The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1915, Page 3

' _planatory of the higher cost . maintenance. PAY LAW IN FIG 10 STOP REPEAL Grace C. Strachan Defends Salaries Paid Women Teach- ers at Brown Inquiry. LABORERS GET MORE. Minimum Wage of Unskilled Workers $840; That of Nor- mal Trained Teachers $720, Making a spirited defense of equal pay for equal work fr men and women, Miss Grace C. Strachan, District Superintendent of Schools and “mother” of the teachers’ equal pay law, gave feminine human Inter- est to the seasion of the State Legis- lative Committee, of which Senator Bion R. Brown of Watertown, major- ity leader of the State Senate, ts Chairman. The committee is investi- gating city finances, « Thomas W. Churchill, President of the Board of Education, had given the committee, earlier in the day, figures to show the marked growth of the public schoo! system as ex- of Its He showed the ex- pansion of the system in relation to the education of the blind, the crip- #enemic children in the schools. The Chairman then asked President Churchill whether he believed there was sufficient check upea the powers of the Board in the matter of dis- missing Janitors in the public schools. five members of the board to dismiss « janitor and only twenty-four to dismiss a teacher. But iUs pretty hard to get twenty-four men with blood in their veins to dismiss any teacher.” MISS STRACHAN DEFENDS THE EQUAL PAY LAW. Miss Grace C. Strachan was next w Wet before th mittee. ! prefatori the sal shad been fixed since 1898. 1-pay bill,” she sal In 1906 to do away sex distinction, Men had been pald yore than women for the sane work, When the bill Senate, Senator Fuller of Brooklyn wus the only one voting against it. Although the bill was passed by the assembly, Mayor McClellan vetoed f Tt'was passed again by the Leg- felature and Goy, Hughe To refresh her memory Miss referred constantly to her al bay for equal work,” a y ch she presented to each the Committeemen. Once she re- to a speech by Comptroller of ferred Prendergast reprinted in the book. “Yes, and you'll tind my graph embalmed in the volu the Comptroller—page 366. nD! e.” said At m ation of Comptroller Prend- ergast’s picture, Senutor Brown ered, “Walt a minute! Wait a omin- WHEN YOU REMEMBER THE CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS Do not forget to give them protection for their health. Remember that Father John's Medicine is safe for them to take ‘or their colds, because it is pure and wholesome; free from alcohol or dan- ‘erous drugs, Not « patent medicine out hysician's prescription. Father éohn' + Medicine is best for colds, throat and lung troubles and as a tonic and vody builder. Read these MOTHERS’ LETTERS My little baby, Melvin, was thin and ale until 1 gave him Father John’ Medicine, which built him up and made g." (S Ernest Thiel, Stillwater, Mion. “My children have taken Father John's Medicine during an attack of Whooping cough and afterwards when they were pale and run down, The medicine restored their nealth and I am leased to endorse its val (Signed) Mrs, Delvida Fortin, 26 Oak St. Bronswick, Me Father Joln's Medicine iva safe medi- ne for clildren wi e ran down because it does not con- (wip alcohol or dangerous drugs, pled, the deaf, the tubercular and the | w “Well, it requires a vote of thirty-| ne up in the State | vetoed it."1} | Contrary to tho popular belief of many mammas and papas, Santa Claus has gone to the great world war for many of his inspirations for the making of Xmas toys, The big stores where Santa has his headquarters aro full of the won- ders of his workshop. Little Bobby may have real forts made of stone, with real steel guns for their defenses, soldiers to guard them and an aero- plane for scouting. His little play- mate may have armored autos of the French, German or English type, fully equipped; also “caterpillar” siege guns, long range guns and machine suns, What a good time he will have playing war. He can bombard the forts and with the machine guns topple the soldier men all over. Little sister Bessie has a full Red Cross field hospital equipment This comprises a tent, inside of which are cots, chairs and a table; outside @tands an ambulance, with stretchers and bandages, and as the soldier heroes fall on the play fleld of battle she gathers them up on the stretoner, helped by her big Red Cross doll. They are put in the ambulance and MOTHER OF EQUAL |Bing! Bang! Boom! Santa Claus Is Coming With War Munitions! _THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1915. {shoot the torpedoes marines and ships, and when th spot the batt to the botton | put together again and then shot at LICENSE MAJORITY BIGGER. - Bat Good Government Candidates Win in Boat BOSTON, Dec. 15.—Candidates of Good Government Association wort all the four Clty Council seata voted for tim yerterday’s election. 1 alvocates won by 46, te DRINK WATER TO. | AVOID SICKNESS SAYS AUTHORTY lass of hot water before breakfast daily keeps the doctor away. * Sanitary science has of late rapid strides with results that Pop untold blessing to humanity. The - from the sub- f American navy. He swells with pride tt for he will have his battleship fin- ished months before Uncie Sam's workmen can finish theirs. It bas been designed for “simplified con- struction.” Every gun is in its place try t a ip Xr and sinks only to be raised and some more. and can be swung. So can the gun|latest application of its untiring re hurried back to the field hospital: Rut tha real American Robby fs the| turrets, ‘There is a wireless eqttp- | search iA the recommendation “that where she tenderly ties bandages on one who Is bullding battleships for] ment to swing between the masts, /it is as necessary to attend to inter- make-believe wounds Uncle Sam's preparedness, He can}and even a tender in ite place on the | nal sanitation the draii syatem Other little Bobbies are filling tubs | Plt torether wn exact reproduction of | deck of tne human body as it is to the to float the Aa 7 isinariies ' electrically propelled attleship All the toya are painted gray, the drains of the house. loat their warships, su California, the Jargest and newest | real war gray. They can be bad for and torpado boats, It ute! I must find that!” He took a long look at the likeness and then let the work of the committee proceed. DENIES WOMEN TEACHERS GET EXCESSIVE SALARIES. Misa Strac’ detended her posi- tion against the attack of City Su- |perintendent of Schools Maxwell, who had said that the female high school teachers at $2,650 were over- paid. and receiving more than they jd “anywhere else.” She said: “Just let any one go into any of the big department stores and women will be found there receiving as much as $10,000 a year—and they were not required to produce a normal echool diploma.” In the Department of Finance the average of pay is muoh bigher than | in the Board of Edvpation. According missioner of Ac- ‘to the report of © |counts to the Constittional Conven- tion, the average pay in the Finance Department {s $1,503; in the Depart- ment of Education it ia $1,826. MINIMUM WAGE OF TEACHERS LESS THAN THAT OF LABORERS, When the subject of the minimum Salury of teachers Was iaken up Mise ‘achan stated it to be $720. “The minimum wage for laborers,” she added, “has been set at $840." “That was based on families of five,” said the Comptroller, “Yes, but it's not the city’s busines how much family a lal Miss Srachan interposed y's business how many I have family.” Strachan further said that if the wage was based on those to be supported, the number dependent on rers should be ascertained by in- | vestigation “It should be found out how many children they have, three, four or five,” “Or none,” added Senator Brown, “Yes; like Mayor Mitchel,” respond- ed Miss Strachan Sheriff-elect Smith, one of the com- mittee, then came into the discus- elon. ‘I'd Uke to call the attention of the Comptroller,” he said, “to the fact that after the $840 minimum had been esiublished by the Bureau of Stand- rds for unskilled labor, the Dock Department proceeded to lay men off, end on Jan, 1 150 laborers are to Ko out. The duty of cleaning the do was turned over to the Street Cloai ing Department, #o the dock laborers had to be released. They were not taken into the Street Clean! De- partment because they wei over forty years old and there's @ pension systom in that department.” PREFERENCE GIVEN TO LABOR- ERS UNDER 40 YEARS OLD. Mayor Mitchel was recalled to the stand after the noon recess to con- tinue the investigation into the finances of the Board of Education. “First of all,” the Mayor sald, “let me clear up what was sald tn the fore- noon seasion about dock laborers and the transfer of some of them to the Street Cleaning Department and the} impossibility of effecting such trans- fer in the cases of men over forty years old, The Street Cleaning Jc- partment will take over 83 of the 167 dock laborers to be laid off, The dif- ference between 83 and 167 represents a saving In operative expenses.” Senator Wagner—In transferring the men from the Dock Depurtment to the Street Cleaning Department was not preference given to men under forty? The Mayor—I think the most em- cient men will be found under forty, so preference should and would be given to them. Senator Wagner Mayor's attentto had come undershis Observation, It wes that of a man who has been twenty-five yeans tn the Dock De- partment, who is well over forty and will probably be dropped on Jan, 1, “Such hardships are likely to oc- cus,” the Mayor replied, “and it might be Possible to arrange a transfer in uch cases, provided they did not carry participation in the pension fund of the department to which they were transferred. —__——_ GET MEXICAN BANDITS WHO STOLE $1,000,000 Five Women in Band of Eighteen Arrested in Mexico Clty—Men to Be Executed, GALVESTON, then called the to a case which Texas, Dec, 16.— Thirteen men and five women, said to! comprise a bandit gang, have been ar- rested in Mexico City, and all except the women will be publicly executed, according to @ cablegram received to- day, Masquerading as army officers, the men committed many bold robberies, it is alleged, cleaning up over $1,000,- 600 in gold and Jewelry, The b. were capty after a@unning ed mobile fight, in Which two policemen, Segurance, Geni one | Ville-du-Hervg Weig Kibled, i} HOW'S CHICAGO? FINE, SAYS MAYOR, PASSING THROUGH No Drinks There on Sunday Except Those Stored in Homes, Asserts Thompson. Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, wearing his regular cowboy hat, but otherwise clad In the garb affected by the near West, arrived in New York this morning with a num- ber of aldermen and public officials of his city. The Mayor said he was returning home from Washington, and “selecting the shortest way around by the way of New York.” Mayor Thompson said he had utter- ly abandoned any idea of becoming & candidate for Presidential nomina- tion. He declared he had never been seriously bitten by the Presidential bee. Anyhow, Illinois had a candi- date in United States Senator L. Y Sherman, he asserted. Dismissing the subject of Presi- dential ambition, Mayor Thompson discussed the Sunday prohibition in Chicago, Chicago's new Superintend- ent of Schools, subways and the labor market, “No, you can’t get a drink in Chi- cago Sundays unless you store it away in your home,” said the Mayor. “My order ts being enforced. Chicago is none the worse for tbe experiment. You know we have a new Superin- tendent of Schools now, John D. Shoop, who hag taken hold with a firm hand asinoe the resignation of Mrs, Ella Flag Young. We are most- ly tnterested at present in subways, We've got to have them. Our labor conditions are better than ever. There are fewer men out of employ- ment in Chicago this year than for yeare past, due to war orders,” Mayor Thompson and bis party are at the Hotel McAlpin. Political friends of the Mayor arranged a meet- {ng there between him and Gov. J. E. Ferguson of Texas for the sake of taking some moving pictures. Gov. Ferguson was rounded up and taken to the hotel where Mayor Thompson held forth, While the Governor was waiting in the lobby Mayor Thompson was snuggled out into the street and into a shining new Limousine, which with- drew down the street. Then the Chi- cago delegation took Gov. Ferguson out on the sidewalk, and the movie man cranked bis machine, Suddenly and quite casually a huge \imousine glided up to the curbing, and who do you You'd never gu was Mayor Thompson. He appeared very pleas- antly surprised to see Gov, Ferguson, whom he greeted like a long lost brother, In the meantime the movie man cranked away. Mayor Thompson, later paid a visit to Mayor Mitchel in the City Hall. Mayor Mitchel, wince 4g visibly under the vice-like grip of the 250-pound [Chicago executive, welcomed him formally in the public reception room, Mayor Thompson and Mayor Mitchel posed for the camera shaking hands, Mayor Thompson and bis party were guests of Henry Clows at the Bankers’ Club for luncheon, and to- night they will attend a’ banquet given by Mayor Thompson's New York friends at the Biltmore, There will be no politics discussed. The Mayor is accompanied by ex- Congressman Fred Lundin, Nelson Lampert, Vier President of ‘the Fort Dearborn Nationa! Bank of Chicago: A. Sholdon Clark, Alderman James A Lawley, Hugh Norris, William Healy, M, A. Michaelson, James A. Kearn Thomas A. Doyle, Carl Murray and Oliver Watson and John P. Garner, Commissioner of Public Service, and Arthur T. Cavey. They will leave to morrow afternoon for Chicago, i STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Havre rcrseedl AM, TEACHER AVERTS PANIC | IN ORCHARD ST. SCHOOL Miss Carter, Principal, Draws , ; | Shades to Hide Smoke From | Small Pupils Miss A. Carter, principal of Public| School No. 42, at Orchard and Hester | Streets, which is attended by 1,100 pu- | pils, all under six years of age, glanced out of her window shortly after school | had assembled for this afternoon's session. She saw sv curling out from windows on the third floor of the nearby building at No. 48-52 Orch- sto loft ard Street, occupied and a synagogue. Miss Carter called the Fire Depart- ment and quietly warned all the teachers to draw the blinds im their cooms looking out on the narrow area- way between the school and the build- by 6, in, Policeman Hauptinan of the Canal Street Station climbed a fire-escape f@nd found the third floor, which is ined as a synagogue by the Con- gregation Desfarden, filled — with | smoke, Cloth on the altar bad caught fire from candies, 116 hud, put out the incipient fire when the depart- ment arri i Mies Carter had prevented panio in school, but she was unable to i hundreds of 9 shooed them home before t 'municate with their IN HUBBY'S CLOTHES | WIFE POSED AS MAN | TILL HAT BLEW OFF | Crowd, Curious Wind and Police Bring Sad End to Pretty Masquerader. Naughty The unusual spectacle of a well dressed, handsome young man, wear- ing nifty high heel, white top shoes, attracted the attention of a curious crowd at the plaza of the Williams burg Bridge, on the Williamsburg side, shortly before noon to-day, When the crowd atured the young person biushed, Md then the crowd grew almost to a throng. A car came along and the dapper young man made 4 dash to escape, just us a guest of wind also arrived, It lifted the derby hat from thy head of the furiously blushing young per- son, and there ws shout of «lee from onlookers when 4 little top-knot of hair was revealed. A distinctly feminine ery was the next thrill for the crowd, and then, in an unmasculine manner, the well dressed person chased Lhe derby hat, which was racing toward the Wash- ington statue much faster than its pursuer, As the pursuit crew more Interesting the top-Knot and the mys tery began to unravel. A wealth of hair fell about the shoulders of the ’ person und the Nded with the statue pursuer came upon it a mo It was battered and dent- and covered with dust and dirt one whose head it had late: 1 on it she—for it was n to ery By this time 00 persons had gath Th and the ment later As the expectantly waiting the next m¢ ‘Oh nd's hat! My husban: "whe exclaim hoots ries of the crow announcement b to Patrolman won Ww the task of r hub bine suit and his faney wats’ The policeman d the disguised young woman to the Bedford Avenur | Police Station “It waa only # joke.” she sald, an] hour later, after telling Magistrate MoGuire tn the Bedford Avenue Court that she was Mrs. Flora Goldstein of No, 238 Howss Btreet, Williamsburg and thet her husband was a manu- facturer of knit goods in Manhatta sit thre She aid whe was going to v M nephews nhattan and wanted t m, strate MoGuire future and detailed u man (y ewcort ber nome, WALDO TO GET great fun tol ship now under construction in the |LAWYER-COUPLE SUB Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise. splitting headache, stuffy from a cold. | prices to sult every puras, MIT who released them in $5,000 bail,|foul tongne, nasty breath, acid stom- They said the charge against them]ach, can instead feel as fresh as a wae “wholly untrue,” daisy by opening the sluices of the TO ARREST AFTER SIEGE Snel syntem each’ morning and flasning ont | CITY'S DEATH RATE HIGHER, |the whole of the internal poisonous | : bade “| stagnant matter : | Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan, Bronx At-| Mert and Kidney Disease Add to etl toca. eee Bret bed . “ r ay 40 breakfast, drink Hans ' torneys, Charged With Wrong. | Rian a abacrtin Be i eater ohh et he ontut oh Nenmtame UNCLE § $600 000 fully Disposing of $12,000. mont of Health, there were, during the | DlorPhate in it to. was past week, 182 more deaths in the city! vious davis indies s ’ Resiegod in their home at No. 1911] than during the corresponding week off fie gay + oleate a te, —--. | Arthur Avenue, the Bronx, for sev. | last dor Here mm we from dis-|eleansing, sweetening an i. a. a . causes of the heart and kidneys was ve- ‘ : O'Brien's office, William G. Mulligan | , into the stomach. 7 ; ed (0 thew diseane of hot w i queathes $500,000 Outright | and Ma wite, Agnes, both members of at werk, an increase of 106| stone phoaphate ne pg Povo the bar and wealthy, eurrendered responding week last y h is wonderfully invigorating, Tt to Charities and Religion. themacives to-day and were served t has repeatedly u cleans out all the sour fermentations. i with an order of arrest laeued by taniliy gases, waste and a and ; Supreme Court Justice Van Stelen Whie ton d appetite a od The will of Charles E. Rhinelander, | sitting 10 Brooklyn. Witte ere phoxphated Fate is who died at bis home on Dec. 7, was filed to-day in the Surrogate's Court Mr. and Mra, with having wrongfully disposed of |° property ve Mulligan are charged quietly extracting a large volume of water from the blood and sites t $12 ready for a thorough flushing of d whieh be- Rhuelander Waldo, former Polico| jonged to Roger Cunningham and his " “ 1 | the le organs Commissioner, a nephow and favorite| wife, Hridget, of No, 364 F = lila melee inhesnia hothered” wick, con ination tigen of the decadent, is left # life interest | Brooklyn. | Embassy to! spells, stomach trouble, rheumatic in 4650.bi0 When the order of arrest was sent | bane stiffness; others who have. sallow to the Bronx Mr 1 Mrs, Mulligan skins, blood disorders and sickly com- To charitable, religious and educa-) could not be found, and Deputy Sher. WASHIN: Dee. 1 -|plexions are urged to get a quarter tional institutions the will provides| iff Bugene Odell was detailed to |" nbanay to ey ‘pound of Waemen hate from for bequests of almost $500,000. ‘This | “Camp out” and watch, Finding they |?! ene of maives| the drug sore. She Wil Gee. eae were “shadowed,” Mr. and Mra, Multi gan sucrendered sum represents a greater portion of the late Mr. Rhinelander’s real estate holdings in New York, which aro known to have been extensive, In the dequest to Rhinelander Waldo the will stipulates that at hs death the money will go to his descendants then Hving. If there are no descendants at that time this money will be given over te charity. The New York Soclety for the Re- Hef of the Ruptured and Crippled is made a t Aelary in the will to the extent of $25,000, A like amount is wiven to the Seaman's Church In- stitute of New York. | The will goes on: “All the rest of my both real, personal and mixed, left to Benjampn Aymar) Sands and Herman LeRoy Edgar, ex-| ecutors, to be given us they sue fit to charitable, religious and educational corporations.” To each of the trus- tees, the latter of whom is @ cousin of the decedent, is.given the sum of $20,000, estate, — CARS IN REAR-END CRASH, Three SUghtly Hurt tn Foarth Ave- nue Line Acci@ent. Three men were slightly injured this morning when one northbound Fourth and Madison Avenue car over- took another at Twenty-third street and Fourth Avenue, smashing Into it with sufficient force to shatter the glass of the rear car. Gaetano Furraro, twenty-eight, a car- penter of No, 986 South Third Street, Brooklyn, recelved contusions of the knees. Hix brother, Alphonse, thirty- eight, was bruised on his right thigh Wiliam — Sherk: twenty-three, an artist, No. 2103 Bleecker Street, Brook- lyn, wan bruised about the head, Dr, Leach of Bellevue Hospital treated the injured men TO END SCALP TROUBLES WHICH MENACE THE HAIR. Scalp disorders in the form of scaling skin, profuse dandruff and intensely dis- nforting itching eruptions are strictly skin diseases, and Poslam should be used to clear them away quickly, just as it should be emple i for eczemas on any It beals, purifies and part of the body leaves the scalp sweet and clean Shampoo with Poslam Soap. Both sold by all druggists.—Advt RANDRETH PILL An Effective Laxative Purely Vegetable Constipation, Indigestion, Biliousness, etc QO OF E Our nigh until reteved Chooolate-Coated or Piuin 100 Years Old in Japan's relations with China, partic ularly ite pre republty le, but is sufficient to m ne ® pronounced crank on the sub- | ject of internal sanitation,—Advt. Mi ton the change from a! narehy to Justice Brady, Are You Giving Your Best to Your Work? Can you do intoxication Is it any wonder that you get ‘‘too tired to think’’ if all the while your blood is bathing every nerve, every brain cell, every muscle fibre with the fermented poisons and wastes of constipation ? The only way to keep your body rid of decaying waste, matter geemananty is by bringing about the i natural, regular action of ntestines. Laxatives, purges, and cathartics bring temporary relief—but they bring also an inevitable reaction which leaves the machinery of evacuation weaker and more dependent upon the repetition of the stimulation. Nujol, a tasteless, colorless and odorless mineral oil, is the natural treatment for constipation. It acts by lubricating, not irritating. 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