The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1916, Page 3

ROFRANO MEETS WIFE AND FAMILY OUTSIDE TOMBS Breaks Down as He Sees His Aged Mother. and Five Little Girls. SAVED THE CITY $5,000. Prisoner Has for Neighbors in the Tombs Waite Se " \ and Fay. & ¥ ¢ ‘Michael A. Rofrano, former Depu- “\ je Commissioner of Street Cleaning, who surrendered himself yesterday | ‘after cluding the polloe for eight | months was arraigned to-day before Sedge Delehanty in the Court of (General Sessions to plead to an in- @etment found last September, @aremg him with having procured the murder of Mike Gaimari, one of @%-Sheriff Tom Foley's leutenante, @a March 9, 1915. This murder, to- gether with others, grew out of the @fferts of Rofrano to wrest from : Foley the Tammany leadership of the Second Assembly District. Rofrano was ruddy, smiling and confident when arraigned. He nodded te friends in the courtroom and al- most. jauntily replied that be had money for counsel and had retained Martin W. Littleton to defend him when he wae asked by Clerk Cowing ‘a8 to his preparations for defense. On behalf of Rofrano, Mr. Littleton entered a plea of not guilty, with leave to withdraw or amend. The case was adjourned until May 81. / By permission of Judge Swann, Ro- frano was permitted to eee his aged SOFIA MACHAT! treme. black who know the truth and five understand, ‘there's the answer. In the food of growing children there must be phosphates Children eat with eager appetite the biscuits, the waffles and the cakes made with RYZON. RYZON, The Perfect Baking Powder, ismadewith anewand better phosphate. RYZON corn muffins are good for children and “grown-ups.” Expert cooks get best results with a little less of RYZON than required of other baking powders. 10, 18 and 35 cents. SST i ih HUN: ‘‘Lady Nicotine,’’ Her Daughter, And Husband Accused of Attack LORR. MRSC (oeesceerstisassssrsssnstsdnsicsssssitieshntnsecaenessnesinens mother, bis wife’and his five little | fered for Rofrano’s capture. District ment girls, ranging in age from four to| Attorney Swann notified the Board of father, Geveristo Machain, a former twelve years, after his arraignment | Pstimat " in court. The meeting took place in| special revenue bonds for the amount an office in the District Attorney’s|of the reward will not be necessary, suite and was affecting in the ex-|as Rofrano gave himself up. There was a reward of $%,000 of. | duced. jtences of Joseph gnd Antonio La ‘THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MA CLARA Ww: Ceacy Nicoriney to-day that the issuance of Rofrano ts locked up in the first “They ask what brought mo back,” | tier in the Tombs. His nearest neigh- wobvbed Rofrano, as he was being led|bors are Dr. Arthur Waite, the breed away to the Tombs. “Well,” pointing | polsoner, and Lieut. Fay, the con- to the group of two women clad in| victed German bomb plotter. Last Friday a brother of Rofrano children clad in white who cannot {engaged Mr. Littleton with the as- surance the fugitive would be pro- Yesterday afternoon Mr, Lit- tleton went to Mr. Swann and said Rofrano was ready to surrender, Mr. companied by Mr. Littleton and Rob- ert Rofrano, went to the northeast corner of Washington Square in a taxicab, Michael Rofrano walked up, shook hands with the man whose duty it is to try to send him to the chair, and the four walked to the Hotel Lafayette, There they took another tax! to the Tomba, The surrender follows lees than a fortnight after the action of Gov. Whitman in commuting the sen- Salle, who were convicted of killing James Minott, another Foley aid, and sentenced to twenty years in prison. For services of these two men against Rofrano their sentences were lessened last week to seven years, Gactano Montimagno, whose offer to make a statement a few weeks |ael Rofrano in connection with the killing. DEATH RATE IN CITY IS LESS THAN A YEAR AGO Record of First Twenty Weeks of] Se 1916 Shows Decrease From 15.55 to 45.34 Per 1,000. Dr. W. H. Guilfoy, Register of the Department of Health, issued figures | Unf to-day showing that 1,615 persons SPECIALISTS IN FOOTWEAR SINCE 1867. Andrew Alexander Sixth Avenue at Nineteenth Street MAN 'Y women are wisely providing for foot- wear requirements far in advance of pres- ent needs. So far we have maintained the quality of our shoes with few price changes, especially staple styles that are perenially ap- propriate for fall or spring. It seems certain that next fall they will cost much more. In fact, a general price-revision may occur any day, so we advise purchasing NOW. Women's white shoes « fashionably high cut~ white duck $4 and $5.60; white calf and kidshin $7.60 and $8. White buckskin med- ium height lace and bution $6 and $7. LL RA HA When worn alternately and tiven ordinary care, Alexander shoes will give long, economical service, retaining the original lines, died in Greater New York last week, against 1,472 for the corresponding weok last year, Thin ie at the rate of ‘14.15 per thousand of population last week, against 14.04 for the same period of 1915, The mortality caused by contagious and infectious diseases, excepting whooping cough, was lower last year, That caused by cancer, chronic heart disease, nephritis, pulmonary tuber- culosis and lobar pneumonia was heavier, the report shows. In the Boroughs of Bronx, Queens and Richmond the mortality was higher and in Manhattan and Brook- tyn lower than in the same period a year ago, The first twenty weeks of this year show a mortality of 15.34 per thousand persons, against 16.66 per thousand for the same period in 1915, —_ FRIEND OF THE POOR DEAD. Greenwich Village Mourns W. Walker, Who Fontered Recre- ation Piers, Greenwich Village is to-day mourning William H. Walker, who died yesterday at his home, No, 6 St. Luke's Place, Mr. Walker, In a long and busy public life, had performed service which made him one of the leading citizens of the lower west side, Ho will be buried on| Thursday morning, after services at St. Joseph's, Washington Place and Sixth Avenue, In his time he served in the Board of Aldermen and in the Assembly. je to jhis efforts in the inception of the project, | the pow f the city enjoy the recreation plerk alang the rivercfichte dn the an | ministration of Mayor Low Mr, Walker served as Commissioner of Public Works, He la survived by his wife, three sons | and a daughter. Ono of his sons is Sene ator James Walker, who represents the Thir ago was refused, will be brought | ¢. | again from the death house at Sing | discovered that the two women, | Sing. Montimagno fired the shot that/aged and blood-stained, had been | Killed Gaimart, and tt was at bis trial | ‘t#ken to the Machain residence. | that mention was first made of Mich- |sobriqhet “My Lady Nicotine,” .Y 16, 1916, ‘IADY NGOINE” ‘Prize Winning Letters HIT WITH CHISEL BY HER ER HUSBAND Written by Girl Readers Who Have Worked and Won Scores of Vividly Human Chronicles Received Which| Tell Brave Stories of Wage-Earning Efforts and |~- Advancement Following Conscientious and | Intelligent Application. G. W. Lapp ade Admits Attack on Her and Daughter, Says It Was Justified. GIRL TO WED SATURDAY Began With Mrs. Lopp’s Anti-German Views. PARIS, May 1¢.—Apperently in- flamed by jealousy and by fear that his wife would leave him tmmediately after the forthooming marriage of her daughter, George Washington Lopp of New York, a leading mem- ber of the Committee of the Ameri- can Ambulance Hospital, ettacked ter, Sofia Cueto Machatn, Her Fiance Asserts Trouble|ing an By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. It gives mo great pleasure to announce to-day the award of the ten both women into unconsctousness. discussion. Thursday morning in the Lopp resi- dence in the Rue La Boetie. Mrs. Lopp and Mins Machain were taken to a hospital, whence they Were able to be removed after treat- to the home of the former's Paraguayan diplomat. Lopp was arrested, but subsequent- ly released pending a police inquiry. Details were given by James Slevin, flance of Miss Machain, who came to Paris for the wedding next turday from Rome, where he was engaged in a special diplomatic mis. sion for the United States Govern- ent. “Trouble between Lopp and his wife began soon after they were mar- ried about five years ago,” Mr. Blevin said. “Mrs Lopp always detested the Lopp’a relatives on her first trip to America after their marriage in Paris was she aware that her husband was of German birth.” “Mrs, Lopp was incensed at the deception practiced on her by her husband,” Slevin continued, “and has never forgiven him. Apparently her attitude continued to rankle in his brain during the years of their mar- riage, but how deeply he felt I never realized until on my arrival in Paris last Monday. Lopp showed me a re- volver and—after uttering foul and baseless slanders against his wife and my fiancee, his stepdaughter—he announced that he had decided ‘to do for’ both of them. “I was wakened shortly efter mid- alight on Thurs night by @ tele- hone call from telling me to ten to her aid, as her mother was ball I rushed to the Lopp house, but found nobody there and eventually ey band- “They told me that when they got home after the theatre, Lopp started to say something insulting to Sofia, Motripety she turned on him. He Hed out the small revolver he had Shown me a few days before and aimed ny at the girl. She fainted. pp rushed in from an ad- fothing’ pod to find her daughter ying on the sofa and Lopp striking her repeatedly on the head with the | , gun butt and holding large car- penter’s chisel in his other hand, ‘Then Lopp attacked his wife, beating her to the floor with the weapons.” Rei? says he struck his wife with because a few moments be- had confessed having been ey faithful. “I taxed her with it,” he declared, “and bald I could prove it. ‘What of it, she said. Then I seized the nearest thin chisel, and struck her on the head. Sofla beds 3 to interfere and she also was hit. I had no revolver and there was none in the house,” Lopp Won Fortune Teaching Cake- walk to Paris, George Washington Lopp has lived in Paris for twenty years or more. Originally well-to-do, he guffered re- verses, and then made a fortune as @ professional dancing master, It was Lopp who Introduced tho cakewalk to Paris. He was careful whom he accepted as pupils, and his pupils of twenty years ago dominant figures in Buropea: to-day. In his classes have young Casimir-Perrier, the Roths- childs, Grammonts, Wagrams, Cast: lanes and others, as well as memb of the courts of Madrid and St, James, Lopp sold his dancing academy | several years ago and married the | daughter of the Paraguayan Minister to Paris, At the outbreak of the war | she became an American Ambulance nurse and he volunteered as a chautf- four. They were at Namur, and/ served successively with the French, | Belgian and English armies, Lopp | later became an influential member | of the American Ambulance Hospital Committee and Mrs. Lopp, through her campaign to furnish tobacco to the French soldiers, obtained the Sho was in New York last winter pross- | cuting her pet charity and since the| war began ts said to have obtained for the soldiers 12,000,000 cigarettes, 250,- 000 pounds of tobacco and 50,000 pipes. SAVES N. Y. A FEW CENTS. Small Cities Up the § ‘The! wn Main Streets, ALBANY, N. ¥., May 16,--Tho Gov- ernor approved to-day two little bills that will be heralded as saving New le Must Pave th District No Girl Fin ler Mother Dead by | Carbolic Acid, | | Mrs, Amanda Blyer Kauffman, fifty- |two years old, wife of F, W. Kauffman of ¥ outstretched on om floor early to-day, with &n einpty carbolle acid bottle beside her, i [the wholesale silk firm of Menke & Kaufiman, killed herself with carbolte acid to-day int athroom of her home seo st West Elentrminte treet man, Who is seven hi |York City from up-rural road grabs. They repeal existing laws saddiing on the State the cost of constructing State highways through small cities. Theso had permitted second ciass and third class cittes to have their main streets | peved at State expense when forming part of a 8 or county route. i} This relief, however, will save the metropolis only as much tn pennies as from It tn dollars oft propriation bills recently signed by yin poe araioun > ng vo Beatly sx mailiton do! | ographer. It has brought out splendid to the possibility of ny girl, how email her beginnings, pro- vided she is willing to work hard Our corre- spondents have proved that golden rewards of money, power and the eelf-su; Se much h been written about the perile that beset her path, the physical and moral hardehips through which “so many thousand girls are lost glimpse of the whe conquer Their success stories hold out real encourage- ment to the girl who le just start- leo are full of inter- suggestions. Swann, with a bench warrant, ac.| Germans, and not until she met /_essons TAUGHT BY THE WIN- testimony fo and to think hard. happin a Porting woma every year,” th other thousands seems refreshing. ing out, and esting practi received. “M, kK,” of $5 each offered by The Evening World for the ten most interest- id helpful letters received from girls who have worked and won. From the ecores of vividly human obronicles I have T have selected as mos: written by the following: “H. W.," “Loyalty,” “Stick- | to-night in Bayonne, N. J. to protest to-It,” “R. B. C. “A. Co and Now e Happy Wife.” noteworthy those “A Parisian Rofuge: “BE. B. B.,” ‘Mrs. J. H.," “Eretwhile Business Girl It was dificult indeed to choose the prize winners. NING WRITERS. As briefly as I may I shall sum- marize the careers of the ten prize ‘winners, as described in their letters. No, 1, longed to be an artist. But when she finished public school, at fifteen, her father told her he must go to work at once, She started as errand girl, at $4 @ week, but at the first opportunity answered an advertisement for @ designer and, admitting that she was without ex- perience, persuaded the firm to give her a trial. From a salary of $10 she waved $1.50 a week, and at eighteen! had $145 saved. Now, at twenty-two, eho is earning $18 a week, has a bank, account of $1,000 and is taking pri- vate lessons in designing, with the ambition of becoming head designer for her firm. “Loyalty,” No. 3, came to America from Germany eight years ago be- cause she was ambitious, and because in Germany women are not encour- aged to enter business or the pro- fessions, She was not afrald to take @ position as house girl at $12 month, In three years she learned enough English to take a position in 4 department store, paying three times her former salary, and to bring her parents from Germany. Then she course in the evenings, and is now a bookkeeper been raised four and e@ half. aalto> 8, began in working for ry fiftee: $3.50 a week. She went to night school for nine pmentne, studying “E. W.” ook a commercial matter In letter after letter I read the brave story of wage earning begun at a pathetically early age, of a continu: | ous fight ageinst poverty and a continuous effort for self-improvement, of work conscientiously and tntelli- his wife Clara, widely known as |"AUKEDTEMWMOSHALL sentiy done, of well-earned advancement, of pluck, in- “Lady Nicotine,” and his etep-daugh- | dustry, Perseverance and tireless ambition. I am eure we all wish to and beat! extend « vote of thanks and of congratulation to the contributors to this , tained a position paying $8. There she won the dislike of two other sten- ographers, but the approval of her employer, by paying strict attention to her work and by not watching the clock. She soon was placed in charge of the office, often managing it alone for weeks at a time, and her salary was steadily advanced until she earned $30 a week. CHOSE A CAREER AND 8UC- CEEDED ON TWO Crane aA “A Parisian Refugee,” No, studied to be @ teacher in Paris, Seine forced to do most of her work even- ings by her parents, who wished he to take charge of their business, passed examinations with honors, up ber own school, although no money capital, became # mo: cessful teacher and wrote a popular book giving her own new and simple method of teaching French. in ten years she saved $30,000. When the war broke out she came to this coun- try almost penniless, but she has al- ready won success hete in her pro-| fession and hay saved $6,000 since her arrival, Binning she lived in. girle home, * made many of her own clothes uy’ must know how to writ Vertivemente, 80 she studied it In the evenings. She is now earn- | ing $3,000 a year in New York, | bub is looking forward te @ ealary of $5,000. i No, 7, was cashter in a at #4 'a week. A. waiter | reitatcare him. Tho first day she earned $2.60 in tips, and her service proved so satis- factory that at the request of his patrons her employer discharged his waiters, hired waitres: nd made her head waitress. She saved $2,000 in four years and now is the pro- prietress of her own restaurant. | “A, C.." No. 8 etarted out as @ stenographer at $6 per week. To-day | sibility in a fairly large publishing se. She 1s office boy, bookkeeper, saleswoman, shipper, cashier sten- ographer, business manager, circula- tion manager, soles manager and ad- vertising manager, as well as secre- tary to @ prominent physician, and |says she enjoys her one-girl manage- ment of the business. . J. began at fours teen as a cash girl, earning $3.50 per week, She persuaded the saleswomen on a long skirt, made herself look elghteen and obtained a position as stenography and typewriting. Her |saleswoman in another shop, with a first offic position paid her $6 a ary of $8, She worked hard, was week, bu: ie now earning $22 need several times and finally a week, s! ye, beoau: he had =|became a buyer at $20 per week, the courage to spend t! nine | Then she married, and now, as her monthe in night 0 exhausting ‘day in the factory. “R. B,C,” Nortola, Va, No, 4, started work at sixteen asa five-dollar-a-woek sten- Six months later she ot A rose is as sweet by any other name. Virginia Dare Wine as delicious when served in any glass— 4 DRINK carbonated water asa thirst quencher. GARRETT @& CO. Pioneer Ameri YO! Paul Garrett Special Dry C her husband's business partner, is helping | him to success. Girl and No. 10, her first : the ass makes’ no di ference So is Re h* lunch, dinner, or be- tween times; enjoy it asa punch, cocktail, or fizz it up with Wine Growers—Ust, 1898 Longacre Bidg Phone Bryant 2006 Pagne—a Vintage of Unusual Quallt {was taken fl] and @he substituted for| she is earning nearly $265 per week) and has a position of unusual respon. | to let her help them when they were, rushed; then, having obtained a little | experience, she did up her hatr, put) it in line for it. She interviewed clients and answered all corre- spondence without dictation. She Fata shaw her success to “learn- business as a man would, 60 could handle it as a man Now, what airis rave done, girls can dol please remember, everybody MEETING WILL PROTEST | RAISE IN PRICE OF BEER! High Cost of Drinking in Bayonne Causes Trouble—Workers Plan Big Co-operative Store. A mass meeting has been called for against an increase tn the price of beer, Tho price of the pint will be raised June 1 from ten to fifteen cents, This was the edict of the Bayonne LAquor Dealers’ Association two | Weeks ago. The meeting to-night will be held in Mydogh's Hall, where all the strike gatherings are held, and Mydosh te looking forward to a good buainess. Ho has a bar. The ple will assem- ble from Constable Point, where more than 10,000 are employed in the Stand- ard Oli, Tidewater and Vacuum oll works and the International Nickel Works. It is proposed to incorpo- rate @ co-operative store, where peer, “00 hoes, clothing, grocer. les, dry goods and nearly ev ht will be handled. Sib Scent A dotall of police will be on hand, but no trouble 1s looked for. a GAS victim A PRISONER. fm Home of Mra. Fiteh Ace ed of Attempt ide. John Shaidt, thirty-five years butler for Mra. Nellie Fitch of No, 136 nu Soventy-eixth Street, is a prisoner in Knickerbocker Hospital charged with attempted suicide by eas, Mra. Fitch amelled ‘Dasement. Two gas Sete wi be turned on. Shaidt has been @ victim of acute indigestion of late and under the care of a physician. Summer evening wear. Nineteen Wes Downtown Shop: 14-16 Weat lt! Whole Rolled Ox Tongue 69c 24 oz. All meat tin ready to serve 2l1c ». 7.9 Ibs. Lean and tender Attractive new Bedford cords, coverts and taffeta silks—for street, Tomorrow, $9.75—a not-to-be-missed oppor- SALE AT ALL STORES Brook Newark: s STRIKERS BACK TO WORK. Wentinghoase Work & r Retarn to May 16.--Labor con- he Pittsburgh district were much improved to-day when practte- ally all the striking workmen at the plants of the Wentinghouse Bleectric & Manufact and 5,000 ing organization t pleting the force Hime, 2 Practically com- led ts operate full Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 17t Big Reductions $15, $18 & $22° Coats Teepe and Sum- mer To te in the test Reduction Sale ee held in the new ‘fashion Shop. Richly Lined With Silk Peau de Cygne _ Handsome corduroys in » light rose, Co- penhagen, white, mus- tard and dee rose. silk poplins, sport and tunity, ‘ No Charge for Alterations At the Fashion New Shop t 34th Street In: 460 Pulton St. Broad and W. Park, wher Moral connie Merrall & Condit EST. Company 1820 Luncheon Suggestions ~ Imported Sardines 26c large tins Boneless and skinless | Packed In Pure Olive oil! Smoked Beef llc 4 oz. carton Sliced thin