The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1916, Page 3

THE EVEAING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1916. - PARALYSSSHOWS |7,000 Girl Boxmakers Striking for Living WRRCAMEPYS The Sunday Goris SLIGHTINCREASE: They Can’t Get on Average of $3.20 a Week WAVOCWITHCAMPS 578 Fighting Ships Under me = S6DEATHS TOO - OF BORDER TROOPS pan hiates yy Focus the eye and the mind on the big double One Hundred and Thirty-four peer picture in The World Magazine to-morrow, There they are all the ships of the United States Pro- : $0 ( ‘ Navy as it will be when the Preparedness New — Reported Since Se. ' { gramme is complete. A picture by Wiodermana to Yesterday. | One Man M \ file away in the interests of patriotism ! GAIN CAUSES NO ALARM rent evar ‘ Seven Thousand Mark , Mr. Av ge New Yor in Record of Case : , One of the gifted writers has with painstaking st \ Dan | care established just what the “Average New Yorker” ease } Farms in Dallas Region “4 For instance, Mr. Average New Yorker's age is . thirty years and he is five feet eight inches tall, but ona dae sgl cpl PALLAN Tes. Aue 1% he! YOU must read about him in The World Magazine ame Sey ie tak ne de Rowiwentorn “Toccaph aud pele’ to learn his weight and all the other points. He's thoush the Hae lo not ecndéered| from Mrownavite via Giveatan abort) QMite a remarkable fellow, is Mr. Average New Thirty-ae deaths were reported to- | und in the ¥ ty are mate lows Gay. Tiere were thirty-two yesterday, | f if a re 1 from t hur Another Richa ing Story the mne number on eisieay ana ni seaiey 1 tate yeaterday and, ° rd Hard Davis thirty-four Wednestay, ‘The new cases Fe ARIA Aue ea A When it comes to interwoven mystery, comedy to-day numbered 194 day on against 126 and romance, the Richard Harding Davis story in fowa and Virginia militia cam ‘Totals 194 *Total deaths to date Total cases to date...... The Federal ¢ ment has sus the gate | Guardsmeng! om hikes, Lut vas tern. ts of age, many more of fourteen than of twenty- -ive, and thelr average weekly wage {s $3.20, busy season they tee, and In the |* make more, of course. It fs upon rris Rubin, Chairman of Fall in line for your motherland, All to er men-—join the band. And if there's fighting to be done ve funds which will enable op up the strike f CARDINAL FARLEY fourteen pended the Contract tabor Law, per- mitting the thirty Canadian nurses who once were turned back at the border to come to thin city and enter the campalen aninst paralysis, Health Commissioner Emerson an nounced to-day, Three of the nurses have already arrived in the city the others will be here Monday, Sec- retary of Leobor Wilson waived the labor law In a communication to the Secretary of Labor in Canada. Fourteen ounces of blood were taken from two persons submitting them- selves for human serum extraction within the last twenty-four hours. in| teen persons applied. ‘Ten of these on | examination were found suitable, Commissioner Emerson said he be- Heved cases in Manhattan would show @ slight increase for a few days, with | @ decrease in Brooklyn. CLUB WOMEN INAUGURATE CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN. | Club women have begun a move- ment to institute @ Clean-Up Week | that would be indefinitely prolonged, Mra, Winifred Sackville Stoner, aided by Mrs. Clarence Burns, President of the Little Mothers’ Ald Association; Miss Florence Guernsey, Mrs. A. M. Palmer of the Rainy Day Society; Mrs. Haryot Dey, Mrs. Myron T. Scudder and Mrs, Ida Benfey Judd are leaders in the movement, The club women will begin a series | of talks to .aothers Monday night in| the public school at Rivington and) Forsyth Streets. They also purpose dividing the congested sections into districts and starting an <ctive sani- tary campaicn ‘The Municipal Laboratory, foot of East Sixteenth Street, Dr. William H. Park director, wants paralyzed do- dogs and dy on the chance that some may bave poliomyelitis or a! disease like it. Animals that havo| recently developed spontaneous paral- yais are preferred. MOTHER AND TWIN GIRLS | FOUND DEAD FROM BIS Cloth Thrown Over Fixture Evi- dently Opened Jet—Little Chil- dren Victims, Favorites, Mrs. Mary Matusch, twenty-four years old, and her twin aaventaral| Anna and Mary, three years old, were found dead from gas early to-day in the Kitehen of their home, 4 Desbrosses St A dishrag, lessly thrown over & gas fixture last night by the mother Is believed to| have turned on the gas, ‘The woman separated from her husband, Peter Matuseh, and kept three board- ers to support herself and children, | Hecause of the Hmited space in her flat she and the children slept on a] mattress in the kitchen, There one of the boarders found them this morn- Ts Tie twins were favorites in the ghborhood, which for several days hoen Interested in thelr prepara. tions to have thelr pictures taken to- yorrow. Their mother had made them new frocks, and they and their playmates talked of litte else for a weck. ——— His Life tm seh House. Zaleino, No. 65° Sull ot te by inhal commited suici¢ Ing gos to-day in Public School No. % at Fiugeon and Grove Streets. Ily had | Bired to clean up olrooma. 1{ their girl employees to make up Nobody In the paper bor industry, Sn we want to live," the worst not even its magnates, can be week certainly cannot be held to maintain themselves. And paper box manufacturers. who pay an average of $3.20 a week cannot be classed self-supporting, either, With their families they too are leeches upon the girls. And the girls have struck, THESE POOR GIRLS MERELY} CLAIM THE RIGHT TO LIVE, “We want better conditions work, shorter hours, more money, girl after girl told me yesterday at the headquarters of the strikers in Webster Hall, East Eleventh Street, The declaration sounded very fine and brave—a little militant, perhaps. But when itis analyzed it is pathetic. For these young giris, most of them week in my busiest weeks, I worked cane a | Uittio. more than children, want to|!n « factory on the Bowery where Indications Are Immediate i ; e girls had to scrub the floors, Nthdrawa el work 50 hours a week instead of 59/414 had to take part of their lunes} Withdrawal Has Been Ad- hours and they ask an increase in! time—only thirty minutes—to do it. . LE } wages of from 2 to 30 per cent.|They had to scrub their machines, vised by Funston. | Merely as a percentage, that sounds joe One a ay the hip came to me fla; 2 and sul ‘our machine is dirty. ; 5 ; oy formidavie, but when you have) {i Sit you keep it clean?’ ‘Be.| WASHINGTON, Avg. 19-—While) figured it out, if the girls Bet every-| cause 1 have nothing to clean it] Secretary Raker and other War De-| thing shes Rag their Lig bby eeniy | wit he mn told me to go buy some-| partment officials refuse to confirm or will be Increased 96 |thing, ‘The other girls buy theirs,'’| deny repor ten. F day there are about ¥,000 box-|he auld. ‘It's only @ nickel.” You) (ny Teports that Major Gen, Funston makers on strike, of whom 7,000 are/can «afford a nickel to keep your] Tecommended tmmediate with- girls. Strike officials estimate that hine clean better than 1 can,'| drawal of Gen, Pershing's expedition there will be 15.000 strikers by Mon- answered, ‘Remember, I make| from Mexico, there were Indications day, which means that the manu- a week when I'm in luck. ‘Alllto.day that such a message had been facture of paper boxes in New York| this talk for a nickel,’ he. said. y the a mes e City will cease, ‘You're a piker, and he laid « nickel | "ecelved. ane win ae maiority: of fils ies down for me. ‘IL don't: want your Major Gen, Bliss, Assistant Chief whom ataiked —yeste er ney,’ T sald, ‘1 clean my ma-|of Stuff, who returned yesterday fro Jeweuses, They told ample atralght-| chine: it yow Kive mo something tolthe notder conterrod. Hive | forward stories, with no effort to clean It with. So he gave the nickel| ("e. Dorder, conferred several days jon horror when they spoxe of we to another girl and sent her out to| Wit) Gen, Funsion, and also went to , fe buy me something to clean the ma- n. Pershing’s lines in Meatco, Sec+ cellars, under electric light chine with.” Fale Baten’ ad’ with (Ge and then a girl, one of those who ary aker ec rf Work as “setters up” and who make| HER $4 A WEEK KEEPS THE| Bliss yesterday and later saw Prest- the corners of boxea-—"four corners FAMILY. dent Wilson, ae eta anoer the nee or yay) , i Gen. Bliss is preparing @ report on ur finger cut"—held up| Mary ‘Tanengapf, who ts sixteen Tiaimed, dreadful, looking hands to m their statements Zome bosses won't take ter-up unless she has. 8 on he hands,” one striker told r “show me your hands! the foreman says, ‘ if you have sears enough, why yo an rienced worker, and he takes you They toll too of working for noth In for periods varying from one w © three months a girl set “They take ls on as 3 and say they'll pay us when quality, 1 know rl that worked three months for nothing,” sitid Hannah Wallstein Hannah lives at No. 1634 Webster Aven n years old and exceedingly She has black hair, big. blue chiselled fea- tures, not unlike those of Lina Cava- lier the fact that the the officials of the Box Makers’ hope of a successful strike. Boxmaking has been known for a long time as of the not pay a Hving wage and so compel the families of the deficit. +] collar, and the gi supporting. Girls averaging $3.20 aj the aiean all aust tame, were: ctirsed by of} took \ COULDN'T EXIST IF SHE DIDN'T, Mr, Rubin dom pect it will last so long. for boxmaki aying bonuses of $5 for xirls when we called the strike. By a bonus I mean that a boss would say to an working for him: ‘I'll give $5 to bring me a new girl! In the busy season men boxmakers can nas high as $18 a week. ‘Th hest a girl can make ta $1 But only in the busy time, The fall begins Oct 15 and lasts till Year's, The iF ng season fs from Feb, 15 to April As I told you before weekly wage of the strike to ny in 48.90e is $ ‘BAKER WON'TDENY REPORT U.S. TROOPS WILL QUIT MEXICO “but we The ia here, busy season is just beginning that Union place their | parasitic trades—trades which do ‘They used ter- ‘y rible words—-words you don’t know, added this twenty-year-old girl. Other giris Joined in telling me of abuses by bosses and foremen. “He called me the worst word,” said ons young xirl of seventeen, in telling me, of her discharge because she had re- fused to scrub the floor, I did not test her sophisticauon by asking her to repeat what the foreman sald, | Many of the girls used a strange verb, which was spoken so quickly thac It me some tume to identify tt,| apart, this word was damn, wich & sacred pr and they used it cas. ually to deseribe the way im whic n| the foremen addressed them. “1 was born in this country,” sald | Anna Hotz, nineteen, of No. 168 Henry Street, I graduated from a public school and I've had three years of} evening high school. I wind up in| & paper box factory making $5.60 a ‘the average 000 girls on) Take years old, and a graduate of Public| the mobillzation of the National Guard Sehool No. 110, came with her family} @nd it is considered possible he mi from Austr five youre ago Until] have joined Gen, Funston in urging he strike ordered she made $4], th & week pasting boxes. WHT chat the troops he withdrawn from| with her fathers mother, three Nede| Mexico, as the military opinion ap-| Tuber Hath mathe, ts fig Mone ak tary sions winter four years old j Her father | usefulypurpose as a event disposed. | iva presser and when he hus work Kirawal of the sth | wets $12 a wee At present he is PVACE ra MAD OE th nee idle, Mary's $4 was all that stoot | aublect to be taken y the Joint between the family and destitution. | International Corr “Did you want 1o atrike?” 1 asked) Secretary Ba anid wry, marvel her courage, op ‘ Bent ahs ware TE ow The department's policy strike now I get $4 a week always, | U8eu rume rh and so will these other gitts will diseuss only ia ts “ Beventeen years old, of No. yuth Second Street, Hrook- lyn, not go militant as Mary NOT IN SWEDISH SERVICE. Tanengzapf, but she was quite as sure that she was glad to be on sirike,| Mae Sam Storr Not fy: Lillian said: “Some weeks Linuke as| We » Kaye Minkatog much as $6.50." Lillian'’s 1 rest in| To the & ° a Wor LIVE WITH HER FOLKS. appeared sumewhat aliruis-| In. an artich appeared in “L work in Webster Street,” sho told tie. | Bix dollars and @ half, quite ob-| your paper on the Lot of this month ‘anc the ASOT va de UM, as a lot of money her ie no he 1, Seare: LY aon iiourrts Wont made) "Becky Merson, twenty-two, wou’ got vet roan heating SBE ee Bee eon ia about twelve weeks, (88 & week as a finisher, told mo that |its Te aie aaa the ating all tha year round, 1 would {@ho worked under electric tight al)|'t,'# Mtated that one Hans Lagerlo ke more than $3.50. {live with | day lonk % WLS BR! dle way, feorn folks, or 1 could not live at ail.| ht dollars ts p & t0 Copenhawon by c orkroom in our place was not #o| made,” she told me i bre The gitls ave in daylight, though | was $5 or $6 or $7. light Goalie wes irk under electric light, But| years in Amerloa, a rere ne ne de ie scrub the floor of mother, little sister My | the tien th kroom. 1 don't like that." , but my brother works, (Swedish Embassy Aime rion ‘I work where she does,” said Min i) On account of lateiment nie Levien, twenty years old, of No. told me elmilar |? Io. 7) Monroe street. “It is not so bad statements wore there as . place Where € ‘is who hav ‘ worked befor cot, 1 aut t men are |! Le all day long with an electric bght over my head, and it hurt my cyes so 1 had to give uD the job, That was ino Max eral Strike Committee; berg, Chairman of the Law ‘Commit. | Metster, Chatr nan of t dward 8 sulutes in Thin ua F BKENGREN, Nuidieter of Bweden, WANTS A CATHOLIC DAILY NEWSPAPER Tells Editors Publication English Is Needed to Halt Detractors of Church. in Cardinal Farley told teh delegates to the convention of th Press Association in the Catholic Club to-day, that he hoped to live to 00 a Catholic dally newspaper in the Cathol English language printed in the United States. The Cardinal accompanied by Bishop J. J. Hartley of Columbus, 0. and Rey. John J. Burke of New York, was heartily greeted by the hundred or more dellegates present at the fins session of this, the #ixth annual ¢ vention, “They say," said the Cardinal, “thag a Catholic dally paper is impractical They uned to say the same thing of a Catholle encyclopaedia, but they were | J@atholte daily newspaper aiso are POSTMASTER KILLED BY AUTO | mistaken, 1 belleve the crition of the mistaken, “The first great gun against the calumniators of the Church was fired | here in New York years a when the Catholic World was star At that time news shad the habit of attacking Catholics, from the Hope down, with and ness that they would not empies ward even the most insignitic Things have chur owing to the vinlonee 1 since activities and abilities the editors in the Catholic publica tions. During this time those op posed to us have become more re specttul In thelr opposition. ye have not as yet a Cath daily newop iD nthe Un printed in Magish, but I hope for s publication, tt hy got to come. | hope to live to see its day myst “From the who have onition we sistencr calummnies | keep at EE TAFT MAY BE NOMINATED FOR THE UW. S, SENATE HARTFOR n. Aug. 19 event United Stites Senator ¥. Mel t induced to chi intentic hdrawing hi cu situation say aot Police Capt, After thirty » tment, Police ¢ harge bering ‘viace, ‘Brocklyas y tad put M ina the storm damage since late last night. VESTON, Aug, 19.—-Fears are y for the safety of the it and Steamship Com- rort. Moree from 1 with b Fort Mor ae ty-three men. Wits wireless, was caught in the the BEE . Le Things are big pavilion has just aa boat hax unk GY yeusage received over from Corpus Chr ifter 11 o'clock Tast night nton, thirty miles south of wenty-five miles north of mills, silos and swept away at 5 Afternoon could Ko no ft San Antonia ailroad. The neavy a were ral miles RIVERHE on, postinaeter of thie village Whe oy when his auto the road from had an extensive steering Kear of his rune id the car turned turtle the frame of the « abdomen years fand one of the m etive Demo- ste in the county, He was appoint ' cater two years ago by Presi: r Wilson, He ia survived by his rand mothe 10 1 New It An- brother was Killed Hob Paymas Aug. 1 —The maske men tordn tered the office of the per Company. and, hold 1 ad of A. Retin took nd SORE,CHAFED SKIN ALWAYS the payroll of MEALS. és SOOTHES” “CHILDRENS SKIN ONE BOX PROVES IT 25¢ Then Johnny get your gun, get your gun, get your gun And fall in for your motherland. They read as if they had a good jingle—and they have in John L. Golden's spirited score. In the New Gravure Section Full page of pictures—all official—that show the’ This week they happen to‘ terrible strain of battle. be of German prisoners. Another striking ‘‘now-and-then” picture show- ing the Wall Street of forty years ago and the Wall Street of to-day. You'd scarcely recognize that they are of the same narrow thoroughfare. If you know any of the boys in the Eighth Coast Defense Artillery you can pick them out in their uni- form, as they are seen arriving at Fort Fisher. In the Metropolitan Section The always funny Frueh hits a new high comic mark in his picture of the man who almost had a vacation. New York’s First Hay Fever Ordinance A delver for odd things has dug this up from the musty report of the proceedings of the Common Council 'way back in 1691 First midsummer dragon fly round ups in New York—never so many of these darting insects in town before. To Fill Out the Day’s Reading Double pages of the latest sports. Double pages of summer resort news. The always superior Comic Section. The sprightly Fun Book. And ALL the news from Everywhere, In the Editorial Section— Two Commanding Features: Admiral George Dewey Navy. “Our ships are as good as any,” officers are as good as any, on the United States he says. “Our and, I believe, our en- listed men are the best gunners in the world.” Marquis Inouye, Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain, on the great Jutland He says: North Sea is the test. naval battle, “The battle over, England was on the The German Navy was not there. There Order the Sunday World from your newsdealer in advance, Edition limited. ; > ‘ sea 18) Thursday ond 198 at Hrownsville w dor water to. The World Magazine is bound to hold you. “Play- Wedneniay umber ot soe aay. lowing the Quit sisrw ot 80 ing Dead” is the name of it, and from beginning to epidemic bewan reached (he 7,000 mark BT bt AY GORN by lown, according to the fast pods full of surprises, (Complete in two instal- to-day. reports from that ety, Men have Following are tho tables of deatne | to take refuge in buildings in) the hy lel aaa DAYS tes see Ot vorenees ie Chorus: Will-You-Be-Mine? DEATHS MINNIE, LEVIN’ lems, No losw of life haa been re. Wensaaha. ‘Tertay,, Yentetay ae JENN TENE. ported It does seem as if all the well known cartoonists . « Brooklyn 16 . | Charles Johnaon of the Seventh T are falling for the will-you-be-mi one Sakatean is 1" They Only Ask Increase of 96 Cents, but They Also try, UB Ay Wan Killed infront them 4 it. There's « py no yg be iv $ $ Want to Escape a Few Hours of Their Long Hire wan twin suftrin among) that newly-weds Cesare, Goldberg, Webster and (iebmbnd s<secices i 2 Day’s Work and Their Foreman’s Abuse. toopa and horses all along the bor-| Brinkerhoff have made, to illustrate the stories of - - picts | dor, and large stores of supplies are] their romances. Totala .... m6 32 A . TANNENCAP | said to have been damaged . +5 sew Canes ‘ By Nixola Greeley-Smith, | | Gov, Dunne of Ulinoty, whe has ” roughs ‘o-day, Yesterday It may bo that yo: fall m Pas nee nT he ; Li) J aetteak i an la your new fall hat will not be delivered to you in a b been Inspecting the Wiate tr at| Fall in Line for Your Motherland peeshatiae Me 4 Ant {€ i not unitkely that you may have to eat your dollar-a-pound ENS Bie ra ERR Re Ee) ‘o| , This is the new patriotic song, words and m hi 6 ae O ve e. fhey are F23 . > % i bo i . solic ” = young girls ranging from fourteen to twenty-five |——— =< |, ractinlly ever mini ils |, “BERS CComDESOW) = Cree teas | Sica tFOro time Coon ue ir