon your employees the necessity for ex- treme care? A. Safety first has been our slogan. R. G. Baggage said he never vis dted the work and Paul Starrett said he visited the construction work once, —=_ FRIEND OF ROFRANO INDICTED FOR PERJURY Names Kept Secret as Detectives Search for New Man Accused, A man very close to Michael Ro- frano, the fugitive former Deputy ‘Commissioner of Street Cleaning who Is under indictment for procuring the murder of Mike Giamart, Foley leu- tenant in the Second Assembly Dis- trict, was to-day indicted on a charge of subornation of perjury by the April Grand Jury. The indictment was re- turned just before the jury was final- City discharged and a bench warrant was immediately isdued for the man, ‘The indictment followed the testi- mony of Thomas Pocaro, who was indicted some time ago on @ charge of perjury. It is alleged that the man who has been indicted paid to Pocaro and others money which was to be handed to certain witnesses at the trial of Rocco Carnivale, alias Rox Cornell, who was found guilty of murder in the second degree in having planned the murder of Gia- mari, who was shot by Gaetano Mon- timagno. oxnimniniiiramemas $200,000 RANSOM OFFERED, WINNIPEG, Man, Oct. 22.—Str John C. Eaton of Winnipeg, owner of a de- partment store in this city, has offered $200,000 to the German Government if that Government will release Dr. Be- land, member of the House of Commons for Beauce, Quebec. Dr. Beland wi honeymoon, Just fore He offered his service: Government. in Belgium on his war brok to the Be! For recelving experiments at Paris prob- ably will be sent to other Huropean wireless stations for further trials there to ascertain the static condi- tions. ——_—— Asquith Is Better; Goes to the Co iF. LONDON, Oct. 22.—Prime Minister Asquith has recovered from hie re- country. 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