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for Belgian Children, Robinson-Duff has lent her . 98 Park Avenue for a lec- given this afternoon by the § de Rancowgne on her ex- W the Belgian frontier, The Will be devoted to the Bel- fe children. This will be the ) given by the Vicomtesse be- the fact that there 000 Pease Pianos is sub- evidence of their place of the Pease Plano over 71 years to make 'Y the special reason for a Piano for Every Purse SE PIANO CO. ld ative B’way, N. Y. Extra Charge for It. Leese tie for be World may be left at 4 Messenger office in the city ZWASSER 423 THIRD AVENUE NEAR 80" STREET, RNITURE tt ston few dollars UR we've stood at the ‘ecause our location out of rent district has provided an undoubted advantage in AKING. TIVELY #500 VALUE THE F.F.OALLEY CO AVOID PARKS AT NIGHT, WARNS WOMAN FELLED BY BLOW FROM ROBBER een Miss Turner, Cholr Singer, At- tacked in Morningside, Criti- cises Lack of Police, Moat of the parks in New York are unsafe after dark for unescorted women, according to Miss Ethel Turner, a member of the choir of the Brick Presbyterian Church, who was attacked by a highwayman in Morn- Ingside Parksinst evening. Miss Turner was on her way to choir practice and had entered Morn- ingside Park at One Hundred and Sixteenth Street when, at a tum tn the sidewalk, a negro sprang at her, struck her with @ billy and seized her pocketbook. “I thought at first I had been shot,” she said to-day at her home, No. 420 West One Hundred and Nineteenth Street. “I was struck on the left side of the face, and as I fell I remember calling to the man not to shoot me again, “A man who TY afterwards learned was George Troop of No. 621 East Eighty-fifth Street was about yards behind me. He ran up, carried! tne to mt. Nichoiaa Avenue and sent | SED WILSON LET LETTER “The highwayman got only $2.50. | ‘That was all I had in my pocketbook. { for an ambulance, But the attack emphasizes that the | parks are not properly policed and | that women who go in them alone after dark are running @ great risk. “My home is near Morningside Park and I bad been in the habit of passing through it to reach the ele. vated railroad. Friends had warned me it was unsafe after dark but I laughed. Hereafter I shall keep on the main thoroughfares, and I would warn other women to do the same. —_— WAR ATROCITY. Dead Texas mule, floating feet upward, was mistaken for a sud- marine and chased by an allied patrol vesscl in the Mediterran ean, which finally fired a shell into the supposed “0"-boat. “On being hit the enemy retaliated with potsonous gases,” says the official report. GIRL STRIKERS FORCED TO WORK, THEY ALLEGE | Guards Rounded Pickets Up and Herded Them Into Shirtwaist Factory, Union Leaders Assert. With hundreds being added to their ranks every hour, the men and women ehirtwaist strikers to-day continued to refuse to tell the man- ufacturers the terms on which they will go back to work, The leaders declare they want every worker in the industry out of the shops and a meniber of the union before they even present thelr demands to the em- ployers or make it possible for them to come to terms. ‘They will not consider any settlement plan until next Wednesday at the earliest, they ‘he crowd at Headquarters, Ni ast Broadway, was » Hundred and Thirty- , had been rounded up front of the place and mpelled to go in and work, Rellef expeditions —_ were nned, but It was finally decided to ait a full report of the affair from girls and then take court action, Preserve the leather and make your shoes wear longer. They con- tain no acid and will not crack the leather. Easiest to use and their shine lasts longer. BLACK-WHITE -TAN SHOES NEA LTD. BUFFALO N.Y. DYING AFTER OPERATION Scientist, Who Divided Nobel Peace Prize With Marconi fn 1909 Cancer Victim. *° Dr. Ferdinand Braun, who in 1909 divided the Nobel prise with Gue- lielmo Marconi for his services to hu- manity in the invention of improved methods of wireless telegrapty, is dy- ing at the German Hospital here after an operation performed yesterday. Friends say the ecientiet hee suffered from oancer for some time, Dr. Braun ts director of physics in the University of Strasbourg. He came to this country a year ago to be « witness in the litigation between the Marconi company and the Ger- man corporation controlling the wire- fens systems used at Tucktrion, N. J. and Sayvilie ‘The case was intefi- nitely adjourned when Marcon! was called to Italy on the declaration of war against Austria, Born sixty-six years ago, Dr. Braun bad not vitality to resist successfully the shock of the operation. He is @ graduate of the University of Mar- burg and has occupied distinguished oats in the physics schools of Wurtz- urg, Leipsig, Marburg, Karlsruhe and Tubingen. He was for many years the highest authority on the Vibration of tense chords. In 1808 he devoted himaqif to wireless proh- lems, and his adherents have always insisted that his discoveries made Possible Marcon!’ wireless inventions. TO TEST NEW CITIZENS Bronx Judge Reads It to Applicants ani Only Sixteen Under stand It. As a test for their qualifications for citizenship Justice Mullen in the Bu- preme Court In the Bronx to-day read to thirty applicants for final papers the letter of President Wilson to Senator Stone as printed in to-day's newspapers. He read it slowly, paus- Only sixteen of the thirty could tell |him what the letter was about. The applications of the others were re- jected BRAUN, WIRELESS EXPERT, | ISAAC E, GATES DES nes “IN HARNESS” AT 84 jcc « aor oer if he had distrib. with the Transat- anito Srraee Gompeny by Rintelen Attorney William H. Wherry, ancu- sean of Staliforth, said prisonment was a vio- ny ereaty rights and of oconsti- Bxecutor of Estate ‘Bxtaie of Collis P. Huntington Worked Almost to Day of His Death at Majestio, Teano B. Gates, who dled Mnaw etd night at the Hotel Majestic, was, ac- cording to thoes who knew him dur- ing many of bie eighty-four years, “a gentleman of the olf edhook” a patron of the agts and eciences and an indefatigable worker almost to the day of his death. He was executor of the great estate of Collis P. Hunting- | ton, his brother-indaw. At his bedside when he died were his wife, Mre. Helen M. Gates, and his son-in-law, Archer M. Huntington. Mr. Gaten had lived at the Majestic more than seventeen years. Mr. Gates was eecretary and treas- urer of the Hispanic Sootety, which was founded by Archer M. Hunting- ton. He was born in Connecticut and came to New York about forty years ago, In the early days of his executor- ship Mr./Gates was Vice-President of the Southern Pacific Ratiroad, and once he made a flying trip of 6,000 miles from New York to the coast and back to be in court for twenty minutes while the will of Mr. Hunt- ington was admitted to probate in San Francisco GERMAN BANKER FREED ON HABEAS CORPUS WRIT) Stallforth, Sent to Tombs for Re- fusing Grand Jury Information About Rintelen, Gives Bail. Frederico Stallforth, the young German banker who yesterday was committed to tho Tombs by Federal Judge A. G, Dayton for refusing to answer questions put to him by the Federal Grand Jury, was released to- day by United States Judge Jullus M. 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